If only the US could afford to use paper and pens instead of machines, it would all have been finished. Welcome to Dystopia-World, where the real battle is the struggle to get legal votes counted in the richest nation on Earth. The Arizona slow-roll debacle should have the people in the streets…
Meanwhile, the Democrats don’t want to face Donald Trump again, but they are not the only ones. “The list of people lining up against Trump right now is simply an indicator of how large of a threat he remains to the globalist elite.” says Jenna Ellis.
Steven Mosher makes the case that it’s not Trump but the McLeadership of the Republicans who are to blame for any midterm results. Most of the Senate and House Republican campaigns were not run by Trump, but by the McLeaders — Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Ronna Romney McDaniel
Speaking of McConnell, there are shipping-lanes of connections between Mitch McConnell and China. Just in case anyone has forgotten what a deep swamp the core of US politics is, ponder that there is also one foreign communist government that would be especially happy if Trump doesn’t run in 2024. How much influence does it have over media moguls, tech giants and Mitch McConnell?
Steven Mosher, LifeSiteNews
GOP McLeadership – McConnell, McCarthy, McDaniel – failed the party, not Trump
As the former president himself noted, smiling broadly, “I deserve full credit for every win, and no blame for any loss.” The mainstream media mocked him for saying this, but it is in fact true. Consider all the ways in which President Trump helped over the past 18 months to get Republican candidates over the finish line:
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- Endorsed over 330 candidates this election cycle.
- Hosted 30 rallies across 17 states.
- Hosted 50 in-person fundraisers in support of candidates up for re-election.
- Raised nearly $350 million this election cycle for Republican candidates and Party Committees.
- Spent $16.4 million from his Make America Great Again PAC over the past month in support of Blake Masters in Arizona, Herschel Walker in Georgia, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania, J.D. Vance in Ohio, and Adam Laxalt in Nevada.
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That was what Trump did. This is what the McLeaders did:
Republican senatorial candidates in battleground states were often outspent five- or 10-to-1 by their Democrat opponents this election cycle. The disparities are staggering:
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- New Hampshire: Republican Don Bolduc $2m versus Democrat Hassan $36m
- Arizona: Republican Blake Masters $9m versus Democrat Kelly $73m
- Georgia: Republican Herschel Walker $32m versus Democrat Warnock $76m
- Nevada: Republican Paul Laxalt 12m versus Democrat Cortes $47m
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A bit like sabotage…
But McConnell has not only failed to support Republican candidates in key Senate races, he has actively worked against them. The clearest evidence of betrayal comes from Alaska, where the local Republican Party in 2021 censured Senator Lisa Murkowski and instead endorsed Kelly Tsibaka as their candidate.
But it gets worse. In the closing months of the campaign, McConnell took money previously committed to the campaigns of Masters and Bolduc and sent some to his hand-picked Senate candidate in Colorado, Joe O’Dea. That is to say, he sacrificed two MAGA candidates in close races to a self-declared Anti-Trump Republican Establishment candidate who had no chance of winning.
Democrats prefer to face DeSantis rather than Trump in 2024
Ron was, far and away, the best funded of the Republican candidates. He raised some $200 million, with almost all coming in the form of large donations from the Republican establishment and Wall Street, far more than he needed for the governor’s race. He was further helped by the fact that the Democrats pulled a “McConnell” in the months before the election, pulling out their funding and effectively bankrupting the campaigns of their own candidates for governor and senator.
With its virtual celebration of DeSantis’ victory, the Left has made clear that it would much rather face DeSantis in 2024 than Donald Trump. The left-wing propaganda outfit formerly known as The New York Times, for example, has declared that the Florida governor is now the front-runner in 2024.
Trump is the big threat to the Uniparty rule
All this below about Mitch McConnell’s connection to China is legal, publicly available information, but that in itself, shocked me more than the naked potential conflict of interest did. I wrote this in Jan 5th 2021 — just the day before the armless “insurrection” on Capitol Hill, a credit to Peter Schweizer’s research. If McConnell wasn’t liked by the media, every time he talked about Trump or China they would introduce him as the Senator who married into a Chinese Shipping Magnates family…
Mitch McConnell’s rich connection with China
by Jo Nova, Jan 2021
Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao
Mitch McConnell is a powerbroker of the US Senate, but he’s also a guy whose in-laws own a major shipping company that buys container ships from a Chinese Government company. The in-laws make money from carrying goods back and forward in deals with Chinese State Owned companies.
McConnell’s wife is a Chinese-American and also happens to be The Transportation Secretary of the US Government (or was when this was written!). Since Elaine Chao took up that job four years earlier, her fathers company has expanded rapidly and has added 40 percent more ships. Her father, James Chao, is a shipping magnate that gave his daughter and her husband McConnell a gift of at least $5 million in 2008. That’s the conservative estimate — it might have been worth as much as $25 million dollars. (Nice in-laws if you can get them.) The largess was legally disclosed. The net worth of the political couple went from $3m in 2004 to something between $9 and $36m by 2018.
The Chinese Ship building company is called CSSC Holdings. McConnell’s wife’s family is so close to it that both her father and her sister sit on the Board of the financial arm of this Chinese company they buy boats from. It’s odd, stacked on weird, wrapped up in long explanations. CSSC is not just a boat building company, it’s the Chinese government’s military contractor. Indeed, the letters CSSC stand for the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. Get it?
In another odd coincidence, just ten days after Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Elaine Chao’s sister Angela was appointed to another board of Directors — the Communist Chinese government’s Bank of China.
McConnells wife Elaine Chao and her father-the-shipping-magnate are lauded in China and do interviews on Chinese TV in Chinese. They are promoted as “lifting the status of Asian-Americans in America” often with little Dept of Transport flags in the background. This probably doesn’t do any harm to James Chao’s business.
Perhaps the oddest thing of all is that all this information came out in 2018. That’s when Peter Schweizer’s best selling book was published and the news was shared in Politico the Wall St Journal, and Breitbart among other places. Yet, Mitch McConnell is still the man elected …
Worth watching: Raheem Kassam talks to Jenna Ellis
Kassam is editor of the National Pulse, worked within UKIP, and was adviser to Nigel Farage. Jenna Ellis was on Trump’s legal team. They talk about the Trump versus DeSantis stoush and the dark role of the media.
US Flag photo adapted from Wikimedia: Image Clément Bardot
The Deep State and Establishment are entrenched deeper than anyone, including Trump, could possibly have imagined.
The Swamp needs draining now more than ever!
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Yes the swamp needs drawing but the problem is how?
The election process is damaged and the electoral officials just create the result they want. The courts will not intervene and the military won’t act.
In Brazil we might see a military intervention to correct their recent election result but I am not holding my breath.
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If the US people can’t work out how to have an honest election, can’t get a wise and just judiciary, can’t have proper investigations into corruption, can’t jail serious or even lesser criminals, refuses to secure the borders, believes everything on legacy and social(ist) media, believes in the covid “vaccine” and anthropogenic global warming frauds and a large proportion of voters only vote for “free stuff”, then the US has already fallen, and so goes the rest of the West with her.
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I’ll say it for about the fifth time, it’ll take more than 6 x Donald Trumps to drain that swamp! It’s too late mate, the USA will never recover now! It all downhill from now on.
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Your are FOS. Are you paid by the word to spew this crap?
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You say this while standing knee deep in the swampy muck?
The only way to end this problem is have a new “Tea Party” base that drives people out to vote for candidates that actually server their human constituents of their representation a concept that used to be well understood and commonly applied now they elect the wrong people to serve the growing power of the Oligarchy base and some of that serves people and nations outside of America.
Many voters base their votes emotionally which served the leftists in Washington D.C.
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So many of the people in America are just like the rest of us ….. just want to be left alone to work, rest, play and pray. They don’t have time or the energy to deal with all the sheyet.
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It seems the Long Slow March is bearing fruit.
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Original Ben Garrison “Drain the Swamp” cartoon/meme.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1189513-drain-the-swamp
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What election?
There were some appointments made, along with a show of some kind, that’s all.
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I believe Trump signed the insurrection act before he left office, which puts the military in charge. If Biden was really in charge, Trump and his family/supports wold be dead or in jail. But Trump is free to travel around the country and hold rally’s. Think about that…
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Like it or not trump alienates More in his party than the fanatical 30% or so that will support him through thick and thin. For sure he alienates most democrats and also those with no political allegiance.
Des santis is young, very much in trumps mould and is on the crest of a wave. He has his opponents of course but at this stage in his career is not disliked by more people than like him.
I don’t know about the national appeal of des santis but suspect that would need to be built up.
So who is more likely to win the presidency in 2024.? On the one hand you will have the stop trump at any cost faction, a large and powerful group. On the other a large bunch of people who want to see a republican back in power and many more who are happy to vote for someone who has fresh ideas. Surely that will be des santis or perhaps some other candidate whose name does not begin with T
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TonyB is correct: “Like it or not trump alienates More in his party than the fanatical 30% or so that will support him through thick and thin. For sure he alienates most democrats and also those with no political allegiance.” Although I am unsure of the recent percentages of each group. It is clear Trump catalyzed Democratic reactions.
Republicans big failure was to have solutions ready for Biden’s caused problems, and pushing too many fringe candidates. They also failed to spend their election treasure chests, especially Trump, because they were complacent over a big win.
As for 2024 chances go, DeSantis is a big winner and Trump a moderate loser at this point.
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I’m a big Trump fan. But it is time for him to back deSantis who is clearly not of the swamp, and has a better chance of bringing all Republicans and some Democrats with him. Trump and DeSantis would really lead to a red wave. Trump alone might scrape in but probably not.
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Agreed, a de santis / trump ticket would be a real winner.
‘Republican strategist John Jordan says Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the “future of the Republican Party”, and former US Donald Trump is “in for a fight” if he decides to run in the 2024 election.
“Ron DeSantis is a beloved figure in the Republican Party and among conservatives,” he told Sky News Australia.
“They didn’t take kindly to it when president Trump went after him and called him Ron Desanctimonious.”
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Likely not. Consider that both are now from Florida. Except for Harris (strange choice) the candidate for VP is usually from a state that is questionable for the presidential candidate. Ronald Reagan’s VP choice was George Bush Sr. – with connections to the NE and Texas. Clinton was from the mid-south with Gore from the NE.
One has to win at the State level – not the total National vote. The USA is not a Democracy.
Besides, Trump would find it hard to be vice president. That’s not his style.
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Sorry, I wasn’t suggesting Trump run for VP. I was suggesting he ‘back’ DeSantis as the Republican candidate. Trump will be a 78 year old, old man. The nature of the US electorate and the voting system is that if Trump couldn’t beat the worst candidate ever in 2020 he’s not going to beat anyone now that the Dems have had 4 years to further bed in their voting swamp.
With Trump running, the Dems only have to scam about 3-4 state’s vote counting. With DeSantis running (with Trump’s backing) more states will be in play. Dems will struggle to cheat everywhere.
Note: There are Republicans who won’t vote for Trump (there are Republican politicians who would rather have the Dems in power than Trump).
It doesn’t matter how many Trump endorsees won. The republicans only had to win 3 competitions that really count – Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada in the Senate. It looks like they’ll end up 0-3 in the ones that really mattered. That’s worse than 2020 after 2 years of the Biden debacle.
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Harves, a fine analysis: “The republicans only had to win 3 competitions that really count – Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada in the Senate. It looks like they’ll end up 0-3 in the ones that really mattered. That’s worse than 2020 after 2 years of the Biden debacle.” Although not on the ballot, Trump was a negative factor in the election.
Even though winning the Senate was a stretch even in a wave election.
Some how I think Trump will ignore the message from this election. I’m not so sure his supporters funding him will also ignore that message. I think his ground support is and will be diminished. No matter what he announces Tuesday.
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You can’t win rigged elections. There was a red wave 2020 and 2022 but who holds power???
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NO CoRev, TonyB. They hate what the propaganda media conveys about Trump. They often don’t know that their image of Trump isn’t The Man.
And here is where and when this can be debated among neighbours and stranger and have the more naive Independent voter come around by the weight of opinion rejecting their Siren Songs and lies and heaped abuse on the man — through the long US primary process, which lasts an incredible span of almost one year.
I also didn’t like Trump. My neighbor immediately did, when he declared himself in June 2015.
But when, for instance, economist Steven Moore who campaigned with Trump and later sat in the Oval Office in the White House told people in person or on Fox News is that the sane man you see speaking at his rallies is the same man he sees in the WH, I take him seriously: Trump is a good listener, sensitive, acutely perceptive, driven, but nice — far from the ogre or dunce the media claims.
Overstock founder Patrick Byrnes declared the same observations as Moore, over months after the 2020 election.
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No, DeSantis is BS- deep state. Look at his funding, $200 million from globalists, while Trump is mostly funded by mainstream Americans at $100-$220 per donation.
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De Santis is a”Never Trumper”He’s sided with the RINO”s and had a meeting with Paul Ryan etc.The DemocRATS know this and are going to use it to divide MAGA.
See theconservativetreehouse.com
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DeSantis 2024? Think Again.
It should be clear by this time that popularity has nothing to do with electability. Trump filled rally after rally in state after state with countless, full-house, full-stadium crowds, and such numbers do not lie. There really was a red wave in the midterms, but it was macro-engineered to a trickle, as should have been expected. The scam of “malfunctioning” voting machines, the shortage of paper ballots, the tsunami of mail-in and late ballots, the temporary closing and slow-downs of polling stations, and so on would have been sufficient to determine an electoral result. 2020 was an early run for 2022, which in turn should be regarded as a template for 2024.
I am absolutely sure that the Dems are now, even as we speak, preparing favorable ground for the next presidential election. As Stalin is reputed to have said, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” To make Trump responsible for Democrat malfeasance is wholly misguided.
DeSantis is now the favorite among many Republican voters and almost all conservative commentators for the Party presidential nomination. Such passionate advocates seem to have missed two essential points:
. In a rigged electoral system, no Republican candidate, not even DeSantis, can be expected to win a national election. DeSantis cruised to victory in Florida because, as governor of the state, he had the means and the authority to ensure a clean election. But he would be helpless against a massive crime organization, aka the Democrat Party, which effectively controls the electoral infrastructure, the physical apparatus, the paid loyalty of election workers, and the federal agencies that oversee the process.
If the system is not repaired and made answerable to the people, there will never be a Republican president again.
. Should DeSantis run in 2024 and lose — which is increasingly likely in the current adulterated circumstances — the sequel would be devastating. Florida would be at the mercy of the next gubernatorial race since DeSantis is a unique political figure and could not be readily replaced. Additionally, DeSantis himself would have become a kind of displaced person, neither an American president nor a state governor. An invaluable political talent would have been sacrificed to the untutored enthusiasm of his supporters.
If the American republican experiment is now in dire straits, it would then be expeditiously destroyed. A slim hope will have become an utter disaster.
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Democrats have mastered mail balloting. Republicans will pay if they fail to step up
by Salena Zito, National Political Reporter
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Yep they’re going to have to go for %150 voter turn out.
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“DeSantis is now the favorite among many Republican voters ….” That is according to the media class and the DC beltway crowd.
The reason they want De Santis is because they will be able to CONTROL him. They know they cannot control Trump because he is independently wealthy, has some backbone and personal ethics. But above all Trump actually loves his country and its people.
All the others just love themselves and their own bank accounts.
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Careful with the koolade cup –
“President Trump Fires Back Against Ron DeSantis, Con Inc and Coordinated Narrative Midterm Effort
November 10, 2022 | Sundance | 1,509 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/10/president-trump-fires-back-against-ron-desantis-con-inc-and-coordinated-narrative-midterm-effort/
Note –
“As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ megadonor and Citadel hedge fund billionaire, Ken Griffin, openly admitted recently the Wall Street goals are (1) stop the populist movement and (2) get the Republican Party back in alignment with the multinational “corporate world.” These are the same goals of the Republican leadership in Washington DC and the same goals as the corporate media who serve as the public relations firms for Wall Street.”
(My bold to the on site link there to more on that)
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A reminder – remember how “The Golden Rule” works in practice
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And in that general area –
“Cascading Trouble for FTX Crypto Exchange Leads to Inquiries of Campaign Donations to Democrats and Regulators
November 12, 2022 | sundance | 151 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/12/cascading-trouble-for-ftx-crypto-exchange-leads-to-inquiries-of-campaign-donations-to-democrats-and-regulators/
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The disparity in financing and disparity in media reporting are worth something like 10% swing in elections. I have no idea how the middle class and working class are supposed to compete with billionaires, but at least money doesn’t mean everything in elections.
If you are a Republican or Libertarian, you are a danger to someone’s democracy.
If you think something is fishy about election results, or having the counting go on for a full week, you are a dangerous insurrectionist.
Don’t like corrupt ol’ Joe, then you are probably a supremacist, etc. etc.
And one might expect Biden’s demagoguery to be fact checked by the press, the heroic press, but you’d be wrong there also, you denier you.
We live in a cartoon parody at present.
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Arizona is arguably the single most corrupt state in the nation
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FIX IS IN: Arizona Ballots Make Stop at Runbeck Printing Company to Scan Ballot Envelopes Before They Are Sent to County — WITH NO OBSERVERS
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Where are you going Big Bird?
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/the-week-in-pictures-pink-ripple-edition.php
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Not a bad question mate.
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Media Declaring Democrat Victory in Nevada Senate Race, Amid Significant Disparity Between Governor Race Outcome in Same State
November 12, 2022 – sundance
The media is declaring Democrats have won the Nevada senate race with Catherine Cortez Masto defeating Republican Adam Laxalt. This gives the Senate to the Democrats with 50 seats, Republicans with 49 and the Georgia runoff still outstanding. [Media Report]
Something is very weird about this Nevada outcome, when you compare the Governor race on the same ballot.
With Laxalt previously ahead, and with his previous vote percentage in alignment with Republican Governor Candidate Joe Lombardo, it appeared Laxalt was positioned for victory. However, apparently the Democrats gained post-election ballots where the Democrat on the Senate race was supported, but the Democrat in the Governor race was not.
Democrat Cortez Masto (Sen) surged late in the ballot counting and carried 15,000 more affirming ballots than Democrat Sisolak (Gov). This seems odd and suspicious; however apparently, we are not allowed to notice these things, lest we be considered conspiracy theorists.
It is very rare for a split ballots to surface in a high-profile race where a Republican governor would win, and the Democrat Senator would win. However, the outcome in Arizona and Georgia is of a similar construct amid the ballot trend. Split races in the Governor and Senate outcomes. All very weird.
It wasn’t “democracy on the ballot,” it was something else entirely.
From The Comments
– Folks you are witnessing a down to the bone dog fight.
Don’t start the BS: “I’m never voting again.”
Seriously?
That’s like you’re just going to walk around for the rest of your life with one foot in a bucket of ice-water.
Give me a break and wake up. You are playing in the hands of the Globalists. That’s what they want you to do.
Get over your hurt feelings. Face reality of the election laws that are set-up by Dem’s and RINO’s ripe for cheating….deal with it for the future but for now; let the candidates and their lawyers deal with this recent steal.
You have to get smarter and face reality. You have to see things the way they are and not as we want them to be.
– This is IN YOUR FACE cheating. The Republicans should DEMAND an audit. The margin is close enough to justify at the very least a recount.
– Georgia was far more lopsided and less believable. Abrams and Warnock have the same exact constituency. Yet Abrams lost by 8 or something, and Warnock barely missed 50% on the same ballot. Riiiight.
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The lie of gifting back student loans, an executive order Biden knew was illegal, was enough to swing a small percentage of young voters, the fear persuasion that January 6 was an insurrection was enough to swing a small percentage of voters.
Marginals are swung by small percentages and that is an election.
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Couple that with big tech holding off on massive layoffs until after the election. FOIA the hell out of them and the DNC, the trail is evident.
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No, the false image of Trump created by elite media and the deliberate lies of the Congressional Democrats, the FBI, and DHS … is what alienates.
What?
No one is ‘alienated’ when Biden calls them a “semi-fascists”?
No one is alienated when Hillary when quipped “basket of deplorables”?
No one is alienated when they are asked to discard their ‘whiteness’?
No one is is alienated when Obama declares all they want is to “cling to their Bibles and guns”?
No one is alienated when the have their business burned by BLM and Antifa and then the Democrat elite tells them that it was just the unfortunate result of justified protest?
No one is alienated when January 6 is compared to Pearl Harbor and 911 and May 29 is never mentioned.
Don’t know what May 29 is?
Google it.
Are you joking?
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A lot of people must be seeking or have sought, or obtained favours from Chao.
According to Wikipedia she has 36 honorary doctorates.
I think our ex-PM Gillard has only two, RMIT and University of Adelaide, and the Adelaide one cost the Aussie taxpayers a $100 million “gift” 12 days before she lost the election….
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This Headline sums up the World today
At Climate Summit, Elites Chow Down on Gourmet Meats While Telling Us to Eat Bugs
As Jo points out above America is worse than a 3rd World Country – Afghanistan at least tried the ink finger test
If only the US could afford to use paper and pens instead of machines, it would all have been finished. Welcome to Dystopia-World, where the real battle is the struggle to get legal votes counted in the richest nation on Earth. The Arizona slow-roll debacle should have the people in the streets…
Sundance sums up the GOP Swamp Dwellers in this post
President Trump Fires Back Against Ron DeSantis, Con Inc and Coordinated Narrative Midterm Effort
November 10, 2022 – Sundance
President Trump can see and hear the same things everyone else can see and hear, including the coordinated media and GOPe effort to diminish him and the MAGA movement within the Republican club.
The Democrats and professional Republican class both want to see the populist movement destroyed for the same reason Mitch McConnell wanted the Tea Party destroyed in 2010. The assembly of the united middle-class and blue-collar base inside the Republican Party, essentially the broad MAGA movement, represents a Main Street threat to Wall Street control of the GOPe.
There are trillions at stake.
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ megadonor and Citadel hedge fund billionaire, Ken Griffin, openly admitted recently the Wall Street goals are (1) stop the populist movement and (2) get the Republican Party back in alignment with the multinational “corporate world.” These are the same goals of the Republican leadership in Washington DC and the same goals as the corporate media who serve as the public relations firms for Wall Street.
The collaborative group, which includes the entirety of the funding mechanism and management behind Ron DeSantis, viewed the 2022 midterm election as an opportunity to reset the Republican Party away from the populist MAGA influence. The strategy was to roll out of the August DOJ Mar-a-Lago targeting, directly into a nationally rebranded DeSantis operation and then lead up to the 2022 midterm election.
Anything that can cast Donald Trump as a negative would be enhanced, and anything that would cast the MAGA movement as a positive would be diminished. In part, this is the intent behind the delayed positive election results from key MAGA races in CO, WA, NV and AZ, combined with emphasis on the negative -albeit controlled- election ballot outcomes from Michigan and Pennsylvania.
At the 30,000-foot level the attacks against President Trump are, quite frankly, attacks against the MAGA populist movement represented by President Trump.
The professional political class, both DNC and RNC club members, politicians and donors, want to get back to normal political business operations in Washington DC. The key element at the core of their concern is financial and economic control. Again, there are trillions at stake.
Just like we can see this coordinated effort, so too can President Trump see the construct of the narrative as it is being engineered and delivered. We can see the Paul Ryan wing, the Mitch McConnell wing and the corporate media division all working in concert. The entities described genuinely do not think the larger Republican base can see it, but they underestimate us at their own peril.
Things are never going to return to normal for them, but they refuse to accept that. The most adamant of the professional Republican apparatus, in concert with the multinational financial world, would rather see the GOP lose every election – if that’s what it takes to stop the MAGA movement. They view this as a zero-sum game, and they have planted proactive seeds for exactly this purpose.
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Absolute proof that “climate” is just a new RELIGION….. the “One World” religion as decided/defined by the WEF and UN !
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/12/climate-religion-egypts-mount-sinai-to-receive-climate-justice-ten-commandments-during-un-summit-interfaith-climate-repentance-ceremonies/
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The US Mid Term Elections. And the Winner is…………..The CCP
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Trump terrified them with his drain the swamp mantra and then trying to do just that.
His biggest mistake IMHO was not sending the Paris accord to the Senate – as I understood it required a 60% majority to pass and that was unlikely.
It would have been a major stumbling block for the DemoRat agenda.
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The problem with sending Paris up to the Senate was people like Mitt Romney and other moderates who would have voted with the Dems. Come to think about it’s Luke Warm Republicans and the Never Trumpers who are the greater menace. Back stabbers.
Perhaps looking back 20/20 he should have put it up during the first year, but thoughts were at that time that just pulling out was sufficient. After the 2018 mid terms it was no longer a viable option. There were several agenda items I think they were putting off until the 2nd term, not foreseeing the lengths of how the Swamp would prevent that from happening.
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Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
November 12, 2022 at 8:07 pm
Comment at The Australian:
Reality Check
Trump endorsed 234 candidates and 218 were elected – that’s a 93% success rate.
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Over 60% of young unmarried women voted Democrat.
Say, where did they get their News? Could it be direct from Chinese-run Tik Tok?
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Not quite right.
For 2022,
Trump made 241 endorsements for their ‘primaries’ and had a 93% success rate
Trump made 254 general election endorsements and has an 80% success rate
https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump
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Looks like you trawled three graduates of “modern maths” so far
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I love their table. “Herschel Walker .. won general.” Actually, barely made it to the runoff. The rest I consider equally reliable.
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Looking at the mid terms makes you realise that the swamp completely runs the show and can’t be stopped. The chances of voting machines breaking down only in the red zones of a key state that is run by the Democrats and then having those votes taken away and counted later at a snails pace, producing a blue result, is a sign that the war was over before it started. The close races run blue and they always help the blue team sneak over the line. The Democratic leaders picked by the swamp are probably the biggest clue of all of the swamp’s total power, and as one Twitter user amusingly commented, a Biden / Fetterman ticket for 2024 is a “No Brainer”, but you can probably argue Kamala is right up there in the “No Brainer” category.
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The Swamp keeps Swamping along. According to wiki Chao was born in Taiwan and the family emigrated to USA when she was 8. Also according to wiki:
“During her tenure as Transportation Secretary in the Trump administration, the Transportation Department’s inspector general wrote a report with numerous instances where Chao used her office to promote her family’s shipping business.” Nothing came of this report.
Point of interest it was Trump who nominated her for the Transporation post – could this have been a fulfilled promise to Mitch for him not undermining Trump’s run at president? Certainly as noted in Jo’s article her daddy’s shipping business coincidentally expanded great guns while she just happened to be in her position….
Further evidence of just how inscrutable your CCP is that it is happy to embrace a Taiwan born family (therefore dissidents) who became naturalised (enemy) Americans. The main problem with the west is that we have allowed the mongrel to be bred out of us as no better evidenced by how nice everyone is to everyone no matter how many laws you break (ill egal imm igrants) where you put or what you get cut off/added to your se x organs or even how much of other peoples money you give away to get ahead – David Maddison comment on Gillards $100m gift before having to look for another job – her union dealings should have disqualified her from ever holding office at all).
As they say fight fire with fire so is the appointment was pay off what does that make Trump? Which brings me to the far left field wonderment as to whether Pol Pot maybe was right on the money when he exterminated all the professional (educated?) classes and set out to make his country a safe place for sheeple. Seems brains begets ambition which seems to be the true seedbed/starting point of corruption.
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Demonrats led by braindead Biden.
Direct link to his gobbledegook speech at COP27 below. It’s like he’s running on solar on a cloudy day with flat batteries.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1591318513334988800/pu/vid/720×406/qYPYoPM0Ax6F1erO.mp4
He can’t last to next year, surely.
Then there’s the developing FTX fiasco which looks more like a Demonrat/Ukraine money laundering op.
2023…
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The “leader” of the free world…
Tragic.
Even to read stuff on the autocue or listen to instructions on his earpiece, he needs to have at least a semi-functioning brain which he no longer appears to have.
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And Republicans managed to lose the Senate again. One of winners is John Fetterman, probably as intelligent as Joe Biden.
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Biden mixes up countries again
The US president confused Cambodia with Colombia, while attending a summit in the Asian country
From the Comments
– America was discovered by Cambodius.
– I fear one fine morning Biden instead of punching off his alarm clock off will push on the nuclear button of his football.
– Biden has the intellect of a dung beetle. I’m sure he doesn’t even know where Canada is.
– The 1% elite doesn’t care. If they want a dog to be president so be, as long as the status quo is maintained
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Don’t compare Biden to solar panels – unlike Joe, they can be useful sometimes!
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You have to wonder how much effect the Roe v Wade overturning had on votes after all, women are 51% of the vote and are more reliable at registering and turning out to vote.
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Why?
Men and women have roughly equal attitudes to abortion both in the US and worldwide according to various surveys.
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/20/18629644/abortion-gender-gap-public-opinion
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With Elections Over U.S. Multinationals Begin Announcing Job Cuts
November 12, 2022 – sundance
There was always a strong suspicion the woke corporations were holding back negative employment intentions until after the midterm elections.
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Cascading Trouble for FTX Crypto Exchange Leads to Inquiries of Campaign Donations to Democrats and Regulators
November 12, 2022 – sundance
FTX crypto currency exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is a major donor to multiple progressive causes and politicians. This week as FTX starts to collapse, the financial system underneath the exchange looks more like a Ponzi scheme falling apart.
The CEO had been a major donor to regulators on Capitol Hill, and the tentacles of FTX extend to Ukraine where Sam Bankman-Fried was operating to support the Ukraine government with crypto currency collections and donations. The FTX corporation and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is now under multiple investigations. Here’s the 90-second recap of the current dynamic. WATCH:
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FTX Founder Spent $40 Million As Democrat Midterm Megadonor
Leading up to Sam Bankman-Fried’s spectacular implosion – in which his firm FTX evaporated billions in wealth after the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange allegedly commingled client assets with his trading firm into a liquidity crunch – he became the sixth-largest donor in this year’s midterm election cycle, giving some $40 million to mostly Democratic candidates and causes.
According to Forbes, Bankman-Fried was second only to George Soros among billionaire donors to Democratic groups during the 2022 midterm election cycle.
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Tens of Billions of US Dollars Were Transferred to Ukraine and then Using FTX Crypto Currency the Funds Were Laundered Back to Democrats in US
and
FTX Appears to Be a Political Ponzi Scheme Running Dollars to Politicians and Through Ukraine
By Joe Hoft
Published November 12, 2022 at 1:30pm
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Trump & DeSantis must team up. Either would be a great VP if the other was President.
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I do not think that can happen. The President and VP have to be from different states. I’m not sure if that is just a Republican rule or a Federal rule.
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Just good politics
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Pres and VP can both come from the same state. But usually the party would prefer to pick different states to gain more voters. That’s not an absolute necessity.
No way Trump will VP for DeSantis though. It’s a an Alpha-male thing, plus he is a billionaire who doesn’t have to work if he doesn’t want to.
The thing Trump is exceptionally good at is his ability to negotiate — look at all the foreign policy gains and the lack of wars. North Korea were talking to South Korea. Israel signs deal with UAE.
Trump is the biggest threat to CCP power and trade deals there is.
He was also a major problem for the Military Industrial Complex, and the power of the Tech Giants.
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Almost all true as far as it goes, Jo, and worthy of an uptick, but Trump did back down to the MIC on one big issue. During the election campaign he strongly suggested scrapping the problem riddled F35 in favour of the new FA18 Advanced Super Hornet.
However, after the election it was brought home to him the political implications given that Lockheed Martin had construction of the F35 spread across fourteen swing states, so he reluctantly backed down.
I think Trump learned to play poker from Kenny Rogers.
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De Santis has already been bought
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Does it come from the RT channel? I voted for Trump twice, but in the last two years he totally disqualified himself.
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More the way they reported him than what he himself did
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Liz Cheney should run and clash with Donald, for the sake of the Party.
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Desantis is a deep state scumbag, look at his backers.
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I think you are all discounting how popular the Democrats are. Why the Democrats are so popular even the dead rise up to vote for them!
The first step is to go back to having one election day. Maybe even support the Bernie Sanders idea of making election day a federal holiday, then there is no excuse for the vast majority of people not to physically show up at polling stations. Then end the mail-in balloting and the mass mailing out of mail-in ballots, though that is a state decision; unfortunately too many state Secretaries of State, and state Attorney Generals, are Democrats even in Republican states, but often they used the excuse of COVID to unilaterally change the voting rules even though that is not their right, that is the responsibility of the individual state legislatures to make any voting rule changes.
That is presumably which such huge sums of money are thrown at these state election positions by funding PAC’s and other organizations, usually far more than for individual state representatives.
Mail-in balloting should only be for the military, those who are working outside of the country and the ill and infirm.
Next each state needs to end ballot “harvesting” where third party organizations can pick up and handle ballots, often pressuring people such as seniors to give them their ballots and who to vote for (if not illegally filling them out for the persons themselves), which also means there is no official chain of custody, to make sure some ballots aren’t “accidentally lost”. Of course Democrat state politicians will mostly not support these measures.
And no I am not an American, I am a Canadian who lives in Canada, though that also means I live in North America. 🙂
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Arizona’s Elections Will Be Much Worse Next Time Around
https://www.frontpagemag.com/arizonas-elections-will-be-much-worse-next-time-around/
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The US is in danger of becoming a failed state.
‘This year’s poll marks new lows in confidence for all three branches of the federal government — the Supreme Court (25%), the presidency (23%) and Congress. Five other institutions are at their lowest points in at least three decades of measurement, including the church or organized religion (31%), newspapers (16%), the criminal justice system (14%), big business (14%) and the police.
‘Confidence in large technology companies is also at a low point (26%) but has only been measured the past three years. (Gallup Poll)
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Ron deSantis may have swamp money for his national aspirations, but his Florida status and power base is based on a record and this base is growing both through in-migration, and through traditional southern Democrats who were abandoned in this campaign by the national party, and have long been ideological refugees. He is term limited now in four years. If, after this next two, being in the senate as a GOP member is guaranteed minority status, and he has further political ambitions, the presidency this next time is it.
DeSantis does not have to run against Trump.
He can run against Biden, Pelosi, and Shumer; Newsome, Hochul, and Pritzker; and his record of competent governance as compared to theirs.
Trump has a record too, but likely will run in the primary under the assumption that his base is a majority of primary voters.
His narcissim and the risk he can’t win the general likely mean he’s passed his sell-by date, age will also be an issue and he has not the grace of Reagan in handling it. He may have ongoing legal proceedings.
The engineering problem for the GOP is simple: you need Donald to realize he’ll lose, withdraw gracefully, and endorse DeSantis but participate in the campaign in a limited way to make possible a fraud proof majority.
As in the Arabian Nights, Maybe the Horse will sing.
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I don’t think there is such a thing as a Fraud Proof Majority. Not if the Swamp controls the media and the counting, the judiciary and the electronic machine algorithms. No matter if 90% of Americans vote one way, the election can still be called razor close and Dems can just barely win with 50.5% in the critical seats, with tiny control of the House or Senate using a few RINO’s as back up.
The US has to do the hard work from the ground up changing election rules in each state one by one, and cleaning up the education system school by school.
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Almost all true as far as it goes, Jo, and worthy of an uptick, but Trump did back down to the MIC on one big issue. During the election campaign he strongly suggested scrapping the problem riddled F35 in favour of the new FA18 Advanced Super Hornet.
However, after the election it was brought home to him the political implications given that Lockheed Martin had construction of the F35 spread across fourteen swing states, so he reluctantly backed down.
I think Trump learned to play poker from Kenny Rogers.
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Sorry – wrong comment
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Living in Florida under a rose colored sun……
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Elections are tactical, but this takes the cake.
‘Democrats funded Trumpist candidates, hoping their extreme views would swing votes to the Democratic candidate. It paid off this time, but it’s a dangerous tactic,’ (SMH)
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I have just got a copy of “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny” by Edward J. Watts
I am.looking for insight into what’s going on in the West and the US right now.
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That was meant to be a new comment, not a response to el+gordo.
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The SMH writer is not very intelligent, because the facts do not support that rubbish
From OldOzzie above : “Trump endorsed 234 candidates and 218 were elected – that’s a 93% success rate.”
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The Hill publishes a ‘plan’ to make Gavin Newsom president without a vote
Douglas MacKinnon, writing for The Hill, proposed a ‘game plan’ to help the Democrats win the presidency in 2024 by making Gavin Newsom president now.
According to MacKinnon, a writer for Reagan and Bush senior, the plan is quite simple:
If the answer is “yes,” the “solution” is really not complicated at all. In one scenario, Biden could ask Harris to resign and replace her with Newsom, who then becomes the heir apparent for 2024. Or Biden could replace Harris with Newsom and then resign himself, making Newsom the president before 2024 and arming him with the full force of the Oval Office.
Yes, you heard that right. We’ve been getting gaslit for months about the ‘end of democracy’, and this guy wants to completely circumvent the democratic process by replacing the president without an election, solely to increase Democrat chances of maintaining power in 2024. Never Trumpish, former conservatives are something else.
This take was even too much for most people on both sides of the aisle.
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We don’t hear much about Syria these days do we…
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Or “all of Australia is burning” or how the poley bears are vanishing, or how sea levels are rising. Like in the recent Victorian floods, levels were quoted in metres of flood height i.e. 7 metres, 10 metres etc.. Apparently not scary enough, so, measurements suddenly became flood height of 90 metres,……above sea level. Completely meaningless to those in the flood areas but by crikey, gee whiz and oh my god these must be the worst floods EVAH recorded. Still all forgotten now as the floods were last weeks news, hardly a mention on main stream media in the city, those truely affected of course will be suffering for months.
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Well ,actually ” Burning” is till on Amazon Prime TV and features on their top 10 doco list. It’s a doco by Eva Orner financed by Amazon as an original. The photo featured in the blurb portrays the Australian continent with red hot spots all over it. Which means a lot of people from OS are probably watching it and getting the totally wrong impression about bushfires in this country.
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Trump will be announcing his candidacy for 2024 on 11/15, and the s will hit the fan.
Relax, buy popcorn futures and enjoy the show. “It will be biblical”.
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To the US counterparts on this blog, the US election process is really a circus isn’t it? Compared to the Australian process it’s mind boggling the amount of complications your country has running elections. The differences are stark, but then you are a conglomeration of 50+ states with a population of 330 m people- so there is that! The one thing I’ve always wondered- why is it you still largely have a 2 party system with maybe some independents? Like most other countries you should have scores of political parties. You need a Nigel Farage with a new party to shake things up a bit, as an example. The consolidation of politics in your country (” the swamp”) would appear to be a result of few players in the field. No one else gets a look in and from what I have seen since becoming interested in 2016 is that there appears to just as many GOP swamp dwellers as the Dems.
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For a nice experiment with California elections. I recommend
https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/election-fraud-is-easy/
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OMG!! Is voting fraud that easy in some states? That is unbelievable. Most of the rules that Eisenbach suggested for a trustworthy election process are what applies to Australian election process. Exception being we don’t have voter ID. All that happens is that your name is crossed off the electoral roll when you vote. So, people can then go to another close polling booth and vote again, if they wanted to. Or you could possibly vote for someone else. You get fined for not voting. I have a brother in law who turns up each election day, gets his name crossed off the electoral roll and then doesn’t vote. It’s his little protest vs politics.
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The real question is: Is the election fraud made easy by accident, or by design?
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Let me amplify Ross point and answer Jo’s opener on Why Can’t Paper and Pencils…?
My first US election in a small town, an exurb of a major Midwest metro area, had paper and pencils — two pages.
Ever since then, living Denver or Boulder, Colorado, the voter torn has at least 60 boxes to be ticked!
A small book of choices and offices and proposals — laws or basic law changes — to weigh in on.
In other words, it’s impossible to do like in Britain, vote and count together in the locality, because in the rest of the Anglo and Euro world you have about four votes, more or less, to make.
It’s become like a pact with the Devil, however. How do you break a blood pact with Him (ie, experts or those posing as every two year experts)?
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Di Santos will be as demonised as Trump if he took an independent path of his own. Already I have seen leftist commentators gagging when his name comes up. Marianne Williamson looked like she had bitten into a s sandwich when Kari Lake’s name was mentioned. There is a hate machine turning out gold plated haters. In the states it is run by the establishment. In Aus it’s run by the left. It really cranked up on Abbott. Saint Malcolm never saw it, but every one of Morrison’s breaths was the embodiment of evil. They haven’t quite switched the aim yet to Dutton, but once he starts anything, he’s dead meat. Murdock another dump site. Is it ‘the Manufacture of Consent’? It should be ‘the Manufacture of Haters’.
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What Really Happened in the Midterms and Why
By every account, this was a strange election. Having had some time to think about it, I have determined the best explanation for November 8 is that this midterm election was intended to turn out pretty much the way it did.
Who intended it? The Republican establishment. Why? To get rid of Trump.
How did they do this, and where is the proof? It wasn’t too hard, and the proof is all around us.
This was a midterm election, so there are no real consequences beyond the control of Congress. This means that if you can control one house, even by a slim margin, you can stall the agenda of the other side. How large a majority you have is secondary and, in the long view, not that meaningful.
The establishment Republicans were willing to settle for less than expected numbers in the House to eradicate what they see as by far their biggest problem. This was their chance to bury Trump and avoid a great deal of damaging unpleasantness at very low to no real cost.
It makes sense. The Democrats funded the Trump senatorial candidates in the primaries because they thought they could make them lose. The Republicans seemed to think that might be a good idea. If necessary, they could help those candidates lose, which could seriously weaken Trump but still leave them with sufficient winners.
The Dem-supported Trump candidates lost, as per their plan. I have heard some pundits say that this was a clever move on the part of the Democrats. Maybe so, but they had a lot of help. Those candidates lost because if they had won, Trump would be almost assured of the presidency in 2024. Look at the contortions Mitch McConnell went through to keep Murkowski and deny the Trump candidate in Alaska. Check out where the Republican House money went when the chips were down. New Hampshire was denied funding just as Bolduc was surging. See here, here, here.
Immediately upon the polls closing, the Republican Establishment gushed over Ron DeSantis. He was all over TV. The very next day, Fox News (with dedicated anti-Trumper Paul Ryan on its Board) ran the headline “Ron DeSantis is the future of Trumpism.”
The Republicans, admittedly dreadfully incompetent at messaging, outdid their own previous failures in this election — on purpose. National ads acknowledging the accomplishments of Trump on the economy, immigration, inflation, crime, or any of the other major issues on the table for this election were nonexistent.
Ronald Reagan made one of the most impressive marks on an election in the last 50 years when he asked a simple question: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
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Ronald Reagan made one of the most impressive marks on an election in the last 50 years when he asked a simple question: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
The Republicans needed only one chart with two columns — one for Trump, one for Biden — listing gas prices, food prices, general inflation rates, murders, education proficiency rates, and half a dozen more items with the comparable figures. Displaying that chart on 30-second ads in every market every day would have left the Democrats begging for mercy with minimal voter turnout. Did Republicans, do it? No. Why not? The Trump name would have been mentioned. And this year, there were more than enough of those issues to slay an entire herd of dragons.
There were several House races with obvious “Biden bumps” in the vote tracking. A Biden bump is a sudden, straight-line, vertical rise in the normal arcing pattern of vote count over a number of hours. The Biden bump was clearly demonstrated on Election Night 2016 in several states, and it was clear last Tuesday. Check that out here.
Republicans are making no noise about this at all. They are contesting nothing vocally on the national level. They are taking no action whatsoever in the obvious stalling of the counts in Arizona and Nevada. The Republicans are quiet because the establishment accomplished what it set out to do. There should be no question about this. Yes, Harmeet Dhillon and the troops are plugging a lot of holes at the local level, and that’s needed, but the overall national outcome was predetermined.
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In politics, things are not ever as they appear to be, and politicians will never fail to act in their own self-interest, whatever the stakes.
(For all of you mystery fans, there are also motive, means, and opportunity.)
The Republican Party used their huge polling advantage and the favorable winds granted by the unspeakably incompetent Biden administration to target their own losses in a manner that will ensure the embarrassment of Trump and ascendancy of DeSantis, all in one fell swoop. This week, the Republican establishment will likely be dangling a few vivid alternatives in front of Trump as he retires to Mar-a-Largo before his scheduled announcement. His choices will be presented in the starkest of terms.
Deals are made all the time in this game, and this election has no other explanation that makes sense. “Interesting times” is the understatement of the year, and we likely could be in for a pretty interesting couple of months.
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We have a State election in Victoria in two weeks. Early voting starts in one week.
Does anyone know where to down load a copy of the voting papers? I like to get a good view of the minor party candidates ( who get no press and are completely ignored – except by a few voters like me).
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Chased this down through vec.vic.gov.au and encountered this caveat for registering for work on elections in Victoria:
Seems it’s for all time.
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Interesting perspective that I didn’t consider. Sounds legit to me. Problem is if you don’t come across the theory, you don’t think it, and most people by far, don’t come across it. But how does that McConnel be allowed to stay as a rep given that connection?
I still think though that Trump cannot win 2024. He won’t be allowed to. But also, the youth now vote. Apparently, they turned out heavily in the mid-terms and they are only concerned about women’s rights (abortion) and climate change. The youth hate Trump. And the media really hates Trump and, most importantly, their tactic worked against him. He took them by surprise the first time, but not the second and not the third.
And for those who say the election was rigged, I say, yes, and?
One thing Trump fans, of which there are many, do not understand, is the hatred of Trump and how common it is. It spreads to people who should vote for Trump in their own interest but are spooked because the brain triggers the idea there will be trouble with him, best avoided.
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I think that they understand perfectly that
“the hatred of Trump and how common it is”
is the hatred of them also and they will react accordingly
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“..and they will react accordingly.” Yes, and do what? Vote?
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Lol. Down thumbs. People and their eternal optimism. You can’t speak ill of it, it is a good thing, and I mean that unironically.
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Philip.
Is it really about Trump?
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Yes John it is about Trump. Trump raised many people from their political apathy. He is the figurehead of anti-elite globalism.
When you consider he actually did a pretty good job as President (if you ask me) and then lose to a very weak opposition, it can only be about him. Then for that victor to trash the place in a very short time and not suffering a huge loss, it is about Trump.
As we see in the blog, even the Republican swamp is doing everything it can to stop Trump again. That’s huge odds against.
Personally, I hope I’m wrong. I’m certain to be one day 😉
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They were also my thoughts. There is undoubtedly a Trump effect. For every new voter he picks up there is 1.3 ( or whatever the ratio is ) voters who just go to the polling booth to vote against Trump. After 6 years of MSM brainwashing, it would appear people aren’t turning up to be involved in the electoral process, they are just there to register their hatred of DT.
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yes.
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Democrat Raskin is Terrified Trump Could Become Speaker of the House (VIDEO)
Rep. Raskin discussed Kevin McCarthy, the Freedom Caucus and the Republican leadership moving forward.
Raskin said Republicans in the Freedom Caucus are looking for new leadership and could vote for Trump to be House Speaker.
“One potential candidate who’s name has been floated is Donald Trump himself because the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House,” Raskin said.
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I recommend a good dose of Ivermectin for the body politic.
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What am I missing here.
The GPO won 56% of the senate vote and the Dems will have a majority of 1 (if not a deadlock) GPO are on track to win the house.
80% of Trump endorsed candidates won their elections.
YET this is a victory for the Dems, a huge defeat for the GOP…and it’s all Trumps fault?
From where I stand another ‘victory’ like that and the the next Administration will be Dems identifying as GOP 🙂
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“80% of Trump endorsed candidates won their elections” – FAKE
Don’t trust Ballotpedia. Their numbers are unreliable. Like windmills.
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fraudulent election processes are the cancers..nothing will change until those are fixed..like it has been shown in Florida.
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At least they still have their guns…….
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Fox News’ Mark Levin provides a fascinating analysis of what went wrong and why. He believes that the blame lies primarily with Republicans themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fhkvbocrmk
(13-minute video – well worth watching)
A few years back it looked like people power would overthrow the swamp. We had Brexit and Trump, the greatest president in living memory. Come forward to today and things are looking bleak. The UK government is pursuing a globalist agenda and the Left, including establishment Republicans, are going all out to make Trump ‘damaged goods’.
I guess self-interest rules!
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