2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION UPDATE

          I’ve been saying for eighteen months the Democrats were going to swap out Biden.  That was the easy part to foresee.  He was never more than a figurehead for the third Obama term as president, he was quite clearly suffering from some form of dementia in 2020 when they nevertheless managed to drag him over the finish line with the help of a few strategically-place ballot dumps, and he could no longer be presented to the public as a realistic candidate for president.

 

         That’s why he was forced by Obama and the politburo to participate in the debate with Trump on June 27.  Such a debate, before either convention had taken place, was unprecedented.  Its only purpose was to demonstrate for Democrats that Biden could no longer function and had to be replaced.  Biden himself never suspected this was the purpose since his massive ego was the only aspect of his personality still functioning.  He still believed he was the same Joe who could talk in public for ninety minutes and appear to have a working brain.

 

         The debate ploy was rather cruel, of course, but one must suspect Joe had made it clear he would not step aside voluntarily so Obama probably had little choice but to expose him as non compos mentis in front of the nation.

 

         The only thing that truly surprises me about what happened is that Obama did not have more control of the aftermath.  He could not possibly have wanted Kamala to step in as the Democratic candidate, but when Joe dropped out and endorsed her, the eruption of smiles and puppy dogs around her occurred so quickly Obama was powerless to stop it.  I believe his plan was to orchestrate the new candidate’s nomination at the Democratic Convention, but he quickly had to abandon that and fall in behind her.

 

         Timing was the problem.  With a month to go before the convention started, the Democratic untermenchen were going to try to find somebody, and Kamala Harris was the only obvious next-in-line choice.  The Dems had, largely through lawfare and threats, prevented anyone (e.g., RFK Jr.), from running against Biden in the primaries, so there was no logical replacement except the sitting VP.

 

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I have also long taken the position that Trump can’t win in 2024.

 

First, there is a hard ceiling on the support he can ever hope to achieve.  Everyone who likes Trump, more or less, will vote for him, but the hatred is just as large as his support and the haters are not going away.  In 2016, Trump’s 45.9% of the vote nationwide was sufficient only because the Democrats assumed Hillary would romp and thus did not bother to mobilize (or cheat), on her behalf.  In this 2024 campaign, there has been no reason to think Trump could ever achieve the 50% of the vote that would be the minimum for him to win.  Because of the millions of non-citizens voting and the “ballots” that will show up for the Democrats, he might need to get 52% or 53% of the (real) votes cast to overcome what is now called the “margin of cheating.”

 

But with Kamala at the top of the ticket, a Trump win now must be considered a possibility. She has some serious flaws as a candidate.  She’s something of a disaster.

 

I don’t like her much so I’m trying to factor that out of my analysis, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that most other people don’t like her either. Americans tend not to have strong feelings about Vice Presidents, but they certainly disliked Kamala up until her elevation to the presidential nomination.  On January 1, 2024, for example, her numbers were 35.8 % favorable vs. 53.6% unfavorable, which is quite a bit worse than either Biden (40.4-54.9) or Trump (42.9-52.8).  Mike Pence was always in the mid-40s in favorability when he was VP.

 

What do such things mean?  Who knows?  But more concrete measures of her extreme unpleasantness as a human exist.  As Vice President, 92% of her initial staff quit their jobs, mostly during the first two years.  Only 4 of the initial 47 people are still with her, and some who left have not been complimentary, describing an “abusive environment” where “people feel treated like shit.”

 

The same was true of the staff during her run for the 2020 presidential nomination.  Dozens left, dozens more were fired, and Kamala’s campaign came to an abrupt and chaotic end two months before the first primary.  She also had reportedly blown through her $35 million in early funding without putting a single ad on TV.

 

Her failed primary run in 2020, where no one even had an opportunity to cast a vote for her, brings me to a significant dynamic flaw in her current run for President.

 

In 2016, Donald Trump got 62,984,828 votes for President.  Four years later, 74,223,975 people went into voting booths and checked the box next to his name.  These 137 million votes do not even include the primary voters in those years who left their homes, went to the local firehouse or school, and intentionally voted to make him the Republican nominee.

 

By contrast, no one has ever voted for Kamala Harris in a national election.  (And no, you can’t count her votes for VP in 2020---those people were voting for Biden.)

 

People become accustomed to voting for certain politicians, and once they do, those politicians have a significant edge in future elections.  It’s one of the major advantages of incumbency---the fact there are lots of ordinary people out there who will recognize your name and think, “Oh, yeah.  That guy.  He seems OK.  I voted for him before.”

 

We have a perfect example of this phenomenon in the 2024 race for US Senate in Pennsylvania.  The Democratic incumbent is named Bob Casey Jr., and he was elected to the US Senate in 2008 and reelected in 2016.  Before that, he was the elected Pennsylvania Treasurer from 2005 to 2007.  His dad was Bob Casey Sr., who served as Pennsylvania Governor from 1987 to 1995.

 

Casey is a very reliable vote for the Democrats in the Senate, and he is otherwise unknown.  Many people outside the state, asked to name our senators, would quickly come up with John Fetterman but would whiff on the other one.  Casey never has an idea or proposes a bill.  He’s never on the Sunday news shows.  Also, he has been married to the same woman for 39 years and has four children who have never been arrested.  Casey has never been accused of putting his hand on the wrong buttocks or of taking a bribe.  He’s the most boring guy in Washington.

 

It's almost impossible to beat a guy like this.  Pennsylvanians have seen “Casey” in voting booths for two generations and they’ve clicked that box many times with no regrets.  His eldest son will probably run for governor someday and get elected by acclamation without even having to show his drivers license.

 

His opponent is a substantial sort of guy named Dave McCormick, a billionaire and global capitalist who speaks well and has no felony convictions and knows a few things and who does not have a chance in hell of beating Casey.  

 

The Trump-Harris race is not analogous and I’m not saying it is.  But Trump has received 137 million votes in national elections and Harris has gotten zero.  In 2020, Trump got the second most votes for president in American history (or the most if you believe Biden’s total was a crock).  He will get 75 million or more this time from people who have voted for him before.  For Harris, the task is to get more than that from people who don’t know much about her except that maybe she worked the fry machine at McDonalds.

 

So I give him a chance now.

 

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         And a caveat.

 

         When people like me get together with other people like me, the first question we ask each other is whether the election this time will be fair.  It won’t, of course, but the real question we are asking is whether the RNC and various state Republican party orgs are working to make sure they are ready for the shenanigans that will occur.  And I doubt it.

 

         The rap on the Pentagon is that they are always studying ways to win the previous war so they are never prepared for the next one.  I fear that is what is happening with the Republican preparations for November 5.

 

         There is nothing that can be done about the millions of non-citizens that have been registered and the smaller number who will actually vote.  In addition, nothing will be done about the “traditional” cheating that occurs in corrupt Democratic-controlled cities like Philly, Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis, where poll workers cast votes for neighbors who died in 2008 or neighbors who moved to Panama in 2016.

 

         But what about the ballots of imaginary people, the ballots that turned up by the thousands at 3:00 AM on election night in 2020?  I’m not convinced the Republicans have thought this through and have a plan to deal with it.  Yes, there will be Republicans in the counting chambers at 3:00 AM watching for truckloads of ballots to show up, but that just means the cheaters will find a different way to get their dirty work done.  I would really like to think the Republicans have some master plan but I see no signs of it.  In Pennsylvania, the big election news at the moment is about court cases over what to do with mail-in ballots that have not been properly dated by the “voter.”  This issue, and the hoopla surrounding it, is pointless.  In this state, it might affect a few hundred or a thousand votes.  The fact that Republicans are wasting their time and resources on it is depressing to those of us who would someday like to see a fair election.

 

         I follow these anti-fraud efforts closely, though I’m not an insider.  But I sincerely doubt there has been any effort to effect one simple and obvious change to the counting process.  In every election since I was born, all the votes in rural (mostly Republican-leaning) counties in Pennsylvania are reported long before the votes from Philadelphia are.  Only when the tallies from Beaver County and Tioga County, and Union and Elk and Fayette come in do the Democrats in Philly understand how many votes they need to carry the state.  And they find them.  Somehow.  The exact same process happens in Georgia and Michigan and Arizona and Wisconsin.  For some reason, Atlanta and Detroit and Phoenix and Milwaukee are the last places to report in those states.

 

         All that is needed is for the RNC to instruct every Republican city or town or township or county in swing states to hold back their results until after the huge Democratic city in their state has reported.

 

         Not only would this protect the integrity of the election, but it would also expose the big-Democratic-city cheating that has been happening forever, especially when those cities start howling about the late returns from the boondocks.

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki        

ST. PATTY (Again)

          Today, March 16, 2024, marks the fourth anniversary of COVID lockdowns in the state of Pennsylvania.  The sudden shutdown of the economy, church services, and all social interaction (with the exception of leftwing street demonstrations), was our introduction to the world-wide “pandemic response,” a years-long campaign of edicts, propaganda, and censorship by government executives and bureaucrats, pharma companies, social media, and the state-run broadcasters.

In the U.S. and almost every Western nation, there was suddenly an official story, and any attempt by citizens or responsible doctors and scientists to question the authorities or suggest alternative courses of action was stifled by police, military, regulatory and taxing authorities, and the state-sponsored demonization of dissenters as dangerous, stupid, uncaring people.

No one has been held to account for the COVID security state that was created, or the millions it killed and continues to kill.  In fact, much of the legal infrastructure to reconstitute it still exists, and the official position of the American and other governments is that the totalitarian “pandemic response” actually saved lives.

I first published this short piece a year ago:   

 

         On March 16, 2020, the day before St. Patrick’s Day, Pennsylvania went into lockdown for COVID.   Most businesses, including bars and restaurants, were closed indefinitely by order of Governor Wolf.

           I remember it vividly.  The lockdown was to go into effect at 5 PM, so at 2 PM, I raced over to Billy Murphy’s Irish Saloon, at Conrad St. and Indian Queen Lane in Philly.  My plan was simple: get a drink before the world, or something, ended.  Nobody knew what was coming, but I didn’t like the look of it.

           The door was locked.

           I stood at the door and heard muffled voices inside.  I later learned they had closed early and were having a staff party, both to celebrate the Saint and to mourn the lockdown.  In a way, it was a perfect Irish moment, composed of equal parts laughter, melancholy, and alcohol.  Standing there, I thought about pounding on the door and trying to talk my way in, but I didn’t.  It was their bar.  It was their party.  I’m not even a little bit Irish, I don’t celebrate St. Patty’s Day, and it wasn’t even St. Patty’s Day yet.  Still, knowing they were there and wanting to join them but not being able to, I don’t think I ever felt more Irish.  And I don’t think I have ever wanted a drink more than I did at that moment.

Copyright2023MichaelKubacki

CHANGING MY TUNE

         It’s time to admit I was wrong. 

         From the beginning of Twitter in 2006, I was a complete fan and devotee of social media.  I didn’t use most of them, but I believed the creation of Facebook (2006), Instagram (2010), MySpace (2003), and others were a wonderful development in the spread of free speech and open expression.  I cherished the cacophony of voices because almost anybody in the world could say whatever they wanted and have it broadcast around the planet, without the intervention of governments and censors and other poopheads. 

 

         I didn’t care that much of it was lies or propaganda or the rantings of crazy people.  I could handle that.  In a sense, that is part of the truth also.  Since I haven’t awarded unthinking belief to anything I have heard on radio or TV or the internet for decades, I was never going to fall into a false reality constructed by a political party or the CIA or the climate-changers or Obama or Rush Limbaugh or the WEF or NBC or Anthony Fauci or Anderson Cooper or anybody else.  I don’t care what any individual tells me.  All I want is sources, and social media provided millions of them.  If you have enough sources and they can speak freely, you can learn the truth, and I generally do.  I guess it’s ironic, but if you don’t believe anything you are told, then ultimately, the truth will emerge. 

 

         And that’s what I loved about social media, and Twitter in particular.  It was especially useful for following live events like the terrorist attack on the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, because you would get tiny pieces of the story from cops and firemen and worried parents and injured people and even the bad guys and their sympathizers.  The official story, of course, gets all cleaned up and you don’t see it until the next day, but the real human story was being told by hundreds of people in a line or two of text.  This sort of information had never existed before, and I was fascinated by it. 

 

         Then I read the Coleman Hughes book “The End of Race Politics.”  (Highly recommended.)  In it, Hughes discusses “neoracists” like Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others who use social media to indoctrinate those who might be susceptible to their message. 

 

         The centerpiece of his theory is polling on Americans’ feelings about race relations. Until 2013, well over two thirds of Americans believed race relations were good, and improving.  Then, the bottom fell out.  By 2015, the percentage of Americans believing race relations were good had fallen below 50% and has continued to fall.  He attributes this to the emergence of a critical mass of people with video-enabled smartphones and social media, which increased the speed at which “news” (i.e., lies), could spread around the country. 

 

         The point Hughes makes is that people whose political success depends on their ability to create rage now have a built-in advantage, and they use it routinely.  When a story taps into emotional triggers (e.g., white cop/black perp, violence, etc.), it spreads immediately to hundreds of millions, but the more-nuanced reality-based version may take months to appear, by which time most of the original audience have no interest in what really happened. 

 

         The example he uses is the Michael Brown story from Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.  The “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” version of this tale was embraced instantly by neoracists and progressives and BLM supporters, and it still is.  It took months for the Eric Holder Justice Department report to appear, and for some of us to learn Brown didn’t have his hands up, he punched the cop, he tried to steal the cop’s gun, and that the cop had no alternative but to shoot him.  But that report made little difference.  Today, years later, “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” is still chanted regularly at BLM and other race-activist demonstrations. 

 

         Another example, perhaps even a better one, is the story of Donald Trump’s comments after the Charlottesville clash of white supremacists and antifa demonstrators in 2017.  The cause of the controversy was the city’s decision to take down a statue of Robert E. Lee.  Concerning the issue of the statue, Trump said, “…[Y]ou also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.” 

 

         This was reported around the world on social media and TV and newspapers as Donald Trump stating that the white supremacists were among the “very fine people,” even though he had already repeatedly condemned them.  Though the transcript of his press conference was available, almost no one reported what he had actually said, which was that there were “fine people” who wanted to take the statue down and “fine people” who thought it should stay up.  To this day, despite the efforts of many journalists and commentators to correct the story, most Americans (including every Trump-hater), believe the original falsehood. 

 

         In other words, my dream of the internet and social media as a forum for truth and free speech has been dashed by the facts of life.  The mob is still the mob, and the mob is not searching for truth.  It’s usually seeking to have its basest and most vicious beliefs validated: skin color matters; Jews are evil; the “experts” have our best interests at heart; scientists have no biases; capitalism makes us poor; the government just wants to help.  I can still use Twitter and other sites as resources in my search for the truth, but I must accept that most people have no interest in doing that.  

 

Another phenomenon has occurred that is even more troubling and dangerous.  In 2016, two events changed the view of Western governments toward the internet and social media.  These were, in June, the Brexit vote in the UK, and in November, the election of Donald Trump in the U.S.  These events shocked the globalists, the leftwing NGOs, and the buried elitist bureaucracies in the U.S., European governments, and the E.U.  It was at this point that the apparatus for censorship of social media began to be built.

 

Government censorship has focused primarily on two topics: COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election, and any dissent to the official government narrative on these topics has been ruthlessly suppressed on-line---this is the subject of the case Missouri v. Biden, currently in the US Supreme Court. * 

 

So I was wrong.  (That was the point of this article---remember?)  The internet is not the boon to free speech I had hoped it was.  In fact, the totalitarians and censors are taking it over.  They get to talk and the rest of us don’t.  We just spout “misinformation,” you see, so they must shut us up.

 

Still, it’s not over.  Elon Musk seems to have a genuine commitment to free speech, though he is under attack by governments around the world.  But even if his efforts are shut down---well, there will be alternatives.  It may be more difficult to find the truth these days but it’s not impossible.  And if the situation gets even worse, we will still be able to talk to our friends or post our diatribes on telephone poles.

 

I hope.    

 

 

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki

 

 

*The process has been described in detail by Mike Benz in interviews, podcasts, and at 

foundationforfreedomonline.com, the organization he leads. 

NIKKI

          As I write this, Nikki Haley is about to get clobbered by Trump in Michigan just as she got clobbered in South Carolina and New Hampshire.  She got pounded by “None of the Above” in Nevada.  Even in the open primary states, where Democrats can vote for her, she loses to Trump by 20 or 30 percentage points.  In a state with a closed primary, where only Republicans can vote for the Republican nominee (e.g., Pennsylvania, Oregon), she is unlikely to get 10% of the vote.

 

         She says she won’t quit, and she still has donors who fund her campaign, yet the only issue she is ever asked about is when she will quit the race and concede victory to Trump.  Particularly annoying are the incessant howls from pro-Trump partisans, which never seem to stop.  Why is she still running?  Why won’t she drop out?  What’s the matter with her??

 

         There are two quite obvious reasons she is still running.  The first is the one she has stated repeatedly.  Trump cannot win a general election, she argues.  He will never get fifty percent of the vote because too many people hate him.  Is she wrong?  I don’t know, but it’s an argument that can’t be dismissed out of hand.  He hasn’t gotten 50% of the vote so far, and he has run for president twice.  And it’s not like the Trump-haters have all suddenly changed their minds and said they’re sorry.

 

         The second reason would be impolite to say, and perhaps politically damaging to her, but we all know what it is.  It is possible Trump will be put in jail, or prevented from running, or will have to make a deal where one of the terms is that he drops out, or is seriously injured or killed by a deranged leftist, or for some other reason will not be on the ballot in November.  If that should happen, Nikki Haley wants to be there when it does.  “Here I am.  Nikki Haley.  Remember me?  I’m running for president and I’m ready to go!”

 

         Do not construe this somehow as an argument that you should vote for Nikki Haley.   I don’t like Nikki Haley.  I view her as combining the worst traits of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and it doesn’t help that her backers are Bushies and neo-cons and country-club Republicans and military-industrial rent-seekers.  If she should become the Republican nominee, I doubt I would vote for her.  I might just vote for my wife or RFK Jr. or Nick Foles.

 

         But the pro-Trump partisan nastiness from the pro-Trump partisan nasties doesn’t help the Republicans and it doesn’t help Trump.  He would be much more popular, and much more effective, if he were not so quick to display petty vindictiveness and encourage it in his followers.  But that’s his personality.  He’s fundamentally a bully, which means he values loyalty to himself above all other qualities, and he hates anyone who publicly opposes him.

 

         Haley is running to be the replacement, and it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  Normally, there is no need for a replacement candidate, but this race for the Republican nomination is not normal, and the chance there will need to be a replacement is not zero.  It’s far from zero.  Besides the indictments and the chance Trump’s age will catch up with him, the Democrats will do anything, legal or illegal, to get him out of the race.  Therefore, it is only prudent to have a replacement.  I wish it were someone other than Haley, but she beat Chris Christie and she beat Ramaswamy and she beat DeSantis and some other Republican malcontents and non-entities, so she gets to be the replacement if we need one.  That’s how it works.

 

         If he could perceive subtle distinctions, rather than always dividing the world into “people who love me” and “people who hate me,” Trump would acknowledge what was happening and embrace the Haley-as-replacement-candidate phenomenon.  He could joke about the situation in a good-hearted sort of way, as it gradually became clear no replacement would be needed.  By being minimally gracious about it, he might put himself in a position to gain the support of Haley and her followers once the criminal cases fall apart and the other obstacles are overcome.  Many of Haley’s voters are Democrats or never-Trumpers, of course, but there are also Republicans who could be persuaded to vote for The Donald once they see no other reasonable alternative. 

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki      

MORE ELECTION MUSINGS

          On February 8, the report of Robert Hur was released to the public.  Hur is a former DOJ official who was charged with determining what should be done with the case against Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents when Biden was a Senator and the Vice President.  Hur seemed to acknowledge, somewhat vaguely, that Biden had broken the law, but concluded that Biden could probably not be convicted because, to a jury, he would appear to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

 

         Biden, and various Democrats on his behalf, made a big show of their outrage at this slur upon his cognitive abilities, but this is merely the latest piece of the drip-drip-drip campaign by the Democrats to swap out old Joe for the November 2024 election.  For months, little news items have been allowed to trickle out into the government-controlled media about this or that gaffe or embarrassing moment, along with an occasional comment from a respected Obama crony on their “concern” about Joe seeking another term.  None of this gets published in the Washington Post or the NYT or talked about on NBC or CNN unless the Obama politburo wants it to be.  Following the news, there is always pushback from Biden’s press secretary or some other White House flack claiming Joe is as sharp as ever, outworks everyone around him, and has complete command of everything that’s happening in the world.  But the result is that Joe’s mental fitness is always in the news, one way or another.

 

         The back-and-forth is all part of the show.  Biden will be replaced, but not now.  To do it now would mean six months of arguments about who the presidential nominee should be, and the politburo has no use for that sort of bickering.  Only when we get to the Democratic Convention will the issue become a “crisis,” and at that point the solution will be presented to all us slobs in the cheap seats.  It will be a fait accompli, as those crazy French people say.

 

         A current ABC News/Ipsos poll reports that 86% of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve a second term, but that’s not enough to pull the trigger.  These next six months will be used to create close to a panic in the body politic from an overwhelming body of evidence that Joe (though he’s a wonderful guy, of course!), has become a danger to America.  By the time the Democrats present their solution to the Biden problem, it will come as a relief, and the new Democratic candidate for president will be nominated by acclamation.

 

         And who will that be?  My position for a year has been that Michelle Obama will be swapped in.  It’s the ideal solution for Barack since it will be understood he would run the nation and that Michelle’s role would be purely ceremonial.  In this, his fourth term as president, he would not have to hide in the background the way he does now, with Biden as his avatar.  In fact, he could live in the White House!

 

         The problem of Kamala remains, however.  The Democrats cannot be seen as having tossed her unceremoniously to the curb.  And while she does not have a lot of support within the party, she remains beloved by older black women, and older black women may be the most fanatical group in the entire Democratic coalition.  Kamala Harris has leverage, and if the Dems are not going to let her be president, they at least will have to throw her a bone.  Or two.

 

         In this context, it is interesting that media coverage of the Hur Report mentions the 25^thAmendment, which allows a disabled President to be relieved of his powers and duties by the VP.  Hur himself did not mention the 25^th Amendment, so the reference to it is probably designed to educate the public on how Biden may legally get bumped aside when the time comes.  And it further suggests how Kamala may be rewarded for her cooperation.

 

         The Democratic Convention starts on August 24 in Chicago.  A few days before, it will be reported that Biden has suffered a terrible mental setback or a physical injury (or something), and that it is necessary to invoke the 25^th Amendment to transfer his powers and duties to his Vice President.  This will happen immediately, to the relief of the American people and with their complete approval.  Thus, Kamala will become the 47^th President of the United States (and the First Black Woman President with a Vagina and she’s Part Asian too!).  Then, at the convention itself, after hushed meetings in vape-filled rooms and days of feverish speculation in the press, it is announced that Michelle Obama has graciously agreed to save America and become the party’s candidate for President.  A grateful nation elects her in a landslide in November.  She takes over from Kamala Harris on January 20, 2025, and at her first opportunity, appoints Kamala to the Supreme Court.

    Ever heard of Jackie Robinson?  Of course you have.  Now how about Earl Lloyd?  No?  Earl, on October 31, 1950, stepped on a basketball court and became the first black player in the NBA, but he was not a superstar so today, nobody knows his name.  A hundred years from now, that will be Kamala—the answer to a trivia question. 

 

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         The Democrats will take both the House and the Senate as well as the White House, though their majorities will probably not be very large.

 

         There is just no reason, as a general matter, to vote for Republican candidates in 2024.  They have done almost nothing to oppose the Leftist agenda of open borders, unbridled spending, the de-testosterone-ing of the military, and DEI racism.  And they could have!   The Republicans have controlled the House since the 2022 elections and could have given the Democrats zero dollars to enact their nightmare America, but they chose not to fight. 

 

 As a result of their complicity with the Democrats, there will be little enthusiasm for Republican candidates, and this is a big reason they are lagging in fund-raising vis-à-vis the Dems.  Also, since the Republicans have done nothing to ensure the authentication of mail-in ballots, there will be more Democratic cheating in the 2024 elections than ever before.  There will also be a lot more voting by non-citizens than there was in 2020, when there were about five million such votes.

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki 

         

2024 NFL PLAYOFFS—The Superbowl

         I guess we already know who’s going to win, right?  It’s a psy-op, or a plot to get Biden re-elected by acclamation after he is endorsed by Taylor Swift.

 

         Vivek Ramaswamy, who just dropped out of the Republican presidential race, is a brilliant and articulate guy, but I am told that if you stand really close to him in a quiet room, you can hear bugs flying around inside his head.  He recently wrote on Twitter:

 

         “I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month.  And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.  Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next eight months.”

 

         And he’s not the only one, of course.  I have seen and heard these same theories, sometimes for fun but sometimes seriously, on radio and TV and the Googles.  The playoffs have been fixed.  The NFL is grooming Kansas City and Mahomes to be the next Patriots/Brady superteam, so KC will win this Superbowl.  Then Travis and Taylor will endorse Biden, etc. etc.

 

         A regular stop on my internet wanderings is Pieceofmindful.com, a blog commandeered by Mark Tokarski, a man who does his own thinking.  I have learned many things from Mr. Tokarski, such as:

 

1)   Jonestown didn’t happen.

 

2)   The person we know as Paul McCartney has, for the last 60 years, been portrayed by Paul McCartney and his twin brother.  It is possible that Paul died a few years ago and the Paul character is now portrayed only by the twin brother.

 

3)   All mass shootings are faked by the U.S. government.

 

4)   The story of John Lennon’s upbringing in a working-class English family is a complete fiction, and all photographs of his mother are laughable forgeries.

 

Mr. Tokarski’s latest entry is a tour-de-force on how games in the NFL are fixed (including video of suspicious pass-interference calls), a review of Swift’s boyfriend history, whether Taylor is a woman or a transexual, whether she is a female homosexual for whom Travis is her beard, and whether he is also gay (making it a double-beard situation).  Having long-ago established that Taylor’s origin story (born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania) is phony and that she is actually the product of an inbreeding program among America’s elites, he also speculates that she may be sterile and frigid because this is often a side effect of inbreeding.  Finally, for anyone who doubts NFL games are fixed, there is a long discussion, with video, of the 12-17-22 game in which Minnesota was leading the Colts 33-0 at halftime but wound up losing to Indianapolis 39-36.

 

In other words, since we already know the skids are greased for KC and Travis and Tay-Tay and Joe Biden, why would anybody care what I think about the game?

 

San Francisco (-2) vs, Kansas City

 

 I never gave the Chiefs any chance to get to the Superbowl, let alone win it, so how can I jump on their bandwagon now?  I can’t.

 

The San Fran AYP is 8.1; Kansas City’s is 5.6.

 

The San Fran defensive AYP is 4.6; Kansas City’s is 5.3.

 

San Fran outscored its opponents by 11.3 ppg; Kansas City by 4.5 ppg.

 

San Fran is 11-2 in regular-season games decided by eleven or more points; KC is 4-1.

 

I admit I am troubled by the way the 49ers have fallen behind in both their playoff games, though they have awakened and roared back.  Comebacks are not as convincing as games where a team takes a 28-0 lead and then coasts home.  Still, looking at these numbers, I cannot make an argument for Kansas City that does not involve psy-ops, Joe Biden, and whether Taylor Swift has an Adam’s apple.

 

Take the 49ers.

 

Copyright2024Michael Kubacki

MY 50 FAVORITE BOOKS

 

         This list does not include all the reading I have done that was important to me.  I don’t list dictionaries, the Bible, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, cookbooks, or the hundreds of books I have read about chess, backgammon, bridge, scrabble, poker, go, and other games. 

 

         The books listed here are fiction and non-fiction.  I have read a few of them many times and many of them several times.  All of them are books I have gone back to years after I read them because I wanted to re-read some passage or chapter.

 

One further qualification.  To keep the list a reasonable size, I have chosen to cite one or two books from a particular author even though I could have listed another dozen.  I have read and reread everything I could find from Charles Bukowski, J.P. Donleavy, Henry Miller, Thomas Sowell, and all the Bertie and Jeeves books from P.G. Wodehouse, though not all those titles appear here.   

 

         Rules For Radicals---Alinsky

 

Confederate General from Big Sur---Brautigan

 

Hm On Rye---Bukowski

 

The Big Sleep---Chandler

 

Kiss Kiss---Dahl

 

Life At the Bottom---Dalrymple

 

Guns, Germs and Steel---Diamond

 

The Ginger Man---Donleavy

 

My Family and Other Animals---G. Durrell

 

The Black Book---L. Durrell

 

Classical English Rhetoric---Farnsworth

 

Capitalism & Freedom---Friedman

 

Asylums---Goffman

 

Suicide Of the West---Goldberg

 

Liberal Fascism---Goldberg

 

The Silent Language---Hall

 

The Road to Serfdom---Hayek

 

Catch-22---Heller

 

Medieval Europe-A Short History---Hollister

 

No One Left to Lie To---Hitchens

 

People Love Dead Jews---Horn

 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions---Kuhn

 

A History of The American People---Johnson

 

The Middle East---Lewis

 

What Went Wrong---Lewis

 

They Thought They Were Free---Mayer

 

Tropic of Capricorn---Miller

 

Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom---Milloy

 

Junk Science Judo---Milloy

 

Holidays in Hell---O’Rourke

 

1984---Orwell

 

Hidden Game of Football---Palmer

 

The Better Angels of Our Nature---Pinker

 

V---Pynchon

 

A Treasury of Damon Runyan---Runyan

 

The Case for Democracy---Sharansky

 

A Short History of The Mail Service---Scheele

 

The Signal and The Noise---Silver

 

The Chess Mysteries of The Arabian Knights---Smulyan

 

Basic Economics---Sowell

 

The Vision of The Anointed---Sowell

 

Migrations And Culture---Sowell

 

America Alone---Steyn

 

Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade---Steyn

 

Alice Let’s Eat---Trillin

 

A Distant Mirror---Tuchman

 

Cat’s Cradle---Vonnegut

 

The Code of The Woosters---Wodehouse

 

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers---Wolfe

 

Looming Tower---Wright

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki