Polls continue to show Donald Trump with a massive lead over his competition for the Republican presidential nomination. Yet, many of his opponents continue to hold their fire against the former president. They may be doing so in hopes of eliminating all their non-Trump competition before taking on Trump himself.

The problem with this plan is that it won’t work. Trump’s rivals have to do something different to knock him off his perch. Unlike in 2016, when there were signs that he could be defeated in a one-on-one contest (which never actually happened) Trump holds major advantages this time around.

He’s up by more than 40 points nationally when polled against his closest rivals (Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley). More than that, he is pulling in greater than 60% of the Republican vote. Even if his rivals were able to consolidate into one super candidate, Trump would still win majority support.

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Netflix's "Leave the World Behind" cyber apocalypse movie warns about "white people" if "the world falls apart."

Not only did Barack Obama help executive produce the movie as part of Higher Ground, but he personally helped shape the script by giving its screenwriter notes, according to HITC.

The Unvaccinated Were Scapegoated for Failure of COVID Vaccines, Study Finds

A new study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics found that unvaccinated people were unfairly scapegoated during the pandemic.

The authors seem to be shocked by their discovery that much of the lies and misinformation came from the government and media:

“However, what we found to be missing was an address to misinformation and the consequences stemming from overestimating the threat. Consider, for instance, how in 2020, more than 30% of Americans believed that a COVID infection led to a 50% chance of hospitalization; it never did, nor was there ever evidence to suggest it might. Left-leaning individuals tended to over-estimate COVID harms to a greater degree than conservatives.”

The truth, of course, was that the Covid vaccine did not work and did not prevent any transmission, and after a month or two past vaccinations, it made the vaccinated MORE likely to be infected.

However, the impact of the media’s fear-mongering was all-encompassing. 35% of adults believed that half of Covid infections required hospitalization!

The hatred and division were relentless. What is the result of it? Almost everyone had COVID anyway. Fortunately, COVID was not nearly as deadly as it was hyped up to be.

The worst outcome is thousands of broken families, economic devastation among the families of fired unvaccinated workers, and persisting social alienation and division – all created in the name of anti-human “science” driven by profit and careerism.

“Crooked Joe Biden’s henchman, Deranged Jack Smith is so obsessed with interfering in the 2024 Presidential Election with the goal of preventing President Trump from retaking the Oval Office, as the President is poised to do, that Smith is willing to try for a Hail Mary by…”

🧵 ON THE INVESTIGATION OF JOE BIDEN

Since January, we have obtained and reviewed thousands of pages of financial records, text messages, emails, and witness testimony that reveal President Biden’s corruption.

Here were some of our biggest revelations 👇

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Trump now leads Biden across all seven swing states eleven months before the election — Bloomberg poll

Former Senior Trump Administration National Security Officials Issue Ultimatum Over FISA 702 Debate

Kash Patel and Richard Grenell, former Senior Trump Administration National Security Officials, today issued an ultimatum:

“We know better than most people just how the intelligence community has been allowed to abuse the system to punish their political enemies. We have called for the reform of FISA 702 to help install better guardrails on those who seek to abuse their authority. As Congress deliberates the extension of this foreign intelligence tool, we must ask why Chris Wray and his FBI have been allowed to abuse that very surveillance privilege and broken the law over 274,000 times to illegally surveil Americans. Remember, the F in FISA is ‘Foreign.’  Absent a dramatic reform of FISA 702, we call upon Congress to let it lapse – better to have no authority for 7 days or so than another 365 days of spying on Trump and his supporters.”
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A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said.

In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.

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Elon Musk in Italy: "Please don't import the woke mind virus" from America: "It divides people."

The grift never ends with Hunter the deep … thoughts artist 🤣

Bannon is signaling that Trump will likely have a woman nominated as his VP.
Some of the names that are being suggested are:
Noem, Stefanik, Mace, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kari Lake and Sen. Marsha Blackburn..
Who would you like to see picked as Trump's VP?

Mass of thousands of migrants waiting to be processed by Border Patrol after they crossed illegally into the United States in Texas today.

Trump is disqualified from the 2024 ballot, Colorado Supreme Court rules: "Clause of the 14th Amendment applies."

The court declares Trump ineligible for the presidency under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause. He is to be removed from the state's 2024 presidential primary ballot.

Trump expected to appeal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/politics/trump-colorado-ballot-14th-amendment.html