Orange Crush Election
Good vs. Evil
What the ....? Did that really just happen? Did we just witness the miracle that will ultimately deliver us from an Orwellian future? Or did we just elect the anti-Christ, sent to foment a global religious war? Some seem to think there might be a pair of wings tucked under those $2000 overcoats Trump wears, like in that movie with John Travolta. Others think we should check under his blonde comb-over for a “666.” If I were religious man -and had a strong stomach- I would search first for that beastly mark somewhere in the myriad lumps and folds of dermis stuffed daily into one tortured baby-blue pantsuit. Thank God I’m agnostic.
But it sure did seem like only divine providence could have given us Hillary Clinton, the one candidate so corrupt and detestable, so blindly arrogant that she was unable to beat a rich white guy who boasted that because of his fame, he could get away with grabbing women’s p*****s. Can you imagine if you had audio of a candidate saying that? He’d be toast, right? Apparently not if he’s running against Hillary who saw Trump’s crassness and raised him four decades of affairs, multiple gropes, a rape, victim intimidation, an intern, a cigar, an unacknowledged love child, impeachment, mysterious deaths, and of course, Whitewater and the Seven Gates: Cattlegate, Filegate, Pardongate, Furnituregate, Travelgate, Snipergate, and Weinergate.
And that’s just her old baggage. Since then she’s been caught accepting hundreds of millions of dollars from misogynistic dictators who “payed to play” with huge Clinton Foundation donations. She got caught stealing her party’s nomination from Bernie. She got caught colluding with mainstream media outlets like CNN and Politico. She got caught lying to family members of the Americans she left to die in Benghazi. Then when they had the bad taste to call her on it, she got caught calling them liars. Her fingerprints are all over a Middle East policy that facilitated the rise of ISIS and a Russian reset that facilitated the rise of Russia. And she absolutely owns monumentally stupid moves like using a home email server for classified emails, trusting anyone who trusted Anthony Weiner, and calling 30 million pissed-off Americans “deplorable.”
When Wikileaks, Drudge, Breitbart, and Infowars started opening up these stinking steamer trunks of baggage and exposing their contents to the world, Trump repeated the shocking stories, forcing the mainstream media to start reporting them. They had to start pretending they actually wanted the answers to the painful questions they were now forced to ask. It was awkward. So what did Hillary do? She quit holding press conferences for 9 months while surrogates were dispatched to defend the indefensible. Some of the toughest questions she didn’t answer concerned her health, so her surrogates labeled these questions “sexist”. They tried to laugh off her obvious medical issues while adding an ambulance to the campaign detail. They blamed allergies when she had uncontrollable coughing fits. They blamed a grueling campaign schedule when she required assistance up and down stairs. And they blamed the heat when she prematurely left a 9/11 Memorial ceremony at Ground Zero on a cool September morning. Then when a cellphone video from outside the event showed her collapse and get loaded into an SUV like a sack of potatoes, losing a shoe in the process, they changed the diagnosis to “pneumonia.”
Terminal Hubris
The diagnosis of her failed campaign is about as accurate. The Clinton camp would have you believe their defeat came at the hands of a pro-Trump FBI Director and a pro-Trump Russia. Except FBI Director James Comes was appointed by Obama, and Russia would have loved a Clinton presidency after getting away with murder (literally) under her watchful State Department eye. No, the sad truth is Comey’s revelation in late October that he was firing up the Hillary investigation again, was merely to mop-up the mess left by his premature exoneration in July, which many legal experts believe should have been an indictment. And then his re-exoneration just two days before the election was an attempt to cover his ass from charges his October revelation was inappropriate. And let's not forget it was only Comey's decision to make because Loretta Lynch had to recuse herself after she got caught meeting privately with Bill Clinton while Hillary was under investigation, an obvious breach of ethics which could hardly tarnish the Clinton’s grifter image, but served to further erode what little credibility remained in the AG’s office after Eric Holder’s tenure which included the Fast and Furious debacle, a Border Patrol agent murdered with a Fast and Furious gun, scores of cops murdered by bigots who bought Holder’s racist rhetoric, and the first Contempt of Congress conviction of a sitting cabinet member in U.S. history. But I digress. The point is Comey was a bumbling cop thrust into the spotlight by a dirty AG who knew she probably couldn't survive a Bill Clinton stain, not a partisan puppeteer manipulating an election.
As for the Russians’ involvement in the hacking…so what? Why is this suddenly a problem when Russian, China, and yes, the good old U.S.A. have been hacking each other and jacking with the elections of other countries for decades? In fact Obama spent $350,000 of our money on the 2015 Israeli election in a failed attempt to oust U.S. ally and Obama enemy, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So why is the establishment freaking out now? Because now it seems these hacking shenanigans may have helped elect someone who promises to blow up the establishment. Don’t get me wrong. Foreign interference in American elections is a problem that should and will be investigated, and maybe now…fixed. But let’s not pretend we’ve just discovered we’re being hacked. Let’s not pretend the “victims” namely Podesta, Clinton, and the Weiners weren’t stupid to the point of being complicit (As Julian Assange said: “Podesta gave out that his password was the word ‘password’”). And finally, let’s not pretend that the disheartening, damning information contained in the hacked emails was anything but 100% accurate.
So who can we thank for keeping the grifters out of the White House? We can thank Wikileaks founder and traitor/patriot Julian Assange who robbed data from the rich and gave their emails to the poor. We can thank an incompetent husband caught in an unseemly tryst with an incompetent Attorney General, whose misconduct put a bumbling FBI Director on the spot. We can thank a mainstream media whose bias became so obvious, it caused a backlash. We can thank corrupt and inept pollsters whose funny numbers convinced Hillary she couldn’t lose. We can thank Clinton’s own inner circle whose insular stupidity and hubris culminated in the snubbing of key battleground states which don’t border oceans but did prove critical. And most of all, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama who knew Russia was hacking our election and chose as America’s response to what his own party called naked aggression by a nuclear power, to tell Vladimir Putin to “Cut it out.” If not for this basket of incompetents, Clinton may well have become America’s 45th President. Instead, 63 million of us, with the stench of the swamp in our nostrils, voted for the man who promised to drain it. 63 million of us, weary from battling a corrupt establishment, voted for the man who promised to blow up it up. 63 million of us, fed up with both parties, voted for the man beholden to neither. In short, 63 million of us weighed our disgust of Trump’s words against our fear and loathing of Clinton’s actions and voted for Donald J. Trump.
Poll Dancers and Prestitutes
The deception and/or stupidity of the pollsters in the months leading up to the election was breathtaking. More than 90% of all 2016 presidential polls conducted, and then reported without scrutiny were weighted in favor of Clinton, meaning a higher percentage of Democrats were sampled than Republicans. For example the sampling breakdown usually looked something like this Reuters/Ipsos poll from September: 44% Democrats, 33% Republicans, 13% Independents. Or this ABC News poll from October: 36% Democrats, 27% Republican, 31% Independents. This built-in Democrat advantage got as high as 15% in several polls, but this slanted sampling was seldom reported by the media. When it was reported, we were told they were using data from ’08 and ’12. However this means the pollsters were making the idiotic assumption that young people and minorities were going to turn out in the same numbers for an uncool old white lady with a history of corruption as they did for a cool young black guy with no history at all. Yet the media lapped up and regurgitated the phony numbers like puppies.
But some of us knew better. I told anyone who asked that Trump would win the nomination. Then after he won the nomination, I told them that he would win some of the states where the polls had him down by 5 or 6 points, and he would win all the states where they had him within the margin of error. I never got around to making a video which would now prove my political acumen, but I do have witnesses. For example, my father who can’t stand Trump, blew a gasket on election night when I asked him, after it was clear Trump was going to win, which he thought was more likely: that I was smarter than 95% of the media and pollsters, or that 95% of the media and pollsters were in the tank for Hillary? ...Still no answer on that one.
But we all know -even Dad- in whose tank the media swim. For months prior to the election, the media dismissed anyone who suggested there might be a “hidden Trump vote” even as they watched haters vandalize, burn, and steal his yard signs; destroy his Hollywood Walk of Fame star then assault a homeless black woman trying to protect what was left of it; hit Trump supporters with eggs and rocks, and spit on them; shut down a highway backing up traffic for miles; threaten to bomb a Trump rally; assault police officers and their vehicles; attempt to grab a police officer’s gun; rush the stage at a Trump speech; threaten to kill Trump; and generally beat the s**t out of numerous people who had the audacity to wear Trump gear in public. Although this was just a fraction of the left’s hatred, the media tried to downplay it, and chose instead to focus on the handful of occasions when Trump supporters stood their ground and fought back. Any idiot could have told you that Trump supporters -most of whom were over 40 and had children and grandchildren to protect- were going to keep their mouths shut and their red caps in the closet until it came time to retaliate at the polls. And retaliate they did. As liberal hero Michael Moore so eloquently put it “Trump’s election is going to be the biggest F**k You ever recorded in human history.” Moore is fat and nasty, with bad skin, greasy hair and an greasier smile, and he’s prone to wild exaggeration. But unlike the media, he’s not delusional.