FMJRA 2.0: Camouflage

Posted on | July 25, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Camouflage

Turns out there’s three songs with this title: the original by Stan Ridgway (probably better known as the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo), a cover by Sabaton, and a completely different song by Brad Paisley, which was funny enough to make me pull off the road at the Ranger station because I was laughing so hard.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

“Did somebody say camouflage?”

Rule 5 Sunday: Rumiko Manbagi
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Build a Path to Citizenship’
EBL

Mystery Gunmen in D.C.
Bacon Time
357 Magnum
EBL

Aspiring Podcaster Update
357 Magnum
EBL

The First Rule of Censorship Club
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Blank Generation
A View From The Beach
EBL

Mindless Carnage Continues in Chicago
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL

Philly to Chicago: ‘Hold My Beer’
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.19.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Texas Democrats Spreading COVID-19
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.20.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Democrats to Rural America: ‘Vote for Us, You Ignorant Racist Hillbilly Yokels!’
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.22.21 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.23.21 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Fact Check: Were 2020 Polls ‘Rigged’? Is There Even Any Need to Ask Anymore?
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.22.21 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

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Return of the Aspiring Rapper Update

Posted on | July 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Return of the Aspiring Rapper Update

A few headlines from recent months:

Aspiring rapper fatally shot by 2 men
on moped in Washington Heights:
law enforcement source
— WPIX-TV, Sept. 4, 2020

Aspiring rapper found dead
in trunk of longtime friend
— WJAX-TV, Oct. 27, 2020

San Antonio murder suspect is
aspiring rapper also charged
in deadly Austin shooting
— KSAT-TV, Jan. 28, 2021

Aspiring rapper pleads guilty
to stealing $4M from his job
to fund music career
— Rollingout, Feb. 5, 2021

Manager for aspiring rapper
speaks about Cobb County
triple homicide, felony charges
— WAGA-TIV, July 12, 2021

Accused Times Square shooter
is aspiring rapper out on bail
for weapons charges
— New York Post, July 16, 2021

Former St. Johns running back,
aspiring rapper dead after
Johns Island shooting
— WCIV-TV, July 22, 2021

Last weekend, we brought you the stories of such aspiring rappers as Jacquavius Dennard Smith, a/k/a “9lokkNine,” of Orlando, Zerail Dijon Rivera, a/k/a “Indian Red Boy,” of Los Angeles, and the Jacksonville war between rival rap gangs led by Kenyatta “Yungeen Ace” Bullard and Charles “Foolio” Jones. Remember the Urban Dictionary definition:

Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject’s demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”

Aspiring rappers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have been busy lately:

In the latest chapter of Baton Rouge rap drama, two local rappers were arrested this week in Miami after federal agents searched a south Florida house belonging to Fredo Bang and arrested his associate Lit Yoshi, who was already out on $1.82 million bond and now faces additional charges stemming from yet another gang shooting.
The raid came after investigators linked Lit Yoshi, whose real name is Mieyoshi Edwards, to an April 2020 shooting in Slidell — and several months after a Baton Rouge judge told him to stop treating his house arrest as a “paid vacation” in south Florida.
Edwards, 22, already faced seven counts of attempted first-degree murder in Baton Rouge. His existing charges stemmed from two shootings that detectives attributed to a simmering feud between rival Baton Rouge record labels. Edwards relocated to Florida after posting bond last August, a move the judge called prudent for his safety.
He was living in Miami with Fredo Bang, whose real name is Fredrick Givens. Both young men have established themselves as relatively successful rappers and are members of the Top Boy Gorilla gang, which goes by TBG.
Givens was on parole after pleading guilty to illegal use of weapons and simple criminal damage to property following a 2015 shooting outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex. He was arrested Thursday on a parole violation after police and federal agents found guns inside his house and a stolen car outside, his attorney confirmed.
Law enforcement officials had previously announced they were investigating Givens and Edwards in connection with a May 2019 shooting in Miami targeting NBA YoungBoy, founder of a rival rap gang. Neither has been charged in that case, though a judge ruled in February that evidence from the Miami incident and the Slidell shooting could be used against Edwards in his ongoing attempted murder case.

Seven counts of attempted murder, out on bond and hanging around Miami with a paroled felon — a career goal to which all rappers aspire.

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In The Mailbox: 07.22.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 23, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.22.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Under The Same Sky – Scathach/Skadi

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: A Collection Of COVID Info
357 Magnum: Another Failure Of The Victim Selection Process
EBL: Cosmic Sin, also, People Who Don’t Watch CNN Now Will Pay To Watch CNN+?
Twitchy: Dan Crenshaw Uses Poorly Aged Dem Quotes To Nuke Avid Axelrod’s “Next-Level Gaslighting” About Vaccine Hesitancy
Louder With Crowder: Student Testifies That Teacher Assigned Mandatory “Equity” Survey She Wasn’t Supposed To Tell her Parents About
Vox Popoli: Vermont Is Doomed, also, AL Governor Effectively Resigns
According To Hoyt: Strange Ideas, also, It’s Not The Worst of Times
Monster Hunter Nation: How Stupid Are File 770 Readers? This Stupid, also, How To Write A Fanzine China Mike Glyer Style

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: America’s Lackluster Beach Towns
American Greatness: TX Starts Jailing Illegals On State Trespassing Charges, also, CNN’s Sparsely Attended Biden Town Hall Flops In The Ratings
American Power: The Contradictions Of Ibram X. Kendi
American Thinker: Monkey Business From Red China – COVID Part II?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Misery Index Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban-American Democrat Calls On Media To Stop Pushing Cuba’s Communist Regime Narrative, also, When Repression Knocks At Your Door
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 23
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Court Rejects Viasat’s Attempt To Halt SpaceX Starlink Launches
Cafe Hayek: Dan Sutter Interviews David Henderson On COVID-19
Da Tech Guy: My Advice To Those Trying To Push The Vaccine, also, Draft Women, Red China’s Bad Japan Move, & Now I’ve Seen Everything – Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Germany Suspends Bad Reporters, While America Promotes Them, also, Fed Predicts Highest Inflation In 31 Years
First Street Journal: Nothing Is Private Anymore, also, I’m Surprised That The Usual Suspects Aren’t Out Protesting Already
The Geller Report: Democrat Councilman Wants DC Broken Down Into Separate Bantustans, also, Righteous Japan – Olympics Has Moment Of Silence For Slain Munich Olympians For The First Time
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Starting A Solar System
Hollywood In Toto: Shyamalan Returns To His Old Habits, also, Heaton’s “Hideous” Ode To LA
The Lid: Operation Allies Refuge – Help For Our Brave Afghan Terps
Legal Insurrection: More Voters Want BLM Riots Probed Than January 6, also, Cleveland Indians Wuss Out, Change Name
Nebraska Energy Observer: The American Spirit
Outkick: Guardians Everywhere Likely To Be Offended By Cleveland Baseball Team’s New Name, Even Space Jam‘s Director Thinks LeBron Sucks, also, Kansas Leaving Big 12 Too?
Power Line: Another Climate Alarm Loses Its Mojo, also, About Those German Floods
Shark Tank: PR Looks To Senator Rubio To Lead On Humanitarian Crisis Caused By Commonwealth’s Status Quo
Shot In The Dark: A Big Ol’ Slug From The Poisoned Chalice, also, Foreshadowing
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Question of South Africa, also, We’re One Step Closer To Creating Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Haze Gray & Underway – Almost
Transterrestrial Musings: A Partial Victory In My Lawsuit, also, Failure To Launch
Victory Girls: Fired January 6 DEA Agent Lured By FBI?
Volokh Conspiracy: Sixth Circuit Concludes CDC Eviction Moratorium Is Unlawful
Weasel Zippers: Biden Says He Was On The Judiciary Committee “150 Years Ago”, also, Texas Couple Charged With Smuggling 89 Illegals In Stolen Trailer
The Federalist: Whitmer Kidnapping Case Reveals The FBI’s New Counterterrorism Target Is You, also, Red Chinese Tech Firm Huawei Hires Tony Podesta For His Biden Connections
Mark Steyn: We Have Met The Enemy Part XIII, also, Buncoed In Moose Pasture

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Fact Check: Were 2020 Polls ‘Rigged’? Is There Even Any Need to Ask Anymore?

Posted on | July 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Fact Check: Were 2020 Polls ‘Rigged’? Is There Even Any Need to Ask Anymore?

In Goldfinger, the eponymous villain tells James Bond: “Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.” This is a fair appraisal of the alleged “mistakes” in 2020 presidential polls, as John Nolte explains:

Most pollsters, including all the media pollsters, blew 2016 and really blew 2020, and now they’re blaming former President Donald Trump for their own failure.
Something called the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) released a report this week that admits 2020 national polling was the worst in 40 years and state polling was the worst in the history of state polling.
The far-left Politico reports the AAPOR is blaming – you guessed it – Trump [emphasis added]:

The most plausible — yet still unproven — theory is that the voters the polls are reaching are fundamentally different from those they are not. And Trump’s rantings about the polls being “fake” or rigged only exacerbate that problem.
“If the voters most supportive of Trump were least likely to participate in polls then the polling error may be explained as follows: Self-identified Republicans who choose to respond to polls are more likely to support Democrats and those who choose not to respond to polls are more likely to support Republicans,” the report reads. “Even if the correct percentage of self-identified Republicans were polled, differences in the Republicans who did and did not respond could produce the observed polling error.”

Oh, okay, guys… Then please explain to me why some pollsters got it pretty close to correct in 2016 and 2020?
Nowhere in Politico’s write-up of this pile-of-shit autopsy does anyone acknowledge the handful of pollsters who came out of 2020 looking pretty good. Among them, are Rasmussen, Trafalgar, and IBD/TIPP.
Obviously, someone knows how to poll even with all those mean Trumptards out there looking to screw up the polling game.
Good grief, this is not difficult.
We all know the problem, we all know the answer to the problem, and still, the pompously named AAPOR is pretending no one knows how to poll in TrumpLand, and nothing will ever improve.
Honestly, how hard would it be to mimic the methodology of pollsters who did it right in 2020? Not hard at all. But nowhere in the Politico report does anyone suggest that pretty gosh-darned simple idea (the far-left Politico sure doesn’t) because these serial liars aren’t interested in getting it right.

Exactly so. The problem with most 2020 polls is plainly evident — the “weighting” of their samples (especially in terms of self-identified Republican/Democrat/Independent voters) was wrong, and this “weighting” problem was so wrong that it could not have been accidental. The fact that a handful of pollsters were able to “weight” their samples accurately, so as to predict the election outcome within a few points, raises the question of why other pollsters did not do the same, given that all of the public polling companies publish their R/D/I numbers.

This was enemy action, as Goldfinger would say — polls as partisan propaganda for Democrats, part of a deliberate disinformation campaign intended to sow discouragement among Republicans. Among the very worst polls were those associated with prestigious major news organizations. For example, CNN’s final national poll, released Oct. 28, the Wednesday before Election Day, had Biden leading by 12 points — TWELVE POINTS! — which was nearly eight points higher than the 4.5 actual margin. You cannot be that wrong by accident. Here, from page 28 of CNN’s final poll report, is the key description of their methodology:

A total of 1,005 adults were interviewed by telephone nationwide by live interviewers calling both landline and cell phones. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. Among the entire sample, 33% described themselves as Democrats, 28% described themselves as Republicans, and 39% described themselves as independents or members of another party.
All respondents were asked questions concerning basic demographics, and the entire sample was weighted to reflect national Census figures for gender, race, age, education, region of country, and telephone usage.

So, from a raw sample that was D+5, the consequence of CNN’s “weighting” process was a 12-point advantage for Biden, and even with the benefit of hindsight, they cannot admit where the problem lies.

As glaring as this “enemy action” factor is in the worst 2020 national polls — and CNN’s poll was complete garbage — it was even more obvious in certain so-called “battleground” states that on Election Day proved to be solid for Trump. Consider the case of Iowa, which has been trending “red” for the past decade or more. If you were following the Real Clear Politics average, you might have thought in October that Joe Biden was on the verge of winning Iowa, because beginning in late September, a series of polls showed him either leading or tied with Trump in the Hawkeye State. I remember checking the RCP Electoral College map, which showed Iowa as a “toss-up,” watching Biden (supposedly) pull into a lead there, and thinking: “Damn, if Trump can’t even win Iowa . . .” The specter of a 1980 Jimmy Carter-style wipeout loomed as a shadow over the final month of the campaign. And why? Bad polls.

Not just off by a few points either, but astonishingly wrong — so wrong that only “enemy action” can explain how wrong they were. Consider the New York Times/Sienna College poll of Oct. 18-20, which had Biden leading Trump in Iowa by three points, 46%-43%. Just ask yourself, how likely was it, in the third week of October 2020, that 11% of Iowa voters were still undecided. Do you see my point here? Such a high number of undecided voters less than two weeks before an election ought to raise doubts, even if the numbers otherwise don’t seem strange.

But the numbers in this NYT/Sienna poll were very strange indeed. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary by nearly 10 points — 51%-42% — in Iowa, and so when NYT/Sienna claimed Biden was ahead by 3 points, what they were predicting was a 12-point swing in Iowa. Was that even possible?

Of course not. On Election Day, Trump won 53%-45% in Iowa — meaning that the NYT/Sienna poll missed it by 11 points. “Enemy action.”

Or consider the historical “bellwether” state of Ohio. I clearly recall the unreal experience of being on the ground there in October:

Brilliant yellow maple trees surround my mother-in-law’s home in rural Ohio, and the roads in her part of the state are lined not only with the colorful foliage of late October but also with signs expressing support for President Trump’s election. Anyone can look at the results from 2016 and see that Trump racked up majorities of 2 to 1 or more in this part of Ohio — 72 percent in Morrow County, 71 percent in Crawford County, 67 percent in Knox County, 66 percent in Richland County, 64 percent in Marion County. In fact, Trump won 80 of Ohio’s 88 counties four years ago, defeating Hillary Clinton by an eight-point margin statewide.
If you believe the polls, Joe Biden is neck-and-neck with Trump in Ohio.

And if you believed those polls, you were a damned fool. Trump beat Biden in Ohio 53%-45%, matching the 8-point margin by which he defeated Hillary there four years earlier. So why did so many people believe the race was “neck-and-neck” in the Buckeye State in October? Bad polls — and again, as in Iowa, NYT/Sienna shows up among the culprits, with an early October poll that had Biden leading 45%-44% in Ohio, i.e., nine points off the final. But the real stinkeroo among Ohio polls — arguably the worst single poll of the entire campaign — was Quinnipiac University’s Oct. 1-5 poll, which had Biden ahead in Ohio by five points, 50%-45%, missing the actual result by 13 points.

Anyone looking at the RCP Average of Ohio polls in mid-October would have believed that Trump was on the ropes there. Of the nine Ohio polls conducted between Sept. 17 and Oct. 27, Biden led in six of them, Trump led in two, and one showed a tie, so that in late September, Biden led by 3.3% in the Ohio RCP Average, and as late as Oct. 30, it was still a virtual tie. Only in the final few days did the Ohio RCP average shift slightly in Trump’s favor — by a single point, when in fact he won by 8 points and, everyone ought to be able to admit in retrospect, it was never really possible for Biden to win Ohio, nor was it likely he could even make it very close. The polls were wrong all along — “enemy action.”

When Trump said the polls were “rigged,” he was simply stating a fact.

Category: Election, Media Bias, Polls

In The Mailbox: 07.23.21 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 23, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.23.21 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The road to late blogposts is paved with good intentions.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Is President Asterisk Ruthlessly Deleting Wrongthink In Your DMs & Emails?
357 Magnum: The 2020 Police Exodus Continues In 2021
EBL: Liz Cheney Goes To Washington & Grifts With Pelosi
Twitchy: Politifact rules Biden Didn’t Say That Thing He Clearly Said About Handguns, And Dana Loesch Drops Them
Louder With Crowder: Anthony Fauci Chills With Olivia Rodrigo, Creates Creepiest Video Of All Time
Vox Popoli: The Retardery Increases, also, Putting Kids At Real Risk
Stoic Observations: Who Needs Science?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Coming “January 6” Train Wreck
American Greatness: Joe Biden Babbles Incoherently During Trainwreck CNN Town Hall
American Power: Larry Elder Wins Lawsuit, Will Be On California Recall Ballot
American Thinker: The Antifa/FBI Coalition
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Petroleum News
Babalu Blog: Uprising In Cuba – “There’s No Turning Back”, also, ABC Spain Reports Chaos, Panic At Top Levels Of Cuba’s Communist Regime – Possible Exit To South Africa?
BattleSwarm: Biden Crashes Again
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, It’s Drill Time For Perseverance!
Cafe Hayek: Foreign Investment In The U.S. Isn’t “Distorting”
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Choosing The Chosen, also, This Should Be The Easiest Five Million A Leftist Techie Ever Made
Don Surber: Democrat Mocks Slavery, also, Biden Offers Republicans Hope
First Street Journal: It’s Being Set Up Again! also, Murder In The Gateway City
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: George Soros Funnels $1Million To Police Defunding Efforts As Violent Crime Surges, also, Texas Looking Into Divestment From Unilever Over Ben & Jerry’s Anti-Jewish Boycott
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Some Radio Ratings
Hollywood In Toto: Twister At 25 – Small IQ, Big Thrills, also, New Space Jam Is A Bloated Nostalgia Headache
The Lid: Why BDS And Ben & Jerry’s Boycott Are Anti-Semitic
Legal Insurrection: Prosecutor Who Went After The McCloskeys Was No-Show For Murder Trial – Judge Forced To Free Killer, also, Pentagon Reportedly Tracking Web Searches Including Phrase “The Truth About Black Lives Matter”
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Faithful
Outkick: Maria Taylor Emblematic Of The Leftist Vision Of America, also, Texas & Oklahoma Moving To SEC?
Power Line: Thank Goodness For Censors, also, Did The FBI Promote The Plot To Kidnap Gov. Whitmer?
Shark Tank: Sabatini Files Bill Mandating Use Of E-Verify In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Urban Progressive Privilege – My Scientific Research Project
The Political Hat: Woke Racial Guilt, also, Nothing Says Queer Like A Lesbian Enthusiastically Giving Fellatio
This Ain’t Hell: Most Political General In Generations Claims He’s Apolitical, also, SFC Cashe Reportedly To Receive Medal Of Honor Soon
Transterrestrial Musings: Vice-President Trump?
Victory Girls: Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn Gets Dragged By Tucker Carlson
Volokh Conspiracy: NLRB Rejects Complaint Against “Scabby The Rat”
Weasel Zippers: Judge Orders Minneapolis To Hire More Police After City Tries To Defund Police, also, Biden Lies About Crime Being Down
The Federalist: Memories Of Tree Spiking Are Fresh Where Biden’s BLM Nominee Engaged In Ecoterrorism, also, Biden’s Border Crisis Is About To Make History
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet – With A Few Extras, also, The Last Dam Buster

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In The Mailbox: 07.22.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 22, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.22.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Under The Same Sky –
“Akuta Hinako” a.k.a. Consort Yu

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1420
357 Magnum: Second City Cop On The Failure Of Chicago’s Mayor
EBL: The First Moscow Purge Trial – Er, The First DC Show Trial
Twitchy: Vile Heretic Pelosi Declares Herself A “Devout Catholic” While Arguing For Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
Louder With Crowder: “You’re A Little Desperate”
Vox Popoli: The Chickenhawk Guarding The Coop, also, Go Woke & Choke

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Greasy Pole Episode 17 – Get Yourself A Slave
American Conservative: Boiling The Frog In South Africa
American Greatness: Red China’s Hitler Decade, also, Stop Pretending “Moderate” Democrats Are Heroes
American Power: Administration Walks Back Ties To Racists Pushing Critical Race Theory In Schools
American Thinker: Progressivism’s Collapse & Why It Matters
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: New Images Out Of Communist Cuba Show Protests Are Continuing
BattleSwarm: The Return Of Urban Blight
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Democrat Proposes New Tax On Private Manned Spaceflight
Cafe Hayek: Some COVID Links
CDR Salamander: It Doesn’t Have To Be Painted Grey, You Know
Da Tech Guy: My Advice To Conservative Companies/Candidates Approached by The MSM For Interviews, also, Report From Louisiana – Inner City Blues
Don Surber: Lady Democrats Are Super Spreaders, also, Voting Democrat Got You This
First Street Journal: If The News Doesn’t Fit Teh Narrative… also, Will Other Bishops & Priests Show This Kind Of Courage?
The Geller Report: Sen. Rand Paul Requests Criminal Referral From DOJ For Dr. Fauci, also, UK Postal Worker Demands Jew Denounce Israel To Receive Residence Permit
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Hubble Is Back In Business
Hollywood In Toto: Canceled In The USA Reveals How Cancel Culture Hurts Americans, also, Horror Import Kandisha Offers Fresh Take On Time-Tested Formula
The Lid: American Apologists For Communist Cuban Oppressors
Legal Insurrection: Molotov Cocktail lawyers Headed For Trial After Plea Negotiations Break Down, also, U.S. Womens’ Soccer Team Takes A Knee, Gets Skunked By Sweden
Michelle Malkin: Hide, Seek, Selective Leak
Nebraska Energy Observer: Holy Spirit Moment, also, The War On America
Outkick: Red China Won’t Carry LeBron’s Space Jam, also, Fear The Deer – The Milwaukee Bucks Are NBA Champions
Power Line: Fallacious Fauci Strikes Again, also, Poll – College Students Overwhelmingly Favor Race-Blind Admissions
Shark Tank: Rubio Calls Democratic Socialists “Crazy”, Says Administration Needs To Expedite End To Communist Cuban Regime
Shot In The Dark: The Mutual Disgust That Dare Not Say Its Name
The Political Hat: Free Speech Victory Over Pronouns In California, also, Congressional Republicans Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Tweet Offends Twits At Twitter, also, Green Beret Saved Injured Woman From Drowning
Transterrestrial Musings: Space Nuclear Power, also, Kamala Harris
Victory Girls: Eric Swalwell Had His Hand In The Campaign Fund Cookie Jar
Volokh Conspiracy: Freedom Of Speech != The Free Speech Clause
Weasel Zippers: Biden ATF Nominee Mocks Gun Owners, also, Occasional Cortex Frets That GOP Is Laying Groundwork For Regime Change In Cuba
The Federalist: House Democrats Block Bill Declassifying Origins Of Corona-chan, also, The Biggest Source Of Misinformation, Lies, & Delusion Is The Leftist Corporate Media
Mark Steyn: Harrying High, also, The Geopolitics Of Ice Cream

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Democrats to Rural America: ‘Vote for Us, You Ignorant Racist Hillbilly Yokels!’

Posted on | July 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Democrats to Rural America: ‘Vote for Us, You Ignorant Racist Hillbilly Yokels!’

If you’re a member of the Urban Crime and Drag Queen Story Time Party, you might not be too popular among bitter Bible-clingers:

Democrats running for elected office in the House and Senate from rural America are starting to depart from using party identification in their ads in hopes of attracting more voters.
This means many candidates for office are running against the platform of their own party, according to Axios. Since the 2020 election, the Democrats in both chambers of Congress have had a wafer-thin majority, and the Republicans are looking to overtake them in the fast-approaching midterms next year.

(It’s July 2021. The midterm elections are more than 15 months away. The only reason the media are hyping this as “fast-approaching” is because they’ve got a feeble-minded idiot in the White House, and they know voters are sick of being smeared as “racists.” So the media are trying to help Democrats avoid total wipeout in November 2022.)

Since former President Donald Trump talked about rural Americans throughout his entire presidency and on the campaign trail, Democrats in those places now feel “reflexively distrustful of progressive solutions to everything from the pandemic to infrastructure.”

(Question: Was there ever a time in the past 50 years that rural Americans were excited about the “progressive solutions” agenda?)

Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan (OH), running for one of Ohio’s Senate seats, released a campaign ad roughly three minutes long. The Democrat did not mention his party affiliation once.

(Ryan is utterly doomed in Ohio, where Trump won by 8 points.)

According to the report, Democrat strategists from rural states have advised the candidates to avoid using “fancy” language and to focus on populist economic policies.

(“Don’t scare the hillbillies with your college-educated words.”)

“Several consultants insisted that Democratic policies — on labor rights, broadband, climate and infrastructure — are popular in rural areas. It’s the messaging that’s causing heartburn,” the report added.

(Or maybe some of those hicks are smart enough to turn on their TVs and see Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Rashid Tlaib and say, “Nope. Ain’t voting for that party.”)

Democrat candidate Monica Tranel is looking to pick up the new congressional seat in Montana next year. However, Tranel, in her ad, declared: “So many people I grew up with don’t vote for Democrats anymore.”

(Feminist with a law degree from Rutgers says what?)

She also said, “They feel like Democrats look down on rural America.” Montana’s only congressional seat has gone to a Republican since 1997.

(Maybe the reason they feel that way is because it’s true.)

Zac McCrary, a Democrat pollster and partner at ALG Research, told Axios, the recent moves made by President Joe Biden on “infrastructure” and the “child tax credit” are “consistent with traditional, economic, Democratic populism that has real currency in rural areas.”

(Democrats consider Drag Queen Story Time to be “infrastructure.”)

However, he also mentioned that candidates in vulnerable districts “need to have an answer to the question: What makes you different from a lot of the other Democrats?”

(Honest answer: “Nothing.” All Democrats will vote for banning oil pipelines, shutting down the coal industry, turning loose violent criminals, and spending your tax dollars on Drag Queen Story Time.)

The report added that some Democrats in leadership have always warned that using certain language only hurts candidates. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) has discouraged from using “defund the police.”

How about defunding Nancy Pelosi? She’s gotten rich from insider deals while running around telling the rest of us what racists we are. She had one previous four-year tenure as House Speaker, lost the gavel in 2010, got it back in 2018, and is now 80 years old. How much longer do Democrats think they can keep playing the same predictable game and expecting different results? They need to lose, and lose badly.

And I certainly hope that nobody in rural America is deceived about who Democrats really represent — namely, Satan.