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Daily Broadside | Don’t Look Now, But All Signs Point to A November Blow Out

Daily Verse | Psalm 2:12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Friday’s Reading: Psalms 7-12
Saturday’s Reading: Psalms 13-18

Friday and the close of another week, a week that saw a serious threat on the life of a Supreme Court Justice, our senior executive (emphasis on senior) “joking” that all Republicans need to go to jail as his brain goes on the fritz, the “paused” Ministry of Truth (Disinformation Governance Board) outed as a vehicle to monitor and restrict the free speech of American citizens, an actor I admired somehow gains the White House podium and gives a moving but, ultimately, lousy speech on gun control, Brandon is heckled at the Americas neighborhood conference as several countries skip it, we’ve got a new and improved caravan of 15,000 aliens moving up through Mexico demanding to be let in, and the desperate Democrat’s January 6 committee began televising their show trial in the hopes of driving a great turnout in November.

Scam likely!

But underneath all the scamming going on for the cameras, the numbers tell the story. Resident Brandon who represents the Democrats, is on the skids and can’t seem to stop. According to RedState, “he’s already lower [in the polls] than all modern presidents who held the office.”

Here’s a look at how the Chucklehead in Chief is doing.

According to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, the “most votes in history” have evaporated.

Joe Biden’s approval ratings for his handling of these key issues are all well underwater, suggesting trouble for the president and Democratic candidates ahead of the midterm. Only 37% approve of Biden’s handling of the economic recovery, and even fewer approve of his handling of inflation (28%) and gas prices (27%).

81 million votes just … gone. Where did they all go?

Scam likely!

In an April ABC News/Ipsos poll, there was a 20-point gap between Republicans and Democrats in enthusiasm to vote this November, with 55% percent of Republicans saying they were very enthusiastic about voting compared to 35% of Democrats. That gap has narrowed somewhat in this poll, but Republicans still enjoy a significant advantage with 57% saying they are enthusiastic about voting compared to 44% of Democrats.

You know why Republicans are so enthusiastic? Because conservatives are SANE.

Even CNN is admitting the reality of Brandon’s disastrous Residency.

“On inflation, it’s 28 percent; with 68 percent disapproving. That is a very, very, very, very, very bad number,” Enten explained, when Americans say that the most urgent issue to them is inflation, at 33 percent–far and away outpacing abortion. So, if Democrats thought that pro-abortion anger was going to win it for them, they might need to think again.

How about the new Quinnipiac poll?

“College-educated whites.” LOL. How much you want to bet that the majority of those are wine moms living the vida loca and demanding to see the manager?

Worse still for Democrats, Republicans lead them by 3 percentage points among Hispanics. As Giancarlo Sopo tweeted, “THIS is why Democrats are buying Hispanic radio stations. They’re terrified.”

When it comes to winning control of Congress, 46% prefer Republicans while 41% prefer Democrats.

Back to RedState:

In new Zogby polls, he’s also lost a lot of ground with young people, suburbanites, women, minorities (especially Hispanics), and union members. I’m not sure who is left after that for Democrats. Biden is now underwater in Hispanic approval, with 45 percent disapproval and 44 percent approval. The reason why? Just 27 percent think the country is heading in the right direction.

Only Brandon thinks the country is heading in the right direction.

Morning Consult, which skews Democrat, has some new numbers.

Here’s what they conclude:

  • The latest survey found that 58% of voters disapprove of Biden’s job performance and 39% approve. It marks the 46th president’s lowest approval rating and highest disapproval rating in 62 weekly surveys conducted since he took office in January 2021.
  • For comparison, Biden’s latest numbers are worse than Donald Trump’s were at this time four years ago, when 45% approved and 52% disapproved of the former president. Biden’s popularity, or lack thereof, mirrors Trump’s standing in June 2020, when the nation was grappling with the twin crises of the pandemic and the response to the murder of George Floyd.
  • Republicans are far more strident in their disdain for Biden than Democrats are in their support: 80% of GOP voters “strongly disapprove” of Biden’s job handling, compared with 37% of Democrats who “strongly approve” of it.

John Carney says Brandon has lost Democrats on the economy.

… The economy grew at a pace of 4.1 percent in the final three months of 2020, faster than expected and much better than it had earlier in the year. By any objective measure, the economy was getting better—but Democrats were in deep denial about that fact.

This flipped once Biden took office. In March of 2021, sixty-seven percent of Democrats said the economy was getting better, and just 11 percent said it was getting worse, according to the Civiqs tracking poll.

This shift was particularly striking given the actual trajectory of the economy. By the first quarter of 2022, real GDP growth actually turned negative. Real wages declined despite unemployment returning to the pre-pandemic Trump-era lows. The economy was recovering to an objectively worse state than we had experienced before the pandemic.

This fantasy of an economic boom could not last—and it did not. The most recent Civiqs tracking poll shows 41 percent of Democrats saying the economy is getting worse, and just 24 percent say it is getting better.

Biden has lost the Democrats when it comes to the economy.

Well, except the college-educated white women who think things are fab.

Brandon is tanking and has been for months. He’s an incompetent buffoon who only pretends to be in charge. Scam not only likely, but provable.

This should all be good news for Republicans, conservatives and anyone else who is normal. Unfortunately, we’ve learned that we can’t count on that to be reflected at the polls, what with “an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans” that came together “to protect the [2020] election.”

My hope is that if the motivation to vote is high, and some of the loopholes used to “fortify” the election have been zipped shut, we might see a true reflection of the will of the people. As Hugh Hewitt once observed, “If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.“

This could be a wave election but, to be honest, I can’t be optimistic about the outcome until the voting booths close and we see what the polls have been telling us reflected in the results. That’s how much damage the Democrats, anarchists, antifa, progressives and anti-American Leftists have done to our representative republic.

Fortunately, God still sits enthroned in the heavens and laughs at the efforts of kings and presidents and prime ministers and billionaires to take power while shaking their puny fists at the King of kings.

1 Why do the nations conspire
    and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth rise up
    and the rulers band together
    against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their chains
    and throw off their shackles.”

4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
    the Lord scoffs at them.
5 He rebukes them in his anger
    and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 “I have installed my king
    on Zion, my holy mountain.”

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Economy Implodes While Old Man Mumbles About How Great It Is

Daily Verse | Job 10:18-19
“Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me. If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!”

Friday’s Reading: Job 11-14
Saturday’s Reading: Job 15-17

It’s Friday and the completion of another trip around the drain here in the Land of Brandon. Things are not looking good, my friends, as we stare a global food shortage in the face and it’s likely millions will die, especially in third-world countries where people are living on less than a dollar a day. We’ll face some shortages and inflated prices here in the U.S, but most of us will be able to navigate the financial tsunami even while the government takes its pound of flesh while doing nothing to alleviate the pain.

Equity and all that, prol.

As many predicted, Q1 GDP is worse than thought, down 1.5 percent.

First-quarter gross domestic product declined at a 1.5% annual pace, according to the second estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That was worse than the 1.3% Dow Jones estimate and a write-down from the initially reported 1.4%.

Downward revisions for both private inventory and residential investment offset an upward change in consumer spending. A swelling trade deficit also subtracted from the GDP total.

The pullback in GDP represented the worst quarter since the pandemic-scarred Q2 of 2020 in which the U.S. fell into a recession spurred by a government-imposed economic shutdown to battle Covid-19. GDP plummeted 31.2% in that quarter.

I’m old enough to remember when we were assured that inflation was just a passing phase and recession wasn’t a thing to worry about.

One factor helping to propel growth is a resilient consumer fighting through inflation that accelerated 8.3% from a year ago in April.

“Fighting through inflation” by … spending? How long do you think that will last as Americans blow through their paychecks faster on things like, say, gasoline? Not much discretionary cash left over for remodeling the house or buying the new transgender Barbie doll.

Plus, consumer confidence is tanking.

The University of Michigan consumer sentiment for the US fell to 59.1 in May of 2022, the lowest since August of 2011, from 65.2 in April and below market forecasts of 64, as Americans remained concerned over the inflation. The current economic conditions index fell to 63.6, the lowest in 13 years while the expectations gauge sank to 56.2 from 62.5. The median expected year-ahead inflation rate was 5.4%, remaining near a four-decade high for the last three months. To make things even worst, the index of buying conditions for durable goods, such as household appliances, fell to the lowest level since the survey began in 1978.

The adults are back in charge, baby!

Although Americans aren’t all that impressed with the adults. Sixty percent of Americans disapprove of the current Resident. Okay, really, it’s 59 percent, but what’s a point here or there?

U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating fell this week to 36%, the lowest level of his presidency, as Americans suffered from rising inflation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday.

The two-day national poll found that 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance. His overall approval was down six percentage points from 42% last week.

Biden’s approval rating has been below 50% since August, raising alarms that his Democratic Party is on track to lose control of at least one chamber of Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm election.

In a sign of weakening enthusiasm among Democrats, Biden’s approval rating within his own party fell to 72% from 76% the prior week. Only 10% of Republicans approve of his job in office.

Behold, 81 kA-ziLLiOn VoTEs!

As low as Biden’s overall approval rating is, it remains higher than the lows of his predecessor, Donald Trump, whose approval rating bottomed out at 33% in December 2017.

At least he’s more popular than Trump! And best of all — NO MoAR MeeN TwEEtS!

And besides, totally not his fault, says the totally not biased fairly unbalanced Reuters staff writers.

This year, Biden has been dogged by a surge in U.S. consumer prices, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helping drive fuel prices higher and global supply chains still hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

He’s been HOUNDED, I tell you. Hounded by that totally autonomous “surge” in those evil right-wing conspiratorial “consumer prices” and them evil Ruskies whose invasion has increased the cost of gas and … oh, wait. They forgot to mention that Brandon shut down the Keystone Pipeline on Day One and has banned drilling on federal land and killed fracking and is letting drilling permits off the coast of Alaska expire even though we have as much oil as we need literally beneath our feet because … climate change!

But this is a good thing. You guys just don’t understand.

“[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” [Brandon] said during a press conference in Japan following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

“God willing.”

The [R]esident then insisted that his administration’s actions, rather than increasing the price of gas, had actually been able to “keep it from getting worse — and it’s bad.”

He’s a hero, you understand. Like in the Marvel universe.

I just can’t understand why his numbers are down.

I just can’t.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Brandon is a Cockwomble and We Need Rescuing

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

Tuesday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 27-30

Tuesday and the first of March. In like a lion, out like a lamb?

I wish I had seen this before yesterday’s Broadside:

I know that’s Justin Brandeau pictured, but it applies oh, so very aptly to Joe Brandon. I still think “fool” is the most appropriate moniker for Biden, but “cockwomble” is now running a very close second.

While that’s funny, what’s even more hilarious is our Fool’s disapproval ratings.

Economic discontent is hurting [Resident] Joe Biden and his party’s midterm election prospects, with six in 10 Americans reporting inflation hardships, three-quarters saying the economy’s in bad shape and a nearly 20-point lead for the Republican Party in trust to handle it.

Biden has other problems, with underwater ratings for his handling of the invasion of Ukraine, a split on the pandemic and weak scores on personal attributes including leadership, handling a crisis and mental sharpness.

But 40-year-high inflation leads his headaches: Americans are twice as likely to say they’re worse off than better off under his presidency, by 35-17%.

The result: A career-low 37% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance overall, with 55% disapproving. That includes just 30% approval among political independents and 10% from Republicans. Even in his own party, nearly a quarter of Democrats either disapprove of Biden (19%) or are withholding judgment (4%).

That’s an 18-point spread.

Let’s. Go. Brandon.

What the H-E-double-hockey-sticks did people think they were getting when #81MILLIONLOL voted for the cockwomble? I mean, at least Putin respects him, amirite?

I still can’t believe it was so close, it was close enough to cheat.

When will people learn that Democrats are little more than a political version of the mob, except that Al Capone dressed better?

Analyzing data going back to Harry Truman’s administration, only two presidents have had approval ratings this low heading into their first State of the Union address, which Biden delivers Tuesday. Those two were Donald Trump, at 36%, and Gerald Ford, at 37%. Disapproval has been higher, by a nonsignificant 3 percentage points, only for Trump. (More were undecided about Ford, then just five months in office.)

These people can’t quit Trump. How about Trump had the entire Washington and media establishments (but I repeat myself) working overtime to undermine his administration with the treasonous Russia! Russia! Russia! collusion hoax airing 24/7 on every channel?

Brandon’s got nothing but the entire Washington and media establishments (is there an echo in here?) blowing wind in his sails and propping him up and HE CAN’T EVEN TREAD WATER. So what’s his excuse?

Here’s Five Thirty Eight’s persistent calculation of all polls as of February 28.

That’s a 13-point spread between approve and disapprove.

Or here’s Real Clear Politics assessment:

A 14-to-19-point spread.

Yeah, Brandon’s in trouble. And his catastrophic performance means we’re all in trouble. But it also means that citizens are ready to throw out the trash. We still have three years of Brandon to go, but we can start this November by kicking out the old party apparatchik political hacks on both sides of the aisle (looking at you, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney) who have destroyed our Constitutional order and have sat on their fat keisters for decades collecting their fat paychecks while they tell us what we can and can’t say, what we can and can’t do, who the winners and the losers are, and taking more of our money and freedom along the way while they attend all the best Washington parties.

It’s okay to be angry and to fight for what matters. While reading through Deuteronomy, I came across this passage:

But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor, for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her. (DT. 22:25-27)

The scenario implies that if the girl had screamed while people were nearby, she could’ve been rescued. And what do you think a rescue would’ve looked like? Rape is a violent crime that may require a violent intervention fueled by anger over the injustice.

Sometimes righteous heroic action is necessary.

If you love our country and want to see her prosper again, you might think about getting involved. Write checks and volunteer to knock on doors for constitutional-friendly congressional representatives and local elections. Reading blogs doesn’t count, not even this one, which is just a speck of light in a universe of bright stars.

Go. Do something heroic.

The wind is in our favor.