Let's see how many student loans Biden pays off in his last 70 days. I bet $0. He can't buy their votes anymore, so why try to keep that promise.
This election comes down to exactly one fact. People are paying 25% more for groceries than 4 years ago. That's it. When Trump lost in 2020, 20% of people said they were worse off than 4 years before. In 2024, that number is 46%. People are willing to risk Orange Hitler to be able to afford food and utilities again. They'll be pleasantly surprised.
Re: "At least 2.6 million voters cast ballots in favor of both Donald Trump and state-level abortion protections".
My sister is very liberal and a Kamala Harris voter. She's absolutely terrified of a national abortion ban and a "Handmaid's Tale" future. "Nonsense", I told her. There are too many Republicans who support reproductive rights. Nationally, somewhere around 55%-58% of Americans identify as being "pro-choice" (but support for late-term abortions is a lot lower). The GOP would be very foolish to try and push a national abortion ban. If they do, they will get absolutely killed in the midterms, and they know it.
A national ban would, in any case, be quite limited in scope. Madison made a limited grant of power to the federal government, and while Progressives and then liberals have managed to expand it, the Reagan-Bush court pushed back in cases like Lopez (1995), in which it ruled that the Gun-Free Schools Zone Act of 1990 was an unconstitutional exceeding of the authority of Congress. The Clinton Administration argued that the Interstate Commerce Clause granted the authority, and the court by 5-4 rejected the notion that simply bearing arms had anything to do with commerce, much less interstate commerce. So the federal government could at most ban abortions in interstate commerce, such as crossing state lines to pay for an abortion.
There won’t be a national abortion ban; the Roe.V.Wade issue was properly sent back to the states where it originally was before the earlier Supreme Court decision, and it’s where it belongs — in the States. No worries. 😌
I think we need some deep scientific analysis helping to explain why the blue sickness infects people on the northeast and west coasts, and the big cities... the large population centers. Why? It really does not make full sense. There are antidotal explanations, but not any comprehensive explanation.
Social phycologists like Jonathan Haidt have come up with theories about why liberals and conservatives think and behave differently and how that impacts their policies (moral filters), but that does not explain why liberals are significantly more concentrated on the coasts and big cities. Do people wired as liberals flock to those territories, or does living on the coastal and big cities areas cause people to become liberal?
Not long ago the west coast was pretty evenly divided in Democrat and Republican... with a strong moderate majority. Today the entire west coast is completely dominated by liberals.
I think understanding this is a key to combating the sickness that is modern liberalism, progressivism or leftism (whatever you want to call it... I see them all the same today). It really should not be such a stark difference in political orientation except for some specific reasons. And if those specific reasons are known, because of the concentration of people in these places, remedies to the blue sickness could be made effective.
I think it has to do on part with who moved into the big cities in America. The notion that we have God-given natural rights to life, liberty and property, what used to be called liberalism before the adherents of government control appropriated the term in the late 19th century in American and England, came out of the Enlightenment, which occurred mostly in England, Scotland and France. Some elements crossed into the Germanic states so you do have a few great classical liberal Germans like von Humboldt, but by and large the Enlightenment didn't flourish much east of the Rhine. The French furthermore, took the Enlightenment to some rather non-Enlightenment extremes, trying to overthrow monarchies across Europe, leading to Germanic Romanticism, a reject of the Enlightenment, and the father of some great "classical" music, as well as both communism and fascism.
So the settlers who came over from England and Scotland, especially after the Glorious Revolution, brought with them Enlightenment notions of rights to life liberty and property. Some of the Germans who came after the Year of Revolutions (1848) admired von Humboldt and natural rights, but many more were influenced by Romanticism and its focus on community rather than the individual. Many of them settled in Wisconsin, which is one of the few original rural hotbeds of American Progressivism.
Massive waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, however, abandoned their rural roots and moved into New York City, Chicago, and other big cities. They brought with them little regard for individual rights to life, liberty and property, and lots of starry-eyed notions of socialism. Even by the end of the 19th century we had large populations of socialistic leaning people in American's big cities.
The waves of immigrants, so different from the perspective of WASP elites in NYC, Chicago and other places, ironically evoked a desire for government control on the party of the big-city WASPs. WASP elites at first tried to go into the immigrant neighborhoods and teach the immigrants to be good WASPs, and were no more successful with Italians and Slavs than they had been with the Irish. At the same time the New Engineering arose, allowing people to build substantially better bridges and buildings. WASP elites clucked their tongues that they could engineer a better bridge so why not a better society? They found, however, that traditional American limitations on government power stood in the way of their new desire for social engineering. So the new immigrants not only brought socialistic sympathies with them, but ironically evoked other socialist sympathies on the part of big city WASP elites who didn't much like them. By the time of the Great Depression then, the big cities had few if any major groups opposing massive government intervention.
The Progressives took over the news media in the large cities, as well as academia, by the end of the 19th century or beginning of the 20th century. They wished to produce "usable history" by which they meant their version of history that vilified free markets and lauded government intervention. Other than perhaps Thorsten Veblen who came from the German Historical School of socialist thought to the University of Wisconsin, most of the original Progressives started out slow, with things like regulating public transportation companies (which were all private companies) at the local level and "trust-busting" or breaking up alleged monopolies at the federal level. Even by the time of the New Deal, there were some old Progressives who denounced it as fascism and denied that it was progressive at all, but by then the big cities had pretty much become "liberal" bubbles, with the news, entertainment and educational media all supporting progressively more government (pun intended).
Since that time people in the big-city liberal bubbles have gotten more and more out of touch with the rest of America, small town and rural areas, coming to believe themselves to be the future, and conservatives to be backward and simply stupid or evil or both. When I was young you could often find liberals who would say, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," something which Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote to explain Voltaire's philosophy (and often misattributed to Voltaire himself). No longer. The election of Ronald Reagan, whom postmodern liberals had vilified as a dinosaur, frightened them. It shook their belief in their inevitability. They stopped viewing America as a Progressive place with a few annoying conservative dinosaurs, and started viewing it a as benighted place full of evil conservatives who must be stopped at all costs. Arguably the liberal establishment reached that point in 1968 during the Tet Offensive, when they turned against America, but by 1980 it was more generally true of entire populations of big-city Americans.
Now that the big cities have turned largely into self-sealed liberal bubbles, once some idea catches on, especially in the liberal media, it gets pretty well becomes the belief of almost everyone in the bubble, even if it contradicts previous firmly help beliefs. So where once you could count on liberals to hate Arab nationalists and Muslim jihadists—liberals for instance took the lead during the 1990s in exposing Muslim slavery and mutilation of women—now liberals favor Arabs and Muslims over Americans and Christians. Where you could once count on liberals to advocate for expanding sports for girls and woman, liberals now support the takeover of female sports by biological males who claim to identify as female. Where once Bill Clinton was liberal hero for championing a federal freedom of religion bill, liberals trashed Mike Pence for a state bill with virtually identical text. There are few if any corrective institutions in the big-city liberal bubbles, and so they have become self-perpetuating as well as self-sealed, starting with the waves of socialistic immigrants who moved there and the WASP elites who wanted to use government against them.
"The Illusory Truth Effect" is the tendency to believe a statement is true after hearing it repeated multiple times, even if it's false. (Or, as Joseph Goebbels said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.") When you have a large population living closely together (NYC, LA, Chicago, etc.), a couple of things happen: (1) People begin to hear the same things repeated frequently; (2) in an effort to belong, they may be more inclined to believe these things (even to the point of doubting their own common sense); (3) being so far removed from nature, they forget about natural law, and they begin to believe that man has more power than he actually has.
A couple of years ago, I read an opinion piece by a rabbi who made the point that it's bad for people to live in big cities because they can become self-deluded. (I wish I could find the article, so I have to poorly paraphrase it as I remember.) Making the point about transgenderism, he said that in a city, you can convince yourself that a male can become female; but in the country, the people know that it's not true. A country dweller does not make the mistake of treating a bull like a cow -- because making that mistake can get you gored to death. He went on to say that living in the country, one is constantly reminded that God exists and He orders the universe -- because country-dwellers see it on a daily basis. In the city, you're surrounded by concrete and asphalt and cars, which are all manmade. In such a place, it's easier for people to convince themselves that man is a god (and God doesn't exist) because they lose their concept of the orderliness of nature.
The other thing the Dems need to do is to quit shaming, guilting, othering, dehumanizing, name-calling, hectoring, and scolding half the electorate. Quit thinking that they are smarter, more ethical, more pure, and more holy than half the electorate.
They aren't better (nor should we be smug ourselves). Romans 3:23 and I John 1:8.
Judging from my Facebook the past 48 hours, this isn't happening.
Hamas didn’t only call for an end to the war they have issued a full and unconditional surrender. Offering up the remaining hostages and fanatical leaders.
At least that’s what’s reporter.
Also today: Russia has supposedly sent a delegation to the US and a message to Ukraine. Unknown as to what was said. Amazing.
I think the war in Ukraine will end before Trump takes office. Then Biden can take credit. Hamas has already issued a statement saying they want an end to the war. The Palestinian people are worried that their plight may get worse. But one leader was quoted as saying the “war needs to end and we are prepared to do so. “
All this happening less than 48 hours after Trump declared the winner.
"super low-level IQ bar tender", so she is the bar for what is a super low IQ. Actually the people that listen to her are doing the limbo under that bar.
The lack of ability to communicate mentioned in the video...it isn't a lack of ability to communicate, is is a lack of understanding. They communicate just fine: inflation is transitory, the border is secure, etc.
LOL at Hamas demanding an "immediate" end to the war now. They knew all along what they had to do to achieve that, and they refused. Now Bebe will show them the consequences of their inaction. By the time Trump is inaugurated, it may even be a moot point then.
As of right now, it's still "Weekend At Joey's" for Bibi.
Not sure what would be worse for Hamas and Hezbollah--WAJ's or Trump. Trump will have to answer to a hostile media, even if he tells them to go commit an anatomical impossibility. WAJ's isn't in a position to object to anything.
"Police are on the hunt for 40 violent monkeys that escaped a South Carolina research facility."
Did they vote ?
40 monkeys in cages find freedom and they are violent because they want to keep their freedom.
Maybe they are Antifa Monkeys.
Let's see how many student loans Biden pays off in his last 70 days. I bet $0. He can't buy their votes anymore, so why try to keep that promise.
This election comes down to exactly one fact. People are paying 25% more for groceries than 4 years ago. That's it. When Trump lost in 2020, 20% of people said they were worse off than 4 years before. In 2024, that number is 46%. People are willing to risk Orange Hitler to be able to afford food and utilities again. They'll be pleasantly surprised.
Bidens paycheck would cover more than a few, but i make myself laugh thinking a lifetime politician would do something selfless.
Bridget Phetasy had a great tweet about why Trump won. The bottom-line summary:
"He's not Hitler. I'm not racist. F--- you."
Re: "At least 2.6 million voters cast ballots in favor of both Donald Trump and state-level abortion protections".
My sister is very liberal and a Kamala Harris voter. She's absolutely terrified of a national abortion ban and a "Handmaid's Tale" future. "Nonsense", I told her. There are too many Republicans who support reproductive rights. Nationally, somewhere around 55%-58% of Americans identify as being "pro-choice" (but support for late-term abortions is a lot lower). The GOP would be very foolish to try and push a national abortion ban. If they do, they will get absolutely killed in the midterms, and they know it.
A national ban would, in any case, be quite limited in scope. Madison made a limited grant of power to the federal government, and while Progressives and then liberals have managed to expand it, the Reagan-Bush court pushed back in cases like Lopez (1995), in which it ruled that the Gun-Free Schools Zone Act of 1990 was an unconstitutional exceeding of the authority of Congress. The Clinton Administration argued that the Interstate Commerce Clause granted the authority, and the court by 5-4 rejected the notion that simply bearing arms had anything to do with commerce, much less interstate commerce. So the federal government could at most ban abortions in interstate commerce, such as crossing state lines to pay for an abortion.
Madison's good ol' Enumerated Powers" clause has tripped up a lot of efforts.
And thank God for it too!
Interesting... Thanks for the info!
There won’t be a national abortion ban; the Roe.V.Wade issue was properly sent back to the states where it originally was before the earlier Supreme Court decision, and it’s where it belongs — in the States. No worries. 😌
That too.
I think we need some deep scientific analysis helping to explain why the blue sickness infects people on the northeast and west coasts, and the big cities... the large population centers. Why? It really does not make full sense. There are antidotal explanations, but not any comprehensive explanation.
Social phycologists like Jonathan Haidt have come up with theories about why liberals and conservatives think and behave differently and how that impacts their policies (moral filters), but that does not explain why liberals are significantly more concentrated on the coasts and big cities. Do people wired as liberals flock to those territories, or does living on the coastal and big cities areas cause people to become liberal?
Not long ago the west coast was pretty evenly divided in Democrat and Republican... with a strong moderate majority. Today the entire west coast is completely dominated by liberals.
I think understanding this is a key to combating the sickness that is modern liberalism, progressivism or leftism (whatever you want to call it... I see them all the same today). It really should not be such a stark difference in political orientation except for some specific reasons. And if those specific reasons are known, because of the concentration of people in these places, remedies to the blue sickness could be made effective.
I think it has to do on part with who moved into the big cities in America. The notion that we have God-given natural rights to life, liberty and property, what used to be called liberalism before the adherents of government control appropriated the term in the late 19th century in American and England, came out of the Enlightenment, which occurred mostly in England, Scotland and France. Some elements crossed into the Germanic states so you do have a few great classical liberal Germans like von Humboldt, but by and large the Enlightenment didn't flourish much east of the Rhine. The French furthermore, took the Enlightenment to some rather non-Enlightenment extremes, trying to overthrow monarchies across Europe, leading to Germanic Romanticism, a reject of the Enlightenment, and the father of some great "classical" music, as well as both communism and fascism.
So the settlers who came over from England and Scotland, especially after the Glorious Revolution, brought with them Enlightenment notions of rights to life liberty and property. Some of the Germans who came after the Year of Revolutions (1848) admired von Humboldt and natural rights, but many more were influenced by Romanticism and its focus on community rather than the individual. Many of them settled in Wisconsin, which is one of the few original rural hotbeds of American Progressivism.
Massive waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, however, abandoned their rural roots and moved into New York City, Chicago, and other big cities. They brought with them little regard for individual rights to life, liberty and property, and lots of starry-eyed notions of socialism. Even by the end of the 19th century we had large populations of socialistic leaning people in American's big cities.
The waves of immigrants, so different from the perspective of WASP elites in NYC, Chicago and other places, ironically evoked a desire for government control on the party of the big-city WASPs. WASP elites at first tried to go into the immigrant neighborhoods and teach the immigrants to be good WASPs, and were no more successful with Italians and Slavs than they had been with the Irish. At the same time the New Engineering arose, allowing people to build substantially better bridges and buildings. WASP elites clucked their tongues that they could engineer a better bridge so why not a better society? They found, however, that traditional American limitations on government power stood in the way of their new desire for social engineering. So the new immigrants not only brought socialistic sympathies with them, but ironically evoked other socialist sympathies on the part of big city WASP elites who didn't much like them. By the time of the Great Depression then, the big cities had few if any major groups opposing massive government intervention.
The Progressives took over the news media in the large cities, as well as academia, by the end of the 19th century or beginning of the 20th century. They wished to produce "usable history" by which they meant their version of history that vilified free markets and lauded government intervention. Other than perhaps Thorsten Veblen who came from the German Historical School of socialist thought to the University of Wisconsin, most of the original Progressives started out slow, with things like regulating public transportation companies (which were all private companies) at the local level and "trust-busting" or breaking up alleged monopolies at the federal level. Even by the time of the New Deal, there were some old Progressives who denounced it as fascism and denied that it was progressive at all, but by then the big cities had pretty much become "liberal" bubbles, with the news, entertainment and educational media all supporting progressively more government (pun intended).
Since that time people in the big-city liberal bubbles have gotten more and more out of touch with the rest of America, small town and rural areas, coming to believe themselves to be the future, and conservatives to be backward and simply stupid or evil or both. When I was young you could often find liberals who would say, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," something which Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote to explain Voltaire's philosophy (and often misattributed to Voltaire himself). No longer. The election of Ronald Reagan, whom postmodern liberals had vilified as a dinosaur, frightened them. It shook their belief in their inevitability. They stopped viewing America as a Progressive place with a few annoying conservative dinosaurs, and started viewing it a as benighted place full of evil conservatives who must be stopped at all costs. Arguably the liberal establishment reached that point in 1968 during the Tet Offensive, when they turned against America, but by 1980 it was more generally true of entire populations of big-city Americans.
Playwright David Mamet offers some good insight into the big-city liberal bubbling in his “Why I am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.’” https://www.hnn.us/article/david-mamet-why-i-am-no-longer-a-brain-dead-libera
Now that the big cities have turned largely into self-sealed liberal bubbles, once some idea catches on, especially in the liberal media, it gets pretty well becomes the belief of almost everyone in the bubble, even if it contradicts previous firmly help beliefs. So where once you could count on liberals to hate Arab nationalists and Muslim jihadists—liberals for instance took the lead during the 1990s in exposing Muslim slavery and mutilation of women—now liberals favor Arabs and Muslims over Americans and Christians. Where you could once count on liberals to advocate for expanding sports for girls and woman, liberals now support the takeover of female sports by biological males who claim to identify as female. Where once Bill Clinton was liberal hero for championing a federal freedom of religion bill, liberals trashed Mike Pence for a state bill with virtually identical text. There are few if any corrective institutions in the big-city liberal bubbles, and so they have become self-perpetuating as well as self-sealed, starting with the waves of socialistic immigrants who moved there and the WASP elites who wanted to use government against them.
"The Illusory Truth Effect" is the tendency to believe a statement is true after hearing it repeated multiple times, even if it's false. (Or, as Joseph Goebbels said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.") When you have a large population living closely together (NYC, LA, Chicago, etc.), a couple of things happen: (1) People begin to hear the same things repeated frequently; (2) in an effort to belong, they may be more inclined to believe these things (even to the point of doubting their own common sense); (3) being so far removed from nature, they forget about natural law, and they begin to believe that man has more power than he actually has.
A couple of years ago, I read an opinion piece by a rabbi who made the point that it's bad for people to live in big cities because they can become self-deluded. (I wish I could find the article, so I have to poorly paraphrase it as I remember.) Making the point about transgenderism, he said that in a city, you can convince yourself that a male can become female; but in the country, the people know that it's not true. A country dweller does not make the mistake of treating a bull like a cow -- because making that mistake can get you gored to death. He went on to say that living in the country, one is constantly reminded that God exists and He orders the universe -- because country-dwellers see it on a daily basis. In the city, you're surrounded by concrete and asphalt and cars, which are all manmade. In such a place, it's easier for people to convince themselves that man is a god (and God doesn't exist) because they lose their concept of the orderliness of nature.
BHO is the Kari Lake of campaign advisors
Whoever came up with the tagline "Harris is for they/them. Trump is for you." deserves a raise.
Cross-posting because this is important.
The other thing the Dems need to do is to quit shaming, guilting, othering, dehumanizing, name-calling, hectoring, and scolding half the electorate. Quit thinking that they are smarter, more ethical, more pure, and more holy than half the electorate.
They aren't better (nor should we be smug ourselves). Romans 3:23 and I John 1:8.
Judging from my Facebook the past 48 hours, this isn't happening.
Lastly for me for now.
But I know people don’t want to talk about it and no this is not me re-litigating the 2020 election. That’s over done.
But Harris will very likely not break 70 million votes. Trump will get about the same amount he did in 2020.
So what happened to 11-14 million votes for Biden?
Maybe mail in ballots just made it all too easy for people to vote?
I don’t know. But that’s a very important question to ask. Not that it has to be answered. But it should be asked.
Monkeys escape from a research facility?
Wasn’t that the beginning of some really bad horror movies?
How does this even happen.
Hamas didn’t only call for an end to the war they have issued a full and unconditional surrender. Offering up the remaining hostages and fanatical leaders.
At least that’s what’s reporter.
Also today: Russia has supposedly sent a delegation to the US and a message to Ukraine. Unknown as to what was said. Amazing.
What the ……….
Oh, maybe Trump will get the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got it for just showing up for work.
ROFL
I think the war in Ukraine will end before Trump takes office. Then Biden can take credit. Hamas has already issued a statement saying they want an end to the war. The Palestinian people are worried that their plight may get worse. But one leader was quoted as saying the “war needs to end and we are prepared to do so. “
All this happening less than 48 hours after Trump declared the winner.
Don’t you think that all the money that Biden poured into Ukraine was hush money . Just a thought.
It wasn’t ideal that party elders replaced him with Harris, a nominee who had received no electoral votes...
In two, that's two presidential campaigns.
It's the Democrat elite way. Super delegates are for a reason! A Semblance of democracy but...
AOC...
"super low-level IQ bar tender", so she is the bar for what is a super low IQ. Actually the people that listen to her are doing the limbo under that bar.
But yet they keep electing her.
Because her name ends in a (D).
The lack of ability to communicate mentioned in the video...it isn't a lack of ability to communicate, is is a lack of understanding. They communicate just fine: inflation is transitory, the border is secure, etc.
They simply don't communicate the truth.
Exactly
LOL at Hamas demanding an "immediate" end to the war now. They knew all along what they had to do to achieve that, and they refused. Now Bebe will show them the consequences of their inaction. By the time Trump is inaugurated, it may even be a moot point then.
As of right now, it's still "Weekend At Joey's" for Bibi.
Not sure what would be worse for Hamas and Hezbollah--WAJ's or Trump. Trump will have to answer to a hostile media, even if he tells them to go commit an anatomical impossibility. WAJ's isn't in a position to object to anything.