- With the 2024 Iowa caucuses looming, it's do or die for the most viable GOP presidential candidates not named Donald Trump. Heck, even if Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley emerge victorious in Iowa and Haley is competitive in New Hampshire, I'm inclined to believe that Trump will (much to my chagrin) be the nominee.
Almost miraculously, Trump is polling better now in the general than he was in 2016, which tells us how deeply unpopular the walking cadaver in the White House is these days. But even Trump is elected President later this year, he could well be a lame duck the millisecond he assumes office on January 20, 2025, as opposed to a non-Trump GOP candidate winning. Erick Erickson explains.
...DeSantis or a Haley would both best Biden, too, according to the same polling, and would do so with a less resource-intensive effort. That means there’d be more money to secure the Senate and build a majority in the House. Trump will need lots of extra money that neither DeSantis nor Haley would need just because of Trump’s legal bills paid for by his campaign.
And if the GOP loses control of the House this cycle and doesn't wrest control of the Senate, the Dem majorities in both chambers will likely be increased in the 2026 midterms. As such, the Trump agenda (if there even is one) will never see the light of day the entire four years he'd be in office. In essence, if you support Trump, you're supporting a grifting operation (i.e. payment of his legal bills). Full stop.
- After overwhelming evidence that Harvard President Claudine Gay engaged in multiple instances of plagiarism (and thus forced her to resign her post), you just knew this would be a sample of some of the reactions:
Nightly reports on the right's coordinated campaign that helped engineer the departure of the head of the most influential university in the world 👇https://t.co/ZhoFLVjh51
— POLITICO (@politico) January 3, 2024
Al Sharpton: Harvard president's resignation is an 'attack' on 'every Black woman' in US https://t.co/8WI2SZA9NA
— NBC 15 News (@mynbc15) January 2, 2024
Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism https://t.co/GiVkT3LgUo
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 3, 2024
If we’re going to start scrutinizing every detail of college presidents’ past writings for technical attribution issues, then let’s do it. Let’s go look at everyone’s past writings, not just Claudine Gay at Harvard. Let’s put them all under a microscope and see how they hold up. pic.twitter.com/1T8OWVHbLV
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) January 2, 2024
As we're learning here, the real travesty isn't a college president (who happens to be a black female) being pressured to resign because she did something which would get any university official or student expelled. No, the actual problem is the wrong people noticed.
- David Limbaugh, brother of the late great Rush Limbaugh, is definitely on to something here.
Maybe a big reason we can’t come together on the right is that too many of the thought leaders, hosts, podcasters and other influencers are just outright egomaniacal narcissists concerned more about self promotion than our beloved country? It makes me sick.
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) January 2, 2024
Part of the self-promotion includes participating in "grievance mongering," where these personalities will shriek that they're being "canceled," ostracized, persecuted, etc. because they dare speak "truth to power," or something (when in actuality they're feeding their followers b.s.). Yep, so many self-described "conservatives" chose to engage in leftist tactics in an effort to augment their brand.
Sad!
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