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Trump is a Point Ahead of Biden in New Jersey

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New Jersey is a blue state.  If Trump is currently polling slightly ahead of Biden (41 – 40) I think that should be a blinking red danger signal for the Democrats.  We may be witnessing a major shift in the American public’s political calculus.  Maybe it’s as simple as “It’s the economy stupid.”

Update:

TomD replied,

I thing the major headline should be Trump is only a point ahead, indicating the major league accumulation of negatives he has as ballast. I think that 80%+ of this ballast is the result of the unceasing histrionic media wide attack he has been undergoing since 2016. Repeat a lie often enough——

But the fact is that his image has been largely and permanently poisoned for close to 50% of the population. I know several people who just hate Trump. Question them as to why and you get nothing substantial, just blanket statements like, “Trump lies”. Push deeper about the specific lies and they don’t have anything. If they do have a specific “lie”, it typically an example of hyperbole, or exaggeration for effect. There is a huge and substantial difference in a fundamental lie like hiding Biden’s inability to perform the functions of his office and “I had the greatest economy in history”.

Chemist replied to TomD:

Tom, I have had this discussion with too many people. None of them can give a specific example of a “Trump lie”. So I went a different way. I point out some of Biden’s more egregious lies and actions. If the conversation is in person, I will stop at one or two. If an email, they get the whole list. Here is the list. Feel free to pile on:

Biden avowed that no one is above the law.
Biden then bought votes by ignoring the supreme court and “Forgiving” billions of dollars in student loans – but Trump lies.
 
Biden used the power of the vice presidency to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired (thereby protecting his corrupt son Hunter) – but Trump lies.

Joe Biden had an affair with a married woman (Jill Stevenson) and destroyed their marriage – but Trump lies.
 
The latest “brilliant” appointment to the Supreme Court doesn’t know what a woman is – but Trump lies.

Children are sexually groomed by teachers and if you object they’ll take your child from you – but Trump lies.
 
Biden showered with his teenage daughter – but Trump lies.

 

Order in the Court

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The Supreme Court has been on a tear lately.  But their decision to provide absolute immunity to a president while acting in an official capacity is a bold move.  It has the Left calling for the impeachment of the Justices.  Dementia Joe popped a couple of Adderall and gave a five-minute teleprompter speech to the White House press gang.  And AOC has sworn vengeance against the conservative majority with a threat to bring up impeachment proceedings against them.  Of course, the Democrats don’t have a majority in the House so that motion will never see the light of day.  But she wants everyone to know she’s really, really mad.  And we can tell because she went through one of her TikTok routines where she flipped her hair a bunch of times, jostled her breasts and wagged her head and index finger in opposite direction and said “Don’t go there!” several times.

So, the question is does anyone in the real-world care?  Well, actually no.  How is anyone supposed to take anything in Washington seriously anymore?  Apparently, the leader of the free world has to be led around by a nurse to keep from falling over and breaking a hip.  And whoever writes his teleprompter text is running the country that day.  And when Doctor Jill is resting that’s probably delegated to one of the White House interns named Madison.

But I’ll have to say that I am pleasantly surprised to see how many helpful rulings they’ve put out in the last couple of years.  College Affirmative Action, the Chevron Deference, Roe v. Wade, Freedom of Religion have all been adjudicated in helpful ways.  Granted their record hasn’t been spotless but their batting average is very respectable.  The biggest decision I’m waiting for is an outright ban on Affirmative Action by the federal government.  That would have far-reaching effects and would neutralize much of the harm that the Deep State causes in this country.

But there is one thing that shouldn’t be forgotten.  The Supreme Court conservative majority is a temporary artifact of the Trump presidency and some random occurrences like the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  If the Democrats keep the White House in November, it won’t be long before that majority is reduced or even lost.  Both Alito and Thomas are older and one day will have to be replaced.  For that reason, it’s important to make provisions for living in a post Constitutional order.  When constitutional rights have ceased to exist, planning and protective measures will be needed to prevent life from becoming degraded.

But in the short term it has been refreshing to hear the Left squealing like stuck pigs every time a Supreme Court decision is announced.  I chuckled when AOC went to her go-to term, “fascism” when describing the inevitable result if Donald Trump regains the White House and “absolute immunity” is at his disposal.  Now I sympathize with her.  I believe AOC claims she was almost murdered during the January 6th “insurrection.”  And I’m sure that was rough.  But I think she’s safe from murder.  Maybe not mockery, but murder doesn’t seem likely.  And with his absolute immunity I can imagine Trump mocking her mercilessly.  Fascism!  But funny fascism.

Roasting the Nuts

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We have so many crazy people in this country.  And I don’t mean the psychopaths living in homeless encampments.  I’m talking about people like Nancy Pelosi and David Frum.  Here are “leaders.”  Pelosi used to be the Speaker of the House.  Frum writes for the premiere media outlets.  And after witnessing the undeniable exposure of Joe Biden’s massive cognitive failure, both of them spew lies and projection about how the real story is Donald Trump’s cognitive condition.

Pelosi danced and weaved to avoid saying that Joe Biden is incapable of running the country the way a president has to.  Finally, when all else failed she claimed that there were medical doctors who thought that Trump was suffering from dementia based on his debate performance.  Alternatively, I have to say Pelosi was getting so agitated over being asked to answer the question about Biden’s cognitive problems that she was starting to sound a little demented herself.

And these crazy people running our country don’t intend to let go, regardless of whether Biden or Trump “wins” the election.  They just expect to keep calling the shots and running things the way they want. And maybe they will.  I haven’t seen any real proof that Trump will take down the Deep State.  I mean, I’d love to see it happen but what makes him think it will end up any differently from 2017-2021?  I’m guessing that even if he wins, the FBI and the other intelligence agencies will begin undermining his administration from day one.  Will he be firing trainloads of these guys right from the git-go?

I have heard that the Heritage Foundation has a project running that identified talent that Trump can start hiring from the start to fill all the leadership openings in the critical agencies.  But are all these guys just warmed over George W Bush cronies?  Will they be Bill Barr times ten thousand?  Because if so, then it could be even worse than last time.

What he probably should do is hire all the military officers that Barack Obama fired.  A cadre of discipline military men that have old scores to settle might be just the force needed to clean house at the FBI, the Justice Department, the CIA and the rest of these renegade agencies.

And speaking of the military, Trump’s first official executive order should be to fire any biological male in the military wearing a wig and a skirt.  Especially the “Rear Admiral,” “Rachel” Levine.  What this freak show has done to military morale and preparedness cannot be overstated.

So, for me the desperate nature of our situation lies in how entrenched the craziest people are in our society.  Rooting these people out will take all of the time and attention away from trying to accomplish anything positive.  The only ameliorating circumstance is that so many of these nuts are geriatric age.  Nancy Pelosi is eighty-four years old and looks every second of that.  Watching her argue with the reporter about Biden’s dementia I kept thinking she might keel over from the strain.  But no luck.

Much good could be done with the aid of Father Time.  But without a doubt if anything is going to be accomplished to undo some of the harm, we see around us it’s going to take grunt work and spite.  Gosh I wish I were younger.  All I have left at this point is the spite.

Jab Cross

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What a crazy week.  Thursday has thrown the Left into a tailspin.  It’s been a one-two punch.  The debate shocked them into realizing that Dementia Joe really is Dementia Joe.  That was the jab.  But then they realized that the Bidens and apparently the Obamas and the Clintons want Joe to stagger forward with the campaign.  Without the Bidens concession, the delegates will have to confirm Joe’s candidacy.  The was the right cross.  So, they’re looking around and trying to figure out what the hell to do.

And the squealing is marvelous.  Whole divisions, whole armies of hysterical losers have been thrown into an uproar.  They can’t imagine how this could be possible.  “All the experts told us that Joe was razor sharp behind closed doors.  He’s like a super-computer, spitting out facts and figures with the machine-like precision of some kind of futuristic artificial intelligence.  He’s the Biden 9000.”

Yeah, not so much.  Dr. Jill gives him his oatmeal and egg whites and if he’s a good enough boy he’ll get an ice cream cone for lunch but they can only drag out one of those “state of the union” Adderall, dog and pony shows every six months.  More often than that would probably kill him.  So stupid Joe is what they get.

“But Trump lied!”  Sure, Trump exaggerates when he talks.  He’s a salesman.  That’s what they do.  But at least he’s an honest liar.  He’s telling you the elevator pitch for what really exists.  But Biden is a congenital liar.  He lies as often as the rest of us breathe.  And any resemblance between his story and reality is purely coincidental.  He couldn’t stop lying if his life depended on it.  It’s who he is.  The funniest moment of the debate is when Biden claimed that he had a six handicap in golf.  Trump made a wry face and started laughing at him.  When Joe quibbled about it, Trump ended by saying “Please, let’s not act like children.”  And when Donald Trump tells you you’re being childish you know you’ve hit bottom.

So now Biden has gone back on the campaign trail with Dr. Jill and he’s embracing his hollowed-out cerebral cortex as a badge of courage.  “I may not be able to walk, talk, count to four, control my bowels or remember my name but I’m not a liar.  I’m simply a mental patient.”  Four more years!  Four more years!

It’s a lot of fun.  And it’s worked out almost impossibly well for Trump.  The undeniable truth of just how unqualified Joe Biden is to be the commander in chief of the US armed forces is permanently on view from Thursday’s debate.  There’s just no way to deny what we saw.  And this should be enough to eliminate the honest voters who hate both Trump and Biden.  Now at worst, they’ll vote for no one.  It will be, in their minds, indefensible to put Biden in possession of the nuclear football.  But chances are, at least some of them will vote for Trump.  And that may be enough to overcome the fraud campaign in the Great Lakes states.  Not definitely but plausibly.

And the panic this has inspired has been echoing around the internet like a cannon shot.  The first few opinion polls have seen Trump get a boost of a few points.  Probably by Tuesday more data will appear.  That should tell me whether I should be dancing in the street or just chuckling over a temporary panic by the lunatics.

But it has made my weekend pleasant.  Thanks Joe.

 

Update:

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TomD
When Trump says something like “I had the greatest economy in history”, it’s not a lie, it’s hyperbole. As Photog says, he’s a salesman at his core. I don’t know if the “press” just doesn’t get it or doesn’t want to.

Biden’s lies are substantial.

Coping with Biden and Overruling Chevron

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The post-debate euphoria has finally worn off.  I’ve watched the various media and political operatives screech and croak in horror at the spectacle of Joe Biden’s cognitive flat lining.  And it was immensely gratifying.  I haven’t had this much fun since Election Night 2016.  Wonderful.  But now it’s time to put down the toys and look out into the cold, hard light of Saturday and move on.

It doesn’t appear that the Democrat elite has decided to pull the plug on Dementia Joe.  At least not yet.  Obama and Clinton have texted that Biden’s performance is just one of those things and everything will be status quo on the way toward glorious victory in November.  Well, good.  Leaving Joe in is the best thing that could happen for Trump.  There will be a small subset of voters who don’t care for Trump but are horrified by the prospect of a man as obviously cognitively damaged as Biden, in charge of the US military and other critical agencies of the government.  It’s got to give them pause wondering who is actually running the government instead of Biden right now.  So, this revelation has to boost Trump somewhat.  How much is the big question.  We should have some polls in a week or two.

I saw that the Supreme Court came out with a couple of rulings.  One is relevant to President Trump and other January 6th defendants.  It overrules charging them with obstruction of a government proceeding.  This will help a number of the defendants because this serious charge was the only felony for a number of the defendants.

The other decision is much more important for the country at large.  It overturned the so-called “Chevron deference.”  According to this 1984 ruling courts were forced to show deference to federal agencies when interpreting ambiguities in the law within their area of expertise.

“”Chevron is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision.

The court’s conservative justices were in the majority, with the liberal justices dissenting. The ruling will make it easier for judges to second-guess actions by regulators, empowering challengers to regulations across federal agencies.

Business, conservative and libertarian groups cheered the decision, saying it eliminates a rule that requires courts to favor the government in all manner of challenges to regulation. The litigation was part of what has been termed the “war on the administrative state,” an effort to weaken the federal agency bureaucracy that interprets laws, crafts federal rules and implements executive action.”

Now this is brilliant.  With the right courts and executive branch oversight many overreaches by agencies like EPA and the IRS can be challenged in court and reversed.  This is a wonderful result.

So that is the world today.  A mixture of progress and regress.  In one direction we see the Supreme Court correcting past mistakes.  In another rogue judges and prosecutors serve up lawfare against the enemies of a demented president of the United States.

Well, it’s not as if we’re all not used to the spectacle.  The encouraging sign is that more of it is happening out in the open and more and more normies are getting an eyeful.

Scranton Joe Screws the Pooch

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Wow!  I guess politically, I’m not an average American.  So, I can’t say what the rest of America thought of that performance.  But by my reckoning Joe Biden got his clock cleaned good and thorough.

Now this may have no effect either on opinion polls or election results.  After all, those things can be arranged independent of what actual people think.  But, wow.

Now obviously Joe was doped to the gills and he had been coached on all the questions that CNN was going to ask.  But it didn’t matter.  He still looked and sounded like a re-animated corpse.  He even managed to have the brain freeze moment we were waiting for.  He was stumbling through one of his rehearsed set speeches when he lost the thread of what he was trying to say.  He stopped for five or ten seconds and then just made some non sequitur to fill the dead air.

I’ll give him credit.  He didn’t fall down or befoul himself.  But it couldn’t have been much worse if he had.

So, the other side.  Trump hammered him the whole time.  The border, inflation, crime.  Over and over again especially with the crime caused by illegal aliens.  He was relentless.  And he was disciplined.  No matter what the question from the moderator, Trump concentrated on whichever topics were scoring the most points.  He was like a boxer who has opened up a cut on his opponent.  He kept after that weak spot and peppered it with jabs.  Eventually he settled on illegal aliens murdering Americans and displacing Americans from their rightful benefits; social security, Medicaid, housing for veterans, jobs.

By the end of the debate Biden actually got a little more lucid.  But by then it was too late.  Every Democrat big wig had gone into full panic mode and was calling up the FBI and the CIA demanding that they blackmail Biden into dropping out of the race “voluntarily.”

So, this was really, really bad for Joe.

Well, will he drop out?  I hope not.  With a performance this shockingly bad he might be able to make the election fraud-proof.  If all of a sudden Trump wins New Jersey and Virginia it doesn’t matter anymore if he loses Pennsylvania.  So, I’m hoping that Joe hangs in there.

But will there be a second debate?  At this point I kind of doubt it.  I don’t think Joe’s handlers want to risk another fiasco like tonight.  So maybe they claim some beef about Trump saying mean things and refuse the September meeting.

And I’ll have to at this point thank Donald Trump for giving me one of the best laughs I’ve had in months.  Trump was disciplined and for him, moderate.  He didn’t go over on his time and he didn’t shout while his microphone was muted.  He just methodically undermined Joe Biden’s whole term as president.  And most enjoyably he called Joe Biden an habitual liar.  And that is the most effective attack that you can end with when attacking Biden.  Because it’s true and it’s common knowledge.  And because inevitably you can point to a lie, he’s making right there at the time you’re talking to him.  He’s that constant.

So, by tomorrow morning polls will be circulating and it should be a crap-fest for Scranton Joe.  Not even Uncle Bosie can save him now.  Even Corn Pop would tell him it’s time to hang up the cap and bells.  But please Joe hang in there.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 27JUN2024 – At a Theater Near You

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A very good movie that somehow made it to the theaters is “Sound of freedom” – a bit heavy for kids though.
My local theater (which is often begging for viewers) was sold out almost every show.
The same theater now has:
“A quiet place: Day one” which is a remake of a terrible horror movie only this time with a POC in the lead. (Pass.)
“The Garfield movie” (Might be OK for kids, but I’ll pass).
“Inside out 2” (A sequel to a movie I did not see. Looks like Disney/Pixar – best to avoid.)
“Bad Boys Ride or Die” (Pass, I thought this property was paid out a decade ago. Pass.)
“The Bikeriders” (Looks like a throwback to 60s troubled teens on motorcycles. Pass.)
Horizon Chapter 1 (A Kevin Costner western – Maybe)
“If” A Ryan Reynolds comedy. I like RR. Free Guy was great! But I can wait for this to hit cable.

Without Wincing

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It’s Wednesday night and I’ve been watching some YouTube videos by right-wing Hollywood types; Nick Searcy, Andrew Klavan, Steve Deace.  These guys have made the transition from Hollywood actors and writers to conservatives who want to create content that doesn’t outrage their convictions.

And listening to them talk about the blacklisting and the gatekeeping you can’t help but feel discouraged.  And look at Disney where they’ve lost more than a billion dollars in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars series in the last year or two.  Even the remakes of the legacy Disney fairy tales are scaring away the parents.  Would these losses make them reconsider what they’re doing?  Nope.  Doubling down doesn’t even begin to describe their behavior.  It’s pretty depressing.

But I think I detect a hint of desperation.  It seems the strategy is to monopolize the entertainment choices utterly.  It’s almost as if they’re afraid people will find out that movies that are entertaining can actually exist.  And it makes sense.  Even they must know that their stuff is for the most part unwatchable.  So, all they can do is blockade anyone else trying to get funding and book theaters.  And so far, that’s worked.  But slowly, slowly, even glacially some stuff is leaking by.  So far, it’s all been Christian movies.  But the definition of what’s a Christian movie is being stretched.  Last year a “Christian horror movie;” Nefarious made $12 million from box office and streaming off of a $1 million total cost.  That’s a very nice return on investment.  Compare that to Disney spending $3 billion and getting back $2 billion.  Negative return on investment, not so great.

Then there was Netflix putting out the comedy specials by Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais.  Netflix’s own employees attempted to block the showing of these specials.  They saw these comedy routines as transphobic and hateful.  But Netflix decided that they need money more than they needed virtue signaling to their employees.  Another good sign.

Now conservative social media outlets are trying their hand at making movies.  The Daily Wire has made a couple of forays into comedy.  I don’t think they’ve succeeded yet but I give them full marks for trying.  Eventually somebody is going to make a stab at it and hit pay dirt.  And when that happens there will be a lot more.  Netflix is already one foot in the door.  All they’ll need is for a non-woke film maker to figure out the formula and they’ll be setting up shop and pumping stuff out.  There hasn’t been a decent comedy in a decade and if one studio starts putting them out, they’ll end up printing money.

So, I think we will get some alternatives to Hollywood.  And we’ll get it by supporting it ourselves.  What was that stupid Obama mantra?  “You are the change you’ve been waiting for?”  It’s horrible to realize but it’s actually true for our side.  We will have to stand up all these new platforms ourselves.  We’ll have to buy the tickets and take out subscriptions and buy books and go to plays just to make sure there actually is a non-woke alternative to all this awful crap they keep pumping out.

But finally, one fine day, Disney and Time Warner and NBC-Universal and whatever other woke behemoths there are will wither away all together and we’ll look out over a landscape where girl-boss jedi and Captain Marvel have been relegated to senior living facilities with a maximum of three cats and one bottle of wine a night.  And nobody declares their pronouns and spiderman is a man.

And on that day, I’ll bring my first great-grandson to the movies without wincing.

Waiting for the Geek Show

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Thursday is the circus.  Everyone is at a fever pitch.  The newspapers and the cable news have many articles with advice for Joe Biden on how to deflect the questions away from his record in office and concentrate on fortifying our democracy against Trump.

Well, of course they are.  Would anyone expect Tapper or Bash to say anything that doesn’t begin with “convicted felon Trump?”  Of course not.  So, the only truly entertaining way to experience this fun house ride is with a sufficiently large wet bar or a smorgasbord of your favorite snack foods.  I hope to convince Camera Girl to make a few pounds of pastrami and swiss cheese into a bunch of hot sandwiches and add a pot of good coffee to wash it down.

Now I don’t expect any good coming from this Punch and Judy show.  CNN’s questions won’t even be questions.  They’ll just point at Trump and shriek “racist.”  They may ask Biden in soothing terms how he’s managed to stand up to the horror of having to confront the bogeyman but other than that it will be a straight up witch trial.

One thing I am curious to see.  They have said that they will shut off Trump’s mike during Biden’s answers.  I wonder if they will shut off Trump’s mike during his own answers if they think he’s ignoring their questions.  For instance.  Suppose they ask Trump to apologize for January 6th and instead he ignores this and slams Biden on all the problems his administration has; inflation, crime, interest rates, illegal immigration, lack of affordable housing.  I wonder if they’ll shut off his mike and claim he wasn’t following the debate questions.  I imagine if they do that Trump will show his disapproval by miming that his time is being wasted by pointing to his wrist watch.

But other than something like that I don’t assume it’ll be at all interesting.  Biden will be bellowing and shaking his fists and looking agitated.  Trump will look disgusted and disapproving.  And the moderators will look smug and bovine.

I want to watch the whole thing in case something interesting happens.  However, ninety minutes of this might be a little too much.  But what has me trying for the end is the thought that ninety minutes might push Dementia Joe too far on his meds.  Think about it.  They may be afraid to give him enough Adderall to keep him buzzed that long.  In which case he may lapse into gibberish and tales of Uncle Bosey.  Or if they do give him the full dose maybe it’ll just plain finish him off.

Here are some of the side effects from Adderall overdose:

• Restlessness.
• Agitation.
• Tremor.
• Exaggerated reflexes.
• Confusion.
• Panic.
• Aggression.
• Paranoia.
• Hallucinations.
• Elevated body temperature.
• Fast breathing.
• Irregular heartbeat.
• Tachycardia.
• Hypertension or other changes in blood pressure.
• Chest pain.
• Abdominal cramps.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Diarrhea.
• Convulsions.
• Coma.

Half of those symptoms already sound like regular Biden.  So, I’m just hanging in there to see if we hit the jackpot.  If during the third half-hour Joe lets his angry old man act get out of hand, he may just go into vapor lock and faceplant right there on the podium.

I mean that would be the ultimate Biden moment.  And if he revives let’s see Haitian Shirley Temple try to convince us that going into cardiac arrest is just a deep fake.  I’d love to see her try.

Update:

H/T to Big Mac

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