I just read in "Freakonomics" that it's not money that wins an election, it's appeal.  People think the candidate that gets the most donation support wins, and there may be a correlation, but it's not the cause.  Actually it's the candidate with the most "appeal".  Well, if that is true, I'm hoping Donald has more appeal than Hillary. As despicable as he can be, he is at least entertaining. Hillary comes off as an ice queen.

On the other hand, there are two things that really worry me. First, the groundwork was set for this sex scandal to hurt Donald. It didn't hurt Bill Clinton because that was years ago, before the onset of the current climate of paradoxical Victorianism.  In today's world of filthy sexual content everywhere you look, the idea that actual men want actual sex is now condemned. Young first time voters know no different. Females in the 18 to twenty-something year old category, have actually bought the idea that males should respect a "bubble" around them, never to cop a feel, and men should see women wear the skimpiest most skin tight revealing clothing without so much as having a sexual thought.  Girls today actually think this way. They are beyond clueless.  And young males buy it hook line and sinker. Because young males want young females, and they will believe anything they think the young females want them to. So you have a whole generation of first time voters who are shocked, shocked I tell you!  at the Donald tape.  I'm not sure Trump can survive this. I think a lot of young voters were considering Trump because they're not so naive as to have completely missed how Hillary is now the entrenched corrupt "establishment" and may have gone to Trump for being an outsider. But they're SO brainwashed about sex - they are the generation raised on "pedobear" hysteria - that this tape has leveraged it to the max, I fear that generation is hopelessly lost. I still feel they dislike Clinton but now may go third party instead. Which incidentally, will be Jill Stein because they're just as brainwashed about climate change being the country's biggest problem.

The second thing is I believe the corrupt Democrat party and Hillary and her cronies will do ANYTHING at this point to hold onto power and we have seen nothing yet. They are going to sink so low, I would not be surprised if they get a woman to flat out make up a rape story about Donald.  Or maybe try to get him assassinated.  At the very least there will be massive voter fraud.  Worst case scenario, they'll cook up a reason for Obama to declare martial law and suspend elections.  I don't want to be too tin foil hat conspiracy theory about it, but I just have a feeling about this. The leftists have been on a long journey from outside to inside, climbing the ladder of power in the U.S. and now that they've attained it, they're not going to let their grip slip for anything. 

So I'm feeling pessimistic right now that Trump, or any non-leftist, will ever again preside over our country.

I listened to that whole thing.  If males DON'T behave like that the human species is done for.  This is entirely 100% normal male homo sapiens sapiens behavior. Trump has nothing to apologize for. Any males shocked are liars or have been so weakened by all the soy in our food supply or other sources of osmotic estrogen dosing (feminism in the media, trying to date today's entitlement brats of young females) that they truly believe this horseshit that men should not talk this way about women.  If anything is natural and evolutionary, this male behavior is. All Trump proved here is he is a virile male, or at least talks like one.

Any females shocked at this are either so young that they've swallowed hook line and sinker today's politically correct climate that all males are pedophiles and potential rapists, or are aged feminists who would like the male gender to be reduced to hobbled sperm donors and bank accounts, nothing more.  Anything hinting of testosterone is contemptible.  THAT is what the reaction to this video is proving: That this society is so anti-male today with the rotten fruits of bitter feminism and the most anti-nature ideology ever cooked up by man (leftism) that any display of normal male ardor can now be weaponized against any male not approved by the elite leftist machine.

My husband is not interested in guns so I told him tonight I was thinking about taking charge of our defense by learning how to shoot.  He said he would feel safer if I didn't.

Interesting. When I decided I wanted to buy a gun and learn how to shoot, it went like this:

Me:  Honey, could I maybe please would it be okay if maybe I bought a handgun and took shooting lessons?

Him: I would love that, I always wanted to buy handguns and go shooting but always assumed you would disapprove and I assumed you wouldn't allow guns in the house.

Me: Where on earth did you get that idea?

Him: Because you never said you wanted to.

Me: That's because I assumed  you wouldn't allow handguns in the house.

Him:  Where on earth did you get that idea?

Me: Because you didn't have any and never said you wanted any.

Him: But that's because I assumed you didn't want me to have them.

Me:  wtf? 

We'd been married 15 years.

I have been thinking about getting a gun.  As a rational, peace-loving optimist, this startles me. However, I am down to only one hesitation.  I have always had the fear that a gun could misfire and blow up in my hand, leaving me dead or without a hand.

Do it!  It's great fun.  I was fearful of guns at first.  I literally jumped with fear from the shots when I first went to the range, and yes, I feared it would "blow up" in my hand.  But you get over that really fast.  Like anything else, like flying an airplane, you need to learn how to do it safely. Yes there is risk, but you manage the risk to minimize it.

I know Rush and her husband.  They are good people.  They are also VERY Smart people.

Oh my gosh, you are a sweetie pie, you made my day!   

In the meantime, to keep themselves safe firearm enthusiasts pay a cost.  There is the cost of the firearm, its ammunition, its upkeep and the time it takes to stay proficient.  That money and time could be used for exercise to stave off cardiovascular illness, which is orders of magnitude more likely to kill you than a firearm.  Those resources could be used for other leisure activities to improve your mental state and lower your blood pressure.  Stress-related diseases and stroke are orders of magnitude more likely to affect you than being shot with a firearm. 

That's actually a very good point with which I agree, if the costs in time and money were comparable, and I were poor enough that I couldn't have both.

Then I would need to weigh the stakes as well as the odds.  Lets say the odds of me dying from a heart attack are very high, lets even say they are 100%, I'll give you that.  If I don't spend money on gym membership and instead become a "gun enthusiast", then the odds are 100% I will die of a heart attack anywhere between age 45 and 90.  Let's say I am a young woman and the odds of me being murdered are very low, but if it does happen, I get to suffer prolonged torture and rape before I die. 

Let's see, what to do?  Just how small would the odds need to be before I'd chance the torture session and losing from 25 to 70 years of my life?  Okay you make a fair point, I'll grant you that there is some number low enough. But I am also going to have to include the odds of me being in a natural disaster where the thugs from the inner city swarm out like cockroaches and loot my neighborhood.  Then you have to add the odds of being in a convenience store when it's robbed, or a bank, or in a mall when the next jihadist goes whacko. And the odds that the neighbor's pack of pit bulls will get loose. And so on.

The odds of any one of these things hurting or killing me is very small, but the cumulative odds of something happening which would make me wish I had a gun, is not so small. Maybe still small, but not infinitesimal, and the stakes of the worst of them are SO very high, that I think on balance I need to take my heart attack. But I don't need to make that choice. I can afford my gun AND get good healthcare, so it's a no brainer.  In this case, why wouldn't I want to be ready to defend myself?

The odds of my home being victim to some sort of armed incursion are laughably small.  And I am not sufficiently stupid to risk my life defending insured property.

It's not the odds, it's the stakes. And it's less about defending insured property than defending your life.  Just a few blocks from my mother's house someone entered the home of an elderly lady and killed her, then took her property. I can list many other stories close to me,  including the young pregnant wife of my coworker, kidnapped, forced to get money from the ATM, then killed and her body dumped over a bridge into a river.  THAT funeral was a heartbreaker. By the way, she was white, they were black, but that doesn't make me hate all blacks or go riot in the streets. It does alert me to the level of hatred from SOME blacks toward whites, but I don't discriminate; I'm equally alert to white threats. My brother was approached alone in a dark parking lot by men (white) who began to flank him with obvious ill intent. He let the breeze blow open his jacket to reveal his pistol, and they stopped, backed off and left.  So you don't even need to USE a gun for it to save you. You don't even need to show it, hell, you don't even need to own one for gun rights to be protecting you. In areas where gun carry is legal your chance of being a victim is greatly reduced.  You're welcome.

I can't tell you the exact odds of my ever needing a gun, but it's simple and easy enough insurance to have. If it ever happens, I am ready, and I will live to enjoy my grandchildren. 

To me, this is the key issue.  What cop is going to bet his life that someone hasn't painted a real gun up to look like a toy?  One obvious solution is (and always has been) for people to recognize that cops get nervous when they see you holding something (ANYTHING) and so don't do that.  Keep your hands visible and follow orders. 

Tim

Also this. Keep your hands visible, immediately drop ANYTHING you're holding, and follow orders. They are making guns now that look like cell phones.