How Can Anyone Say No To This?

This is a case for voting GOP, if by chance anyone has failed to do so as yet.

https://townhall.com/columnists/waynegrudem/2024/10/27/20-reasons-to-vote-for-republicans-and-especially-for-donald-trump-n2646824

I can't see how anyone can vote against these realities simply because the nominee is Donald Trump, who for the most part supports these types of policies. 

Like most who have or will vote for Trump, I have a few things of his I oppose:

1.  Eliminating income tax on tips and overtime.

2.  Support for IVF.

3.  Elimination of the GOP's previously full-throated opposition to abortion and respect for human life      when it begins, as it always does, at conception.

The first item is likely to have minimal effect on the economy, though it will unfairly help a few people and not a lot of others (as such a degree of unequal application of tax law).  Points 2 and 3 are connected and could easily have been one point. 

But overall, there's no comparison between how much more beneficial Republican...that is, conservative Republican...policy is over the claptrap that is the Democrat Party policies.  And as indicated in the previous post, if one can't clearly and intelligently explain why that's not true, please don't vote.  Such a person has no idea of the harm they're inviting by supporting the Democrat Party.

Oh, For Pete's Sake!

In 1 Peter 3:15 (NIV) we're told, "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."  A good plan.  It not only results in a stronger faith, but deflects from accusations of having only "blind" faith.  How nice it would be if more people did the same with regard their politics!

The concept is rather a public service as I see it.  If someone wants to know why I believe in "the Flying Spaghetti Monster", a solid argument for the existence of God and the truth claims of the Christian faith could turn the the life of the questioner around for his eternal benefit.  Politically, it can turn someone who supports one party to support other, or from support or opposition to a policy proposal to the opposite position>

Sadly, the reality on the political scene is that it is harder to turn someone from the dark side despite that more often than not, clear and unassailable evidence is easy to view, digest and, if clear and unassailable evidence to the contrary actually exists, debunk.  But that would require both sides being equally willing to enter into discussion with an open mind to all facts one or both can bring to bear. 

So while the faith can be difficult to impart to others and politics less so, easier still is the argument between the two candidates on the ballot (Trump and Harris...there is no other with any hope of winning).  And in this election, it should be really easy if there was indeed a logical, intelligent answer to give for rejecting Trump in favor of Harris...or simply just rejecting Trump in favor of no one or someone with no chance to win, which not only is a total waste, but is not a "statement" anyone hears...so it's a waste at best.

So anyway, as I stated in an earlier post, there's two ways to argue for one's choice:  by either focusing one the positives of one's candidate, or on the negatives of the other guy.  And since the Trump-haters and other leftists can't speak well of their own, but only rip on Trump, I'm going to "give an answer" which focuses on some of Harris' many shortcomings (and I won't do the leftist thing and focus on things like her cackling and pantsuits and word salads...though the salad tossing is just another way she lies).  What follows is a link to a post about pro-lifers supporting Trump over Harris.  While it makes the case well that Harris is totally down with infanticide, it also lists on atrocities for which Harris/Biden are responsible to a great degree:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/why_i_a_staunch_pro_lifer_staunchly_support_trump_and_why_you_should_too.html

From the link comes these additional points regarding the character of the person leftists are choosing as the better choice. 

  --The misguided COVID lockdowns, instituted almost entirely by Democrats, resulted in 100,000 excess deaths a year in 2020 and ’21 alone, a 2022 study found.

 --Fentanyl deaths have increased during the Biden-Harris administration, numbering 250,000 during their tenure. And while their opening of the southern border isn’t entirely to blame, it certainly exacerbates the problem.

--Criminality-facilitating Democrat prosecutors, and the miscreant aliens the administration has allowed into our country, are responsible for much increased murder and mayhem.

--The disastrous Biden-Harris Afghanistan withdrawal resulted in at least 200 deaths, according to the left-wing Washington Post. 

--Euphemistically and incorrectly termed “child gender transitioning,” entirely the handiwork of liberal Democrats such as Harris, results in irreparable damage to young bodies. It will assuredly lead to greater mortality, too, as there are strong indications that those undergoing sexual-distortion surgeries have higher suicide rates.

--Harris and her chicken-hawk, warmonger co-ideologists have been inching us closer to nuclear war with Russia. How this imperils life, on a massive scale, is obvious.

All of the above constitute just a small fraction of the many examples of harm inflicted upon the people of this nation by Harris and Biden.  The following link, which I think I posted at least once already, contains a lengthy interview with someone who worked in the legal profession in California during the time Harris references as her "tough prosecutor" past.

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/must_watch_video_kamala_harris_s_sordid_past_from_her_old_associate_harmeet_dhillon_as_told_to_tucker_carlson.html

And when we go through policy proposals for a Harris administration that she actually chose to reveal to the public, it's exceedingly difficult to argue just how Trump would be an actual problem for America, especially with his first term already being head and shoulders better than both the Harris/Biden and Obama administrations. 

So, whether it be supporting Trump or opposing Harris, there's no disputing the fact that my arguments should compel an opponent to relent and come to the light.

But here's the problem.  There are two types of opponents.  The first is the Dan type, who constantly focuses on his hatred of Trump and his many inconsequential, superfluous and insignificant reasons he puts forth to rationalize and legitimize that hatred.  Most are like him, and when they pretend they're giving reasons why Harris is better, well...it's no better.  It's fluff and nonsense, platitudes and fantasy.  They won't point to any actual great thing she's done which justifies promoting her for being a checked box, affirmative action hire by an incompetent presidential candidate who is as stupid as those who voted for him. 

However, there's another type and I had a discussion with him just the other day.  This one hurts because he's a long time friend.  His method is to NOT give a reason, saying he doesn't have to explain himself.  He made an excuse regarding not destroying our friendship, which is insulting to me.  I already know he's a flaming lefty and it hasn't mattered to the strength of our friendship.  Frankly, this lame excuse does.  It suggests I would reject him because of his support, when it turns out that should I decide to reject him, it will be because he didn't have faith and respect enough for me to engage in this weighty and important discussion.  I don't know where I've ever given him cause to believe I'd bail on him.

But more importantly, what his refusal to engage says is one or both of two possibilities:

1.  He doesn't have a clue about either side of the equation, or

2.  He knows what he believes is indefensible and expressing that is self-indicting. 

Clearly, neither he nor Trabue knows or understands all of what either candidate will bring to the table.  That is, beyond the superficial. 

But I fear they actually believe that what the Dems and Harris intend and have been doing is somehow good for our country.  Yet they refuse to explain how we will benefit.  Thus, they could also feel they won't be negatively impacted personally. 

Most egregious, was a comment my friend made abusing the concept of personal responsibility.  I don't know if he meant what he said, but I fear he was trying to throw at me this concept in which I firmly believe.  It came up when I began speaking about the hardships suffered by so many due to the Harris/Biden "Bidenomics" policies, and how that will be exacerbated by the Harris/Walz policy proposals which again prove Dems don't understand economics.  

 Now, I'm all in on personal responsibility.  If you're struggling financially, how have you managed your spending and saving of your income?  What behavioral choices have you made without considering the potential consequences?  Walk through a bad neighborhood at night with cash hanging out of your pocket while you shout racial epithets the inhabitants of that neighborhood will find offensive, and none of them are justified in beating your ass.  But you are responsible for that beating to at least some degree.

Such is the case here.  While many responsible people make bad choices out of ignorance, and others simply by virtue of the fact they couldn't possibly have absolutely every angle covered, that doesn't excuse the economy destroying policies of the Democrats and worse, one's choice to vote for Democrats in light of their historic failures to truly improve the economy...or the border...or the legal/judicial system...or the military...or the culture.  In short, there's pretty much nothing the Democrat Party has improved in the last 16 years and lots of human suffering.  In that period, Trump and a select few in Congress (as well as several governors, like DeSantis and Abbott) has stood as a bulwark against what would surely be an even worse climate than it is now.  And yet, those like Trabue and my friend continue to support this party without anything akin to logical, reasoned and fact-based argument. 

Thus, it seems clear to me that in light of this sad reality, these are people...and arguably those like my friend more than truly corrupt and perverse people like Dan...should stay the hell away from a voting booth and treat all ballots like a highly contagious disease.  If one cannot "give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the" support you continue to give to such an anti-American party...which if legitimate may enlighten and improve the understanding of the person asking so that that person might be "saved" from voting poorly, it's clear they have no business voting at all.  To lay out an argument against the argument in opposition might result in no change in attitude by either side, but we'll never know, will we, if one side refuses to proudly and boldly defend what such a person regards as the truth.  No one can make the truth disappear, so what's the fear of engaging?  I just don't get it. 

It's Obvious!

I voted today.  For which presidential candidate do you think I cast my vote?   Go ahead!  Take a guess!

With talk of people crossing lines to vote for "the other guy", things seem extraordinarily clear: 

1.  Trump supporters are rabid, fervid in their support based on his good work as president the first time around, which contrasts easily with the Dem moron illegitimately enthroned in his place.

2.  Harris supporters aren't really supporters at all (unless they're radical feminist extremists and marxists), but rather are Trump-haters without having legit reason to be. 

3.  Typical Dem voters are crossing over to vote for Trump, because of his good work as president the first time around, contrasted with the shit show we've been forced to endure since Nov 2020 when the election was stolen from the deserving candidate.

4.  Typical Republican voters who are crossing over to vote for Harris are doing so because they're not truly conservatives who put the nation over party and personality.

No one in their right mind wants Harris as president.  To hate Trump so much as to allow her to win indicates a serious and shameful disregard for the welfare of one's fellow countrymen, and more so than when they allowed Biden to win.  Democrat or Republican, leftist or conservative, Christian or otherwise, one who rejects Trump for Harris has little true regard for their children and other loved ones, nor for the United States of America.  The records and histories of both candidates bear this out completely.  Here, I'm going to focus on the true horror, the true threat to the nation which manifests in the Harris and the party who forced her on their own voters.

I begin with two pieces speaking to Dems who've rejected their party.  The first comes from (as of this writing) Craig's most recent blog post:

http://jsmmds.blogspot.com/2024/10/who-would-have-thought-that-prro-trump.html

The next is from ZeroHedge by way of the really scary AmericanThinker blog:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-cant-stand-donald-trump-viral-x-post-all-you-need-know-ahead-election-day

So there's two people with an extremely detailed list of why they're done with the party they always supported...at least for this election.  (The last example of respondents to the second piece provided at the end makes a great point.  If anyone's name but Trump's was attached to the list, no one would fail to accept it as a strong argument for whomever is named instead.  It reminded me of a guy asking people what they thought of Obama policy proposals prior to his first term.  They were all very keen on them.  Then the interviewer told them he made a mistake, that he was providing them with McCain proposals.  Lefties are like that.)

This last one is especially good.  It's an interview of Harmeet Dhillon by Tucker Carlson.  It goes about two hours, but doesn't feel like it.  It's presented in an article by Monica Showalter for AmericanThinker and is well worthy taking the time...ESPECIALLY if one intends to vote for Harris while claiming to care for their children and country.  You can access the interview through Monica's article and not even have to read the whole thing if AT makes you break out in hives.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/must_watch_video_kamala_harris_s_sordid_past_from_her_old_associate_harmeet_dhillon_as_told_to_tucker_carlson.html

I've seen some other articles where those who have experience working with Harris provide similar poor reviews of her as a lawyer and a person, and we know how worthless she was as a US Senator (making her very Obama-like) and VP.  Add to all this the many goofy-ass things she says she intends to do as president and one would have to truly hate their children to not do all in their power to prevent her ascendancy to an office of which she had no business holding.  Dumbass Dan continues to insist Trump is "unfit" for the presidency.  He's already proven Dan to be that Dumbass he is.  In the meantime, he lauded both Biden and Harris as better choices, confirming just what a dumbass he is. 

OH!....Did you guess for whom I voted?

He Ain't The Worst In Many Ways

I can multi-task.  One common example is when I read articles on the internet, while playing games on my phone while exercising.  I'm doing it now.  Well...except instead of exercising, I'm drinking Port.  And now, I'm also typing this here blog article, so I'm really outdoing myself! 

OK.   So I can't really read and article while typing my own.  Sue me.  But I'm gonna be talking about the article itself.

It seems I went astray at another blog when I dared expressed my opinion about voting.  I won't get into the weeds on that score, but it's happened at a couple of them.  I can't alter my position because it's the best one.  I'll just leave it at that.

Along the way, there were comments referencing Donald Trump which were less than laudatory.  Some weren't even true.  But while there have always been legit reasons for criticizing the guy, too often those criticisms are a bit too much, and more often than not, irrelevant to question of whether or not he's well deserving of our vote in the upcoming general election.  OR, they're insignificant. 

In any case, I found this article (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/kamala_s_long_history_of_lousy_leadership_is_revealed_in_a_2002_evaluation.html) noteworthy.  I found it so not because of it's exposure of Kamala Harris as a total piece of shit, but for something else I had seen before and upon which I intended to post for public consumption.  It goes like this:

In a new report by the watchdog group Open the Books, researchers quantified her human resources problem. They discovered a 92% staff turnover through payroll records.

[snip]

High turnover in the White House isn’t new, but Ms. Harris’ numbers are higher than others.

In the same time span, President Trump experienced a 72% turnover and President Biden had a 77% turnover.

Vice President Mike Pence hired 29 employees during his first year in the Trump administration, and five remained on staff after three years, indicating an 83% turnover rate.

Ms. Harris hired 49 staffers and retained only four three years later.  

Many have often cited Trump's admin turnover rate.  But it seems he's not among the worst, and even the poor, unfairly derided Mike Pence (The Spineless) couldn't keep his peeps on board. 

So the interesting thing for me about this piece is that it stands as another example of the double-standard Trump must endure.  He's been rejected because of adultery and womanizing (prior to his presidency), yet Biden "courted" "Dr." Jill while she was still married, and Kamala Harris got "a leg up" by sleeping with a married man.  Trump's accused of sexual abuse and all such tales are believed without trial (or after an unethical civil trial) and Biden's assault on Tara Reade has never been investigated, nor has Obama's homosexual affair with his coke dealer. 

Now, this piece exposes another double standard regarding "revolving doors" of the Trump administration, which it seems wasn't the worst, even compared to the saintly Mike Pence.  There's no details in the article speaking to why staff left any of these people, except for Harris, who is the subject of the piece.  We also don't know how many people those percentages represent.  That matters. 

But we do see again that way too many people are eager and willing to castigate Trump and will do so at the drop of a hat.  I'm often accused of being in the bag for Trump.  While I do support him for president, believed with damned good reason he was the most qualified for the position versus any of his primary opponents, I'm not so much in the bag as I am how much others who criticize him are just the opposite, and often without just cause. 

I believe that Trump gets the heat he does, particularly after his great first term, is because those who attacked him in the beginning don't have the integrity and honor to acknowledge his good work and it kicks their asses knowing that he wasn't the failure they knew he would be.  He made them eat crow and now they're pissed they were forced to choke it down. 

These stats are just another taste of it.

A Sad Anniversary

 Just a quick note.  

A year ago today, barbaric assholes invaded Israel and murdered, raped and butchered Israelis, celebrating along the way.  Since that time, Bibi Netanyahu has been directing his IDF to destroy the Hamas scumbag organization totally, and now also faces more direct Iranian assaults for fighting off their proxy asshole Hezb'allah army in the north.  (I'm still loving the pager and walkie-talkie attack.  What a stroke of genius!) 

Also since that time, progressive dumbf**ks have wasted no time defending the bastards who continue to seek Israel's annihilation, with university protests by pro-Hamas morons, likely paid for by America-haters like George Soros, or even by elements of the Iranian government.   (I don't care who's been paying them.)  Progressive idiots pretend Israel is responsible for the deaths of "civilians" in Gaza, when it's been the Gazans who are complicit in the attack on Israel.  They'll be saying the same thing when civilians die wherever they stand by the islamic assholes as they continue their satanic assaults. 

And of course, one particular progressive asshole has come around these here blogs to pretend Israel targets civilians.  Progressives like to lie.

Then of course, there's both Biden and Harris...Harris in particular since morons think we'd be better off with her as president than the one guy who's done the most good over the last several administrative terms...who pretend they give a flying rat's ass about Jews while campaigning, while at the same time being very careful not to piss off the muslims in this country, as if their opinions are worth a damn so long as they do next to nothing to push back against islamic...not "extremism", but normalcy. 

Now, there remains something like 100 hostages the Gazans MoFos continue to imprison and abuse.  There's little proof they're all still alive, but whatever, right asshole progressives?  Biden and Harris couldn't care less.  They're too busy pretending Netanyahu is the problem, in the same stupid and lying way they pretend Trump's a problem.  They're only problems for the left, not for intelligent, honest and rational human beings.  

How sad there are so few of them in the world and in this nation where the race continues to be regarded as "close".  How can a race involving two of such starkly obvious difference in abilities be "close"? 

Right now, as so many Americans are suffering after Hurricane Helene...and some of them will be facing this new Hurricane Milton while still digging  out...the party which hasn't done jack shit for a variety of disasters which have befallen us, and which doesn't do shit to support our best ally in the Middle East has little to say about this anniversary that isn't but token sentiment lacking sincerity.  Were it not for Harris/Biden, Hamas would be no more today.  It's that simple.  Morons don't care.  They'll vote for Harris/Walz anyway, because that's what morons do.

As If There's Not Good Reason Enough...

The Hurricane Helene disaster is described a "Biblical" in it's destruction.  Sometimes hyperbole is appropriate.  In the 2.5 years I've been in SC, this is the second which passed me by.  As large and powerful as this storm was, we experienced less wind and rain than we did the last one.  But this one also proves that there really is no place one is 100% safe from some form of natural catastrophe.  For example, in my home state, there are two major fault lines which run through it:  the New Madrid Seismic Zone and the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone.  There was a rumbling within the last ten or so years I lived there, and it was just enough to remind folks those fault lines existed.  Naturally, many experts say it's just a matter of time before a good rocker takes place. 

And we see that with this storm.  While card-carrying dumbasses and liars...like our current pretend Commander-In-Chief, Joe Biden...pretend this storm validates their bullshit climate change alarmism, the historical record clearly contradicts that crap.  Asheville, NC, which was hit especially hard, experienced something similar in 1916 (I read there were two that year, but don't hold me to it).  This is a place now referred to as a place people moved to for a "safe" place from catastrophic weather events, but alas, they were hit because of climate change.  The rank exploitation of human suffering couldn't be more blatant here. 

But worse than that is the obvious problem of disinterest by this administration.  It's not the first time, obviously.  We saw the incompetence with the Lahaina conflagration.  We saw it with East Palestine chemical spill.  Now we're seeing it with this storm which smacked the crap out areas of four states.  Appalachian areas, where no one would have suspected hurricanes could be a threat are severely cut off from rescue and communication. 

And where's this Harris/Biden administration?  Pretending they're doing all they can.  That would be a bit more credible if they, say, stopped spending our money on illegals and other nonsensical crap and diverted it to Americans so devastatingly in need.  Instead, these compassionate assholes went the distance and upped the aid package from $700 (Lahaina) a the staggering $750.   Meanwhile, Kamala's keen on making us pay for sex change operations for illegals in custody, for lawyers to fight deportation of illegals, for more border patrol personnel to get more illegals processed after illegally crossing our border.  Tens, if not hundreds of billions have already been spent on aiding and abetting the invasion of our nation by illegals with no right to enter in the manner they've been allowed to enter. 

Yet for our own, we get lip service, a FEMA more concerned with "equity" than being prepared for disasters like this one.  We get a "president" on the beach and a VP presidential wanna-be fund raising in California...two things which couldn't be interrupted to deal with this tragic event.  (Oh, yeah...Joe was on the phone for a few hours "taking charge"!)  So while these asshole "dug deep" to come up with veritable chump change for Americans who have lost everything, the Harris/Biden jokers, on the same day that Helene hit, the Biden-Harris administration announced another eight billion dollars for Ukraine.  One report states that in 2024, these clowns have given:

- $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine. 

- $11,300,000,000 to Israel. 

- $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia. 

 - $1,600,000,000 to Jordan. 

- $1,400,000,000 to Egypt. 

- $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan. 

- $1,100,000,000 to Somalia. 

- $1,000,000,000 to Yemen. 

- $987,000,000 to Congo. 

- $896,000,000 to Syria. 

- $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S.

I've even heard that certain military units are doing nothing because they're still awaiting orders to help.  Fort Bragg has assisted in disaster relief many times, but they're motionless the last I heard. 

So while Kamala a week later finally has gone to Georgia for photo ops, and Joe has met with some state officials to insult those who don't buy into the bullshit climate change narrative, we see Trump's already answered the call...again...along with Franklin Graham's "Samaritan's Purse", Elon Musk with his Starlink installation (for free) and a host of private citizens utilizing their private small planes and helicopters, boats, trucks and other methods of helping, while the people suffering are wondering where the hell their federal government is.

There is simply no argument in favor of supporting Harris for president.  This display of incompetence and lack of compassion is beyond the pale, but it's just one more example in a very long line of examples. 

And I can't stop thinking of one particular asshole who dared suggested these two failures are more "fit" to serve as president than had been and still is Donald Trump.  How incredibly stupid does one have to be to ever believe something so demonstrably moronic?


<b>ASIDE FROM THAT:</b>

I sent my donation to Samaritan's Purse.  Clearly there are many places taking donations to render aid to the many victims of this tragic event, so pick one and give as much as you can.  Joe and Kamala aren't doing much of anything.