The Witness Chronicles, September 14, 2024 v2
We will win but it’s gonna be close. And JD Vance and neo-Nazis
This Election is Not About Big Wins
It’s chipping away piece by piece
There is no doubt in the real world, as opposed to MAGA land, that Kamala Harris decisively won this past week’s debate and that Donald Trump flamed out spectacularly, going completely off the rails in front of 67 million viewers.
But does it matter, as in, will it be decisive in November? And the consensus seems to be yes, and no. Yes it helps Harris but no, it is not tipping things into a clear win. At this point we have had the disastrous Biden flameout, an assassination attempt, the Arlington political stunt by Trump on hallowed ground, and now this debate.
And none of those events moved the needle in any significant way. Biden’s performance looked like the event that killed Democrat hopes but then we had this remarkable shift into Harris suddenly jumping in and catching up to Trump overnight. So even what looked like a defining event didn’t change the race once the dust settled.
But she is successfully chipping away at a man who we are seeing in real life more and more as the crying victim, the fear mongering tyrant, and a man likely suffering from some form of dementia. We saw all of that on Tuesday night and, like January Sixth, it has a lot of voters thinking twice about him but not definitively changing their votes, at least not yet.
This week on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Trump brought along Laura Loomer, a crackpot racist who claims 9/11 was an inside job, to a solemn ceremony commemorating those who died that day and after.
And we basically ignored that. Which should be shocking in itself. But Trump no longer has any boundaries whatsoever and his hardcore followers are ok with that and even like it. Loomer’s presence now in Trump’s orbit has been severely criticized by Trumpers like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thom Tillis and others.
Yes, she is too out there for a major nut like MTG.
He simply doesn’t care. And this may ultimately be his downfall as voters gradually realize just how detached he is from even a shred of decency. That may be wishful thinking but he is certainly giving the fence sitters something to think about.
I know this is unlikely but Harris could win points by reminding people what Trump may look like even a year from now if in power, the tactic the right used most effectively against her boss. I think her workaround to this is simply to let people see her in physical and mental comparison to him as often as possible.
That is why she immediately called for a second debate, which first Trump seemed to consider but then announced was not going to happen. My guess is his people United and told him point blank that was a terrible idea. They don’t want him in the room with her ever again.
Basically this is the strangest political horse race we have ever seen, by a mile.
This morning Heather Cox Richardson tells the story of where the Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio came from and guess what? It started in August with JD Vance, who is now looking like a far more scary white suprematist than I thought. I strongly recommend reading her well documented timeline of how this meme has led to numerous bomb threats in that small Midwestern city, and the neo-nazi group behind them.
Yes, JD Vance colluded with a neo-nazi group to spread racist stories.
NBC News, among other mainstream media, has the real story behind the pet eating conspiracy theory and it is not based on anything. If you’re not taking this election very seriously, you really have to read this. The right is not fooling around and Vance is just as demonic as he looks (and probably just as stupid). Remember what his job in the military was: military journalist, which means he basically created military propaganda.
Growing up during the Cold War, propaganda was a word associated with the Soviets, though we were doing plenty of our own. But today the concept is on steroids and has become a potent political weapon wielded by the right and enemies like Vladimir Putin, in the pursuit of power.
The Haitians in Springfield are not illegals, they are here escaping the horrors going on in their own country and were invited to the city to help with a labor shortage. There is zero evidence of pet abuse, zero. The entire story was concocted to scare Ohioans into voting out their popular Democratic Senator. Cox Richardson outlines the bigger picture.
We are in a war for truth and decency in American politics. And we have a weapon that hurts no one and can take back the country from these evil forces and their idiot leader Donald Trump. It’s called voting. We’re not just voting against Trump. He is a puppet and does not even know it, a figurehead they will discard as soon as they can.
The biggest fear the Republican Party faces is losing the vote by a significant margin and losing both Houses of Congress. For me, that is equal to the importance of electing Harris and Walz. We do not want a racist like Vance inches from power.
Pay attention. There’s a method to this madness and it’s horrifying.
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