Trump has agreed to debate Harris on September 4th – Fox News venue but this time with an audience. Other rules apparently like those during the Pudding Brain debate.
Officially Harris is favored to do well at the debate – and she certainly can’t do worse than Biden. But she’s not a very bright person, she does not do her homework and seems to have a lackadaisical attitude about staying on message. I think Trump may be able to flummox her – and an upset Harris with her whiny, nasal voice won’t come across very well.
Outside optics, all policy advantages are on Trump’s side. Harris is busily distancing herself from…well, just about everything she’s ever said before. She has, as I’ve mentioned before, 100% signed on to each bit of Leftist idiocy as it has come up. No holding back! But now she has to convince people who aren’t Leftist idiots to vote for her…and this will be the very first time she’s ever tried that. Remember: she did Deep Blue California politics and then flopped on entering the national stage…only to be plucked from failure by Joe Biden. What I’m saying is that she’s barely ever been challenged – and certainly never challenged by someone like Donald Trump. It’ll be a new experience for her and I doubt she’ll be ready for it. She might think herself a tough cookie, but she’s never had to be tough before.
There is now a plethora of polling showing Harris doing well – that is, vastly better than Joe was doing. The plus and minus of it all still indicates a Trump win…though without the assurance of a popular vote win that Trump was going to get had Joe stayed in. Harris will be incandescently popular in California and that will drive up her total votes. But that doesn’t matter – what matters is 270 and right now, the worst look for Trump is 268 Electoral Votes…with him having to flip just one of Wisconsin, Michigan or Pennsylvania and Harris having to draw an inside straight to just eke out 270. Some of this polling result is because even though Gallup detects and R+6 environment and most number crunchers expect it to be R+2, the polls are coming in D+5 to D+9. But lets just leave that aside: polls are polls and we learned in 2016 that you can’t live and die by them. The best analysts have dug deep into the numbers and found that what is making Harris look as good as she does is Democrats just being relieved that Joe was given the boot – they were looking at a sure loss and now have flipped to believing that Harris means a sure win. This euphoria will fade…but it will be kept going through the Convention as Democrats and the MSM (BIRM) are determined to give no opening for anyone to challenge her from the floor.
At the end of the day, people still have to buy groceries and gas. The economy still continues to shed jobs for American citizens. Housing prices are still unsustainable. Autos are too expensive. Crime is on the rise (in spite of bogus numbers from the FBI saying it is going down). The border is still a mess. Hearing of an illegal committing a rape or murder is still a common occurrence. In other words, the fundamentals of America which had Trump winning before the debate continue. Harris has to fight against this headwind and hope that she can convince people that she can fix what she and Joe broke. This is a nearly impossible task even with the MSM in the tank for her. The MSM was just as much in the tank for Joe Biden and we see how that worked out. You can’t get around what people live through – you can’t talk them into calling themselves liars.
They say it is Shapiro who will be the VP pick – I guess someone leaked a proposed Harris/Shapiro ad. OTOH, this “leak” might have been intentional…a means to get Harris to not do it. Anti-Semitism of the most vicious sort is common among Democrats these days…especially among their most activist people. You know: the people who riot and burn things when they don’t get their way. But even if they end up going with Shapiro, I’m not too worried. Yes, he will complicate Pennsylvania for us, but nobody votes for a VP…and he’ll be carrying around the barnacles of Harris’ idiotic policy statements over the past four years. Plus, now that I’ve got a look at him he seems a typical Democrat – an ignorant, arrogant, elitist ass. Vance will destroy him in debate.
I don’t think I’ve ever been more serene about the result of an election. In think I’ve reached a sort of Mistrust Nirvana – that is, I am so disconnected from consuming the MSM propaganda that I now assume the truth is 180 from what they’re saying. They’re telling me that Trump is doing terrible and Harris is this super genius. Sorry, no. I know that Trump isn’t doing terrible. He never led in polling in 2016 and 2020 (aside from temporary leads in one or two outliers). Trump has been consistently tied or ahead since March. He’s already mostly locked down Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Arizona. He’s got huge cash on hand. He forced a sitting President to quit. Maybe I’m stupid. Maybe I’m biased. But I just feel that Trump is on the path to win this thing – and by a substantial margin after its all said and done.
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The momentum has changed. Harris has caught up with and passed Trump in the latest polls. Vance is turning out to be one of the worst VP picks ever and most people really hate Project 2025. The enthusiasm for Harris is off the charts. This is most excited I’ve seen on the Democrats side in years. I’m predicting that Harris wins at least 350 EC votes.
Ease off the Soma, Casper.
casper’s big deal as a “teacher” was befriending the marginal students in his school and making them feel more important because a “teacher” was paying so much attention to them. He bought their love and gratitude by doing things like playing games with them, like lip syncing to songs and making videos of this.
Now he exhibits a similar attitude toward politics, focusing on the superficial and inane and believing that it is, somehow, significant. When I see him incessantly repeating what seems important and consequential to him, I am always reminded of those kids, with their limited abilities, feeling that those videos of them pretending to sing were important.
He seems obsessed with Project 2025—well, not exactly with Project 2025 but what his masters tell him it says, and what it means, and most of all how many people don’t like it because they have believed what they have been told about what it says and what it means. (This is a recurring theme with him: The economy can’t be bad because look at how many people are taking vacations; Project 2025 must be bad because look at how many people don’t like it.) But that is the level of his political and intellectual ability. What is sad is that to him this is something he should be waving around, as if it will somehow make him seem like less of an easily-led clueless doofus.
You’re so funny. I mean, I’m glad you have SOMETHING in your life to get you excited, but I do wonder—-why do you feel compelled to “share” it with us?
My theory is that underneath that heavily-fleshed exterior lies a truly malicious and malignant man, who has been hiding his true self behind an assumed facade of Mr. Nice Guy, but who needs to express his inner nastiness. So you have found a place where good, decent, sincere and honest people gather to discuss things important to us, and you find great glee in dumping your mental caca here.
What is funny about this is your total lack of self awareness, or at least of personal dignity, as you seem oblivious to the fact that what you spew proves you to be nothing but an empty vessel your masters can fill with mindless drivel, and you eagerly take it all in and
scurrywaddle over here to go through a process of mental elimination analogous that of physical elimination of similar, though organic, content.but I do wonder—-why do you feel compelled to “share” it with us?
Obviously his reason/s is/are fluid. He felt compelled to share his enthusiasm for Harris when she suported, as Mark notes, just about every radical Left-wing idea, and now that she’s distancing herself from most those positions, Casper is STILL enthusiastic about her. When she was of Indian descent, Casper was enthusiastic, now that she’s black, Casper is still enthusiastic (not sure what he has against the Irish). The only conclusion one can draw is that Casper’s enthusiasm is based on Harris’ ability to change political/ideological positions and racial heritage smoothly and seamlessly. I mean, it’s almost a SUPER POWER! Or maybe he just likes her laugh.
I think he likes her because he is told to like her because she is a Democrat. I have never seen any hint of objective analysis of her qualifications. So far he’s only liked her because the polls say a lot of other people like her.
You’ve probably seen those video clips of people being interviewed, who say they really like Harris, support her, even think she has been “a really good vice president” or “good at her job”. And when asked none of them can come up with a single example of a policy of hers that they like, or an example of being a good VP or good at her job.
And I think he comes here to repeat his silly regurgitations of what he has been told because he is at heart a malignant guy who thinks he has information that will distress us and wants to rub it in.
Something none of us has thought of: he may just get off on our responses to his goofy posts, in a masochistic sort of way. I’d be inclined to ascribe it to mental illness rather than nastiness.
I’ve long considered his persistence in coming here as just a desire to get attention, and I think it’s clear that this plays a role in this. For a long time I saw it as a genuine belief that he knew more than we did and wanted to either show off this assumed superior knowledge or to educate us by exposing us to “the facts”. But when he continued to post things that had been thoroughly rebutted and proved to be false, I had to wonder, because he didn’t seem to care that he was beclowning himself. I didn’t know if this was just lack of self awareness, a element of narcissism in which he simply could not process the fact that he was wrong, or pleasure in being, to put it bluntly, a turd in our punch bowl.
Which leads to mental illness or some kind of strange pleasure in posting things he thinks will upset people so he will get a negative or even hostile response. Like so many abused people, he does seem to think that even negative attention is rewarding.
Just a few short weeks ago you were telling us how fit joebama was but here we are with a demonrat who was selected and not elected to anything.
You are going to save your “precious democracy” with a person nobody voted for. How’s that work again?
At the end of the day, people still have to buy groceries and gas.
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
The economy still continues to shed jobs for American citizens.
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
Housing prices are still unsustainable.
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
Autos are too expensive.
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
Crime is on the rise (in spite of bogus numbers from the FBI saying it is going down).
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
The border is still a mess.
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
Hearing of an illegal committing a rape or murder is still a common occurrence.
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
In other words, the fundamentals of America which had Trump winning before the debate continue.
But a lot of people think they don’t like Project 2025!
And enthusiasm for Harris is, like, EXPLODING off the charts! For example, an alleged 150,000 people signed on to her Zoom “Dudes for Harris” event, with another alleged 40,000 joining in. Wow! The enthusiasm! The passion! The energy! One way you can tell how pumped up these “guys” were is to look at how much money this event raised! FOUR MILLION DOLLARS! Wow, these “dudes” are really committed, aren’t they?
Well, four million dollars divided by 150,000 people comes out to a little over $26.00 a person but hey, they SAID they were enthusiastic, at least after talking about their feelz. And the bragging about the HUUUUGE $4 Mil didn’t say if it was actual cash in hand or just pledges. Hey, the story is that this was a big deal, showing how much support she has, and that’s what was getting the press. (Till the ridicule shot it down, anyway.)
What the world saw was that all these “dudes” were so committed to Kammy that they were willing to sit in front of computer cameras in air conditioned rooms and promise to donate the equivalent of three lattes to her campaign, while Trump supporters get off their asses, drive to an event (sometimes hundreds of miles), stand in the heat to wait to get in and pack arenas to personally see and support their candidate, week in and week out.
But polls. But Project 2025.
Harris raised 307 million dollars in July in less than two weeks. She has also packed several arenas with her rallies. I’d say people are excited.
Well, casper, YOU sure are excited. She “has also packed several arenas with her rallies”. Several? A quick search showed Milwaukee (a “crowd of over 3000 ! But it was “exuberant”!) and Georgia (it was a “spirited rally” but I didn’t find any numbers). Trump is going to the same Georgia venue, which seats 8000—I am sure it will really be “packed” and hope to see photos of both crowds.
We know there are a lot of Democrats, who will vote for a nearly-invisible candidate who doesn’t even campaign, because he is a D and because he isn’t Trump. So getting a few thousand here and there to turn out to see a new candidate is no big deal. You can call that “excitement” if you will. But just as Democrats can never find a way to explain why they are Democrats, aside from feelz and not-Trump, we’re seeing a lot of “enthusiastic” and “spirited” Kamala supporters drawing blanks when asked what it is, exactly, about her that makes them so supportive.
What is so funny about your post is your fallback position of how many people like her. See, that is a difference I am sure you don’t understand. Trump polls well because people like him. People like you like Harris because you are told she polls well.
307 million dollars
Zero votes from Democrats to nominate her for the candidacy
Actually I’ve always like Harris. The fact that people have rallied behind her just makes it that much better. The vacation thing came after cluster said no one had money to vacation or go out to eat. As for what we like about her. She’s smart, accomplished, and has positive vision for America.
If she’s so smart, why does she sound so dumb?
What has she accomplished?
What are the details of her positive vision for America, and how would she implement them?
How did she fare when up against other Democrats vying for the nomination in 2020? How many votes has she gotten in any primary, against any other Democrat?
Did any of that “307 million dollars” include the nearly 100 million dollars transferred, some say illegally, from the Biden campaign funds?
Just watched the Trump Georgia rally. More people and much higher energy during the Harris rally. True looks old and lethargic. Glitched several times.
Why do you post stuff like this?
In other words, you are trying to change the subject by falling back on your petty sniping about Trump, and as for claiming the Harris rally had “more people and much higher energy” you really need to start coming up with more believable stories if you’re going to keep coming here. I see you are still depending on the narrative—-“energy” and “excitement” for example. You are such an obedient old lapdog.
The 307 million did not include the money that was already in the Biden/Harris campaign coffers. The FEC seems to have no problem with it since they were running as a team. BTW, primary votes are for delegates who then make the selection at the National convention. Since Biden has stepped aside and endorsed the other person on the ticket, it’s not surprising she has the spot. Judging by the enthusiasm for Harris, I would say that all of us are pretty happy with the selection. Recent polling shows there is more enthusiasm for Harris among Democrats than there is enthusiasm for Trump among Republicans.
Why do you come here to post stuff like this?
In other words, selected not elected.
Google Project 2025. I did, and I found page after page after page—-of people telling me what it means. “Explaining” it to me. Hundreds and hundreds (probably more) of frantic efforts to lie about the content, then lie about its alleged meaning to the people, but for some reason (!!!) a real hesitation to come right out and print the actual words ! Gee, I wonder why?
And hardly a murmur about the fact that this document is not related to Donald Trump or the Trump campaign. But….but…..but some people who have worked for Trump “worked on it” so isn’t that enough to (1) treat it like the most important thing ever written since complaints about the Church were nailed onto a door; (2) cherry-pick a few isolated sentences from it; (3) misstate what these sentences actually say (what we call “lying”) and rephrase them so they say something different: (4) and then “explain” what this all really means, while falsely linking it to the Trump campaign?
But of course any party with a strong candidate able to win support by presenting her record of achievement and her policies for governing would campaign on these strengths, right? She wouldn’t need to stoop to such blatantly dishonest tactics, because her inherent qualities showing her to be the best candidate would be all she needs to get elected, right?
So Project 2025, written by former Trump officials, presenting a rollout plan for a Trump Presidency, has nothing to do with Trump? Righttt. It doesn’t help when Trump does a shoutout to one of the authors during his rally. No one believes Trump has nothing to do with it. I’m sure you will be going through the entire document explaining how what it says isn’t really what it says though. Meanwhile, Trump backs out of the debate he agreed to and is trying to move it to FOX with a crowd of cultists to cheer him on. Good luck with that.
Not a “rollout for a Trump presidency” but a generalized overview of reforms needed that should be considered by any conservative president.
A “shoutout” to someone is now compelling evidence of collusion? Because it is so unreasonable to think that people who participated in the last effort to bring our governance back to Constitutional standards might be logical contributors to a think piece about what it would take for a new administration to do that. Maybe the piece should have been written by DEI hires with no qualifications other than melanin content or gender dysphoria, instead being chosen on merit and experience. That is, as if they were Democrats.
No one believes Trump has nothing to do with it. Well, no one in the MSNBC bubble, anyway.
I’m sure you will be going through the entire document explaining how what it says isn’t really what it says though. No, that is what your kind is doing right now. And you will continue to ignore us when we point out that what you claim is said in the document is a lie, and it was never said at all But you people keep obsessing about a rather generic think tank collection of ideas for returning the nation to Constitutional governance, and BTW through your lies and hysteria illustrating how terrified you are of a government that specifically does not allow the consolidation of power in the hands of a few elites who then rule from a massively powerful Central Authority. As the new cliche goes, you all just keep telling us what you fear without telling us what you fear.
Meanwhile, Trump backs out of the debate he agreed to See, it’s when you revert to out-and-out lying that your true colors shine through. It’s when you stop spinning and start lying that you prove what kind of person you really are. You can’t cite a single agreement by Trump to debate the vice president, or even the vice president after she has been anointed as the substitute candidate in defiance of the democratic process always used in the past. Trump agreed to debate Joe Biden. At no time did he agree to debate Kamala Harris, or any other person brought in to substitute for Joe Biden. This is common knowledge, yet you lie about it.
Trump is not “trying to move IT to Fox” because there IS no “IT” any more. “IT”—-a debate with Joe Biden—no longer exists. It died when Biden got run out of office. Trump has suggested a whole NEW debate, with a different person than Joe Biden, and Harris is running away from a Trump debate so fast that tail between her legs is likely to trip her up. She is blustering, convincing only a few braindead loyalists, that there was an agreement by Trump to debate her, and she is using that as a smokescreen to try to hide the fact that she is terrified of facing him in a debate.
“cultists”—you’d be funny if you had not recently added toxic liar to stupid in your profile
Here are the requirements for the agreed upon debate on Sept. 10th. There is no mention of either candidates name. So yes, Trump chickened out of the debate.
https://abc.com/news/adaaae86-2621-41c7-b8f3-33a5215783f2/category/1138628
If Project 2025 is just a collection of ideas for returning the country to Constitutional governance (which it is not), then why is Trump trying so hard to distance himself from it?
So a presidential debate was scheduled without identifying who would be in the debate? A TBA debate? What a novel concept! What is missing here is the agreement by Trump to show up at this time on this date to debate whoever else shows up. And where it will be held. And who will moderate it. This might be, if it is legitimate, one of what are probably several pages of detailed agreements on time, place, participants, moderators, additional rules such as length of time for responses, etc. This is supposed to be the contract? And it is dated July 26, a week after Biden withdrew from the nomination process and campaign and therefore from the debate.
Kammy can come back with an alternate proposal, if she is really willing to debate Trump. Hiding behind the pretense that Fox is biased is just plain silly. For one thing, a Lefty getting the vapors over alleged media bias is pretty funny, and for another Fox has been very anti-Trump. But she is, supposedly, a big girl who is capable of being in charge, so let her take over. Let her come up with a compromise, like a real president would. Trump gave them their venue and moderators and then suggested a compromise after their guy bailed out with a place and people he suggested. She can always come back and meet him in the middle. I’m sure PBS would love to provide the venue, and she and Trump could each draw a name from one of two hats, one for Liberal hosts and one for someone more objective. Or don’t have a media sponsor and hold it in a hotel conference room, or a school auditorium.
Here’s an idea! If one of the people who signed on to the debate agreement decides to bail out and send in a substitute, how about going on with the original date and venue and Trump also selecting a pinch hitter? Have him send in Tulsi Gabbard. After all, if substitutes are accepted, make it equal for both sides.
What is it about Project 2025 that has the Left’s panties in such a wad? That’s a rhetorical question. I know, everyone knows, that it is just a frantic effort to create a diversion. You poor saps can’t make up your minds—first you complain that Trump is part of the paper because he “gave a shout out” to someone involved in writing it, now you whine that he is “trying to distance himself from it”. Pick a lane and stay in it.
People who have actually read it have found some good ideas in it, some not-so-good ideas, and some that are good ideas but poorly phrased. People on the Right are not lockstep all-or-nothing people, not like the lemmings on the Left who are given a narrative and the blindly follow it till they are given a different one. Which they also blindly follow even when it is a 180 degree shift in direction from the last one. (“Oh dear, what can we do to get rid of Kamala, she is such a drag on the party and a disaster as a candidate/Oh,whee! we are so excited to have Kamala as our presumptive nominee, once she has been anointed” as the latest example.) People are on the Right because they reject the cultish orthodoxy demanded of people on the Left.
Trump did not participate in writing the paper, which has been a work in progress for several years now. Over the years many conservatives have contributed ideas to the project, some of whom went on to work with Trump in some capacity, because of a shared vision of how the country should be run. And this is really all you’ve got. Tenuous pseudo-connections among people and a very sad desperation to find something—-anything—-to let you pretend you are deep thinkers unwinding some nefarious plot.
So much less demanding on your petty little brains than actually understanding the facts and making objective analytical decisions.
As for “chickening out” on a debate with Kamala Harris, that is the least defensible comment made in a litany of indefensible statements. I would be happy to debate her.
She has been most aptly described as someone who is supposed to give a five minute book report and tries to fake it because she only read the back cover.
“So a presidential debate was scheduled without identifying who would be in the debate?”
No, it was scheduled to be between the candidates who had established themselves as legitimate candidates based on their polling averages and being certified by the various states as being on the ballot.
“Kammy can come back with an alternate proposal, if she is really willing to debate Trump.”
She doesn’t need to. The debate has already been scheduled. Why would she want to sat over the process?
“Here’s an idea! If one of the people who signed on to the debate agreement decides to bail out and send in a substitute, how about going on with the original date and venue and Trump also selecting a pinch hitter? Have him send in Tulsi Gabbard.”
She isn’t a substitute. She is the Democratic candidate, certified by the party. Tulsi isn’t anyone’s candidate.
“You poor saps can’t make up your minds—first you complain that Trump is part of the paper because he “gave a shout out” to someone involved in writing it, now you whine that he is “trying to distance himself from it”.”
Both things can be true at the same time. Trump is definitely trying to distance himself from it while at the same time giving a shoutout to those writing it. Because he is doing such a poor job distancing himself, no one out side of his base believes him.
“As for “chickening out” on a debate with Kamala Harris, that is the least defensible comment made in a litany of indefensible statements. I would be happy to debate her.”
And I would love to debate Trump, but alas, neither of us meets the criteria to be part of the debate.
I know you love to bicker, but…what you sent is not the debate contract. I doubt that you have seen the debate contract. But I also doubt that Trump agreed without a contract, and when he says the contract was for a debate between him and Biden I believe him. Not you. What you sent was a rules outline, not a contract. He is a businessman who knows that a contract has to be specific and lay out everything covered and not covered. As I told you, which you evidently could not understand, what you sent did not say where the debate would be, or name the participants other than TBD, and is dated a week after the original contract became moot because one of the parties bailed out.
You can keep stubbornly repeating your mantras over and over again and I think you are wrong. So stop it. I keep asking why you post here, and that is one of many questions you dodge. So why do you? What do you get from dumping all your delusions and fantasies here? What kind of sick pleasure do you get from regurgitating the crap you absorb so gleefully from your sources? Do you think no one here is aware of what these people say? We know, and we know it’s crap. Do you even care that your identity here is GIGO? So why do you insist on doing this? Are you, as Spook suggested, just a masochist who gets off on being abused? Because there is no rational reason to invite abuse, which is what you do with your sad silly little bleatings of Leftist cant. Or am I right and your goal in life is to be the turd in someone’s punchbowl?
The thing about Tulsi was a joke. I knew when I said it that you are so sour and humor impaired you wouldn’t get it, but I knew some would. The joke, of course, being that as afraid of Trump as Kammy is, she has to be even more terrified of Tulsi, who destroyed her when they debated. The joke is what Harris would look like if informed that she would be facing Tulsi. But as usual, when a joke has to be explained it isn’t worth it because the other guy just lacks the ability to recognize a joke anyway.
Yes, people like you obviously have no trouble believing two things at the same time, like how Harris is a drag on the party and has to be removed before the primary and then Biden has to be kept in office to make sure she is never president even for a brief period of time, while simultaneously believing that she is the best thing to happen to the party since Snickers and is a gift that brings joy (and EXCITEMENT !!!) to all who behold her.
She is running from Trump, doing a semi-Biden campaign—not completely in a basement, but avoiding direct confrontation. Which is the only proof I have seen that she is not as dumb as she appears.
You, however……..
Your delusions run strong, if not your reason. You say And I would love to debate Trump which is hysterical, because you can’t even debate anyone here. All you can do is run and check on what your masters say, then
scurrywaddle back here to regurgitate it. As we have noted here, you are the ultimate example of GIGO.The One Question This Pollster Says Can End Kamala Harris’ Campaign
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is set to pick up the Democratic nominee in two weeks officially, has a laundry list of far-left agenda items planned for the U.S. if elected.
Things such as defunding the police, leaving the southern border wide open, banning offshore drilling, taking away American’s Second Amendment rights, and destroying the economy even more than President Joe Biden has already done.
However, pollster Frank Luntz said that all former President Donald Trump has to do is ask a simple 10-word question, and Harris’ chances of securing the November win go away.
“Can you name one thing she accomplished as Vice President?” Luntz advised Trump to ask voters.
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Voters struggled to cite a single accomplishment of Harris during interviews at the American Federation of Teachers’ Convention last week.
“I really don’t know much of what she did,” one person told Fox News, while another said, “I’m not sure I know enough about her accomplishments to answer that question.”
I have been posting here for twenty years. I continue to follow this blog and other sites because I feel it is important to try to listen to and try to understand other peoples viewpoints. If the only people I listen to are people who agree with me then I’m not learning anything. In addition, I care about the people on this blog. While I disagree with many of you on a number of issues, I truly hope that all of you do well. I have also found that this is a good place to find out what the newest rightwing talking points are.
If the only people I listen to are people who agree with me then I’m not learning anything.
Yet you have apparently not learned a thing. You still support a political model that is based on the antithesis of our Constitution, in spite of the fact that every time it has fully been put into play it has resulted in tyranny, economic misery and loss of liberty–but you still do it blindly, because you still only see people, and then you only see what your masters on the Left have told you about them.
In twenty years and many posts I have still not seen a word from you explaining or defending this system, yet you steadfastly parrot every narrative it puts out and just as steadfastly attack every idea we explain, merely dismissing them as “rightwing talking points “. Actually, though, I need to correct myself—you don’t attack the IDEAS you see here, just the people who represent them. Because that is the shallow level of what you obviously think of as “politics”. I’ve never seen you even tentatively approach a real idea, so deeply invested as you are in the most superficial Identity Politics.
When asked specific questions you hide out for a while and then come back with new dreck you have been fed but never answer the questions. You piously assert that you believe in our Constitution and agree that it is the law of the land, yet you have grossly misstated it and distorted it to support your commitment to Leftist cant. The Constitution is specifically written to fend off the dangers of power being consolidated in the hands of a few elites who rule from a powerful Central Authority—after we fought a bloody war to free ourselves from that exact kind of government—yet you enable and support a political model whose entire structure is based on that.
I have never seen even an iota of a desire on your part to learn anything, just a sad need to bicker based on a false sense of being smarter than we are and therefore in a position to scold us and “educate” us and play some “gotcha”. I often feel a little sorry for you—pity soon mitigated by your really snotty attitude of intellectual superiority while you simultaneously prove the opposite—but your pettiness is just too annoying to tolerate.
If you come here to learn anything, here’s an idea—shut up and try to actually LEARN something, instead of having your automatic knee-jerk rejection of everything you see here and processing it as nothing more than a foundation for your next regurgitation of some Leftist theme.
You seem to disagree with us on every ISSUE but more to the point you are limited in your “politics” to nothing BUT “issues”. You are oblivious to the fact that true politics is about the choice of the system of government you support, not “issues”.
We have two basic choices of government:
The Constitutional choice is of a federal government restricted in its size, scope and power, with most authority left to the states or to the people.
The Leftist choice is consolidation of power in the hands of a few elites who then govern from a massively powerful Central Authority, with little power left to the states or to the people.
Those are choices that demand objective analysis of each, which is why the Left discourages this and demands that choices be made on the basis of ISSUES, which are based on emotion, because every objective analysis of every government based on a massively powerful Central Authority has failed.
I can see why JD Vance is considered (by the increasingly panicking Left) as “the worst VP pick ever ever ever in the history of evers”. After all, he is, by his very existence, a slap in the face to the Democrat base.
He is white, he is male and always has been, he is straight, he is married, he is married to a woman who has always been a woman, he is married to a woman of another race, he is a father, he is active in parenting his children, he is a veteran, and he has achieved great success in several arenas of American life through hard work and merit.
He is basically everything the Left hates.
And isn’t it sad that the Left HATES those things?
It makes me wonder why they would support Shapiro. He is almost a Democrat JD Vance. He hasn’t had the financial success Vance has had, and never had real job, going from law school to politics, starting as legislative assistant to Senator Carl Levin, so he has no experience in the private sector. But aside from that and his background (solidly upper middle class) he and Vance have a lot in common. They are male, white, married, fathers and religious.
Shapiro seems like an OK guy. I always wonder why and how otherwise intelligent people can support the Left, and it always seems to come down to blinders regarding the true history of Leftist governance and attraction to the feelz of the Leftist appeal to people who are basically good by promising that they provide a shortcut to the Higher Moral Ground. Leftism is always about ISSUES and never seems to be about governance.
I just wonder how much he can affect the election, other than pushing his state toward the Dems in the election. I’m not sure how much of a national effect he would have, other than the negative regarding the party’s new openly anti-Jewish identity, as he has served in the military in Israel and is very openly pro-Israel and is a practicing Orthodox Jew.
He’s played the suck-up-to-the-Left game pretty well, dropping his defense of capital punishment and support for school vouchers, but he also dropped his opposition to fracking and got sideways with environmental groups and he wants to slash corporate taxes, though also wants a $15.00 minimum wage. In general, he seems to be trying to straddle the political fence, and has been pretty good at it.
“And isn’t it sad that the Left HATES those things?”
Actually we don’t. There is a pretty good chance that we will nominate a VP with many of the same qualities.
Oh. Somehow I expected Harris, or at least the Dem elites who appointed her, to select a Democrat.
Going to be pretty hard to criticize Trump for allegedly sleeping with a porn star and a former Playboy Playmate while Melania was pregnant with Baron when Kamala has the same skeleton in her closet.
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Given the facts that both Trump and the mattress actress have officially, under oath, denied that such an assignation took place, and that there seems to be quite a bit of evidence that Emhoff did in fact impregnate his nanny, the Emhoff version seems worse.
I looked up info on Shapiro this morning before posting my comment here that he seems like an OK guy, and at that time the entry mentioned that he had been with the IDF. It’s sure hard to keep up with these guys. And so much for standing up for him, if this is the kind of crap his team pulls. Of course, he was anti-fracking before he needed the Pennsylvania petroleum industry support.
and heeeere we go!
It turns out that Kamala Harris never supported giving free healthcare to illegals.
“specifically” you understand. She did not interrupt the questioning to emphasize that her support for a plan that would provide government health coverage for illegals did not mean she specifically said it would be taxpayer funded. Because of all those other government plans that are not taxpayer funded, I guess.
Or that the health coverage would be “free”. No gaslighting about what made her hand pop up in response to that question
Because of all those other government plans that are not taxpayer funded, I guess.
LOL – I think you’re referring to all those programs that are funded with the money that Democrats (and to be fair, some Republicans) pick off the money tree.
We’ll see how well “not specifically” does in the campaign.
Well, I didn’t specifically admit I had never gone to the border—I just said I hadn’t gone to Europe.
I didn’t specifically send thousands of black men to prison, I just set up new rules for prosecution and they were affected.
I didn’t specifically use sexual relations with powerful men to climb the political ladder in spite of being unqualified, it just happened that way.
I didn’t specifically hide the fact I might have a black ancestor, way back when, I just never mentioned it when I was posing for photos as the First Indian Senator, etc.
And so on.
It appears very likely that Harris’ MSM honeymoon is over. Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll shows Harris’ peak occurred on 7/24 and 7/25. Here are the numbers:
– 7/22: Trump up by 16
– 7/23: Trump up by 6
– 7/24: Harris up by 3
– 7/25: Harris up by 2
– 7/28: Trump up by 1
– 7/29: Trump up by 2
– 7/30: Trump up by 4
– 7/31: Trump up by 5
Honeymoons usually end because one person finds out that the other is not what he/she seemed to be. I think that’s the case here.
About the only thing that hasn’t changed abut Kamala Harris are her pronouns, so if picking a woman for President is your most important “issue,” then I can accept that. It’s stupid, but I accept that it’s logical. If you supported her when she was of Indian descent and she believed in just about every Left-wing cause you can name, but now you support her because she’s black and she’s changed her mind on many of those radical Leftist issues, then you’re just a hypocrite – or a liar – or both.
Excellent summation. The thing about not being a Lib is that we have memories. It was less than a month ago that Kamala was looking into cameras and assuring us that Joe Biden was “on top of his game” and “sharp as a tack”. In other words she lied to us. Now there is evidence that while she was lying to the country she now claims to want to represent about the health and ability of her boss she was conniving behind his back with HIS boss to get him unceremoniously dumped in a public and official declaration of incompetence. And we also remember that nearly all of those Dem leaders fawning over her now (or so we are told) were, less than a month ago, in a panic about the prospect of her becoming president. They were propping up Joe in a desperate hope he could make it at least till November, so they could dodge the bullet of a President Harris, even for a few weeks. We remember sitting back and watching the Dem mucky-mucks frantically strategizing about what to do about Kamala, how to get rid of Kamala.
Now that Joe, in one last effort to do something relevant, saddled them with Kamala and essentially blew their plans out of the water, all they can do is try to make the best of it and suddenly, literally overnight, become Kammie cheerleaders.
She and Shapiro both have suddenly backed off on their strident anti-drilling, anti-fracking, rhetoric. After all, Pennsylvania is a big petroleum and gas state, so they have to suck up to those interests, even though it means going back on those deeply held sincere convictions. /sarc She never, as far as I knew, actually came out and claimed she had no black blood, she just somehow never bothered to mention it, or her great-grandfather the slave owner, and really pushed that whole Indian-American thing to the max—till the Dems needed a “black” woman less awful than the harridans they already had in office, like Mad Max. Then all of a sudden that possible, unproved, anecdotal 12% African blood became her entire identity, and overnight she became BLACK. (Evidently Irish never had a big political upside, so her father’s almost 100% Irish background became “Jamaican” as if that is a race.)
Her border policy? Blame Trump, while working behind the scenes to bring in even more illegals than those strolling across the border.
Her inflation policy? Blame Trump, while supporting every inflation-creating big spending boondoggle bill her side put up
Her international policy? Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Jews, send billions to Ukraine and taunt China
Her domestic policy? The Green New Deal in all its Leftist insanity, including restricting agriculture and pushing for an all-electric vehicle nation, plus single-payer government run health care and free health care to illegals.
Her voting record in the Senate? 100% radical Left, to the Left of even Sanders and Warren
Her election policy? Lie lie lie lie lie. Lie about inflation, unemployment, the border, and now especially an independent think tank paper unrelated to Trump but which, if presented dishonestly enough and falsely linked to him, is the source of many more lies.
Harris is at her peak; and Trumps campaign manager the day Joe quit put out a memo saying just this would happen – Democrats breath a massive sigh of relief and solidify behind Harris so she gets a big boost in the polls. Team Trump was completely prepped for this and had their plan ready to do. As in all plans, we’ll see if its the right one.
But I have been pointing out that on January 20th, 2021, Trump was finished. However one wants to say Biden got in, the run of events from November to January combined with dismay over the Covid oppression/recession had totally ruined Trump. His approval rating was in the 30s. Done. He could shout all he wanted but he was a spent force.
And that is why the GOPe had helped the Democrats every step of the way in the post-election contests. They wanted him gone maybe even more than Democrats did.
Now, think back – what did Trump keep talking about? The Steal. What did everyone say hes should stop talking about? The Steal. Trump went his way. He did what he thought best…and he kept doing it and doing it and doing it…and it was working so well by 2022 that the GOPe essentially sabotaged the Red Wave by misdirecting resources away from Trumpist candidates and not even working out a strategy to deal with the Democrats’ only point: abortion. They didn’t want Trump back! After the mid-terms they started pouring money into GOP alternates and essentially remaining in the background as Democrat Lawfare against Trump went into overdrive. The GOPe wanted Trump indicted/convicted even more than the Democrats did. He had to be stopped!
But Trump just kept rolling on – building new staff, working up his own plan…and still saying what he thought needed to be said to near universal choruses from the critics that it was stupid and self destructive for him to say it.
And then he went into campaign mode and won the GOP nomination in a walkover against, lets face it, some really good candidates…but these candidates had a problem: they hadn’t been saying what Trump had been saying…which was on and on and on about The Steal, the Border and Inflation. By the time January of this year rolled in, Trump had already locked up the nomination…and not wanting an internal fight, he just ignored his opponents (which is critics, once again, called stupid and self destructive). Once he locked up the GOP nomination, he shifted immediately into General Election mode…baited Biden into an early debate knowing he would destroy him because of Biden’s senility. At that point it became six of one, half dozen of the other for Trump – they’d stick with Senile Biden or switch to Cacklin’ Kamala. In either case, the skids would be greased for his November victory.
And what are his critics doing today? Shouting that Trump is saying the wrong things and talking about the wrong issues and if that dumb Orange idiot would only listen!
Sorry: I’m thinking the guy who masterfully executed a comeback like none other in American political history knows what he’s doing. Sure, he can still fail – any plan can fail. The other side does get a say and we’ll see what the Democrats actually do. But for anyone to say that Trump needs advice is just idiocy…the man forced a sitting President to quit! Let Trump cook.
Mostly in agreement here, but still noting that there is room for some tweaking of the strategy. Bulldozing worked OK, but now it is time to read the room and fine-tune some of the Poor Me rhetoric. Don’t abandon The Steal but stop making it just about Trump and make it a theft from every single legitimate voter who might have his or her vote stolen. Stop whining about “witch hunts” with Trump as the sole victim and start doing a better job of explaining that a system that can do that to a famous and wealthy man can do it to ANYONE—and that when the goal is to silence political opposition it can, and already has, made federal agencies weapons of a corrupt political system. Make even Trump haters afraid of the government that has this much power.
The Left invokes Hitler—we need to invoke Stalin. We need to educate people about his show trials, about his murder of millions to achieve political power (and let someone else plug Covid into that matrix) and about the Stalinist theme of “show me a crime and I will show you a man”—the pattern of shaping “justice” to fit a political agenda. He should talk about the irony of an American citizen having to flee to the home of Stalin and ask for political asylum to protect her from Stalinist tactics here in our own country. A nickname for Stalin was “Uncle Joe”—bring that home and let it sink in, or in Trumpian fashion overegg the pudding and explain that is also a nickname for Joe Biden.
Stop being The Victim and work on overall election integrity without referring back to what happened. We know what happened. And take a page out of the Left’s playbook. They don’t say SCOTUS justices take bribes, they just say we need new laws to prevent them from taking bribes, and let the lemmings connect the dots. So we should do the same thing. Instead of saying “this is how votes were stolen” we should just say “for election integrity AND TO SAVE DEMOCRACY we need to….” and then fill in the blanks. Make sure non-citizens are not offered the ability to register to vote, which means shutting down Motor Voter and increasing penalties for fraudulent voting and false statements on registration applications. Make sure voters are identified. Tighten up chain of custody on mailed ballots, both those sent out and those returned. Follow all laws and rules on deadlines, signature, etc. But make it general, to protect all of us, to protect the nation, not just to verify what happened to Trump.
And it’s time for a little nuance. Trump doesn’t need to pound people over the head. For one thing, he doesn’t have time to do that. So drop in a few hints and let surrogates take over and do the heavy lifting. Ask why black people don’t mind being treated like a single entity controlled by nothing but race, to the point where they will vote for a woman who claims to be black but whose ancestry shows only a possibility of a trace of African blood generations back, which she never mentioned until being black proved to be the qualification to be put into a position she never earned or was qualified to have—and then let black leaders take this and run with it. Pick another topic and work that, like sex slavery of children once we stopped separating children from adults at the border to talk to them and make sure they were with their real parents or guardians, meaning that we no longer protect them from predators. That is a slam on overall border security, defanging the whine about “kids in cages”, introduces the concept of temporarily isolating children for their own good (which most Libs have never even heard of) and ties lax border security in with the evils of sex slavery of children. Mention it a couple of times, get it out there and let others run with it. After the first couple of relatively detailed comments, a mere reference to it in passing will be enough.
Trump tries to cram 500 pounds of information into five-pound bags at his rallies, making it incomplete and not explained, and I think now, in the last few weeks, he needs to break down all that data into pieces, explain a piece a couple of times and then move on, knowing that there are people out here who will pick up those pieces and develop them. It doesn’t do much good to talk about “cartels” to people who don’t know that our government has created a system where dangerous drug cartels have shifted from drug smuggling to human smuggling because it is more profitable—-and it puts vulnerable women and children in the control of those cartels, where they can be picked off and sold into sex slavery. This is something most Americans don’t know, and it isn’t that helpful to just mention cartels without a little context. So I would like to see rallies in which one or two of these themes is more fully developed.
Oh, I agree – there can be message and tactic adjustments. I’d be doing some things differently – and coming up with ways to “save Our Democracy” that actually do it is a very clever way to steal the Democrats clothing.
But IMO we do need to step back and be a little bit amazed at what Trump hath wrought.
I’m with you there. This is what happens when you take on someone who can’t be bullied, can’t be intimidated.
I just wish we were better at taking the Dem talking points and turning them back on them. Remember the whimpering that GW Bush was “selected, not elected”? Aside from the fact that it was a lie, it’s a catchy little phrase, and this time around, re: Kamala being anointed as the new candidate, it is 100% true.
Just saw Kamala’s VP shortlist – 8 white guys … lol.
Kamala has yet to do a an interview, of any kind, and when she does, her poll numbers will drop even more. Time is not on Kamala’s side. She is not only the furthest Left candidate ever, she is the dumbest candidate ever.
Does anyone ever remember Casper posting about Kamala?? And yet here he is today claiming “I have always liked Kamala”!! LOL, why? what has she ever done that would lead someone to say that? She called the current President a racist; she was assigned the border job and proceeded to do absolutely nothing on the border; and she’s never been to Europe lol.
There are a lot of faux conservatives on X right now claiming Trump is “not conservative” enough and therefore they will not vote. This just reeks of another Democrat psy op, of which there have been many of over the last 4 years.
I just wish America would get back to being normal.
she is the dumbest candidate ever.
Maybe THAT’S why Casper likes her.
I have no doubt lol. Casper is not the brightest crayon in the box.
Remember, he agreed that his intellect is on a par with that of Mazie Hirono. Well, Mazie’s not running, but the next best thing is. And it gets him EXCITED !
You may have noticed (I certainly have) that no one ever defines “conservative” and when it is whining about Trump it never touches on governance at all. I used to joke that to some people being “conservative” just means not wearing stripes with plaid. These days it feels more like an observation than a joke.
On X I have been saying ….
Trump has a very conservative tax policy, monetary policy, energy policy, border policy, and foreign policy so if you’re not voting for Trump, you’re not a conservative
To me, those —- while all important — are just ISSUES and the most important thing is commitment to the form of government under which they will be addressed. What impressed me about Trump is how he understood the need to address issues through Constitutional means, which means through actual legislation instead of agency or executive fiat and/or having states deal with them instead of the federal government. It is possible to have very compatible views on things like taxes, energy, etc. and still think they should be administered from a Central Authority.
What we fail so miserably to do as conservatives is explain that to people. We basically send the message that to vote conservative they have to give up the ISSUES that mean so much to them. What we need to do is tell them that the only thing we want them to change is their idea that the way to address them is through expansion of the size, scope and power of the federal government, instead of by the states or the people.
I believe that if this message were to get through to more Liberals, it would make it more possible to then discuss the relative ways to accomplish what they want to accomplish, within the boundaries of federal authority. We did an absolutely atrocious job of this when the repeal of Roe gave us a platform to explain this, and all we did was mutter some vague references to “it’s up to the states” with no real in-depth explanation.
We send the messages that we want to take things away from Liberals when we should be telling them that what we really want is to get those problems addressed but through different means than the One Size Fits All top-down form of government we get when we consolidate power in the hands of a few elites instead of keeping it spread out and closer to home.
Do you think Democrat voters even care about policies anymore?? I don’t. I have yet to read one post citing Kamala’s policies as something they support and something that has done well for the country. They all just cling to superficial bullshit … Democrat activists are dangerously stupid people.
I have yet to read one post citing Kamala’s policies as something they support and something that has done well for the country.
Oh, there are lots of comments and man-on-the-street videos of people saying just that. The problem, and I guess it’s only a problem for people who are actually capable of critical thought (which eliminates most Democrat voters from the gitgo) , is that virtually NONE of them can name what those policies are. At this point, I’m not sure even Kamala knows what they are.
At this point, I’m not sure even Kamala knows what they are.
No she doesn’t. Have you ever heard her explain inflation?? LOL
The economy is showing some serious cracks, and this will get worse as we approach November. There is nothing the Fed can do now to stop the decline. We MUST start creating wealth by drilling or our debt will consume us. Not only on the national level but on a personal level too. Credit card debt is at record highs, so all those vacations Casper speaks of, are being put on a credit card … and tax payers will end up paying for that
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/average-credit-card-debt/
Those street interviews are great. There is all this enthusiasm for Harris (one might almost say these people seem EXCITED !) until asked to explain anything she has done to earn this. Which is when the penny drops, and each of these people suddenly realizes there is not, and never has been, a single example of a success or even a policy that justifies thinking she is great, or (my favorite) has been a “good vice president”.
And what is evident is that these don’t seem to be people who even watch CNN or MSNBC for their “news”. They are so obviously Social Media types, being fed DNC bot material.
They all just cling to superficial bullshit and that is her gender (now that gender can be identified, that is) and her alleged race. Period.
And not even skin color, just anecdotal African ancestry from one great-great-great grandmother.
PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME!
Look at the two photos at the beginning of Michaelah Montgomery’s full speech at the end of this article and tell me which woman is black.
And listen to the speech, and watch the black men behind her.
Watching Michaelah Montgomery and hearing the audience response pointed out a difference between the Left and Right in this country. Here, the audience loved a strong black woman talking about serious things that affect us all, and last week the Dems were “enthusiastic” about a “nasty girl” who twerked to filthy degenerate lyrics.
This week, people came to see Trump. Last week, they went to a free concert by a sleazy rapper.
Well, it SHOULD be huge. But then way back in the Clinton days when it came out that Chinese busboys and nuns in San Francisco were supposedly donating tens of thousands of dollars to the Clinton campaign, after (or during) a visit by then-VP Algore, that was ignored till the story just died.
Where did the money come from? Bank transfers, credit cards, ?????
And how much of the Act Blue money touted as contributing to the Harris funding EXCITEMENT was due to shenanigans like this?
The only government that ever seriously tried to run a multi-ethnic Empire with equity and justice was the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1866-1918. The Hapsburgs were rather forced to it but they did give it a go and with some real success…but at the end of the day, the disparate ethnic groups could be brought to the waters of concord, but could not be made to drink. Towards the end it was every faction for itself…nobody thinking of the needs of the Hapsburg dominion as a whole (except the Hapsburgs) as every group just tried to wring out maximum advantages for their own tribe. The Germans and Hungarians were the worst offenders (and the Poles to most reasonable in trying to make it work) but everyone was on the make and so it all fell apart.
We as a nation were our strongest when we had a single national identity. No matter where we came from, we were Americans. People came here with the intent to be Americans.
Then the fragmentation started. I think it started with blacks demanding to be called African-American, and the splintering escalated from there. And the Left was behind this, because the Left has always known it will never get much of a toehold in a unified contented country. So the Left started its two-pronged campaign of undermining our culture and fragmenting our people into disparate and conflicting groups. They do this because they understand what the essay says: there is one force alone powerful enough to hold it all together: an all-powerful state at the center.
And the all-powerful state at the center is the goal of the Left. That is why it fights so zealously against our Constitutional restriction on the limits of federal size, scope and power with most authority left to the states or to the people: The Left is about expansion of the federal government and its assumption of the authority the Constitution delegated to the states. It is about consolidation of power in the hands of a few elites, who rule from a massively powerful Central Authority.
Which is why it promotes internal conflict and strife, because when elements of a society are fighting with each other they are oblivious to threats from outside, till it is too late. They are promised they will be treated as special, be guaranteed a place on the Higher Moral Ground, be able to impose their wills on others—-it will only cost them their votes.
And the gullibles think they are voting for personal ISSUES that matter to them, or against whoever has been pointed out to them as an Other that must be defeated, oblivious to the fact that they are really voting for this consolidation of centralized power.
One of the best rants I have ever read. There are a few minor details that I don’t agree with, but this guy pretty much nails it.
I was actually tempted to just post the whole thing instead of a link to it, it was so powerful and so true. Like you, there were a couple of details where we were not in agreement, but overall he, as you say, “nails it”.
Josh Shapiro’s 2024 version of “Yeah, but I didn’t inhale”.
Yeah, I was in the army but I didn’t shoot anyone
Whether it was the right decision or not, the point here is that it was made for the purpose of shielding a Democrat presidential candidate from possible criticism. That is not the role of the SecDef
Which one does “I’m black” more convincingly?
Just when I thought I’d heard it all, Nancy Pelosi suggested that Joe Biden should be added to Mount Rushmore. YCMTSU!!
I no longer think these people believe what they say, and just toss out the most outrageous things they can come up with, usually to try to distract from something they don’t want us to pay attention to.
Like the walking disaster that is Kamala Harris.
I suspect you’re right. They are masters as deception/deflection.
You can tell when they know they need to distract from something, when one of them yells “Look! Another outrage!”
Kenzi – SQUIRREL! (inside joke)
Someone else was on the same page, submitting a possible Harris speech on the stock market:
The stock market is a market where you buy stocks. Don’t you all like malls better than markets? I do! The pilgrims. They put people in stocks. Look …butterflies!