The Lilliputian Dems Still Struggling to Keep Trump Bound You can’t beat something with nothing. by Bruce Thornton
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Ganging up with the debate moderators, Kamala Harris still hasn’t immobilized Donald Trump. The Dems thought their fellow Lilliputian press agents masquerading as “journalists” and “moderators,” along with some mean-girl snark from Harris, could bait Trump enough to make him hang himself, and so distract millions of voters from noticing that Harris is still dodging questions about her complicity with Biden’s disastrous term, his cognitive decline, and the far-left policy proposals that have marked her entire political career.
Despite the post-debate crowing about Harris’s victory, their ropes still aren’t tight enough to keep Trump down. For eight years, the progressive Democrats have labored to restrain Trump, but he keeps loosening his bonds. Let’s hope that the Dems don’t catch on that you can’t beat something with nothing.
Trump’s term was still young when federal agencies began trying to tie Trump down. The Russia, Russia, Russia hoax; turning an unexceptional phone call with Ukraine’s president Zelensky into a flimsy impeachable offense; Trump’s private conversation in 2005 Access Hollywood leaked that turned some sexual braggadocio into evidence for a sexual assaults; numerous statements by Trump distorted with selective editing, like the “very fine people” comment edited to hide’s Trump’s exclusion of neo-Nazis and white supremacists; and the Big Lie that on January 6 Trump instigated an “insurrection” when he told attendees at a rally to march “patriotically and peacefully” to protest at the capital. And don’t forget the multiple indictments by four Dem prosecutors, all based on creative if not duplicitous reading of the laws.
All those efforts and hundreds more failed to end Trump’s political career and clear the decks for a Democrat president. In fact, they’ve increased the size of his support. So now the lies are proliferating beyond those fed to a compliant media–– just like Harris, the moderators, and the media flacks during the debate every time they opened their mouths. But what else do they have to convince voters? They can’t run on the Biden and Harris record in the White House, which is as useless as Jimmy Carter’s record was in 1980.
The Biden-Harris administration has been a similar failure. Inflation, stagnant wages, and stratospheric levels of debt at home; Chamberlain class appeasement of Iran replete with billions in cash; 13 U.S. soldiers killed during the Afghanistan skedaddle; and support of sadistic terrorist murderers abroad, are difficult to spin even for Democrats. All the Dems have, then, are Hitlerian Big Lies, “colossal” and “impudent untruths” debunked repeatedly.
During the debate, Harris told one of the left’s favorite Big Lies: the dull cliché that Trump “is all about tax breaks for the richest people.” Here are the facts about Trump’s tax cuts from the Wall Street Journal:
“Seven years into the weakest recovery in postwar history, as the economy slumped toward a recession, the 2017 tax cuts and the Trump administration’s regulatory relief sent real median household income soaring by $5,220 in 2019. That’s 49% higher than the previous highest annual gain in 2015 and 11 times the average percentage gain over the previous 50 years. Real median income rose more in inflation-adjusted dollars in 2019 alone than during the entire Obama recovery from 2009-16. The poverty level plunged at the fastest rate since 1966, to the lowest level since the Census Bureau started collecting the data in 1959.”
Or how about “climate change,” “renewable energy,” and the war on fossil fuels known as “net-zero-carbon emissions”? As Biden’s V.P., Harris supported the U.S.’s return to the 2015 Paris Agreement, which like previous such deals is failing for one simple reason: two of the three largest emitters in the world, China and India, have no intention of harming their economy by reducing fossil fuel energy.
These are just two examples of her leftist prejudices. Such policies also have a problem with the truth. Take EV mandate and subsidies, based on the claim that they will reduce carbon emissions and save the planet from Armageddon. The facts say otherwise:
“When Washington spends hundreds of billions to lure some drivers to use EVs, guess what? It ends up making gasoline cheaper and more available for other consumers around the world to use. The 2023 data have arrived. Fossil-fuel use, emissions and green energy all have grown right alongside each other, as economics predicted. Global emissions finally broke the 40 gigaton threshold, having doubled since 1984.”
Or think about this datum from Gatestone Institute: “The European Commission estimates that to achieve the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 then 100% in 2050 — the main objective of the “European Green Deal” — Europe will need to invest €1.5 trillion a year from 2031 to 2050.
1.5 trillion euros a year. That is equivalent to 10% of the Europe Union’s entire GDP for 2022 — every year! Apart from a war effort, there is no objective of any kind that has ever required the diversion of 10% of a continent’s GDP by political decree.”
These suicidal policies in the West are the fruits of bad science and lupine grifters who have damaged energy supplies, raised the price of fuel, and increased industrial costs.
But what about 2020? Wasn’t that proof that the MAGA Gulliver could be bound? That election year, however, was a black swan event brought on by the Covid crisis, which itself was manipulated by government agencies so that mitigation protocols could control people’s behavior, and most important for the election, frighten them from voting in person. This meant that absentee ballots would proliferate, and in fact double the number used in 2016.
What difference does that make? Absentee or mail-in ballots are notoriously susceptible to fraud, since the chain of custody from voter to vote-counter is easily interfered with. That’s why large numbers of countries don’t allow them. Consider this tweet on X:
Even after Covid, internationally paper ballots are the overwhelming choice for voting.
Given the higher risk of fraud, questioning the 2020 election was not as egregious as Hillary Clinton’s ongoing claim that Vladimir Putin rigged the 2016 election on behalf of Trump. Yet Trump’s admittedly impolitic challenge was, and still is, hysterically dismissed as an “assault on our democracy” –– as if it were an obvious fact that an election with the winner determined by a mere 44,000 votes in three swing states, and twice 2016’s tally of easy to defraud mail-in ballots–– was free of fraud. The fact is that without a serious investigation, we don’t know if it was on the up and up or not. But the aggressive claims that it wasn’t fraudulent sound like the excessive protestations of Hamlet’s mother.
Of course, Kamala Harris could win the election, given the free support the corporate media are giving in in-kind contributions. But even if she wins, don’t think that Trump will stay on his back, crisscrossed with ropes, any more than Gulliver did. Trump’s political career has been defined by his relentless willingness to “fight!”, as after he was shot, he chanted while defiantly pumping an upraised fist, with blood pouring down his face.
Last week, a second assassination attempt was foiled while Donald Trump was playing golf at his West Palm Beach course. But that changes nothing. Trump will continue to fight the odds, take on the bipartisan guild and their consultants, ignore and mock the self-proclaimed keepers of the sacred “norms” of our republic––and never say die.
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