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The Fear is Palatable at Work

Posted: March 4, 2024 by datechguy in economy, election 2024, elections, politics
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When I saw this video:

All I could do is nod my head.

The vast majority of the people I work with have Spanish as their first language. They came here a decade or more ago. I don’t know if they came legally or not at the time but many if not most are now American citizens and they are scared for their jobs, their managers are scared for their jobs and as a guy about to hit 61 who had planned to work till 70 I’m scared for my job.

Even with COVID four years ago we were not.

And let me note, we are scared for our jobs after our company closed two warehouses in our area and laid off every temp we had.

Without a turnaround of the economy I don’t see how we avoid either further layoffs or a reduction of our workweek to below 40 hours.

That the democrats are polling over 40% is beyond me and I would bet real money that a lot of the folks were I am are going to vote for Trump because they know who was in charge when they were able to make a living and who was not.

They don’t care about mean tweets they care about feeding their kids and virtue signaling stuff like this

doesn’t enter their radar.

The only reason why I have no idea who will win in November is:

  1. I don’t know that Biden will be the Dem standard bearer no matter what happens in the primary
  2. I don’t know if Trump can win beyond the margin of fraud or if the GOP is taking steps to prevent it

“All My Contacts Are Dead”

Posted: March 3, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, politics
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14 years ago this January Robert Stacy McCain was in Fitchburg Massachusetts with me covering the Scott Brown Race. Way back then he was a contributor to the HotAir GreenRoom and filed this report available now only through the wayback machine:

Annie DeMartino served 20 years as a city council member here before retiring from office last year. An Irish immigrant, she turned out in the snow to vote this morning in Ward 6 at St. Bernard’s Catholic School. A self-described “diehard Democrat,” DeMartino voted for Martha Coakley, but listen to what she says about the Senate election:

Alas the adobe video is not available but Annie’s key quote was: ‘Mr. Brown Has the Edge Today’

Well it’s almost fifteen years later and today at the supermarket I was in line waiting to order a sub for DaWife and who comes over to see me pushing her carriage but Annie DeMartino. She’s 87 years old but still helping those in need picking up a meal for a shut-in and volunteering at the senior center, which I am now old enough to go to if I wished.

The subject of the coming election came up with Super Tuesday two days away and she asked my opinion. I told her:

  1. I have no idea who is going to win
  2. It’s my opinion that the Democrats will replace Joe Biden on the ticket because now the media is ridiculing’s him in public

At that point I asked her what her contacts were saying as she was deep into democrat politics since the 1970’s and she answered: “All my contacts are dead.” This is what happens when you live long enough and she talked about how hard it can be when you outlive everybody you know.

I have no doubt that she will still pull the lever for Biden on Tuesday. There are a lot of people who have left the Democrat party as I did but no matter how much they talk “white privilege ” this Irishwoman who knows what poor really means and still carries her brogue isn’t about to be pushed out of HER party no matter who comes in saying what.

If the Democrat Party was still populated by folks like Annie rather than the loonies who run it now I suspect a lot of people who left might still be there.

Ends and Means Joe Biden Edition

Posted: February 21, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, election 2024
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Have you noticed that the same people on the left who are now all worried about Joe Biden being on the top of the ticket are the ones who helped push RFK Jr. out of the Democrat primary and did all they could to keep any other potential democrat challenger out of the race? In fact the reason why Iowa was bypassed and NH had to launch a write-in campaign for old Joe was because the Democrats desperate to make sure that no democrat challenged him, moved the first primary of the season out of the two traditional starting points because of fears that Joe would not do well.

Yet now after that successful campaign what are we seeing. Piece after piece and commentary after commentary from the left that Joe Biden needs to step aside.

Why? Because reality has begun asserting itself and the state of the country not to mention the state of Joe Biden can no longer be denied.

Make no mistake, the only driver of this change in heart is the change in the polls. As long as the dementia patient version of Joe Biden was polling well then it wouldn’t matter. In fact the Obama team that’s running the show is likely happy to keep Joe out of the loop.

But now their power is being threatened. They fear a result beyond the margin of theft and that fear is driving everything you see now.

I have no idea how this ends but if the polls continue the way they are I won’t be shocked if Joe Biden suddenly died in office due to old age. Such a thing is entirely plausible as most men his age are in fact dead but the level of coincidence in terms of timing, that will be….interesting.

Rep Talib: Bad Ends Right Means

Posted: February 20, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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As you might guess I’m not much of a fan of Representative Talib of Michigan. She is an ultra leftist anti-Semite who is wrong on almost every issue out there.

Her defense of Hamas is horrible although to be fair as a Palestinian brought up by Palestinians, I’m less shocked by the antisemitism than most because of what she has been taught all her life. It would be extraordinary if she wasn’t an anti-Semite and frankly coming from the district she represents it she likely would not be sitting in congress if she didn’t have her current opinions on Israel.

But while I strongly object to all of these things this story concerning her suggestion that Michigan Democrat voters protest Biden’s “support” for Israel by voting uncommitted in the Michigan primary is quintessentially American:

It’s early voting time in Michigan. On Saturday, Tlaib was outside a polling place, a civic center, and urged Michigan Democrats to show Biden they condemn his support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war. The uncommitted movement tracks with her recent votes in Congress. She and fellow Squad member Rep.Cori Bush (D-MO) voted against banning Hamas terrorists from entering the United States. Tlaib was the only vote in the House to refuse to condemn the rape of women by Hamas. 

Any reader of this blog knows that I not only support Israel here but think that the destruction of Hamas is long overdue. I think she’s wrong and dead wrong.

In addition to being dead wrong she is going about advancing her dead wrong position in exactly the right way. In a republic if you have a position you wish political leaders to support what are you supposed to do? You energize a voting block to pressure pols to adopt the position you are trying to advance.

This is exactly how our system is supposed to work and as the Muslim population grows in the US and starts to outstrip other communities these methods are more likely to be effective. The fact that she is pushing for something horrible is not relevant to the method being used. Of course the irony that she is using this democratic method to support a group of people who violently exterminate any internal opposition is likely lost on her but that’s to be expected.

I suspect as the Tom Hagen math continues in Talib’s favor you will see a lot of Democrats walking away from Israel. With luck Hamas will be a footnote in history long before that date.

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