There are four days till election day. Tens of Millions of people have already voted and every single bit of the next four days campaigning both in person and online is to convince you of their message.
The basic Trump message is that we have momentum and the only thing that can keep us from winning is cheating.
The basic Harris message is we’re still in this and the tide is going our way.
Additionally there are a ton of paid surrogates online (For the record I’m not one of them) out to spin people toward these things.
I presume that anyone whose living depending on advancing a narrative is going to earn their money.
So don’t assume anything asserted is automatically true, even if it advances the side you are for and as for the media and spokesmen remember this key phrase from my favorite Yes Prime Minister episode when the PM tell his press secretary to release a statement about some troop movements: EMPHASIS MINE
James Hacker : [phone rings] Oh, yes, Paul. You know you have an airborne battalion on standby in Germany? Never mind how I know. Well, since it’s not being used, I want them to fly straight off to St George’s Island. Sort of between Africa and India. A goodwill visit. Just showing the flag. They have been invited. Yes. Leave in… six hours. Yes, an instant goodwill visit. Tell your press office to announce it at once. No, no, leave me out of it. A routine visit. All right – a routine surprise visit. Well, say they were invited earlier, but the NATO exercise got in the way. Now they’re not needed, they’re going anyway. All right. Nobody knows it’s not true. Press statements aren’t delivered under oath.
Have faith in God, from all others demand evidence, particularly until things are all over.
Control:This is an emergency. Control must be believed and obeyed! No one on the Colony believes in Macra! There is no such thing as Macra! Macra do not exist! THERE ARE NO MACRA!
Doctor Who, The Macra Terror 1967
As of this writing (7:45 AM) the Joe Rogan Experience podcast with Donald Trump which dropped late last night has 8.7 million views.
This is extraordinary when you consider the following:
The podcast runs almost 3 hours (2:58:50)
Trump has been around for a very long time
It’s been less than a half a day and overnight for a lot of those in the east
What are people who are watching the podcast seeing? A conversation lasting three hours. A rational conversation on all kinds of topics, from the great flip flops of the celebs who embraced Trump for decades up until the point where he was considerer a threat to the power of the left to boxing and MMF. The type of conversation that regular people might have. The type of conversation that gives you a pretty good picture of who a person actually is.
In other words the type of conversation that the media:
Doesn’t dare have about Donald Trump because it would destroy their false negative narrative
Doesn’t dare have with Kamala Harris because it would destroy their false positive narrative
Ironically after three hours with Rogan Trump went off to a rally that night, so much for the “tired” and “ducking” business.
Here is the whole thing:
There was some talk on COVID and the vaccines which is actually a weakness for Trump (but not in contrast to Harris/Biden) and the conversation on some Trump supporters being nervous about RFK’s role in the administration was interesting and groundbreaking. There was some real news broken there which is why it’s worth your time.
There was an early report that youtube was censoring the link but Rogan himself noted that there had been a tech issue that was resolved by delisting and then relisting the podcast. Frankly as a person who is still banned by Youtube it’s nice to see them not censoring this.
Of course if the crash and burn continues the campaign may change it’s mind figuring like a Hockey team pulling their goalie when down 5 with 2 minutes to go. What have you got to lose?
But Trump wasn’t the only one who was on a major podcast. JD Vance appeared on the Theo Von podcast for two hours
What is really interesting has been the feedback from so many of the over 2 million who watched the podcast who have been told by the media that Vance was “odd” or “weird” or “strange” and after seeing him for two hours found him the most normal guy in the room.
Read the comments to the podcast it’s shattering to the narrative that people have put out there on Vance and an excellent reminder that the BS the media sold during the time they hid Joe Biden cognitive decline is not the only lie that they have been pushing.
This is the type of thing people watch on their own, the media can’t hide or counter it and it’s the type of things that changes votes.
These two podcasts are the ultimate expression of bypassing the narrative and going directly to the people letting voters who wish to see people as they actually are. This is the ultimate expression of the 1st amendment.
The media will try to avoid these podcasts. I can hear them now:
This is an emergency. Media must be believed and obeyed! No one on the country believes in Trump/Vance Podcasts! There is no such thing as Trump/Vance Podcasts! Trump/Vance Podcast do not exist! THERE ARE NO PODCASTS!
If you want to know why the left demands censorship these two podcasts are it.
Last year’s mayoral election in Chicago presents a media deja vu moment with national implications.
Yes, I’m talking about Kamala Harris.
Brandon Johnson, an organizer for the far-left Chicago Teachers Union while serving as member of the Cook County commissioner–a rubber stamp body controlled by board president, Toni Preckwinkle, a leftist like Johnson.
Paul Vallas, a centrist Democrat, ran a wonky white-paper dominated campaign that was centered on hiring more police officers and prosecuting more misdemeanors. He lost.
Johnson campaigned largely on platitudes. His political career is a creation of the Chicago Teachers Union, and aggressive campaigning by the CTU, including door to door work, identifying Johnson’s supporters, and getting them to the polls, pushed “Branjo” over the top.
Republicans? Are we doing that?
Back to my point.
As a commissioner, Johnson could only point one accomplishment in office, the non-binding “Justice for Black Lives” resolution that passed in 2020, which called for diverting funds from law enforcement to social services.
The extreme left loves symbolism. It also hates the police.
Chicago’s mainstream media, Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun-Times is a notable exception, are compliant lapdogs for the left. If at all, they barely challenged Branjo on his thin resume and his far-left beliefs.
Before the first round of voting for mayor, Johnson was asked about his support of Defund the Police and cutting law enforcement, Johnson flippantly replied, “Ask better questions.”
Finally, at a law enforcement forum before the second round of balloting, Johnson was asked about his backing of the Defund movement. “I said it was a political goal,” Johnson replied, “I never said it was mine.”
So the media, even though crime was the biggest issue of the 2023 Chicago mayoral campaign, dropped the Defund issue.
The Chicago media barely vetted Johnson. Just as the national media didn’t do so on Joe Biden’s senility in 2020–and it all but ignored Hunter Biden laptop story. A year later, the national media elite is ignoring or minimizing the far-left political position of Kamala Harris, and her politically convenient flip-flops on them.
Reilly, who may be candidate for mayor in 2027, said that Johnson was en route to becoming a “one-termer” who was “woefully unprepared” to lead America’s third-largest city, and a mayor who is a beholden to the “radical left.”
The warning signs were there on Johnson for anyone who did some digging. But the Chicago media barely reported on them. Last week, a Fox Chicago reporter revealed that his City Hall staffer in charge of working with City Council and state legislators to advance the mayor’s agenda, Kennedy Bartley, made vile anti-police comments in a 2021 podcast, including calling law enforcement officers “f*cking pigs.”
This is Johnson’s inner circle. The mayor has resisted calls to fire Bartley.
Crime is still sky high since Johnson took over. Murders are down, but only a little bit.
Johnson has driven the Chicago train off the rails. Ironically–and the Chicago media ignores this other story–the mayor has a massive polite detail, said to number anywhere from 125-150 cops. Johnson clearly doesn’t want to defund his police protection.
Back to Harris.
Will the mainstream media drop its biases and finally vet the vice president?
Or will they wait, until a year or so after she’s sworn in, when another “woefully unprepared” office holder, one who is beholden to “the radical left,” fails again, for so-called journalists to finally sound the alarm about Harris? Maybe not. The media was all-in on Biden until his cognitive decline couldn’t be explained away after his June debate with Donald Trump.
Biden, whose mind was clearly slipping in 2020, is arguably a tool of the far-left.
Will Harris, arguably an intellectual lightweight, end up in the same position if she wins the presidency?
John Ruberry regularly blogs from just north of Chicago at Marathon Pundit.
Is there anything at all about the Democrats that is real?
BREAKING: James O'Keefe Confronts ActBlue Staff at DNC Convention Over False Donations
O'Keefe Infiltrates ActBlue at DNC: “What is disinformation about the FEC?” questions James O'Keefe at the @DNC convention, challenging Carolyn Schuette (@schuette_car), @ActBlue’s account… pic.twitter.com/8gThMKXLpd
There was a time in America where James O’Keefe would be the most feared, respected and award winning journalist there is, where journalism students would aspire to be him.
Well he does remain feared to wit:
JUST IN: @ActBlue Account Manager Carolyn Schuette and Senior Director of Marketing Miquel K. Smith have deleted their X profiles following the release of OMG's undercover DNC investigation where ActBlue was confronted about massive donations that individuals across the country… pic.twitter.com/5cfwDuZDvi
Now the question becomes why make these PAC donation from someone who didn’t make them? The logical answer is to hide who they ARE from (or to create the illusion of a more “diverse” donor base) but whatever the reason the MSM doesn’t find it newsworthy.
James O’Keefe exposed potentially the largest money laundering operation in American history by Democrats and you would never know it if you only watched the media, zero mention of the scandal. Mainstream media is the enemy of the people
This is of course in accordance with DaTechGuy’s 4th Law of Media Outrage which states:
The degree of media exposure of the corruption or illegality committed by any individual or organization under investigation is directly proportional to its distance from the media’s ideology.
Alas the days where Perry White was the standard of editorial decisions on running a story are long gone.
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