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Afraid that Trump’s election victory was just a dream, I awoke this afternoon (I was up really late overnight) and rushed to the TV and computer to confirm it.

Thankfully, no dream. It’s reality, and a nightmare for the Democrats who remain in denial despite the nation’s electorate pointing out to them, most emphatically, that they are out of step.

I’m left with an abundance of thoughts.

The Lord does work in mysterious ways. Trump losing in a highly suspect manner in 2020 only led to the strengthening of his political movement. The Democrats and Deep State mistakenly sought to use the opportunity of his defeat to attempt to destroy him, failed, and it only made him stronger, producing the kind of massive election triumph that would not have been possible without the time spent in the political desert.

The yard sign fairies seem to have been very active overnight on my block, with virtually all indicators of Harris support gone – vanished, I say. But Trump signs, banners and flags remain proudly in place.

Cambria County was on the lips of the nation yesterday, but not in a good way. No, it was our typical ineptitude, in this case the inability to take and process votes without glitches, that got us some time in the national spotlight. We should be so proud.

I want CNN, MSNBC and major broadcast networks to own the election-denier, threat-to-democracy labels they love to throw at Trump and the political right. The citizenfreepress.com site I have come to love in recent days, called the election for Trump, publicly, at 10:41 p.m. EST last night. Fox finally made the call at about 1:20 a.m. and Trump had a victory speech. I wrote a massive blog piece before going to bed at about 5 a.m. At that time, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, etc., still were holding out conceding it was over. This, despite Kamala Chameleon pulling the plug on herself and very publicly noting she was going to bed.

There were reports at about 2 p.m. Wednesday that Kamala had called Trump to concede. She was scheduled to make a public appearance to confirm as much at 4 p.m. or so. Welcome to reality.

To restate a point I made in the previous post, it was Trump’s genius for feeling the pulse of America that won this election. His McDonald’s stint. Riding in a garbage truck. His inexhaustible energy at rallies. Rising almost immediately after being shot and fist-pumping to the crowd in Butler. And, almost as important, he put young, savvy, highly motivated social media influencers in charge of the Republican ground game. People such as Charlie Kirk and Scott Presler pushed this effort over the top and won several states, along with key House and Senate races, through their enthusiasm and hard work.

I love all the finger-pointing going on among Democrats. I’m reminded of the favorite expression of Johnstown native and former long-time Joe Paterno assistant coach Tom Bradley, who loved to say when you point the finger at others, the thumb points back at you. Kamala Harris lost this race mostly because of Kamala.

It was Kamala Harris who tried to hide from the public. It was Kamala Harris who went on the wildly partisan TV show “The View” and told their viewership (and the rest of the world as the clip went viral) that she would change “Nothing” from the Clueless Joe Biden years.

I took a financial hit for the country, seeing my net worth decline Wednesday as the traditional stock markets and the dollar soared on the Trump win, while gold and silver (my interests) tanked. Happy to do so. I did make a few bucks by purchasing a small, speculative position of Trump’s DJT stock during Tuesday’s regular stock market hours and selling it for a profit in the aftermarket Tuesday night after it began to look good for his election prospects.

I’ll give myself a .500 batting average on my thoughts regarding VP picks. I argued that Trump could have helped himself by having someone like Tulsi Gabbard as his VP. Maybe, but Trump sure did OK with JD Vance. I will take a victory lap on my thinking that Harris blew it taking Tim Walz over Pa. Governor Josh Shapiro. In her defense, there is some speculation that Shapiro was not interested, preferring to see her go down in flames so as to have no Democratic (or Republican) incumbent to run against in 2028, when he just might have presidential aspirations.

Hypocrisy being the favored mode of the Democrats, it is not surprising that today they no longer are lobbying for liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside, or for an end to the Senate filibuster rule, now that they are in the minority.

Our nation’s Attorney General Merrick Garland and his special prosecutor Jack Smith have thrown in the towel on persecuting Trump with further Lawfare. Maybe Fani Willis and Letitia James, the Atlanta and New York Lawfare warriors, soon will get the message – Trump won.

Immature Harris campaign staffers are posting snarky messages on social media, including that this transfer of power will be peaceful, unlike in 2020. It reminds me of Shillary staffers stealing the W keys off White House keyboards on the way out the door, a swipe at George W. Bush. We’ll see how Kamala handles herself in her public appearance scheduled for within the hour of this writing.

I will spend the rest of this day, and likely many more, basking in the warm glow of Trump’s triumph which, as previously stated, is a win for all of us.

Victory and repudiation mixed in the wee hours of Wednesday when, while I was watching election coverage on Real America’s Voice and also streaming the Charlie Kirk show on my phone, word came that Fox News had declared Pennsylvania for Donald Trump.

It was an iconic moment that put Trump at the required 270 electoral votes to win the election. U.S. president 45 is back as No. 47 and our country has been snatched from the abyss of socialist collapse.

Trump likely will add more electoral votes as the counting continues and is anticipated perhaps to win the popular vote, too. All this was too much for opponent Kamala Chameleon, who left her “victory” party attendees to stew in their own juices as she ducked them like she ducked Joe Rogan, sending a surrogate to tell them she wouldn’t be appearing.

Once again, we are reminded that Trump is amazing beyond words. Left for dead politically, and almost literally by a couple of would-be assassins, he has outdone himself.

As Trump said himself in his victory speech it’s all “crazy.”

I have maintained that Trump’s first presidential run was the greatest feat in American political history.

To get there, he had to beat his own Republican Party that had yet another Bush primed for the nomination. Trump had to beat the LameStream media and he had to beat the Democrats.

Those Democrats did not take well to that defeat in the 2016 election.

So they, the Deep State, The Swamp, kept right on doing what they had done during the campaign when they had spied on him and made false claims of Russian collusion. This progressed to them filing false charges against him. They impeached him on ridiculous allegations, hamstrung him by overhyping a virus to shut down the economy near the end of his first term.

They continued to weaponize the justice department to persecute him with legal charges, some of which he still faces. They got him banned from social media by calling in favors from their high-tech sycophants.

Somewhere along the line, the American people had seen enough. They came to realize Trump had been victimized, mistreated and ostracized unfairly. The more the leftists attacked Trump like a pack of rabid wolves, the more empathetic the public became in support of him.

They understood Trump spoke the truth when he said if they could do it to him, they could do it to anyone.

Trump never gave in to the oppressors, be they political hacks or media hyenas. He was defiant and he inspired his people in the Make America Great Again movement that grew strength even with him out of office after a 2020 election loss that stretched the bounds of believability.

All those votes that just appeared for Biden, were missing Tuesday into early Wednesday when Kamala could have used them.

Trump has made inroads with blacks, Hispanics and other groups Republicans normally can’t count on for support. Kamala Chameleon lost ground with those one-time guaranteed Democrat voters. The reason is simple: Trump identified with their concerns about inflation, illegal immigration, disappearing jobs.

Kamala Chameleon thought she could dazzle them by denying her Marxist record and putting a few celebrities on display at rallies.

Kamala also trotted out past presidents, counted on some traitor Republicans and even enlisted an Elmer Fudd type to be her running mate as vice president.

The voters issued a massive rebuke to that. The Democratic Party hierarchy was repudiated in this election and you can bet they’re hurting.

Taylor Swift and Oprah couldn’t push Kamala over the top.

Nor could J.Lo or Cardi B.

The voters said no to Barack and Michelle, to Bubba and Shrillary.

So long, Kamala and Dougie.

Bye, bye CNN and MSNBC.

See ya, Nancy and Chuck.

You’re blacked out, The View.

In your face, Clapper, Mueller, Comey, Strzok and Page.

Sayonara, Liz and Dick Cheney, John Kelley and Mad Dog Mattis.

Look at me now, Fani and Letitia.

Nice try, Merrick and Jack.

The Democrats played candidate limbo for this election, smug and overconfident that they could go lower now by running a ticket of Frick and Frack and get them elected. It was a pairing ideologically on par with Karl Marx and Chairman Mao, who promised to take this nation down the garden path to socialism and economic stagnation, spicing the journey with an unlimited influx of illegals and full-Woke policy.

It remains for the raging leftists to poke through the ashes of the dumpster fire that was the Harris campaign. It all began when Clueless Joe Biden’s failing mental state was outed beyond rehabilitation by his pathetic debate performance vs. Trump.

The very same people who had denied any mental or physical decline at all on Biden’s part, now forced him out of the nomination he had earned. In a nod to political correctness and identity politics, Harris had to be the replacement.

She was, after all, a non-white woman. That she also was ranked as one of the worst vice presidents in U.S. history didn’t matter.

Barack and the people running things were confident they could make the empty pants suit palatable.

Turns out, they couldn’t.

Interesting theories have arisen already about intra-party subterfuge. Some think that perhaps Bubba saying while campaigning for Kamala that Laken Riley would be alive today if only illegal immigrants had been vetted better, was an intentional gaffe.

Maybe Bubba wants Democrats to come back to reality from the hard left, a drift that would have accelerated under Kamala and Tampon Tim.

Was it a message that DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!! wore a Republican red ensemble on election day?

Did Barack and Michelle lecturing blacks that they had a duty to vote for Kamala help or hurt?

Clueless Joe putting on a MAGA hat for the media, coming into the White House briefing room for the first time ever just as Kamala was about to make a policy speech elsewhere, him calling Trump supporters “garbage” even as Kamala was making her final campaign speech almost literally on the White House lawn, couldn’t all have been unintentional, could they?

And what of the media that absolutely hates Trump, from the cable television hacks to the pollster “Alka” Selzer who bragged she would drop one in Trump’s lap and put out a late poll that claimed Kamala was winning Iowa by three points. Trump won the state by 14-plus points.

One CNN propagandist, as Kamala’s defeat was all but sealed, was wistful that the candidate hadn’t had longer to sell herself to the nation. That happens when you pull a coup on the nominee. And the way Kamala Chameleon struggled to answer simple questions, 10 years would not have been long enough.

Why do these people hate Trump so much? Because he represents common people that they also look upon with disdain. We truly are, in their eyes, “deplorables,” “Nazis,” “garbage,” and bitter types “clinging to guns and religion.”

Trump owes a great debt to the likes of the aforementioned Kirk. The Republican National Committee outscourced its ground game to an army of young, social media savvy types. It worked.

Republicans also took the Senate. If they can get a little lucky and hold the House, Trump’s agenda can advance. He has an all-star team of advisors already onboard.

They, like Trump, recognize how important this time is for the nation.

We’ve gotten a reprieve with this election. But Trump and Republicans must take full advantage of it.

It’s 10:30 a.m. and I’m back home after voting – I think.

I filled out an eight-race ballot at my polling place inside the Southmont Borough Building, but the scanners still are not working. So, I was instructed to feed my ballot into a slot that led to a “lock box” beneath the scanner.

Presumably at some future time my ballot will be scanned successfully and my votes duly recorded. I can only hope that will be the case.

Scanners also were not working at my son’s Westmont polling place so he performed the same ritual.

I had no lines whatsoever at my polling place and only one of those customary candidate spokesmen standing outside, a young man representing Frank Burns. I relieved him of the nail file he offered me and went inside.

Later, while picking up my son at his voting site, there were lines and I had a brief wait. Outside was Frank Burns himself and I took the opportunity to introduce myself to him as a Burns Republican. We had a nice chat about the area political, healthcare and media scene.

A cousin had reported to me that he faced no lines while voting very early today in Somerset County and, imagine this, no technical glitches, either.

Now, we sit back and await results.

It begins.

‘Tis election day, with all the attendant discord we’ve come to expect.

A caller very early today left a message for me that Cambria County voting machines are not properly scanning ballots and he’d get back to me with any updates. That was about half an hour ago (8 a.m.-ish).

He got back to me with an update at 9. This is a poll watcher, by the way. He’d been told flash drives distributed by election officials for voting machines were not working. Supposedly couriers were being sent out with fresh flash drives – to all county polling places – in an attempt to correct the problem.

The county Republican office is trying to get voting hours extended to help address this problem. In theory, people showing up where voting machines are not working still can fill out a provisional ballot, although this source has heard people are being allowed to leave with ballots and then bring them back, creating a nightmare break in chain of custody.

I’ve bumped into similar problems in the past and we’ve all seen videos of people in various states hitting touchscreens to vote for Republicans and having the vote register instead for the Democrat opponent. One such example I saw came from early voting in Kentucky this election.

My plan had been to head out late morning to vote, thereby giving early arriving voters a chance to move through the system and then allowing me to beat the noon rush. My son will go out to his polling place at that time. This failure of the machines puts a crimp in that strategy.

I’m hoping for a pleasant experience, but anticipating the worst.

And I wonder aloud – again — why we can’t have paper ballots, proof of voter eligibility and same-day results? Other countries do it.

Need more counters? Hire more workers? And not necessarily virtually all Democrats, as is the case documented in such hotbeds of Democrat vote counting massage as Fulton County Georgia (Atlanta), downtown Philadelphia or Detroit.

While waiting to go out to vote, I hit my new favorite web site citizenfreepress.com. I stumbled onto this font of information recently and make it a must-visit often each day. It’s Drudge before Drudge went totally Woke.

I also like zerohedge.com, but this citizenfreepress.com effort posts a more timely, never-ending list of links to interesting stories and social media posts.

Already today, there was note of a James O’Keefe (formerly Project Veritas) hidden camera sting of a Philadelphia operation insisting people could vote as long as they are residents of the city, giving them some sort of bogus ID number, and sending them across the street to where a voting worker told the undercover person this was correct procedure.

Also, there are reports of four court-appointed Republican election workers being thrown out of a Philadelphia precinct, long lines of (supposedly) Trump voters in Bucks County, and problems at a two-district polling place in Allegheny County that had proper paperwork and officials to operate just one polling place.

The good news is that late last night podcast king Joe Rogan endorsed Trump, taking some wind out of those Democrat sails. Rogan’s recent three-hour interview with Trump had 38 million views in the first three days. Rogan’s audience hits hard the Trump demographic of young male voters.

Kamala Chameleon passed on Rogan for a long time, then tried to set up a shorter, one-hour interview on her turf. Rogan declined and now he’s endorsed Trump.

Trump was in Pittsburgh and three other stops yesterday with his closing argument and I watched parts of all four rallies courtesy of Real America’s Voice cable channel, a welcome part of my satellite television package.

My take is that Trump is winning — in Pennsylvania and around the nation. We may never know due to the sort of demonstrable election misconduct and/or malfeasance we already are getting. Meanwhile, Democrats whine because non-citizens are not allowed to vote, or suspect votes are not allowed to trickle in days or weeks late and still be counted.

Remember all this the next time the leftists want you to accept blindly strange results from suspect elections.

The insanity continues.

There are reports governors in Washington and Oregon either have, or stand ready to activate the National Guard to help quell potential election violence.

The usual suspects in politics and the lapdog media have run with this to insinuate that it’s due to fear of right-wing types acting out should Donald Trump lose.

This neatly ignores that Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, in the past have been havens for radical leftist takeovers, be it by Antifa or Black Lives Matter.

It also somehow fails to note that recent ballot box arsons in both states reportedly have had “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza” messages left behind. You might argue this is merely a false flag attempt to pin it on leftists. I suspect these arsons truly are the work of some fringe leftist.

Regardless, we already know absolutely it is the leftists who in the past have seized parts of cities in these states, with no-go zones, damage to public buildings, and generally unsocial/criminal behavior.

Yes, bring out the National Guard, just as Trump tried to do in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 many years back. Just make sure you have them looking for the correct people.

On another front, a supposedly solid pollster from Iowa was out over the weekend as part of a flood of pro-Kamala results that came out of the blue (pun intended) and flew in the face of the recent polling of many other outlets.

I lost my respect for the credibility of this Iowa pollster when she appeared with Mark Halperin and fumbled to explain how she got her results. Presented with a graphic of a critical social media post that referred to cross tabs from HER POLL, the woman needed Halperin to clarify what the D and R stood for in the tabs.

That would be D for Democrat and R for Republican, he told her, which would seem to be rudimentary knowledge any competent pollster would know without needing help.

‘Oh, I see,” said the woman, before launching into an explanation of why she would have to look into the criticism before commenting further.

Remember this sort of thing as the LameStream media endeavors mightily to confuse election matters in coming days.

Tomorrow is election day and I’m going to miss all the ads. Just kidding.

Election advertising is almost always, in a word, ridiculous. Outright falsehoods and distortions rule.

Neither side is totally innocent in this matter, but it is the Democrats who tend to produce propaganda messages with the tiniest link to reality.

Maybe you’ve heard Donald Trump is going to take away Social Security and Medicare? It’s been a Democratic attack ad on Republican candidates since I was a kid.

You might wonder how this can be effective when it never happens. In this case, Trump actually had the job of president for four years and didn’t harm either retirement program. Yet, this time, he’s going to do it. And some blue-haired women and doddering old men will vote for Kamala Chameleon out of fear their benefits are at stake.

This is along the line of the constant drumbeat by speakers and in ads that Trump is Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin all rolled into one, and therefore a threat to democracy.

Again, he has had the job, people, and we still have a democracy or more correctly, a representative republic.

There is a difference. In a democracy, everything is simply a decision by the majority. And, if the majority decides all left-handed people like me should be shot, well, we’re all goners.

In a representative republic, the people elect politicians to represent them, but there is a constitution that acts as a check on absurd over-reaches simply because a philosophy or position has majority support.

You don’t want to live in a pure democracy.

Those democracy ads and talking points are exposed in their absurdity by elections. When you take the time to look at it, the Democrats are anti-democracy.

It is Democrats who weaponized the legal and justice systems to try to jail Trump and keep him from running. They tried to subvert the will of the people the last time he was president with never-ending impeachment and other procedural ploys.

They wanted his name kept off ballots in many states and even now, on the eve of the elections, radicals such as Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin are making noises about refusing to certify a potential Trump victory.

Doesn’t sound like preserving democracy to me.

Also on the topic of chipping away at democracy, it is Democrats who go to court to lobby for non-citizens to vote.

It is Democrats who want rules modified at the last minute to include votes from people too moronic to follow simple instructions such as deadlines to submit mail-in votes, signing these ballots or enclosing the ballots in a separate envelope.

No less a far-left source than National Public Radio, which uses taxpayer funding to pump out liberal pap, admits there are, as claimed, more voters on rolls than the eligible population would indicate there should be.

In a story posted Nov. 3, 2024, on npr.org, this reality is explained away by blaming Americans’ freedom to move from one state to another and so the same person can appear on voter lists of multiple states.

This could be part of the problem, but it doesn’t explain documented cases of dead people voting (mostly for Democrats), non-citizens voting (notably this year a Chinese student in Michigan) or the same name being used on multiple ballots (apparently one of the many problems cropping up yet again in Pennsylvania, among other places.)

This NPR propaganda piece critiques Elon Musk for posting recently that Michigan has more voters than eligible citizens.

This is true, the story concedes, but more than a million of those illegal voters are “on their way to being deleted.”

What does that mean? Do they stop off to be deleted after voting? Will they be deleted next year? Next decade?

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, had people who self-identified as non-citizens struck from the voter rolls in his state. And he had to go to the Supreme Court to beat back Democrat challenges to this no-brainer policy.

But the Democrats are protecting democracy? Right.

We have ads featuring aging women and their adult daughters clamoring for unfettered abortion rights. Maybe the daughters should contemplate their fate had mommy gone the abortion route, say, six months into the pregnancy.

The repeal of Roe. vs. Wade did not end abortions, but merely put the decision in the hands of the states, in keeping with the 10^th Amendment of the Constitution. Try reading it sometimes, all you purported defenders of democracy.

Also, don’t let facts get in the way of a good attack ad designed to appeal, as Mark Cuban might say, to weak and dumb women.

In a story that was posted in August of 2023 on NBCnews.com, seven states had ballot measures regarding abortion between when Roe vs. Wade was overturned in June 2022 and that story’s timing. All seven were won by pro-abortionists.

Equally disturbing are recent ads in which Kamala Chameleon’s people note Trump is a rich guy, supported by ultimate rich guy Elon Musk. The people (actors?) in these ads all seem to wear plaid shirts or jackets and some manner of working man ballcap, and they don’t like rich people.

This means they must not like Kamala Chameleon or most of her financial backers, guys like Bill Gates and the Soros clan, who are willing to donate millions, but don’t want to come out in the open about it.

Again, Trump has a track record and it’s not for punishing the middle class with higher taxes and inflation. That’s the Kamala Chameleon plan, the inescapable outcome of flushing away trillions of tax dollars trying to convince people that intermittent electrical power from solar and wind is acceptable, that electric vehicles are mandatory, gas cooking stoves are a climate threat and we just have to shut down the domestic energy industry for the good of the planet.

Clueless Joe Biden and Kamala Chameleon have a record on this, if you’re willing to look past the vapid ads.

Open borders, rampant crime, they also are the Biden-Harris legacy, regardless of what their ads might assert.

It is traditional around elections to encourage everyone to vote, particularly the hapless undecideds, who somehow have gotten to this point unable to discern a clear choice.

I go opposite this. If you haven’t made up your mind yet, stay home and spare us your inanity.

If you can’t take the time to research the positions and policies of candidates, but rely instead on paid propaganda and sound bites, don’t vote.

If you are crazed by hatred of Trump, the American standards he represents, and his “garbage” supporters, by all means, stay home.

Reality has intruded on the Penn State and Pitt football seasons. We can only hope for such a clear and decisive outcome on election day.

It strikes me on this Sunday morning, as I seek to utilize the extra hour that is the bonus of Daylight Savings Time being put in the closet, that there are similarities between the upcoming election and college football.

Begin with polls. Oh, the polls – often wrong but never in doubt.

There was a flood of new election polling over the weekend, often contradictory. Fans of each particular candidate predictably question the accuracy of polls not favoring their choice. It is similar with college football.

And polls, both in politics and college football, often are proved to have been overly optimistic in some cases; overly pessimistic in others. The good news is results will out, at least in football with the games played in public, as opposed to sometimes shady voting and counting done in secret during elections.

I wrote this past week of Penn State and Pitt each being unbeaten and ranked in the AP Top 25 based on that, but there were doubts about the pedigree of their results.

Penn State was 7-0 and ranked No. 3 before falling to once-beaten nemesis Ohio State, ranked No. 4. The Nittany Lions weren’t playing Kent State, Bowling Green or even over-rated USC this time. Despite being handed a 10-0 lead, Penn State managed to lose, 20-13, before a record home crowd that was, shall we say, not impressed.

No great escape. No miracle comeback. Only a post-Halloween haunting by a long-time, Michael Myers-like tormentor. Ohio State just beats Penn State in football. Period. As inevitable as today’s sunrise.

With the outcome yet again assured for the Buckeyes, some of those Penn State fans looked like Shillary supporters after they got the 2016 election results.

In some ways, the final score was misleading. Penn State was gifted its only touchdown on a badly thrown out pattern pass that was intercepted and returned for a touchdown early. Also, Ohio State’s quarterback later fumbled the ball through his offensive end zone from the two-yard line. Penn State got possession of the ball on a touchback instead of Ohio State likely scoring a touchdown.

This 14-point swing counterbalances Penn State whining about being stopped twice inside the five-yard line without scoring any points.

Pitt also had begun play at 7-0 Saturday, albeit ranked much lower at No. 18, and left at 7-1 after having absorbed a 48-25 thumping at the hands of No. 20 SMU. It was not as close as the final indicated, with SMU having led 31-3 at halftime.

Pitt had been behind often in previous games – sometimes big – and pulled out wins. Not this time.

Both Penn State and Pitt were unbeaten largely as products of less-than-challenging schedules. Yes, they both are in conferences and on that front are hostage to the schedules given them by those conference.

But either might have done a better job scheduling legitimate nonconference foes.

Penn State and Pitt should take note that once-beaten Boise State got that loss early in the season, losing on a game-ending field goal by Oregon. That Oregon team was No. 7 nationally at the time and now resides in the No. 1 spot.

Forget that oft-heard tripe about schedules being made well in advance and thereby giving teams a pass on lack of challenging opponents. They just couldn’t have known!

Oregon has been among the nation’s elite for a long time and was when it came together with Boise State as a scheduled opponent. But Kent State, appearing on the nonconference slates of Penn State and Pitt in this and many other years, never is to be mistaken for an elite program.

There are other common elements between elections and college football, including cult-like supporters totally incapable of rational thought, candidates and coaches ducking tough questions (Penn State’s coach James Franklin was Kamala-esque two weeks back in running away from media on the topic of former players charged with rape), and a lot of big money being thrown at candidates and programs behind the scenes.

As alluded to earlier in this post, the saving grace in college football is things tend to be settled in public. We get to see, on the field, how accurate those polls were.

That’s especially true in this year’s expanded national championship playoff field. With 12 teams getting a shot, it is going to be hard to argue that a worthy team was excluded. That often could not be said in the past, either when bowls and polls decided national champions, or playoff fields (picked by polls) were remarkably small.

Former football player, professional wrestler and current Fox political pundit Tyrus (George Murdoch) has been saying for weeks that tight political polls are incorrect and the election will not be close. He expects Donald Trump to win handily.

It would be best for this country if, despite all behind-the-scenes machinations, there was such a clear election winner, either way.

Don’t bet on it, just like you shouldn’t bet on Penn State or Pitt winning the national championship

Cheer up, Penn State football fans, despite yet another loss to Ohio State it could be worse. You could be Kamala Chameleon backers, too.

Sure, once again your team came up small in a big game. We recognize that latest failure in song.

To be sung to the tune of the chorus of “The Nittany Lion.” This is dedicated to you, Dan!

Hail to the Franklin

His teams are screwed

Your team would be screwed

If Franklin coached it too.

Can’t win the big games

Lost one again

He’s got the talent

But his coaching is inane.

How much we pay him

To fail and fail

We’d just be better off

With someone else to hail

Let’s send him packing

Tarred ‘n feathered too

Make it a package deal

With Franklin’s gameplans too.

And here’s a bonus, to be sung to the tune of Neil Diamond standard and Penn State crowd favorite “Sweet Caroline.”

Was in the fall

Penn State had blown another

Lost a big game as all went wrong

It’s nothing new

Since we’ve been coached by Franklin

Sometimes we’re sad he came along

Fans!

Booing fans!

They’re so loud!

Oh just listen to them boo!

Can’t hold the line (oh, oh, oh)

Our O and D are beaten blue

They are inclined (oh, oh, oh)

To let the enemies run through

Schedule was weak

Had taken luck to win some

Guess it was time our luck ran out

Playing the weak

As well as soft and infirm

Didn’t prepare us to win on

Fans!

Booing fans!

They’re so loud!

Oh just listen to them boo!

Can’t hold the line (oh, oh, oh)

Our O and D are beaten blue

They are inclined (oh, oh, oh)

To let the enemies run through

Liz Cheney is outraged about the possibility of being shot in the face, and not because she’s going hunting with daddy Dick.

You remember Dick, the guy who accidentally shot a fellow hunter in the face with a shotgun while quail hunting in February 2006. It was not until this faux pas was reported in the media that Cheney and his people came out to report and attempt to explain the whole thing.

Leftists had a field day at the time and they were righteous on this one. Such carelessness with firearms is reprehensible and reflects poorly on all lawful gun owners.

The shooting victim was reported to have been released from the hospital a week or so later – after suffering a heart attack in part due to being shot – and subsequently fawned over Cheney. The victim said at a press conference that he and his family were “deeply sorry for everything” Cheney and his family had to endure in the wake of the shooting.

So, the victim was sorry about being shot in the face by Cheney and that this had inconvenienced the then-sitting Vice President.

As to Dick Cheney being sorry, apparently not so much. Reports online indicate the victim was asked if Cheney had apologized and he didn’t answer the question. This likely indicates we got an answer with the non-answer.

Fact-forward to 2024 and Cheney, plus daughter Liz, are Kamala Chameleon converts. This is a longstanding trend in the Republican Party, which remains butt hurt by the Donald Trump takeover of the party. Elites like the Cheneys and Bush clan resent populists like Trump, not to mention his success.

Unlike Cheney and too many Republicans, Trump refuses to see never-ending wars as being in the best interest of the United States. Trump parts ways with many Democrats on this issue, too.

Liz Cheney paid the price for her blind hate toward Trump by being ousted in the 2022 Republican primary. Repeat, Liz, an incumbent member of the U.S. House from Wyoming, got beat by 30 percentage points or so in her party’s primary.

The party members of her state showed her what they thought of her anti-Trump actions, including her vote for his impeachment.

Liz vowed revenge and the years since have seen her working feverishly to hamstring Trump, most lately by campaigning with the empty pants suit known as Cackling Kamala. We can only hope the Cheney effect helps Kamala to a 30-point loss.

Cheney and her ilk rail that Trump is Hitler, that his followers are Nazis, etc., etc., etc.

Trump has fired back – rhetorically. He asked the very same question I would ask of war hawks like Cheney, and including petty little guys like Zelenskyy. That question is, how tough would they be if they were in the front lines with people shooting at them?

I don’t think they’d be very tough at all, but maybe I’m wrong. Let’s send them to the front with a rifle in their hands and find out for certain.

And so, Trump wondered how Liz would feel if there were rifles trained on her face, prepared to shoot back. This, notably, from a guy recently shot in the head who had risen to his feet afterward and encouraged that Butler crowd to “Fight, fight, fight.

Liz rushed to social media to whine about Trump being a mean would-be dictator with his comments about her.

It was ironic since Liz now aligns with the party that helped incentivize at least two assassination attempts on Trump. Even after those, Clueless Joe Biden’s commerce secretary was out in late September saying Trump should be “extinguished for good.”

I can’t be sure of this, not having taken the time to search her social media history, but I doubt Liz Cheney was quick to lament that choice of words.

An Associated Press report on Trump’s Liz Cheney remarks was predictably sure to brand him as “using increasingly threatening rhetoric against his adversaries and talked of enemies from within undermining the country.”

The report goes on to use this to justify those calling Trump a fascist and, presumably, forgiving things like trying to assassinate him.

Compared to armed leftists either shooting Trump – literally – or attempting to do so, saying Liz Cheney might be a little more restrained if she faced the danger herself instead of just being quick to send the military into harm’s way, seems pretty minor to me.

Bottom line: Relax, Liz. You’re safe as long as you don’t go hunting with daddy.

Congratulations, Democrats, you pledge your allegiance to the party that lies to you, and to the public in general, expecting you to lap up the fabrications — no matter how ridiculous — without question.

Their hubris over telling lies and succeeding because of it is somewhat understandable. It has been working for them for so long.

It still works with the hardcore leftists and a lot of the supposedly less radical of the flock, because too many Democrats seem to have checked their critical reasoning ability at the door. But the public in general is catching on to the nonstop torrent of lies, distortions and propaganda and is no longer buying them.

With any luck, the liars will be repudiated in the coming election.

Recent days have produced a watershed of ridiculous attempts to mislead from Democrats.

As October ended, the White House has been caught altering transcripts of a Zoom call on which Clueless Joe Biden called Donald Trump’s supporters garbage.

First, they tried to argue the idiots who witnessed a video of the call, heard this and were outraged, had ignored a phantom apostrophe that made it all okay. When that misdirection attempt failed, the White House just altered the transcript.

That would have worked in the past. Not in this internet age. It’s out there forever, or at least until the Democrats initiate World War III and all electronic devices are fried by nuclear electromagnetic pulses.

Clueless Joe shared this absurd characterization of Trump loyalists even as Kamala Chameleon was making her closing argument that she would be a uniter, despite calling Trump a fascist, his supporters Nazis and having her surrogates say anyone not voting for her is either a racist, a misogynist, an idiot, or maybe a combination of all three.

And the Chameleon’s campaign is out with a new TV ad encouraging women to lie to husbands or anyone else who might be interested, and vote for Kamala on the sly.

The party of the big lie is closing its presidential campaign by proposing women lie about their vote. Fitting.

Someone should have let motormouth Mark Cuban in on the latest ad campaign. That might have prevented him from going on the air and looking like a total moron by observing that all women anywhere around Trump are neither strong, nor intelligent.

How long before Cuban or his apologists say he was misunderstood and a key apostrophe would have made it all clear?

Why do they even bother? It’s like a child caught in a lie who keeps digging deeper with even more fabrications.

Yet they keep at it. Tampon Tim shows up wearing camouflage hats or hunting gear, then can’t load his shotgun. He plays a video football game on a livestream with AOC, then credits her with running a mean pick six play.

Pick six is the term for an interception returned for a touchdown. It is not a designed play on offense and just a happy accident on defense. You’d think a guy billed as “Coach Walz” would know that.

Or maybe Tampon Tim is as fake as one of Kamala Chameleon’s accents or policy positions.

You also might think it telling that Tampon Tim’s hunt and video football both produced zeros in terms of birds felled or points scored.

And then there’s would-be first dude Dougie, Kamala Chameleon’s hubby, who is held up as the epitome of modern masculinity. Presumably that means neutered and willing to stand in his wife’s shadow with a brainless smile, but not because he shagged a nanny or is accused of slapping a date that he thought was flirting with a parking valet.

Again, lies by the left have become old hat. Trump was being spied upon by U.S. intelligence, despite protestations by the left and the lapdog media that he was crazy in saying this. Hunter’s laptop was, indeed, Hunter’s laptop, not Russian disinformation. The Trump-Russia collusion was a big lie. Lies were used to facilitate the spying on Trump and his organization.

COVID vaccines were effective and safe, sure. Clueless Joe was/is not senile, Kamala Chameleon had nothing to do with the coup that removed Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, but she did work at McDonald’s.

Hell, I remember way back in the leadup to the 2000 election when my mother was buying into the left’s propaganda that Republican George W. Bush was going to cut Social Security and Medicare.

I assured her it was a lie. But, I promised her that if I was wrong and it ever happened, I would make up whatever she lost out of my pocket. She voted for Bush, who had two terms in office and Trump has had one. My mother died a few years back, without her Social Security or Medicare ever having been cut by mean Republicans.

Yet the Democrats are out again with charges Trump will cut Social Security and Medicare. And there probably are some confused souls buying their lies.

As with other liars, Democrats find the more they lie, the easier it is to keep telling lies. And they find a need to tell even more lies because they have distanced themselves so far from the truth and reality, there’s no turning back.

This is an election that is our chance to call BS on the crap we’ve been fed and force the liars to pay a penalty for all their misdeeds. Their clock is ticking, I hope.