Election Prediction

Let’s be frank. Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, in large part, because much of Middle America despised Hillary Clinton. And, as politicians often do, the Democrats now believe that they can repeat this result by running a cipher for president ... since Trump is also disliked by many.

The question then presents itself ... why do voters dislike Trump ... and to what degree? Well, the answer to the first part is — because he had bested the smartest woman in the world whose time had come for her coronation. Yes, Trump’s sandpaper personality plays a part in this animosity ... but his defeating the Pink Princess is paramount ... witness all the rabid Deep State’s attempts to take him down.

So, what does this mean for November 3rd? Can I surmise? I believe that many Americans who voted for Hillary did so because she had a D after her name ... so her base is not unanimous in their disliking Trump’s defeating her. The Dem puppeteers might believe that the DC echo chamber is all of the America left. Believe me, it ain’t.

Therefore, I somehow doubt that Sleepy Joe will be swept into office on a wave of Orangeman animus ... duplicating the 2016 surprise

We shall see ...


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

The Big Picture

I’m guessing that the riots now in many major US cities have evolved and no longer have everything to do with George Floyd’s murder ... OK, a little bit, at least symbolically ... but these are also uprisings spawned by anger over the virus lockdowns, our huge levels of unemployment, Bernie Sanders not getting the Democrat nomination, the Left realizing that they have a loser in Joe Biden, President Trump once again escaping the Deep State and the media’s drumbeat attempts to take him down ... and a venomous vitriol in the far-left (ANTIFA, Black Lives Matter, etc.) for the US and our institutions.

(Of course, breaking things and lots of free stuff also helps.)

Afterward: See: CNBC Story.

Today’s Poser

Apparently the National Security Council has had a copy of John Bolton’s book for security review since the end of December. How come that Bolton’s comments about the Trump linkage between Ukrainian aid and its investigating of the Burisma/Biden scandal was leaked to the New York Times and not to Trump’s legal defense team? Is this a perfect validation of the Deep State?

Afterthought: And was this Deep State created when Obama made hundreds of his political appointments into protected civil servants right before he left office?

Headlines

Dick Durbin: Senators have ‘gone too far’ in stating impeachment positions

Chip stocks are the top performers of the decade as the industry’s products infiltrate everything

Shock poll: 43% of evangelicals want Trump removed ...

Judicial Watch sues Adam Schiff for phone snooping records

Debbie Dingell says Trump’s remarks [about her husband] were a gut punch

Here’s why investors should shift emphasis to international opportunities

Trump has installed 187 judges to federal benches ... and counting!

President Trump signs defense bill creating Space Force

France’s Macron gives up presidential pension, asks for Christmas truce on strikes

Pete Buttigieg unveils his immigration agenda, pledging ‘path to citizenship’

Biden plays to 98 in Iowa ...

WSJ op-ed: ‘American Democracy depends on “Deep State”’

12 Days of Christmas

Mitch “The Turtle” McConnell

On the 12 days of Christmas, the Democrats showed to me:

1st Day - An impeachment inquiry

2nd Day - How the Turtle govs

3rd Day - Macron’s French zen

4th Day - Verizon’s calling nerds

5th Day - Prince Andrew’s sordid flings

6th Day - Ghislaine’s a laying

7th Day - The Swamp-crocs a swimming

8th Day - FBI raid’s a bilking

9th Day- Hunter’s pole dancers dancing

10th Day - Lords a vaping

11th Day - Excel pipeline piping

12th Day - Finger drummers drumming

Liberals

The following groups catch in my craw (whatever that is):

- Socialists/Commies

- Gun Grabbers

- Climate Chicken Littles

- America Lasters

- “Reproductive Righters”

- Diversity Pollyannas

-Tax and Spenders

- Safe-Space Snowflakes

- ANTIFAs

- Deep Staters

- Race Baiters
- Gender Benders

- Statue Iconoclasts

- The Soros Mob

- Globalists

- Interventionists

- Open-Borderites

And, amazingly, all these poltroons often are packaged together under the stolen and misused term Liberals (I could have said Democrats) ...

Obvious Truth

Remarkably, Donald J. Trump continues to be undaunted and steadfast despite unprecedented media hostility and Deep State subterfuge. — Anon.

And Epstein didn’t kill himself

Change

Barack Obama promised “hope and change” when he ran for president. Once elected, he did institute change ... lots of change ... change that favored immigrants, the greenies, China, Russia, the Ukraine, Muslim countries and those south of the US border. But never came through with the “hope” part. When Trump took over, he too has changed things ... mostly by reversing those damaging Democrat policies.

So why were Obama’s changes so readily accepted and Trump’s so vehemently resisted?

May I suggest that Obama’s changes advantaged those above-noted third parties while disadvantaging the unaware American middle class. Trump’s changes have mostly reversed these Obama wealth and hegemony flows.

And the resisters to this change are the environmentalists, globalists, media, Deep State and some foreign governments ... all whom had benefitted under Obama’s reign.

Middle Americans sense this u-turn and the resulting relief to their political frustrations. This is why Trump’s rallies are overflowing and why he will likely be re-elected with a larger electoral margin than he received in 2016. Americans will not be whipsawed once again with re-heated Democrat give-aways.

Dissonance

President Trump’s stock-in-trade is dissonance. He seems to relish in keeping things all mixed up and then, in a feat of legerdemain, stepping back to display a masterpiece ... a hotel skyscraper, a shangrala resort, an international treaty, a booming economy, whatever. The majority of his critics seem to base their discomfort with this process by opposing him in the most bizarre ways imaginable. They create their own confusion with loopy statements. They call him a liar for his vagueness. They attack his family. They themselves tell the most outrageous half-truths and even bold-face whoppers. They work against his wishes by stealthy insubordination (and get sacked.) They leak anything even remotely damaging to a sympathetic media. They try to make him go away with an actual coup ... and, when that doesn’t work, with impeachment.

But this man is unfazed. He knows he can pull things off eventually ... and is gradually winning converts ... even among the swamp creatures. (He long ago convinced middle America that he knew what he was doing.)

Will this orange man survive the elite crazies who are still trying to destroy him so that their worlds will return to “normal” ... meaning the cushy life they had gotten used to? By all rights they should prevail. After all, how can one man stand up to all these powerful forces ... suburban women, Hollywood, academia, much of the media, the Deep State, the Davos crowd, many blowhard politicians, Omarosa and some international leaders? Matter of fact it is hard to find his consistently loyal friends. He doesn’t even have a dog.

I have a suspicion that, if he survives this balls-out impeachment attack by the Left, he may well carry the day in most other matters. If he doesn’t, yes the dissonance will go away, but America will be damaged almost beyond repair.

Impeachment Allegory

From daily timewaster blog

Rep. Adam Schiff teaches a Deep-State witness what happens if you don’t testify in accord with the rehearsal ...

Headlines

In Iowa Biden faces a growing threat: Pete Buttigieg

UAW President Gary Jones will take a leave of absence amid corruption probe

At Iowa dinner, Warren and Mayor Pete take aim at one another ...

Brexit party: Torres ‘deliberately misrepresenting’ our peace offering

Turkey threatens to send ISIS fighters back to home countries

Thousands of companies are asking for tariff exclusions even as US and China push to sign trade deal

Smugglers sawing through new sections of wall!

Former CIA Deputy Director on Impeachment Inquiry: ‘Thank .god for the Deep State’

Warren’s $20 trillion health plan fails to quiet critics

Trade wars, climate change plunge the family farm into crisis

USA opens national security investigation into TIKTOK ...

China releases updated ‘morality guidelines’ for ‘social progress’

Reality Show

What is real? The dichotomy between world views has never been greater in my estimation. President Donald Trump has pulled the pin on this media grenade and the explosion is rocking vast swathes of peoples’ perception of reality. It seems clear to this observer that our natural national unity is being torn apart by current events. Is Adam Schiff lying? And, if so, does he know he is lying? What about President Trump?

Is it possible to have two diametrically different views of the world that are both true? Or both false?

This is a battle of the Titans. On one side we have the Deep State once led by Obama's intelligence agencies ... and backed by much of the media ... including even pieces of FoxNews and theDrudge Report. And on the other side is Donald Trump with his meager band of Republican supporters. Kind of a gigantic mismatch ... yet he is holding his ground by not playing the game the way he is supposed to play it. He punches back. Unfair!

The media and those who want the media’s blessing are supreme. And crossing the intelligence agencies is sure suicide. Didn’t Chuck Schumer say that the spooks have a hundred ways from Sunday to get back at you? And the Orange Man is learning this lesson.

I often used the term “spittle flecked” to describe Trump’s rabid opposition ... and I can’t help to wonder if their opposition to Trump derives from noble or ignoble motivations. Obviously, I think the latter ... but what do these opponents think? Can they be so evil that they would try to destroy someone who seems to be trying to restore America to it’s previous glory? Or are Trump’s motivations also sinister? Are these motivations as self-serving as his enemies?

Tune in next week, same time, same station to find out ...

Animus

I found our previous president to be seriously unqualified for his job ... even with his extensive posse. As proof of this conclusion, I can only point to all the corrective actions that Trump has had to take since assuming office. Ergo, I clearly disliked Obama ... not because of his race, personality or sexual preferences ... but because of his backward and naive politics. But I didn’t HATE him.

Fast forward three years. Now, there is a substantial group inside the government (the Deep State) and the media who clearly HATE Trump ... no, not just hate, they despise him. This white-hot hate is mostly directed at our president because of his sand-paper personality. Many of his policies are often reluctantly and silently agreed to by the Left. But, this doesn’t bank the fire. (General Patton was not liked by many ... but he was a very effective warrior.)

Most of Trump’s domestic decisions have be winners ... even his immigration policies are beginning to bite ... even with severe push-back from Democrats. Certainly the Trump economy is on track despite the penalty being paid by his trade war. His foreign policy is still a work-in-progress ... hamstrung by the Democrats winning the House in 2018. Clearly the Democrat insurrection there has caused foreign leaders like Xi and Kim to try to wait Trump out ... hoping that more favorable opponents will be occupying the White House in 2021.

Such extreme hate is corrosive. It destroys the hater much more than the object of this hate. In fact, one could argue that this extreme resistance is motivating Trump. He seems to enjoy tweaking the haters which only makes them hate him more. Never in my life time have I witnessed more disloyalty on the part of those inside a president’s administration. Even people that I admire, like General Mattis, believe that their world view is superior to DJT’s ... even though this cuts across the tenets of his military training.

Next time you hear a left-wing diatribe singling out Trump, listen carefully to the motivation of this hatred ... invariably it will include at least one ad hominem ... proof that logic has disappeared  into the jaws of animus personified.

Afterward: I just realized that I forgot to use the term “spittle flecked.”

Media Cabal

A recently revealed New York Times editorial “town hall” meeting dealt with the Gray Lady’s strategy to defeat Trump next year. The gist of this confab was, now that the Russian collusion hit on Trump has failed, the new tact was to paint our president as a RACIST ... see: Slate Story.

This strategy has already been evident in the NYT and much of the rest of the lefty media ... even to the point of abandoning the term RACIST as becoming over-used ... and moving on to the more damning pejorative WHITE SUPREMACIST. This obviously is designed to cut into Trump’s growing popularity with black and Hispanic voters.

I suppose that it is not surprising that the NYT has chosen sides in this political battle. But I am a little taken aback at such open editorial direction for its reporting ... and the implicit coordination with other media outlets.

Trump has survived the Russian collusion cabal between the media and Deep State. Will he survive this one?

Orange Jump Suits

The temptation is, since the Trump witch hunt seems to have resulted in his exoneration, for AG Barr and company to go easy in the investigation of the investigation. My opinion is that, to keep justice fair and balanced, that this follow-on probe should be no more harsh  than the original FBI/Mueller effort. And since their’s was about as mean-spirited as can be imagined, that Barr’s follow-on should be as consequential as possible ... even vindictive where necessary. Otherwise no real lessons will be learned by those whose loyalty is only to the Deep State.

I personally would like to see the whole lot of them, as far up as that sordid coup conspiracy went, in orange jump suits.

Deep State

The louder the Deep State has called for impeachment, the more obvious has become their duplicity. — Anon.

Powerline Pic

Off to Mar-a-Largo ...

Headlines

Trump owns the shutdown. And he's OK with that

China is reportedly considering a law to crack down on forced tech transfers

NH considers holding 2020 primary -- in 2019 ...

Tsunami triggered by volcano kills at least 280 in Indonesia ...

Two months early, Mattis leaving by Jan. 1

'The worse is yet to come': Experts say the global bear market is just getting started

Supreme Court intervenes in apparent Mueller mystery case ...

James Comey: 'There is no Deep State'

Mnuchin speaks to big bank CEOs about [stock] market's stability

Facebook is the 'biggest concern' among the FAANG stocks, analyst says

El Chapo cries in court ...

Migrant ship rejected by Italy heads for Socialist Spain

Disconnect

I've tried to make this point before ... that Trump's demeanor is like a stone around his neck ... yet he keeps moving forward identifying and solving problems for the American people. Our president's detractors are legion ... most of the media, the Deep State, Hollywood, most Democrats, higher education, establishment Republicans, George Soros and his many well-funded tentacles, suburban woman, and big tech. A very formidable set of adversaries ... yet, so far, he survives ... and keeps getting things done.

To get back to his demeanor ... he is pompous, egotistical, simple-speaking, insulting and truth stretching. And, to all these labels that the media have painted him with, add  white supremacist, liar, antisemitite, mentally unbalanced, Islamophobe, racist, misogynist, Putin puppet, autocrat, etc. It's a wonder that he has any supporters at all. Yet he packs arenas to overflowing ... while prominent Democrats pad out their meager audiences with paid-for chaff.

Yet Trump has solved or seems to be solving many of America's knotty issues, trade, economic growth, employment and household income growth, higher consumer confidence, putting North Korea and Iran in a box, stronger military, more conservative courts, solving immigration issues, fixing NATO funding, better Israel relations, squashing ISIS, etc, etc.

So how can such a bad guy do such good things? Why the disconnect between his demeanor  and his deeds? Perhaps it is because he loves his country more than himself?

Obvious Truth #22

Donald Trump is an impulsive, braggadocios, lecherous exaggerator who, despite an almost universally hostile media, a corrupt Deep State and a spittle-flecked Resistance; is clearly doing more for the betterment of his country than any U.S. president in the last 30 years. -- Anon.