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The Fantasy World of the Anti-Trumpers

It's hardly a revelation that those on the left often have a tenuous relation with reality. After all how do you reconcile free university education and free healthcare for 320 million people if you're not able to simply divorce yourself from basic economics (they really do believe the U.S can simply print enough money to make all their socialist dreams come true). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8spGrLrUM Those ideas were fervently embraced by the Bernie Sanders supporters, who apparently thought that Bernie's idea of turning America into a latter day Weimar Republic was just the sort of bold thinking needed for today's problems. How they might have divorced themselves from the reality of no longer being able to afford consumer goods might have been comic relief as we watched the economy self-destruct under a Sander's presidency, but that would have been a small consolation indeed. Instead Hillary won, er, that is had the Democratic nomination given to her, an...

The Near Criminal Dishonesty of the Media

We're just two days away from the U.S presidential election and incredibly, Hillary Clinton, who is under not one, but two FBI investigations retains a close lead over Donald Trump. The media, that is the Main Stream Media (including Fox) still point fingers at Trump, saying he wants to imprison Hillary, and that somehow is beyond the pale. Actually what Trump said, in front of millions of viewers during the third debate, was that, when elected, he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into Hillary. Considering what we know already about the Clinton Foundation and pay for play, her mishandling of classified material, and the continued bombshells from Wikileaks that sounds entirely reasonable, to my mind anyway, but then I consider myself relatively sane. The MSM rail against FBI Director James Comey, but barely a peep is heard about why he is (supposedly) breaking protocol, in conducting a major investigation close to an election. Ask yourself this, if evidence of ...

Are the Polls Telling the Truth part II

In less than two days America will finally decide who, after a long and bitter election battle, the next president of the United States is. Going into the final weekend however it's anyone's guess what the final result will be. Although, admittedly Clinton does have the edge (the aggregate of polls consistently gives her at least a two point edge). That's not an insurmountable lead, although every presidential nominee since LBG in 1964, who was leading in the polls (no matter how slim the margin) in the last week, won the presidency. I'm not trying to depress you, that's just the cold hard facts. Still, in a close race the 2000 presidential election is instructional. George W. was a three point favourite on the eve of the election (despite the November surprise that he had a DUI conviction from 1976, and ya, I'm really sure the press only just uncovered that tidbit on Nov 2.) The election, as you may remember, ended with Gore up +1 on the popular vote but Geor...

Hillary gets the all important ISIS endorsement

ISIS capo di tutti capi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has given Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign two thumbs up. Rumour has it that Baghdadi recently told members and followers of ISIS that while Clinton refuses to recognize their movement as Islamist that's still no reason not to support the former Secretary of State's  presidential ambitions. "Look guys she may deny our religion, and yes normally that would require a beheading, but let's face it, she's been good to us in the past, and there's no reason to think that won't continue when she's president," was apparently the message to followers of the radical terrorist group. "I mean Trump is definitely not good for our cause, even if he does recognize we're Islamic, but that's a small consolation when he's leading the charge to wipe us off the map, I mean, am I right?" Baghdadi admitted Clinton is also close to the Iranians and supports their takeover of Mosul and sou...

Time Magazine Goes Full SJW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wVagQ_LVd4 There was a very funny (and very politically incorrect) line in the Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. movie Tropical Thunder, when Downey's character (who had turned himself black to get a role) advises Stiller, "Never go full retard." I bring it up because recently Time Magazine published an oped blaming Hillary's FBI investigation on, that's right, sexism. This would be a good example of going full SJW (which is remarkably similar to going full retard, in case you missed the connection). Most left wing publications like the NY Times, USA Today, etc. Try to avoid full on SJW (Social Justice Warrior) ranting, and couch their left/liberal bias in more subtle opinion pieces and skewed reporting. But Time maintains Hillary's woes are entirely due to her sex, because the media wouldn't be bothered with a presidential candidate being investigated by the FBI (twice) if she was male. Uh, gee Time, have you ever ...

Are the Polls Telling the Truth?

Here we are a little over a week out from election day, the end to one of the most contentious U.S presidential elections ever, and the polls tell us that... well we're not entirely sure what the polls tell us? If we believe Nate Silver of 538 fame, it's been over since Sept, the Donald has at best, a 1/5 chance at winning the presidency. And we were to believe the NY Times the election was over in August, no reason for Trump to even bother campaigning. A week ago an ABC poll gave Clinton a 12 point lead nationally over Trump, a good six points above the next highest poll estimating Hillary's lead. Today (Oct 31) that poll is down to Clinton +1, a pretty major swing, and not all of it was due to the new FBI investigation  of Hillary's emails, Trump was showing momentum in all polls even previous to that. All except one. The IDP poll has consistently, for weeks, only shown at most a three point spread between Clinton and Trump, the same day of the ABC poll showing +12...