The Real Threat to Democracy Is Identified – WaPo Writer Hardest Hit

 PJ Media

"The devil is always in the details. Washington Post columnist Aaron Blake took a deep dive into the crosstabs on a recent New York Times/Sienna poll and found the data did not align with his worldview on threats to democracy. Perhaps someday, the coastal cabal of journalists who told workers in flyover country to “learn to code” will understand that the world looks very different between D.C. and Los Angeles than it does from their ivory towers. Today is not that day.

"The most adorable part of the analysis is Blake’s disbelief that the January 6 narrative pushed by D.C. Democrats, Twitter activists, and their stenographers in the corporate media is nowhere to be found in the results. If he had investigated a recent Harvard Harris poll, Blake would have known that only 7% of voters saw the Capitol riot, which happened almost two years ago, as an issue in the 2022 midterms.

"Instead, he found the evidence in the NYT/Sienna details. Voters do not see the Republican Party as a significant threat to democracy, despite the breathless coverage of the January 6 Committee and its recent “bombshell” cherry-picked text messages. Blake lamented:". . .

Forget the Gaffes, What About Biden's Lies?

That was then; this is now:

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Constituents Mock AOC- Chant ‘AOC Has Got To Go’

 The Lid

You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of donations and cronyism, buf of an unsounc mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of socialism,  Your next stop, the Ocasio Cortez Zone

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been coming face-to-face with angry voters in her district, and we’re here for it.

"She doesn’t seem to like it very much… but isn’t that the point of protests?

The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable.

Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows.

To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable… that’s the point.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2020

"It’s important to hold elected officials accountable and remind them why you’ve sent them to Washington to represent you.

"At a recent event, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the former bartender who vowed to take a stand in Washington for the “little guy” after campaigning as a grassroots progressive, faced several protesters criticizing her for selling out to the Military-Industrial Complex.". . .

Fake Accents And Sassy Dance Moves Won't Save AOC (thefederalist.com)   AOC’s hecklers have officially broken her

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 20, 2022

 

Ann Coulter; Why a Red Wave Is Suddenly Possible

But Republicans winning requires that voters not be discouraged by the polls and remember to vote, even when the media tell you it's hopeless, like in New York, Arizona and Pennsylvania. 

 Ann Coulter  After months of warning you about the GOP's chronic overconfidence problem, now I'm feeling overconfident! Inasmuch as I will be giving a speech at my alma mater, Cornell University, the day after the election, I'm about to do something very stupid: make an election prediction.

My reasoning is, here we are, three weeks from the election, and this week, two major polls, Harvard Harris and Times Sienna, suddenly show Republicans gaining ground. This triggered a primordial memory from the 1980 election, the first presidential race I paid attention to.

That's when I discovered the iron rule of election polls: They will never, ever be wrong in favor of Republicans. Another is that polls will generally show the Democrat winning until the election gets close -- and the media finally start telling the truth.

Thus, for example, after being hectored for most of 1980 that Ronald Reagan was headed for another Goldwater-style fiasco, here's the sort of thing a teenager would have read in The New York Times weeks before he won a landslide victory against President Jimmy Carter, taking 489 electoral college votes to Carter's 49.". . .

. . .Mostly, I just want to wake up the morning after the election and find out Dr. Mehmet Oz has won in Pennsylvania and defeated that slovenly, goatee-sporting Michael Moore-wannabe, John Fetterman, who is passionate about only two things: not bathing and releasing vicious murderers. And that Lee Zeldin has beaten the demented, "release all the criminals!" New York governor, Kathy Hochul, with the crazy "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" makeup.

The Biden-Fetterman rally is every bit as coherent as you'd imagine  . . ."With numbers like that, Team Fetterman would have been better advised to avoid the risk of tying their candidate even closer to an unpopular president. Instead, in what looks like desperation, they rolled the dice. Did it pay off with a a dynamic show of strength and credibility from Biden?". . .

Uh-oh; hold on a minute': Stupid Party: Kevin McCarthy Says GOP Won’t Move to Impeach Biden or Administration Officials

   . . ."McCarthy declared that Americans don’t “like impeachment used for political purposes at all,” and added that “the country wants to heal” and see a “system that actually works.” That means there will be no impeachment proceedings against Biden, or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and former Disinformation Governance Board supreme overlord Alejandro Mayorkas, or Gestapo chief Merrick Garland. Leave billions of dollars worth of materiel in Afghanistan for our enemies to use against us? No problem! Open the Southern border so that untold numbers of criminals and terrorists can waltz right into the country? Hey, we all make mistakes. Sic the woke FBI against parents protesting at school board meetings against the far-Left agenda in public schools? We all can get carried away! Impeachment? Forget it. It wouldn’t be the decent thing to do. When McCarthy was asked if he saw any grounds for impeaching any officials of this lawless and authoritarian administration, he answered: “I don’t see it before me right now."

This man just doesn't have the fire in his belly! 

US may end aid to Ukraine after midterms – Axios

 The Biden administration says it’ll keep working with Congress to support Kiev regardless of the outcome of November’s vote

Axios  "The extensive assistance provided by Washington to Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia may be cut if the Republican Party takes control of Congress in the midterm elections on November 8, Axios has reported.

"Even the harshest critics of Vladimir Putin among the Republicans now acknowledge that there’s been a “noticeable shift away from what was once a broad bipartisan consensus” on providing aid to Kiev, the outlet reported on Wednesday.

"It cited House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who told Punchbowl News earlier this week: “I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it.”

"Ukraine might be important, but it can’t be the only thing on the agenda of the US administration, he insisted.

"Republican Congressman Don Bacon also said he’d “noticed” a decline in support for Ukraine. “You see it a little bit on social media, you see it with some of our members,” he said.

"Bacon’s colleague Kelly Armstrong told Axios that the mood swing was likely a result of the feedback that the lawmakers had been getting from their constituents. “When people are seeing a 13% increase in grocery prices; energy, utility bills doubling... if you’re a border community and you’re being overrun by migrants and fentanyl, Ukraine is the furthest thing from your mind,” he pointed out.

"The website also cited a senior House Republican, who claimed that “after the $40 billion [in aid package in May], there were a lot of Republicans saying: ‘This is the last time I’m going to support Ukraine funding.’” 

"In a comment to Axios, Congressman Jim Banks, who chairs the Republican Study Committee (RSC), pointed out that his party is going to focus on domestic issues after the midterms.". . .

We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives

 The Federalist

The conservative project has failed, and conservatives need to forge a new political identity that reflects our revolutionary moment.

"Given the state of America in 2022, conservatives should stop calling themselves conservatives.

"Why? Because the conservative project has largely failed, and it is time for a new approach. Conservatives have long defined their politics in terms of what they wish to conserve or preserve — individual rights, family values, religious freedom, and so on. Conservatives, we are told, want to preserve the rich traditions and civilizational achievements of the past, pass them on to the next generation, and defend them from the left. In America, conservatives and classical liberals alike rightly believe an ascendent left wants to dismantle our constitutional system and transform America into a woke dystopia. The task of conservatives, going back many decades now, has been to stop them.

"In an earlier era, this made sense. There was much to conserve. But any honest appraisal of our situation today renders such a definition absurd. After all, what have conservatives succeeded in conserving? In just my lifetime, they have lost much: marriage as it has been understood for thousands of years, the First Amendment, any semblance of control over our borders, a fundamental distinction between men and women, and, especially of late, the basic rule of law.

"Calling oneself a conservative in today’s political climate would be like saying one is a conservative because one wants to preserve the medieval European traditions of arranged marriage and trial by combat. Whatever the merits of those practices, you cannot preserve or defend something that is dead. Perhaps you can retain a memory of it or knowledge of it. But that is not what conservatism was purportedly about. It was about maintaining traditions and preserving Western civilization as a living and vibrant thing.". . .

Dead Dog Receives Register To Vote-by-Mail Application From The Democratic Party – The Homeowner’s Response Is Priceless

 USA Supreme  "In an order that illustrates the bizarre views of controversial Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a federal court has turned down Benson’s motion to throw out a lawsuit filed against her for refusing to remove almost 26,000 dead voters from Michigan voters rolls.

"In mid-September 2020, the Public Interest Legal Foundation sent Benson a list of all of the deceased registrants who remained on the state’s voter rolls less than two months before the presidential election.

"Of those nearly 26,000 Michigan residents, 23,663 had been dead for at least five years, 17,479 had been dead for at least a decade and, astonishingly, 3,956 had been dead for at least two decades, yet they were still listed as registered voters in the state.

"That shows just how inadequate Michigan’s procedures are for safeguarding the accuracy of its voter list.

"Is a dead dog an “eligible voter?". . .

. . ."At the bottom of the invitation to register the homeowner’s dog to vote but what is strange is the fact that the outside of the envelope shows the return address at the MI Democratic Party."

President Gaslight speaks: Joe Biden gaslights over soaring energy prices

He thinks we're stupid. He claimed that his release of the strategic petroleum reserves was nothing political because Putin did it. What a handy guy.  

Monica Showalter  "Joe Biden always manages to disgust, and yesterday's thrashing performance on energy prices was no exception.". . .

. . ."Telling detail: The reserves will be good for getting the U.S. through December .... just enought to get midterms safely in the rearview window.

"Money quote: "Right now, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is more than half full, with about 400 million barrels of oil. That's more than enough for any emergency drawdown."

"Any emergency drawdown?

"Didn't he just say that his release was indeed a legitimate emergency, a Putin emergency? Why does he need oil for an emergency when he just claimed he was in an emergency?

"Seems this isn't -- except to Democrats looking at a shellacking at midterms as gasoline prices climb sky high. He inadvertantly exposed his hand in that bumbling explanation.". . .

Biden: "Let's debunk some myths: My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production."pic.twitter.com/XcocoplSO3

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 19, 2022 

Democrats' Third World Media Law Must Be Stopped

Democrats' Third World Media Law Must Be Stopped (breitbart.com)  "The attempt by Senate Democrats to define who is, and is not, a journalist is only the latest assault by the left on the First Amendment during the Obama era. From their attacks on free speech in opposition to the Citizens United ruling, to their assault on religious freedom in the Obamacare mandates and gay-marriage fight, Democrats–once the party of civil liberties–have now added press freedom to their list of targets." . . .

Narrative backfire: 'Mainstream media' most widely feared threat to democracy in new poll  . . ."The investigation is one of numerous ongoing efforts to prosecute political opponents of the Biden administration.

"Just the News has previously reported on growing outcry among legal experts and civil libertarians over what they described as the Justice Department's strong-arm tactics targeting Trump allies and critics of the Biden administration.

"Polling in recent months has indicated voters, including a majority of independents, believe the Biden administration has crossed a line in pursuing political opponents."

Pelosi’s ‘Winning’ Message To Voters: Quit Griping About Inflation

Issues & Insights "To all those suffering from skyrocketing prices, struggling to make ends meet, going to food kitchens to feed their families, breaking the bank just to fill up their tanks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a message for you.

Quit your griping and vote Democratic.

"That is the “new and improved” messaging that Pelosi thinks will win over voters in November.

"And no, we are not kidding. In an interview with Punchbowl News published on Wednesday, here’s what she said:

Inflation’s an issue, but it’s global. It’s global. … What’s [the Republicans’] plan? They ain’t got nothing. When you bring down unemployment, inflation goes up. … So, in any case, [President Joe Biden] brought unemployment [down], cut it in half. Inflation is there but it’s global and not as bad as it is in some countries. We’ll have to message it better in the next three weeks ahead. I think we’re in great shape. Other people don’t want to believe that.

"Let’s break that down.". . .

"In any case, telling people “everybody’s suffering, so don’t feel so bad,” is not what we’d call a winning message.

“When you bring down unemployment, inflation goes up.” That’s flat out false.

Under Trump, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.7% to 3.5%, while inflation remained steady. In fact, every sustained decline in unemployment since 1980 shows unemployment and inflation declining. (See charts below.)

The lengths they go to protect Stacey Abrams

“It has been 20 months of misery and vexation and Homer Simpson goes to Washington."

Sen. Kennedy: "I'm not going to buy a car just to get the cupholders"

Abrams: You can fight inflation by aborting more babies, you know   "Er … what?

"Just how desperate are Democrats to sell abortion in this midterm cycle dominated by inflation and crime? Stacey Abrams demonstrates here in an exchange with Mike Barnicle this morning on Morning Joe. Barnicle points out that Democrats’ attempts to use abortion to distract from the issues that matter most to voters in the cycle have flopped.

"Abrams responds by claiming that abortion is a solution to inflation. And I’m not kidding:". . .

Joe in Wonderland  "Yesterday, President Biden said this:  

Biden vowed, if more Democrats are elected to Congress on November 8, he would push for legislation that will codify abortion rights into law. 

'Congressional Republicans are doubling down on their extreme positions,' the president said. 

"He went on to say:   

'The first bill that I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade. And when Congress passes it, I'll sign it in January -- 50 years after Roe was first decided as the law of the land. Together we'll restore the right to choose for every woman in every state in America.'

"And he ended his remarks with a call for people to vote.". . .

 . . ."Abortion will not play a major role at a time when most women are alarmed every time they are buying groceries for their families.

"So President Biden's magic carpet ride will take him back to The White House and the reality that most Democrats don't want him to run in 2024."

Free speech descends to new lows in Vermont

 American Thinker  "In another twist in the twisted tale of a Vermont girls' volleyball team ejected from their own locker room due to conflicts with a trans-identifying student who allegedly ogled them, the father of the girl who blew the changing room whistle was dismissed as soccer coach when he refused to publicly apologize for calling the trans student a "boy."  Aside from issues of privacy or gender identification, this raises important questions about government infringement of fundamental free speech rights under the United States and Vermont Constitutions.

"The father's sentiment was not that extreme.  In response to a comment by the mother of the trans student on social media, Travis Allen wrote:

"I am the father of the girl you claim 'made up a story for attention,'" Travis Allen wrote in a Facebook reply to Sivvy. "The truth is your son watched my daughter and multiple other girls change in the locker room. While he got a free show, they got violated."

The father added: "You think this is fine and dandy. I wonder how you would feel if I watched you undress?"

"Free speech is undoubtedly an important liberty.  The Vermont State Constitution recognizes this in Article 13:

That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing and publishing their sentiments, concerning the transactions of government, and therefore the freedom of the press ought not to be restrained.. . .