Daily Verse | Mark 15:15
Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Tuesday’s Reading: Luke 1-4
Happy Tuesday and thanks for reading today.
It’s only 21 days—three weeks—until Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. That’s shaping up to be the first slap of a GiANT rebuke to the ruling junta. Hopefully the second slap comes on November 5, 2024 when we toss the demented meat puppet out of office and into whatever nursing home he belongs in. But first:
On November 4, 1980, I was at the Republican National Headquarters helping the WTTG reporter cover election night. It was the most electrifying night of my life. I watched a giant electronic map of the United States go red in 44 states in what seemed like half an hour. Saw the faces in the crowd change from shock to elation amid screams of joy. Looking back, I view the two Carter incidents as omens of the seismic shift in American politics and culture that took place that night. Eight years of a strong, patriotic American comeback followed — accompanied by some of the best films and music ever produced — leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Then George Bush came in and mucked it with his “kinder, gentler nation” idiocy. Nonetheless, I see similar signs of change now, and foresee a sharp turn for the better this November 8.
As awful a president as he was, Jimmy Carter was Ronald Reagan compared to Joe Biden. And I’m glad he lived long enough to relinquish the Worst President of All Time title. However, Biden is only a mindless shell — the conductor of an ugly, evil, anti-human philosophy that has burrowed deep into the United States, driven by the dark forces of academia, media — mainstream and social — and the entertainment industry. Its disciples could have won a permanent victory and made America another permanent failed state like Cuba and Venezuela if they had simply bided their time. But Donald Trump’s 2016 defeat of their unctuous presidential standard bearer, and his laughing at them for all to witness, wrecked their schedule and drove them mad.
They could no longer settle for rocketing inflation, exploding crime, homeless-ridden streets, open borders, a fentanyl death epidemic, and fabricated racial division. They had to go a rainbow bridge too far — pushing transgenderism as normal. Consequently, they lost formerly blue Virginia, and are about to lose several more states.
Republicans made massive gains with independent women in recent weeks as Democrats ramped up their messaging on abortion ahead of the midterm elections.
Forty-nine percent of voters plan to vote for the Republican nominee to represent their House district while 45 percent said they’d back their Democratic opponent, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday. Of particular note was a 32 point swing among independent women toward the GOP. In September’s iteration of the poll, Democrats boasted a 14 point lead among that demographic, but by October, Republicans held an 18 point advantage.
A THIRTY-TWO POINT SWING?!? Most polls are biased toward the left, so if there’s a 32-point swing, it’s likely that it’s even bigger than that. Like, BiGLY.
And independent women aren’t prone to vote GOP.
While Democratic officials and progressive commentators had suggested that the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade might lessen the expected electoral blow of the midterms, the swing toward the GOP among independent women — the group most heavily targeted by Democratic strategists — suggests that their focus on abortion might be to their own detriment.
Abortion isn’t the winning issue that the pro-abort-crazy Lefties thought it was. To begin with, most of the country wants some kind of limits on abortion, while the extremists in the Democrat party want it legal up to when the baby is pushing out the birth canal. And they’ve hinted that that’s not where they’ll stop.
The biggest issue for most Americans, including “independent women” is “the economy, stupid,” not abortion.
“I’m shifting more towards Republican because I feel like they’re more geared towards business,” said Robin Ackerman, a 37-year-old Democrat and mortgage loan officer who lives in New Castle, Delaware, and is planning to vote Republican this fall.
Ackerman said she disagreed “1,000%” with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and erase the national right to an abortion. “But that doesn’t really have a lot to do with my decision,” she said of her fall vote. “I’m more worried about other things.”
Yeah, being able to afford food and shelter enable you to worry about abortion. You’ve got to start at the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid before you have the luxury of whining about matters that aren’t immediately affecting you personally.
My financial advisor told me yesterday that the current market, both stocks and bonds, are the worst they’ve been in 100 years. And that’s all pinned on Joseph Robinette Biden and the folks who wanted him to be president so bad they were willing to cheat to grab that brass ring.
He (and they) can swing from it.
Historically it’s the independent voters that swing elections one way or the other. Right now it looks like independents are swinging toward the GOP in a major way.
Just don’t get cocky. As I’ve written recently, you need to be donating, knocking on doors or volunteering at the polls. The worst thing to do is take a win for granted.