{"id":507,"date":"2024-11-02T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=507"},"modified":"2024-11-02T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T01:07:00","slug":"i-think-that-trump-is-about-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"I Think that Trump Is about to Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good thing that nobody reads what I write here. That headline would really torque a lot of people off.<\/p>\n<p>There are three opinions about where we stand now, three days before D-Day:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s gonna win<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s gonna lose<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s too close to call<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The variety of opinions shows that they aren&#8217;t based on objective data.\u00a0 People are guessing.\u00a0 So am I.<\/p>\n<p>Against my position one might argue:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s stunts are going over well (McDonald&#8217;s, the garbage truck, Joe Rogan, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Harris is even more repulsive than Hillary was.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people are waking up to the wokeism menace and migrant disaster.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I would reply, though, that the elderly have recognized wokeism easily.\u00a0 They voted for Trump before.\u00a0 Now they&#8217;re dead.\u00a0 If enough new converts are minted to replace them, that will only leave us where we were in 2020.\u00a0 And although Harris is profoundly, deeply repulsive, lefty voters know that she would be surrounded by others who\u00a0<em>do<\/em> have a brain, so her incompetence would be reined in from doing much damage.\u00a0 \u00a0(Notice how Dotage Joe&#8217;s absence from the presidency has produced no noticeable change in anything.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard wide-eyed chirpings about how Trump is gaining black voters.\u00a0 This won&#8217;t change anything.\u00a0 He had a lot of black voters before.\u00a0 Suppose he got 5% more this time.\u00a0 Blacks are only 12% of the population.\u00a0 What&#8217;s 5% of 12%? it&#8217;s 6\/10ths of 1%.\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 Most blacks live in red states, so their votes neither help nor hurt the candidate.\u00a0 In Tennessee the blacks could vote 100% for the Dim candidate without gaining one electoral vote.\u00a0 The swing states are all that matter, and no matter how many blacks vote Republican, they are sure to be a tiny percentage of a small percentage of the voters.<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media is becoming more vicious by the day and I expect them to have some effect on swing voters.\u00a0 Trump\/Vance have missed a lot of opportunities to &#8220;play their hand&#8221; to greater advantage.\u00a0 Their followers are devoted and excited. I just don&#8217;t think that there are enough of them.<\/p>\n<p>This is easy for me to write.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t lose.\u00a0 If Trump loses, I look wise and keen.\u00a0 If he wins, I get Trump for president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good thing that nobody reads what I write here. That headline would really torque a lot of people off. There are three opinions about where we stand now, three days before D-Day: Trump&#8217;s gonna win Trump&#8217;s gonna lose It&#8217;s too close to call The variety of opinions shows that they aren&#8217;t based on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Think that Trump Is about to Lose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-8b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}