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Right now that is looking like an overly optimistic scenario.

I should have known by the lack of stories on Red State recently showing Hershel Walker up by 2-3 points that the polling had turned. And it has. Warnock is leading in almost all polls now. It’ll probably get worse after they debate. Walker is a disaster. Georgia will now have two far left Senators until at least 2026, at which point demographics in the state will have moved further left.

Oz in PA is a disaster. Never thought I’d be thinking to myself “I wish Toomey would run again”.

Vance…I don’t know what he’s doing, other than losing. A state that hasn’t even been close the last two Presidential elections, with large margins for Trump, is on the verge of having two far-left Senators. I expected more of Vance. But so far he is a crap campaigner running a garbage campaign.

Masters will lose in Arizona. As with Georgia, the trends in that state aren’t good. Like Vance, Masters will struggle to fight off the Democrat-media tarring of him as a far-right, election-denying nut case.

The dirty machine Harry Reid installed in Nevada is still kicking. And it’s another state with bad demographic trends for the GOP.

I live in NC, and in the area I’m in I can say that Beasley adds run often in the early evening. I’ve yet to see one Budd commercial since he won the primary.

If that worthless NH Governor had run for Senate that might be a pickup, as he is apparently popular. But he didn’t, and so the Democrat incumbent is favored.

Winning the House is our best chance to lessen the damage Democrats will do for the next two and half years.

Have you seen the Senate polls? They are not good to say the least.

Walker is a disaster. Oz is a disaster. Vance is shaping up to be a disaster, which is a shame be wise unlike Walker, Vance is intelligent and has the potential to be a good candidate.

Your math is off.

It will be way more than 20,000.

They won’t be settled across all states. Most will likely go to red or purple states to seed some future Democrats.

When chain migration kicks in, then whatever the final number of refugees turns out to be, then you can multiply that 2-3 times minimum to get the full number.

Exactly. It’ll be hundreds of thousands at a minimum.

The ongoing policy of unending chain migration is the best reason to be wary of and in opposition to Afghans being admitted. With those who truly did help our military and out their life on the line, I am favorably disposed to admitting them. But when I consider that each one admitted will have the ability to eventually admit their entire extended family, then I oppose it.

Or when Trump pursued conservative immigration policies. That really bothered W.

It seems that (fake) Colonel Parker was good for Elvis’ career early on. He had connections with RCA and got him national exposure, allowing Elvis to go from a rising but regional star in the Southeast to a worldwide success. The early movies also helped in that, and were pretty good for the most part. Even when he first got back from the Army Elvis’ career was handled well with some of the best recording session of his life.

But yeah, once the early 60s had passed Parker was mostly garbage, a parasite weighing Elvis down.

Elvis’ biggest fault career-wise was not getting rid of Parker in the early or mid 70s at the latest. Apparently Elvis did fire Parker at one point, but the termination was brief; Parker presented Elvis with a ludicrous demand for payment of millions that he claimed Elvis owed him. Instead of hiring a good lawyer to shred the illegal alien Parker, Elvis and his father caved. Instead of calling the bluff they buckled and let things go back to the status quo.

As an Elvis fan it’s disappointing that he was not strong enough to get rid of Parker.

Definitely not. There will never be a genuine conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

To me Buzzy is the most annoying contestant I’ve ever seen on the show. He was truly insufferable with his lame written comments in Final Jeopardy.

But surprisingly he made a decent guest host. Wouldn’t have picked him for the permanent host though and I’m glad they didn’t.

How is the Alaska state legislature broken down? How are things like RCV getting implemented and how are things like the selection of judges by a council not jettisoned?

And how does one get on the judicial council?

Gorsuch (along with Roberts) rewrote the definition of “sex” to include sexual orientation and one’s chosen gender. He absolutely cannot be trusted in any matter dealing with the radical lgbtq agenda. He is likely to be Kennedy 2.0 on that front.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Gorsuch wanted to take the case because he wanted to issue a decisive, definitive, expansive “bake the cake bigot” decision.

Kavanaugh and ACB are, like Gorsuch and Roberts, two more bad picks in a long list of bad Republican Sup Court appointments.

There is never going to be a conservative majority in the Sup Court. Considering the age of Thomas and Alito, we’ll be lucky if we ever get back to three solid conservatives.

Oh yeah. I checked to make sure I was remembering correctly. Just search and you’ll see picture and videos of her wearing “Black Lives Matter” masks at the US Open last year.

To be fair, pretty much every pro tennis player of note, especially the men, virtue signaled with BLM garbage last year. BLM shirts were being worn by numerous players. Idiot Greek Tsitsipas even reached out to Osaka to be educated on the matter. Seriously, to be educated by a 22 year old who isn’t even an an African American. The three GOATs - Federer, Nadal and Djokovic- all participated in that blackout in social media for BLM. I expected nothing less from Federer and Nadal being beloved corporate spokesmen and with a soft and easy upbringing, but I thought Djokovic might be more resistant to that nonsense growing up in a war torn area.

But that’s that. No sport was really immune last year. Even the PGA infected their coverage with BLM garbage.

The media in general sucks, and that includes the sports media, but Osaka is not worthy of sympathy. She’s a BLM pushing leftist, who used the platform eagerly offered up to her by the leftist media organization ESPN to spout her BLM garbage at the US Open last year. And of course she was widely praised and congratulated by the media for using her sports platform to push the leftist ideas that Osaka and the media have in common.

Osaka was a likable figure when she was across the court from Serena when Serena has her meltdown of bad sportsmanship and entitlement a few years ago at the US Open. She’s tossed any good will from having to endure that spectacle out the window by helping to infect tennis with politics.

Did Kennedy pat attention to the campaign? Biden ran on a far left agenda, while the media falsely pushed the myth of him still being a moderate (if he ever was, which he really wasn’t).

I can understand the voter who gets his news and narratives from the mainstream media being surprised, but no Republican should be the least bit surprised that Biden is governing on the far left agenda that was in his party platform.

Europe is doomed.

GWB...if not for Alito he’d be completely worthless.

The cap will be lifted and raised to insane levels soon enough. Menendez knows this, which makes me wonder if this is theater to lend a false air of “moderation” to Biden.

Why is it so hard to believe? We only fool ourselves if we think the Left’s control of the mainstream media, all the Tech giants, the universities, and Hollywood doesn’t allow them to craft and push narratives that influence public opinion.

Plus there is an initial period of goodwill that most Presidents enjoy upon first entering office. Even GWB (the Hitler of his times) had high marks early on. President Trump did not enjoy that honeymoon period of course, as he was relentlessly attacked by the entire Left without any let up whatsoever. He came into office with the media pushing the bs Russian collusion garbage and it never let up for one moment. Which Is all to say, the media still has influence and it does help the Democrats and hurts the GOP.

Having said that, I’m skeptical myself that Biden’s approval rating is that high. But knowing how he gets glowing coverage I’m not at all surprised that it’s over 50%.

I’m skeptical of his concern for the American worker, Jeb is after all a big proponent of importing as much labor competition via mass immigration as possible.

I seriously doubt there were any conservatives at this meeting.

For one thing, those at the top of the corporate hierarchy are mostly liberal now, especially on cultural and social issues. It’s the values and beliefs of the elite social class they belong to, so they are personally happy to push this garbage.

For another, they fear woke SJW twitter mobs more than they fear normal conservatives, partly out of the correct assumption that normal people have lives to lead that goes beyond tweeting and threatening companies that don’t bend the knee.

If companies just ignored the mob and simply remained silent and neutral on political issues they’d likely suffer little or no financial harm, but fewer and fewer are choosing to take such a course. Maybe they think that conservatives are older, and so they’d better get in good with the more woke youth to keep a customer base for decades to come.

I don’t know, but it’s a powerful weapon in the Left’s arsenal.