Had enough yet

[Lee Chowaniec]

New York Post skewers Trump

In the wake of disappointing results for the Republican Party in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Murdoch-owned media outlets — the New York Post, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal — are blaming Trump for the GOP’s lackluster performance and appear ready to move on from the former president.

On its front-page Wednesday morning, the New York Post anointed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “DeFuture” of the GOP. On Thursday it took fresh aim at Trump, depicting him as “Trumpets Dumpty.” And deservedly so!

Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms

https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/heres-...ican-midterms/

Hey, Lysin’ Ted and Sleepy Joe: Meet Toxic Trump. You know, if the former president had any self-knowledge or even the slightest ability to be self-deprecating, he might consider giving himself this alliterative nickname.

After three straight national tallies in which either he or his party or both were hammered by the national electorate, it’s time for even his stans to accept the truth: Toxic Trump is the political equivalent of a can of Raid.

What Tuesday night’s results suggest is that Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellent in modern American history. The surest way to lose in these midterms was to be a politician endorsed by Trump. This is not hyperbole. Except for deep-red states where a Republican corpse would have beaten a Democrat, voters choosing in actually competitive races — who everyone expected would behave like midterm voters usually do and lean toward the out party — took one look at Trump’s handpicked acolytes and gagged.

Liberal fundraisers actually put money behind Trump-endorsed candidates in GOP primaries all over the place to help them prevail so that Democrats could face them in the general election. It was transparently cynical and an abuse of our political process. But it worked like gangbusters.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Dump Trump
Business Insider

Overall Business Insider is rated Left-Center Biased based on story selection that leans left and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a reasonable fact check record.

Insider asked its Republican readers to send in their thoughts on Donald Trump following the GOP's dismal midterm performance. While a few came to Trump's defense, most said it was time for the party to move on from him.

Interesting comments and observations about the Trumpster, a man that is now skewering his own party candidates and even his own family. And on the other side we have the delusional Biden who declares his policies are working, will not change anything, but willing to work with the Republicans if they agree with him.

We are SOOO screwed!

GOP Insider readers: Dump Trump!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...1680d646e7fddb

[buffy]

But this predictable attempt to make Donald Trump the scapegoat for closer-than-expected midterm election results is highly misleading, and an oversimplification in the extreme.

The results of Tuesday night’s elections do not tell an easy story for those looking to pin the blame on Trump.

Many Trump candidates—including J. D. Vance, Ted Budd, almost certainly Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, potentially Blake Masters, and possibly (after the runoff) Herschel Walker—will have won their races in highly competitive swing states despite most being outspent by tens of millions of dollars.

Where Republican candidates faltered, it was not just those who were chosen by the former president: numerous strong House candidates handpicked by Kevin McCarthy lost races the consultant class had expected to win, including Yesli Vega running against vulnerable Democrat Representative Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, Rhode Island Republican Alan Fung, Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia on the Texas border, and many others.

If Washington, D.C. consultants and establishment leaders are truly looking for someone to blame for the lack of a red tsunami on Tuesday, there are far more suitable candidates than Trump. First among them would be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose allies appear to be behind much of the Blame Trump campaign.

Whatever virtues McConnell may have as a legislative tactician and fundraiser—and they are evidently considerable—the fact is that McConnell failed to use his power over the past two years to shape the political terrain in ways that would support an overwhelming Republican victory. Even worse, he actively undermined Republican candidates at critical junctures.

At no point in the past two years have Americans seen McConnell and other top Republican leaders in Washington pick real and effective fights with the Biden administration. At no point have they managed to focus the nation on controversies that would be politically advantageous to their party. In Trump’s absence, the GOP establishment has reverted to McConnell’s preferred style of opposition, one of passivity and accommodation.

Time and time again, the Senate Minority Leader has proved fundamentally unserious about opposing the overreaches of the radical left. If establishment Republicans believed that the border crisis was the existential national security disaster they claimed in their speeches, nothing about McConnell’s actions in the Senate would suggest they actually believed it. There were no threats of a government shutdown if the border was not restored. There were no real conflicts over spending bills. There was no significant effort to block key nominees or exact a price for the Biden administration’s extremism. Worst of all, there was virtually no effort whatsoever to use McConnell’s considerable power in a 50-50 Senate to set up strategic fights—to force Joe Biden to finish the wall, or to stop the Department of Homeland Security from trying to censor free speech.

Instead, in a Senate that routinely needed Republican votes to pass Democrat priorities, McConnell ensured that Democrats routinely got them with as little fanfare as possible.

Since January 2021, McConnell’s Senate minority has greenlighted some of the left’s most unpopular legislative and foreign policy initiatives—from the $550 billion “infrastructure” package to emptying out America’s arsenals and sending them to Ukraine. Even if he intended to pass the tens of billions for Ukraine, an effective Republican opposition leader would have insisted on including provisions to secure America’s own border in the process. The American people would have rallied to the Republicans’ side.

That would be the kind of leadership that could have forced the media to give some coverage—any coverage—to Congressional Republicans doing something useful.

Instead, McConnell’s theory appears to have been that he could win the Senate majority by default. When asked what Republicans would do if given the Senate majority, he famously replied that he would tell us after they had won. When NRSC Chairman Rick Scott attempted to put forward a positive vision for the party to rally around, McConnell slapped him down.

In retrospect, these appear to have been grievous mistakes. Republican leaders in Congress succeeded only in making themselves effectively invisible and allowing Democrats to drive the subject of national conversation to other issues—abortion, “democracy,” January 6th.

To make matters worse, McConnell actively attempted to sabotage pro-Trump Republicans on the general election ballot, presumably because he believed they would not back him as majority leader, and concluded that he’d rather be leader of a Republican minority than part of a Republican majority with someone else at the helm.

At a pivotal moment of the campaign, just as voters were tuning-in late in the summer and many were evaluating the Republican nominees for the first time, McConnell—who over the years has forced upon us any number of losing milquetoast clunker candidates—decided the time was right to publicly attack the Republican Party’s nominees. He baselessly called into question the competence and credibility of candidates like Masters, Vance, Walker, and Oz—thus advancing the left’s narrative that the GOP’s candidates were weird, fringe, and extreme, doing immeasurable damage to their prospects just as countless voters were forming their impressions. In fact, all of these candidates were remarkably impressive and accomplished people in their own ways. The “candidate quality” deficit is a convenient self-serving and blame-deflecting myth. But voters got the message: even Mitch McConnell didn’t think they deserved to win.

For all the venom hurled at Donald Trump by establishment Republicans since Tuesday night, perhaps the most selfish and shocking act of the cycle was when, in the closing weeks of the campaign, McConnell poured $9 million into the state of Alaska, saturating the state’s airwaves not in an effort to ensure that the Republican Party’s candidate won, but that she lost. McConnell spent those precious resources to bolster RINO Lisa Murkowski against Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka. Murkowski, a McConnell ally, has repeatedly insisted on running in the general election after being roundly rejected by Republican primary voters, and was personally responsible for the imposition of the ranked-choice voting system that foiled Republican voters’ desires this year in the state’s House race as well. McConnell spent big on Murkowski’s behalf, despite the fact that she recently voted to confirm Biden’s radical Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, after she had voted against Brett Kavanaugh. If any Republican candidate deserved to lose, it was her.

What might those $9 million McConnell spent against Kelly Tshibaka have done instead for Blake Masters, Herschel Walker, or Mehmet Oz—all of whom were drastically outspent by their Democratic opponents?

Nor is it at all clear that the candidates McConnell ostensibly preferred would have fared better this week. Many people have attacked Trump for endorsing Oz over establishment favorite David McCormick, ignoring that McCormick was a hedge fund CEO who would have been savaged in the general election campaign and played right into Democrat Fetterman’s fake working-class image. In spite of Oz’s imperfections, he may well have been the best of the available options—and those blaming Trump for Oz’s loss are neither honest nor sincere. Likewise, Trump’s endorsement of Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano—a subject of great derision on Tuesday night—was not made until Mastriano had the nomination already all but secured. Trump didn’t really push Mastriano on Pennsylvania primary voters—if anything, the opposite occurred. The same was true in New Hampshire, where Trump did not endorse Don Bolduc until after he had already won the primary. Would McConnell’s establishment stalking horse in New Hampshire have won where Bolduc fell short? There is little reason to think so. Bolduc won the primary because he was the best of the candidates who actually ran.

Meanwhile, there is little doubt that the Senate candidates who did win on Tuesday embraced a Trumpian brand of politics and Trump’s America First platform in ways that look likely to serve the party well in the long term. Whether every bet turns out to pay off or not, Trump should be thanked for making a serious attempt to infuse the party with new life, energy, and appeal in the form of genuine talents such as Vance, Masters, and especially Lake, as well as outsider figures like Walker. Kevin McCarthy, to his credit, also made serious efforts in recruiting for the House and put forth many fine candidates. The fact that not all of these candidates won their races is not proof that the GOP would have been better off reverting to the country-club Republicanism of Mitch McConnell.

In the Senate races, the Democrat money advantage almost certainly made an enormous difference. Governors Ron DeSantis in Florida, Brian Kemp in Georgia, and Mike DeWine in Ohio had huge victories Tuesday night. Not to detract in any way from their impressive wins, but one likely reason is that being an incumbent governor of a major state where your party also controls the legislature confers certain advantages—not the least of which is money. This is especially true in states with more permissive campaign finance laws than those that apply to federal candidates. As a result of these factors, neither DeSantis nor Kemp nor DeWine was assaulted with anything like the $65 million spending differential unleashed upon Blake Masters in Arizona. DeSantis raised an estimated $200 million for his reelection, obviously far more than was needed given his margin of victory. Yet while Trump has been subject to constant criticism for amassing his own $100 million war chest (even after relentlessly raising money for candidates across the country), no one seems to blame DeSantis for not diverting his millions to help elect a Republican Senate.

Ultimately, the naysayers trashing Trump for supposedly hindering Republicans in the midterms are precisely the same voices who have desperately wanted to get rid of him for years—and they predictably seized on any unmet expectations Tuesday to go after him again.

When all is said and done, Republicans won control of the House, still have a strong chance to pull off a Senate victory, and have a handful of genuine new stars who now form the basis of a serious national political bench. This comes despite not only the money deficit, but the overwhelming environmental headwinds that Republicans unfairly face in every election. As lawyer Ron Coleman observed Tuesday night: “At no point in US history has every single cultural institution – press, entertainment, academia, unions, public employees, the massive public employee sector, the professions, law enforcement, federal agencies, major corporations, Wall Street, non-profits, mainline Protestant denominations, the military – I could go on – been so profoundly and explicitly aligned the way they have been behind the Left in the last five years.”

With so many powerful forces arrayed against conservatives, Tuesday night was far from the calamity many doomers on the right insist. But if they truly want to know why election night didn’t go as well as they had perhaps expected, rather than trying to exile the one man who has ever successfully resisted the full gale of these forces, the GOP establishment should look back at all the opportunities they have refused to take, and all the fights they have refused to have over the past two years.

The ultimate irony is that as the midterms begin to be seen with perspective, Trump may once again emerge as a hero to the Republican rank-and-file and conservative independents, while those who seized on the moment to indulge their anti-Trump obsession will be left gnashing their teeth that Trump has once again exposed their lack of professionalism as journalists and political operatives.

In the closing days of the campaign, the former president stood in the pounding rain at one of his many large and boisterous rallies, this one in Miami, energetically making the case for the party in an election when he was not even on the ballot. With time, voters will see that Trump truly has transformed the party, most importantly by teaching Republicans how to fight. That realization will only grow, notwithstanding the ridiculous campaign against him this week.

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https://amac.us/the-absurdity-of-the...rump-campaign/

[Lee Chowaniec]

Racial breakdowns for midterms expose shifting electorate

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...5ff58f35e1e7d8

Democrats celebrated a better-than-expected performance in the midterm elections this week, blunting Republican efforts to gain ground in Congress and across the country. But their relief masked a continued problem: The party still has work to do to shore up its diverse voter base.

The red wave pundits predicted did not materialize, but support for Democrats slipped across the board, including among voters of color integral to the party’s political future. While more than 8 in 10 Black voters supported Democrats for Congress, their level of support fell between four and seven percentage points during the midterms compared with 2018, according to network exit polling and the AP VoteCast poll, respectively. Among Latinos, support for Democrats declined between nine and 10 percentage points, with between 56 percent and 60 percent backing Democrats.

Asians voted for House Democratic candidates, according to network exit polls, compared with 58 percent this year — although data from AP VoteCast showed a smaller decline in Asian American support for Democrats from 2018 to 2022: 71 percent to 64 percent. Separately, AP VoteCast and Edison Research found a majority of voters who are American Indian or Alaska Native favored Republicans this year.

White voters accounted for more than 7 in 10 voters and remained the Republican Party’s greatest source of support, with nearly 6 in 10 voting for GOP candidates for Congress, according to exit polls and AP VoteCast.

Comment

Imagine that three days after the polls close, when election results have not been finalized, where all votes have not been counted, the Washington Post is able to discern how Americans voted by ethnicity. Amazing!

What is interesting and relevant is what some voters gave as their reason for voting as they did. An election where there was no ‘red wave’ but where the final vote count may favor the Republican Party. Voters were given a lousy option. 75% of American voters voiced the country was headed in the wrong direction, yet many voice concern that voting for Republican candidates influenced by Trump and candidates voicing same radical narrative was not their better option.

It speaks volumes when members of both parties indicate they do not want a 2024 presidential election with either polarizing old geezer as the party’s endorsed candidate. And yet Biden and Trump strut about as if they have ears but do not hear, eyes that do not see.

And while the country is hurting and looking for leadership and relief, members of Congress are more concerned about power and having intra party fights.

[Lee Chowaniec]

A four-time loser and Trump still has supporters believing he can win in 2024

Conservative media, pundits and commentators, and many Republicans and GOP operatives have started to turn on the one-term, twice-impeached ex-president. No longer the golden (man) child of their party, he’s persona non grata. Which leads us to next Tuesday, when he was supposed to make his “very big announcement” at Mar-a-Lago.

Looks like Trump's "big announcement" next week is ruined and--oh crap! -- now Merrick Garland's back

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...2f4e4c50e14ea8

[Lee Chowaniec]

More reasons for dumping Trump

If you had the same surgeon operate on your back four times and each one was unsuccessful would you choose him again? An attorney that represented you four times and failed to provide a positive result when the odds were in your favor?

When there were more Republican than Democrats voting in the mid-terms, with voters besieged with a bad economy and recession concerns, inflation, crime, immigration crisis, with delusional Sir Spendalot at the helm who continues to maintain his domestic and foreign policies are working, the Republicans should have kicked ass. More reasons why they didn’t.

Yeah, Biden and Trump both suck, but when 75% of voters are looking for a change in direction, express they don’t want to see either Trump or Biden in 2024; where 60% express living paycheck-to-paycheck; knowing further Green Energy policies are going to burden them in the future; and choose to accept hardships over Trump and his 2020 election deniers, that is sad!

Voters want action, not distraction. They are tired of the propaganda, lies, and meaningless divisive politics.

Why Independent Voters Broke for Democrats in the Midterms

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ecfb339d78d61d

[Lee Chowaniec]

The Evil Carbon Dioxide: Are We Being Played

Green Energy policies and mandates are already causing Americans and the world hardships to their economies, health, and sustaining daily necessities. There have been numerous reports with volumes of statistical data to question whether ‘Climate Change’ advocates are acting accordingly in their approach, mandates, timelines, and hardships imposed now and in the future.

Here is but one report on carbon emission and the efficacy of the Green Energy program.

The Evil Carbon Dioxide

https://rjhamster.com/2022/07/13/tod...arbon-dioxide/

Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress – it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know….it’s very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kids “The Green Revolution” science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs…..well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days!

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere in just four days – yes, FOUR DAYS – by that volcano in Iceland has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time – EVERY DAY.

I don’t really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.

Yes, folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year – think about it.

Of course, I shouldn’t spoil this ‘touchy-feely tree-hugging’ moment and mention the effect of natural solar and cosmic activity, and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the wildfire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you based on the BOGUS ‘human-caused’ climate-change scenario.
Hey, isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention ‘Global Warming’ anymore, but just ‘Climate Change’?

It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming advocates got caught with their pants down.

And just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme – that whopping new tax – imposed on you by your government, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer.

It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure.

But, hey, go give the world a hug and have a nice day. We are being “Played” again!

[Lee Chowaniec]

The ball is in Donald’s court

Donald Trump can’t stand being called a loser, has nowhere to go, but will most likely announce his intent to run again in 2024. Mr. Toxic just can't get the message he is losing face and hurting the party.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), a onetime loyalist to Donald Trump who spoke at the infamous Jan. 6 rally that led to the assault on the U.S. Capitol, trashed the former president in a new interview. “It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have Donald Trump as their nominee in 2024,” Brooks told AL.com amid reports Trump will declare his candidacy on Tuesday. He added: “Donald Trump has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans. Even a candidate who campaigns from his basement can beat him.”

A new poll shows that more Republicans would prefer to see Ron DeSantis as their 2024 presidential nominee than Donald Trump following the party's disappointing midterm election results.

42% of Republicans and Republican-leaners said they would prefer to see the Florida governor as the nominee, compared with 35% saying they would prefer the former president, according to a new YouGov America poll. The poll, conducted in the three days following the elections, is a reversal from the results of a Yahoo News/YouGov poll last month, when 45% said they'd prefer Trump and 35% said they'd prefer DeSantis.

Trump is ripping everyone a new one who dares to oppose him – even Melania. In China today, Biden couldn’t help gloating and called half the country 2020 election deniers. That is nowhere the percentage of Americans denying the election results in 2020. Americans are tired of hearing this BS and want the Republicans to move on. As long as Trump is the Republican Party face this party will never move on and suffer loses again in 2024.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Trump’s 2024 election campaign announcement energizes his base

Staying on point and declaring America is a nation in decline, Trump declared America’s comeback begins with his announcement to seek a second presidential term in 2024. Sounding presidential and less confrontational Trump succinctly spoke on Biden administration and policies affecting the decline – the economy, inflation, crime, border crisis, high energy costs, foreign policy failures, all causing the pain and hardships that Americans are suffering.

How Trump’s announcement will affect things moving forward remains to be seen. His speech was spot on (America is in decline), but many voters, members of the Republican Party and pundits voice he is wholly unfit to ever be in office again and would only enhance the chances of the Republican Party losing the 2024 election.

The announcement, which Trump had been hinting at for months, comes as the embattled former president faces multiple criminal and civil investigations and as his party is grappling with a worse-than-expected showing in the midterm elections, raising questions about the former president's power over the GOP.

In the hour-long speech, the former president pitched the successes of his administration as a "golden age," saying, "our country was on track for an amazing future, because I made big promises to the American people -- and unlike other presidents, I kept my promises." In contrast, Trump said, "For millions of Americans, the past two years under Joe Biden have been a time of pain, hardship, anxiety and despair."

Trump is also the subject of several federal investigations, including the Jan. 6 probe, the investigation into Trump's handling of documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago, and an investigation into his fledgling social media company, Truth Social. In addition, Trump's namesake family real estate business, The Trump Organization, is currently on trial in New York for tax evasion and fraud -- charges that would not be affected if he's reelected president. The company has denied wrongdoing.

Trump, who was twice impeached during his four years in office but was not convicted either time, maintains a tight grasp on his Republican base. Six in 10 Republicans back the former president as their party's leader, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll from earlier this year. That is a much lower percentage than just a few months ago.

Trump has already taken aim at some potential presidential primary opponents, including possible 2024 rival Ron DeSantis, who on Tuesday cruised to reelection as governor of Florida. In a statement released last week, Trump attacked DeSantis as an "average" governor, saying that DeSantis was "politically dead" until Trump endorsed him in 2018 and griping over DeSantis' refusal to say whether he'll run for president in 2024.

In Orlando, Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida received a hero’s welcome on Tuesday night, as he addressed an audience of leading Republicans minutes before former President Donald Trump announced he was launching a 2024 White House bid.

Trump is also taking heat for not having a game plan in place, strategy, or forethought other than his own, deflecting from everyone around him, disallowing for interruptions or reality checks.

The GOP, the and the country, would be best served if Mr. Trump ceded the field to the next generation of Republican leaders to compete for the nomination in 2024.

If Mr. Trump insists on running, then Republican voters will have to decide if they want to nominate the man most likely to produce a GOP loss. The party must look for candidates who are focused on winning -- not "settling a score.

I’m sure Trump’s announcement brought cheers from Democrats as well as Republicans!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden suddenly walks on water

Old enough to have followed the entire political life of Joe Biden, the great flip-flopper, know for a career of gaffes and bad domestic and foreign policy decisions, a man who was recently rebuked by his own party and where 60% of voters do not want to see him running in 2024, what the biased media left is now reporting on his genius is nauseating.

More and more it is now reported that the midterms were a demonstration of Biden's political strength and validation of a record that gives the president a good foundation for another term. This president has done an extremely effective job, we are being told. "He’s accomplished things that other Democratic presidents and leaders have not been able to accomplish.”

Democracy was at stake. However, the notion of democracy is open to interpretation, one that encompasses feelings about one’s own identity, political rivals, the news media and broader social changes. A nationwide survey of more than 90,000 voters showed many Republicans similarly considered the future of democracy to be their motivating factor this year, and Democratic candidates didn’t exclusively win the democracy vote.

Overall, VoteCast reveals Democratic voters were much more likely than Republicans to call the future of democracy their “single most important” factor in voting, with more than half of Democrats saying so. Still, about a third of Republicans identified democracy as their top consideration.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was not very impressed by Trump’s announcement to run in 2024. He called the incumbent President, Joe Biden, “a very smart, very experienced politician.” Imagine that!

The left-biased Atlantic Magazine went so far as to publish an opinion piece today extolling “What Joe Biden knows about America. Where analysts roundly declared that he had misread the mind of the electorate by addressing the issue that voters said they cared most about—the economy—he delivered a plea for them to rescue democracy from the forces of authoritarianism.

Those critiques of Biden were, it turns out, the profound political misjudgment. Commentators posited a cynical view of the electorate—and assumed that it would rather protest gas prices than rally to protect democracy. But Biden had more faith in the American people than the commentariat or his political adversaries did. He intuited that voters would rise above their economic self-interest to prevent election deniers from seizing power.

The stumbling, bumbling, gaffer now walks on water: According to The Atlantic

Now that the Democrats have survived a midterm election without suffering the calamitous results that afflict a ruling party, let’s give Biden his political due. His success wasn’t just accidental—or the product of his hapless opposition. He had a theory for how his party could navigate the nation’s polarization, and it was far shrewder than appreciated, in part because of its generosity to his fellow citizens and their concerns.

The party’s shift to the left seemed to offer the Republicans a plausible path for winning back the suburbs, tapping into frustration with how schools had managed the coronavirus pandemic, he condemned teachers and bureaucrats for imposing wokeness and disenfranchising parents.

Well before Youngkin’s success, however, Biden had his own strategy for tilting the culture war to his advantage—or at least neutralizing it so that it didn’t damage his party. He believed that he could “lower the temperature in the country.” After the turmoil of the Trump years, the nation needed a chance to breathe, even if it wasn’t ever going to find a state of happy coexistence. What it didn’t need was a president who tweeted about every ephemeral flash point.

Sometimes, Biden could sound like an old man waxing nostalgic for the bipartisan age of his youth. Sometimes, he seemed like a politician who simply didn’t have the oratorical skills, or energy, to command the nation’s attention. But his low-key presence was also intentional—and it worked.

Unlike Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, he has avoided becoming a polarizing figure. By receding a bit more into the background, he has immunized himself against plots to make him into a villain. Even when Trumpists shouted “Let’s go Brandon,” they never really seemed to have their hearts in it. The joke went stale fast. The only scandal that Republicans have pursued with any vigor is the corrupt foreign activity of Hunter Biden. Even that they have tended to describe as a meta-scandal about the media’s failure to cover the wayward son’s purloined laptop.

His strategy has been to pursue an agenda that is arguably the most progressive in history, while correcting for the excesses of activists. He has announced, over and over, that he favors funding the police. Rather than just fending off the accusation of weakness, he’s blamed Republicans for rejecting his policies that would pour resources into hiring and training cops.

When the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs ruling, Biden spent several weeks on the receiving end of harsh criticism from his own base, who felt that he wasn’t acting aggressively enough to counteract the decision. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pleaded with him to open abortion clinics on military bases and the fringes of national parks. But Biden’s instinct was to resist making himself (or his policies) the center of attention. He didn’t want to propose any executive action that the courts would slap down, or that would offend the sensibilities of moderate voters. His instinct was to step back and let the anger settle on its deserved target, the Republican Party.

Biden calls himself a “fingertip politician”—and it’s the second part of that label that helped him exceed electoral expectations. He’s made strategic choices to protect his coalition, even when those decisions earned him derision. To counteract inflation, or at least how it’s most directly experienced, he’s relentlessly exploited the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to tamp down prices at the pump. To win young voters and fulfill a campaign promise to Elizabeth Warren, he agreed to student-debt relief, even if it wasn’t a policy he especially liked.

The Biden method is often messy—committing gaffes is his lifelong pathology, and his dithering over difficult issues draws out his most painful decisions. But over his career, a pattern keeps reasserting itself. Just after he is dismissed as a relic, he pulls off his greatest successes.


OMG, are you buying this propaganda? On the one side we have a feeble, lying Biden and his radical left extremists and on the other the lying Trump and the radical deniers. The best thing that came out of this election is Congress is now split and although polarization and the blame game will continue, the America voter will have an opportunity to see which party best serves the interest of the American people before the 2024 election.

When it is reported today that Democrats are strutting about feeling vindicated that the voter choose them for saving democracy, rejoicing that inflation is down to 8%, that the border is secure, that there is no crime increase, they are peeing on our legs and telling us it’s raining out.

[Lee Chowaniec]

FBI & DOJ weaponized / corrupt? Are you shocked?

House Republicans allege Biden was directly involved in business dealings with son Hunter. The Republicans submitted a report consisting of hundreds of pages of evidence that the senators say demonstrate the Biden family’s potential criminal activity related to its links to China and Chinese intelligence services.

FBI Director Wray refuses to say if alleged Hunter Biden criminal activity is Russian 'disinformation'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...5161416edbed54

At a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing Thursday, Rep. Johnson asked Wray if he believes anything in the report could be traced back to Russian disinformation. Wray said he has examined the work of the two senators but refused to assess the quality of the report.

"That would be a hard question for me to answer," Wray said when asked specifically if there were any signs of Russian disinformation or influence. Johnson argued that the FBI should see his report as a source of verifiable, actionable information.

"There is no Russian disinformation," Representative Johnson said. "That report is completely clean of any interference of foreign influence, although we have been falsely accused, including by the chairman of this committee of spreading Russian disinformation." Representative Jordan ripped the media, and Intel experts for dismissing Hunter Biden’s laptop emails as ‘Russian disinformation.’

Johnson said whistleblowers believe the FBI "initiated a scheme" to downplay information about Hunter Biden, and that it stands to reason that the FBI may have helped organize the letter signed by former intelligence officials. He also said if the FBI was involved, it played a role in the interference of the 2020 election.

"This letter by 51 intelligence officials, this interfered in the 2020 election to a far greater extent than anything Russia or China ever could have hoped to accomplish," Johnson said. "You have to acknowledge that it has to be investigated. I have no faith that you will do so."

Payback is a bitch! The Democrats will soon learn that when the Republicans take over the House in January.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Stupid is what stupid does

The public has been exposed to a lot of misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and outright lying by the media and by politicos as well. There comes a time when something comes along that exceeds the bounds of absurdity.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid report blasting a probe of Hunter Biden and calling him a ‘tragic figure’ is irrationally absurd! Investigate Trump for six years on anything and everything is fine with the left-winger, but don’t touch the Bidens. The ‘smartest man’ Joe knows is to be pitied and forgiven because of his proclivities.

MSNBC's Joy Reid blasts Hunter Biden probe, calls him a 'tragic figure'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...0b82f85a5b1875

MSNBC host Joy Reid revealed she felt "bad" for Hunter Biden Thursday, claiming his personal issues have turned him into a "tragic figure."

House Republicans announced earlier in the day they would begin investigations into President Biden’s son and his business dealings after they retake the majority in the new congressional session.

Speaking with Democrat adviser Kurt Bardella and New York Times columnist Charles Blow, Reid attacked this announcement and even defended Hunter Biden as someone viewers should feel sorry for rather than investigate.

"The vast majority of Americans couldn’t pick Hunter Biden out of a lineup. They don’t care about him. In a lot of ways, he’s a tragic figure. This is someone who was dealing with addiction, with a lot of personal issues. If anything, what you know about him makes you feel bad for him. They decided to turn him into their new Hillary Clinton, their obsession," Reid said.

Blow similarly criticized the announcement, claiming that Republicans have turned Hunter Biden into a "bogeyman" to attack. "This thing, you know, of trying to make this person, Hunter Biden, into some giant bogeyman in charge of a giant conspiracy to get all the money from all the foreign leaders and foreign companies, it just doesn’t land.

"God bless poor Hunter Biden. I hope he recovers and that he has a good, decent life. But I don’t care about his personal life. I don’t, sorry," Reid concluded.

Even prior to the New York Post story, Hunter Biden has been under FBI investigation since 2018. In October, it was revealed that federal agencies have enough evidence to potentially charge the president’s son with tax crimes.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Investigating the Bidens: Why not?

Yep, with the Republican’s taking over the House, you know they would be going after the Bidens. Vindictiveness? Yep! Justified? Yep! The left and progressives have no problem investigating everything Republican but take umbrage to like treatment to their own.

Progressive judicial groups Demand Justice and Take Back the Court called on the Senate to open an investigation into U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the lobbying campaign targeting the high court after The New York Times alleged he leaked the 2014 Hobby Lobby decision to wealthy evangelicals engaged in an influence campaign targeting conservative justices.

At the same time there is ample evidence of the Biden family corrupt business dealings and FBI and DOJ coverups and the left is squealing ‘nothing there, disinformation.’ Yes there is!

Biden family business dealings story has changed 'dramatically': Rep. Jim Jordan

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...c6b70d13f8c46e

After vowing to launch an investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings, one GOP lawmaker claims the story has changed "dramatically" as the House investigation picks up speed.

"We got all kinds of documents and evidence" that show Joe Biden was involved, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, revealed on FOX Business' "Mornings with Maria" Friday, as the Republican-led House prepares to investigate the Biden family’s alleged past business dealings.

In a press conference held Thursday, the incoming House Oversight Committee alleged that Biden was actively involved in overseas business dealings with his son, Hunter Biden, a compromising position for a sitting president if the allegations are confirmed.

"We just got to show the American people what took place," Jordan said as critics raise concerns about the Biden family's past dealings. Among the concerns Republican lawmakers raised during Thursday’s briefing was the 150 suspicious activity reports (SAR) on banking transactions linked to members of the Biden family.

"You have Hunter Biden, Jim Biden having 150 [SARs] regarding their business transactions or banking transactions. I think that’s a concern," Rep. Jordan told Maria Bartiromo, adding that the committee has only seen two reports. "We’d like to see the other 148, see what’s going on," he added.

The Biden administration changed the protocols regarding Congress’ access to view suspicious activity reports. A move that has raised eyebrows and frustrated members in the Congressional Republican camp.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Quiet quitting / quick quitting: Life is getting tough for the snowflakes

I well understand not liking your job and moving on. I left two jobs in the first five years of my working career, found my home, and finished a 36-year career there. But this quiet quitting, quick quitting strategy is enigmatic to those with a good work ethic and/or values based on one’s responsibility to self, family, and employer.

Quiet quitting is an informal term for the practice of reducing the amount of effort one devotes to one’s job, such as by stopping the completion of any tasks not explicitly stated in the job description. The term implies that this is done secretly or without notifying one’s boss or manager. Quiet quitting doesn’t actually refer to quitting a job.

Quick quitting is now being defined as leaving a position that one has bee employed in less than a year.

People who are now thinking about quickly leaving behind positions, however, may be less interested in saying goodbye to their job given a potential recession next year.

Waves of workers are 'quick quitting' as the clock runs down on the Great Resignation

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/28310...g5NzQ2NTU3Nzc=

Although Vicki Salemi, career expert for Monster, told Insider that "we don't know the specifics behind why individuals are quickly quitting," Salemi said people may quickly leave a job because of a toxic work environment. People may also be quitting because of burnout.

"If you're in your new job and you are already reaching burnout or if you haven't reached it, yet you know it's imminent, that's an issue. That's a red flag," Salemi said. "And then the question is how can you address it?" One way to address it — besides leaving — is seeing if your company can "alleviate the workload."

Salemi said she's "cautious" though about people quickly quitting though because "it shouldn't necessarily be spontaneous." She said people need to make sure they have their "finances in order" as well as be professional and "have a game plan." Salemi also said if you do quickly leave, it's best not to make it a habit.

Although we're not in a recession yet, Berger said he expects the number of quick quitters to start falling, since workers who "aren't at an immediate risk of losing their job will have less opportunities out there in the coming months." He added that "they might also be a little more cautious and a little more nervous."

Salemi said she's "cautious" though about people quickly quitting though because "it shouldn't necessarily be spontaneous." She said people need to make sure they have their "finances in order" as well as be professional and "have a game plan." Salemi also said if you do quickly leave, it's best not to make it a habit.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Hunter’s laptop: Heads will roll

John Paul Mac Isaac is set to release his new book, "American Injustice," in which he details what took place after he first discovered Hunter Biden’s laptop. The release comes just months before a new Republican House majority plans to begin investigations.

Hunter Biden laptop repairman details 'chilling' warning from FBI agent

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...e9ff0d15074af5

Trump and Biden, two passing ****s in the night!