"Who's next?" - 9/22/2024

"So I wanna thank you all for being here, and now uh... who am I introducing next?" Joe Biden looks confused, and perhaps frustrated. After a pause, blurts out: "Who's next?"

After another short pause a woman's voice comes on the PA and introduces the Prime Minster of India, Narendra Modi.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "Who's next", Joe. Wake TF up!

 

Hindustan Times Story on Biden Gaffe 

Joe Biden is NOT running our country. Gaffes like this are why he's kept hidden from us most of the time. I will not be persuaded to forget how the press (remember when Morning Joe called him "The best Joe Biden ever"), and Democrats, including and especially Kamala Harris lied to us again and again about his cognitive health.

These same press, Democrats, and Kamala Harris make a living calling Trump a liar and meanwhile they themselves lie, lie, lie, and lie again. The "best Joe Biden ever" can't remember where he is, what he's doing, or who he's introducing. None of that matters, right, because "Trump is a liar." And who can forget the un-democratically nominated Harris, installed by political coup d'etat, as they cry out in unison, "Trump is a threat to democracy."

The gaslighting of Joe Scarborough, Karin Jean-Pierre, Kamala Harris, and others may work on willful, useful idiots on the left, but it ain't working on me. A President by Committee of un-elected, unaccountable, anonymous bureaucrats and power brokers is totally un-democratic and absolutely unacceptable. That's your "threat to democracy."

Rewriting History and Telling (anti-Trump) Lies - 9-21-2024

I could probably write a long, long piece about several different topic to make this point. I think of Jan 6th, 2021, when Trump sought National Guard troops in case the protests got out of hand. Several insubordinate military officers ignored him due to optics. Trump asked people to march peacefully and patriotically. Democrats and the media, sorry for the redundancy, will say and stop at nothing to keep alive the lie that none of that happened, or mattered, or changes their narrative of the days unfortunate events in any way.

I'm going in a different direction, though, the old Democrat standby: "Trump-Russia collusion". Over dinner recently, a dear and wonderful family member casually mentioned the danger in a Trump Presidency is because of his "relationship with Putin." I graciously declined to engage due to the nature of the gathering and my fondness and respect for her. It was wrong place and time, and futile, anyway, to wade into a full on debate. Then, just yesterday, I saw a post on X about Trump's secret meeting with Putin in 2018. I'm not going to look any of this up. Lemme go from memory:

The 2016 Trump-Russia collusion story was a Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party hoax, financed and perpetrated to swing the election to the evil, diabolical even, witch-bitch herself, HRC. It didn't work, but it was used very effectively by Democrats and the Deep State to undermine Trump's first term in office. Eat a big fat turd with your coffee while you watch Morning Joe and listen to NPR if you think since I think there's a Deep State it makes me a conspiracy theorist.

Trump and Putin photographed at so-called 'secret meeting'.

Did the Russians meddle? Sure. They bought some Facebook ads. How much would a goddamned Facebook ad shape your vote? Me neither.

Let me bring up a couple of very inconvenient facts, Democrats:

Russia/Putin annexed Crimea. Who was President when this happened? President Barack Obama, Joe Biden VP. It did not happen while Trump was President.

Russia/Putin invaded Ukraine. Who was President when this happened? President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris VP. It did not happen while Donald Trump was President.

Here is a comprehensive list of countries Russia invaded during the Trump Presidency: "0". None. zero. Zip. Nada.

Getting back to 2016, and then. to Trump's so-called "secret" meeting with Putin in 2018. Yeah, they met. Helsinki, I think. And I think the reason, if I recall correctly, was for Trump to confront Putin about 2016. If it turns out the meeting was to prevent a Russian excursion into Ukraine or somewhere else while Trump was in office, good for Trump. The military industrial complex has its fingers so deep into the political establishment (looking at YOU, Democrats), Trump NOT having any wars on his watch became and remains very good reason they want to stop him, defeat him.

I get you don't like him. But I'm tired of the lies and dishonesty. Here's a short list of Kamala Harris/Democrat lies going around now. How many have you bought into, Democrats?

• Project 2025
• National Total Abortion ban
• "Very fine people" hoax
• Trump dictator Day 1
• Afghanistan withdrawal disaster Trump's fault
• Kamala never said she would ban fracking
• Trump rally goers bored, leave early
• Police died Jan 6th
• "Bloodbath" hoax
• Trump will outlaw IVF
• Kamala won't take away guns
• Trump's "relationship" with Putin
• Trump incited Jan 6th crowd
• Biden/Harris no US troops in combat zones
  

 

Divisive Rhetoric and Violence, Even Assassination - 9/17/2024

Just three days ago, in a post I titled, "To the Woodshed", I criticized Trump and Harris both for their rhetoric. Another assassination attempt later, here I am again. The left, in unison, saying the problem is one thing: Trump rhetoric. Uh, you do know Trump doesn't have a patent on divisive rhetoric, don't you? After the last assassination attempt, Joe Biden supposedly was going to tone down his rhetoric. Within 2-3 days, he was back calling Trump "a threat to democracy." Call a guy Hitler over, and over, and over don't make him Hitler. But it does make killing him at least morally understandable to a very convinced listener.

On the campaign trail, many times President Trump has said "If we elect Kamala Harris, we won't have a country left."

Kamala Harris, on the other hand, says, "Trump wants to be a dictator on day one and will eliminate the Constitution."

These are opposing sides of the same coin. I could make a list a mile long. Spin and political posturing and positioning are allowing exaggeration and distortion to be the norm. Truth is often confused with opinion. I remember an Oprah Winfrey video clip I saw in which she referred to "my truth." I think what she would more accurately have said was, "my opinion." When we portray our personal opinions as truths, then we really don't leave each other any room for disagreement, do we?

Did Trump say he would be a dictator on day one? Well, yeah, he did. But when he said it, if I recall correctly, he said he would do only two things as a dictator, then he'd go back to being President. He said he'd close the border, and "drill, drill, drill." Those things are hardly a threat to our way of life, and hardly Stalin, Mao, or Hitler-like.

When Trump says "we won't have a country left," or "we won't have a country anymore," is he saying the USA will cease to exist? He's saying she, and progressive Democrats, want to change our country in ways that will render it a very different place.

I do have grave concern about our country, our future, and what it is we're leaving our kids, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. I won't make this post a long one and list all my concerns, all my preferences in the way forward. I do believe, strictly on agenda, believe that re-electing Donald Trump is a better way forward than electing Kamala Harris. I will stop short of calling it "my truth". It's "my opinion." I am entitled to it.

I don't hate my Democrat friends. I have found myself hating some Democrat politicians and media persons over the years, never more so than recently. You ARE entitled to your opinion. But when you decide your opinion is truth, you're leaving no room in what should be a universe of ideas and opinions for mine. Why have I found myself literally hating? It started to come into existence beforehand, but I can point specifically to Hillary Clinton's "deplorable" line, calling us/me racist, homophobe, etc., etc. We're all familiar with the lines. Since then, many, many times I hear or read things from the left that leave me no doubt that the left hates us. Us? Trump. The right. Me.

Understand that Trump didn't cause our anger and dissatisfaction with the political establishment, Democrat and Republican. No, he did not. He is a manifestation of it. Trumpism came to exist because many of us, speaking primarily for myself, felt nobody represented us anymore. All were sold out to big money, foreign and domestic. Does Trump's bombastic rhetoric give fuel to the fires of dissatisfaction? Yes, I believe it does, but no more does it do so than does the left's rhetoric about me and people like me. We're NOT all stupid. We're not evil. Matter of fact, most of us just want the government to leave us alone.

I don't hear Kamala Harris saying anything on the campaign trail that makes me think, "She has mine and my family's best interests at heart. She will make my life better." I just don't hear that. Maybe if she'd start appealing to me and people like me, instead of running AGAINST us, instead of making ME out to be what's dangerous to our country's future, things could be different. She doesn't, instead nearly everything she says about us on the right stokes the flames of ire in me. To be fair, I am sure Trump does the same to you lefties. It pits us against one another and undermines the chances, even remote, of productive dialogue. If we can't talk to one another openly and honestly, from the brain AND the heart, we will never find a better and more civil discourse, and will be doomed to live instead in discord.

Couldn't possibly have anything to do with the media's work? Nah. Got to be Trump's fault.

How can this be fixed? I don't know, but I know where it should start:

We need a fair and unbiased press that reports facts accurately, saving their opinions for the opinion page. Instead, they treat their opinions as "their truth" and as a result their opinions, sometimes quite radical, are indelibly intertwined in what passes for reporting. Our print news, cable news, network news, and internet news all basically suck. Start by correcting inaccuracies, for example, say that Project 2025 isn't Trump's plan. Say that Trump isn't pushing for a national abortion ban. Maybe if they did a better job and called balls and strikes straight down the middle, all the wacky conspiracy theorists, left and right, would lose their voice and the dangerous rhetoric could be toned down. Maybe a little? I would hope. Until then we'll continue to hear how it's Trump's own fault that someone tried to assassinate him.

2nd Assassination Attempted! - 9/16/2024

The left acts violently and then, disgustingly, blames Trump (and Vance) for the violence.

We have pressing personal business to attend to today, so I'm making this short.

They tried to kill Trump again. Who they? A member of the wacked-out leftist insane clown posse.

The idea that assassins (twice) target Trump and Trump is accused of inciting the violence shows how twisted a world we live in. I see the loathsome comments on social media from some Democrat operatives, the media, and rank and file lefties, and all I can think of is, "This does NOT have a happy ending."

There will be other attempts on Trump's life. 9 years of INSANE bombastic rhetoric, calling him Hitler, a dictator, and a threat to democracy. The media is pumping Jan 6th again as hard as they can. We are being gaslit and they are inciting violence and assassination. They. The left.

Never mind Biden/Harris immigration policy. Springfield, OH, is Trump/Vance's fault? YGBSM.

The media is trying to make the problems in Springfield Ohio TRUMP'S fault. No foolin'. I guess there have been some bomb threats and stuff, and this is reported as being Trump and Vance's fault. Never mind that with a stroke of a pen, Biden/Harris delivered a full 1/3 of the population as additional legal immigrant residents in a very short period of time. Never mind that only a small percentage of 20,000 people has to be bad guys to equal a whole lot of bad guys suddenly there in the small city. Trump and Vance's fault. I am tired of being gaslit by a bunch of political operatives pretending to be journalists.

ABC is an arm of the Harris Campaign

Hey, speaking of political operatives pretending to be journalists, have you heard the one about the ABC News whistleblower? Whistleblower says they're NOT a Trump voter or supporter, but were deeply concerned with the conduct of the debate. It was rigged, big time. Assurances that Trump would be fact checked and Harris would not. Specific questions, like Joe Biden's health, as an example, would NOT be asked. That the moderators looked at hours and hours of Trump film for the purpose of learning his canned answers to questions, and then picked ones they felt they could fact check. No such scrutiny of Kamala Harris' changing positions on issues. They agreed to lighting and staging favorable to Harris, too, positioning her behind a smaller podium and using camera angles that shielded the audience from seeing her smaller stature. The debate was rigged. Trump was sucker enough to agree to it and to fall for their shenanigans, but they could every bit as easily tripped up Harris. No such effort was made. Molly Hemingway yesterday reported that when asked if they were reporting the debate as an in-kind donation to the Harris Campaign, ABC declined to answer.

Still Counting Votes AFTER Election Day? - 9//15/2024

Here comes the same nonsense again.

Florida is the third most populous state. Election officials in Florida will have the votes counted on Election Day night, at least near enough to 100% counted that you can call it counted, for all intents and purposes.

Many third world countries have elections and count all the ballots on Election Day.

But, no, Pennsylvania and some other states are already saying they can't do it. That's what they're saying. What am I hearing when they say so? "Here come cheating, again!"

They may have 100,000 other ALMOST legit sounding reasons to not be done counting. You may choose to believe them. They MAY be even telling the truth. Whether intentional or not, if they don't have the tally on Election Day night, the door is ajar for cheaters. That is if the counters themselves aren't the cheaters.

It's 4 o'clock in the morning in a dark room somewhere, and they know they're 10 or 20,000 votes behind. "Fire up the printers, we gotta get busy! Employ all election disaster plans! Roll the white panel vans! We gotta save democracy from these Trump voters!"

Why don't I trust elections? Because there are so many of you who've been brainwashed to thinking Trump and we Trump supporters are a threat to democracy, that some of you have convinced yourselves that "by any and all means necessary" is noble, just, righteous. We've seen it time and again in going after Trump with bogus Russia collusion, impeachment, lawsuits, censorship, dishonest letters from 51 intelligence officials and countless questionable election practices in 2020, far too numerous for me to recount here. That's why.

Counting votes for days AFTER Election Day enables cheaters. Period. You trust them? I don't. Nothing has happened to convince me democracy savers won't be saving it from us (voters) again.

To the Woodshed - 9/14/2024

I'm going to take President Trump to the woodshed here. If you're one who won't tolerate any criticism at all of Mr. Trump, I suggest you close this window now, before your cup of ire runneth over.

 

Trump cat memes have been all the rage with his supporters.

I wish Trump hadn't have mentioned the cats and dogs being eaten in the debate. Do I think it's possible, even likely that somewhere there have been cases of migrants taking cats or dogs and using them for food? Yep, I do. But unless he's citing specific, documented cases, and instead he's wading into rumors and X innuendo, he undermines himself.

For starters, his rallies and debates or serious interview/press conference are two different things. At a rally, we would expect politicians to cater to the crowd, and Trump's crowds are fed up with immigrants either here illegally, or granted head of the line privileges in staggering numbers by the Biden/Harris Administration. A rally is a place and time where we expect we might hear innuendo of abhorrent and criminal behavior of said immigrants. In a debate, press conference, or serious interview, however, he should stick to concrete facts. There are PLENTY of things to say about these immigrants. There have been more than enough violent crimes: assaults, rapes, robberies, etc. Rail against that. Hammer it. Hard. I do think there have been documented cases of people (assumed too be migrants) catching and killing waterfowl at local parks in Springfield, Ohio. I've also heard complaints of migrants driving without proper knowledge of our rules of the road and without insurance. Hammer those things, hard.

But when he hammers unsubstantiated (I didn't say fake or phony) stuff he picked up on X he undermines his own message. Hugely. I've often thought the same thing about Democrat criticism of Trump and Trump supporters. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris still run with the "fine people" and "suckers and losers" hoaxes. Don't they have stuff more substantial to attack Trump about? Of course, but like Trump, they're guilty of outrageous red meat tossing to induce an adverse, emotional response in those who hear it.

By the way, I know that some, many even, of the Haitian immigrants who are this news have been a pleasant addition at jobs and have been praised by their co-workers and employers. They are part of the problem, but not THE problem. The problem is that not all these immigrants are contributing mightily to our society, and in these overwhelming and staggering numbers, there's no way to tell who the bad apples are. There are some bad apples. Let's say just 3% of the Haitians immigrants in Springfield are no good criminals of some sort or another. 97% are great workers and productive additions to the Springfield economy and community. 3% of 20,000 is 600. 600 criminals up to no good is a lot in a town of way less than 100,000 is a problem. It just is.

Trump is not going to change. I learned a long time ago, 2016 to be exact, that we have to take him seriously, but not to take him literally. His critics take him literally, but they refuse to take him seriously. He's prone to embellishment, hyperbole, exaggeration, and has a fatal combination of a big mouth, thin skin, and a huge, but fragile ego. He MUST get the last word. Always. Kamala and her moderator partners knew and took advantage of this in the debate. Mr. Trump, it's less than two months. Can you measure your words just a teeny bit now and again?

Two last points, related but not right on point exactly. 

First, Laura Loomer is as loyal and pugnacious a fighter and ally for Trump as he's going to find anywhere. She's also nuts. I'd like to see Trump put at least a little distance between them. I get that he appreciates her going to war for him on social media, but at times she's more a liability than an asset.

I'll close with the second thought: Kamala Harris is a big liar. No, she's not lying about cats and dogs in Ohio. She's lying about who she is, what she believes, and how she will govern. I watched a 10 minute interview she did with a local TV anchor from Philadelphia yesterday. She unashamedly and overtly evaded and sidestepped questions, pivoting instead to cliches and generalities to a laughable extent. At one point she made the case for how she would fix the economy by mentioning how proud her family was of their lawn. I listen to her and think, this is who they think should lead our country? Then I realize, no, they are happy with the unelected oligarchs running the show now behind Biden's curtain, and know that those unelected, unaccountable, unnamed oligarchs will be the real Harris President.

"I have a plan for you." - 9/13/2024

In the debate Tuesday, two things Vice President Harris said struck me. I'm paraphrasing just slightly: "Donald Trump has no plan for you. I have a plan for you." Also, "I will be the President for ALL the American people."

Kamala promises if she wins, it will be a 'happy ending' for America.

Lemme start with the first: I don't want you having a plan for me, Vice President Harris. I'll make my own plans, thank you very much. Unfortunately, for some people, "I have a plan for you" is exactly what they like to hear. Never mind you that she didn't say what the plan was. Does that matter? Nah. Not to stupid people. Let's face it, a reasonable portion of the people ARE stupid. Some will vote for Trump, some for Harris. But, being stupid, they would seem the easiest to dupe with an empty and vague promise.

What's different about Trump NOT having a plan for me? Trump's economic plan isn't for me, it's for everybody. Herein is the fundamental difference between the two schools of thought: Democrats and Harris appeal is based on correcting past unfairness and inequity. To address them, it requires sorting out, who needs to have more, and who had too much under the old, unfair system. To people who have been brainwashed into feeling like a perennial victim, a prospect of 'economic justice' is truly welcome. But for this group and that group to do better, the flip side is that it's only fair these other groups do worse. In the end all the animosities are amplified rather than minimized. Reparations is the same thing. Taking money from people who never owned slaves and giving it to people who never were slaves may result in a sugar high from a targeted group of voters, but over time, in my opinion, obviously, will make racial tensions worse. You're really thinking it'll make everyone think, "finally, the U.S. did the right thing, we can all move on now in fairness and harmony?" How dumb are you?

Donald Trump's economic philosophy is better for everyone. I'll explain it with a simple cliche and move on. As I do, bear in mind that prior to Covid, Trump had the lowest female, Black, and Hispanic unemployment numbers in U.S. history. The philosophy: "All boats in the harbor rise on an incoming tide." A Trump economy is good for everybody. When EVERYBODY does better, there is far less reason to pit groups against one another, Democrat style. When EVERYBODY does better, EVERYBODY is better off.  "But everybody doing better will mean millionaires and billionaires have more, too! How is that fair?" STFU and enjoy the fact you have more than you had before, MORE even than Kamala was going to give you.

The second thing that struck me, that she'll be the President for ALL the American people struck for a different reason. It struck me that I'm a White dude (yes, I capitalized it. I capitalize Black, why wouldn't I also capitalize White?), and when she says ALL the American people, she does NOT mean me. Why? Jussie Smollett. BLM rioter bail fundraising. Reparations, DEI, etc., etc. Remember the kid's game, The Farmer in the Dell? At the end of it, the cheese always stands alone in the middle of a happy circle of kids. That's exactly how I feel as a White guy in Democrat America. I don't want bad for anybody, no matter their color, religion, or nation of origin, although I DO feel citizens, natural born AND naturalized, ought to have head of the line privileges.

Here's, in a nutshell, is why I don't want a President with a plan for me, and why I don't want a racially obsessed party making decisions for ALL Americans: I know what that's code for.

Me, and a lot of people like me, we want to be left alone and to achieve and live on the fruits of our own merit, of our own decisions, of our own choices. You Democrats are still all about choice, aren't you?