Great Expectations

 In a recent thread regarding the incoming administration of our 47th president of these here United States of America, Craig asked a good question about what to expect.  I've been trying to give it some thought, but I'm not sure I can answer it quite in the way he expected it might be answered.  I'll begin with Craig's own words in italicized quotes:

"Now that Trump has won, and won convincingly can we talk about expectations?"

A most reasonable endeavor.

"Given the fact that it sounds like He's much more prepared and in control of his transition process, and that he's assembled a good group of people to advise him, is it unreasonable to have high expectations for at least the first 2 years of his administration?"

 Don't know how we can measure "high" in this context.  I would say that it's enough to simply deal with whatever expectations we might have.  In doing so, I will likely regard some as "high" expectations relative to other expectations listed.

"What should the expectations be, given his previous experience, team, and promises?"  

I'll get to this later.

"I feel like he's set the expectations high and that failure to live up to those could be damaging both for his administration and for whoever the GOP nominee is in 2028."

 I disagree in that what he's set is not much different than what he set back in 2016...which is to Make America Great Again.  He got more detailed in what that means, such as to Make American Healthy Again, Strong Again, Safe Again...but I think that overriding goal of "Great Again" remains. 

"I want to be blown away by what happens early in his term, but want to balance that with being realistic."

 I was blown away in his first year after the 2016 election.  I fully expected him to be less than wonderful as president.  I'll be happy this time just seeing evidence he's working toward his overarching goal of Making American Great Again.  Based on what we know of  the guy, that's pretty much guaranteed.

"Given that you've been much more positive than I, what do you expect?" 

Well, I wasn't positive he was going to win, given the history and character of the Democrat Party.  But I was positive (and still am) that he's the better man for the job.  Indeed, far more true than it was in 2020.  So what do I expect?

(Note:  it's been about a week or so since I began this post.  Since then, much has happened.  With that in mind, what I "expectations" I now have are altered by what has happened in that time.  Just sayin'.)

To begin, I have to note that there's a fine line between what one expects, and for what one hopes to see happen.  Expectations are such as a parent expecting the child to behave, when indeed, the parent can't rightly expect the child will without the child having a history of good behavior.  Even then, a rational parent knows the best child will have his moments.  So the expectation is really a desire.  With that in mind, I can't at this point guaranteed which will better define my offering regarding what's to come.  I'm not Nostradamus, so there will always be more hope and desire than knowledge of what will be. 

In the general, however, I think I can easily state with extreme confidence that, as was the case in Trump's first term, he will indeed improve the state of the union in tangible, easily identifiable ways.  But that's low hanging fruit, because unlike the first time, the damage done by his predecessor is more obvious, more acute, more widely suffered and experienced.  It's almost impossible to believe he could possibly make things worse.  He's just not as stupid and incompetent as Biden or Harris.  He certainly proved himself more capable than Obama!

I expect that Trump will actually act to fulfill his campaign promises, though I can see one or two which were just add-ons he didn't need to propose, such as no taxes on overtime.  I see that as a really bad idea if we're going to continue taxing income.  I distinguish that from no taxes on tips, since I don't think tips are as much income as they are gifts.  I would say income is what one receives from one's employer, be that a restaurant owner or the party with whom an independent contractor has contracted to perform a service.  The employer works for the consumer.  The waitress works for the employer.  The consumer appreciates the service of the waitress and offers a gratuity.  It's a gift, as what one receives from family or friends on a special occasion, like a birthday or a holiday.  I hate that the feds think they can butt into such an arrangement as if they're entitled to a piece of the action.  But OT is between a employee and his employer and is just wages.  Salaried workers often have to work the same long hours and get nothing extra beyond the salary upon which the worker agreed in taking the gig.  And when one considers the massive hourly wage of the typical union worker, that's a lot of revenues we're losing during a time of massive national debt.  One could say the same regarding tips, but again, more like a gift from someone not one's employer. 

But I digress, as I may throughout what follows.

I expect that while Trump works to fulfill his campaign promises, he'll have more support from his administration.  Being more of a political neophyte the first time around, he's keen on not making the same hiring mistakes he made the first time.  At this point, we're already hearing of really good choices for his team.  A potential downside regards those who currently serving congressional terms.  I'm unclear if there's some standard for replacing someone who steps down to serve in a new president's administration.  Does the governor of the state represented by the congressman or senator scramble to have another elected by the people, or do they simply select someone to serve out the remaining portion of the person's term of office?  I've heard both.  If the former, it would suck for those coming from states with moron Dem governors.  If the latter, those blue states who are losing a GOP rep might replace that person with a Dem (though it seems less likely at the moment given how many battleground and blue states went for Trump).  In any case, most everyone I've heard selected by Trump are Trump supporters and likely to be on board with his vision of what's needed to MAGA. 

In the meantime, I expect that Dems will do everything they can to block the appointments where they have the ability to do so.  Matt Gaetz is clearly not a shoe-in.  Kevin McCarthy supporters will oppose him unless those supporters believe in the very real chance we have to make hay.  But I expect that Trump has second and third picks all lined up should obstruction be too tough to overcome for getting pick #1 put into place. 

We're already seeing Dems in government and the lefty media criticizing Trump picks, and that was easy to expect as well.  They also don't like the Hegseth pick, though given the people they tolerated in the Biden administration, we can easily pass of their objections as not a matter of judging merit, but of hating Trump and pretending his picks are problematic.  In the case of Pete Hegseth, my initial reaction was, "Huh?"  But then I was reminded of his background.  The lunatic left is aghast at this choice.  In the meantime, Biden picked a four-star general who's done nothing but degrade military readiness, pretending that recruiting fruits and nuts makes us a better fighting force.  How this asshat Lloyd Austin rose to the lofty height he did is beyond me.  Hegseth is smart and honest enough to know that women in combat roles does not make our military a better fighting force.  He knows the "woke" crap degrades us rather than makes us a feared military.  He knows our enemies aren't playing these stupid games.  To be sure, I believe all women who enlist should be trained for combat.  But to put them out there without a dire need to do so is suicidal (though with recruiting down due to leftist crap, we could be forgiven for regarding times as "dire" right now!).  In an article objecting to the concept of women in combat, Andrea Widburg provides a glimpse into the potential problems of women in combat.  Pay close attention to the excerpt from Ryan Smith's WSJ op-ed:

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/24/peeing-and-periods-straight-talk-about-women-in-the-front-line/

I would hope Hegseth will initiate a review of homosexuals in the military as well, since the reality is that it mimics the same sexual tensions of male/female situations.

Beyond that, I recall a story I read regarding military exercises pitting co-ed units competing against all male units.  I don't recall if it mentioned all female units.  What I do recall is that no co-ed unit fared as well as the all males units.  This was unsurprising to me.  Another story I read was from a female general who related the toll her combat training took on her female body...problems no man suffered as a result of the same training. 

So that's one area where I expect Trump selections will be opposed...and only for the fact that Trump proposed the people he did.

I expect Trump will extend...if he can't make permanent...his fantastic 2017 tax cuts. 

I expect Trump will seek to further reduce the number of unnecessary regulations which impede the ability of the private sector to thrive.

I expect Trump will restore his immigration policies which were totally f'd up by Biden.  His selection of Tom Homan as border czar is obvious in its brilliance.  Homan...steeped in the world of border issues...is the most obvious choice.  His duties will include both northern AND southern border security, as well as all areas of shoreline and I doubt we'll see too many Chinese "weather" balloons sailing across our borders at any point during the next four years.   This guy's the real deal and he'll do everything he can to implement border security policies. 

I expect we'll see peace between Ukraine and Russia.  Trump will negotiate (or broker) some agreement between the two nations and Zalensky would be compelled to go along knowing Trump's not going to shower money and arms without accountability, if he provides any at all.  Putin would have to pump the brakes on his own desires given the fact that Trump's energy policies will result in less funding from oil sales to carry on any annexation by force.  Given how close the two sides were to an agreement/treaty before Biden and Boris Johnson stuck their noses in it to appear tough against Putin, I don't see that it will be as hard as some might think.  But there's more hope in this expectation than in the others above.

I expect similar achievements between Israel and their enemies, and it's been said that certain concessions are now being sought by the offending parties of the extremist savages of the muslim world.   Obama and Biden made Oct 7 possible and the assholes know that Trump ain't like those two incompetents. 

I expect that the obstruction by Dems and other Trump haters will be greater than they were during his first term, but without the advantages they had over Trump during his first term given his inexperience in that world.  We'll see more lies and projections of evil upon him, as they have already predicted that should he be elected, he will never give up power after his term ends.  This crap ain't going away any time soon and despite having their collective asses kicked, they'll be needing ongoing beatings in decreasing support.  Trump doing what Trump does should make that a reality. 

Thus, I expect that in the end, the nation will be primed for more of the same, and a J.D. Vance or a Ron DeSantis will be our 48th president.

That's as far as I need to go at the moment.  I may have a part two depending on what comes to mind. 

To God Be The Glory!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUO94UjQrV4&si=26josVqzps6SWsAD

There are plenty of examples of leftist idiocy with regard to the righteous electoral victory of Donald J. Trump over the hapless Kamala Harris.  The late night "comedy" hosts have been exposed for the dumb asses they are, with Jimmy Kimmel actually crying, as if all is lost by the election of a competent individual with a proven track record of effectiveness.  These people are morons.  Plainly and simply, morons.

But this post is about how it all came to be, and while some will point to the incompetence of Harris, her word salads, her unwillingness to reveal her policy proposals until late in the game and a host of other examples of her dimwittedness, the real reason for the outcome of this election goes back a ways.  It all began with Donald Trump riding down that escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for president.  At that time it all seemed to be a joke...this dude couldn't possibly be seriously believing he could win the presidency.  That could have been the case at that time, but he was what many had requested...that we get a non-politician with business experience to run the country as a business.  And lo to the great surprise to most of us, he won.

From that point on, the game was afoot.  How to remove this upstart, this insult, from his position as leader of the free world.  The left in Congress spent the entirety of Trump's first term not working for the benefit of those who elected them to office, but to rid themselves...THEMSELVES...of Donald Trump who, despite his misunderstanding of what he was in for, sought to improve our lot.  In doing so, he confounded their plans...mostly the plans of the vile Democrat Party, but also of RINOs who weren't much better. 

They employed all the usual accusations upon which they've relied to confound any previous GOP president, and then as if on steroids, stepped up those efforts to include bullshit impeachment trials and anything they could invent to impede his ability to serve the people as he intended. 

Then came the fraud of 2020, when somehow, against all previous precedent, a total incompetent, with nothing significant to show for his almost fifty years in the federal government service, and while hiding out in his basement, miraculously received an alleged 81 million votes against Trump, who himself achieved an unheard of amount of votes for actually having served the nation in a manner few have before him, and certainly in a manner unlike the empty suit who preceded him.  It HAD to be fraud, but the lying left ran with it and attacked anyone who dared question it.

And what became of us during that time?  Disaster after disaster.  Joe Biden proved his unworthiness far beyond the expectation of any of us who were actually paying attention.  By every measure he was crap served hot and runny.  Not only did he suck when he was younger, but now in his old age he was a complete train wreck of a United States president, and all because assholes pretended Trump was a threat to anyone.  

So Trump thew his hat back into the ring despite every attempt to have him jailed or at least ruled ineligible to hold public office.  He got past the primary and went head to empty head against Biden in a debate and Biden's true degree of degradation was made plain to all the world to see.  Whatever could the Jackass Party do? 

It came to pass that they threatened Biden to force him to step down from running for a second term, so confident were they that old Joe had beclowned himself beyond repair.  But old Joe had just enough vindictiveness to announce that this box-checked selection for VP, Kamala Harris, would run in place of him, and he did so before they could make their own move.  Now the Party was stuck with this moron who was more moronic than Joe himself and they pretended that primary votes for Joe were no different than primary votes for the dumb bitch with whom they were now stuck, and they pretended she was actually a viable candidate to represent the Party. 

She wasn't a viable candidate for VP, and was chosen because of her sex and race alone.  She had no track record of achievement and her actual history as Senator, California AG and DA was abysmal beyond tolerance (which is fine for California assholes)... indeed as Biden was a hedge to protect the incompetence of Obama, so too was Harris such a hedge against removing Biden prematurely. 

So now Harris is the Dem candidate, though no one of the electorate chose her.  She was forced upon the stupid and the stupid went along with the sad attempt to promote her as the better choice for president over the proven commodity, Donald J. Trump.  But her candidacy resulted in more facts about her inadequacy, her incompetence and her vile character as a "public servant".  With each revelation, she was exposed for what she is...and that's something only a dishonest and immoral lefty or fake Christian could assert was worthy of support.  

In short, and because I'm tired of going on with more detail which should be well known by every honest and honorable person, she was forced upon the leftists of America, was exposed (as if any honest and honorable person needed any more convincing) as unworthy...and of course was a part of all the suffering endured by American since January of 2021...and the nation said, "NO FUCKING WAY!"  

There is the remote possibility that a different candidate might have made this outcome different.  But the Dems painted themselves in a corner by getting Biden elected in the first place, and allowing him to choose this dumb bitch to be his running mate, and then not thinking of how to rid themselves of this senile fool early enough to replace him with someone of substance and ability...assuming such a person actually exists in the Democrat Party these days.  

My wife disagrees with me when I say that this race should never have been this close.  She believes that the results indicate something close to, if not actually, a landslide victory.  A decisive one at least.  But I insist that there should never have been any anxiety at all as to the outcome.  Certainly it was crystal clear to me who of the two should have won.  But that was as true this time as last and yet we saw how it turned out the last time.  Harris failed to meet most, if any, of the numbers dumbass Biden achieved in 2020.  Trump raised his support in pretty much every demographic group.  Yet I see it as still far too tight a race than it should have been given his superior record as president versus her connection to the disaster of the last four years and her own record as a public servant her entire career.  

Harris deserved to lose because she was wholly unworthy of the office of VP, much less POTUS.  Trump deserved to win in 2020 because of he demonstrated what a leader looks like and thus to be worthy now over that unworthy waste goes without saying.  

The left is as apoplectic now as they were in 2016.  Fuck 'em.  They're what's wrong with the United States.  I am grateful enough of them jumped ship to deny Harris and allow us a man who actually cares for America and its people, despite the bullshit claim by the left that he only cares for himself.  More projection from the asshole portion of our society. 

I give thanks to God Almighty for sparing us another four years of suffering, though we're probably deserving of it.  Let us not waste this opportunity to overwhelm leftism with truth and honor and character. 

If True, Should We Be Surprised? Uh...No.

 This is interesting:

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/02/social-media-influencers-say-they-were-offered-big-bucks-to-promote-harris-on-their-platforms/

Given the biggest crowds Harris could muster included entertainers, where the crowds thinned when the entertainers left for failed to entertain at all, paying for support doesn't seem at all far-fetched.  

There's always quid pro quo in politics, and more specifically, in political campaigns.  There's the proper kind, which is "I promise to work toward XYZ" and the people who really hope to have XYZ vote for the candidate.  Those who really want to be free to kill their babies in utero flock to Harris because Harris promises she'll protect that heinous "freedom" on their behalf.  Those who really want to see crime reduced, prices of groceries reduced, illegal invasions reduced flock to Trump because Trump intends to see those reduction happen.  Quid pro quo.  

But paying people to pretend to like you?  That's not cricket.  It's lying.  It's what the left does.  They've always been the most dangerous of liars and they ain't about to change anytime soon.  They have no beneficial policy proposals and no track record of beneficial provision.  Lying is all they have.  That and all the social decay they support.

Decent people who are aware, informed and intelligent don't vote Democrat.

If You Love America And Your Family, Vote For Trump On Tuesday

So it's late, and I've suffered an incredibly embarrassing performance by the Chicago Bears.  Thus, I turn my attention from that to the election.  In doing so I reiterate an unassailable truth regarding the choice between the proven commodities Trump and Harris.  The former has proven himself effective in getting things done on behalf of the American people in general...without regard to who they are, what they are or any of that divisive crap so important to the Democrat party.  The latter has proven herself to be totally worthless, in her current position because of her sex and skin color, but with only her boasting to commend her, not anything of substance.  In short, she's an empty pantsuit.  So...how do we account for whatever amount of support she has?  There are only three possibilities:

1.  Ignorance.  There's no excuse for this.  Too many speak of her as a good choice and couldn't give an intelligent reason if you put a gun to their heads.  They have no idea because they never take the time to pay attention or do anything akin to due diligence. 

2.  Stupidity.  This is different because these people know what she's all about and think it will result in better days over what we've suffered since Trump was illegitimately denied his well deserved second term in 2020.  Only stupid people could think so.

3.  Abject evil liars.  They know the agenda of the Democrat Party is destructive to this nation and are down with it. 

We could say there's a fourth category, which is some combo of at least two of the above. 

The fact of the matter is that there is simply no justifiable reason to support Harris over Trump.  I don't give a flying rat's ass if one thinks Trump is the scummiest of scumbags.  To choose not to vote for him at this point in American history is to indict one's self as an enemy of the nation.   It's really that.  I've provided lists of both Biden's and Harris' failures as both human beings and politicians and to pretend Trump is worse requires ignorance, stupidity or dishonesty of epic proportions. 

With only today and tomorrow left, if anyone reading this hasn't voted yet, get your ass to the polls and vote for Trump or you will indict yourself as anti-American and one with a blatant disregard for your loved ones.  Go ahead.  Try to argue against this fact.  I salivate at the prospect. 

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?