The Realignment - 8/27/2024

Today's blog post is primarily directed at my Democratic Party friends, if I still have any. Please read it with as much an open mind as you can. I guess what I have to say is also a message for some of my friends on the right, too, but I say it's for you on the left because it's you I see going off the rails. Way off the rails.

Before I go further, let me make this simple statement: we all, left, right, and center, tend to see ourselves as positioned in the righteous center of the political spectrum. Where we all are individually seems to each of us to be justified, normal, correct. We see people to our left and to our right, but in our own minds, at least we know we've got it right, and we're reasonably, logically, and morally justified positioned right where we're at. That probably is true for everyone reading this, no matter your politics.

About 10 years ago, I was talking a liberal Democrat friend of mine, someone whose intelligence and heart are both extraordinary and whom I hold in the highest respect and affection. I casually told him I saw myself as a moderate, and he quickly corrected that I am actually very conservative. At first I was quite taken back. I didn't take him on in debate, but his comment did shake me a little and made me think. I always saw myself as reasonable. On taxes, military, abortion, immigration, death penalty, and other issues, I felt I was moderate and not extreme at all. As I reflected on his words, though, I realized he was right. It wasn't that my views on life and political issues had changed much in the preceding 20 or so years. It was because there had been a significant shift the sands of pubic opinion leftward, leaving me further to the right of the center of the spectrum than I had been, even though I hadn't moved at all.

Not too long afterward one by one I saw the left going further and further leftward on issue after issue. The leftward lurch was accelerating. I saw that in the age of Trump, Trump's personality was used as a springboard by the left to get their portion of the electorate to abandon moderation and veer left. The biggest example I can think of as I type, I know there are others, is immigration. Democrats sat back and allowed a globalist, anti-American wave of unmanaged, uncontrolled, harmful immigration overwhelm our border cities and spread. Human trafficking, fentanyl, and violent criminals were waved in like the bull in a bullfight, passing the matador's red cloth, full speed and passing unharmed. Hatred of Trump was very cleverly posited as the counterpoint. To agree with Trump is to be a racist and a xenophobe. This kind of thing happened on issue after issue, each lurch left justified by pointing at Trump and knowing how bad the orange man really is.

A relentless leftward shift continued and continues. It is dangerous for our country.

Elon Musk, Bill Ackmann, both billionaire Democrats, have finally said enough is enough. The move to the left has become a bridge too far, and have come out in favor of Trump. 

The Democratic Party has been ruthless and unscrupulous in it's march to power and control. They have sought and agressively employed every legal means imaginable in ways we've not before seen. They've gone after Trump on absolute bullshit that's NEVER been done before in our history. We've all known this, but it was when Bobby Kennedy Jr. talked last Friday about what they did to him that I realized what is going on is bigger than Trump. Bigger and worse in every way. Democrat operatives have tried every single thing they can to get Trump, Kennedy, and Jill Stein off of ballots to clear a path for a Democratic Party win in November. Democrat legal action has cost Kennedy over $10 million. Most Democrats (and I do mean YOU, reading this) have been willfully blind, even supportive, to these malicious and evil efforts to undermine democracy. You've watched as an old man with dementia (you knew it, DO NOT LIE) was propped up as a capable leader, all the while our country run by an invisible, unnamed, unelected, insatiably power hungry cabal.

Yesterday, another Democrat, former Congressperson Tulsi Gabbard, a National Guard Lieutenant Colonel, endorsed Trump at a National Guard Association event. Like Kennedy, Musk, Ackman, and a few others, she sees what I do: that the Democratic Party has moved so far left that the center was nearly abandoned. Except it wasn't. All four of the aforementioned recognize something that your television propagandists aren't telling you: Donald Trump is NOT a far right conservative. I really don't care that Joe Biden called us over and over "far right MAGA extremists". It's a lie. Trump supporters may appear to be far to the right, but only because you've been led so far to the left that you need binoculars to see the middle. I have come to believe that Democrats literally hate our country and hate the U.S. Constitution. Do you or don't you? How about that Democrat Primary though? You voted for Kamala, right?

How much is Trump in the middle? The GOP establishment is up in arms, calling him a Democrat and bemoaning his abandonment of traditional right wing positions on abortion, for example, where he is far from an absolutist, instead supporting something pretty reasonable. On issue after issue, he is nowhere near as far right as the media and Democrat machine would have you think. He has moved to the middle for two reasons, in my opinion: 1) Because that is his natural political inclination. He is not a staunch conservative, but a moderate. Let's not forget, he was a New York Democrat. His sin was taking on Hillary Clinton. Let there be no doubt, He's not far right. 2) The second reason he has shifted to the center is because he sees the void in the middle left by the giant Democratic move to the left. Millions and millions of voters in the middle have been left abandoned by the Democrats. These people aren't conservatives, but Trump is appealing to them not with conservatism, but with pragmatism: strong military and no wars. A strong economy that helps everyone, no matter what color, religion, or place of residence.

Elon Musk, Bill Ackmann, RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard aren't far right extremists. They're Democrats who woke up to see how far off the rails the Democratic Party has gone, not just in it's political positions, but also in it's undemocratic, unacceptable, extraordinary efforts to seize and maintain power. Why are you pretending to be blind to all that? Blind to Biden's dementia. Blind to how your nominee was installed WITHOUT giving YOU, the Democrat voters, a say. Blind to how insane, immoral, and dangerous the legal challenges to Trump have been. Blind to how badly propagandized your sources of information have become. You may as well call them Pravda. Blind to what it is Musk, Ackman, Kennedy, and Gabbard see.

The times they are a changin'. I do recognize that the entire spectrum has shifted to the left. I can live with something in the middle or just right of the middle. Democrats, help me to understand... how in the hell did you get so far out there, and how the hell do you ever walk it back? Kamala Harris' voting record in the Senate was to the left of Bernie Sanders. It was. As a Presidential candidate in 2020, then Senator Harris advocated for every far left position on every issue. Now she cleverly won't say what her positions are. There are unnamed whisperers saying what it is they think the electorate wants to hear, but Harris has NOT come out and made plain what her vision of our country is. Maybe I shouldn't care, but I do. If she's elected, the same power hungry, unelected cabal that operates the Biden Administration in his cognitive absence, will pull Kamala'a strings, too. We are headed toward globalist, authoritarianism in which the government presumes to know what's in my best interest and in yours, our opinions, dreams, and goals be damned.

It's time, Democrats. It's time to move back away from the far left ledge. Take it upon yourself to learn why Elon Musk, Bill Ackmann, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard have abandoned your party. It's time. Find out what Trump's position is on your most important 10 issues. Are you really that far off the charts to the left? Maybe, just maybe there was more "orange man bad" than actual analysis of the issues that has driven your support of the extreme leftward lurch. And you, Republicans conservatives: I know Trump isn't the conservative stalwart you were hoping for. He's not. But the pendulum has swung way, way left. How in the hell can you stay on the sidelines and watch the Democrats take us to God knows where? It's a binary choice. Wake up.

By the way, I think the root cause of the Democrat leftward lurch is intersectionality, but that is another complicated story I may or may not write about on another day.

Observations From the Weekend - 8/26/2024

Afterward I'll tie the two together, but before I get to the invisible and 'retired on active duty' President currently in office, Joe Biden, I want to comment on an exchange I saw between Jonathan Karl of ABC and Republican Senator Tom Cotten yesterday. Interestingly, depending what news outlet you learn about the exchange on, if you don't watch it for yourself you could come away with a highly inaccurate description of same. I watched it.

Sen. Tom Cotten was on ABC's This Week with Harris propagandist Jonathan Karl yesterday.

Cotton pointed out a series of policy proposals Vice President Harris made as a Senator and as a Presidential candidate in the 2020 race. One of those was a call for the abolishment of private health insurance in favor of Medicare for all. Karl rebutted Cotten's assertion, saying Harris has changed her position on the issue within the context of this 2024 Presidential campaign, to which Cotten responded, correctly, 'no she hasn't'. Karl was insistent and Cotten said (paraphrasing) 'leaks or whispers by aides, lacking a clear statement from Harris herself, is NOT a change in her position on the issue' (or any other issue!).

What we have is a stealth candidate who speaks in slogans, clichés, and generalities. She doesn't give policy proposals, offering instead generalities and a complete and an intentional lack of specificity. Democrat voters are OK with that. They know she's far, far left. Far, far, far left. That's ok, because most of my Democrat friends pretend to be fairly moderate, but when push comes to shove, they're onboard with the far left agenda. They're fine with aides whispering and Harris remaining silent because they don't really care, and they know the aides are far lefties like them, so cool, let the unnamed, anonymous aides run the country. They really don't care at all to find out if this woman can do the job, because they're voting for the same cabal who are running the country now, just to keep on keeping on as they do with an incapacitated President laying on the beech, hiding from his duties.

Our figurehead in chief.

So, that's brung me to my second point. I saw a post on X by Miranda Devine yesterday, that President (in name only, he's only a figurehead now) Biden was leaving his vacation in California, which started immediately after his speech at the DNC Convention last Monday, for 9 more vacation days, this time at the beach in Delaware. Our president is absent. Yes, he's absent minded, but that's NOT what I'm referring to. What I'm referring to is his schedule and work. We already knew he was on a much reduced workday, remember the 10-4 leak? I contend he is barely working at all at this point. It would be interesting to know how many actual work days he has spent in the Oval Office since his dementia was exposed to the willfully blind on June 27th. That was two months ago, and I betcha he hasn't been in the office 10 times. I'm being generous, very, very generous, by saying 10.

Who the fuck is really in charge? And why in the hell are my Democrat friends okay with Harris not talking, and Biden not working? What the fuck is wrong with them?

There is an unnamed and unelected cabal running the United States right now. Our President is just a White House resident, but behind the scenes he's powerless and useless. The cabal who run the show now have installed, absolutely and totally undemocratically, but to the joy of Democrats, Kamala Harris, the sitting Vice President, as his heir. She doesn't talk to the press in any meaningful way. I heard at least two Democrat strategists this past weekend on Democrat propaganda TV networks advocate that she NOT talk policy and proposals, as doing so might reduce her chances in November. That was kind of shocking to me, they said the quiet part out loud. But I do agree, if she spoke of her policy proposals, some of them would be so bad, even lefties might be shocked, but more importantly, her inability to explain her proposals substantively in the face of even friendly scrutiny would expose her incompetence and lack of fitness for the job.

Fitness for the job? Okay, I admit it. They don't care at all about that. They trust the unelected cabal. They want the unelected cabal to remain in power. As long as they continue to choose to get their news from ABC and the likes of Jonathan Karl, and from MSNBC and the likes of Morning Joe ("This is the BEST Joe Biden EVER!") there is NO CHANCE at all they will think for themselves and look critically at the shambled Biden Presidency and virtual Harris candidacy. Kamala Harris' lack of specific policies allows them to fantasize about every and any lefty wish list items and presume Saint Kamala and the invisible gods she serves will surely deliver them: the whole kit and caboodle.

On the plus side, after pulling the plug on Joe and installing Kamala without any votes, they're done with the "threat to democracy" nonsense. At least the Orange Man is still bad!

The Robert Kennedy Jr. Announcement - 8/24/2024

I don't shock easily. I've seen a lot since I became interested in politics since the early 1990's. Before that I didn't pay too much attention. I had voted, but I was preoccupied with day to day life. Rush Limbaugh, RIP, is largely responsible for changing that. I started listening to him, and as a follow on to other conservative talk shows, That was in the 1990 time frame. As I said, I've seen a lot, but I ain't never seen no shit like the shit we got going on now!

Yesterday, RFK Jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump.

Yesterday I saw something the likes of which I don't remember. A member of one of the most iconic Democratic Party families of the 1900's, Robert Kennedy Jr. yesterday gave a speech I found more compelling and powerful than anything I remember hearing since I first got interested in politics. I'll simply refer to him as RFKJ for simplicity sake.

I had no idea how unscrupulous the Democratic Party had been in fucking RFKJ over. They did everything they could to screw him and insure installing senile puppet Joe Biden as nominee. There was no democratic process. They took to the courts to thwart his candidacy at every turn. There is and was nothing righteous or good about what they did. It was pure power politics being used to crush opposition and dissent. When they weren't in he courts to thwart him, they were colluding with social media to silence him. The Democrats showed themselves to be the evil, ruthless, power hungry monsters with RFKJ that we already knew they are with how they treated Trump.

Keith Olbermann, via X: "To my old friend Robert Kennedy Jr: you're a fucking anti-American disaster."

Lemme tell you what's anti-American, Keith, you prick:

Spying on the political opposition, using every tool the U.S. governmental intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses have at their disposal to undermine and thwart his candidacy and the execution of his Presidency.

Cheating on elections is un-democratic and un-American.

Bogus impeachments, bulldozing attorney client and executive privilege to destroy your political opposition is un-American.

51 Intelligence and law enforcers of the U.S. Government brazenly lying about a laptop they feared would hinder the election of their favored candidate. Their jointly signed letter had all the hallmarks of anti-American treason.

Knowing the Iranians were and are plotting to assassinate an ex-President and presumed Presidential nominee of the opposition party and having absolutely lax security, to the point of either criminal negligence or something much worse. I fear it was something worse.

Using extreme partisan prosecutors, judges, and juries to try to bankrupt and jail the opposition party candidate during the election year.

Covering up the fact that the President of the United States has advanced and advancing dementia in the interest of retaining power. He is barely function, a puppet in every way. Who is the puppeteer in charge? Some un-elected oligarch, that's who.

Suing and challenging any and every effort by a prominently named Democrat who sought the nomination through legitimate democratic processes is anti-American.

Removing the failing President from the race, not because of his dementia, but because they were afraid he would lose. In doing so, the votes of almost 15,000,000 Democrats were invalidated without their consent. It was un-democratic and un-American.

Installing an incompetent and under-qualified Vice President as nominee without giving voters a voice is undemocratic and un-American, too. She got zero votes as President. Zero. She gave no press conferences. She participated in no debates. She gave no in depth television or other interviews. She has no stated policies of her own. What has she got? Just "joy". Well, not just joy. She also has the full power of the corrupt Washington and DNC machine doing its best to stay in power by installing her as their new puppet.

Keith Olbermann can fuck all the way off with his use of anti-American. I know what anti-American is. I've been watching it play out day after day after day in this country for over 8 years.

RFKJ is a hero. At a point in time and history when almost anyone else would have waved a white flag of surrender, he instead waved a middle finger of defiance. In retaliation, I fully anticipate the evil powers in D.C. will come at him legally, and an assassination attempt will not surprise me. We are dealing with absolutely evil people here. 

I also expect another attempt will be made to kill Donald Trump. Sadly, my Democratic Party friends and neighbors SUPPORT these efforts to quash RFKJ and Trump. Yeah, you do. You might not admit it, but you do. You haven't, won't, and don't speak out against obvious corruption and malfeasance, and you will vote to keep a corrupt, evil machine in power. Your silence is a full-throated and absolute endorsement.

I'm linking RFKJ's speech here. It is worth watching.

RFKJ Withdrawal and Endorsement

 

The Gay Wedding Ring Thing - 8/22/2024

Michigan Attorney General, Dana Nessel, at the DNC Convention: “They are going to have to pry this wedding ring from my cold dead gay hands.”

Michigan A.G. Dana Nessel

Spoiler: I don't think the GOP cares who she married, and nobody is making an issue of it except Dana herself.

Rant: I am sick and tired of being portrayed, because I'm conservative, as some kind of bigot. I'm fucking tired of it. "Racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, zenophobe," you know the list, the infamous Hillary list. I can't prove I'm not any of those things, including that I'm not an anti-gay bigot.

Here's the rub: I don't have to prove to Dana, to you, or to anyone else that I'm not an anti-gay bigot. If you suspect I'm an anti-gay bigot because I will vote for Trump or for any other reason, you have two choices: first, you can come to me as a friend and express your concerns about what you perceive to be my bigotry. Tell me what I've said or done that makes you think I am. But there is one condition if you're choosing option one. You have to be open minded and listen to my response to your concern. Or, if you think because I'm conservative and Republican I'm an anti-gay bigot, but you DON'T want to talk to me about your concerns, there's always option two. Option two is a lot simpler: go fuck yourself and stay the fuck out of my life, because you are an evil, judgemental piece of shit.

I'm sick of liberal Democrats making these kinds of blanket accusations and judgements. Look, Dana... I don't know why you think anyone wants to pry your wedding ring off. Until now, I didn't even know who you are. Now I do. You're an asshole liar, and in your zeal to see a Democrat elected you are making your obsession with your own sexuality somehow a national issue when the truth is nobody cares. And to do this you take the liberty of painting me and a lot of people like me as anti-gay bigots. Dana, you go straight to option two, because even though I really don't care who you sleep with go fuck yourself.

DNC Convention Ironies - 8/21/2024

While the DNC Convention goes on inside the United Center, speakers, notably Joe Biden, retell ad infinitum the "good people on both sides" hoax. I don't need to, nor shall I re-litigate the hoax here. If you are a Democrat and have been stupid enough not to look beyond your favorite echo chamber's reporting, nothing I can say here will help you. Let me point out the irony... Just outside the United Center are a bunch of racist, anti-Semitic Jew hating Democrats, who would more quickly participate in a second holocaust than to admit the Charlottesville "good people" thing was a hoax. (I'm betting they don't accept that "Russia collusion" was a Clinton funded hoax, either. Why? Because they're sheep who don't think for themselves. Just very stupid, very hateful, very anti-Semitic, obedient people.)

I wonder how many "good people on both sides" hoaxters there are amongst the DNC anti-emites.

The other irony is that Vice President Harris has to run against the Biden / Harris economic record. It's damned near impossible, seeing as she's the Harris in Biden / Harris. They need to separate her from their record. Just today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics corrected the Biden Administration's job creation numbers downward by 800,000+ jobs. This is the largest correction in 15 years. It's not great news. It doesn't bode well for Harris and commie lover and valor stealer Walz to run on the economy. Just like being the border czar who purportedly had nothing to do with the border, she's the Vice President who also had nothing to do with the Administrations economic record. Do you know what they'll do?

They'll ignore her record, placate and pander to the anti-Semites, and run against racist Trump on the basis of the "good people on both sides" hoax. The irony in it will be lost on them just as easily as they've lost touch with the truth.

Election Law Changes I Could Support - 8/20/2024-2

I recognize the U.S. Constitution may make some of the following impossible, but if the law allowed and I could have my whole wish list, here are some things I would wish for:

1. Establish a national voter registration system, where each voter has a unique ID (maybe tied to SSM) which somehow would flag as ineligible voters who try to register in more than one state or jurisdiction.

2. Proof of U.S. citizenship required to register to vote, each voter issued a National Photo Voter ID with their voter ID number at no charge to the voter.

3. National Voter PHOTO ID required to vote. National Voter ID automatically deactivated upon report of death to the Social Security Administration.

4. A requirement that every state, territory, and Washington D.C. will clean voter rolls every 4 years in the 6-12 months prior to US general election to be completed NO LATER THAN Primary Election voting beginning.

5. Automatic loss of voting privileges for 5 or more years to person or persons convicted of voter fraud, depending on the magnitude of the infraction, as little as 5 years, to loss for life for major election fraudsters.

5. Automatic permanent and swift deportation for foreign nationals convicted of voting where ineligible.

6. Make Election Day an national holiday.

7. Require all mail in ballots to be postmarked no less than 5 full business days before Election Day and to be received no later than poll closure on Election Day. All late received votes, except for those cast by U.S. Diplomat and Military people stationed abroad, shall be considered invalid.

8. Require early voting availability in all states and territories for exactly two weeks, ending on the Sunday immediately preceding Election Day.

9. Early voting and absentee/mail in ballots received by the Sunday immediately preceding Election Day to be counted prior to 6 p.m. on Monday, Election Day eve.

10. No open primaries. To vote in a party's Primary Election, one must be registered as a member of the party.

11. Expand Motor Voter to include easy or automatic registration for every new employment W-4 form completion, military enlistment, Selective Service Draft registration,  property tax payment, passport application, and for Social Security number, Social Security Benefit, and Medicare signup applications. Make it harder to NOT register than to register.

One person, one vote. There's no excuse for us not making our elections more secure.

I Admit, It's Dumb, and It's Genius - 8/20/2024

I saw a post on X this morning that got my attention. Somebody took the tie to count out how many times "Trump" was mentioned, verses some other topics. Here's the tally of mentions (if it's not accurate, my point stands):

Trump:        147

Economy:    27

Border:         8

Crime:          6

Prices:          5

Inflaton:       3

What do I make of it? Simply this: they aren't even going to try to make a case for their leftist, progressive agenda. Not even going to try. Why should they? For them, way easier to run against the evil, mean bastard that is Trump to so many, than to make a case for the intersectional far left, progressive potpourris which defeating Trump will usher in.

Making the election about Trump minimizes the inconvenience of having to explain policy positions.

Forget about how Vice President Harris was installed as nominee. Forget about how much of an empty suit she comes off as every time she tries to articulate anything. Forget how badly she fucked up the only thing she was in charge of as Vice President, the border, which for me is the single biggest issue facing our country. None of that matters to them at all. None. And how me and other conservatives might feel about them matters least of all.

"Let's run against Trump, first, second, last, and foremost. Let's keep to the absolute bare minimum any and all substantive discourse on issues. These can only hurt us, especially with this bad a spokesperson. Instead, bang the Trump drum, morning, noon, night, even in our dreams. That's the ticket!"

Harris: "Hi, my name is NOT Donald Trump!" Crowd: "Hip hip, hooray!!!!"

We're fucked.