This is going to be the second time this week that I mention CNN without complete derision.
You already know about the first one. This time, it’s for something that many of you have already begun to notice, and we should spend a little time talking about it.
And that’s all the introduction this episode of the 5QT is going to get.
1. The Dirty Joe Show Is Getting as Old as He Is
And now to CNN, which just put out a poll showing that Joe Biden’s approval rating has descended into the catastrophic range. Red State’s Mike Miller wrote:
Such was the case on Wednesday when a new CNN poll — such irony — revealed that Biden has now reached the lowest approval rating of his miserable presidency. The most intentionally inept U.S. president in history stood at just 37 percent approval in November, two points less than in October, and the lowest since he assumed office in January 2021.
Check out the steady decline:
November 2023: 37 percent
October 2023: 39 percent
August 2023: 39 percent
July 2023: 41 percent
December 2022: 46 percent
June 2022: 38 percent
October 2021: 50 percent
March 2021: 51 percent
Ouch.
Can you win reelection with a 37 percent approval rating? No.
Regardless of the problems Donald Trump might have, whether they be campaign-finance related, the legal issues springing from the weaponized prosecutors in New York, D.C., Atlanta, and South Florida, or whatever else, it doesn’t matter. Joe Biden can’t be at 37 percent and win that election. He can’t.
Because at 37 percent, Biden doesn’t hold his base. And turning out his base is an even bigger problem.
Here’s the thing: Republicans win competitive elections, when they do, because Republican voters tend to be more civic-minded and there’s a higher floor where it comes to voter turnout than Democrats have. When Republicans lose competitive elections, especially in the Obama era, it’s usually because the Democrats are able to overcome that higher Republican civic engagement with systematic, data-driven voter turnout operations that turn low-engagement voters into high-turnout voters.
Those efforts lead all the way up to straight-up ballot harvesting.
But the problem is this: you have to have a reservoir of people who can be made to participate.
When there’s a motivating factor out there that can be applied to bring out those low-information, low-engagement voters that the Democrats depend on to put them over the top, that reservoir will be pretty big.
When Barack Obama was atop the ticket in 2008 and 2012, that reservoir was more than sufficient to win. People liked the novelty of a black president, or they earnestly believed that Obama was a racial healer or charismatic figure. Then, after Obama, when it was Hillary Clinton fronting the operation, it didn’t work as well.
But then they had the abject hatred of Donald Trump to fill the reservoir, and Trump didn’t exactly foil their efforts to make the 2020 election a referendum on how much they hated him.
Team Obama — or put a different way, the Democrat Party — inflicted on the country a corrupt, cognitively deficient hack politician everyone knows is a mere puppet by selling hatred for Trump. Now, that package is 37 up, 63 down. And that CNN poll’s right track–wrong track number is 29 up, 71 down, which means even a sizable chunk of the Democrat base is now giving up.
Can you get those people out to vote solely on the hatred of Trump?
Before you answer, consider the evidence that even they don’t believe it. You wouldn’t be hearing this narrative about how Trump is a dictator in the making if they did. That might be the most desperate political attack in American history, and we’re six months away from anything close to a general election campaign. It smells like panic.
If the reservoir of low-information, low-engagement voters stays this empty — and the thing is that it’s pretty likely that it will, given that nothing on the horizon will lift a declining, skeletons-in-closet-ridden, low-talent pol like Biden substantially above that 37 percent — then it starts to become a real problem.
Because when you depend on machine politics to turn out your vote, you’d better make sure it’s your vote. And for example, if instead of Biden having a nine-to-one advantage in the black community over Trump, it’s only a three-to-one advantage, as a poll not long ago showed, spending millions to turn out votes in black neighborhoods starts to generate a very, very low rate of return. Now you have to focus those GOTV efforts into retail-based politics in communities where you’re used to getting big results with a wholesale approach, and it’s substantially harder.
Here’s how bad it is. That same pop-culture media that built Barack Obama and acted like a giant sword swinging at Trump is now starting to beg Biden to go away.
The Daily Show temp host Charlamagne tha God has the holiday blues "I want Biden stepping in to beat Trump the way I want him stepping in to defend me at a bar fight…So, please, Mr. President, give America the ultimate Christmas gift and step aside" pic.twitter.com/iRGqIc1cGp
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) December 7, 2023
Charlamagne tha God isn’t exactly the biggest fan of Biden’s, but the fact they let him lead with that on The Daily Show is pretty striking. This is not the kind of thing the corporate media has commonly allowed on its airwaves — especially when it comes to programming aimed at younger audiences — over the past 15 years.
But then again, you look at what younger voters think of Joe Biden, and you start to realize that they simply can’t push the narrative anymore.
Obviously, I’m not saying that it’s curtains for the Dems next year. What I’m saying is what I’ve been saying all along — make no assumptions whatsoever about this election because almost literally anything can happen.
2. Where Are the No-Knock Raids on CAIR?
I don’t have to say much of anything about this. I’ll just let you see it…
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad at AMP Convention: I Was Happy to See the People of Gaza Break the Siege on October 7; They Were Victorious; the People of Gaza Have the Right to Self-Defense – Israel Does Not #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians @CAIRNational @NihadAwad pic.twitter.com/WDbSRjFJo0
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) December 7, 2023
Why do we put up with CAIR, again? They’re the “civilian” front for Hamas like Sinn Fein was for the Irish Republican Army. Seeing as Americans were killed and taken as hostages by the people Nihad Awad was extolling the virtues of, I think it’s safe to say that these are domestic terrorist enemies.
And if Mark Houck got a SWAT raid for shoving a guy on a sidewalk who was harassing his son, then what about this?
3. Good News on the Election Integrity Front
Shreveport, Louisiana’s local elections have a certain history of catching national attention; after all, about a decade ago, George Soros dumped well over a million dollars into the local district attorney race, swamping the Republican candidate and putting an incompetent racist criminal sympathizer named James Stewart in that job. Shreveport’s population has begun to crater as a result of Stewart’s tenure; the criminals own the streets and the law-abiding are filling the U-Hauls. And interestingly, last year a Republican won the mayoral election there after another Soros-funded clown, the hilariously incompetent and mentally unstable Adrian Perkins, botched things so badly that even black Democrats were willing to cross the aisle.
But the sheriff’s election in Caddo Parish, which is the Louisiana equivalent of a county that Shreveport dominates, was won on Nov. 18 by a Democrat named Henry Whitehorn over John Nickelson, a Republican city councilman.
By one vote.
Nickelson sued, claiming there were enough fraudulently submitted ballots to invalidate the election. And on Tuesday a judge agreed, ruling that Nickelson’s campaign had proven there were 11 illegal ballots among the mail-ins, more than enough to overcome the margin of victory, and ordering a new election on March 23. And with that order went the only competitive election in the whole state that was won by a Democrat over a Republican this year.
The interesting thing is how quiet the Democrats have been about this. It’s almost like they really, really don’t want to talk about vote fraud and mail-in ballots. And that’s understandable.
4. Of Course They Made Taylor Swift the Person of the Year
Evita Duffy-Alfonso absolutely nailed it in her piece about Taylor Swift catching that Time’s Person of the Year award this week. I even love the headline: “The Most Insufferable Woman In America Wins Time’s ‘Person Of The Year.’”
A quick excerpt:
My Federalist colleague Mark Hemingway argues that Swift’s popularity is largely an indictment of our culture and “a sign of societal decline.” There’s a lot of truth to that, but we also can’t discount the media’s role in promoting and arguably creating the Taylor Swift phenomenon for its own ends.
Taylor Swift represents the perfect, controllable woman. Joe Biden supporter? Check. “Feminist”? Check. Mask-wearer? Check. Like her young adult female fans, Swift is easily influenced by the left. She blamed Donald Trump for the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots (not the Democrats who put their Covid tyranny on hold just long enough to egg on terrorism and arson in American cities). She also accused Trump of trying to “destroy our right to vote” because the former president opposed the U.S. Post Office facilitating non-secure mass mail-in voting.
All of which is correct, as is Duffy-Alonso’s note that Swift’s songs are mostly obnoxious hate screeds about her ex-boyfriends.
I’d simply add something that I’ve said before, which is that the four most important numbers in American society right now are that married men are R+20 (voting for Republicans by 20 percentage points more than Democrats), married women are R+14, unmarried men are R+7, and unmarried women are D+37, based on 2022 exit polling.
And corporate media, particularly entertainment media, is owned and run by a very small number of people who are completely homogenous in both worldview and ideological persuasion. They’re in lockstep with the Obama Democrat faction.
Which means that everything corporate media puts out — from the action movies all featuring low-personality female characters who beat the hell out of men, to the TV commercials making the fathers look like dunces, to the pop songs trashing men (if you think Swift is bad, wait until you get a load of Olivia Rodrigo) — all of it is designed to make single women (1) want to stay that way and (2) incapable of changing it even if they want to.
Talk to 20-something and 30-something single guys and you will get a mountain of complaints about how few women are out there who are even remotely worth considering for marriage. And the 20-something and 30-something women are even worse; it’s become a joke how out of line with reality the expectations have become.
As the Romans used to ask, cui bono? Who benefits? Not society. But making as many of those D+37 voters as possible is clearly a top priority for the leftist cultural and political elites alike, and showering Taylor Swift with as much publicity as possible is a killer app for that.
They will ride her as far as they can. You’ll never get rid of her.
5. Lady Ballers
As I noted at the Hayride Thursday, your expectations for the Daily Wire’s new comedy offering, Lady Ballers, shouldn’t be that it’ll rival Blazing Saddles or Anchorman. And it doesn’t.
But it’s the No. 1 streaming movie in America, and that’s an achievement.
The Critical Drinker gave a very honest, balanced review of it. Well worth watching…
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