I don’t know what’s going to happen in the midterms tomorrow. If the polls are right, we’re going to get stomped. Fortunately, the polls are rarely right, and they’re usually wrong in one direction. My guess is that we lose the House, but my gut says that we narrowly hold the Senate.
But who wants to listen to my guesses or my gut?
So rather than offering a lot of prognosticating that is worth what you’d pay for it, I’m going to overlook the manifest deficiencies on our side of things and focus on a very compelling reason to not sit this one out: the terribleness of our opponents.
Specifically, I’ve got two stories to illustrate the kind of endemic corruption in the MSM and the Democrat party (but I repeat myself) that should motivate all of us to get out and vote against them: the latest “ICE-stapo brutally arrests husband/father/brain-surgeon/saint” story, and the fake Dan Sullivan election fraud scheme in Alaska.
By this time, we’ve all seen dozens of legacy media hagiographies of innocent people who left their wallet in their other pants, and thus were “undocumented” when the orcs from ICE descended on them and threw them into the back of a windowless panel van before they could finish their shift volunteering at the shelter that rescues golden retriever puppies suffering from canine scoliosis and renal failure.
So we know that when we hear about a “Maryland Dad,” the story is really about a human trafficking gang-banger with a colorful “El Diablo” tattoo stretching to cover both clavicles. Just as we can be sure that a riot described as “a mostly peaceful protest” is going to leave more burned buildings than Dresden circa 1945.
And yet the legacy media can’t help themselves; they just keep lying. Hence a Washington Post story from last Wednesday, with the headline, “ICE Detained a Middle-School Coach. His Players Say They Want Him Home.”
To be fair to the creepy sleazebags at WAPO, the Venezuelan referred to was actually a middle school coach. But people can be more than one thing, and sometimes focusing on that one thing misses the main point by a country mile.
Which is why you don’t start a news story with, “John Wayne Gacy, adorable children’s-party clown…” or “Local vegetarian and proud German Shepherd owner Adolf Hitler…” or “Harvey Weinstein, movie buff,…”
Anyway, the Venezuelan name-hog in question is Amaury Jose Monsalve Figuera, but I’m going to call him Murray. Because it amuses me, and because four names are too many.
Murray may have originally come to the States legally, although “he did allegedly withhold information from immigration officials” and thus was in the middle of deportation proceedings when he recently ran a red light in DC.
No, we don’t deport people for running red lights, Dana Bash. Let me finish.
After he was pulled over, the cops found “an unregistered handgun, ammunition, an open container of alcohol, and a bag of cocaine.”
Or as Hunter Biden calls it, “Tuesday.” (If the pistol had been an illegal AK-47 and there had been three hookers of various nationalities in the back seat, that would have been “Saturday.”)
How does the WAPO handle these details? Honestly, I don’t know, because the story is behind a pay wall, and it violates my personal ethics to pay a single penny to the trolls at the Washington Post. But I saw the picture accompanying the story, which featured Mrs. Murray and the sainted Murray, who has a winsome smile and a sparkle in his eye.
Although your eyes might sparkle too, if you were coked to the gills.
And the article begins this way: “To the young baseball players at D.C.’s Alice Deal Middle School, Amaury Monsalve is known as “Coach A,” a fixture of the local community who families say has brought championships, life lessons and joy….”
Yes! Championships and joy!
And booze, a pistol with no serial number but two bodies on it, and a bag of blow. Hooray!
And how does congressman Rob Menendez, D-Corruptistan, start his tweet about good ol’ Murray? “Kids playing little league should be focused on the game – not living in fear of ICE.”
It’s a cliché because it’s true: we don’t hate the media enough.
Meanwhile in Alaska, the Democrats – who you may have heard just LOVE our sacred democracy – have been caught trying to make a mockery out of democracy in a Senate race by running a phony Dan Sullivan to steal votes from the real GOP Dan Sullivan.
The MSM hacks have beclowned themselves as they try to figure out how to react to the story. Their first repeated talking point was that while the phony Sullivan ploy might be dishonest, it’s not illegal. But that is as lame as it sounds, and not a great take for a party pretending to be more ethical than the opponents they’ve demonized as…dishonest. (D’oh!)
Pitiable dimwit Ana Navarro tried to make the case that the GOP has done this kind of thing in the past too, pointing to a 2020 race in Florida. In that case, a GOP pol named Frank Artiles recruited a schlub with the last name Rodriguez to run in a close house race against a Dem candidate with the last name of Rodriguez. Around 3200 people voted for the fake Rodriguez, and the actual GOP candidate won the race by a few dozen votes. Artiles was stupid enough to brag about what he’d done at an after-party, and he was charged with election fraud, along with the fake Rodriguez. They were both convicted, and while Rodriguez did a year of house arrest and then probation due to a plea deal, Artiles did 60 days in jail, plus 5 years of probation and 500 hours of community service.
Ana is so thick that she admitted that Artiles was tried and convicted, without seeming to realize that she thereby destroyed the case she was trying to make. “Republicans do it too!” doesn’t work if the Republicans charged, convicted and jailed their scammer, while Ana and the Dems are trying to defend and help theirs to succeed!
Hilariously enough, it turns out that the Democrats have used this same trick in the past. The sainted JFK’s 1946 congressional campaign paid a janitor named Joseph Russo to enter a race against his opponent named Joe Russo to split the vote. JFK won going away anyway, so the cheating turned out to be just an extra insurance policy against ethical democracy. (Which leftists seem to disdain on general principal, IMHO.) However, JFK faced a severe public and political backlash from Democrats nationwide after this transparently sleazy fraud.
HA! I kid because I love.
Of course JFK faced no blowback from his side. Because: Democrats! And spoiler alert, that cheater went on to eventually become the president of these United States.
Fun fact: his VP, the racist creep who succeeded him in the presidency – LBJ – launched HIS political career by stuffing a ballot box in his 1948 Texas Senate primary, a contest that he won by only 87 votes. His fraud wasn’t particularly clever, either: one of his crooked minions (if not LBJ himself?) added 202 votes in one county after the polls had closed. In a 50/50 contest, 200 of those 202 votes went for LBJ; they were also recorded in the same handwriting and in alphabetical order!
The odds of that happening legitimately are the same as the odds of Ilhan Omar/Elmi telling the truth about her marital history under questioning from Brandon Gill. “We have a DNA report here from Incestry.com that suggests…”
So the rich Democrat tradition of voting fraud – see Tammany Hall; Huey Long; every Chicago mayoral campaign since 1840; Frank “the Lout” Lautenberg’s senate campaign in NJ in 2002; every Chicago alderman campaign since 1840; JFK’s mafia chum Sam Giancana allegedly helping to steal Illinois’ presidential vote in 1960; Nithya Raman’s miraculous “comeback” to knock Spencer Pratt out of the run-off for LA mayor 20 minutes ago; the fake Dan Sullivan’s phony campaign right this minute, etc. – also led to two successive frauds becoming President.
A third Dem prez (Bill Clinton) was also involved in a multiple-name scam that went on for several decades. But in his case, it involved him banging a baker’s dozen of co-eds and interns named “Susan,” along with 10 Kates, Sarahs and Jennifers (each), plus 4 Candys (3 of them strippers) and at least one Monica. Also, 4 Michelles. (But not Michelle Obama. Because that Arkansas horndog is only into chicks.) (Allegedly.)
On the other hand, to be fair, Jimmy Carter was admirably faithful to Rosalynn, God bless him. Unfortunately, that allowed him to devote 100% of his energy and focus to being a terrible, terrible president. And boy did he knock that one out of the park.
In conclusion, c’mon! Even if your GOP rep is no great shakes, get out there and vote. Because the alternative is unutterably awful.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I’ve never made a dime on the inspirational speaker circuit.
Hamas – and the Dems – delenda est.
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