First, over the last 24 hours, a lot of polls, viewer feedback and focus group data about Tuesday’s debate has come out, and it all indicates that what we were hoping would happen after the debate is actually happening.
Most persuadable viewers, especially independents, thought that while Kamala “won” the debate, she actually lost some of their support. (For you non-history buffs, look up “Pyrrhic Victory.”)
One poll showed that though Trump was seen as losing the debate, he actually gained 1% in the poll. (What’s the opposite of a Pyrrhic Victory? A “successful defeat” maybe?) Among several focus groups watching the debate live with those goofy “reaction meter” things in their hands, the independents agreed far more with the arguments Trump was making on the economy, immigration and crime than they tracked with Kamala.
A surprising amount of commentary, including on the left, criticized moderators’ comically obvious bias, as well as Kamala’s content-less answers. Even Jake Tapper said that, “she dodged questions” and “generally reverted to talking points.” And Dems who have been touting Kamala’s performance and the debate result have gotten some pushback in various venues.
My favorite example was when the far-left Seattle Times published a “fact-check” of Trump on X, saying that, “[He] falsely claimed during the [debate] that protestors took over a big portion of Seattle during the Capitol Hill Organized Protest in 2020.”
Because Musk now owns X – God bless him! – readers can use “community notes” to fact check the pseudo-fact checkers. And boy did they! Tons of people immediately posted links to two major stories that appeared in a big local paper about the violent CHOP/CHAZ takeover, along with many, many tweets and mini-stories that appeared on that same paper’s website at the time.
The kicker? All of those reports that contradicted the Seattle Times’ “fact checks” came from… wait for it… the SEATTLE TIMES! OH! OHHHHHH! (He’s Sam Kinison, and he approves this message.)
How sweet is that? The lying fact checkers debunked their own lying fact check! More of this, please!
Second, I bring you the heart-warming story of an admirably toxic male, an Army veteran and father of a daughter in college, who doesn’t realize that in this Democrat/media era, a daughter needs her dad like a fish needs a bicycle, to paraphrase an old feminist mantra.
Former Army Colonel Bill Steinkirchner and his wife Melanie live in southern CA, and their daughter goes to college 1000 miles away in Seattle. Last Sunday morning they got a call from their daughter, saying that when she was on her way to breakfast, a strange male had run up to her screaming, threatening and swinging at her. She fell to the ground, but managed to get up and run, and get away.
So Steinkirchner did the most dad thing ever. He booked a flight, got on a plane, landed at 2:30, got to the campus area by 3:30, and by 4:00 he’d found the creep who’d menaced his daughter. (The mom had found out on social media that the guy had done this repeatedly in that area.) When he yelled at the guy, the creep ran.
The dad started chasing him, and called the Seattle cops as he was running. When he told them what he was doing, the cops told him to “stop following” the scumbag, and repeated that “you can’t chase him.”
Because: Seattle.
Colonel Steinkirchner told the cops, “No! I’m not gonna stop following him. This is my daughter. I’ve got to get this guy.”
Because: Colonel Dad.
Right after dad cornered the perp, the cops arrived and handcuffed the bad guy. I’m guessing their leftist bosses told them to get there before the criminal was treated harshly. Because in Seattle you can tolerate BLM and antifa thugs terrorizing the town and turning downtown into CHOP/CHAZ, but you can’t tolerate a violent criminal showing up in a local ER with an army boot lodged in his rectum.
In the story and pics, you can’t really see the criminal’s face. But I’m still certain that he has a SFPI (Simpson Face Punchability Index) in the mid to high 90s, at least.
I would like to have seen his punchable face when he was cornered, and the dad closed in on him, saying, “I’m Colonel Steinkirchner, and when you assaulted my daughter this morning, I was a thousand miles away. But I used all my frequent flyer miles to get here in time to whip your arse.”
Picture that beta male’s thoughts at that moment. He lives in Seattle, so he’s probably used to calling cops pigs and fascists. But now there’s a pissed-off veteran with a Clint Eastwood stare and a Panzer commander’s last name closing in on him in an alley, and he’s praying that those fascist cops get there immediately!
I think the Colonel’s wife said it best in a Facebook post after the arrest. “Way to go, honey! Thank you for not ending up in jail yourself.”
You couldn’t have scripted that story any better.
Except that maybe if he hadn’t been able to get a good cell signal during the chase, so that he had to catch the guy first, and then had to subdue him by going all “Sonny Corleone with a garbage can lid” on him. Then the cell phone would start working again, so he could call the cops.
But that’s a tiny quibble. Well done, Colonel Steinkirchner!
Finally, remember that time when Kamala Harris told the Israelis that they need to stop fighting with Hamas, and that they better not go into Rafah, because she’d “studied the maps,” and knew that would be a mistake.
Well several days ago the Israeli defense minister produced a letter written earlier this summer by a Hamas commander named Rafa’a Salameh to the Sinwar brothers, who run Hamas. In it, he reports that his forces have lost between 60-95% of their weaponry and around 75% of their goat-romancing fighters. He complained that, “The last 25% of our [fighters] have reached a situation where the people do not tolerate them anymore, broken on a mental or physical level.”
The Sinwar brothers would probably like an updated report from Salameh, but they’re not going to get one. Because he assumed rubble temperature in July, when the IDF nailed him with a good ol’ dreidel drone.
But the bad news kept coming for Que Mala, when the Israelis decreed victory in the battle of Rafah yesterday. She and Biden had done their best to prevent that. Netanyahu had delayed going after the final four Rafah battalions from February through May, due to opposition from the White House.
But he’d finally had enough of Joe and the Cackler, and the IDF went in on May 6th. Since then they’ve destroyed 8 miles of underground terror tunnels – American and UN tax dollars well spent constructing those, Joe! – and killed over 2000 terrorists.
And now the Rafah brigade has been destroyed, leaving Hamas in the area “no longer functioning as a coherent military,” but as a few isolated guerrilla fighters.
Robert Gates once said that Joe Biden had been wrong on every foreign policy issue for the last 40 years.
And now it looks like Que Mala is carrying on one more Biden-Harris tradition!
Have a great weekend everybody!
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 