Category: 2020

Personal Thoughts

This past month I went on vacation and drove across America: 2 weeks actual holiday time and then one week working remotely in each of Northern Florida and Metro Houston, Texas. I visited 21 states, spoke personally to dozens of people every day, and got an on-the-ground appreciation for how Americans were coping with Covid-19 and also a strong sense for how things were politically in each area I visited.  I wanted to take a moment to share some thoughts on what I learned.

  • The Trump-Pence signs outnumbered the Biden-Harris signs by at least 10 to 1.
  • In several places there were individual vehicles or caravans of vehicles adorned with Trump 2020 flags.  Never once was there such cheering for Biden.
  • This election is not about Trump vs. Biden.  It’s Trump vs. Not Trump.  If the Democrats were running a coat rack as their presidential candidate, it would make no difference.
  • From what I saw, I simply don’t believe the polls.  Florida and Texas are up for grabs by the Democrats?  I don’t believe it.
  • The challenges for Trump this election are enormous.  Not only is he battling the Democrats, the Woke Left, and their Antifa street thugs, but it seems clear that the Deep State police & spy agencies of America have turned against him and the democratic will of the American people.  It will be fascinating to see if he can defeat these monstrous (and illegal) forces.

Who knows what will transpire today and in the coming weeks but here are some predictions depending on the outcome:

  1. If Biden wins with a small or large margin, there will be no violence.
  2. If Trump wins with a large majority, there will be violence in the “usual places” but ultimately there will be acceptance by the vast majority of Americans.
  3. If Trump wins with a narrow margin, the blue cities of the U.S. will go up in flames.

If Biden is declared President, here are some predictions about 2021:

  • The Department of Defense will surreptitiously be turned into the Department of Offense and one or more wars will be concocted by the Democrats/Media/Deep State.
  • The Woke Left will get an injection of power and money unlike we’ve never seen before.
  • Free Speech, already tamped down to a great degree, will almost disappear.
  • An institutionalized racial divide will occur stronger than ever before.
  • Covid-19 will be used to quarantine and forcibly unemploy many millions of people, making them dependent on the state.
  • China will be officially welcomed again and U.S. manufacturers and energy producers deliberately harmed.
  • Biden will last no more than 12 months as President before he is forced to resign.

Just putting this out there for debate & discussion.  Stay safe, everyone!

A Massive Earthquake in the World of Journalism

Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept, which he co-founded:

Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.

The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.

The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

Update: Tucker Carlson interview

Vice Presidential Debate: Open Thread

Some reactions that I concur with).

OOOHHH… Pence just hit Harris in the nuts on her Breonna Taylor answer, reminding her she was a Crown Prosecutor.

“The third time it’s enemy action”

The sudden illness of so many prominent Republicans brought to mind a mostly forgotten incident in January 2018. A chartered train carrying Republican lawmakers and their families to a retreat collided with a garbage truck that inexplicably was stranded on the track. The front car derailed, killing one person. The media displayed no interest in the story and offered no follow-up articles explaining the unlikely scenario…

Update: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tests positive
h/t Ghost of Ed

President Trump And First Lady Positive For COVID-19

In the wee hours of Friday morning, President Donald Trump announced he and first Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19.
 
“Tonight, [the first lady] and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

Memo from his physician

Update — Trump has been taken to Walter Reed hospital, no sign yet of serious illness, but there’s obviously a lot of concern.

I’ve been away from the desk all day on a job site, you can drop your own updates in the comments, as I have to head back in a few minutes. Unfortunately my only feed there is CNN. It’s hard to believe this, but I’d forgotten what a bottom feeding, mind reading, no-speculation-too-wild crapfest that network is.

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