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Yesterday I was trying to figure out what I wanted to write when inspiration finally came and I quickly came up with a piece called:

Thank God for Dems that BLM Confers COVID Immunity

It came to me quickly and went like this:

A few days ago I saw this tweet on twitter from Juanita Broadrick:

while I've reached a point where nothing would surprise me anymore as a general rule when dealing with people one won't lose a lot of money betting on foolishness over maliciousness .

In fairness however the betting odds between the pair have never been closer

— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) October 4, 2020

and prior to this I remember this tweet

I was thinking the same thing. 5 out of 8 of Trump’s debate prep circle caught it, 2 senate judiciary committee as well. What topped the cake is when the Dems came out in unison against the senate justice confirmation.

— MAGS (@TAftermath2020) October 3, 2020

I thought nothing of it until I saw this story:

Officials for the City of Cleveland said 11 cases of the Wuhan coronavirus could be traced back to the Sept. 29 presidential debate. The cases were a result of debate pre-planning and set-up, with the majority of cases impacting out-of-state travelers, particularly debate organizers and members of the media.

The news comes after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus. Out of an abundance of caution, the president was transported to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday.

I found that interesting as I did this:

Even though 11 cases were traced back to the pre-debate planning, the Cleveland Clinic made one thing clear: every single person with credentials who went into the debate had to have a negative Wuhan coronavirus test. 

That would suggest it could have been part of the people setting up and preparing, but the real question I had was this:

If all the cases originated from the debate, how is it that only the GOP seems to be getting COVID from it?

That question would seem to give some credence to the tweets above, until I remembered that our Democrat friends have likely all marched with BLM at one point or another.

Since it’s been clearly established by all the health experts that being in large crowds for a riot or BLM protest confers automatic immunity from the disease naturally nobody on the left side of the aisle would be affected by any such outbreak from the debate

So we must conclude in the face of that fact that despite the suspicions of those who have seen this administration in general and this president in particularly attacked relentlessly from day one, the fact that this is going though only the GOP side of the aisle from the debate is entirely and completely coincidental.

That’s the piece. It sounds good, it’s got that little bit of sarcastic punch and given that traffic has been a tad slow lately might be just the thing to bring in clicks.

The problem is that I went to lunch with dawife directly after writing it and my brain kicked into gear after the 1st meal of the day and it took very little thought to realize that while it might have a lot of potential as clickbait it just wasn’t true.

The reason people are quarantined for two weeks after covid is because it can take that long for the virus to show up on a test. The reason it takes so long is not because you don’t HAVE the virus until you test positive, but because it can take that long for the virus to multiply to the point where it will show up and/or cause symptoms.

This means that while the President anounced his positive COVID test on Friday the 2nd. The exposure that cause those positive test was not likely from the Sept 29th debate but from a period 10-14 days before sometime between the 18th (Ginsberg’s death day) & 21st of the month.

Here is the President’s schedule Sept 18th, 19th, 20th & 21st looking at said schedule and remember that POTUS seemed to test positive 1st my thought would be either the press briefing or the golf course as the likely sources since that would bring him into contact with folks he normally might not hang with.

And we also have to consider that the 1st lady might have gotten it 1st and gave it to POTUS rather than the other way around. I don’t have the 1st lady’s schedule handy and there doesn’t seem to be a site that tracks it. So I don’t have an indication of where it might have come from if she is the source.

Bottom line: While it’s not impossible that there was some nasty involved and as I said the betting odds for maliciousness vs foolishness or even the normal course of a virus have never been closer I simply don’t see anything that would suggest anything more than a virus being a virus.

So while it’s more spicy to suggest some kind of plot her I think we should just use our heads and rather than searching for some kind of plot that involves taking advantage of those who don’t know how a virus works let’s just wish President Trump and the 1st lady the best and go from there.

We’ll leave the pedaling BS for profit to the Lincoln project and the MSM.

There is a lot of talk about about voter fraud particularly with the new James O’Keefe videos documenting it in Minneapolis. I thought it best to remind you that if you were surprised by any of it, you didn’t pay attention last time.

Originally published Nov 18th 2016

One of the most important things that drive decision making is the risk/reward factor. Is the reward for an action worth the risk being taken by doing it?

This is also true for crime. Unless you are talking a crime of passion or a person high out of their min a smart criminal will look at the risk of being caught, the risk of a particular punishment and weigh it against the reward of success

And that brings us to an important election postmortem that nobody wants to talk about.

There was plenty of talk about a “rigged” system before the election and one of the biggest signs of it was certain big city Democrat counties holding back reporting in key states.

The basic idea which has been part of the equation as long as machine politics has existed, is pretty simple and involves this little algorithm

If (Number of votes you can get away stealing) > (Number of votes you might lose by) Then

Go For it!

Else

Release your vote totals as is

Endif

I submit and suggest that this more than anything else drove the calling of certain formally blue states.  Once it was determined they just plain couldn’t steal enough to overcome the Trump wave there they allowed the numbers to go out.

But while the Democrat machines were ready in places like Florida and North Carolina, places Hillary knew would be close, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and to a lesser extent Pennsylvania were not so prepared. Pennsylvania for example had been considered fools gold for the GOP for so long that last minute moves by the Democrats were almost pro-forma, but it didn’t stop scenes like this:

So provisional ballots are the reason that MSNBC isn’t calling Pennsylvania. This is why I found being forced to fill out a provisional ballot today so suspect. Reiterating: I had to fill one out because, according to the story told to me by the poll workers, I had been sent a vote by mail ballot, which I had never requested. Votes that are counted after election night are the Devil’s Playground for fraud. All kinds of things can happen, and they are almost never good for the Republican candidate.

I’ll wager there were a lot of Trump votes in those provisional ballots that cancelled out one mailed in for them.

Meanwhile Democrat Bosses in Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota had no inkling that the election was close, that being the case there was no reason why, in an age where proof of a federal offense is a cell phone video away, Dem bosses in Detroit or elsewhere felt the need to take any risk.  They figured those states were won (and they were right about Minnesota) and by election night it was too late to change it.

However that won’t be the case in 2020,  I’ll wager that in 2020 the bosses in Milwaukee, Detroit, Madison and elsewhere will be ready, we’ll see plenty of mail in ballots and absentee ballots that we didn’t see before in those states and plenty of voters looking to go for the GOP will be in the same spot that Steven Kruiser was on election night.

We have four years to prepare for this so we’d better get ready because as our friends on the left have demonstrated in the past, they play for keeps.

After all you don’t think Soros has been quietly sinking millions into AG races, you know the people who would be protesting election fraud on a local level, just because it’s fun?

You have all been warned

During the presidential debate on Tuesday, moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump to “condemn white supremacy.” Trump wasn’t precise enough in his answer for the Democrats and media, and so story after story went on about Trump’s supposed refusal to “condemn white supremacy.”

Wallace’s question exemplifies the Left’s trick of changing the meaning of language to suit their preferred outcomes and ideology.

If you look at a typical dictionary definition of the phrase, “white supremacy, you get:

“The belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups, in particular black or Jewish people.”

I suspect if you ask the average American, this is their concept of “white suprem

Poor fools.

For the Left, such a definition is just the beginning. Sure, you include such a concept, but then you expand and broaden the definition until it lets you justify whatever action you wish.

So, the Anti-Defamation League adds that white supremacy includes the “belief that white people have their own ‘culture’ that is superior to other cultures.”

Do white people not have their own culture?  To the extent any subgroup of people with something in common have a culture, it seems odd to exclude white people. There is no doubt Europe, at least, was predominantly made up of white people until rather recently. Were white societies so inclusive, they could not be called “white?” Or are they so inclusive now, they aren’t “white?”

But the real twists come with what the academic Left considers “white supremacy.”

The academic Left is beholden to Critical Race Theory, which, as UCLA law professor Cheryl Harris explained in the Nation, focuses “on the way that race is baked into the current political, economic, and social system so that racial subordination is reproduced through normal operations.” So, according to Critical Race Theory, the normal operations of society – presumably here, American society – is racist, because it results in racial subordination. There is no human agency here, simply the “system.”

University of Tennessee College of Law Professor Emeritus Frances Ansley, as quoted by Critical Race Theorist David Gillborn, states that white supremacy is, “a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings.”

So now, white supremacy can mean the KKK stringing up “strange fruit” on “Southern trees,” but it also can mean, you know, the entire American society. All the same thing.

And then, after twisting the meaning of the term, the Left then goes ahead and changes the dictionary definition, just to cover its tracks.

So what exactly do you mean, Mr. Wallace? Are you asking Trump to condemn all of American society?

If so, I can understand Trump’s seeming hesitance to do so.

Just before the debate I noted that when Matt Drudge puts up his: Who won tonight’s Debate post as he always does it will be the first time in a while that many conservatives visit his site.

Did I say “always”? Don Surber corrects me:

I did not have to watch the debate to know who won. The media did it for me. I did not go by what they said. I went by what they did.

First up was Matt Drudge. He did not run one of his who-won-the-debate polls. That is telling. Oh sure, there are plenty of instant polls that say President Donald Trump won, but when it comes to getting a debate right, the Drudge Report is far more accurate than the usual Trump-lost polls.

The surest sign that Donald Trump won the debate is the rush to change the rules. And the surest sign that whoever now owns the Drudge report is more interested in an agenda than clicks is when running a click based business turning down millions of easy clicks

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It looks like a bigger winner than Donald Trump in the Debate might be Kyle Rittenhouse:

On behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse, I shall sue @JoeBiden & Biden/Harris Campaign for libel.

I am partisan in 20/20 supporting @realDonaldTrump.

I am non-partisan trial lawyer who aggressively pursues truth to achieve justice.

Put in your hearing aid, Joe. You will hear footsteps.

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) September 30, 2020

I particularly like this follow up tweet:

When I take @JoeBiden deposition on cross-examination, no wire or computer contact lenses will save him.

I will rip Joe into shreds. Ask witnesses who have had the misfortune of sitting across the table from me under oath.

You don’t mess with my children, my pup, or my clients.

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) September 30, 2020

Given that as Joe Biden said he IS the democrat party I wonder if they will be a party to this suit.

What is it about the left that makes them determined to enrich conservative teenagers?

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Speaking of business and click apparently the Huffington Post isn’t producing anywhere near enough to make money.

“This thing loses so much money,” a digital media executive with knowledge of the financials said. “It’s such a mess, I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. I don’t think there’s any way you can make money.”

People briefed on the talks said Verizon, headed by CEO Hans Vestberg, appears to be seeking to offload HuffPost to a buyer willing to take a knife to the site’s high operating expenses — a potentially daunting process that would require going head-to-head with the site’s union and enacting “massive layoffs,” sources said. 

While HuffPost brings in between $45 million to $50 million a year in revenue, its annual expenses are between $60 million and $70 million, two sources said. And with advertising slammed by the pandemic, it will likely bring in $40 million this year, the sources said. 

I don’t claim that DaTechGuyblog.com is better or more influential than the Huffington Post and frankly it isn’t what it used to be in terms of traffic (what is this “Instalanche” of which you speak?) but we’re apparently better at business because we don’t lose millions, in fact off the top of my head I can’t remember the last time I took a loss in the 12 years I’ve done it.

Anyways I want Arianna Huffington to give me stock advice. She sure proved she knows when to sell.

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One of the things about tolerating riots and rioters in order to help win an election is that there are consequences to your actions to wit:

Boeing to move all 787 Dreamliner production to South Carolina

Shift would end output of that jetliner in Seattle area as demand for planes plummets amid pandemic

Via Don Surber who points out

You can have CHAZ or jobs. You cannot have both.

This type of thing will continue until the voters in Washington in general and Seattle in particular decide to change it.

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Finally when I got home from work I found out that the President and 1st Lady have tested positive for Covid.

The president being older would be considered at risk but given his personal stamina and the fact that he has the best medical care in the world I’d say the odds are in his favor unless someone treating him decided to give him a micky of some sort.

It was not too many years ago that the very suggestion of such a thing would have been unthinkable but given what we’ve seen from the left in reactions to this news and frankly from some in the medical profession I’d not put it past them.