Nuclear War Risk and the Nov. 8 Election

Will Biden get us nuked?

This is the first election since the 1962 midterm with the threat of nuclear war hanging over the world. In that case, the Missiles of October didn’t start flinging because JFK and Khrushchev came to an agreement, voters saw the Soviet ships leaving Cuba laden with the missiles, and on Nov. 6 Democrats scored the rare feat of the incumbent presidential party picking up seats in House.

In the Year of Our Lord 2022 it’s different. The Ukraine War isn’t going to be resolved by Nov. 8. The Biden regime and the mainsream news keep saying Putin is threatening to use nukes. Axios, under a picture of Putin on a ship obeserving naval exercises: “The big picture: Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats are growing more direct as his battlefield position in Ukraine grows more precarious.”

Actually, despite the recent retreats, the Russian “battlefield position” is strengthening. They’re doubling their forces, regrouping and getting ready for the fall mud to solidify. Then they will strike — hard this time. They have enough forces to win without nukes.

Axios again: “After warning last week that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons, Putin added: ‘This is not a bluff.’”

But if you look at his speeches, he’s only saying what he always has: if the U.S. uses nukes, then he has the capacity to respond. It’s hard to find these speeches because Google suppresses them. But the Brave browser immediately found the full Sept. 21 speech, where he said:

They have even resorted to the nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia.

I would like to remind those who make such statements regarding Russia that our country has different types of weapons as well, and some of them are more modern than the weapons NATO countries have. In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.

The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended – I repeat – by all the systems available to us. Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around.

There aren’t any polls on this; and polls are inaccurate anyway. But I was born in 1955 and grew up with the nuclear threat. It ended only with the dissolution of the Soviet Union that happy Christmas 1991 — 31 years ago. Now the dread is back. I can feel it in my bones. I follow politics too much. But do others have such premonitions? Is it part of the background radiation of people’s psyches? I think it is.

In the 1950s and 1960s, kids in school did the Duck and Cover. Here’s the video.

I remember in the 1960s in Elliott Elementary School in Wayne, Mich., much like the kids in the early part of the video, the teachers told us to go against he brick East wall in the schoolroom, which pointed toward Detroit to the East, presumably Ground Zero . Weirdly, today Detroit looks like it actually was nuclear bombed numerous times.

The problem for Democrats is people don’t like wars and vote against them. In 1920, two years after the World War I victory, outgoing President Wilson’s Democrats lost to Harding and the Republicans. In 1945, after leading Brits through Their Finest Hour beating Hitler, voters dumped Churchill.

In the United States in 1946, the Republicans took over both houses of Congress for the first time since the Great Depression destroyed them 16 years earlier. When Truman’s time was up in 1948, prosperity was at hand and Republicans ran the weak Dewey, so Truman won anyway. He then presided over the Korean War, and was replaced in 1952 by Ike, who promised, “I will go to Korea” and end the war, which he did.

LBJ quit in 1968 because he couldn’t win in Nam. After losing the war in 1975, Ford lost to Carter in 1976. GW Bush got stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading to Dems winning big in 2006 and 2008.

This time, I think, it’s much worse for the Democrats. Some are saying Republicans possibly could get 53 seats in the Senate, up 3; and 282 in the House, up 70. I’m wildly predicting 55 in the Senate and 292 in the House. Total Democrat wipeout.

The fog of nuclear war hanging over the globe, with possibly 100 million Americans nuked and the remaining 240 million wishing they had been nuked, with the economy collapsing 80 percent and mass starvation on the menu — that’s the possible future Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and the other armageddonites in the Democratic leadership are offering us.

Then there’s the inflation, the Garland-FBI attacks on our liberties, the increasing inflation, the vicious culture wars the Democrats are leading, and the general feeling the country is flying insanely toward a concrete wall.

Risking getting the country nuked makes Biden the worst president in American history. We may not survive him.

Duck and Cover!