No Complacency! All Hands on Deck!

The Republic hangs by a thread. We must defeat the Kamalists* and do so decisively.  They need not just defeat but demoralization. Unfortunately, too many 'influencers' are predicting a Trump victory.  Not wise.  We must not wax complacent. Our political enemies will do anything to win. No moral or legal considerations constrain them. We know a priori (in Kant's relative sense of the term) that they will cheat their posteriors  off -- get the pun? --and then lie their heads off about their cheating. Why shouldn't they lie and cheat? We let them get away with it. Like Bret Baier, we conservatives are hobbled by our virtues, our civility for example. 

Roger Kimball the other day, and now Piers Morgan may be doing more harm than good. 

Morgan:

“Even if you flippin’ fries at McDonald’s,” Oprah Winfrey once said, “if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.”

I thought of this quote when Donald Trump turned up yesterday at a McDonald’s restaurant in suburban Philadelphia to work a shift making French fries, then handing bags of food to drive-through customers.

As political stunts go, this might have been the best I’ve ever seen, because it served two very powerful purposes in the presidential race.

First, it reminded voters that his rival, Kamala Harris, has repeatedly boasted about having a summer job at McDonald’s to make her sound more relatable to her fellow Americans, but to date, not a single person has been able to verify this.

This is quite extraordinary given how specific she has been, with her campaign team stating that she worked at McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Alameda, Calif., in 1983 after her freshman year at Howard University, working on the cash register, french fries station and ice cream machine.

Read it all.

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*My astute readers of course know not to confuse Kamalism (a coinage I borrow from Thomas Klingenstein) and Kemalism.

Comments

[Joe Odegaard]

Should anyone need a reminder of the good versus evil nature of this election, it would be instructive to read this comment made 15 days ago over at "Powerline blog:"

October. 8, 2024: Powerline blog: Will America Keep Its Promise to Jews?

FCinNHyet 42NYY7
16 hours ago
Democrats have made the Seven Deadly Sins the basis of their party. The encourage people to pride (black, gay , whatever), wrath (anger at whites, America, society in general), greed (hiking taxes on the rich so they can get their hands on other people's wealth), envy (disguising it through claims about "equity"), sloth (wanting the government to supply their needs so they don't have to work), lust (grooming in schools, transgenderism) and gluttony (their angst about "fat shaming".) It's very appealing and easy to those of weak spirit and those who lack moral courage or self-respect.

[Ingvar]

Kamala's cruelty

Jim Hill, MD, on substack:

...In 2018, the California Supreme Court ruled that incarceration for truancy was unconstitutional, putting an end to the practice.
The case underscores flaws in policies that penalize parents for circumstances beyond their control, especially when involving children with serious medical conditions.
Kamala’s dishonest denial
Kamala has shown no empathy for Cheree and Shayla and has not apologized for the incident.
In interviews, Kamala falsely denied that any parents had been jailed under her truancy initiative, despite evidence to the contrary.
Critics argue Kamala’s enforcement of the policy reflects a lack of empathy for marginalized communities, particularly Black single mothers....

(Jim Hill is also a lawyer, from Alhambra, Calif., STS

[BV]

Joe,

There is no moral equivalence between Right and Left any more than there is between Christianity and Islam or there was between the USA and the USSR.

The Dems are anti-civilizational scum in their refusal to support Israel to the fullest.

[BV]

Ingvar,

You didn't provide any context, documentation, or back story. Here's something: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/05/kamala-harris-spins-facts-on-truancy-law/

Give my regards to the old 'hood and the shade of Jack Britt, and Dockendorf's if he shows up on Halloween. Whatever happened to Karen Pure? Any info? I had a massive crush on her circa 63-64. Ah yes, youth, its follies and fatuities of an old man fingering the relics as he meanders through the boneyard of memory.

[Joe Odegaard]

Cardinal Vigano nails it in his letter to American Catholics:

https://exsurgedomine.it/241022-open-letter-eng/

[Vito B. Caiati]

Bill,

On the moral and political imperative of a Trump victory, I call your and your readers' attention to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s “Open Letter to American Catholics on the Eve of the 2024 Presidential Election,” which Tucker Carlson yesterday posted in its entirety: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1849532812581359736

Tucker Carlson's recent speech at Turning Point Action also brilliantly encapsulates the essence of the current political struggle of MAGA and "the Machine":
https://x.com/i/status/1849255533921829310

Vito

[BV]

Thanks for those links, Vito.

All hands on deck!

Do you have any Dem 'friends'? Cut the bastards off! Ceteris paribus, of course.