Remember when “I Hate Thanksgiving” socialist Francesca Hong was defeated by David Crowley in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary last August, after leading in almost every poll? Probably not: August was a long time ago. A refresher: activist Democrats and media enablers expressed disbelief and swore that polls in general no longer meant anything. That lasted about a week. Currently, if you read or watch any “legacy” or “no-legacy” media, digital or print, the results of November’s midterm elections are already in, just look at the polls! A spectacular win for Democrats, including triumphs for Senate candidates James Talarico (TX), Abdul El-Sayed (MI), Sherrod Brown (OH), Troy Jackson (ME), Roy Cooper (NC) and Peggy Flanagan (MN). The House—difficult for the GOP to keep control, given the slim margins—might, according to optimistic Democrats, approach the level of 1994. (I similarly discount the predictions of GOP hacks like onetime Clinton fortune-teller and toe-sucker Dick Morris and Ben Shapiro.)
That might happen. I haven’t a clue, and neither do the reporters and pundits who cite favorable polls to prop up their candidates of choice. Donald Trump’s “unfavorable ratings” are worse than Marie Antoinette’s, it’s said, and the 80-year-old is forsaking campaigning for the GOP (following Barack Obama’s example in 2010 and 2014) and instead is concentrating on making money, drawing up preemptive pardon papers for his idiotic son Donald, Jr. and other family members (saving Jared from bending over in the showers), and thinking of re-naming the Lincoln Memorial in honor of himself. Gas prices are up (for now), ICE is becoming meaner and NYC’s Canal St. is chockablock with illegal vendors. That’s the plot, or as dim-witted journalists would say, “the narrative.”
Meanwhile, Paris is still burning, the U.K. has ceded authority to Muslims and social media is consumed with a woman from Cornell who claimed she was gang-raped by “Frat bros” who had ketamine on their dicks. She’s since changed her story, and it’s murky with little nobility on either side of the she-said/they-said incident, but no matter, as New York’s political-finger-in-the-wind Gov. Kathy Hochul has appointed biased Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the matter. Look for a quick blue-ribbon White Paper from James, who previously wrote on Facebook that she “stands” with the woman. I swear, you’d think at least some of the Americans standing for this or that cause would sit down. I doubt the horrifying specter of child-murderer Lindsay Clancy will have much resonance in November, since the tie-dyed, chopped-haircut ghouls supporting her have already thrown in with the Dems.
Since everyone on the liberal/socialist spectrum has already declared a rousing victory in the midterms—and maybe a third go at impeachment proceedings against Trump—why did The New York Times find it necessary to publish its 987th story in the past year about the President’s claim of election fraud. That would be “slop” thinking. On Oct. 2nd, a Times editor enlisted Liz Oyer—who worked in the Biden administration as Justice pardon attorney from 2022 to 2025—to beat that tattered drum again.
Oyer’s proof of malicious Trump administration interference is the indictment, announced by Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter, of a USPS worker for getting rid of some mail. Oyer: “The Utah mail carrier, Damon Matai Seei, was apparently covering a colleague’s delivery route at the time. By his own admission, he was feeling ‘overwhelmed,’ and sought to ‘lighten his workload’ by discarding a batch of undelivered mail in a church dumpster.” Prosecutors said the “discarded batch” of mail included 300 mail-in ballots for a primary election. Trump’s Justice Department, typically pointed to this as purposely malicious on Seei’s part and continued its chest-pounding that “the integrity of the electoral system” was in question.
It appears, given the bare-bones facts, that 34-year-old Seei wasn’t an agent of the Democratic Party, but does that excuse his crime of tossing undelivered mail in a “church dumpster”? Who knows what was trashed: checks, personal correspondence, legal documents, as well as the usual junk. That Seei was charged with a felony isn’t unreasonable, particularly when the USPS is held in such low regard. (Anecdotally, last week a fellow who made new shutters for our house, said he didn’t trust the USPS to deliver, from Baltimore City to Harford County, the $1700 check we owed him. Instead, he drove over an hour to pick it up in person.)
More Oyer: “Recent polling shows that President Trump’s baseless claims about mail-in voting fraud are persuading few people outside his base… So far, the courts have consistently rejected Mr. Trump’s politically-motivated prosecutions. Most Americans can see these cases for what they are: flimsy and pathetic—a sign of Mr. Trump’s weakness.”
“Most Americans” have little knowledge or interest in these “baseless claims.” They’re more concerned about crime, everyday toiletries locked in cases at pharmacies and drugstores, the cost of gasoline, rising rents and property taxes, and, in some locations, governmental obeisance to aggressive Muslims.
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