Monday, November 4, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Origin of Hitler and the Nazi Party | Rick Spence
This is deeply interesting.
I recently saw another video that claimed that the German Army sent one of their own, Corporal Hitler, to secretly investigate the German Worker's Party, and he ended up running the organization after he quit the Army.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
How Harris or Trump could win 270 electoral votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTmLlit6GE
It is hard to construct an outcome where Nevada with its mere 6 electoral college votes matters. It takes a weird scenario where Trump loses North Carolina but wins Pennsylvania and Nevada.
Did Donald Trump say that he wanted to imprison dissenters?
"I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of America, Joe Biden, and go after the Biden crime family," Trump said in June at his Bedminster, New Jersey, residence, just hours after being arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami on charges related to his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.
Trump also discussed his 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and how he did not imprison her. "Lock her up" was a frequent chant at Trump's campaign rallies — often fueled by Trump himself — during that election cycle.
But Trump credited himself for not going after Clinton, compared to what is now being done to him.
"Some people said I should have done it, but, you know, could have, would have been very easy to do it, but I thought it would be a terrible precedent for our country," Trump said. "And now, whoever it may be, you're going to have to view it very much differently. This is a bad, bad road that they're leading us down to as a country."
In a statement, Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer said that Trump's comments are "just the latest proof that he will do anything to regain power, preserve his own freedom and seek revenge on anyone who opposes him."
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Time Is Now for Cigarette Tax Increase - Indiana Chamber of Commerce
https://www.indianachamber.com/time-is-now-for-cigarette-tax-increase/#:~:text=The%20Indiana%20Chamber%20believes%20the,programming%20are%20expected%20to%20pass.
I keep hearing a proposal to raise cigarette taxes by $2 per pack on the radio. I think this proposed tax will impact people with lower incomes the most so I am opposed to it.
The proposal claims to protect people's health. People should be free to make choices as long as this is not a major burden on the rest of society.
If you tax something too much then it could create a black market for the product.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Something on my mind… (Dick Van Dyke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLdaqYeg3Ts
'Van Dyke endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries. In July 2016, while campaigning for Sanders, Van Dyke said of Donald Trump, "I haven't been this scared since the Cuban Missile Crisis.'
'Van Dyke endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries. In July 2016, while campaigning for Sanders, Van Dyke said of Donald Trump, "I haven't been this scared since the Cuban Missile Crisis.'
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Possible end of the American experiment
I do not think it likely that the election can be stolen, but the premise of the article is to ask what happens if it is?
'On November 5, the American experiment in republican government may well come to an end. Over the past two decades we have been living through a slow-motion Communist revolution. Acts of political warfare have become commonplace. The most devastating has been the corruption of our election system.
Having vilified President Trump more than any man in American history, the American Communists and their allies in the Democratic Party (and the Communist world abroad) may well be able to steal the 2024 election. One thing needs to be made clear: if this happens, they will have created an ungovernable country.
I have two kinds of colleagues: those who believe it is going to be a wave election and therefore a blowout for President Trump, and those who believe the election can be stolen given the massive cyber-vulnerability of our electronic voting system, and the refusal of blue state governors and secretaries of state to build a transparent, same-day voting system. At this stage of the game, I believe it will be a blowout win for President Trump. But I realize that it may well be stolen for reasons I describe in my American Mind essay, "The Diminishing Likelihood of a Fair Election."
The RealClearPolitics average of polls has Donald Trump either up or tied in the seven swing states. There are very few if any undecided voters at this point. In these polls, President Trump has historically, as the pollsters say, "underperformed." This means that a two-point lead by President Trump is likely a four- or five-point lead. Perhaps more telling are the right track/wrong track polls that ask Americans whether or not the country is headed in the right direction. As of October 23, only 27% of the American people believe the country is on the right track.
This is historically low. Never has an incumbent vice president won an election for president with these numbers. That 27% is obviously the Democratic base: hard-core progressives, Communists, abortionists, and transgenderists. Only they could believe the country is on the right track. Simple math would suggest that even much of the traditional Democratic base believes the country is not going in ways that are conducive to the happiness and welfare of the American people.
Yes, but we are told that Donald Trump is a racist, sexist beast virtually indistinguishable from Adolf Hitler. How can this man win?
Here let me make two points. First: this caricature, however effective it may have been in 2016 and 2020, has lost its effectiveness in 2024. The first Trump Administration was not an exercise in the exploitation of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities. It ushered in economic good times for these groups, who enjoyed greater prosperity and freedom than at any other time in the history of the United States. Their lived experience demonstrated to them that President Trump saw them not as a problem, but rather as an integral part of American society and economic life. Charges of racism, ridiculous on their face, have grown meaningless to everyday Americans.
Then there is the matter of Kamala Harris.
Harris was an obscure vice president, previously unpopular even among the Democratic base. Her public performances are nothing short of bizarre, ranging from frenetic to what can only be described as addled, probably by drugs or alcohol.
She is not, in short, running a credible campaign. Even within left-wing popular culture, she comes off as little more than a joke. Is there anyone who believes that, if President Biden had dropped out of the race last year and there had been a competitive primary season, Kamala Harris would today be the nominee of the Democratic Party? She would have likely done little better than she did in 2020. The country is quite alive to this fact.
So the question "What if Kamala wins?" must be answered in light of the fact that she ought not to win by any conventional understanding of polls and public opinion.
That having been said, will Harris win? There are a substantial number of serious people who believe the 2024 election can indeed be stolen. Very little has changed in the seven swing states that decided the 2020 election. If anything remains obvious, it is that there are substantial numbers of Deep State operatives within the Biden Administration who know that if President Trump is elected, they will most certainly face investigation—and for those who have committed crimes, prosecution.
The accusation that a second Trump administration would more broadly investigate journalists, and purveyors of popular broadcast media, is of course absurd. To the contrary, President Trump would enjoy their collective misery as they watched him Make America Great Again.
But there are people within the Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice who crossed all manner of lines in their treatment of President Trump and his allies such as Steve Bannon (yet to be released from jail). Likewise, the Secret Service's failures to protect President Trump this summer constitute an astonishing stain upon this republic.
So there are large numbers of powerful people within our government who have a vested interest in seeing President Trump lose. For all of FBI Director Christopher Wray's warnings of Russian and Chinese influence operations in the election, one doubts that a finger will be lifted to stop either country, or their surrogates within the drug cartels and dark money groups, from working to alter the results of the election.
Clearly our American oligarchs on Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley have decided that Kamala Harris is not their cup of tea—witness the fact that the Los Angeles Times did not endorse Kamala Harris. But they may not have a say if nation-state actors or dark money groups genuinely want President Trump defeated. Our system is not designed to stop determined adversaries of a free and fair election.
So, if Kamala Harris does win, it will, as of today, be because of a stolen election. Under these circumstances, America will become an ungovernable country. Large groups of Americans will believe their vote no longer counts. We have the experience this summer of Venezuela, where it was clear the opposition party won—so said the Biden Administration—only to have the Maduro regime keep hold of power by affirming the fraudulent results and gutting it out publicly against domestic and world opinion. One imagines the Harris campaign learned a lesson from that.'
https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-if-harris-gets-away-with-it/
'On November 5, the American experiment in republican government may well come to an end. Over the past two decades we have been living through a slow-motion Communist revolution. Acts of political warfare have become commonplace. The most devastating has been the corruption of our election system.
Having vilified President Trump more than any man in American history, the American Communists and their allies in the Democratic Party (and the Communist world abroad) may well be able to steal the 2024 election. One thing needs to be made clear: if this happens, they will have created an ungovernable country.
I have two kinds of colleagues: those who believe it is going to be a wave election and therefore a blowout for President Trump, and those who believe the election can be stolen given the massive cyber-vulnerability of our electronic voting system, and the refusal of blue state governors and secretaries of state to build a transparent, same-day voting system. At this stage of the game, I believe it will be a blowout win for President Trump. But I realize that it may well be stolen for reasons I describe in my American Mind essay, "The Diminishing Likelihood of a Fair Election."
The RealClearPolitics average of polls has Donald Trump either up or tied in the seven swing states. There are very few if any undecided voters at this point. In these polls, President Trump has historically, as the pollsters say, "underperformed." This means that a two-point lead by President Trump is likely a four- or five-point lead. Perhaps more telling are the right track/wrong track polls that ask Americans whether or not the country is headed in the right direction. As of October 23, only 27% of the American people believe the country is on the right track.
This is historically low. Never has an incumbent vice president won an election for president with these numbers. That 27% is obviously the Democratic base: hard-core progressives, Communists, abortionists, and transgenderists. Only they could believe the country is on the right track. Simple math would suggest that even much of the traditional Democratic base believes the country is not going in ways that are conducive to the happiness and welfare of the American people.
Yes, but we are told that Donald Trump is a racist, sexist beast virtually indistinguishable from Adolf Hitler. How can this man win?
Here let me make two points. First: this caricature, however effective it may have been in 2016 and 2020, has lost its effectiveness in 2024. The first Trump Administration was not an exercise in the exploitation of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities. It ushered in economic good times for these groups, who enjoyed greater prosperity and freedom than at any other time in the history of the United States. Their lived experience demonstrated to them that President Trump saw them not as a problem, but rather as an integral part of American society and economic life. Charges of racism, ridiculous on their face, have grown meaningless to everyday Americans.
Then there is the matter of Kamala Harris.
Harris was an obscure vice president, previously unpopular even among the Democratic base. Her public performances are nothing short of bizarre, ranging from frenetic to what can only be described as addled, probably by drugs or alcohol.
She is not, in short, running a credible campaign. Even within left-wing popular culture, she comes off as little more than a joke. Is there anyone who believes that, if President Biden had dropped out of the race last year and there had been a competitive primary season, Kamala Harris would today be the nominee of the Democratic Party? She would have likely done little better than she did in 2020. The country is quite alive to this fact.
So the question "What if Kamala wins?" must be answered in light of the fact that she ought not to win by any conventional understanding of polls and public opinion.
That having been said, will Harris win? There are a substantial number of serious people who believe the 2024 election can indeed be stolen. Very little has changed in the seven swing states that decided the 2020 election. If anything remains obvious, it is that there are substantial numbers of Deep State operatives within the Biden Administration who know that if President Trump is elected, they will most certainly face investigation—and for those who have committed crimes, prosecution.
The accusation that a second Trump administration would more broadly investigate journalists, and purveyors of popular broadcast media, is of course absurd. To the contrary, President Trump would enjoy their collective misery as they watched him Make America Great Again.
But there are people within the Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice who crossed all manner of lines in their treatment of President Trump and his allies such as Steve Bannon (yet to be released from jail). Likewise, the Secret Service's failures to protect President Trump this summer constitute an astonishing stain upon this republic.
So there are large numbers of powerful people within our government who have a vested interest in seeing President Trump lose. For all of FBI Director Christopher Wray's warnings of Russian and Chinese influence operations in the election, one doubts that a finger will be lifted to stop either country, or their surrogates within the drug cartels and dark money groups, from working to alter the results of the election.
Clearly our American oligarchs on Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley have decided that Kamala Harris is not their cup of tea—witness the fact that the Los Angeles Times did not endorse Kamala Harris. But they may not have a say if nation-state actors or dark money groups genuinely want President Trump defeated. Our system is not designed to stop determined adversaries of a free and fair election.
So, if Kamala Harris does win, it will, as of today, be because of a stolen election. Under these circumstances, America will become an ungovernable country. Large groups of Americans will believe their vote no longer counts. We have the experience this summer of Venezuela, where it was clear the opposition party won—so said the Biden Administration—only to have the Maduro regime keep hold of power by affirming the fraudulent results and gutting it out publicly against domestic and world opinion. One imagines the Harris campaign learned a lesson from that.'
https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-if-harris-gets-away-with-it/
Monday, October 28, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
We Asked 100 Wisconsinites Who They’re Voting For
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSHATpWMUQ
I found this interesting. Based on what I see, I don't want to live in Wisconsin.
Trump Serves Customers At McDonald's Drive-Through In Pennsylvania
After the Trump conviction, I thought that the election was over.
After the first Trump assassination attempt, and his stunning reaction, I thought that the election was over.
After Trump serves french fries to drive-through customers in Pennsylvania, I think the election is over.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
The Hershey's Kisses Rate of Inflation
In 1968 or 1969, my sister and I went to one of those old-fashioned corner markets in Madison, Indiana, and bought Hershey's Kisses at the price of two per penny. These weren't in a package but sold in pairs.
Today, the packages of Hershey's Kisses at Walmart vary slightly in price depending on the size, but they average about $8 per pound. So the average price of a Hershey's Kiss is 8 cents each. (Each Hershey's Kiss weighs 4.5 grams or roughly 1/100th of a pound.)
This makes the Hershey's Kiss rate of inflation over 55 years 1600%. During the same period, the official rate of inflation, which I always find suspect, is 850%. Either the official rate is wrong, or Hershey's Kisses rose faster than inflation.
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Best wishes,
John Coffey
http://www.entertainmentjourney.com
Today, the packages of Hershey's Kisses at Walmart vary slightly in price depending on the size, but they average about $8 per pound. So the average price of a Hershey's Kiss is 8 cents each. (Each Hershey's Kiss weighs 4.5 grams or roughly 1/100th of a pound.)
This makes the Hershey's Kiss rate of inflation over 55 years 1600%. During the same period, the official rate of inflation, which I always find suspect, is 850%. Either the official rate is wrong, or Hershey's Kisses rose faster than inflation.
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Best wishes,
John Coffey
http://www.entertainmentjourney.com
55% increase total violent crime over 3 years
While the FBI claims that serious violent crime has fallen by 5.8% since Biden took office, the NCVS numbers show that total violent crime has risen by 55.4%. Rapes are up by 42%, robbery by 63%, and aggravated assault by 55% during Biden's term. Since the NCVS started, the largest previous increase over three years was 27% in 2006, so the increase under Biden was slightly more than twice as large.
The increases shown by the NCVS during the Biden-Harris administration are by far the largest percentage increases over any three years, slightly more than doubling the previous record.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
2024 Wisconsin: Trump vs. Harris | The Tide has turned? Maybe
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsin/trump-vs-harris
Conservative media has been predicting this for a while now.
It goes without saying that the polls might not be accurate.
My early voting experience yesterday was interesting. It was all older people, probably because they don't have to work, and about 90% men. I think that this supports my theory that Trump voters are more motivated. They feel betrayed by the system for multiple reasons, so they are motivated to try to turn things around.
People in Indiana know that Trump is going to win the state no matter what. Yet, people felt compelled to turn out in large numbers on the first day of early voting. They want their voices heard even if it isn't going to matter.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
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