We live during curious political times in these United States, a status reinforced by events from recent days.
FACT: Vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance joked that the Dems held their convention in crime-ridden Chicago just so his Democratic counterpart, Tampon Tim Walz, who has been caught misrepresenting his military career as having included combat duty, could honestly lay claim to having been in a combat zone.
Some CNN journalistic genius found the need to fact check the joke. I repeat, it was a joke, a one-liner. Fact check this.
FACT: Harris-Biden brain donor Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (who obviously checks the right DEI boxes) was shocked to be asked by what she rightly anticipated should be a friendly ABC face about the Bureau of Labor Statistics revising downward by more than 800,000, the job creation total for the year ending the past March. The interviewer thought it might hurt the Harris election effort, although God knows why since facts don’t intrude there.
Raimondo, in typical deranged leftist fashion, said she believes nothing Trump says. In an unexpected moment of journalistic integrity, the interviewer noted it was not something Trump had said, but rather a BLS announcement. That would be from Raimondo’s Harris-Biden regime. Replied Raimondo “I’m not familiar with that.”
Is Cackling Kamala Chameleon Raimondo’s role model when it comes to forgetting/ignoring inconvenient facts? At least Raimondo didn’t do a hyena impression – this time.
FACT: Various reports have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. coming out Friday with an announcement that he is folding his tent as a third-party candidate for president and endorsing Trump.
This obviously is a much bigger item than my previous two. I buried the lead, as we used to call it in newspapering, to mirror the laughable habit of local TV news to highlight anything and everything in State College/Centre County and downplay Johnstown happenings, all while operating from a studio less than a mile from my house.
Past readers of this blog know I have respect for Kennedy. I’ve noted his bravery in going against the far-left tilt of his former party. I don’t agree with Kennedy on every issue, but I do think he has intellectual honesty and common sense, two qualities long ago thrown out of politics as practiced by the left.
If Kennedy endorses Trump, it is major news. It is no doubt intentionally ironic timing that it is planned to be divulged as the Democratic convention races into its home stretch.
Kennedy gives Trump what VP pick Vance does not, that is the ability to pick up votes from those not already in the Trump camp.
Those infamous undecideds and independents, whose waffling to the last minute becomes a nauseating aspect of every national election as they revel in being courted due to their indecisiveness (how do these people ever do something major like buying a house, getting married, having children?) just might break toward Trump due to an RFK Jr. endorsement.
We can only hope they do, and that they come in numbers of 10,000,000 or so, because that’s likely the margin Trump is going to need to overcome the revved-up Democratic vote enhancement/counting techniques and actually be the admitted election winner.
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