As to Kamala’s crowds? Well, Hitch, there are some real pictures of those rallies; but (probably to no one’s surprise) they aren’t exactly so flattering to her as those fake ones on Twitter/X. That, of course, is most likely why I found them on one of her many detractors’ sites.

Enthusiasm? Well, I guess by a certain definition, the upcoming rioting and infighting in Chicago could be considered a kind of enthusiasm. That’s the same kind of definitional pedantry, however, by which the denotation of “excited” is actually “agitated” and not necessarily the connotation “overjoyed” that we usually use the word to mean.

there is also a real problem with politically-elected PA, DA, and other hacks NOT enforcing laws on the books, and I’m not sure what the answers are there

I think we see the only possible solution in a few instances in California, when the people — the actual source and ground of all government authority — rise up and recall Soros-backed D.A.s. Whether they will learn a lesson for next time, I can’t say, but I’m all for people sleeping in the beds they made.

“But there’s nothing in here to justify the HANDMAID’S TALE WITH EXTRA RACISM claims that Leftists make for their useful idiots to lap up.”

Yeah, that’s because, a) the low-info voters will believe it and regurgitate whatever they are told; b) we all already *know* that legacy media is just as bad; whether through their own proselytizing and campaigning or simple laziness, all they do today is receive press releases (aka Tweets and stuff on SM) and repeat them as if they are gospel (at least, from one side); and there is an entirely new Goebbels-Uber-Alles-Division of the DNC’s campaign solutions that has learnt, and deploys like the swing of a scythe, QUITE effectively, memes and the like that prove that you can tell pretty much any lie, on Twitter and by god, yup, “your” 50% will flipping believe it. (I’m not saying that only ONE side has True Believers, but one side does seem more…likely to take a picture at face value.)

I’m a Civil Libertarian and a strict Constitutionalist. (I agree, BTW, about overreach on Feds and local LEO and enforcement, but there is also a real problem with politically-elected PA, DA, and other hacks NOT enforcing laws on the books, and I’m not sure what the answers are there).

I am shocked near-daily when I peruse Twitter/X and I see that there are **tens of thousands of people** (or more) who believe the memes that say “this picture is a sold-out Harris rally,” and if you check, it’s CDE 2014 in Rio. Or Woodstock (that was one of my faves). I have not seen one single picture of a Harris Rally that’s actually “real.”

NOT ONE, and yes, I’ve looked. Looked hard. The one inside the hangar, looking out, taking a pic of AF2 and all that? That’s fake. And if you ask for all those people in the pic with their smartphones in the air, taking pictures and videos (the “people” depicted inside this picture, you understand?) to post their images or footage….CRICKETS. NOTHING.

Not one picture, not one video. In what universe does that happen? BUT, bygod, the people who see that get all enthused and genuinely believe that “yes, there’s all this enthusiasm! The momentum is MASSIVE!,” when as near as I can tell, it doesn’t exist. (Do you guys see different?)

URGH. I will be very v ery glad, hopefully, when this election cycle is over.