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Republican Glenn Youngkin beats Terry McAuliffe to win VA governorship in shocker upset - 'one for the ages'

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Republican Glenn Youngkin has pulled off the upset victory over Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial election.
Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off an upset for the ages Tuesday night, defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's gubernatorial election, a result that sent a political shockwave across America ahead of next year's midterm elections.

In his victory speech, delivered before a roaring crowd shortly after 1 a.m., Youngkin called his win a "defining moment" and promised to "change the trajectory of this commonwealth."

"On day one, we're going to work," Youngkin vowed. "We're going to restore excellence in our schools ... We're going to embrace our parents, not ignore them."

Comment: Not a shock to anyone who could read the mood of the Virginia citizenry: Matt Taibbi: The red-pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia

Youngkin wasn't the only Republican breakthrough in what has been considered a deep-blue state. There was a clean red sweep at the top of Virginia's government. The Post Millennial reports:
Two Republicans made history in Virginia on Tuesday after the state elected the first black woman to become Virginia's Lt. Governor and an hispanic man as Attorney General.

Virginia's Winsome Sears (R) is expected to be named the first black female Lt. Governor of Virginia after statewide elections predict a victory over Democratic nominee Hala Ayala.

"I'm telling you that what you are looking at is the American Dream," Sears said during a victory speech in Chantilly on Tuesday.

In 2001, Sears made history when she became the first female veteran, first black female Republican, and first naturalized citizen to serve in the House of Delegates, representing the state's 90th district. Sears immigrated to the US from Jamaica as a child and later went on to serve in the United States Marine Corps.

Winsome Sears, 57, ran on a bid alongside Republican Glenn Youngkin, who is projected to defeat Democrat Terry McAuliffe and be named the next Governor of Virginia.


In addition, Jason Miyares (R) defeated two-term Democrat Mark Herring for Virginia attorney general on Tuesday, thus becoming the state's first Latino to serve in the position.


Since 2016, Miyares has served in Virginia's House of Delegates, representing areas of Virginia Beach. He was also the first Cuban American elected to the General Assembly, according to Business Insider.

Miyares ran on a platform to reinstate public safety with an intended focus on supporting the police, restoring law and order, and fighting human trafficking, according to his website. The attorney general-elect heavily criticized the Democratic "Defund the Police" movement and said he was running "to keep our communities safe and secure."



Arrow Up

Coming to their senses: Seattle elects Republican as city attorney over police abolitionist

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Ann Davison beat Democratic opponent Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in the race for city attorney, with a final result of 58% to 41%.
Seattle has elected its first female city attorney: a Republican who supports the police.

Ann Davison beat Democratic opponent Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in the race for city attorney, with a final result of 58% to 41%. Davison's victory comes a year after the city of Seattle defunded its police and in a state historically Democratic since the 1980s, according to the Seattle Times.

Comment: Seattle has finally had enough. Hopefully Ms. Davidson is up to the task of restoring the police force and bringing a lawless mob to heel. How much of an obstacle lunatic progressive mayor Jenny Durkan will be remains to be seen.


Bizarro Earth

Patrick Lawrence: The Manufacture of Decline

Din and Cocktails
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“Din and Cocktails,” west side of Detroit, 2014.
"We modern civilizations have learned to recognize that we are mortal like the others. We had heard tell of whole worlds vanished, of empires foundered ... sunk to the inexplorable depths of the centuries with their gods and laws, their academies and their pure and applied sciences, their grammars, dictionaries, classics ... their critics and the critics of their critics.... We could not count them. But these wrecks, after all, were of no concern of ours."

That is Paul Valéry, the modernist poet, essayist and Academician, writing in April 1919. The Great War was but a few months over. Europe understood, if subliminally at that moment, that the world order of which it had been the center had shattered like glass. Or — better put — that Europe had shattered it.

"Everything came to Europe, and from Europe everything has come. Or almost everything," Valéry wrote. "Now, the present situation permits of this capital question: Will Europe retain its leadership in all activities? Will Europe become what she is in reality: that is, a little cape of the Asiatic continent?" [Emphasis the author's.]

Camcorder

Jack Posobiec breaks down the new Kyle Rittenhouse video

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On Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec dissected the video that emerged from the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday, going through the footage to give an analysis of what it could mean for the self-defense case.

Posobiec tracked through the events of August 25, 2020, when Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men, wounding a third. Rittenhouse is on trial for those deaths, and his defense is that he shot those men in self-defense. Video evidence, shot by an FBI plane that was overhead, was submitted into evidence today by the defense.

"The evening of August 25 2020, following three nights of riots and arson and terror throughout the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse and another group of armed members of the community, members of the area decided that they had had enough and they wanted to protect the town, the village, really," Posobiec said.

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USA

NJ truck driver Ed Durr vows to be Republican 'voice' in state senate after unseating longtime Dem

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New Jersey state Senate candidate Edward Durr.
Durr's victory would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State.

Republican New Jersey state Senate candidate and truck driver Ed Durr is on the verge of defeating longtime Senate President Steve Sweeney in a sweeping victory that would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State.

The 62-year-old Raymour & Flanagan truck driver holds a lead of more than 2,000 votes in a tight race for the state's Third District Senate seat.

Airplane

Southwest launches investigation into pilot reportedly using anti-Biden phrase on flight

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Southwest Airlines (LUV) says it is launching an internal investigation after a report that one of its pilots used anti-Biden slang over a plane's public address system during a flight.

"Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job," the airline said in a Sunday statement. "Southwest is conducting an internal investigation into the recently reported event and will address the situation directly with any Employee involved while continuing to remind all Employees that public expression of personal opinions while on duty is unacceptable."

The Associated Press, which had a reporter on board the flight, first reported that a pilot of a Friday flight from Houston to Albuquerque ended his typical greeting to passengers with the phrase "Let's go Brandon," which has become right-wing code for "F**k Joe Biden." The AP report said passengers responded with audible gasps.

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Syringe

Fully vaccinated air passenger infected with coronavirus is found dead in his seat after landing at German airport following flight from Turkey

Pegasus Airlines airplane.

A fully vaccinated airplane passenger infected with coronavirus died during his Pegasus Airlines flight
A fully vaccinated air passenger infected with coronavirus was found dead in his seat after a flight.

The Pegasus Airlines crew found the 51-year-old man lifeless in his seat after Flight 1043 from Istanbul, Turkey, to Hamburg, Germany, on October 25.

The man, who was born in Russia and lived in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, was travelling on an Airbus 320 when he passed away during the flight, which took off from Istanbul at around 7am GMT (10am local time).

He was found lifeless in his seat by a member of staff after all other passengers had disembarked the aircraft in Hamburg at around 12pm GMT, (1 pm German time), according to local media reports.

The official cause of the man's death is not clear although local reports have suggested he had suffered from a number of serious prior illnesses, which were not specified.

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Stock Down

Chilling bigly: Total systemic economic breakdown on the horizon

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Is it so, as some wags say, that industry no longer makes money; only finance does? That's been the operating theory for much of the West lately. Of course, that invites the question: what then is finance supposed to finance... that is, put money into? Why... industry, of course, and in the broadest sense of the word: the production of goods... goods being things that have value (that's what's good about them). How quaint! But most of the industry that used to be here has gone to other lands.

What about all that money (capital) flowing into technology: Facebook, Google, Amazon? Hmmmm. What does Facebook produce, besides conflict between its users? Okay, it harvests data about them to sell to advertisers. And what are the advertisers advertising? Their products. Who produces the products? Mostly those people in other lands. Facebook users, then, are increasingly not employed, at least not in the production of goods. Perhaps in services like nursing, trucking, garbage pickup, food prep, police, firemen, prison guards, government bureaucracy (is that a service or a dis-service?) and et cetera.

Anyway, those service people are being fired left-and-right now because they refuse to be coerced into taking a vaccine that was never properly tested and has many scary side-effects. By the way, as of Sunday, the "newspaper-of-record" (The New York Times) finally had to come clean, after months of whistling past the graveyard, and admit what the public already knows: mRNA vaccines are dangerous:
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Red Pill

Matt Taibbi: The red-pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia

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Notes on a "realigning" election.

The drama that played out in upscale Loudoun County, Virginia over the last year or so, and cost Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe the governorship last night, is a book waiting to be written. In fact, if companies like HBO or Netflix have any sense, it will soon be a movie as well, because almost every hot-button issue in American national politics was rolled up somewhere in this sprawling, preposterous, rage-filled suburban drama.

I have a longer piece on this coming, and have to return to the area at least once to follow up, so I can't get into it in depth yet. But as I scan the news from an Amtrak seat, on the way back north after watching last night's shocking come-from-ahead loss by McAuliffe, a few things are already clear.

Comment: Virginia, and Loudoun County specifically, has been a microcosm of every problem currently plaguing the US in the last year, so the upset of an entrenched Democrat is quite telling in its significance. There is, undoubtedly, more to come in this corner of America.

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Cross

Archbishop Viganò writes stunning letter on vaccine program - Slams Pope for promoting jabs which contain material from aborted fetuses

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a stunning letter to America's bishops in which he makes several astounding claims about COVID-19 jabs and the Church's role in promoting vaccines.

Viganò asserts that vaccines normally go through years of rigorous testing, and that the lack of such a process in the case of COVID-19 jabs represents public health authorities conducting "experimentation on the entire world population."

The Archbishop referenced drug treatments that have proven effective in fighting COVID without the risks of vaccines, noting that such drugs have been discredited by global health bodies and the media.

"It must be reiterated that there are effective treatments which cure patients and allow them to develop permanent natural immune defenses, something that the vaccines do not do," he wrote. "Furthermore, these treatments do not cause serious side effects, since the drugs that are used have been licensed for decades."

"International standards specify that an experimental drug cannot be authorized for distribution except in the absence of an effective alternative treatment: this is why drug agencies in the USA and Europe have prevented the use of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, hyper-immune plasma, and other therapies with proven effectiveness," he added.