Showing posts with label Lying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lying. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Things wrong with this post by . . .

Dr. John Barrasso, our Senator:

Thousands of illegal aliens have registered to vote in our elections. Kamala Harris' administration has completely ignored this election security crisis. Proud to join @SenatorHagerty, @RepAndyBiggsAZ, and Wyoming to demand answers for American voters.

1.  It's not true, at least not in any actually significant sense.

2. There is not "Kamala Harris" "administration".  She's the VP, a position that has, frankly, about 0 power.

I imagine he knows all of this, and probably doesn't believe much of what he's stating like this.

Politics is a terrible business.

"First do no harm" (Primum non nocere).  Hippocrates.

“No one can prove that at times a lie is necessary”.  St. Thomas Aquinas.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Some election predictions.

If I were to predict who would win the election right now, I think it'll be Trump.

I dread the thought of a second Trump term, and I think he was an embarrassment to the nation in his first, but  that would be my guess.

Anyhow. . .

1.  If Trump wins J. D. Vance ends up President in 2026.

If Trump wins, J. D. Vance will end up President in 2026.

Indeed, I think National Conservatives are planning on it.

Trump already sounds really weird a fair amount of the time.  By 2026, he'll be issuing some unmistakably demented proclamations, and his cabinet will declare him unfit to serve.

And then we'll really be off in a new direction.

2.  If Harris wins, the Trumpites won't accept the results

First of all, they'll be violence for sure. Trump is already priming his most fanatic followers for the concept that the 2024 election will be stolen. The Big Lie No. 2.  

And there will be all sorts of challenges to the results.

Once that is all sorted out, Harris won't turn out to be the extreme leftist that's claimed.  She'll probably a about the same, perhaps a bit more effective, than Biden.