Fox News has a sweepstakes where the winner gets to go to the first republican debate. The loser gets to go to both the first debate and the second one.
Who does a social influencer influence?
The Oracle-Who-Names Things and Stuff somehow got the republicans to allow their states to be labelled “red” even though historically red meant leftish, socialist and communist. Remember “Better dead than red”? Now that has an altogether different meaning.
I don’t use the term “cisgender” or made up pronouns. I also won’t refer to an individual as “they.”
But then, I don’t use the term “African American” either. Recall that once I was reviewing a paper for an academic journal in an area where I am widely published. I looked at the citations and found that three of my articles were attributed to a Harold African-American. I kid you not.
I am not a soccer fan. I did not watch any of the women’s world cup but it is rare when I don’t want the US teams to do well. This world cup was an exception when the US women refused to sing the national anthem before its match with Viet Nam and only a few players put their hands over their hearts. Then a majority of the team chose not to do either before their match with Sweden. The most famous member of the team Megan Rapinoe once knelt during the anthem and said that she would never sing it again. Then as the fates would have it, during the game with Sweden, Rapinoe’s missed penalty kick led to the US loss.
Rapinoe had also chided parents for not wanting their girls to play volleyball against a girl’s team with a biological boy by saying “I’m sorry but your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important.” Amazingly she said that she doesn’t believe that boys have an advantage in girl’s sports. But didn’t an under-15 boy’s club team FC Dallas once beat the US women’s national team 5-2 in a scrimmage?
Fitch has downgraded long term US bonds. What some “experts” are saying is that this implies that the US will be less able to repay its debts in the long run. Of course that is nonsense since the US has the power of the printing press. What it actually means to the markets is that the congress and the presidency have no will to curtail spending and to address the problem of runaway national debt. This means less growth, more inflation and although long term bonds will be paid back, they will be paid back in inflated dollars devaluing their worth. So caveat emptor.
The democrats keep saying that no one is above the law – except Joe and Hunter Biden.
The democrats insist that the republicans have presented no proof of the allegations about the Bidens. I guess Hunter’s laptop doesn’t qualify and all the testimony from former associates and IRS whistleblowers is merely hearsay. I guess the republicans have to give them a fake dossier.
It’s hard to do but the democrats are trying to turn Trump into a sympathetic figure. I am sure there is a difference between Trump’s classified documents and Biden’s or Hillary’s for that matter. But what is sad is seeing two sets of laws being applied in this country.
I have written before that I thought the democrats’ strategy was to get Trump the republican nomination by riling up his base through the raids, charges and indictments. Trump would suck all the air out of the room leaving no space for the other candidates. I am certain that the democrats have gotten all the pollsters to rig their polling to show that Trump has an unsurmountable lead to discourage the supporters of the other candidates from donating money and going to the polls to vote.
The latest indictment by the Department of “Justice” is part of the democrats’ strategy to get Trump nominated. It is going for a two-fer. First, Trump will be tried in a DC court where he has zero chance of getting an impartial judge and receiving a fair trial. Then the democrats’ want the conviction to be appealed to the Supreme Court where they know it will be overturned. This is the democrats’ dream because it will give them another opportunity to bash the Supreme Court as ruling against the will of the people and being a “threat to democracy”. Pack the Court!
Trump was indicted for trying to overturn the election. Didn’t the democrats try to do the same thing when John Kerry lost?
I am no fan of Trump. He combines the worse traits of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. He has questionable morals, an insufferable bombastic ego and governed badly. Perhaps the best thing he ever did was defeating Hillary Clinton. It would be ironic if that turned out to be the second best thing. He is certainly not presidential. I don’t understand why he tweets. When Nancy Pelosi remarked that he looked “like a scared puppy” at his latest indictment, he tweeted (or whatever it is now called) that he was not scared and that “She is a Wicked Witch whose husbands journey from hell starts and finishes with her. She is a sick and demented psycho who will someday live in HELL?” Now doesn’t that sound presidential?
A dear friend of mine said “OMG! Don’t tell me I’m going to be forced to vote for Trump!”
A Trump presidency will be a journey through hell for the country. He will use the Department of “Justice” to go after the Bidens. Of course, Hunter is not in jail only because of his last name. But Trump will seek to take Joe down as well. Trump is vindictive and you can bet that anyone associated with Biden will be harassed and persecuted just like what has happened to Trump and his allies. It will be payback time and the nation will suffer.
The first Trump term was bad enough with the “repeal and replace” Obamacare fiasco and the punitive use of tariffs against our allies, but it was not as bad as what we have suffered through with the Bidens. For all of Trump’s faults, he did not deliberately try to destroy the country. However, I can guarantee that whoever wins, the next four years will be hell. A Biden second term will mean a continuation of policies intended to destroy the republic (change the electoral college, pack the Supreme Court, weaken the First and Second Amendments, more woke, more CRT, failing schools, more climate regulations, higher energy prices, more outrageous spending, judicial appointees who are ignorant of the Constitution, more inflation, more dependency on China for climate related stuff and heavy metals for EV batteries). Did I leave anything out?
BTW did you know that China has withdrawn from the Paris Accord?
One of Biden’s lies was that he was going to bring the country together when elected. He has done the opposite. We have never been farther apart as a country. On every major issue most democrats feel one way and republicans feel the other. One of my closest friends is a card carrying “progressive”. I told him that if he and I could not find common ground then there was little hope for the country. He actually is gleeful about the Trump indictment. He should be sad for what it forebodes for the country.
A victory by either will push parts of the country toward serious discussion of succession.
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