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To borrow from supporters of cranky Vermont socialist senator Bernie “Feel the Bern” Sanders, today is Feel the Burns time in these parts.

The laborious Cambria County vote-counting procedure that was conducted in the wake of a technical and leadership failure on election day, at last has produced a verdict. According to several media sources, most notably the Associated Press, Frank Burns has beaten back a concerted effort by outside interests to replace Burns with Amy Bradley for the seat representing the 72^nd Legislative District.

Bradley now can retreat to her place in the area’s elite power base that controls non-profits, not-for-profits, charities, foundations and other behind-the-scenes groups.

Meanwhile, Burns will keep working for the area — right out in the public.

I have written that Burns is a Donald Trump-like figure in his party. Neither is true to traditional party policies and methods, but both win elections by connecting with the people, not party leaders.

To quote from the Associated Press story reporting the Burns win, “Burns, a conservative Democrat who supports gun rights and opposes abortion, has regularly found himself voting against his fellow House Democrats. He has long been an electoral target of Republicans, while many other similarly situated western Pennsylvania districts long ago flipped to the GOP.”

Burns staying in office is a triumph for many, a repudiation of area elitists, and a positive reflection on Trump Make America Great Again supporters who didn’t blindly vote for Bradley even if she did have ads touting a Trump endorsement.

I voted for Trump. I did not vote for Bradley. Apparently, judging by the many Republicans for Burns yard signs I saw in past months, I was not alone in making this calculation.

Count me in the group that believes, had Trump known of Amy’s association with once-secret plans to bring Afghan refugees to Johnstown, he might not have been offering an endorsement.

But even if Trump was fully aware, this is what’s great about MAGA people. Despite assertions to the contrary made by LameStream media and leftist zealots, we are not in a cult. We do reserve the right to think for ourselves.

We did exactly that in the race between Burns and Bradley.

Common sense has prevailed, and yet another candidate endorsed by our local Woke Gazette has lost. These election gifts keep on coming.

As of Thursday night, the latest vote count I was able to find for the Burns-Bradley race for the District 72 seat in the Pennsylvania House had reached a reported 53 percent of the total. That’s almost two days after voting ended.

Have they farmed out the vote count to a stereotypical PennDOT road crew, with eight watching for every two actually working?

Too bad Myopia 2025’s plan to slip Afghan immigrants into the area behind the backs of the public was outed and dropped. I’m sure those unskilled newcomers would have worked cheap and counted well.

If the goal of those in charge of the county election process this time was to make Cambria County a statewide and national laughingstock, mission accomplished.

The noon broadcast of Johnstown’s NBC affiliate, which seems to think it’s State College’s NBC affiliate, had an amusing, perhaps Freudian slip. A reporter covering the Burns-Bradley story said a county commissioner was “overlooking” the vote-counting procedure.

I’d think “overseeing” the procedure would be more accurate verbiage. But “overlooking” seems to work, too, in some ways.

The delay in finalizing results is drawing attention because there is a lot at stake here.

Perhaps Cambria County can provide enough votes for declared U.S. Senate victor Dave McCormick to push his lead above the mandatory recount differential.

The control of the state house appears to hinge on whether Frank Burns or Amy Bradley prevails.

Last, but not least, Bradley is the final hope that the Johnstown Woke Gazette might have one high-profile endorsement actually win a race.

The predictably left Johnstown operation where, in the interest of full disclosure, I worked for 20 years or so, had to endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for president and Democrat Bob Casey for Senate, just because they’re Democrats and Donald Trump is a very bad man. McCormick is bad, too, since he backs Trump.

Understand, editorial management seems to think it serves readership more politically aligned with liberal hotbed San Francisco than conservative outposts such as Jacksonville, Fla.

Newsroom staff is similarly mis-aligned politically with the area and there were reports of dour faces among the crew when national election results began pouring in Tuesday night.

Also, they’ve taken to locking the front door of the place, with a sign telling people to knock. I’m guessing they fear that Hitler Trump will come looking for them to exact revenge because he was not endorsed.

Relax, he’s not that kind of guy. More to the point, with a circulation that on a good day challenges 12,000, you’re not exactly a national voice.

That didn’t prevent the publisher from writing an editorial that appeared in the Nov. 2, 2024, edition seeming to imply the local offering was superior to the Washington Post or L.A. Times because it had the courage to endorse candidates, circulation be damned!

How disappointing for this self-proclaimed crusader that Kamala went down in flames to Trump and his MAGA supporters.

Then there was Casey, who had stayed closer to MAGA guy, McCormick, by showing himself to be the consummate, desperate politician that he is. That meant Casey running ads attempting to link himself to Trump on issues of trade and tariffs.

How ironic, since no less a source than the venerable New York Times, in the same Oct. 19, 2024, story outing Casey for his hypocrisy in embracing Trump, noted that Casey “gained prominence for his resistance to many of former President Donald J. Trump’s policies.”

That Casey was and is a political animal, willing to say or do anything to stay in power, was the theme of many McCormick ads. They seem to have worked.

But hypocrisy is no stranger to politics – or endorsements. I’ve received mailers from the Bradley campaign basically accusing Burns of being a stooge of Philadelphia politicians, not showing up for work, and doing nothing to help our area. Bradley’s TV ads don’t have a lot of good things to say about Burns, either. And the bulk of those Bradley ads attacking Burns are said to be on the dime of a Philadelphia backer.

The Woke Gazette people explained their Bradley endorsement was due to the “professional and mature campaigning” method she and Kamala shared. That would be Bradley sharing methodology with Kamala, who called Trump a fascist, a Hitler, and had surrogates, including Joe Biden, calling Trump supporters garbage, racists and misogynists.

If that’s professional and mature, I don’t want to see unprofessional and immature.

Perhaps the Woke Gazette, in the spirit of full disclosure, might have shared that Bradley was aligned with Myopia 2025 on the Afghan plan, as is/was the newspaper. Can it be mere coincidence that the man who held the paper’s publisher title before the current guy, left the media operation in February 2023 to become – wait for it – executive director of Myopia 2025?

Considering that the Woke Gazette’s Nov. 2 piece went to great lengths to rip Trump, it seems more than a bit inconsistent to accept that the “professional and mature” campaign of Bradley included ads making great hay of Trump endorsing her, seemingly during his Johnstown campaign stop.

I’m not sure how someone with a Trump endorsement would be worthy of a Woke Gazette endorsement.

Keep on preaching, Woke Gazette, and indulging in copious amounts of self-congratulation. But be aware, your flock is dwindling with each day.

While we wait for Cambria County to share with us the outcome of the Burns-Bradley state house race, let’s call roll on the losers and winners from the national election.

LOSERS

Sunny Hostin (The View host handed Kamala Chameleon a softball question about what she’d do differently than Biden and it turned into a friendly fire grenade when Kamala couldn’t think of a thing).

Robert De Niro, Willie Nelson, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and Mark Cuban (All celebrity white dudes for Kamala who should be red with embarrassment over how little their advocacy helped her campaign).

Lamestream media (Ratings were down, Washington Post circulation is tanking, and they all were in mourning after their candidate lost).

Pollster “Alka” Selzer (Her attempt to boost Kamala morale with a late Iowa poll showing the Chameleon ahead by three points looked bad when Donald Trump carried the state by 13 points or so),

Beggar boy Zelenskyy (The money spigot for Ukraine is about to be turned off).

Illegal immigrants inside the U.S. and approaching the border (Enjoy it while it lasts).

Democratic elites (Go find someone else besides the working class to tell how stupid and vile they are)

Precious metals (Gold and silver dropped on Trump’s election, because he eliminates a lot of problems).

Iranian currency (The rial hit an all-time low after Trump’s election).

Lawyers (A landslide outcome reduced their election workload).

Made up pronouns and genders (We now can go back to he and she, men and women).

Trite cliches like “unburdened by the past” (No more trips to Kamala’s word salad bar).

Kamala’s Dougie (Her angry side seeped out on occasion during the campaign and I doubt she’s taking this loss well – plus, she’s going to be around the house a lot more now).

Tampon Tim Walz (He’s reduced to being Minnesota’s governor, but he might get a side gig as an Elmer Fudd impersonator).

Manufacturers of the Walz everyman wardrobe of blaze orange and camo (Now they just have their customary clientele, not a lot of leftist posers).

Kamala and Tampon Tim impersonators (That ship has sailed)

Minnesota residents (They get Walz back as governor).

Censors and other heavy-handed, self-appointed guardians of discourse (We’ll take it from here, thanks).

DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!! (She really liked being relevant, chairing cabinet meetings and living in that big White House).

The Democrat’s Blue Wall of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin (It proved about as effective as France’s Maginot Line in World War II. Trump won all three blue wall states).

Dour women named Whoopi, Joy or Sunny (Just my View of things).

WINNERS

Atlas Intelligence, Quantus, Rasmussen and Trafalgar (Unlike Alka Selzer, these pollsters were very accurate).

The American populace (Many probably don’t yet realize that this election saved the nation).

Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom and Josh Shapiro (Kamala losing benefits all three).

Cryptocurrency fans (You people got a big boost).

Stock markets (All raced higher on the Trump victory).

The world (This globe’s beat cop is back on duty and bad actors know it).

Working men and women (No longer will you need to endure being called garbage).

Truth, justice and the American way (Sounds like something Superman would say).

Men of all races (They proved they finally could do something right — vote for Trump).

Trump supporters in general (Those Nazi, deplorable, bitter clinging, pieces of garbage shoved it in the face of the ruling elites).

Tyrus (This regular panelist on Fox’s Gutfeld show has been saying for weeks that the election would not be close, and it wasn’t).

Elon Musk (Tesla stock was up big in price Wednesday and now he need not worry about MSNBC harpy Maddow getting her wish of him having zero government contracts moving forward).

Freedom of speech (Musk buying Twitter (X) got the ball rolling on that front and the Trump election seals the deal).

Peanut the Squirrel (His death at the hands of the New York deep state was avenged by the election outcome).

Secret Service members (Soon they no longer will need to fear bites from Biden’s dog – at least 25 such occurrences according to published reports).

Diddy (Being in jail made him unavailable, so he was not shamed into making a Kamala endorsement. His former squeeze Jennifer Lopez probably wished she had been in jail, too).

Afraid that Trump’s election victory was just a dream, I awoke this afternoon (I was up really late overnight) and rushed to the TV and computer to confirm it.

Thankfully, no dream. It’s reality, and a nightmare for the Democrats who remain in denial despite the nation’s electorate pointing out to them, most emphatically, that they are out of step.

I’m left with an abundance of thoughts.

The Lord does work in mysterious ways. Trump losing in a highly suspect manner in 2020 only led to the strengthening of his political movement. The Democrats and Deep State mistakenly sought to use the opportunity of his defeat to attempt to destroy him, failed, and it only made him stronger, producing the kind of massive election triumph that would not have been possible without the time spent in the political desert.

The yard sign fairies seem to have been very active overnight on my block, with virtually all indicators of Harris support gone – vanished, I say. But Trump signs, banners and flags remain proudly in place.

Cambria County was on the lips of the nation yesterday, but not in a good way. No, it was our typical ineptitude, in this case the inability to take and process votes without glitches, that got us some time in the national spotlight. We should be so proud.

I want CNN, MSNBC and major broadcast networks to own the election-denier, threat-to-democracy labels they love to throw at Trump and the political right. The citizenfreepress.com site I have come to love in recent days, called the election for Trump, publicly, at 10:41 p.m. EST last night. Fox finally made the call at about 1:20 a.m. and Trump had a victory speech. I wrote a massive blog piece before going to bed at about 5 a.m. At that time, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, etc., still were holding out conceding it was over. This, despite Kamala Chameleon pulling the plug on herself and very publicly noting she was going to bed.

There were reports at about 2 p.m. Wednesday that Kamala had called Trump to concede. She was scheduled to make a public appearance to confirm as much at 4 p.m. or so. Welcome to reality.

To restate a point I made in the previous post, it was Trump’s genius for feeling the pulse of America that won this election. His McDonald’s stint. Riding in a garbage truck. His inexhaustible energy at rallies. Rising almost immediately after being shot and fist-pumping to the crowd in Butler. And, almost as important, he put young, savvy, highly motivated social media influencers in charge of the Republican ground game. People such as Charlie Kirk and Scott Presler pushed this effort over the top and won several states, along with key House and Senate races, through their enthusiasm and hard work.

I love all the finger-pointing going on among Democrats. I’m reminded of the favorite expression of Johnstown native and former long-time Joe Paterno assistant coach Tom Bradley, who loved to say when you point the finger at others, the thumb points back at you. Kamala Harris lost this race mostly because of Kamala.

It was Kamala Harris who tried to hide from the public. It was Kamala Harris who went on the wildly partisan TV show “The View” and told their viewership (and the rest of the world as the clip went viral) that she would change “Nothing” from the Clueless Joe Biden years.

I took a financial hit for the country, seeing my net worth decline Wednesday as the traditional stock markets and the dollar soared on the Trump win, while gold and silver (my interests) tanked. Happy to do so. I did make a few bucks by purchasing a small, speculative position of Trump’s DJT stock during Tuesday’s regular stock market hours and selling it for a profit in the aftermarket Tuesday night after it began to look good for his election prospects.

I’ll give myself a .500 batting average on my thoughts regarding VP picks. I argued that Trump could have helped himself by having someone like Tulsi Gabbard as his VP. Maybe, but Trump sure did OK with JD Vance. I will take a victory lap on my thinking that Harris blew it taking Tim Walz over Pa. Governor Josh Shapiro. In her defense, there is some speculation that Shapiro was not interested, preferring to see her go down in flames so as to have no Democratic (or Republican) incumbent to run against in 2028, when he just might have presidential aspirations.

Hypocrisy being the favored mode of the Democrats, it is not surprising that today they no longer are lobbying for liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside, or for an end to the Senate filibuster rule, now that they are in the minority.

Our nation’s Attorney General Merrick Garland and his special prosecutor Jack Smith have thrown in the towel on persecuting Trump with further Lawfare. Maybe Fani Willis and Letitia James, the Atlanta and New York Lawfare warriors, soon will get the message – Trump won.

Immature Harris campaign staffers are posting snarky messages on social media, including that this transfer of power will be peaceful, unlike in 2020. It reminds me of Shillary staffers stealing the W keys off White House keyboards on the way out the door, a swipe at George W. Bush. We’ll see how Kamala handles herself in her public appearance scheduled for within the hour of this writing.

I will spend the rest of this day, and likely many more, basking in the warm glow of Trump’s triumph which, as previously stated, is a win for all of us.

Victory and repudiation mixed in the wee hours of Wednesday when, while I was watching election coverage on Real America’s Voice and also streaming the Charlie Kirk show on my phone, word came that Fox News had declared Pennsylvania for Donald Trump.

It was an iconic moment that put Trump at the required 270 electoral votes to win the election. U.S. president 45 is back as No. 47 and our country has been snatched from the abyss of socialist collapse.

Trump likely will add more electoral votes as the counting continues and is anticipated perhaps to win the popular vote, too. All this was too much for opponent Kamala Chameleon, who left her “victory” party attendees to stew in their own juices as she ducked them like she ducked Joe Rogan, sending a surrogate to tell them she wouldn’t be appearing.

Once again, we are reminded that Trump is amazing beyond words. Left for dead politically, and almost literally by a couple of would-be assassins, he has outdone himself.

As Trump said himself in his victory speech it’s all “crazy.”

I have maintained that Trump’s first presidential run was the greatest feat in American political history.

To get there, he had to beat his own Republican Party that had yet another Bush primed for the nomination. Trump had to beat the LameStream media and he had to beat the Democrats.

Those Democrats did not take well to that defeat in the 2016 election.

So they, the Deep State, The Swamp, kept right on doing what they had done during the campaign when they had spied on him and made false claims of Russian collusion. This progressed to them filing false charges against him. They impeached him on ridiculous allegations, hamstrung him by overhyping a virus to shut down the economy near the end of his first term.

They continued to weaponize the justice department to persecute him with legal charges, some of which he still faces. They got him banned from social media by calling in favors from their high-tech sycophants.

Somewhere along the line, the American people had seen enough. They came to realize Trump had been victimized, mistreated and ostracized unfairly. The more the leftists attacked Trump like a pack of rabid wolves, the more empathetic the public became in support of him.

They understood Trump spoke the truth when he said if they could do it to him, they could do it to anyone.

Trump never gave in to the oppressors, be they political hacks or media hyenas. He was defiant and he inspired his people in the Make America Great Again movement that grew strength even with him out of office after a 2020 election loss that stretched the bounds of believability.

All those votes that just appeared for Biden, were missing Tuesday into early Wednesday when Kamala could have used them.

Trump has made inroads with blacks, Hispanics and other groups Republicans normally can’t count on for support. Kamala Chameleon lost ground with those one-time guaranteed Democrat voters. The reason is simple: Trump identified with their concerns about inflation, illegal immigration, disappearing jobs.

Kamala Chameleon thought she could dazzle them by denying her Marxist record and putting a few celebrities on display at rallies.

Kamala also trotted out past presidents, counted on some traitor Republicans and even enlisted an Elmer Fudd type to be her running mate as vice president.

The voters issued a massive rebuke to that. The Democratic Party hierarchy was repudiated in this election and you can bet they’re hurting.

Taylor Swift and Oprah couldn’t push Kamala over the top.

Nor could J.Lo or Cardi B.

The voters said no to Barack and Michelle, to Bubba and Shrillary.

So long, Kamala and Dougie.

Bye, bye CNN and MSNBC.

See ya, Nancy and Chuck.

You’re blacked out, The View.

In your face, Clapper, Mueller, Comey, Strzok and Page.

Sayonara, Liz and Dick Cheney, John Kelley and Mad Dog Mattis.

Look at me now, Fani and Letitia.

Nice try, Merrick and Jack.

The Democrats played candidate limbo for this election, smug and overconfident that they could go lower now by running a ticket of Frick and Frack and get them elected. It was a pairing ideologically on par with Karl Marx and Chairman Mao, who promised to take this nation down the garden path to socialism and economic stagnation, spicing the journey with an unlimited influx of illegals and full-Woke policy.

It remains for the raging leftists to poke through the ashes of the dumpster fire that was the Harris campaign. It all began when Clueless Joe Biden’s failing mental state was outed beyond rehabilitation by his pathetic debate performance vs. Trump.

The very same people who had denied any mental or physical decline at all on Biden’s part, now forced him out of the nomination he had earned. In a nod to political correctness and identity politics, Harris had to be the replacement.

She was, after all, a non-white woman. That she also was ranked as one of the worst vice presidents in U.S. history didn’t matter.

Barack and the people running things were confident they could make the empty pants suit palatable.

Turns out, they couldn’t.

Interesting theories have arisen already about intra-party subterfuge. Some think that perhaps Bubba saying while campaigning for Kamala that Laken Riley would be alive today if only illegal immigrants had been vetted better, was an intentional gaffe.

Maybe Bubba wants Democrats to come back to reality from the hard left, a drift that would have accelerated under Kamala and Tampon Tim.

Was it a message that DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!! wore a Republican red ensemble on election day?

Did Barack and Michelle lecturing blacks that they had a duty to vote for Kamala help or hurt?

Clueless Joe putting on a MAGA hat for the media, coming into the White House briefing room for the first time ever just as Kamala was about to make a policy speech elsewhere, him calling Trump supporters “garbage” even as Kamala was making her final campaign speech almost literally on the White House lawn, couldn’t all have been unintentional, could they?

And what of the media that absolutely hates Trump, from the cable television hacks to the pollster “Alka” Selzer who bragged she would drop one in Trump’s lap and put out a late poll that claimed Kamala was winning Iowa by three points. Trump won the state by 14-plus points.

One CNN propagandist, as Kamala’s defeat was all but sealed, was wistful that the candidate hadn’t had longer to sell herself to the nation. That happens when you pull a coup on the nominee. And the way Kamala Chameleon struggled to answer simple questions, 10 years would not have been long enough.

Why do these people hate Trump so much? Because he represents common people that they also look upon with disdain. We truly are, in their eyes, “deplorables,” “Nazis,” “garbage,” and bitter types “clinging to guns and religion.”

Trump owes a great debt to the likes of the aforementioned Kirk. The Republican National Committee outscourced its ground game to an army of young, social media savvy types. It worked.

Republicans also took the Senate. If they can get a little lucky and hold the House, Trump’s agenda can advance. He has an all-star team of advisors already onboard.

They, like Trump, recognize how important this time is for the nation.

We’ve gotten a reprieve with this election. But Trump and Republicans must take full advantage of it.

It’s 10:30 a.m. and I’m back home after voting – I think.

I filled out an eight-race ballot at my polling place inside the Southmont Borough Building, but the scanners still are not working. So, I was instructed to feed my ballot into a slot that led to a “lock box” beneath the scanner.

Presumably at some future time my ballot will be scanned successfully and my votes duly recorded. I can only hope that will be the case.

Scanners also were not working at my son’s Westmont polling place so he performed the same ritual.

I had no lines whatsoever at my polling place and only one of those customary candidate spokesmen standing outside, a young man representing Frank Burns. I relieved him of the nail file he offered me and went inside.

Later, while picking up my son at his voting site, there were lines and I had a brief wait. Outside was Frank Burns himself and I took the opportunity to introduce myself to him as a Burns Republican. We had a nice chat about the area political, healthcare and media scene.

A cousin had reported to me that he faced no lines while voting very early today in Somerset County and, imagine this, no technical glitches, either.

Now, we sit back and await results.

It begins.

‘Tis election day, with all the attendant discord we’ve come to expect.

A caller very early today left a message for me that Cambria County voting machines are not properly scanning ballots and he’d get back to me with any updates. That was about half an hour ago (8 a.m.-ish).

He got back to me with an update at 9. This is a poll watcher, by the way. He’d been told flash drives distributed by election officials for voting machines were not working. Supposedly couriers were being sent out with fresh flash drives – to all county polling places – in an attempt to correct the problem.

The county Republican office is trying to get voting hours extended to help address this problem. In theory, people showing up where voting machines are not working still can fill out a provisional ballot, although this source has heard people are being allowed to leave with ballots and then bring them back, creating a nightmare break in chain of custody.

I’ve bumped into similar problems in the past and we’ve all seen videos of people in various states hitting touchscreens to vote for Republicans and having the vote register instead for the Democrat opponent. One such example I saw came from early voting in Kentucky this election.

My plan had been to head out late morning to vote, thereby giving early arriving voters a chance to move through the system and then allowing me to beat the noon rush. My son will go out to his polling place at that time. This failure of the machines puts a crimp in that strategy.

I’m hoping for a pleasant experience, but anticipating the worst.

And I wonder aloud – again — why we can’t have paper ballots, proof of voter eligibility and same-day results? Other countries do it.

Need more counters? Hire more workers? And not necessarily virtually all Democrats, as is the case documented in such hotbeds of Democrat vote counting massage as Fulton County Georgia (Atlanta), downtown Philadelphia or Detroit.

While waiting to go out to vote, I hit my new favorite web site citizenfreepress.com. I stumbled onto this font of information recently and make it a must-visit often each day. It’s Drudge before Drudge went totally Woke.

I also like zerohedge.com, but this citizenfreepress.com effort posts a more timely, never-ending list of links to interesting stories and social media posts.

Already today, there was note of a James O’Keefe (formerly Project Veritas) hidden camera sting of a Philadelphia operation insisting people could vote as long as they are residents of the city, giving them some sort of bogus ID number, and sending them across the street to where a voting worker told the undercover person this was correct procedure.

Also, there are reports of four court-appointed Republican election workers being thrown out of a Philadelphia precinct, long lines of (supposedly) Trump voters in Bucks County, and problems at a two-district polling place in Allegheny County that had proper paperwork and officials to operate just one polling place.

The good news is that late last night podcast king Joe Rogan endorsed Trump, taking some wind out of those Democrat sails. Rogan’s recent three-hour interview with Trump had 38 million views in the first three days. Rogan’s audience hits hard the Trump demographic of young male voters.

Kamala Chameleon passed on Rogan for a long time, then tried to set up a shorter, one-hour interview on her turf. Rogan declined and now he’s endorsed Trump.

Trump was in Pittsburgh and three other stops yesterday with his closing argument and I watched parts of all four rallies courtesy of Real America’s Voice cable channel, a welcome part of my satellite television package.

My take is that Trump is winning — in Pennsylvania and around the nation. We may never know due to the sort of demonstrable election misconduct and/or malfeasance we already are getting. Meanwhile, Democrats whine because non-citizens are not allowed to vote, or suspect votes are not allowed to trickle in days or weeks late and still be counted.

Remember all this the next time the leftists want you to accept blindly strange results from suspect elections.

The insanity continues.

There are reports governors in Washington and Oregon either have, or stand ready to activate the National Guard to help quell potential election violence.

The usual suspects in politics and the lapdog media have run with this to insinuate that it’s due to fear of right-wing types acting out should Donald Trump lose.

This neatly ignores that Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, in the past have been havens for radical leftist takeovers, be it by Antifa or Black Lives Matter.

It also somehow fails to note that recent ballot box arsons in both states reportedly have had “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza” messages left behind. You might argue this is merely a false flag attempt to pin it on leftists. I suspect these arsons truly are the work of some fringe leftist.

Regardless, we already know absolutely it is the leftists who in the past have seized parts of cities in these states, with no-go zones, damage to public buildings, and generally unsocial/criminal behavior.

Yes, bring out the National Guard, just as Trump tried to do in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 many years back. Just make sure you have them looking for the correct people.

On another front, a supposedly solid pollster from Iowa was out over the weekend as part of a flood of pro-Kamala results that came out of the blue (pun intended) and flew in the face of the recent polling of many other outlets.

I lost my respect for the credibility of this Iowa pollster when she appeared with Mark Halperin and fumbled to explain how she got her results. Presented with a graphic of a critical social media post that referred to cross tabs from HER POLL, the woman needed Halperin to clarify what the D and R stood for in the tabs.

That would be D for Democrat and R for Republican, he told her, which would seem to be rudimentary knowledge any competent pollster would know without needing help.

‘Oh, I see,” said the woman, before launching into an explanation of why she would have to look into the criticism before commenting further.

Remember this sort of thing as the LameStream media endeavors mightily to confuse election matters in coming days.

Tomorrow is election day and I’m going to miss all the ads. Just kidding.

Election advertising is almost always, in a word, ridiculous. Outright falsehoods and distortions rule.

Neither side is totally innocent in this matter, but it is the Democrats who tend to produce propaganda messages with the tiniest link to reality.

Maybe you’ve heard Donald Trump is going to take away Social Security and Medicare? It’s been a Democratic attack ad on Republican candidates since I was a kid.

You might wonder how this can be effective when it never happens. In this case, Trump actually had the job of president for four years and didn’t harm either retirement program. Yet, this time, he’s going to do it. And some blue-haired women and doddering old men will vote for Kamala Chameleon out of fear their benefits are at stake.

This is along the line of the constant drumbeat by speakers and in ads that Trump is Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin all rolled into one, and therefore a threat to democracy.

Again, he has had the job, people, and we still have a democracy or more correctly, a representative republic.

There is a difference. In a democracy, everything is simply a decision by the majority. And, if the majority decides all left-handed people like me should be shot, well, we’re all goners.

In a representative republic, the people elect politicians to represent them, but there is a constitution that acts as a check on absurd over-reaches simply because a philosophy or position has majority support.

You don’t want to live in a pure democracy.

Those democracy ads and talking points are exposed in their absurdity by elections. When you take the time to look at it, the Democrats are anti-democracy.

It is Democrats who weaponized the legal and justice systems to try to jail Trump and keep him from running. They tried to subvert the will of the people the last time he was president with never-ending impeachment and other procedural ploys.

They wanted his name kept off ballots in many states and even now, on the eve of the elections, radicals such as Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin are making noises about refusing to certify a potential Trump victory.

Doesn’t sound like preserving democracy to me.

Also on the topic of chipping away at democracy, it is Democrats who go to court to lobby for non-citizens to vote.

It is Democrats who want rules modified at the last minute to include votes from people too moronic to follow simple instructions such as deadlines to submit mail-in votes, signing these ballots or enclosing the ballots in a separate envelope.

No less a far-left source than National Public Radio, which uses taxpayer funding to pump out liberal pap, admits there are, as claimed, more voters on rolls than the eligible population would indicate there should be.

In a story posted Nov. 3, 2024, on npr.org, this reality is explained away by blaming Americans’ freedom to move from one state to another and so the same person can appear on voter lists of multiple states.

This could be part of the problem, but it doesn’t explain documented cases of dead people voting (mostly for Democrats), non-citizens voting (notably this year a Chinese student in Michigan) or the same name being used on multiple ballots (apparently one of the many problems cropping up yet again in Pennsylvania, among other places.)

This NPR propaganda piece critiques Elon Musk for posting recently that Michigan has more voters than eligible citizens.

This is true, the story concedes, but more than a million of those illegal voters are “on their way to being deleted.”

What does that mean? Do they stop off to be deleted after voting? Will they be deleted next year? Next decade?

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, had people who self-identified as non-citizens struck from the voter rolls in his state. And he had to go to the Supreme Court to beat back Democrat challenges to this no-brainer policy.

But the Democrats are protecting democracy? Right.

We have ads featuring aging women and their adult daughters clamoring for unfettered abortion rights. Maybe the daughters should contemplate their fate had mommy gone the abortion route, say, six months into the pregnancy.

The repeal of Roe. vs. Wade did not end abortions, but merely put the decision in the hands of the states, in keeping with the 10^th Amendment of the Constitution. Try reading it sometimes, all you purported defenders of democracy.

Also, don’t let facts get in the way of a good attack ad designed to appeal, as Mark Cuban might say, to weak and dumb women.

In a story that was posted in August of 2023 on NBCnews.com, seven states had ballot measures regarding abortion between when Roe vs. Wade was overturned in June 2022 and that story’s timing. All seven were won by pro-abortionists.

Equally disturbing are recent ads in which Kamala Chameleon’s people note Trump is a rich guy, supported by ultimate rich guy Elon Musk. The people (actors?) in these ads all seem to wear plaid shirts or jackets and some manner of working man ballcap, and they don’t like rich people.

This means they must not like Kamala Chameleon or most of her financial backers, guys like Bill Gates and the Soros clan, who are willing to donate millions, but don’t want to come out in the open about it.

Again, Trump has a track record and it’s not for punishing the middle class with higher taxes and inflation. That’s the Kamala Chameleon plan, the inescapable outcome of flushing away trillions of tax dollars trying to convince people that intermittent electrical power from solar and wind is acceptable, that electric vehicles are mandatory, gas cooking stoves are a climate threat and we just have to shut down the domestic energy industry for the good of the planet.

Clueless Joe Biden and Kamala Chameleon have a record on this, if you’re willing to look past the vapid ads.

Open borders, rampant crime, they also are the Biden-Harris legacy, regardless of what their ads might assert.

It is traditional around elections to encourage everyone to vote, particularly the hapless undecideds, who somehow have gotten to this point unable to discern a clear choice.

I go opposite this. If you haven’t made up your mind yet, stay home and spare us your inanity.

If you can’t take the time to research the positions and policies of candidates, but rely instead on paid propaganda and sound bites, don’t vote.

If you are crazed by hatred of Trump, the American standards he represents, and his “garbage” supporters, by all means, stay home.

Reality has intruded on the Penn State and Pitt football seasons. We can only hope for such a clear and decisive outcome on election day.

It strikes me on this Sunday morning, as I seek to utilize the extra hour that is the bonus of Daylight Savings Time being put in the closet, that there are similarities between the upcoming election and college football.

Begin with polls. Oh, the polls – often wrong but never in doubt.

There was a flood of new election polling over the weekend, often contradictory. Fans of each particular candidate predictably question the accuracy of polls not favoring their choice. It is similar with college football.

And polls, both in politics and college football, often are proved to have been overly optimistic in some cases; overly pessimistic in others. The good news is results will out, at least in football with the games played in public, as opposed to sometimes shady voting and counting done in secret during elections.

I wrote this past week of Penn State and Pitt each being unbeaten and ranked in the AP Top 25 based on that, but there were doubts about the pedigree of their results.

Penn State was 7-0 and ranked No. 3 before falling to once-beaten nemesis Ohio State, ranked No. 4. The Nittany Lions weren’t playing Kent State, Bowling Green or even over-rated USC this time. Despite being handed a 10-0 lead, Penn State managed to lose, 20-13, before a record home crowd that was, shall we say, not impressed.

No great escape. No miracle comeback. Only a post-Halloween haunting by a long-time, Michael Myers-like tormentor. Ohio State just beats Penn State in football. Period. As inevitable as today’s sunrise.

With the outcome yet again assured for the Buckeyes, some of those Penn State fans looked like Shillary supporters after they got the 2016 election results.

In some ways, the final score was misleading. Penn State was gifted its only touchdown on a badly thrown out pattern pass that was intercepted and returned for a touchdown early. Also, Ohio State’s quarterback later fumbled the ball through his offensive end zone from the two-yard line. Penn State got possession of the ball on a touchback instead of Ohio State likely scoring a touchdown.

This 14-point swing counterbalances Penn State whining about being stopped twice inside the five-yard line without scoring any points.

Pitt also had begun play at 7-0 Saturday, albeit ranked much lower at No. 18, and left at 7-1 after having absorbed a 48-25 thumping at the hands of No. 20 SMU. It was not as close as the final indicated, with SMU having led 31-3 at halftime.

Pitt had been behind often in previous games – sometimes big – and pulled out wins. Not this time.

Both Penn State and Pitt were unbeaten largely as products of less-than-challenging schedules. Yes, they both are in conferences and on that front are hostage to the schedules given them by those conference.

But either might have done a better job scheduling legitimate nonconference foes.

Penn State and Pitt should take note that once-beaten Boise State got that loss early in the season, losing on a game-ending field goal by Oregon. That Oregon team was No. 7 nationally at the time and now resides in the No. 1 spot.

Forget that oft-heard tripe about schedules being made well in advance and thereby giving teams a pass on lack of challenging opponents. They just couldn’t have known!

Oregon has been among the nation’s elite for a long time and was when it came together with Boise State as a scheduled opponent. But Kent State, appearing on the nonconference slates of Penn State and Pitt in this and many other years, never is to be mistaken for an elite program.

There are other common elements between elections and college football, including cult-like supporters totally incapable of rational thought, candidates and coaches ducking tough questions (Penn State’s coach James Franklin was Kamala-esque two weeks back in running away from media on the topic of former players charged with rape), and a lot of big money being thrown at candidates and programs behind the scenes.

As alluded to earlier in this post, the saving grace in college football is things tend to be settled in public. We get to see, on the field, how accurate those polls were.

That’s especially true in this year’s expanded national championship playoff field. With 12 teams getting a shot, it is going to be hard to argue that a worthy team was excluded. That often could not be said in the past, either when bowls and polls decided national champions, or playoff fields (picked by polls) were remarkably small.

Former football player, professional wrestler and current Fox political pundit Tyrus (George Murdoch) has been saying for weeks that tight political polls are incorrect and the election will not be close. He expects Donald Trump to win handily.

It would be best for this country if, despite all behind-the-scenes machinations, there was such a clear election winner, either way.

Don’t bet on it, just like you shouldn’t bet on Penn State or Pitt winning the national championship