Posted on 09/13/2020 8:15:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s September and election day is exactly 53 days away. President Trump, who is seeking re-election, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who is attempting to unseat him, are locked in a dead heat in the polls as they battle it out for the nation’s support.
Trump is up against not only Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), but he is also fighting a media apparatus that has been intent on destroying since he took office. The former vice president is attempting to make himself look more appealing to the American public despite his questionable record and apparent cognitive issues.
As the election season nears its conclusion, there seems to be only one major event that typically occurs around this time that many might expect to influence the outcome of the race. Yes, we are talking about the infamous “October Surprise.”
You know what this is, right? This political phenomenon typically takes the form of a tawdry, lascivious, or otherwise controversial revelation that is designed to cause irreversible damage to one of the candidates. In 2016, we saw this when the corporate media released the Access Hollywood tape in which then-candidate Trump was heard making lewd comments about women.
This tape was supposed to be a shocking discovery and surely not something the press had been sitting on for months and waiting to reveal at an opportune time. In this case, it didn’t work because Hillary Clinton was such a horrific candidate that not even this piece of new information could propel her to victory.
Yesterday, I asked my followers on Twitter what they thought the October surprise would be in the Trump v. Biden election. There were quite a few theories ranging from a mass shooting, to the release of the Russian pee tape, and even the leader of Antifa being revealed as none other than yours truly.
Each of these theories were quite interesting, except perhaps the notion that I’m the leader of Antifa. I am a patient man, but I can only handle a group of insufferable white progressives children for so long, folks. But the theory I found most compelling came from my friend and Black Roundtable co-host James Cheef:
No different than the June, July, August, and September surprises.
— JamesCheef (@JamesCheef) September 12, 2020
Anyone who has been following politics for awhile knows that 2020 is an election year that stands on its own. This means that the usual rules do not apply. Will the corporate media attempt to unleash another secret political nuclear weapon in the next few weeks?
Of course they will. They’ve gotten desperate. After all, didn’t they just attempt to use an unverified and hotly contested article claiming that Trump made disparaging remarks about fallen World War I vets? You can be certain that leftist journalists have already been assembling a new story, or perhaps series of stories, full of unnamed sources and tawdry allegations against the Trump administration. It will be fresh out of the oven shortly.
But as Cheef stated, it won’t be any different from what they have already been doing all year. Trump’s progressive opponents have already blown their shot, over and over again. From the Russiagate collusion hoax to the impeachment fiasco, they have pulled out all of the stops to smear the president and it hasn’t worked.
Put simply, unless the left manages to unveil actual evidence of an actual scandal the actually impacts the country, their efforts will amount to a whole lot of noise that is ultimately devoid of meaning. Like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the will not be taken seriously except by those who already want to buy what the corporate media is selling.
Of course, this does not automatically mean that Trump’s re-election is in the bag. It simply means that there is likely no October Surprise that has any chance of sinking his chances of victory.
October surprises are always Red.
Trump is up against not only Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), but he is also fighting a media apparatus that has been intent on destroying since he took office.
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As well as half of the elected GOP.................
How many “surprises” have they tried to spring on us the past week?
* Trump insulted the war dead and veterans by calling them losers and suckers ( The Atlantic )
* Trump treats Christians with disdain ( ex-lawyer Michael Cohen )
* Trump downplayed the seriousness of the Coronavirus pandemic ( Bob Woodward )
.... I’m sure there will be more this coming week. The MSM is already coordinating with the DNC to publish the next Trump “scandal”.
depends how you take this
there will be several september and october surprises, at least in the eyes of the media and democrats
ie they willbve throwing anything and everything at him that they think an hurt him, and amping it up, from now until nov 3
recent fake flapper interview with one of trump’s staff was an example
In the Twin Cities, Biden is running a new ad where he condemns the rioting BUT also blames the cause on Trump and his supporters.
In fact, much of the ad seems to spend time blaming all the unrest on Trump and promising that he’ll increase the level of proper discourse if he’s elected President.
I suspect he saw something in his polling number that made him believe that he had to address the unrest. But he f’d up by making it more about Trump than he did about wanting to restore law and order.
That will play will with his base but for any voters out there in the middle concerned about civil unrest, he didn’t do much to reassure them.
After the poo the Dems threw in 2016 to see if it stuck, it didn’t. President Trump is almost immune to October Surprises. Now the MSM’s power and credibility are less than then. Won’t stop the Dems from trying anyway.
Trouble is for his opponents you can only cry “wolf” so many times before folks no longer pay attention. So many constant accusations have been made that his followers and a majority of the undecideds ignore the manufactured scandal of the day that only increase as the election gets closer.
Whatever sticks to the wall.
A lot of people will be done with voting by mid-October, either by mailing in a ballot or early voting.
They’ve tried something different every week for months and nothing is sticking.
basically
and they’ve splattered glue all over the wall
It sounds like the DOJ is about to launch a September surprise, and the democrats are sure not gonna like it. I believe that it starts tomorrow and goes a couple of weeks.
They’ve thrown everything big at Trump they could. He’s way too close in the polls for their comfort and are powerless to stop him.
The announcement of the recipient(s) of the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 will be made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday October 9th.
One can dream!
The Left is cornered and they will lash out by as much chaos as they can muster as their last hope.
Cheney was busted for DWI in the 60’s.
EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW [AS WRITTEN].
TRANSPARENCY [DISCLOSURE] AND ACCOUNTABILITY [JUSTICE] IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD.
FUTURE OF OUR REPUBLIC AT STAKE.
WATERGATE x1000
SEPT 14-18, 21-25 [track & follow events]
Did Kevin set his alarm?
Nothing can stop what is coming.
Nothing.
Dems have several October surprises lined up and they have the advantage of not having to prove any of them as true or relevant. I presume there will be at least one more rape allegation made out of whole cloth but, unfortunately for the Dems, Trump will just point to Tara Reade and all the sniffing of young girls.
Make no mistake, there WILL be new allegations that will just get more shrill with each week. But there are few true undecideds at this point.
Trump tonight said he has an ad ready to go he calls “Biden’s best” which will no-doubt be a compendium of gaffes, misstatements, things he said decades ago that now seem politically incorrect, etc. That ought to be fun.
But I would advise the President to stay positive as much as possible. He has much to offer America and can talk about this rather than staying in the gutter with Joe and Kamel-lah.
Cried wolf too many times.
This was the event where one party tried to crash the dollar, causing a worldwide financial panic. The quote above is all Wikipedia has to say about it. There still has been no investigation to find the George Soros-like perpetrator.
This was a financial Pearl Harbor. This came shortly after Sarah Palin was named the VP nominee under McCain, and reversed the momentum of the election away from Obama in a big way.
The Swamp will have to come up with something big like this.
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