ABL: What happened on Tuesday?

 

[VIDEO] We had some elections that amateur politicos had kept their eyes on. I didn't exactly watch network TV to follow the results. However once I saw the results for at least two races I've been hearing about it now causes questions about what the GOP is doing right now and what bodes for next year 2024.

In Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin rode a bit of a wave to become the first GOP Governor elected since 2013. In fact he defeated a former VA Governor in Terry McAw.....McAuliff and what helped Youngkin's election was anger over Virgina school boards and how they strayed from the expectations of parents towards their children.

Alas on this past Tuesday, Gov. Youngkin who had hoped to secure a majority in the VA Legislature (General Assembly) in both houses only saw Democrats pick up seats in the house and secure a slim majority in the state Senate. So if the Governor wants to pass legislation to address abortion or further address the issues that helped him get elected in 2021 he's going to have a tougher time. And noted by Anthony Brian Logan above a candidate who caused a scandal for an OnlyFans page and not especially mentioned by ABL a transgender candidate was elected to the VA General Assembly.

Virginia is the bible belt, however, the most populous part of the state is in the north, the northern Virginia DC suburbs. The achillies heel of many Republicans trying to get elected in blue states and as it goes the most populous areas of even blue states are the major urban population centers. Here in Illinois that would be the Chicagoland area.

Anyway, in Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear defeated Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Is this a huge surprise? No. Daniel Cameron it was said had no real energy behind him and of course it's always difficult to defeat an incumbent and in the case of Gov. Beshear he's popular so of course the citizens of Kentucky would be happy to re-elect him absent a good reason to change course in the Governor's mansion in Frankfort.

For those of you who may not know who Attorney General Cameron is, he was involved in a decision to not further charge those Louisville, Kentucky police officers who were involved in a raid that shot & killed Breonna Taylor. I can't tell you if that was a factor in him losing this election though I'm sure for those who were following that case that was enough to NOT support Cameron.

And mentioned by ABL and not something I followed completely is abortion measures to the state constitution passing in Ohio. If the idea was to make abortion more of a right in the Buckeye State they had succeeded. I'm sure many celebrated the demise of Roe v. Wade the complications we have seen in 2022 and 2023.

It's a very polarizing issue and it's difficult to really win on it. The dividing lines are strong and it's very difficult to get past the argument of a woman's body therefore her right to choose. I do consider myself pro-life though with reasonable exceptions and I'm a long way from every banning it completely. I just often say life of the mother & rape or incest with in the case of minors parents must be notified. Unfortunately some are not even satisfied with that they might go further and say abortion up until 9 months which borders on infanticide IMO.

Difficult issue, however, the only thing I can say for the political side on this issue is how does a pro-life Republican win in a state (such as Illinois which does have a history of pro-choice Republican governors) where there is solid support for abortion rights. Again that's a very difficult issue though I've laid out a solution which I think is more than reasonable. However, obviously I've never ran a political race so I'm a long way from saying I know the winning message.

So again these are my takeaways on what happened Tuesday. And I almost forgot there was a Republican Presidential Debate on Wednesday and I hear Vivek Ramaswamy just owned that room. That young man had better run for something other than the presidency to keep his name out there! 

Timcast: Democrat Launches INSANE Ad With NOOSE On His Neck

 

[VIDEO] And the rest of the title to the above video is "[Democrat] Party CRUMBLING As Voters Vote Republican" I got to find this ad by Democrat US Senate candidate Charles Booker attempts to unseat Sen. Rand Paul. BTW, Pool notes if Booker wants to accuse Sen. Paul of racism that Paul actually did propose a Breonna Taylor law after her unfortunate death during a no-knock police raid.

Paul is a libertarian in general like his father former Congressman Ron Paul. I think Paul generally supports the rights of individual people and that may mean more restrictions on the actions of law enforcement. Of course there seems to be a variety of opinion among libertarians on law enforcement, however, whats the general consensus respect individual rights.

I found the ad Mr. Booker is making allusions to the unfortunate history of racism in this nation specifically mentioning lynching. Would this strong imagery cause me to want to vote for him? Well it doesn't matter since I don't live in the Bluegrass State, however, what if Tim Pool and some of the comments to this video are correct and this ad causes long-time Democrats to instead vote Republican or instead vote for Republican Sen. Rand Paul. [VIDEO]

We're a long way from November and the predictions so far - unless we get some weirdness - is that Republicans could retake both houses of Congress. Again we shall see.

Tim Pool discusses assassination attempt in Louisville, Kentucky

 

[VIDEO] As you watch this over 20 min video from Pool allow me to share some details in text form:

A Louisville activist has been identified as a suspect in Monday's attempted shooting of mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg.

Quintez Brown, 21, was charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment after Greenberg was shot at in his campaign headquarters Monday morning in Butchertown, LMPD spokeswoman Elizabeth Ruoff said late Monday.

Brown, a civil rights activist, is a former intern and editorial columnist for The Courier Journal.

A police report says a man later identified as Brown entered the building and fired a 9mm Glock handgun at Greenberg before fleeing the building.

Greenberg was not injured, but one of the bullets struck his clothing, Chief Erika Shields said earlier Monday. Police evacuated Greenberg, a Democrat, and his staff from the building and eventually took a person into custody, she said.

I'd be very curious about motive, however, as we go through this article form the Courier Journal it seems as if Mr. Brown has some issues. Such as for example what happened when he disappeared last summer for two weeks. What was the circumstances of that? 

Also he's running for office himself (Louisville Metro Council) as Mr. Greenberg is running for Mayor of Louisville. So doing this probably won't bode well for his political career.

Larry Elder: Outrage Over Breonna Taylor Misses Key Facts About the Case

 

[VIDEO] Today Larry Elder offered his take on the decision last week by a Kentucky grand jury and announced by that commonwealth's Attorney General Daniel Cameron that no charged will be directly filed in the tragic death of Breonna Taylor when Louisville Metro Police served a "no-knock" search warrant. Of course because there are those who have made up their mind on this and perhaps still emotional about this decision there was some unrest in Louisville, Kentucky especially where this incident  the shooting took place.

Now a memorable quote you will hear from some of the pundit referenced in Elder's latest video is "he may be skinfolk, but he's not kinfolk". Think about that for a second, some people believe he's not as upset about what happened to Taylor as they might think he should be. It's certainly based on the color of his skin and definitely not in his objective view of the facts.

I just hate sadly that this is seen as nothing more than a racially motivated incident and many want this to be prosecuted as such. Right is right and wrong is wrong, we should be very upset if these officers were unfairly charged and their lives ruined especially if they in fact did nothing wrong.

Of course not all the officers escaped charges. One of those officers Brett Hankinson had been fired by Louisville police in his role in this raid. He was charged with wonton endangerment for endangering a neighbor with his shots.

Louisville, Kentucky erupted tonight...

 

[VIDEO] Well things began to pop off in Louisville, Kentucky after stunning announcement of no direct charges in the case of Breonna Taylor's death. Ms. Taylor was killed during a police raid - with a no-knock warrant where police announced their presence - her boyfriend fired his gun at police shooting one of the three officers under the gun.

My understand of the case is that due to Ms. Taylor's association with her boyfriend who was under investigation by Louisville Police for drug dealing her residence was targeted by a search warrant by police. Without knowing many of the facts as tragic as her death is, I could easily view this as a case of watch who you associate with.

So one of these officers was fired by the Louisville police. One officer has charges of wanton endangerment when he shot his gun at another apartment once one of his fellow officers were shot. By all accounts what happened seems justified especially if you take out the racial angle.

Unfortunately as with so many situations such as this such as George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Ahmaud Arbery, Jacob Blake, or Daniel Prude many have made up their minds. In this cases and Taylor's it's simply another case of a Black person dead by police and nothing more. These officers had no right to even return fire at a gunshot towards them. Besides her boyfriend had no idea who was at the door when they knocked.

What's going on in Louisville, Kentucky - a very nice place I hope to visit Churchill Downs one day and bet in the Kentucky Derby - is no longer about justice. It's about more chaos and unrest...

BTW, I'm glad that here in Chicago authorities are being proactive getting the IL Nat'l Guard ready for any foolishness akin to May or August with rioting or looting. However the Governor of IL & Mayor of Chicago have spoken on this issue and they refer to today's announcement in Kentucky as a miscarriage of justice. I would expect they're stating this to keep the calm in a city already rocked by severe unrest over this tumultuous summer.