High on the list of complaints about Trump is his habit of speaking in rambling half-sentences, full of hyperbolic adjectives and unfinished thoughts. He rarely goes into detail of whatever it is he’s talking about. Even when he’s right, you’re sitting there, on the edge of your seat, desperately hoping that he’ll put that half-remembered point he read somewhere in context.
.. But keep in mind, Obama’s margin of victory in Colorado was 137,858 votes. Cory Gardner’s margin of victory in the 2014 Senate race was 39,688 votes. No one has found tens of thousands of dead voters casting ballots.
.. A study released in October 2014 offered the shocking assertion that roughly 700,000 illegal immigrants voted in the 2008 election, and probably provided Barack Obama his narrow margin of victory in North Carolina. But note that the study extrapolated those massive numbers from a relatively small sample, and offered the surprising conclusion that most of the illegal immigrants told interviewers they already had photo identification that permitted them to vote.
.. Nearly three quarters of the non-citizens who indicated they were asked to provide photo identification at the polls claimed to have subsequently voted.
For One Night, We Got to See a Conservative Making Conservative Arguments
The GOP nominee is barely a conservative by most senses of the term. He has no longstanding ties to communities of pro-lifers, gun owners, traditional Christians, or other perspectives that, up until recently, made up the backbone of the party.
.. The party’s convention in Cleveland was an odd celebration of the virtues of one man, instead of the values and policies that are supposed to unite the whole party.
The Fallout (Non-Nuclear) from a Donald Trump Victory
Political correctness really has become petty bullying, an attempt to enforce economic consequences for what is a social faux pas. Yes, we’re all supposed to be respectful to others, courteous, and to avoid giving unneeded offense. (The Left would be wise to start practicing what it preaches, to “do unto others as you would have them do.”) There’s nothing inherently wrong with someone declaring, “Hey, that really offends me.” But the Left wants to go further; they want a person who offends their sensibilities to be punished for it. Oftentimes the enforcers of political correctness want the person to lose their job. They want that person to become a pariah and feel constant social ostracization. They want to enforce the most serious of consequences for hurting someone’s feelings.
.. The Left would have to recognize that most of their our political and cultural elites demonstrate epic hypocrisy on a regular basis.
.. Obama declares, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say ‘okay.’” And then, in the words of David Axelrod, Obama keeps the Oval Office so warm in winter that “you could grow orchids in there.”
.. Hillary Clinton denounces greed and selfishness while collecting six-figure speaking fees. Bill Clinton gets a free pass from feminists as the sexual-harassment and womanizing allegations pile up. They talk about the importance of equal opportunity while Chelsea Clinton gets a $600,000 part-time gig at NBC News.
.. Ordinary Americans look at the elites and conclude they don’t actually believe anything they say, or at the very least, they don’t think they have to live under the rules they want to enforce for everyone else.
ESPN: Strong Options makes Cost-effective Programming
At some point, ESPN concluded that strong opinions and impassioned arguments made for the most cost-effective programming, and Pardon the Interruption begat Around the Horn, which begat Stephen A. Smith, Colin Cowherd, Skip Bayless, Bill Simmons . . .
When your “beat” shifts from offering in-depth coverage of sports to offering controversial (“hot take”) opinions on sports, the tone will shift and the previous audience will grow irritable.