We Shouldn't Have Expected Much From Harris

The thing about Harris, is that she's never really needed to work very hard: Her parents were both extremely intelligent and she probably could have gotten into a highly selective school. Instead she chose Howard; a decent school, but it isn't Berkeley or Stanford. For law school, same thing.

In California, getting nominated as a Democrat ensures you will win, so she never had to work at developing political skills.

Harris floundered in the Democratic primary but was chosen by Biden, who promised an African American woman.

Having never learned political skills or the habit of hard work, it would have been shocking for Harris to have suddenly developed these things.

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Dream Outcome

Not a prediction:  Just an outcome I would like, with a little tidbit of goodies for the losing side:

• Trump wins in a landslide with over 300 electoral votes and wins the, meaningless but will shut-up the idiots, popular vote as well.
• One week after the election.  Biden pardons his son Hunter and the next day resigns office, for health reasons.  This would make Harris the first female US president.
• Trump serves two years, accomplishes a lot and then resigns office, making JD Vance president, with enough time to show his mettle. 

My actual prediction:

• Trump wins
• The left does all the insurrection-type things they accused the right of doing, but rename it "resistance".
• They hound him with BS for his entire term, just like they did in his first term but he still accomplishes a lot.
• At the end of his term, he retires and (since he can't run again) they don't bother with the legal persecution this time.

My analysis:  Trump needs only one of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.  Trump is slightly favored in PA, Harris in MI and WS.  If we round it all to tossups.  Three 50:50 chances comes to 1:8 for Harris and 7:8 for Trump.

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 With 26 losses, this makes my 1,000th win.

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Pre-Postmortem

There are signs that Democrats know they will lose.

The smart move for Democrats would be to keep the fraud too small to make Harris win.  She was a hail Mary, when (unexpectedly) Biden's dementia became too obvious to hide.  If the cheating is similarly obvious, they risk civil war.

The problem and the risk, is that the fraud was set in motion before it was obvious how poorly the Harris campaign was executed and lots of votes have already been entered.  I saw a case yesterday on X where a single voter ID cast 29 votes from various addresses (none of them residences).  These votes have already been counted and cannot be uncounted.

The panic they feel, is that she will lose.  The panic they ought to be feeling, is that the cheating they've already done and cannot stop, will set off a civil war.

Community Notes

 I've never seen someone Community-Noted this comprehensively:  Kristof is going to walk funny for a week.

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Why Didn't Harris Go on Joe Rogan's Show?

Harris has a busy schedule--That's the stated excuse for not going to Austin. Sure, but isn't her primary job right now to win votes? Finding the time to have a conversation with one of the world's most popular podcasters seems like a no-brainer. Or maybe not. Maybe she knows that being on Joe Rogan's show would reveal her basic lack of substance. The play was to spin it as a dispute over terms. Naturally the MSM Praetorian guard will make it Rogan's fault--as if Harris ever intended to be on his show.

It raises a question in my mind: If Harris knows that she lacks substance, why does she want to be president? It seems like a terrifying job, even for a hyper competent executive. How would this not be a complete nightmare for somebody who knows that she has meagre skills or ideas? Has she thought this through? I think not. I think that even the decision to run for president was, like her previous jobs, just 'phoned-in'

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Torn In Half

Not being Jewish, I can only be a spectator to what's happening but I imagine it's going to be somewhat traumatic for some.

You see, many Jews are very left wing, as well as being (naturally) proud of their Jewish heritage:  No group has, given their numbers, produced so many outstanding talents in music, art, writing, movies, science and law.  It used to be easy to choose a party:  Both major parties had small numbers of anti Semites among their members, but one party was to the left and one to the right.  Now it's not so easy:  The left wing party is clearly the one which harbors a larger contingent of anti Semites and the right wing party has become economically more aligned with the working class.

Logically, Jews ought to be Republicans now--they are the worker party and they are pro-Jewish and pro-Israel.  Old habits die hard and I expect there will be some acrimony. 

Added:  I put a laugh emoji by a Facebook post which claimed (laughably) that Harris is a friend and protector of Jews and which either insinuated or outright claimed* that if you care about the Holocaust, you'll vote for Harris.

* (it was long and I skimmed it--I would go back and quote it in full but I've been unpersoned, unfriended)

The response:

All I can say is "good riddance".  Only a colossal asshole would come to that conclusion, instead of the obvious and charitable one (which is how you act around everyone, but especially friends), that Harris isn't somebody Jews ought to trust, compared to Trump, who has a daughter and grandchildren who are Jews.

Added:  If he's invoking the Holocaust as justification for choosing Harris over Trump, it isn't me mocking the Holocaust.  The guy needs to get himself a mirror.

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We Know

 

Yes, Jonah pointed this out a while ago.

In other words, yes, we know this about you.