Replies

In the first Rocky movie, Apollo Creed’s trainer caught a TV News piece of Rocky beating up slabs of beef but good. He tried to get Creed’s attention so he could see just what he would face. Creed, who was getting caught up in the fanfare of this fight, blew him off.

Creed got dropped in the first round.

Yes, it’s a movie. And yea, Creed won that fight.

But there is a lesson being overlooked at our own peril.

Harris is a zero. But she’s got the MSM, print journalism, Tik -Tok, the entertainment-industrial complex, unions, teachers, every foreign nation except Israel and Antatrica, and everyone except normal Americans backing her.

Further, our side has done such a good job of making her out to be a babbling, cackling hyena that when she actually strings together a cogent campaign speech , those lowered expectations are suddenly pleasantly surprised.

And, by the way, has anyone WATCHED the Atlanta speech? While Rogan is a little dazzled, he IS right in that it’s tight, concise political speech full of leftist red meat. She even throws in a little southern accent - Obama-esque.

Ladies and gentlemen…..do NOT underestimate the requirements for victory. Yes, let’s not tremble like milquetoast pantywaists.

But if we ignore the vast reservoir of political ordnance the Dems can marshal, and that Harris apparently cleans up nicely, Trump will get dropped in Round 1.

One final important point. We need to destroy them at the ballot box. This will be close. See, you have to scrutinize the winning vote margin in those close states that tip the balance to the winner, ie the Tipping Point states.

Since 2004 every election except for 2008 it came down to the handful of states that tip the Electoral College scale to the winner:

- In Trump’s win in 2016, his cumulative winning margin in the tipping point states of Wi, Mi, and PA was 77,444 votes.

-In Biden’s case, his tipping point margin was about 40k votes.

-Obama in 2012, it was about 500k votes.

-Bush in 2004, about 16k votes.

All this campaigning and rallies and debates blah blah blah…it all comes down, in general, to beating the other guy (or gal) by less than 100,000 votes.

….and it’s actually thinner than that, because all the losing candidate needed was to flip at least half of those votes.

Given who are the refs in this match, Trump will lose the split decision.

Stop being Creed, and start drinking raw eggs.

Nobody, at least me, is saying “ignore her” and just trust all will be well.....but she IS still an idiot and yes she can string together words somebody else wrote for her. She did it rather well, alone by herself with no one to ‘ask’ or ‘comment back,’ say, as in a debate.

Trump has already gotten ads out there with multiple examples and instances of her ‘record’ in California; I don’t expect that he’s going to stop that nor do I think he’s not going to be the foil to her nonsense in a debate. As for the ‘backing’ she has, we’ll have to see how well that holds up.

It’s not the same world of the early 2000s anymore. It only took just one “We beat Medicare......” to show that and she’s only one “If you think about the significance of the passage of time and some cackling guffaws” away from the same thing.

Long comment there. But well said. Agree 100% with pretty much all you said. But I *hate* raw eggs...

Goldwater’s loss to Johnson alerted me to the potentially profound ignorance of the American electorate. Nothing has changed.

It is my opinion that sensible people would not view a Trump victory in November as a done deal. That is both irresponsible and ignorant.

That said, we don't have to buy into what the MSM and Big Tech are arrogantly and shamelessly peddling and allow it to demoralize us and depress us. (the current revelation that the Harris campaign has been buying fake "news headlines" from Google, who displays them as if they were real news stories.

I just posted this last week before this story broke and I wonder is this is how the deception is manifested to a typical Internet user.

I just listened to Steven Crowder's podcast from yesterday: LINK: THIS IS WAR: YouTube is stealing the election in real time...

The entire show was about how Google and YouTube are in full "Elect Leftist" mode by manipulating search results.

If you search for "Donald Trump" you get ten pages of results (I didn't go past ten pages) that are, with the exceptions of the major Trump related all wholly negative.

There is a pane on initial Google search which appears to be a "news feed" as far as I can tell, the first four shown are extremely negative, but you can click on a link to show more of them.

Clicking on that Google link to "show more" news items, returned 17 items like this:

As Trump fumes, Republicans wince at ‘public nervous breakdown’

Analysis | Trump keeps attacking their spouses. Top GOPers keep supporting...

Donald Trump Has Nothing Else

Trump picks a pointless fight with Georgia Republicans – it could cost him...

Scaramucci reacts to Trump's attack on GOP Governor

SNL’s Cecily Strong mocks Donald Trump running mate JD Vance for ‘Panic at the Disco’-style eyeliner

Trump’s Campaign Is Drowning in Rage

Harris' perfect response to Trump's debate cowardice, explained

Inside the legal plans by foes of Donald Trump and Project 2025 to fight his second-term agenda

US Supreme Court declines to halt Donald Trump's sentencing

Supreme Court nixes effort to stall Trump’s sentencing in hush money case

Supreme Court rejects Missouri's long-shot bid to block Trump's gag order and sentencing in hush money case

How Donald Trump Earned $550 Million In The White House

Adin Ross Gives Trump a Cybertruck, a Rolex and Access to a Heavily Male Audience

What’s Rattling Trump: The Size of Harris’s Crowds

Trump says Harris ‘afraid’ to accept Fox News debate

Donald Trump Has Nothing Else

Is Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump in the polls?

Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in our nationwide poll tracker

Has Harris finally broken Trump? He's flailing, glitching and running scared.

Now, if I search for Kamala Harris, this is what I get:

Kamala Harris secures Democratic nomination for president

The latest on the 2024 presidential campaign | CNN Politics

Election 2024 live updates: Harris to name VP pick; Vance rallies in Philadelphia

US election live updates: Kamala Harris poised to announce her vice-presidential running mate

Kamala Harris holding rally in Pennsylvania to introduce running mate after securing Democratic nomination

Everything was going Kamala Harris’ way. Then came the market sell-off.

Kamala Harris’ economic pitch just got a lot more complicated

Reporter warns Kamala Harris 'hype' might be coming 'back down to earth' after stocks plunged

War and recession fears test Harris campaign's momentum

A Virginia man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Kamala Harris

Virginia man charged with threats to Kamala Harris

Virginia man charged with threatening to kill Kamala Harris

Harris is talking about immigration more, and her allies think it could be a political advantage

Kamala Harris is now Democratic presidential nominee, will face off against Donald Trump this fall

Opinion | Debate Kamala Harris, Mr. Trump

Harris' perfect response to Trump's debate cowardice, explained

Trump says he’ll debate Harris on Fox News or not at all after weeks of back-and-forth over ABC News event

Trump posts about a new debate plan, and Harris pushes back

Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in our nationwide poll tracker

Is Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump in the polls?

Kamala Harris Now Leads in All Major Polling Averages

The Power of Oddball Charm-Kamala Harris hasn’t just reset the presidential election—her specific charisma matches the cultural moment.

Kamala Harris is now Democratic presidential nominee, will face off against Donald Trump this fall

Kamala Harris’s Multiple Paths to Victory

This was just the first page for each of these politicians. I did check the next ten pages for each of them, and both continued in all the same direction: Trump, very negative, Harris, very positive.

We expect this, it is no surprise because we are aware of it mostly except for the pearl clutchers and the denizens of the fainting couches we find on this website.

But 4.5 BILLION people worldwide access Google and YouTube each day. And the VAST majority of them have NO idea whatsoever.

And Crowder had an expert on his show on exactly this type of manipulation, and this person said it was possible using Google and YouTube alone, to turn a 50-50 race into a 90-10 race.

This is on top of the normal and usual lawlessness we have seen the Left engage in at election time, stuffing ballot boxes, etc.

So, to your point-we have no rational reason to expect an easy or even a large Trump win in November. We have to conduct ourselves like we are behind.

And part of that is not playing to their hand, swallowing what they feed us and getting demoralized and depressed.

In the Navy, we were told to "Keep a steady strain"...which means don't get too high, don't get too low. And I think that is good advice.

Given who are the refs in this match, Trump will lose the split decision.

Yep, just like his court cases, it's stacked against him. And there is no appealing the election to get a reversal. 80 days to go, all engines should be burning and they're not. Yes I'm concerned because this is a race that comes down to close votes in 3-5 states.