So, they dragged Pudding Brain’s senile carcass to France for the 80th anniversary of D Day. This, as it turns out, was not a good idea.
I can see why they did it. Short speech, mostly photo ops with a few surviving veterans. They probably figured it would be a breeze. But that was before Biden malfunctioned multiple times – including an event which looked very much like he lost control of his bowels, as aged people will do from time to time. Naturally, there were people out there to say it was a bold, vigorous speech showing that Biden is at the top of his game. Not sure how they do that – I mean, I realize these people are paid to lie, but is there no limit at all? We saw the guy mentally check out several times…you can’t hide that. But there they go lauding our Handsome and Charismatic Leader and Teacher.
Everyone is certain that he’ll never make it to 2029…I’m not sure he’ll make it to next week. He really looks just terrible. Some of the 99 year old veterans looked sharper. I mean he looks so bad I’m actually developing sympathy for him…and anger at his despicable family for keeping him at it as he falls apart in public rather than gracefully retiring from the scene. This is actually dangerous – we do not have a functioning Executive. If the poop hits the proverbial fan it could go very badly for us as there will be nobody in the Executive capable of issuing an unquestioned order.
Meanwhile, polls. I had guessed the verdict would lead to about a week of Biden improvement and, man, did some pollsters try mightily to get that – but even vigorous massaging of the data (and D+9 pools) could only get Biden to maybe even. Over the past few days, even that has receded and we’re back to Trump on a glide path to 270…and now with an even money chance, from what I can see, of winning the popular vote. Things can change, of course, and five months is an eternity in politics…but, also, things tend to be as they are. Absent some major event to shake up the race, I just don’t see how the dynamic changes. Nobody likes Biden. In spite of all MSM efforts, they can’t hide his obvious mental and physical decline. In spite of massaged data, things are getting worse in the economy…we see it; we know people who have lost their jobs, who are juggling expenses…and we see it, ourselves, day in and day out. The Mrs and I keep an eye on the Crime Wave – that is, how close the latest armed robberies are to us. We’re in an middle class area of town and it is quiet and safe here…but not as nearly quiet or safe as it was before. And now things that took place miles away towards the seedy side of town are creeping closer to us.
What do the Democrats have? Abortion. Shouting about “Our Democracy” (though in one recent poll Trump beats Biden on “protecting Democracy”). Biden’s X account includes such shopworn issues as “lets give teachers a raise” and “it is time for an assault weapons ban”. Talk about stuck in the past and talking about issues nobody cares about – these days, inflation and the border fluctuate as the most important issues…and Trump absolutely wipes out Biden on those issues. But, what can they really say about either? Not much, and nothing good – and also nothing true.
Steve Bannon has been ordered to serve his 4 month sentence of contempt of Congress – starting July 1st so he won’t be able to play a role in the Fall campaign. Meanwhile, a Texas doctor who revealed that a children’s hospital was medically mutilating minors has been indicted on four counts of violating HIPAA. This is sheer intimidation – it is designed to strike fear into the hearts of everyone who isn’t on the side of the Regime. It is very Fascist. And it has to be stopped: I’m still suggesting our best route is to indict these people for conspiring to deny civil rights. The law is very broadly written and it has teeth (max of ten years per offense). We start dragging these people in cuffs to jail and they’ll finally have some fear in their own hearts…and maybe the rest of them will get the message.
Blogs For Victory 
I voted for Bill Clinton twice in the 90’s … I liked the way he and Newt worked together, I liked when he declared “the era of big government is over, and let’s face it, my GOP choices back then were George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole, two uninspiring globalists. However, the 2000 race between Bush and Gore broke Democrats and ever since then, Democrats have been increasingly authoritarian. Barney Frank and lax lending practices purposely led to the housing crash of 2007/2008, of which the Kenyan capitalized on and won 2009. The manufactured and paid for Russia Collusion narrative was designed to usher in a Hillary Clinton Presidency, but when that didn’t work they weaponized a flu virus, shut down the economy, and destroyed peoples lives to win back the Presidency for the demented Biden. See where this is going? Now, they have dispensed with all pretenses and are literally trying to throw their opponents in jail. That’s a hell of a slide in 20 years.
Also, because of their diabolical pursuit of power since 2000, the Democrat agenda always defied common sense, but now it simply defies reality. Remember when the Kenyan wanted to “win the hearts and minds of Muslims”??? How is that going? That was always an absurd notion, and of course thought of by weak men. Remember when the Kenyan wanted you to “keep your doctor” up until of course you couldn’t? Or my favorite, remember when the Kenyan said Russia “was a regional power”? What happened to that narrative? Truth be told though, the Kenyan was right. Russia is a regional power and not the “threat to democracy” all the heretics are saying today. But now the Democrat narrative defies reality, with the current Russia narrative as a good example. Others are; Trump being a threat to democracy, men becoming women, illegal immigrants seeking asylum, climate change, forced pregnancies, and the threat of white supremacy are all main planks of the Democrat agenda and all of them are completely detached from reality. And this is why suicide rates are up, mental disorders are up, drug use is up, SSRI prescriptions are way up, and general malaise and chaos permeates out society. You can’t turn your back on God, live outside of reality, and expect to live a good life. That never happens.
And have you noticed the latest departure of reality that Trump is going to weaponize the DOJ and go after his opponents? Not only is that next level projection, but Trump LITERALLY said in an interview with Hannity that he will not do that, because that is not who we are as Americans. Has that stopped the Democrats and their lap dog media …. NOPE. Reality has no place in the Democrat agenda.
But we all know that even merely enforcing the most blatantly violated laws will be met with squealing and gnashing of teeth and claims that this is just “revenge”—-and the most ignorant will fall for it.
Jack is speaking the unspoken truth. Social Media programs people
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1798504201196368219?s=61
algorithm/shmalgorithm. How about stopping the dependence on forcing the concept of thinking into mathematical programming and just starting to teach people to THINK?
He is just talking about different forces applied to people to influence the directions in which they think—more to the point, the conclusions they are led to. Whether they are mathematical formulae or social media pressures or media influences, it still comes down to trying to herd people into specific thoughts or opinions. The solution to this is to foster independent and analytical thinking.
Trump has raised almost $400 million since his conviction …. Americans finally see Democrats for who they are. It’s a great day
It comes down to this—-If you think you can win on merit you are happy to reserve voting to citizens who have IDs and use traditional methods to curb cheating and to count votes. If you reject voter ID, citizenship voting and preventing voter fraud you stating that you know you can’t win a legitimate election.
If you have to use federal agencies and the might and power of the State to intimidate, harass, prosecute, convict and even imprison political opponents, you are admitting that you can not beat theymn a free and fair election.
As we keep reminding people—-if you pay attention they will tell you who they are and what they will do to get and retain power.
I have always been in favor of requiring IDs to vote as long as every citizen has access to IDs. Studies show there is very little voter fraud. The fake documentary “2000 Mules” has been taken down by Salem Media which distributed it.
Are you saying some citizens do not “have access to IDs”? Or is this another of your non sequiturs, like the odd comment about “2000 Mules”—and why do you call it a “fake” documentary? Nearly all of the “debunking” depends on quibbling about how much evidentiary proof lies in tracking cell phone locations and the fact that there is no record of people being paid to drop off many dozens of ballots at different locations, as if that is the only criterion for violating election laws regarding ballot harvesting. And this example of egregious and illegal ballot harvesting is far from the only example. Even if the entire record shown in the movie is dismissed it doesn’t affect the many other examples of fraud.
As for your “studies” they are very selective in both their definition of “voter fraud” and their examples. An objective person might consider many boxes representing thousands of filled-out mail ballots sent from New York to Pennsylvania in the middle of the night as indicative of fraud. An objective person might consider the illegal last-minute rewriting of an election law, in violation of the state’s constitution, to allow vastly expanded mail ballots as a form of fraud—after all, the ballots sent in under this illegal new law were still counted, in spite of the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine that should have disqualified every single one of them. An objective person might consider the tens of thousands of proven illegal votes cast, accepted and counted in Arizona as examples of fraud. An objective person might consider the accepting, and counting, of ballots sent in without the legally required postmarks and delivered days after the election as fraud. An objective person might look at the decisions to accept mail ballot envelopes without signatures as fraud. And so on.
But parrots only repeat what they are told.
The vote margin in Arizona was 10,457–fewer votes than the total of illegal votes accepted by the state.
The margin in Pennsylvania was 80,555—fewer than those accounted for by the votes cast under the illegal rule changes, not to mention the thousands of ballots shipped in from New York in a secret shipment
And so on. The favorite mantra is “no widespread fraud” for example, yet when the margins are this close a little here will tip this state and a little there will tip that one, and the obedient little Lefty parrots reserve the right to define “widespread”. How many illegally harvested and delivered ballots were recorded, ON VIDEO, in that document you sneer at as being “fake”?
More to the point, how many illegal ballots do you find acceptable?
if IDs are required then there should be a way of obtaining an ID at little or no cost. Otherwise, the cost of an ID is a form of “poll tax”.
The debunking of 2000 Mules is coming from the company which put it out therein the first place.
My personal preference for voting is by mail. Easy to do, plenty of time to look over the ballot before sending it in, and it’s been used since the Civil War.
What is the cost of obtaining a photo ID? And if this is the only sticking point why isn’t some non profit doing outreach to (1) find out how many people don’t have one, and (2) to help them get one. Do you have any data on how many citizens lack photo ID?
No, the company that put out the film agreed that ONE of those identified was wrongly identified. It never agreed that the cell phone tracking system was faulty, which is one of the biggest whines from the Left—-“how do you know these people didn’t have perfectly valid reasons to visit non-profits dedicated to voting and then go to drop boxes over and over again?” That kind of vague whimpering. The videos of the same people not just dropping many ballots in boxes but doing so in various boxes around town, many different times, was never “debunked”. What was interesting was the panic created by this documentation of how easy and common it is to cheat using mailed ballots, and the urgency to discredit it. Not a word, mind you, from the Left admitting that this film showed some weaknesses that needed to be addressed. No, it was just to screech and holler and deny deny deny. And you dodged the challenge to explain what about the film was “fake”, just falling back on your usual M.O. of just parroting some generality your masters have fed you.
Which takes us back to the same legal precept we always need to look at when we see such a dramatic effort from the Left: cui bono? That is, “who benefits? Who benefits from an electoral system that is strictly regulated to ensure than only citizens legally allowed to vote DO vote, and that there is a chain of custody of those ballots, and that those votes are properly counted and recorded? Obviously not the political system that fights every effort to implement these standards.
“Easy” is not always “better”, especially when “easy” also means “easier to cheat”. If you are so lazy you can’t be bothered to go vote, then yes, you should be able to request a mail-in ballot, giving identification information, to have that single ballot delivered to the address on your ID. (Never mind that for decades we have had sample ballots published weeks ahead of time, mailed to registered voters and published in newspapers, to give people plenty of time to study them, to “look them over”, before voting. I have always taken my sample ballot into the voting booth with me, as have millions and millions of people.) And you should fill it out properly, sign the envelope and make sure it is mailed in time to have the correct postmark and delivery time. But we all know that’s not what we are talking about here. What we are talking about here is states sending out unsolicited mail-in ballots based on too-often inaccurate voter registration rolls, and what we have seen is large numbers of ballots dumped in various places by lazy postal delivery people—-in lobbies of big apartment buildings when they didn’t feel like putting the correct ballots in the correct individual boxes, in dumpsters, etc. We are talking about people getting multiple ballots delivered to their homes in the names of people long dead, or people who have moved years earlier. We are talking about people getting multiple ballots in their own names.
Theoretically it might be possible to rein in some degree of the inevitable fraud that will occur with hundreds of thousands of ballots just floating around out there—IF certain stringent rules are followed. Rules like checking signatures on envelopes, rejecting envelopes without postmarks or delivered too late, etc. Even these measures could not possibly catch every single fraudulent ballot sent in, but we don’t even demand that those measures be enacted. Even you should be able to understand the problems inherent in having tens or hundreds of thousands of uncontrolled, unaccounted-for, ballots floating around but then when they are accepted as legitimate and counted as votes there is literally no way to know how many were fake.
That doesn’t even take into consideration the problems associated with Motor Voter, when anyone issued a drivers’ license is then asked if he or she wants to register to vote. Foreigners with temporary work visas and now illegal aliens are given drivers’ licenses and then offered the opportunity to register. Those registrations, of non-citizens who are also given photo IDs, pose a serious threat to the integrity of the electoral process.
Elucidate, please, on the mail-in voting practices during the Civll War, including the reasons and how these ballots were handled and counted.
And answer the simple question: How much fraud do you think is acceptable?
And quit dodging specifics. I gave specific examples of what I consider voter fraud, and you just evaded addressing any of them to fall back on regurgitating generalities.
So—-do you think ballots submitted under an illegal election law should be counted?
Do you think ballots arriving after the deadline should be counted?
Do you think ballots without proof they were mailed in the legal time frame should be counted?
Do you think ballot envelopes without signatures should be counted?
Do you think ballots with blatantly false signatures should be counted?
Do you think that three or four seconds to validate a signature by looking up a registration record and making a comparison can provide adequate verification of signatures?
Do you think verification of signatures is important? Essential?
Do you think mass mailings of unsolicited ballots makes fraud easier?
Do you think we should be able to examine ballots for evidence of fraud, such as photocopying?
Do you think we should be able to examine envelopes to see if they were properly screened before being accepted?
All states require voters to provide valid signatures on their absentee/mail-in ballot return documents. Thirty-two states require election workers to match a voter’s signature on ballot return documents with the signature on record for that voter. Election workers do this using a variety of handwriting analysis techniques.
The New York Times published information explaining how election workers analyze a voter’s handwriting. It is summarized below:
Slant: Signatures from the same voter’s hand should be slanted, or angled, in the same way.
Size and proportion of letters: When comparing signatures, an observer would expect the letters in each to be approximately the same size and share the same rough proportions to other letters.
Shape of letters: Individual letters in signatures from the same voter’s hand should share the same shape.
Ending strokes: Some signatures feature long ending strokes. If one signature features a long ending stroke and the other doesn’t, they may not have come from the sand hand.
Speed of writing: A signature lacking fluidity that appears halting might suggest that the individual signing it was writing slowly in an attempt to replicate someone else’s signature.
Pen lifts: If someone is attempting to replicate someone else’s signature, there might be observable pen lifts (i.e., marks indicating that the pen was lifted from the paper) in the forged signature
(In guidance to local officials, a federal election security council noted that this type of review should take less than 30 seconds per signature.) In fact, there are reports of “verifications” taking only two or three seconds.
First, why do only “thirty-two states require election workers to match a voter’s signature on ballot return documents with the signature on record for that voter”? (Other sources say only 31 states require even an effort to match signatures.) How can that be acceptable? If “all states require voters to provide valid signatures on their absentee/mail-in ballot return documents” but barely more than half actually bother to try to enforce this, how does this add to election security and integrity?
A study of Maricopa County, Arizona’s mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election estimates that over 200,000 ballots with mismatched signatures were counted – without being reviewed or “cured.” That is one county.
Here’s an example of what the Lefty Lemmings find compelling in claims that there was no election fraud:
(Marco Rubio) claimed there were “over 500 illegal drop box locations” in Wisconsin. He apparently is referring to a state Supreme Court ruling in 2022 that said state law doesn’t allow for ballot drop boxes, but there was no evidence of fraud. So it is admitted that the State Supreme Court said state law does not allow ballot drop boxes and without challenging (or, to use a favorite Lefty Lemming phrase, “debunking”) the claim that there were “over 500 illegal drop box locations” the “investigation” merely asserts that “there was no evidence of fraud”. What WOULD be “evidence of fraud” more clear than more than 500 illegal drop boxes, unless there was proof that none of them had ever been used to deposit ballots?
The alleged “debunking” of the Maricopa County report did not, in fact, “debunk” the claim of that many mismatched signatures being counted. What the final report said was ““No improper Election Procedures were discovered during the Signature Verification review”.
That merely means that the procedures were not “improper”, not that they were adequate. It says the procedures were proper—period. Not that they were followed. Not that they provided adequate verification. Only that they were not “improper”. Of course, an “improper” procedure would be one specifically designed to enable fraud—a very “proper” procedure can still be defective.
This kind of verbal tap dancing and doublespeak is what we get when we see the Left trying to obfuscate inconvenient facts with flurries of words that imply meanings they don’t really have.
If a student correctly answers 98 out of 100 test questions, the test grade is an A+. “2000 Mules,” which the Left instantly dismissed as bunk, lays out in a methodical fashion how the mules in swing states frequented ballot drop boxes, day and night, on multiple occasions. If the film contains a few errors here and there, its overwhelming evidence cannot be denied by any rational viewer.
Ballot box stuffers, some working at 3 a.m., were paid by those with deep pockets, perhaps Mark Zuckerberg or George Soros. Their manipulation of the voting results in their respective jurisdictions appeared to be a highly coordinated campaign unless you’re on the Left and eager to cherry-pick non-critical issues, hence finding a way to disparage the film.
Geo-Tracking for Me, but Not for Thee
1,300+ people were indicted for J6 via cellphone geo-tracking data. Yet, “2000 Mules’ ‘ which used the same technology to expose the massive election fraud — ballot harvesting — is besmirched by the mainstream media who claim the data is unreliable
Biden plagiarized Ronald Reagan’s D Day Speech. Just FYI
The illegitimate Gov. of AZ is being investigated … finally. And I hope this is result of the GOP opening up lawfare against Democrats. We need to investigate, indict, and prosecute all of them … they are guilty of something. Hobbs and Mayes are despised here in AZ, and for good reason
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is under intense scrutiny for an alleged *PAY-TO-PLAY* Scheme. Here are the known facts via the left-wing Arizona Republic: • Arizona is putting fewer children in group homes• In February 2023, the Dept. of Child Safety denied a 20% rate increase to the largest group home network• Three days later, Sunshine Residential Homes donated $100K to Gov. Hobbs’ “dark money” network• Three months later, Sunshine got a 30% rate increase Arizona State Senator
@JakeHoffmanAZ provided more information on the known facts: State contractor donated $400,000 to Gov. Katie Hobbs and AZ Democrats, and got millions more in state money.DCS over the course of the past year approved what amounts to a nearly 60% increase in the rate that Sunshine Residential Homes Inc. charges to care for a child for a day, meaning potentially millions of dollars more going to the company at taxpayers’ expense.No other standard group home provider — there are dozens — was approved for any rate increase during Hobbs’ tenure. The Arizona Republic called on Attorney General Kris Mayes or the AZ legislature to investigate Katie Hobbs for official corruption. Former AZ Sec. of State Hobbs certified her own election despite Election Day chaos in Maricopa County. Kris Mayes became the Attorney General with a statistically improbable lead of 280 votes.
I have a feeling Democrats will have to suspend Democracy to save the planet. Right Casper? It would be the responsible thing to do, right? Just FYI, this is why Democrats will lose in November … no one likes them anymore
Joe Biden has dealt another body blow to America’s gas car manufacturers after his stuttering roll-out of EV charging points was slammed as ‘pathetic’. ….. Friday’s edict came just weeks after the EPA slashed the limits on tailpipe emissions as part of the White House pledge to ensure that more than half of all new vehicles sold are electric by 2032.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13507831/evs-electric-vehicles-gas-emissions-biden-tailpipes.html
GM is all aboard with it – nobody wants EV’s but they’re committed…and, rely on it, they are expecting to be bailed out when it all falls apart.
One thing we should do is break up GM; force them to separate out Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC into separate companies and force them to sell off the brand names Oldsmobile and Pontiac so they can be restarted. With a Big Three it is much easier to mandate things like EVs…make it a small to medium ten car companies and that becomes a lot more difficult.
And that’s exactly why they shut down small business during Covid but kept Amazon open. Corporatists and Communists work well together. Something Americans should be supporting and fighting hard for, are small regional banks. Once our money is consolidated and digitalized, we are f***ked.
I think we need to start being more precise with our terminology. True Communism is a system where the State owns the means of production, and I don’t think our budding Leftists really want that. They are happy having private ownership a long as either (1) the proceeds are distributed to or among them (socialism) or (2) the State controls but does not own the corporations (fascism).
They are all Leftist political models, as they are all systems of a massively powerful Central Authority which dictates to the people, basically differing only in the ways they interact with economics. (We should ask Kamala to do a Venn diagram for us.)
My personal observation of our government as it is now is closer to fascism than anything—I think the relationship of the federal government with private industry during the Covid Panic is a perfect illustration of that, and now we’re seeing it with the government mandating the actions of the auto industry.
This isn’t even getting into other aspects of fascism, such as the American Left’s new passion for anti-semitism, or the acceptance of being ruled rather than governed as edicts flow from the pen of the *president and not from the debates and votes of elected representatives.
Well, at least so far we still have the option of not buying from any of them. Kia has moved more swiftly along the usual path of foreign entries into the American market, starting with low-end cheap entry-level cars but moving quickly up the ladder to high-end and respected competition in the upper strata, now even competing in the luxury car market. All of the Asian manufacturers are already giving American manufacturers a run for their money, and it is beyond foolish for the Americans to basically cede most of the market to them to try to pander to what is, really, a relatively small segment of the market.
I’m a Ford person, having had too many bad experiences with GM products, but if Ford is determined to commit economic suicide I won’t grieve. I’ve got a 2014 Taurus I love, and get a lot of comments on what a good-looking car it is, solid and AWD and with nearly all the bells and whistles of newer cars, and I will happily drive it till the wheels fall off and then choose among the car manufacturers still standing, while my Ford f-350 Power Stroke will last longer than I can possibly need it and my 2000 Excursion 7.3 Power Stroke is in mothballs, ready to spring back into service if called upon. I am lucky to have Ford products from the Before era, and if I need a different vehicle in the After era I have other places to go.
I’ve kind of been the same way with Toyotas. Bought the first one (a 1991 Previa mini-van) used in 1993, and since then I’ve had two more Previas – one new, one used), 2 Camrys – both new, a 2005 Highlander, also new, and my current Toyota, a 2010 Venza that I got used when my wife could no longer get in and out of the Highlander easily. I have yet to have a bad experience with any Toyota, 99% of the service being ordinary maintenance. I drove the Highlander for 13 years and NEVER had a repair, only maintenance (batteries, brakes, light bulbs, timing belt, struts, etc.) It was still on the original exhaust system when I sold it. Interestingly, the friend I sold it to replaced a newer Chevy Equinox that was falling apart.
Toyota is putting minimal emphasis on EVs with significant emphasis on plug-in hybrids.