"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
~Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
Disney is being cancelled by the right, using a tactic similar to Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals rule about isolating a target. That's what happened to Bud Light. That's what happened to Target. Next in line, it appears is Disney, as they were one of many companies claiming they did not want to advertise on Twitter / X. Elon Musk told them where to go with their advertising boycott. But to be honest, the Disney debacle preceded the Twitter kerfuffle.
This is what happens when the mainstream of America, not the mainstream media, actually don't put up with woke extremism.
In light of the illegal immigrant cost crisis which I alluded to in my previous post, New York City has started cutting police funding. This, in order to help cover costs for illegal immigrants who are shrewdly being transferred there by Texas to share the load (i.e. experience the pain their liberal policies have been inflicting on others). NYC has responded to the cost issue not by demanding border control but by cutting police costs. The unintended consequence (or perhaps deliberately intended "defund the police") is police quitting.
New York liberals are now getting pretty much what they want - open borders and somewhat defunded police. And now, it's having an impact they don't like. Poor babies.
Read Eagle Politics takes a look at the wonky NY Times' potential short list of Donald Trump's 2024 VP choices. I don't entirely agree with Red Eagle's take on every candidate, though he makes some good points. The NY Times' assessment of pros and cons for each potential candidate is mostly laughable as you would expect. Frankly however, the idea of having an article about this shows me a couple of things because it is so early in the process.
Think about it, not one state has held a primary yet. Yes, president Trump holds a massive lead and no one else is going to win. Despite every laughable effort by the leftist political-media complex to discredit and disqualify him, the NY Times has basically admitted that president Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee for 2024. Maybe they are using this as a way to try to skewer potential running mates. They mention Trump's age with more than just a hint of foreshadowing part of how they might go after Trump. That in itself is an interesting takeaway. If they are going after Trump for his age, does that mean the older, senile Let's Go Brandon is not going to be the Democratic nominee for 2024? It makes you wonder a bit. Despite all the whispers, I've always suspected that Democrats would stick with Let's Go Brandon in 2024. Now I'm less sure. True it may be the leftist media and Democrats' desire Brandon steps down but was it ever going to materialize? Maybe so now.
Going back to the first point, it tells me the lawsuits against president Trump are expected, even on the left, to fail. The NY Times has basically admitted it with this article. Reason to be cheerful. But it also shows the real reason they were doing it; to smear him. The great thing about Donald Trump is that those smears only reverberate in their echo chamber.
CityTV is a far left Toronto television station, one of the worst in Canada, and this panel response to Pierre Poilievre's legitimate response to a reporter trying to pin something unjustly on him, shows how much of a panic the leftist media in Canada has gotten with Justin Trudeau's free-fall in polling. People are fed up with Trudeau (finally), but also they are starting to question the media; something the media is not going to take lying down obviously.
The Canadian media has been aggressively leftist for decades. This responses shows out their true colors, is truly awful and totally misses the point. They are lying to their audience and frankly to themselves. They are tone deaf, delusional and they have been excusing Trudeau for far, FAR worse than this pointed, intelligent and entirely reasonable response.
Clearly New York Mayor Eric Adams has upset the Democrat elites, the FBI has taken his phone and iPad. He's not onboard with Let's Go Brandon's open border policy, but is there anything else going on that we don't know about?
The Hill welcomes Michael Shellenberger to discuss how Media Matters tried to ruin Twitter a.k.a. X using slimey, underhanded and untruthful media manipulation:
Texas AG follows up on Elon Musk's complaint about Media Matters and it's about time conservatives start using the law against the left. They refuse to do so at their own peril. The culture war can only be won if you actually, you know, fight it.
Argentina is just the latest country to elect for president someone the media would dismiss as a far right radical. Except if 55% of the country voted for the guy, maybe far-right isn't the correct term. I think it falls into the Princess Bride category of "you keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The correct term would be populist, or maybe 'common sense candidate'.
Keynes advocated deficit spending and is the basis for modern leftist economic policies. Friedrich Hayek, a classical economist, explained long ago why the basis of Keynes' ideas were wrong. This is very important to understand, Keynes was smart, but he was not an economist.
Leftists are supporting this filth - Let's Go Brandon throwing a lavish party for other elites. You voted for this self-indulgent elitism, leftist. I hope you are proud, these are your tax dollars at 'work':
Sanctuary cities, pro-illegal immigration Democrats are reaping what they have sewn, in cities like New York, and it's hard not to laugh at their plight:
A television channel in Canada, normally landing between far left and very far left, faces the reality on the ground in Canada. That reality? Justin Trudeau is destroying the liberal left (the Liberal party) and as a bonus, the socialist left (NDP) and it's starting to look irreversible for the left, at least for the next federal election.
Nikki Haley is not a serious contender for the GOP presidential nominee for 2024. But you can't vote for her in future years either because this, is symptomatic of what is wrong with government:
Internet overlord Nikki Haley. Yikes. She pretty much self-disqualified on that "second thing" comment.
Three different sources I've read/heard today are saying that the Democrats' attack line for the 2024 presidential election will be Trump = Hitler. Just like Bush = Hitler was used. It's as brain-dead as it is baseless. They have no playbook anymore; You're racist. You're sexist. You are a homophobe. You are transphobe. You're a fascist. You're Hitler. If you don't agree, if you are their political adversary, that's their go to argument. That is their playbook. It's all they've got because they certainly don't have reason or sense or facts on their side. Nevertheless, be ready for it:
West Virginia stood a decent chance of flipping its senate seat to Republican in 2024. That just became a strong chance, as Joe Manchin in West Virginia has decided to not seek reelection for his senate seat.
Despite holding out for a lot of conservative voters' causes (coal, fiscal responsibility, and some others), Manchin has remained a Democrat vote and has all too often sided with, or ceded to, far left Democrats on important votes and issues. Replacing Manchin in an otherwise dependable conservative-voting state is a good thing and the urgency of doing so makes the timing of this announcement perfect for conservative voters.
FBI, not in the Constitution. This is not to say there is not a need for some interstate police functionality; if a terrorist crosses the border in Texas, commits an act of terror in that state and then skips across the border to Oklahoma, there has to be a way to deal with that. The FBI, as it exists, is not the best answer to that problem.
Vivek Ramaswamy took it to every at the GOP debate last night, brilliant. He tore into the media, the GOP, and did not hold back. He was the clear winner. He may end up as VP and that would not be bad.
The United States can be infuriating. Here's how you fix voting, and how most civilized countries do it, or should do it if they don't:
Photo ID and recent proof of address for voters
Ballot/poll watchers from all parties present at every polling location
Hand counted ballots in every polling precinct
No calling of results in a riding until all poll watchers from parties have signed off
Recourse for recounts under certain conditions
Why is that so hard in the United States? Additionally, specific to the United States, why not make election day a national holiday? No mail-in ballots except for overseas military. If you are a civilian out of the country, tough luck. I know that's disenfranchising, but it's a relatively small number of people and if it were that important to you, you'd plan for it. Sorry, not sorry. Also, why do some Democrat states take a week for votes to get counted? And in those cases there is always a Democrat surge from behind. It's bull and everyone knows it. In your quest for power you are destroying the democratic process and the concept of democracy itself.
The above 5 requirements are not disenfranchising, they make sure every vote is counted, once, and ghost votes are not counted. That empowers real voters. Corruption in the voting process is the real disenfranchisement of voters. Instead, we get crap like this:
Hopefully it's not too late for America, but it is getting grim.
From the beginning I didn't understand why conservatives and libertarians were giving RFK Jr. a pass. I mean fundamentally when he was running a primary against Let's Go Brandon, I understood why: it was to divide Democrats and negatively impact their votes. But suddenly RFK Jr decided to run as an independent and I wondered, why didn't conservative pundits see this coming? All the while they were giving runway to RFK Jr to steal away votes not from Let's Go Brandon but rather from Donald Trump.
Even if he were a serious contender for president, this is concerning enough to disqualify him from consideration:
He's a leftist, period. If that doesn't show you it, you are willfully blind.
The Democrat playbook for 2024 is to make president Trump fight a multi-front war. They know they cannot beat him in a straight up political battle. So they have decided to make president Trump fight in court for a bunch of spurious charges and actions. One court case wasn't enough, either. They have started multiple court cases because they need president Trump's attention divided.
Whether RFK Jr. is in on the game plan or not, doesn't matter at this point. In addition to the multi-front war Donald Trump has to fight in court, he now has to also worry about RFK Jr. siphoning off populist voters in addition to Let's Go Brandon's giant cheat-machine manufacturing voters to help him win. Despite the positive polling news, this is still an uphill battle for president Trump's re-election in 2024.
Meanwhile in Canada, there is hope. According to 338Canada (Canada's version of the RealClearPolitics average of polls), as of October 27th, 2023, the Conservative Party of Canada has an average support of 41%, versus Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party at 27%, the socialist NDP party at 18%, and the remainder of the larger national parties at a combined 14%. 41% may sound abysmal and Let's Go Brandon level of support but in Canada there are 5 national parties trying to compete (although one is a regional party and two are quite small in terms of potential). 41% provides a 95% probability that the Conservative party of Canada, led by Pierre Poilievre, would claim a majority government if an election were held today.
In Canada's parliamentary system, the House of Commons serves as both the executive and legislative branch. A majority conservative government would be like Republicans winning the House, Senate and the White House all at once. A lot of Trudeau damage could be undone. Unfortunately we are likely still a long way away from an election as the Trudeau government has a signed deal with the socialist NDP part to form a coalition government through to 2025. Despite having a minority government subject to non-confidence motions, and being subject to forced elections, thanks to this agreement, Justin Trudeau need not worry right now and he is free to try to buy back votes with hypocritical, cynical, and politically motivated changes to his own environmental policy (for example). Worse, he has time to get that strategy to work. I don't think it will ultimately work, but Trudeau still has time to do significant damage to Canada, on top of the terrible things he's done in the last eight years.
ADDENDUM: I thought sharing this video might help explain what Justin Trudeau brazenly is trying to do.
Below is a good review of Sweden's failures, for when you have to discuss diversity with a leftist who claims Scandinavia is an example of the positive impact of multiculturalism.
