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Just finished watching the Debate which remined me of my youth when Andre the Giant would take on three people at once. As Megyn Kelly put it:

How bad? This bad:

But the big problem here for all those that I’m sure are somehow declaring Harris the winner are missing one thing that is vital.

People know Donald Trump, they are used to seeing Donald Trump as Donald Trump, they are not used to seeing Harris and she looked AWFUL.

The body language, the expressions, the tones of voice, they are just horrible and annoying and it’s not just men who aren’t going to like it. Women are going to see this and it will turn them off.

Most people don’t get a lot on the actual issues, they judge on impressions. And Kamala gives you the impression of someone you simply would not want to have to sit with at a dinner, at a party, or at a bar. She is just plain unlikable.

Depending on how bad the cheating is Trump just won this election, and the real joke is that the Harris people just doesn’t see it.

Update: Apparently the votes saw a different debate than the MSM did:

Reuters interviewed ten undecided voters before and after a debate. Six of them shifted toward supporting Trump, three leaned toward Harris, and one remained uncertain. That’s a rather solid outcome for Trump.

“Although the sample size was small, the responses suggested Harris might need to provide more detailed policy proposals to win over voters who have yet to make up their minds,” wrote Reuters.

Reality doesn’t care what the spin is.

Patriots, White Sox and Not Getting Cocky

Posted: September 9, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

One of the warnings that Glenn Reynolds constantly gives about election 2024 is not to get cocky, reminding people if they want to elect Trump they need to get out there and act.

The best reminder of this I can think of came yesterday in Cincinnati and in Boston.

In Boston the Red Sox were playing their final game against the hapless Chicago White Sox who went into that game needing 9 wins to avoid surpassing the 1962 New York Mets as the worst team since the founding of the American League in 1900 and the World Series Era (1903).

The Redsox are fighting for the last playoff stop in the AL so had every incentive to win but despite this the White Sox surprised a bunch of people by taking the final game of the series at Fenway.

That was a pretty big surprise but not as big as what happened in Cincinnati.

The New England Patriots with a rookie coach opened their season against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Patriots starting quarterback was Jacoby Brisett who earned his Superbowl ring as a backup in New England when Tom Brady engineered the most impossible comeback in the history of the game. The similarities end there. For the last month we have been hearing from every talk radio host in NE that the patriots have one of the worst if not THE worst set of wide receivers and a suspect offensive line. Nobody gave them a chance against the Bengals with an elite QB at the helm.

New England however played ball control football running up a storm and controlling the clock while their defense held Cincy to a mere 10 points on the way to a 16-10 victory. More people in Boston and elsewhere were picking with White Sox over the Red Sox than were picking the pats over the Bengals.

What’s the lesion here? There is a reason why they actually play the game, it’s the same with elections. Don’t assume it’s in the bag, do something about it. The Pats and the White Sox did.

There are so many surprises in life, alas these days, this isn’t one of them:

And neither is this:

Nor is this:

Ok this is a little surprising:

Not that the bill was phony, but that he admitted it publicly

And finally this:

I do confess there was a time when that one would have surprised me, but not anymore.

Democrats have two extremely unfair advantage when it comes to every election. The first advantage is produced by mainstream news outlets.  It is painfully obvious to any rational human being that the media is made up of sycophants and cheerleaders for the political left.

In every election cycle, it is abundantly easier for Democrats to appear to have “momentum” when the media prattle on about their supposed momentum. It is easier to declare Democratic campaigns are “flawless” when the media steamroll over any flaw that emerges. It is easier to look “really smart” when journalists tell everyone you’re smart, and if voters don’t understand you have a stunning intellect, then you’re “misunderstood.”

The media act like the wind beneath Kamala’s wings, and then they praise her flying skills.

Her weaknesses are buried as Donald Trump’s strengths are attacked. She fails to empathize with Gold Star parents whose children were killed in Afghanistan, and the media attack Trump for having the chutzpah to show up at Arlington National Cemetery at their invitation. The only scandals that aren’t fake news are the Republican scandals.

 Just about half the population get all of their news from sources that are extremely biased. They only get half the story and what they do get is extremely distorted. 

These same Americans lack the ability to question what they hear coming from their TVs and read in their newspapers.  They seek out only sources online that conform to their progressive beliefs system, and they attack anyone who dares to disagree with them.  That is because the American educational system was replaces with a Marxist brainwashing conglomeration decades ago.  Here are three quotes by the great Thomas Sowell which illustrate just how dysfunctional our educational system truly is.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

Whether blatant or subtle, brainwashing has become a major, time-consuming activity in American education at all levels. Some zealots have not hesitated to use the traditional brain-washing technique of emotional trauma in the classroom to soften up children for their message. Gruesome and graphic movies on nuclear war, for example, have reduced some school children to tears—after which the teacher makes a pitch for whatever movement claims to reduce such dangers. Another technique is the ambush shock: A seventh-grade teacher in Manhattan, for example, innocently asked her students to discuss their future plans—after which she said: “Haven’t any of you realized that in this world with nuclear weapons no one in this class will be alive in the year 2000?”75 These