On November 29, 2022,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Monday, November 28th, 2022…but before we begin, a question and a comment.
First, the question: Now that he’s proved about as popular in Pennsylvania as the Army of Northern Virginia (which spent about as much time in the state and had as valid a claim to residency as he did), how much more of Dr. Oz do you thinks Keystone Staters will see?
Second, Donald Trump is political poison. As demonstrated repeatedly, from his celebration of Republican senate losses…
Celebrating losing what would have been a crucial senate seat pick up even as odds the GOP takes a majority fade away. 🧢 pic.twitter.com/9HUSf1xnHM
“Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign Tuesday night, heavy with the odor of a man fighting the last war. But politics is all about matching the man to the moment. Trump’s moment was six years ago. The nation’s voters have moved on, and if early signs are any indication, Republican primary voters are ready to consider doing so as well.
The 2022 midterms were about as decisive a failure for Trump as it was possible for them to be. Consider, as one item of evidence, the exit polls. Exit polls are not perfect; even though they should have the advantage over other polls of polling only people who actually voted, they still have their known biases and shortcomings. Still, they are the only evidence we get of who voted for whom and why at the time of the actual election, and when they deliver messages in bold, screaming letters, we should listen.
…A key question: 28 percent of voters said they were casting their ballots to oppose Trump, while only 16 percent said they were casting votes to support Trump. Thus, the anti-Trump voters outnumbered the pro-Trump voters by 75 percent. If you run the numbers, Democrats won 59.3 percent of the combined vote of the two groups. If both groups had stayed home, by contrast, the remaining 58 percent of voters who said that Trump was not a factor in their vote broke 58 percent to 40 percent for Republicans — a whopping 18-point win that would have satisfied even the wildest fantasies of the Big Red Tsunami.
The same story appears in race after race. In 16 of the 19 races polled, voters who cast their ballots without reference to Trump made up a majority, between 51 and 56 percent of the vote. In the other three (the North Carolina Senate race and the two Arizona races), they were just under half. In 18 out of 19 races, those voters supported the Republican candidate, frequently by wide margins. Among voters who didn’t cast a ballot with Trump in mind, Kari Lake won by 36 points, Blake Masters by 28, Adam Laxalt by 22, Don Bolduc by 19, Tim Michels by 17, Tudor Dixon and Dr. Oz by seven apiece, and Herschel Walker by six. Only Doug Mastriano was a bad enough candidate to lose on his own merits. But in each of those races, the anti-Trump voters swamped the pro-Trump voters by a wide enough margin to cancel that out.
Does Donald Trump add votes to the Republican Party? Sure. But he subtracts more than he adds. Without him, 2022 would have been much more about Joe Biden, and things would have gone very differently. 2024 doesn’t have to be that way.“
At the same time victories for Trump’s anointed are not only not inevitable, but increasingly unlikely, the man who seriously stated the night of November 7th, “If they win, I should get all the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all” continues to make himself evermore unelectable.
His narcissism and ego will not allow him to appreciate the truth related by Marc Thiessen: “In 2020, voters didn’t reject Trumpism, they rejected Trump.”
So, at the risk of losing friends and readers, here’s the juice: The Donald served a purpose in 2016. He can still serve a purpose in the future by campaigning on behalf of the eventual Republican nominee for President. However, if history is any guide, he’s incapable of acting in the interests of anyone but himself, so he needs to go. And the sooner the better.
A lot can happen between now and the Republican primaries, and Mike Pompeo would make an excellent President. But Ron DeSantis made history by winning Miami-Dade County, a feat no Republican has achieved in two decades, and he did it without the dubious assistance of The Donald.
As we’ve observed before, anyone who thinks Trump is still the solution doesn’t understand the nature of the problem.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, since we’re on the subject of those with a limited understanding of the nature of the problem…
Montana voted to let babies die. Let that sink in. All this would have done is force doctors to give care to a living human baby, including if they’re born alive after an abortion. What a dark, horrific day. pic.twitter.com/TTrxB5B152
“Call it Cooke’s First Law: Whatever the story, however complex its details, members of the American press will react by announcing who must be forbidden to speak going forward.
That is what too many journalists are now — not firefighters, not mediators, not conveyors of vital information, but zealous obscurantists staffing would-be censorship agencies. In comes the news, and, within minutes, out comes the latest justification for shutting everyone up. A mentally ill homeless man attacks Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer? That’s the Republican Party’s fault for running political ads against Pelosi — and it must stop. A disturbed man shoots up a gay club in Colorado Springs, Colo.? That’s the fault of Americans who object to drag shows for kindergartners — and they must be quiet. Elon Musk plans to moderate Twitter with a lighter hand? That will cause“havoc” and put lives at risk — and it must be prevented at all costs.
C. S. Lewis once observed that “it would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” So it is here…
…Last week, the Times’ Michelle Goldberg conceded at the outset of her piece on the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs that “the police are still investigating the motive.” And then, having duly covered her ass with that caveat, she proceeded merrily along as if there were no need to wait for the facts of the case to be determined. Throwing caution to the wind, Goldberg proposed that because “we know that the suspect is facing hate crime charges, and that the attack took place in a climate of escalating anti-gay and anti-trans violence and threats of violence,” she could write the column she’d wanted to write all along. Among the causes of the “entirely predictable” massacre, Goldberg insisted, were “the right,” Chris Rufo, Florida legislators, “Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary,” “QAnon,” “Republicans and Republican-aligned groups,” the “Proud Boys and other demonstrators,” “Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert,” “The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh,” and “Ben Shapiro.” These people, groups, and phenomena, Goldberg concluded, “don’t get to duck responsibility if a sick man with a gun took them seriously.”
That “if” is pretty important, though, isn’t it? In the Times’ op-ed on free speech, the editors complained that “many Americans are understandably confused, then, about what they can say and where they can say it.” And so they are! Which, in no small part, is because writers at outlets such as the Times feel entirely comfortable constructing lists of people who are presumptively to blame for crimes that do not, at the point at which those lists are constructed, even have a clearly established motive. If the editorial board of the Times really is as concerned about free expression as it insists it is, it will take the log out of its own eye and stop playing this game, for what Michelle Goldberg did last week was by no means an anomaly. In 2011, the Times repeatedly blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords, only to discover later on that there was no connection between the twoat all. In 2016, the Times pulled the same trick with the shooting at Pulse — among the attack’s contributing “factors,” the editorial board contended, was “a vicious and virulent homophobia” — only to learn that the killer had chosen the venue at random. The most recent editorial that the board has published — literally, the last thing it has said at the time I’m writing this — is that the 2022 “campaign season was marked by numerous incidents in which many Republicans used speech that has been linked to violence.” Linked, one must ask, by whom?
This is a pernicious practice. Now, as ever, America plays host to enough firebrand public speakers and enough unhinged criminal actors that it will always be possible for cynics to draw weak lines between the two. The most clear-cut connection between heated rhetoric and violent action in recent years was between the Democratic Party’s anti-Republican rhetoric and the attempted massacre of Republican lawmakers at a baseball field in Virginia. And do you know what that incident taught us? What it suggested about the Democratic Party? What it demanded of our political culture?
Nothing, that’s what. What happened in that case was the fault of the gunman, and the gunman alone. The United States is an enormous, diverse, rambunctious country, with a constitutional order that allows for vibrant civic debate, and to demand that the participants in that debate silence themselves because, somewhere out there, a madman may lie in wait, is to neuter free expression in the name of saving it. Once upon a time, American journalists understood that. Today, too many of them stand in line with the rest of the cynics and the poltroons, warning that it’s a bad idea to pick a fight with a man who buys red ink by the barrel.“
Journalists deal in facts, columnists offer opinions; Progressives would have you believe the MSM offers the former in both forums, when in reality it’s the latter…and inexpert opinions at that.
Moving on, here’s a sextet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
<1% of people woke up wondering what hockey thought of transgenders.And yet major U.S. brands continue to virtue signal to a minuscule percent of the country on LGBTQ & race-related topics.
While the majority country finds these messages unnecessary and annoying grandstanding. https://t.co/aJ11LJJOVJ
“Legendary Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer took issue with how LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne was earning big bucks in name, image and likeness (NIL) sponsorships. Dunne, a junior going into the 2023 season, has one of the largest social media followings of any collegiate athlete across any sport male or female. She reportedly earns around $2 million with various sponsorships such as the activewear brand Vuori, American Eagle and Planet Fuel. Dunne is also signed to one of the biggest agencies in WME Sports.
…VanDerveer, a staunch supporter of women’s rights who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, said she saw the trend as a “step back” for female athletes.
…Dunne told the paper she is proud of what she has been able to accomplish with the floodgates opening for NIL deals. “Seven figures,” she said. “That is something I’m proud of. Especially since I’m a woman in college sports. There are no professional leagues for most women’s sports after college.”…”
Sounds to us like sour grapes…from a wrinkled old prune!
Magoo
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