Friday Musical Interlude - Why are they showing Taylor Swift?

 Why does the NFL insist on showing Taylor Swift so much?

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Let the gaslighting begin

Kamala Harris was never the border czar?  That's the latest mainstream media mantra, and they are gaslighting you.

Was the FBI involved?????

Until recently I was not familiar with Oversight Project.  They have done some investigative work on the Trump shooter that the FBI either hasn't (and won't) or at a minimum hasn't shared (and won't). I'm not saying this is all correct, but it does make you question how much truth we are being told about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump (I strongly urge you to scroll through the chain of self-replies for the full story):

🚨ASSASINATION INFO DROP🚨

We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates.

To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks’s home and place of work and followed them.🧵 https://t.co/T5HETLhkgM pic.twitter.com/hMsI9dFwNk

— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) July 22, 2024

How long do we have to avoid reality before we stop being labelled as conspiracy theorists?  These are legitimate questions being asked and summarily dismissed.  

Addendum: They have put a deep state operative in charge of the investigation of the assassination attempt. Janet Napolitano has been a political appointee by both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and now the Let's Go Brandon Kamala Harris White house. So everything should be fine, nothing to see here folks. Great. 

This is who Biden and Mayorkas picked to investigate the assassination attempt

She has a very long record of vehement anti-Trumpism that we will present to the American People soon https://t.co/Az4HQbMg3g

— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) July 23, 2024

Kim Cheadle resigns

Head of the DEI-driven Secret Service, Kim Cheadle has resigned.

Was I wrong?

Was I wrong to speculate earlier? Kamala almost said "Joe, I know you're still on the recording."

NOW - Kamala speaks to Biden over phone at campaign HQ: "It is so good to hear our President's voice. Joe, I know you're still on the reco... on the call... and we've been talking everyday..."pic.twitter.com/i6MyVAB9M3

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 22, 2024

And there's this: 

Where's Joe?

How many days has Let's Go Brandon been "I'm Missing In Action Brandon"? Last Wednesday or Thursday was the last time he's been seen.  I know they have a penchant for hiding this guy in the basement but ONLY a tweet on X announcing him not running for re-election, no TV announcement?

Is he terminally ill in a hospital?  And are they trying to hide it to prevent Kamala from becoming president and the de facto nominee? He supposedly made a phone call. But it could be a deep fake as the libs like to say.

I doubt it's that bad, but I think those are reasonable questions and a bit of transparency from the administration is clearly warranted.

Kamala cannot win

Could you imagine 4 years with this as your president?

It would be absolute hell. Song: Don't Laugh by Josh Wink.  This would be Kamala's handlers advice to her 24/7. But in the end, it doesn't matter what you think, they've already decided on a replacement for you, whether it's Kamala Harris or not.

"Too sick to run, too sick to serve"

Let's Go Brandon: "Too sick to run, too sick to serve"

Be not afraid

This latest maneuver by the cowardly Democrats to dethrone Let's Go Brandon is not a bold decisive power play, it's a panic move. Simply, press on.

Democrats' cowardice on full display

Let's Go Brandon's withdrawal from the race for president was about as messy as his withdrawal from Afghanistan. He withdrew on social media, on a Sunday, like a coward; much like he withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving turmoil in his wake. It's also reminiscent of how Hillary 'election denier' Clinton supposedly conceded the 2016 election to Trump, not facing up to it in person, but via proxies.   Why do Democrats take their defeats like cowards? Because they are cowards.

Hillary Clinton was literally roped off from reporters in 2016. Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged the primaries for Hillary Clinton that same election cycle. Donna Brazile fed the debate questions from CNN to Hillary Clinton. 

Democrats refused to have a fair primary process while many Democrat voters wanted to replace Let's Go Brandon, the party elite made sure it was not possible. They ran RFK Jr. out of the party because of it; he tried to run as a Democrat and was blocked at every turn.  They hid the truth going all the way back to 2020 when they kept Let's Go Brandon hidden in the basement during the election campaign.  They knew he would screw it up. So they hid him. They hid him as much as possible, right up to his disastrous 2024 debate debacle. Their cowardice and deceit combined to cause their party to not have a nominee just over 100 days before the presidential election.

Cowardice leads to chaos. In the end, what they tried harder and harder to hide eventually burst the dam, and voting Democrats were blindsided after believing the lies they were being fed for years.  The Democrat party are reaping what they and their complicit media have sewn for decades. Cowardice has been covered by lies and deceit and America is finally, slowly waking up to it.

Cowardice is not leadership. If you want to see what real leadership looks like, here it is:

Leadership is courage, combined with vision.  Make America Great Again is a vision, not just a slogan. America was once great but has slipped into mediocrity; all thanks to largely Democratic political hegemony at all levels of power for many decades, combined with their self-serving cowardice.

Cowardice has existed in the Democrat party for a long, long time; it's not new. It's a party of self-serving and defensive elitists. They want to ensure their own wealth and power and statist jobs while pretending to be for the people. 

The past is prologue, it's said.  And in this case, it's entirely true.  Any Democrat who now decides to run for president but refused to do so during the primary season, is fully a coward. Why wouldn't they have tried during the primaries? They felt safe enough with Let's Go Brandon to ride out the 2024 election. That has been blown up.

Any Democrat who now steps up for the sake of the country, to "save democracy" is a lying sack of Canadian immigrant poop. They are going to step up now for a chance to serve themselves now that it's safe for them to do so. They risk nothing at this point, and that is what cowards do. Take for example Joe Manchin of West Virginia.  He left the party for self-serving reasons, not to rescue the country.  How do we know that?  As recently as today he was considering running for president as the Democrat nominee. Self-serving.  He bowed out almost as quickly as he expressed interest.  That's likely because he was told by the self-serving and cowardly party elite his bid would be stifled by them.  They have likely already decided upon their desired outcome. 

Donald Trump on the other hand has been nothing but courageous, going back to 2015, running for president in the face of withering (though unwarranted) ridicule, not only was he courageous, he overcame. That is courage, it is triumph and it is real leadership. It's obvious why he does not fear whomever the Democrats decide to prop up in Let's Go Brandon's place.  He's a true leader, not encumbered by fear.

As an aside, have you ever noticed that the name Trump is within the word triumph? I just noticed that.

As an American, you need to ask yourself, "do I want my country led by courageous leadership that will deliver triumph, or do you want to see inevitable decline caused by self-serving cowardice?"  If you are truly an American, you already know the answer.

Canada poops

Ugh, Canada is a poopy mess. I'm not happy to talk about this, but Canada seems to be turning into San Francisco in some regards. Thankfully we only have about another year of Trudeau, but this other problem may take longer to rectify:

I promise, this is the last time I will discuss this crappy topic.

The coup is real

Let's Go Brandon on X (Twitter), only 20 hours ago:

It’s a miracle, folks. Donald told the truth for once.

It’s the most important election of our lifetimes.

And I will win it. pic.twitter.com/PjEIO6znSW

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 20, 2024

The Democrats' coup is real.  This is only phase 1. 

Let's Go Brandon is gone (from the race)

Who will replace the failure that is leaving? I believe the Trump campaign have placed their bets on Kamala Harris.  As The Who said; "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

Sunday verse

 

Poll Analysis

RealClear Politics does something I hate when it takes an aggregate of polls, it mixes unalike polls, and it gives all polls equal weighting. That's not realistic.  In order to do a more reasoned polling average in the swing states, it should be a weighted average of like polls.  I've taken a partial step towards filtering that way this cycle for the swing states. I haven't yet weighted the polls but what I have done is filtered the polls to include only the following in the various swing states;  Only likely voter polls with a sample size >=500 a margin of error <=4.25%,  and only polls taken since 06-Jul-24.

Not all swing states have had polls that qualify with that as a minimum criteria. But, given those criteria, here's what I am seeing:

Given these likely voter views, and assuming no other inherent bias in these polls, I have Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all looking like Trump wins. It's still not a complete picture mind you because some of these are within the average (unweighted) margin of error.

But if this holds up and all else is held equal (and yes, more work needs to be done on my analysis, and it's still only July), the electoral college would look like this:

A reasoned change in position

A new Trump voter:

Friday Musical Interlude - Stump for Trump

My foray into musical A.I.-land continues with a Trump-inspired anthem.

Total Disarray

The White House has confirmed that Let's Go Brandon will return to the campaign trail on Monday after he tested positive for Covid this week. However, various reports claim the President has ‘listened to pressure’ from fellow Democrats and may announce his stepping aside over the weekend.

Chaos and total disarray in the Democrat party and no matter what happens, the Democratic party is the real threat to democracy; lawfare, ballot removal attempts, and vilifying Trump as a threat to Democracy to the point a lunatic tried to kill him.  That's banana republic dictatorial stuff.

Friday Musical Interlude - I'm Trying To Watch The Game

My first A.I. band, The SurfPunters singing more songs about Surfing and Football.  In this case just football with "I'm Trying To Watch The Game".

Friday Musical Interlude - Let's Go Brandon edition

My foray into musical A.I.-land has taken a Let's Go Brandon turn.  A song made up almost entirely of ridiculous Brandon quotes:

Yikes! Software update crashes world worse than hackers

This should not happen, but it just did:

Trump full speech at RNC 2024

Full speech:

The secret service failure - bad to worse

Stranger things than we knew earlier:

Scary paranoid thoughts

So today the scuttlebutt (I've never used that word before in my entire life) is that Let's Go Brandon will indeed step aside.  It has always been a possibility given his abysmal polling this year. Vivek Ramaswamy thinks it'll be Michelle Obama for reasons he articulates very well to Megyn Kelly.  It leads to my paranoid concern (see below):

Vivek makes a good case.

So if the Democrats were planning on replacing Let's Go Brandon, they put themselves at a different disadvantage versus Trump than they face with Brandon remaining on the ticket. The problem is it doesn't look very democratic to parachute someone into the race last minute.

But the Republicans would have had to do the same if Trump had been assassinated. So, it was to Democrats' advantage if both parties had to do the same thing.  They could have claimed this is an entirely different race than it has been; a start over.  So while they claim they didn't want that to happen, it's terrible, blah, blah, blah, there are reasons to believe they did want it to happen and through sheer deliberate incompetence, could have tried to facilitate it.

Paranoid?

In Summary

How bad is it? This bad:

RNC speeches, for the record

Or, for the win... Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and my personal favorite, Vivek Ramaswamy:

Spot the fake? Iconic American historical photos

One of these two iconic American historical moment photos was actually staged. Was it the Iwo Jima flag raising or the Trump assassination?

Actually it turns out, neither the Trump assassination attempt photo or the Iwo Jima photo were faked.

Iran planned to assassinate Trump too?

How you know you're on the side of good by supporting Trump for president: Iran wants to kill him.

So they increased security and a 20 year old almost succeeded.  Kim Cheadle must be fired.

Democrats' Hail Mary shot

I don't think Democrats have enough time to replace Let's Go Brandon as their 2024 presidential candidate. They could go all authoritarian and surprise me at the national convention, but it's a long shot that Brandon will step aside voluntarily. But I do see a Hail Mary in their near future that can play out in one of two ways.

If Democrat voters do not trust Let's Go Brandon's ability to serve out a term if he wins there's still a way for Democrats to manage that fear among voters.  At the convention they can have Kamala Harris give an amazing, inspiring speech that energizes Democrat voters.  Probably not going to work, given her abysmal popularity ratings.  But there is one other way the same scenario could play out; replace Harris on the ticket with Newsom or Whitmer and pull the same play.

If Democrat voters see a 'robust' VP, they may still opt for the Let's Go Brandon ticket, knowing that Brandon would be gone shortly after he wins, if he can win.  They could invoke the 25th amendment and try to remove Brandon after a few months.  Even with this approach, they are still highly likely to lose, but if they can bring the margins down far enough to stuff ballot boxes, well...

Still not a conspiracy...but

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Honestly. There are a lot of reasonable questions being asked:

Mr. Reagan unleashes the truth on AOC

This speaks not only for itself, but for most sane people:

JD Vance is the next VP

Donald Trump has chosen his VP: 

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former President Donald Trump chose Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate on Monday, picking a onetime critic who became a loyal ally and is now the first millennial to join a major-party ticket at a time of deep concern about the advanced age of America’s political leaders.

“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network as the Republican National Convention got underway in Milwaukee.

A solid choice, not my first choice but a solid choice nonetheless. 

Two-faced Bezos

Jeff Bezos is a lying dog-faced pony soldier.

Tired of winning?

Judge Aileen Cannon has made the decision to dismiss the case based on the unlawful appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Not a conspiracy

I've always claimed to not be a conspiracy theorist and when I talk about conspiracy theories it's generally because I am wondering about the possibility of there being any truth to it in a specific instance.  So it might seem like I actually be a conspiracy theorist. I'm not. I tend to believe the simplest, most obvious explanation is generally the most likely. Right now, there are a lot of theories floating around about the lax security at the assassination attempt on Trump. One common posit is that security was so poorly organized that it had to be an inside set-up job. 

I don't think so. I think the Secret Service was more concerned about Diversity Equity and Inclusion than it was about Security, Safety and Protection. DEI is leading to incompetence. The best person for the job, IS the best person for the job, quotas which are no longer legal in college admissions should most certainly not be applied to secret service security, it's absurd.  And yet, it's a practice.

Guys is it just me or is the agent who cowered behind DJT instead of protecting him the same one who couldn’t holster her gun?

Who is she?

She needs to resign or be fired. pic.twitter.com/WEmjLPQFLd

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024

Most of the agents on the ground did remarkable work. What was missing was the pre-planning; how was that building not secured?  Where was the coordination with local police who were warned about a man on the roof of the building?  The incompetence was primarily in the planning of the security; that is at a higher level. Failures in planning led to this possibility.   But that is not a deliberate conspiracy, it's fundamental incompetence.

Here we go

The Trump shooter was nominally a registered Republican.  That means nothing;

...However, when he was 17 he made a $15 donation to ActBlue, a political action committee that raises money for left-leaning and Democratic politicians, according to a 2021 Federal Election Commission filing. The donation was earmarked for the Progressive Turnout Project, a national group that rallies Democrats to vote.

This person was not a legitimate Republican.  He likely registered as a Republican so he could pull of  his heinous attack with less difficulty.

But the media will twist this as they always do. They are not above using that to dull the critiques of their vile, violent anti-Trump narratives. They have no scruples.  

No argument here

No argument from me. Victor Davis Hanson:

Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

If we were leftists and we were to use leftist tropes to editorialize the recent attempt on Trump’s life, then we would frame the assassination attempt in the following way:

We have witnessed for years blatant exceptions to the…

— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) July 14, 2024

Thank God he's safe (literally)

How many times now has a leftist or Democrat tried to assassinate an American president (or candidate) or an entire GOP baseball team?  All the way back to Abraham Lincoln it's been the Democrats or their ilk doing this.  Why? Because the right are basically common sense, law abiding people. Even the assassination of RFK was a Palestinian, not a conservative. JFK's assassin was either a crazy person, or a communist or a mob hit. Yesterday Donald Trump was nearly killed by an assassin.

I'm not suggesting this is 100% purity on the right versus 100% evil on the left. But it's closer to that than anything else.  Politics did not defeat Trump - from impeachments to suspicious voting rules in 2020. Lawfare didn't make Trump less popular.  Trying to remove him from the ballot in different states didn't work. Public opinion has turned in his favor.  What's left? Let's Go Brandon a week ago said it's time to put Trump in a bullseye. Hmm, seems like desperation. When Sarah Palin did it, oh it was terrible.  When Let's Go Brandon does it, um, perfectly okay?

When Trump complained about election integrity in 2020 he was falsely accused of insurrection.  When Al Gore did it in 2020, it was using all potential remedies to correct an injustice. When Hillary Clinton, a clear and on-going election denier for 2016 outright and repeatedly claimed the election was stolen, perfectly legitimate. Not the voters, but the Democrat leaders and leftist elite are evil. They use people.  They incited this violence by comparing Trump to Hitler (just like they did with Bush) and then when something like this happens they meekly denounce it and they will let their useful idiots take the fall for them. Evil, vile, scum.

Thank God president Trump is not only safe but this will ensure his electoral victory in November. It no longer matters if Let's Go Brandon is the candidate or someone else, Trump has won. The United States by mere millimeters has likely just avoided a civil war. This would have literally torn the country in two.  And while that civil war raged, China probably would have invaded Taiwan, Russia would have probably started using tactical nukes in Ukraine, and Iran might have launched a war nuclear or otherwise, on Iran. It could have precipitated WWIII just as WWI was precipitated by an assassination. That's why I think God was involved, not just saving Trump but saving the world from an absolute chaotic mess. It's not that time.

In a famous scene in Pulp Fiction Jules claimed it was divine intervention that they weren't shot and Vincent asked Marvin "Do you think God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets?" This I believe was that. 

At first I was skeptical about that conclusion; Trump is no angelic choirboy. While he's had so many things attempted to try to take him out of the race for president you'd think that he just has to be a tool of the devil since he's been so lucky.  But God works through imperfect people. Trump has been a good leader but he's definitely an imperfect person (as we all are). Whether you support Trump or not, the unimaginable global outcome of an assassination would have been devastating.  So literally, thank God he's safe.

It's not funny but...

My first thought (actually second) when Donald Trump was shot at, was does anyone know where Alec Baldwin is?

Sunday verse

 

Double freaking standards abound

Life can be unfair.  The justice system, the liberal elite, the media, far more unfair. How unfair you ask? Like, this:

BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit Court has ruled that Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign violated federal election law in spending that totaled close to $6 million for illegally using the "Correct The Record" PAC to conduct her personal campaign activities

SOUND FAMILIAR? Well, Trump was… pic.twitter.com/CkjB6Ntd6v

— George (@BehizyTweets) July 12, 2024

Humorous, but sad and scary

I think at this point, a rusty nail could beat Let's Go Brandon. Look, this is not piling on; conservatives have been pointing this out about Let's Go Brandon since 2020, some probably even before that:

I actually feel a bit bad for the guy, I used to point out his issues as a political point. It's scary to have a man with cognitive issues in charge of the world's lone superpower. But as a humanitarian issue, this man needs political asylum from the people forcing him to cling to power.

Deep State Trauma for America

This is what deep spending Democrats have wrought upon America, a deep state so entrenched that is an existential threat to the continued existence of the country. It doesn't matter if those in positions of power within the beaurocracy are Democrats or not, they are self-serving, not America-serving.

The panic hasn't stopped and it's going to get wild

It's popcorn time folks. Democrats panic continues and it's fun to watch. I'm not a schadenfreude type of person, but after the absolute lock the left/Democrats have had on the narrative for decades, it is good to see a large crack form and a division in that narrative, endangering its ability to continue.

What's interesting about how it's shaking out is that the media and the elites are primarily the ones turning on Let's Go Brandon while the far left progressives are the ones rallying.  I can think of only one reason that's happening; the media and the elites want to win and retain their grip on power, while the far left are being their typical team-player selves. They of course would pivot and support Harris or whomever steps into Let's Go Brandon's spot because they only know one thing; they must support the team. That's how the far left works, team first, individual second.

Right now, the team for them is still Let's Go Brandon so they are starting to rally around him.  Of course that's not a universal truth (The Young Turks for example have turned hard) but it seems to be at least somewhat correct. The point is, they haven't got the memo that the team is considering releasing their 'star' player.

As of this writing, it's 38 days (5 and a half weeks) until the Democratic National Convention; that's a long time in politics. But as of today, Let's Go Brandon has already lasted 2 weeks. He has lasted a little over 25% of the way until he locks up the nomination, I think he might last.

The panic itself has not faded as much as I would have expected.  The debate did a number on a lot of people on the left who had no clue that Let's Go Brandon was such a cognitive mess. To quote Bill Burr, they just didn't get the information (thanks to the protective media bubble).  I understand that Let's Go Brandon had to step up in order to quell the immediate panic, But the effort was a train wreck. The Stephanopoulos (Elvis comeback special) interview made things worse, as did his accidental introduction of Zelensky at NATO as President Putin and his accidental mention of Donald Trump as his VP. It has been abysmal performance after abysmal performance that we on the right almost fully expected because we have been seeing it for years already.  We weren't shocked, and now I guess we should not be shocked at the left's continued shock.

So while I never expected Let's Go Brandon to win in 2024 (possible cheating aside), I thought it made a lot of sense for him to lay low.  It's worked for him for at least as far back as his 2020 presidential campaign when they sequestered him into his basement. Let the handlers handle it. Oh sure there would be blowback about that on the left, but it would diminish over the course of the summer. When you take a look at the calendar, there's a lot of things to hide behind.

First there's the Republican National Convention where president Trump will be forced to take center stage; no doubt he likes that but he's shrewd enough to let Let's Go Brandon continue shooting himself in the foot as much at the forefront of the news cycle as possible.  Trump will announce his VP pick and no matter who he picks, some conservatives will be disappointed. That will take some heat off Let's Go Brandon as the GOP convention dominates the news cycle. The media may even rediscover it's hatred for Trump and move on to the next shiny object permanently. Maybe not, that depends on the polls. Either way there's a least a small respite for Let's Go Brandon starting next week.

Then there's the Olympics, one week after the GOP convention. The week in between will be full of media poll watching to see if Trump hurt or helped his chances of winning. Once the Olympics kick in, there's another two weeks during which people are on vacation and/or focused on non-political matters.  Even the media may be focused on the Olympic stories to a sizable degree.

One week after that, the Democratic National Convention. Laying low to get those locked in delegates is not a cakewalk for Let's Go Brandon, but the next five to six weeks are going to be a hell of a lot easier for Brandon than the last two weeks. It won't be easy but I think Let's Go Brandon will be the presumptive nominee by the convention. 

At that point the Democrats have two options; back Let's Go Brandon fully or convince him to step aside and have Kamala Harris become the nominee and inherit not only his nomination but also all the campaign contributions. The former option they probably see as playing music on the deck as the Titanic sinks. The latter they likely see as their best option. 

Assuming Let's Go Brandon cooperates (and there's no way to assume that's even as good as a 50/50 shot at this point), this is where it gets wild.

Who would Kamala Harris pick as HER VP nominee? Gavin Newsome? Gretchen Whitmer? Sherrod Brown?  This could be the real DNC ploy where these people's names are being floated out there for consideration; not as the presidential nominee, but as the VP nominee.  

I don't believe the VP choice matters enough to swing the election but it does make Trumps VP pick all the more important for the VP debate, should one occur. For my money that makes Vivek Ramaswamy or Tulsi Gabbard the best choice as they could debate a Gavin Newsome and win, or a Gretchen Whitmer and be devastatingly victorious. But at this point, I think we are only discussing shades of a Trump electoral college and national vote total victory.

That's not to say relax and begin celebrating, after the convention conservatives must bear down and focus on making this victory one that cannot be snatched away, one that enables Trump to have a GOP congress and senate and one that gives him a clear, inarguable mandate to drain the swamp.

They're telling straight up lies

Who believes this garbage?

Power versus Principles

Principles without power are good to have, but not that useful.  As the below clip explains, you have to fight for your principles and be willing to lose but at least fight.  That being said, power without principles I believe is much worse, and their argument to put power before principles is a dangerous slippery slope.

Opposed to this

I am not opposed to some things, this everyone should be opposed to illegal voter registration:

Not opposed to this

I would not be opposed to this, and while I think it's possible, I think it's also possible she gets a Department leadership role.

This positive take, is inspiring

Konstantin Kisin believes the massive leftist Labor Party landslide in the U.K. is a sign that the U.K. is moving to the right. How is that possible? Watch this inspiring take:

Spam alert

Some of the legitimate comments I get have been getting filtered as spam for reasons that are not clear to me. Unfortunately I have failed to notice and have not marked some as non-spam. 

My sincere apologies to my readers and comment posters, I am now aware of the problem and I promise to be more diligent in checking my "marked as spam" comments going forward.

Demo-coup incoming?

Democrats are going to try to get their nominee off the ticket for the nomination for the presidential election in 2024. The party of "But Democracy!", is about anything but democracy:

For the record, I don't think he'll leave willingly.

"Extremely rare" (for now)

As I mentioned regarding France, the center and the left will stop at nothing to hold or seize power. They are sometimes overt and sometime insidious about it but the leftward drift or occasional lurch is unabating. This is what we are up against as believers in common sense, and as in the case of the conservative party in the U.K., complacency or a leftward drift within, are no longer acceptable ways of dealing with it:

France will implode with this as the guaranteed outcome

The center and the left colluded against the right to ensure Le Pen did not become the leader of France. Macron is so hostile to the right he'd rather be a minority partner in the far left's coalition. 

Two things; (1) the center really isn't a center, and that goes beyond just France and (2) France is doomed to destroy itself unless this can be fixed, and the only way that happens is for more French to wake up to reality. I'm not optimistic about a great French awakening so France will implode.  Good move France.

As they might say in French, "Félicitations France!"

French leftist parties collude with French centrists

In France, the leftist and "centrist" parties are having candidates drop out for the second round of voting to stop the conservative parties from winning an outright majority. Why would the centrist parties do this with the left?  Either they are leftists themselves, or they are being spiteful about their loss, or they realize that they will disappear if there are only left and right candidates holding the vast majority of seats. They don't want to be irrelevant. France may yet succumb to the self inflicted status quo they don't want because of this, joining the U.K. in the sadly, seemingly unstoppable drift leftward that has plagued most of western society, despite the growing desire to stop it.

Sunday verse

 

U.K.'s leftward drift, and maybe a silver lining?

As I said, in the U.K. the Labour Party is bound to drag the country leftward, well out of step with the U.S., most of Europe and eventually, Canada as well when they have their next election.  Paul Joseph Watson, breaks it down.  While I disagree with his take on the problems with "first past the post" elections, he does find some good news in the U.K.'s rejection of faux conservatism:

I get his frustration, but the first past the post tends to work better in the long run for conservatives, than it does for the left.  In Canada, the Reform Party from 1987 grew to the point where it replaced the conservative party as the conservative viewpoint by the time the party merged with the conservative party.

In five years, in the U.K., the Reform U.K. party will be much stronger much faster than it's Canadian counterpart took to get there.

Friday Musical Interlude - The SurfPunters

 I haven't done a Friday Musical Interlude in years, but I thought I'd share this one:

Meanwhile in the U.K., a leftward shift

The conservative party in the U.K. has admittedly gone off the rails and well into woke territory. You lose the confidence of the electorate when you lose sight of your vision that brought you to power, or by the vision itself resulting in failure.  In the case of the Tories in the U.K., the former situation led to their downfall.  They needed a reality check.

The unfortunate result is a massive Labour Party win that means further leftward drift and erosion of what made the United Kingdom great in the first place.  The Labour Party ran on "change", nothing more specific than the notion that the country was going in the wrong direction.  This was the exact approach Obama took in 2008; don't say anything (or at most very little) about what type of change you plan on making, just tap into the discontent and let the voters assume you mean exactly what they are thinking. Be a Tabula Rasa for them. 

And while the country was definitely headed in the wrong direction in many respects, and the conservative Tories were in dire need of a slap in the face wake up call, the price is likely to be steep for that correction. Are we going to see a decade of Labor party leadership? What damage will they do to Britain while in power?  Could they seek to rejoin the E.U. for example?

Saying the right things is one thing, doing the right things is not likely to follow.  Let's hope the conservatives get their act together in the next few years.

What is Project 2025?

A quick explainer:

Is the senility contagious or something?

Let's Go Brandon's team is as bad as he is:

Happy 4th of July

 

Meanwhile in Canada, the Liberal party is trying to dump Trudeau

Let's Go Brandon is not alone in his leftist party trying to dump him,  in Canada, the Liberal party is trying to rid itself of Justin Trudeau. Ironically it's for the same reason; political failure.  And ironically, just like Let's Go Brandon, the leader is tone deaf. And just like in the U.S., the leader is dramatically unpopular.

Best outcome for GOP/Trump?

Many Democrats want Let's Go Brandon to step aside for the sake of the party. Many Republicans do too, for the sake of the country. What's actually better for the country and for the Republicans?

What's best for the country is not in question - a guy who is supposedly alert between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. is not best for the country. For that reason he should definitely step aside.  

It's arguable either way whether it's better for Democrats to stick with him or to replace him.  But what's best for Republicans? To do what they can to foster/enable the Democratic Party discord for as long as possible? To call for Let's Go Brandon to leave the race? To stay out of it?  To secretly root for him to stay in the race? To secretly root for Kamala Harris to be the replacement? To have Trump face Gavin Newsome instead? Or Gretchen Whitmer?

That's a lot to unpack. What we know with almost certainty is that if Let's Go Brandon stays in the race, Trump will win. Yes, there is a slight chance Let's Go Brandon could recover with some good campaign speeches, some good interviews, and a really good second debate. I wouldn't put my own money on that happening. Additionally if Let's Go Brandon stays in the race, there is probably a down-ballot impact that affects congress, and hopefully the senate too. That is a good scenario for the GOP  

We know if Let's Go Brandon decides not to run again, there will be chaos within the Democratic party.

Here's a taste of that:

That's also a win for the GOP, at least in the short term. If the Democrats come up with a candidate that they can rally around, that could end up being bad news for the GOP. While that's not highly likely, it is a possibility. It's a bit of a wildcard scenario come November. I would classify that as less desirable than an almost certain Trump win with Let's Go Brandon in the race.

If he decides to step down from the presidency before the election, the chaos would be much greater. Kamala Harris would become the president in that case, and most likely (but not necessarily) the nominee as well.

As I write this, it may all be moot - more to follow:

Called out on the cheap fakes

You can't spin this the way KJP is trying to do:

Either stupid or a complete liar.

Rachel Maddow is beyond wrong (you can find a much more sanity-base take, here). She is either insane, stupid or an inveterate, fear-mongering liar. You decide:

French elections explained

This is a great explainer of how French elections work and how difficult it might be for the French, female Trump, Marine Le Pen, to win the second round of French elections coming up outright. These weird tactical set-up elections favor the centrists or the left. Stay tuned.

The SCOTUS ruling for Trump goes further than you think

I was quite pleased to watch this video by Viva Frei, breaking down the opinions of the majority on the dissent by the minority, exposing that the minority's opinion is not based on Constitutional merit but rather fear-mongering. Wow! And there's even more via Clarence Thomas.

The state of the race today.

A good summary from Ben Shapiro on the presidency, the senate, the Democrat reaction, and more.

The Democrat hits just keep on coming

Or rather the hits to the Democrats' chances of winning the election in the voting booths across America or via lawfare against Donald Trump. Another SCOTUS ruling in Trump's favor because... it's correct.

Let's Go Brandon is going to be the nominee

You know how I know?  This CNBC article indicating that the Democratic establishment has not convinced him to leave; now they're backing the man.  Despite all the craziness that ensued in the media from the debate about wanting Let's Go Brandon to step aside, as Bill Burr once ranted "It ain't happening!"

Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Friday tried to do some damage control following President Joe Biden’s debate fumble against his November election opponent, former President Donald Trump.

“Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama said in a post on X, linking to Biden’s campaign website. “Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November.”

Several hours later, Clinton mimicked the defensive play.

Sounds like they're now in a prevent defense.  Damage control for Democrats is defense against their own media and base, not against Republicans.

By the way, a great takeaway here is that it's easy to tell we're winning because our focus (at least in my case), is on what the Democrats are doing, not what the GOP is doing.  The lesson there for the GOP, as aptly demonstrated by Donald Trump during the debate, stay out of the way when your opponent is shooting themselves in the foot.  Let's hope the GOP do that this election cycle.

Media tries to save itself

This is a great clip throughout, but I bring it up specifically to discuss the media's guilty complicity to serve their leftist agenda. But in particular, shortly after 3:40 in the clip below, check out the CNN fact check on Let's Go Brandon. CNN as well as much of the mainstream media are not scrambling to dump Biden, they are scrambling to save their reputations. Granted some like the New York Times are still focused on leftist partisan hackery. But the point remains, they are bleeding consumers, they need to fix it and they are doing what they have done with Let's Go Brandon, Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton; burying their heads in the sand until it's too late and then a mad panic ensues. Deservedly so.

Adding to the debate fallout

 Let's Go Brandon shot himself in the foot Achilles heel in the June presidential debate. The Democrats are desperate. I think they may sentence Trump in NY to prison time. They're truly desperate.  They need to shake things up.  They cannot do it successfully any other way so far. They don't have much ammo to use. They're bereft of ideas. Lawfare is one of the few things they have left. I think it's probably going to happen.

If it does it will be the biggest backfire in political history.

Happy Canada Day

Yes, I am a Canadian.  Actually I'm an American trapped in a Canadian's body.  But for all it's flaws, Canada is a good country that is unfortunately saddled with terrible politics and policy. That will change in the next election, but for now, Canada's July 4th is July 1st; Canada Day.   Happy Canada Day to my Canadian readers.

Sunday verse

 

After the panic settles down

What are Democrats going to do now that they have exposed what they have been saddled with in Let's Go Brandon as candidate? Dump him or stick with him? 

When they first announced that the first presidential debate would happen in June (JUNE!), I immediately wondered why the Let's Go Brandon campaign team, with their list of debate demands, wanted the first debate so early in the election cycle.  This right after Let's Go Brandon himself was basically saying any time, any place. My mind immediately went to "there's a plan behind this". With the scheming Democrats, that's what you have to assume. It's not conspiracy thinking to ask the question "Why?"

The logical conclusion (and there were other possibilities, but less likely) was that they wanted time to be able to dislodge Let's Go Brandon as the nominee if he tanked in the debate.  I think they probably knew he would - at least the insiders knew. And they needed to debate Trump because they are down in most swing state polls, consistently. They are playing catch up because the leftist policies are ruining the country, and more and more people know for themselves what the policies are doing, especially in contrast to how well things were going under president Trump. 

But with Let's Go Brandon it's a roll of the dice for Democrats; you either get the stumbling and mumbling version or the hopped up on goofballs, cracked-out Biden.  They got the former when they needed the latter.  But the planning behind the timing was certainly deliberate. What Democrats got was a disaster that most every Republican voter was expecting to see, but that Democrat voters were in many cases, shocked to see after the mainstream media has been running defense for Let's Go Brandon since 2020.

So all that was before the immediate panic set in (to be honest for both Democrats and myself). Democrat elites and operatives are reaping what they have sewn.  Did they honestly think they could make it through a second election cycle hiding Let's Go Brandon in a basement?

The immediate panic was along the lines of we have to get Let's Go Brandon to bow out of the race, and Kamala Harris too. We need to parachute in a winner. A bright, younger, shiny and slick snake oil salesman like Gavin Newsome who couldn't govern his way out of a paper bag but talks well. Someone like that can win the logic would go.

But after the panic settles down, there are some startling realities for Democrats to face. It's not so easy to just drop the top of the ticket this late in the game.  As has been mentioned in a few places, he's on the ballot in some states at this point unless he dies.  Wisconsin has been brought up as an example of that. If you hand Wisconsin to Trump, along with the other swing states that are probably unreachable for Democrats (Arizona and Georgia alone), Trump has won. You're a Democrat and you're going to do that? I don't think so.

Not to mention, can you imagine the chaos of a brokered convention, the nominee decided behind closed doors after a full slate of Democrat primaries where Biden was chosen? How many disaffected Democrat voters does that create - and not just for this cycle, but perhaps permanently. Danger to democracy is their current mantra, how does that scenario fit their narrative?

It's likely that Democrats are stuck with Let's Go Brandon. What that means in the bigger picture:

1. They need a strong second debate on September 10th
2. Gavin Newsome is probably positioning himself for 2028.  
3. Democrats may have to discourage early/mail-in voting
4. After the realization sets in, an avalanche of mainstream media support for Brandon

The first point is inarguable.  The taste left in voters mouths is going to linger for the summer. Unless every rally is great (or the media goes back into full cover mode to portray it as such) for Let's Go Brandon, he has to perform amazingly at the second debate. I don't think that's likely but they don't have much choice other than to try to make that happen.  Maybe a month of debate prep for the next one, Democrats?

The reason the first point is true is because of the third point, which I will get to shortly.  The second point, Gavin Newsome needs to say the right things now, because while I believe he wants to be president, I think this cycle is so tarnished for Democrats that he would probably prefer to run in 2028 and not have so many Democrat self-imposed hurdles to overcome.

With Democrats needing a Let's Go Brandon recovery, they face some additional obstacles. Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont and most notably Pennsylvania all have some form of early/mail-in voting that could run up against the debate date. Oregon is all mail-in voting. Pennsylvania "does not offer early voting, but counties may make absentee and mail-in ballot applications available to voters in person up to 50 days before Election Day."  That 50 days is September 16th. They are going to need Democrat voters to see a second debate win for Let's Go Brandon before casting a mail-in or absentee vote. 

Here's the problem; the second debate will most likely be a replay of the first debate.  While the hopped up on goofballs Let's Go Brandon is more likely to be the one that shows up next time (he has to be), no matter what the stimulants they fill him up with, he doesn't seem capable of what he was capable of doing at the State of the Union a mere few months ago. 

I'm not saying this race is over, dirty tricks from the Democrats are inevitable, cheating is inevitable, a miracle performance is possible too (however unlikely). We are seeing that with this half-thought out plan to have an early debate in case Let's Go Brandon failed miserably and they could replace him. What I'm saying is that Democrats have screwed themselves with their insatiable lust for power to the point it has become untenable.  It's not about Trump Derangement Syndrome - they hated Bush, they hated Reagan,  heck they even hated RINOs McCain and Romney when they ran for president. There is no Republican they will ever paint as human, let alone respectable in an election scenario. It's about retaining power and drifting the country evermore leftward through lies, deceit, manipulation and whatever else it takes. That is a house of cards that eventually HAS to collapse in on itself. I think we are seeing the beginning of that now.

The Democrat Insiders plan

I think a faltering Let's Go Brandon is exactly what insider Democrats wanted all along, and they wanted it this early. Barring a remarkable performance, they wanted him to fail. Voters on the right expected this. We knew he was an often incoherent, often rambling mess.  We knew he was a train wreck. We expected a weak or else coked-out Let's Go Brandon. As far as I can tell, he did better than I expected. He didn't win, he was awful, but he did better than I thought he would.

Make no mistake, Let's Go Brandon was weak. But normally in that situation, Democrats rally around their candidate.  In this case though, they immediately dumped him like they were sneaking out of a bad date during dinner.

It's like this was pre-planned to have this notion be the message: "[Let's Go Brandon] needs to step aside." They want another candidate. And they don't want it to be Kamala Harris.  They are going to pressure him to leave.

Let's Go Brandon wasn't that bad last night

 Look, here's the deal....

This morning after the debate that president Trump clearly won, Democrats are all freaking out about what a terrible debate performance Let's Go Brandon and saying he should step aside. As a conservative I am sure you are not surprised. We all knew he was like this.

In fact, as far as a Let's Go Brandon performance goes, this wasn't bad at all.  I think the people who found it bad are the people who were either trying to keep Let's Go Brandon in hiding or covering it up, and those who, due to their news sources had not been exposed to what he's really like.

This was par for the course for Let's Go Brandon. The real story is what happens next on the Democrat side:   

Boom!

Okay I admit I'm being a bit of a shill here but I'm sharing this anyway:

Julian Assange freed

There are no winners in this saga.

Brandon on goofballs and a new nominee?

Tim Pool discusses a proposed Let's Go Brandon's pre-debate drug test, and the possibility that he gets replaced before the November presidential election.

It's only a bombshell to insular lefties

The CIA colluded with Democrats during the 2020 presidential election campaign.