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An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover.
Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that candidate George W. Bush had been cited for drunk driving over a quarter-century earlier. That surprise may have cost Bush the popular vote that year.
Sometimes, an incumbent can use his powers of office to warp the election. President Joe Biden benefited before the 2022 midterm elections when leftist activists leaked the impending Supreme Court repeal of Roe v. Wade.
Closer to the actual voting, Biden sought to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt owed to the federal government. He also began draining the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices (as he is doing again this election year as well). No wonder the predicted Republican midterm red wave ended up a tiny ripple.
More often, October surprises are more ad hominem and unleashed on a rival candidate’s supposedly previously undisclosed failings.
At the end of the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton’s team leaked news of her purchased bogus “Steele Dossier” as supposed proof of Trump-Russian “collusion.”
On the eve of the last 2020 presidential debate, Biden delegated now Secretary of State Antony Blinken to work with former interim CIA Director Mike Morrell to round up “51 former intelligence authorities.” They were to lie that the incriminating Hunter Biden laptop was likely a product of a Russian intelligence “disinformation” operation.
The ruse worked — turning potential proof of Biden family corruption into a replay of the fake 2016 Trump-Russian collusion hoax.
This time around, apparently the Harris campaign could not wait until October or early November to spring their surprises.
Perhaps the Harris campaign’s impatience is due to Democratically-inspired radical changes to state voting laws.
Remember that in 2020, under the cover of COVID-19, Democrat legal teams got state laws altered to institutionalize early and mail-in voting in key states. Those changes reduced our once iconic Election Day into a mere construct when only 30 percent of voters cast their ballots.
So, former October surprises — both the embarrassing disclosures and the use of incumbency to warp the election — are now becoming earlier and more frequent preemptive “September” shocks.
Suddenly, the Federal Reserve Bank, just 50 days before the election, decided that interest rates that spiraled under Biden-Harris in reaction to their hyperinflation right now need to be slashed — as supposed proof that the Biden-Harris inflation is now over and the economy needs a sudden revving up.
Just as abruptly, on September 23, just 43 days before Election Day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was flown by the Biden-Harris administration — at U.S. government expense — into the United States.
More amazingly, Zelensky landed first in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, where most observers believe the currently deadlocked election will be decided.
No surprise, Zelensky immediately toured a Pennsylvania munitions plant making artillery shells likely destined for his Ukraine — at a time when the state’s voters are concerned about job losses.
The Harris-Biden administration was sending the not-so-subtle message that providing billions of dollars in arms to Zelensky’s Ukraine translates into jobs for voting Pennsylvanians.
But that was not all to this crass September surprise.
In an interview with the left-wing pro-Biden-Harris New Yorker magazine, Zelensky plunged right into the current neck-and-neck presidential race. He trashed Harris’s rival former President Donald Trump as someone who “doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.”
Not satisfied with that putdown, the Ukrainian president hit even harder Trump’s running mate and vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, as “dangerous” and “too radical.”
The left still talks nonstop about nonexistent 2016 Trump-Russia “collusion” and equally bogus 2020 Trump-Russian “disinformation.”
Yet it would be hard to define any clearer “election interference” than the current Zelensky surprise.
After all, has any vice president incumbent running for president ever flown in a foreign leader on a U.S. military jet to the one key U.S. state that will likely decide the impending election?
And furthermore, has any paraded him around that state’s weapons export plant while he trashed current Vice President Kamala Harris’s two opponents with invectives like “dangerous” and “radical?”
And why else was Zelensky’s Pennsylvania trip arranged by the Biden-Harris administration but to coincide with the traditional dates that mail-in and early-voting balloting start?
Yet were the Zelensky sudden Pennsylvania drop-in and his crude domestic politicking and trashing of Trump and Vance all that wise?
After all, Harris’s opponent Trump had just escaped an assassination attempt from a pro-Ukrainian gunman — furious over Trump’s purported preference for a negotiated settlement to the 30-month-long, one-million-casualties war?
Add it all up, and sometimes September surprises backfire — when they appear to voters as crude and insulting rather than just plotting.
Harris can ride her Broom on Halloween escorted by her Flying Monkeys
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My prediction for the October Surprise:
Secret Service agents “accidentally” shoot both Trump and Vance multiple times in the head, and then say “Oops”.
Biden and Harris issue statements condemning “all political violence”.
The media “explain” how Trump and Vance “brought this on themselves”.
The Republicans nominate Mitt Romney, who immediately gives an eloquent concession speech.
Conservatives do nothing.
fsy- I’d like to make a small change to your last statement. “Conservatives do nothing.” Conservative
Senators and Congressmen do nothing!
your satire – if that is what this is intended – was not well received –
Morbid satire that it is, I upvoted it for a simple reason . . .
That once absurd scenario, has surreally become plausible.
Afterall, the deep state put Trump in a kill box, and allowed Crooks the opportunity to fire.
Hopefully this cabal of scheming leftists will fail, but as they’ve demonstrated, it won’t be for lack of trying.
(You should’ve rather said “Republicans do nothing”, as Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, & company have shown a habit of just that sort of thing. I assure you that conservatives will indeed do something if that scenario were to happen.)
Democrats play Chess thinking twenty move ahead. They learned well from the Soviet Propaganda Machine. Republicans play Checkers.
Democrats are always playing offense, scoring all the points. Republicans are always on Defense and they actually steal the ball and are ready for an easy two-point layup, the referee jumps in and steals the ball from them. The Republicans scream… the referee and the Democrats LAUGH!
VDH described what I call The Democrat’s Campaign agenda: “BRIBE$4VOTES PROGRAM!” “FREE FREE FREE BUT YOU MUST VOTE FOR ME!”
During Kamala’s debate, she was promising $$$ for this, $$$ for that. She even copied Hillary by offering $6000 for newborns… funny then that she supports ABORTING THEM using the $500 million in government money given to Planned Parenthood.
OPEC, now charging $80 plus per barrel, BUT SUDDENLY, gas prices are lower??? In NM we say, “COMO?” For the first time in years, gas is below $3… lowest so far $2.67…. THIS MEANS A CONSPIRACY AMONGST THE OIL COMPANIES TO HELP KAMALA AND DEMOCRATS! If she wins, LOOK OUT! “We have to make gas more expensive to force people to buy EVs! $10 sounds like a good round number. A few hundred to fill-up should convince them!”
In the meantime, eggs $4, bread $5, coffee up $2-4, many don’t care since they get FREE FREE FREE EBT! (When are the protests demanding more EBT to offset inflation. Recall the one lady that was getting $875 per month, and they lowered it to $825 and she complained???)
DO REPUBLICANS EVER HAVE THEIR OWN OCTOBER SURPRISE? “CHECKERS ANYONE?”
Most grocery items have increased by 100% since the covidiocy landed. but EBT monthly has only increased by 50%. thus the card does not put as much into the shopping cart as it did back in late ’19. Meanwhile, average monthly takehome has increased by about the same 50% as the EBT cards now provide. Fuel has at least doubled, Electricity has nearly doubled, tyres and motor oil as well I work as a mechanic and have watched my wholesale prices on parts nearly double in the past four years, too. Yeserday I bought a twenty dollar bearing from my supplier for forty bucks, my cost. In 2014 that same bearing cos me 13.
Four Year’s on Giggling’s Island – Cackling Kamalalala a witch whore of Babylon is hoping to poop on as many who vote for her as she flees over on her deep state broom with that witch’s cackle –
Pure evil in intent and execution – the machinations of evil are not over and when President Trump wins, the main sleaze media fake news will continue to be the propaganda lies and censorship of the truth
Gigglin’s Island
Maybe the Union bozos who are pushing this shut-down of this critical supply chain node get a wake-up call.
There’s gonna be a lot of “good-ol’ boys” digging bodies and livelihoods out of Helene’s muddy disaster… and knowing that re-supply and building materials are not going to be arriving anytime soon.
American citizens aren’t gonna look too kindly on those Union cry-babies. Remember, Biden’s said he hates “Taft-Hartley” and will not intervene in this “clear and present danger to the national security of the US”
That union leader reminds me of a troll under a bridge. He exists for one reason, to extort. I hope the American people understand what he was saying when he stated he will shut it all down unless he and his fellow cry-babies get what they want. It’s hard to tell who’s worse, the dock workers or the teacher’s unions. Neither are pro-American.
October Surprise
The greatest boost to the Harris campaign will be the October surprise of President Biden resigning, making President Harris the incumbent.
Oh I have seen hat one coming for six months or more. But I still hope Cackles will continue proving herself the fool she is with enough success she will throw he election to the One Guy with his head on sraight.
We can only hope her term ends in January if that happens. Hopefully, then, she will take her wife back to San Fran where they both fade into oblivion.
The Ukrainian ambassador the the United States should be investigated. Why did she do this to Zelensky? Who told her to do this? Was she promised something? Is she sending bad advice to Zelensky that is hurting Ukraine? Zelensky really is not a well trained politician and may not realize what is happening. He concentrates on helping his Country, but does not knot know the subtleties of US politics. In fact, I have talked to a number of Ukrainians in this Country and they don’t understand what he did was a mistake. Democrats are very clever in their evil machinations.
Zelensky here, so brash.
He needs money for the war. The “bad advice” he probably got was Harris is a shoe-in. I have great sympathy for the people of Ukraine but I think Zelenskyyyy is a naïve tool being used by the Dems and their war machine backers. (Then, of course, we can’t forget about the corruptocrats that make up the Ukraine government. Brothers in arms, if you will, with the Dem party.)
Nov 5, 2024: “Hey, they stopped beating us on the head with hammers! Let’s vote for the Dems. They’re nice now.
Jan 20, 2025: “Hey they’re beating us on the head with hammers again! What did we do wrong?
BEWARE OF HILLARY- she is standing in the wings of power and so- far nothing can stop her. Kamala- you had better watch your back- guarantee the power bosses of the Communist-Democrat party are looking at the results of their “coup” to get of Biden and are now realizing that Kamala was just as bad as “good old Joe” – You can spend billions on a new ‘DOG FOOD” BUT IF THE DOGS DO NOT LIKE IT- IT WILL NOT SELL- same with Kamala. the Left will plan another coup and get rid of the “bad dog food” and replace it with the new and improved HILLARY – They will transfer all the fake votes for Kamala/Harris to her and she is within striking distance of her life-long dream of dictatorial power of the universe- SHE IS EVIL AND THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS-