He fooled you again

If you seriously thought Donald Trump was going to commit American troops to the invasion of Greenland…you were a fucking idiot who doesn’t have a clue, even after over a decade, of how the man’s brain works.  It’s always the Art of the Deal.  Lead with the grossly unacceptable, negotiate till you get what you really want.

Do I like all the bluster?  Well…a lot of the time, no.  But certainly I like it now.

And I think the only person in Europe right now who understands Trump is the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte.  Most of the rest of the current Euro leaders have mush for brains.  If they want to be left behind in an Islamic caliphate, they’re certainly going the right way to do that.  And somehow, inexplicably, they still think they’re going to end up on top.  Madness.

Canada, what a bundle of sticks* they have for a Prime Minister.  And the Canadians are too nice to revolt against him and hang him from a lamppost on Parliament Hill.  But he thinks he’s going to enlist the Canadian citizenry to fight back against a notional US invasion that’s all in his mind, because he refuses to understand Trump as a businessman rather than as a politician.

Besides which, a pack of Cub Scouts led by their den mothers could conquer Canada by lunchtime.  Well, OK, the US Army could do it, pretty easily.  Canada has only one battalion of tanks and zero 5th-gen fighter jets.  Someone I was talking to yesterday who used to be involved in military planning said all the war games the Canadians have played involving a US invasion of their soil had them losing no later than lunchtime, with most of their important cities under US control by that time.  Carney is a fool…who thinks by signing an agreement with Winnie the Xi, he’s managed to black-eye the hated Americans.  Nah.  Winnie the Xi hasn’t got anything, either.  We’ll deal with him when the time comes…or he’ll fall of natural causes, when China’s economy finally implodes and the knives all come out.  (Being stabbed to death because you failed is natural, isn’t it?)

At any rate, yes, Trump is noisy, Trump is brash, Trump is still a Democrat at heart…but he’s also the most patriotic, unabashed lover of the United States and the Stars and Stripes we’ve had in the presidency in my lifetime.  So fuck you if you still don’t like him, fuck you if you voted Democrat/Communist, and fuck you if you don’t like what I’m writing here.

Bottom line, I really shouldn’t write these posts before coffee…

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* Look it up.

Canada is toast.

All humor aside, our Canadian friends have done one of two things:

  • Voted like fools for a socialist government headed by a fascist who will have them all in chains; or
  • Tolerated fraud of historic proportions (and as a friend noted, since they do all paper ballots, it would have to be analog fraud, not digital as we had in 2020).

Then, of course, there’s always

With any luck, Alberta will leave the Confederation and apply for statehood.

And all because they took offense at Donald Trump telling their communist former PM Castreau that Canada would be better off as the 51st State.  This cartoon, depicting their new PM facing off against Trump, is apropos:

The problem is, this is Fucking Around on a grand scale.  And now, undoubtedly, America’s Hat Canada will Find Out what … I won’t say “defying” the United States, but perhaps “ignoring” the United States … will get them going forward.

Because this is what they’ve already done:

Don’t get me wrong; I love Canada…at least some of their people are great, even if their country sucks…but at least one of those people I know of has already said this morning that he’s leaving for the US.  And he lives in Alberta…

Pray for Canadians, y’all.  Because Canada?  Canada is toast.

Didn’t want this to go to waste

I was pretty sure we were OK after a couple of hours Tuesday night, especially after Lara Trump’s vote purity brigade threatened to sue to start the counting again in a PA county that had stopped, ostensibly for the night, and they backed down immediately and started counting again…

…but I had made this up a couple of weeks ago and really didn’t want it to go to waste.  Enjoy!

I didn’t watch the debates.

There was no point.

The odds were stacked in favor of Kamala. People are saying today that she must have known the questions in advance. Well, duh. Everyone involved in the production was doing anything they could to ensure a “win” for her. And the fact is, she’s so ridiculously, simperingly stupid, there’s no way she could stand in front of a panel and answer substantive questions about the last four years and the four years ahead. She was probably lucky to answer what she’d been prepped for.

The man who has been asking those questions, and putting forth solid policy ideas, was in the crosshairs last night.

People are also complaining that he didn’t ask until the last few minutes why Kamala hasn’t already done the things she’s saying she’ll do for the past 3-1/2 years. (She was Vice President, you know. I realize it was difficult to tell.) But I don’t think waiting till the end of the program was wrong for that question to be asked. Every great entertainer knows you always leave ’em laughing. And every great politician knows you unload your heaviest artillery at the end, so it makes a big splash on impact.

The one good thing about last night is it will likely be the death knell for presidential debates, unless the people who run them smarten up and understand they are literally doing the country an injury by their lopsided concept of “fairness”. But they won’t do that, because they’re all in for the United Communist States of America under the Uniparty represented last night by Kamala.

Thing is, the smart people are already ignoring them. It wasn’t even worth watching for the popcorn and shots every time Kamala lied. (I wouldn’t be at work this morning, and probably would be dead from alcohol poisoning; I don’t know how people like Stephen Green and Tony Katz do it. Stainless-steel livers, I suppose…)

Trump is saying he’s not going to do another debate. I agree. There’s no point. They’re nothing but 100% all-in political ads for his opponent. Take the modern incarnation of political debates out behind the barn and kill them with an axe, as P.J. O’Rourke would likely have said.

Um, I dunno…

Doesn’t this sound like incitement to insurrection?  By the Democrats’ own rules…if it sounds like insurrection, it must be insurrection.  Right?

Hey, FBI, you might want to investigate this sports journalist who thinks he’s a political pundit.

If Trump is said to “underperform” in Iowa, be sure to look at the actual numbers

From The Washington Times, via RealClearPolitics:

In case you weren’t already aware, the fix is in. Before the first ballot has been cast, the media have already written their headlines for the Iowa caucuses: “Trump underperforms in Iowa.”

According to the Real Clear Politics polling average, former President Donald Trump leads the field with over 52%, ahead of his closest rival by a whopping 36 points. FiveThirtyEight has a similar polling average, putting him at just over 51%, with a lead of 34 points.

That’s a substantial margin, with plenty of room for underperformance. But let’s look at things from a broader historical perspective.

Since 1976, the biggest “landslide” in the Iowa Republican caucuses (excluding elections with a Republican incumbent) came in 1988, when Sen. Bob Dole amassed 37% of the vote and won by 12 points over televangelist Pat Robertson. In many contested elections of that period, Iowa has been decided by 3 points or less, reflecting the intense independence of Iowa caucusgoers.

Iowans pride themselves on making up their own minds, and they take their responsibility as the first state on the election calendar very seriously. They do not just go with the flow and rubber-stamp the national mood.

Mr. Trump is poised to win Iowa, and the victory may be a historic landslide. Even if he severely underperforms his polling lead, he’s still likely to outpace Dole’s record-setting margin. In this case, underperforming should count only if Mr. Trump comes below Dole’s historic 12-point margin ahead of the next closest finisher.

But that’s not the standard to which the media will hold him.

This is what the Left gets for pissing off the American public.  As we have said for years, progressives won’t like living under their new rules.  And they’ve all but martyred Trump to the point where his landslide is going to eclipse Reagan’s.

And if it turns out I’m wrong about that, it will be because the Left has frauded yet another election just like they did 2020.

Remember: Pinochet did nothing wrong.

Frank Luntz is a cuntz.

And a NeverTrumper, but that’s redundant.

Luntz has it exactly backwards. Cheney is trying to protect her phoney baloney job, trying to ingratiate herself with the new leadership to get a plum minority co-chairmanship or something. There’s nothing patriotic, courageous, or conscientious about Cheney’s stand. She has without doubt put herself and her career before her country (and her state).  And now she is reaping the whirlwind of her decision.  Sucks to be her.  And sucks to be Frank Luntz.