Dakota Beacon

BULLETIN:  Minnesota is breaking for Trump apparently.  There are two stories in Brietbart this morning which indicate this.  In addition to what we learned last night (that Biden is holding a rally in Minnesota on the last day before election!) we have learned that Trump’s scheduled rally in Rochester is now being threatened with shutdown by MInnesota’s communist AG, Keith Ellison.   Simultaneously, insurrectionists - the same groups which burned Minneapolis to the ground last summer - also expect a Trump win and are plotting to riot and burn down a couple more cities, perhaps Duluth and St. Cloud.  We can’t let these kinds of people control America any longer.  Whatever you do make sure you get your vote in.  It might be wise to vote early in person.  Take a couple of valid forms of ID (at least one state-issued) and maybe even a water bill establishing your current address.  Take no chances.  This could be your last chance to vote if this does not go well.

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We are down to the wire.  There are five days left before we decide the future of America - perhaps the fate of America.  I have been watching the rallies - not just the Trump rallies but Biden’s as well.  The other day I watched one in Atlanta..  In Warm Springs, GA, the former Vice President held an event of sorts.  He entered to soothing, soft electric organ music - reminiscent of the seating music prelude to a funeral service.  He had a crowd of approximately 25 people sitting, each, in a perfect little chalk circle.   Most of his events are held in parking lots, which is convenient because while unable to draw a crowd, it can look better than it is with parked cars “in attendance” in the lot, perhaps those of people working in offices or shopping.  COVID has been very helpful in providing them a fig leaf for lack of any crowds.  His podium sports the motto, “Battle for the Soul of the Nation”.  I watched his Warm Springs, GA, “rally”.  It started live streaming and at the 47 minute point, after a vacant podium and dead air for more than half an hour, Biden made his entrance.  And grand it was.  He jogged down a few stone steps into a little courtyard of sorts.  He began as he does - with gloom and doom and more gloom and doom.  In his world, there are “cries for justice”, he ticks off the names of various felons who came to a bad end in encounters with law enforcement - most of them in the wrong at the time.  The virus.  The pain.  He talks of the discourse being “mean” and “divisive”.  And yet, if we step back we can see that the divisiveness is not coming from the right.  The divisiveness is being fomented frantically by the left.  Too many people of different backgrounds have come together to back Trump.  But all Biden can see is a “dark winter” ahead, while Trump was able to announce today that the GDP had soared to 33.1%.  There is a disconnect there.  The reality does not match the Biden campaign’s mottos and the warped “history” Biden slurs his way through.  He actually needs subtitles.  If his little clutch of attendees had any sense of humor they would be in stitches when he admonishes them to “clear the decks for action”.  There is no one on deck.

Donald Trump has been on a whirlwind coast-to-coast tour of America, from Tucson AZ to Bemidji MN, Ohio and Pennsylvania to Michigan and Wisconsin, North Carolina to Florida to Manchester, NH.  Pence has been criss-crossing the nation, hitting Iowa, Florida, Hibbing, MN, and other outposts of the country.  One day Trump will be regaling the massive crowds in freezing, windblown Omaha, the next day he will be in sunbaked Arizona,  The message remains constant.  It is a recap of his first four years.  The challenges and successes.  He counts out the promises he has managed to keep - court appointments, ending disastrous deals with Iran, negotiating the return of manufacturing the U.S. workers,Middle East peace, tax cuts, the beginnings of a wall on our border with Mexico, his recent bout with the coronavirus and his efforts to counter the epidemic in the U.S.   He attacks his opponents on their promise to end fracking, on their abysmal failure to support for law enforcement, for their promise to walk back the tax cuts, for their past foreign policy disasters under Obama . . . and for their obvious and ever more glaring and substantial corruption - a corruption which endangers our national security.  He lets them do a lot of the talking by showing them in their own words on his jumbo-tron screens.  Today First Lady Melania made an appearance in Tampa to introduce him.  It was a pretty picture.  

Trump’s campaign is prompting him with relevant political issues in every city and town he speaks in - getting a pipeline through to New Hampshire from western New York in his Manchester speech, support for police and a return of manufacturing when in Wisconsin and MIchigan.  Fracking in Pennsylvania and Ohio.  He knows where he is and what is going on where he is.  He knows who is running for office - whom he wants out and whom he supports for election.  He knows their accomplishments and why they were elected.  

When he wraps up with his final urge to vote, the music begins and he goes into his “dance” which has become a rage even on Tik-Tok.    He has shown that he has not lost his showmanship acumen in the choice of his music - a bit of country (Lee Greenwood) a bit of Queen’s anthem, “We Are the Champions”, occasionally some Elton John and he always closes with the Village People’s “YMCA”.  Whoever picked them had their finger on the pulse of the high-energy people who show up in the tens of thousands wherever he makes a stop - it’s mostly dance music and dancing people are upbeat.  

The difference in style is remarkable.  Biden, I’m sure, has had nothing whatsoever to do with the music at his events.  It is mostly gospel/blues.  It’s not bad music.  I might really like to sit down and listen, maybe with a shot of hot rum.  I might not listen long to the Village People, on the other hand.  But that’s not what it’s about, is it?  

We could call Trump’s events rock concerts.  He draws huge, and I mean huge crowds everywhere, whether in the Carolinas or the freezing upper Midwest.  His base is a cross-section of main-street America, with powerful support from unions, from law enforcement, from workers in the rust belt, suburban moms, blacks, Hispanics - Mexican Americans and the descendants of stalwart Cuban refugees.  Biden?  Well, he’s got the coerced support of academia, he has Hollywood celebrities who long ago sold out to the far left.  He has out-of-joint RINOs who can’t accept that they don’t own the Republican Party.  He has some intersectionalist s, he has a lot of angry people, he has socialists.  He might have enough to win.  Who knows?  It depends largely on turnout.  

The polls are looking very tight as we get closer.  Anyone staying home and not voting could change the future.  People must choose whether they want a vigorous, assertive American world policy, a roll-up-your-sleeves and get-back-to-work America, a return to the America that remembered her heroes and our struggles to make our country and our world better or a diminished America, second to China, governed by a stand-in socialist Kamala Harris and a frail, cranky, confused figurehead, a symbol of swamp corruption, head of a crime dynasty.  The person representing each party is visually symbolic of his view of America and our future - a less-than-perfect Phineas T. Barnum, if you will, who has somehow managed to put together peace throughout the world from Kosovo to Saudi Arabia to North Korea, forged alliances to contain a powerful enemy nation in the Far East, managed to limit deaths from a deadly virus, keep promises to lower taxes, guard the border, bring back jobs, all under a three-year disingenuous witch hunt, showing the people enthusiasm and energy, optimism, hope and support for basic American freedom - and a lonely, shriveled man with a nearly 50-year-long career in public office, which he has milked every day of it for personal gain, a man so rotted out that he dare not even answer questions, whether on public policy (such as his plans to pack the Supreme Court) or on the personal scandals that are currently rocking the nation involving his entire family, a man so ravaged by dementia that he confuses what office he is running for and whom he is running against.  It comes down to the corrupt media and Joe Biden/Kamala Harris and the socialists vs. the millions who just won’t have it anymore.  Trump is more like a first-time candidate than an incumbent because his first term was basically sucked up into the phony impeachment effort - based on nothing - and the pandemic, neither of which he had control of and neither of which he was responsible for causing.  The crowds calling for renewal and turning the corner are not looking for someone else to lead it - they mean Trump.  

Gateway Pundit has tallied up the attendance at the rallies and events of the two major party candidates.  Since Labor Day Trump has spoken to over half a million people at his gatherings.  Joe Biden has had a total of 1,000 in attendance at his events since Labor Day.  Does this mean anything?  It is hard to believe that it does not.  When you see crowds of 30,000 people, all cheering, dancing along at the end as Trump waves goodbye, it is difficult to believe that there is not a big win for Trump ahead.  But the polls tell a different story.  And we know that there will be unprecedented levels of voter fraud.   The outcome is anything but certain.  It would be disastrous if people, encouraged by the crowds they see for Trump, think they are safe to not bother voting.  I know some very strong Trump supporters who are not registered.  I know.  It is incomprehensible.  

The best case scenario would be Trump voters anxious enough to get themselves out and to vote, driven by close polls showing Biden with a narrow lead, that this turnout would be such a strong wave as to leave no doubt as to the choice of the people.  

I hope you will not only get out there and vote yourself, but get your spouse or your kids or your siblings or parents, dand friends.  Bring your co-workers, your neighbors.  If you are able, help by giving rides on election day or before.  For some it is difficult to get there.  Make it easier.  If you have a problem getting to the polls, please ask someone for help - it’s not so much for you but for your country and our future.  Your vote counts!  Just ask.  Vote a straight ticket this once.  I know - I like to be picky too, but this year we need to keep the Senate and flip the House if we are to hang on to the progress we have made.  (Just think what a relief it would be not to hear from Speaker Nancy Pelosi again for a while.)  If you live in Minnesota’s 7th District, vote for Fischbach for Congress, MacDonald for Judge and Jason Lewis for Senate!  Be part of the win.

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