Hyena Harris – the democrat gambit
A failed vice president of a failed presidency is up against a successful president who has been indicted, convicted, shot – everything short of having a wooden stake hammered through his heart – and has been ahead in the polls for months.
Oh, the fluffers in the press are trying to make Cackles look inevitable, just like they made Cankles look inevitable up until Election Day 2016.
Democrat congressmen and senators seeking re-election dumped Pedo Joe only to have him replaced by his ignorant understudy, whom the White House studiously kept out of the public eye.
“President Joe Biden’s unsteady debate performance reverberated among candidates up and down the November ballot on Friday. However, nervous Democratic candidates mostly kept their discomfort to themselves or downplayed it, even as gleeful Republicans looked to seize the opening.
“Wisconsin’s Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is facing a tough reelection bid against a Trump-endorsed Republican, distanced herself from Biden and did not answer questions Friday about the debate or calls for him to be replaced at the top of the ticket.”
Comrade Kamala is not running a presidential campaign. She is running an SOS campaign, as in Save Our Senate. Democrats cannot save the Senate because West Virginia, Montana, Arizona, and Ohio will flip.
Can they run another cheating scam? That may be the only push available.
Ship Building
Note the Justin Katz offering at Breaking Defense. Ingalls Shipbuilding, one of the nation’s premier shipyards, has ample space and capacity for shipbuilding. Yet, it faces a challenge in attracting and maintaining the skilled workforce necessary to meet increasing production demands. This issue is not unique to Ingalls (the Navy’s Frigate program is several years behind schedule due to labor shortages at the shipyard in Wisconsin). Still, it reflects a broader trend across the maritime industry. The decline in skilled labor, driven by factors such as an aging workforce, insufficient training programs, and a lack of new entrants into the field, threatens the ability of U.S. shipyards to keep pace with the Navy’s needs.
The decline in the maritime workforce is not just a current problem but a looming crisis for the future. Competition with near-peer rivals like China and Russia is intensifying. Both nations have made significant investments in their maritime capabilities, with China, in particular, rapidly expanding its naval fleet and shipbuilding capacity. The U.S. must be bold and invest in its maritime workforce to remain competitive globally.
Unfortunately, you can’t put tens of millions of illegal aliens on the benefit train, pay the interest on $35 trillion in debt, AND build a navy.
For the most significant “building” yards in the United States, there is only one customer—Uncle Sugar. This is known as a “monopsony,” giving that customer IMMENSE influence over transactions. If shipyard workers were paid better, there would be more of them. But do not go reaching for that “capitalist dog” pitchfork to skewer fat cat industrialists just yet because how much the workers get paid is inextricably entwined with how much the federal government is willing to pay for ships. Margins in shipbuilding are NOT GREAT. There are few business relationships where the customer has greater visibility into cost structure than in shipbuilding.
We need to spend more on ships to get more of them, and we need to spend more on ships to attract more workers to build (and fix, upgrade, and operate) them by paying them more than a Buc-ees cashier. Labor has options, and as long as the maritime industry option is insufficient, so will the labor supply. Additionally, the requirements of DEI mandate that some of the workers who build ships be disabled. And when you’re working on a government contract, that is the most essential part to bureaucrats.
Bullet Points
** A majority of likely U.S. voters say they don’t have a lot of trust in polls, particularly those related to the presidential election. Just 11% say they have a lot of trust in these polls, while 46% say they have some trust. However, 31% say they do not have much trust, and 10% say they don’t trust polls at all. Where do you stand?
** You’ll notice the new blogging style. It’s temporary, but the only way I can make it work now. I’m considering trashing this blog and moving to a substack blog.
Accidental Shooting Stats (ammo.com)
Accidental shootings, although extremely rare, tend to dominate headlines around the country. We were curious and explored the hard data behind these types of shootings and discovered many interesting facts.
Accidental shootings have decreased drastically over the last two decades and affect very few Americans. If you’re a little short on time, here are a few of the highlights:
- It is very rare for someone to lose their life in an accidental shooting. Fewer than 1% of shooting deaths are attributed to accidents.
- On average, there are more than 30,000 accidental shooting injuries. Only 2.3% of all accidental shooting injuries result in death.
- Americans are more likely to die in other types of accidents. Only 0.2% of all accidental injury-related deaths involve a firearm.
Despite media and lobbyists’ claims, accidental shootings rarely occur and are easily avoidable with care and firearm knowledge.
If you’d like to see more of our findings, you can read them here:
https://ammo.com/articles/accidental-shooting-statistics
Substack? I will need to learn how to access it? The things I will do to try and keep up with up with your brilliant narrative and cast of commenting castaway’s!
Gimme a heads up if you move to Substack; my day isn’t complete without your blog.
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Thanks guys. I have a person working on the software angle. There is so much data at Virtual Mirage – years of blogging – that would be lost if I parked it in that I’m reluctant to trash it and start over. I’m willing to, but it’s a last resort. Not there yet. I did start a site at Substack after earlier hacking but there’s nothing on it. Not yet.
> There is so much data at Virtual Mirage – years of blogging – that would be lost if I parked it in that I’m reluctant to trash it
I’m glad to hear that.
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Is there a way to recover and store your old blogs or is this just a case of not having the older material available to someone currently reading?
Just curious..
Yes, they’re intact now. I can drop them onto a hard drive with the capacity (really large file). Substack would not welcome the transfer. I’d be starting over.
Shipbuilding is misogynistic and racist, and it takes hard work by tough but skilled men…so…like ranching and farming, it must be undermined at all cost no matter we won’t be able to defend ourselves (or with R & F, have food). When you have people implanting a Cackleberry into the Presidential race, then select a Coward Without a Home as running mate, this is what you get: More chaos and weakness.
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Blog move…no sense punishing yourself with constant [lately] difficulties…do what makes the most sense so the rest of us schlubs can continue gleaning serious content sprinkled with humor and tart commentary. Besides if the blog goes away where will Mike_C upload his next Emmy-winning formulaic Hallmark script?
Mike_C’s made-for-television scripts do entertain. He has access to a world that I don’t encounter. I recently offered to ‘practice medicine’ on a friend who had open heart surgery to replace a valve and a few inches of artery. He went with the MD option rather than the trail medicine option. The did the bypass machine thing and his surgery took 4.5 hours. I boasted that if he’d gone with me, cracking his chest and poking around in the garage, it would have taken significantly less to disconnect his heart, try to figure out what was wrong and replace it. Trail surgery may be messy but the outcome is predictable and you end up in a much better place.
polls say what the guy paying for them want them to say. the bs media is trying to tell me kamelface is ahead of trump, putting up the same graphic 100 times a day even on foxnews. i call bs, and change the channel. one part of the left smugly thinks the fix is in. another part is purely panicking. and one part believes trump will win and is trying to distance itself from everything leftard. i watched kamelface yap in georgia. i notice they never show the “crowd”, always film close in on her, not even allowing a wide view of the gathering behind her. considering the canned applause sound, i don’t believe there is a crowd at all. they have a plan, which never survives first contact with the enemy. they are about to make first contact. tallyho!
Your comments reflect a certain cynicism… I recall Pedo Joe’s campaign in Phoenix, where less than a dozen people and Pres showed up to hear him speak. President Trump was packing the stadiums – People like you, riverrider, were suggesting a Trump Victory, and the old, corrupt pedophile still won (at 3 am when all the Biden Ballots arrived).
I’m with RR…polls are designed to push-market the preferred narrative to sway the low-information voter (h/t Rush). Problem I see is…they succeed. And if not enough votes are received the ballot vans are at the ready — so brazen they were in 2020 the vans were even Lilly White (stuck out like a basement computer nerd at the beach)…vans weren’t even black (to blend into the nefarious nighttime ritual of election theft). So…actual white/racist vans were used by DEI screamers, meaning this was a double whammy steal.
I’d cheerfully follow along to a substack. The subscription function might be helpful.
The cheat: If this is to be believed, big trouble in little Chy-nuh:
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https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-2024-cheat-and-whats-being-done
Thank you for the link.
I have absolutely no trouble believing the bulk (and probably all) of it.
There’s an old saying to not trust the polls until after Labor Day because enough people aren’t paying attention.
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I say don’t pay attention until much later. The polls from the big news organizations have the same biases that the news organizations do. That is, they’re spokesmen for the Democratic. The control with polls, though, is that everyone wants to be able to get the credibility of saying they predicted the election correctly, and that tends to be their last poll before the election itself. That way they can sell that they got the last election right, so hire them to do the next one.
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That says don’t trust the polls until after election day. At this point, all the Kamala hype in the polls is simply Democrats trying to get those who want to join “the cool kids” (they think) to decide she’s their choice.
I’ve noticed a lot of joy in the Whore’s campaign. I wonder if she’s giving her followers something extra?
“I’m considering trashing this blog and moving to a substack blog.”
Good luck.
Since you asked: I’m in the 10% that doesn’t trust polls at all.
The days of trusting government, the media, the medical establishment, the pharma industry, and on and on, are LONG gone.
They can all bite me.
They have an agenda. Much of it comes through sampling bias, which they are aware of but pretend not to be mindful of. I have joined a group of “Hispanic” (who knows what a Hispanic person is?) people who are sampled HEAVILY by one of these polling groups. They pay me to take their polls about how Hispanic people feel. The polls are given in Spanish, but I speak Spanish, German, and a couple of other languages, and it’s no problem.
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Fun fact, I was watching the original Das Boot (in German) on tv recently, with no subtitles, and translating on the fly to others in the room hogging down nachos and watching. It’s better in German. I also listen to Handel, Wagner, and other operas in German because it’s better than listening to the original language butchered in English. Handel’s Messiah in German is magnificent. In English, I cringe.
So, my fellow Hispanic, what ARE the Hispanics feeling this time of the year?
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Earlier in the week I was with a friend at Penn Station, Moynihan Train Hall for Amtrak to be exact, and both our trains were delayed. The food court there is surprisingly decent, but we just weren’t feeling it despite being a bit hungry at 7pm. Friend said, “Do you want to hit The (first class) Lounge? I’m going to redeem some bonus points.” And so we did. It’s nice, spacious, and even tastefully decorated up there on the second floor above the main hall. You get complimentary coffee, Boylan’s sodas, and little sandwiches or a salad. Heck, you can have both! They announce arriving trains a few minutes before the hoi polloi get to hear about it. And there’s a balcony where you can sit and literally look down on regular folks. So after we got our little chicken tarragon (or something like that) sandwiches and my Boylan’s Diet Black Cherry, we went to sit on the balcony. As we walked out, I said in my best Bugs Bunny voice, “I wonder what the poor rabbits are doing this time of the year.” She looked at me blankly. Friend grew up in Bogota, and I guess is “Hispanic” though she doesn’t make a deal about it. Anyway, it turns out her knowledge is at the level of: “Bugs? That’s a cartoon rabbit, right?” Sigh.
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Back To Freddie’s point. I don’t trust polls either. And as far as the medical establishment, and Big Pharma/Big Device (as in prosthetics, implanted pumps, etc) go, even though I am very much a part of those worlds, I don’t trust them either. I could go on for pages and hours about it all, but the bottom line is that it is almost unspeakably sad. I could weep. We (as humans) NEED to be able to believe, to trust. Maybe not everything, but most things. That’s how we are wired. The constant barrage of gaslighting and in-your-face “tell me you see six fingers on my hand, you bigot” stuff is destructive to the soul. If you pulled the equivalent on a dog you were training (random rewards and punishments, and worse, training it to do one thing, and then punishing it for doing that thing) it would go nuts. I think we humans in the West are going nuts as well.
Wow! We’ll start calling you Mike_Helmsley…Leona would be proud of you looking down on the “little people” (not inferring “stature”) from your position of overlord privilege. Well played.
“Can they run another cheating scam? That may be the only push available.”
Have we fixed what allowed them to do it last time?
Another major problem in the shipbuilding workforce is that you aren’t allowed to build
warships if you’re a stoner, junkie, tweaker, or whatever other flavor. Gee, I wonder why.
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Seems like that disqualifies just about everyone below the average age of this blog’s population,
nowadays.
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I don’t trust modern polls at all. The methodology has changed from one designed to get
objective data to one designed to get the answers the buyer wants. I would almost think
that there were some eventual end-user who wants the actual data, but I guess not.
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Time speaking during CNN issue interview-
Bash: 6 minutes
Comrade Kamala: 17.5 minutes
Tampon Tim: 3 minutes
Anyone who watched this vomit fest of lies will never get that time back. And if I hear one more time that DJT47 made a phone call and killed the “bipartisan” border bill I’m going to chew on a powerline! Trumps border policy was rock solid and Pedo Joe administration broke what didnt need to be fixed. Even if DJT47 did make the call, Pedo Joe and Cameltoe could have signed an executive order passing the bill.
I would gladly pay a fee for a substack subscription to your blog, but will substack allow your truths to be published?
I forgot to throw my 2 cent in. I think “registered voter” might show inclination but only “likely voter” polls carry any real weight.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a comment section on a substack.
But I don’t hang around that world much anyhow.
If I remember correctly, we discussed this…10 years ago, if not longer… sigh
Yes, and it’s getting worse, not better.