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There is a lot of Rhetoric going on concerning the late election, particularly on social media but no matter how much talk you spit out everything really comes down to one statement that should be asked of everybody:

After every legal and legitimate ballot is counted and every illegal an illegitimate ballot is eliminated the candidate, no matter if it is Trump or Biden, who has won enough states to acquire 270 or more electoral college votes should be sworn in as President of the United States on Jan 20th 2021?

Any person who can’t or won’t answer: “Yes” to this question should be ignored.

Despite a presidential contest with results ever grimmer, Election Day 2020 in most others ways gives conservatives hope. The Senate looks to be held, though Georgia’s January double runoff apparently will decide the matter. Lindsey Graham’s $100 million defeat of Jaime Harrison in South Carolina will look cheap by February.

Republicans gained seats in the House, too, when they were supposedly facing a “blue wave,” though it’s still Pelosi’s House. If the Democrats do tie the Republicans in the Senate 50-50, look for West Virginia’s Joe Manchin (D) to suddenly be the most popular man in the Capitol’s north wing. I’ll take McConnell over Schumer to win most of those battles.

But California, of all places, might be one of the happier surprise for Republicans. While Democrats still dominate California’s House delegation, two of conservative stalwart Orange County’s seats that voted Democrat in 2018 have Republicans now in the lead, though by paper-thin margins. And Mike Garcia in northern L.A. County leads Christy Smith – again, margins to make Gordon Gekko sweat – in the district he won after Democrat Katie Hill resigned after your choice of scandals.

But best of all, California voters defeated several progressive wishlist propositions, proving that in California, there beats a heart where conservative ideas still flow. Prop 15, raising commercial property taxes and undermining 1978’s tax-revolt Prop 13, is currently going down to defeat, 52%-48%. Prop 16, which would allow again for race-based affirmative action in hiring, education, and other arenas, got thrashed, 56%-43%. Prop 18, which would have allowed 17-year-olds to vote in the primaries of elections by which they will have turned 18, also crashed and burned, 55%-45%. An expansion of rent control lost big, 60%-40%. And, with Prop 22 passing, workers can now work as independent contractors again – escaping from the bonds of the disastrous AB5 – so long as you work for Uber or Lyft, or similar gig-type drivers. People love their food deliveries, thank God.

All of this proves California still offers fertile ground for Republicans. They just need the right messengers.

New Assemblywoman Suzette Martinez Valladares, in the 38^th District, might be worth keeping an eye on. The daughter of a mechanic, who can change her own carburetor, a one-time staffer to Republican Congressman Buck McKeon, mother of a three-year-old daughter and executive director of a nonprofit, Valladares speaks with ease about both her family’s struggles as well as her family’s tamales, and has a telegenic appeal that guarantees camera time. The Assembly for her seems like but a start.

Nevertheless, California is still California – L.A. voted in a Soros-funded District Attorney, as a little amuse-bouche for you – but for once in a seeming eternity, a candle glows in the darkness.

Today at 3 PM I’ll be talking (and maybe singing about) Joe Biden’s magic ballots the topics will be

1. An auditor talks about red flags (this piece)
2. The improbably of Dems losing a ton of house seats, losing the senate and somehow winning because of 4 cities
3. What can be done?
4. The real shock concerning these results.

You can see the livestream here: (last week’s show is the placeholder)

Hope you can join us

fyi if you like what you see please consider hitting DaTipJar

As you might know I had four bets on this election. Given what we’re seeing and the obvious fraud I’m put in an odd position.

Naturally none of the folks I bet with are likely involved in the fraud but made their bets in good faith, but I also don’t want to pay out if until we know how all this litigation is going.

One of those I bet with is a fellow named Julio, he contacted me last night and said he’s happy to wait till the final court stuff is done (though I offered to pay when states certify before court stuff on the condition that if Trump won it court the payment is reversed). He had earlier talked about hiding Biden as a good idea and last night after agreeing on waiting for the courts I DM’s him saying that he was definitely right about that.

This morning he sent me a DM in his reply with his opinion of how the election turned out and what happened, Said DM presumes it was a straight election but other than that I found it a first rate opinion piece so with his permission and without further ado here is Julio’s guest post DM

We can wait until it’s official official, until the math is impossible, until the courts are over or until you lose hope. That’s why I said “sun is starting to set real low” We’re just almost there. There are things democrats did right and there are things democrats definitely did wrong during this whole campaign. Hiding Biden, the debates against trump, and allowing Bloomberg’s infrastructure and team handle Biden’s definitely helped. Things democrats did wrong were allowing this country to go to hell to make trump look bad. I get it. It’s like playing chess. It was risky. But it killed people. Both sides politics were just using us as pawns. Not going after Latinos harder. There’s a reason why Latinos vote for Trump. It’s not cause of the ideals or anything like that. It’s cause of jobs. Latinos will vote for a poor message bout jobs than the guy saying I’ll just do the opposite. But the best thing Biden did was just say he’ll be president to all Americans. It’s time Peter. Trump did a real good job at dividing everyone with the way he talked. Blue cities, democrat cities, red vs blue. We’re all American. We all love this country. Our ideals will never line up and that’s ok. We need to get back to compromising. There’s Beauty in the country. There’s beauty in the cities. Biden wants to unite and I’ll take that message over the shit trump was saying. Plus at the end of the day there will be more compromise and shitting on the real left than ever. I’m going to get awfully frustrated with this administration rather quickly

Now I disagree with the premise that Trump was trying to divide Americans given what the left had been doing for decades but I like the analysis concerning Latinos and I very much like the sentiment at the end.

I do not for one moment think the avg Biden voter is complicit in the fraud that is going on and frankly I think we need to see more Julio’s on the left.

What do you think of what he says?

Update: formatting error fixed