Not a problem of a moving target, Democrats are basically shooting at anything hoping to hit something. //
Joe and Jill showing up in person to vote flies directly against the months spent by Democrats declaring this practice is far too dangerous for anyone to engage in, during the command that mail-in voting is a required variable this election.
That Joe, who the campaign loves to have remaining ensconced in his home, did not make a video filling out a ballot from the safety of his coffee table, but went physically to cast a vote, completely dismantles the entire Democrat mail-in-vote narrative. If the 77 year old in the Covid prime risk category can safely vote this is no longer an issue. The Trump campaign should be pushing this video on a regular loop now,
Losing twice to Trump would be bad. An outright breakdown of American democracy would be much worse. //
threats to America's democratic order really do come from both parties — from the Republican president Democrats loathe and fear, but also from the Democrats themselves, who might well be driven by political anger, disgust, and frustration to lash out against the rules that have governed American presidential elections for more than 200 years.
Doing so would be incredibly foolish. //
So a loss would be incredibly painful for the party. But would it be illegitimate? Evidence that the system is rigged against the Democrats? Justification for going outside the system by refusing to concede? No. What it would be justification for is starting a movement to abolish the Electoral College or institute a work-around to ensure that the candidate who wins the popular vote receives the requisite electoral votes to win the presidency. I support all of that. But strongly favoring those reforms is quite different than saying that in the meantime Democrats get to reject the outcome of elections when the rules they've accepted for more than two centuries deliver results they don't like.
The Democrats' problems are contingent, not systematic. //
In 2016, the problem was different. Now the Democrats ran up the popular vote with lopsided victories in a handful of very liberal high-population states while falling just short of carrying a handful of more culturally conservative states in the rust belt and upper Midwest. If Trump manages to win in 2020, it will likely happen in the same way. //
If the Democrats had reason to believe that this scenario would automatically be repeated forevermore, they would be justified in rejecting the country's electoral system on the grounds of systematic bias against them. But we all know this isn't the reality. As recently as 2008 and 2012, when the party was led by a broadly popular candidate who motivated all of its many disparate factions to show up on Election Day, the rules worked just fine, delivering solid (and in 2008, resounding) victories in the Electoral College. //
This points toward a way for the party to improve its likelihood of winning — by trading some of those wasted votes for votes it needs far more in other (more culturally conservative) regions of the country. They could do this by soft-peddling positions on the left side of the culture-war, finding, for example, 21st-century equivalents to Bill Clinton's pledge to make abortion "safe, legal, and rare." That is a winning path forward for the Democrats within the current system.
He's telling you what he's going to do. Believe him.
It's hard to look at the Biden campaign and not see a Potemkin Village... a façade, an artifice that looks like a campaign when viewed from afar, but when examined closely looks more like a ruse.
Last year, 48.4 percent of ActBlue's donations were from "unemployed." //
The numbers are ticking upwards as 2020 continues on, with more than 50 percent of donations coming through ActBlue being gifted by those who are unemployed.
Data from WinRed, the Republican Party's version of ActBlue, the number of unemployed people who made donations to President Donald Trump sat at four percent. This year the number is 5.6 percent
Moore’s repeated accusations — along with those of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party, and the liberal media — that Trump ignored COVID warnings early-on ring hollow. As Breitbart noted, Democrats were too busy “pushing impeachment” while COVID began to spread.
January 11: Chinese state media report the first known death from an illness originating in the Wuhan market.
January 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a vote to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi and House Democrats celebrate the “solemn” occasion with a signing ceremony, using commemorative pens. That same day, the first person with coronavirus in the United States arrives from China, where he had been in Wuhan.
January 21: The first American case of coronavirus is confirmed at a clinic in Snohomish County, Washington.
January 23: The House impeachment managers make their opening arguments for removing President Trump.
January 23: China closes off the city of Wuhan completely to slow the spread of coronavirus to the rest of China.
January 27: The White House convenes a special task force to deal with the emerging threat of coronavirus.
January 29: The president chairs a meeting of the White House coronavirus task force for the first time.
January 30: Senators begin asking two days of questions of both sides in the president’s impeachment trial.
January 30: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency as coronavirus continues to spread.
January 31: The Senate holds a vote on whether to allow further witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial.
January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel to and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump’s decision “hysterical xenophobia … and fear-mongering.” //
Facts are stubborn things, as President John Adams famously said. Actually, Adams’s full quote is even more applicable to the Left:
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
He was only about 14 years off on this one. //
Undercover Huber
@JohnWHuber
Joe Biden told Jake Tapper that it’s Trump’s fault that North Korea is “closer to a nuclear weapon than before.”
North Korea has had nuclear weapons since 2006 and exploded 3-4 bombs in 2009, 2013 and 2016, ALL WHILE BIDEN WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT FFS
Joe Biden's National Press Secretary T.J. Ducklo repeatedly refused to answer simple, yes or no questions on Fox News's 'Special Report.'
You would think Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would be circumspect about rooting against a vaccine that the nation and the world desperately need. //
By adding partisan politics to the potent mix of paranoia and myths that have made the anti-vaxxer movement impervious to scientists’ arguments, Democrats may have already done real damage to a post-vaccine pandemic recovery. A Gallup poll conducted in August indicates 35 percent of Americans won’t take a COVID vaccine if it were available. //
what Biden and Harris fail to understand is that resistance to vaccines won’t disappear if they are in charge. The impact of the anti-vaxxer movement will be strengthened by attacks from the Democrats. Indeed, it’s likely that the already troubling resistance to such measures on the right will grow if it is Biden rather than Trump who will be asking conservatives to get vaccinated.
Democrats love to claim to be “the party of science!” but it is they who are acting like science deniers. By undermining faith in a vaccine for COVID-19, they lay further groundwork for a movement that may have already grown strong enough to destroy any hope that a vaccine will end the COVID nightmare.
White guilt is the root of a lot of the trouble you see on TV. //
The Daily Wire recently had on Candace Owens who addressed this very idea:
Systemic racism “is not at all an obstacle to black Americans today,” Owens said. “There is no systemic racism. There is no law. There is nothing that says I cannot do something as a black person that you can do, so it’s completely false. What we’re really talking about is the fact that people want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility, and we’re being helped.
“If there is anything that is systemic in America today, it is white guilt. It’s been institutionalized, it’s been politicized, politicians [and] white people feeling bad for themselves and therefore allowing people – allowing black people and white people alike – you know, Antifa and Black Lives Matter to run around and act like toddlers, right?” Owens continued. “There is an emotional immaturity that is happening in black America, and it is spawned by the education system which shapes you from the time you are in kindergarten to believe that because you are black, you can’t in America. When you keep telling a child over and over again they can’t because-, they won’t, right? They will begin to believe in their own futility.” //
The same values and habits that make white people the majority of the middle class are the same that any race can take advantage of. The difference comes from a culture that the black community was pushed into with programs that encourage the dissolution of the nuclear family unit and reliance on welfare. //
The same values and habits that make white people the majority of the middle class are the same that any race can take advantage of. The difference comes from a culture that the black community was pushed into with programs that encourage the dissolution of the nuclear family unit and reliance on welfare.
"Specifically, a war on the freedom to earn a living outside of an employer/employee relationship." //
Hopefully, Joe Biden was reading Rowe’s words. Biden spent Labor Day endorsing the PRO Act, which would take AB5 nationwide and repeal all state-based right-to-work laws, and promising to sign it into law if he wins the election.
Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
The last time voters elected a Republican mayor:
Seattle - 1964
Minneapolis - 1957
Portland - 1952
Chicago - 1927
Washington, D.C. - NEVER
But Democrats want to blame President Trump for crime in these cities?
She's not the only one...
Nate Silver says Biden needs to win 5% of the popular vote to consider the Electoral College safe.
This is nuts... //
Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Uhhhhh this committee wants to "remove, relocate, or contextualize" the WASHINGTON MONUMENT
Post Local
@postlocal
D.C. committee recommends stripping the names of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key and others from city government buildings https://wapo.st/31KyUEe
JERRY DUNLEAVY
@JerryDunleavy
The DC Faces Group tasked by DC’s mayor (@MayorBowser) said she should use her position on the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission to push for the federal govt to “remove, relocate, or contextualize” the Washington Monument & Jefferson Memorial.
For decades, Democrats have been feeding a beast they’ve kept chained up and released whenever their opponents became too difficult to overcome.
That beast is the cult of social justice. You’ll find these cult members screaming things heading up Black Lives Matter rallies today, screaming about injustice, white oppression, and police brutality while brutalizing innocent people, being as racist as they possibly can, and committing injustices with reckless abandon. //
I hate to say this but I can’t help but think this is the only way Democrats will learn anything. Until they are directly affected by the policies and decisions they make, they will never see the harm and chaos they created.
I’m glad that the best is now feeding on the very masters who taught it to consume everything.
Vote for me or the nation gets it. //
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?
11:32 AM · Aug 31, 2020
That’s quite the pitch, isn’t it? Saying elect me or my friends will continue to rough you up isn’t what you’d normally expect a presidential candidate to go with, but here we are. //
Dan Crenshaw
@DanCrenshawTX
US House candidate, TX-2
They’ve encouraged the violence. Then they tell you to vote for them so it will stop.
It is the ultimate hostage crisis.
They thought we would fall for it.
But we won’t.
VOTE IN NOVEMBER.
Earlier Red State contributor Nick Armana reported on Letter signed by six Minnesota Mayors — Democrats all — formally endorsing Donald Trump’s candidacy for re-election. The implications of this letter owe not just to the traditional political allegiances of the Mayors who signed, but to the nature of the Democrat party |
It was suspected there was a reason the former backers of the protest violence began a new narrative. //
The cheerleaders suddenly are waving for the crowds to disperse, and now they are pleading for Kamala Harris and her running mate to adopt the very opposition language that has been labeled as ”racist’’ all summer long.
This is such a revealing moment. For tortuous months anyone calling to curtail violence, destruction, attacks on police, and the threats to communities were deemed intolerant. Only now, when it looks bad for the prospects of Democrats, do the sophisticates in the press consider rioting to be condemnable. When it was politically expedient the burning of cities and violence visited on citizens was an acceptable result.
Here's a run-down of the items Democrats want to pretend never happened by ignoring them during convention season. //
Josh Rogin
@joshrogin
Two national conventions, no mention of the fact the president running for re-election was impeached. Dems didn’t bring it up. GOP didn’t bring it up. Discuss.
Sean Davis
·
Aug 27, 2020
RNC speakers repeatedly mocked the Democrats' ridiculous impeachment attempts. Rep. Elise Stefanik talked about it during prime-time last night.
What's noteworthy is that Democrats were apparently too embarrassed by their failures to mention it.