Archive for the ‘politics’ Category

Five TRUMP WINS! Thoughts Under the Fedora, AP still Holding Out (Till 5:38 AM), “Hispanica” for Trump, 47 or 48? Hubris Hubris Hubris and a Crisis for Democrats in 2028

Posted: November 6, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, elections, politics
Tags: , , , ,

As of this writing the AP has not yet called the election for Donald Trump showing him 3 EV short with five states still uncalled by them (although some have been called by others) Michigan, Arizona Wisconsin, Nevada and Alaska.

Alaska is enough to clinch.

Why they haven’t called Alaska yet is beyond me.

Then again NBC, CBS, ABC & CNN haven’t called it either.

Let the record show that Citizen Free Press was the first to call the election at 10:41 PM EST.

(While I was typing point 4 (5:31 AM) ABC called Wisconsin for Trump putting him over. NBC & CBS and the AP apparently has too. Oddly None of them have called Alaska.

Latino voters made a big difference this time around. Working in a place where Spanish is the 1st language I saw that coming a mile away but a lot in the media did not.

People forget that “Hispanics” or as the media / left likes to say “Latinx” do not come from a mythical land of “Hispanica”. They come from a lot of different cultures. Dominicans, are different from Mexicans, who are different than Venezuelans who are different than Guatemalans, who are different from Columbians, etc etc etc

Democrats not respecting that likely hurt them.

I suspect that if they realized this was coming they would have finished the wall 20 years ago.

It’s worth remembering that Joe Biden is still an old frail man and it is very possible that in the next 78 days Kamala Harris could become the 47th President of the United States and Donald Trump the 48th if he doesn’t make it to January 20th alive.

But if he really wanted to twist the knife on the folks who forced him off the ballot he would resign sometime next month and have Kamala be president for a month or so. That would make Kamala the 1st woman president and would force Trump to rebrand all his 47 stuff.

It would be fun.

I think we can look at the last three elections as decided by the Hubris of the losers.

Election 2016 was lost by the Democrats because in their Hubris they not only believed the polls but the machine folks in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania all figured they didn’t need to steal and election that Hillary had cold. So when the Trump wave came, they weren’t able to create the vote to steal it as you need to prepare. (That’s why it took hours to make the final call and why the three hold out states were called all at once).

Election 2020 was lost by Donald Trump because in his Hubris he didn’t bother to take my advice and start working on election fraud in right after 2016. So when the Democrats who had prepared for the steal for four years struck he was caught flat footed. His team worked valiantly but as the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Election 2024 was lost by the Democrats who in their Hubris counted on hatred of Trump didn’t allow Biden to be challenged in a primary and lied to our faces about his fitness for months if not years and who also in their hubris figured the GOP would not be ready to counter dirty tricks. They lied with impunity and it cost them on election day. It might not have cost them states that they might have but even in blue states he closed the gap, not enough to win a NJ or a NY but it showed everywhere.

Hubris is deadly

Now that this election is over there is a bigger problem for Democrats.

Four years from now Donald Trump will not be on the ballot so it’s possible that some of those who turned out for him might not for JD Vance who has to be considered the presumptive nominee for the party. (or if Trump dies in office the incumbent remember he is 77 years old and just worked himself practically to death over the last 6 months).

But the question is will the folks who just didn’t like Donald Trump decide they hate JD Vance just as much. Will we now see the “Never Vance” movement?

I suspect we will in the media who are paid for such things but not in the public.

My Advice to the Election Fraudsters, Stand Down!

Posted: November 5, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, elections, politics
Tags: , ,

Today is election day and all that we’ve gone through the last several months will (hopefully) be over by the time I wake up tomorrow.

There is not a lot to be said that I have not said already so I want to address myself to all of those folks in swing states and districts who either have or are prepared to take part in election fraud in the hopes of saving the day for Kamala.

Don’t try it.

Not only are we in the “too big to rig” numbers based on all I’ve seen and the actions of the left but consider what is coming.

I suspect what is coming is a special council given powers to investigate voter fraud in all 50 states. I suspect said council is going to have the power to hire his or her own lawyers so that career DOJ staff can’t cover things up. I suspect that while Trump is busy working on the economy, the border, energy and Iran said council will be doing what should have been done in 2020, going after those who try to steal an election from the American people.

I suspect that while said council will look into the 2020 steal his primary target are going to be those who attempt a steal this time around.

And remember James O’Keefe has his people in every single state just waiting to give such a council their evidence and video and Elon’s Musk’s twitter will not be banning people who report what they see and spread it

Oh and don’t think for one minute the left will protect you, the defining characteristic of the left is that when a useful idiot is no longer useful they are discarded.

Your best bet is to lay low and give any plans for fraud a pass.

Oh and for those already involved this time around. I’ll have words for you later this week

Five Fast Final Weekend #election2024 Thoughts Under the Fedora A Tad Skewed, I’ll Take that Trade , Defeat is an Orphan , Skipping NH becomes Losing NH and Who’s the Boss of the House?

Posted: November 4, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, politics
Tags: , , , ,

Apparently Selzer put out a poll giving Kamala Harris a lead in Iowa that was pushed heavily on the net and at Drudge but isn’t being believed by anyone who knows anything about politics. Mark Halperin interviewed the woman in question who acknowledged that she oversampled “older white liberal women”

I think that might make a tad of a difference in the numbers don’t you?

When asked earlier this year the boss at SNL said they would not be having any of the candidates due to equal time laws and rules.

Apparently that no longer applies as they had Kamala on SNL this weekend which likely will do less harm to her campaign than an appearance since it’s pre-scripted and you don’t have to worry about teleprompters.

Personally given what I think will happen I think it’s a bad move but apparently NBC anticipated this and allowed this video for Trump to run during Nasscar and Sunday Night football

I’d take that trade any day of the week.

The blame game articles are already out there and Democrats are pointing fingers furiously.

Apparently nobody owns any mirrors.

One note I saw in a Hill article on the subject was the Bobby Kennedy dropping out and endorsing Trump being a huge hit to them.

I’ll wager if they had let him run in the primaries (where he would have won) the Democrats would be looking pretty good today.

JD Vance was in Derry NH today as the Granite State seems to be getting rather close.

Don’t think for one moment that voters in the state forgot about Biden bypassing them. Even more than Kamala I think that sticks in a lot of craws there.

But of Course you couldn’t have Biden in NH, there was no way to hide his decline if he had to appear in person at the Red Arrow Diner.

Finally I’ve noticed one thing that hasn’t generated a lot of questions.

I’ve seen Nancy Pelosi everywhere on the News lately pushing the various narratives for the Democrats some of them highly unrealistic.

That the former Speaker is doing so itself isn’t odd. In 1980 in the middle of Jimmy Carter getting destroyed Tip O’Neil went on the air and declared: “A Democrat tide is sweeping the nation.” even though he knew it was false as he didn’t want Dems on the left coast losing heart and staying home costing him seats.

What’s odd is that it’s the supposedly FORMER speaker who is doing this. Am I the only one who finds it odd that it’s Nancy Pelosi on all of these shows and NOT the Democrat majority leader Hakeem Jeffries? I mean if your going to interview somebody why would you not have the man with power rather than the person who no longer has it.

And that leads to my question? Does she no longer have it? Is she still the boss and Jeffries just a token? After all if was Pelosi and not Jeffries who forced Biden out.

Brandon Johnson’s Chicago follies: The board of education disaster

Posted: November 3, 2024 by John Ruberry in education, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
Tags: , , , , , , , ,

By John Ruberry

Chicago’s leftist mayor, Brandon Johnson, who is probably a socialist, is on his way to being remembered as one of America’s worst big city mayors.

Among the awful history gives us are New York’s John Lindsay, Cleveland’s Dennis Kucinich, and Detroit’s Coleman Young.

“Branjo” has been mayor for only 18 months. 

In another post at Da Tech Guy, I discussed his propensity to blame any criticism of him on his race–Johnson is black. 

Last month I discussed his Friday Afternoon Massacre. Consider this post a sequel. 

Johnson was a longtime paid organizer for the radical Chicago Teachers Union. And by the way, when someone calls himself an organizer, consider that a code word for left-wing radical.  He was also Cook County Commissioner, a part-time job. Cook County government doesn’t have much power. 

Branjo is an empty suit with an empty head. 

Chicago is broke, thanks to fiscal mismanagement by Richard M. Daley, Chicago is essentially bankrupt. Its municipal pension funds are the worst funded in the nation.

Daley belongs in that worst mayors ever list too.

But the Chicago Teachers Union, Johnson’s former employer and the chief financial backer of his mayoral campaign, wants a big raise for teachers. To pay for that, as well as a looming pension bill for non-teacher CPS employees, Branjo ordered the CEO of CPS, Pedro Martinez, to take out what the media is collectively calling a high interest “payday loan” to pay for both. CPS faces a $500 million dollar deficit while Chicago proper faces a nearly $1 billion deficit. CPS bonds are rated as junk.

Martinez said no to the mayor, and in solidarity with him, the entire school board, all seven of them Johnson appointees, resigned, in short, the Friday Afternoon Massacre.

In Brandon Johnson’s Chicago, things can always get worse.

Johnson quickly replaced the school board with seven new members, who have so far done nothing. Martinez hasn’t been fired and no payday loan has been taken out. In a few weeks, that board will be replaced with a hybrid board, half elected—the election is this week–and half appointed by Johnson. 

Of the soon-to-be former board, two members, including the president of the board, Mitchell Ikenna Johnson (no relation) are an embarrassment. The day after he was sworn in, it was reported that Mitchell was disbarred for life in Ohio for “engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, deceit, fraud, or misrepresentation.” The mayor, who almost certainly lives in a leftist pseudo-intellectual monoculture, should have immediately called for Mitchell Ikenna Johnson’s resignation. He didn’t. Then it was learned that Mitchell was active on social media supporting 9/11 conspiracy theories and promoting anti-Semitic hate. On Friday, Mitchell finally resigned.

Apparently, there is no vetting at Chicago’s City Hall. Competence is absent too.

Another of Branjo’s recent board appointees, Olga Bautista–a socialist–faces accusations of anti-semitism, which led Illinois’ treasurer, Susana Mendoza, a Democrat, to comment on X, “Springfield should intervene. There clearly needs to be Chgo City Council vetting, oversight & consent of these mayoral appointments to the Chgo Public School Board. Antisemites should be automatically disqualified, full stop. As should socialists calling for the fall of the U.S.”

Mendoza, a Democrat, is rumored to be considering a mayoral run in 2027.

Meanwhile, another radical left-winger, Kennedy Bartley, a top Branjo aide who is in charge of lobbying with other public officials, including the City Council, on behalf of the mayor, has called Chicago Police officers “f*cking pigs” and has made anti-Semitic comments on social media. She’s still on the job.

Johnson is rumored to have a police detail of 125-150 officers.

Clearly, being an anti-Semite, or at the very least, anti-Israel, is on the checklist to be included in leftist government employment circles.

And incompetence is on that checklist too.

As I’ve mentioned a few times at DaTechGuy, the warning signs were all there with Brandon Johnson. Chicagoans voted him in anyway.

While Chicago has some able aldermen–Brendan Reilly, Anthony Beale, and Ray Lopez come to mind–there are many leftist losers there too.

But that’s a topic for another time.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

Older Entries
Newer Entries