Election Day reactions (if we know the winner….) Other things in the week, relatives’ birthdays.
I decided on Monday 26 October that I was going to vote for Dr. Jorgensen.
Every candidate I supported lost. I kind of expected that going in.
A “winner” in the Presidential contest really still hasn’t been named as I write this after 1500 the day after the election.
Am I suprised? A little. Am I upset? No. It doesn’t look like the Democrats will be able to go full-on stupid. Yes, there’ll probably be a different party in the White House. There may be a new Senate Majority Leader.
But I think some of the more off-the-wall ideas that were coming out over the weeks leading up to the election may have died the death they so desperately deserve.
There will still be a filibuster rule in the Senate. DC and Puerto Rico won’t be states.
The economy will probably collapse once the Federal Reserve can’t create digits (not print money….that’s so antiquated!!1!), but things will survive. I wasn’t so sure about that with the potential of folks like Chuck Schumer acting with reckless abandon.
You will still have the right to private property.
You will still have the right to speak. Maybe not online, but, whatever. TCP/IP isn’t something the government can shut completely. No matter who tries.
I have little doubt that if I had the misfortune of being in Best Korea, I’d figure out how to get a VPN connection through to Switzerland.
It’s akin to the stupidity of government backdoors to encryption. You can mandate it, but, short of killing people, you can’t enforce it; it’s math.