Hiatus

Well, it's over, and Trump has trounced the Democrats, the Republican establishment, the media, the globalists, and it looks like the Senate and the House have Republican gains.  Mitch McConnell will go down as a failure as he poured millions into Hagan's failed run for the Senate and nothing into Cruz's or Kari Lake's, and it appears Lake has lost, except this is Arizona, voter fraud is already part of that story.  The Pravda media is going through psychotic rantings, Bette Midler said she'd drink Drano if Trump wins, as if anyone cared, or perhaps that helped Trump.  

The alternative media is aflame with praise for the American people, Trump, and his supporters, and I'm taking the day off.  Even a newsie like me can only stand so much.  

Tomorrow the real war starts.

Best wishes to us all,

Rich 

The New York Times is Doomed

By Rich Kozlovich

Okay, so I've been saying that for years and they still manage to continue fouling up the world of "journalism", which they've been doing for over 100 years.  Here are my commentaries about not only the NYT, but the media as a whole.

• The Media Has History: And it's Not Pretty 
• New York Times Has No Credibility!
• The Lady is a Hag
• What is the News Worth Knowing and Why Don't We Know It? 
  

But now the NYT story has taken an interesting twist.  It appears "Hundreds of New York Times Staffers Strike Before Election Day", and what are their demands?  And this is really interesting.  These are the techies, a lot of them, 600 in fact, picketing and shouting, “Shut it down”.  Really?  Shut it down?  Remarkable, and if that happens they already have high paying jobs where?   But perhaps they have good reasons for that view, after all they did try to negotiate a settlement and apparently the NYT didn't go it.    So what did the union ask for? 

1. No scented products in break rooms.  
2. Unlimited break time. 
3. Accommodations for pet bereavement.
4. Mandatory trigger warnings in company meetings discussing events in the news. 
5. Non white staffers being paid more to attend conferences.  (A flagrant violation of employment laws)  
   

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And the management found these demands outlandish.  Imagine that.   Here's what they offered:

1. A 2.5 percent annual wage increase.  Given inflation that's not that good. 
   
2.  A minimum 5 percent pay increase for promotions.
3. A $1,000 ratification bonus, whatever that means.
4. A promise to maintain the pandemic-era hybrid work schedule of two in-office days per week through June.
5. Allowing staff to work fully remotely for three weeks each year."  

So, you can see why it was necessary to hit the picket lines with outrageous offerings such as this, right?  Actually having to come to work two days a week.  Outrageous!

 

Are they striking over what I would consider an inadequate increase in pay, or the other five idiotic demands?  Who knows, they're leftists, rational thought has little influence on why they do what they do.  

Well, there's a degree of schadenfreude here as the NYT is a hub for promoting far left fantasies, lies, and corruption of thought.  This reminds me of theof misfits who fled Hitler's Germany and contaminated America's universities promoting all the student violence that started in the 60's.  They were shocked when the very students they were corrupting revolted and their classrooms became out of control. 

When the NYT finally does close it's doors, the nation should declare that day a one time national holiday, and the same goes for CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and the rest of the Pravda media. 

• Fight! Fight! Fight! Vs. Fake, Fake, Fake, .......an assassin kills one Trump-supporter, injures several others, and nearly takes President Trump’s life, and the propaganda press acts as if it never happened.  If that glaring inconsistency does not vividly demonstrate how fake the J6 “insurrection” narrative has been, nothing else can.  Unlike Kamala Harris, Donald Trump was nominated for president through a democratic process, and when democracy actually came under attack, the news media minimized it as a trifle.

Senate Race: Final Analysis

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, it's crossing the Rubicon time, and I've made some past predictions regarding the Senate races.  First, my February 14, 2024 analysis, which I updated throughout the year, leading to my October 15th update.  At that point in my analyses I concluded:

If the Republicans take the five I'm calling for them, and the three that are tossups go to the Democrats, along with the Independent taking a Republican seat, that will make the Senate a 50/50 tie, meaning the Vice President would be the tie breaking vote in the Senate, and I've come to the conclusion some of these seats will have to be taken on Trump's coattails.   

I believe there will be 5 Democrat seats that will go Republican one Republican seat that will go Independent, and three that's 50/50, and two of those are Republican seats.  Right now there are 48 Democrats, 3 Independents, and 49 Republicans in the Senate, giving the Democrats a one seat majority.   

But since the Democrat/Independent contingent will vote in lock step, and there are so many RINO's who will typically vote with the Democrats, the Democrats will still control the Senate.  The realistic numbers?  

50 Democrat/Independents, anywhere from 6 to 10 RINO's at any give time,  leaving 40 to 44 Republicans.  That gives the Senate a potential 60/40 edge over the Republicans, even if the Senate leader is a Republican, and it won't be Mitch McConnell. 

As for the House, my view remains the same.   The Republican House is filled with brainless, gutless, and feckless nitwits.  Not as bad as Liz Chaney, but I think there are a lot of borderline Liz Chaney's in the House.   Demonstrating that was the fact it took two attempts to impeach Mayorkas, who was clearly guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.  As a result, they could lose the House.   

I still think all that is valid, but, as the reporter in Charlie Wilson's War said, "We'll See"!

The Five Most Important Ballot Initiatives of 2024

November 3, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

One of my traditions is that I highlight the most important ballot initiatives every year (see 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc).

Unlike contests between flawed and deceptive politicians, these initiatives often provide clear-cut choices between more freedom and more statism.

That’s true in America and true in other nations.

For 2024, my pick for the most important referendum is Measure 118 in Oregon. As described by the Tax Foundation, it is a very harmful revenue grab.

The all-in Oregon state and local tax rate on large businesses could exceed 56 percent under a proposed ballot measure that purports to impose only a small tax increase on large businesses. …Under Measure 118, Oregon’s corporate income tax will contain a gross receipts-based minimum of 3.0 percent—which is like imposing a 42.9 percent corporate income tax if profits ran 7 percent! Add in the calculated equivalent rate of the existing gross receipts tax and you’re at 49.6.

Then, of course, there’s the federal income tax of 21 percent, and if in Portland, another 6.6 percent in other business income taxes. Suddenly, for a business with 7 percent profit margins, the all-in rate on net income for sales into Portland would be about 77.2 percent for large businesses (federal, state, and local combined).

To make matters worse, supporters want to use the money to create a universal handout. Here’s some of what’s been reported by (should be privatized) Oregon Public Broadcasting.

With its pledge to redistribute money…, the measure offers a simple pitch…slap a 3% tax on a business’s Oregon sales above $25 million, then divvy up the money raised among Oregon’s more than 4 million residents, no matter their age. …The measure could…send around $1,600 a year to every Oregonian beginning in 2026… At its most basic level, the measure would institute a form of universal basic income…

Proponents say that yearly checks will slash poverty for the state’s poorest residents, give children and seniors more stable footing, and infuse the economy with new spending. …“I see this as a massive redistribution of wealth…,” said Stacey Rutland, founder of the Portland-based nonprofit Income Movement, which advocates for basic income policies.

For those of us who don’t like the idea of a “massive redistribution of wealth,” let’s hope the normally left-wing voters of Oregon show a bit of common sense.

For the year’s second-most important ballot initiative, let’s travel up the Pacific coast.

In Washington, voters have a chance to repeal the state’s capital gains tax. Here are some excerpts from a local news report.

Initiative 2109 aims to repeal the state capital gains tax, which is imposed annually on the sale or exchange of long-term Washington capital assets. The state capital gains tax applies to an individual with an adjusted annual Washington capital gain above $250,000. …The money goes to measures like childcare subsidies for qualifying families, bonuses for childcare centers offering hard-to-cover hours, and school construction. The tax went to the state Supreme Court and was ruled constitutional. Most property owned by an individual for personal purposes is considered a “capital asset.” This includes houses, furniture, cars, stocks and bonds. Selling these items could result in a capital loss or a capital gain.

Now let’s shift to Illinois, where there is another effort to kill the state’s flat tax.

The good news is that’s it’s only an advisory referendum. The bad news is that it will encourage the pro-spending lobbies if voters say yes.

Here are some excerpts from a Wirepoints report.

Illinois’ Nov. 5 ballot will ask state residents..the next multi-billion-dollar tax hike proposal from Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the General Assembly’s Democratic supermajority. The $4.5 billion tax hike has been dubbed the millionaires tax because it proposes to hit Illinoisans that make a million dollars or more with an additional 3% surcharge on any amount they make above one million. To entice more Illinoisans to support the referendum, the proposal is sugar coated with legislators saying they’ll dedicate “funds to property tax relief.”

To be clear, it’s only an advisory referendum, meaning the result will be nonbinding. But Illinois politicians and the public sector unions, in particular the Chicago Teachers Union, are desperate for more money to fund their big, expensive budgets and contracts. They need this referendum to tell them whether the framing of a progressive tax hike sweetened with property tax “relief” will work as a proposed constitutional amendment in 2026. If it does, look for them to try again to end Illinois’ flat tax structure.

Now let’s head back to the Pacific coast.

California voters are being asked to decide whether to have more rent control. Here are some excerpts from a Reason column by Christian Britschgi.

California voters will be asked for the third time in six years whether they want to give local governments a freer hand in adopting rent control. “The state may not limit the right of any city, county, or city and county to maintain, enact or expand residential rent control,” reads the succinct but potentially far-reaching text of Proposition 33. …

By repealing all existing state-level limits on rent control and forbidding the state Legislature from adopting future restrictions, Prop. 33 is…most radical. …there’s evidence that California’s rent control policies have reduced the supply of rental housing.

A landmark 2019 study on rent control in San Francisco found that the city’s rent stabilization ordinance encouraged landlords to convert rental units into owner-occupied condominiums (which could be sold at any price). …rent control cannot solve a housing affordability crisis caused by decades of underbuilding. Only significant liberalization of land use regulation will do that. …States like Texas that prohibit rent control in all its forms are doing a much better job of adding new housing supply to keep up with demand.

For our fifth ballot initiative, let’s travel to Kentucky where there’s an important referendum about school choice.

Here are some excerpts from House Speaker David Osborne’s supportive column in the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Amendment 2…would amend the Kentucky Constitution to allow lawmakers to debate meaningful alternatives to our current approach to education. …This proposal is not an attack on public education. …we can both offer additional opportunities to educate our students and support our public schools — but we can’t afford to leave another generation behind, trapped in a system that does not meet their needs. …some say we already have school choice and parents should just pay tuition.

In reality, it is only an option if parents can afford it. Otherwise, they are stuck in a system that cannot meet the needs of their child. Is it not the ultimate hypocrisy and elitism to say the single mother working two jobs in the West End of Louisville to pay for her child’s tutoring has a choice? …all seven neighboring states…have some form of school choice, and study after study shows that increasing choice helps students. …

Amendment 2 is…a declaration of war on the persistent acceptance of failure because it only impacts children marginalized by how much their parents make or where they live.

Let’s hope Kentucky voters choose what’s best for children rather than what’s best for the education bureaucracy.

I’ve picked five important ballot initiative to highlight, but if you want more contests to follow on election night, here are some other initiatives identified by the National Association of State Budget Officers.

We’ll start with another referendum on school choice.

Nebraska Referendum 435
Asks voters to approve or reject a bill that authorizes the state to implement a scholarship program for students attending private elementary or secondary schools.

California’s big spenders want to make it easier to expand government.

California Proposition 5
Lowers the vote threshold from 66.67 percent to 55 percent for local special taxes and bond measures to fund housing projects and public infrastructure.

South Dakota voters will decide whether welfare recipients have any obligation to be productive.

South Dakota Amendment F
Allows the state to impose a work requirement on individuals who are eligible to receive Medicaid and have not been diagnosed with a mental or physical disability.

California voters will choose whether marginally skilled workers should lose their jobs.

California Proposition 32
Increases the minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026.

Last but not least, Arizonans will decide if major expansions of red tape need legislative approval.

Arizona Proposition 315
Prohibits a proposed rule from becoming effective if that rule is estimated to increase regulatory costs by more than $500,000 within five years after implementation, until the legislature enacts legislation drafting the proposed rule.

Since this is an election-related post, I’ll remind readers that I’m predicting Harris will win the electoral college by a 284-254 margin. That being said, taxpayers will lose regardless of which big spender prevails.

Celebrity endorsements in this presidential election

Res ipsa loquitur 

Michael D. Shaw, November 4, 2024 @ Mike's Point of View

As has become abundantly clear, candidate Harris is incapable of uttering a single original thought. Thus, she is a slave to the teleprompter. Indeed, there have been several incidents on the campaign trail in which her speech stopped dead when the teleprompter failed.

Who better, then, to speak on her behalf than a rogue’s gallery of celebrities, including Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Keaton, Harrison Ford, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, and countless others. I guess Harris’ people haven’t got the memo that star power isn’t quite as strong as it once was. You can count the number of movie stars that can “open” a film on the fingers of one hand. And, the music industry is but a faint shadow of what it once was.

As to the celebs, one wonders what’s in it for them, to purposely turn off at least one-half of their market. The only upside is that they will continue—for a while—to be part of that exclusive club of conformists, sycophants, and toadies to “the cause.” Much of Hollywood, except for management, was all in on supporting the Hollywood Ten, choosing to ignore their traitorous affiliations. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

At the same time, there is a not insignificant number of celebs supporting Trump, although most of them are silent about it. I know that there are conservatives in Hollywood, since some years ago, I was a member of a particular organization, and met a lot of them—some of whom would decline to give their names. Really. Others were stars of the Golden Age, and had long ago stopped caring about peer pressure.

There is one important celebrity endorsing Trump, and that is Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Viganò, of course, is no stranger to the American scene, having been Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016. Viganò has been outspoken in his criticism of the current pope, which earned him a charge of “schism” and eventual excommunication.

Before that, he spoke out on the financial scandal of 2012, and had some harsh things to say about how COVID was handled. At this point, his excommunication has about the same effect as Trump’s felony convictions.

On 22 October, he posted an “Open Letter to American Catholics.” But, it can include all people of good will.

Here are some key excerpts (emphasis in the original):

[Y]ou are not simply called to choose between two candidates who happen to be on different political sides but who both nevertheless have the common good at heart in compliance with the Constitution and the Law. No; in this election you must choose between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery.

On one side we have candidate Donald J. Trump, who, despite serious problems in his positions – especially in the matter of abortion and assisted procreation – has as his objective the common good and the protection of the fundamental freedoms of citizens. In Donald Trump’s America, every Catholic can practice their Faith and educate their children in it without interference from the State.

On the other side we have a candidate and a party that promotes everything that directly opposes the Faith and Morals of the Catholic Church. In Kamala Harris’ America, Catholics – but also Protestants – are considered fundamentalists to be marginalized and eliminated, and their children are considered the property of the State, which arrogates to itself the right to lead them astray from an early age in both body and soul. Trump’s America can become great and prosperous again. Harris’ America is destined for invasion and for moral, social, and economic destruction: the most ferocious dictatorship.

I repeat: the choice is between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan. For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy.

In these four disastrous years of the Biden-Harris administration, we have had a puppet in the White House and a corrupt and incompetent Vice President who has never stopped lying and deceiving voters about her past and her future. Power is managed by the criminal deep state – whose names and faces we now know – that is responsible for the destruction of your great Nation. And to ensure that the crisis is endless, new war scenarios are continually opening up, in conflicts that no one actually wants, except for those who make enormous profits from them, sacrificing human lives and compromising international stability.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris: we are not talking about two visions that are a bit different but still part of the normal political back-and-forth. No; we are talking about two diametrically opposed and irreconcilable worlds, in which Trump fights against the deep state and is committed to freeing America from its tentacled grip, while on the opposite side we have a corrupt and blackmailed candidate, an organic part of the deep state, who acts as a puppet in the hands of warmongers like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, of self-proclaimed “philanthropists” like the criminals George Soros and Klaus Schwab, or of characters like Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs.

Viganò is about as plain-spoken on this matter as you can get, and joins the proud tradition of those prelates who spoke out against slavery, Nazism, and government tyranny.

A famous ad campaign once proclaimed, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish rye bread.” Likewise, you don’t have to be Catholic to know that Viganò is right.

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What To Expect If Harris Gets Elected

November 03, 2024, By Francis Menton @Manhattan Contrarian

Without doubt, Vice President Kamala Harris has made it as difficult as possible to pin down exactly where she stands on major policy issues. Besides studiously avoiding challenging interviews, she has also made a series of notable reversals of previous policy stances, for example abandoning previous support for banning private health insurance, for banning “fracking” for oil and gas, and for banning internal combustion cars. These are all huge issues. If she has walked away from all of these positions, then how can you tell where she stands on anything?

Actually, I would submit that it is easy to figure out how Harris will govern on almost any issue. That is because she really doesn’t have any fixed principles, other than the one big thing, that one thing being the continuation without interference of government by the unelected administrative state. The unelected bureaucrats favor Harris with almost complete unanimity. They know that she will support, and certainly not disrupt, their policies and their vision for how to perfect America. In any given area, you can know what the bureaucracy wants from what they are currently doing and proposing. It’s easy.

Consider a few areas:

Foreign policy.

The overriding vision of the foreign policy bureaucracy is that they hate America and all it stands for, and they think that America is to blame for anything that is not perfect in the world. Or, make that America plus Israel.

Are some countries of the world hostile and belligerent? (Examples: Iran, China, Venezuela.) Then, in this vision, it is because America has treated them poorly. The answer is that America should be nicer to them, and do as they ask. If we are nice to them, clearly they will be nice in return.

Many countries of the world are poor? It’s not because they have corrupt governments that fail to protect private property and are hostile to investment; rather, it’s because America treats them badly and “exploits” them. The answer is for America to provide more and ever more funding to the corrupt governments for “development” projects that never develop anything.

War and tension between Israel and the Palestinians? That’s because America supports the Israeli “settler colonialist” occupation of the region. The answer is for America to provide gobs of “humanitarian” aid to Israel’s enemies in Gaza, while pressuring Israel to foreswear victory in a war it did not start, and instead to quickly accede to demands of Hamas and Hezbollah for a cease-fire that those groups themselves will then not honor.

Energy policy.

The overriding vision is that there is a climate crisis caused by use of fossil fuels, but fortunately the government can easily transform the energy economy to one primarily based on electricity from wind and solar generation sources, which are actually cheaper than fossil fuel-based generation.

There may be no nationwide explicit ban on fracking, or an immediate ban on internal combustion cars, but the all-of-government war on fossil fuels continues at this moment and will continue. This includes continuation of recently-finalized rules forcing incremental closure of fossil fuel power plants through the 2030s and into the 2040s; continuation of recently-finalized rules forcing increasing percentages of new car sales to be all-electric; continuation of restrictions on new oil and gas pipelines; continuation of restrictions and limits of new leasing and drilling on federal lands and offshore; continuation and enhancement of regulations making fossil fuel development more difficult and expensive, like limitations on emissions of methane or of mercury during the extraction process; continued and enhanced restrictions on energy use by appliances and building systems, which could include restrictions on building heat by oil or gas, restrictions on gas stoves, or restrictions on gas hookups for newly-constructed buildings; continuation of costly corporate disclosure regulations by the SEC and other agencies intended forcefully discourage use of fossil fuels; and on and on and on.

Simultaneously, the multi-trillions of dollars of subsidies for so-called “green” energy passed through Congress during the Biden administration will all get spent without any noticeable energy transition occurring. A Harris administration will seek to double down and get additional trillions to spend.

Government handouts.

The vision is that all wealth comes from the government, and government can insure perfect justice and fairness among the people by passing the funds out to the right constituencies.

This means constant enhancing, sweetening, and expanding of government handout and redistribution programs. Various waivers and subterfuges will continue to undermine the welfare reforms of the 1990s until we are back to the same level of dependency as before those reforms. Expect new entire categories of people to get added to the Medicaid and food stamp rolls, with or without Congressional action. Efforts to defy the Supreme Court and find ways to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars of student loans will continue.

Other.

The same principles can be applied to any other area of policy to figure out where a Harris administration will head. What the bureaucracy wants and is currently pursuing, it will get. Education policy? Whatever the teachers’ unions (and other Democrat-supporting unions) want. Immigration policy? The permanent bureaucracy at the Department of Homeland Security favors the current open-borders regime. DEI? The bureaucracy wants it, and it will become ever more pervasive and insane. Trans ideology? Ditto.

The Supreme Court? Many in the bureaucracy are furious about seeing their powers constrained by the Constitution as interpreted by the current Supreme Court. The court-packing plans of Chuck Schumer and the House Democrats are deadly serious, and there can be little doubt that Harris would support them if a bill were to reach her desk. At the moment it looks likely that the Republicans will control the Senate after the upcoming election; but that could well change after the 2026 election.

Trump

They may call him Nazi, Hitler, garbage, or whatever else, but the real threat of Trump is to disrupt the ability of the Deep State to govern without interference from the elected boss. Despite his pledge last time around to “drain the swamp,” Trump made remarkably little progress during is first term at reining in the permanent bureaucracy. But he was hamstrung by the Russia hoax and other steps of the security apparatus to undermine him. This time around he would have a much better chance of making some real changes. To me, that is the most important issue in this election.

UPDATE, November 4:

Is it really fair to say that Kamala Harris hates America?

Andy Kessler in his Wall Street Journal column today has this quote from Harris’s 2021 Columbus Day speech to an organization called the Congress of American Indians: “Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease.” Judge for yourself.

Beyond Election 2024: How Will America Look in 10 Years?

Voters are tasked with deciding not just between two candidates, but between a progressive or nationalist era.

by Tim Donner | Nov 4, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Between the blizzard of polls, pundits, and partisanship, most of the attention paid to the 2024 presidential election is understandably based on voters’ assessments of the relative merits of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And while that process, however tortured it may be, provides a framework for the electorate to scrutinize this election’s diametrically opposed candidacies, to what extent are voters actually thinking beyond November 5 to the future? As we near the merciful conclusion to Election 2024, the results of this single election will signal not just who occupies the White House for four years, but what type of country we are likely to inhabit for a generation.

One truism in politics is that elections are not about the past, but the future. There is no better example than the great statesman Winston Churchill, who was credited with saving Europe, if not the world, from certain tyranny, but rewarded by getting the boot from British voters shortly after the conclusion of World War II. More recently, President George H.W. Bush soared to 90% approval after his swift victory in the 1991 Gulf War but was shown the door by voters just one year later.

If voters were focused on the past, Harris might well be hopelessly behind based on her openly expressed far-left manifesto and dismal performance in 2019, when her presidential campaign ended before it hit the starting gate. And so might Donald Trump after January 6, 2021, and the ugly epilogue to his presidency that had many if not most observers believing his political career was over. But a significant number of voters, provided with a binary choice, are re-examining both candidates four years later, their minds open enough not to rule out either one. Much of the electorate appears prepared to separate Trump from his worst moments and Harris from the current unpopular Biden presidency, accepting the vice president’s message of “a new way forward.”

So much for the past, or even the recent past. Voters are laser-focused on the choice before them today, in the present, with many “double-haters” struggling to pick between two candidates they dislike and/or distrust. They can more easily envision what a second presidency for Donald Trump would look like, for better or worse, since he already occupied the Oval Office for four years. They might have more trouble envisioning a Harris administration, for unlike Trump, she is something of a blank palette, even after declaring that she does not disagree with a single Biden policy and that she was “the last person in the room” when major decisions were at hand.

Voters Must Think Beyond 2024

But what about the future? This election is not like Bill Clinton vs Bush 41 or Bob Dole. It is not like Bush 43 vs Al Gore or John Kerry. Radical change was not on the docket in those elections. The differences between the Republicans and Democrats were relatively small compared to this election. It’s not even 2008 or 2012, when Obama was just introducing progressivism to the country, or 2016, when the novice Trump shocked the world with an upset win but subsequently met with widespread resistance even from his own party. The 2024 election is about defining the country not simply as center-right or center-left as in the past. We are choosing whether we are to be a progressive or America-first nation.

 

While some might see this as hyperbole, simple math proves the point. If Harris is victorious, winning what some are calling Barack Obama’s fourth term, the country will have elected not just Democrats but progressive Democrats to preside for 16 out of 20 years heading into 2028. Leftism will be the status quo. We will be in the throes of what historians are likely to call America’s second progressive era. But it will be very different and more extended than the first, which commenced at the dawn of the 20th century, driven by President Theodore Roosevelt, who will never be confused with Obama, Harris, or Joe Biden. Republicans will likely respond by moderating their agenda and returning to more conventional politicians than Trump who will only be able to work around the edges of what the far-left has set in stone.

If, on the other hand, Trump pulls off a second win in three tries, he will have presided with his agenda of an opposite type of radical change for eight of the last 12 years when he leaves office. Being far more knowledgeable and prepared than the first time around, he will take his re-election as an affirmation of his plans to drain the Swamp that the establishment has filled with an outsized bureaucracy. The progressive era will be over, and Democrats will have little choice but to head to the center.

Of course, a lot will depend on what happens in Congress. At the extremes, a Republican trifecta – control of the White House, Senate, and House – together with a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives would allow Trump a relatively clear path to achieving everything on his docket: a closed border, the end of sanctuary cities, profound civil service reform, a revival of his drill-baby-drill energy policies, more tax cuts, and many other reforms that will infuriate the left but which they will have little power to stop. This is why, with the GOP likely to seize control of the Senate in this election, Democrats have poured countless time and treasure into capturing control of the House, where they could crush a sizable chunk of the MAGA legislative agenda.

If, on the other hand, Harris and Democrats capture the trifecta, the border will likely remain essentially open as it has for most of the last four years, immigrants will continue to flood the country, the bureaucracy will be expanded, taxes and regulation will increase, the Supreme Court will likely be packed with enough progressives to ensure a leftist majority, and DC and Puerto Rico, both dominated by leftists, could very possibly achieve statehood, making control of the Senate almost impossible for the GOP going forward. If not for Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, Democrats might have already accomplished some if not all of these initiatives during the Biden presidency.

Election 2024: An Existential Choice

Some of either candidate’s agenda will stand the test of time, and some will not. Congressional legislation is not always easy to pass, but it does create durable reform that requires broad consensus to overturn with counter-legislation. In contrast, executive orders by the president can easily be instituted with the stroke of a pen, but that also makes them easy to overturn by the president’s successor. Both Trump and Biden signed dozens of executive orders on the day they took office, most of them reversing the actions of their predecessors.

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Unbeknownst to many, a president has remarkably broad power to control who is allowed to enter the country. Presidents have authority under the US Constitution “to suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” whenever they “find that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”  But that also makes their executive actions temporary, effective only for the four years of their administration. However, tax cuts or increases requiring congressional action, for example, are considerably more difficult to reverse. That is why both parties prefer legislation over executive orders, though they willingly settle for unilateral actions by the chief executive in order to alter the political climate.

Thus, if Harris wins, her likely continuation of Biden’s immigration policies could be reversed by a Republican president. But by 2028, the die will have mostly been cast with millions more having already entered the country. On the other hand, if congressional action leads to an expansion of the Supreme Court or turns territories into states, it would be almost impossible to envision Supreme Court justices being removed, or DC and Puerto Rico being stripped of their statehood when a Republican recaptures the White House. And four years of Trump or Harris appointments to district and appellate judges will have a profound and opposite effect on the federal judiciary.

The bottom line is that, fairly or not, voters in 2024 are facing not just a choice between Trump and Harris, but a decision with existential consequences. How will this election appear in the rearview mirror a decade down the road after the country has experienced the lasting impact of the 47th president? Will our country be seen as progressive or nationalist? Voters would be well advised to think beyond the immediate choice before them to the country in which they hope to live for a generation.

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Fear and Loathing on the Left

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

 

Win or lose, fans of the Philly Eagles go out into the street and smash things. Whoever wins on Election Day, leftists will smash things. The election only determines whether they smash up the country from the inside or the outside. Forget all the theory and all the empty policy promises.

It’s not about equity, democracy, free college, funding terrorists, defunding the police, breaking the glass ceiling, or any of the other suits the naked emperors and empresses wear. When the champagne corks and pills have been popped, the desire underneath is to destroy it all.

Mediocre elites created leftism by sublimating their narcissistic drive to destroy everything superior to them into the revolutionary politics of a purported underclass. But the elites are the oppressed underclass they’ve been waiting for. They fight for their own right to seize power.

And they don’t stop fighting once they get it.

Stop by a leftist rally and you’ll rarely find anyone who ever worked for a living or intends to. The Biden-Harris admin was hobbled by the sheer inability of anyone involved in it to understand kitchen table economics as anything other than a longread thinkpiece about shrinkflation.

Leftists care as much about the working class as you do about the plight of the Tibetans. Probably less. Workers, women, coal miners, the unemployed on bread lines, Gazans, gays, lesbians, transgenders and every letter in the endless LGBTQ alphabet have never been anything other than excuses for smashing things. They’re the wife, girlfriend, uncle or nephew that our hero loses in the first act to justify his bloody rampages in the next two acts.

American leftists are still Americans. And they need to believe they’re the good guys. Unlike Bolsheviks, Maoists and ISIS, they need a bigger buildup to their hero’s journey. They need JFK and MLK to take a bullet, they need Vietnam, Kent State, AIDS, Reaganomics, impeachment, hanging chads and the Iraq War to tell a story to themselves about why they turned to violence.

Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump and capitalism killed their idealism in the first act. Now they have permission to plant bombs at dances for service members, rob Brink’s trucks, and riot and burn. But they’re not doing it for themselves, oh no, but for all the oppressed workers and peasants, kids laboring in factories, soldiers on the front lines and trans kids who need puberty blockers.

“It’s just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson!” is a short history of leftist activism.

Working backwards, they claim that Muslim terrorists kill kids because they’ve been so wronged. It’s an alibi that tells us more about leftists than about whatever politically aligned horror show they’re trying to excuse this week. No matter what comic books and Mother Jones will tell you, oppression doesn’t make good people turn evil. Evil people blame their crimes on oppression.

The Nazis believed they were oppressed. The Communists believed they were oppressed. ISIS Jihadists raping children and beheading non-Muslims believed they were the real victims.

Scratch a member of the professionally oppressed and you find a monster working on the backstory for the crimes he intends to commit as soon as he finds a gun or a movement.

Amateur victims become school shooters, filling their diaries with tales of being bullied so they can build up the verve to shoot a bunch of little kids cowering in front of their blue lockers. Professional victims become activists and community organizers so they can do the same thing. They just have a longer wait time which they fill with self-care and race riots before the killing.

Leftist politics is a permission structure for evil. Its activism on the outside and its policies on the inside are designed to destroy everything under the guise of saving it. Tepid leftism ushers in decline, outsourcing the actual destruction to the hordes of invading enemy migrants, while committed leftism leads to gulags, mass famines and Asian museums filled with skulls.

Destruction is the conscious theme of the truly committed leftist and the subconscious impulse of the tepid leftist. Any leftist not driven by a conscious or subconscious urge to destroy will sooner or later fall out of the movement. Those who go on reciting the mantras are either cowards or terrorists. And the cowards are those who want someone else to do the killing.

Working from outside the system, leftists lie, subvert, incite, riot, burn and bomb. Working from the inside, they build massive political machines whose purpose is to wreck everything. The carnage is not ‘creative destruction” and it’s not an unintended consequence of a noble idealistic dream of a better country and an equal society, but the entire point of the whole project.

The Left does not have a plan for a better world, but for destroying the world. Its theories are sucker bait, its issues are recruitment fodder for fifth columns and their implementation serves no purpose except to seize money and power while ruining everything and fueling outrage.

Outrage, more nakedly rage, is the dark beating heart of the beast. Everything else is ad copy. Rage is the morals, ethics, ideology, father and mother of the movement. Rage is the currency which it trades in for more rage. “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention”, its bumper stickers scream, and once you start paying attention, the rage never ends.

Leftists are indoctrinated in outrage, radicalized into rage and ricochet from outrage to outrage to rage against. No matter how old and bourgeois they get, rage keeps them feeling like young rebels, and they hunt and peck between New York Times, Washington Post and Rolling Stone screeds revealing the exciting new outrage that requires innovative new abuses of power.

Robbed of rage, leftists are reduced to a planetary HR department given free reign to ban everything and fail ever upward even as their fiefdoms descend into extremes of misery. In triumph, the mediocre elites expose their mediocrity for all to see. That’s why they can’t stop the rage for even one moment lest everyone see that underneath the virtue signaling uniforms and jackboots is a Biden or Brezhnev incapable of running anything including their bodily functions.

And that is the reckoning that the mediocre elites have been running away from all their lives.

Leftists must destroy because they cannot create. Inside their heads is a little lurking voice telling them how worthless they are every second of the day. Imagine if Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro or AOC had been forced to get actual jobs outside political leftism?

What do objectively worthless narcissists convinced of their own genius do with their lives?

They become commandantes, chairmen, congressmen and other things beginning with ‘C’. Being a revolutionary, an activist or a professional troublemaker requires a very different set of skills than actually working for a living and is a perfect fit for egomaniacs furious at every perceived slight with a knack for getting other people to die for their delusions of grandeur.

Add on a slick patina of ‘theory’ of fantasy economics and academic conspiracy theories and you have the movement that has spent the past two centuries trying to destroy the world.

Whatever happens on this Election Day or in any election, the Left is waiting to destroy it all.

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News and Views

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I've been saying for years I don't believe in polls, and as time goes by more are pointing out how these pollsters deliberately tilt the scale to the left.   Don't tell me the polls, show me the crowds.  But that cannot overcome voter fraud that's now been criminally organized on a massive scale nationwide, which both the 2020, and 2022 elections proved, and since with a true vote count, Trump wins in a landslide, that's just not acceptable.  It would destroy "our" democracy, but it would save "our" Republic. 

Alicia Colon asks, how could trump possibly lose? The same way he "lost' against Biden's hiding in his basement campaign in 2020, in spite of the fact at the end of Trump's first term we had, "We had low inflation, low unemployment, low gas prices; a secure border and so many great things to look forward to and yet, the fix was in and Biden won."  And now we have America's major cities looking like sewers, high inflation, a totally uncontrolled border, uncontrolled spending, borrowing, treason at the highest levels, and two empty suits running for President and Vice President as Democrats.  

And that's what the Democrats want, empty suits.  Stars are no longer acceptable to the party, as they may actually have thoughts of their own and the dark forces controlling the left will not tolerate that.  Dark forces that perpetuate lies on a massive scale in order to to falsely inflame their base of leftist misfits.

Kamala Harris is a hate mongering Marxist, a racist, anti-American, and antisemitic.  Get over it!  As for her economic polices.... and I use the word policies loosely.... are blatantly stupid.  Rent control is always as disaster, but Marxists love eliminating property rights.    

For reasons I will never understand women favor her....big time. Forget joy, it's time to kill the babies.   If you can overcome the natural affection women have for their unborn children by telling them murdering them is health care, there's nothing you can't convince them to believe or do.   But in her case, not men.  She's discovered scolding and denigrating men really isn't the way to get their vote.  Imagine that.  The left's campaign is all about two things, murdering the innocent unborn and Trump is a Nazi.

But the Department of Defense  directive put out by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on "September 27, 2024, six weeks before our presidential election", authorizes military intervention domestically … and adds ability to use deadly force”......a formalized license to kill.  But that's not being a Nazi.   Meet Fascism's true heirs. 

 

A party that's unendingly demonstrated an affection for violence, rioting, destructive race based policies, and more, claims it's all to save "our" democracy, in order to have unity, that's why they've been  calling "conservatives, Republicans, Christians, everyday Americans"..... "Hitler and Satan Incarnate, their rhetoric has incited some of the crazier members of their horde to take direct action. And after it happens they call for unity. They start a fire in the living room and act surprised when the house is engulfed in flames." And Obama played a huge role in making that happen.

 

America is about to cross the Rubicon.  The Democrats have created a system of voter fraud to make sure they never lose another election. As John Adams stated, “Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” That is the existential threat facing us.".........Democrats don’t want to “save our democracy,” they want to end it. The life of the republic is at stake. That is not hyperbole."

 

For these globalists, leftists, and big government traitors, "people whose fortunes, self-images, personal, social and professional connections rely on a huge, endlessly intrusive and ever-expanding government", a Trump presidency is "a fate worse than death. But there are other Trump certainties that, to them, are nearly as bad.  

 

Purging the DOJ, FBI, and all other government agencies of their DEI policies, and those hired under those polices, which will take more than four years, but that can be shortened by massively cutting their budgets and laying off thousands of federal employees, and firing the top administrators and directors of each of these agencies.  

 

By eliminating many agencies and Cabinet departments such as Education, Labor, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and since Biden appointed that idiot Buttigieg as the Director it proves no one really believes that department has meaning, that potentially could save the nation two trillion dollars a year, and there are many of us who believe that's being conservative.

Massive deportation of illegal aliens, a monumental task now that Democrats have flooded the nation with them, eliminate the far left's efforts to use the military for social experiments, "energy independence, low taxes, no censorship, closed borders, small, limited government, school boards once again afraid to abuse concerned parents. .....The FBI forced to pursue actual criminals......That’s going to cause a dramatic expansion in the psychiatric care sector."

• BREAKING: Kamala exposed for open-borders alliance with United Nations to ensure more illegal aliens are fast-tracked into US on taxpayers’ dime

Trump has a dream for America, but for the left that dream is a nightmare. One they deserve.  

Oh, yeah, one more thing, and ya just can't make this stuff up, Mexico with massive levels of violence, is blaming American gun makers, and suing them.  Do you doubt there are treasonous leftist attorneys in America helping them?    This violence is of their own making, and it's so bad they're murdering politicians, and even  journalists, and seemingly for no particular reason, other than possibly to make sure they keep their opinions to themselves.

That's the world as I see it, and it ain't pretty.

‘This is CNN’

Robin M. Itzler @ American Thinker

The mainstream media mangle the truth in their collective effort to push America toward a communist-styled government. Imagine the reporting if today’s one-sided leftist media had been around in April 1865.

The Civil War, with approximately 600,000 casualties, ended on April 9 with a decisive Union victory. On April 15, a war-weary President and Mrs. Lincoln, along with some guests, went to the Ford Theater to see My American Cousin and then…

Announcer: This is Counterfeit News Network. We interrupt our regular programming with a bulletin. We go to our CNN studio in Washington, D.C.

Anderson Blooper: Ladies and gentlemen, we have just learned that President Lincoln was shot. We take you outside Ford Theater, where the Secret Service is holding a news conference.

Secret Service Spokesman: …the hallway leading to the presidential box at Ford Theater was sloped, which is why we didn’t have anyone standing guard outside…

Anderson Blooper: We’ve been informed that the injured president, and we do not yet know how serious his injuries are, was transported across the street to the Petersen boarding house. Let’s first go to Dana Rash inside the theater.

Image made using a YouTube screen grab.

Dana Rash: It’s mayhem as attendees wonder if they should wait for the show to continue or go home. Let me speak to some theatergoers. Sir, can you tell us what happened?

Attendee #1: The show was on, and then, suddenly, there was some activity up in the president’s box. We didn’t know if it was part of the show, but I kind of figured it wasn’t when Mrs. Lincoln started screaming, and there was blood on her dress.

Attendee #2: This guy jumped from the box to the stage and yelled, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” and then ran off. But he was limping, so maybe he hurt himself in the fall.

Al Sharpton: No show, no peace! If you feel discriminated against because you paid to see My American Cousin and the show was stopped after President Lincoln was shot, please contact me.

Dana Rash: Back to you, Anderson.

Anderson Blooper: Thank you, Dana. The crowd is growing in front of the Petersen boarding house, where we’re awaiting word on President Lincoln’s condition. But first, let’s go to John Queen for an analysis of what this means for the 1868 presidential election.

John Queen: Thank you, Anderson. If President Lincoln survives, this could give him an edge should he decide to seek a third term. However, if he dies, the edge goes to his vice president, Andrew Johnson, who would quickly be sworn in as president.

Anderson Blooper: Good analysis. Thank you, John. It’s been less than 30 minutes since President Lincoln was shot, and we have some polling data to report.

Harry Beaten: We polled 760 likely voters. Seventy-two percent said that if Lincoln survives the shooting, they will probably support him in 1868. Another 19% are Never Lincolns. The remaining 9% are undecided.

Anderson Blooper: We are going back to the Petersen boarding house for an update.

Fake Tapper: The press secretary came out and said that President Lincoln was shot in the left back side of his head, about an inch to the left of the medial line of the skull, and at the level of his ear. She will circle back later with more details. Anderson, it sounds serious, but we are waiting for confirmation.

Anderson Blooper: On the phone, we have former General George McClellan, who was the Democrat party’s nominee in the November 8, 1864, presidential election. Thank you for joining us.

Gen. McClellan: You’re welcome, Anderson.

Anderson Blooper: President Lincoln won the election in an electoral landslide of 212-21 and 55 percent of the popular vote. What are your thoughts as your opponent lies seriously wounded from a gunshot to his brain?

Gen. McClellan: I was born into a middle-class family…

Anderson Blooper: …sorry to interrupt, General, but our Chief International Anchor, Christiane Awomanpour, just sent this wire. It reads: Ukraine needs more money. Do you want to comment?

Gen. McClellan: I was born into a middle-class family…

Anderson Blooper: We are having technical difficulties and will try the general later. The Apprehensible Press (AP) is reporting that the lone gunman was the actor John Wilkes Booth. According to the AP, the military has several good leads and plans to shoot Booth dead before he can be held for trial and share details about what happened. There is a $100,000 bounty on Booth’s head.

In related news, Congresswoman Amanda O. Courtez of New York’s 14th District, which includes parts of Queens and the Bronx, has called for stricter gun laws. She told The New York Herald that the Second Amendment needs to be replaced with a green energy bill. AOC also said that climate change is the reason Lincoln was shot.

Let’s quickly go back to the boarding house.

Fake Tapper: The sorrowful crowd has grown since we last spoke to you, Anderson. They just issued a statement that the shot was fatal and President Lincoln will not survive.

Anderson Blooper: This is heartbreaking news as we seek to reunite the north and south of our nation and rebuild following the devastating Civil War. Let’s go to our panel to discuss the pros and cons of Lincoln being assassinated.

David Wheelrod: The next election is several years away, which gives Andrew Johnson ample time to forge his own post-war agenda.

Rosemary Temple: It will be interesting to hear what Never Lincolns say.

Coyote Blitzer: Once sworn in, President Johnson must get news of the Union victory to the Texas slaves. This will avoid adding a future federal holiday to the calendar.

Car Jones: Is there a conspiracy? Of the people in the Ford Theater tonight watching the play, how many have ever stayed at the Petersen boarding house?

Fareed Irving: Oy vey, this will affect corporations with “Lincoln” in their name.

Stock Jennings: History will show that Republican President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.

Everyone: Boo!!!

Rich Wallace: I wish I never left Fox News.

Anderson Blooper: Thank you all for your observations. (Removes his eyeglasses, battling to hold his emotions in check, and looks up at the clock). I am going to read a wire service report. President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

When we return, we’ll discuss with Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles what an Andrew Johnson administration might look like. Also, John Queen has another poll following Lincoln’s assassination. Coming soon, a contest guessing how many U.S. cities will be named Lincoln.

Keep it here for all the news and updates. We will take a short break. This is CNN.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s Quest to Keep – and Grow – the GOP Majority

Will the lawmaker from Louisiana’s gambit pay off? 

By James Fite | Nov 4, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has spent the year traveling and campaigning, doing his best to keep and even grow the GOP majority in the House. With national polling showing former President Donald Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris ever so slightly and Republicans poised to pick up the majority in the Senate, the pressure is on. Will all his hard work pay off?

Mike Johnson, Nationwide

There are currently 220 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the US House, leaving three vacancies. Speaker Johnson has crisscrossed the country spending time with and stumping for Republican candidates in the hopes of growing the GOP majority – and he has his work cut out for him. By the time the election was just a week away, Johnson had been to 243 cities across 40 states. It was there, in Bethlehem, PA, that the speaker described the task of legislating with such a slim margin:

“It’s not like herding cats. It is like exotic animals – and half of them have rabies in Washington. It’s a very dangerous job,” Johnson said in a packed GOP field office. “I spend half my day as the Speaker of the House, the other half as a mental health counselor. The solution is to grow that majority and to have people who can come in on day one and perform for the people who govern.”

What does the lawmaker from Louisiana have to show for his efforts? So far, not a lot, according to the RealClear Polling “Battle for the House 2024” map. To maintain the majority, Republicans need 218 seats. So far, RCP predicts 201 seats for the GOP (186 considered safe, seven that are likely to be retained, and eight leaning their way). For Democrats, the tally stands at 192 (174 safe, 13 likely, and five leaning). It doesn’t take a math whiz to see there’s no clear majority yet in the polling. There are also 23 seats currently held by Democrats that could go either way as well as another 18 currently held by the GOP. These toss-up seats are currently too close to call in the polls, and this is where the majority will be won – for someone.

If Republicans only keep their 18 toss-up seats, they’ll manage to maintain the majority at 219, but it will be an even tighter margin by one, slightly harder for Johnson to manage, one would assume, than the current Congress. But a slim majority in the House combined with Republican control of the White House and Senate is still a trifecta government, and, according to Johnson, party leadership is already working on an agenda for how to best use that slim majority over the Democrats.

What’s on the Docket

Speaker Johnson has already been working with his colleagues in the Senate on how they’ll use the budget reconciliation process “very aggressively” to extend tax cuts and pursue regulatory reform.  He has talked about overhauling both the Affordable Care Act and the CHIPS and Science Act – much to the consternation of Democrats.

 

Before any of that, however, Republicans would have to first win a majority on November 5 and then sort out its own leadership. While Johnson seems confident that he’ll once again be voted party leader, actually being elected House Speaker again requires a majority in the whole House – which will be difficult at best if the GOP doesn’t grow the majority, and impossible at worst should they lose it instead. It was earlier this year he faced a motion to remove him from the speakership. The vote went his way, of course, with every Democrat and most Republicans agreeing to table the motion. Just 43 Republicans followed Marjorie Taylor Greene In trying to oust him. With Democrats likely to vote for their own leader, Hakeem Jeffries, meaning Johnson – or any GOP contender, for that matter – needs the support of nearly all House Republicans.

Donald Trump and the Little Secret

During his rally at the Madison Square Garden, Donald Trump at one point turned to look at Mike Johnson, who was there, and said: “I think with our little secret we’re going to do really well with the House, right? Our little secret is having a big impact.”

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“He and I have a little secret – we will tell you what it is when the race is over,” Trump then told the crowd. The very next day, Johnson was asked about it. “By definition, a secret is not to be shared – and I don’t intend to share this one,” he replied. One thing former President Trump didn’t mind saying, though, was that he thought Johnson would remain in charge of a GOP majority in the House for a long time.

Johnson later went on to describe the secret as “nothing scandalous,” insisting that it’s just a “get out the vote” tactic – but, he assures that he and other Republicans have been “having a ball” over speculation from the Democrats as to what the secret might be. “The media, their heads are exploding,” he told reporters. “All this conjecture is actually hilarious to us, that people are apoplectic about this,” he said. “It’s a – it’s one of our get-out-the-vote strategies. That’s what we’re talking about. And it’s almost tongue-in-cheek.” Perhaps the speaker can pull off the hat trick: keep and even grow the Republican majority, remain Speaker of the House, and hand Trump a trifecta government. It’ too early to tell, though, just where those 42 toss-ups will land.

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Schumer’s Jewish Support Crashed After Attacking Israel

Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

The revelation that Senator Chuck Schumer helped Columbia University cover up antisemitism further diminishes his already sinking status among Jews.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce report on campus antisemitism showed that Sen. Schumer had told Columbia President Minouche Shafik that “universities political problems are really only among Republicans” and his staff recommended the “best strategy is to keep heads down”.

For years, Sen. Schumer had claimed to be a 'shomer' or 'guardian' of the Jewish community. The report reveals that he was a shomer for antisemites.

Two years ago, Sen. Schumer enjoyed an 82% approval among New York Jews. In contrast to the 40% unfavorable rating among New Yorkers, only 18% of Jews disapproved.

Now he’s tied at 45% of New York Jews have come to hate Chuck.

What happened in the last two years to send his approval rating crashing from 82% to 48%?

This spring, Schumer agreed to become the public face of the Biden administration’s campaign to bring down the Israeli government, save Hamas and end the war. In a high-profile Senate speech, the lifelong politician who had spent his career pretending to be pro-Israel, equated the Israeli government with Hamas, forbade Israel to go into Rafah to pursue the terror group, claimed that “the Israeli war campaign has killed so many innocent Palestinians” and warned that the Biden administration would use its “leverage” to create a terrorist state inside Israel.

While many pro-Israel figures excoriated Schumer, he trotted out his ‘rabbi’, Rachel Timoner, a radical leftist anti-Israel activist who had taken part in anti-Israel rallies, to defend his betrayal.

According to Timoner, Schumer said “what most of us think” and “what the overwhelming majority of American Jews are saying to each other”. However what Timoner was saying, according to T’ruah, one of the anti-Israel groups she was allied with, could be summed up as, “American Jews must tell our govt we oppose this war and want an end to the occupation.”

Was Schumer saying what most American Jews were really thinking?

Schumer’s latest Siena poll numbers in New York are in. And while his total unfavorable rating in the state is only up a few percent, his numbers among Jewish New Yorkers are catastrophic. With a 48% approval rating among New York Jews, his is only 3% higher than Trump’s at 45%. And his disapproval rating is higher than that of any other statewide figure in the poll. He now has a higher disapproval rating among Jews than among blacks, Latinos or protestants.

Those are stunning numbers and they show a sharp reversal of political fortune. They also help explain why the same poll shows that 46% of New York Jews would now vote for Trump.

A Siena poll that covered the pro-Hamas campus riots found that 87% of New York Jews believed that they had crossed the line into antisemitism and 80% supported calling in the cops.

This is completely at odds with the messaging that has come from Timoner and the infrastructure of allied anti-Israel astroturf groups like J Street, T’ruah, Bend the Arc, New York Jewish Agenda, Jewish Voice for Peace, If Not Now, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice which receive nonstop coverage from a media that pretends these extremists represent Jews.

The views of New York Jews are not actually reflective of those pushed by the JTA, The Forward and other anti-Israel leftist narrative outlets and Sen. Schumer is now paying the price.

In the months since his ill-fated speech, Schumer has struggled to backtrack his remarks, but in June he was booed at New York’s Israel parade even when he was avoiding any controversy. And there was more booing at the Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in Manhattan.

The Jewish Democratic Council of America is no longer vocally celebrating the Schumer speech or advocating for an “end to this conflict” and has instead taken to sending panicked emails with headlines like “How to Persuade Your Friends that Trump is Not the Answer”.

What that really says is that quite a few Jewish Democrats now believe Trump just might be.

Despite popular narratives about what percent of Jews voted which way in presidential elections, there is no reliable independent polling of Jewish voters nationwide.

The numbers that are thrown around usually come from Democrat and left-wing organizations.

For example, a recent rash of media stories with headlines like “Jewish people in US overwhelmingly support Biden and oppose Trump” used a poll from the Jewish Electorate Institute which is headed by Halie Soifer who is also the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. The JDCA then put out a press release announcing a “just released poll from the non-partisan Jewish Electorate Institute”. And the poll was conducted by GBAO Strategies which boasts of being 2022’s Democratic Pollster of The Year.

Siena, the pollster quoted in this article, is the one reliable independent pollster which regularly measures Jews as a part of the larger electorate. While these polls are generally limited to New York, that is also the state with the largest single Jewish population. And the Siena polls often show that the hoax polls of Jews promoted by leftist organizations are simply wrong.

The JDCA poll promoted by every media outlet claimed to show “Biden leading Trump 72% to 22%”. How could that be possible if the split is 52% to 46% in New York?

Sen. Schumer and the JDCA know the real numbers which is why they’ve adopted a more conciliatory tone. They’ve learned the hard way that the majority of Jews are not on their side.

Each Biden anti-Israel move led to a backlash from American Jews. That’s why the Biden administration, which initially broadcast its decision to block military aid to Israel, has taken to angrily denying it and condemning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for even mentioning it.

The formal narrative seen from the New York Times to the JTA is that American Jews chose Biden over Israel. But if that were true, why are Sen. Schumer and the JDCA so worried?

Schumer’s poll numbers are a warning that Jews oppose the leftist anti-Israel agenda.

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