If there’s one of the many takes from this election is that Social Media is fully against out political side.  And on that, I am seriously thinking on doing something I swear I’d never be involved with again: A Forum.

So, I am putting out there for you guys to think about and see if it would be a good idea you would like to be involved. There will be rules, of course, but aimed at keeping the place clean and encourage a polite conversation and free exchange of ideas.  Chest thumping idiocy and behind-the-keyboard machismo will not be tolerated.

Would you guys be interested? Do you think it would be something others will like to be a part of?

Tell me your opinions and ideas in the comments.

The biggest mistake the Republicans made in my lifetime was the near-beatification of military and veterans after 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One commenter introduced me to newly elected Congressman Jake Auchincloss.

He was a USMC captain. He wants to take your guns. He thinks social media should be able to silence and unperson you.

But he’s a USMC veteran so how dare you question his patriotism and devotion to the Constitution.

He’s better than you because he served and you didn’t. He slept next to an M16A4 so he knows what you can’t have a rifle that looks like it as a US citizen.

It’s going to be some retired Army officer turned politician who takes your guns and sticks you in a gulag because you can’t question his moral superiority or love of our Constitution because he served.  Those are the rule the Republicans created and the Democrats are beating us to death with them.

I saw Miguel’s post.  I wanted to follow up with this video.

Antifa has been training on the same battlefields that have trained these terrorists shooting and blowing up Europe.

If Antifa kicks it off we are going to be dealing with people who have fought ISIS and learned from them.

This is truly bad.

I have to disagree with Miguel.

I don’t think the Democrats can reign in Antifa anymore. They let it go on for too long and with too much vehemence in order to get Trump.

Antifa is just too battle hardened and the boots-on-the-ground police are just too demoralized.

Also, the SS was able to kill the SA.  It was murder.  As long as Antifa is only being arrested, they won’t stop.  No to mention that once the the arrests are made it goes to prosecutors who we’ve seen are strongly aligned with Antifa.

All in all I thing the Antifa dragon has been fed too much by the Democrats, they can’t control it anymore, and now it will eat them.

The good news:

TALLAHASSEE — Republicans appeared set Tuesday night to retain, maybe even grow, their majority in the state Senate as lawmakers head toward two years of grappling with a coronavirus-damaged budget and redrawing political boundaries.

Republicans maintain control of Florida Senate

And then the VERY good news:

Florida House Democrats were hammered on Election Day, losing three incumbents, two open seats, and a handful of races for what they thought were flippable Republican House districts. Republicans now lead the chamber 78-42.

Florida House Democrats give up 2018 gains — and any hope of influence

And to end up with a bow and cherry on top. From the Miami Herald.

OK, still small numbers compared to Biden’s result:

It’s not precisely clear why Trump’s support ballooned in Florida’s largest primarily Black city. But the numbers tell their own story: Trump got 7,601 votes this year versus 43,138 for Biden, compared to 3,328 for Trump and 42,548 for Clinton in 2016.

Biden barely managed to get 590 more votes than Hillary. This is Trayon Martin’s all stomping grounds and a fierce democratic enclave that keeps re-electing Representative Lady Pimp, but somehow over 7 thousand voters decided to leave the Democrat Plantation.

Florida did all elections things right and I am not saying because it went full red.  Any accusation of voter suppression was just previous to the election and for political show rather than reality. Mail In is still suspicious with the extra million Democrat votes, but it was counted without issues  and so were the drop-offs during Early voting which also went smooth.  During election day, lines moved, if not fast, at least with ease. And we had a pretty damn good idea about the result of the election by 9:30 pm even though AP and the NYT would not give up and call it for Trump till way past Midnight and the realization there was no way somebody could find 400,000 votes to reverse the result in short notice. Sure as hell that many late-comer Mail In votes would not pass the smell test anywhere in the Sunshine State.

Two lessons I can see from Florida’s 2020 Electoral process. First: The hard work the Republicans have done getting the 67 county’s electoral boards in shape has paid off in confidence. Yes, there are more matters to correct, but we are not seeing the 2,000 clusterfuck but in archived memories.

The second lesson is: Aggressive Conservatives positions work! If there was a crush in the legislature, it was because people voted straight Republican because of Trump and his ways. None of this “compassionate conservatism” which hinted there were uncaring Republican assholes who wanted to see dead babies of color and poison the water while banging Mother Nature. Hispanics reacted to somebody who was not bullshitting them with promises of free shit but with pride and respect. And I hope the Florida Republicans also got the message that we Latinos like our Second Amendment and it is not just reserved for the fat crazy White guys that Morin loves to portray in the Miami Herald.

Let’s hopes the lessons are not lost for the next election.

I just added The Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor to my daily reading routine

Elliott wore a ‘Fuc* The Police’ shirt and commandeered Black Lives Matter chants, including “Say His [Elijah McClain’s] Name” and “No Justice, No Peace,” alongside Denver Antifa ‘comrade,’ Michael Windecker (thenomanzone.com, October 15). Antifa then started fires at a Denver suburb’s courthouse, broke courthouse windows, and pointed lasers and threw fireworks at police officers (CBS [Denver], July 25).

Michael Windecker calls himself a Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) “soldier” and “proud Fuc*ing Communist.” He fought with Syrian-based Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG), whom he refers to as “Antifa freedom fighters,” and Iraqi-based Peshmerga against Islamic State. Daily Beast profiled Windecker, whose alias was “Necromancer,” on Kirkuk’s frontlines in 2015 (Daily Beast, April 20, 2015). However, it published a follow-up article after learning Windecker’s multiple arrests included third-degree sexual assault of a 14-year old boy (Daily Beast, April 27, 2015).

Antifa’s Denver Shooting: New Trends in Left-Wing Political Violence, Syrian Connections, and Sub-cultures

Yes, they are hiring criminals to do their dirty work. This is standard operating procedure by Socialists and one I have seen with my own eyes.

My neighborhood was not one of the best ones in Caracas, in fact, the US Embassy had it tagged as a Red Zone, US Personnel should not go there under any circumstance unless provided with armored personnel carrier and a squad of Marines. In our street there was this guy I will call Tony who was about 3-4 years older than me and I have known basically all my life. We were always friendly with each other, but never friends. Mom knew he was up to no good as a kid and eventually he got arrested several times and went to prison at least twice.

Tony was always nice to us and specially very sweet with my mother who he treated like a grandmother. With other people? He was the asshole that would smile to your face while slowly gutting you and was involved in the local drug trade and any other criminal enterprise that would produce him money. In our street, he was capo and nobody fucked with him.

After we moved back to the States and before I finally convinced mom to come live with us, I would have to go check on her at least twice a year. In one of those trips, i bumped into tony and we exchanged pleasantries like we always did. When I asked him what was he doing, I expected the old non-committal response I always got and we both knew it was all crime business as usual. Instead, this time he reached for his back pocket and produced a wallet with a gold shield and an Inspector ID.  He looked at me and said “It is legal, bro. Issued by the government. I am a cop!”

We laughed, but I was actually horrified at the fact this guy had official government license to kill. We talked  some more minutes, asked me to convey his regards to mom and went about our businesses. I never saw him again because we finally convinced mom to move to the US. One day in the comfort of our Miami home, we were watching some action movie and mom made a comment: “Hey, that is Tony’s gun.” Think she meant a sidearm being held by the hero, I asked “The Glock pistol?” “No” she replied, “the machine gun.” She was pointing at another character in the scene holding an HK MP-5.

I rewound and paused the scene and mom confirmed that was the gun because tony himself had proudly showed it to her and told her it was also government issued. I made a comment like “why would anybody give him a frigging machine gun?” and mom said he told her that he was in charge of making sure no anti-Chavistas got too bold for their own good and to help the Revolution fight “Contra-revolucionarios.”

The hiring of criminals makes sense: They have no qualms for human life, they are only after their immediate gratification and you may be just a little bug that gets in the way and gets squashed. However, providing weapons to such individuals also helps in raising the violent crime rates which helps keep regular citizens under control. The downside?    Goverment created monsters that the own government can’t control short of full military deployment and even that is a silly hope.  Large portions of Caracas have become No-Go zones the way Fallujah was once without Marines laying waste to it first. If police shows up, it is the Special teams (FAE) and only for a short time against a very specific target. Other than that, I believe there has not been a regular police presence in those areas for almost a decade.

It has been years since the people living in these areas have bothered to report crimes of any kind, including homicides. This helps the government because unreported crime does not make statistics and they can claim violent crime is down under the glorious banner of the Revolution. But Venezuela’s version of “Snitches get stitches” (you and your family shot to death or burned alive) keeps any stats from being known. If you lie in an area dominated by a government-sponsored criminal enterprise, you pay the “vacuna” (bribe. extortion) you shut your mouth and hope you are left alone.

And that is why the Left loves criminals working for them. Even if they can’t control them, they can benefit from their actions.