Happy New Year

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2024.

Sunday verse

 

Maine is an idiot

Maine has gotten into the act of trying to ban president Trump from the 2024 ballot. This too will fail.

Colorado chickens out on Trump

President Trump is back on the ballot. I knew this would happen, but I'm not sure if it was the Michigan decision not to remove him, the fact that it would go to the Supreme Court and they would lose and look like idiots, or just that the left has finally realized that they are helping Trump, not hurting him, with all the lawfare.

Well at least Michigan got it right.

President Trump not removed from the ballot.

Escalation in the Middle East

U.S. and Iran leaning into the regional conflict between Israel and Hamas:

Merry Christmas

 

Christmas Eve Carols

Sunday verse

 

Off the next few days

I'll be with family the next few days. I wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Oops! Did she just say that?

New York Attorney General Letitia James, Democrat, just said the judge ruled in her favor before the kangaroo court trail of president Donald Trump even began. WTF?

Quotes of the day

Two quotes stood out to me today as synopses of the Colorado court's ill advised decision to remove president Trump from the 2024 ballot.

Victor Davis Hanson on the lie behind it, and the blindly partisan absurdity of the ruling itself:

An “insurrectionist” president does not address unarmed protestors with qualifiers like, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

How also can one be guilty of insurrection without ever being indicted for such a supposed crime, much less convicted of it? 

Tim Donner on the inevitable outcome of it that will once again slap the Democrat party in the face:

This time, four left-wing Colorado justices attempting to kneecap Trump were not even going to wait on due process – the very foundation of law – to effectively declare Trump guilty of insurrection, a crime for which he has not, repeat not, even been charged. After believing their attempts to wipe Trump off the ballot would be a knockout punch, it is the left that is about to get walloped to the canvas with a right hook. 

...Leftists constantly indicting Trump have actually gotten the reaction they envisioned: forcing the GOP to support Trump. The idea was that Biden would then sail to another term against a convicted criminal sure to repel the American electorate in the end. The strategy has turned into the most classic backfire we have witnessed in some time.

Some reactions to Colorado trying to disqualify president Trump

Dave Rubin shares president Trump's reaction, Robert F. Kennedy's reaction and a bit of his own. I already shared Vivek Ramaswamy's great reaction, as well as my own thoughts that go into the why and the eventual consequences for Democrats.

Every GOP candidate must do this TODAY.

Vivek Ramaswamy being a standup guy, doing the right thing in response to the absurd Colorado court ruling regarding president Trump's ballot eligibility.  Any GOP candidate who does not, has put their own political career ahead of what's right. We will notice it.  

My analysis on the political impact, the Democrat motivation and the unintended consequences, here.

President Trump WILL be on the ballot in Colorado

Colorado has ruled that Donald Trump cannot be on the ballot in Colorado for the Republican primaries or seemingly for the general election for 2024. If you noticed how the legal cases against president Trump made him more popular, just watch what this does for him.  His popularity will rise even more.  This clearly marks a dark authoritarian turn by the Democrats.  If it happened in some Central American country we would be up in arms about that nation being in a dictatorship.  But it's happening in America.  People, especially independent voters, will notice this.

Democrats seem to believe that president Trump's support comes from some sort of cult-of-personality-based underpinning.  It's not.  His 2016 support was based on Make America Great Again which ran the gamut of border security, economic strength and America First principles among other similar notions.  While that was true, it's no longer the case. With each phony impeachment, each indictment, each attempt to deny him the chance to run again (like this latest legal attempt by Colorado), his popularity is growing not because of his core supporters, it's because people see the attempt to railroad an outsider and they don't like it.  They see the establishment going after a high profile outsider and think, if they can do that to him, they can do that to anyone, including me.

This is also voter disenfranchisement of the highest order. If Donald Trump is your candidate, you've been told your vote does not count in Colorado. Democrats have complained about voter disenfranchisement seemingly forever. But it's lip service; they just want to win elections by making it easier for them to harvest ballots without scrutiny.   It's obvious. Only conservatives have noticed to date.  But here they are doing exactly what they claim to be against. Why?  Because it was never about voter disenfranchisement, it's always been about control; controlling the narrative or in this case controlling the outcome of elections.

Nobody wants that level of control over their lives.  Sure, many Democrats want that level of control over other people's lives, but not their own. Hardcore Democrat supporters want conformity to their own ideas.  "Think like me." The establishment is similar but it's more like, "think like we tell you." But those two groups represent a small minority of Americans, thank God. And an additional blessing, they seem blind to consequences of their actions.  There will be unintended consequences.

Firstly let me say that due to the short timeline, this will immediately be raised to the Supreme Court, and it will be immediately be overturned. The 14th Amendment being used to kick president Trump off the ballot, is a federal matter. Colorado does not get to decide this. Furthermore, the president is not included in the wording of the amendment, only specific officers.  There is no way this gets upheld at SCOTUS. 

Maybe the unintended consequences that will hit Democrats are not so unintended.  Their end game could be something other than keeping Trump off the ballot.  It could be for example, an attempt to discredit the Supreme Court after they decide in Trump's favor, so that they can once again meddle with the governance and makeup of the Supreme Court.  Because the Supreme Court will side with Trump; he will be on the ballot in Colorado in 2024.

Or, in an even more sinister take, maybe it's a backdoor way to get Let's Go Brandon off the Democrat ticket.  He's trailing president Trump in most polls, most importantly in a lot of swing state polls. If this further exacerbates the gap between Trump and Let's Go Brandon for Democrats, it provides them more fodder to demand he step aside.  "Oh, look at this shiny new candidate (Gavin Newsom, or Michelle Obama) we have for you.  Surely they are a better option than Trump would be, right?

I would not put either scenario, or both past Democrats. They are insidious. They are evil. They represent decay and disorder, and they must be stopped at the ballot box. 

Inspiring words from a former Democrat

Tulsi Gabbard, sounding like a Republican.

Trudeau in trouble

Justin Trudeau is in real trouble.  Canada's Global News, not a conservative bastion by any stretch, had this report yesterday, showing how badly Canadians want him gone.

An addendum, a spot-on analysis of Justin Trudeau by Jordan Peterson.

And a further addendum, some more recent polling showing the same thing - liberals are hurting, mostly due to Trudeau:

This.

This was too good not to share. From Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics, the quote of the week:

What the talking heads don’t want to admit is that voters have been paying attention for months, and they are sending a message to the elites that they will make up their own minds, thank you very much. And that goes for blacks, Hispanics, and young voters, too – not just MAGA Republicans. Polls show Trump gaining support in all those demographics, and either tied with President Biden or ahead of him nationally.

...As the polls show, they have been paying attention to the persecution of Donald Trump by his political opponents, and they don’t like it. They are paying attention to the variety of third-party candidates who have said they will run in 2024, and when those candidates are included in polls, Trump’s lead in battleground states increases from 5 points to 7. They are paying attention to the blossoming debt crisis that Congress and Biden have shown no interest in addressing. They are paying attention to the border, where millions of military-age males have been arriving from Africa, the Middle East, and across the world, some on the terrorism watch list. They are paying attention to the unaffordability of housing, whether rental or purchased, and they are paying attention to their own growing credit card balances and their shriveled savings accounts. They are paying attention to those Ivy League college presidents who think threats of genocide are only a problem if they are carried out.

Sorry, Democrats. Sorry, Joe Biden. Sorry, congressional dead weights of both parties. Sorry, elites and talking heads. We have been paying attention, and we are coming for you. You can’t hide behind your fake narrative any longer. The truth has set us free.

This is fact. 

MSNBC's Democrat shill gets called out and hates it

She can't stand the heat because the truth inconveniences and contravenes the big lie she is helping shill.

Van Jones shaking in his boots

Van Jones IS a demagogue. He accused Vivek Ramaswamy of being one.  Here's the lowdown in case you missed it:

"Nazi propaganda." Van Jones

Vivek is speaking facts. Van Jones doesn't like it and is posturing his feelings for effect. Period.

Sunday verse, an explainer

A quick explanation of each book of the Bible, both Old Testament and New Testament, for those who have never read it cover to cover.

Can you say "railroad"?

Letitia James self-exposes her and the judge's attempts to railroad president Trump.  Viva Frei explains:

Which Christmas would you prefer?

Which White House Christmas would you prefer to experience? For me this is an obvious choice.  The Jill Biden stuff isn't over the top awful, but it's not good. It's fairly bad. But the Melania Trump versions were excellent.

Surface level vs. underlying meaning

This is a great take by Red Eagle Politics.

Yeah, it was stolen

Not just because of what's in the video below, also for example, FBI suppressing the true Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation.  Voter fraud is a massive problem, so is systemic institutional cheating.

Justin Trudeau: even more wrong than we thought

Canada's liberal government, led by communist-China-admirer Justin Trudeau is sending Canadian taxpayer money to a bank run by the Chinese Communist Party.  It's so stupid it has to have been purposefully done.  It turns out the green agenda is probably more important than both national security and taxpayers' money.

Rumble gets dragged under the swamp

Rumble, a free speech alternative to YouTube, is currently under a cyber attack. The swamp?  Google targeting a competitor?  Whatever, it doesn't matter. It's all part of the same swamp: the mainstream media, big tech and big government socialists. This is not good for liberty, not good for competition,  and not good for America.  These are all the things they are trying to snuff out.

Obummer's anti-white conspiracy theory film

Is former president Obama a racist? Tim Pool discusses the Obama film in a broader context.

B'uh bye Kevin

Kevin McCarthy, not sorry to see you go. Via Red Eagle Politics:

BlackRock forcing behaviors (bad behaviors)

Forcing behavior is coercion.  It's legally wrong, it's morally wrong, and BlackRock reflects that evil.

Ouch!

The Let's Go Brandon economy?  Even worse than you thought, according to JP Morgan.

Need more info to get a sense of how bad it is?  Check out this YouTube post from Benny Johnson.

Yep, it's THAT bad.

What's Next in the Hunter Biden charges? (Part 2 of 2)

Answering my headline question in two words, Gavin Newsom.  Previously I mentioned that as the charges against Hunter Biden stack up and become more and more concrete and eventually become irrefutable, expect the Let's Go Brandon administration to mount a campaign of obstruction to stop the GOP and others from compiling evidence, stacking charges and/or making any headway whatsoever. They could succeed, but if they don't, it could be worse, much worse.

Tomi Lahren explains my biggest concern:

Let's Go Brandon, outside of a massive election fraud, cannot win the 2024 election. Many Democrats know this. They have two options, assist in the stonewalling as they have for the past 4 years, or cut him loose. If the charges proceed with sudden Democrat 'support', it means they want Gavin Newsom to face president Trump instead of Let's Go Brandon. That's because despite Newsom's horrible, terrible, terrifically bad record in California, and him arguably being the worst governor in the history of California, he's slick. 

Slick doesn't fool Xi Jinping, or many Americans, it fools enough of them to sometimes win elections. Newsom is as slick as he is awful. And there's one thing Democrats love, it's slick.  Barack Obama was slick. "Slick Willy" was Rush Limbaugh's truly apt nickname for Bill Clinton.

President Trump has to win in 2024.  America cannot withstand another Democrat, deep-state, corrupt, selfish, politically driven administration. Gavin Newsom for all his faults, is a less well-known commodity. He has many advantages as a candidate over Let's Go Brandon. He even has many advantages as a candidate over president Trump; he's more polished (which matters to many voters), he's more articulate which give allows him to sidestep debate or interviewer questions rather than answering them (that's slick). Gavin Newsom would definitely outperform Let's Go Brandon, and in 2024 with all the nefarious voting oddities to come, president Trump will need every possible advantage to win.  Despite his popularity, despite his leads in swing states, somehow this election will end up being questionably close, just like 2020.  The biggest advantage president Trump has right now is the resolute awfulness of Let's go Brandon himself.  I say let's keep that in our back pocket.

I'm not saying the charges and investigations into Hunter Biden should be dropped.  They are yet another albatross around the neck of Let's Go Brandon.  I'm saying they need to be done on a precise schedule.  They should not be slow-walked through Congress, but neither should they be rushed.  The findings, the charges, the convictions, the linkage to Let's Go Brandon all need to be timed in such a way that Democrats do not feel an urgency to replace Let's Go Brandon on the ticket at any point along the way until it's too late to do so. The progress should not derail Let's Go Brandon's re-nomination.  The culmination of linkage of money between Hunter Biden and Let's Go Brandon should not happen right after the primary season either. It has to wait until Brandon's name is on the ballot in most states - at least the swing states.  That will prevent Democrats from pulling the old switcharoo on America. 

What's Next in the Hunter Biden charges? (Part 1 of 2)

With the situation with the Hunter Biden charges getting worse and worse for Let's Go Brandon, there's a lot of potential fallout politically.  Firstly, expect the Let's Go Brandon administration to stonewall and obstruct on Hunter Biden's behalf.  It's something that eventually will likely lead right back to Let's Go Brandon. What choice does Let's Go Brandon have besides trying to derail the legitimate investigations?

Fox Business discusses:

If the administration succeeds, or succeeds for long enough, it's bad for America. However if they fail, it might actually be worse. Either way, this won't be the last of the fallout from the Hunter Biden (part 2 follows), it gets much worse for America.

Explosive new Hunter Biden charges revealed

 Via Fox News:

This Hunter Biden thing is getting worse and worse for Let's Go Brandon.

Nikki Haley looked like a deer in the headlights

Vivek Ramaswamy went after his opponents in the last Republican debate and Nikki Haley looked like a deer in the headlights.

Bullying Jews at Harvard

How do these people remain in their jobs? Anti-Semitism is wrong, how hard is that to say? Apparently for people like Dr. Claudine Gray, president of Harvard, pretty hard.  That's because they only want to punish people for hate speech if it's hate speech with which they disagree.

Another election projection analysis

Not mine, this is from Election Projection Official:

This is inspiring

 James O'Keefe talks about courage.

KJP "run away!"

 Remember the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Check out this vversion of that act, when KJP is confronted with a serious question about the Let's Go Brandon crime syndicate and the new evidence coming out about it:

Is the Pope a communist

According to Javier Milei, incoming president of Argentina, thinks it's so. He thinks the Pope is a communist.  He makes a good case.  I've always thought the current Pope was a socialist (communist-lite), but that's just splitting hairs.  Here Milei talks to Tucker Carlson about the Pope and communism and socialism in general.

Predictions of Trump 2024

Depending on who you ask, outside of the Mainstream media, there are a variety of positions people hold on whether president Trump can retake the White House in 2024. The mainstream media has hinted at worry about a Trump re-election, but they still mostly maintain, at least in their presentation, that Let's Go Brandon has been a great president, and at most, Donald Trump is a minor worry.  A few examples of this follow:

Vox magazine in April said that Biden’s presidency had “an exceptionally productive first few years.” The Atlantic magazine likewise declared the first two years of Biden’s presidency as “among the most productive of any president in the past half century.” Jonathan Lemire of Politico said on “Morning Joe” that “Joe Biden’s first years in office were extraordinarily successful.”

Wow, you'd have to be spectacularly insulated to believe that tripe.  Unfortunately many voters are that insulated from reality. It in fact may have been "extraordinarily successful" if you look at it from the perspective of Xi Xinping, or similar types. No, what they hope is that their literal propaganda in support of Let's Go Brandon is extraordinarily successful. 

But once you step outside of those trying to influence a particular outcome, you get a very different perspective. Kurt Schlichter for example, a DeSantis supporter who would solidly support Trump if he were the nominee had this to say:

I still remain unconvinced that Donald Trump is likely to win in November 2024. In my view, way too many people irrationally hate him and will never vote for him. But I could be wrong. There’s evidence that I am, coming from competent people who do not have an interest in twisting their analysis to fit some preconceived result.

His longer form summarization seems to be that Trump is not the favorite, but nevertheless, very well could win in 2024.

Sean Trende at RCP, whom Schlichter references in his piece, has a slightly different take.  He thinks it's too far out to speculate, but:

These all make for fun speculation and are useful reminders that if a week is a lifetime in politics, then a year is, well, a very, very long time. Analysts should, of course, feel free to indulge in gaming out the possibilities.

But when the conversation returns to what we do know, there honestly is only one correct answer: Trump can win this election, and is well-positioned to do so.

He's more optimistic and seems to feel like, as of this moment, president Trump could be considered the favorite.  The caveat, is the time; the election is almost a year away. Sean Trende is a numbers guy and his interpretations are not to be take lightly.

The betting odds at RCP make Trump the prohibitive favorite to emerge from the GOP primary.  The GOP primary of course is not the White House.   And between the party's nomination, which Trump is highly likely to win, and the general election, you can expect a barrage of negative stories on the president from the same lie-peddlers who relentlessly assaulted his character from 2015 until, well, now.  But if he is the nominee the barrage will be insane. The field-tilting for Democrats will reach new heights (you know that of which I speak). The lawsuits may only simmer since they have been having the opposite effect Democrats have intended. But there will be new, unforeseen, malicious attempts to derail president Trump's 2024 bid. It's a long way to the White House, and while president Trump's chances are looking better than ever, those of us fighting to save America had better realize how difficult it will be.  It's not just polls, it's voter registration, it's a better RNC chair, better donations, better get out the vote efforts, better legal preparation etc.  It's a lot of things that conservatives still seem underprepared to face and do. I like president Trump's odds at the moment, but this moment is only one of many between now and election day.  A lot can go right or wrong between now and then, we need to plan for teh former and prepare for teh latter.

Sunday verse

 

Pierre Poilievre strikes again

A great video about Canada's housing bubble that has emerged under Justin Trudeau. Pierre Poilievre, Canada's conservative leader and hopefully next Prime Minister explains what has happened, why and what can be done about it.

Comedy Gold with Jordan Peterson

A few months ago I discovered the sharp and unique humor of Matt Rife.    He recently offended some woke people and his response to their cancel attempt was amazing. It was comedy gold to be honest.  He recently sat down with Jordan Peterson for an interview/chat that lasted well over an hour.  It's totally worth sharing here.

(Very) Early 2024 prediction

Via Red Eagle Politics, this is how we EXPECT it to turn out. But uh, maybe not after all the 'counting' is done.