We're Screwed - 6/18/2023

I left the GOP in late 2014 or early 2015. I was absolutely fed up with being misled by Republicans and then once elected, left holding their bag while they capitulated time after time. They compromised with Democrats who never seem to compromise with them. As a result, I began to see Progressivism as meaning slow and steady erosion of conservative values and all things conservative.

I came back to the GOP in 2016 because I felt Trump would actually fight rather than capitulate. I have donated to his campaigns MANY times. By far more than to anyone else in my lifetime. Not even close.

 President Donald Trump

I was shocked by the Deep State, Democrats, media, and GOP’s behavior during Trump’s candidacy, presidency, and still am, to this day. I shouldn't have been shocked, but I admit I was. It was much worse than I imagined. Worse than Trump imagined, too, I bet.

I left the GOP again after 2022 after I saw them in inaction. They’re still not the fighters, or brawlers actually, that we need. They’re wimps. They suck. They’re as bad as Democrats, just bad different.

Trump was rendered largely ineffective in office. Not all his fault. He was. I said it. IDGAF. Not his fault. Crossfire Hurricane. Mueller. Even an impeachment because he dared to ask absolutely legitimate questions about then Vice President Biden's corruption in his dealings with Ukraine.

Even though I have come to believe everything I said in the preceding paragraphs is true, I again donated to Trump after each indictment, the one in NY and the one in FL. I hate the people out to get him, and clearly, they are out to get him at all costs. This starts at the top, from Biden and Garland. No amount of professing innocence and uninvolvement can convince me otherwise.

I support DeSantis (I live in FL) in 2024. I will vote for Trump if he is the nominee.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

I believe if elected, Trump will again be ineffective. Nothing has changed with the Deep State, Democrats, media, and much of the GOP. They will collectively undermine and attack Trump at every turn. They’re all disgusting.

I also think DeSantis will face much of the same, but I don’t think DeSantis will crash the China shop like the bull Trump was and is. He will sidestep the same piles of doo doo that Trump trudges right through.

My Trump supporting friends will have nobody else. Not DeSantis, not anyone but Trump. Period. End sentence. End discussion. It is pointless to even talk to them about what Trump will face if re-elected, how he was thwarted for 4 years, or why I like DeSantis. It’s totally pointless.

I will probably rejoin the GOP so I can vote for DeSantis in the FL Primary, but nationally, Trump will win the nomination. Trump will win handily. It's not close. I'm not delusional in that regard.

Trump will lose the general. Again. Bigly this time. What my Trump supporting friends don’t get is how much so many people hate him. Democrats will set voting turnout records again. They'll come out in droves. On the other hand, some, perhaps many Republicans will stay home.

There is nothing you can say to the avid Trump people to get them to vote for someone else. There is nothing you can do to get some people to vote for Trump. Trump does has a vice grip. It is a giant, cast iron vice, and it is going to sink the GOP and conservatism on Election Day in Nov 2024. 

Sadly, I feel as if there is NOTHING I can do. I am a conservative and I see the crash coming and I feel helpless. I hate the people in power. Trump won’t step aside and help us to beat them. Four more years of a stumbling, bumbling crook with dementia.

President Joe Biden, masked kneeler.

We’re screwed.

Pride Flags and Trans-Titties at the White House - 6/13/2023-2

LGBTQ+ Flag

Pride flags don't bother me. So what? Really. I won't lie though, when I drive by a house that has one on display, or when I see the equal sign decal or pride flag sticker on a car bumper, it does make me think to myself, "Why is it so important to advertise your sexual preference and gender identity and stuff?" Be who you are. Love who you love. Be happy. I'm good with that. Why is there so much calling for attention like this? That's the part I don't get. It's like either trolling for a partner or giving straight people the finger or something. I don't know. It kinda feels like a religion sometimes.

Pride flag flanked by Old Glory at the White House.

When I said Pride flags don't bother me, I meant it. They don't. And when I say I don't understand the need for displaying them, I mean it. I don't get it. But flying Pride flags with equal stature to the US Flag at the White House? No. Fuck that. It just simply isn't right, in my opinion. I'd say the same if it was the Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, Muslim, or any other religion's flag. I just don't get this. And it ain't because I don't want to see the Pride flag. It undermines Old Glory at the goddamned White House. It's bullshit, plain and simple.

Now you see em, now you don't.

Making matters worse, even more a mockery, were the topless trans activists on the White House lawn for the event. You've got your trans-man, "making a muscle" and proudly showing the scars where his titties were surgically removed, and the trans-woman, happily jiggling a real nice pair of nearly perfect fake tits. Hey, I'm a guy. I like titties. If we want to start having Titty Tuesdays on the White House Lawn, I'm all for it. Hell, let's make it mandatory in warm weather months! "Take out your titties for America!" Ridiculous you say? Yeah, it's ridiculous. So is this topless trans activist shit.

As far as me, and my personal opinion, there's a line between "I'm good with that," and "Are you people out of your fucking minds?" The Pride flag on display in equal stature with Old Glory and Ms. Trans Titties and Mr. Trans No Titty topless on the White House Lawn for an event? Over that line. 

Sorry. Not sorry.

Quick Hitters on the New Trump Indictments - 6/13/2023

Regarding the 37 indictments charging President Trump:

It's hard to find unbiased and impartial commentary and analysis of these charges. Pundits, commentators, and analysts either hate Trump or they love him. There is no middle ground and their stances on Trump appear to me to uniformly and perfectly conform to their like or their dislike of Trump.

I heard John Soloman report yesterday and read from a standing order issued by Trump when he was President that was a blanket declassification of all documents he took home while he was President. I haven't seen, nor read it in its entirety myself, so I don't know it's scope and I am not qualified to comment on its validity. Unquestionably, though, the President of the United States has declassification authority that is NOT subject to some dipshit bureaucrat's determination, approval, or procedure.

If you haven't read the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act yourself, and instead you're relying on your biased commentator or analyst of choice, you probably don't know what in the hell you're talking about. Many times the comments and analysis we get cherry picks a sentence here and a phrase there totally out of context from the rest of the document. If you don't read it for yourself, and documents like these aren't easy to read at all, you may sound smart, but you ain't.

If you're listening to a pundit who opines that Trump kept this stuff to sell access to the Saidis, and you find yourself agreeing with him or her, you're an idiot.

This case won't be settled until the Supreme Court rules. Even after it does, people will claim they got it wrong, no matter how they rule on it.

 

Three Possibilities - 6/12/2023

Wow! Trump had a lot of documents.

With regard to the Trump classified documents indictments, there are three broad categories of Trump, two categories in the case of Biden, Pence, or H. Clinton, possessing classified documents in the manner these four are known to have had them. I think this is important context in which the Trump issue has to be viewed.

Because Trump had declassification authority, the first possibility is that he had indeed declassified them, and they still have the stamps marking them, but they were declassified. Similarly, even if classified, the ex-President has authority under the Presidential Records Act to possess many documents, INCLUDING classified docs. The genesis of this problem, as you may recall, was a dispute between a Trump hating bureaucrat in charge of Presidential Records, and Trump, a swamp hating politician. This category can't be applied to Biden, Pence, or Hillary. They weren't the President with declassification authority at the time.

I do believe it is very possible that some of the documents, or fear that some of the documents were Crossfire Hurricane documents that show government malfeasance in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax perpetrated by Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and some Deep State Justice and intelligence officials, were the true motive of the Justice Department's heavy handed handling of this case. Yes, it is very possible, even likely if you ask me, that they feared he held incriminating evidence or their own wrongdoing.

The second possibility is pure and simple carelessness. Documents collected up in the confusion surrounding departure from office and, in Trump's case, the White House. In Trump's case, the dispute in the preceding paragraph and Trump's always being in attack mode and never, ever admitting he is wrong, made simple resolution a non-starter.

Lastly, and I've seen some morons from the left allege this to be the case, he could have taken them to sell secrets to our enemies. No reasonable person believes this. If you believe it, it proves that when it comes to Trump, you have lost your ability to reason. The Espionage Act being brought up feeds this stupidity. Trump is not a foreign agent or traitorous spy. You think that he is? You are a fucking idiot.

I saw mention of a comment on the issue by former Congressman Barney Frank. He said words to the effect that there was no espionage or spying here. He's right. What is here is a combination of the first two: documents, admittedly disputed, that he was allowed to possess, and the second, carelessness compounded by his bellicosity and combativeness. In that regard, this is at least in part a Trump self-inflicted wound. On the other hand, to be fair to Trump, he is NOT being treated fairly or impartially, either. The old cliche, "just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me" is very much in play here.

We are off the rails here, friends. No, Trump is not a total innocent. But what he has done here differs from other high level and high visibility cases I alluded to. Trump is a former President of the United States. He is extremely popular with tens of millions of American people, nearly 100 million isn't too big a stretch. He is the leading candidate for the 2024 nomination. Merrick Garland, our Attorney General, works for his chief opponent, President Biden, who has been even more careless with classified documents himself, and had none of the declassification authority or protections of the Presidential Records Act from his tenure as a Senator and as Vice President. Most of Trump's best excuses and defenses with regard to these documents DO NOT APPLY to Joe Biden.

If you ask me, for the good of our country, Joe Biden ought to order Garland to stand down, and he ought to issue a blanket pardon to Trump, not only for these documents, but for January 6th, as well. He won't though. This is liberal, progressive, Democrat red meat. It's their political Nirvana. The puppet masters who make Joe dance and laugh and walk and talk know that. And they HATE Trump. They are blinded by hate. It prevents them from seeing what's best for our country.

You know what's not best for our country? Locking Trump up for this stuff. But if they can, they will. God help us.

What Irks Me About All This - 6/10/2023

In following all the reports and opinion pieces about the recent Trump indictments, there is one thing I hear said, repeatedly, by Trump haters, mostly, but not always coming from the left that makes my skin crawl.

"This goes to show you that nobody is above the law."

My response? "Fuck you and every single person who spouts this drivel, you disingenuous pieces of shit!"

Hillary Clinton had a server set up in her bathroom, completely outside the national security apparatus. The DOJ and FBI gave her the old slap on the wrist.

Hillary Clinton had her Blackberries destroyed with a hammer and used "bleach bit" to cleanse her computers of evidence. "Our" DOJ and FBI gave her a pass. Our DOJ and FBI? That's a bad joke.

Hillary Clinton's classified emails were found on Anthony Weiner's computer. For whatever reason, there was no Clinton indictment.

President Obama, Vice President Biden, and the National Security and Justice apparatus were briefed that the Trump-Russia Collusion scandal was a Hillary Clinton concocted political hit scam. They allowed Crossfire Hurricane and a Mueller investigation of Trump to go on for years.

In 2020 credible evidence of Biden pay for play activities in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere surfaced during the Presidential Campaign. Remember Tony Bobulinski? I do. The DOJ and FBI went so far as to conceal and cover it up.

In 2020 there was the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies helped to excuse it. "All the hallmarks of Russian Disinformation."

President Biden had classified documents all over the place. Remember? There was discovery after discovery. The investigation has, is, and will get kid gloves. Biden is on the right team.

Now surfaces documents showing the FBI has had credible informants saying he and Hunter collected $5 million apiece from Ukraine. Remember Hunter in emails found on his laptop bitching about having to give 1/2 his money to Joe? You don't? Well, start fucking paying attention. The FBI sat on this information.

So, look. Reading my papers this morning, the stuff looks really bad on Trump. I'm just being honest, and some of you won't like me saying so. It looks bad. But considering all of the foregoing, and considering that millions and millions of us know all of the above and more, our partisan political operative DOJ and FBI are taking us into dangerous and uncharted territory.

"This goes to show you, nobody is above the law." BULLSHIT! This goes to show you, our law enforcement apparatus at the highest levels is political, corrupt, and selective in how it treats Presidential candidates and Presidents. It stinks to high heaven, and I will not pretend it don't.

Trump documents: I simply can't get over the douchebag wearing a progressive, liberal mask. "I am biased and I am proud!"

The corruption starts with Joe Biden, flows through Merrick Garland, includes Christopher Wray and a whole host of others. "Nobody is above the law" is a big lie.

Trump Document Indictment(s) - 6/9/2023

File this under: "Nothing good can come from it."

People who have no idea what the rules are regarding classification and declassification of documents are acting as if they speak with authoritaty on the subject. Not surprisingly, instead of speaking from actual authority, they speak from their bias. But in the end, it will be the Supreme Court of the United States that is the only authoritative voice that matters. Don't let your television know it all of choice, speaking directly to your own bias, fool you. They are speaking to your echo chamber, not to truth. Sure, it feels good when someone speaks to my bias. I bet it feels good to you when they speak to yours, too. Well, just because it feels good don't make it right, not by any measure when it comes to this kind of technical, legal stuff. There are really just three simple questions in this matter. Setting aside my own biases and trying to be objective, these are the questions.

1. Is the President of the United States the ultimate declassification authority, and is his or her declassification authority subject to bureaucratic processes and the approval or disapproval of subordinate bureaucrats?

2. Did President Trump de-classify the documents in question or not?

3. If there is or was wrongdoing, i.e. if the docs in question were NOT declassified, are the charges proportional and appropriate to the offense?

To me, those are the legal questions. 

The fact that Trump is an asshole is a given. The fact that he was arrogant and combative in his handling of this stuff is perfectly in keeping with who he is. He is a belligerent, bellicose jerk. What else would you expect?

The fact that the Deep State, Biden Administration, media, establishment politicos and D.C. elites hate Trump and see no possibility other than he is a criminal guilty evil despot in every single thing he does is also a given. Trump's most vocal detractors can't see clear to see even a possibility he is in the right and innocent.

I don't think these indictments are good for our country. That is for another day.

For today, it will come down to the three questions I listed earlier. I do have my thoughts on what this means for our country, for the GOP, and future Democratic politicians once the pendulum swings the other way. For today I'm just going to leave it at: The know it alls on TV don't know squat. They really don't. Now go ahead and get back to listening to whoever speaks to your bias and feel good. Then be mad as hell if the Supreme Court doesn't see it your way.

They're Wacko, Most of 'Em, Anyways - 6/5/2023

These people are wacko. I mean, really, they're nucking futs!

The Trump people don't give a shit about winning in 2024. To them it's either Trump or it don't matter. Anyone who supports someone else, literally anyone else, is a disloyal traitor.

Meanwhile lefty people call every single thing they disagree with racism or fascism or some other bullshit "ism". So all of us who disagree with them are racist, fascist, or phobes of some one group or another. This line of bullshit is getting old, but is still mainstream.

Republicans are in a civil war. There are reasonable people, but "Trump only" and "never-Trump" are the amplified voices. Both groups would rather throw 2024 to Joe Biden than to compromise. Both groups are dumbasses.

Democrats appear to be running a guy who was too old then and who is aging and deteriorating at lightning speed now. Since all his opponents are racists, fascists, etc., they are Sergeant Schultz on the issue of geezer Biden. They know nothing! Do normal Democrats (I know some of you disagree, but I believe they really do exist) think Joe Biden is up to the task and doing a good job, or are you just so happy it isn't Trump that you don't give a shit about immigration, the economy, etc., etc.?

Does anyone in the GOP really think Ronna McDaniel is doing a good job as its Chair? Really?

Democrats seem to have fully embraced SEC football's motto: "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'." They'll tell you voter fraud doesn't exist or make a difference. They'll also tell you Biden is doing a good job, so...

I don't know. I don't get it. Most of 'em are wacko, but who am I?  I'm nuthin' but a disloyal traitor, racist, fascist, phobophobe.