Let's Do This
31/10/20 08:16
I told myself that I wasn't going to start writing in this here urinal, I mean journal, until after the election. How did that work out for you, Johnny boy? I need to channel my angst somewhere so this is a good a place as any. No matter which horse you're pulling for in this race, it's going to be pins and needles until it's all over. That's how tight it is according to the polls and the pollsters. You pick and choose the storylines and the heroes and heroines in this storyline at your peril. One thing you don't do is bet the farm on your preferred outcome.
The momentum seems to be with Trump so I'm pleased to hear that. If crowd size is any indication, Trump wins walking away. He may or may not need a straight flush to pull this out like he did in 2016 but time will tell. The dems always start with an advantage in the electoral college so it's an uphill climb for any republican to cross the finish line first.
There's a story out this morning that Kamala Harris was wooing a couple dozen followers yesterday and the first words out of her mouth were, "the first thing we're going to do is to repeal Trump's tax cuts." Her comments were met, or so the story goes, with raucous applause. You can't make this stuff up.
I have certain go-to people that I turn my attention to as we get closer to Election Day. One of those people is Newt Gingrich. He seems to think Trump is going to stun the world by winning some 320+ electoral votes. In fact, I neither read or listen to people, articles, or news reports that have Trump losing any of the States that he needs to win to pull this off. I know I'm sticking my head in the sand but I don't know how else to stay optimistic in such perilous times. The thought of Biden winning scares the hell out of me.
Evan had a bit of trouble getting his registration and absentee ballot off on the right foot. He mailed off all the right forms and then he gets a call at 7:30 at night from a town clerk of sorts telling him that they had his ballot but that he was not yet registered. It was comforting in a way to know that getting this voting thing down right is a science and not an art and that the town officials take it as seriously as they need to take it.
He did his best at the Town Hall but they weren't maybe as helpful as they could have been because it wasn't long before he showed up on our doorstep looking for birth certificates, etc. in order to complete the proper paper work. We got it all squared away and back he went. This time he got it done with a minimum of fuss and I think he felt good about making the effort and taking the time to get it right. I wouldn't have thought that voting would be a priority for him but I would have been wrong. His preferences were clear and he wanted to be on record as voting for same.
It was Evan's grandfather (Da) who told Evan many a time when he was growing up, "be a good citizen." I think voting qualifies as doing your duty as a citizen. Maybe it was Michael Savage, the irascible talk show guy out of San Fran Sicko, who sang Trump's praises during the 2016 presidential race and whose voice still rings loudly in Evan's memory banks. Maybe Evan didn't want to be the odd man out on Election Day having not cast a vote while the rest of us watched the tally go back and forth and getting more or less anxious with each passing hour and with each rust-belt state falling into one camp or another.
Maybe it's true what they say about this election being a referendum on Trump and it having very little to do with the democrat on the ballot opposing Trump. If that is, in fact, the contest then I don't know how Trump doesn't win it without so much as a fuss. He'll tell you himself, and he would be right, he's done more in 47 months than Biden has done in 47 years. All told, the two men have very different views on the future of America so there's that.
All of Trump's successes have been against headwinds like the Russian Hoax, the Deep State, the Ukraine Hoax, the Special Counsel investigating everything Trump and Russia, and at least two of the four years fighting against a Democrat Majority in the House of Representatives. A lesser man would have folded like a cheap suit long ago. There are a lot of constituencies out there whose core issues have been addressed by this president and in meaningful and important ways.
Evangelicals, Blacks, and Hispanics are amongst the groups who should be now going to the polls in greater numbers than ever before to support the president who supported them and who gave them a voice when voices on the other side have been hard to find.
The good citizens of blue states whose government officials have exerted a suffocating and controlling hold over their economies and populations during the Covid "crisis" have welcomed Trump with open arms for his "we need to open up our country" clarion call. All have a heartfelt appreciation for the president who made promises and kept promises. They tell you unapologetically, "he's fought for us for the last four years, and now we're fighting for him."
Who is this guy, Little Wayne, I asked Evan. He's some rapper who has come out to endorse President Trump or so the story goes. "That's Lil Wayne", Evan corrected me. I don't know that endorsements make much of a difference. I don't think one newspaper endorsed Trump four years ago and he still won. The opposite is true as well. The more the establishment freaks go on record as being against Trump the better his chances are that he'll prevail.
What's interesting this time around is that there are many democrats up and down the political food chain who, knowing full well what a Biden Administration might look like, have come out and endorsed President Trump. The fact that many of them are people of color is ringing alarm bells far and wide within the democrat party. Add to that the fact that Hispanics are voting for Trump in even larger numbers than in 2016 and you have yourself the equivalent of a 2020 political kill shot.
When I started this journal piece yesterday I was feeling the very angst you might have detected in my first two paragraphs above. I was putting maybe too much stock in the garbage that was being spewed by the media that was telling us that Trump was unlikely to win. I was ready to stop listening to everything and anything just to avoid hearing those predictions.
When I finally did tune in I turned on the television to see Trump at a rally in Butler, PA. There were a sea of people in attendance as far as the eye could see, maybe some 60,000 thousand strong. For comparison, even the Beatles never drew crowds this big when they played in Shea Stadium. What the hell is going on???
When is the last time you heard a chorus of any kind much less a chorus of that many people chanting as they were at Trump's rallies for the "politician", Donald J Trump, "We love you!" "We love you!" It is true that before he became president he was a bit of a cult figure in NY and environs where he had spots here and there in movies, hobnobbed with sports figures and rappers alike, and was pretty much the toast of the town. That all changed after he came down the elevator announcing as he did that he was running for president.
What didn't change, and has never changed, is the man himself. The fact that he has endured as much as he has while seeing to it that America stays on the straight and narrow has only endeared him more to the American people. He is as much or more of a cultural icon today than he ever was prior to taking up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I think it's also fair to say that no politician, current or past, embodies and represents the sheer toughness and spirit of the American people more than Donald J. Trump.
If and when he wins a second term, and it is looking more and more likely with each passing hour as we get closer to election day, he will have beaten the Establishment like the proverbial, and somewhat mythical, rented mule. If there is one thing Americans love and admire, it's a winner. When that winner is fighting for the American people, expect more love and admiration, not less.
It isn't just the four or five rallies that Trump is having in various states every day. There are pop-up car/truck/boat rallies across the country independent of the campaign with sometimes thousands of cars lining the highways and byways flying flags, hooting and hollering, and flashing their lights to show support for Trump. These are purely organic events arising out of random Facebook posts or some other social media platform. I thought these platforms were doing their utmost to help kill the Trump campaign in the cradle.
I saw a tweet last night suggesting that the Biden camp had already given up any hope of winning the race for the White House and they are now turning their attention to trying to help candidates down ballot. I will look to see just how dejected the talking heads are on television networks like CNN and CBS, etc., when I tune in to the Sunday talk shows this morning and that will give me a good indication of where the race is just 48 hours out from election day.
Martha Radditz usually has a pretty dour puss on the best of days so if she is looking like a dumpster fire then I'll know it's all over. The same is true for Jake Tapper on CNN. Now that I've seen some of the shows, I can tell you that he had on some moonbat from the Biden campaign talking about Biden winning Georgia and maybe Texas. They really have lost their minds.
If Donna Brazil and Juan Williams are looking and sounding like the angry loons that they are, it's probably a good bet that Biden is on the ropes. So much for my plans for a self-imposed media blackout. Well, tomorrow is election day. The calculus hasn't changed much in the last 24 hours. The Trump vote needs to show up at the polls tomorrow. If they do, we win. America wins.
The momentum seems to be with Trump so I'm pleased to hear that. If crowd size is any indication, Trump wins walking away. He may or may not need a straight flush to pull this out like he did in 2016 but time will tell. The dems always start with an advantage in the electoral college so it's an uphill climb for any republican to cross the finish line first.
There's a story out this morning that Kamala Harris was wooing a couple dozen followers yesterday and the first words out of her mouth were, "the first thing we're going to do is to repeal Trump's tax cuts." Her comments were met, or so the story goes, with raucous applause. You can't make this stuff up.
I have certain go-to people that I turn my attention to as we get closer to Election Day. One of those people is Newt Gingrich. He seems to think Trump is going to stun the world by winning some 320+ electoral votes. In fact, I neither read or listen to people, articles, or news reports that have Trump losing any of the States that he needs to win to pull this off. I know I'm sticking my head in the sand but I don't know how else to stay optimistic in such perilous times. The thought of Biden winning scares the hell out of me.
Evan had a bit of trouble getting his registration and absentee ballot off on the right foot. He mailed off all the right forms and then he gets a call at 7:30 at night from a town clerk of sorts telling him that they had his ballot but that he was not yet registered. It was comforting in a way to know that getting this voting thing down right is a science and not an art and that the town officials take it as seriously as they need to take it.
He did his best at the Town Hall but they weren't maybe as helpful as they could have been because it wasn't long before he showed up on our doorstep looking for birth certificates, etc. in order to complete the proper paper work. We got it all squared away and back he went. This time he got it done with a minimum of fuss and I think he felt good about making the effort and taking the time to get it right. I wouldn't have thought that voting would be a priority for him but I would have been wrong. His preferences were clear and he wanted to be on record as voting for same.
It was Evan's grandfather (Da) who told Evan many a time when he was growing up, "be a good citizen." I think voting qualifies as doing your duty as a citizen. Maybe it was Michael Savage, the irascible talk show guy out of San Fran Sicko, who sang Trump's praises during the 2016 presidential race and whose voice still rings loudly in Evan's memory banks. Maybe Evan didn't want to be the odd man out on Election Day having not cast a vote while the rest of us watched the tally go back and forth and getting more or less anxious with each passing hour and with each rust-belt state falling into one camp or another.
Maybe it's true what they say about this election being a referendum on Trump and it having very little to do with the democrat on the ballot opposing Trump. If that is, in fact, the contest then I don't know how Trump doesn't win it without so much as a fuss. He'll tell you himself, and he would be right, he's done more in 47 months than Biden has done in 47 years. All told, the two men have very different views on the future of America so there's that.
All of Trump's successes have been against headwinds like the Russian Hoax, the Deep State, the Ukraine Hoax, the Special Counsel investigating everything Trump and Russia, and at least two of the four years fighting against a Democrat Majority in the House of Representatives. A lesser man would have folded like a cheap suit long ago. There are a lot of constituencies out there whose core issues have been addressed by this president and in meaningful and important ways.
Evangelicals, Blacks, and Hispanics are amongst the groups who should be now going to the polls in greater numbers than ever before to support the president who supported them and who gave them a voice when voices on the other side have been hard to find.
The good citizens of blue states whose government officials have exerted a suffocating and controlling hold over their economies and populations during the Covid "crisis" have welcomed Trump with open arms for his "we need to open up our country" clarion call. All have a heartfelt appreciation for the president who made promises and kept promises. They tell you unapologetically, "he's fought for us for the last four years, and now we're fighting for him."
Who is this guy, Little Wayne, I asked Evan. He's some rapper who has come out to endorse President Trump or so the story goes. "That's Lil Wayne", Evan corrected me. I don't know that endorsements make much of a difference. I don't think one newspaper endorsed Trump four years ago and he still won. The opposite is true as well. The more the establishment freaks go on record as being against Trump the better his chances are that he'll prevail.
What's interesting this time around is that there are many democrats up and down the political food chain who, knowing full well what a Biden Administration might look like, have come out and endorsed President Trump. The fact that many of them are people of color is ringing alarm bells far and wide within the democrat party. Add to that the fact that Hispanics are voting for Trump in even larger numbers than in 2016 and you have yourself the equivalent of a 2020 political kill shot.
When I started this journal piece yesterday I was feeling the very angst you might have detected in my first two paragraphs above. I was putting maybe too much stock in the garbage that was being spewed by the media that was telling us that Trump was unlikely to win. I was ready to stop listening to everything and anything just to avoid hearing those predictions.
When I finally did tune in I turned on the television to see Trump at a rally in Butler, PA. There were a sea of people in attendance as far as the eye could see, maybe some 60,000 thousand strong. For comparison, even the Beatles never drew crowds this big when they played in Shea Stadium. What the hell is going on???
When is the last time you heard a chorus of any kind much less a chorus of that many people chanting as they were at Trump's rallies for the "politician", Donald J Trump, "We love you!" "We love you!" It is true that before he became president he was a bit of a cult figure in NY and environs where he had spots here and there in movies, hobnobbed with sports figures and rappers alike, and was pretty much the toast of the town. That all changed after he came down the elevator announcing as he did that he was running for president.
What didn't change, and has never changed, is the man himself. The fact that he has endured as much as he has while seeing to it that America stays on the straight and narrow has only endeared him more to the American people. He is as much or more of a cultural icon today than he ever was prior to taking up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I think it's also fair to say that no politician, current or past, embodies and represents the sheer toughness and spirit of the American people more than Donald J. Trump.
If and when he wins a second term, and it is looking more and more likely with each passing hour as we get closer to election day, he will have beaten the Establishment like the proverbial, and somewhat mythical, rented mule. If there is one thing Americans love and admire, it's a winner. When that winner is fighting for the American people, expect more love and admiration, not less.
It isn't just the four or five rallies that Trump is having in various states every day. There are pop-up car/truck/boat rallies across the country independent of the campaign with sometimes thousands of cars lining the highways and byways flying flags, hooting and hollering, and flashing their lights to show support for Trump. These are purely organic events arising out of random Facebook posts or some other social media platform. I thought these platforms were doing their utmost to help kill the Trump campaign in the cradle.
I saw a tweet last night suggesting that the Biden camp had already given up any hope of winning the race for the White House and they are now turning their attention to trying to help candidates down ballot. I will look to see just how dejected the talking heads are on television networks like CNN and CBS, etc., when I tune in to the Sunday talk shows this morning and that will give me a good indication of where the race is just 48 hours out from election day.
Martha Radditz usually has a pretty dour puss on the best of days so if she is looking like a dumpster fire then I'll know it's all over. The same is true for Jake Tapper on CNN. Now that I've seen some of the shows, I can tell you that he had on some moonbat from the Biden campaign talking about Biden winning Georgia and maybe Texas. They really have lost their minds.
If Donna Brazil and Juan Williams are looking and sounding like the angry loons that they are, it's probably a good bet that Biden is on the ropes. So much for my plans for a self-imposed media blackout. Well, tomorrow is election day. The calculus hasn't changed much in the last 24 hours. The Trump vote needs to show up at the polls tomorrow. If they do, we win. America wins.