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Don’t want to hear your whining…

Posted: October 21, 2023 by navygrade36bureaucrat in elections
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…when you realize you got exactly what you voted for.

This a reference to this article about “progressive” Jews complaining that their “progressive” left-leaning friends are totally, 100% OK with Hamas fighters butchering Jews in Israel. The article is essentially a “we didn’t see that coming” list of complaints.

My first thought was…wah?

Seriously, I’m tired of the “nice person” argument, which goes along the lines of “I voted for/supported these people that I thought were nice, while ignoring all the obvious red flags.”

All the progressive Jews that supported left-leaning losers who are siding with murderous Hamas militants…you got what you voted for.

All the progressive “Christians” who were shocked when the pro-abortion people they supported were totally cool with infanticide and murdering babies in a bucket after birth…you got what you voted for.

All the “mean tweets!” whiners that are now shocked we have two large, open conflicts within a few hundred miles of each other and involving major nation states…you got what you voted for.

You can whine about conservative candidates at the local, state and federal level, and you can vote for the left-leaning candidate because it makes you feel good in the moment…but it has consequences. The conservative politicians might not be polished (or maybe the news media is altering their coverage), and he or she might demand some responsibility in spending or enforcing the law, but we’re seeing what happens when people continually pick the politicians that sound nice on paper. We get murdered babies, both in the womb and out of it. We get wars that we either choose to lose or can’t really win. And we get encouragement towards all our enemies to take actions, whether its kidnapping Americans or shooting missiles at US Navy ships.

Those same people will come back and demand that the responsible politicians fix the mess. And after those people do, the same people will forget and vote again for losers that sound nice on paper.

It’s like the story of the ant and the grasshopper, where the ants stored up food for the winter while the grasshopper played a fiddle and gaffed off, only to then beg the ants feed him in the wintertime. I always hated that story as a kid, because I thought the ants should have let the grasshopper freeze to death. I mean seriously, he’s like 100 times their body weight. He’s gonna eat you out of house and home! Screw that lazy bug, let him die in the cold.

Those of us who did the “uncool” thing and worked responsibly, supporting things like balanced budgets, protecting life and being strong overseas to stop wars, we are tired of bailing you out. Don’t cry to me that “you didn’t know” your left-leaning friends would throw you under the bus. Just like the grasshopper living it up in the good times, you’re only complaining now in hopes of finding a free meal at someone else’s doorstep.

This post represents the views of the author and not those of the Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, or any other government agency.

Kennedy Running as an Independent Will Make Things Interesting

Posted: September 30, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, politics
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The good news for the Democrat/Left is that they have solved one potential problem:

2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania, Mediaite has learned.

Kennedy’s campaign machine is now planning “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee in order to “pave the way” for his announcement in Philadelphia about running as an independent, according to a text reviewed by Mediaite.

“Bobby feels that the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go,” a Kennedy campaign insider told Mediaite.

The Democrat/Left decided that they could not risk a competitive primary where Democrat voters would have a choice not named Joe Biden, particularly when that choice is not owned by the deep state.

But now while Democrats don’t have THAT problem what they DO have to worry about is how this will change things in a general election.

Frankly a Kennedy nomination worried me because if nominated by the Democrats he would, in my opinion trounce Trump and give a DeSantis a run for his money because of his anti-establishment positions while still holding solidly liberal positions

Democrat voters who lost jobs because of the Fauci vaccine business in the last three years weren’t likely to be voting for Trump who helped give Fauci the national credibility that allowed him these things, but they ARE likely to cast a vote for Kennedy in a general election.

What happens if they do so in great numbers in Wisconsin?, Michigan? Arizona? Minnesota? New Hampshire? Maine? Virginia? Georgia?

The left might sow the whirlwind by these actions but there is one other side to this story that is mentioned at PJ media:

If RFK Jr. goes through with his plans, and he’s not suicided Epstein-style in the process, this will very probably be the death knell for Brandon’s re-election prospects, which were on thin ice as it was.

emphasis mine

If there really any person out there who doesn’t believe the deep state democrat left wouldn’t kill Kennedy in a minute if it put them at risk? (Remember there has already been one incident).

I submit and suggest that anyone who doesn’t admit this is deluding themselves.

Ilia Calderón at last night debate brought back memories…

Posted: September 28, 2023 by datechguy in elections, elections, media, politics, primaries, primaries
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…of attending Trump press conferences as credentialed press during the 2016 campaign.

The thing I most noticed about said press conferences at the time was that every question to Trump seemed to be premised on one of three propositions:

  1. Why do you suck so bad?
  2. Why does the GOP suck so bad?
  3. What are you going to do about the fact that you suck so bad?

That’s why when I asked this question in Derry NH:

and this question in Worcester MA

It was such a shock to the room because it violated the narrative the left wanted advanced.

And that brings us to Ilia Calderón.

Ilia Calderón was there to advance the left’s narrative and make the GOP candidates bow to it. Ron DeSantis called out said false narrative when she tried to play it on him but the real question on the table is this:

“Why is the GOP putting someone whose goal is to advance the MSM/Left: ‘Why do you suck?’ narrative as a moderator at the GOP debate?”

I think that’s a very good question and Fox and the RNC need to produce a very good answer.

But that’s just me

If Then Else Again on AB 957

Posted: September 24, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, elections, politics
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Two weeks ago I proposed the following IF / THEN Else Statement:

Minister James Hacker: Will you answer a direct question?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: I strongly advise you not to ask a direct question.

Minister James Hacker: Why?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: It might provoke a direct answer.

Minister James Hacker: Never has yet.

Yes Minister: The Moral Dimension 1982

IF Newsom = “candidate for president” THEN AB 957= “veto” ELSE AB 957 = “Law”

By this I presumed that AB 957 was a sure thing because Newsom had just said the following:

“We need to move past this notion that he’s not going to run,” Newsom told NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd in an interview clip released Friday. “President Biden is going to run and I’m looking forward to him getting reelected.”

One must remember that pols are masters of parsing words. What does he actually say:

  1. Joe Biden is going to Run.
  2. I’m looking forward to getting him re-elected.

What doesn’t he say is what happens if for some reason Joe Biden doesn’t run or has to pull out.

Let me remind you of what we wrote a week ago:

Democrats have now decided that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are no longer useful.

In fact they have actually reached the point where they believe that even with the FBI going after conservatives and the online services censoring the right at full swing and their friends in the courts sentencing those who spoke aloud about the steal to decades in prison that the country has reached the point where more people hate Joe Biden than Donald Trump.

This fear is reinforced by this map:

And the lastest pol number are even worse,

Head-to-head in a hypothetical November 2024 matchup, Trump has 51% support while Biden has 42% — numerically up 3 points for Trump and down 2 points for Biden from an ABC/Post poll in February, shifts that are not statistically significant.

Or as Drudge put it:

If Drudge is sounding the alarm for the left that means there is a real opening for another Democrat candidate for president, so we return to our original IF THEN ELSE statement:

IF Newsom = “candidate for president” THEN AB 957= “veto” ELSE AB 957 = “Law”

Well guess what happened this week:

and to our original article:

The one thing that might have inhibited that bill from becoming law is that signing such a bill might inhibit a potential presidential campaign by Gavin Newson as it would be such a killer in swing states that you couldn’t steal enough votes to save him.

There is of course always a chance that Joe Biden who has managed to survive so many disasters in his career might still survive this one, but if he doesn’t Gavin Newson has become that much more viable.

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