Open Thread

If Biden hadn’t picked Harris then she would have spent the rest of her life as a rather stupid Senate back-bencher. Of course, Biden would have spent the rest of his life as a rather stupid Senate back-bencher if Obama hadn’t picked him. Harris is kinda stupid squared. And once again it is all Obama’s fault: I’ve complained about Biden’s ego but nobody comes close to Obama on that score. Everyone around him had to be second-rate so they couldn’t possibly outshine Obama…who isn’t nearly as smart as his acolytes think. In fact, maybe we’re into stupid cubed here?

Anyways, how’s it going? I know you’ve been exposed to the Doom Mongers; they’re out in force! And I suspect some of the larger Doom accounts on social media are paid by Democrats. It is all an op, guys. Never forget that. The MSM doesn’t just shade the truth here and there – they are the Comms op of the DNC. The only way Harris wins – and that barely – is if GOP turnout is forced down quite a lot.

62.9 million in 2016.

74.2 million in 2020.

That’s more than a 11% increase. The Democrat’s nightmare? That he even does 50% of that for 2024…they need to depress the GOP and especially GOP-leaners who only vote in some Presidential election years. How bad are they going to lie? This bad:

That is how much they will lie – completely brazen. Absolutely not telling you the truth. They will be 180 from reality. Do not lose heart! Do not let them fool you. I remain absolutely confident in Trump’s victory. In fact, I’ve never felt so good about politics. Not even 2004 when I was feeling pretty darned good about our chances. This is different – I am happy we’re having this battle. I am not stressed in the least. This is the most fun I’ve ever had watching politics.

How is it really going? Here’s how:

Not every State lists their voter registration by partisan ID but it is highly likely to be like this across the board. Does this guarantee a Trump win? Of course not – but people are moving to the GOP for a reason. I can’t see this not coming out in the votes. Do keep in mind that the Party in Power loses for two reasons:

  1. They’ve just been there a long time (like the GOP in the 1992 cycle)
  2. The Party in power has loused everything up (like the Dems in 1980 or the GOP in 2008)

Team Democrat hasn’t been in very long – not enough time for everyone to just grow tired of them…but I will assert they have loused everything up. To be sure, trends only continue until they don’t…but I have to figure that every time someone goes grocery shopping “MAGA” shines a little brighter…and that’s why we’re seeing these voter registration trends.

Trump went back on X – and his posts are immediately getting millions of views. Democrats are upset about this. I suggest pointing and laughing at them.

Update: The Musk-Trump conversation. I listened to it live. Those two can talk! And that’s what it was – two normal human beings having a conversation about what is going on. Peaked at more than 1.3 million active listeners. 72.9 million views of the X post about it. Many large accounts were also streaming it – some have guessed the live audience in total might have peaked at about 10 million. Lord only knows how many people will listen over the next few days. Team Trump definitely needs to do an edited version – some of it was outright fantastic and laugh out loud funny. Probably boil it down to a 30 minute “best of” and get 50 million to download it, easy.

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  1. jdge's avatar jdge1 August 12, 2024 / 11:19 pm

    Muslims Stole Election to Get Power in Leftist State

    Among the descriptions of voter fraud within the Muslim communities collected by Project Veritas were threats of intimidation, bribery and secret “midnight meetings” where blank absentee ballots are auctioned to the highest bidder, who is often the elected official.

    Local leftists admitted that they don’t like the new rules implemented by Muslims, adding that burqas, animal sacrifice and the Muslim call to prayer blasting through city loudspeakers five times a day are now standard.

    A former Hamtramck mayor, Karen Majewski, said she is “absolutely positive” that she was ballot harvested out of office in 2021.

    What goes around comes around. Dimwits claim no voter fraud, especially any that would have changed the results. But…  what happens when the dimwits are the “victims”? And where are the courts in these situations? Those who think they can use evil to get ahead will eventually get swallowed up by the very evil they once employed. And then… there’s little they can do about it without exposing the truth.

    https://headlineusa.com/muslims-stole-election-to-get-power-in-leftist-state/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP1700&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan August 13, 2024 / 9:27 am

      It is what they wanted, isn’t it? I mean, they didn’t want to lose power…but they wanted to hate the USA…they forgot that they were part of the USA that is to be hated.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 13, 2024 / 9:59 am

      I think ballot harvesting is the least thing to be concerned about in that article. I want to know why Muslim prayers are being broadcasted. That shit has to stop. Practicing Muslims have no place in American politics. Islam is a political ideology. Not a religion.

  2. Cluster's avatar Cluster August 13, 2024 / 1:41 pm

    So predictable. That’s the narrative alright … that Trump had a lisp LOL. So please hurry back with more Corporate Media talking points. Always refreshing.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 13, 2024 / 2:32 pm

      He wasn’t lisping. Neither was Musk. The sound, called “shushing”, is the result of audio compression.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan August 13, 2024 / 3:24 pm

        And it was in and out – my guess is that so many people were on and coming and going that it had to affect the bandwidth and thus the audio quality. But what was said was far more important than how it sounded…just a wide ranging discussion by two intelligent people who do care how things are going. You don’t have to agree with either of them 100%…but any honest person can tell that the thrust was “how do we fix this?”. That is what, I believe, the American people want and will reward in November. Things are lousy; the country and the world are falling apart…we don’t want canned political talking points…we want a way out of this mess.

  3. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook August 13, 2024 / 2:24 pm

    You have our undying gratitude for listening to the entire interview and reporting back to us. I know that must have been difficult for you.

    Coffee & Covid devoted the first half of today’s post to the interview, including all the links to adverse left-wing media accounts as well as a condensed version of the audio.

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook August 13, 2024 / 2:26 pm

      Sorry, the first part of my reply was aimed at the Herkster’s comment that is no longer there.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan August 13, 2024 / 3:21 pm

      Up to 214.1 million views on Trump’s X account – this was a political event. Democrats are desperate to somehow make it go away…but I do wonder if, at long last, people are just not listening to their Comms operation in the MSM? I saw a clip where some News Actor was being interviewed on Colbert’s show and, sycophant that he is, he was on about how CNN just reports how it is and the audience laughed much to the surprise of MSMer and Colbert. People can see the scam – and they now go elsewhere for news. Especially X…which is why the EU is trying to shut it down. And, of course, the Left in America would like to shut it down. Can you imagine how this year would be going if X was still under the old regime?

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 13, 2024 / 4:03 pm

        X is still a progressive sewer, but at least their comments now are challenged by MAGA, which I do everyday. I have been in contact with Joe Walsh on X and I hope to get invited onto his podcast, but he labels himself a Tea Party Conservative to which I asked him exactly what he has conserved in the last 20 years. He doesn’t have an answer, because there is no answer. I then asked him if he is Tea Party, why is he voting for the party that promises to raise taxes, to which he replied “well Trump is a threat to our democracy” LOL. That’s all they have, and it’s wearing thin

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 13, 2024 / 10:27 pm

        When Trump was president he stood for the idea of legislation being done only by the legislature, not by political appointees running federal agencies making “rules” and “regulations” without the participation or even oversight of Congress, which is our only legal legislative body. He repeatedly told Congress to “do your damned job”. He got legal advice on the scope of his presidential authority and was careful to avoid the phone and pen dictates of presidential agendas like Obama bragged about having, and that Joe Biden engaged in.

        Even the biggest “scandal” of his presidency, the January 6 riot, was intended to be a peaceful, 1st-Amendment-guaranteed petition to the government for redress of a wrong, and it had a specific goal—a request that Congress temporarily postpone its certification of votes for ten days, to give it time to examine the evidence that many of these votes were not legitimate. That was the epitome of exerting a Constitutionally guaranteed right, which was taken away from him when the effort was hijacked and turned into a federal riot, instigated to some degree by federal agencies and enabled by federal indifference.

        Even at my most critical of Trump I can’t remember a single thing he did that expanded presidential authority or the size, scope or power of the federal government. And nothing could be more protective of “our democracy” than fighting for election integrity, because when a nation does not have confidence in the legitimacy of its elections it is no longer functional.

  4. Amazona's avatar Amazona August 13, 2024 / 10:42 pm

    Tim Walz Deployed National Guard to Shoot at Residents to Enforce Curfew

    Nothing says “muh democracy” like having military Humvees full of armed, uniformed soldiers patrolling the streets of neighborhoods and shooting paintballs at people who dared to leave their houses and sit on their own porches during a government-mandated curfew, with a military leader calling out to his troops regarding firing at civilians “light ’em up!”

    And then there is this: Tim Walz Was a COVID-19 Tyrant

    Walz was an enthusiastic promoter of social distancing rules. He described the crowds in public, outdoor spaces as “a little too big.” He even defended Minnesota’s ridiculous hotline for COVID-19 snitches. That’s right: Walz’s government maintained a method for people to report their neighbors for failing to abide by social distancing rules. Walz insisted in a recent interview that “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness”; denouncing one’s neighbors as insufficiently loyal to government policies is a fundamental aspect of socialism, however.

    And Joe Walsh is clutching his pearls and getting the vapors over DONALD TRUMP being “a threat to democracy”? I wonder how he feels about Kamala admitting that she favors collectivism–you know, where individuals don’t matter and might not even exist in the eyes of a government focused on “the collective”.

    These people don’t even try to make sense.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 13, 2024 / 10:56 pm

      In the same vein of government bootheels on the necks of citizens, there is this: I usually link to stories but this is too important to just post a link. It demands to be printed in full:

      In April, PJ Media reported on the story of Rebecca Lavrenz. By way of a refresher, Lavrenz, 72, was present at the January 6 incident. She walked through an open door of the Capitol building and spent all of ten minutes praying in a space normally open to tourists. When FBI agents located her, she was cooperative, even showing the agents a photo of her at the scene. She never struck anyone; she didn’t damage any property or steal a podium. She didn’t pillage Nancy Pelosi’s office or film herself on the congresswoman’s phone. She didn’t even have a buffalo hat to show off. She walked with the rest of the crowd, prayed, and left. She was charged with Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds, Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds, Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building, and Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building. She faced a $210,000 fine and a year in prison for the infraction. She was later found guilty of the misdemeanor charges.

      Lavrenz has received her sentence for the four federal misdemeanors. The National Pulse reports that U.S. District Court Judge Zia Faruqui gave Lavrenz 12 months probation, six months house arrest, a six-month ban on internet usage, and ordered her to pay $500 in restitution. Oh, and then there is the fine of $103,000, which many contend is one of the largest, if not the largest, fines for misdemeanors in the history of the country. National Pulse noted:

      In his sentencing memo, Biden-Harris U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves opined that because Lavrenz had pointed out the political persecution of J6ers, she should be considered “unrepentant” in her “promotion of the riot.” That, Graves laughably claims, “is powerful evidence that she continues to pose a threat to future acts of political violence.”

      The outlet reported that Lavrenz must have government monitoring software on her phone and computer and is prohibited from meeting with her elected officials at the Capitol without the permission of her probation officer. Her defense team argued against the internet ban, which would inhibit Lavrenz’s ability to run her business, a bed and breakfast, check her email, or even use online banking. Faruqui said the order would keep Lavrenz from spreading “inflammatory material online.” The judge maintained that this was particularly important, given the upcoming presidential election. The National Pulse also said:

      “I don’t know why being the J6 Praying Grandmother is more important than being an actual grandmother,” Faruqui said. He also criticized her involvement in what he described as a misguided ministry, stating, “Your faith is being misplaced right now” and suggesting that her ministry to strangers was less important than her obligations to her family.

      According to The National Pulse, Faruqui is a Muslim, which may be germane to this story in light of the comment above since Lavrenz is a Christian. Religious differences aside, Lavrenz’s great “crime” was to follow the herd into the building, spend ten minutes in prayer, and walk out. For that, she was given the smorgasbord of penalties listed above. Once again, we see that there is no crime small enough that can be committed by a conservative to escape the hammer of two-tiered justice.

      Finally, there is the characterization by Matthew Graves that this 72-year-old grandmother is a threat for future acts of violence. Apparently, praying is considered by Mr. Graves, the Department of Justice, and the Biden administration to be an act of violence. This speaks volumes about the character of the people in charge of the government at the moment and what we can expect with a Harris-Walz victory in November.

      It doesn’t get much clearer than this: Freedom of speech can be suppressed by a tyrannical judge, to hell with the Constitution. A Muslim judge criticizes the way a Christian woman practices her faith and acts to keep her from making political statements he characterizes as “inflammatory”, a couple of blatant 1st Amendment violations right there.

      Factor this with what we are learning about Walz and his petty tyranny as governor and Harris’s admissions of her political belief systems before she realized she would be running for office and had to start rewriting her own history and the final comment of the article—–that this is a warning about what we could expect from a Harris-Walz presidency—-is ominous but relevant.

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook August 14, 2024 / 9:06 am

        I don’t get really mad about much any more, but this article makes me extremely angry. You’ve often asked Cluster and me who we would shoot, and if I was a retired Navy Seal instead of a retired Navy Spook (and if I were 40 years younger), and if I was inclined to violence (which I’m not), I think I’d start with Judge Faruqui and Federal Prosecutor Matthew Graves. In fact, my initial list would be every prosecutor and judge who treated ordinary citizens like terrorists. Then I’d move on to the personnel who run the Federal Detention Center in DC where January 6th detainees were treated like garbage. Sort of like the old lawyer joke: what do you call 50 lawyers tied together and weighted down in the ocean with cement blocks? A good start.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 11:50 am

        Well, you finally answered my question “who would you shoot?” and here I agree with you. These abuses of power are criminal, and should be prosecuted. As a matter of fact, I think it is the specter of prosecution that drives the Left to do everything in its power to keep Trump out of office.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 14, 2024 / 10:05 am

        Spook, it may come to that. The propaganda media is at a level I never thought possible, and the Deep States actions are very alarming. Hell, they just tied to assassinate him. I think they all know that they have crossed the rubicon with the American people and will do everything in their power to see that DJT never becomes President, because he is their existential threat, and I believe they may enact Marshall Law. And that’s where it will get real.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 12:03 pm

        “martial law” but I know what you mean and you may be right. The level of desperation is growing. Imposing martial law would be problematic in a situation that is purely to establish and maintain political power, without the excuse of dealing with violence or a true insurrection.

        he Posse Comitatus Act consists of just one sentence: “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

        In practice, this means that members of the military who are subject to the law may not participate in civilian law enforcement unless doing so is expressly authorized by a statute or the Constitution.

        There are, of course, loopholes and conditions under which the military could be dispatched by the president, but it is unlikely that merely forcing recalcitrant citizens, or states, into submission would qualify.

        (BTW, I just saw Trump’s ear wound from a different angle, and it was pretty scary. I had thought, somehow, that the bullet went through top of his ear, because there was blood there, but from the other angle you could see that it went through the very edge of the ear right next to his skull. They came that close to taking him out. And many are quite open about their wishes that they had.)

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 14, 2024 / 1:08 pm

        … And many are quite open about their wishes that they had.

        And that’s what is so disturbing. Trump has always said, “they are not after me, they’re after you, and I’m just in the way”. They have shown us who they are … and we need to believe them. They will stop at nothing unless stopped. And I volunteer for the resistance.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 14, 2024 / 9:36 am

      And let’s not forget, Walz’s wife loved the smell of burning small businesses, many have of which have never recovered, from the George Floyd/Antifa riots. A restauranteur from MN was on yesterday detailing her brush with Walz’s tyranny. He not only shut her business down, Walz threatened her with fines and jail time if she persisted in running her business … think about that. Purely unAmerican, and that’s exactly who Democrats have become.

      One day not too long from now, America will learn the extent of the Biden crime family and it will be extensive. In the process, I hope the Clinton crime family is exposed too. The damage those two have done to this country is immeasurable.

      https://justthenews.com/government/hunter-biden-asked-state-department-help-lucrative-deal-italy-while-burisma

  5. Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 9:18 am

    Harris Campaign Busted Spoofing News Outlets In Headline-Altering Ad Scheme

    Despite corporate media’s unabashed u-turn to support Kamala Harris, her campaign has been busted creating made-up headlines next to the names of real news outlets to trick people into thinking they’ve stumbled upon the real thing, Axios reports.

    Upon hearing the news, The Guardian lost their shit, telling Axios: “While we understand why an organization might wish to align itself with the Guardian’s trusted brand, we need to ensure it is being used appropriately and with our permission. We’ll be reaching out to Google for more information about this practice.”

    The ads include links to real articles from the outlets, however the headlines and supporting text were altered.

  6. Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 11:22 am

    OK, I am now officially terrified. Information can do that.

    By early October Harris will lead in every swing state – by a point or two – maybe even 1 point behind. Does not matter – the election will not be decided by who gets the most votes – rather who gets the most ballots.

    Trump has a useless strategy to hire 100,000 poll watchers to insure mail-in ballots, from NGO ballot mills – be properly counted.

    I just discovered a Substack website, Omega4America, that is evidently a bunch of pointy-headed computer types who apply technology to events and come up with some seriously scary stuff.

    The RNC and state parties are following a “chase the ballot strategy” – which Leftists used for decades – but they left out the most important part!

    What the RNC misses is the Ballot Manufacturing Strategy the Leftists also use to juice up ballot harvesting. 

    If one implements a ballot harvesting strategy, it will alway lose to a ballot harvesting PLUS ballot manufacturing strategy. 100% of the time.

    Ballot manufacturing is the long term aggregation on voter rolls of fake people, real people at fake addresses, real people at real addresses which are ineligible, like a Walmart, illegal aliens who will never show up – but will get a mail-in ballot.

    In Arizona, as we showed in countless Zoom calls, the government, in 2022, added over 22,000 voters at the last minute – in a single county alone, and they changed the zip codes of 33,000 people around the time mail-in ballots went out – and Lake lost by 17,000 votes.

    This was invisible to Kari Lake and her data team – they used obsolete relational/SQL technology.

    So tell me, in 2024, how is ballot harvesting going to help Kari Lake when the Arizona government can jack with the official election data rolls – add tens of thousands of voters at the last minute – and the RNC relational database technology is just blind to it?

    People – this is BALLOT MANUFACTURING. It comes in many variants – but it is creating the identities needed to win!

    Leftists do it.

    State governments (Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin) do it.

    NGOs do it (Georgia)

    (videos are posted on Rumble at Omega4America.)

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 11:47 am

      Note that in the Arizona example, above, “the government” was the Secretary of State, who was also Lake’s opponent, and who had the ability to add these “over 22,000 voters at the last minute” and also “change(d) the zip codes of 33,000 people around the time mail-in ballots went out”.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 14, 2024 / 11:50 am

        Kris Mayes is her name, she “won” by a few hundred votes and vehemently opposed all calls for a recount.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 12:04 pm

      broken link

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook August 14, 2024 / 12:53 pm

        It worked for me. Hilarious!

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 1:10 pm

        I just got this:
        ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 1:14 pm

        Got it, thanks, and loved it

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 5:53 pm

      I have always been an Anglophile. My husband and I used to spend a month or so every year in England and I have always been in awe of the courage and fortitude of the English people in WW II. So to see this decline, and to see it happen so fast, is really scary. We can blame the uncontrolled immigration but it still comes back to Brits allowing it to take over their country.

      I was in London five and a half years ago, for a few days, and was thinking of going back for a week or so—there is a nice nonstop from Denver to Heathrow and I wanted to spend more time at the National Gallery and see some plays. There was some stupidity while I was there—gaggles of the typically smug, vapid, preening idiocy of “protestors” enjoying blocking off streets and being pests— but it didn’t seem to define the country. I always pay a lot of attention to cab drivers, and they all seemed sane, and also all liked Trump, which I thought was interesting. But in about three short years it had gotten so bad I stopped even considering going there.

      So I think you’re right—stick a fork in ’em cause they’re done.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 6:06 pm

        Many years ago I read a book called “That Hideous Strength” by C.S. Lewis that had an immense impact on me—it conveyed a tactile sense of evil I couldn’t get past, even when I went back years later and read it again. One theme of the book was that over the centuries Britain—not England, per se, but an entity more profound than just the name England that defines the country on a deeper and more historic and spiritual level—faced many dangers to its very existence, and every time this happened a figure arose, a figure so powerful that it ended up saving Britain. This entity was called the Pendragon, and over the years one pendragon had been Arthur and one was Churchill. He wrote the book in 1945 and I think it was obvious that the evil threatening the very existence of Britain at that time was the Nazi scourge, which is what brought Churchill out of retirement. (Most Americans don’t realize that he was reviled in a way only equaled by the hatred of Trump.)

        As I watch England teetering on the cliff of extinction as anything recognizable in its past or heritage I wonder if another pendragon will come forth, and what it will take to call it. (I also wonder if the United States, in the worst threat to its very soul since its inception, will get a pendragon of our own.)

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster August 14, 2024 / 6:55 pm

        I’ve always wanted to go there but like you, I think I will put the brakes on that. I have been to Germany, loved it, and to France, so there are just three more overseas places I still want to see, UK/Ireland/Scotland, Spain, Italy, but due to time, money, and the fact that I still want to see more of this country, we have decided to go to Italy next year or 2026. Plan is to fly into Milan, rent a car, and travel for 3 weeks, and then flying out of Naples. And it’s fun making those plans. I hope the world doesn’t interfere with those plans … lol

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 8:47 pm

        I’m hearing great things about Portugal.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 10:10 pm

        Before Covid I was planning to do a program where I would spend six weeks in a city in Italy, living in an apartment and taking language lessons, cooking lessons, art history lessons etc during the week and exploring the countryside on weekends. By the time it was relatively safe to travel—and by that I mean not being afraid of being put in quarantine for two weeks due to a test result, which happened to a friend in Rome—-I had decided to be a snowbird instead and by the time I divide my time between the West (Colorado and Wyoming) and the South ( Florida) there isn’t a time of year when I feel like going somewhere else for a couple of weeks. And with most of Europe either going over a cliff or getting close to it I am fine where I am for now.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan August 14, 2024 / 8:48 pm

        Labour has an indestructible majority based on 33.7% of the vote and if you look at the results the overwhelming number of Labour votes came from a few urban areas where the foreign savages have been settled under the rule of the Tories. They can keep this electoral model going for quite a long time and just make it more Labour with more foreign savages.

        Britain is done. Unless the British people grow a backbone and take it back by force, they’ll eventually wind up a despised minority in their own country.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan August 14, 2024 / 8:42 pm

      All the fun is on our side.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona August 14, 2024 / 10:10 pm

        I’ve noticed that.

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