Politics

[DougMacG]

https://dnyuz.com/2023/10/24/millennials-and-gen-z-are-tilting-left-and-staying-there/

Disclosure, NYT is usually wrong.

[DougMacG]

https://dnyuz.com/2023/10/24/millennials-and-gen-z-are-tilting-left-and-staying-there/

Disclosure, NYT is usually wrong.

https://tippinsights.com/18-24-year-olds-could-swing-2024-to-trump/

Who does a dynamic, flourishing economy help most?  Those just starting out?

Who does a dying, stagnating economic hurt most?  Those just starting out?

Who does high interest rates hurt the most?  Those hoping to buy their first car, first house?

Who is allegedly going to have to pay for all this excess spending?  The youngest voters among us?

If we had any kind of messaging at all ...  the table has never been set better for victory.

[Crafty_Dog]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/11/10/what-john-fetterman-did-is-going-to-drive-pro-hamas-protesters-insane-n2631045

[DougMacG]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/nevada-biden-trump-2024-polling/675997/?utm_source=msn

[ccp]

Nevada redder?

I dunno.

We see Repubs are slightly ahead pre election a lot, and then at the last minute the unions get all their housekeepers hotel clerks etc out in droves and win the day for  the marxists.

Reid was master at this.

Now he is gone it still seems to occur.

[DougMacG]

Funny little twist in politics, Black voters understand targeting.

They probably never read about IRS targeting (2012) but everyone can see the targeting of Trump.

https://www.dailyfetched.com/al-sharpton-hits-panic-alarm-over-black-voters-ditching-democrats/

Young voters keep leaning Left from their schooling, but somehow young black voters are emerging with the wisdom to question authority.  In this case the Big Left authority is telling them if you don't vote Democrat, "you ain't black".

Nice to hear people are wise enough to know how insulting that is.

Then there was (same guy), "They're (Republicans) gonna' put you'all back in CHAINS."

But instead black unemployment dropped to the lowest in history with real wage gains surging.  That was after candidate Trump challenged them, "What have you got to lose?"

The party that wanted the police disbanded faces the neighborhoods that are crying for police protection.
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Then you have roughly equal numbers of Muslim Americans and Jewish Americans all in the same party wanting opposite policies.  Good luck with that.

Biden approval 40%.  Harris latest approval 29%.  Hard to reverse that with drool spilling on the bully pulpit and fiscal time bombs starting to implode.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/bidens-approval-declines-all-time-low-he-struggles-ahead-2024-election-poll

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262/

[DougMacG]

https://substack.news-items.com/p/the-podcast

44 minutes of analysis I found helpful, from NH, SC and the Pres race to AI (AGI) to the border. Two very veteran reporters,  Ellis, Boston Globe, a Bush Sr. admirer. Klein of Time, Newsweek, I think a Clinton insider, wrote 'primary colors'.

Not my bias and I wouldn't send them money but good political insights when free.

[ccp]

Doug,
Seems to be paywalled.

[Body-by-Guinness]

https://substack.news-items.com/p/the-podcast

44 minutes of analysis I found helpful, from NH, SC and the Pres race to AI (AGI) to the border. Two very veteran reporters,  Ellis, Boston Globe, a Bush Sr. admirer. Klein of Time, Newsweek, I think a Clinton insider, wrote 'primary colors'.

Not my bias and I wouldn't send them money but good political insights when free.

I had no issue listening to this re paywalls.

Indeed, not my cup of tea, but more than a few bon mots. Heck, anyone that references the “boys on the bus*” along with an anecdote or two will gain my attention, at least to some degree. With that said, these two have certainly hung onto the coat tails of the MSM and political class and it shows.

* https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Bus-Timothy-Crouse/dp/0812968204

A great read!

[Body-by-Guinness]

This could go several places, but given the range of political missteps discussed, I'll drop it in a more generic thread. The points made about LNG futures our allies own and now have to come up with a plan B for are worth mulling:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/biden_the_border_and_tik_tok_too.html?fbclid=IwAR1UcWRjwFEIWPBBrdEMQ2E_uByMLbpZkcO7rGwue0PigvfDo_1LLhi0Bn8

I've communicated with the author a couple times and think she is well worth following.

[Crafty_Dog]

Love your ongoing efforts in thread coherency    but not a good fit here.

I would suggest Homeland and Energy Policy as better threads.

As always, when a piece merits, feel free to post it in more than one thread.   Witness for example my double posting just now of a George Friedman piece both in the FUBAR thread and the Iran thread.

[Body-by-Guinness]

Love your ongoing efforts in thread coherency    but not a good fit here.

I would suggest Homeland and Energy Policy as better threads.

As always, when a piece merits, feel free to post it in more than one thread.   Witness for example my double posting just now of a George Friedman piece both in the FUBAR thread and the Iran thread.

Okay. The dual focus on the southern border and the LNG heavy handedness left me thinking threads focusing on either immigration OR energy would give short shrift to the subject not covered by the thread’s title.

Oh well, I’ll keep seeking to sort it out.

[Crafty_Dog]

The term Politics could cover pretty much everything; I envision the thread more for the ongoing mudslinging, lying, and everyday maneuvers of the players in the political class.

[DougMacG]

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/huge-majority-americans-support-israel-instead-hamas-poll

80% of Americans support Israel instead of Hamas: Harris Poll

The report by the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll found older voters supported Israel more than younger voters, with over 90% of voters older than 54 claiming they support Israel over Hamas. Among voters aged 45 to 54, 85% said they support Israel, and three quarters of the next bracket down said the same. But among younger voters aged 18-24, just 57% said they support Israel, and 64% of voters 25 to 34 said the same.

The majority of Americans (61%) only want a cease-fire if Hamas is removed from power and the hostages it took are freed. However, 39% support an unconditional cease-fire.

[Doug]  The more recently they've been in a public school classroom, the more anti-Israel they tend to be.

Still it's an 80/20 issue that has Republicans on the right side.

[Crafty_Dog]

Though not infrequently a scurrilous souce, some very telling points made here:

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/regime-media-utters-the-un-utterable?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=146291795&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=z2120&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

[Body-by-Guinness]

Dang, next state over. I’d vote for her:

https://x.com/joeymannarinous/status/1816163053613822135?s=61

[DougMacG]

https://x.com/watchTENETnow/status/1817711843810381891

less than 2 minutes

BIPOC women have tapped us as white women to step up, listen and get involved in this election...
   ... share some do's and don'ts for getting involved online...

Wikipedia
acronym "BIPOC" refers to "black, indigenous, and other people of color"

I have SO MUCH to learn.

[Body-by-Guinness]

Gent goes to a Biden rally wearing a Trump shirt and then the reverse. The results are telling.

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1818234803159753053?s=61

[DougMacG]

https://x.com/watchTENETnow/status/1817711843810381891

less than 2 minutes

BIPOC women have tapped us as white women to step up, listen and get involved in this election...
   ... share some do's and don'ts for getting involved online...

Wikipedia
acronym "BIPOC" refers to "black, indigenous, and other people of color"

I have SO MUCH to learn.

Babylon Bee follows up:

https://babylonbee.com/news/black-men-listen-closely-as-liberal-white-women-instruct-them-who-to-vote-for

[Crafty_Dog]

(1) SCHUMER OUTLINES POLICIES IN A DEM SWEEP: In a speech at the Democratic National Convention and then in a follow-up interview, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) outlined an aggressive policy platform if Democrats manage to keep the White House, retake the House and keep the Senate.

Schumer predicted Democrats would expand their Senate majority in November, and vowed to eliminate the Senate filibuster to push through a host of programs including:

Price controls for housing and prescription drugs
Expanding the child tax credit
Supporting the proposed
Reforming the Supreme Court, including possible term limits
“Getting rid of Citizens United”
Looking at reapportioning state voting districts (e.g., 53% of Wisconsin voted for Biden but Democrats only control 35% of the state legislature)
Passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Bill
Passing a law to overturn the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade

Schumer was pressed a couple of times on his comments. First, Politico’s Rachel Bade said that if Dems pick up a Senate seat, it might be from Florida or Texas. Bade asked Schumer if Democrats would fund those races, to which Schumer replied, “Wait and see.” Bade then pressed Schumer on the Democrats’ proposed plans costing an extra $2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Schumer said that a Democratic House and Senate could raise taxes to pay for those programs.

Why It Matters: Schumer’s comments are radically different from the moderate, flag-waving, we’re-all-in-this-together-kumbaya feeling of the Democratic National Convention, where Democrats paraded out military veterans, passed out American flags, and praised law enforcement to appeal to moderate and independent voters. Even Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech appeared toned down, despite her political position to the left of President Biden. Schumer’s bevy of laws and regulations is a sure sign that a Dem sweep, although unlikely, will quickly pivot to the hard left, despite the more moderate tones from this convention. – M.S.

[DougMacG]

Scroll right to see 39% today.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVw-Bzka8AcJ-M2?format=jpg&name=medium

[DougMacG]

Can somebody tell me,

Why is it end of the world for Trump and the entire Republican party to have Gov candidate of NC caught up in an alleged disgrace, but a complete non-factor for Harris and the Dem party to have the Dem Mayor of NYC indicted for corruption?

[ccp]

good question

it seems the Feds started targeting Adams soon  after he complained of the burden the illegals are putting on NYC.

hmmmm?

[Crafty_Dog]

Yup.

[DougMacG]

That's a small number in her world but when in her meteoric rise did she ever lose followers?

It's what we call in math an inflection point.  In music and business generally, when you're not rising, you're falling

https://www.thewrap.com/taylor-swift-loses-listeners-spotify-kamala-harris-endorsement-trump/

Taylor Swift has lost more than 2 million Spotify listeners, according to data that was shared by Chartmetric, a music streaming analytics company, to the outlet The Wrap.

In addition, the number of people viewing Swift’s YouTube videos in the U.S. reportedly dropped nearly 10 percent post-Harris endorsement.
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 a recent NBC News poll showed Swift’s favorability among all registered voters fell from last year, decreasing from 40 percent in 2023 to 33 percent this year. While 16 percent had negative feelings about her in 2023, 27 percent say they do now.
About 26 percent of independents have a positive attitude toward Swift, a drop from 34 percent in 2023.


[Doug]  Since when do we track favorability ratings of entertainers?  But if so, how is Roger Waters doing?

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pink-floyd-sells-music-rights-to-sony-400-million-1236165925/
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Video of a young Taylor talking politics at this link:  1.5 minutes
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2024/10/01/is-lana-del-rey-the-anti-taylor-swift-n4932970

[ccp]

I think [BS] artist TSwift should be taxed 90% direct to the treasury to pay for Dem policies

While we are at it how about Bezos Zuckerberg, Buffett, Dimon and Gates too.

No one is stopping them from writing huge checks to the Treasury.


Elon should definitely be exempt.

What kind of moron would vote for someone based on her choice anyway?   

[DougMacG]

"Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history."  - Sen. Joe Biden D-Del
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-pInQ9PNtM&t=4s
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/uk/biden-seeks-advisory-role-as-vice-president-idUSTRE49T5G9/
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https://x.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1120666096359571456

https://nypost.com/2024/10/03/us-news/all-the-times-ex-gop-rep-liz-cheney-ripped-radical-kamala-harris-before-endorsement/
“Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t,” the Wyoming Republican tweeted that month. “She wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We won’t give her the chance.”  - Liz Cheney

“Joe Biden has really been trying to portray himself as the moderate in this race, as somebody who is centrist, and in one fell swoop here he has put somebody on the ticket whose voting record in the Senate is to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” she said on “America’s Newsroom.”
   - Liz Cheney

Cheney told a Wyoming NBC affiliate in another August interview that the pick (Kamala Harris) “tells us something about Joe Biden: It tells us that he’s not really leading his party; he’s not really in charge.”  - Liz Cheney

“Every single day, the Democrats tell us what they would do as Kamala Harris put it yesterday, ‘A Harris Administration with Joe Biden,'” she said. “They would defund our police, dismantle our freedom, destroy our history and abandon our founding values.”  - Liz Cheney

“Sounds just like Karl Marx,” she tweeted in response to a video posted by Harris urging Americans to forgo pursuing equality of opportunity for equity of outcomes in all aspects of society.  - Liz Cheney

“A century of history has shown where that path leads. We all embrace equal opportunity, but government-enforced equality of outcomes is Marxism,”   - Liz Cheney

Even after Jan. 6, the House Republican conference chairwoman attacked Harris for being absent on the US border crisis.

“The president has said Vice President Harris is in charge of the border. Vice president Harris said she was not in charge of the border,” Cheney said in a Capitol Hill press conference that April.

“Nobody seems to be in charge. She hasn’t been there. And we have a humanitarian and national security crisis and health crisis unfolding there.” - Liz Cheney

“Coming soon: ⁦@KamalaHarris and ⁦@BernieSanders launch their ‘Absentee ballots for al Qaeda’ program,” Cheney (R-Wyo.), then the House GOP conference chair, zinged on Twitter, now X, after the televised   - Liz Cheney

Strange bedfellows

Vice President Dick Cheney, Vice President elect Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden pose for photos on Capitol Hill.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13925145/Kamala-Harris-Dick-Cheney-Liz-Cheney-campaign.html

[Crafty_Dog]

Great compilation!

[DougMacG]

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-democrats-hispanic-voter-problem-373

[ccp]

If really true then how could trump still be essentially tied. 

Wasn’t this the bush-Cheney doctrine.   We can’t or shouldn’t try to stem the tide of illegals so best to win them over? How is that working out?     

I was also thinking that if I asked some democrats, let’s face it, if the illegals coming in were mostly suspected future Republican voters you would be as Ann counter has said lined up at the border arms linked in a 1500 mile chain to block them.   The democrats would likely respond , let’s face it, if they were likely dem voters you would be shipping them in as fast as possible .   But I would NOT say or believe this.   We simply can’t have an open border with people simply walking in and having our border protection be welcoming agents .    The country is NOT a country without borders .   The dems would be wrong.    Soros is wrong.   

[DougMacG]

A friend said, not to me but within earshot, Trump voters lack the information, need to read more.

To my face someone close said, [experts] "know a hell of a lot more than you do".  Said by someone who also doesn't trust "experts".

SO many more examples...

Now this: 'Trump voters are being stupid', "need to wake up".
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/03/michael_steele_upset_voters_may_reelect_trump_stop_being_stupid_people_the_country_needs_to_wake_itself_up_out_of_this_stupor.html

Just for the record, I don't need to read more, in comparison to the person who said that, experts don't have a great track record on economics, vote fraud or much of anything else, and I'm not "stupid".

The reason we have Trump at all prominent on the national scene is because of failed Democrat governance and because of RINOs failure to successfully put forward an alternative.  The reason we had a January 6 riot is because Democrats did everything possible to lose our confidence in the outcome and Republicans in power did nothing to investigate or stop them.  It didn't happen because of Trump saying "go peacefully...".

[ccp]

" A friend said, not to me but within earshot, Trump voters lack the information, need to read more "

Where does one read?  The MSM academics are so biased one can read  and listen to them and know less.

typical attitude.

 

[DougMacG]

Strange, isn't it, that we never hear about the dangers of "money in politics" now that Democrats dominate the raising and spending of money in politics in every category.

[DougMacG]

"... intelligence being the ability to hold mutually exclusive thoughts at the same time."

  - This brings another thought to mind.

Second level thinking.

I watched Sen Mark Kelly go on Fox News Sunday to make the case for Kamala.  His points, including the lies and untruth, were quite persuasive, as long as no one follows it with second level thinking.

Time permitting later, maybe I will post and respond to the he points he made.

Easy example just mentioned is pro choice.  Why wouldn't you want every woman to have complete control over her body, but can't the also add the context, 'even though there is another human life involved'.

Another was "inflation is way down".  But the point is "prices" for what we buy, not just 'rate of change'.  Prices are still going up, on top of what they already went up.

He knows that but doesn't say that. Deceit and condescension that comes out sounding like rational common sense.

[ccp]

"Strange, isn't it, that we never hear about the dangers of "money in politics" now that Democrats dominate the raising and spending of money in politics in every category."

Speaking of (I just happened to read up on this just this AM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActBlue

[ccp]

"Easy example just mentioned is pro choice.  Why wouldn't you want every woman to have complete control over her body, but can't the also add the context, 'even though there is another human life involved'."

O'Reilly also stated in his broadcast that after the townhall he mentioned about another body being involved he was told by someone (he would not name) that if they said 'another body is involved' on the air they would be fired within 24 hrs from the MSM.