Monday, October 28, 2024

One of this blog's pivotal posts (on Trump's alleged "baseless claims" about the 2020 election) appears in Danish: Lad os holde op med at bruge ordene “Trump forsøgte at omstøde valget i 2020”


It is easier for the world to accept
a simple lie than a complex truth

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Over the past 10 months, I have been translating, or having translated, one of this blog's most important posts of the past 4 years, into some of the languages I know — indeed of the past 20 years, since the post addresses one of the biggest scams of the 21st century.

Namely, Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional Journalism), which appeared on American Thinker on the second day of 2024, just in time for the January 6th anniversary (mange tak for Instapundit linken)… 

Affter appearing in Portuguese, the post is now in Danish. Actually, it is a far lengthier version thereof, as I have been adding important issues to the article in the following months.

De kommer ikke forbi! de vil ikke bestå! Without further ado, here is a longer version of my January 2 post in Danish:

Lad os holde op med at bruge ordene “Trump forsøgte at omstøde valget i 2020” (Det er uprofessionel journalistik)

White House Tenant (JFK) Attends 1962's Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally

 

In response to the Democrats' Nazi smear about Adolf Trump (whatever happened to Godwin's Law?!), a lot has been said about Bill Clinton and Al Gore's visit to the Madison Square Garden in the 1990s and indeed to Bill's wife Hillary visit to the venue around 2001. But Damian Bennett reminds us about an even bigger icon of the Donkey Party — the biggest, ever? — holding a Nazi rally there.

Overall I think the MSG rally was well executed. I kept thinking what a Herculean task to keep the show rolling to schedule. The MSG spotlight in front of a massive audience had more than one speaker find his/her larger oratorical self. The casting -- there were a few odd choices -- must have had something to do with the NY dynamic, speakers that hit some specific NY nerve. I can't really say as I've been out of the NY dynamic for so long. However there was one unexpected speaker:
 
Oh. Wait. That was President John F. Kennedy attending the 1962 Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally.
  • NYC Mayor [Eric Adams (D)] Says Trump Not A Fascist, Urges Politicians To 'Dial Down The Temperature' October 27, 2024
    “I know what Hitler has done, and I know what a fascist regime looks like. I think, as I have called for over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all dial down the temperature,” Adams said at the conference in which he also detailed a significant police presence planned for Trump’s event at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan Sunday. He made the comment after Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates criticized Trump in recent days...
  • Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever. October 27, 2024

T-V is teasing NY in play:
fivethirtyeight.com currently puts DJT's NY chances at 1%. I think the general plan is to deny H-W big NY numbers and fluff up T-V's national popular vote numbers. OK. But elsewhere...

Let's take stock. DOMINANCE, MOMENTUM, TIME -- all are on DJT's side. 
All the same tough 8 days ahead.
 Duncan adds that

It took me a while to get my jaw off the floor. What a pathetic smear. I don't think even the densest idiot wouldn't fall for that. The media claims sound like propaganda.

Thus writes our friend Duncan in response to take on Damian Bennett's take on Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden event and the following Democrats' Nazi smear. Earlier, Damian was writing about the Joe Rogan podcast:

The Trump sit-down on Rogan dropped yesterday -- 2:58:49 hours; 9,890,083 views (on YouTube alone).


If you follow Trump there's not much new here. (Highlight reel at ZeroHedge.) Trump works the 'weave', but Rogan provides some needed 'herding cats' discipline to the conversation. It was a congenial conversation throughout (Rogan surprisingly passed on Operation Warp Speed) but nothing much new. (Wait a minute, what about eliminating the income tax? Nope, DJT had entertained this during his Bronx barbershop confab.) Yet. This was a very consequential event. Why? Aside from the massive audience reach of Rogan -- introducing DJT shed of negative media taints -- Trump on Rogan begs why NOT KA-mala on Rogan.
What's a girl to do? Go on Rogan and risk a hazardous long-form conversation OR not go on Rogan and forfeit the homestretch exposure?
Not Rogan. Instead, Beyoncé and CBS News. [Pause.] CBS. Yeah. That CBS News

Oh. About that Beyoncé thing.
Hhmmm. Fool me once...
Presidential campaigns serve two purposes: (1) to introduce the candidate and party policy slate; (2) to preview by analogy how well a candidate will run his/her presidency. H-W campaign is clinging to the consensus punditry calling this a close race. SOooo in the run-up crunch to the November vote you might think that H-W would be extra-special-super-tippy-toe careful about screw-ups and unforced errors. [Pause.] You might think. [Strap in. Skim alert!]
That's October. So far. [Pause.] Take note, the H-W campaign is a H-W presidency in miniature. Imagine the H-W campaign scaled up to the size of the United States presidency.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Interview on Radio Télévision Suisse About the Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump


After the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump, I was interviewed (in French) on July 14 by Coraline Pauchard on her Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) Forum.

Money quote: When you call your opponent a fascist, a racist, or Adolf Hitler, then it becomes far from anormal for someone to attempt to get rid of said opponent through assassination or, in that perspective, through an attempt to cheat at elections so that Hitler does not become the Führer of America

Que retenir de l’attaque contre le candidat républicain? Regards croisés entre Erik Svane et Michael Stricof

Regards croisés entre Erik Svane, journaliste républicain, et Michael Stricof, expert en civilisation américaine

Friday, October 25, 2024

Donald Trump the Punchline President

Sur la chaîne de Télématin, Elodie Mielczareck @lasemiologie, sémiologue, appelle à la vigilance sur les études en ce qui concerne la Présidentielle américaine qui suggèrent une sénilité de Donald Trump :

💬"Dans sa compagne tout est construit. Il ne faut pas nier l'impact des "punchlines"." 

Contrasting retail politicking of Trump with that of Harris: KA-mala is as remote a politicker as she is an unengaged VP

Besides reminding us that the Trump-Rogan Interview [is] Set For Friday, Damian Bennett has this to share:
There is probably no greater contrast between DJT and KA-mala than their retail politicking.
Contrast.
That's it, that's all I have for KA-mala retail politicking. I couldn't find a single story of KA-mala plunging into the hoi-polloi to press the flesh, chat unscripted, autograph H-W camo caps, or kiss babies. If you have one, please share, I'm keen to know. 

KA-mala is as remote a politicker as she is an unengaged VP.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Colin Kaepernick on Books for Children: "Kids are so impressionable, so it’s important to make sure we give them great and empowering books to read that help them lay a positive foundation"


You may agree with the letter and the spirit of what Colin Kaepernick (whose birthday is two days before the election) has to say, but you might have second thoughts and wince a mite (whatever the color of your skin) when you see the race-baitin' books that have most inspired him. In any case, because Colin Kaepernick has a new picture book out, the New York Times features an interview with the football quarterback in the paper's (By the) Book section. 

Business memoirs are at hand as he navigates a new role as the founder of a startup to “democratize storytelling.” Meanwhile he has co-written “We Are Free, You & Me,” an illustrated book for kids.

 … Why is writing for kids important to you?

Kids are so impressionable. What they are reading and absorbing at a young age will stay with them forever, so it’s important to make sure we give them great and empowering books to read that help them lay a positive foundation for the rest of their lives.

 … Which books or authors inspired you as an activist?

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” by Alex Haley, Malcolm X and Attallah Shabazz; “Revolutionary Suicide,” by Huey P. Newton; “The Wretched of the Earth” and “Black Skin, White Masks,” by Frantz Fanon; “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” by Paulo Freire; “Black Awakening in Capitalist America,” by Robert L. Allen; “Women, Race and Class” and “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle,” by Angela Y. Davis; “I Write What I Like,” by Steve Biko; “Slave Patrols,” by Sally E. Hadden. These books are written by incredibly brilliant minds and provide research and perspective that is grounded in the liberation of oppressed people, specifically Black people.

Do you expect to write a memoir one day?

Yes. My graphic novel memoir, “Change the Game,” was my first, based on my high school years. I will write a complete memoir in the future.

You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?

James Baldwin, Alexandre Dumas and Toni Morrison.

There you have it: Also, Colin Kaepernick seems to have no interest in any author (in any human?) who ain't black.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Election 2024: Prepare for a November Surprise


While one of his friends echoes the following scenario —  

the FBI, no doubt, has a few patsies eager to be famous and take out Biden, Harris becomes President and declares [martial] law because of the potential for chaos...or some other lame excuse...and suspends the election.

— it isn't an October surprise that Damian Bennett (who warns that the Harris steal is now in earnest) is predicting regarding the Democrat Party, it is a  November surprise, only four or five days before the election.

On Friday November 1, Joe Biden [pick one]:
A. resigns the presidency to spend more time with his family;
B. resigns the presidency due to a medical emergency;
C. is double-couped by the 25A;
D. dies in office after lunching with HRC. 

Any of the above will elevate KA-mala to the presidency days before the national presidential election, checking all the many historic 'first' boxes:
first woman president;
first kinda black woman president;
first POC president for sure;
first president to install tampon dispensers in the WH executive water closet;
first president to task the vice president as bathroom czar, dispensing towels and stocking the tampon dispenser in the executive water closet (please, no tipping)
-- and so many more firsts, firsts beyond counting, superplural firsts.

Shall we discuss [in the comments section]?
My own pessimistic take is simply that a number of Democrats — first and foremost, the vice-president herself (if, per Damian Bennett, the newly-anointed president, she will no longer be among those who still have that power) — simply refuse to certify a GOP victory, as Rep. Jamie Raskin has suggested.


Indeed, Ed Driscoll has more: while asking the question, Will Kamala commit to certifying a Trump win?Stephen L. Miller asserts that

All of [the Democrats'] moves seem to foreshadow several legal and political challenges to a Trump victory — and it will ultimately be up to Harris to rebuff them and carry out her constitutional duty of certifying a Trump victory. These comments from Harris allies, however, and the moves her own campaign is making are casting doubt on that process — and the country deserves a definitive answer before November 5.

Should Trump win the election [and didn't he do so in 2020?], we are sure to see a push from the Democratic Party and its allies in the media not to seat Donald Trump for a second and final term, invoking the insurrection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This would cause a constitutional crisis the likes of which the country has never seen and would likely involve the Supreme Court, which the media and Democrats have targeted repeatedly in the past. 

If Trump represents the unique threat to democracy the left continues to claim, and if they truly believe he is another Hitler in waiting, a dictator from day one, to what lengths would they go to keep him out of office?

Here is hoping that one of thethings that a Trump justice department will do is to start unearthing secret emails and phone conversations between Democrats for the past ten years or so… 

Related: at The American ThinkerLet's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional Journalism)

Monday, October 21, 2024

The Latest Puzzle Pieces for the 2024 Election Jigsaw Picture: "the Harris steal is now in earnest"!

Although they make perfect sense, forecasts like this make Damian Bennett skeptical…

While trying to assemble the latest puzzle pieces in the big 2024 election jigsaw picture, Damian Bennett cannot exactly be described as optimistic: "the Harris steal is now in earnest"!

Forget the polls. If the polls are worth anything they are lagging indicators, third down in a manifest dynamic of momentum.

Trump has it. Harris doesn't.

The election isn't won yet, but we are in the late innings and once there is a momentum shift in the homestretch it proceeds like an avalanche. It is very very hard to outrun, cannot be stopped, and near impossible to reverse. There are a lot of recent puzzle pieces; let's fit them together into a big jigsaw picture.

THE FIRST INDICATOR is the legacy media. 


KA-mala has gotten bad press lately, not 'slanted' bad, 'baseline reporting' bad. Stories are now making the news unfiltered, unfluffed, sometimes as above-the-fold headlines. KA-mala can no longer be plausibly cosmeticized. The journos can either report nothing or chronicle the fading vibes, the souring joy.
The totally insane shills will hold out to the end and beyond (as in 2016); they cannot counter KA-mala's bad press with good press -- there is none -- so they will pump up the ear-bleeding volume on Orange Man Bad. But all the end-of-democracy, Hitler tropes -- no matter how loudly shilled -- have been so overused that -- unlike the COVID vaccine -- people are immunized to the shrill of the shill. A small sampling:
THE SECOND INDICATOR is the public episodes of unease and discord and whining among Democrats and the White House and the Harris campaign. 
The Biden coup was never an all-in team play. 
A great many Ds resent notching Harris to the top of the ticket uncontested; others know what everyone knows, KA-mala is as dumb as a box of rocks.

THE THIRD INDICATOR are the polls, where try as they might -- small survey pools, oversampling Ds, plumping the MOE -- are moving in one direction in favor of Trump. Wherever Harris is still ahead, her lead has dwindled from a month ago.
To everyone who says Harris has yet to reveal herself, that she is a shrewd political animal, a Brainiac hidden under a bushel, she is not. What she has shown is all that's there. She will not improve. I pray, fervently pray, pray on my knees, that she does the rumored Joe Rogan interview, that would be a humane but irremediable end to her campaign. Though that may be unnecessary after her Bret Baier interview tonight. 

(UPDATE: I watched the entire interview. TWICE. Spontaneous combustion is real. How bad was the combustion?
And this:
Her handlers will never risk her doing a 2-3 hour Rogan interview -- not without a kaishakunin at the ready.)

Elsewhere:
SO. What does Trump homestretch momentum mean? It means the Harris steal is now in earnest

Watch and see if there is a sort of quiet acknowledgement by the DNC and the media that the Harris campaign is a shipwreck, that Harris is a losing proposition -- AS LONG AS THEY CAN KEEP HER WITHIN 3 POINTS. That is the outermost margin for the steal. Almost all the polls are working on a 3pt+ MOE. So just as in 2020, we go to bed with Trump triumphant, and wake up to a squeaker where Harris ekes out the win.

In addition, Damian Bennett predicts a November surprise (stay tuned!) 

The betting markets are better predictors than the polls for trends. Among the different betting services there is rarely a big divide on how a race is trending, unlike the wild swings among the polls. If memory serves, DJT was up in the betting markets in 2020. But lost. Lost because robbed. Lost because of the steal. No one thought to bet the steal.

What I like about October is poll tidy-up. Whereas through September polls have their thick meaty thumbs on the scale for particular candidates, trying to create momentum where none exists, trying to shore up undynamic candidates, trying to sink unpreferred candidates, trying to clinch for preferred candidates... 
...BUT come October everybody needs to get in line with reality or risk reputation and cred. In 2016 they got in the wrong line. In 2020 they broke for Trump in the homestretch, only to be busted by the steal. Now we're seeing those 2-3 MOE polling points shifting to DJT, but not so fast on the 5-7% lead he actually has. Time will tell. Certainly time will tell November 5.