From my perspective there are only two options that result in a Harris victory: (1) enough of the voting populace no longer believes in the foundational principles of this nation and voted to continue a regime that is utterly opposed to those principles; or (2) the Left has so rigged the system through voting fraud and media fraud that no future election will ever be free and fair. Either way, a Kamala victory means the death of the USA.
They just have to believe Trump is unstable and unpresidential and divisive and vote for the secret behind door number 2. That is why Harris is laying low.
Trump has no ability to govern in a bureaucracy, has no GOTV strategy and makes no effort to appeal beyond his base, which is 40-45 pct. He also seeks to be conserving his personal wealth rather than spending it on the campaign.
I don’t want the Dems to win, but I don’t think Trump can take them.
Trump is considered a good to very good President, certainly better than the other three of this century!
His foreign policy was excellent, supporting the countries that honor human rights, and opposing with actions the countries that are the worst abusers of human rights: Russia, Iran, Communist China.
When Trump became President Obama had let NATO crumble to the point where it was collapsing, with just four of its members meeting the basic requirement of spending 2% of GDP on defense. Trump rescued NATO, more than doubling the number of countries meeting that requirement in 2020.
Obama released more than $15 billion to Iran, largely for use in its terrorist programs. Trump stopped the flow of money, and negotiated 5 majority-Muslim countries to recognize Israel (the main target of Iran's attacks).
That strategy worked for Biden in 2020 with jacked up rules during a Dem induced health panic - by 43,000 votes across 3 states - 2 of them, WI and PA had court rulings later that would have invalidated Biden's winning ballots if made in a timely fashion. The last state, GA , 13,000 votes. Trump chose the wrong legal strategy there. He probably could have won GA with some different challenges and no calls to the Sec of state - stupid! Dems nearly elected Al Gore in 2000 by fussing about hanging chad's in Florida and claiming their voters didn't know who they voted for! Trump being everywhere while Kamala is nowhere is the groundwork for his GOTV strategy. The fact that 60% of Teamsters favor Trump...
As far as governing, despite 5 soft coup attempts that tied him up, Trump did a damn site better than Biden. And I've got a feeling Trump will appoint some folks who will flush the swampers out of the gate this time around.
While I understand concerns about voting in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, not to mention other states hit by natural disasters, the biggest threat to a legitimate election is all the bogus voter registrations in swing states where drop boxes and mail-in ballots are used with limited signature verification. Ballots sent to undeliverable people and addresses total in the millions and have been confirmed by data analysis, which appears to be credible and novel in its approach.
Undeliverable ballots get returned and distributed to leftist ngos, according to this group. I definitely would be looking at this issue if I was Trump, the RNC or Elon Musk, because it is the possible mechanism through which all these votes show up at 2:00 AM.
Where do these undeliverable ballots go after they are returned to the post office (whose union endorsed Kamala Harris)? Do they end up getting collected and voted by leftist's NGOs after being returned to the post office? That is what is being alleged and its on a scale that may overwhelm a positive vote for Trump in swing states.
This morning I went to a brunch attended by about 25 speakers from yesterday’s “Stanford Pandemic Policy Reform Conference” including Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Anders Tegnell (the man who led Sweden’s Covid response) among others.
Two comments jumped out at me: (1) by far the largest source of COVID misinformation was the US Federal government; and, (2) the current Federal plan in place for dealing with the next pandemic includes LOCKDOWNS.
These two facts alone should motivate people away from voting for a Harris administration.
Please provide the most egregious examples of that misinformation from the federal government. Does it compare with the more than 600 conspiracy theories about the dangers of Covid vaccinations posted by one website during the pandemic? Or the theories about bogus or quack treatments for Covid spread by Donald Trump that had to be denied by Dr. Fauci and the other health experts in the Trump administration? Or Trump’s downplaying of Covid’s risks and predictions it would be gone by Easter?
If by the “Federal Government,” the conferees meant Donald Trump, I would agree.
*Masking mandates work. (Fun fact: they don’t; caused a LOT of division in our country, some of which still exists.)
*Lockdowns work. (Fun fact: they don’t, and calling low-wage workers “non-essential” was divisive in our country, some of which still exists.)
*Biden/Harris led a resurgent economy. (Fun fact: Regaining jobs that were laid-off due to Democrat governors’ lockdown mandates is disingenuous at best.)
* Covid vaccinations result in not getting COVID, and not transmitting COVID. (Fun fact: just egregious government misinformation.)
*There’s more, but I suspect you don’t care. (Fun fact: persuading Democrats with facts instead of emotion is generally unsuccessful.)
“By any measure, the American COVID response was a catastrophic failure. More than 1.2 million deaths have been attributed to COVID itself, and deaths from all causes have stayed high long after the number of COVID deaths themselves diminished. In many states, particularly blue states, children were kept out of school for a year and a half or longer, with devastating effects on their learning and future health and prosperity.
“Coercive policy regarding COVID vaccination, recommended by Fauci on the false premise that vaccinated people could not get or spread the virus, collapsed public trust in other vaccines and led the media and public health officials to gaslight individuals who had suffered legitimate vaccine injuries. To pay for the lockdowns recommended by Fauci, the U.S. government spent trillions of dollars, causing high unemployment in the most locked-down states and a hangover of higher prices for consumer goods that continues to this day. Who is to blame?“
First, it was proven over and over during the pandemic that masking mandates work to reduce Covid infection rates and deaths. Counties that had masking mandates had much lower infection and death rates than counties that did not have mask mandates. The reason is obvious. The virus moves through the air in droplets of moisture, to which the mask is a barrier. This is not rocket science. Masks became politicized when Trump refused to wear one. There is a reason hospitals personnel wear masks to protect from contagion. Masks are not perfect and much depends on the care with which they are maintained and worn.
Second, lockdowns obviously work. Lockdowns prevent persons from contact with persons who are either knowingly or unknowingly infected and could be contagious. What part of that do those who think lockdowns don’t work not understand? Since 30-to-40% of those infected with Covid don’t have symptoms, during the pandemic they were walking around infecting others. At least with the flu, most infected persons feel sick and stay home. That was not true with Covid, so lockdowns prevented a lot of infections and deaths.
Third, essential workers risked their health and lives to stay on the job before vaccinations were available. Non-essential workers were protected by staying home or working from home if they could. The level of wages had nothing to do with who was essential and who was not.
Fourth, not one knowledgable person claimed that a Covid vaccination would prevent infection from Covid. For the initial virus, the protection from infection was high, but certainly not 100%. Successive variants of the virus, through natural selection, became successively less virulent, but more contagious. That’s because virulent strains were more likely to cause hospitalization and death, and so not be passed to others, while the more contagious variants were more likely to infect others and become dominant. So as time went on, the vaccines became less likely to protect from infection because the new mutations were more contagious. What the vaccines continued to do well, however, was to protect from hospitalization and death. Only a small percentage of persons infected are hospitalized and die. This has been well publicized
Your first two points should have some receipts. I'm a math guy. Please provide us with links to your county by county masking data set. Same with lockdowns.
Your 3rd point, if you're a non-essential worker, say a bartender impacted by the lockdown, I'd like to see the official wage statements on whether those people were compensated appropriately, please provide data.
On your 4th point, the CDC and Anthony Fauci were arguably "knowledgeable people" but they still claimed that, yes the vaccines would protect you from infection (upwards of 95%) and from transmitting it -that was their message after the prevention argument went upside down. Are you willing to concede that Fauci and the CDC didn't know WTF they were doing and made millions pretending they did?
I had a growth on my thyroid that was possible cancer discovered just as the lockdowns started. My surgery was postponed for several months due to the constrictions on operating rooms. How stupid is that? Fortunately, the growth was benign and the biopsy confirmed, but the surgeon said he would never know until he took it out.
Guess I was one of the many declared to be "non essential" by the political hacks running the government and this includes uninformed governors. Seems like some of us where disposable but still had to wear masks and confine ourselves to our quarters.
My daughter discovered she was pregnant as the pandemic broke. She is a DVM so knows a bit about vaccines and viruses. She refused to get vaccinated because she was concerned there had not been sufficient trials of the impacts of this type of vaccine on fetuses and pregnancies. Smart girl. She had a mild case of Covid at one point that was no worse than a cold.
The following policies were pulled out of someone's posterior: masking, 6" distancing, Fauci not acknowledging that we funded the research that Might (or might not) have created the virus and engaging in a campaign to cover up his conflict of interest. Yeah the vaccines - check the clinical trials! Why did the vaccines still have emergency status long after the emergency was declared over? Especially for kids where the clinical trials were not good. And then the lockdowns arbitrarily enacted by Dem governors that randomly picked winners and losers in the Coviid economy.
My neighbor, a doctor, is a Democrat married to a teacher, also a Democrat. He sleeps with a Democrat and is voting for Trump. We were alone when he told me. That's why Trump is going to win.
In 2016 I remember reading about the recount in Detroit ( I could be misremembering but I think not). The first ward to be recounted had 110% of the registered voters voting. The same with the second ward. The Judge hearing the recount request suggested that it was evident that fraud was involved in the initial count and a recount was not allowed. BTW no one was punished or investigated. I told my friend that after the 2016 election the Democrats would never allow it to be that close again. I think 2020 proved me correct. Now that we are onto 2024 and so many Americans are watching I wonder if pizza boxed on windows or "broken" water pipes will work again. (The miss sized voter in Arizona worked so well I suspect that will happen again. ) If those are tried again will they convince the public that the election was fair? If not will the public just accept it like they did the last time?
" If those are tried again will they convince the public that the election was fair? If not will the public just accept it like they did the last time?"
Democrats are desperate and by now completely unmoored to the slightest concern for the law or fairness. Therefore, the cheating will be vast, especially since they learned in 2020 both how to do it on a grand scale and that they can get away with it and suffer no consequences. Trump’s victory must surpass the margin of fraud in the seven ‘swing” states, and it will be a substantial margin. If he does win, there will be months of riots to rival the Spring 2020 Portland/Seattle/Minneapolis riots, obviously multiple lawsuits by the Marc Elias mafia, and probably maneuvers by Democrat criminals in Congress to block certification of the election.
When has Helen ever been wrong? Why would anyone interested in fair elections be against voter id?Why do democrats object to verifying citizenship unless they plan to vote a zillion illegal immigrants? Why have blue states enacted laws allowing illegal immigrants to get drivers licenses and then passing laws that automatically register license applicants to vote? Mail in voting is designed for fraud. That's a huge amount of cheat. The only balance will be the "fuck you" turnout and the hidden until election day male vote. All those guys married to wine moms in the suburbs will vote in person on election day in the privacy of the voting booth and it will be huge.
It's not just the "fuck you" factor, it's also the "fuck off" factor. People are getting fed up with the elites and at some point they will revolt. That could take the form of direct action or the disregard of civil disobedience.
The "fuck off" factor also characterizes the elites, who look down their nose at everyone who is not them. The disregard and contempt they've shown toward the victims and volunteers of Hurricane Helene is only the latest example of why they are a national disgrace.
I'd like to think that sound reason and logic would change people's minds, and if that worked even once in a while, then I would spend considerable effort at it, but too many people believe whatever they want to believe and no matter how many different ways you prove your position, they refuse to change their minds. That is the problem I'm trying to solve.
Dude, the regime just found $157 M to send to Lebanon to compensate them for supporting terrorists, but FEMA can't help US citizens in NC because they are out of money? More often than not, you have to connect the dots, like in a pre-school coloring book.
I think the cheating by the Dems will be massive, but Trump will still win because of the ‘Fuck You’ factor that Glenn notes.
Bring your friends to the polls. Donate money to candidates if you can.
And most of all, take no crap in your everyday life from Democrats/‘progressives’/socialists. Tell them to take their annoying poses of moral and intellectual superiority and shove them straight up their exit ramps.
Schrodinger. Classic! That seems especially apropos considering that Kamala Harris has switched positions so many times that her actual values, due to the many wavefunctions that describe them, may only be determined (if you are a Copenhagen fan) in the currently unlikely state where she wins.
The election will certainly be decided by the margin of fraud. That's why the few states that have tried to purge dead and ineligible voters face such strong opposition by Democrats whose lives will depend on the cheating.
Vote counting procedures make it virtually impossible for dead or unregistered voters to vote. More than one vote for mail-in voters or mail-in votes from unregistered voters are prevented by vote counting procedures. Technology now makes it possible to detect duplicate votes from a person who has moved from one state to another and who is still registered in his former state of residence, and persons have been prosecuted and jailed for doing that. Even so, the risk reward for an individual voting in two states is ZERO. I mean, great risk of prosecution and zero reward. So those instances of individual fraud are rare. Also, see my original post on election rigging a little while ago.
Definitely not zero, probably upwards of 50% Liberals continually remind us, when arguing for criminal reform that criminals never take consequences into account. And yes when they are detected, there are a lot of people who vote in multiple states or jurisdictions, but because they are prosecuted on an individual basis it's not considered "widespread voter fraud".
I can’t explain why Harris seems so complacent and even confident enough to barely campaign or take questions. The only explanation I can think of is that she somehow knows or has been promised that the outcome will be in her favor. She certainly was not in charge of the coup and appears to be the organizers chosen puppet. My sincere belief is that she will be made president for those behind the scenes to control and direct, and this will be done through whatever means necessary. They will never allow Trump or anyone from outside the star chamber to be president; ever.
You are correct! Hell, I don't want to watch her in public because I'm afraid I'll lose IQ points! But, yes, the Chosen one doesn't want her in public because she can't talk well. The more she talks in public the worse it is for her. And they don't want it. Trump is back on top of the betting markets, despite what I suspect are big bets by Dem donors for Harris. It's just foota be a victory that is "too big to Rig"!
1) All Trump voters should get their vote in ASAP. In a dispute, generally, the first vote received is counted.
2) Do your work - volunteer to drive people to the polls, get trained as a poll worker (I did that yesterday), work on a GOTV campaign, post a sign in your yard - it may not lead to more votes, but it will give heart to people on your side. I know I found my heart lift yesterday when traveling to see the number of Trump signs, and the paucity of Harris ones.
3) Pray. A lot.
For what it's worth, the support for Harris/Vance is tepid. A lot of the media coverage of rallies is designed to hide the weakness of that support.
Similarly, the coverage of Trump is designed to make it seem that most people do NOT favor him, something I think is contrary to reality. Trump scares the hell out of the media - and, it SHOULD.
After seeing the blatant cheating of the last election, I can't guarantee victory. But, I'm cautiously hopeful.
Helen is correct. The Dems have already announced with a megaphone that they will cheat and they will win and there is nothing the Republicans can do about it. Every Dem I know is silently affirming that conclusion. In 2020 they were smugly and silently pleased. Now they just know and don't care
How in the world did the Democrats plan, finance, recruit hundreds or thousands of mules, election workers, election supervisors, election certifiers, politicians, poll watchers, lawyers, judges, ballot printers, ballot truckers, and others into a giant conspiracy to rig the election, and then train them, supply them, direct them, and pay them, without a single text, email, letter, receipt, bank record, or other document, recording, video, ever surfacing, and without a single leak or person going to the FBI and saying, “Hey, someone wants me to rig the election.”. This has to be a conspiracy like no one’s ever seen!
By your logic, then, outcome-changing voter fraud could not happen. History shows us that is not true. You are overlooking or ignoring the fact that if a large enough group of people connected in any way with the voting process are all on the same page, i.e. they will do anything to attain power, then no conspiracy is necessary. That is the real threat.
Every election everywhere has always been fair. Especially the soviet ones. Anyone who ever notices otherwise is a "conspiracy theorist". Everyone knows the no election anywhere has ever been rigged.
Nobody even has a desire to rig one, so there is no reason to even put measures in place to stop it, it's totally redundant. They wouldn't even if there was an opportunity, that's how honest they are, and how dare you suggest otherwise...
I am saying that since there is not one scrap of paper or one digital word to show how election rigging was planned, financed, recruited for, trained for, supplied, directed, or paid for, and since vast communications with hundreds or thousands of persons would be needed for those things to happen, and since no one has ever reported any of those things happened to either law enforcement or the media, that those things did not happen.
I think that there's only one real reason anywhere from 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants have been ushered into this country over the past three years with government funded NGOs providing aid and comfort while hand holding phantom "voters" every step of the way. Your tax dollars at work.
I think there's only one real reason the left so adamantly opposes affirmative proof of US citizenship as a condition of voting and also opposes voter ID requirements.
I think there's only one real reason the left thwarts and stalls efforts to correct and update voter registration rolls and frustrates mail in ballot timing, signature verification standards and acceptance procedures while working overtime to make mail in ballots the de facto standard for voting. I could go on.
I think it's naive to say that the forces that did what they did to Trump over the past nine years (no need to name names or go back over that sad history) won't use every means at their disposal - legal, illegal or somewhere in between - to prevent him from ever setting foot in the White House again.
They will delay and even make it appear close for a little while, the better to sell the charade, the better to make it look as if Trump once more had his post-election "day in court" while smearing him every step of the way for challenging the results. The specter of the US DOJ poised to imprison those who protest the outcome looms large.
I fervently hope I'm wrong. But that's what I think.
Our electoral processes have become a grand exercise in Kabuki theater. I wish I was wrong.
Think of it this way. Elections are over-sized, awkward legal procedures run in most jurisdictions largely by doctrinaire political hacks masquerading as neutral umpires. Judges, even the few remaining good ones, don't like to get involved. It's complicated, they themselves are at legal and political risk, and there's too little time and too few resources for even competent counsel to expose the full magnitude of the corruption, the scale of the manipulation. If you stand up to it, they label you racist, anti-democratic or worse. The timeline for certification of results and the need for "finality" has been deemed simply to outweigh any and all valid concerns over the risk of material error. The US Supreme Court stands as the ultimate firewall but not many lawyers know how to get a case in front of the Court which also has its own institutional cowardice to contend with.
This is why you always see the disclaimer from legacy media that there was "no evidence" of "widespread voter fraud" in the 2020 election. "Evidence" for the left always seems to require something like a signed, notarized confession recorded on tape. It is impermissible for "evidence" to consist of a pattern of related events and actions pointing ineluctably in one direction. They wipe the slate clean after every established fact, never bothering to look at the aggregate picture of chicanery leading but one way. That's what I think.
Do you still have faith in the American legal system? I was in it for 40 years. Proceed with extreme caution.
Let me further remind you that the postal workers union - the same outfit whose members handle "undeliverable" mail-in ballots scattered across the countryside - endorses the Harris-Walz ticket.
You might also want to review the massive increases in federal funding since 2021 of the hordes of NGOs that serve as the militant sock puppets of current US immigration policy.
Please see my original post on election rigging just now. When critics say there is “no evidence” of rigging, they mean there are no texts, emails, digital records, or any other record of the vast amount of communications that would be needed to rig the election. There also were no leakers, whistleblowers, or anyone who has come forward to say, “Hey, I was asked to break the law and rig the election.” Absolutely no one. And you can be sure, that if there HAD been, Jim Jordan would have been hollering to high heaven and Comer’s Oversight Committee would have the person publicly testifying in a heartbeat. But there was no one.
In contrast, a simple conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021 generated millions of pages of texts and emails to put it into motion and carry it out.
From my perspective there are only two options that result in a Harris victory: (1) enough of the voting populace no longer believes in the foundational principles of this nation and voted to continue a regime that is utterly opposed to those principles; or (2) the Left has so rigged the system through voting fraud and media fraud that no future election will ever be free and fair. Either way, a Kamala victory means the death of the USA.
They just have to believe Trump is unstable and unpresidential and divisive and vote for the secret behind door number 2. That is why Harris is laying low.
Trump has no ability to govern in a bureaucracy, has no GOTV strategy and makes no effort to appeal beyond his base, which is 40-45 pct. He also seeks to be conserving his personal wealth rather than spending it on the campaign.
I don’t want the Dems to win, but I don’t think Trump can take them.
Trump is considered a good to very good President, certainly better than the other three of this century!
His foreign policy was excellent, supporting the countries that honor human rights, and opposing with actions the countries that are the worst abusers of human rights: Russia, Iran, Communist China.
When Trump became President Obama had let NATO crumble to the point where it was collapsing, with just four of its members meeting the basic requirement of spending 2% of GDP on defense. Trump rescued NATO, more than doubling the number of countries meeting that requirement in 2020.
Obama released more than $15 billion to Iran, largely for use in its terrorist programs. Trump stopped the flow of money, and negotiated 5 majority-Muslim countries to recognize Israel (the main target of Iran's attacks).
Etc.
That strategy worked for Biden in 2020 with jacked up rules during a Dem induced health panic - by 43,000 votes across 3 states - 2 of them, WI and PA had court rulings later that would have invalidated Biden's winning ballots if made in a timely fashion. The last state, GA , 13,000 votes. Trump chose the wrong legal strategy there. He probably could have won GA with some different challenges and no calls to the Sec of state - stupid! Dems nearly elected Al Gore in 2000 by fussing about hanging chad's in Florida and claiming their voters didn't know who they voted for! Trump being everywhere while Kamala is nowhere is the groundwork for his GOTV strategy. The fact that 60% of Teamsters favor Trump...
As far as governing, despite 5 soft coup attempts that tied him up, Trump did a damn site better than Biden. And I've got a feeling Trump will appoint some folks who will flush the swampers out of the gate this time around.
That comment didn’t age well!
While I understand concerns about voting in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, not to mention other states hit by natural disasters, the biggest threat to a legitimate election is all the bogus voter registrations in swing states where drop boxes and mail-in ballots are used with limited signature verification. Ballots sent to undeliverable people and addresses total in the millions and have been confirmed by data analysis, which appears to be credible and novel in its approach.
The data can be found at this link: https://www.stopbogusballots.com/
Undeliverable ballots get returned and distributed to leftist ngos, according to this group. I definitely would be looking at this issue if I was Trump, the RNC or Elon Musk, because it is the possible mechanism through which all these votes show up at 2:00 AM.
Where do these undeliverable ballots go after they are returned to the post office (whose union endorsed Kamala Harris)? Do they end up getting collected and voted by leftist's NGOs after being returned to the post office? That is what is being alleged and its on a scale that may overwhelm a positive vote for Trump in swing states.
Good analysis, Glenn.
This morning I went to a brunch attended by about 25 speakers from yesterday’s “Stanford Pandemic Policy Reform Conference” including Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Anders Tegnell (the man who led Sweden’s Covid response) among others.
Two comments jumped out at me: (1) by far the largest source of COVID misinformation was the US Federal government; and, (2) the current Federal plan in place for dealing with the next pandemic includes LOCKDOWNS.
These two facts alone should motivate people away from voting for a Harris administration.
Please provide the most egregious examples of that misinformation from the federal government. Does it compare with the more than 600 conspiracy theories about the dangers of Covid vaccinations posted by one website during the pandemic? Or the theories about bogus or quack treatments for Covid spread by Donald Trump that had to be denied by Dr. Fauci and the other health experts in the Trump administration? Or Trump’s downplaying of Covid’s risks and predictions it would be gone by Easter?
If by the “Federal Government,” the conferees meant Donald Trump, I would agree.
Egregious misinformation?
*Masking mandates work. (Fun fact: they don’t; caused a LOT of division in our country, some of which still exists.)
*Lockdowns work. (Fun fact: they don’t, and calling low-wage workers “non-essential” was divisive in our country, some of which still exists.)
*Biden/Harris led a resurgent economy. (Fun fact: Regaining jobs that were laid-off due to Democrat governors’ lockdown mandates is disingenuous at best.)
* Covid vaccinations result in not getting COVID, and not transmitting COVID. (Fun fact: just egregious government misinformation.)
*There’s more, but I suspect you don’t care. (Fun fact: persuading Democrats with facts instead of emotion is generally unsuccessful.)
Jay Bhattacharya reviewing Fauci’s new book:
“By any measure, the American COVID response was a catastrophic failure. More than 1.2 million deaths have been attributed to COVID itself, and deaths from all causes have stayed high long after the number of COVID deaths themselves diminished. In many states, particularly blue states, children were kept out of school for a year and a half or longer, with devastating effects on their learning and future health and prosperity.
“Coercive policy regarding COVID vaccination, recommended by Fauci on the false premise that vaccinated people could not get or spread the virus, collapsed public trust in other vaccines and led the media and public health officials to gaslight individuals who had suffered legitimate vaccine injuries. To pay for the lockdowns recommended by Fauci, the U.S. government spent trillions of dollars, causing high unemployment in the most locked-down states and a hangover of higher prices for consumer goods that continues to this day. Who is to blame?“
First, it was proven over and over during the pandemic that masking mandates work to reduce Covid infection rates and deaths. Counties that had masking mandates had much lower infection and death rates than counties that did not have mask mandates. The reason is obvious. The virus moves through the air in droplets of moisture, to which the mask is a barrier. This is not rocket science. Masks became politicized when Trump refused to wear one. There is a reason hospitals personnel wear masks to protect from contagion. Masks are not perfect and much depends on the care with which they are maintained and worn.
Second, lockdowns obviously work. Lockdowns prevent persons from contact with persons who are either knowingly or unknowingly infected and could be contagious. What part of that do those who think lockdowns don’t work not understand? Since 30-to-40% of those infected with Covid don’t have symptoms, during the pandemic they were walking around infecting others. At least with the flu, most infected persons feel sick and stay home. That was not true with Covid, so lockdowns prevented a lot of infections and deaths.
Third, essential workers risked their health and lives to stay on the job before vaccinations were available. Non-essential workers were protected by staying home or working from home if they could. The level of wages had nothing to do with who was essential and who was not.
Fourth, not one knowledgable person claimed that a Covid vaccination would prevent infection from Covid. For the initial virus, the protection from infection was high, but certainly not 100%. Successive variants of the virus, through natural selection, became successively less virulent, but more contagious. That’s because virulent strains were more likely to cause hospitalization and death, and so not be passed to others, while the more contagious variants were more likely to infect others and become dominant. So as time went on, the vaccines became less likely to protect from infection because the new mutations were more contagious. What the vaccines continued to do well, however, was to protect from hospitalization and death. Only a small percentage of persons infected are hospitalized and die. This has been well publicized
Actually, none of your assertions are correct.
The fact that you still believe them is a testament to your desire to believe what you want to believe, despite definite evidence to the contrary.
I am debating whether to provide more links to help you learn, so that you don’t repeat these assertions again, but I fear it is a waste of time.
Well, that’s false.
Your assertion is not correct.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-and-americans-hospitals-learn-the-value-of-germs-covid-china-rsv-df36796e?st=Na8mNQ&reflink=article_copyURL_share
The article you linked to was about children. My comments were about adults. I find it hard to understand why you deny the facts.
Your first two points should have some receipts. I'm a math guy. Please provide us with links to your county by county masking data set. Same with lockdowns.
Your 3rd point, if you're a non-essential worker, say a bartender impacted by the lockdown, I'd like to see the official wage statements on whether those people were compensated appropriately, please provide data.
On your 4th point, the CDC and Anthony Fauci were arguably "knowledgeable people" but they still claimed that, yes the vaccines would protect you from infection (upwards of 95%) and from transmitting it -that was their message after the prevention argument went upside down. Are you willing to concede that Fauci and the CDC didn't know WTF they were doing and made millions pretending they did?
Every single one of these assertions is false.
-1 Credibility.
I had a growth on my thyroid that was possible cancer discovered just as the lockdowns started. My surgery was postponed for several months due to the constrictions on operating rooms. How stupid is that? Fortunately, the growth was benign and the biopsy confirmed, but the surgeon said he would never know until he took it out.
Guess I was one of the many declared to be "non essential" by the political hacks running the government and this includes uninformed governors. Seems like some of us where disposable but still had to wear masks and confine ourselves to our quarters.
My daughter discovered she was pregnant as the pandemic broke. She is a DVM so knows a bit about vaccines and viruses. She refused to get vaccinated because she was concerned there had not been sufficient trials of the impacts of this type of vaccine on fetuses and pregnancies. Smart girl. She had a mild case of Covid at one point that was no worse than a cold.
The following policies were pulled out of someone's posterior: masking, 6" distancing, Fauci not acknowledging that we funded the research that Might (or might not) have created the virus and engaging in a campaign to cover up his conflict of interest. Yeah the vaccines - check the clinical trials! Why did the vaccines still have emergency status long after the emergency was declared over? Especially for kids where the clinical trials were not good. And then the lockdowns arbitrarily enacted by Dem governors that randomly picked winners and losers in the Coviid economy.
My neighbor, a doctor, is a Democrat married to a teacher, also a Democrat. He sleeps with a Democrat and is voting for Trump. We were alone when he told me. That's why Trump is going to win.
From your keyboard to G-d's ears.
I’m a pessimist. I expect colossal cheating. My question is, what do we do if they unequivocally, obviously, steal it?
Please see my original post on election rigging a little while ago.
The problem is that you have zero credibility.
You promote obvious lies and nobody believes anything you say.
In 2016 I remember reading about the recount in Detroit ( I could be misremembering but I think not). The first ward to be recounted had 110% of the registered voters voting. The same with the second ward. The Judge hearing the recount request suggested that it was evident that fraud was involved in the initial count and a recount was not allowed. BTW no one was punished or investigated. I told my friend that after the 2016 election the Democrats would never allow it to be that close again. I think 2020 proved me correct. Now that we are onto 2024 and so many Americans are watching I wonder if pizza boxed on windows or "broken" water pipes will work again. (The miss sized voter in Arizona worked so well I suspect that will happen again. ) If those are tried again will they convince the public that the election was fair? If not will the public just accept it like they did the last time?
IF you misremember, than I misremember too.
" If those are tried again will they convince the public that the election was fair? If not will the public just accept it like they did the last time?"
Bad Moon Rising!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqfPuQhW9I
Democrats are desperate and by now completely unmoored to the slightest concern for the law or fairness. Therefore, the cheating will be vast, especially since they learned in 2020 both how to do it on a grand scale and that they can get away with it and suffer no consequences. Trump’s victory must surpass the margin of fraud in the seven ‘swing” states, and it will be a substantial margin. If he does win, there will be months of riots to rival the Spring 2020 Portland/Seattle/Minneapolis riots, obviously multiple lawsuits by the Marc Elias mafia, and probably maneuvers by Democrat criminals in Congress to block certification of the election.
Please see my original post on election rigging a little while ago.
When has Helen ever been wrong? Why would anyone interested in fair elections be against voter id?Why do democrats object to verifying citizenship unless they plan to vote a zillion illegal immigrants? Why have blue states enacted laws allowing illegal immigrants to get drivers licenses and then passing laws that automatically register license applicants to vote? Mail in voting is designed for fraud. That's a huge amount of cheat. The only balance will be the "fuck you" turnout and the hidden until election day male vote. All those guys married to wine moms in the suburbs will vote in person on election day in the privacy of the voting booth and it will be huge.
The Democrats in general have the single woman vote, mom or not. Married women tend to vote Republican.
I'll say it, Cat Ladies!
It's not just the "fuck you" factor, it's also the "fuck off" factor. People are getting fed up with the elites and at some point they will revolt. That could take the form of direct action or the disregard of civil disobedience.
The "fuck off" factor also characterizes the elites, who look down their nose at everyone who is not them. The disregard and contempt they've shown toward the victims and volunteers of Hurricane Helene is only the latest example of why they are a national disgrace.
I'd like to think that sound reason and logic would change people's minds, and if that worked even once in a while, then I would spend considerable effort at it, but too many people believe whatever they want to believe and no matter how many different ways you prove your position, they refuse to change their minds. That is the problem I'm trying to solve.
No one is looking down on the victims of Hurricane Helene. If you have contrary evidence, please present it.
Dude, the regime just found $157 M to send to Lebanon to compensate them for supporting terrorists, but FEMA can't help US citizens in NC because they are out of money? More often than not, you have to connect the dots, like in a pre-school coloring book.
I think the cheating by the Dems will be massive, but Trump will still win because of the ‘Fuck You’ factor that Glenn notes.
Bring your friends to the polls. Donate money to candidates if you can.
And most of all, take no crap in your everyday life from Democrats/‘progressives’/socialists. Tell them to take their annoying poses of moral and intellectual superiority and shove them straight up their exit ramps.
And say it with a smile.
Please see my original post on election rigging a little while ago.
I’m from Chicago originally. Of course the Democrats cheat.
Schrodinger. Classic! That seems especially apropos considering that Kamala Harris has switched positions so many times that her actual values, due to the many wavefunctions that describe them, may only be determined (if you are a Copenhagen fan) in the currently unlikely state where she wins.
Her values are open - look at what she did on CA and proposed and voted in support of in the Senate
Your wife may be a pessimist, but she is not a fool.
The election will certainly be decided by the margin of fraud. That's why the few states that have tried to purge dead and ineligible voters face such strong opposition by Democrats whose lives will depend on the cheating.
Vote counting procedures make it virtually impossible for dead or unregistered voters to vote. More than one vote for mail-in voters or mail-in votes from unregistered voters are prevented by vote counting procedures. Technology now makes it possible to detect duplicate votes from a person who has moved from one state to another and who is still registered in his former state of residence, and persons have been prosecuted and jailed for doing that. Even so, the risk reward for an individual voting in two states is ZERO. I mean, great risk of prosecution and zero reward. So those instances of individual fraud are rare. Also, see my original post on election rigging a little while ago.
Definitely not zero, probably upwards of 50% Liberals continually remind us, when arguing for criminal reform that criminals never take consequences into account. And yes when they are detected, there are a lot of people who vote in multiple states or jurisdictions, but because they are prosecuted on an individual basis it's not considered "widespread voter fraud".
I can’t explain why Harris seems so complacent and even confident enough to barely campaign or take questions. The only explanation I can think of is that she somehow knows or has been promised that the outcome will be in her favor. She certainly was not in charge of the coup and appears to be the organizers chosen puppet. My sincere belief is that she will be made president for those behind the scenes to control and direct, and this will be done through whatever means necessary. They will never allow Trump or anyone from outside the star chamber to be president; ever.
100% correct.
You are correct! Hell, I don't want to watch her in public because I'm afraid I'll lose IQ points! But, yes, the Chosen one doesn't want her in public because she can't talk well. The more she talks in public the worse it is for her. And they don't want it. Trump is back on top of the betting markets, despite what I suspect are big bets by Dem donors for Harris. It's just foota be a victory that is "too big to Rig"!
1) All Trump voters should get their vote in ASAP. In a dispute, generally, the first vote received is counted.
2) Do your work - volunteer to drive people to the polls, get trained as a poll worker (I did that yesterday), work on a GOTV campaign, post a sign in your yard - it may not lead to more votes, but it will give heart to people on your side. I know I found my heart lift yesterday when traveling to see the number of Trump signs, and the paucity of Harris ones.
3) Pray. A lot.
For what it's worth, the support for Harris/Vance is tepid. A lot of the media coverage of rallies is designed to hide the weakness of that support.
Similarly, the coverage of Trump is designed to make it seem that most people do NOT favor him, something I think is contrary to reality. Trump scares the hell out of the media - and, it SHOULD.
After seeing the blatant cheating of the last election, I can't guarantee victory. But, I'm cautiously hopeful.
Helen is correct. The Dems have already announced with a megaphone that they will cheat and they will win and there is nothing the Republicans can do about it. Every Dem I know is silently affirming that conclusion. In 2020 they were smugly and silently pleased. Now they just know and don't care
How in the world did the Democrats plan, finance, recruit hundreds or thousands of mules, election workers, election supervisors, election certifiers, politicians, poll watchers, lawyers, judges, ballot printers, ballot truckers, and others into a giant conspiracy to rig the election, and then train them, supply them, direct them, and pay them, without a single text, email, letter, receipt, bank record, or other document, recording, video, ever surfacing, and without a single leak or person going to the FBI and saying, “Hey, someone wants me to rig the election.”. This has to be a conspiracy like no one’s ever seen!
By your logic, then, outcome-changing voter fraud could not happen. History shows us that is not true. You are overlooking or ignoring the fact that if a large enough group of people connected in any way with the voting process are all on the same page, i.e. they will do anything to attain power, then no conspiracy is necessary. That is the real threat.
Every election everywhere has always been fair. Especially the soviet ones. Anyone who ever notices otherwise is a "conspiracy theorist". Everyone knows the no election anywhere has ever been rigged.
Nobody even has a desire to rig one, so there is no reason to even put measures in place to stop it, it's totally redundant. They wouldn't even if there was an opportunity, that's how honest they are, and how dare you suggest otherwise...
I am saying that since there is not one scrap of paper or one digital word to show how election rigging was planned, financed, recruited for, trained for, supplied, directed, or paid for, and since vast communications with hundreds or thousands of persons would be needed for those things to happen, and since no one has ever reported any of those things happened to either law enforcement or the media, that those things did not happen.
Since you asked, here's how: https://time.com/magazine/us/5936018/february-15th-2021-vol-197-no-5-u-s/#:~:text=Protecting%20the%20election%20would%20require%20an
What do I think?
I think that there's only one real reason anywhere from 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants have been ushered into this country over the past three years with government funded NGOs providing aid and comfort while hand holding phantom "voters" every step of the way. Your tax dollars at work.
I think there's only one real reason the left so adamantly opposes affirmative proof of US citizenship as a condition of voting and also opposes voter ID requirements.
I think there's only one real reason the left thwarts and stalls efforts to correct and update voter registration rolls and frustrates mail in ballot timing, signature verification standards and acceptance procedures while working overtime to make mail in ballots the de facto standard for voting. I could go on.
I think it's naive to say that the forces that did what they did to Trump over the past nine years (no need to name names or go back over that sad history) won't use every means at their disposal - legal, illegal or somewhere in between - to prevent him from ever setting foot in the White House again.
They will delay and even make it appear close for a little while, the better to sell the charade, the better to make it look as if Trump once more had his post-election "day in court" while smearing him every step of the way for challenging the results. The specter of the US DOJ poised to imprison those who protest the outcome looms large.
I fervently hope I'm wrong. But that's what I think.
Our electoral processes have become a grand exercise in Kabuki theater. I wish I was wrong.
Think of it this way. Elections are over-sized, awkward legal procedures run in most jurisdictions largely by doctrinaire political hacks masquerading as neutral umpires. Judges, even the few remaining good ones, don't like to get involved. It's complicated, they themselves are at legal and political risk, and there's too little time and too few resources for even competent counsel to expose the full magnitude of the corruption, the scale of the manipulation. If you stand up to it, they label you racist, anti-democratic or worse. The timeline for certification of results and the need for "finality" has been deemed simply to outweigh any and all valid concerns over the risk of material error. The US Supreme Court stands as the ultimate firewall but not many lawyers know how to get a case in front of the Court which also has its own institutional cowardice to contend with.
This is why you always see the disclaimer from legacy media that there was "no evidence" of "widespread voter fraud" in the 2020 election. "Evidence" for the left always seems to require something like a signed, notarized confession recorded on tape. It is impermissible for "evidence" to consist of a pattern of related events and actions pointing ineluctably in one direction. They wipe the slate clean after every established fact, never bothering to look at the aggregate picture of chicanery leading but one way. That's what I think.
Do you still have faith in the American legal system? I was in it for 40 years. Proceed with extreme caution.
Let me further remind you that the postal workers union - the same outfit whose members handle "undeliverable" mail-in ballots scattered across the countryside - endorses the Harris-Walz ticket.
You might also want to review the massive increases in federal funding since 2021 of the hordes of NGOs that serve as the militant sock puppets of current US immigration policy.
Prepare yourself for President Harris.
God I hope I'm wrong. But that's what I think.
Please see my original post on election rigging just now. When critics say there is “no evidence” of rigging, they mean there are no texts, emails, digital records, or any other record of the vast amount of communications that would be needed to rig the election. There also were no leakers, whistleblowers, or anyone who has come forward to say, “Hey, I was asked to break the law and rig the election.” Absolutely no one. And you can be sure, that if there HAD been, Jim Jordan would have been hollering to high heaven and Comer’s Oversight Committee would have the person publicly testifying in a heartbeat. But there was no one.
In contrast, a simple conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021 generated millions of pages of texts and emails to put it into motion and carry it out.
The naivete is too much to deal with in a platform like this.
Good luck in your future endeavors.