Open Thread

Harris is at the peak of her MSM-created glow…and according to the polling averages…she’s still losing.

We also know this, even without looking at polls, because she’s putting the word out that she won’t ban fracking, doesn’t support a mandatory gun “buy back” and no longer supports Medicare for All…at least, that is what aides are telling MSMers. To get Harris to actually state this publicly is probably an impossible task…it would infuriate the Democrat base. This is just done so the MSM can slander Trump for making “baseless” attacks.

Here in Nevada the only thing I’m seeing from Democrats on the regular is their abortion-all-the-time ads. These specifically trying to make Sam Brown politically toxic against Rosen in the Senate race. Will it work? We’ll see; the issue saved Democrat bacon here in Nevada in 2022…but that was because the GOP never refuted the ads. The apparent strategy was to ignore the issue and hope it went away. That didn’t work. Brown has put out some counter ads explaining his position…but I think to defeat the issue (that is, make it neutral) he’ll have to take on the pro-abortion referendum on the Nevada ballot. This was designed to drive up Democrat voting for November – it is totally un-necessary as abortion is secured in the Nevada Constitution up to six months. But the referendum the Democrats cooked up is extreme – it legalizes abortion to birth, allows non-doctors to perform abortions and doesn’t require parental notification if a minor seeks an abortion…so, you know, its the “Let’s Protect Degenerates Act of 2024”. It is being marketed as just “protecting reproductive freedom” but if Brown and the GOP can come up with a good program it can be exposed as the extremist bit of legislation that it is…and thus essentially take abortion off the table for 2024.

But the lack of ads attacking Trump or lauding Harris indicates that Team Harris is still getting its act together – they haven’t worked out their message and haven’t put together a strategy for the Fall. Do keep that very much in mind: Harris is nothing more than a stop-gap. A desperate ploy to get rid of Biden who was ushering in a down ballot meltdown for Democrats. So far, Harris is doing what she was supposed to do – stabilize the field. Going from there to 270 is a very tall order, though. Harris is still Harris; someone so bad that she didn’t even make it to Iowa in 2020 and who some were trying to boot from the VP slot earlier this year. And as Harris gets out there – and as the anti-Harris ads from Team Trump get repeated on a loop – we might find that Harris is as toxic as Biden.

Team Harris’ first bit of genius was to work up “White Women for Harris”…where a bunch of looney-tunes Karens talked up how white chicks gotta defer to black women…but also vote for Harris to make up for their support for racism. Not sure how well that will play with people outside the wine mom demographic. Their next step is the upcoming “White Dudes for Harris” which will apparently be headlined by David Hogg, Adam Schiff and Pete Buttigieg. Errr…not sure how this expands Harris’ support. This aside from the fact of the racial segregation. As a joke Trump should have a “Rednecks for Trump” Zoom call…in fact, maybe not as a joke. Heck, I’ll get into overalls and rent a hound dog for that. Team Harris is touting that 80,000 “dudes” have signed up for the event…”Rednecks” would get a million participants, easy.

Bottom line is that I don’t think Team Harris knows what to do here – or, worse for them, they think they do know and what they’re doing is playing Woke Team Intersectionality while asserting that Trump and Vance are the weirdos.

Meanwhile, Venezuela had an election. Why? Because the “deal” Team Pudding Brain made with Maduro was for us to lift sanctions on Maduro’s thug regime in return for an election. Maduro kept his word – he had an election. And after forcing his primary opponent off the ballot and using every manner of fraud in the book…he still lost. But then just announced he had won. He can do this because he has all the guns. It was a box checked off some years ago: confiscate all civilian firearms.

There is widespread unrest in Venezuela because the steal was so brazen but the bottom line is that if the people don’t have guns, they can’t win. There are some rumors that some army units are joining the people and if that is so, there is a chance…but no guns, no revolution. It is that simple: guns = liberty. In truth, there is only one free nation on Earth: the United States with our Second Amendment. Maybe Switzerland a bit but even there I doubt they secure a right to bear arms…it is more that you’re part of the militia and the government provides a weapon, revocable at will.

UPDATE:

“JD Vance and Trump are weird!” – Democrats

Also Democrats:

30 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. casper3031's avatar casper3031 July 29, 2024 / 10:23 pm

    Biden made his announcement 8 days ago and it seems to have turned the election upside down. BTW, the official talking point now is that Trump and Vance are weird.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 29, 2024 / 10:35 pm

      “the official talking point now is that Trump and Vance are weird”

      If that were true, Dems would be voting for them. And it’s a Dem talking point, meaning “meh”.

      But you guys keep going with that. Maybe amplify that it’s all that testosterone that is making them so “weird”, or at least alien. Maybe run some video comparing them to the metrosexual Kinzinger type of “dudes” who will back Kammy. I can see it now—“bring tissues, bros, because it’s going to be, like, you know, like SO INTENSE! Anyone who can figure out what she is saying is eligible for a door prize.”

      Any party asking men to identify as the kind of “dudes” Booty Juice and Piglet are is in a heap of trouble.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 29, 2024 / 11:07 pm

      Yes, we know: the MSM and every last mindless Leftwinger is saying it…as they have their “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call where, I kid you not, they want to let guys know they can talk about their feelings. And did you see the screwball who was prominent in the “White Women for Harris” Zoom? FFS, she’s a parody of the woke white chick.

      I don’t know who you think they’re impressing with this drivel, but I want you to go to all your little Democrat friends and tell them to put it on steroids.

  2. Amazona's avatar Amazona July 29, 2024 / 10:26 pm

    I’d love to see those “dudes”. I have a feeling they will be well represented by Hogg and Schiff and a few other of the most un-dudey guys I can imagine. Are they really going to use that term? Boy, talk about clueless. I can hardly wait for the parody videos. They are already writing themselves.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 29, 2024 / 11:08 pm

      Yes; they really said “Dudes”…and I’ve seen clips: it is going just how you would expect.

  3. Amazona's avatar Amazona July 29, 2024 / 11:21 pm

    Oh, CNN—we tried to tell you that muckraking lying was a bad business model, but would you listen? And just look at you now, facing a billion-dollar lawsuit. Tsk tsk.

    And in stunning displays of hubris (even for CNN) they tried to write off vile and vicious personal attacks and destruction of a man’s life (admitting that they never found any evidence at all that he was guilty of anything) as mere “journalistic bravado that reflected a sincere belief in the reporting” and then tried to provide cover for Jake Tapper, trying to prevent the plaintiff from deposing him in the case, arguing that doing so would cause “annoyance and embarrassment” to Tapper while “providing little useful information.” (Except that they had found no evidence of any wrongdoing, making one wonder what, exactly, was the foundation for this “sincere belief in the reporting”.)

    I guess if you are “special” enough you think that you can avoid being deposed in a case involving your news team engaging in egregious lying and slander if it might “cause annoyance and embarrassment”

  4. Cluster's avatar Cluster July 30, 2024 / 7:48 am

    Took a few days off and went and sat on a beach in San Diego. There’s something about the beach and ocean that just recharges my batteries and calms the noise … much needed break, and the IPA’s were delicious.

    There has to be some kind of marching orders sent out, because every single leftist, including the agenda media, are all of sudden parroting this “weird” narrative pertaining to Trump/Vance. And I have to tell you, that is weird, and really dumb for them to push that, considering this is the party that saw a trans man flash his tits on the White House lawn; saw a gay Senate staffer film a gay porno in the Senate Chamber; and has a man dressed as a woman as an official health advisor. This is projection on steroids.

    Kamala’s implosion is coming, it’s only a matter of time. The woman can not get out of her own way, and when faced with some tough questions, she will melt and say something really stupid. It’s who she is. She is also the furthest Leftist candidate Democrats have ever propped up, and they will pay a price. This will be the easiest win in Presidential history, possibly a repeat of Reagan in ’84.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 30, 2024 / 8:30 am

      I agree with your comment on the foolishness of trying to attach the word “weird” to Trump and Vance. For a party that is now defined as “weird” it seems a little dangerous, as they are setting themselves up for a glorious memefest of comparisons. And it’s a de facto admission that they’ve got nothing else.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 30, 2024 / 8:49 am

        And I see the Deep State censorship is again in full swing, and it’s happening in real time and right in front of our eyes. The attempted assassination is being memory holed, and the pictures of the event are now labeled as “altered”, and those facts right there, tell you everything you need to know. THEY WERE IN ON IT!!!!!

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 30, 2024 / 10:12 am

        They even tried a “magic bullet” story, but gave up on it when it proved to be just too damned stupid, though no worse than the “flying glass shard” theory. So all they can do is tell us “Don’t believe your lying eyes”.

        I’m looking forward to an “Awaken With JP” episode on this. They nailed the Secret Service thing. I laughed out loud at the gun part.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 30, 2024 / 10:52 am

        JP has a great video on why Kamala would be such a good president. He includes a couple of my favorite speech clips–he should sign on with the Trump campaign.

        I have an idea for one—Kamala explaining Ukraine and Russia to Putin, who sits across a table from her with that same befuddled look most of us get when she talks.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 30, 2024 / 9:23 am

      Yep; she is Harris, after all.

      If she wins it is because the nation is too far gone to save; simple as that. If we have anything like a majority of people sensible, she gets defeated.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 30, 2024 / 10:29 am

        I really think we need a massive effort to educate the public about the double whammy the Left has pulled off in first setting up Motor Voter so everyone getting a drivers’ license is asked if he or she wants to register to vote (including non citizens here on work visas) and then getting some states to agree to give drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens. They put up token opposition to demanding photo ID to vote, so they can then be “defeated” on this issue, but they are snickering all the way to the ballot box because they have set it up so illegals and other non citizens can have government officials volunteer to register them to vote and then provide them with photo IDs. Instead of vague comments about voting machines, fretting about ballot harvesting, etc. this is something concrete and verifiable. Every voter has gotten a drivers’ license and been asked about registering to vote so it’s not a new concept that has to be proved.

        This is something state GOPs can easily address, but I think that if it is well known that there is awareness of this and if there are statements that any non-citizen voting will be arrested and deported if caught it might chill some of the enthusiasm of non-citizens to vote. This is all PR work, but important.

        Congress could also take a page out of the Dem playbook and put up a bill to end Motor Voter, giving this as a reason.

  5. Cluster's avatar Cluster July 31, 2024 / 8:41 am

    I know many of you missed the Megan Thee Stallion and Kamala’s rally last night in GA. One hell of a show I guess and Megan sang the new rally song for Kamala, the lyrics are below. No wonder Democrats are excited …

    I’m that bitch (yeah) Been that bitch, still that bitch (ah) Will forever be that bitch (forever be that bitch) Yeah (ayy, ha) I’m the hood Mona Lisa, break a nigga into pieces Had to X some cheesy niggas out my circle like a pizza (yeah) I’m way too exclusive, I don’t shop on Insta’ boutiques All them lil’ ass clothes only fit fake booties Bad bitch, still talking cash shit Pussy like water, I’m unbothered and relaxing I would never trip on a nigga if I had him Bitch, that’s my trash, you the maid, so you bagged him, ah I’m a savage (yeah) Classy, bougie, ratchet (yeah) Sassy, moody, nasty (hey, hey, yeah) Acting stupid, what’s happening? Bitch (whoa, whoa) What’s happening? Bitch (whoa, whoa) I’m a savage, yeah Classy, bougie, ratchet, yeah Sassy, moody, nasty, huh Acting stupid, what’s happening? Bitch What’s happening? (Ayy, ah) Eat me and record it, but your edge-up all I’m showing (ah) I keep my niggas private, so his AP all I’m showing (baow) Beefing with you bitches really getting kinda boring If it ain’t about the money, then you know I’m gon’ ignore it I’m the shit, ooh (ayy) I need a mop to clean the floor, it’s too much drip, ooh (too much drip, ooh) I keep a knot, I keep a watch, I keep a whip, ooh (I keep a whip, baow) Let’s play a game, Simon says I’m still that bitch, ayy (still that bitch) I’m still that bitch, yeah (ah) I’m a savage (yeah) Classy, bougie, ratchet (yeah) Sassy, moody, nasty (yeah) Acting stupid, what’s happening? Bitch (what’s up?) What’s happening? Bitch (what’s up?) I’m a savage, yeah Classy, bougie, ratchet, yeah Sassy, moody, nasty, huh Acting stupid, what’s happening? Bitch (what’s up?) What’s happening? Bitch, I’m lit like a match, ooh And any nigga I let hit is still attached, ooh That body right, but you know this pussy fat, ooh I drop a picture, now these bitches feel attacked, ayy Don’t let that nigga gas you up and get you whacked, ooh I make a call and get a pussy nigga smacked, uh These bitches talkin’ ’bout pulling up, well, where you at? Ooh I’m in a Lamb’, bitch, catch me if you can, ooh I’m kickin’ bitches out they spot, Stalli’ Chan, yeah (ah, yeah) Niggas say I taste like sugar, but ain’t shit sweet, ah Mwah Ayy, ayy, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, mwah

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 31, 2024 / 9:05 am

      One story says she got an award for a bilingual recording—-maybe this is it?

      She’s being called “The First African American blah blah blah”—not a lot of “African” there, folks, but I guess “First Irish Indian Jamaican with a possible hint of some African a Few Generations Back” doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 31, 2024 / 9:09 am

        LOL, so many identities. I also think it’s worth noting that Trump comes on stage to “God Bless the USA”, while Kamala comes on stage to “I’m that bitch”. If I were in Trump’s campaign, I would make an ad about that

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 31, 2024 / 11:09 am

        Speaking of identities: I did a little background on Kammy’s “African American” credentials:

        Her father’s parents are just quickly described as “Afro-Jamaicans” which is convenient, evidently intended to say everything that needs to be said about that so just move on, people.

        Harris’s own father wrote of his heritage in 2018. His parents were Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Finegan. So where is the “Afro”? His father’s father was Joseph Alexander Harris and his mother’s mother was Iris Finegan. That’s two generations with no “Afro” heritage. There is a direct line going backwards from Donald Harris to Oscar Joseph Harris to Joseph Alexander Harris on his father’s side and Beryl Christie Finegan to Iris Finegan from Aenon Town and Inverness to Christiana Brown (and then to Hamilton Brown) on his mother’s. If you go back three generations, to Hamilton Brown, born in County Antrim in Ireland, you find that his daughter Christiana Brown’s mother was someone named Jessian Prince, the only one in this lineage who does not have an undiluted lineage traced directly back to Ireland.

        A woman named Jessian Prince is listed on birth and death records as a “labourer.” In Jamaican history, “labourer” was a term lent to emancipated slaves and their descendants who were kept on and paid. This could mean the source of the claim to having some African heritage, as we have no idea of the genealogy of Jessian Prince. While she may have been fully African, she may also have been of mixed blood, as so many slaves and former slaves of that era were.
        
        That is, a faint trace of possibly African blood four or more generations in the past. I haven’t done the math to figure out her genetic percentage of “African” but it’s sure to be a lot like “not much”, and that would only be on her father’s side. Factor in 100% Indian on her mother’s and there just doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of “black” there. A little more than Warren’s Native American heritage, maybe, but again, not much. And she has tried to finesse this by adding that her heritage is that of being enslaved, which is kind of an admission that her “black” is only from Jessian Prince, who may or may not have been a slave herself but possibly a descendant of emancipated slaves.
        
        (And a document held by the U.K. National Archives (that) shows that Hamilton Brown owned at least 121 slaves in 1826. )
        

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 31, 2024 / 2:03 pm

        They make a big deal out of allegedly 10,000 people at the Harris rally, but never go into how many were there to see Harris and how many to see duck-lipped MTStallion (one of the most utterly stupid names in a pantheon of stupid rapper names) basically give a free concert. How many turn out just to see Harris?

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook July 31, 2024 / 12:22 pm

        99% of Kamala’s African DNA came from Willie Brown.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 31, 2024 / 2:06 pm

        I love that line. That and “she’s had more balls bounce off her chin than you see at an NBA game”. Or “That went over her head faster than her heels when Willie Brown walked into a room”.

  6. Cluster's avatar Cluster July 31, 2024 / 8:47 am

    Just a reminder, we are only 2 1/2 weeks removed from when Democrats and the Deep State tried to assassinate Trump, and it’s as if it never happened. The Democrat/Deep State/Social Media/Corporate Media Cartel have nearly covered up everything … and soon they will. Americans should be very worried about this current government. They are violent extremists.

  7. Cluster's avatar Cluster July 31, 2024 / 9:12 am

    If Kamala chooses Shapiro, a white Jewish man, they will lose Michigan and the Squad, and I hope that happens. Live by identity politics, die by identity politics.

  8. jdge's avatar jdge1 July 31, 2024 / 12:47 pm

    IRS Employees Owe $50M, Despite Monitoring Americans’ Money

    The news source discovered that nearly 150,000 federal employees failed to pay their taxes, which resulted in them owing $1.5 billion to the government.

    Sen. Joni ErnstRIowa, who requested the audit, said IRS employees’ failure to pay taxes is ironic since American taxpayers were forced to pay for the $80 billion the Inflation Reduction Act allotted to expand the agency’s audit capacity.

    Yet more reasons to abolish the IRS.

    https://headlineusa.com/irs-employees-owe-50m-despite-monitoring-americans-money/?utm_source=HW_EMAIL_NSP1400&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HWemail

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook July 31, 2024 / 12:52 pm

      Did you happen to do the math? $1.5 billion divided by 150,000 comes out to and average of $10,000 per IRS employee.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 31, 2024 / 1:22 pm

        And yet more of the “its a club, and you ain’t it in” aspect of our modern Ruling Class.

        Part of the reason I think that Trump is going to win is the perception in the public mind that nothing works…that nobody in charge knows what they’re doing. It is so bad that it is indistinguishable from malevolence. Like the Trump assassination attempt…it is very believable that it was an inside job because they did such a bad job this works out to a logical explanation…but even with that, we can’t ignore that maybe they really are just idiots? This country is on the verge of falling apart – and it doesn’t matter at this point if it is deliberate or accidental. We gotta get Trump in just to stop the bleeding.

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook July 31, 2024 / 1:31 pm

        OTOH, we could all vote for Harris/?, knowing that she will destroy the country faster than you can say Indian/Jamaican/Irish heritage. The country then descends into chaos and violent revolution. We kill them all and start over. (tongue-in-cheek, NSA, tongue-in-cheek)

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 31, 2024 / 2:22 pm

        In a recent email about what would happen if the Dems take the White House again (and I do mean “take”) and this not including rioting and burning down cities, I wondered about civil disobedience writ large. Not the bloodless insurrection attempted by the #RESIST movement starting in 2016, in which even top government officials and military officers openly declared their intent and effort to effectively take over the reins of power by simply acting against the new president within the scopes of their own authority, but a more widespread civil disobedience from 100 million pissed-off Americans who simply opt out of federal authority.

        “Pay taxes”. Uh, nah.
        “Obey unlegislated regulations dictated by unelected political appointees running federal agencies.” No, not today
        Strike federal jobs. Just don’t go to work.

        What could the feds do? Cut off SS and Medicare payments? That’s a good way to move quickly into open revolt from people who might have even voted for you. Shut down interstate commerce and air travel? Ditto. Try to make the military enforce civil legislation? Check that Constitutional thing there, Sparky.

        Kind of a Ghandi on steroids. With a lot of guns just in case. Don’t demand to take over the government, just have another election where people have to vote in person after signing sworn affidavits that they are citizens and providing naturalization data if naturalized.

  9. Amazona's avatar Amazona July 31, 2024 / 2:33 pm

    Some great observations of the Dudes for Kamala rally. (BTW, did any real dudes ever show up?) And an….interesting….clip that probably is not really the opening act for her rally but what makes it funny is that it could be. It’s every bit as classy as the one in Georgia. (Mind bleach recommended.)

    But the best was: “Dudes For Harris, sponsored by Low-T”

    I was thinking “Incel Insurrection” but then realized there wasn’t enough energy in that group to rebel about getting a regular latte instead of a half-caf soy low-foam not-too-hot drink in an “I LOVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD ” rainbow printed biodegradable cup much less mount an actual insurrection (though these days that can be achieved by merely taking selfies in certain places and doing some felony strolling).

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 31, 2024 / 4:41 pm

       “Dudes For Harris, sponsored by Low-T”

      LMAO, Incel Insurrection is also a beauty.

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