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I was watching some footage of the pro-Palestinian rioters scaling the outer fence at the White House and thinking, \u201cIs there a chance they might get Joe?\u201d\u00a0 But, no.\u00a0 It was all Kabuki theater, of course.\u00a0 Some people are screaming,\u201d Hey, how come they didn\u2019t arrest them like they did the January 6th<\/sup> protesters?\u201d\u00a0 But you don\u2019t arrest your friends when they\u2019re playacting.\u00a0 You know, making believe that they expect the White House to throw the Israelis under the bus.\u00a0 Ask the former president of Harvard how that worked out for her.\u00a0 No this is a fig leaf to try and minimize the electoral penalty they expect to pay in Michigan from the Arab voters there.\u00a0 Well, someone did the math and decided this was the better play.<\/p>\n

So, tomorrow is the Iowa Caucus.\u00a0 Trump will win it by twenty or more percent.\u00a0 If Haley comes in second then maybe DeSantis may drop out.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if Ramaswamy stays in.\u00a0 Maybe he wants to do New Hampshire too.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know how all this works for him.\u00a0 I think with all the Democrat and Independent crossover, Haley has a shot at winning in New Hampshire.\u00a0 But New Hampshire is now just North Massachusetts.\u00a0 Of course, they don\u2019t want Trump.\u00a0 Every time the idiot governor Sununu shows up on MSNBC, he yammers on about how independent their voters are.\u00a0 What a load of crap.\u00a0 Anywhere else in the country a New England \u201cRepublican\u201d is a radical progressive.<\/p>\n

But if Haley manages to squeak out a victory in New Hampshire the press will trumpet how this means she\u2019s got a shot at the nomination.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s a crock.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even think she has a chance of winning in her home state of South Carolina.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll be hearing that drivel all the way up to February 24th<\/sup> when the primary occurs.\u00a0 Then mercifully, the wind will collapse out of their sails and the next sideshow will be the court trials to try and put Trump in jail.\u00a0 And on and on until the conventions and then the election.<\/p>\n

Well, I really don\u2019t have the interest to follow all of the minutia.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just look at the headlines and look for some talking head to say something really stupid that I can mock.\u00a0 And there\u2019s no end to those.\u00a0 I can\u2019t make up my mind which are more pathetic the idiots on CNN and MSNBC or the fakes at Fox News.\u00a0 They\u2019re both contemptible but somehow the fake conservatives are more contemptible.\u00a0 The pundits on the Left are so obviously cretinous numbskulls that you almost feel sorry for them; being paraded in front of cameras and allowed to prove themselves morons.\u00a0 Someone like Joy Reid isn\u2019t playing with a full deck.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/01\/13\/joy_reid_black_folks_see_those_palestinians_and_they_see_themselves.html<\/a><\/p>\n

She\u2019s annoying for sure but no one is thinking, \u201cHey, that Joy Reid really has a point there.\u201d\u00a0 Well, no one with an IQ over 65.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s not very important to try and discredit her jabbering.<\/p>\n

But the Fox News people are of at least functional human intelligence and yet they lie and deceive their viewers by carrying water for the likes of Joe Biden.\u00a0 More and more the likes of Bret Baier strike me as the worst problem in news.\u00a0 He\u2019s the voice of the Republican establishment and the worst offender when it comes to trying to sell people on Nikki Haley as some kind of conservative.\u00a0 So, Brett and his clones will probably provide the best fodder for my mockery.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure if I search round in his history, I\u2019ll find his elevator speech for why Republicans should embrace pediatric transgender affirmation surgery.\u00a0 But somehow he hasn\u2019t volunteered to try it out himself.<\/p>\n

As I said at New Year\u2019s Day, I intend to try to avoid beating the same dead horses I\u2019ve been pummeling for the last few years.\u00a0 It\u2019s not very amusing anymore but when there is something amusing or enlightening that I can think of I\u2019ll pass it along.\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s see what shows up in Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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