My apologies for the delay. Tonight was a comedy of errors.

Check back later; I will insert a commentary. [It’s posted.] Right now I just need to get this posted as fast as possible.

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

January 6 Tapes?

Where are the tapes? Anyone, Anyone? Bueller? Johnson??

Paging Speaker Johnson…this is your conscience calling you out on broken promises.

Alternate Presidents

Back in 1991 or 1992 (copyrighted 1992 but oft-times that is a book printed just before then) an anthology titled Alternate Presidents (edited by Mike Resnick) was published. It contained 28 stories of “what ifs” on presidents including Franklin instead of Washington, and other even more ridiculous cases (such as Goldwater winning in 1964, which was basically impossible).

The cover art is sheer genius. It’s Thomas Dewey holding a copy of the Chicago Tribune that reads “Truman Defeats Dewey,” an exact reversal of the real photograph (shown below), with Truman displaying a quirky sense of humor. (This has been called “the most famous political photograph in history” though in the fullness of time it might be supplanted by something from last Saturday.)

That story is a lot more realistic. It could easily have gone the other way; that was a squeaker of an election. Of course this book came out well before the Gush/Bore debacle of 2000.

Realistic alternate history is a fun parlor game. There was a long series of novels by Harry Turtledove exploring what might have happened if a Confederate soldier had noticed his commander dropping the plans for Antietam; the idea being that the entire Civil War had hinged on that little mistake. (The first of the novels was set in 1881, with a second war being set off when the Confederacy purchased Sonora and Chihuahua from Mexico; they continue through World War I (which had the US, Germany and Austria teamed up against France, England and the CSA; the US ended up occupying Canada and two CSA states). I was never able to finish the series because the WWII-analog stories never came out in paperback.

It must be spooky to realize that someone has lived through a moment that just through sheer happenstance steered history in one direction versus another. I say “it must be spooky” but now we know that feeling.

And we may well have seen such a moment last Saturday. Certainly if Trump wins, takes office and has a successful term of office, rather than just being another four-year-long speedbump on the road to an imposition of a kakistocratic dictatorship on America, we will look back on July 13 as such a moment. If he hadn’t had to look at that chart…if the assassin(s) had just fired a second earlier…if that first bullet had been one inch to the right…well, you can probably write more variants.

An inch, or a second, that made all the difference in the world.

News Flash

Today, it is still the case that Joe Biden didn’t Win.

I realize that to some readers, this might be a shock; surely at some point things must change and Biden will have actually won.

But the past cannot actually be changed.

It will always and forever be the case that Joe Biden didn’t win.

And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss it as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.

As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.

And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.

So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things: I continue to carry the banner once also carried by Wheatie. His Fraudulency didn’t win.

Let’s Go, Brandon!!

His Fraudulency

Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.

One can hope that all is not as it seems.

I’d love to feast on that crow.

(I’d like to add, I find it entirely plausible, even likely, that His Fraudulency is also His Figureheadedness. (Apparently that wasn’t a word; it got a red underline. Well it is now.) Where I differ with the hopium addicts is on the subject of who is really in charge. It ain’t anyone we like.)

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

Spot Prices.

Kitco Ask. Last week:

Gold $2,411.60
Silver $30.84
Platinum $1011.00
Palladium $992.00
Rhodium $4,950.00

This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.

Gold $2,401.80
Silver $29.30
Platinum $974.00
Palladium $929.00
Rhodium $4,950.00

Gold was a great deal higher on Thursday than on Friday; it took a 44 dollar hit. Not sure what’s up with silver but it dropped 58 cents on Friday.