2024

Trump Has Zero Shot At Winning The Most Important Election In History https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2023/08/21/column-n2627273  

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/politics/t/364299

> NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he will be skipping Wednesday’s first Republican presidential primary debate — and others as well. > > “The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!” His spokesman did not immediately clarify whether he plans to boycott every primary debate or just those that have currently been scheduled. > > The former president and early GOP frontrunner had said for months that he saw little upside in joining his GOP rivals on stage when they gather for the first time in Milwaukee Wednesday, given his commanding lead in the race. And he had made clear to those he had spoken to in recent days that his opinion had not changed. > > “Why would I allow people at 1 or 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night?” he said in an interview in June with Fox News host Bret Baier, who will be serving as a moderator. Trump has also repeatedly criticized Fox, the host of the Aug. 23 primetime event, insisting it is a “hostile network” that he believes will not treat him fairly.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/771532

> I am not a Pence fan but he is correct on this issue: > > Mike Pence Slams Biden, Trump on National Debt, Inflation > https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/18/central-inflation-issue-joe-bidens-policy-is-insolvency-mike-pence-warns/ > Former Vice President Mike Pence slams Joe Biden and Donald Trump for failing to tackle entitlements, which lead to inflation. >

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/771364

> > Florida Sanctions Medicaid Providers For Covering Minor Transitions > > Florida has become the first state to sanction Medicaid providers for facilitating the attempted-gender transitions of minors. > > https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/18/florida-becomes-first-state-to-sanction-medicaid-providers-for-covering-minor-transitions/ > #Make America Florida > #DeSantis 2024

A new report out of the University of Chicago showing that almost 12 percent of the population, representing 30 million people, believe that violence is warranted to prevent Trump from assuming the presidency.

That is almost double the number who believe that violence is warranted to ensure that Trump does become president.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/726099

> Kennedy has made headlines for making statements that are contrary to many politicians in the Democratic Party, such as voicing concerns about vaccines, speaking out against online censorship and calling for a corruption investigation of President Joe Biden.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/725536

> The charges appeared on a document posted to the Fulton County court website, but it was later taken down. > > Other charges listed were violation of the state's RICO act, and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer.

Think of it as a boxing match. In the one corner, we have the former champion/president, wearing the slightly widened red trunks. At age 77, he looks somewhat bruised and battered, but he doesn’t look beaten- yet. What’s noticeable though is that his corner is empty, except for Melania cleaning his brow, not even his own party is there to support him. There are some 90 million Americans behind him, but they are at home.

In the other corner, the defending champion, in blue trunks, weighing in at about 25 pounds and falling, looks a little lost. But behind him in his corner he has thousands of operatives: his entire party, plus the CIA and NSA and FBI and DOJ. And all the newspapers and TV channels and social media in the country. And all the judges and prosecutors, the DAs and GAs, it’s a veritable love-in. The guy in the blue trunks could be braindead and he’d still win.

Contrast this to Trump who to this day refuses to acknowledge what a disaster the covid vaccines were.

DeSantis and RFK Jr are the only 2 presidential candidates that would give us a hope of finding out the truth.

A lot of humor in this article

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/688432

> Monique Worrell, Florida state attorney for the 9th Judicial Circuit, failed to prosecute 43% of arrests - releasing 16,243 defendants without prosecution, according to state AG Ashley Moody. > > "Ms. Worrell is dismissing during the same period nearly four times the number of defendants as are being dismissed or not charged in Palm Beach County," she said, adding "It is not normal for a prosecutor to come out repeatedly after we have seen tragedy strike and insinuate, 'It's not my fault.' I submit to you this was, in a way, to distract from where fault should have lay." > > Even violent felonies were only prosecuted 41% of the time, according to Moody. > > "In February, I called on SA Monique Worrell to deliver the justice and accountability needed for the families affected by shootings in her district and said her suspension would be fully justified. She failed to do her job. Families deserve better."

Ballot harvesting by Republicans is a defensive strategy – it fails because Republicans cannot out-hustle an industrial-scale ballot manufacturing operation.

Back to Michigan, 800,000 ballots were mailed to about everyone. The leftists do this because they need a large ballot count of “sent ballots” to balance the printed ones sitting in the leftist NGO offices. We all get to witness – real time – what this looks like.

• Like most faux-populists these days, he has stellar common-man credentials: a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a J.D. from Yale Law, hedge-fund investment partner and biotech bro, who was worth $15 million before graduating from law school. (As of April, Forbes claims he’s worth $630 million.)

• In one of his books, he supported inheritance tax rates as high as 59 percent, which rural Iowans know less fondly as “the death tax.”

• Though he’s now posing as God’s gift to Republicans, he’s registered as “unaffiliated” in Ohio, where he lives, and has never even voted for a Republican nationally until backing Trump in 2020.

• Campaign finance records show him giving money to Democrats instead, including a state senate candidate in Massachusetts with long-time Obama-administration ties who’d been endorsed by conservative darling, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

• While chief executive of Roivant Sciences and Axovant Sciences, he signed a joint 2017 letter that was created by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council calling for “driving diversity and inclusion” in the industry.

Shame Trump did not fire all those corrupt attorneys working at the DOJ and FBI.

While he acknowledged the result of the fraudulent election, DeSantis voiced concerns over the election’s management, citing COVID-19 related changes to voting rules, mail-in ballots, and the censorship of the Hunter Biden story by the FBI in collaboration with tech companies.

“When they changed the rules for COVID, I think that was wrong. I think some of those changes were unconstitutional. When they do mass mail ballots, I think that’s wrong. I think ballot harvesting is wrong. I think the Zuckerbucks were wrong. I think the fact that the FBI was working with Facebook and these other tech companies to censor the Hunter Biden story was wrong. And so I don’t think it was the perfect election,” said DeSantis.

DeSantis pointed blame towards President Donald Trump for some of these issues, citing the CARES Act, which funded mail-in ballots across the country and was signed by Trump.

Interesting answer.

Listen

On October 8, 2020. only one month before the 2020 general election, Muskegon, MI City Clerk Ann Meisch noticed a black female (whose name was redacted from the police report), dropping off between 8,000-10,000 completed voter registration applications (many of them in the same handwriting) at the city clerk’s office.

The Muskegon Police Department was contacted and asked to investigate.

Meisch stated that in her opinion a quantity of the voter registration forms were highly suspicious and possibly fraudulent.

Meisch’s opinion was based on the fact that numerous forms appeared to have been completed by the same writer and upon initial examination, addresses on multiple forms were invalid or non-existent.

Meisch investigated further and found that phone numbers on multiple forms were erroneous and signatures on multiple forms didn’t appear to match signatures on file with the Department of Secretary of State. Examples included an address in the and another in the [REDACTED]

Those addresses do not exist in the Muskegon City house numbering system. Another form listed 80 W. Southern Ave which is the address for Muskegon High School and is clearly not a residence.

It should be noted that after documenting these crimes and investigating for weeks, the Michigan police turned their investigation over to the FBI who promptly buried the findings. Once again, the FBI apparently took no action—more on that in an upcoming report.

The police report has redactions throughout, but not all names were redacted. The police report names ‘GBI Strategies‘ as the organization engaged in what O’Halloran claims is widespread, systemic, voter fraud. The Tennessee-based group is heavily connected to the Biden campaign and various Democrat campaign committees.

Police reported that hundreds of pre-paid cards from “different” companies, along with “dozens of new (burner?) phones were found in the Southfield raid in Michigan.

The police report noted that there were numerous job openings listed in Flint, Michigan and Regional Field Manager postings in Washington DC and Chicago, Illinois. This group had branches across the nation.

During their investigation, the police also found partially completed voter registration forms and police found “pelican cases in the room with semi-automatic rifles joined with suppressors and optics and customized pistols.” One case had “4 rifles and 4 pistols.”

Meisch also noted that the handwriting on the ballots appeared to be the same with a similar signature and ALL OF THE BALLOTS appeared to come from the same company with two locations in Southfield and Auburn Hills.

This tip from Muskegon clerk Ann Meisch, who has been the City Clerk of Muskegon since 2007, was referred to the FBI. Clerk Meisch has been a City Clerk for other Michigan cities for 17 years before that. There’s no evidence the FBI did anything with this investigation. And in fact, the Bill Barr appointed DOJ attorney overseeing election fraud cases was notorious for political persecution against conservatives.

The important thing to note is how gullible Trump was/is. The pandemic was a fake (no deadlier then the flu) story driven by the CCP, the media, Democrat, and bureaucrats - yet Trump fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

He locked down the country and added trillions to our national debt trying to tackle a mirage.

> The national debt rose by nearly $7.8 trillion while Trump was in office, and the infusion marks the third-largest relative increase of a U.S. presidential administration, according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

> Trump and his allies are quick to point out that much of that came as a result of the pandemic, an unprecedented event that upended the country in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

Bidenomics

Griffin’s gift signals to his fellow businessmen, including to other conservatives, that the path to prestige still leads through the Ivy League.

And it signals to universities that they will continue to pay no price for a political agenda antithetical to mainstream American values, one that proclaims racism as the fundamental American trait.

As long as this reflexive giving remains the norm, the project of reforming universities from the inside out is doomed to fail. It is time to start building elsewhere.

Let's hope Ron does not listen to these establishment billionaires who believe mainstream American views are extreme but are happy to go along with a pick being put through a baby's skull just before it is born.

“You can sit there and talk about cable news, social media, all these other things that people are fixated on. And for me, it’s like, OK, what’s that true north?” he said. “You obviously got to win otherwise you don’t get a ticket to the dance. But once you do that, how are you going to be able to actually bring about big change to make people’s lives better?”

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Nearly half of Republicans says they would not vote for former President Trump if he were convicted of a felony, and 52% wouldn't vote for him if he were in prison on Election Day.

I smell a rat. The article said:

> “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true,” Mr. DeSantis said in response to a reporter’s question after a campaign event at a brewery in Northeast Iowa.

But did not say what the reporter's question was. Why not?

Later in the article, it has another quote saying Maduro didn't steal the election, but no context as to what he was asked. .

> “It was not an election that was conducted the way I think that we want to, but that’s different than saying Maduro stole votes or something like that,” he said. “Those theories, you know, proved to be unsubstantiated.”

As I have said before, I am a DeSantis fan, but view the fact Florida still uses voting machines a deal breaker.

But I am very suspect of this New York Times article. Has anybody seen a video?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/591135

> > The Feds’ Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal Is More Egregious Than We Knew > https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-feds-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal-is-more-egregious-than-we-knew-5415952 >

“This complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear,”

https://twitter.com/AdamLaxalt/status/1687173934188482560

https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1687160317397082112

What every conservative — including YOU — needs to do ASAP: Become a voting member of our Party.

Why?

Because we must elect state legislators who will pass election reform laws requiring all counties to stop using any kind of imaging machines for counting votes &, instead, return us to the “gold standard“ of counting votes. Again, we must elect state legislators to enact laws for: hand-counting at the polling locations before the paper ballots are allowed to leave the premises and making voting by mail the exception and not the rule.

Again, the first step in taking back our government: elect better people. By taking back the Republican Party from those running it now.

That means YOU becoming a precinct committeeman for your voting precinct. (Precinct committeeman is called different things in different states (precinct chair, precinct delegate, precinct committee officer, member, etc.; the bottom line is that you want to become a voting member of your local or county committee, and it is not difficult to do so).)

When I was a Democrat, the only Republicans I knew of were on my television, and they were never shown in a positive light.

They were illustrated by the mainstream media apparatus as buffoons with idiotic ideas who were callously individualistic, and, of course, bigots.

When I was introduced to politics, I was told there were two parties: The Democrats are "for Blacks" and the Republicans are racists.

But here's the thing: I had no personal example of a Republican whom I could point to who could challenge this simplistic perception.

This political theory was backed up by what seemed like the facts on the ground. No Republican took the time to disabuse me or anyone in my community of our perception.

A bit of debate prep never hurt anybody

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/574210

> .@FitchRatings’ downgrade of the nation's credit rating from AAA to AA+ is a result of frivolous spending and ballooning national debt for programs like the CARES and "Inflation Reduction" Acts. Florida's AAA rating remains the standard-bearer, serving as the nation's blueprint for fiscal responsibility. > > In FL, we have run large budget surpluses and have paid off nearly 25% of the state debt. > > National economic decline is a choice.

To qualify for the second debate, candidates must now surpass a 50,000 unique donor threshold, with at least 200 coming from 20 states or territories

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/560236

> “Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal,” the new district administrator said. “As the former head of the Central Florida Urban League, a civil rights organization, I can say definitively that our community thrives only when we work together despite our differences.” > > The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said the previous district tended to award contracts “based on racially and gender driven goals.”

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/551128

> The standards are clear in teaching that, despite their enslavement, blacks developed skills that “in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” — not that slavery was beneficial to them. It’s worth mentioning that the College Board’s African American studies course includes similar teachings. > > But these facts didn’t stop Republicans like Scott from advancing Harris’ false narrative about the subject. When asked about it late last week, Scott embraced the lie and used it to attack fellow 2024 primary contender Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“Today, the bottom half of households have less wealth than they did in 1989. Meanwhile, the top 10 percent have added $29 trillion in wealth. COVID lockdowns accelerated that trend. It diminished the purchasing power of the middle class and upended our workforce such that millions of people left the workforce and still to this day have not returned.

“Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work at all,” DeSantis said. “In 1953, the labor participation rate of that cohort was 98 percent. Today, it’s 89 percent.”

Abominable RFK Jr. Anti-Semitism Accusation a Harbinger of Things to Come https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/abominable-rfk-jr-anti-semitism-accusation-a-harbinger-of-things-to-come-5403048

RT @DeSantisWarRoom@twitter.com: “🔥 MUST READ: @RonDeSantis’ Declaration of Economic Independence. https://rondesantis.com/mission/Declaration-of-economic-independence/

https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1686115274255142913

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/538535

> cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/538534 > > > “The Harris-Biden Administration is still angry that @RonDeSantis removed pornographic books from school libraries,”