“We’re here to preserve democracy, not practice it.” – Crimson Tide
The Times Square New Year’s Eve Committee asked Hillary to join the committee. Turns out that sometimes dropping the ball at the last minute is a resume builder!
We are currently in the “crazy season.” As years of elections go by, people on every side of the political question have become better at influence and persuasion. Why? The prize is huge. Political power provides billions of dollars, if not trillions, for favored industries. In the 2020’s – it also means immunity from prosecution for supporters of the winners.
Like Hunter Biden, the stakes are high.
Political campaigns, unlike the NBA®, learn over time. What worked last election? What didn’t work? What does the focus group say?
After the primaries, the campaign isn’t focused on getting the votes of die-hard supporters. All seven of the people in the United States who are “really excited” to vote for JoePedo will vote for JoePedo. Who is JoePedo?
JoePedo was an early slogan of the Left that sorta backfired on them. They were going for Joe as a torpedo, not as, well, a Pedo. It’s important to understand how people might make fun of your name.
Thankfully, in 2020, ISIS is WASWAS.
About 99% of Biden voters are only voting for Biden because he’s Not Trump. They will continue to vote for Biden as long as he doesn’t turn into Trump. Biden could kill and eat live kittens on during the debate, naked, while taking billions of dollars in checks from Satan for “services rendered”, and Never Trumpers would still vote for him. Heck, let’s be really honest: they don’t even require a pulse. Given Biden’s mental, umm, “difficulties” it’s obvious that even dementia isn’t a disqualifier.
Trump voters are (mostly) voting for Trump because he’s Trump – a finger in the eye of the establishment. Trump voters are unhappy with a country that they see is no longer a country. In the view of Leftists, the United States is nothing more than an economic entity, one which every person on the globe has a right to move to. Trump voters reject that.
Never-Trumpers are gonna vote Biden, and Trump doesn’t care about them. Trump voters are gonna vote Trump. Biden doesn’t care about them.
Neither campaign is attempting to get the votes of the diehard supporters of the other candidate. Instead, this last campaign stretch is only to convince the people who follow politics so little that they haven’t figured out who they’re voting for. But right now? Both sides are pulling out all of the stops.
I can hear the campaign staffer defending his meme: “At least it’s better than Turboanalisis.”
JoePedo will tell you that he’s running for the Senate if his handlers aren’t able to shut him up in time. But the staffers in the know managed to get Trump’s tax records to the New York Times®. The fact that this is a felony, well, who cares, right? If Biden wins, a felony is just a wink and a nod. But the taxes seem to be a poor weapon: there’s nothing of interest, outside of the fact that Trump has way better tax advisors than I do.
But Team Biden isn’t done. They have at least three “gotcha” attacks planned for Trump in the next 20 days. And those attacks will escalate. They’re saving their best attacks for last.
But Trump will fight back. Trump has an arsenal of information on the JoePedo. He’s going to unleash it, bit by bit, like a Chinese water torture. And he’ll Tweet® and laugh the whole time.
My prediction that we hadn’t yet seen the craziest part of 2020 is proving to be stunningly accurate. Honestly, it was really an easy prediction – the only prediction that is easier is that the Sun will rise tomorrow, or that Ruth Bader Ginsburg won’t.
What do you call a Supreme Court Justice that was so cheap she would eat the scraps on other people’s plates at the diner? Booth Raider Ginsburg.
The goal of these next twenty days is manipulation.
Now, when The Mrs. was just The Miss and we first started dating, one particular date we had was one we called the Forever Date. It started on a Friday night, when we went to play mini-golf. Mini-golf is a great date idea. Everyone sucks at mini-golf, and seeing how a potential spouse deals with being awful is a great insight on their personality. Sadly the courses are packed now, since the economy is so bad that CEOs are now forced to play miniature golf.
But after mini-golf? Dinner. Then we walked down and got an expensive coffee at a hippy coffee bar. Then we went back to my place and watched Babylon 5. The next day, we had a bunch of other things on our schedule – a renaissance fair, a play, out to another dinner, and a movie. In all, we had spent 24 hours together in two days.
In that time, we had done a lot of things. The sheer number of things that we did made that 24 hours seem like weeks – it compressed and amplified our relationship. It didn’t hurt that most of the activities, outside of the play and the movie, involved a lot of conversation.
In a weird way, this Forever Date was manipulative. Unintentionally so – but when you put a compatible unmarried man and woman together?
- And put them through activity after activity?
- Fun things, unique things, unusual things?
- That involve conversation?
After learning about how couples interact as I got older, the only answer is if you put people into the circumstances that The Miss and I were in? Those people are going to become close. And if even remotely compatible? Married.
Jesus turned water into wine, most men drink to make a six look like a nine.
That same time compression is exactly what the manipulators want from voters right now. They want to hit the voter with crisis after crisis until the voter’s mind is available for persuasion. Like the Three Stooges, the candidates want Moe-mentum.
The persuasion we’re seeing now is aimed squarely at the undecided voters. It’s ironic that the people who care the least and know the least about politics decide the election every four years. It’s like having the Senator without thumbs winning every election, but that’s not surprising since he’s unopposed.
Remember, Kamala placed lower than all of the above candidates. It’s okay, she’s used to being on the bottom.
So, the next twenty days will be filled with more information than in any election in the history of the United States. It worked really well when there was a last minute announcement that George W. Bush had been arrested for Driving Under the Influence. That cost him a lot of votes.
When John McCain was told by the news media that the problem was all in his head, he took the news media seriously. Those videos of Sarah Palin painting seals and birds with oil? Yeah, those hurt.
Okay, the fact that McCain’s personality had all the warmth of a Soviet Gulag and all the compassion of an African tribal war is what really cost him the election. Sarah Palin? I could have been Michael Palin and they still would have lost the election.
Michael is still a funnier Palin than Sarah.
But, like I said, campaigns are a learning organization, and they have learned that October is the best time to spring a surprise. So the result is that every four years, October will get progressively crazier until each political party hires individual mimes to stalk and convince undecided voters. There are dangers to hiring mimes: one of my relatives became a mime – I haven’t heard from him since.
Here in 2020, however, knowing what they’re doing is enough. It’s certain that voters are fine in convincing themselves, but when it comes to propaganda? They resist. The only solution is to confuse them with so much information that they become susceptible to changing their mind. And thinking that they changed it themselves.
This particular election will be the most expensive in history. Yet, the election will likely come down to relative handfuls of voters in a few key states. California? Not an issue. But Pennsylvania? Wisconsin?
But you’re not likely the target. And here’s the key – if all of the nonsense you’ll hear in the next few days annoys you? All of the radio ads? The campaign mailers?
Ignore it.
My kids voted for pizza for dinner the other night. They got tacos. We don’t live in a swing state.
The real key to life has nothing to do with the daily news cycle. The real key to life has to do with keeping your values in sight.
And that’s good news. If you want to ignore the political nonsense going on right now, you can.
If, like me, you want to enjoy the nonsense with a bag of hot popcorn?
You can do that, too. It may be the crazy season, but it doesn’t have to drive you crazy.
If you feel yourself getting crazy from this political season, don’t worry. If you get lost, you can always take the psychopath.
Libertarians think that they should give up defending freedom because Americans hate liberty, but Libertarians should keep resisting tyranny for selfish reasons.
While the elites control the money, government, and media, the 99% have the numbers.
One Libertarian may not be able to resist
being sent to the concentration camps, but one million people might.
A website worth watching with early vote statistics:
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Similar data for 2016:
http://www.electproject.org/early_2016
Just shy of 20 MILLION votes have already been cast in this election with two-and-a-half weeks to go. This is TEN TIMES the level seen at mid-October 2016.
What could possibly go wrong?
October surprises aren’t what they used to be when Twitter and Facebook won’t allow them to be communicated. And that lack of communication has become the story itself, not the surprise….
These final weeks are just a hot mess in a dumpster fire on a train wreck. Let’s just get this over with. Where’s my popcorn?
I heard yesterday that people were going in and cancelling ballots in Oregon on the Internet. Hmmm.
What could go wrong?
“October surprises aren’t what they used to be when Twitter and Facebook won’t allow them to be communicated.”
Since they are only censoring half of the surprises, expect them to be exactly what they used to be.
Last week: Trump’s illegally leaked taxes – all over social media
This week: Hunter Biden’s legally released emails – suppressed because “we don’t allow stories about leaked materials”.
There is a ton of energy and money being spent to try to beg and cajole people who can’t be bothered to vote to show up and vote anyway. We don’t need more people voting, we need fewer. The ability to pass a basic civics test should be a prerequisite as well as being a stakeholder (property owner/tax payer). Instead we get a few thousand imbecile in a couple of states electing the President.
If nothing else, this election and 2020 in general should be all the proof one needs that this country is way too large with way too many people to govern and we need to break up.
And interestingly, property ownership encourages people to support law and order.
Those with no stake in the system are fine with destroying it. And they do with poor vote choices.
It’s important to keep the country together.
Or devolve powers back to the several States, as the Constitution says . . . .
Honestly, is anyone truly “undecided” in this election? The choice is so highly polarized by this point that the only decision is whether to vote at all. No late-late Hunter Biden “bombshell” is going to take a hardened anti-Trumper and turn her into a reluctant Trump voter (or make her shave her armpits). Nor can the left hope to come up with anything bad enough about Trump to pry those who are intending to vote for him away from the ‘R’ ticket. Its all just a sickening charade, reducing America to the laughingstock of the world. Again.
Personally, I have four solid reasons to vote for ANY Republican candidate over Pedo Joe:
1. Obama(s)
2. Clinton(s)
3. “President” Kamala Harris
4. The forlorn wish for a return to sane law enforcement
My vote won’t make a bit of difference in my hopelessly blue state. But the silent majority is going to speak on November 3rd, and I predict a reprise of the shot heard round the world.
Yeah, I feel the same way. About the Never Trumpers and the armpits, and not making a bit of difference in a mondo blue state.
In this blue state though, lots of Trump enthusiasm which I didn’t see in 2016. Yet electionbettingodds.com says blue wins by 28 points nationwide.
How?
Some would say my vote would matter in my state.
The same people would say things would be better (aka change for the good) if one wing of this bird-of-prey was elected over the other.
I vote with my pocketbook while there’s still folding paper that has a nominal value, and have been voting for storable foods, liquid energy storage, tools, and protection equipment and supplies.
The way I see it, voting just encourages the bastards, they’ll do what they want anyway, and I’d rather be ready for when they drop the illusion that the consent of voters matters for anything.
Which should be around dusk on November 3, 2020.
There are a ton of reasons to vote anyway. Down-ballot races: Local AGs, sheriffs, and judges matter greatly where you live. How many tax raises have they tried to sneak in? If you’re in an in-play state (MN *is* this year) you are voting on behalf of everyone else trapped in blue hell. And if you don’t vote, your ballot has a good chance of being stolen by team blue and you’ll “vote” anyway.
For those of us in blue hellscapes, such as myself, the Democrats are playing a new game this year. They started in 2016 but they were only level 1 newbs then. They want to remove the electoral college, which effectively renders us a new, very undemocratic country. They’ll do it by insisting the President didn’t win the popular vote. They will use this to justify bribing, blackmailing, threatening, or outright murdering electors just before they meet on Dec 14 this year. The press will cover for them, just like we’re seeing now.
So, even if you’re sure that your vote will be overwhelmed by the other side, in your one-party state, get out and support the (currently meaningless) popular vote. Campaigns are organized for the rules as they are; change the rules, and the campaigns will change, but not necessarily the results.
Coming soon: a movement to decide the World Series on the basis of whichever team scores the most total runs in 7 games of 9 innings. There will be no more uncertainty about how many games will be played, and commercials can be sold for all of them. No need for extra-innings tie-breakers, until the 7th game. Might as well make this the process for all sportsball… just like the popular vote.
Sure, and you can eliminate the Super Bowl. Just have the best point-scoring team for the year win!
At which point it becomes cricket. 63 outs per team, score as much as you can.
Yep. There are some “small” “nonpartisan” offices down ballot like commissioner of public lands where either the incumbent or the challenger has received something like $900,00.00 vs. 40K or 40K vs. 2K (or less.)
All those Soros prosecutors turning loose Antifa murderers and the like? They got elected because of folks who gave up too soon.
Vote the day you get your ballot and hand deliver it to a blue district drop box. Other ideas:
https://pjmedia.com/election/sarah-hoyt/2020/10/12/how-to-secure-your-vote-and-minimize-the-impact-of-zombie-voters-n1041830
I think (and hope) that you are right. Regardless, I don’t think we’ll know until November 10, unless it’s a Trumpslide.
“It’s okay, she’s used to being on the bottom.” Heh!
I know! I’m hooked on the Friday Wilder. The week us nearly done, and I get a good laugh, and something helpful to think about.
Yeah, that’s the side of me that likes Beavis and Butthead coming out.
I’ve entered the phase where my decision for a good candidate includes them stating: “I’ll personally chop off the head of every wasteful, thieving bureaucrat I find.” It’s like promising ice cream to children. It’s unrealistic to believe it will happen, but if it does, I’ll take time from busy schedule to attend the event.
Ha!
I think that party might be coming soon, to a television near you.
Go out and vote. It pisses off the Democrats, and that’s reason enough.
Yup. Looking forward to it.
Agreed. Already done in this blue state. There are local representatives who require voting in and initiatives most of which must be defeated.
“It’s important to understand how people might make fun of your name.”
As a designer, this also applies to logos. I told my wife in total seriousness that “I’m always on the lookout for cock and balls when designing a logo.” I didn’t say it to be crude, but to press home the point because over the years I’ve seen literally hundreds of logos designed by others that could easily be interpreted in naughty ways, and there’s nothing worse than having a final logo printed and delivered only to hear comments like “it looks like meat and two veg!” or, in the case of a memorable logo for a Christian Youth program, “Is Jesus sexually harassing those children”. Once seen, it can never be unseen.
On the wall of the church I went to as a young man there was a mural of Jesus. The artist created it geometrically, and it looked nice until I noticed his teeth were triangles. All it took was for me to mention that “Jesus has shark teeth” and from that moment on, everyone noticed it and either laughed or were horrified. It forever ceased being Jesus.
I have one I’ll send to you tomorrow. Bad logos are great, especially when they get big enough that they’re hard to change.
Poorly chosen product names are also good, such as the Mitsubishi Pajero and the Rolls-Royce Silver Mist.
Ha! Those are great! Found one that was “Tastes Like Grandma” jelly. And a LOT I can’t print here.