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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Brazil’s presidential election concludes with the final round today. Nationalist Senator Flávio Bolsonaro faces incumbent Socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the runoff election that will determine the country’s next president.
The race remains close in the final pre-election polls. The first official results are expected after polling stations close in Brazil at 5:00pm (local) 4:00pm (US Eastern).
Consider this an open discussion thread for your thoughts, reviews, analysis and opinion of the biggest contest in Latin America in years. If you know of a solid election results link, feel free to share in the comments.
Earlier today former President Barack Obama was campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood in Detroit, Michigan. This is good news for Republican Senate Candidate Mike Rogers as it means the DNC are very worried about black voters not turning out for the communist, El-Sayed. Barack Obama is always triggered for races where the DNC need to get black voters to vote; that is his target audience.
To counter the Obama effort, President Trump is holding a rally to support Mike Rogers who is now leading in the polls as election day nears. Livestream links of the rally are below, and the anticipated start time is 2:00pm Eastern.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche appears on CBS to counter the narrative being advanced by Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan. The ever-insufferable Brennan tried her hardest to push a false storyline about the DOJ trying to interfere in the Alaska election. The Video and Transcript are below:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: And we begin with U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. Good morning to you, sir.
ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE: Good morning.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So we’re nine days out. Your colleague Harmeet Dhillon, whose office would oversee election integrity cases, told my colleagues over at 60 Minutes that, quote, “absent some shocking contingency that’s unexpected, there should be no interruption in the usual course of counting and certifying the results in the states.” Do you share that view?
AG BLANCHE: Well, yes, of course. Absent- absent some facts that require us to do otherwise, there’s President Trump, the Department of Justice- we don’t want to have to get a law involved in elections, of course not. But that doesn’t mean that at times any Justice Department doesn’t do that and shouldn’t do that if the facts and the law require it.
President Trump pauses to answer questions from the media as he departs Joint Base Andrews for a MAGA rally in Michigan. President Trump calls the DSA/Muslim Brotherhood senate candidate, Abdulrahman Mohamed El‑Sayed, a “jihadist”. WATCH:
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Attorney General Todd Blanche appears on CNN to discuss the senate race in Alaska where Democrats (including *Lisa Murkowski) are intentionally running a candidate with a duplicate name in order to confuse and diminish votes for Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
As Todd Blanche deconstructs the Dana Bash narrative, the CNN host is urgently being handed talking points (in real time) just off screen. You can see the notes coming in at the 7:11 moment of the video, as Bash prepares to use them in her follow-up questioning. This type of media activity is exactly why CNN and others should be considered fake news. WATCH:
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FilmLadd – “Analysts who have been bashing Elon Musk for days over this don’t get it. Russia has the capacity to blow up satellites in space. They proved this on November 15, 2021, by firing a PL-19 Nudol missile at an old satellite of their own.
The impact created a large debris cloud—more than 1,500 trackable fragments plus hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces. The International Space Station was forced to implement safe-haven procedures: the seven-person crew (including Russian cosmonauts) sealed hatches and sheltered in the docked Soyuz and Crew Dragon spacecraft for several hours as the debris cloud repeatedly crossed their orbital path.
The ISS even had to perform thruster burns on multiple occasions over the following months to avoid the debris cloud orbiting the Earth.
If Russia decides that the civilian Starlink satellite network is weaponized and fair game, we risk a serious Kessler syndrome. First modeled by NASA’s Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais in 1978, it describes a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit gets so high that collisions start producing debris faster than natural processes (mainly atmospheric drag) can remove.
British Columbia Premier David Eby is one of the leading Canadian antagonists who quickly aligned with Mark Carney in an effort to gain power. The province was essentially split 50/50, and so David Eby developed a quick plan.
Riding the “Elbow’s Up” wave promoted by most Canadian leadership, Eby announced a strategic snap election in September. His plan was to ride the anti-Trump wave and gain power. However, between the announcement in September and the election last night something shifted. Canadian munchkins began noticing the fraud behind Wizard Carney’s loud but shallow policy. Week by week as the Canadian economy began slipping, a change started.
Then came Lorne Doerkson, a pragmatic and patriotic ‘Conservative’ challenger. Doerkson is conservative in the most Canadian sense. He’s a friendly fellow with tones and a generally affable constitution akin to Mike Huckabee circa 2012. That is to say Doerkson was the perfect ‘non-scary’ candidate to pull in a lot of support.
As a consequence, Premier Eby’s snap election gamble backfired, and he ended up handing the B.C. Conservative Party a majority government. Lorne Doerkson’s party has gained roughly 64 of the province’s 93 ridings (districts), Eby collapsed to 17. {source} Doerkson will now lead British Columbia’s first Conservative government in nearly 100 years. Shortly after the results became evident, David Eby announced he would step down as B.C. NDP leader.
I’m not going to extrapolate too much into this outcome against the backdrop of a U.S. midterm sentiment; however, it would be foolish not to notice the hidden vote base that turned out for Lorne Doerkson.
There is a pragmatic center who fully understands what can be expected from left-wing political policy.
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