Hi Lou - thanks for the terrific column, although as usual I disagree with you about Trump.
A few things: why do you believe the B. S. about Kamala doing so well? This is all being fabricated by the Democrat Media Industrial Complex. If you talk to anyone outside of a blue region like this one, you'll hear how overwhelmingly more popular Trump is. I have a friend who just drove over seven thousand miles across the country and he said he saw almost no Harris signs but thousands upon thousands of Trump ones.
If Kamala was really doing so well, then why wouldn't they have her do debates right away? Why wouldn't she be talking to reporters?
I think it's far more likely that they're willing to pay gazillions for the lies about her popularity because they want to cheat on the election and this is the only way they can possibly get away with it.
Here's the timeline I see: I think they'll try to get out of the Trump/Harris debate coming up because they remember what Tulsi did to her and they know Kamala will really tank against Trump. But if she goes through with the debate and does indeed suck, then they'll try to throw Trump in jail because they can't try to assassinate him again.
At the same time, they're working harder and harder to get Joe out. Because then Kamala will be president, and they can declare a state of military emergency - Putin, whatever excuse - and cancel the election. All they really want is to finish their coup. You talk about people getting out to vote to save the country. Lou, I think the Dems have taken us past that.
A Trump/Vance sign was just put up in yard down the street. This never happened in my blue neighborhood before. I see and hear more and more people in Santa Barbara, of all places, openly for Trump, including young men and women. What I sense from young people is the cross-party alliance of Trump with Gabbard and Kennedy speaks to their fed-upness with our two parties. But as I said earlier, if there is an actual vote I'm convinced Trump will win in a landslide. But - and I hope I'm wrong - I don't think there'll be an election.
Dusting off our 2020 Californians for Trump flag, coming soon in our neighborhood too. Perhaps this year some of our neighbors will stop whispering they also support Trump, but were too timid to show this ......in this town. Trump's boldness needs to be rewarded; he is doing this for us.
Agree. But then I have never gotten this thing where people say they don't like his personality. You're not marrying him, or letting him into your country club, you're voting for him to be president.
When I see Polly, I think of Polly Wolly Doodle, once a slave song changed to a children's song. Which raises the question: Why do blacks vote Democrat when a Republican President fought for their rights? I really don't know. Can anyone explain? I might have known once, but at my age now I could've forgotten the answer.
How many who identify as African American today still trace their roots to a slave ancestor with any direct immediacy? WWII severed many of those former socio-political-residential ties into real time, real world concerns. Looking to the future; not the past. Did LBJ's "War on Poverty" distort former political loyalties, as he so crudely intended?
Do women really have raging present grievances about not being given the vote under the original US Constitution until only a century ago? There is wisdom including statutes of limitations in our jurisprudence traditions. There is a time to say enough is enough, and move on.
Colonialism, original land tenure, slavery, women's suffrage, just to name a few major transitions from other eras. Some we let go - like our current relationships with Japan, German and Italy compared to WWII. Others dig under the skin and fester or get exploited for ersatz political gain - reparations, UBI, Russia, Russia, Russia come to this post-Cold War mind.
Bottomline: I think one must measure political loyalties by current terms; not by past birth right demands. Social fluidity is an American hallmark. Good question. I will be interested to see what others say.
Thank you for your perspective. I was also thinking about Democrat Robert Byrd, a former member of the House of Representatives and the Senate and once a member of the KKK in the 1940's. It is great to see now many African Americans asking, "What has the Democratic Party done for me?" With the illegal immigrants now available for lower wage jobs, the Dems are not helping citizens of the country. And now Newsom brainstorming about giving illegals free money for housing ... well follow the voting ballot trail.
True, Lincoln was a Republican, but in 1860 it was very progressive party. After the Dems passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act in the 1960's, the racist White supremacist "Dixiecrats" abandoned the now progressive Dems and became Republicans, where their legacy lives on.
When you comment about someone's action, you have to have a better response as to what you would've done. It's easy to complain of someone's action, so would you simply have done nothing? Anyone with the name of S. 2 is a scaredy-cat of really being identified.
S.2 Fauci and Bill Gates are not running. Yet those who acted on mandating their evil creation are. Explain your self, and don't use TDS as your ever-ready philosopher's stone to turn clear Biden-Harris failures into somehow Trump's fault.
Too bad Pelosi and her Democrats screamed DO SOMETHING so loudly back in election year 2020, after they intentionally weaponized "covid" into the Zombie Apocalypse.
Bad move on Democrats part, then they got stuck dragging out the 2020 flu season well into their own failed term and damaged a lot of people in the process. Truth was the first casualty of the Great Democrat Covid Election Year Hysteria.
Sorry, Trump is NOT doing this for us, he is doing this for himself to avoid prison. Trump has always only been for himself, from dodging the draft, to discriminatory housing practices, to stiffing contractors at his construction projects, to hanging out with his buddy Epstein, to cheating on wife no. 1 with wife no. 2, cheating on no. 2 with wife no. 3, cheating on wife no. 3 with prostitutes and porn stars, to literally grabbing unconsenting women by the pussy - and being held accountable for same, to his sham university and his "for profit" charity...and this was before he ever announced his candidacy. There is no end to his grift and swindle - the latest being a set of collector cards with a few threads from his "assassination suit." How could anyone still consider this immoral, indecent RINO buffoon fit to lead our great nation?
Well, so far Trump has never won the popular vote, losing to Hillary by 3 million in 2016 and to Biden by 8 million in 2020. I don't think many of those 8 million voters have any better opinion of Trump now, with his evident cognitive decline, than they did in 2020. But, to answer your question, I should be just fine - I am an old, White, heterosexual, Christian male who is not poor - those who are not won't be so lucky.
SS: Founders, with good reason rejected a "popular vote" for President. We are the United STATES of America, remember? The popular vote remains a meaningless measurement today, in the world of legal partisan ballot harvesting anyway. And now including informal ballot harvesting as a new cultural norm in certain areas - a ballot is money in the bank, you don't just vote, you get paid by someone else to cast that ballot.
Those 2020 "popular votes" for Biden, and probably Clinton too, came mainly from NY and California were legal ballot harvesting has become state of the art as a GOTV exercise conducted by self-interested government employee union members.
All that work to gin up the popular votes in a few states, but which did not move the needle one iota to change the allocated numbers of electoral votes each of those state had to cast in the first place.
What was the point of those special interest ballot harvesting efforts in those few primarily blue states? Obviously to gas-light any opposition to the many questionable election processes allowed during the highly suspect 2020 US election year "global pandemic". But Biden got "81 million popular votes" .........so just shut up. And people did. We are wiser now.
God bless the founders for not letting NY and CA "popular votes" decide the fate of our entire nation. And they did not even know about California back then. But they knew human nature, so they built in buffers between our form of government and the far more quixotic impacts of mob rule.
Now Trump even admits that he lost the 2020 election "by a whisker"! So the "stolen election" was all a big lie? Some poor fools fell for it so deeply they are now going to jail for answering Trump's summons to Washington, DC, to storm the capitol in his failed coup attempt. Meanwhile, this grifter is selling golden sneakers and autographed Bibles while babbling on about Hannibal Lecter, batteries and sharks. I saw a transcript of a recent Trump speech that must have challenged the punctuation skills of the transcriber; the utterance drolled on forever in search of a "period." I think Trump calls this babble "weaving."
as always Polly, your over the targets…the polls are controlled/contrived, subtract 5 from Harris (over sampling of [D]) and add 5 to Trump for the silent voters (and growing by the day))…word on the street, they are in deep panic as their internal polling show mass cratering…Trump now has 20-30% of the black vote (and they know they can’t win without garnering 90% of the black vote), plus young voters are waking & shifting to Trump, and even the slow moving suburban women & housewives are waking up and coming along.
Agreed Michael. Some of us remember that the FBI, Intel, and political establishment had possession /insight into the Hunter Biden laptop long before the 2020 election. And then when it came up at the 11th hour, we remember when Anthony Blinken, working for the Hillary election campaign, went to Gina Haspel at the CIA, who then wrote a letter and had it signed by the 51 former Intel operators with household names. Post election analysis showed that up to 15% of the people said that they may have changed their vote if they had known the contents of the laptop. Election Interference! Subversion/Treason!
Yes, what’s needed is removal of Merrick Garland and his co-conspirator, Jack Smith. BOTH should be facing federal indictments for obstruction of justice. Biden and his thug, crime family, also need to face justice.
As I said earlier, justice and retribution now, so this will never happen again. Recalling from history figuratively, “night of the long knives.”
There you go again, hitting the nail on the head time and time again. Great comment, but you leave the rest little to add. It is like performing on the guitar after Segovia. Perhaps in the future you could wait until 3:00 to post.
Segovia was pretty amazing. He changed my life. Here I was, 17, making out with this Santa Barbara hippie dude and he puts on Segovia to set the mood. Segovia played Bach. Listening, I thought I understood the cosmos. Segovia and Bach won out over the hippie. I lost interest in anything but understanding classical music.
My surest path to getting my comment near the top is to reply to Polly's first comment of the day. That way I can ride on her coattails and not need to rely on the merit of my comment or on its brilliant wit.
Currents is the new media option, but there were plenty Substacks that explain the law as it pertains to governing this country. Substack uses the same algorithms as YouTube, and Amazon that direct you to stuff it thinks you want. Why believe the hype? Moreover, why believe it speaks for you? Don't repost and mindlessly adopt a narrow self-serving, self-dealing focus. https://youtu.be/aDNUuPPso40?
Having debated you this very issue in the past, I know how hard this decision must have been for you. To write it down and publish it here shows great courage and character. I am impressed.
I think Obama would prefer to vote for Trump. Afterall, Kamala is swinging a wrecking ball to Obama's legacy. Obama's preference of Biden as his VP turned out bad with Biden as President and Kamala, probably at one time an Obama preference, turned out to be disastrous. We only watch Kamala to be amused, such as the upcoming pre-taped (meaning edited) CNN interview, a joke because her word-salad stuff will be removed. She'll look great. And why is Walz part of this, does he provide her with comfort? Geez, talk about the political system being flushed down the drain.
Your irony here did not tickle Victoria Valente's funnybone. When I was growing up in Santa Barbara people used to tell me I would be more at home in NYC. So now I'm back I wear a t shirt that says “just bein' ironic” with a big LOL on the back. Santa Barbarans understand words best when they're on t shirts.
Why did Obama salivate over Harris as the prettiest AG in the country during a prior California political visit, to the great consternation of wife Michelle. (Oh, that's right - Obama is a phony.)
Hi Dan: My wife worked in the corporate world as an HR VP for a Fortune 500 company. She's heard it all and seen some "interesting" stuff you mention and it's just the tip of the iceberg. You can expect any high-level dude making the big bucks (CEO's, Presidents, etc.) or higher up on the political ladder, either Dems or Repubs. not always being someone you appreciated the things they do or say. If you think we should weed out all the male politicians that irritate you (or even me), then we might as well find saints to fill the high political offices. It's just a fact-of-life we live with both the bad and good from the same person. Trump is an organizer, a doer, a guy who gets things done. He's smart with money, gets the biggest bang for the buck. And he probably hates laziness. He's a shaker and mover. I like to shake things up as I'm sure you do, too.
No BIll, he inherited 400 million and lost it. Loser. He went bankrupt six times. Have you ever? Me neither. He cheated on his WIVES, yes, multiple wives. Why should I go on? Oh yeah, dogged the draft during the Vietnam war. And just two days ago poses for photos in Section 60 in Arlington Cemetery, without regard to the 900+ other men and women buried there that might not agree with his politics. . . Sorry, what were you saying?
Bill, just a question. But did she work in HR 5 years ago or 20? Things that were acceptable when I started work are no longer accepable or common today. Even with the gray hairs.
I never liked Obama. He seems disingenuous. Clicking on that link caused a mild bilious acid reflux. I am sure not unlike VV gets when seeing the great and beautifu Donald J Trump.
We had the experience of standing behind Obama, when he gave his introductory rally at SBCC in 2008/2007? We watched him whip up the crowd with chanting and cheering. Typical black church repetitions and cadences, building up this intentional crowd frenzy. Formulaic.
Yet when he turned away from the crowd to get a drink of water or take break from our vantage point, we saw his non-crowd face which was cold as ice. He got no joy from his rallies, he was just turning a crank. He had no use for the hustings, just a part of campaigning he was forced to endure. And he was good at it.
The real turning point for me however was his what was to become known as his infamous "fainting lady stunt". He called out with practiced words to some incidence in the crowd that no one else had seen ....... "she is gonna be fine people, give her some water, she just got a little over-excited" ...... which turned out to be the exact same words recorded on video at 7-8 more rallies. Oooohh, cooed the crowd, he is a healer, he is a savior.
My gut reaction.......how did he instantly know she was "gonna be fine" ... something felt instinctively creepy about that very moment. I never had to walk back my original Obama gut check - cold, calculating and phony. And I was a Democrat at that time. I felt it was "her turn" in 2008; not his.
If Trump is his own worst enemy, then Republicans who criticize Trump on his character or personality are his second worst enemy. I must criticize you on missing the point that a leader must be selected on policy alone. Your continual whining on these pages about being offended by Trump's Trumpyness is not helping to get him elected. What you find offensive is immaterial to his ability to successfully lead this country. While a beauty pagent or prom queen may be selected on the basis of poise, grace, character or charm, the president of the United States must be selected on policy and leadership ability only. A lack of poise, grace and charm are probably presidential virtues since a gruff character will undoubtedly gain more respect on the international stage. This new fluffy fuzzy squishy vision of what a president should be is lame.
Thank you. Like a fluffy fuzzy squishy guy would get up after being shot and raise his fist? If I have surgery, I effing don't care what my surgeon's sensitivity level is, I want him to do a good job. What? You're drowning and the lifeguard talks funny? What is wrong with people?
Look at who Trump surrounded himself with and where they are now. And how many of his appointees say he's incompetent publicly. Lou isn't going to loose any votes for Trump posting on this site...... Listen to Lou's rational words - you might learn something.
Trump has put many good people on his team. Service in the Trump administration is not for the faint of heart, seeing what the Media does to them pre-post and during service. Trump had a really rough go to get sign-ups after his surprise election in 2016.
But the conversion to Team Trump of late has been both dazzling and reassuring. They know the mettle of the man this time, and want to be part of the transformative change back to the basics this country so desperately needs.
Never forget the "media" are union members too (SAG/AFTRA) - all for one, and one for all.
Rex Tillerson was a Condaliza Rice recruit - two alpha males in the same room often does not bode well. Not when one is elected and the other one is hired.
Seriously?? What do you do for a living other than comment nonstop on this site? You are sadly mistaken to mock Rex Tillerson and Condoleezza Rice. (I will give you a break, I had to look up how to spell her name)
Dan, you are amazing! Just when more and more Trump haters are saying eh, he's not so bad compared to the alternative - your TDS is on steroids! What do you take to stoke it? You must have some great pill combo. And you could make a fortune selling it. The DNC would make it mandatory for everyone to get shots of it before they could do anything or go anywhere. Children would be reared on it. The world would be a better place. No one would ever hate anyone ever again. Except Trump. You owe it to the world, Dan.
Gosh Polly, I don't know. Might have been the fact that I worked in DC the summer of 1985 for John McCain... Are you married? Do you have any family loved ones or let's say people you have worked for that others have disparaged?
Trump did that to my former boss John McCain. And I think he did it again on Monday in Section 60 at Arlington Cemetery to the more than 900 men and women buried there.
McCain was known for being a real shit to some people as well. If he effectively worked on your sympathy, it's a good thing you got out of DC. I've seen how nasty powerful people can be and frankly you take it way too personally and don't think of what's best for the country. My own father worked as a lawyer with a lot of politicians and was asked by Nixon to head the IRS. My dad refused due to Nixon's requirements, that it be used to punish his enemies list. My father's powerful brother in law in his second marriage gave an interview to Vanity Fair in which he ripped my dad apart. But my father's colleagues all laughed at the interview because my dad didn't show that it affected him. My father was an alpha male, and he knew the game he was in. He would have felt emasculated if I went around saying oh my poor dad. He didn't want his daughter to do anything but laugh at the awfulness of people in power - the last thing he wanted was for me to spend my life in a rage for his sake. It speaks well for you that you don't belong in the world of politics but I also don't trust your judgement as to what this country needs. My husband has stood between me and an attacker on the street, but also tells me to move on and not be so sensitive when I need to toughen up.
I recall Tump at the beginning of his last administration stating that “I only hire the best”. Well in hindsight, perhaps he did, with a very large number of his appointees critical of his abilities.
Partisan lawfare is taking Rudy Giuliani down. That is what must stop. Rudy chose to be "tall corn" for the Trump cause. Deep State has yet again played their hand for all to see. And the nation is repulsed by what their "government" has become.
Disagree…Rudy Giuliani is a true American Patriot, a Great mayor who led people through the horrors of 9/11, and also rounded many of the NY crime families back in the 80s (with some assistance from Donald John Trump). They smeared Rudy badly & tried to break him, but have failed. Some people are drunk on the Legacy Media punch bowl.
how do you fill out an administration when +70% of Washington are Deep State players, corrupt politicians, snakes and jackals, entrenched bureaucrats (SES +++)? Trump doesn't silence his opponents, he puts them into the spotlight, and lets them destroy themselves...
Right on Jeff - look at that drab Harry Truman and that hill billy LBJ - both fairly effective in spite of the fact they were both . . . Democrats.
So Trumpy is a boorish cad - who cares? When you're drowning, (which we are), you're not looking for John Wayne, you're looking for some can-do brute who can _save your ass_!
Speaking up against Harris /Walz ought to be easy, and you did a great job of listing the myriad reasons why. In SB, saying these things takes courage. I’m glad to be part of the team willing to speak up and put our real name on our opinions. Maybe in SB we need the RNC to pass out “DEFEAT HARRIS/WALZ” yard signs and bumper stickers. As a big fan of Dr. Ben Carson during the primary for the 2016 election, I was anti Trump. Voting against crooked, evil Hillary was clearly not a choice, so Trump got my vote. Trump’s bombastic NYC Billionaire demeanor is his problem, and the people he chose to advise in office him were not always wise or faithful. Having said that, most of Trumps policies have been good for all Americans. Promoting Warp Speed Covid vax was not one of his good ideas, in my opinion.
Turning the keys to the country over to Harris Walz would very likely be the death knell for the “democracy” they claim to promote. The deep state is who they represent, as well. They seem determined to quash the Constitution, using fear of viruses and climate change as their weapons.
Trump needs a Republican Senate to enact something stronger than presidential policy, so I hope many of you come and support Steve Garvey. Maybe we could find some
Hi Lou, thanks for a great article. I know that Trump's personality is tough for some people, but I just take him at face value. Like all of us, we are complex and complicated. Trump is an interesting character. He doesn't come across smooth or publicly palatable sometimes because, well, it's not his strong suit. What he is strong at, though, it getting right to the point, and ferreting out bullshit. He has no filter, and I think that's what bugs people the most. To me, however, a 'filter' or 'being polite' in many ways is tantamount to lying. If you can't tell me to the face how you really feel about me, why kiss my ass with false platitudes? He also is not interested in wasting time, and for a guy his age, he has an amazing amount of time and energy, so he can get done in a day multiples of what someone else would accomplish. His interests are wide and varied, and he genuinely cares for this country and its people. Does he need to be saccharine sweet to be effective? Nope. As a former military officer I was blessed to find out what leadership looks like, and sometimes it AIN'T pretty. But I don't want the pretty, sweet guy leading me to battle. I want the tough S.O.B. who doesn't take no for an answer and is not afraid to go first. That's Trump. Love him or hate him, he and his cronies might actually just clean this swamp of corruption, if given enough time. Hopefully he partners with some younger folks (Vance, Gabbard, DeSantis, etc) who can follow in his footsteps once he gets the ball rolling. It won't be quick. It might be ugly. Hang on, America needs saving. Vote Trump. Pray he gets it done before they shoot him...again.
Wow Annie - great! I have a little different pov on ‘being polite’. Most folks are afraid of being disliked or thought poorly of.
The best assistant I ever had used to tell our clients, (and me) “That’s the stupidest idea I ever heard.” I loved her straight talk and could always depend on her for the one prize above all else - the truth! Trump is the same - “You don’t like me? I don’t care - here’s my honest answer!
I would be the first to admit Trump is a flawed candidate. Many needless, unforced errors. For this, I can certainly move past and give my support. If for NO other reason, people need to vote with their wallets!
The presidential election is one thing, but what about our state government and the pending insolvency? We are in deep trouble and all politics needs to be local.
This election cycle should be very simple;
War vs peace, prosperity vs bankruptcy, crime vs safety and crazy vs sanity!
And now with JFK Jr onboard, health vs sickness… Infiltration at the highest levels of government, media, science, HEALTH, military CoC, …..MonkeyPox, another Chinese special delivery? 'Quarantine' is when you restrict the movement of sick people. 'Tyranny' is when you restrict the movement of healthy people. At what point should this be reclassified as murder? Was this ever about the HEALTH and well-being of people? Was this ever about the virus?
More attention needs to be paid to AG Kamala Harris's official acts to sabotage two government pension reform ballot measures. She single-handedly sent both into oblivion, after broad efforts by citizen groups qualified these measures for the state ballot.
This ranks as the most sordid chapter in her undistinguished career as a dutiful Democrat party apparatchik. Where would California's now languishing state finances be today, if voters had been given voice to reign in the now trillion dollar exposure to California unfunded government pension liabilities? Your grandchildren will want answers. Unless they wisely have already moved out of the state.
Harris is all party-pandering froth; there is no substance there, there.
PS: Lou, you know I am long time fan of your intellect and policy articulateness, but I can only reluctantly offer my uptick to your opinion piece. I simply do not share your dark assessment of Trump as a person, but I also wildly cheer your willingness to candidly assess the alternatives presented this election.
There is time later for Ron Desantis, and I admire what he has done in Florida too. But this election calls for brashness and breaking up the suffocating Democrat narrative of the past 12-14 years. That takes ripping off the bandage in one sharp tug for the real national healing to take place. The Deep State needs a trust-buster, dedicated to that one sole task first.
Nothing is hidden any longer in the Deep State's partisan motivations, since they are using every weapon in their taxpayer-funded arsenal to take down Donald J. Trump.
Trump, brash and abrasive, is flushing them out of their spider holes. The nation needed to witness this first, in order to have the backs of Ron Desantis or whomever follows later, who can right the ship of state and return us to the original intentions of our founding. Which is limited government and the rule of law; not Big Government and the partisan weaponization of micromanaging petty statutes.
Excellent J ! 'ripping off the bandage . .' - ' trust-buster . .' - 'brash and abrasive . . '
If by any chance Trump wins by a landslide and takes Congress along with him I just hope he _really_ cleans house. No more Mr. Nice guy. The GOP can _rule_ for 10 years if he get some savvy, dirty street fighters around him.
Nothing wrong with bi-partisan sharing. Democrats are long on vision; we are long on common sense and fiscal probity. Could be a winning, mutually respectful duo.
Introduction of government employees unions in 1962 created a sub-group of US voters who vote only existentially, and not ideologically. 23 million of them today, created an alien body politic when they now show up 99% on the Democrat side of the ticket.
Their buzz word alarm about this current unsustainable shift in the body politic is to rail against "Project 2025", which Democrats view as a death knell for government employee unions.
Yet if we do not reign in this new unelected fourth branch of our government which has reached critical mass today, we will destroy the entire experiment in governance exceptionalism called the United States of America and its US Constitution.
I am very much with very clear-headed Dr Ben Carson on this issue - we are only one or two election cycles away from total loss of our nation. Looking to bring back balance in our government operations, not defeat or scorched earth. But we must eliminate government employee unions, as presently constituted.
BTW, recently learned this has also a difference between the Marines and the Army during WWII. Marines liked to move in fast, early casualties be damned, because an effective lightening strike could shorten the war and reduce over all casualties.
Army under Gen McArthur liked to move very slow and steady, with more protection of personnel in individual actions but that would also prolong the over all numbers of battles for similar net effect. (per Great Courses - WWII in the Pacific)
Trump is the Marines; Desantis is the Army per this example.
I read this "DEFINING" article by Lou Segal Titled "Vote Trump" and I agree
with Mr. Segal and I quote "Others who think as I do might wonder why I see Harris as such a mortal threat to this country. The answer is in her own words and her record as Senator and Attorney General in California. She has supported decriminalizing illegal immigration, giving taxpayer funded health insurance to illegal immigrants, eliminating health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms, imposing price controls on food and other consumer goods..."
As Mr. Segal has stated Harris is a "Mortal Threat" to the US but NOT WHAT IS STATED ABOVE.
Those who are responsible for the Current War in Ukraine, Biden/Harris are partly responsible, has placed the US into Nuclear Exchange Possibilty with Russia, that has occurred only once before with President Kennedy who quickly and secretly de-escalated with Russia as you can all read
During our work, with teams of engineers, in 1980s, on the Ohio Class Submarine, I have walked missle aisle hundreds of times on largest US Submarines the SSBN 726 (Ohio) SSBN 727 (Michigan) and SSBN 728 (Florida) at Submarine Base Bangor. This Nuclear Submarine is the most formidable weapon that can destroy an entire Country within minutes and Russia has comparble submarines in response.
Anyone that places the US into a uncessary "Nuclear Posture" against Russia, I am VOTING AGAINST.
President Trump and Kennedy have come together on three MAJOR Issues one is to immediately END THE PROXY WAR USING UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIA and the tragic killing of hundreds of thousand of young Ukraine and Russian Boys many families who I have contact with.
I have lived with Russians for 25 years and I think I may know a thing or two about Russia as well as
in the past tracking Russian Fleet Military ships and submarines in the Pacific.
Russia does not BULLSHIT like most Americans and they will execute a Nuclear Exchange and practice same on thier Submarines in their Military Naval Operations.
Therefore, like Mr.Segal, I will be voting for Trump AND Kennedy for the "SAFETY OF AMERICA."
Howard Walther, member of a Miltary Family
PS - Kennedy is going to provide some very needed advice and direction for Trump who better listen.
Good one HW…people need to listen to the words out of Putin’s mouth, rather than the narrative garbage tale fed to us by the Legacy Media (same media that have told us that Trump is a Russian agent, Trump is Hitler, etc. + Putin wants to take over the world — all nonsense). Research and read or listen to Putin’s speeches, they help sort out the truth
Agreed. My family is Russian immigrants and I work with Russians pretty regularly in my field (not political)
Whatever faults they have, as a general stereotype They do not bullshit. They don’t even know how. It took me years to get a Russian coworker to answer the vapid daily American question of “How are you doing?” With a simple one word lie of “fine”. 🤔😂
Thank you for this great article. Kamala Harris is a lobotomized vapid shell of a human being. She's manipulative, criminal and dumber than a door knob on policy. Matter of fact, my door knob is more utilitarian than Harris. So yes! It behooves everyone in this country of voting age to vote for TRUMP. Either that or you lose your country to the parasitic globalists.
Lou makes some very good points, but he's exaggerating about Trump being an extremely flawed human being. Who isn't a flawed human being? That sounds like some stupid snowflake rhetoric. And if he's going to mention Trump's flawed character, he might as well talk about Biden and every other damn president's flawed character. Trump has literally given away his own money to help the less fortunate pay off hardship mortgages. Biden gives away everyone else's money (taxpayers) to help pay off student debt. Trump has never been a career politician, but he has been an extremely effective businessman who developed and shaped New York and its infrastructure, creating thousands of jobs. He was extremely popular and well liked by just about everyone before he became president. So while I agree that we must do everything to prevent Kamabla from winning the election, Lou's remarks about Trump are purely subjective. You can't argue with the fact that Trump is a natural born leader.
I agree and am voting Trump as well. The best quote that captures the enigma that is Trump is this: Trump’s detractors take him literally but not seriously. Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally. A Harris America would be no America at all.
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Do you believe the media is truthful?
Do you believe the Democrat administration has been truthful or transparent?
Why would anyone believe the media now when they report that Kamala is neck & neck with Trump? Because they’ve always been honest and fair?
How does a person go from getting zero delegates in her presidential run, to being the worst polling vp in American history to now all of a sudden tied with a guy who got 78 million votes.
How does a person who has to photoshop an audience into her pictures, who needs music artists and Hollywood actors to attract the few people to her rallies, who has to pay children to sit and listen to her school talks, stand against someone who with no celebrities attracts tens of thousands of people at every one of his rallies.
Do you really think the media polls are accurate?
Not for a minute.
Notice how the media doesnt talk about the toxic work environment under Harris and how many people voluntarily quit Verse Trump who had to fire incompetent people.
Notice how Biden and Kamala call the individual voter names and denigrate young voters.
Notice how Trump only attacks politicians and the corrupt who wrongly accuse him.
Trump has never attacked a voter. Biden and Harris do.
So who’s the meanie?
My left neighbors are voting Trump.
Just like you they finally see the hypocrisy of the Democrat party and now know the party was hijacked years ago.
Good for you Lou. Understood. Despite how people feel about Trump the man, that’s not what we’re voting for. We know what Trump stands for and what he accomplished despite the left trying to rewrite history that was only four years ago. We’re barely hanging on to a country under Biden. We can certainly do much better for four years under Trump. For those who don’t like him, four years will be over in no time. You will end up paying less for gas, stopping the illegal invasion, food costs will go down and we may be able to breathe a little easier with hopefully not entering WWIII. Harris will destroy us.
Well written article and it's good to see another fence sitter openly express support for Trump. This is our one & only chance of saving Our Country from falling into communism. For those that haven't figured it out yet, while Trump is just a man with drawbacks, he was forced to play rope-a-dope with these Clowns for the past eight years in order to stay alive. He had to play the game as he marched us through this Silent War. Could you imagine Trump being Mr. Acute Businessman from Day1, when he was sworn into office. They would have killed him long before their latest attempt in PA.
Again, thanks for being outspoken for Trump. And, remember, for each citizen that we can convert from being a Harris-Walz supporter into a Trump voter is a 2-for-1 win…they lose 1 plus we win 1. Keep up the good fight. Be loud! Be proud!
Hi Lou - thanks for the terrific column, although as usual I disagree with you about Trump.
A few things: why do you believe the B. S. about Kamala doing so well? This is all being fabricated by the Democrat Media Industrial Complex. If you talk to anyone outside of a blue region like this one, you'll hear how overwhelmingly more popular Trump is. I have a friend who just drove over seven thousand miles across the country and he said he saw almost no Harris signs but thousands upon thousands of Trump ones.
If Kamala was really doing so well, then why wouldn't they have her do debates right away? Why wouldn't she be talking to reporters?
I think it's far more likely that they're willing to pay gazillions for the lies about her popularity because they want to cheat on the election and this is the only way they can possibly get away with it.
Here's the timeline I see: I think they'll try to get out of the Trump/Harris debate coming up because they remember what Tulsi did to her and they know Kamala will really tank against Trump. But if she goes through with the debate and does indeed suck, then they'll try to throw Trump in jail because they can't try to assassinate him again.
At the same time, they're working harder and harder to get Joe out. Because then Kamala will be president, and they can declare a state of military emergency - Putin, whatever excuse - and cancel the election. All they really want is to finish their coup. You talk about people getting out to vote to save the country. Lou, I think the Dems have taken us past that.
A Trump/Vance sign was just put up in yard down the street. This never happened in my blue neighborhood before. I see and hear more and more people in Santa Barbara, of all places, openly for Trump, including young men and women. What I sense from young people is the cross-party alliance of Trump with Gabbard and Kennedy speaks to their fed-upness with our two parties. But as I said earlier, if there is an actual vote I'm convinced Trump will win in a landslide. But - and I hope I'm wrong - I don't think there'll be an election.
Dusting off our 2020 Californians for Trump flag, coming soon in our neighborhood too. Perhaps this year some of our neighbors will stop whispering they also support Trump, but were too timid to show this ......in this town. Trump's boldness needs to be rewarded; he is doing this for us.
Agree. But then I have never gotten this thing where people say they don't like his personality. You're not marrying him, or letting him into your country club, you're voting for him to be president.
When I see Polly, I think of Polly Wolly Doodle, once a slave song changed to a children's song. Which raises the question: Why do blacks vote Democrat when a Republican President fought for their rights? I really don't know. Can anyone explain? I might have known once, but at my age now I could've forgotten the answer.
How many who identify as African American today still trace their roots to a slave ancestor with any direct immediacy? WWII severed many of those former socio-political-residential ties into real time, real world concerns. Looking to the future; not the past. Did LBJ's "War on Poverty" distort former political loyalties, as he so crudely intended?
Do women really have raging present grievances about not being given the vote under the original US Constitution until only a century ago? There is wisdom including statutes of limitations in our jurisprudence traditions. There is a time to say enough is enough, and move on.
Colonialism, original land tenure, slavery, women's suffrage, just to name a few major transitions from other eras. Some we let go - like our current relationships with Japan, German and Italy compared to WWII. Others dig under the skin and fester or get exploited for ersatz political gain - reparations, UBI, Russia, Russia, Russia come to this post-Cold War mind.
Bottomline: I think one must measure political loyalties by current terms; not by past birth right demands. Social fluidity is an American hallmark. Good question. I will be interested to see what others say.
Thank you for your perspective. I was also thinking about Democrat Robert Byrd, a former member of the House of Representatives and the Senate and once a member of the KKK in the 1940's. It is great to see now many African Americans asking, "What has the Democratic Party done for me?" With the illegal immigrants now available for lower wage jobs, the Dems are not helping citizens of the country. And now Newsom brainstorming about giving illegals free money for housing ... well follow the voting ballot trail.
True, Lincoln was a Republican, but in 1860 it was very progressive party. After the Dems passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act in the 1960's, the racist White supremacist "Dixiecrats" abandoned the now progressive Dems and became Republicans, where their legacy lives on.
When you comment about someone's action, you have to have a better response as to what you would've done. It's easy to complain of someone's action, so would you simply have done nothing? Anyone with the name of S. 2 is a scaredy-cat of really being identified.
S.2 Fauci and Bill Gates are not running. Yet those who acted on mandating their evil creation are. Explain your self, and don't use TDS as your ever-ready philosopher's stone to turn clear Biden-Harris failures into somehow Trump's fault.
Too bad Pelosi and her Democrats screamed DO SOMETHING so loudly back in election year 2020, after they intentionally weaponized "covid" into the Zombie Apocalypse.
Bad move on Democrats part, then they got stuck dragging out the 2020 flu season well into their own failed term and damaged a lot of people in the process. Truth was the first casualty of the Great Democrat Covid Election Year Hysteria.
Sorry, Trump is NOT doing this for us, he is doing this for himself to avoid prison. Trump has always only been for himself, from dodging the draft, to discriminatory housing practices, to stiffing contractors at his construction projects, to hanging out with his buddy Epstein, to cheating on wife no. 1 with wife no. 2, cheating on no. 2 with wife no. 3, cheating on wife no. 3 with prostitutes and porn stars, to literally grabbing unconsenting women by the pussy - and being held accountable for same, to his sham university and his "for profit" charity...and this was before he ever announced his candidacy. There is no end to his grift and swindle - the latest being a set of collector cards with a few threads from his "assassination suit." How could anyone still consider this immoral, indecent RINO buffoon fit to lead our great nation?
SS: How will you cope when Trump wins?
Well, so far Trump has never won the popular vote, losing to Hillary by 3 million in 2016 and to Biden by 8 million in 2020. I don't think many of those 8 million voters have any better opinion of Trump now, with his evident cognitive decline, than they did in 2020. But, to answer your question, I should be just fine - I am an old, White, heterosexual, Christian male who is not poor - those who are not won't be so lucky.
SS: Founders, with good reason rejected a "popular vote" for President. We are the United STATES of America, remember? The popular vote remains a meaningless measurement today, in the world of legal partisan ballot harvesting anyway. And now including informal ballot harvesting as a new cultural norm in certain areas - a ballot is money in the bank, you don't just vote, you get paid by someone else to cast that ballot.
Those 2020 "popular votes" for Biden, and probably Clinton too, came mainly from NY and California were legal ballot harvesting has become state of the art as a GOTV exercise conducted by self-interested government employee union members.
All that work to gin up the popular votes in a few states, but which did not move the needle one iota to change the allocated numbers of electoral votes each of those state had to cast in the first place.
What was the point of those special interest ballot harvesting efforts in those few primarily blue states? Obviously to gas-light any opposition to the many questionable election processes allowed during the highly suspect 2020 US election year "global pandemic". But Biden got "81 million popular votes" .........so just shut up. And people did. We are wiser now.
God bless the founders for not letting NY and CA "popular votes" decide the fate of our entire nation. And they did not even know about California back then. But they knew human nature, so they built in buffers between our form of government and the far more quixotic impacts of mob rule.
Now Trump even admits that he lost the 2020 election "by a whisker"! So the "stolen election" was all a big lie? Some poor fools fell for it so deeply they are now going to jail for answering Trump's summons to Washington, DC, to storm the capitol in his failed coup attempt. Meanwhile, this grifter is selling golden sneakers and autographed Bibles while babbling on about Hannibal Lecter, batteries and sharks. I saw a transcript of a recent Trump speech that must have challenged the punctuation skills of the transcriber; the utterance drolled on forever in search of a "period." I think Trump calls this babble "weaving."
He will NOT win.
We will likely know by the morning of November 6th. In the meantime, this may help: https://youtu.be/YDKYJXYemn4?si=OA4RLgvfaa_O6auN
as always Polly, your over the targets…the polls are controlled/contrived, subtract 5 from Harris (over sampling of [D]) and add 5 to Trump for the silent voters (and growing by the day))…word on the street, they are in deep panic as their internal polling show mass cratering…Trump now has 20-30% of the black vote (and they know they can’t win without garnering 90% of the black vote), plus young voters are waking & shifting to Trump, and even the slow moving suburban women & housewives are waking up and coming along.
Great time to be alive
Polling?
Remember Hillary was to trounce Trump?
It’s collusion. They should be indicted for election tampering.
Agreed Michael. Some of us remember that the FBI, Intel, and political establishment had possession /insight into the Hunter Biden laptop long before the 2020 election. And then when it came up at the 11th hour, we remember when Anthony Blinken, working for the Hillary election campaign, went to Gina Haspel at the CIA, who then wrote a letter and had it signed by the 51 former Intel operators with household names. Post election analysis showed that up to 15% of the people said that they may have changed their vote if they had known the contents of the laptop. Election Interference! Subversion/Treason!
Yes, what’s needed is removal of Merrick Garland and his co-conspirator, Jack Smith. BOTH should be facing federal indictments for obstruction of justice. Biden and his thug, crime family, also need to face justice.
As I said earlier, justice and retribution now, so this will never happen again. Recalling from history figuratively, “night of the long knives.”
We’re on the same page LT…Treason & Corruption first, then Crimes Against Humanity…
Remember learning Hilary had canceled her celebratory fireworks show, prior to election day ........she knew.
There you go again, hitting the nail on the head time and time again. Great comment, but you leave the rest little to add. It is like performing on the guitar after Segovia. Perhaps in the future you could wait until 3:00 to post.
Segovia was pretty amazing. He changed my life. Here I was, 17, making out with this Santa Barbara hippie dude and he puts on Segovia to set the mood. Segovia played Bach. Listening, I thought I understood the cosmos. Segovia and Bach won out over the hippie. I lost interest in anything but understanding classical music.
Spoken like a true Hippie Chick! :)
This is actually funny 🤣 Accurate, but funny!
My surest path to getting my comment near the top is to reply to Polly's first comment of the day. That way I can ride on her coattails and not need to rely on the merit of my comment or on its brilliant wit.
Still funny 😂😂 but also witty, which, despite Seibert's negativity, points to your intelligence. Well done 💪🏼👏🏼
Okay, I get it, this is your life. Commenting on this site. . .
Dan, Sharing comments will bring more JOY; than just judging them.
This site is filled with hateful comments.
Currents is the new media option, but there were plenty Substacks that explain the law as it pertains to governing this country. Substack uses the same algorithms as YouTube, and Amazon that direct you to stuff it thinks you want. Why believe the hype? Moreover, why believe it speaks for you? Don't repost and mindlessly adopt a narrow self-serving, self-dealing focus. https://youtu.be/aDNUuPPso40?
si=YCLYkpfvwB8p84-4. There “you” go again 🐮🤠
Thank you, Lou.
Having debated you this very issue in the past, I know how hard this decision must have been for you. To write it down and publish it here shows great courage and character. I am impressed.
Thanks, Eric
I think Obama would prefer to vote for Trump. Afterall, Kamala is swinging a wrecking ball to Obama's legacy. Obama's preference of Biden as his VP turned out bad with Biden as President and Kamala, probably at one time an Obama preference, turned out to be disastrous. We only watch Kamala to be amused, such as the upcoming pre-taped (meaning edited) CNN interview, a joke because her word-salad stuff will be removed. She'll look great. And why is Walz part of this, does he provide her with comfort? Geez, talk about the political system being flushed down the drain.
Your irony here did not tickle Victoria Valente's funnybone. When I was growing up in Santa Barbara people used to tell me I would be more at home in NYC. So now I'm back I wear a t shirt that says “just bein' ironic” with a big LOL on the back. Santa Barbarans understand words best when they're on t shirts.
Great visual for a t-shirt is Obama at the voting machine deciding whether or not to vote for Harris or Trump. Fact is Obama "hates" Harris!
Why did Obama salivate over Harris as the prettiest AG in the country during a prior California political visit, to the great consternation of wife Michelle. (Oh, that's right - Obama is a phony.)
Because he's a man!! What do you not understand??? Your guy Trump went 100 times worse, "I can grab them by the pussy, they like that."
And Trump cheated on his wives!!!! HEY Joan, and is it Joan or John? I'm tired of your BS.
Hi Dan: My wife worked in the corporate world as an HR VP for a Fortune 500 company. She's heard it all and seen some "interesting" stuff you mention and it's just the tip of the iceberg. You can expect any high-level dude making the big bucks (CEO's, Presidents, etc.) or higher up on the political ladder, either Dems or Repubs. not always being someone you appreciated the things they do or say. If you think we should weed out all the male politicians that irritate you (or even me), then we might as well find saints to fill the high political offices. It's just a fact-of-life we live with both the bad and good from the same person. Trump is an organizer, a doer, a guy who gets things done. He's smart with money, gets the biggest bang for the buck. And he probably hates laziness. He's a shaker and mover. I like to shake things up as I'm sure you do, too.
No BIll, he inherited 400 million and lost it. Loser. He went bankrupt six times. Have you ever? Me neither. He cheated on his WIVES, yes, multiple wives. Why should I go on? Oh yeah, dogged the draft during the Vietnam war. And just two days ago poses for photos in Section 60 in Arlington Cemetery, without regard to the 900+ other men and women buried there that might not agree with his politics. . . Sorry, what were you saying?
Bill, just a question. But did she work in HR 5 years ago or 20? Things that were acceptable when I started work are no longer accepable or common today. Even with the gray hairs.
From the horse's mouth: https://youtu.be/lwLmOI6r_XY?si=4JJJlrN8Mj-xldnG
What are we supposed to get out of listening to this?
It's self explanatory if you read the thread: Bill Russell's conjecture is false.
Like I said, Victoria is better with water than humor. You oughta choose to laugh, Victoria.
Are you telling me that I should smile more too?
I think Victoria is saying the Obama might not prefer to vote for Trump?
I like it that Victoria Valente fought for the pool at Ortega Park, that was great. But she is better with water than humor.
That's okay.. It's not for everyone.
I never liked Obama. He seems disingenuous. Clicking on that link caused a mild bilious acid reflux. I am sure not unlike VV gets when seeing the great and beautifu Donald J Trump.
We had the experience of standing behind Obama, when he gave his introductory rally at SBCC in 2008/2007? We watched him whip up the crowd with chanting and cheering. Typical black church repetitions and cadences, building up this intentional crowd frenzy. Formulaic.
Yet when he turned away from the crowd to get a drink of water or take break from our vantage point, we saw his non-crowd face which was cold as ice. He got no joy from his rallies, he was just turning a crank. He had no use for the hustings, just a part of campaigning he was forced to endure. And he was good at it.
The real turning point for me however was his what was to become known as his infamous "fainting lady stunt". He called out with practiced words to some incidence in the crowd that no one else had seen ....... "she is gonna be fine people, give her some water, she just got a little over-excited" ...... which turned out to be the exact same words recorded on video at 7-8 more rallies. Oooohh, cooed the crowd, he is a healer, he is a savior.
My gut reaction.......how did he instantly know she was "gonna be fine" ... something felt instinctively creepy about that very moment. I never had to walk back my original Obama gut check - cold, calculating and phony. And I was a Democrat at that time. I felt it was "her turn" in 2008; not his.
Perhaps not, considering the overdone makeup job on one DJT.
If Trump is his own worst enemy, then Republicans who criticize Trump on his character or personality are his second worst enemy. I must criticize you on missing the point that a leader must be selected on policy alone. Your continual whining on these pages about being offended by Trump's Trumpyness is not helping to get him elected. What you find offensive is immaterial to his ability to successfully lead this country. While a beauty pagent or prom queen may be selected on the basis of poise, grace, character or charm, the president of the United States must be selected on policy and leadership ability only. A lack of poise, grace and charm are probably presidential virtues since a gruff character will undoubtedly gain more respect on the international stage. This new fluffy fuzzy squishy vision of what a president should be is lame.
Thank you. Like a fluffy fuzzy squishy guy would get up after being shot and raise his fist? If I have surgery, I effing don't care what my surgeon's sensitivity level is, I want him to do a good job. What? You're drowning and the lifeguard talks funny? What is wrong with people?
Polly I just love your descriptions . . ." . . fluffy fuzzy squishy guy. ., " I just might steal that one! :)
I can't claim credit for it though - was just quoting Jeff Barton.
Damn! Does that mean if we come up with somthin' great we gotta credit the source?
If so see ya in the next life! :)
Look at who Trump surrounded himself with and where they are now. And how many of his appointees say he's incompetent publicly. Lou isn't going to loose any votes for Trump posting on this site...... Listen to Lou's rational words - you might learn something.
Trump has put many good people on his team. Service in the Trump administration is not for the faint of heart, seeing what the Media does to them pre-post and during service. Trump had a really rough go to get sign-ups after his surprise election in 2016.
But the conversion to Team Trump of late has been both dazzling and reassuring. They know the mettle of the man this time, and want to be part of the transformative change back to the basics this country so desperately needs.
Never forget the "media" are union members too (SAG/AFTRA) - all for one, and one for all.
That is true. If he get's in for a second term it probably won't be a rookie fest.
The disgruntled employee is such a rarity!
Was Rex Tillerson a disgruntled employee? As the former CEO of Exxon I trust his opinion of Trump.
Rex Tillerson was a Condaliza Rice recruit - two alpha males in the same room often does not bode well. Not when one is elected and the other one is hired.
Seriously?? What do you do for a living other than comment nonstop on this site? You are sadly mistaken to mock Rex Tillerson and Condoleezza Rice. (I will give you a break, I had to look up how to spell her name)
Dan, you are amazing! Just when more and more Trump haters are saying eh, he's not so bad compared to the alternative - your TDS is on steroids! What do you take to stoke it? You must have some great pill combo. And you could make a fortune selling it. The DNC would make it mandatory for everyone to get shots of it before they could do anything or go anywhere. Children would be reared on it. The world would be a better place. No one would ever hate anyone ever again. Except Trump. You owe it to the world, Dan.
Whatever it is save me a pop or a puff!
You always brighten my day, Mr. brown.
Gosh Polly, I don't know. Might have been the fact that I worked in DC the summer of 1985 for John McCain... Are you married? Do you have any family loved ones or let's say people you have worked for that others have disparaged?
Trump did that to my former boss John McCain. And I think he did it again on Monday in Section 60 at Arlington Cemetery to the more than 900 men and women buried there.
McCain was known for being a real shit to some people as well. If he effectively worked on your sympathy, it's a good thing you got out of DC. I've seen how nasty powerful people can be and frankly you take it way too personally and don't think of what's best for the country. My own father worked as a lawyer with a lot of politicians and was asked by Nixon to head the IRS. My dad refused due to Nixon's requirements, that it be used to punish his enemies list. My father's powerful brother in law in his second marriage gave an interview to Vanity Fair in which he ripped my dad apart. But my father's colleagues all laughed at the interview because my dad didn't show that it affected him. My father was an alpha male, and he knew the game he was in. He would have felt emasculated if I went around saying oh my poor dad. He didn't want his daughter to do anything but laugh at the awfulness of people in power - the last thing he wanted was for me to spend my life in a rage for his sake. It speaks well for you that you don't belong in the world of politics but I also don't trust your judgement as to what this country needs. My husband has stood between me and an attacker on the street, but also tells me to move on and not be so sensitive when I need to toughen up.
Or any of the 1/2 dozen of "Trumps Generals" that have spoken out?
I recall Tump at the beginning of his last administration stating that “I only hire the best”. Well in hindsight, perhaps he did, with a very large number of his appointees critical of his abilities.
Trump also fires the worst. A quality Biden could have used far more liberally.
One's that speak out against a President are....... And how are his lawyers - or shall we say lots of ex lawyers doing? Poor Rudy.
Partisan lawfare is taking Rudy Giuliani down. That is what must stop. Rudy chose to be "tall corn" for the Trump cause. Deep State has yet again played their hand for all to see. And the nation is repulsed by what their "government" has become.
Rudy is just a downfallen crazy old man who should have been enjoying retirement.
Disagree…Rudy Giuliani is a true American Patriot, a Great mayor who led people through the horrors of 9/11, and also rounded many of the NY crime families back in the 80s (with some assistance from Donald John Trump). They smeared Rudy badly & tried to break him, but have failed. Some people are drunk on the Legacy Media punch bowl.
Yes, poor Rudy. Lawfare in full swing
You seem like a nice, sensitive guy and I'd love to have this discussion but I gotta go make breakfast for my MAGA husband.
First things first for sure. Just don't rub it in if it's got bacon with it.
Lol, everything's better with bacon, even politics.
how do you fill out an administration when +70% of Washington are Deep State players, corrupt politicians, snakes and jackals, entrenched bureaucrats (SES +++)? Trump doesn't silence his opponents, he puts them into the spotlight, and lets them destroy themselves...
Well, Trumps family and immediate family should fill a dozen positions.....
Right on Jeff - look at that drab Harry Truman and that hill billy LBJ - both fairly effective in spite of the fact they were both . . . Democrats.
So Trumpy is a boorish cad - who cares? When you're drowning, (which we are), you're not looking for John Wayne, you're looking for some can-do brute who can _save your ass_!
History is not being kind to LBJ. He may have been the worst President of the last century. Who know what the JFK files will finally reveal.
Speaking up against Harris /Walz ought to be easy, and you did a great job of listing the myriad reasons why. In SB, saying these things takes courage. I’m glad to be part of the team willing to speak up and put our real name on our opinions. Maybe in SB we need the RNC to pass out “DEFEAT HARRIS/WALZ” yard signs and bumper stickers. As a big fan of Dr. Ben Carson during the primary for the 2016 election, I was anti Trump. Voting against crooked, evil Hillary was clearly not a choice, so Trump got my vote. Trump’s bombastic NYC Billionaire demeanor is his problem, and the people he chose to advise in office him were not always wise or faithful. Having said that, most of Trumps policies have been good for all Americans. Promoting Warp Speed Covid vax was not one of his good ideas, in my opinion.
Turning the keys to the country over to Harris Walz would very likely be the death knell for the “democracy” they claim to promote. The deep state is who they represent, as well. They seem determined to quash the Constitution, using fear of viruses and climate change as their weapons.
Trump needs a Republican Senate to enact something stronger than presidential policy, so I hope many of you come and support Steve Garvey. Maybe we could find some
“NO SCHIFF” yard signs and bumper stickers . Sounds kinda catchy.
Hi Lou, thanks for a great article. I know that Trump's personality is tough for some people, but I just take him at face value. Like all of us, we are complex and complicated. Trump is an interesting character. He doesn't come across smooth or publicly palatable sometimes because, well, it's not his strong suit. What he is strong at, though, it getting right to the point, and ferreting out bullshit. He has no filter, and I think that's what bugs people the most. To me, however, a 'filter' or 'being polite' in many ways is tantamount to lying. If you can't tell me to the face how you really feel about me, why kiss my ass with false platitudes? He also is not interested in wasting time, and for a guy his age, he has an amazing amount of time and energy, so he can get done in a day multiples of what someone else would accomplish. His interests are wide and varied, and he genuinely cares for this country and its people. Does he need to be saccharine sweet to be effective? Nope. As a former military officer I was blessed to find out what leadership looks like, and sometimes it AIN'T pretty. But I don't want the pretty, sweet guy leading me to battle. I want the tough S.O.B. who doesn't take no for an answer and is not afraid to go first. That's Trump. Love him or hate him, he and his cronies might actually just clean this swamp of corruption, if given enough time. Hopefully he partners with some younger folks (Vance, Gabbard, DeSantis, etc) who can follow in his footsteps once he gets the ball rolling. It won't be quick. It might be ugly. Hang on, America needs saving. Vote Trump. Pray he gets it done before they shoot him...again.
Wow Annie - great! I have a little different pov on ‘being polite’. Most folks are afraid of being disliked or thought poorly of.
The best assistant I ever had used to tell our clients, (and me) “That’s the stupidest idea I ever heard.” I loved her straight talk and could always depend on her for the one prize above all else - the truth! Trump is the same - “You don’t like me? I don’t care - here’s my honest answer!
My best friend in the Army was a big red-headed Mormon guy who used to say “I didn’t hurt your stupid feelings, did I?”
Love that and I'm gonna remember it! :)
I would be the first to admit Trump is a flawed candidate. Many needless, unforced errors. For this, I can certainly move past and give my support. If for NO other reason, people need to vote with their wallets!
The presidential election is one thing, but what about our state government and the pending insolvency? We are in deep trouble and all politics needs to be local.
This election cycle should be very simple;
War vs peace, prosperity vs bankruptcy, crime vs safety and crazy vs sanity!
And now with JFK Jr onboard, health vs sickness… Infiltration at the highest levels of government, media, science, HEALTH, military CoC, …..MonkeyPox, another Chinese special delivery? 'Quarantine' is when you restrict the movement of sick people. 'Tyranny' is when you restrict the movement of healthy people. At what point should this be reclassified as murder? Was this ever about the HEALTH and well-being of people? Was this ever about the virus?
Or, was this ALWAYS ABOUT THE ELECTION?
i think you meant RFK Jr...but I like that idea...where is he, anyway? ;)
Good one Annie - you one smart lady to catch that!
I stand corrected…but, as with Trump, love JFK Jr & wish he were here for the unveiling…we can only hope…
https://x.com/FNowisthetime/status/1828888302168178818
More attention needs to be paid to AG Kamala Harris's official acts to sabotage two government pension reform ballot measures. She single-handedly sent both into oblivion, after broad efforts by citizen groups qualified these measures for the state ballot.
This ranks as the most sordid chapter in her undistinguished career as a dutiful Democrat party apparatchik. Where would California's now languishing state finances be today, if voters had been given voice to reign in the now trillion dollar exposure to California unfunded government pension liabilities? Your grandchildren will want answers. Unless they wisely have already moved out of the state.
Harris is all party-pandering froth; there is no substance there, there.
PS: Lou, you know I am long time fan of your intellect and policy articulateness, but I can only reluctantly offer my uptick to your opinion piece. I simply do not share your dark assessment of Trump as a person, but I also wildly cheer your willingness to candidly assess the alternatives presented this election.
There is time later for Ron Desantis, and I admire what he has done in Florida too. But this election calls for brashness and breaking up the suffocating Democrat narrative of the past 12-14 years. That takes ripping off the bandage in one sharp tug for the real national healing to take place. The Deep State needs a trust-buster, dedicated to that one sole task first.
Nothing is hidden any longer in the Deep State's partisan motivations, since they are using every weapon in their taxpayer-funded arsenal to take down Donald J. Trump.
Trump, brash and abrasive, is flushing them out of their spider holes. The nation needed to witness this first, in order to have the backs of Ron Desantis or whomever follows later, who can right the ship of state and return us to the original intentions of our founding. Which is limited government and the rule of law; not Big Government and the partisan weaponization of micromanaging petty statutes.
Excellent J ! 'ripping off the bandage . .' - ' trust-buster . .' - 'brash and abrasive . . '
If by any chance Trump wins by a landslide and takes Congress along with him I just hope he _really_ cleans house. No more Mr. Nice guy. The GOP can _rule_ for 10 years if he get some savvy, dirty street fighters around him.
Nothing wrong with bi-partisan sharing. Democrats are long on vision; we are long on common sense and fiscal probity. Could be a winning, mutually respectful duo.
Introduction of government employees unions in 1962 created a sub-group of US voters who vote only existentially, and not ideologically. 23 million of them today, created an alien body politic when they now show up 99% on the Democrat side of the ticket.
Their buzz word alarm about this current unsustainable shift in the body politic is to rail against "Project 2025", which Democrats view as a death knell for government employee unions.
Yet if we do not reign in this new unelected fourth branch of our government which has reached critical mass today, we will destroy the entire experiment in governance exceptionalism called the United States of America and its US Constitution.
I am very much with very clear-headed Dr Ben Carson on this issue - we are only one or two election cycles away from total loss of our nation. Looking to bring back balance in our government operations, not defeat or scorched earth. But we must eliminate government employee unions, as presently constituted.
Let the howls begin.
BTW, recently learned this has also a difference between the Marines and the Army during WWII. Marines liked to move in fast, early casualties be damned, because an effective lightening strike could shorten the war and reduce over all casualties.
Army under Gen McArthur liked to move very slow and steady, with more protection of personnel in individual actions but that would also prolong the over all numbers of battles for similar net effect. (per Great Courses - WWII in the Pacific)
Trump is the Marines; Desantis is the Army per this example.
The grunts (Marines) and Trump have a good one - 'Embrace the suck' meaning do the hard crap and _get it done_!
For a four alarm fire, send in the marines.
I read this "DEFINING" article by Lou Segal Titled "Vote Trump" and I agree
with Mr. Segal and I quote "Others who think as I do might wonder why I see Harris as such a mortal threat to this country. The answer is in her own words and her record as Senator and Attorney General in California. She has supported decriminalizing illegal immigration, giving taxpayer funded health insurance to illegal immigrants, eliminating health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms, imposing price controls on food and other consumer goods..."
As Mr. Segal has stated Harris is a "Mortal Threat" to the US but NOT WHAT IS STATED ABOVE.
Those who are responsible for the Current War in Ukraine, Biden/Harris are partly responsible, has placed the US into Nuclear Exchange Possibilty with Russia, that has occurred only once before with President Kennedy who quickly and secretly de-escalated with Russia as you can all read
"To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis" at this weblink >>> https://tinyurl.com/444n9khh
During our work, with teams of engineers, in 1980s, on the Ohio Class Submarine, I have walked missle aisle hundreds of times on largest US Submarines the SSBN 726 (Ohio) SSBN 727 (Michigan) and SSBN 728 (Florida) at Submarine Base Bangor. This Nuclear Submarine is the most formidable weapon that can destroy an entire Country within minutes and Russia has comparble submarines in response.
Anyone that places the US into a uncessary "Nuclear Posture" against Russia, I am VOTING AGAINST.
President Trump and Kennedy have come together on three MAJOR Issues one is to immediately END THE PROXY WAR USING UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIA and the tragic killing of hundreds of thousand of young Ukraine and Russian Boys many families who I have contact with.
I have lived with Russians for 25 years and I think I may know a thing or two about Russia as well as
in the past tracking Russian Fleet Military ships and submarines in the Pacific.
Russia does not BULLSHIT like most Americans and they will execute a Nuclear Exchange and practice same on thier Submarines in their Military Naval Operations.
Therefore, like Mr.Segal, I will be voting for Trump AND Kennedy for the "SAFETY OF AMERICA."
Howard Walther, member of a Miltary Family
PS - Kennedy is going to provide some very needed advice and direction for Trump who better listen.
Good one HW…people need to listen to the words out of Putin’s mouth, rather than the narrative garbage tale fed to us by the Legacy Media (same media that have told us that Trump is a Russian agent, Trump is Hitler, etc. + Putin wants to take over the world — all nonsense). Research and read or listen to Putin’s speeches, they help sort out the truth
Agreed. My family is Russian immigrants and I work with Russians pretty regularly in my field (not political)
Whatever faults they have, as a general stereotype They do not bullshit. They don’t even know how. It took me years to get a Russian coworker to answer the vapid daily American question of “How are you doing?” With a simple one word lie of “fine”. 🤔😂
Hello Mr. Gordon, yes agree, Russian's are "Stoic" People and the West does not understand them.
Cold winters turn people into no nonsense Calvinists ....so says Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keller.
Thank you for this great article. Kamala Harris is a lobotomized vapid shell of a human being. She's manipulative, criminal and dumber than a door knob on policy. Matter of fact, my door knob is more utilitarian than Harris. So yes! It behooves everyone in this country of voting age to vote for TRUMP. Either that or you lose your country to the parasitic globalists.
Lou makes some very good points, but he's exaggerating about Trump being an extremely flawed human being. Who isn't a flawed human being? That sounds like some stupid snowflake rhetoric. And if he's going to mention Trump's flawed character, he might as well talk about Biden and every other damn president's flawed character. Trump has literally given away his own money to help the less fortunate pay off hardship mortgages. Biden gives away everyone else's money (taxpayers) to help pay off student debt. Trump has never been a career politician, but he has been an extremely effective businessman who developed and shaped New York and its infrastructure, creating thousands of jobs. He was extremely popular and well liked by just about everyone before he became president. So while I agree that we must do everything to prevent Kamabla from winning the election, Lou's remarks about Trump are purely subjective. You can't argue with the fact that Trump is a natural born leader.
I agree and am voting Trump as well. The best quote that captures the enigma that is Trump is this: Trump’s detractors take him literally but not seriously. Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally. A Harris America would be no America at all.
Lou, I appreciate your point of view.
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Do you believe the media is truthful?
Do you believe the Democrat administration has been truthful or transparent?
Why would anyone believe the media now when they report that Kamala is neck & neck with Trump? Because they’ve always been honest and fair?
How does a person go from getting zero delegates in her presidential run, to being the worst polling vp in American history to now all of a sudden tied with a guy who got 78 million votes.
How does a person who has to photoshop an audience into her pictures, who needs music artists and Hollywood actors to attract the few people to her rallies, who has to pay children to sit and listen to her school talks, stand against someone who with no celebrities attracts tens of thousands of people at every one of his rallies.
Do you really think the media polls are accurate?
Not for a minute.
Notice how the media doesnt talk about the toxic work environment under Harris and how many people voluntarily quit Verse Trump who had to fire incompetent people.
Notice how Biden and Kamala call the individual voter names and denigrate young voters.
Notice how Trump only attacks politicians and the corrupt who wrongly accuse him.
Trump has never attacked a voter. Biden and Harris do.
So who’s the meanie?
My left neighbors are voting Trump.
Just like you they finally see the hypocrisy of the Democrat party and now know the party was hijacked years ago.
Didn't Trump say that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat or Joe Biden "should have their head examined? I guess that's not an attack.
Good for you Lou. Understood. Despite how people feel about Trump the man, that’s not what we’re voting for. We know what Trump stands for and what he accomplished despite the left trying to rewrite history that was only four years ago. We’re barely hanging on to a country under Biden. We can certainly do much better for four years under Trump. For those who don’t like him, four years will be over in no time. You will end up paying less for gas, stopping the illegal invasion, food costs will go down and we may be able to breathe a little easier with hopefully not entering WWIII. Harris will destroy us.
Well written article and it's good to see another fence sitter openly express support for Trump. This is our one & only chance of saving Our Country from falling into communism. For those that haven't figured it out yet, while Trump is just a man with drawbacks, he was forced to play rope-a-dope with these Clowns for the past eight years in order to stay alive. He had to play the game as he marched us through this Silent War. Could you imagine Trump being Mr. Acute Businessman from Day1, when he was sworn into office. They would have killed him long before their latest attempt in PA.
Again, thanks for being outspoken for Trump. And, remember, for each citizen that we can convert from being a Harris-Walz supporter into a Trump voter is a 2-for-1 win…they lose 1 plus we win 1. Keep up the good fight. Be loud! Be proud!
The Storm is brewing…can you feel it?
https://x.com/fnowisthetime/status/1828809877273112898?s=61
PS…the Emotional Reduction Engine had predicted a big boom for today, with tons of release language
Spot on Lou