Congratulations to Governor Kristi Noem for singlehandedly setting back the cause of women as being cliched temperamental politicians for decades. Who the hell thought this was a good idea to tell this story? If your dog doesn’t have rabies and hasn’t been a danger to anyone, then spastic behavior during a hunt is the point where it shifts to becoming a family pet. If you can’t afford it, then give it away. That’s the way this works.
Kristi Noem went from being one of the best governors on Covid to being untrustworthy on trans athletes to being this weird advertiser to being The Dog Murderer. Talk about burning through a career. It just goes to show you that everything Corey Lewandowski touches dies.
With inflation looming large in their minds, most voters don't say there's even been improvement in their state's economy post-pandemic: only a quarter say it has improved in the years since, with about half saying it has actually gotten worse.
And few say their own finances are better compared to before the pandemic. This may be an essential part of their memory — comparing to before the coronavirus.
Amid those poor economic numbers, here's a change that's working against Mr. Biden: he narrowly trails Donald Trump on "understands the needs and concerns of people like you." That means he's losing an edge he enjoyed in the summer of 2020 when we asked voters in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this question.
The choice between Mr. Biden and Trump now predominantly draws out negative feelings like worry and anger.
Twice as many say Mr. Biden makes them feel worried as say he makes them feel either secure or confident. He trails Trump on making voters feel confident and secure.
Trump, for his part, elicits more feelings of anger, which does fuel opposition to him, helping keep Mr. Biden in these races, despite sour economic views.
Another change is that voters are less likely to see Mr. Biden as "moderate" now than they were in 2020, blunting another item that worked to his advantage four years ago. The percentage of self-described moderates who see Biden as a moderate has decreased.
Trump Finally Attacks RFK
So with RFK making the Michigan ballot, and Trump sinking a bit in polling averages, he’s finally attacking RFK as most left wing candidate in the race. I wondered how long it would take for him to do this. One reason is that despite his obviously liberal views on a host of subjects, his continued lean-in to certain topics makes him a wild-card in terms of appeal, one readily available for disaffected voters on both sides of the aisle. This piece is worth your time, quoting extensively from a recent RFK interview on C.S. Lewis — something that 95 percent of politicians today could not do, and that’s being generous.
Polls showing that Palestinians in the West Bank as well as Gaza continue to celebrate and support Hamas, with nearly 75% backing the Oct. 7 massacre that killed 1,200 in southern Israel, would seem to dash U.S. policymakers’ hopes of gaining momentum toward establishing a Palestinian state.
But for the Palestinians, that’s irrelevant. Why should they bother with arduous negotiations leading to compromise over two noncontiguous plots of land when they already have something far greater and much rarer? Empire.
The ongoing marches around the world to “flood” Western cities, college campuses, and government office buildings, and halt traffic on major arteries and thoroughfares in support of Hamas, are evidence that the Palestinians have managed to create something much loftier than a mere political arrangement of institutions and offices that would make them no different from the 193 members of the United Nations. With Oct. 7 representing the high-water mark of their long campaign against the Jews, and Americans, the Palestinians have called forth from the nations those who are ready to awaken and celebrate the new spirit of the age.
Since Oct. 7, pro-Palestinian protesters—Arab and Muslim immigrants joined by locals—have filled the streets of European and North American cities with crowds of thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands in Berlin, Washington, Stockholm, Paris, Toronto, Oslo, Chicago, London, Rome, Los Angeles, and others. In Glasgow last week, they shut down a Zara’s outlet because, according to pro-Palestinian activists, the retail giant’s advertising campaign featuring mannequins wrapped in white cloth resembled dead Gazans. Students at Harvard University can’t study in Widener Library or walk to class without being confronted by mobs calling for Israel to be emptied of Jews “from the river to the sea.” It’s as bad or worse at other elite universities.
“So we may truly say to the very feeblest cleric: ‘Your mind is not so blank as that of Indignant Layman or Plain Man or Man in the Street, or any of your critics in the newspapers; for they have not the most shadowy notion of what they want themselves, let alone of what you ought to give them.”
