Bernie's New Book, Bob Good v. John McGuire, and Youngkin doing well in MAGA poll.

Prince, BJ Thomas + Guns and Roses - theme RAIN!

Virginia FREE Friday at 4pm today with 2021 Pollster of the Year Amanda Iovino breaking down recent NYTimes/Siena poll on Swing States and BONUS BREAKDOWN on Republican nomination in VA 5th CD between Bob Good and John McGuire.

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Before we jump into it all - check out John Fredericks’ new poll out on the Republican VP nomination.

Governor Glenn Youngkin is featured and doing well. Note - this is not a scientific poll, but for Fredericks, who was Trump before Trump and remains close to the Trump operation, to include Youngkin at all is telling. That Youngkin could be doing well among the MAGA crowd is even more telling.

On with the countdown…

This week I bought multimillionaire socialist Bernie Sanders’s new book called It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. $30 a pop, but I saved money and downloaded it to my Kindle. #FreeEnterprise

I thought, let’s see what America’s favorite socialist/Democratic transformer curmudgeon is thinking these days.

Turns out, not much.

It’s mainly a recitation of the 2020 Democratic nomination for President with an uninteresting update of his unending grievances about America and our economic system.

To his credit, $anders has rebranded capitalism as “uber-capitalism” this time around.

Not that we don’t have our faults and shouldn’t be working towards that “more perfect union…” but when one learns of Bernie’s wealth and how he made it in this 2019 piece from Politico The Secret of Bernie’s Millions How did he amass three houses and a net worth approaching at least $2 million? The surprisingly conventional middle-class climbing of a radical-sounding socialist. One might consider offering him a rebrand from socialist curmudgeon to uber-hypocrite.

Yesterday, I had two Uber drivers take me to and from airports on the way to a wedding here in Houston. (WOW - what a storm last night!!)

Those Uber drivers, Berhan and Dickson, have a much different view of America than Bernie.

Berhan is from Ethiopia and has been in America for 10 years while Dickson escaped recently from that socialist workers’ paradise called Venezuela.

They agree with almost every Uber driver I have had over the last year - America is about opportunity. They have come to America primarily for their children’s futures and they boil it all down to economic and educational opportunity.

Guess what else?

They LOVE IT HERE!

More on Sanders’s book later, but I think his economic grievances date back to Walter O’Malley moving Bernie’s beloved Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles.

That whole pesky marketplace thingy..

Speaking of the market, a yuge majority of Americans are in it to win it.

Gallup Poll - What Percentage of Americans Own Stock?

Broken down by subgroups:

In other news:

Fox Business Video - Generac CEO: Single ChatGPT request takes 17 times more energy than a Google search

Data point from interview - Data centers will add power demand to American grid equivalent to that of 40 MILLION homes in the next FIVE years.

Ruy Teixeira of the Liberal Patriot - The Working Class-Sized Hole in Democratic Support Widens This is a big, big problem.

Jonah Goldberg on Freedom Works closing - The Tea Party Movement Died With a Whimper It turns out many who rode the wave of principled libertarianism were neither.

Madeleine Rowley of The Free Press - Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis Federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs—and their top executives.

Alex Thompson of Axios - Psaki's new book falsely recounts Biden's watch check in troop ceremony

Oren Case in The Financial Times - It’s conservatives that should be storming the ivory tower Universities depend on taxpayer money to survive, and they are wasting those funds

Scott Winship of AEI - Understanding Trends in Worker Pay over the Past 50 Years

Polling Update:

Rain Videos:

How was the storm last night here in Houston? NOT like this golden oldie:

or these two