Election Day USA – bits and bobs and Robert Reich

By Baldmichael Theresoluteprotector’sson

I thought I would have a little article on some observations on Robert Reich’s substack. I have posted a few comments myself on this link.

Be prepared for the “red mirage” tonight!

It’s a dirty trick Trump used in 2020 and will probably try to use tonight, but it won’t work if you know it’s coming. Please spread the word.

ROBERT REICH

NOV 05, 2024

It says

Watch out for Trump to exploit something elections experts call the “red mirage” to prematurely declare victory before all the votes are counted.

You see, in almost every election, Republicans appear to take an early lead. That’s the red mirage. Then that lead gets smaller throughout the night, which is called the “blue shift.”

As far as I can tell the dirty trick is to claim to be ahead because one’s votes have come in first.

Bob says

It’s not magic. Votes are counted by precinct, and Democrats tend to live in more densely populated, urban precincts, while Republicans tend to live in more sparsely populated, rural ones. It just takes longer to count the votes in a precinct with a lot of people than in a precinct with fewer people.

Well, ok, it’s not magic but neither is it a dirty trick Bob, it’s just a bit silly that’s all.

Unless some odd things happen at the vote counting of course.

Anyway it is understandable that Democrats tend to live in more densely populated, urban precincts as rats are attracted by the presence of food waste, the number of restaurants in the area, the type of sewage system present and human population density.

In the case of Democrats they are really quite dense having taken the COVID 19 vaccines without thinking. I have mentioned before that all the Democrats in the Senate and the House have had them, compared to around 50% of the Republicans.

As to the sewage system, well in Washington D.C. this is believed to have broken down which is why there is a lot of crap about there.

This is most evident at the moment in the Shite House. At least I think that is what my informant said but my hearing is none too good.

Still I believe they have a Mr J.R.Bidet there to help clean up all the mess.

Going back to Bob’s link he says

Also, Democrats are more likely to vote by mail, and mail-in votes take longer to count.

There is a hyperlink from his article to this.

Elections Performance Index

It says

This partisan gap was stoked by the rhetoric of Donald Trump, who claimed that mail ballots were “out of control,” and that of his supporters, such as former Attorney General William Barr, who said that mail ballots would “open the floodgates to fraud.” State Republican leaders often followed suit, denying that there was anything special about the 2020 election that called for more liberal mail ballot laws.  For instance, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick claimed expanding vote by mail for people under 65 to be ludacris, saying that, “people under 65 are more at risk of dying in a car wreck on the way to vote than they are from dying from contracting COVID-19 when voting.”

I was not sure who Ludacris is but apparently he is a rapper.

Still, I think Joelle Gross who wrote the article meant ‘ludicrous’. As to whom she is well this must be her.

It says

I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Politics, Philosophy, Economics and a minor in Survey Research and Data Analytics.

But not English of course. She is young so we can’t expect too much from her.

I note one anagram of her name is ‘eh jell G Soros’. Hmm…

Anyway well done to Dan Patrick for his observations. At the bottom of her article it says

Joelle Gross is a Senior Research Support Associate at the MIT Election Data + Science Lab.

And the MIT Election Data + Science Lab has a website.

And is funded by three organisations.

1. Democracy fund

The Democracy Fund is a charitable foundation created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar in 2011.

From

And Pierre Omidyar, a billionaire

is a long-term Democratic Party donor.

From

So not biased towards the Democrats then.

2. William and Flora Hewitt foundation

established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966.

From

The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to a variety of liberal and progressive causes.

So not biased towards the Democrats then.

3. The Joyce Foundation

is a non-operating private foundation based in Chicago, Illinois.

From

It says

Former U.S. President Barack Obama served on the foundation’s board of directors from 1994 through 2002.

Its funding efforts are focused on

“environmental preservation, diverse art, energy efficiency, teacher quality, gun violence prevention, early literacy, and workforce development”.

Which all sounds very laudable; except I question what is ‘diverse art’ and whether they are making ‘teacher quality’ is good or bad.

But it the organisation is based in Chicago, a Democrat stronghold.

So very unlikely to be biased towards the Democrats then.

So Bob, I think we might take your article with a large pinch of salt. What about the man himself?

Robert Reich

Official portrait, 1993

From

They haven’t updated the portrait. He is now 78 years old. He is Jewish.

He worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Barack Obama’s economic transition advisory board.

and

By April 1997, he published his experiences working for the Clinton administration in Locked in the Cabinet.

and

In the book, Reich criticizes the Democratic Party as “owned by” business

Nothing new there, I would say both Democrats and Republicans owned by business.

He supports same-sex marriage and abortion rights. And he is credited with this:

In October 2023, Reich authored The last adult in the room. In the essay, he characterized Joe Biden as, “shrewd, careful, and calibrated” and expressed gratitude that Biden “is in charge” at a time “when the kids are on a rampage”.

When you have stopped laughing I will continue…………………………………finished? Okay, well the last time Joe Biden was “shrewd, careful, and calibrated” was well, anybody help on that?

Some anagrams

As usual I wonder if anything helpful or amusing comes from these. Here’s a few.

Robert Bernard Reich

Robet nad ich = 11

The longest single word is ‘decerebration’, the

the elimination of cerebral brain function in an animal by removing the cerebrum…

from

We can get this full phrase.

– brr decerebration hr

Biden occurs a lot including this.

– rr Biden torchbearer

This is concerning.

– er I brother bc Ardern

Is he doing this?

– enrich robber trader

He was born very short but this?

– be born richer retard

All of those might explain things though.

Bob talks about the Red Mirage’ and the ‘Blue shift’.

The ‘Red Mirage’ vs. the ‘Blue Shift’

The anagrams are interesting I feel.

Red Mirage – some phrases:

– GI dreamer

– GI rearmed

– eg admirer

– eg married

– I agreed Mr

– raged mire

– mega rider

– gem raider

– game rider

– eg rearm id

– aired germ

Blue Shift – some phrases:

– Fib hustle

– FBI hustle

– flub heist

– flub shite

– slub thief

– be US filth

– be flu shit

– he lust fib

– hi left bus

– is left hub

– uh I left BS

– tb UHF lies

You would need to check yourself, but I think that shows the problems underlying, or should I say under lying, the Democrats. The blue shift, the left blue shift, will be ‘left bull shit’!

Which is what happens when you are running scared!

Summary and final thoughts

I think Robert Reich has some problems. He talks of dirty tricks by Trump but is really talking a load of bollox, making something out of nothing. One would have thought he could make more of something substantial

In any event he has helped me look in more detail at the issues of mail-in voting. Clearly this gave huge scope for voter fraud so no wonder Trump and the Republicans raised it.

The Democrats used the COVID 19 deceit to justify the increase in their mail-in votes which if nothing else shows how stupid they are.

As for Robert, well I’m sure he has done some useful things but whilst he criticised Clinton’s administration, he has singularly failed to observe the continuation of ‘business as usual’ with Biden.

Why he should think Kamala Harris will be any better is a mystery.

But to call Biden “shrewd, careful, and calibrated” in 2023 shows mental retardation of a severe kind.

And might be why ‘ decerebration’ and ‘retard’ are in his name.

Amusingly I have just checked and these words are the three longest in the phrase ‘shrewd, careful, and calibrated’.

 – baccalaureates

– charlataneries

– featherbrained

Well two of those three are not positive at all and Biden is said to be a poor student and did not do well in his Juris Doctor.

I managed to find this full phrase:

– Biden’s dreadful law character

How very suitable! Robert, your judgement is faulty, you really do need to get a grip. I am sure you can do better if you try.

But please do stop talking bollox about Trump.

As for your ‘Red mirage’ and ‘blue shift’, I think the red dream is better than the left blue shit you propose.

Look out for the sign of Baldmichael, he will be back!