Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Glad Tidings
Dateline: Joyville, January 7, 2025
Yesterday Trump was confirmed as the victor in last year’s Presidential election. As we know, he won in a landslide. He captured the popular vote, carried all seven swing states and slaughtered Harris in the electoral vote count.
The big reason for Donald’s runaway victory was the impacts of the Biden/Harris shockingly disastrous track record on every front. Sealing the deal was Harris’s last-minute candidacy. She was so bad that the only surprise was the number of votes she managed to get. Who are these 70+ million people who marked her name on their ballots?
But a check in the GOP win column isn’t the only outcome of the election. And it may not even be the most consequential. An aftereffect of their loss is the fact that Dems can’t figure out why Trump won. Or they refuse to see it. Either way, if they’re unable to learn from their mistakes, the mistakes will repeat.
This second result of the election might be the longest lasting one. As Biden exits the political stage, he may drag the Dems with him. A Party gone with the Windbag. At least for a while.
This should bring glad tidings to all those in search of relief from condescending ignoramuses who personify cultural corruption.
The Fingers of Blame
Dateline: Responsibilityville, November 7, 2024
Kamala Harris finally conceded defeat to Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential election. She didn’t attribute a cause of her loss, just a determination to continue down the same ideological path in her political life.
The outcome was not merely a loss for Harris. It was a crushing defeat. Trump is now projected to win over 300 electoral votes and the popular vote as well.
The inevitable blame game began on election night when it became apparent that Harris would not be the next President. The first finger pointed at the VP choice. Walz brought nothing positive to the ticket, which may have been the point. With him, she certainly was not in danger of being the lesser light.
Most Dems believe Harris should have chosen Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her VP. He would have put the Keystone State in her win column. And, he may have delivered more battleground states than she won with Walz.
In any event, her problems were not merely her choice of running mate. They went much deeper. The state of the economy and illegal immigration, the hyper dangerous foreign conflicts, her insistence that she would have done nothing differently than Biden, her constant word salad vacuousness, etc.
Perhaps most telling of her unsuitability for the job was the fact that she didn’t replace Biden as President months ago. He’s been in a deteriorating mental state for years. She would have been justified in effecting his removal under the 25th Amendment. In assuming the role of President, she could have demonstrated her leadership ability and begun fulfilling the promises of her campaign.
But she left Biden in the White House giving up her chance to shine in the job she sought. The obvious reason for her inaction is that she can’t do the job, a fact she wanted hidden in a hole deeper than Biden’s basement.
The Dem powerbrokers calculated that they could sell this unknown quantity in an 108-day whirlwind campaign of euphoria and Trump bashing. Their calculator needs recalibration.
The Nothingness of Something
Dateline: Nothingdoingville, April 21, 2024
A few days ago, Biden and one or two allies announced sanctions against Iran for its attack last weekend against Israel. But rather than restricting oil exports, which Iran needs to maintain and grow its war machine, Biden whiffed. Oh, the sanctions sounded like something but, in reality, there was nothing in that something.
Biden’s sanctions were against manufacturers and key players in Iran’s homegrown drone program. Big deal. The drones were the least effective weapon in Iran’s attack. They were taken down like sitting ducks in a shooting gallery. And many of those sanctioned are already the targets of sanctions. So much for deterrence.
Biden’s persistent feeding of Iran’s oil industry is like throwing chum to sharks. He’s given billions of dollars in handouts to the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Six billion for the return of five hostages, ten billion for humanitarian uses – a restriction that is impossible to enforce and ridiculous to say. And, of course, there’s his refusal to enforce the oil sanctions already on the books. Go figure.
Biden’s weakness on the international stage is humiliating and threatening to our national security. His ‘don’t’ to Iran on the eve of its attack against Israel was futile and embarrassing. Ditto for his directive to Israel to forgo retaliation.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are in disarray. Their purist v. pragmatist political slugfest in the House is hammering their slim voting majority into a bloody pulp. And then there’s Trump. He’s barely palatable to most GOP’ers. As he continues to scowl and shoot his mouth off about everything, voters are repulsed. Whether they will hold their noses and vote for him in November is anyone’s guess.
Hur On The Hot Seat
Dateline: Flambeville, March 12, 2024
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur was grilled on Capitol Hill today by the purely partisan political hacks who occupy seats in the House.
The Dim-ocrats were driven, as usual, by making Trump look much worse than Biden. Their focus was not on whether both knowingly and unlawfully kept classified information on their private premises. It was mostly on the response of the two men after being caught. Biden co-operated with the DOJ. Trump did not.
One of their dimmest lights, Adam Schiff, insisted that Hur’s characterization of Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” was gratuitous and politically motivated. Of course, Schiff would see things that way because he is all politics all the time.
The Trumplicans, on the other hand, hammered home Hur’s conclusion that Biden was a thief who was saved from prosecution by his mental incapacity.
They missed the problem with the Hur report. Biden’s mental decline, even if sympathetic, is not germane to his prosecution. It is a consideration in sentencing should he be convicted.
Biden’s theft of classified documents began many years ago when he was a Senator and continued through his Vice Presidency. Hur’s investigation uncovered evidence that it was motivated by greed – the inclusion of classified information promised to juice up a Biden book deal.
Critically, there is no claim that Biden was mentally deficient when the thefts occurred. His decline is more recent and has nothing to do with his guilt.
Hur’s supposition that a jury would be derailed from its sworn duty disparages our system. He implies that juries are easily distracted by the irrelevant. He is mistaken. It’s highly doubtful that jurors would be sidetracked by Biden’s current condition to the point of finding him not guilty of offenses that occurred years earlier.
But, a jury won’t get the chance. Biden was saved by a prosecutor who mistook himself for a misbehaving juror.
The State of the Onion
Dateline: Screamerville, March 9, 2024
On Thursday night, our President gave his third State of the Union address. The speech is traditionally a platform for bragging about accomplishments and listing priorities for the year.
This one did have a lot of bragging – and screaming, haranguing and ludicrous claims. The Senseless Old Buffoon is really only good at layering whoppers on top of whoppers whether he’s whispering, talking or bellowing. That made his State of the Union much more of a State of the Onion, each layer of which must be peeled back to expose what lies beneath.
Three of Biden’s more notable layers were headline grabbers. He identified the Jan.6 rioters as ‘insurrectionists’, a characterization that can only be made by Congress.
He was baited into saying Laken Riley’s name: “I know how to say her name. Lincoln. Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. That’s right. But how many thousands of people are being killed by legals?”
There are three problems with this pronouncement. First, Biden was holding a pin with Laken’s name on it and still managed to screw it up. Second, the reference to Riley’s killer as an illegal sent shock waves through progressives who eschew the term. Third, and thoroughly deplorable, he tried to diminish Laken’s murder with his observation that a lot of people are murdered.
Finally, in referring to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Biden threatened the Justices sitting in the first row: “With all due respect, justices, women are not without electoral or political power. You’re about to realize just how much.” It was an idiotic remark. The reversal did not outlaw abortion. It left the decision to the voters of the states, you know, like women.
Onions are not a popular vegetable. Neither are politicians who stink up the place.
Dealing With Biden
Dateline: Suspended Reality February 14, 2024
Dems claim that Special Counsel Robert Hur unnecessarily assassinated Biden’s mental acuity in his mishandled classified documents report.
That’s a big fib.
Hur had to provide a compelling reason for his decision not to prosecute. After all, Biden violated national security laws by illegally taking boxes of classified documents to his home and other places. Photos substantiating that finding abound. Yet Hur declined to prosecute the President for these serious federal crimes.
Accordingly, Hur stated that, in his opinion, a jury was unlikely to convict a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Of course, that conclusion had to be supported, which Hur did by providing pointed examples of Biden’s diminished capacity.
Hur is not alone in his assessment of Biden’s dimming intellect. In an ABC poll taken after Hur’s report was released an overwhelming 86% of responders believe Biden is too old for a second term. That figure includes 91% of Independents and 73% of Democrats.
Nevertheless, the response of the Dem leadership is to dispute Hur’s conclusion. They state that Biden is sharp, smart, focused, asks penetrating questions and is on top of his game. One staffer describes Hur’s conclusion as a “bucket of B.S.”
These individuals are, in effect, arguing that Biden should be prosecuted in the classified documents case. If his mental capacity is what they claim, Biden has no defense for his crime.
Biden’s response is to blame unspecified staff for this whole mess. Although completely unbelievable, he does understand the SODDI (some other dude did it) defense.
There’s no basement deep enough to hide our President in this election year or any blame game he can win.
