From every possible direction it looked the same. It was going to be unreasonably easy for Allen Carpentier to enter the Circle of Traitors…the place of punishment for those who betrayed their benefactors
Inferno Larry Nivin & Jerry Pournelle 1976
I think some of the wisdom of Donald Trump might be rubbing off on the GOP.
I know this is generally considered “the stupid party” but there seems to be a glimmer of it on the shutdown votes.
For context let me remind you of what I wrote concerning Donald Trump & the Epstein files a little bit ago:
I think he’s going to let the Epstein stuff play out as far as he can all the time saying to people like Elizabeth Warren:
“Oh please Please Br’re Pocahontas don’t throw me into the Epstein patch!”
And then when the left is fully committed to both the release of the information and harsh punishment for all those involved (including all those who have given them millions upon millions over the years) and then BOOM!
When that time comes and the decides to give them exactly what they want, a lot of very rich and very bad leftists and their funders will find themselves in trouble meanwhile Donald Trump will be hopping away singing:
“Born and bred in a Briar Patch!”And will hop away while the left convicts themselves.
This is pretty much turned out as I predicted as leftist from Reid Hoffman to Bill Gates are scrambling to do damage control & the Clintons try to figure out how to testify to congress on the subject without pleading the 5th.
This of course could be predicted by anyone who doesn’t by the MSM propaganda and has actually paid attention but the left doesn’t think that way. Their primary goal is to win the current news cycle and to keep their base angry.
That’s why I’m delighted at the fact that ICE funding is coming up again in two weeks.
It’s is very possible and even probable that our friends on the left who decided a short term shutdown was NBD to take a stand vs ICE think that a party line vote on funding ICE is a good thing to fire up their base, particularly with former GOP leaders speaking against the agency.
One might have thought that they would have learned from their pushing of Liz Cheney that people who GOP voters disagree with don’t have a lot of sway with conservative votes, no matter how much the MSM thinks otherwise but apparently not.
Let’s go to the polling:
The survey found that calls to defund ice are “politically toxic. When voters are told Democrats want to defund ICE or even shut down the government to stop ICE from enforcing immigration law, the political fallout is immediate and severe.”
- The generic ballot flips from D+4 to R+0 if Democrats oppose ICE.
- If Democrats force a shutdown to defund ICE, Republicans take a 2‑point lead; that’s a 6-point shift away from Democrats over a single issue.
- Swing voters shift a staggering 16 points toward Republicans under a shutdown scenario.
The results indicate that Democrats do not view illegal immigration as a “serious national problem.”
But nearly all Republicans (97%) and 60% of Independent voters see it as a major problem. Overall, 64% of midterm voters and 71% of swing voters agree.
That link to the Cygnal poll is to the site Legal Insurrection which perhaps Dems don’t read, but I’m told that they do on occasion watch CNN:
And I’m sure the left’s base can’t wait to turn out for the party of Trans protesters calling black Ice agents “Nigger” on camera:
But apparently none of that matters to those in the land of the bubble.. It’s going to be unreasonably easy for the Democrat left to smile and celebrate when ICE funding comes up for a vote in two weeks and passes on a strict party line vote.
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