KNOCK, KNOCK, WHO’S THERE?

The New York Times just admitted something that has always been obvious. Democrats are far more likely to respond to calls from a pollster than Republicans. The following article explains:

NYT chief political analyst explains why polls could be underestimating Trump again

This is easy to understand. If I got a call from someone taking a poll the odds of my participation approach zero. If the poll was being conducted on behalf of the New York Times the odds of participation would be less than zero.

But if any of the “antidotal” stories being told by the people who actually talk to potential voters are accurate, this year there may be another problem that could skew results even more. There are numerous reports of Democrats who are fully aware of how awful the Biden Administration has performed and they have zero confidence in Kamala Harris. They may not like Trump, they may even hate Trump, but they will hold their nose and vote for him anyway. The reason is that when Trump was President, things were better. End of story.

So, there are some important questions not addressed by any of the polls. One is how Republican turnout will compare to Democratic turnout. Early voting seems to indicate that Republicans are turning out for early voting much higher than in previous years. Republicans have absolutely registered more people than Democrats during the last couple of years. If Republican turnout on election day is higher than Democratic turnout, as has been the case for a long time, then Trump is going to have a really big victory.

Another is how many people will vote along party lines, as expected. Numerous polls show that support for Kamala Harris among black and Hispanic voters is much lower than for previous Democrat candidates.

In addition, it is important to evaluate who is showing up to vote. So far there are indications that black voters are staying home more so than in the past. If that is true, and if the support for Kamala Harris among black voters has declined, as is being reported, then it is hard to imagine her winning.

Finally, one should consider their own personal interactions. I know many people who are liberal, who are Democrats and who despise Donald Trump. All of them are quick to tell me that they hate Donald Trump because he lies all the time. That immediately tells me they are listening to CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, or ABC. If they were doing any personal research, they would know this is itself a lie and distortion. Trump exaggerates all the time, but he seldom says things that are demonstrably false. On the other hand, Kamala Harris has told outrageous lies, easily disputed, just unchallenged by the MSM. And some of her lies are extremely dangerous, such as accusing Trump of being a fascist. Trump, if you have been paying attention, says that Kamala is stupid and dumb. Not very nice but based on my personal knowledge of her actual record, not necessarily inaccurate.

Knock, knock, who’s there? Right now, none of know for sure. We know that far too many people will vote for Kamala Harris without regard to facts or evidence. We know that far too many people will believe the MSM lies about Donald Trump and really believe he is a danger to Democracy. The question is whether the majority of people who vote will ignore the lies and distortions by the MSM and make an informed decision. Hold your breath.

I don’t bet on anything, but I sure wouldn’t bet on Kamala Harris.

TDM

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK!

Last night we got to turn our clocks back for an hour. This is a wonderful thing, because it means we get an extra hour of sleep, right? Not if you have a couple of miniature Schnauzers who are used to getting up at 8:00 a.m. They don’t judge time by something as silly as a clock with the hands moved back an hour. To them, 8:00 a.m. is 8:00 a.m., time to get up, and they don’t really care what the clocks used by their stupid humans say.

This is a reminder that man can tinker with things and proceed under the assumption that the world has changed too. But the world, particularly the natural world, doesn’t care. The only thing accomplished by turning back the clock is creating the illusion that this changes everything.

Today, everyone is looking forward to Wednesday. Regardless of who people want to be elected, we are getting sick and tired of all the political ads. We are even more sick of being lied to. In this election, the MSM has absolutely ignored the blatant and dangerous lies told by Kamala Harris and has gone into overtime highlighting anything Donald Trump says or does and presents it in the worst conceivable way. Most recently they totally ignored what he actually said and tried to convince people that Trump threatened Liz Cheney with a firing squad. Trump despises Liz Cheney as much as she despises him. He would certainly like to see her shut up. But unlike the Clintons, there is no hint of people opposed to Trump dying mysteriously.

I recently heard someone on the MSM say that if Trump wins the MSM is in serious trouble. I ignored this as some bizarre conspiracy theory, but then realized he might actually be right. Think about this. The MSM has been focused 24/7 for the past year in destroying Donald Trump. During the last six weeks, they have been equally focused on puffing up Kamala Harris pretending she is remotely qualified to be President of the United States. If Donald Trump still wins, despite all this united effort, it will be undeniable evidence that the MSM has become irrelevant. Their viewership has already dropped like a stone, and this will be proof that they have little influence anymore. Now their owners and their liberal supporters won’t care, but the people who actually finance their programs, like people who want to sell things, will not only notice, but they will also act.

At some point, as Margaret Thatcher said, “the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money“. Could this be true for an MSM that has been in lock step, but out of touch with the majority of Americans?

If so, we could see the clocks set back, but in a whole different way. Those who have money and who buy TV ads may demand change. They may demand the MSM start reporting honestly and stop the deliberate distortion, or they will simply cease to exist at all. At a minimum, if Trump changes, check out the list of anchors in the MSM, and watch to see how many of them are still around a year from today. Those who do survive will be those who are willing to confront reality and return the MSM to news organizations that actually report the facts and the news. What a novel concept.

There is more at stake Tuesday than who becomes President of the United States. Sometimes, turning back the clock is a good thing.

TDM

BATHROOM ON THE RIGHT!

One of our favorite songs was Bad Moon Rising written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The actual lyrics, appropriate with the election just around the corner, are as follows:

I hear hurricanes a-blowin’
I know the end is comin’ soon
I fear rivers overflowin’
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Don’t go around tonight
Well, it’s bound to take your life
There’s a bad moon on the rise

 

My wife and I became convinced that the real words being sung weren’t “There’s a bad moon on the rise,” but rather “There’s a bathroom on the right.” Go ahead, listen to the song, and decide for yourself. We even called in to a local DJ in Grand Rapids, Michigan and he laughed and said he thought we were right.

Either way next Tuesday is going to be pretty scary. All of the signs point to Trump winning, but many of us have bad memories of 2020 where miraculous late night ballot drops put Joe Biden in the White House. At the time it was hard to imagine over 80 million people voting for Joe Biden. It is still hard to believe more than 80 million people voting for Joe Biden. One thing is certain, next Tuesday a whole lot of people are going to vote for Kamala Harris. We just better hope that enough people vote for Donald Trump to make the margin too large for Democrats to overcome with “creative votes.” 

One thing is certain, all of the recent polls show Harris decline and Trump surging. All of them show an election too close to call. Republicans are definitely showing up more in early voting than in prior years. In addition, Republicans have registered a lot more voters than in prior years. Those are significant factors.

More importantly, less than 1/3 of Americans think the country is on the right track. Kamala Harris has repeatedly said she wouldn’t do anything different than Joe Biden. Even more importantly, Trump is far more popular than the MSM realizes. That picture of him standing with his fist in the air, saying fight, after narrowingly avoiding a would-be assassins, bullet was incredible. So was the picture of him sitting in a garbage truck, grinning, after Joe Biden called all Trump supporters garbage. In the meantime, Kamala Harris is flopping back and forth between apologizing and calling Trump a Nazi threat to democracy. This is definitely not a good look.

At this point, all we can do is vote and wait. When you think about it, it is beyond incredible. Perhaps the most important election in our lifetime and all we can do is wait for the results. A lot of us are hoping for a Trump victory but terrified at the thought that so many of our fellow citizens (and if you believe the rumors – non-citizens) are prepared to vote for Kamala Harris to be President of the United States. Are there really this many people who can or perhaps more accurately, will not see the obvious? What, exactly, about her is appealing, other than she is not Donald Trump?

We all better hope we are not seeing a bad moon on the rise, or we will definitely need that bathroom on the right.

 

TDM

GARBAGE IN – GARBAGE OUT

Last night Kamala Harris gave a speech apparently designed to give her closing argument for the 2024 election. She chose to give this at the Washington Ellipse, the same site Donald Trump used on January 6th, 2021. The speech itself was a disaster. The person claiming she wants to unify us spent much of the speech trashing Donald Trump and repeating lies and distortions about what happened on January 6th. Here is what she said:

Look, we know who Donald Trump is. He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election, an election that he knew he lost. Americans died as a result of that attack. 140 law enforcement officers were injured because of that attack, and while Donald Trump sat in the White House watching as the violence unfolded on television, he was told by his staff that the mob wanted to kill his own vice president, and Donald Trump responded with Two words. So what?

Donald Trump has told us his priorities for a second term. He has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute. He says that one of his highest priorities is to set free the violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers on January 6. Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him, people he calls, quote, the enemy from within America. This is not a candidate for president who is thinking about how to make your life better. This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.

She did not invite Joe Biden to attend, even though this was a short distance from the White House. So, Joe gave his own statement, which was an even worse disaster. Here is what Joe said:

They’re good, decent, honorable people,” Biden said, referring to the Puerto Rican community. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done.”

He was responding to an incredibly stupid joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who was promptly booed by the people at the Madison Square Garden rally.

Today Kamala Harris is in damage control mode and the White House is trying, and failing, to spin this insult of Trump supporters away. It isn’t working. Even CNN realizes this is ridiculous.

All the polls and all the signs point toward the Harris campaign collapsing while Donald Trump is surging. There are also reports of widespread fraud, including busing non-English speakers to jump the line at polling stations bypassing people who have been waiting for hours.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/frustration-boils-as-pennsylvania-voters-witness-non-english/

The MSM is trying to ignore this story, but there are lot of inconvenient videos.

At this point it seems unlikely that Democrats can steal enough votes to turn back the red tide about to sweep the country. If they could have put both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in a basement and duct taped their mouths, they might have had a better chance. But every time either one speaks, the problems with Kamala Harris become increasingly obvious. In the meantime, Trump is drawing enormous and enthusiastic crowds. J.D. Vance is absolutely destroying MSM news reporters who try to trap him into answering silly irrelevant questions. The combination is beyond lethal. The only thing I can say is “garbage in, garbage out” may be the best way to describe what is going on. Trying to sell peace and prosperity is a challenging task when one spends most of their time trashing their opponent, repeating lies and misinformation, refusing to answer legitimate questions and somehow hoping no one notices.

TDM

TRUTH BE TOLD!

Scripts news arrogantly declares “TRUTH BE TOLD.” I guess it depends on how one defines truth. Most recently the headline says that “No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler.” The article goes on to criticize Trump for posting the following: “”Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly,” “She is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler…“.

Truth Be Told: No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler

One notes that technically Harris did not say Trump was Adolph Hitler, she just said he is a fascist who said Hitler did a lot of good things. Hitler was born in 1889, so if alive today, he would be 135 years old. So, it is highly unlikely that Trump was claiming Harris said he was literally Hitler. But apparently Scripts felt compelled to correct the record. While Harris did not say Trump is Adolph Hitler, she absolutely said he is a fascist who admires Adolph Hitler. Most of this based on discredited comments by John Kelly who has recently said many things absolutely denied by everyone else around, including people who hate Trump.

By the way, there actually was a U.S. President who admired Hitler. His name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A Democrat.

If you doubt that, here is what Kennedy wrote about Hitler when he was 28 years old:

JFK diary calls Hitler ‘stuff of legends’ – BBC News

“Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.” Hitler “had a boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will grow after him.”  He wrote this AFTER World War II, while working as a newspaper reporter following the war.

Kennedy changed his viewpoint, at least publicly, and said that Winston Churchill was his idol. No one called Kennedy a fascist during the 1960 election.

Scripts failed to consider the seriousness of Kamala Harris saying she felt Trump was a fascist who admired Hitler. Incredibly, when asked if she really thought Trump was a fascist, she said yes. Something Scripts either failed to notice or simply did not bother to report.

She continues to moan about the hateful discourse by Trump and his supporters. But while Trump says she is stupid and incompetent, which is definitely insulting. She is the one who says he is a fascist.

Sadly, this is exactly how the MSM operates far too often. In may cases we read reports in the MSM are not only wrong, they are not only politically biased, but at times they are dangerously wrong. Is it any surprise that some people listening to this kind of rhetoric would decide that assassinating Trump was necessary to save the country?

Last night Trump spoke before a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden. This scared the crap out of the Harris campaign and its fawning idiot supporters in the MSM. No, this was not racist. Racist is choosing someone to be VP and now candidate for President solely because she is a black female. They are comparing this to a Nazi influenced event held in Madison Square Garden before World War II. That is not only absurd, but also extremely insulting to those in attendance and to those who watched this on TV.

Truth be told, the truth is seldom told. But it is still the truth. Trump outshined the neon signs on Times Square and Kamala Harris paled in comparison. The MSM knows this, and they are terrified, which is why they feel compelled to lie about it. If you want to know what Trump said, watch the video. If you want to know the impact on this, watch the weeping and wailing by those who are horrified by the truth.

TDM

TRUTH BE TOLD!

Scripts news arrogantly declares “TRUTH BE TOLD.” I guess it depends on how one defines truth. Most recently the headline says that “No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler.” The article goes on to criticize Trump for posting the following: “”Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly,” “She is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler…“.

Truth Be Told: No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler

One notes that technically Harris did not say Trump was Adolph Hitler, she just said he is a fascist who said Hitler did a lot of good things. Hitler was born in 1889, so if alive today, he would be 135 years old. So, it is highly unlikely that Trump was claiming Harris said he was literally Hitler. But apparently Scripts felt compelled to correct the record. While Harris did not say Trump is Adolph Hitler, she said he is a fascist who admires Adolph Hitler. Most of this based on discredited comments by John Kelly who has recently said many things absolutely denied by everyone else around, including people who hate Trump.

By the way, there actually was a U.S. President who admired Hitler. His name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A Democrat.

If you doubt that, here is what Kennedy wrote about Hitler when he was 28 years old:

JFK diary calls Hitler ‘stuff of legends’ – BBC News

“Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.” Hitler “had a boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will grow after him.”  He wrote this AFTER World War II, while working as a newspaper reporter following the war.

Kennedy changed his viewpoint, at least publicly, and said that Winston Churchill was his idol. No one called Kennedy a fascist during the 1960 election.

Scripts failed to consider the seriousness of Kamala Harris saying she felt Trump was a fascist who admired Hitler. When asked if she really thought Trump was a fascist, she said yes. Something Scripts either failed to notice or simply did not bother to report.

She continues to moan about the hateful discourse by Trump and his supporters. But Trump says she is stupid and incompetent. She is the one who says he is a fascist.

Sadly, this is exactly how the MSM operates far too often. In may cases we read reports in the MSM are not only wrong, they are not only politically biased, but at times they are dangerously wrong. Is it any surprise that some people listening to this kind of rhetoric would decide that assassinating Trump was necessary to save the country?

Tonight, Trump spoke before a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden. This scared the crap out of the Harris campaign and its fawning idiot supporters in the MSM. No, this was not racist. Racist is choosing someone to be VP and now candidate for President solely because she is a black female. They are comparing this to a Nazi influenced event held in Madison Square Garden before World War II. That is not only absurd, but also extremely insulting to those in attendance and to those who watched this on TV.

Truth be told, the truth is seldom told. But it is still the truth. Trump outshined the neon signs on Times Square and Kamala Harris paled in comparison. The MSM knows this, and they are terrified, which is why they feel compelled to lie about it. If you want to know what Trump said, watch the video. If you want to know the impact on this, watch the weeping and wailing by those who are horrified by the truth.

TDM

TOAST

For many people, one of the vital ingredients in an early breakfast is toast. This year there are increasing signs that the Kamala Harris campaign is toast. The early voting results are starting to come in and if the results are any indication of what will happen on election day, Kamala Harris and Democrat candidates down ballot are in serious trouble. In previous years, Democrats always outperformed Republicans during early voting. This is partly because of the Democrat ground game and partly because Republicans are skeptical about mail-in voting. But this year, Republicans are showing up strong in early voting results and in some cases outperforming Democrats. That has to be setting off alarm bells all over the country for the Democrat party.

In addition, Kamala Harris continues to perform very poorly during interviews, even from “News” Organizations typically favoring Democrats. She often can’t even hit a slow pitch soft ball question. She routine bombs questions that are far beyond predictable. In addition, her surrogates are not exactly doing well either. When pressed on the subject, Governor Josh Shapiro could not point out anything Kamala Harris is proposing that is different that what President Biden is doing. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Most people recognize insanity when they see it, but increasingly most people are not members of the Democrat party.

Then, shockingly, the Los Angeles Times refused to endorse Kamala Harris. Now if there is one newspaper in the country guaranteed to toe the Democrat line, it is the Los Angeles Times. If Kamala Harris has lost the LA Times, she has lost everywhere.

Kamala Harris is slowing down appearances and sometimes takes entire days off. Donald Trump is also cancelling some events, but probably for a hugely different reason. In the case of Kamala, many people think the less we see of her the less we hate her. The Democrat strategy for success in 2020 was based on keeping Biden in the basement. Trump, on the other hand, may be listening to good advice. “When your opponent is self-destructing, don’t get in the way.”  In addition, the assassination threat is very real, so choosing events carefully from a security standpoint just makes sense. This is one reason Trump has given up golf until after the election.

It is impossible to safely predict things two weeks before an election. Sometimes we really don’t know what is happening until the last minute. The same is true of the weather. Those of us in Florida were warned about the potential for a hurricane like Milton for about two weeks. Even after the storm had clearly developed and was heading toward Florida, it was far from certain where, exactly, it would make land fall. Then suddenly, in the very last hours, that storm veered to the right and hit land about 45 miles south of Tampa Bay. If that storm had veered north instead of south the rest of the country would have had trouble even imagining the damage that would have been done to the Tampa Bay region.

We still don’t know where this election is heading, but we can sure see which direction the wind is blowing. Even the strongest Democrat pollsters are saying an extremely narrow win by Kamala Harris is possible, but they are also admitting a very real chance of a Trump landslide. So far, it sure looks like Republicans are the ones showing up in the early voting. If that continues, the forecast is definitely improving.

TDM

THE TWILIGHT ZONE!

When I was in high school, we often watched the Twilight zone. I don’t know who the writers were, but there was some seriously weird stuff. One of my favorites was a show called: To Serve Man. A spaceship will with nine-foot-tall aliens land on earth, in the midst of international crisis. They were invited to address the UN and say that their mission is to provide humanitarian aid by sharing advanced technology that will inexpensively solve all energy and food storage problems and by the way, facilitate world peace. I later learned this is identical to the promises made by the Democrat Party.

To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone) – Wikipedia

Hysterically, they were called the “Kanamits.”  (I only learned this after researching this blog). Remind you of anyone? At first everything seems to be going great and several people volunteer to travel to Kanamit. Just as the ship is getting ready to take off, some actually translates the book they provided and screams: “It’s a cookbook.

The hero(?) Michael Chambers stupidly gets on the ship preparing him for supper. He goes on a hunger strike and the Kanamits let him address viewers on earth directly, at which point he warns them that the Kanamits intend to cook and eat all humanity.

Now no one would confuse Kamala Harris with a brilliant alien. There are a lot of words to describe her, but brilliant is not on the list. But in terms of promising everything while delivering nothing other than a plan for permanent domination, she fits right in with the Kanamit value system. Coincidence?

Like the people who believed the Kanamits, far too many people are buying this nonsense. But, unlike the movie, a lot of other people aren’t fooled at all. Every time the MSM interviews ordinary people they are shocked to discover they are not on the Kamala Harris bandwagon. Although the MSM tries to troll Trump about the size of the crowds at his rallies, the reality is that he draws a multitude compared to Kamala and any of her surrogates. For example, when Trump decided to serve food at a McDonalds, people lined up for what looked like miles. The reason is quite simple. Whether you like Trump or not, he is very real. At a minimum this is fun to watch.

As for Kamala, well she is acting like she is the one in the Twilight Zone. All of her attempts to be relatable have backfired. Most recently she sat down and chatted with Liz Cheney in Michigan. Perhaps she didn’t remember or more likely didn’t know that Dick Cheney is not exactly adored in the Arab world. He was mostly focused on killing them. There are recent reports that Michigan Arabs now prefer Trump to Harris, in spite of daily efforts by Harris to trick Israel into snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I guess it just makes sense that Kamala Harris does this just as her campaign is entering the twilight period of her campaign. Unless somethings changes, and soon, the margin of victory for Trump will be more than Democrats can hope to steal. Like the Kanamits, Kamala belongs in the Twilight Zone.

TDM

THE BAIER’S DEN!

Someone decided it would be a great idea to have Kamala Harris interviewed by Fox News. Then they stupidly chose Bret Baier to do the interview. This was a colossal mistake. It was so bad the Kamala Harris staffers were desperately begging Bair to end the interview.  According to Baier she showed up late and they limited the time to the minimum possible.

Bret Baier was, at times, rude and he interrupted her on several occasions. This has been done routinely by the MSM when interviewing Trump surrogates, but apparently this type of interview is just not acceptable if the candidate is a liberal black female Democrat.

Baier interviewed Donald Trump and he asked tough questions.  But Trump kept his cool and was able to handle it. Harris lost control of the tropics and her own emotions. In addition, she gave ridiculous answers when challenged. For example, when Baier asked her if she still supported using taxpayer’s dollars for transgender surgery on prisoners, her response was that she would follow the law.

People in the MSM are pretending that Harris did great. Newsweek said she “dominated” Bet Baier:

Kamala Harris ‘Dominated’ Bret Baier in Fox News Interview—GOP Speechwriter (msn.com)

The problem for the MSM is anyone watching this interview will have no difficulty understanding Kamala Harris’s performance. Granted, her strongest supporters will remain her strongest supporters and predictably viewed this through Rainbow Colored lens. But they don’t matter. The only people who really matter are the few people still deciding who they will vote for in a couple of weeks. I don’t think this performance is likely to cause very many people to decide “she is great!” They may hate Fox News and they may despise Bret Baier, but that does nothing to elevate Kamala Harris.

This reminds me of an incident years ago during the O.J. Simpson trial. We were watching TV and Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor, came on. One of the attorneys in our foursome, who had just gone through a bitter divorce, said: “That’s everyone’s ex-wife.” I still laugh about that years later.

Kamala Harris is a poster child for the modern arrogant insufferable liberal woman who can’t even fathom how other people think. She is the Dylan Mulvaney of American politics. Dylan Mulvaney is the transgender social media personality stupidly chosen by Bud Light to attract a whole new class of consumers. Instead, there was an instant boycott, people just stopped buying Bud light. Prior to this idiotic mistake, Bud Light had 12.5% of total beer sales. A recent report by Harvard shows that Bud Light sales dropped by about 32%.

I think this interview may have more impact on the Harris/Walz campaign and Democrats in general than the Dylan Mulvaney commercial. While the talking heads on the MSM still won’t understand, most people not viewing the world through rainbow glasses saw this quite clearly. They understand one thing. This person is totally unqualified to be President of the United States. They will also have visions of  four years of seeing this Joke of a Person pretending to be our Commander-in-chief. This was so bad drinking Bud Light looks good in comparison.

TDM

HEARING AIDS!

I still remember when I got my first set of hearing aids. I knew that my hearing had deteriorated, but didn’t realize the significance of this. Quite simply if you can’t hear what you are missing you don’t know what you have been missing. I put on those hearing aids and everything changed. First, I noticed the ability to hear what people were saying. But I also noticed a lot of other sounds, some of which were startling to me. It took me a few weeks to adjust to a world that was suddenly a whole lot louder.

Yesterday, I was driving my tour of duty for the Sun City Center Security Patrol. It is pretty tame; we just drive around and look for anything to report. In the meantime, I was listening to Fox News which happened to be broadcasting the on-stage interview of Donald Trump on economic policy by Bloomberg. The person asking the questions, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief, John Micklethwait had a very distinct British accent. He is clearly an anti-tariff guy and he was obviously on a mission to challenge Trump.

Now if you listen to MSNBC, then you probably think Trump was horrible and rambled on inconsistently. Here is their report:

Why Trump’s on-stage interview on economic policy was such a mess (msn.com)

This is typical of the MSM, and once again, they totally missed the point. They didn’t really listen and as a result they did not hear. Trump more than held his own in this conversation. He debated Micklethwait and he didn’t hesitate to respond when challenged. Frankly, it was a classic example of why Trump has been successful. He listens to the experts, but he isn’t intimidated by them. He made several excellent arguments explaining exactly why tariffs can be extremely helpful. Mr. Micklethwait obviously believes in free trade and that includes between countries. But Trump pointed out that free trade requires reciprocity. We can’t allow someone like China to take over manufacturing, move jobs overseas, and then refuse to allow American companies to compete in China. He explained why he warned American companies seeking to move plants to Mexico that they wouldn’t be allowed to sell their products in the U.S. with no restrictions. It should be pointed out that it was Trump, not Micklethwait who was getting applause for his answers. One may love Trump, hate Trump, or be indifferent, but listening to this conversation it was impossible to ignore the reality of Trump. His accomplishments as a businessman and a leader are incredible and they are not accidental. The real leaders are not those who follow the crowd and mimic talking points, they are those who see the world as it really is and more importantly figure out how to change things.

Several years ago, friends of our had a Chinese exchange student visiting. They him shopping, to try and find a souvenir from the U.S. to  bring back home to China, but he was disappointed to learn that almost everything was made in China. The sad reality is that far too many American business owners moved manufacturing to China and other places, destroyed large swaths of American Industry and ignored the impact on the American economy. Trump understands this and he understands how to fix the problem. It would be wise not to underestimate him. The cultured elite think they know the answers to everything but in reality, their plans have been a total disaster because they don’t understand the skill necessary to make a deal. Trump does. He knows how to play the game and that interview showcased what makes him special.

The MSM was too focused on trashing Trump to listen. There is none so blind as those who will not see and cannot listen. However, people who actually listened to this conversation were confronted with the reality of Donald Trump.

The contrast between him and Kamala Harris could not have been more obvious.

TDM