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Guest Contributor – Chemist – 01DEC2023 – Biden’s Voters

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Here is the person who will vote for Biden:
This is an old friend. A person who has worked union jobs their entire life.
They asked if I planned to retire anytime soon.
I replied that, had they asked me that in 2019 I would have told them I’d be retired now.
But since the last presidential election, my 401K is in the shitter and everything is a hell of a lot more expensive so retirement is not an option.
(I phrased it this way because I knew they were liberal.)
“Well, the market goes up and the market goes down.” was the reply.
I pointed out that this was the first time the market was down while inflation was skyrocketing.
They gave the standard talking point that inflation was down now.
I explained that the rate of inflation was down, but the prices had not come down and were substantially higher than they were 4 years ago.

They will still pull the lever for straight democrat, even though they live in a crime ridden shithole city that has been run by the democrats for over 50 years.
There are many of them.

 

 

After Thanksgiving Thoughts

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Two days of food!  Oh, the pain, the pain.  But it was worth it.  Camera Girl was pleased with her feast and her guests.  She said it was the best Thanksgiving ever.  And I have to agree.  It was untroubled.  The food was excellent.  The guests were merry and amiable and the activities and conversation were enjoyable.  In all ways it was excellent.  And now we have the holiday season.  From now till Christmas time will fly.

So, while we’re enjoying (or cursing) the orgy of buying and preparation, we can reflect a little on the year that is just about over.  What did 2023 entail?

Maybe the most surprising thing about it was just how lousy it was for Joe Biden.  Regardless of whether the powers-that-be, by hook or by crook, can pull him over the finish line in November, it is pretty obvious that even his “voters” think he is garbage.  His approval rating is somewhere between thirty and forty percent.  And the first thirty percent would vote for Jack the Ripper if he has that “D” before his name.  That’s pretty amazing.

Of course, I think part of this has to do with the Democrat constituency.  The current situation with the Gaza War is a good example.  A good chunk of the Democrat voters is squarely on the side of Hamas and little things like Hamas followers disemboweling pregnant women or beheading infants aren’t going to change that.  So, if Joe Biden is seen to help the Israelis, he loses these folks.  These are what are known as one-issue-voters.  And although Jewish voters by and large vote Democrat, sharing a coalition with the Hamas-lovers surely must give many Jewish Democrats pause.  And that is good.  It’s important for people to confront the compromises that they make in their lives.  Watching videos of middle-easterners in Brooklyn screaming about burning Jews must be clarifying for Jewish New Yorkers who have defended the Moslems in America since 9-11-2001.  It might even lead them to question the validity of their political identity.

I think we all should be as realistic as possible about the choices we make.  I know that I’ve been thinking lately about where the line is drawn between acceptable and unacceptable positions by “my side.”  Hate for the sake of hate is a pretty ugly thing.  All of the talk about the incompatibility of different ethnic groups and identities gets overblown.  And most of the blame for that is on the Left for sure.  Once you start treating “protected groups” differently and encouraging criminal behavior, a reaction is bound to happen.

But the cure for discrimination isn’t reverse discrimination as has been amply demonstrated by the failures of affirmative action.  It’s scrupulous adherence to just laws and the basic decencies that a Christian society already provides for the less able.  I don’t see any clash between racial harmony and strict compliance with law and order.  In fact, I think it’s only by eliminating criminal behavior in the inner city that you provide the possibility of lessening poverty.  Before 2008 and Obama’s attempts to create race hatred, crime statistics in the urban areas were at a generational low.  The property values in places like Harlem were astronomical.  The only problem is that this could only exist with a Republican mayor and a law-and-order police commissioner.

But I digress.

As I was saying, Joe Biden is not a popular fellow and I think that gives us something to think about going into 2024.  Is the Democrat voting machine so “reinforced for democracy” that it can get even a stink bomb like Biden elected or will something else happen.  Will they replace him?  Can they replace him?  Will he lose?

Something to think about.

How Do You Un-Crash the Country to Win an Election?

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I think a pretty good case could be made that the Democrats and the Deep State manufactured two crises in 2020 to scuttle Donald Trump’s reelection.  The FBI used Antifa and BLM to gin up the George Floyd riots and then the CIA released the COVID virus and the CDC and Fauci orchestrated the destruction of the US economy afterwards.  Now that’s a mighty desperate gambit.  And even with the mail in ballot scam it barely worked.

But you could say it worked too well.  Between the disruptions to life caused by urban crime and the business disruptions caused by everything that went on, the United States hasn’t been able to get back to normal.  But then how do you avoid the stigma of running a circus like this?

Apparently, you don’t.  Joe Biden is as popular as leprosy, even among Democrats.  Even someone as in the tank for the Democrats as James Carville is telling whoever will listen to him that Biden will lose in a matchup with Trump.  Apparently, Trump hatred isn’t enough to blind Carville to the reality of how bad “Bidenomics” is really playing out across the country.  The claims that inflation is in the low single digits aren’t fooling the people paying the bills in American households.  And trumpeting low unemployment numbers doesn’t comfort people working two jobs and still unable to pay their rent bill.

And that’s just the, “it’s the economy stupid” dimension to the state of things.  The total list of problems is staggering.

If you live or work in a city you have

  • violent crime
  • disappearing retail stores because of organized looting
  • squalor associated with homeless encampments
  • dysfunctional schools
  • and race hatred running amok

Drugs and illegal aliens have flooded the country.  And everyone is dealing with corporate and government systemic racism branded as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  Government agencies are continuously making proclamations declaring the United States as a hotbed of white supremacy and putting out guidelines to remind us of, and proselytize our children against, our various sins.

Well, then how do they win the next election.  Can they just depend on election fraud for everything?  It seems kinda dicey.  And so, I think that explains the various wars.  Dementia Joe has been doing his best wag the dog act now for a year and a half.  But despite pulling out all the stops the only ones buying it are the true believers and the people who make their money off of the war machine.  So then, what’s left to do?  I guess we’ll find out.

Honestly, I’m at the point where I wouldn’t be surprised by anything the Left does to remain in power.  Fraud and kangaroo courts have already made their appearance as political strategies.  Martial law and suspension of elections would be the next logical extension.

But it begs the question, could they have already done so much damage to the country’s sense of normalcy and well-being that they have undermined their own legitimacy?  Of course, it’s hard to know for sure.  The last time we were this far over the edge was probably the civil war.  And back then each side was united in its struggle to win the war.  Currently there is a three-way split of the population.  One third Left, one third Right and one third in the middle.  I guess it’s possible for things to get so bad that the middle third might jump far enough to the Right to even overrule fraud and banana republic tactics.  I’m not saying it will but there’s enough doubt that maybe it might.

Anyway, I think about such things when I listen to the news and watch the various talking heads talk.  I entered the working world during Jimmy Carter’s term in office.  Inflation was so bad in 1980 that the cheapest insurance company in town gave all of its employees a bonus in the middle of the year just because they felt so bad for us.  But the economic conditions today are much, much worse.  I realize that the Democrats in 1980 were loyal Americans and today they’re Bolsheviks but maybe there are enough independents to help us save the country.  I’m not staking my life on it.  I’m just wistfully hoping it could happen.

A Bloomberg Poll has Trump up over Biden in 5 of 7 Swing States

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NEW POLLS: Trump Beating Biden in 5 of 7 Swing States, Tied in a Sixth

“As for the state-by-state results, in Arizona, Biden is polling at 43 percent while Trump has 47 percent. Biden is also trailing Georgia (Trump 48-Biden 43), North Carolina (Trump 47-Biden 43), Pennsylvania (Trump 46-Biden 45) and Wisconsin (Trump 46-Biden 44)

The Michigan poll shows Trump and Biden in a 44 percent deadlock, and Nevada is the only battleground where Biden is shown to be leading — with 46 percent to Trump’s 43. The poll determined in a closed matchup between Biden and Trump, the former president leads his successor by 4 points overall.”

Of course, what does this actually mean if you can whip up an extra ten percent of the votes anytime you need to on election day or even a week afterwards?  But it does tell you that if Joe Biden gets “re-elected” in November 2024 there will probably be a lot of people emigrating out of blue states and into red right afterwards.

The Other Guy’s Point of View

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I was having a conversation with one of the HVAC technicians that was fixing my home heating system the other night.  He was about my age and was a soft-spoken guy and like most people in New England, he was a Democrat.  And I think he brought up the election in the context of the challenges that Biden faces on account of things like the cost of oil and gasoline and food.  And his challenge with voting against Biden was that he considered Trump a bad guy.

The fellow said, “But look how much he lies, how can that be acceptable?”  So, I asked him what it meant that everyone on the Left lied about the Russian-Trump investigation.  How could it be acceptable that the FBI knew it was a hoax but they used it to damage the Trump administration for a couple of years.

He had nothing to say about that.  So here is this guy who I’d say is a decent man.  He knows that a lot of the policies of the Left are crazy.  He thinks the whole green energy thing is incoherent and doomed to failure.  But he has the talking points about Trump and his followers being “dangerous” and uncouth.  He wants the Republicans to come up with a more palatable candidate.  In other words, they want to be able to say both Biden and Trump are both unacceptable.  Which really means they don’t think they can win with Biden and so they want a way out of the status quo.

I think the Democrats have come to the conclusion they can’t win with Biden.  He’s deteriorating and even if he maintained his current mental state, he can’t debate anyone and he has so many liabilities that general election commercials will shred him mercilessly.  So, the party wants desperately to replace him with Newsome.  Of course, they have to replace Biden and Harris.  Neither of them is viable.  They have to allow a primary challenge to Biden.

I’ve been hearing that the primary challenge has to happen before January.  I don’t know that that’s true.  The Democrats often switch around the rules to suit themselves and I don’t see how a late entry into the primaries would be disqualifying.  In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if in March or April Joe Biden decides not to run and a replacement candidate is selected by acclamation by the Democrat National Committee.  After all that’s what they used to do in the real old days and I’m sure that the by-laws of the Committee have some sort of loophole that allows the backroom boys to use their emergency powers to make such a decision when an act of God, like Joe being blackmailed into bowing out, occurs.

Now, when all of this happens, that fellow I was talking to will think it was a stroke of good luck.  Now he can stop worrying and thinking about the problems in front of him.  Instead of senile, crooked Joe Biden he has young, honest Gavin Newsome.  Sure, Newsome espouses the same failed policies that got Biden into the jam he’s in.  California’s insane energy policies are the blueprint that Biden is using to destroy the rest of the country’s economy.  Newsome is just as corrupt as Biden.  All he has going for him is better hair and a few more brain cells.  But the Democrat voters just want to be assured that the plan is back on track.  The arc of history is back to bending toward Barack Obama’s promised land of social justice and climate healing.

What all that tells me is that before America can ever get around to facing reality, reality is going to have to hit Democrats in the face with a baseball bat’s worth of truth.  It’s going to take economic ruin and lifestyle squalor to get these true believers to cry uncle.

Well, that’s what we’re here for.  The Lord Humungous will have to set up shop in the wasteland and begin throwing the voters into the soup pot before they admit that “our democracy” may no longer be all that it was cracked up to be.  The question is whether we will be at the leading or lagging edge of the curve.  New Zealand has kicked out their blue team and installed the conservatives.  But who knows how the tide is running in various places.  I think we’ll be lagging the curve.  I expect the suffering to increase significantly for quite a while.    I wouldn’t even be too surprised by a Biden second term.

After all, the Left has invested enormous resources into election fraud.  Why wouldn’t they pull out all the stops in 2024?  Sure, it’s transparently fake.  And the voting populace already says they believe 2020 was stolen.  But no one has successfully done anything about it.  So, what’s to stop the next bigger round of fraud?

Now what could change all this is if the international situation really deteriorates.  A hot war for us with Iran or even Russia could launch the price of oil into the stratosphere and truly wreck the economy.  That might be enough for the Dems to say uncle.  Would that get my friend the technician to say uncle and vote for Trump.  Yeah, I’ll bet it would.  But he’d still claim that Trump is a bad guy and would wish that Nikki Haley was his choice.  Well, you can’t blame him.  She is a good Democrat.

So that’s what I heard from the other side this week.

17OCT2023 – Just Some Impressions of the Current Day

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In Israel military and political leaders are sweating blood trying to thread a needle that has no eye; how to rescue hostages, kill the Hamas leadership and its psychopathic foot soldiers, minimize “civilian” Palestinian deaths and protect their own troops from harm while accomplishing all this in an urban environment that resembles some hellish first-person shooter video game.  Chances to accomplish all of these objectives is objectively zero.  And they know that.  The real mission is to destroy Hamas while not failing catastrophically at the other objectives.

Of course, if they fail at that primary objective then all the other failures; deaths of soldiers, hostages and civilians will have been in vain and therefore infinitely worse.  And they approach this mission with the knowledge that Hamas orchestrated this cataclysm for the express result that they would get to kill a lot of Israeli soldiers without the Israelis achieving their goal of eradicating Hamas from Gaza.  I’m sure the IDF knows all this.  For that reason, I’m guessing that they will resist the pressure brought to bear by Israeli peaceniks, moderate Arab state leaders and Joe Biden, that the battle in Gaza be limited and without result.  But that’s my assumption.  All past experience has been that Gaza is an insoluble problem that cannot be resolved.  Time will certainly tell.

In the House of Representatives word is that many of the establishment leaders are bowing to necessity and approving Jim Jordan’s bid to become Speaker.  Here, I don’t even have an inkling about what will happen.  As far as I can tell most of these politicians are crooks who only follow orders from their paymasters so it’s impenetrable to me.  Maybe the need to come up with an aid package for Israel will force the establishment shills to accept Jordan against their wills in order to allow the legislation they want to proceed.  Possibly some good will come of this accident of timing.  I’ve heard Jim Jordan is supposed to be the one in ten thousand, honest man.  I hope he is and I wish him well.  What I do hope is that he draws the line at further funding for Ukraine.  After all I think it’s only fair that we restrict our support to one major war at a time.  Ukraine has had their chance.  Now let them work it out with the Russians.  If that’s still possible.

Joe Biden is going to Israel.  I’m sure he’ll regale them with tales of his service at the battle front in 1948, 1967 and 1973.  He might even relate the story of his hand-to-hand duel against the dastardly Arab terrorist Corn Al-Pop.  He was one bad dude.

Joe Biden in the Holy Land.  Surely the Lord of the Old Testament has some lightning, earthquake and brimstone saved up for just such a contingency.  I mean, Joe is like some local representative of Sodom or Gomorrah showing up after a local atrocity.  Turning Dr Jill into a salt pillar seems like letting him off light.  But politics makes for strange bedfellows.

The election and Trump indictment news moves along on the expected trajectories.  The more certain that Trump will be imprisoned the more certain that his support among Republican voters will increase.  It’s like some fateful confluence of irresistible forces is dragging us to a crisis that can only be resolved by a radical shift in the status quo.  Maybe it’s an illusion but it seems that we won’t be splitting the difference this time.  It appears that the system is breaking down catastrophically.  Now I say appears because as has been mentioned innumerable times before, there is an awful lot of ruin in a world empire.  But short of armed intervention by the military it seems like people are getting fed up with the dysfunction that has been imposed on the whole country.  But we’ll see.

Anyway, that’s what I have to remark on today.  More madness and more dysfunction.  More of the same.

Out With the Old, In with the New

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I look at the headlines today and see:

  • “Link” “ABC News/WashPost: Trump 52, Biden 42”
  • “Link” “Biden Poll Freakout”
  • “Link” “Democrats Fear Party Leaders Are Too Bullish About Biden’s 2024 Odds: ‘They’re Playing Russian Roulette’”
  • “Link” “FBI agent says prosecutors thwarted Hunter Biden charges, corroborating IRS whistleblowers”
  • “Link” “‘Missing witness’ in Biden corruption probe offers dirt on Hunter FBI ‘mole’ who tipped him off”

Huh?  What the heck is going on here?

Bidenomics is leading us into the strongest economy in human history.  Open borders and equity-driven justice has made our cities the envy of the world (or, at least, of Brazil and Venezuela).  And our compassion for gender non-conforming toddlers is taking the breath away of progressives in Sweden and Britain who used to take the lead in this kind of thing (until some late breaking data caught their attention).

All these bed-wetters in the Democrat party panicking when everything is going great?

Alright, maybe it really is time to pull the plug on Dementia Joe before the primaries get going.

I’m fascinated by trying to guess how they’ll do it.  Do they leave a horse’s head in the West Wing or would that be too subtle?  Does Merrick Garland show up in the Oval Office with a folder that has pictures of Hunter handing Joe a bulging trash bag with a huge dollar sign stenciled on it?

Would they do something drastic?  I mean it’s not like these guys have any qualms about breaking a few eggs to make an omelet.  But I’m just afraid that we’ll never really know how the play went down.  I think they owe it to history (and comedy) to provide a YouTube video showing the whole thing.

Personally, I think the perfect way would be to set up a presidential address to the nation for Joe and then just have the teleprompter read that Joe is retiring after the end of his term.  By the time he figures out what it means he’ll have already announced the end of his presidency.

Now who do they replace him with in the election?  Everyone says Gavin Newsome, Gavin Newsome!  Well, I guess, but maybe there are better choices.  I think Mayor Pete is the obvious go to.

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His qualifications are obvious.  Everything about him screams “commander in chief.”  And he is the face of a new generation, a generation much less worried about annoying details like laws of nature, facts and success.  With Pete we’ll get Joe Biden’s insouciance but without the wrinkles and with significantly fewer falls on the tarmac and the podium.

But if Pete is too young and inexperienced then go with a proven winner.

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Admiral Rachel Levine is the whole package (well in some senses).  Her free-wheeling, sashay through the world of gender affirmation has taken the country by storm.  Throw in the uniform and it’s pretty hard to deny that America is crying out for this new kind of leadership.  Can you imagine not voting for her in the general election?  I dare you!

But if I’ve still left you unconvinced then let’s circle back to the obvious choice

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Instead of letting Biden wait out his first term just have him shipped off to the funny farm now and presto, change-o Kamala Harris is the incumbent.  From there the campaign will be one long slog through the cities and suburbs of America with Kamala professing her love for school busses, post-it notes and kinetic desk toys like the drinking bird and fidget spinners.  It’s been claimed that the average IQ of Americans has decreased about ten points per decade.  It’s quite possible that Kamala is now “the one.”  She may be the perfect fit for the new America.  And who are we to stand in the way of progress (or regress).

After all, yellow school busses.

Dumping Dementia Joe

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The talking heads at the Washington Post and NBC admit that off-camera every Democrat says Joe Biden is too old to run for re-election.  David Ignatius came out and said in a column in the Washington Post that Biden should step aside.  And even political hack Joe Scarborough as much as admits on-air that every Democrat he’s spoken to knows that Biden is seen by the whole country as a feeble old man who can’t get out three sentences in a row without either uttering some obvious lie or gibbering some incomprehensible mush.

Well, well.  I guess 39% favorability ratings will work wonders for the Democrats’ honesty.  A few weeks ago, Joe Biden was a paragon of intellectual prowess and the greatest political orator since Demosthenes.  Now, somehow, he’s unfit to be understudy for Bozo the Clown.  Remarkable.

So, it’s beginning and according to Ignatius, there’s only a month or two left to set up a primary season for a Democratic replacement.  Wonderful.  RFK Jr. is the only one currently on the stump for the Democrats.  And just last week Gavin Newsome went on the record to say he wasn’t going to run in 2024.  Many people said he’d be the fair-haired boy that the Democrats would throw into the fray to give the Trump-hating suburban white women someone to vote for.  But he can’t change his mind this week, can he?

Wanna bet?

So, which will it be?  Is it a feint or will they force Biden out?  You know?  I don’t even think they know yet.  But I don’t doubt they’ll start up the primary machine anyway.  Some of the pathetic losers from 2020 will start making noises like candidates and donors will start commissioning polls to see how the public views Mayor Pete or Gavin Newsome or Michelle Obama.  The fun part will be how Joe Biden will start to sulk and try to be more presidential.  Maybe he’ll declare war on Serbia.  Or Afghanistan.  After all he could use some of the military hardware he left there for the Ukraine war.

Or maybe he could declare another war on cancer or fund a bullet train that runs on wind power.  It could have a two-hundred-foot-tall wind turbine on top of the train.  I can just see it.  Acela Joe would ride that baby back and forth from the White House to the Delaware shore.  Inspiring story.

You’ve got to give the Democrats full marks for effort.  They’ve put a bet down on red and one on black and one on double zero.  And because they’re using our money they can’t lose.  But somehow it still seems that even if they can’t lose elections anymore, they’re losing the country.  The misery index is weighing down the citizens every which way.  The cost of everything they need is way up.  The quality of everything is way down.  And everyone is at everyone else’s throat.

And it’s still a year and a little more before the election.  Maybe by next summer none of the Democrats will even want the White House.  And who could blame them?  By then California will be one enormous homeless encampment and Eric Adams will be a patient in the Bellevue psych ward and Ukrainian freedom fighters will be carrying out terrorist attacks in Boston to convince the White House to provide ICBMs for the faltering war in Kiev.

But I digress.  By November of this year, we’ll know if Joe’s gonna get the old heave-ho.  Personally, I’d hate to see him go.  He’s been great for comedy but the show must go on and I could just as easily adapt to Mayor Pete bringing the First Gentleman to the White House.  No joke!

Greatest Hits from Biden’s Q&A in Vietnam

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I guess if you multiply mush-brain by jet lag the result is breath-takingly disjointed.  It’s almost as if he’s performing an impression of what he remembers he used to sound like.  He even threw in the dog-faced pony soldier shtick. .All that was missing from his greatest hits collection was Corn Pop and the leg hair.

Of course, maybe this is a performance to allow the long awaited announcement that Biden will step aside and someone else will run in 2024.  Well, I’ll bite.  Anyone who is willing to sound like this on purpose has earned the right to walk away.

But the rest of the world must be starting to worry whether we’ve gone nuts.  And it is a valid question.  Our politics has forced the establishment to foist a doddering embarrassment on them as the legitimate leader of the “free world.”  Well, the charade hasn’t gone well.  The laundry list of things that are imploding has gotten so long that even the true believers like the Mayor of New York are freaking out over the various policies that are destroying his city.

Even the Democrats running this thing may be getting scared now.  There’s probably a wing of the party that’s starting to wish the neo-cons could be dragged off to an insane asylum before they trigger a nuclear exchange.  But the show must go on.  It’s a year or so before they pull out “Voter Fraud 2024 – The Re-Boot.”  That should be entertaining and educational.  We’ll get to see just how cooked we are.

 

25AUG2023 – Babylon Bee Laugh for Today

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Once again pretty dead on.  Every day Biden has a new low point.  Telling the bereaved Hawaiians about how his car was almost burned was a another new low.  Keep it coming Joe.  Let’s these people know what they’ve voted for.  A dishonest moron.