Keri Lake and JD Vance get it (clips below)

Seems so obvious but instead way too many Republican candidates can’t find their tongue; hope that simply being a Republican can carry the day (it might if they would bother to point out that their opponent is a Democrat and that they are a Republican) or are so afraid that saying something other than their bland pro-forma stuff will get them in trouble.  In the meantime they get pummeled  with avoidable inroads made.

For many candidates  the Republican Party or interest groups need to step in and make the necessary points in global fashion, helping the entire field of Republican candidates. What I am seeing and hearing though (from candidates) is that pro forma stuff and no real gut punches to specific matters that Democrats can be shown to be extremist on — but which they emphasize in attacking Repubs – –   Dems support legal abortion on demand at any time for any reason funded by taxpayers,  their support for student loan debt cancellation (not a favorite matter for blue collar Dems), they support more and more inflationary spending, their environmental extremism helping to drive inflation and make America poorer, their fealty to Biden and all his disastrous policies including the border. —  and much more.

Keri Lake is one Republican candidate (Arizona Governor) who gets it and this is a clip of her madsterful way of , well, mastering the media (below it a sample of a different sort).

Kerri Lake is no slouch at returning fire directly to her opponent either and neither is J.D. Vance who in this clip takes it to his opponent Democrat Tim Ryan and pretty much B**ch slaps him as it were:

If Republican candidates are categorically incapable of firing back, anticipating his or her opponents attack lines and aggressiveness, and responding in kind with compelling accuracy, that is bad enough.  When the party fails to do so seeing the various races that become closer than they need to be (and not in a good way) seeing what should be a wave election, defining for the country, into just another midterm ripple that portends no great consequence beyond maybe inhibiting Biden, that is pathetic.

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GIVE ‘EM THE BIRD*

BACK THE BLUE IN SCOTT COUNTY

A Democrat has held the Iowa Attorney General (AG) position since 1979 and have used it as a liberal cudgel and bully pulpit advancing liberal public policy nostrums. They have  failed to defend legitimate accomplishments of Republican state legislatures and  collapsed any trust that under their leadership the AG office would be effective in doing so.

Democrat Tom Miller is, and Bonnie Cambell in her interlude as AG are/were beyond political hacks — the AG office under them became a partisan Democrat law firm interested in sustaining Democrat enactments  and subverting Republicans. At 78 years old  Miller is running again even though he “quietly quit” years ago.

A Democrat has held the Scott County Attorney’s position since 1978, In that time the office was populated by two dependable hacks “surviving” over the years due to lack of opposition from Republicans or the party’s neglect of those who did run. Both Bill Davis (who resigned under a cloud) and Mike Walton (now retiring) while being adept at good old boy politics, carried water for the cause enough to enjoy immunity from strident Soros funded types pursuing a primary challenge.  Johnson and Polk county and two or three other counties in the state are/were even easier plumbs for the picking. But now the Scott County position is an open seat.

The most qualified person running in each race is the Republican.

Experienced Republican prosecutors Brenna Bird for Iowa AG and and Kelly Cunningham-Haan for Scott County Attorney are seeking to undo the Democrat hold on those offices. Democrats have been able to hold onto those offices for so long because of machine politics helped by a dominant Democrat favoring press but mostly the electorates regrettable inattention to such offices. In such situations (until scandal hits as it did with Davis) name ID is important. Once you are in you are likely in for a long time, whatever ones party registration, short of a wave election favoring the other party.  Here’s to hoping a Republican wave is in the offing.

Both Republican candidates have great credentials and have substantial winds behind them because of their experience and a level of public awareness about them.  That, combined with their opponents having to live with being Democrats, ought to be used to bring them to victory.  That is if they emphasize their opponents are after all Democrats (are you listening ladies?).

In the case of long-time incumbent Tom Miller we detect a level of fedupness among the electorate with him personally because people are just plain tired of his being focused on lawfare in pursuit of the liberal agenda.

His opponent Brenna Bird is an elected county attorney now who actually has criminal trial experience as a prosecutor. State AGs take people to court. Brenna Bird makes the point that Tom Miller has not been in a court room in 18 years, perhaps choosing to administer the lawfare we mentioned  . . . or . . . as others have suggested, at age 78 now “quietly quit” some years ago while serving as the familiar name on the ballot while populating his office with liberal activists.

By the way Miller’s Wiki indicates pretty much the sum total of his legal experience is as the AG weenie.  He had limited experience as a lawyer and small town (part-time) city attorney (which generally do not do trial work). We note from our own activities that he received pro-life support in his early runs but long ago set his course with the most ardent of pro-abortion extremist  doctrine.

It is astonishing, and compelling for Brenna Bird, that after all the years Miller has been in office his support in the law enforcement community is so weak.  Brenna Bird rightly touts that she has received the endorsement of 73 Iowa Sheriffs out of 99 in the state. They see her record as a prosecutor defending Iowa law. That 73 includes some Democrats. Some of the other sheriffs do not make endorsements of any sort.

Cunningham-Haan has many years of experience as a prosecutor in the very office she seeks to lead enjoying a good reputation with police departments in the county as one who vigorously defends law and order.  The Democrat nominee is currently in the County Attorney office. With comparatively little experience all one needs to know is that he is a Democrat.  Sensible constitution oriented people are not part of that party.

Both Republican candidates will be excellent at fulfilling the duties of the offices they seek. Our critique of them relates to electoral messaging. Brenna Bird needs to update her Web site and include comparatives and arguments for her election and at least some of the information she places in her social media presence which consists of Facebook but which for some reason is not linked to from her Web site.  While there is a social media link, much the same is true of Cunningham-Haan, except she needs to keep both current (see here an here) .  We do appreciate that Cunningham-Haan as a working attorney and prosecutor running for county office does not have the staff to constantly maintain such things.

*Brenna Bird’s website and mailers have adopted the GIVE ‘EM THE BIRD slogan.

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Laughter at the enemies expense is worth 1000 syllogisms.* Well done, well placed ridicule, not mere taunts, can show how preposterous a political movement is when the implications are solid.  It can also shame bulls*t artists and celebrities however fashionable but corruptive, weak, or stupid their pontifications.  Name names when people are part of promoting or tolerating those who promote degeneracy as part of their politics.

There is a an organization out there dedicated to exposing what today’s progressivism (exemplified in the Democrat Party) is pushing. The Democrat Party is led by economy, culture, nation, and life destroyers and answering them boldly ought to be the priority of the Republican Party rather than handing out fees to consultants (other than those so engaged) and cash to timid candidates and those too pathetic to hold and say what needs to be said. Holding rally’s for candidates while necessary to an extent ought to be a sidelight as it is so often talking to the choir.

CITIZENS FOR SANITY      RETURNING COMMON SENSE TO AMERICA

This outfit in simple graphics is doing in billboards what the Republican Party ought to be putting their name on. We recognize that local Republicans have done some issue billboards, but ought to be doing more (we have not seen any this year but will stand corrected).  Republicans should be identifying who is who and what you get when you vote Democrat. More on this in another post but some repetition right now:

Democrat policies are in such disrepute by normal people that it is important to point out who is who and ridicule the Democrats. There is a grand opportunity to turn soft Democrats and no-party people into not just voting Republican but turning them into Republicans. Making the distinction about Republicans by exposing what Democrats (progressives) stand for and who is who, naming names, is key — INCLUDING  WHO IS A REPUBLICAN .

The Babylon Bee is another site that is doing GREAT work in this necessary communication outreach of satire and ridicule (God’s work), however focused differently.

*David Mall my brother, a student (scholar) of rhetoric coined the concept for me anyway.

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His message: Its the culture stupid

Just another outstanding commentary from VDH:

The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization.

With self-reflection lots of blame to be widely dispersed but while conservatives can be blamed for weakness, capitulation, lack of insight to forge effective response to the incrementalism that has thoroughly corrupted our institutions — religion, education, medical ethics, language, journalism, the military . . .  the nihilism and corruption by design that has undermined them and consequently our country must not be left to inevitablity.

Can it be righted, I still have hope — because the right is written in hearts and “wakenings” and “reformation” can be more powerful than corrupted “reset”.

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• It ought to be
• EU — such an unholy alliance destructive of culture ought to be abandoned 
• Britain did so under Brexit 
• Italy now under threat for actually being democratic
• Just say arrivederci to EU
• Are the remaining ~~ countries~~ in the EU even countries?

Reading this Breitbart article the member countries of the EU are just fiefdoms of the EU bureaucracy. They ought to all be ashamed of themselves for indifference to nationcide and get the hell out. (Excerpt below, bold our emphasis)

EU will be ‘Vigilant’ Towards Any Threat to Abortion After Italy Election, French PM Threatens.  (images not part of article)

France’s Prime Minister has threatened that the EU will be “vigilant” towards any threat to its pro-abortion regime after Italy’s historic general election.

The European Union will be “vigilant” of any threats to “human rights”, especially in regards to its pro-abortion regime, after the Italian public decided to hand the country’s right-wing a sizable victory during the country’s general election on Sunday.

While the exact results of the snap election remain unknown, it is expected from exit polls that a coalition of three conservative and nationalist parties will end up spearheading a new Italian government, with Fratelli D’Italia (Brothers of Italy) head Giorgia Meloni expected to become the country’s first woman Prime Minister.

European bigwigs have responded with hostility to the projected election result, with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen threatening that the bloc has certain “tools” it could use to attack Italy should it deviate from the Brussels agenda.

Such threats have now been echoed by France’s Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who told broadcaster BFMTV that the EU would be watching closely to see if any “human rights” were being put under threat following Sunday’s vote.

Though saying that she would not comment on “the democratic choice of the Italian people”, she emphasised that in the area of abortion, in particular, the powers that be in Europe would be extremely “vigilant”.

“In Europe, we have a set of values ​​and, of course, we will be mindful that these values ​​are respected by everyone when it comes to human rights and the right to abortion,” the French bigwig is reported as saying.

Meloni, while a Catholic, has promised that she would not crack down on abortion in the country, though has reportedly expressed the desire to see alternatives offered to women wherever possible.

Borne’s comments echo those made by Ursula von der Leyen, who threatened last week that Brussels could crack down on any right-wing government in Italy should it feels its actions run contrary to the agenda of her transnational bloc.

We can’t imagine a self-respecting country not exiting from such an organization whose leadership issues such condemnations and threats to its internal and cultural independence.

The dominannt liberal press in the US is just dripping with distain of Meloni’s win while exhibiting incredible historical ignorance. Upon announcement of her coalition’s likely win we are treated to such calm descriptions referring to the Italian elections as establishing the most right-wing government since World War II.  Of coursed they mean to invoke Mussolini the fascist dictator as if fascism was a right-wing political/economic force. The truth is fascism is a form of socialism  — just another big- government “leftist” formation. Post WWII Italy was in trajectory leftwing, with mild retrenchments here and there, with all manner of government controls also found in Mussolini’s elected dictatorship.

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In just an astounding show of timing – The Mike Franken campaign notified the world of their endorsement by Mike’s spiritual brother former Minnesota Senator now New York City resident Al “Bazonga” Franken.  No we did not make the announcement up.

Senators Ernst and Grassley call for Franken campaign  (Mike’s not Al’s this time) to come clean and drop any threat of a non-disclosure limitation Franken’s intimidation team held against Franken’s accuser who must be believed. (See our previous post).

Our view — If non-disclosure agreements (NDA) or non-disparagement agreements on matters of sexual assault are valid that is an absurdity in the law (we are informed an NDA covering up such matters are not valid). Exposing a pattern of unwanted advances toward women should not be either and that is the point of comments by Gretchen Carlson and Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, both victims of sexual predation, also joined by the Grassley campaign.

On such a burning matter for progressive women why is the left not up in arms over “Vice Admiral” Mike “Masher” Franken and his campaign team using NDA as a shield for predation?

Franken now says there is no such NDA. Well then why did his “team” tell his accuser ‘s lawyers that there was??

Reading the police report filed by the female former campaign manager to Franken the assigned officer asked her a ridiculous question as to whether she considered Franken’s grab and kiss “aggressive or sexual.” That would seem to be a question of legal distinctions  which a criminal complainant should not be expected to opine on having already complained of the forceful grab.  It is only relevant as to the type of charge (something related to assault vs something related to sexual assault).  Having issued a complaint that Franken grabbed her by the lapels and pushed his face into hers to kiss her, unless Franken does that to men that would seem to be an assault and sexual in nature. Presuming Franken to be heterosexual, grabbing a woman to plant an unwelcome kiss on the lips is sex linked.

Related reading:

BREAKING: Police Report: Mike Franken’s Former Campaign Manager Accused Candidate of Assault.

• Gretchen Carlson Decries NDAs Amid Franken Assault Allegations

Gretchen Carlson Decries NDAs Amid Franken Assault Allegations This week, a police report was made public by Iowa Field Report that detailed an assault allegation against Democrat Senate Candidate Mike Franken. Yesterday, the Grassley Works campaign called on Franken to release his accuser from her non-disclosure agreement (NDA) so she can speak out if she so chooses. This call for transparency aligns with the requirement Senator Grassley is leading in Congress through the bipartisan Speak Out Act. Gretchen Carlson is a former TV anchor and leading advocate of giving a voice to survivors of workplace sexual harassment and assault, especially those muzzled by NDAs. She is a co-founder of Lift Our Voices, an organization dedicated to empowering survivors to speak out by eliminating nondisclosure agreements and forced arbitration clauses. Today, Gretchen Carlson tweeted the following:

Well the Cedar Rapids Gazette, reprinted by the QC Times, has reported on the story, in the QC Times version in a page 4 — below the fold — using an obscure title for the article sort of way

No legal restriction on former campaign staff, Franken says.

The Gazette did a follow on story, not as yet anyway in the QCTimes print version

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley: Voters deserve answers on allegations against opponent

Grassley Campaign  was not to be trifled with: 

Not An Isolated Incident: Mike Franken’s Troubling Record of Extreme Disrespect Toward Women Following allegations of assault by Mike Franken’s former campaign manager and his refusal to release his accuser from her NDA—which she claims Franken used to silence her—it’s worth revisiting Franken’s troubling record of extreme disrespect toward women. This morning, the Grassley Works campaign released a new campaign ad highlighting Franken’s disparaging comments toward Iowa’s women, including Governor Kim Reynolds, who he implied was a witch on multiple occasions. As Iowa Field Report noted, Franken repeatedly has “1950s interactions with women,” according to his accuser, and his unwanted advances are “something that [Franken] has done to several other women.” Mike Franken’s former campaign manager isn’t the only one to allege that he is a serial perpetrator of unwanted advances and inappropriate behavior. As progressive Des Moines activist Jaylen Cavil noted, “I had heard things like this about [Mike Franken] for a while.” So it wasn’t any surprise that the same day details of the police report broke, Mike Franken was touting his endorsement from disgraced ex-Senator Al Franken, who was forced by his fellow Democrats to resign for his sexual misconduct. In a since-deleted tweet, Mike Franken tweeted at Al Franken on April 5, 2019, and said, “Wondering why you left your seat. Run again, please.” Mike Franken to Al Franken: “Run again, please.” Mike Franken has a long history of disrespect toward women and a refusal to see women as equal and independent. At an event in Denison, Franken said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should control his wife and dictate what she is or isn’t allowed to say and do. “You let your wife act like this?” Franken said. Mike Franken does not respect women in positions of power. He has repeatedly referenced Governor Reynolds as a witch, saying she “needs to get on her broom and fly away.” And his comments weren’t limited to Iowa’s first female governor. He also made sexist remarks about Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa’s first female U.S. senator and first female combat veteran to serve in the U.S. Senate, diminishing her career and saying she would “follow his lead” if elected and “see [his] big wrath.” Mike Franken’s sexist remarks haven’t been limited to elected women leaders or to his alleged victims. He’s disrespected all women in rural Iowa by saying, “What I see in rural Iowa is a forlornness in the eyes, an emptiness which I see in South Sudan…mostly in women who just look void.” As EMILY’s List, a Democratic political action committee focused on electing women, stated: “Iowa Democrats should not trust…Michael Franken.” Bottom line: the revelations made public in the police report detailing Mike Franken’s alleged assault on his former campaign manager are merely the latest examples in a serial mindset of misogyny and sexism toward women and extreme disrespect toward the women of Iowa. ###

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Grassley’s Democrat opponent credibly accused of forcing himself on a woman underling.

Handsy Guys

Story from Briebart:   Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly Funds Campaign of Iowa’s Mike Franken, Now Accused of Sexual Misconduct.

Former Mike Franken Campaign Manager Alleges He Made Unwanted Advances Toward Women, Including Her

We will be waiting for the Des Moises Register and Lee newspapers in this state to report the news sensationally and not let it die, soliciting commentaries and editorials about how women must be believed.

Michael Franken  is a retired Navy Vice Admiral.  That he is such a lefty, even more so than Al Franken of the same surname who is the former Minnesota Senator of ill-repute …  confirms what we fear about the weakening, some would say historic disintegration, of our military …  spiritually, culturally, intellectually. And now it seems  the not so admirable Admiral while retired from the Navy is still on active duty with the Vice part.

Michael Franken is credibly accused of sexual battery even if the Democrat run City of Des Moines’ police department and the Democrat run County Attorney’s office has closed the matter. You see women must be believed, especially Democrat women. You know that.  We heard it about Anita Hill, about Christine Blasey Ford.

But here’s the thing, the Vice Admiral’s accuser, Kimberly Strope-Boggus, is a Democrat accusing a Democrat and is also Franken’s  former campaign manager* who essentially brought him through the contested primary helping him post a surprising win and margin over the early favored Greenfield, making sure every Dem primary voter understood he was the progressive women’s dream.

Strope-Boggus, had NOTHING to gain by filing the police report as she did.  She is now done in Democrat politics and must have known that. She may be batsh*t crazy, and the incident never happened BUT THAT IS NOT THE STANDARD FOR DEMOCRATS AND THEIR OPERATIVES IN THE MEDIA BEFORE REPORTING AN ACCUSATION AND DOING ALL THEY CAN WITH IT .

That she is apparently a lesbian (her spouse is named Becky and referred to in the article as “she”) makes her even more convincing to the extent of at least tripling her truth-telling cache as far as the aforementioned leftist media in this state are concerned and all those Democrat voters. She absolutely must be believed and it makes Michael that much more icky. Unfortunately as revealed in the articles linked to above, the Democrat machine is working her over pretty good.

Minnesota’s Al Franken (now moved back to New York) resigned from the Senate in disgrace over multiple accusations of sexual misconduct. Michael Franken according to his former campaign manager as related in the articles (no doubt the person for women on the campaign trail to report such matters to) has said she is not the only one victimized by Franken.

Again, it must have happened because that is the Democrat mantra.

The similarities of Michael and Al Franken  do not end with being icky uber-liberal Democrats or with being credibly accused by Democrat standards of sexual exploitation, or of being humorless.  We remember Al’s nauseating skits on Saturday Night Live as Stuart Smalley the self-help guy and his line (later a book) “I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!”  Michael Franken must have channeled that in creating his yard sign message “I Believe MICHAEL FRANKEN can defeat  Chuck Grassley”.  It reads like a self-help power of positive thinking phrase, something Stuart Smalley would come up with.

As  long as we are talking about skits, ours would be:

Al and Mike, sit’n in a tree, first comes the pounce, then kiss’n ’em with glee

And we have a recommendation for a new yard sign, hat and T-shirt perhaps — I Believe Kimberly

• According to reports, after leaving as campaign manager Franken asked her to come back as a “senior campaign adviser” because he was dissatisfied with the current campaign manager.

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There is an expression attributed to Emerson ~~When you strike at a king, you must kill him~~. Wounding him just won’t do.

Allegations against Trump of “10,000 documents” (declassified but held by him under Secret Service protection but somehow necessitating a raid by the FBI). Given that many are e-mail copies, such a “trove” could probably fit in 2 of these boxes. Now about Obama’s 30, 000,000 pages — see NY Post article link below.

Emerson’s was a poet but nevertheless it is something the criminal mind (like FBI leadership) knows instinctively in their reptilian swamp-dwelling survivalist brain.  In their parlance, if the “king” survives he is going to be p*ssed and your sh*t becomes weak.  They are the ones who end up “dead”.

And so knowing how dirty they are, and how with a Trump return to power that their heads are on the chopping block, figuratively of course,  the DC apparat is working overtime to exploit any pretext — however obscure, however abusive, or selectively used to “kill the king” and send fear into the heartland  to the effect that “you could be next as we know where you live.” They do so using intimidation, selective leaks, distortions, lies and manipulations, planting or altering evidence . . .  things they have already done to Trump, his more prominent supporters  especially with the intention of destroying the spirit of the Trump supporting bourgeoisie whose spirit must be destroyed they hope by sullying “their leader”

But they are so stupid.  They think their sinecures are safe but for Trump. They think that if they can get Trump out of the picture either Democrats will win or a non-Trump Republican winner will be ~ ~ reasonable.  But the Republican Party nomination processes as now effectively constituted, imbued with MAGA sentiment, a good healthy and strong sentiment is not going to go back to the likes of the Bushes or Cheneys or Romneys where the desperate  nostalgic FBI could feel safe and operate as always.

The next president of the United States is going to be a MAGA type politician, perhaps Trump, or maybe someone they should fear even more,  a Cotton, a Cruz, a DeSantis all less easy marks and not as likely to be hamstrung by the same foibles as Trump continues to be. The Democrat nominee will be saddled with a detestable doctrinaire leftest activist base whose world game plan is to Make America Poor.

Because the FBI institutional zeitgeist, exemplified by the leadership cohort and apparently extending quite deep into the field office leadership who aspire to the DC swamp, is so much of a reprehensible political nature the FBI should be disbanded and its legitimate functions refined and dispersed.  Its leadership has sullied its reputation after decades of lionization such that: Calls grow among prominent figures to create a new ‘Church Committee’ to probe FBI abuses.  In my judgement rearranging some deck chairs while keeping the same overall reach is not the answer. Scope ought to be curtailed and that divided so as not to create new law enforcement agencies with similar powers.

Related reading: Note these articles also serve to indicate how wrong Bill Barr has been.

From Paul Sperry surmising the deep political corruption in the FBI:

Paul Sperry Unpacks the Trump-Hillary Double Standard: For Her, the FBI Helped Obstruct Its Own Investigation.

Trump and the Secret Documents

Trump attorney who was former DOJ official questions department’s appeal of special master

Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells

From Gary Bauer writing at American values: Deep-state-corruption.

Commentary by James Bovard in NY Post: There’s no sainthood for Obama, National Archives in Trump FBI raid uproar.    

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The Dems have no shame, they will say anything and do anything to obtain or keep power. Here is a collection of Tweets, comments and links I came across from various referrals.

Let’s start off with this item from RNCResearch (a Twitter presence) exposing the duplicity of Democrat leadership suggesting that questioning election results is anti-democratic, fascist, whatever:  Other items follow.

Here is ten straight minutes of Democrats denying election results.pic.twitter.com/bJRbzEcIO2

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 4, 2022

Joe Biden is an automatic liar regardless of the depth of his dementia. Just a few days ago he claimed that he was a civil-rights activist from a very young age but this is how he described his activism when the time lines were more recent:

Biden in 1987: “I was not an activist. I worked in an all-black swimming pool…I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else.” https://t.co/aK0fuLKdgT pic.twitter.com/yYp9nE8Xqk

— Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) September 5, 2022

The “most popular ‘president’ ever” they say.  How do they spin this — the resident of the White House, Joe Biden, supposedly defeating an incumbent President Donald Trump by millions of votes, delivers a speech as a supposed incumbent doing all sorts of popular things but cannot fill a high school gym.  An out of power former president  on the same day has an energetic crowd that dwarfs the residents feeble audiance. Don’t hold your breath anticipating mainstream media to acknowledge the disparity.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden Both held rallies in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania this week.

Here is what they looked like back to back.

Incredible. pic.twitter.com/Xe7cWQzrQO

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 4, 2022

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