Patterico's Pontifications

11/26/2016

U.N. Secretary General Issues Praise for Fidel Castro

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:00 pm



This, folks, is why the U.N. receives the level of respect it does:

Well, sure. With his thuggish tendency towards violence and oppression, Fidel Castro could be considered one of the earliest Social Justice Warriors.

Couldn’t he?

[Cross-posted at RedState.]

P.S. Trump’s statement on Castro’s death was way better than Obama’s.

Hillary Clinton Says “Yes” To Vote Recount, Trump Snaps Back, “Oh, No You Don’t!”

Filed under: General — Dana @ 1:29 pm



[guest post by Dana]

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines our democracy. — President Obama

During the last presidential debate, Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump whether he would accept the election results. When Trump refused to commit, Mrs. Clinton (and the New York Times) took him to task:

[It] was Mr. Trump’s remark about the election results that stood out, even in a race that has been full of astonishing moments.

Every losing presidential candidate in modern times has accepted the will of the voters, even in extraordinarily close races, such as when John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and George W. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida to win the presidency in 2000.

Mr. Trump insisted, without offering evidence, that the general election has been rigged against him, and he twice refused to say that he would accept its result.

“I will look at it at the time,” Mr. Trump said. “I will keep you in suspense.”

“That’s horrifying,” Mrs. Clinton replied. “Let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating — he is talking down our democracy. And I am appalled that someone who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that position.”

Mrs. Clinton then ticked off the number of times he had deemed a system rigged when he suffered a setback, noting he had even called the Emmy Awards fixed when his show, “The Apprentice,’’ was passed over.

“It’s funny, but it’s also really troubling,” she said. “That is not the way our democracy works.”

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Today the Clinton camp announced they will be actively talking down our democracy:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign said Saturday it will take part in efforts to push for recounts in several key states, joining with Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who has raised millions of dollars to have votes counted again in Wisconsin.

This in spite of the Clinton campaign saying they conducted their own investigation and did not find any evidence of hacking of voting systems.

Further, according to Clinton’s campaign counsel Marc Elias:

“Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides,” Elias wrote on Medium.

“If Jill Stein follows through as she has promised and pursues recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, we will take the same approach in those states as well,” he added.

However, the White House threw cold water on the recount efforts and publicly parted ways with the one individual who was entrusted to secure President Obama’s legacy:

“We stand behind our election results, which accurately reflect the will of the American people,” a senior administration official told POLITICO late Friday.

“The federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process on election day,” the official added. “We believe our elections were free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective.”

Trump released a statement today:

“The people have spoken and the election is over, and as Hillary Clinton herself said on election night, in addition to her conceding by congratulating me, ‘We must accept this result and then look to the future.’

“It is important to point out that with the help of millions of voters across the country, we won 306 electoral votes on Election Day – the most of any Republican since 1988 – and we carried nine of 13 battleground states, 30 of 50 states, and more than 2,600 counties nationwide – the most since President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than one percent of the vote overall and wasn’t even on the ballot in many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount. All three states were won by large numbers of voters, especially Pennsylvania, which was won by more than 70,000 votes.

“This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing.”

Exit question: How long before President-elect Trump re-thinks things, and decides he will instruct his AG to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Crooked Hillary’s email scandals after all??

P.S. Although Jill Stein insists that “immediate support is crucial”, any contributor to the cause might want to consider that the amount of money she says it will take to accomplish a recount mission strangely keeps increasing with each and every passing day. The amounts listed now even includes lawyers’ fees. And there are no guarantees:

We cannot guarantee a recount will happen in any of these states we are targeting. We can only pledge we will demand recounts in those states.

If we raise more than what’s needed, the surplus will also go toward election integrity efforts and to promote voting system reform.

Sure it will.

–Dana

What Causes Booms and Busts?

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:00 am



What is really to blame for the booms and busts of the economic cycle? Is it inherent in the nature of the free market, as Marx claimed? Or is there something else going on?

Professor Jeff Herbener answers this question in a lecture about Austrian economics at Liberty Classroom:

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Fidel Castro Dead

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 12:05 am



Good riddance.


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