Don’t mess with the Amish
Yes, the Amish:
The state’s famed “Pennsylvania Dutch” registered to vote in “unprecedented numbers” in response to a January federal raid on a local raw milk farm in Bird in Hand, Pa., a source familiar with the situation told The Post. …
The Amish community saw the move as an overzealous reach by the government and was planning to vote for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose party favors less government intervention.
“That was the impetus for them to say, ‘We need to participate,’ ” the source said of local Amish voters. “This is about neighbors helping neighbors.”
The Amish community rallied around Miller, who cited his religious beliefs as a reason for not adhering to Food and Drug Administration guidelines.
I would imagine there are a number of communities of a religious bent that don’t ordinarily vote in large percentages but who aren’t especially happy with what they see as government overreach.
So…a squirrel & a milk jug are the symbols of the beginning of the counterrevolution. I did not see that one coming.
Here’s my note with the Nebraska Amish; who I didn’t even know really existed.
Knox County is in the NE corner of Nebraska and on the South Dakota border. I was there to be hired as the Special Knox County Attorney to defend the County in a federal court lawsuit filed by Big Wind. But before I was hired, there was a hearing on a conditional use permit filed by Big Solar.
I gave the Board three minutes and then sat down in the front row. Some time after me an Amish farmer spoke. He said he doesn’t even use electricity. He made two points:
1. He didn’t think it was a good business model to invest in a fad.
2. The federal government was planning to hand out $1.2 trillion in free money to solar, wind and battery companies.
On that second point, Goldman Sachs had released a study making that very point about a month prior to the meeting. In fact, I cited it in my Motion to Dismiss Brief. How this Amish guy knew that fact stunned me. Maybe he’s a customer of Goldman Sachs.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
There is a holy way to slaughter animals and the other ways are not holy. Depending on your religion.
Better than sixty years ago, I read “Lion Boy” and “Lion Boy’s White Brother”, action novels in Africa set in maybe the Fifties. In the latter, the two young guys are in the savanna and one shoots an antelope for food. Their Arab guide hitches up his robes and sprints out to cut its throat before it dies., Had no clue, then. And it was in a book set for boys not quite YA. That was then.
So between kosher, haram, halal, and government regs, even meat processing could be contentious.
And treatment of women….
I’ve been enjoying the Amish / Trump story for a few weeks now.
But beyond the surprise value I would note that there are 90,000 Amish in the key battleground state, Pennsylvania, which pushed Trump to victory past 270 Electoral College votes.
I estimate there were 60,000 voting-age PA Amish in this election. Trump only won PA by less than 140,000 votes.
Trump: 3,482,914
Harris: 3,346,149
You do the math.
God bless the Amish!
I also wonder how many Catholic votes Harris lost in PA due to her astonishing snub of the traditional Al Smith dinner benefitting Catholic hospitals.
In her place Harris provided a remarkably tone-deaf Saturday Night Live video which ridiculed a Catholic school girl. It must be seen to be believed:
–“VP Harris and Mary Katherine Gallagher Video for Al Smith Dinner”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6OvqB22Z3A
Utter cringe. I haven’t been Catholic since high school, but I really hated this video.
Given that Trump won the popular vote by five million votes, many, many groups played their part.
But I do wonder how many Christian votes the Harris campaign lost due to the Woke Democrat hostility to traditional Christianity.
Should one also wonder how many fake Harris ballots were cast?
(Or are we too giddy—though this could change—to care?)
If the answer is “Not enough to matter”, then perhaps one might want to re-ask the question (with more “spirit”…or should that be “joy”…?).
And just like that, another Senate Seat flipped to Rep. In PA. Makes you think, right.