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2025: The Hal Chase Election

Posted: November 5, 2025 by datechguy in baseball, elections, elections, politics
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“First we must cross the river,” Benito was saying.  “Do you believe me now when I tell you that you must not attempt to swim it, or even get wet from it, or must you try that too?”

“What happens if I just dive in?”

“Then you will be as you were in the bottle.  Aware and unable to move.  but it will be very cold, and very uncomfortable, and you will be there for all eternity knowing that you put yourself there.”

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle Inferno 1976

Looking at the results of last nights elections in VA & NJ and particularly NYC two truths are apparent.

The first was expressed at Instapundit last night from Stacy Campfield a former state rep from Tennessee:

“Republicans can’t be surprised that they aren’t winning races in places that they are also leaving in droves.”

Before I list the 2nd and more important quote you need some background:

The quote comes from the SABR site, a baseball analytics group which reprinted a piece about first baseman Hal Chase by Jacob Pomrenke about Hal Chase, a first baseman who played from 1905 to 1919.

Chase was universally considered the best defensive first baseman anyone to that time had ever seen. Both Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson named him the best first baseman of all time.

But Chase was also known from the very start of his career as a man who fixed games. For years in every city where he played allegations had been out there that he threw games or arranged them to be thrown. Allegations that he loudly denied. Then in 1916 he joined the Cincinnati Reds managed by Christy Matterson the great pitcher considered one of the gentleman of baseball. A man so honest that umpires would consult him on close calls. Matterson suspended Chase for trying to bribe players to fix games, as Pomrenke noted:

The suspension by Mathewson was the first time any baseball official had seriously punished Chase for his transgressions. As usual, it didn’t stick. NL president John Heydler reluctantly exonerated Chase after Mathewson joined the military and could not testify against Chase while serving overseas.

Chase would go on to have a part in the fixing of the 1919 World Series. When He heard about this Mathewson said the quote I find relevant to this election:

 “Damn them, [baseball officials] deserve it. They whitewashed two players after I caught them with the goods.” 

The swearing was VERY out of character for Christy Mathewson but he was pissed.

And that brings us to the night after the 2025 elections in California, Virginia, New Jersey and New York:

In California I didn’t expect better after all this is the man the state keeps backing:

In New Jersey the Democrat running for Governor was involved in a scandal concerning her time at the Navel Academy. It didn’t matter, the state that Trump lost by only 5 points elected her by 13 points.

In Virginia not only did Abagail (duck and run) Springer win by double digits but the man made famous for wanting GOP kids dead won by over six points.

But the real thing is New York City:

You have a open socialist, an open communist, an open antisemite. A person whose opinion on all these things have been well documents and are even available in his own words online for years. A rich kid who never did or ran anything in his life and he not only won the election in NYC but he took over 50% of the vote in a three way race.

What’s the bottom line? Just this: In all of these elections particularly in NYC people in their respective states KNEW who and what these people were and what they supported and STILL not only voted for them, but voted for them overwhelmingly winning margins, with apologies to Sarah Hoyt, well beyond the margin of fraud.

Now it’s very possible that this might hurt the Democrats nationally in states where people have not gone insane as Scott Jennings notes:

I think we’re at the point where we have to stop pretending that Democrat voters don’t understand what Communism is, or antisemitism is or violence is or corruption is. I think we have to stop pretending that they are being decieved.

This is what the Democrat/left is. This is what they believe in and what they support this is the government that they want and by golly they’re going to get the government they deserve.

The only question left in my mind is will they be surprised when they get it?

The Case for Trump Allowing Independent Journalists in the White House Briefing Room in Two Videos:

Posted: November 26, 2024 by datechguy in dablog, elections, media, politics
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One of the reasons why this blog is going to end as a business at the end of this year has been the various reverses and collapses that took place after things started to get big around here, plus I’m now kinda old to be chasing around the country in the hope that someone will fund it and maybe slip a few extra buck to keep the lights on at home.

But I had my share of big moments, reporting from the middle of an Antifa riots in Denver, My 2010 road trip with Stacy McCain. Multiple CPACS including my final one with my sons when I first reported on Trump making gains with the black community, Scott Brown’s victory party of course, credentialed press at the Romney “victory” party but likely the biggest one in terms of relevance was covering Donald Trump’s first NH rally and it’s the one that makes the point concerning letting alternative media into the press room at the White House.

https://twitter.com/PU28453638/status/1861242898429235617

Let me tell you my story.

When I got to that event in Derry I noticed right away that these weren’t the normal activists turning up or being bussed in that I had seen over and over when covering events in NH. These were regular people. I did a bunch of interviews talking to anyone willing to talk to me to find out why they came and was quickly convinced those regular people showing up WAS the story (Stacy McCain will tell you about my call to him on that matter). As you may or may not know I carried three cameras with me at the time because I didn’t have a ton of extra batteries. I was on my 2nd camera when Trump had his press conference where I was standing in the back. Here is my recording of same.

You might notice two things when watching.

  1. I repeatedly attempted to get my question in and failed
  2. The media questions were all basicially
    • Why does the GOP suck?
    • Why do you, your campaign & your ideas suck?
    • What are you going to do about the fact that you, your campaign, your ideas and the GOP suck?

My recording stopped 18 min in because at that point camera 2’s battery gave out and I have to resort to camera #3 which due to a problem did not allow me to zoom in so I had a wide shot when finally I got to ask Donald Trump my question:

Two things you might notice about my question:

  1. Notice the surprise from Trump getting an actual relevant question.
  2. Notice the media looking back to find out: “Hey, whose not with the program?”

It wasn’t a question of trying to give Trump an easy question. I had decided that those regular folks WERE the story and the question I asked was consistent with what I thought the most important thing was.

Any one of those media people there could have done those interview or asked that question but nobody bothered because they weren’t there to cover a story in the hopes of making a buck, they were there to advance an agenda because that’s how they made their bucks. And that simple act of asking that question in Derry is why he recognized me and called on me in Worcester months later again on what I considered the real story, the lack of protestors when people had been calling for them in the 2nd biggest city in New England which has 10 Colleges in it.

Although in fairness wearing a 12 ft long Dr. Who scarf and a fedora likely helped a bit for him remember me.

I suspect that if you open things up to bloggers like myself or influencers or the alternative media you will get a better set of questions and actually inform the public.

And why would you want to reward a press corps that hates you anyways?

So Donald Trump JR. I strongly suggest you go ahead and let guys like me in, even though by the time you do so I won’t be doing it anymore.

Closing thought: However I would love to get a 20 min on camera interview with the president election before the end of the year and post that as the final act of DaBlog as a business. Might as well go out in style.

If you’re willing let me know.

Update: I mentioned my call to Stacy McCain in this post completely unaware that he mentioned the same in a post today:

 After going all-in on the 2012 campaign (“Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption”), I’d decided to avoid the 2016 campaign and was more or less neutral about the GOP primary. But then in September 2015, I got a call from Pete Da Tech Guy, who was covering a Trump rally in New Hampshire. “Stacy, this Trump thing is for real,” Pete told me. “You wouldn’t believe the size of this crowd.”

There was a real grassroots surge of support for Trump, and so the attitude of the Professional Conservative Pundit crowd turned from ridicule to hatred. Whereas they had originally treated Trump as a joke, now he was seen as threat.

Five Cautionary Victory/Defeat Thoughts Under the Fedora: Battles and Wars, The Albert Sydney Johnson left, The Self Harming Left, The Lib Boat and The Election in one video and one repeated slogan

Posted: November 11, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, elections, politics
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For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph – a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

Patton 1970

While I like a good party as much as the next guy let me point out that Kurt Schlichter is exactly right:

Life is good today; tomorrow, we fight again. 

Anyone who thinks the deep state is going to go quietly hasn’t paid attention. They are going to fight tooth and nail every chance they get.

And all they need to win is for us to get sloppy and lose our vigilance. It’s like cyber security, your system security is only as strong as the most careless person on your team.

I’m reminded of Albert Sydney Johnson the highest ranking General of the confederacy who was killed at Shiloh. Johnson was outnumbered and outgunned on every front that the Union forces could invade in so he planted stories in newspapers not only highly exaggerating his strength but arranged “leaks” about possible offensives that he was about to launch.

While he was successful in deceiving the northern forces thus buying him some time he also deceived his own side to the point where general P.T Beauregard arrived on the scene he was shocked and flabbergasted to find that the situation was actually very dire.

That’s basically what was discussed when a big Democrat fundraiser appeared on Fox and told them how she had raised millions from other big donors based on the promises and assurances of the Harris campaign that turned out to be empty.

People don’t like getting played and burned.

The insane and in at last one case horrific responses we are seeing from the left comes from two primary sources:

  1. People believing lies being told directly to their face by the media trying to obtain a particular result (Think the entire “Biden is sharp as a whip business) which can only hold up until reality kicks in
  2. People letting politics become their religion and thus being scandalized when anything, including reality, contradicts their faith.

Neither of these things are healthy and the idea that there are women who are literally getting their tubes tied over the Trump victory, while likely healthy for the gene poll is not very good for the people doing them.

Pray for them all, they need it.

There are a lot of reports that celebs made a fortune off of the Kamala campaign getting big paydays for showing up.

I don’t mind this very much because basically that’s what celebs do, they make their money off of people who want to be seen near or with them, after all why do you think Patrick Mahomes does all those State Farm commercials? Because he likes their coverage?

Expect a lot more grifts making a lot more money from idiots either panicked or self righteous. My favorite is this one:

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1855641373560762502

At least one wag is calling it the “Lib boat” and another notes that as the very rich was one of the few groups that she improved her numbers with it’s a perfect move.

There are a lot of things that shock me about the reaction to this election. One of them is a refrain that I’m hearing repeatedly that Kamala ran an “excellent” or a “flawless” campaign.

Now I’m a sports guy and I’ve seen a lot of blowouts over the years and watched a lot of analysists talk about such games the next day or during the week if it’s football. I’ve never once heard said analysists describe the team on the wrong side of a blowout describe the losing teams game as “perfect” or “nearly flawless”.

That’s a classic case of not being willing to handle the reality that’s right in front of your face, but this pales in comparisons to this video from CNN which this week has been the gift that keeps on giving:

https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1855095025190797453

No your eyes are not deceiving you that’s a white liberal and a black woman telling a black man on live TV what he is allowed to say and how he is allowed to talk as he tries to explain why they lost minority men.

If you want to sum up what happened in the last election, this is pretty much it.

As I Said Eight Years Ago The Time to Address Election Fraud (and offer Amnesty) Is NOW!

Posted: November 7, 2024 by datechguy in elections, politics
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Ok so now Donald Trump has been elected the 47th (or 48th president if Biden doesn’t make it to Jan 20th) and managed to put together something “too big to rig”.

As you might guess there were some yesterday teasing “hey how come you are now suddenly accepting the results of an election?” This ignores several salient facts that I touched on in my post “Steal or no Steal” quick example:

https://twitter.com/DaTechGuyblog/status/1854284192261300634

If you haven’t heard about Kamala and the counties here is the amazing clip:

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1854309062449447137

Others had different similar opinions on the subject:

I’m not sure why the network didn’t get its go signal this time. There are at least two possibilities: one is the DNC knew from internal polling that Harris was utterly doomed, the other is that they contemplated the amount of monitoring the Republicans put in place this time and quailed. Either way, they must have concluded that all they would accomplish by trying to put the fix in was risking the exposure of their network. But the thing they can’t hide now is the consequences. Somewhere around 15 million fewer votes, losing the popular vote, and losing all seven of the swing states that normally get buggered by big-city Democratic fraud machines. It’s the last confirmation I needed that 2020 was stolen.

Anyways if I’m Donald Trump sometime in the next two weeks I’d announce two things:

  1. During the first 100 days a special council would be appointed whose job would be to investigate election fraud. Said council would be empowered to hire his or her own staff and they would be going after any attempt to steal federal elections in 2020 or 2024 and prosecute those involved to the fullest extent of the law.
  2. That there a general amnesty for anyone involved in any such steal will be offered and in effect for ninety days beginning on December 1st 2024 and ending on March 1st 2025. Any person who takes advantage of said amnesty during that time will be spared from any prosecution and/or pardoned by the Trump White House if they:
    • Come clean about being involved in a steal
    • Detail how they were involved in such a steal
    • Name the names of the people either paying them or running the show

I’d be flexible on the amnesty dates but this has to be nipped in the bud while you have both houses of congress and while you have the mandate to do so. I know Trump can’t run again but anyone who believes that the left will suddenly turn honest when he’s gone is deluding themselves.

Yes the media will attack you for it, but when people have been calling you Nazi’s for months who cares what they say?

Bottom line for the second time in 8 years we have a real opening to nip this kind of fraud in the bud. If the GOP in general and Trump in particular do not take advantage of this opening and if the American people don’t insist on it there will not only be a lot of elections stolen in the future but when it happens it will be our own damn fault!

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