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I know we have a topic on VDH, but why merge when this could be a standalone topic that it's the left who has stuck a flame to democracy.
 
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More heat from VDH!





Our Election’s Utter Losers and Winners

Deservedly Losers

The polls—with the exception once again of AltasIntel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen—were off, and way off in the Senate races.

The pollsters’ reputation is again in full reverse and now back to their nadir of 2020 and 2016. Many shamelessly warped their data in the last two weeks to gin up Harris momentum, fund-raising, and voter turnout.And to no avail.

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Winners?

Donald Trump, of course.After a decade of Russian collusion farces, laptop disinformation ruses, two impeachments, attempted ballot removal, five civil and criminal suits, two assassination attempts, and a swat team raid on his home, the indestructible 78-year-old Trump has just pulled off the greatest political comeback in presidential history.

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I watched the tears, denial, and fury of the MSNBC and CNN crowd as they struggled first to fantasize nonexistent pathways to victory, then to revisit “Russian collusion” and “lawfare”, then to claim the proverbial naïve and stupid electorate was deluded into voting against its “real” interests (as defined by MSNBC grandees), and finally to announce that the world—currently on the nuclear precipice of Biden-induced, escalating, theater-wide wars—will be “aghast” at the will of the American people.

In other words, the political-media Leftist fusion sermonized about everything other than why they were rejected by the American people.

What a pathetic bunch our media have become.

And lastly Biden?

The left —who dreamed up the 2020 idea of using the fake “ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton” as “moderate” cover for the hard-left agenda—does not know whether to blame Joe for not getting out earlier, or to claim their July coup was now a mistake and they would have been better off with a candidate cognitively challenged by dementia rather than one by innate inability.

So, Democrats will blame everyone and everything—except themselves who sought to drive down the American people’s throat the most radical and absurd agenda of the last two centuries that ruined the economy, exploded our border, made moonscapes of our big cities, destroyed women’s sports, set the world abroad afire, weaponized the courts and the bureaucracies, and sought to tear the country in two.

RIP to all that.
 
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victorhanson.com

Harris Was Always Doomed

Harris’s campaign was crippled by her ties to unpopular policies, Biden administration failures, authenticity issues, and a contentious nomination process.
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Harris Was Always Doomed​


The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.

Instead, the great Trump comeback victory was clear by the last weeks of the campaign.

The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registrations since 2020, when Trump had lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes.

Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID.

They not only vastly exceeded their early/mail-in voting totals of 2020, but by Election Day, they often outpaced Democrats.

For months, it was widely reported, albeit grudgingly, that there were large defections in Hispanic and African American voters from Harris.

The betting odds over the last three weeks usually favored Trump.

Harris simply could not run on anything she had so emphatically promoted in the past—given these left-wing, unpopular, and failed policies had no majority support.
 
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BreatheUT said:
More heat from VDH!





Our Election’s Utter Losers and Winners

Deservedly Losers

The polls—with the exception once again of AltasIntel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen—were off, and way off in the Senate races.

The pollsters’ reputation is again in full reverse and now back to their nadir of 2020 and 2016. Many shamelessly warped their data in the last two weeks to gin up Harris momentum, fund-raising, and voter turnout.And to no avail.

More.......
....................

Winners?

Donald Trump, of course.After a decade of Russian collusion farces, laptop disinformation ruses, two impeachments, attempted ballot removal, five civil and criminal suits, two assassination attempts, and a swat team raid on his home, the indestructible 78-year-old Trump has just pulled off the greatest political comeback in presidential history.

More........

.................

I watched the tears, denial, and fury of the MSNBC and CNN crowd as they struggled first to fantasize nonexistent pathways to victory, then to revisit “Russian collusion” and “lawfare”, then to claim the proverbial naïve and stupid electorate was deluded into voting against its “real” interests (as defined by MSNBC grandees), and finally to announce that the world—currently on the nuclear precipice of Biden-induced, escalating, theater-wide wars—will be “aghast” at the will of the American people.

In other words, the political-media Leftist fusion sermonized about everything other than why they were rejected by the American people.

What a pathetic bunch our media have become.

And lastly Biden?

The left —who dreamed up the 2020 idea of using the fake “ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton” as “moderate” cover for the hard-left agenda—does not know whether to blame Joe for not getting out earlier, or to claim their July coup was now a mistake and they would have been better off with a candidate cognitively challenged by dementia rather than one by innate inability.

So, Democrats will blame everyone and everything—except themselves who sought to drive down the American people’s throat the most radical and absurd agenda of the last two centuries that ruined the economy, exploded our border, made moonscapes of our big cities, destroyed women’s sports, set the world abroad afire, weaponized the courts and the bureaucracies, and sought to tear the country in two.

RIP to all that.
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VDH has a way with words.
 
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^^^ that guy is great. Much credit to him for standing up and speaking truth in an age when Dimwits will try to cancel your whole life...federal agencies will try to lock you up AND seize your money/assets...and antifa etc will even try to harm you and your property.

Guys like Victor, Jordan Peterson, Mike Rowe, Thomas Sowell etc are the canaries in the coal mine of US culture. They are screaming from the rooftops that the Globalists, Socialists, Leftist leaders and professors etc are absolutely destroying this country. We are all frogs in this pot and the Leftist imbeciles keep cranking the burner up higher and higher with their ridiculous BS and its going to end up killing us all. These parasites are like leeches on the beast that is the US...ever increasing in number and appetite...and they will continue until the beast is dead if someone doesn't put a stop to this madness. People need to wake up. Listen to logic and reason.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
^^^ that guy is great. Much credit to him for standing up and speaking truth in an age when Dimwits will try to cancel your whole life...federal agencies will try to lock you up AND seize your money/assets...and antifa etc will even try to harm you and your property.

Guys like Victor, Jordan Peterson, Mike Rowe, Thomas Sowell etc are the canaries in the coal mine of US culture. They are screaming from the rooftops that the Globalists, Socialists, Leftist leaders and professors etc are absolutely destroying this country. We are all frogs in this pot and the Leftist imbeciles keep cranking the burner up higher and higher with their ridiculous BS and its going to end up killing us all. These parasites are like leeches on the beast that is the US...ever increasing in number and appetite...and they will continue until the beast is dead if someone doesn't put a stop to this madness. People need to wake up. Listen to logic and reason.
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He is one of the best with thought provoking and well written insights. He is the Marvin West of politics.
 
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BreatheUT said:
He is one of the best with thought provoking and well written insights. He is the Marvin West of politics.
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Yep hes from the same group as Thomas Sowell also. Important group of extremely intelligent and accomplished people on the Right that are speaking truth that people need to hear. I hope it doesn't fall on deaf ears. There does seem to be a resurgence of Conservative beliefs among people my sons age (23)...but I also know that my experiences are subjective and he didn't attend a liberal state school full of Socialists, antisemitism, failed ideas and all the other Liberal BS that is infecting ignorant minds of young people. He got his degrees at Liberty and my daughter is likely going to finish her degree there as well.

My childrens beliefs and politics were all settled well before college anyway though, I am old fashioned I guess in that we believe it is our responsibility to raise adults, not children. We taught them all of the important things at home, and taught both to think critically and logically so that they aren't easily fooled by the lies of the Left. Its not enough to believe, they need to know why they believe the way they do and be able to defend those things they hold sacred with logic and reason...and with scripture when it comes to their faith. So far it has turned out great. All the glory and praise for them is God's though and His alone. He gave me much better children than I have ever deserved, and allowed me to live this long to see them grow and prosper. I deserve neither of those things, and never will. Many of the issues plaguing this country are direct consequences of us turning away from God and moral lives. I understand that others may not agree...
 
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jmacvols1 said:
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Victor is great I listen to his podcasts regularly. Hard working farm boy that grew up to be one of the best historians in our nation. Listening to him speak with and without guests on such a broad range of topics from both ancient and recent history in incredible detail has longsince earned my respect and my ear.

On a side note...does he not remind yall of John Malkovich? His voice is nearly identical, even down to cadence and pause...they kinda look alike too. Most recently I saw JM in "Spaceforce" and he was hilarious.
 
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