{"id":27139,"date":"2024-01-16T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=27139"},"modified":"2024-01-15T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:04:14","slug":"iowa-checks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/iowa-checks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Checks In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Donald Trump regains the White House this will still be a different country than the one I was born into.\u00a0 That country ceased to exist after 2001.\u00a0 That was when the people who ran this country decided that they had the cover to take over everything in our lives and leave us nothing but the bills.\u00a0 And in 2009 when Obama entered the White House he stood over the corpse of our country and buried it once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>So, whatever happens going forward we live in a different place.\u00a0 But some of the people who made up the Old America are still kicking around.\u00a0 You can tell when Donald Trump scores an enormous win in Iowa.\u00a0 It took 37 minutes to declare Trump the winner.\u00a0 With about 37% of the vote in he\u2019s got 52% of the votes to something like 20% apiece for DeSantis and Haley.\u00a0 People know who\u2019s on their side.<\/p>\n<p>So, you can see the demographic outline of the Old America by the places where Trump is doing well; places like Iowa and the Midwest and the South.\u00a0 And so, we\u2019ll recognize that the Old America is a layer submerged in the new.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a layer of pebbles that is all made of one mineral but then another mineral dissolved in water leaches into the stratum and forms a matrix around the pebbles and encases them in a sediment.\u00a0 We\u2019re still here but in new surroundings, a new reality.<\/p>\n<p>The only question to ask then is what can be made of this new place.\u00a0 Will the elites who drove this replacement manage to destroy us?\u00a0 I suppose that\u2019s what we\u2019ll find out.\u00a0 They\u2019ve done a pretty thorough job of lousing up most of the things that still worked in this country.\u00a0 They croaked about half of the small businesses around the cities during the pandemic they orchestrated.\u00a0 They\u2019ve ignited inflation and made life awful for the working class.\u00a0 They\u2019ve consigned the children of the middle-class to the under-class.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve sent most of the manufacturing jobs to Asia.\u00a0 I won\u2019t even bother with the forever wars because even the Millennials and Zoomers are hopping mad about those because they might be the ones to have to fight them.\u00a0 So, all of this is waiting in the wings to see who gets the White House in November.<\/p>\n<p>And to keep us amused until then we get to watch the spectacle of the Republican donors and the RNC spending tens of millions of dollars to try to convince voters that Nikki Haley is one of them.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DGDm4jkDbGQ?t=43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Not since Hillary Clinton started speaking in tongues and tried to convince black voters that she was just a poor old cotton-picker from Arkansas have we witnessed phonier \u201caw-shucks, we\u2019re just folks\u201d play acting<\/a>. Well, I know Nikki said that Hillary was her inspiration and template.\u00a0 I think she\u2019s reached her goal.\u00a0 All she lacks is the cackle.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s see how these primaries go.\u00a0 New Hampshire is probably going to be Haley\u2019s high-water mark.\u00a0 All the Dems will voter for her since there isn\u2019t going to be a Democrat primary to speak of.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be fun to listen to the various talking heads try to parse this thing and give Nikki all the hopeful coverage they can until Trump reaches the finish line on Super Tuesday, March 5<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 That\u2019s seven weeks.\u00a0 Forty-nine days of listening to halfwits explaining how Nikki Haley would bury Joe Biden but Donald Trump doesn\u2019t stand a chance.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure MSNBC, CNN and PBS will have graphs and power point presentations and even holograms to prove all this.<\/p>\n<p>I hope there is plenty of entertainment value to all this.\u00a0 I could use a laugh.\u00a0 In fact, Old America could use a laugh.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t had one in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Donald Trump regains the White House this will still be a different country than the one I was born into.\u00a0 That country ceased to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3344,4256,16],"class_list":["post-27139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-2024-elections","tag-nikki-haley","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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