Biden’s intern put up a post on X where a picture of a smiling Biden has the caption, “On my watch, when we make promises, we keep them. And we leave no one behind.” This is after Afghanistan and was posted the day after Team Pudding Brain announced a suspension of military aid to Israel. Here’s the thing about it: as of this writing, it has 3.7 million views…and 11,000 “likes”. Of the people who have seen it, 0.29% have liked it. And keep in mind that on X a certain large percentage of likes are really just “I saw it”, not necessarily an indication of approval. For a bit of comparison, I checked Trump’s old X account – it has been restored but the only time Trump has used it since his suspension was to post his mugshot. He was routinely getting low end 50k likes, high end 300k.
Then there’s the comments! It is hard to find positive comments at all – and the post has been “ratioed”; that is, far more comments than reposts (and indicator that the best time to delete the post was before you sent it; second best time is right now). Most of the comments you’ll find could be shortened to two words beginning with “f” and “y”. This guy is getting scorched by a nation increasingly outraged by how bad things are going.
Meanwhile, Decision Desk (a normally very reliable source) figures that Trump leads in both head-to-head and wide-field matchups in the 7 crucial Swing States.
You can never tell when a shift will happen in politics. In hindsight you can always see it, but while it is happening it is easy to miss. We might not be at the point where it all changes. Heck, Biden could still win this thing. But it seems to me that people are just sick and tired of all this. The betrayal of Israel to curry favor with college anti-Semites might be the last straw – not that most Americans are deeply invested in the outcome in Gaza (they aren’t) but it is just a sleazy move. Everyone can see why Biden is pressuring Israel – and pressuring Israel by denying aid which he and his people rammed through Congress just a couple weeks ago on the assertion that it had to be sent right now. This might be straw/camel’s back stuff.
But it is also a rather large pile of bad – the war in Ukraine is clearly failing. We’re pumping money into Ukraine and while the number of Ukrainian millionaires is at an all-time high, the Ukrainian government has announced that they’ll be combing the prisons for men to draft into the army. Russia continues to advance slowly but seemingly inexorably and we’re just waiting to see if there’s a major Russian offensive this summer (June is the time when the ground is really hard and dry enough in Russia for major movements).
Inflation continues to bite – gas prices are high, food prices are getting ridiculous. Everyone but the rich are being priced out of single family homes. The American Dream is currently unobtainable by youth.
The border remains open – today the story broke of an illegal dragging an 11 year old girl into a van in broad daylight and raping her. Yep: Biden’s people had refused to deport this Dreamer who Just Wants a Better Life. Hey, we gotta have these illegals in order for wages to be crushed so guys who fly private jets to climate change conferences can make a higher rate of return. We’re talking maybe a whole percentage point more annually, guys. That ain’t chicken feed…and if your daughter has to be raped, that’s a price they are willing for you to pay.
And what is the Team Biden program here? Abortion! Our Democracy! Orange Man Bad!
That’s it. All they’ve got. Could it work? Yes. As I said, if it does, we never had a chance.
But I think it won’t work. In fact, I think Biden might already be toast.
Blogs For Victory 
Seems appropriate in this thread.
Yesterday Biden lied his way through a softball CNN interview, and these were not little white lies … these were bold and provable lies. Did CNN pushback on any of them?? We all know the answer to that, but the fact checkers are out this morning and Biden is getting roasted.
It is beyond disgraceful that America has people like Rashida Tlaib, Cory Bush, and Ilhan Omar in Congress. Morally confused Muslims do not belong in the American government. In fact, all Muslims have no place in the American government. It is not a religion. It is a political cult, nothing more.
Word is that Democrats – officially worried about far Left protests – want to take their Convention at least partially on-line. I concede that there is a worry about pro-Hamas fanatics causing a ruckus…but I guarantee the primary motivator here is that they can’t have Biden out in public long enough to give a convention speech.
They can control what gets out to the public if it’s online and that’s very important to them right now. They’ve been trying to control Biden’s impression on the public in a lot of ways. They’ve had him going up the short stairs to the airplane, they’ve started surrounding him with a scrum of people to prevent the public from being able to see his dementia-altered gait, and they’ve tried printing out what he’s allowed to say in very large letters on note cards (but that hasn’t worked very well) and they’ve tried assigning people to lead him off stage in ways designed to hide the fact that that’s what’s happening, such as having a woman grasp his hand in greeting and then not let go as they leave the stage together.
I think they’ve come to realize that their best shot is setting up situations where he’s always sitting down, where he speaks in small and easily edited sound bites and where embarrassing things like flatulence or incontinence can be edited out, hoping they can juice him up enough for a brief standing acceptance speech.
There’s a trend on X where faux conservatives are saying “I’m a 60 year old conservative and I’m voting for Joe Biden”. I had quite the give and take with a few of them this morning and had a lot of fun calling them MSNBC Republicans or Puritans, and of course making sure they are up to date on their boosters. Democrats are becoming DESPERATE.
Truth is, I don’t want MSNBC Republicans to vote for Trump or to be any part of the MAGA movement. MAGA is common sense conservatives and disaffected Democrats, and that’s more than enough to win.
No one who is not either an absolutely rabid leftist determined to support the left no matter what kind of pathetic representative they have to vote for to do it or a meek brain dead meat puppet like Casper is going to vote for Joe Biden. Even Identity Politics is not enough to support Joe Biden unless it is boiled down to a simple choice between R and D with no consideration for the kinds of governance each choice represents.
Illegal Immigrants Refuse to Leave Tent City in Denver, Send Officials List of Demands
The immigrants responded with their own notification that they would not leave the area until Mayor Mike Johnston agreed to 13 demands.
Those demands include unlimited shower access, free immigration lawyers, free housing and free groceries provided by the city. Among them:
First, they enter the US illegally. Then they’re provided basic necessities for survival w/o charge. Now they want to place demands on people who owe them nothing (except maybe contempt). So much for gratitude. These people have been drinking at the same fountain as the Chicago public school teachers I mentioned in an earlier post. It’s the same crap of the entitlement minded individuals, always demanding of others who owe them nothing. This is what you get when governments steal money accumulated through fees & taxation, then appropriate it to all kinds of social welfare to keep people slaves of their own laziness. It’s never enough, as the intent of those in charge is to only give away enough to retain power. The rest is for themselves. It’s the very lie perpetrated by satan himself – get you to buy into the appearance something for free, then lock you into perpetual servitude.
https://headlineusa.com/illegals-tent-send-list-of-demands/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP0730&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
“culturally appropriate ingredients”—- I had to laugh out loud at that.
Maybe it’s time to remind the officials in Denver that by even allowing these people to stay here they are violating federal law.
Anyone wonder where the US is heading if we don’t right the ship? The left can’t win on their insanity (and they’re having a difficult time hiding it) so they’ll eliminate anyone who opposes them. The various forms of socialism have murdered over 150 million people in the past 100 years using this very tactic.
Trudeau’s government’s Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, could see Canadians fined or even jailed for things posted on the internet prior to the bill becoming law.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/elon-musk-skewers-trudeau-govt-online-harms-bill-as-insane-for-targeting-speech-retroactively/?utm_source=daily-usa-2024-05-10&utm_medium=email
How bad is it here?
Tara Reid, who credibly accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her, is being indicted by the DOJ in a sealed case for crimes they won’t even disclose to her lawyer.
So we have an American citizen now asking for political asylum in Russia and the irony of this is that she is forced to go to Russia to ask for protection from the increasingly Stalinist approach of the United States in using the power of the State to persecute and destroy political opponents.
In the meantime a former president of the United States is defending himself against something that is not a crime, but alleged to be a federal crime though it is being prosecuted in a state court, in a trial under the authority of a judge who was never properly appointed and confirmed.
If you presented 2024 to Kafka as a story idea he’d be all, “nah; nobody would believe it”. It is just Alice in Wonderland right now.
And If you presented 2021 to 2024 as a storyline to George Orwell, he’d say “Nah, already done that.”
It is very much what they want here – and don’t be too sure that our First Amendment is proof against it. Having the 1A and being protected by it are two different things. A billionaire like Musk can happily ignore attempts to silence him…but for you and me, with bills to pay and families to take care of, just the prospect of being put through the judicial meat grinder is horrific. Doesn’t help us if we are vindicated at the Supreme Court ten years after we go bankrupt. In fact, and we all know this, there are already certain things we won’t say in public – that is, won’t write down on social media or on a blog even though they are perfectly reasonable and true things to say. The firestorm already censors us.
This is why we really do need to enact laws specifically forbidding Red State law enforcement from enforcing unconstitutional laws…and requiring State law enforcement to defend citizens against unconstitutional acts of the federal government. The people need force on their side…and if it isn’t provided by law, it will eventually be provided ad hoc.
Winston Marshall delivers an excellent smack down of the of the current global and American elites
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1789257632525492558
Outstanding!
Nice Smackdown.
For those who might not be familiar with Nick Freitas, here is one of his many good videos in a similar vein to the one Cluster provided.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3j6Ugr_aBc&t=13s
Biden’s intern put up a post on X where a picture of a smiling Biden has the caption, “On my watch, when we make promises, we keep them. And we leave no one behind.”
You’ve showed what the reaction on X was like. It would be interesting to see what percentage of the voting public that was not already going to vote for Biden saw that and decided to vote for Biden. I’m guessing the number is pretty low. So why would you post such an easily disprovable lie? Are we really dealing with an opposition that is that brain-dead?
I find it hard to believe that anyone is going to be won over to voting for Joe Biden at this point. I think that Biden voters have been mentally and emotionally locked into voting for any Democrat, no matter who it is, from the get-go and they are totally uninfluenced by reality or current events. All they care about is voting for somebody who’s not Trump so they frantically scramble for some kind of justification for this.
Casper tried parroting the party line about Biden’s qualifications and so on and he just couldn’t carry it off. He didn’t sound like he really believes it either and I don’t think that very many people do. I understand that to be a Democrat you have to be economically illiterate. And I understand that to a Democrat the claim of creating jobs might make sense because they never stopped to think about the fact that jobs were destroyed under Biden and that these are not new jobs, but just jobs that are struggling to revive themselves. But to accept the Democrat claims based on low unemployment figures and allegedly newly created jobs as some kind of proof of the successes of the Biden Administration means to totally ignore the inflation that we’ve been experiencing.
I try to understand how someone with a different perspective than mine can arrive at the conclusions that he does. But I have to admit that when it comes to understanding Democrats I’m totally at a loss. For example, one of the complaints about Trump is the screech that he wants to be a dictator, would act like a dictator, while at the same time they plan to vote for Biden who has been acting as a dictator since he got into the Oval Office. They find nothing dictator-like about forcing people to inject a state-sponsored drug if they want to keep their jobs, retain their military positions or travel freely. The wild inconsistencies and determination to ignore reality make Democrat positions laughable.
Four Yeats ago today, unemployment was at 12%. Today it’s under 4%. When Tump left office unemployment was at 6.3%. With 2.9 million fewer Americans working than when he started. There are over 15 million more Americans working today than when Biden started. Trump constantly talked about how many jobs had been created during his term, until things went South, using the same sources that Biden uses today. As for inflation, a lot of that had to do with supply lines coming back on line and a lot more of it is because of companies price gouging. Here is a list of Final numbers under Trump. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/. There was some good growth in some areas during his term, but over all not a good record.
You do have the talking points down pat, Cappy. Honestly don’t know how you do that – going through never once doubting or reconsidering.
All of us on the Right have had major adjustments to our views over the past 20 years. None of us just what we were back then. For heaven’s sake, just go back to 2004 me and tell me that in 2024 I’d be calling for wealth confiscation of the super and I’d laugh in your face. Oh, man, I believed all of it – “Free Trade”. NATO. Nation Building. The FBI were good guys.
Back then, of course, you were all on fire against Bush’s Iraq war…but now you’re all “we gotta save Ukraine!”. The difference between me and you is that I have thought things over and reached conclusions…you’re just repeating whatever they tell you.
Funny how the term “unemployment” is tossed around with no definition of the precise type of unemployment rate they’re talking about.
In general, the unemployment rate in the United States is obtained by dividing the number of unemployed persons by the number of persons in the labor force (employed or unemployed) and multiplying that figure by 100. There are, however, various ways of defining “unemployed,” each yielding a distinct unemployment rate. The standard unemployment rate, referred to as U-3, is the one most often cited. By that measure, a person is counted as unemployed if he or she does not have a full-time, part-time, or temporary job, is actively looking for a job, and is currently available to be hired. The category of unemployed persons also includes those who have been temporarily laid off. A person is understood to be actively looking for a job if he or she has tried to obtain one (e.g., by filling out an employment application, sending a résumé, or having a job interview) within the preceding four weeks. Persons who are only “marginally attached” to the labor market—those who want and are available for a job and have actively looked for a job within the preceding 12 months but not within the preceding four weeks—are considered neither employed nor unemployed and thus not part of the labor force. Also excluded are “discouraged” workers, a subset of the marginally attached who are not looking for a job specifically because they believe there are none for which they are qualified or because they have been victims of employment discrimination.
Let’s explain that to Casper, him being a teacher and all, the blog version of the group Rush Limbaugh used to refer to as those from Rio Lindo.
IF YOU ARE NOT ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR A JOB—- THAT IS IF YOU HAVE NOT APPLIED FOR A JOB WITHIN THE LAST 4 WEEKS— YOU ARE NOT CONSIDERED TO BE PART OF THE UNEMPLOYED CATEGORY.
I’m sure all of you have seen the signs up everywhere on businesses wanting to hire new employees. I know I have. I also know that many of these businesses openly advertise starting wages higher than minimum wage, many with hiring bonuses and benefits. So it’s very hard to take seriously this constant whine about the low unemployment rate when it’s obvious to anyone that there are jobs out there and there are employers looking for people to fill those jobs but there are not enough people willing to work.
Why aren’t people willing to work? Naturally one reason is that they live in a country that has been paying people not to work. Another that is never discussed is the fact that most employers do not want to hire people who use drugs, and people are not willing to give up their highs so they can pass drug tests so they can be hired. A good friend is the office manager of a company that is chronically understaffed. This company pays extremely well, allows these employees to work from home, provides computers and all the equipment necessary to do the job and provides excellent benefits. The reason they can’t fill these positions is because there are not enough people willing to quit smoking dope or taking other drugs. She just had to fire someone who passed his original drug test but after he was in an accident in a company vehicle and was required to take another drug test he failed.
Casper whines: “When Tump (sic) left office unemployment was at 6.3%. With 2.9 million fewer Americans working than when he started.” Yet as Cluster has pointed out, when Trump left office the country had basically been shut down for most of that year due to the Covid Panic. Anyone with even a modest amount of integrity would be willing to look at how many businesses were shut down during 2020 due to the panic over Covid—- clearly this is a demographic that does not include Casper.
He parrots the claim that there are over 15 million more Americans working today “than when Biden started” . Let that sink in for a minute. When, exactly, did Biden “start.” I’m thinking it was January 20th 2021, which even poor befuddled Casper has to acknowledge was at the end of about a 10-month shutdown of the entire country due to covid panic. So he’s picked one of the lowest points in employment history in the entire country, a situation over which Donald Trump had absolutely no control, and is accepting that is a valid metric of the economy under Donald Trump.
I’m used to Casper being stupid. I’m used to Casper having so little self-respect that he doesn’t hesitate to flaunt his stupidity. When he combines stupidity with dishonesty though, he creates a whole new basis for contempt
* In April 2020, the unemployment rate reached 14.8%—the highest rate observed since data
collection began in 1948. In July 2021, unemployment remained higher (5.4%) than it had been in
February 2020 (3.5%).
* The labor force participation rate declined to 60.2% in April 2020—a level not seen since the
early 1970s—then began a partial recovery in May 2020. The labor force participation rate was
61.7% in July 2021, 1.7 percentage points below the level in January 2020, before the pandemic
and the economic recession.
* Nonfarm payrolls shed 22.1 million jobs between January 2020 and April 2020, with employment
declining to 86% of its pre-recession level. July 2021, aggregate employment remained 5.4
million jobs below its pre-recession level.
* The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted economic sectors disparately. The leisure and hospitality
sector lost the largest number of jobs since January 2020, and persons last employed in this sector
have consistently exhibited some of the highest unemployment rates throughout the pandemic.
Additionally, the education and services sector and the government sector have exhibited the
second and third-largest losses in jobs since January 2020, despite relatively low unemployment
rates among persons last employed in these sectors.
We can look at this last paragraph: The education sector has experienced one of the highest Job losses since January 2020. Naturally not even a former teacher like Casper can associate this with schools shutting down and refusing to do in-person teaching. The hospitality sector traditionally employs the lowest level of education and earnings which makes it the sector most affected by government programs paying people not to work.
Naturally information like this is really really hard to find. It took me about 45 seconds, searching for ” unemployment rates 2021″. Of course, this is unbiased data, not pre-digested, spun and edited to provide fodder for the feeble-minded.
Let’s take a look at what reliably left-leaning PolitiFact has to say about job creation.:
There has been a large increase in the number of jobs since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021
But the increase was marked by the rollout of vaccines, the reopening of businesses and a return to semi-normal after the coronavirus pandemic
Also, presidents don’t really create jobs. There are many more factors at play in the economy.
Here the article goes on to provide more detail:
“The increase in jobs is explained by the reopening of businesses and government and schools following shutdowns in 2020 due to the pandemic,” said Koropeckyj of Moody’s. “Favorable fiscal policies have helped.”
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There had been monthly increases from May through November of 2020, followed by a drop in December 2020, then an increase of 233,000 jobs in January 2021. That’s evidence the economy was getting back on track before Biden did anything.
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In short, how you do as president depends a lot on where you start.
When you take office at the bottom of a recession with high unemployment numbers, you “achieve” a lot of growth as the economy heals, according to a Jan. 17, 2017 article in the New York Times. When you take office with a low level of unemployment and more job growth, there is often nowhere to go but down.
Our rating
Moore claimed that Biden has “created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.”
As is typical with such claims, Moore is on target with the numbers — though, we’d note the increase in jobs began before Biden took office — but gives too much credit to Biden for his role in something that is largely out of his control.
Our definition for Half True is: “The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
Was Trump President for just one year? And why did things go south?
Casper you have posted a lot of stupid shit before but this one could be one of your best. I see the same mindless posting on X. Democrats seem to think that Trump was President for just one year in 2020, sans any mention of the Fauci led fake pandemic and Nancy Pelosi’s desire to shut the entire country down … or everyone will DIE!!!!
You’re not a normal person Casper. And neither is any current Democrat. You’re just something that needs to be removed. Like a bottle cap.
Mark,
My post was about looking at where the country was at the end of Trump’s term, not about twenty years ago. My conclusions are based on the facts of where the country was at the end of Trump’s term as compared to the beginning. That’s how we evaluate presidents.
Cluster,
Trump was president in 2020. If you really feel that Fauci and Pelosi were in charge, then you need to admit that Trump was a weak president. Why would we want to return him to office?
Meanwhile last night, Trump was slurring his words, calling Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Conners, and praising Hannibal Lecter. Doubt his handlers will allow him to do another rally for a while.
But all you’ve done since Day One here is just repeat the Narrative.
Meanwhile, things are oh, so good…according to Team Pudding Brain.
Except I pay for gas and groceries.
And I posted actual data. relating to Trump’s last year in office and the beginning of Biden’s term. That is on …the facts of where the country was at the end of Trump’s term as compared to the beginning (of Biden’s term).
If that’s your sole criterion for evaluating presidents that explains a lot. For example, it explains why you have no objection to Biden’s increasing evidence of dementia and your acceptance of his increasingly totalitarian approach to the presidency. It probably explains why you have no problem at all with the idea that he unilaterally demanded that people inject an experimental drug or lose their jobs, their military positions and or their ability to travel freely, while at the same time continuing the categorization as an “experimental” drug meaning that the pharmaceutical companies had no liability for negative side effects of the drug, while at the same time funneling billions and billions of American taxpayer dollars to the same companies he was supporting both financially and by protecting them from liability for damages. Evidently if the only way you evaluate a president is by looking at raw numbers of employment without analysis of what they mean you’re going to completely overlook egregious expansions of executive power as well as the use of federal agencies to persecute political opponents.
But you keep pouncing on clumsy efforts of humor like Trump’s reference to Hannibal Lecter “having someone over for dinner” or an occasional stumble over a syllable or two. (At least Trump didn’t claim that Hannibal Lecter ate his uncle.) The funny thing about this is that on one hand, you’re trying to portray isolated fragments of Trump’s performance as proof of mental decline while at the same time defending a man whose rapid descent into dementia is so blatant and so frequently documented that it cannot be ignored. I know hypocrisy is an essential component of being a Democrat but Casper, you are taking it to astronomical levels. (How long did Trump speak extemporaneously without notes or a teleprompter? How long did it take him to provide you with two syllables to ridicule? vs ow long does it take Joe Biden, even with ample preparation and detailed scripts, to degenerate into babbling incoherence before being unable to find his own way off the stage?)
And BTW you can stop misquoting people. If you’re going to try to make an argument that a president should not consult the people who are acknowledged experts in a field and follow this so called expert advice then do so. If you’re going to try to make an argument that a president should ignore so called expert advice and proceed on his own intuition and assumption of knowledge then please do so. Otherwise STFU about the fact that a man with no medical background consulted the top disease “expert” in the entire country and followed his advice. Of course this would lead you into the fact that Joe Biden not only did the same but doubled down on it even as evidence mounted that Fauci was a con man and a crook and that the vaccines were dangerous.
Naturally that could lead us into what may turn out to be one of the biggest scandals in history, that of politics dictating medical decisions and rules that led to the unnecessary deaths of millions of people.
Are we really dealing with an opposition that is that brain-dead?
Yes. A a couple of representatives of that opposition love to come post here
New Leftist theory: The best way to deal with alcoholism is to give people free alcohol.
YCMTSU
Reminiscent of Portland OR legalizing all drugs. Which didn’t go well and now they’re dialing that back. Who knew?
it’s worth mentioning that 100,000 disaffected Democrats in NJ went to see Trump yesterday. That’s YUGE. MAGA will win big with common sense conservatives and disaffected Democrats. We don’t need the Romney Republicans. They should become Democrats.
I don’t expect Trump to win New Jersey, of course, but it looks like in polling so far he’s doing 10 points better than 2020…and a 5-10 point swing to Trump seems to be fairly uniform across the country. Needless to say, even a 5 point swing is sufficient to get him to 312; a 10 point swing moves him to 331.
Let’s pray that happens
I’ve seen pictures of the crowd. Seemed more like 10,000 rather than 100,000. And a lot of those were people who follow Trump from rally to rally.
Yes, we’ve all been told that nobody showed up and if they did it didn’t matter.
I’d rather be the side with the large crowds and the overall polling lead, tho…
https://x.com/citizenfreepres/status/1789658882878447832?s=46
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Cluster! You don’t understand. You’re supposed to look at a photograph of a very carefully selected small group of people with everything else cropped out. As long as you continue to make decisions based on objective fact instead of carefully curated and edited bits fed to you by people you’ve chosen to be your masters you’re going to make a really bad Lefty. As long as you insist on using your brain and objectively looking at facts it looks like you’re stuck on the Right.
From March 9, 2024:
Hours ahead of President Joe Biden’s rally at Pullman Yards, dozens lined up outside to get front row seats for his campaign stop in Atlanta.
How many “dozens”? 2? (24 people) 3? (36 people)
On October 29th, 2020, both Trump and Biden had rallies in Florida. Biden asked people to attend his rally in cars, making a big deal out of social distancing. Here are photos of the crowds at each of those events.
Biden Hosted a Socially Distanced, Drive-In Rally Attended By Close to 300 Cars
https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229351311.jpg?resize=782,521
Thousands Attended Trump’s Rally
https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229349535.jpg?resize=782,521
https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229346036.jpg?resize=782,521
MASSIVE TRUMP BEACH RALLY IN DEEP-BLUE NJ DRAWS STARK CONTRAST TO BIDEN’S BEACH WEEKEND for rally on May 11, 2024.
The crowd — which Wildwood officials (not Trump’s team) estimated was between 80,000 and 100,000, a record for a Garden State political rally — cheered wildly throughout the long, but controlled speech. (Note: He spoke for about an hour and a half without a teleprompter and without notes and people were able to understand what he said. )
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1mei7D.img?w=534&h=356&m=6
You’re going to need a new shovel, Casper. You’re wearing out the old one, between constantly using it to shovel shit and digging yourself in deeper.
BTW, Casper I see you’re up to your old tricks of throwing out a bunch of crap and then when it is rebutted with facts merely skittering on to the next feeble whine regurgitated from the slop you have ingested from your preferred sources and seasoned with your own rabid irrational TDS.
YOU are the one who tried to make a big deal out of your assertions (false) about comparative labor statistics. Since this is an argument you made, get back to it, buddy, and address the facts that I presented. Oh, that’s right—-that’s not how you roll. You just hurl a lot of lies and when you get called on it you scurry off to a different pack of lies. We’ve got a couple of decades of proof that you simply are incapable of self-examination or shame but even so at some point even you ought to start getting embarrassed.by your utter stupidity and quietly just waddle off.
Amazona,
You are correct that the pandemic wrecked the economy. But you make it sound that the President of the United States, the most powerful man on the planet was helpless in the face of the crisis. I would suggest that while the pandemic itself was devastating, Trump’s response made it much worse. By getting rid of the Pandemic response team and then ignoring Covid until it had taken hold in our country, Trump made things far worse than they should have been. I saw it coming in January, 2020 and begin warning friends and relatives about the seriousness of the disease at that time. Trump ignored the warnings and told everyone it would just go away on its own. The most powerful country on the planet had more Covid deaths than any other country in the world because of Trump’s incompetence. So yes, I give him credit for the economy.
Now let’s talk about Trump’s “speech” in New Jersey. I watched again. It wasn’t a speech as much as it was 90 minutes of ramblings with a lot of mumbling, whining, insults, and weird riffs. He is not well. Good news is he has a couple court days to catch up in his sleep.
You really are just a pissy little twit, aren’t you? how can you possibly believe, after the scorn and derision heaped upon you here for the last 20 years or more, that anyone here is interested in getting involved in some bicker fest with you? You’ve got your cherished little delusions. but that isn’t enough for you–you want to drag people into “discussing “them?
I’m really sorry that you don’t have anyone in your life you can talk to about the things that really REALLY matter to you, like how much you hate Trump, but that is not our problem. It might not be so annoying if you were able to actually stick to facts but everything you say is so tainted with your personal pathology that it’s too distasteful to even deal with. Your delusions are too bizarre to even try to address.
I think one of the things that’s probably bugging you, at least deep down in your subconscious where you can pretend that it isn’t there, is that with all of your whining and pissing and moaning about how horrible Trump is he was so vastly superior as a president to pathetic Joe, and even now is so vastly superior as a candidate to your pathetic Joe.
Anyway, you’ve been allowed to come back here because at least for a little while you made a token effort to sound rational. Now that that’s history, buh-by. You’re just too annoying to put up with.
“ The most powerful country on the planet had more Covid deaths than any other country in the world because of…. the political calculation that it was worth losing a few thousand or hundred thousand lives, rather than let people think that President Trump had given them some good advice about how to deal with the virus.” There: fixed
For more than 40 years the drug hydroxychloroquine has been used safely and effectively all around the world. One way it has been used has been to deal with runaway autoimmune reactions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. When doctors realized that the biggest danger of a Covid infection for many people was a runaway autoimmune reaction, known as a cytokine storm, they immediately recognized that the use of hydroxychloroquine would be invaluable in treating this as well because controlling autoimmune reactions was the main focus of hydroxychloroquine treatment. When President Trump learned this he made mention of this drug as a possible avenue of treatment for those afflicted with Covid, and immediately panic set in on the Left as the last thing they wanted was to have President Trump given any credit for providing any leadership or valuable advice or information in this developing crisis. As a result this valuable drug was demonized by the left and people were denied this treatment. This resulted in untold and unnecessary deaths. Governors with no medical background whatsoever were issuing statements that hydroxychloroquine could no longer be legally sold in their states. Pharmacists were refusing to honor prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine. Doctors who prescribed it or recommended it were threatened with the loss of their medical licenses and even with jail. There were blaring headlines.: THIS DRUG WILL KILL YOU!
We will never know how many people died because they were denied the easiest, fastest, most effective and most economical treatment available because of the fear of the Left that Donald Trump might get any credit for its success because he mentioned it to the public. And the left desperately needed this to be a full-blown panic with as many deaths as possible. This was essential for them to be able to use it as an excuse to turn election law and election procedures upside down as well as demonize Trump. The complicit media complied with the strategy of recommending ventilation treatment for people experiencing cytokine storm reactions that were flooding their lungs with fluid, promoting a huge public relations move to manufacture more ventilators and get them out to as many hospitals as possible, purposely creating the false impression and belief that ventilators were essential for the treatment of covid. After a while the public started to catch on to this and realized that to go to a hospital and be put on a ventilator was basically a death sentence but they still could not legally get hydroxychloroquine.
Dedicated doctors had to go underground and develop elaborate secret ways for people to contact them so they could secretly treat people effectively, with basic tested treatment protocols such as nebulized steroids, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, and many were severely punished by the weaponized federal agencies that were hunting them down to prevent them from saving lives. The wholly political calculation to sacrifice thousands of lives to avoid giving Trump any credit for good leadership is one of the nastiest dirtiest little secrets of the Left- but then the entire sordid history of Leftism has been the purposeful killing of millions of people to establish or maintain political power.
Look how long it took for an admission that the best way to deal with the virus is to develop herd immunity through naturally developed immunity through being exposed to the virus—- the very well-known fact that the more people who catch a disease the more people develop immunity to it, thereby reducing the number of people who are susceptible to it. This is by the way just another way of saying that when herd immunity is developed and becomes widespread a disease does basically go away or at least become far less common. Which was what President Trump was explaining to us.
This was only a deadly disease for people otherwise fragile, such as the elderly, or with compromised immune systems or extreme comorbidities. Aside from those people it was a very easily managed disease, or would have been if it had not been targeted by the Left in the way it was, as necessary to panic the country and allow it to impose rigid controls over the population and provide an excuse to dramatically revise the way we vote in presidential elections.
Another thread-appropriate meme: