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Vibes vs. Veritas

Dave Davis Uncategorized

Ukrainian forces enter Russia, heading towards Kursk. Iran threatens a full-scale attack on Israel. Weakening labor markets signal economic woes ahead. A U.S. ally, the Philippines, is increasingly embroiled over an island with China. The border crisis continues. With widening problems, both here and abroad, one might think The Presidential contest in its home stretch should be laser-focused on who can best handle our myriad of issues.

While Trump’s four-year record illustrates how he tackles problems, Kamala Harris recently replaced Joe Biden at the top of the ticket. Will she continue the Biden-Harris administration policies or take a different approach? The November election is approaching, and voters should know where the candidates stand. As crazy as it sounds, we have no idea where Kamala stands on any issue save abortion. She’s for it right up to birth with little restriction.

In her short 2020 presidential, she took clearly defined positions on illegal aliens, medicare for all, taxes, and a host of other things. Does she still hold those views? She’s been part of the present administrations. Is she standing in lockstep with its actions? For example, was she in favor of our disastrous Afgan withdrawal? What was her input on the administration’s legislative agenda that resulted in the inflation hurting so many? So many questions and so little time.

What do we know so far about the Democratic presidential Candidate? According to the Washington Post’s top writer, Fareed Zakaia, she is “winning the all-important battle-vibes. He informs us that “…people don’t tend to vote rationally, but rather use voting to express themselves in emotional, ideological and moral ways.” “Harris has run a remarkably focused and disciplined campaign, one that seems deliberately light on substance and high on feelings.”

Not to be outdone, The New York Times’s Ezra Klein claims, “Harris’s communications are playful, mocking, confident, even mean.” Nowhere does he mention substance. Like Zakaria, what is important is to “fight — and win — the battle for attention. She had help, to be sure. Online meme-makers who found viral gold in an anecdote about coconuts. Charli XCX’s “Kamala IS brat.”

Time Magazine features a very flattering Harris Cover. The story inside was long on vibes but didn’t feature an interview or any statement from the subject.

We finally have one policy position: she’s against taxing tips. Where have we heard that idea? Oh yes, Donald Trump proposed it months ago. Kamala certainly learned something from Joe Biden about plagiarizing. Stealing from your opponent takes the art to new heights. Interestingly, writers at the Democrat-allied New York Times and the Atlantic knocked no taxes on tips just the month before.

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The Word is “Weird”

Dave Davis Commentary, Uncategorized

We are living in historic times. Sometimes, this is good, and other times, not so much. With some things baked in, such as Joe Biden’s dump, bad economic policy, and confused foreign policymaking, trouble is in the cards. “When troubles come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” (Claudius, Hamlet Act IV, Scene V). So it is today. A never-ending war in the Ukraine, joined by a widening war in the Middle East and the news of a weakening economy, has all the earmarks of a perfect storm.

Thank goodness, with our top-notch leadership, we have little to fear. Of course, I jest. Led by a vain old fool, the administrationc ontinues to make the wrong choices. By designating Biden’s compliant vice president as its nominee, the Democrats are doubling down on failure. Given a chance to bring in somebody new from their outside group of Governors who promised to give them a fresh start, they all jumped on the Kamala bandwagon.

While she’s getting the predicted sainthood treatment from the Democrats and legacy media, she’s been part of the Biden-Harris administration, and that’s not lost on the general public. Added to this mess, she has her own baggage. Can she pretend to be something else besides the San Fransico progressive she’s always been?

Selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz as her vice president will not change perceptions. Instead, it will affirm that the ticket is running to the left. Waltz is a guy who feels that being a socialist is just being neighborly.

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Maybe Nobody Wants To Win

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Let’s see. Donald Trump cemented in J.D. Vance, the only vice-presidential candidate bringing nothing to the ticket but with considerable downside. All that is necessary to spring the trap on the GOP is to get old Joe Biden to bow out of the race in a wide-open convention that would anoint one of the several Democrats polling well enough to bring home the presidency. Instead, Joe drops out and endorses the one person Trump can beat, Kamala Harris. All the Democrats fall in line behind her. Huh?

It’s as if we’re telling Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse to go fishing and leaving the Little Big Horn battle to Little Chief Cackling Hen. Why devise such an intricate plan if you won’t execute it when victory is within reach? Believing that a Kamala Harris candidacy was the intended outcome is challenging. If she was the best choice, why not replace the already fading Joe Biden a year ago and have the “most qualified person” leading the charge, with all the advantages of incumbency?

Harris has been a terrible campaigner with horrible favorability ratings. She seems to have patterned her vice presidency on “Veep’s” Selina Meyer. She’s to the left of Bernie Sanders. No wonder no one was in a hurry to pull the rug out from under Biden to replace him with someone likely to prove worse.

So why are Democrats rallying around a weaker candidate this late in the game? Maybe they’re so giddy they’re no longer saddled with Old Joe that anyone else seems great. With only about 100 days to the election, they can cover up her record and give her a whole new persona, figuring there will be little time for voters to catch on.

Gaslighting the public has become an art form for the Democrats and their media allies. Russian collusion, the Wuhan wet market, the laptop coverup, and Biden being sharp as a tack, even though they were all false, have lasted far longer than truth and logic would dictate. These falsehoods benefitted the perpetrators, so why stop.

The one area clearly delegated to Kamala is the border, where she is widely known as the “border czar.” The epic failure to stop illegal immigration is a massive collapse by the probable Democratic candidate. Not to worry, the Donkeys and their media fellow travelers claim she was never the administration’s border lead player.

By the same token, a watchdog group named Harris the most liberal Senator when she served there. Remove the findings from your website. None of this stuff ever happened. Republicans are just making it up.

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Orange Hair Rides To His Little Bighorn

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Just like General George Armstrong Custer, known as Yellow Hair to the Cheyenne, led his 7th Calvary to defeat, the Republican’s orange-haired leader ignores all the signs he needs to change his plan. The rash, self-promoting Custer refused to believe his Crow Indian scouts when they told him he was riding into a trap. The overconfident General even divided his forces. The outcome was one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history.

Since April of last year, I’ve been sounding the alarm about a carefully laid election trap for the GOP. The Democrats, through lawfare, managed to secure Trump’s nomination. The weak cases against him garnered sympathy for him and diverted attention from the more viable younger contenders. Lawfare was the Democrats’ tool to handpick their weakest opponent, Trump. Their goal was never to halt him, but quite the opposite.

Now that they secured the feeblest Republican ticket most Democrats could beat, dumping their losers in favor of younger winners is happening. Even with the near miss on Trump’s life holding back calls for Joe to go for a couple of days, the last two weeks have gone as I forecast. The Biden-Harris ticket is now history. As soon as the Republican V.P. nominee was announced, it was just a matter of days.

Somewhere, the trap planners were cheering when Trump selected J.D. Vance. With only a few percentage points apart, the one who can add even a little to the total will win.

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Trouble In River City

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While waiting for Trump to name his vice presidential pick at the Republican Convention, followed by the inevitable dumping of Joe Biden, it’s an excellent time to identify the issues the new Democratic ticket will run on. One might think the economy, including inflation, the border, and the decline of many cities with rising crime and homelessness. Still, you’d be wrong—troubles abroad, with wars in Ukraine and Gaza with the attendant rise in antisemitism, not so much. The new candidates will finesse all these, saying we will reevaluate our positions on these issues.

Of course, Kamala Harris isn’t eligible for this option as an integral part of the Biden administration. Hence, she will follow Joe off the ticket. Rather than draw attention to Democratic failures, the area of attack besides abortion is fear of that monster, Donald Trump. They tell us the ex-president “will be a dictator on the first day” of his return. Democracy as we know it is over-Political opponents charged with various crimes—executive orders flying in every direction. The future of our “Democracy” is now a significant election issue.

Unfortunately, Democrats aren’t the only ones seeing attacks on democracy. Republicans, already suspicious of election-voting shenanigans, have seen their candidate subjected to “lawfare” on an unprecedented scale. Had the Supreme Court not declared the president immunity for presidential acts, a New York court could’ve sentenced Donald Rump to prison just before the convention declared him the Republican presidential candidate.

While Democrats claim Trump will take revenge on his political opponents, everyone can see the progressives are already doing it to him. Putting a presidential candidate in prison is the stuff of banana republics.

Upset about their collapsing lawfare attack, the Democrats are now threatening the Supreme Court with investigations and packing for having protected present and future presidents from being imprisoned by their opponents. Who is attacking democracy?

Still, Trump’s continuing unpopularity with the majority of the public is the only line of assault; the Democrats and their media allies have to find something new to strike fear in voters’ hearts. They are basing their latest offensive on “Project 2025,” a proposal compiled by the right-leaning Heritage Foundation suggesting how a second Trump presidency should proceed.

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