Friday, January 30, 2026
Lost In The Noise
Dateline: InTheDitchVille, January 4, 2026
In grabbing Maduro, Trump’s guys executed a focused extraction of a thug under Federal indictment for killing millions of Americans through his drug operations. He is an illegitimate dictator who, supported by the military, refused to cede power after his last election loss.
The extraction was similar, but not identical, to the 1990 seizure of Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian Dictator whose drug cartel made him wealthy. The difference is that it took several days of fighting to snatch Noriega. Maduro was taken immediately. Maduro’s VP remains in Venezuela.
The opposition in Venezuela is demanding installation of Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as President. Gonzalez was the actual winner of the last election. The VP is currently in power. It remains to be seen what position the Venezuelan military will take. There is some speculation that the Generals will attempt to seize control themselves.
Venezuelans worldwide are celebrating in the streets. The prospect of democracy in their homeland gives them a joy that cannot be suppressed. This joy is echoed by all Americans who are tired of our citizens being victimized by foreign drug lords.
Russia, China and Iran have condemned the action. No one cares. Every air breather knows that autocrats oppose democracies. Our Democratic Party immediately joined in the condemnation. It’s singing from the same hymn book as tyrants. That isn’t as much of a head scratcher as it should be. The Dems hate Trump with a passion that surpasses understanding. Everything he does is wrong and must be distorted and denounced.
In taking Maduro, Dems claim that Trump declared war and launched a large-scale military operation in violation of the Constitution. He should be impeached and/or shackled by Congress to act only as it sees fit. In reality, there was no war and no large-scale anything. It was a limited operation to arrest a vile criminal offender.
The Dems are a Party lost in the noise of its own babbling.
The Year Of Living Stupidly
Dateline: InTheDitchVille, August 10, 2025
The Democrats are having a rough year. The most recent CNBC polling reported a net -32% favorability rating, the worst since 1996. It’s not surprising. They have no leader and no policies or moral authority. Just extremism, division and vociferous recriminations.
Possibly more serious, they pull PR stunts that push positions rejected by voters in the 2024 Presidential election. Like antics that support criminal illegal immigrants without a mention of their victims and disingenuous gerrymandering hypocrisy.
When the stunts backfire, Democrats resort to endless lies about Trump which grow larger as his successes pile higher. Lately, lies apparently aren’t enough. So, they bolster the fabrications with profane screaming, name-calling and threats. It’s doubtful that this behavior cuts a wide swath with voters.
Many of the congressional Democrats who rush to participate in this buffoonery have no legislative record that benefits their constituents. Rather than representing their voters with positive legislation, they use their elected position as a social media platform. How these people got elected in the first place is a head scratcher.
What impact will all of this have on the 2026 mid-terms? Time will tell. But hope remains that voters will open the door and boot these Democrats through it.
The Empty Awards
Dateline: StupidVille, June 27, 2025
From time to time an Empty Award is given to the politician whose rhetoric is breathtakingly devoid of rational thought. Really stupid. But not just plain stupid. The winner has to be falling down dumb with a remember-to-breathe kind of vacuous mind.
This week the Award goes to Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn. Yesterday, Murphy disputed the effectiveness of Operation Midnight Hammer. He cited a partially leaked preliminary DIA report of “low level confidence” as his justification.
The report, which was issued hours after the bombing, did not include input from any other intelligence agency inside or outside the US. Since then, other intel organizations, national and international, have reported the complete destruction of Iran’s three nuclear sites.
Murphy’s dispute of the effectiveness of the Operation is stupid. But not Award winning. For sure, belief of a partially leaked, preliminary report unsupported by any other source is idiocy. But, it is also pretty SOP for politicians who want to destroy Trump’s agenda.
Murphy’s Award winning performance is his response to the question of whether he would have approved the Operation if he’d been advised of it beforehand. He firmly stated, “No…you cannot bomb knowledge out of existence.” In other words, if you develop world-ending weapon systems you are free to use them.
That remark truly takes the stupid cake. Murphy rejects the notion of defense of Country, protection of life and liberty, self-preservation. His extreme position is beyond destroying an agenda. It is societal suicide.
They’re Kidding, Right?
Dateline: GrandstandingVille, June 23, 2025
The responses to our buster bombing of Iran on Saturday are varied. Most Americans, our allies and even neutral countries praise the action. Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. The regime has murdered thousands in furtherance of its attempt to dominate their enemies most especially Israel and the U.S. A nuclear armed Iran would be a danger to everyone everywhere.
Some reactions are not laudatory. Most of them express fear of Iran’s response and revulsion at the prospect of yet another protracted war. But, Trump’s action was taken to avoid nuclear conflict. It was not taken to stop the fighting that has been ongoing for years between Iran and its proxies and other nations in the area.
Other negative feedback alleges that Iran was not a threat to the US. The exponents of the latter response either have their heads in the sand or are pro-Iran. Either way, few, if any, take them seriously.
The most ridiculous of the rejoinders are, not surprisingly, from members of Congress. There are two primary flavors of response. The most prevalent is that Trump’s action was unconstitutional. The bombing was solely within Congressional authority. Any action should have been proposed to Congress where it would have been extensively, and openly, debated. The other flavor of response was, of course, that Trump must be impeached.
Regarding the unconstitutional argument, they must be kidding. It confuses short-term military action in defense of the Country with declarations of war. Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama all ordered military action on foreign shores without prior Congressional approval.
The destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities was a surgical strike that lasted hours, not days or weeks. There were no troops on the ground. The strike was the shortest military action taken by any of the previous Presidents. Its success depended on secrecy and rapid action. Neither is possible with the political grandstanding that characterizes all Congressional ‘debate’.
Regarding the impeachment response, AOC is one of the chief proponents, which is the one of the best arguments against it.
Two Tales of a City
Dateline: BurnItDownVille, June 11, 2025
Los Angeles has been burning for almost a week. It began last Friday when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers began apprehending vicious illegals in an LA suburb to deport them.
Violent riots were the response. By Saturday, the destruction was so intense the Los Angeles Police Department stepped in to quell the violence. Rather than stopping it, the riots spread to several areas in the downtown area. The LAPD declared that it was overwhelmed.
On Sunday, Trump ordered the California National Guard to support the LAPD and ICE agents.
On Sunday evening, Gavin Newsom got around to meeting with LAPD officials in an attempt to map out a solution to the violence. His only idea so far is to sue the Trump administration to halt the use of the Guard in shutting down the riots. A hearing is set for Thursday on the matter.
A few hours ago, Trump deployed the Marines to the city to aid in ending the increasing violence.
Kamala Harris, as is her custom, lashed out at Trump for his “cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division”. She apparently is referring to the enforcement of Federal immigration law. Neither Newsom nor Harris nor any leading Democrat has condemned the violence.
LA is a city of two tales. The leadership, headed by Mayor Karen Bass, calls LA an international city where US immigration law do not apply. They view everyone as citizens of the city to be protected with taxpayer funds from Federal reach.
The other tale is a city badly in need of leaders who will preserve the safety of its US citizens from those who would rain violence and destruction on them.
Right now, the first tale is wagging the city. This is the result of elections. If taxpayers are dissatisfied with the destruction of their city, they can fix it. If not, they have to suck it up because they have no one to blame but themselves.
The Big Bad Blowup
Dateline: SluggingItOutVille, June 9, 2025
The growing brawl between President Trump and Elon Musk is reported daily on most news outlets.
Musk blasts Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill as a disgusting abomination that increases the debt to crushing levels.
Trump and most of the GOP see the bill as the savior of the American economy, defense capability and border security among other things. Trump predicts the Bill will result in a debt reduction over the next several years.
Dems are trying to use Musk’s criticisms to garner support in their attempt to kill the bill. Thus far, Musk has resisted entreaties to jump into their camp. This, of course, could change.
Many of the Republicans in Congress take a paternalistic attitude toward Musk’s rebellion. They tsk tsk a lot and point out that he is not well-versed in the political process. Sausage making is, after all, ugly.
However, Musk’s view is that the political process is the problem. It runs on pork barrel spending which has exploded the debt particularly in the Biden years.
Despite all his bloviating, what really seems to irk Musk is not the pork. It’s the fact that the Bill cuts the wrong pork. It eliminates the tax credits for EV purchasers thus negatively impacting EV sales. Biden’s mandate on dramatically increasing the percentage of EV sales has also gone the way of the dodo bird.
If Musk’s bottom line was not negatively impacted, what would he say about the Bill? Rhetorical questions are rhetorical for a reason.
One other thing that irritates Musk is Trump’s recent refusal to name one of his pals to run NASA. A cozy relationship between NASA and Elon’s SpaceX will have to wait.
There is one thing Musk is right about. The political process is ugly.
