House Prediction and a Rant!

I got on a bit of a roll...

Oct 19, 2022

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I’m not going to run down 435 house races. There are going to be a few surprises, but I believe most polls are undercounting GOP support about about 4.5% nationally. This doesn’t exactly mean you can add 4.5% to each expected GOP result. Some areas (e.g. south Texas) will have significant GOP advantages over the predictions, in some cases upwards of 10% above the current polling. Some places, like Colorado might be only 1% or 2% above the current polling.

Real Clear Politics has a pretty good map showing the predicted results in most districts around the country. I believe they are undercounting GOP support by about 4.5% on average, but we won’t know until November 8th.

In the end this will lead to around a net gain of 40-50 GOP House seats, maybe more. The surprises will be in suburbs of crime ridden big cities and areas with large Hispanic populations. GOP easily takes the House.

Considering how the 2024 Senate map hits Dems particularly hard, we could be looking at a long term shift leading to GOP majorities in both houses assuming the Republicans are able to govern in a way that doesn’t make people hate them. That’s a tall order, but if they can pull it off, they have the potential for a decade or more of power in both houses.

So…. I felt the need to vent a little. Enjoy the below. 😂🤣

Do you want to know the worst thing about the climate hystericals? It’s not crazy activists throwing soup at a priceless work of art (which they didn’t even harm because it’s covered in glass). It’s not pouring milk on the ground at some supermarket for some poor underpaid janitor to have to clean up. It’s honestly not any of the narcissistic, overly dramatic, performance art that they love so much.

While I do agree that all of that is highly annoying, it doesn’t touch that little shitty head nod a climate freak gives you when they are talking to a normal person about climate change. It’s that unmistakable subtextual accusation that they feel the need to throw at you. Like it’s my fault that the polar bears are hot or something.

First of all, jerk, I don’t think there is anything wrong with the polar bears at all. Secondly, you self-righteous ass, even if the stupid bears are hotter than they should be, how is that my fault? I live in a city. I reside in a reasonable home. I drive a pretty efficient vehicle. I’m not flying up to the Arctic to spray hair spray into the o-zone layer and make the bears hot. I’m just chugging along in my perfectly normal little life, paying my bills, and far too many taxes.

You know the people I’m talking about, right? They give you that little head shake and tell you that if you get a steak from the supermarket, you are supporting factory farming and that’s going to make hurricanes extra blowy or something. Well, where the hell am I supposed to get my steak? I already go to a Whole Foods, which from what I can tell serves tons of climate freaks. That’s as good as I’m doing. I get my steaks from Fresh Market or Whole Foods. I’m not going to eat zee bugs and I’m not going to eat bean paste and pretend it tastes like steak. I have money. I pay my taxes. This is still (barely) America, and I’m going to cook a damn steak over a hot fire and eat it like God intended, and I don’t really give a damn what you write in your diary about it.

Like all of us, I’m sure this happens to you too from time to time. You are having a perfectly nice time. You might offhandedly say something that doesn’t fit in the climate religion book of approved phrases, and some climate freak comes out of nowhere and starts blabbering about climate change in that accusatory tone. Like you, I always just nod along and try not to get the freak too agitated so we can move on from the awful conversation… But in truth, I’m strongly considering just telling one of these dweebs exactly what I’m thinking:

“What, exactly, would you have me do? Because I am just here existing and trying to have a happy life like anyone else, and I don’t think I over-consume energy or put out too much carbon or anything else. You know what? I’m not doing a damn thing for you. I don’t like you. I didn’t cause this fake problem and I’m not going out of my way even for one second to solve it.
As a matter of fact, if I saw a polar bear right now, I’d build a big fire out of coal so it got super hot and was terribly uncomfortable. I don’t even like polar bears anyway. I think they are scary, and I would be happy if they all died. How about that? After this conversation, I want you to know that I am going to go home and book a helicopter hunt for black rhinos. And I’m going to see if I can find a helicopter that belches black smoke all over the Serengeti. Then I’ll see if I can make them extinct once and for all so I can stop hearing about them all the time. Now leave me alone you demented freak before you really make me mad.”

I do want to do that sometime… but society and all.

Confession time

Just between us… I don’t think I care about the Ukraine anymore. Also, I never stopped calling it ‘Kyiv’ (pronounced KEY-YEV) and I don’t think I’m going to stop. I’ve never heard of ‘chicken Kiev’ and I don’t think I would like it. I’m sure there is a reason behind the change, but I so deeply don’t care about it that it’s not even worth a google search.

At any rate, I’m tired of sending billions of dollars to the Ukraine. I wish them the best of luck, but we seem to be the only country in the world that cares, and I say we should stop. Cut a deal boys… because this is doing nothing good for anyone.

Sue me.

Okay, I’m done with the LGBTQIA+

I’m seeing more and more of this stuff from the TQIA+ crowd… And you know what? I’m great with it. I can’t imagine anything better than not being connected to a bunch of LUGs (Lesbians until graduation), pretend trannies, pedophiles, and communist children.

Oh please Bre’r Fox! Please don’t throw me in that briar patch!

Well, let me make this easy. As the self-appointed President of all things gay, I make the following Declaration of Independence:

When in the course of homosexual events, it becomes necessary for one letter in the acronym to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with the other letters, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the by-laws of the issued gay card and Dolly Parton entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of gay men requires that they should declare separation.
We, therefore, the representatives of gay America, in dark smokey clubs everywhere, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judges Harvey Fierstein and Betty White for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good gay people everywhere, solemnly publish and declare, that the letter G, and of right ought to be a free and independent letter; that all Gays are absolved from all allegiance to GLAAD, HRC, the Democratic Party, and other supposed alphabet organizations, and that all political connection between them, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a free and independent letter G, they have full power to make jokes, laugh at stupid people, be bitchy, throw shade, and to do all other acts and things which gays may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence given by each Golden Girl, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, but not our clothes… there must be limits.
So shall it be.
—Virgil

There. Problem solved. Now leave us out of it.

Non Sequitur

Okay, fine… they created Super COVID using our tax dollars, because of course they did. No surprise there. Why on earth wouldn’t they create Super COVID? Seems like a perfectly good use of our tax dollars. As a matter of fact, if I got to earmark my tax dollars, they would be with the following priorities:

Killing foreign children with drones for ‘freedom’
Chemically castrating domestic children in the name of ‘gay rights’
Making Super COVID
Defunding the police in order to funnel money to BLM
Trying to start a nuclear war over Ukraine
Subsidizing California
Killing our domestic energy production in order to be subservient to the Saudis
Money for Venezuela when the Saudis don’t do what we want
Paying Stacy Abrams’ student loans
A study by some Ivy League university to see whether or not “whiteness” affects the migration patterns of sparrows concerned about climate justice.

So, Super COVID is pretty important… but the real question I have is… What the hell is ‘humanized mice’? I mean… What do you reckon that is? Ah… probably fine.

Happy hump day all!

—Virgil