Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Based on the current polls, we may very well have an immovable object meets an irresistible force scenario, except here it is two aging, past-their-prime retreads who, in any normal time, would have retired to enjoy the remaining sands of the hourglass but have decided to instead run again for president. Both have fatal flaws. Under the old rules, we knew the election outcome without a doubt. Trump can’t possibly win, and Biden is certain to lose.
But someone has to win, and it will not be that RFK weirdo.
This spectacle is not a done deal. Though he’s far ahead today, Trump can still lose the nomination. If DeSantis does not take Iowa, I think he’s likely done. I will not dignify the primary “challenge” of retro-Romney Nikki Haley by pretending that her being nominated is a possibility. She wants veep like Christie wants ham.
As for Biden, the fantasy that somehow the Democrats are going to depose their desiccated old pervert president at the convention is ludicrous. If this senile corruptor does not vapor lock, he’s their candidate. Our recent off-year election debacle – thanks, Ronna! – gives his handlers the talking point that no matter how bad Biden is, the Republicans can still screw up their edge.
So, what happens if it is Trump v. Biden? How do you handicap a race where both candidates have insurmountable handicaps, in this case, the fact that Trump is Trump and the fact that Biden is whatever the hell he is?
At the outset, you have an unprecedented situation where Trump may campaign from the courthouse steps. Biden can’t even make it down the steps to the Rose Garden without Gerald Fording on his crusty behind. This will not be a normal campaign. There will not be any debates. Trump will hold rallies, and Biden will have small, intimate gatherings where he can be cringy around women and children. The Regime Media will go all in for Biden. There will be antics up to and including outright cheating, but Ronna McDaniel will get it right this time after about seven chances! But Biden sucks so much that he could blow it.
Let’s examine why Trump can’t win. Here’s the big reason: About 53% of American voters hate him. They shouldn’t, not only because he was a generally good president but because you are not voting for Chief Pal but Chief Executive. I think his nickname is embarrassingly stupid, and I am bored by his social media rants, but neither matter. Will he kill our enemies, pump the economy, and own the libs? Yes, yes and yes.
I support Ron DeSantis because I think he’s more likely to win in general and because he’s more ruthlessly conservative, but if Trump somehow wins, I will Lionel Richie it and party all night long. I think he’s got a 20% chance of winning, and I would be thrilled to be wrong. If listening to a bunch of tubby doofuses with usernames like @MAGAStudBoy420 and avatars of 80s action movie heroes with their faces photoshopped in tweeting “I TOLD YOU SO!” for the next four years is the price for having a Republican win in 2024, I’ll happily pay it.
Trump’s advantage is a super hardcore bunch of supporters. Ignore the loudmouth weirdos who demand loyalty to a politician – as if! – and understand that these are great Americans, hardworking, patriotic, and worried about their country. There are a lot of them. But are there enough to outweigh the people who hate Trump? You look at the recent Trump-leading polls and see that it’s usually something like 43% to 42%. There’s a lot of missing percent there. A lot of people think, correctly, that Biden is a doddering moron, but Trump offends them to the core of their being. Being aesthetically offended by a politician is as silly as being devoted to one – your relationship with a politician should be entirely transactional – but it is also a fact that some people are. A lot of people hate Trump and will never vote for him.
Another fact is this lawfare garbage. The legal outrages against Trump are the most despicable and disgusting abuse of power in American political history and will cause huge damage to our political culture. Every charge and accusation is legal nonsense, a total lie, and the entire thing is an attempt to frame a political opponent to prevent him from returning to power and to punish him for daring to have won it in the first place. None of that is debatable. Nor is it debatable that a significant number of voters are stupid and care about this nonsense.
Some people believe that the “justice” system is something other than a lie and a scam. The fact is that some Americans will think less of Trump because his enemies have framed him. And you cannot wish away a fact because it is unfair and obnoxious.
Trump is showing positive signs – maybe. Many polls show people think he will do better on the economy, border, etc. They show Trump sort of leading. I like that result. I want the Republicans to win. But because it is what I want to hear, I am immediately suspicious. The Regime Media wants Trump because it thinks that gives the election to Biden, and it may be right. It was wrong in 2016, though.
Let’s examine why Biden must lose. First, he’s a terrible president. The economy sucks. The border sucks. We’re on the verge of new wars Trump would never have let happen. People are sick of him. He’s as popular as toe fungus on Valentine’s Day at Quentin Tarantino’s condo.
He is losing Latinx support, in part because of crap like “Latinx.” He is allegedly losing black support, though the bizarre celebration by the Trump people of his endorsements by fourth-tier rappers is hardly persuasive. The idea of Grandpa Badfinger getting less than 85% of the black vote is pretty nuts. If he blew it that bad, the Democrat Party would be fractured. And it’s already fracturing over Israel. Half the party wants to stand by the Jewish people, and half the party wants to stand by as the Palestinians murder the Jewish people. It would be hard for a smart, capable leader to reconcile these views within the coalition, and the Democrats have Biden instead of a smart, capable leader.
And next year is not going to get better for Biden. The economy will get worse. The border will get worse. Some Third World potentates will doubtlessly pull some shenanigans, and the smart money right now is to go short on Taiwan. His loathsome scuzzbag son might actually get indicted for an actual crime. Of course, Biden will be facing an RNC led by Ronna McDaniel, so he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
Yeah, the variable is, as always, events. For example, there is a significant chance the false legal charges against Trump will get dismissed or the show trial in the kangaroo courts will continue past the election. But the problem for both campaigns is what might happen and what has happened. The voters’ impressions of Trump and Biden are seared into their consciousness. Those are not going to change. They are fixed, and for the majority, they are distinctly negative. That’s the problem. Neither candidate can win, and both are inevitably going to lose.
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Black Swans and false flags are flying around everywhere…
Martial law=No election
Biden “dies” in office.
Trump (under house arrest), watches from Mar a Lago while engorging himself on Big Macs.
Interesting times.
And Kamala will be bought off with a life time supply of Nathan hot dogs.
Trump v Biden, I prefer the third option – A giant meteor hitting earth.
That RFK weirdo has done more for the greater good of America than this POS Captain Kirk and his neo-con handlers have or ever will do for the benefit of Americans . A pox on this shit-eating dog and his party of Chozenite tools/
The greater good?
Name one thing that he has actually done that has changed things for America.
Please don’t use examples of him just saying things most people already know.
Cleaning up the Hudson River, a 20 year effort, and exposing the deadly vaccine scam that has killed millions….More than any President has done in the last century…
Go down to the Hudson and dip a cup into and drink it, if it’s so clean.
How did “cleaning up the Hudson” help the rest of America? Flash said he has changed America for the better. How?
RFK got on the anti-vax bandwagon after numerous medical experts who didn’t have Kennedy for last name, raised red flags.
RFK is just another opportunist with a famous last name that has <0% chance of becoming POTUS.
Would like to hear a rebuttal from Mr. copy/paste.
“Flash said he has changed America for the better.”
Read for comprehension, fag.
Taking the fight against big pharma’s deadly vaccines public and in court and blowing up the CIA’s involvement in murdering his father and uncle on normie network news is more than any faggot neo-con aka lying sac-o-shit Republican has ever done for this country. If that ain’t ” greater good” I don’t know what is…fekkin’ eeejit….smh…the stupid it burns
How did it change America?
…”taking the fight against”… blah, blah, blah.
How has anything RFK has done, CHANGED AMERICA ? What are the results? Can you back them up with ANYTHING?
Answer the question… intelligence challenged, juvenile insult throwing, copy/paste dependent, “PATRIOT”.
Go ahead, answer a legitimate question with a legitimate, intelligent answer. I dare you. I seriously don’t think you can. Prove me wrong Mr. Macho internet guy.
Let me make it easier for you, name one thing ANY politician has done in the last 10 years that has CHANGED AMERICA, for the better, and back it up.
Why do you assume everyone that disagrees with you is a fag? I assume anybody with that thought process is not worthy of considering what their opinion is on anything, so don’t even bother to answer.
Still a freaking democrat, end of story.
You’re not paying attention, Anon.
“Name one thing the Romans have done for us!”
“The aqueduct.”
and vias that outlast Interstates.
Schlichter is such a weird guy. King of the Normies who thinks his sarcasm and name-calling is insight.
Probably the best description of Schlichter that I’ve ever heard.
I the unlikely event that Trump hasn’t wrapped up the nomination by then, I may go to the MN GOP caucuses and go all Phil Davison on the fuckers.
I’m undecided on whether I’ll vote in the general. The guy I voted for last time went on to lose billions of dollars by tweeting out that he would be going “Death Con 3” on the Jews. I knew he had the proper outlook. Trump deserves the nomination because the system is so against him and because the ladies he’s running against are so pathetic. As far as the actual election results next fall, it doesn’t matter. We’re just holding the little kid steering wheel.
I would definitely vote if Trump picked Phil Davison as VP. “Tell Randy Gonzales!!!”
Trump-Davison ‘24
What is astonishing is all the trump fucks that went nuts that Mexico was paying for the wall and now Jose is on board with trump because he trump promise jobs…I got duh job man.
An Army of Gammas
The US Army’s strange recruiting tactics make a lot more sense once you realize it probably isn’t mobilizing for a war with a near-peer military like China or Russia, but rather, in preparation for the large-scale violent suppression of civilians…
The Bolsheviks didn’t unleash an elite and well-disciplined military against the kulaks of the Ukraine. To the contrary, they unleashed a horde of coked-up gammas to steal, slaughter, and suppress the population, if the accounts of the Holodomor are even remotely accurate.
So, either the US Army has no idea what sort of young men it is going to attract by shifting its focus toward recruiting sexual deviants and “socially-awkward weirdos” or it is preparing for a very different sort of war than most people anticipate it fighting.
Anonymous Conservative….
You do not recruit an army of misfits and the testosterone-deprived if you intend to take on the Russians, or the Chinese, or even the North Koreans. Those at the top are going make it one or the other, real America, or the conspiracy. I do not think they intend to live side by side in peace someday…
It will ultimately be an army of the 5-10 percent at the bottom of the pile, made up with a significant number of furries, trannies, hyper-leftists, pedophiles, gay guys in leather dog masks, and the rest who see all them as brothers. As well as the prisoners fresh out of the jails in Central and South America. On the other side, we will not have the tech advances, but we will have the 90-95 percent of the population which feels it stands a shot at happiness in the meritocracy of freedom. It will probably depend largely on how mass-produced their tech advantage is.
I appreciate the links B_MC… I think Gamma Force will be the sandbags for our NWO funded, hotel resident foreign legion.
BUT, to be opposed by the straw that broke the Kamals back. Imagine as working-class USA goes full Franco… Also elected* D.J.T. can guarantee smooth ops by smartly staffing The Special Office of Presidential Pardons to fully immunize Joint Patriotism Squads in detaining “unregistered” cultural marxist and (damned-by-their-own-words-and-actions) bureaucrat Constitution breakers for speedy Gitmo trials and Gulf of Mexico sentences. Mr. T must complain about the various mistakes, the unfortunate accidents, the regrettable rush. That will be fine fodder for a SOTU address. Still, his approval numbers will be better than FJB’s were. Folks will quickly get used to yet another new normal of getting on with their day, that is their super power.
All more one need ask from The Don is that he tweet extreme MAGA more frequently and release plenty of jaw-dropping videos of messy citizen efficiency with Saving the Nation in a Time of Unprecedented Crisis to the MSM lügenpresse. That will put Unipartisan comfy smugness in permashock as their mythology of invincibility gets a reality check.
Remember, it’s mostly not an insurrection because it has FBI and DHS sign-off (in the loop passively or under a bit of duress), breaks no laws (in spirit or intent, thank you HRC), and has generous Bill of Rights support (cause, wouldn’t you know, that is 100% America’s brand in fighting bully oppressors).
Someday, sooner than thought possible, wind things down. Personally award medals for meritorious ass-kicking and to families of KIAs for volunteer heroism… then balance our budget by selling Ukraine back to Russia, while closing the IRS with unspecified Covid concerns.
We’re gonna be good for another 4 turnings of idiocracy. 🙂
A lot of idiocy in one short column…sucking up to genocidal Israel, saying Trump can’t win because people hate him, but RFK is a “weirdo” for exposing the lethal vaccine scam…Whose payroll is he on?
His own. He’s a mercenary – remember Slick Willie’s assault on the Balkans that Kolonel Keyboard helped to execute?
I’d most certainly vote for RKF, Jr if he were running for office in California.
Kurt still thinks that voting matters. It doesn’t. The next president will be whoever TPTB select; it’s as simple as that. I am always amazed by the pundits and podcasters who predict that Trump will win, based on his performance in the polls, without mentioning the obvious fraud in the 2020 election. It takes a special kind of cluelessness to write about the fraud in the 2020 election, and then predict the outcome of the 2024 election without mentioning the possibility that there could be fraud in that election. But fraud is common, it just isn’t usually as obvious as it was in 2020. (They were basically flaunting it in 2020, essentially saying “we can select whoever we want, and there is nothing you can do about it”.) But the fraud isn’t always for the Democrats. I am 99.9% certain that in 2024 it will be for Trump, and they will select him again, just as they did in 2016.
Yes ^^^^^^ people keep talking about elections like they matter or that they are free and fair. NO THEY AREN’T! If you haven’t figured that out yet there is no hope for you… Chip
Dad’s ’51 Chrysler 300 had a fold down arm rest for the driver; on long trips I’d ride up there, right between Mom and Dad.
“Let’s examine why Trump can’t win. Here’s the big reason:…”
– Kurt Schlicter
Donald Trump LOCKED-FUCKING-DOWN the U.S.A and is the father of “Big, Beautiful Vaxxines.”
Not enough “winning?” Think Jared and Ivanka, best president Israel ever had, and the horrid J0hn B0lt0n.
Kurt should play more golf and write less.
I was never locked down.
Oh gawd….mister conceal carry bad ass don’t fuck with me small dick red neck hillbilly wave his gun around in Home Depot parking lot to scare illiterate immigrants has spoken. Good for you.
Ok, Sunshine, which ZOG puppet do you support?
Viktor Orban, Visegrad Group. He’d make things right. Too bad he is currently employed in Budapest.
Is it because he wore a larger hat when he touched the Wailing Wall?
Donald Trump LOCKED-FUCKING-DOWN the U.S.A and is the father of “Big, Beautiful Vaxxines.”
I think Bolton is out of the picture but “We The People” can be certain with a trump Jared and Ivanka will continue to turn the United States into a colony of the State of Israel. I resist.
I have no dog in this fight, period. But DeSantis is a shill for the Bush family and their concerns, In other words he is another establishment piece of shit that will just continue this forever shit-show that modern America has become. Nikki is and absolutely insane weirdo and that fat guy is just a pig wanting to root around in the American sty writ large. There is NO ONE on either side of a stature necessary to lead this nation or to make the changes that need to be made.
I’ll be drinking beer when you fools are wasting your time on election day.
Exactly.
I’ll be drinking Irish single malt scotch, which by the way, the prices came down significantly after Ted Kennedy finally fucking died and stopped hoarding the market.
A brother from a different mother.
Distilled alcohol.
The most successful processed food in history.
Amen
“Irish single malt scotch”. Hmmm…….
I’ve heard of Irish Whisky, of both the Blended and Single Malt Variety, and am a true Connoisseur of Single Malt Scotch, (Macallan 18 is my Go-To. Not really fond of Blends), but I believe that both a Scotsman AND an Irishman would be horrified at the terrible misnomer.
This is from an American of Scots-Irish descent, so I could see each sides argument…..
Not to hijack a thread, but you got me. I stand corrected.
I like what I like despite semantics.
Thank God for Irish peat moss !
Cheers !
Bob, I don’t even drink, but I may find that is the most productive way to spend next years’ election day.
Russians have a hero and we have shit everywhere you look, clinton, biden, trump, desantis, RFkeentodie, castros bastard, the little french faggot, the new zealand tranny, an endless stream of morons in the UK, nutinyahoo, dutch tranny root, on and on the list is endless
“In Russia, we pretend to vote, and the politicians pretend to be elected.”
I love the Bushes.
Er…I meant I love Bushmills!
As long as you are not drinking butt wipe, just saying the trumps are supporters of that faggotry.
The purpose of polling is so the Democrats know how many fake ballots to print ahead of time. Don’t want to risk a xerox breakdown on election night.
You ignored the biggest factor is American Presidential elections. Which is that its legal for Democrats to cheat with fake votes whether it be mail in or in person. Vote fraud is why Trump cant win. Vote fraud is why Barack Obama chooses the President. Vote fraud is why Barack Obama is our Dictator and will continue to be our Dictator.
This is just high brow PANIC. Trump is coming back like it or not. Me, I LOVE IT.
It’s just ride…
Your just going to vote harder Repubictards.
Trump is the only vote AGAINST the deep state. The only one. RFKJr is a chimera with one speck of legitimacy. Whom else? DeSantis? He’s already part owned through the state politics, national will have him lock stock and barrel. Haley the neocon stooge (sorry) who couldn’t keep her authoritarian lip schooled? Vivek the kid you loathe for being not just smarter than you but a lot smarter than you, open about it and self absorbed to boot. What, Burgum? He clearly gots no dough so in the hopper with Desantis. There must be another or two, but they’re hit on the money too.
The fact Trump’s run with all the people who will be owning the other candidates is, unfortunately or perhaps very fortunately, they ain’t owning him. Renting perhaps yes but owning? No. Likewise all the international big shots, he’s been around all that, taken a measure of those he’s interacted with.
The only practical vote against the deep state in either party and the only one in sight at this point.
Nothing less will do. I don’t care how fucked up he is in how many ways, he’s the only one. And it could be he’s shining the whole thing on. But he’s the only one.
Voat Hardur, amirite?
Finding an honest politician is like trying to find a diamond in a sewer. Trump and Kennedy are owned by Israel, and Biden is owned by everyone. The entire Congress is on the take.
Until the system outlaws the open taking of bribes from special interests, the US will continue to deteriorate until it collapses all together. When the people take to the streets and threaten to burn the whole thing down unless the system changes, and every politician lives in fear of their life, then something will get done, but that day is not something I ever expect to see.