Things that Make You Go "Hmmmm."

 

I Could Have Written This

I wish I had.

The left is now reaping what it sowed

 

THIS is the Kraken

 

Wow. Just wow. This was the spine the Republicans never had before.

Quote of the Day - The Left Singularity

From the archives, a blog post at "Jim's Blog" from April of 2013.  This is just an excerpt.  Read the whole thing.

The Left Singularity:

Leftism leads to more ever more leftism, ever faster. If the process was not interrupted by dictatorship, civil war, or social collapse, it would end with everyone torturing each other to death for insufficient leftism, Khmer Rouge style, and the last torturer committing suicide for his failure to inflict infinite torture in finite time.

A State-Broken People

Back in 2010, long before he morphed into Col. Nicholson, George F. Will delivered the keynote speech at the Cato Institute's semi-annual Milton Friedman Prize dinner.  I liked it so much, I transcribed it. (Turns out, I didn't need to.  It's on the web in several other places, but....)  I titled my transcription "Learned Feudalism," a phrase Will used in the speech.  On Cato's web page, the speech is titled "Not a State-Broken People," another phrase from the speech.  Here's the pertinent excerpt, but do read the whole thing:

We are not Europeans. We are not, in Orwell’s phrase, a “state‐​broken people.” We do not have a feudal background of subservience to the state. No, that is the project of the current administration — it can be boiled down to learned feudalism. It is a dependency agenda that I have been talking about ad nauseam.

Two recent examples. First, when the government took over student loans, making it the case that the two most important financial transactions of the average family — a housing mortgage and a loan for college — will now be transactions with the government, they included a provision that said there will be special forgiveness of student loans for those who go to work for the government or for nonprofits. Second, one third of the recent stimulus was devoted to preserving unionized public employees’ jobs in states and local municipalities. And so it goes. The agenda is constant.

Indeed it is.  And now, with COVID and the lockdowns and the mask mandates, etc. it seems that a major effort is being made to make us a "state-broken" people and to impose upon us, "learned feudalism" - unending dependency on our betters in the halls of government, from the White House to our local municipal officials.

We're Americans.  We don't do that shit.  And if we do, we're no longer Americans.  We're Europeans, as the Left has wanted to make us for decades.

Who are You Going to Believe?

 

As Was Foretold in the Prophecy...

 Source: Durham Investigation Closing Down Without Indictments, Scared of Biden Blowback

Apparently the answer is "No."

 

A Brit Comments on the U.S. Election

 He's not wrong.

A North Korean Defector Talks about Gun Ownership

Spread this around.

Joe Biden: "Buy a Shotgun"

Bill Barr has Unleashed the Full Power of the DoJ...

 ...to investigate election fraud.

They're on the case!!

Quote of the Day - Larry Correia Edition (again)

From his excellent piece Election 2020:  The More Fuckery Update - (Read the whole thing.  Seriously.)

I believe most people on the right already believed that fraud happens in these machine cities, because duh. But I think most of us also believed that our votes still mattered because we could win by beating the margin of lawyer. But after this audacious fuckery? If they can pull off this level of blatant, clumsy, in your face bullshit and get away with it, no amount of regular votes will ever matter again. Even if we overcome Big Tech and the media controlling most information and get more people on our side, they’ll just stop the count when we are too far ahead and make more votes appear until they win. Then the media and Big Tech will declare nothing weird happened. Shut up.

So I can’t say how this is going to go, but none of the ends from this point will be good. At best this marriage goes back to an abusive relationship with irreconcilable differences, and at worst it ends in a murder suicide.

If they get away with it this time the United States of America becomes the People's Democratic Republic of America, and - by definition - a banana republic.

 

Blog Irregularities

So I posted a couple items down about election fuckery, and for some reason Blogger doesn't post any older content on the front page.  Hitting the "Older Post" link gets you the older posts like normal.  Not sure what the deal is there, but I'm willing to bet it's in the HTML of that post.  Sorry about that.

Reloading

I've been going through the stuff I've accumulated over the last 3-4 years, and finally gotten back into reloading.  I discovered that I've got a couple thousand .224" projectiles in various weights, but after loading the 600 prepped .223 cases I had on hand, I ran out.  (BTW, anybody need or want a box of 75 grain Hornady VMax bullets?  They can't be loaded to AR-15 magazine length, and I don't have a bolt gun in any .22 caliber.)

So I went searching last night for more brass.  I prefer to purchase prepped NATO brass - resized, deprimed, swaged, trimmed and polished.  All I have to do then is put in a primer, drop a powder charge and seat a bullet.

Everybody's out, or if they're not, they're quite proud of what they've got left.  I found NATOBrass.com, however, and they had 5,000 in stock.  Now they've got 4,000.

And I've got some loading to do.

Statistical Fuckery

 Interestingly enough, Facebook won't allow a direct link to this story, nor an abbreviated one.  I'm wondering if they're going to allow a link to my post.  Found at Instapundit:  Joe Biden's Votes Violate Benford's Law (Mathematics)

I'm copying the entire post for archival purposes:

Source of image: Twitter

As the vote counting for the 2020 Presidential Election continues, various facts suggest rampant frauds in Joe Biden’s votes. So does mathematics in terms of the votes from precincts.

Benford’s law or the first-digit law, is used to check if a set of numbers are naturally occurring or manually fabricated. It has been applied to detect the voting frauds in Iranian 2009 election and various other applications including forensic investigations.

This is what described by Wikipedia:

“Benford’s law, or the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to be small.

For example, in sets that obey the law, the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time. If the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time. Benford’s law also makes predictions about the distribution of second digits, third digits, digit combinations, and so on.”

One of the examples is the population of the world, which are naturally occurring numbers.

 Distribution of first-digit (in %) of population numbers in 237 countries in 2010.

Source: wikipedia.org

A number of people on the internet have checked the votes (precinct by precinct) of Joe Biden, Donald Trump as well as other candidates for their legitimacy in terms of the Benford’s Law.

According a Reddit user, r/dataisbeautiful’s calculation, the ‘normal’ distribution of first digits for the different candidates based on Benford’s law is illustrated below.

Source of image: https://bit.ly/3l7mUE5

Youtuber Nyar has shared the observations on a number of counties, concluding that Trump and others’ votes have natural distribution but not for Joe Biden’s.

In Fulton County, Georgia, which overlaps with the Atlantic metropolitan where Joe Biden is expected to win, all of the three candidates have normal distributions for their votes. (Joe Biden 72.6%, Donald Trump 26.2%, Jo Jorgensen 1.2%. Source: .theguardian.com)

Image from github.com/ (https://bit.ly/2GGTXjq)

In Miami-Dade County of Florida, which includes the Miami metropolitan where Joe Biden is expected to win, all candidates’ votes obey Benford’s Law. (Joe Biden 53.4%, Donald Trump 46.1%, Jo Jorgensen 0.3%. Source: theguardian.com)

 Image from github.com/ (https://bit.ly/2GGTXjq)

However, in the Milwaukee County of Wisconsin, which is in one of the key swing states, Joe Biden’s votes violate Benford’s Law while other candidates’ don’t. (Joe Biden 69.4%, Donald Trump 29.4%, Jo Jorgensen 0.9%. Source: theguardian.com)

Image from github.com/ (https://bit.ly/2GGTXjq)

And in Chicago of Illinois, Joe Biden’s votes are abnormal.

Image from github.com/ (https://bit.ly/2GGTXjq)

So does that of Allegheny of Pennsylvania which includes Pittsburg. (Joe Biden 59.0%, Donald Trump 39.9%, Jo Jorgensen 1.2%. Source: theguardian.com)

It looks like maybe Biden had lost big cities like Chicago and Pittsburgh, which is why the fraudulent votes need to be brought in, which skew his curve away from a normal looking one.

For those who are interested to reproduce the analysis, you can follow the instructions here and give it a go.

Author: River|Himalaya Scholars

Proof-reader: XO酱
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Editor's note:  Yes, please do check the math.