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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
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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.

Six Debate Thoughts Under the Fedora: Missing RFK Yet?, Reality doesn’t care about Your spin, Trump Proved Right Again, Adaptability vs Incomprehensibility, Sisson deserves a Raise, You Can’t Replace Biden and Overturn a Bunch of Elections Can You?

Posted: June 28, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, media, politics
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Before we start let me remind everyone that Democrats did all they could to keep Robert F Kennedy Jr. out of the Democrat Primaries.

In retrospect this was likely a bad idea.

It’s amazing how quick the narrative goes from: “The idea of Joe Biden is infirm is false these are all deepflakes” to “Joe Biden is not fit to be president” when the proof of that statement is broadcast live to the entire nation.

Not a single one of those people who spent the last year lying about how sharp Joe Biden in on air will apologize for that lie.

Reality doesn’t care what your spin is.

Apparently the only person who was honest about the condition of Joe Biden was Robert Hur

There were an awful lot of people who didn’t like the rules to this debate.

  • two reporters who had a history of bias vs Trump
  • No crowd for Trump to play off of
  • No props for Trump to use
  • And complete control of the microphones in the hands of folks who hate him.

Many people including myself thought it was foolish of Trump to agree to those terms.

He was clearly right and we were wrong

One of the reasons why the disadvantages that Trump had didn’t work is the fact that Trump is adaptable.

For example, during the campaign when he realized that the vaccines were a disadvantage he started talking about the Biden mandates (a winning issue) instead of the vaccines (a losing one).

During the debate Trump was adaptable, and in fact used the format to his own advantage as it kept him more on point and he was able to use the format to highlight Biden’s condition.

Meanwhile Biden, though he grew stronger during the debate (drugs adrenaline or both) wasn’t competent enough to pivot in the same way Trump was.

That sealed Biden’s fate.

There was one exception to the collective show of panic among Democrats.

Democrat influencer Harry Sisson thread kept insisting the Biden was winning the debate and Trump was incoherent. Check out his timeline it’s an exercise that would make Baghdad Bob proud.

I don’t know how much the democrat/left is paying this kid directly or indirectly but whatever he’s being paid it’s not enough.

I’d be worried about whatever woman decides to date him, if he’ll say stuff like that to the whole world that can see he’s lying you certainly can’t trust him to be honest with you.

Finally on every cable channel Democrats are calling for Joe Biden to be removed from the ticket. Hashtags like #joemustgo and #swapoutjoe are all over.

There is one problem with this idea.

Democrats for the last three years have been telling us that interfering with elections that they insisted were free and fair was a crime against democracy and beyond the pale. Even in last night’s debate Biden defended jailing those who thought otherwise.

Now Democrats want to overturn dozens of democratically conducted elections in states all over the country. Elections where Democrats freely choose Joe Biden as their nominee, not because they don’t think the elections were fair, but because they regret the results a few months later.

I can’t speak for everyone but it sounds kind of insurrectiony to me

Under the Fedora Shocked SHOCKED edition: Using Power, The Sounds of Silence, Cajun Raging , Two Bill Maher in One Show and Man who planned on Running for the Democrat Nomination outed as a DEMOCRAT

Posted: May 11, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, education, election 2020, election 2024, elections, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east, politics, under the fedora
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It never ceases to amaze me how many people are shocked at the acts of the Biden Administration concerning Israel, particularly folks like Jonah Goldberg (a nice guy in person) and friends.

It appears that the folks who could have made a difference but decided to let the steal of the last election slide presumed that the goal of said steal was simply to remove Donald Trump which they were completely on board with. They now appear shocked SHOCKED that said folks had an actual agenda they wanted to push and are using said power to do so.

You mean to say if you let a bunch of bought and paid for crooks have power they might just use it? Amazing!

Apparently the shock SHOCK of Joe Biden deciding to suspend arms to Israel over attempting to destroy a group of terrorists who tired to annihilate them and still hold Israeli (and American) hostages is too much for some US senators.

 of the Democratic senators running for reelection, most are staying mum, including those running in swing states. They include, at the time of publishing, Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, Montana’s Jon Tester, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, and Nevada’s Jacky Rosen. Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin—who is running to replace the state’s outgoing senator, Debbie Stabenow—has also remained silent, as have her fellow House colleagues running for Senate seats, Rubén Gallego of Arizona and David Trone of Maryland.

Oddly enough those who are shocked into silence are almost exclusively running in either red or swing states. Senators from deep blue states like Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut where even supporting the slaughter of Jews can’t hurt a democrat have no problem praising the move.

Unexpectedly of course.

One person who is incapable of being shocked into silence is James Carville who at 80 is just as loud as he has ever been. However while he is not silent he is in fact shocked.

He is shocked that nothing the Democrats seem to do in this campaign is working against Trump:

What you might note in this tirade is no mention of Biden’s policies or the overreaching of the left or the abandonment of Israel or the Economy that’s tanking faster than the Chicago White Sox. He might take a lesson from this old piece written on the day of the Scott Brown vs Martha Coakley election so many years ago: (My comment) in bold underline

If Brown wins today in Massachusetts, we’re going to hear all kinds of explanations. Misplaced voter anger is already being invoked. Coakley ran a horrible campaign. The incumbent party is unpopular when times are bad. It snowed. Or it didn’t. Whatever. The simplest explanation is that a majority of the citizens of Massachusetts oppose ObamaCare. Maybe they shouldn’t. Maybe they don’t realize how great it will be. (HA! DTG) But if Brown wins, the simplest explanation is that the most important issue, health care, was decisive. The voters don’t like ObamaCare and this is their chance to say so.

The actual performance of this administration or the state of the country is not relevant to Mr. Carville. It’s all about the game. He’s a salesman one might even say a master salesman and his product is Democrats any democrats no matter what they do, no matter what they say and after decades of selling a crappy product to a gullible public he is shocked SHOCKED that there doesn’t seem to be enough marks falling for the pitch.

So let me get this straight:

Bill Maher does an excellent eight minute monologue on the media covering irrelevant things for the sake of clicks and agenda:

And then leads the overtime segment of that very same with a story about a Virginia school district that had renamed two schools named after confederates restoring the original names.

Because on a weekend when Joe Biden is withholding military aid to Israel to the point where even Jonah Goldberg’s friends are done with him there is no issue bigger that needs to be addressed than a school named after Stonewall Jackson who died in 1863.

I can’t contain my degree of shock that he might just be another self serving liberal after all.

Finally I laughed aloud when I saw this story out on the Daily Wire:

Speaking on the support that RFK Jr. enjoys from some on the political right, Penn said: “I think that it will drop in half if Republicans learn the views, right now they don’t know these things.”

“And there’s a group of Republicans that don’t like anybody and he’s now the alternative to the alternative,” he continued. “So he’s got some votes, but I agree with you, he would lose a lot of Republican votes if this screen that you’re putting up there really got out and got broadcast.”

Here is the video

So let me get this straight, Republican votes are going to be shocked SHOCKED that a President Candidate:

  • Whose Father was AG in a Democrat administration and ran for President as a Democrat
  • Whose uncle was a Democrat congressman, Senator and President
  • Whose other Uncle was a Democrat senator for 40+ years
  • Who has been a democrat all his life
  • And who initially attempted to run for the Democrat nomination

Might have a bunch of opinions that are completely consistent with the Democrat party?

My degree of surprise can’t be understated!

Let me tell you something Mr. Penn, any republican who votes for RFK doesn’t care what his opinions are. They just want to be able tell their republican friends at GOP events they didn’t vote for Biden and tell their celebrity friends at events attended by all the “right” people that they didn’t vote for Trump.

Media’s opening attacks on Trump allies

Posted: May 7, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

The media hit squads have launched their opening salvos against two key Trump supporters, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick.

“As the chances that former President Donald Trump will pick South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem as his running mate are growing, so too is scrutiny over everything from her policy positions to her new teeth,” The Wall Street Journal wrote recently. “Her stance on abortion. Her opposition to TikTok. And most puzzling to many, her decision earlier this month to post a lengthy video on Instagram praising a cosmetic dentistry practice in Texas for fixing her teeth.”

In a recent speech, Noem expressed her exasperation about media stories.  “I mean they’re just attacking me like crazy right now,” Noem said, according to an audio recording obtained by POLITICO. “But listen, that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing because it makes you stronger, and it teaches you really what you’re up against, and it makes you recognize how much they lie, how much they will twist, how much they will manipulate. And you just have to be strong and be happy warriors.”

In a similar assault on a major Trump supporter, The New York Times attacked McCormick, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, a must-win state in the 2024 presidential election.

“David McCormick’s origin story goes something like this: He grew up in rural Pennsylvania, southwest of Scranton. He baled hay, trimmed Christmas trees and otherwise worked on the family’s farm. And from those humble beginnings, he rose to achieve the American dream,” The Times stated. “But interviews in Mr. McCormick’s hometown, as well as a review of public records, news coverage from his childhood and his own words, suggest that he has given a misleading impression about key aspects of his background.”

The McCormick campaign issued a lengthy rebuttal of DaTimes story: “The New York Times has published a story filled with frivolous lies about my childhood. If it weren’t so demeaning to my parents’ lifelong teaching careers and the town. I’m so proud to have been raised in, it might be funny. The simple fact is The New York Times is lying….I knew getting into this race could mean things would get nasty, but it’s sad to see we’ve fallen so far that one of our nation’s oldest papers of record is pushing the Democrats’ baked narrative.”  For more, see https://secure.winred.com/mccormick-pa/nyt-response-email-acs

Noem and McCormick won’t be the last Trump supporters to face increased attention. Unfortunately, It’s a long time until November with plenty of journalistic time and space to fill.

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