It won’t surprise me if they get this price, or more

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Newly listed, 3 Bennett Street is priced at $3.850 million. Bennet is a small dead end south of the Village, this house has been recently renovated, and it sits on 0.4-acres, which, in this part of town, passes for an over-sized lot. With no inventory to choose from, buyers who want to live down here are going to have to pay a premium to do so, and I have no doubt that there’s at least one of them out there who’s willing to do so.

Amusing headline, but also an interesting look at Kampalla's handler's marketing program from a public relations pro

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They Did Nazi It Coming: How Comparing Trump to Hitler Cost Kamala the Election

I’d say it was more one of a thousand cuts that, combined, killed her campaign, but allowing for the author’s bit of hyperbole (leave it to a PR guy to think that his industry controls the world) he makes a valid point.

Of all the Harris-Walz team’s boneheaded, braindead decisions, riding with the Fuhrer until the bitter end was nummer eins. Throughout the entire presidential campaign, their primary PR message was “Trump is Hitler,” and they did everything possible to tie the Right to the Reich. They were relentless and unyielding.

It was also PR malpractice.

Look, if you honestly, truly believe a candidate is Adolf Hitler, you’re not going to vote for him. Of all the constituencies Harris-Walz didn’t have to fight tooth and nail for, it was the “Trump is Hitler” true believers! They were going to vote for Kamala Harris anyway, irrespective of ANYTHING she said or did.

Why? You guessed it: Because “Trump is Hitler.”

It’s PR malpractice to squander resources on captured demos, especially when you’re trailing badly elsewhere!

For crying out loud, it’s 2024. Trump has “literally been Hitler” since 2016. We’ve all heard it ad nauseum. For the life of me, I don’t understand why the Democrats assumed voters who were unconvinced the first 50 gazillion times would change their mind after 50 gazillion and one.

They would’ve been better served by lighting their money on fire. They wasted so much time and energy.

But it also cost them something else — and in doing so, it (at least partially) cost the Democrats the entire election.

… [T] hink about the average, run-of-the-mill American who heard yet ANOTHER pitch from the Democrats about “Trump is Hitler.”

Do they pay attention? Did it move them?

Or did the Democrats “train” them to ignore whatever they say next because they’re unserious, dishonest, and unworthy of their time? 

To any level-headed American, comparing someone to Hitler is the lowest of the low. He’s the ugliest, most loathsome monstrosity of the modern age — the architect of the Holocaust and a genocidal Nazi warmonger. It’s not a trivial allegation. 

If you’re gonna call someone Hitler, you better bring the receipts!

And once again, the year is 2024. The American people have a pretty good feel for who Donald Trump is — and who he isn’t — by now. They know his strengths, weaknesses, silliness, and eccentricities. They know sometimes (to quote Joe Rogan) he says “crazy s**t.”

But they also know he’s NOT Adolf Hitler!

That was the hidden cost of the Democrats’ “Trump is Hitler” PR campaign. It wasn’t just time and money they lost. It also cost them their credibility. 

And it made the American people ignore everything else they had to say.

In retrospect, it’s actually kind of impressive: The Democrats couldn’t even get calling someone Hitler right! Even THAT backfired. 

Now that takes talent!

Trump: "I can call spirit squirrels from the vasty deep." Kampalla: "Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?"

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P’Nut’s revenge

In this case, yes. (Thanks, Burning Man, for the tip)

Sad

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PALM BEACH, FL — The day after scoring a sweeping win to retake the White House, President-Elect Donald Trump stunned the American people and proved true what so many had tried to warn about by sporting a new mustache for his victory speech.

The facial hairstyle, which evoked comparisons to a prominent European leader from the 1930s as well as silent film star Charlie Chaplin, was a drastic change from the traditionally clean-shaven Trump -- a clear indication that America should expect the worst.

"Don't say we didn't warn you about this," said one despondent journalist. "We've been telling everyone for the last decade that this guy was literally Hitler. Did anyone listen? No! Now look at him. You see that little mustache? He means business. I suggest we all accept reality and start packing for our trips to the concentration camps. Goodbye, America. Hello, Hitler Part 2."

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At publishing time, Trump's campaign had also unveiled new red armbands to be worn by all of his supporters.

Maybe it's unwise to trust the predictions of a rabid, Trump-hating necromancer

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the chicken entrails have betrayed me

Moment ‘polling Nostradamus’ who predicted Kamala Harris would win election realizes he was wrong

Despite recent polls giving former President Donald Trump an edge in the 2024 presidential election, American University professor Dr. Allan Lichtman is standing by his prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris will come out on top.

Lichtman, 77, has been dubbed by some the election “Nostradamus” due to his track record of predicting nine of the past 10 presidential contests. In September, he went all in on a Democratic win.

“Nothing has changed to change my prediction that I made on September 5, deliberately before the supposed ‘pivotal’ Trump-Harris debate — according to the pundits — which proved to be pivotal not one bit, if you believe the polls,” Lichtman explained during a livestream Tuesday.

The prof revealed that he’s since been peppered with questions about whether he intends to switch his prediction in light of polls showing Trump edging in front of Harris in swing states.

The RealClearPolitics average of polls showed Trump, 78, leading Harris, 60, by 0.4% nationwide as of noon Wednesday, all but ensuring a Republican Electoral College victory if it comes to pass.

“This is the first moment of the night where I’ve lost hope a little bit,” Sam Lichtman said as media outlets called Pennsylvania for Trump.

The elder Lichtman rubbed his eyes, visibly frustrated by the data, and said: “Good thing I have nothing to do tomorrow. And I’m not doing any interviews.”

Lichtman, an American University professor widely known as the “Nostradamus” of US presidential elections, put his money on the VP this year despite polling data hinting another Trump presidency was in the cards.

The prof is the co-creator of the “Keys to the White House” metric, which entails 13 categories assessing the prospects of the two major-party candidates. This year, according to Lichtman, Harris had the edge in eight of those metrics, compared to Trump’s three.

As the livestream neared its end, with both Lichtmans growing noticeably frustrated by the numbers showing Trump ahead in all seven swing states, Allan Lichtman said there was “nothing positive” for Harris in the data.

“Oh, the democracy’s gone,” a defeated-sounding Lichtman said. “Once democracy’s gone, it’s almost impossible to recover. The way to recover is by the dictators losing wars.”

“It’s unfathomable,” Lichtman concluded the stream.

Out:

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In (if you’re a Republican): court-packing — pick ‘em young and healthy, protect the country for the next 40 years.

Robert Shibley:

WE STILL ON FOR THE COURT-PACKING? Sure, a good economy would be nice, but what I am really looking forward to is 6 new conservative justices for some solid 12-3 decisions on the Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment.