The cheerleaders are the most popular girls in school.
But they’re not usually known for their brains.
The author implies we are being complacent, not tuned in. I can’t speak for anyone else of course but I know what I’m doing on election day and also what my family and most of the folks I know will be doing. It is all I and everyone else can do.
But I do see enthusiasm off the charts for Trump and absolutely none for Biden. This has made me hopeful and with good reason. I see no harm in taking pleasure and comfort from this showing of support for our president as long as it doesn’t bring with it complacency.
Indeed. Beware of people who assert they KNOW what is going to happen.
Does anyone believe that the Establishment will allow another Four years of Trump? We’ve been telling them that what they’ve been doing isn’t working and Trump was the messenger. .
We need a tidal wave of voters The Dems always point to the popular vote as a tell tale sign. . Those in California who believe their vote doesn’t matter in the scheme of things are needed now. The narrower the vote margin the better. Let’s roll!
thanks for posting this, it needed to be said.
I’ve already voted. I told my wife that was fun and we should go back and vote every day until the election. :O)
America is “divided,” because we always have been. American lands consist of over 3.7 million square miles of Earth. With over 370 million souls calling themselves American, that means every American could have 1/100th of a square mile of land to themselves. We are a gigantic nation compared to, say, Europe, and there are absolutely going to be differences of opinion.
To say that feelings for Trump in Florida are the same as those in Washington or California or Idaho would be foolhardy, yet most polling uses comparatively small sample sizes. If anyone is foolish enough to believe polling or the new outlets reporting it, they likely lack the attention span required to make informed decisions about their leaders.
Our founders expected the electorate to be informed. The media has done a piss poor job of it and our education system over the last 30 years has imbued the youngest crop of voters with a socialist dogma that sets us back to pre-WWI days of foolhardy ignorance.
If you’re leaning on polls, you’re an idiot, regardless of party preference. As a citizen of the United States, you have a duty to vote. It’s been done for over 240 years in America and for millennia across democratic institutions in the world, for good or for bad. It’s like what my step dad used to say about church, “it’s one hour a week to save your soul.” Voting is one day every 2 years to ensure your life is as safe and sacred as it has been since our founding. Take the time to make educated, informed decisions, and for the love of God don’t vote to flush our representative republic down the toilet or worse, refuse to vote because you think it’s pointless.
November spawned a monster...
if Biden wins.
This week in Miami the police estimated that a parade supporting Trump consisted of 30,000 vehicles. How many boat parades have we heard of that consisted of hundreds and sometimes thousands of boats? Trump can announce a rally and two days later have thousands show up. A group of special force type supporters in the dark of night and with military precision erected a giant TRUMP sign overlooking a freeway in Los Angeles. The excitement and enthusiasm for Trump is being exhibited from sea to sea and from Maine to Arizona.
The largest crowds that the Biden/Harris campaign have been able to generate so far consist of Antifa/Black Lives Matter riots in many cities controlled by Democrats. Anybody with a brain the size of a peanut knows that there are no Republicans participating in the riots that produce lawlessness, looting and burning—NONE. The participants are all Democrats.
Biden and Harris appeared together for the first time since the virtual convention for an alleged event in Arizona this week and no one even knew it happened. One reporter supposedly covering the event was stationed at least a block away and spent her entire report trying to explain why no one showed up and why the Biden campaign thought this was acceptable.
The enthusiasm for President Trump is genuine and spontaneous while Biden is depending on the media to continually prop up his sickly campaign. But why would anyone expect anything else from a senile fossil and a VP candidate that owes her current position in politics to the positions that she maintained with one Willie Brown in her past.
If Americans elect Joe Biden president, then I thank God that I am 81 years old, and am not long for this land.
A sort of silly article but necessary. It is necessary from the standpoint of preventing complacency.
It is silly from the standpoint of us not knowing what we are up against. We all know that the media and social media are rigged. We all know about the money arrayed against us. And we are not, none of us, simply sitting on our rear ends thinking that this is in the bag. I don’t think for a second that the President or his campaign is.
On the contrary, what motivates us and panics is is the realization that it is game over if Biden wins. I have not met many Trump supporters who are not motivated.
Convincing others? Forget it. Many minds are made up. Who are you trying to convince? A idiotic suburban Mom with their insulated narcissistic view of the world? The Mom whose who life is yoga with her gal pals and porting the kids around? A woman whose husband, or herself in many cases, will lose a job or a business if Biden gets in. YET, that person will sit there giving a litany of reasons that they know Biden is a bad choice but they still are voting for him because “that Trump is a meanie!!”
Or are we going to convince a person who is just democrat because they have always been? Never mind that the democrat party calls him or her a beneficiary of white privilege who must be destroyed. “Oh no, they surely don’t mean me” is what goes through their programmed minds.
I have tried on both accounts to move the ball with these types and failed to make a dent.
Bottom line is this, if there are more of these people than us, we are already lost and whistling past the graveyard.
I think it is safe to say that We know the mountain to climb but we are not fools. I refuse to listen to pundits or the media (and their polls) who have been lying to us about Trump from day one. Doesn’t mean the polls aren’t correct. But we can’t trust them, period, we are flying blind.
Yard signs: a word if I may.
I live in NJ (for the next five months only, thank the Lord). I see more Biden signs than Trump, easily. But I noticed something peculiar the other day. I see less political signs overall than I am used to seeing. I will see a house with a Biden Harris sign and then no signs at all for ten or so houses.
In some cases I know many of the people who live in these houses with no signs and I know who they are voting for and it isn’t Biden/Harris. So why no sign? I think we all know the answer to that.
Signs, and who posts them or not, do not tell the tale at all.
But as long we are exchanging anecdotal evidence, here is something I have noted. When someone dares to wear a Trump t-shirt or hat, I notice people walking up to that person giving a thumbs up or exchanging cautious cheers.
It is eerie. It is as if we are all part of some secret resistance movement and have to watch out for the KGB. One brave dissident has dared to come out of the closet and is greeted with relieved signs from the secret resistance and the respect for a person daring to risk imprisonment.
I only know this, I am a DEDICATED TRUMP VOTER, almost to the point of being the pig at breakfast. I now intend to cast my vote as soon as possible IN PERSON. Here in Pinellas County, FL, this means 19 October is my mark on the calendar, one week from today! I will crawl through broken glass to do this even though my senior residence is still on quarantine.
I do have my mail-in ballot, un-opened, that I will take with me to be cancelled. My sincere hope is to eject that turncoat Charlie Crist in favor of Anna Paulina Luna and reelect President Trump, at the very least for his Judicial picks. On the Florida Amendments I am voting ‘YES’ on #s 1, 4 & 6, and ‘NO’ on the rest.
Join me, my fellow FReepers, in your own way and at your own voting places! WE CAN DO THIS, WE MUST DO THIS and PRAY THAT WE WILL DO THIS!