Shall Not Be Questioned » 2016 Election

Really, for most Dem politicians, gun control is preening virtue signaling meant to make sure the right people know they support right kind of people values. For Dems in safe urban districts, thi...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2017/02/27/gun-control-has-never-worked-for-democrats/

I can’t find much to argue with in Eric Raymond’s note to Democrats, and of course I agree that gun control is a losing proposition for Democrats and always has been. ESR and I live in the sa...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/12/16/a-note-to-democrats-post-election/

I’m pretty confident that despite a few electors making noises about switching their vote, that Donald Trump will still occupy the Oval Office by the end of January. But people on the left and ...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/22/defecting-electors-are-the-system-working/

I think this blog post deserves a share. I tend to agree: This, I think, is the first level of crying wolf. What if, one day, there is a candidate who hates black people so much that he doesn�...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/17/crying-wolf/

Long before emojis hit the Internet, I used to help run a MUD where we had what were called emotes, and one of them was called “Ant Farm” which went something like: You point out that the ...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/14/the-ant-farm-election/

The Trump phenomena isn’t anything this country hasn’t seen before: The election of Donald Trump was a surprise and an upset, but the movement that he rode to the presidency has deep ro...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/11/trump-in-historical-context/

Maybe my gut instinct wasn’t as bad as I thought. Take a look at this handy map from the Philadelphia Inquirer: I grew up in that little sliver of Delco that flipped from Romney to Trump. I now...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/11/philly-burbs-liked-romney-better/

I’m sure you all remember the cover appearing to the left that Newsweek ran after the 2008 victory of Obama. Now after Trump, the dominant meme seems to be, “we’re all racists now.” Or at...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/11/were-all-racists-now/

Well, Mr. Obama: If you’re going to do a mic drop like that, you better be damned sure. As it is, his arrogance got the better of him. Related posts: Careful Out There Olympic Sized Fail Com...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/09/enjoy-this/

Jim Geraghty is a regular read for me, and he notes: “Let’s begin with the obvious: I did not see that coming.” I need to start going with my gut more often, but I’m reluctant to mak...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2016/11/09/more-predictions-i-wish-i-had-shared/