Matt Taibbi: Ding, Dong, the Witch Still Leads the Polls
What do these people imagine will happen now? Where do they believe Trump voters will go? Do they think the anger that drove his campaign in the first place will evaporate? Do they realize Trump surged ahead in all the battleground states during this trial? Don’t they see where this is headed?
No. Washington pols always see elections through a rearview mirror, imagining candidates create supporters, not vice versa. It comes from the belief that voters are sheep and have no beliefs beyond what their political betters instruct them to feel. Therefore, one controls them by controlling leaders. But Gene McCarthy didn’t surge in 1968 by convincing people to oppose the Vietnam war. Voters were there. Buchanan and Perot didn’t inspire bitterness about the loss of manufacturing jobs, the unemployed did, and Bernie Sanders in 2016 didn’t invent post-bailout blue frustration. Voters lead the way. Politicians arrive to take advantage. It’s always how it works.
The Maddows and Psakis really believe racking up a felony conviction for Trump somehow ends the story, or marks the “beginning of the end,” as the Guardian’s man-on-the-street put it. But guaranteed, it will just piss people off more.
In a related story … I made a SUBSTANTIAL donation to PDJT today. Hey Lefties! Eat homeless encampment sh*t and die.
Excellent. It’s how we get back at them.
Kenji, was that through WinRed? I keep hearing that using WinRed, your donation doesn’t go directly to the Trump campaign.
Do you know of a non-WinRed way to donate? And will they take a Canadian donation?
He leads by more than they are telling us. And yet the man on their ticket is still Biden, so far. The whole thing is at minimum, bizarre.
This isn’t about a 4 year election, it’s about taking down the deep state. We’re watching a movie, which was written a long time ago. Does Trump seem worried after being convicted on 34 counts? Think about that.
The DOJ under Barack O’Biden is an organized crime syndicate.
With a bitter LOSER SCOTUS candidate exercising his myriad frustrations. I’m sorry … a “moderate” Democrat bitter LOSER
Obama and Biden are just soldiers. If you want a glimpse of what may be really going on, check out badlands media, Jon Herold, Burning Bright, Chris Paul , Just Human do nice work. Brian Cates on Substack, one of the best . Matt Taibbi not so much, he talks about things the aforementioned brought up 3 and half years ago. Jon wrote the Devolution Series, I read it 3 years ago, changed my whole way of thinking. We all wake up at different times, but that’s okay.
Michael Obama is the real muscle.
The smart ones know it isn’t about Trump, but their vision for America is so creepy, bleak, and dystopian, they got nothing else. They have to rely on stereotypes and caricatures. Demonizing Trump, is a distraction from their endless failures and its It’s red meat for their dimmer rank and file, as well as, the r their soap opera women, who crave drama.
If Trump continues to gather more support than Biden respecting the electoarate, his Secret Service Protection may have to step up their game.
Hasn’t there been more assassination attempts against Republican Presidents tnan Democratic Presidents?
Don’t be foolish. Brandon will stroke out from the drugs before the debate.
Posts like that give Reuters easy headlines. Like today’s lead on Google – “Trump supporters call for riots and violence”
Bunny
Don’t forget your crying towel.
What am I crying about, toit?
You know why Liberals are so dense?
They really don’t know tolerance has it limits.
And sadly not many Conservatives don’t either. Those that do know also are aware the only way you convey what that means is action, brutal, righteous action. For all the mounting needless, equitable, inexcusable wrongs.
It’s becoming so obvious.
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They think taking away the lightning rod gets rid of the lightning. When they look out at the fires and ashes of what’s to come they might learn that is not true. But by then it will be too late.
For liberals history starts every morning.
Also….They rest on theories…not realities.
I disagree with this take. Thanks, mostly, to the internet addiction via smart phone and the ultimate scorekeeper (Likes and Subscribes) the younger ones among us live by trend. If the influential members of their peer are doing something, they want to be part of it. They don’t strive for merit or integrity. Instead they strive for uniqueness and the ultimate prize…celebrity. There are two full generations of younger adults who believed their piss poor parents when they told them they were special…and will do anything to feel that misnomer in real time.
What I’m getting at is that a large portion of our population is now very, very malleable. They’ll support giving billions to a country that they can’t even find on a map. They’ll say “ok, sure…a man can get pregnant.” They’ll wear their masks, stay six feet away from some other mask wearing idiot and pontificate on how the experts are always right (provided it supports their borrowed position). And, Hamas went on a rape and murder spree, but come on, the Jews brought that on themselves. My friends told me so. And so:
Just watch how the up coming presidential polls show BIden stretching out a nice comfortable lead in the race. They won’t be accurate. But, they don’t have to be. If you want to sway the younger masses, you tell them everyone else is doing it…so it must be cool.
I tend to agree with you, Orson. Particularly when an increasing numbet of young people get their “news” and political information sources like TikTok and Reddit.
I’m canadian, so what has me concerned is how the current Liberal/NDP regime may use this to their advantage. The ridiculously low bar set by the last invocation of the Canada Emergencies Act leads me to believe it will be invoked again if the USA falls into chaos — to {{protect Canadians}}. Canada’s next federal election is in 2025; what will the country be by then?
Canada is in an emergency right now. The government wants to destroy freedom and prosperity and we are the targets. In fact it is beyond an emergency our survival is at stake.
I do not think Trump will be the republican candidate. At the convention repubs will say they cannot nominate a convicted felon, and nominate Ron Desantis, that’s why the trials continued even after Trump’s popularity increased with all of the trials. They needed a conviction to deny him the nomination.
That’s why biden is still in the race, because the backlash against repubs will be huge and they will lose all the way down ticket. Dems will take all 3 house, senate & presidency. nothing to stop them. but honestly America was lost on the 1st tuesday in Nov’08
Acceptance of the lie is where you are. That is why the nation is devolving.
Agreed. The junior wing of the UniParty needs an excuse to kick Trump off the ticket. This “conviction” will be it. But DeSantis will not get the nomination as he might be able to win. Haley gets it, to make sure Team Biden remains in the White House.
You’re more deluded than Democrats who think 10% Big Guy Quid Pro Joe Biden Brand won’t be on the ticket.
My message to complaining Republicans is don’t get mad, get even. DeMarxist lawfare has provided a target rich environment to hammer and jail the likes of (in order of my preference): McCabe, Comey, the 51 “intelligence experts,” Zukerbucks, Hillary Clinton, Obama and Biden, plus many others.
Trumphobia,the gift that keeps on giving.
I for one,did once believe that the institutions would save us from the minions within them.
For many were designed,knowing there is no perfect man.
Wrong answer,for the endless assault upon Donald Trump has shown that the institution is no stronger than the crooked minion.
So now we know.
As our choices shrink,action becomes more palatable.
Everything Government touches turns to shit.
We ,Canadians,have run this experiment for 6 decades,ever expanding government,ever shrinking personal responsibility ,freedom and light.
And we live the results.
Healthcare?
Education?
Freedom of travel?
Welfare?
“We are here to help you,we are from the government”..
The carefully omitted part of this platitude being…”help you into servitude,penury and destruction”.
For waste and destruction is the dead hand of “Good Government”..
Where a bunch of incompetent and arrogant minions insist that they know better than you or any other individual,how thou shall live..
They are “The State”.
Never capable of seeing that such a State of Thuggery is their work.
Many believe they are “Doing Good Works”,all that stands between civilization and chaos..
As they introduce endless chaos into simple order.
The Just Us System being a graphic example of the growing disorder..
Who do these minions “Serve or Protect?
Forward to our glorious future…Meh.
Re Trump or any public figure, for that matter. It’s astonishing how many people think they have deep insights into another human being, they’ve never met, based on a public persona. Why, it’s as if, they don’t know public personas are fabricated and manipulated, often completely made up. This is an industry, in and of itself. As an example,
in it’s extreme form, it’s like idolizing an actor and attributing heroic attributes to that actor, based on a role they played. I’m not saying we all don’t do it, but a little self awareness, skepticism, and a good dose of humility, is in order. Think of the arrogance needed to be that certain, and the hubris to be enraged at others who don’t agree with a half assed opinion.
Remember when they used to say, “Want more Trump? This how you get more Trump”? It needs to be revived.
Like Churchill opined about his nation’s struggles with fascism in 1942 that Hayek warned us about post war:
“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
DeMarxists were not careful what they wished for, so now the beginning of the end applies to them.
Act 3 to follow by Stalin’s maxim: “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
If the GOP – including their progressive pukes – can’t unite around Trump, they must unite around their nation.
You made that up dystopic, delusional doofus.
“Trump has an advantage over Biden in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, while the two are tied in Nevada. The incumbent Democrat continues to hold a marginal lead in Michigan, maintaining his edge from April.”
When third-party contenders are included, the margins between Trump and Biden are nearly identical in all of those states except Nevada, where Trump’s advantage is a bit wider. Meanwhile, the leading third-party contender — independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — has seen his standing decline across the swing-state map since our tracking began in October.”
https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/swing-state-polling-may-2024
Polls taken since the lawfare conviction show a wash, some less, some more inclined to vote for Trump.
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Libtards on Facebook seriously believe this is going to finally get rid of them blumpf. Absolutely hilarious.
Americans have awakened to the fact that they were duped by the Democrats in 2020. The Democrats knew in 2020 that after Clinton lost in 2016 the machines were not rigged enough, they also knew that Clinton didn’t have a chance of running again and the only other choice was Biden even though they knew he was in decline. It has been evident that the decline is happening apace and the Democrats haven’t been able to find a national replacement ergo castigate and vilify Trump with all means available. Problem now is that although American’s love a winner they also love an underdog and by their own hand the Democrats have created Trump as the underdog. Another thing about Americans, they hate liars and cheaters and this latest fiasco has awakened the ‘Sleeping Tiger’. I expect the Democrats to keep digging their own grave as long as they keep hammering the ‘convicted felon’ line, because they have been crying ‘Wolf’ so long no-one believes them anymore.