Replace trans with MAGA, Antifa and other left wing outfits with Keyboard Provocateurs living in Mom's basement, and you see birds of a feather.
There was a thread on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election where liberals took the court. Amidst all the bellyaching over fraud, one lone voice (HT adder) said
That’s what I see everywhere. “Conservative” support is bloated but in actual elections, it is much weaker or non existent. While I believe elections are stolen by by fraud, I also see a decline in actual support for conservative positions. The red wave was barely a ripple. Inflation, incompetence, lies and criminality did not matter as dems held on and flipped seats. It isn’t all fraud...we are losing.
81 million+ MAGA voters whining means nothing. We need a CREDIBLE plan to win Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona. Maybe we can lose one or two of those states again, but we need to get way past 270. That plan requires burying the ball in the back of the net to overwhelm the fraud (it's gonna happen...defend against it but it'll happen). The candidate needs to detail HOW he will build that wellspring of support.
If the candidate simply complains about fraud and 2020 and Dominion and covid and the boogieman and whatever, we lose. We cannot whine our way to glory. But a goodly number of well-meaning people seem content to do just that, or puff out their chests and talk of CWII (from Mom's basement et al).
And people need to GET OUT MORE. I too was in NYC on business yesterday and like Sam I didn't see pandemonium. It was largely BAU vs when I worked there (though the bicyclists stop for nobody and are worse than the bike messengers of yesteryear). Sitting behind a keyboard, soaking in all the fear and doomporn makes a Deplorable depressed. Get out, live, and you will find scores of people yearning to breathe free.
A win in 2024 is possible. The losers are already defeated. We don't need that lot. We need a plan. And a winner. Leaders LEAD.
Post of the day.
Maybe the year.
IF we do not figure out how to win in the swing states we lose.
It is all about offering the swing voters(the independents/low information voters) a view of how life will be better IF you vote for Republicans. That means even Republicans that are RINOS. Conservative values have always been and always will be a MINORITY.
The majority of people in the USA want ABORTION on demand.
This is the main reason why we did not have a huge win in the midterms. People that have never voted in a midterm before in their life voted because of ABORTION.
Trump needs to stop whining about what happened in the 2020 election. IT IS OVER. Learn from it. We will NEVER have the MSM in our corner. Trump needs to quit the MEAN TWEETS. We all joke about it, but it turns off the soccer moms and many low information voters. What they care about is SAFETY. Safety for their kids in schools. Safety when they walk their dog down the street at 10pm.
These moderate people are not stupid. They voted for Reagan.
There are Republican people in my office that did not vote for Trump because they thought he was an A$$hole. We loved the fact that he was that way because WE care about results.
IF we do not promote a candidate that appeals to the middle of the road voters, we will lose again in 2024.
We will only be able to win elections in Al, MS, LA, UT and WY.
We will eventually lose TX, ID, NC, SC just like we have lost NH, GA, AZ.
Just got back from a walk through Grand Central, as well as the new LIRR East Side Access terminal as it was drizzly and damp outdoors. I try to walk 45 minutes to an hour each day when I'm in the city. It was a nice experience, seeing groups of people (lot of students on field trips) seeing Grand Central for the first time. All of them were so happy and awed to be there.
As for the out of control bicyclists, that's a function of police no longer enforcing violations such as riding bikes on sidewalks or the wrong way on one way streets. You really need to be careful crossing streets these days by looking both ways as those bicycles now come from all directions. Then this is compounded by the CitiBike rentals, where you have tourists trying to navigate the streets with them. Somehow though, collisions with bikes are very rare, which amazes me. Most New Yorkers develop a really good sense of situational awareness.
You are so correct about how people need to get out more. I constantly read here about what a cesspool NYC is and many of those people have never actually set foot here, maybe they saw "Taxi Driver" and got their impressions of New York City that way.
I have always liked working here and it's not a bad place to visit either. There are plenty of YouTube videos that even I learn from about what to see and where to go in the city (that doesn't involve Times Square!).