I don’t know what the fallout will be from the New York City kangaroo court nonsense, but the subsequent flash polls are mixed, with some showing a little improvement for Trump and some showing a little improvement for Joe “Shower Daddy” Biden. But what we do know is that within a few days after this legal abomination came down, the Trump campaign collected about $200 million in donations, of which at least $70 million was from small donors, and of those, 30% was from brand new donors. And you know what? I was one of them – I’ve never given Trump a cent before. I don’t typically give money to billionaires, but I couldn’t wait to do it now. And clearly, I’m not the only one.
We were told that Donald Trump would be at a huge money deficit going into this election. Well, that looks like another broken Biden dream. They thought they could harass us, they thought they could persecute us, they thought they could turn the regime media on us, and look what it’s got them – Biden‘s behind in almost all the swing states. Now, I’m not a huge believer in polls, but the fact is that Donald Trump’s always been behind in the run-up to elections, even when he ended up winning. Now he’s ahead, and felony-schmelony, I think he’s the odds-on favorite to win in November.
Think of yourself as a Democrat right now. Well, not if you have to use a bathroom soon because you’ll probably pick the wrong one. Just imagine that you invested everything you had into framing your political opponent and self-righteously claiming that what you’re really doing was defending Our Democracy and The Rule Of Law and a variety of other obnoxious clichés. You finally got that diversity hack DA in New York to find a Democrat-donating judge and 12 people who were dying to get on the jury to screw over a guy whose politics offended them, and what do you have once you announce “Ta-da! Guilty on a million felony counts!” Nothing but a handful of ashes.
This thing is going to boomerang like, well, a boomerang.
They wanted so desperately to be able to call Donald Trump “a convicted felon,” and now when they call him “a convicted felon,” they get a “Hell yeah, I am voting for the convicted felon!” It’s not a mark of shame. It’s a badge of honor. How awesome do you have to be if the worst people in the world break every norm, rule, and law to frame you? They’re afraid of him, and I support anybody they are that scared of. Unequivocally.
They didn’t think it was going to work out this way. See, the Democrats think we’re stupid. This may be because they’re stupid, or because they don’t know us because they reside within their leftist blue bubble. It doesn’t really matter. They imagine that we still respect institutions like the NY courts and that we will default to accepting the institution’s judgment because that’s what American bourgeois squares do.
But what they don’t understand is that we have been paying attention over the last ten years, and we have noticed that our institutions have displayed a troubling tendency to suck.
Tell me an institution you trust. Name one. Just one. The medical establishment? Just the other day, Dr. Fauci told Congress that the 6-foot distance proclamation that closed thousands and thousands of small businesses and completely disrupted society was based on…nothing. There are no studies supporting it. There is no medical literature supporting it. They just made it up. Yeah, they just made up “the science” – remember how we’re always supposed to believe the science? – and they ended up crushing our economy for nothing. Way to go, institutions.
How about our military? When it’s not sailing ships and into each other or catching them on fire, it’s promoting guys to colonel who dress like creepy sex beagles. I guess I’m old-fashioned, but this colonel thought his job was to win wars rather than to use his battle staff as his personal perversion kennel. No wonder we haven’t won a real war in 30 years.
Remember the Efrem Zimbalist, Jr, FBI? The Joe Namath NFL? Hollywood movies and kid’s cartoons without weird perverted interludes? Teachers free of piercings and a school libraries free of perverted books? Are there any institutions out there that are not a complete disaster?
No, but the Democrats feel great about it. They think everything’s going just fine. And it is going just fine – for them. They’re the ones in the positions of power. They’re the ones with the control of the media. They think everything’s hunky-dory under their control, and that you have to be some sort of insurrectionist lunatic not to genuflect before their glory. Only bad people refuse to recognize their divine right to rule.
They think we will still default to respecting them as, at one time, we respected the leaders of our institutions when our institutions were not a gigantic clusterfark. That’s why they imagined that when a court decreed that Donald Trump is a felon, we would care. We would accept it. We would abandon him and his scarlet letter “F.” Remember, they told themselves, all those hicks and rubes love the justice system. They’re going to buy into this kangaroo konviction wholeheartedly and without reservation! If a judge says Donald Trump’s a bad guy, they’re going to believe it.
Well, nobody believes it. You can’t destroy the institutions and still expect us to respect the hacks reigning over their ruins. Everybody knows that these Soros prosecutors, like that DEI degenerate Alvin Bragg, have unleashed a crime wave and killing spree in their jurisdictions by refusing to punish real criminals. Yet, when it’s a political opponent, they’re suddenly for law and order, and all the procedural protections that the Constitution guarantees go out the window.
We’re not blind and we’re not stupid. We know the score and we are determined to run up our own during the Trump 2.0 administration. This outrage is not going to stand. It will eventually get thrown out by some appellate court, maybe the New York State Court of Appeals (which is New York’s highest court and would be called the “New York Supreme Court” if NY was like any other state, but whatever). That court actually defied the weight of liberal opinion and threw out the tainted conviction of Harvey Weinstein, a very loathsome man – and, pre-#MeToo, a prominent Democrat who was buddy-buddy friends with most of the scumbags who are on MSNBCNN talking about morality right now. That court may very well toss this out, too. If it doesn’t, the United States Supreme Court will do it, and it will do it brutally.
This disgraceful case had nothing to do with the law, and we all know it. The fact is that the Democrats are trying to pretend they stand for law and order when they stand for neither. It isn’t fooling anybody. We’re not merely supporting Trump anymore. We’re low-crawling-over-broken-glass supporting Trump now. And that $200 million is only the start.
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