You know what I think is sick?

Biden: “The idea that we still allow the purchase of semi-automatic weapons in this country today is sick. It is just sick. It has no, no social redeeming value. Zero. None.”

This is what I think is sick:

That so many on the left think it is okay for someone to die because they didn’t want them to have a weapon to protect themselves against predators. “Someone” means anyone, but that includes, the handicapped, women, etc.

That when Michael Byrd, a cop supposedly trained in use of force, blew Ashli Babbitt away, his name was kept secret (wasn’t he at least a suspect?), no decision was made months later (if there ever really was one) and he was not prosecuted for killing an unarmed trespasser who wasn't attacking anyone with armed cops all around.

That Officer Kim Potter got jail time for accidentally shooting a resisting suspect. With her, intent didn’t matter. With Hillary Clinton, somehow, despite not really mattering in a breach of trust, it mattered.

That so many people, including school unions, politicians and medical personnel think it’s okay to literally genitally disfigure and neuter children – with or without a parent’s permission.

That so many people have died, mostly minorities, as a result of the lawlessness engendered by anti-cop policies and laws.

That governments used Covid as an excuse to severally hamper the lives of millions of children (NYC might be the worst). It was either on purpose or “sickening” incompetence.

That your opening of our border has spiraled up the danger and deaths because of fentanyl.

That your opening of the border has been responsible for the deaths of probably thousands of migrants.

That your opening of the border has almost certainly let in terrorists.

That your administration went after the mounted border police despite knowing they never whipped any migrants from Day 1.

That your anti-fossil fuel program has hurt us economically and weakened our security, while you encourage other countries to pump more.

That your fascist AG can’t recognize Antifa, a terrorist group, as such, that they don’t recognize Ruth Sent Us as a terrorist group, that they ignore the spite of violence against pro-life advocates, and pretend there is a right-wing extremist violence problem, but he can go after parents of kids who are victims of your child transgender policy.

That you were a proximate cause of killing 13 Americans armed forces troops in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghanis and stranding so many Americans there – still!

That you lie about where your son died, your business transactions with Hunter, gas prices, inflation and almost all the media covers for you.

That you refuse to question China's likely causation of Covid-19 and whatever involvement people like Fauci had in it, while your DOJ investigates Trump.

That you and your administration lied to the American people about the vaccines, you demonized people who did not want to experiment with their bodies and you forced so many to do so by putting them at risk of their jobs.

That you have weaponized the FBI/DOJ against your political opponents.

That you make racist statements, like only white people can be racist, like it is a good thing whites are no longer a majority in the country and press a racist messaging on our military and federal agencies.

This list was without thinking hard. Your administration is sick. Our country is sick. When our people will largely realize it, I can’t say. I hope as soon as possible.

Impeach, impeach, impeach! Articles of Impeachment to help the Republicans.

By twice impeaching President Trump twice, there was a stain on America, as Nancy Pelosi said. But the stain was on the Democrat controlled House of Representatives. However, it changed the game. If the Democrats are going to make false and fraudulent claims against a president, do everything in their power to disrupt his or her administration, then the Republicans, at least going by the same standards, have to do the same. But, they should not and do not have to lie or commit fraud to do so or undermine our rule of law. Because these charges against Biden are all legitimate. Indeed, just the evidence that Tony Bobulinski shall testify too, if given the opportunity, alone, should be sufficient. 

The Republicans worry me. There is ample evidence to impeach Biden. The Democrat hearings were a joke. The Republican hearings should be just as short and Democrats should be faced with the same limitations the Republicans had during the hearings. Will the Republicans live up to their duties and turn around our country, expose years of corruption by the Democrats. I don't know. I doubt their perseverance and integrity, at least many of them. 

In case the R leadership needs help, I've already drafted Articles of Impeachment for them, based on what is publicly reported. Impeachments of Garland, Mayorkas and Wray should come next.

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RESOLUTION

RESOLVED, That Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST JOSEPH R. BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS.

ARTICLE 1: DERILICTION OF DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE

The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” and that the President “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”. In his conduct of the office of President of the United States—and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed—Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has been in dereliction of his duties of the Presidency, in that:

A.    Afghanistan: Using the powers of his high office as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Biden demanded and oversaw the evacuation and retreat of our Armed Forces from Afghanistan in an extremely and predictably dangerous manner, having been forewarned by the Chiefs of Staff and Intelligence Services of the dangers of progressing in the manner chosen by him, regardless of the risks to our own Armed Forces stationed therein, to our allies, including the Afghan people, regardless of the expected damage to the reputation and therefore effectiveness of our Armed Forces and the view of the world as to The United States of America’s determination in military conflicts and dedication to its allies. In so doing, he ignored and injured the integrity of The United States and our Armed Forces. President Biden, acting both directly and through his agents engaged in this dereliction of duty by, among other things:

1.     While claiming to follow the path of the Agreement with the Taliban entered into during the Trump Administration, failed to use the prudence inherent in and expected of the Executive in ignoring the conditions upon the Taliban and benchmarks for evacuation to take place.

2.     Insisting on a firm deadline for evacuation to be concluded regardless of the obvious impossibility of doing so without risk of harm and death to our Armed Forces, Americans in Afghanistan, our allies and the people of Afghanistan.

3.     Ignoring the advice of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces and our intelligence agencies not to proceed in the manner he directed.

4.     Ignoring the obvious effect of a premature evacuation in declaring that the rapid takeover by the Taliban was not inevitable despite admitting he could not trust the Taliban.

5.     Recklessly causing the death to at least 13 members of the American Armed Forces, and countless thousands of Afghanis, many of whom had voluntarily worked towards the goals of The United States and its allies.

6.     Recklessly abandoning hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan and the Afghanis who had voluntarily served with and aided our Armed Forces and those of our allies, some of whom, United States citizens and others who are still there in Afghanistan, unable to get out, to the dangerous and even homicidal tendencies of the Taliban.

7.     Lying to the American people in first stating that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely” and that “there's going to be no circumstance where people would be lifted off the US Embassy roof” later claiming after the complete victory of the Taliban and evacuation made from the roof of The United States Embassy that it was impossible to evacuate without “chaos ensuing.”

8.     While taking credit and admitting responsibility for ending the war he also blamed the previous administration despite ignoring the conditions and benchmarks in their agreement with the Taliban, even insisting that he had no choice but to act as he did, despite the fact that he could have simply declared a previous president’s agreement no longer in effect, and, in fact, beginning on his first day in office, completely reversing many of the effects and acts of the last administration, including making The United States energy independent and securing the border. 

B.    The Border: Using the powers of his high office as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Biden demanded and oversaw the weakening of our southern border with Mexico, allowing in millions of illegal aliens, including scores of those on the terrorist watch list, all for the purposes of trying to increase the numbers of people he believes will, if gaining citizenship someday, will likely vote for the Democrat Party. President Biden, acting both directly and through his agents engaged in this dereliction of duty by, among other things and in some cases immediately upon becoming president:

1.     Ending the previous administration’s stay in Mexico policy.

2.     Ending the previous administration’s border wall project.

3.     Ending the previous administration’s hold on immigration from certain countries.

4.     Rescinding the previous administration’s order calling for removal of illegal aliens.

5.     Refunding Sanctuary Cities, thereby rewarding those cities frustrating federal law and federal agents

6.     Trying to pause deportation enforcement for a hundred days.

7.     Terminating the emergency proclamation (and then created a new emergency).

8.     Ordering the Department of Census to count illegal aliens, thereby increasing the power of those states they would naturally flock to, like Chicago, New York and California.

9.     Ending immigration status checks for sponsors of unaccompanied minors, quadrupled the number of refugee admissions. 

10.  With foreknowledge that a claim that mounted border control troops had whipped migrants was false, indeed, that the photographer whose photograph was the basis of the claim had said that not only was there no whipping shown in his photograph, but he had never seen any whipping, President Biden used it as an excuse to suspend the effective use of mounted troops at the border.

Biden's actions led to historically low deportations, record border crossings, a huge influx of fentanyl, according to Texas’ Governor Abbot, almost a 900% increase since 2019, created a massive surge at the border by giving good reason for immigrants to believe it would be easier to get into the United States and causing chaos at the border and allowing the easy entrance into America of illegal drugs, including fentanyl, criminals, terrorists and those infected with Covid and the deaths of countless migrants including accompanied and unaccompanied minors, danger to Federal Agents at the border and the overwhelming of the agency charged with protecting the border. So reckless and indifferent to suffering as a result of his policies, he caused what has been described by congresspersons, senators and experts in his own party to describe it as “catastrophic,” “a crisis,” “a national emergency,” and “an alarming uptrend in the apprehension of convicted sex offenders.”

So secretive was the administrative, including in not giving journalists access to the border, that a Democrat congressman has stated that he gets more information from Mexico than he does from the Biden administration and leaked photos about the horrid condition the children are being kept in.

WHEREFORE, President Biden, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law caused uncountable deaths, privation, dissention within the United States between border states and non-border states, allowed the tremendous growth of the illicit drug trade and its sequelae of death and destruction, particularly to young people and their families and participated in unethical and corrupt business practices which he kept secret from the American people. He cannot continue to be the Executive and Commander of our Armed Forces. President Biden thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.

ARTICLE II. ABUSE OF POWERS

The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” and that the President “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”. In his conduct of the office of President of the United States—and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed—Joseph R. Biden has abused the powers of the Presidency, in that:

A. In the Office of the Presidency

1.  He has used his office to seek to destroy or permanently impair the petroleum industry which is necessary to the safety, happiness and the security of the people of the United States from his first day in office, including stopping development of a key pipeline, withholding valuable leases he was required to auction to oil companies, denigrating and the industry and blaming them for alarming prices for which he was responsible by decreasing drilling and exploration. He sought to avoid responsibility for the negative effects of these actions by lying as to the price at the gasoline pump when he took office, roughly doubling it, by severely decreasing The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve supplies, and by approaching those countries he has previously castigated for fuel production and begging for increased production, including the de facto president of Venezuela whom The United States does not recognize. Regardless of the danger to the country, Biden refuses to acknowledge that his economy and specifically his energy policies have failed.

As a result of his actions, the war in Ukraine has undoubtedly been extended, Russia, the aggressor there, has been empowered and enriched, already dangerous inflation has worsened, a diesel fuel crises has already incurred threatening all industry and even home heating oil, and, the security of The United States of American has been threatened.

2. By a series of illegal and unconstitutional mandates in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic and by public statements that belied the known science as to the vaccines produced by several companies and despite the knowledge that the vaccines do not prevent the spread of Covid-19, he caused the loss of tens of thousands of jobs,  including in private industry and the military and incited hatred and misunderstanding between the citizens of this country by denigrating those who chose not to be vaccinated with an untested serum.

3. While knowing that he had not the power to do so, he ordered the cancellation of debt, and in a grossly unequal application, to millions of educational debtors. In order to avoid responsibility for his actions, he lied to the American people, claiming that it had passed both houses of congress by a small number of votes. 

B. In the Office of Vice President

While serving under President Obama then Vice President Biden engaged in international business activities with his son, Hunter Biden and his brother, James Biden, using his office of Vice President as a draw.

While Vice President under President Obama, President Biden, among other things:

 

1.     Allowed Hunter Biden use of transportation available to him as Vice President.

 

2.     Met with various actors in the business transactions as requested by Hunter Biden.

 

3.     Participated in business meetings with Hunter Biden and others.

 

4.     Spoke with Hunter Biden and offered advice to him concerning his businesses and fallout from its exposure.

 

5.     Reaped ten percent of certain business deals conducted by Hunter Biden, earning millions of dollars which were held by Hunter Biden for him.

 

6.     Engaged in what is commonly called “pay for play.”

 

7.     Violated the tax laws of this country by not reporting income.

 

8.     Kept his activities secret from the American people while he ran for president, being spoken of among the business circle as “The Big Guy.”

 

9.     Frequently lied to the American people by denying his knowledge and participation with Hunter Biden and others in their business dealings.

 

10.  Coerced and then publicly bragged of coercing Ukraine’s then president with one billion dollars in loan guarantees into firing its own Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin who was investigating Burisma Holdings, on whose board Hunter Biden sat. 

These acts, taken individually, or in unison, have placed The United States and our allies in the most vulnerable position since the early days of this nation by placing his presidency subject to pressure from other countries, including The People’s Republic of China, our largest global competitor, caused the further fracturing of our national unity to a greater extent than in prior years dating back to the days of Reconstruction, unlawfully harmed and destroyed the lives of thousands of citizens with unlawful and unconstitutional decrees and generally abused the powers of the presidency. 

WHEREFORE, President Biden, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law, caused the country enormous economic damage, tremendous individual hardships and participated in unethical and corrupt business practices which he kept secret from the American people. He cannot continue to be the Executive and Commander of our Armed Forces. President Biden thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.

Kevin McCarthy

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest:

So, Trump, I've been wanting to talk to you.

Very often I am addressing moderate friends on this blog, people who might lean left, but who often agree (even if it galls them) conservatives. Today I address my Republican and conservative friends, who are licking their wounds. As I write this, post-Election Day, there is a chance they can still win the majority in the House of Representatives, but I have reasons to be pessimistic. Since Day, when they had a huge lead, Democrats have won most of the late counted contests and almost all of them left are in New York or California. They certainly did not get the “red wave” they felt they were sailing on.

Well, my R-con friends. I’m afraid I’m going to do an “I told you so.” Feel free to tune out. But, as when I upset my D-lib friends, it is too important to be honest with you.

Three topics. First, explaining why you were so wrong about the election (which isn’t even decided yet, but certainly no “red wave”). Then thanking Trump and saying good-bye to Trump.

Elections

When it comes to elections, at least since say 2004 or so, when the Ds really began turning hard left (Kerry then Obama were known among Ds to be amongst the most liberal in their party), R-cons have been delusional about elections. I even count 2016, when most of them I knew were shocked Trump won.

The first thing you must learn is to stop saying that the polls are all wrong. Yes, you can’t rely completely on them, but the more established ones are more often somewhat close (they can only take a small sample) than farther off. Sure, sometimes one or more is way off, but that is not the norm and outliers are normal. And, yes, sometimes there may be a left-wing bias, but these companies have reputations they want to uphold. Even when I would tell my R-con friends that a poll is by a right leaning organization, they often stick to their belief it is tainted if it doesn’t tally with their own beliefs. Maybe it is just wishful thinking because they have been getting their heads handed to them so often.

The second thing what R-cons must learn is to stop thinking rationality matters with Democrats. Everyone thinks their own thoughts are rational and common sense. This is an old argument, but I stick with David Hume that reason is the slave of the passions. People vote for those they think are on the same side as them or the based on party for the same reason. Some of the smartest, nicest people I know have what seems to me unrealistic views, completely irrational, and they cannot confront or acknowledge that it is the case – again, even when they cannot articulate reasons. But my point is, stop thinking you can beat the D-libs by explaining yourselves better or getting them to acknowledge certain things make no sense. It would be nice and I’m not saying you can’t appeal to some of them that way. But, you can point out everything that is wrong with their leadership and they will say – Trump! or They are trying to take away democracy/our rights, and so forth. Sure, you can say –See how irrational they are -- the Dobbs case didn’t take away rights, it restored the decision to the States for the people therein to determine. They don’t care. They will repeat Trump! or They are trying to take away democracy/our rights. It may be annoying, but it also works. A single word that excites people is more powerful than the best written political tract.

The fact that Kathy Hochul could say in a debate (which she only consented to because Zeldin was gaining on her) that she didn’t know why Zeldin was so concerned with crime when crime is her constituents’ biggest concern, and, the fact that Fetterman (Pa. D-Senate), a man who is still recovering (if he ever does) from a severe stroke and cannot possibly perform his tasks in the Senate – could handily win, means that people are not voting with their heads, but with their feelings. They literally would not care if they were guilty of rape or molestation or grossly incompetent, impaired, what have you. They care they are on their side. And you should vote that way too. After all, Biden can be seen on video putting his hands all over women, even girls, can be legitimately accused of sexually accosting a staffer, can lie so much that at least once he has admitted it, can have oodles of evidence against him that he sold his vice presidential office in accord with his son Hunter, and still be voted president.

The third thing that R-cons must do is stop thinking just because there are some women or Hispanics or blacks who have seen the light, that they are coming over in droves to their side. They aren’t. I hope they are making strides among those groups, and they should keep telling them the truth, but it is still few of them.

The fourth thing the R-cons must learn is that they are not helping themselves enough. I get it. They like their lives and don’t want to give them up. They are financially succeeding. But they have succeeded too well and it has sapped their willingness to sacrifice and scrape for their own freedom. A few quotes that might inspire (though I’m not optimistic):

“[I]t is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

― Bertrand Russell

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“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom.”

 

Malcolm X

 

I’m not advocating violence or for you to give up your stuff because we haven’t lost all our freedoms yet. What you could do is boycott though. I urge it more and more to my friends, even though I know it is self-righteous, annoying and I am not perfect in it. I know you can’t boycott everything. I know it doesn’t make you a Nazi if you go to the best bakery in town and it’s owned by a Nazi. I know we can have relationships with companies that make it difficult to part with as they have a hold on us (as me with Google, which owns this blog platform and my phone and has 15 or so years of my emails, etc. – I wish I knew how to fix that – feel free to give advice). I know there are some industries where all the companies are woke and it would cripple you in some way not to do business with them. I know some of the evilest companies simply make the best products. I know your kids and grandkids watch Disney. You don’t have to boycott everything. Pick ten companies and do that. Your life will actually benefit from giving it up. I’m not giving you a list but you know who they are and can if you want to. I don’t use Amazon for gifts or books, I don’t watch tv or movies on my own (harder in groups if you don’t want to run out of rooms), I don’t drink Coke anymore, I am not going to DisneyWorld with my family and stopped shopping at many stores. I do support that guy with the pillow (I can’t remember his name), a local pizzeria that stupid up to anti-Trump cancellation and Goya Beans, and so on. And most important, you can stop watching tv and going to movies as these companies are among the worst.

Because if we don’t do something about the efforts of the left to bully and control us and they gain more power, the fight will be brought to us – or some form of slavery.

The fifth thing will be hardest to sell to many supporters across America – we have to give up Trump. First, let me praise him for what he’s done and what he has suffered for us, and then ask him to leave, with, of course, a proper explanation.

Thank you, President Trump. You were fearless in calling out a corrupt and morally bankrupt media, you unleashed our forces to defeat ISIS*, you economically competed with China and you kept Russia, China and Noko at bay**. Thanks for pointing out the dangers of tik tok (which even a few Ds are waking up to). Thank you for your efforts to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide, for not pretending that Iran would comply with its no-nukes agreement, for being not only a friend to probably our best ally, Israel, not only by keeping America’s promise to make Jerusalem its capital, and also for the Abraham Accord normalization agreements, for which you deserved the Nobel Prize in a sane world. Thank you for standing up to our NATO allies and demanding they pay their fair share, for standing up to our EU allies and pointing out that they were buying gas from the country we protect them from – Russia (we see the results of that weakness by the EU and Biden).

Thank you for what you did for the economy before Covid-19 did everything we know about and for telling us it was time to go back to work before Biden took over with his unconstitutional mandates and vicious rhetoric. Thank you for deregulation effort, for making college fairer for young men and not having decisions made about these kids’ lives based on gender (Biden has, of course, reversed due process again), for cancelling Obama’s sellout of the Cuban people, leading the world diplomacy against Maduro (to whom Biden has gone begging to) and recognizing Juan Guaido. Thanks for dropping out of the Paris Agreement which does nothing to help the environment (as other countries have a free hand, even if anthropocentric global warming is real, and we reduce carbon emissions anyway) and was economically appalling (once again, which Biden brought us back into). Thank you for trying to build a wall (I wasn’t a big fan, but given what Biden has done to the border and has now is continuing to build after destroying our border with his policies – you should be thanked). Thanks for rebuilding our military, getting rid of the hateful CRT culture there (both brought about by Obama and undone by Biden), reducing deaths in Afghanistan to close to nil, establishing a space force, pushing cyber-security, supporting law enforcement against the anarchy-like and anti-democracy efforts of the left to destroy policing in America (which they’ve accomplished in some blue cities).

Perhaps most of all, thanks for showing the way to those in the second generation that is not afraid to call out the media and fight the radical party, like DeSantis, Abbott, Kari Lake, Kristy Noem (I think) and others.

And so much more – this is not an attempt to be comprehensive, but, just to show how much you did. And not that I agreed with every single policy. I didn’t. I didn’t even support you when you first ran. But I can recognize what a great job you did against the fiercest resistance (their word) by the left than we’ve ever seen in this country, the worst opposition any president has faced since Lincoln. In fact, even now, it is so difficult for their opposition to give you credit for anything.

*Yes, knuckleheads, I know they still exist in a small way. So do Nazis. But ISIS has no land or pseudo-state anymore and is greatly, almost entirely diminished.

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Bad things happened soon after Biden got elected. China started doing intimidating flights over Taiwanese airspace almost immediately, and shortly thereafter Putin started the build up on the Ukraine border. More Noko missiles have been tested just this year than in Trump’s 4 years.

My other point is, So Now please go.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, let’s remember that you are your own worst enemy. You have a biiiiig mouth and a poison tweeting finger. When things are going smoothly we can count on you to make it worse by saying something at least annoying, incredibly stupid or offensive. Yes, they exaggerate your mistakes, are hypocrites and play games. But, you play right into it. It doesn’t negate what you accomplished, but it makes it harder to be re-elected. You didn’t do any favors for yourself with 1/6 either, though the committee is a joke and you did not send marauders to invade the capitol. Pretty clear you were an obstinate, bitter jerk though while cops were busy fighting. I know you offered the National Guard to the city but the left and D.C. are far worse than you are.

Plus, though maybe all presidents, but at least a lot, are self-absorbed, narcissistic or ambitious, most people, even your supporters believe you are at or near the pinnacle. And it has led to political problems with your own party. Who would want to be your VP now? Certainly not Mike Pence. I can’t imagine anyone with presidential aspirations signing up. I guess Mike Pompeo (who would be a good candidate himself though) might, but maybe not. Or maybe Marjorie Taylor Green would, but she’d be a liability. I guess you can always find an unknown or wannabe who has enough ambition.

Worse than that, you haven’t changed since the 2016 campaign. You’ve already attacked DeSantis, who is the choice of most conservatives I personally know. Perhaps he is just who he is, but I think he learned from you many things. Still, he is much better suited for a political office than you and seems to be just as tough and dedicated to helping people and prevent harm as you were. It’s like trading in a great looking spouse for another great looking spouse with a better personality.

Why do you attack DeSantis? Well, it’s your way, for one thing. And, you are also rightfully scared of what an increasingly fascist opposition wants to do to you – put you in jail. I think you’d be better off making up with DeSantis and hoping he helps you out, certainly on the federal level.

I understand, it’s not fair. Though I don’t think you got more votes than Biden, the opposition did cheat, violating the laws in many states to increase voting, the FBI apparently using social media to cut you off from the public, Wisconsin refusing to hear your claims and not the Green Party’s either (if they ran, you would have won Wisconsin). All the lies and the impeachments, all the while they treat Biden with kid gloves, refuse to investigate the Hunter Biden matter, and so on. Yes, the media is beyond awful – they are despicable, and I will back you 100% against virtually any Democrat in the country if you are the nominee. But, I’m sorry, by attacking DeSantis, you lost my and many other people’s sympathy, even if you tepidly endorsed him on the last day. Most conservatives I know do not want you to run. That may or may not be the case throughout the country, the I think it will be if he declares.

And, let’s face it. You are not up to it. You couldn’t beat Biden, someone who almost comically lies, says bizarre things and was already cognitively declining. Why? One reason. The people who hate you, really hate you. Come on.

I do not want you to go away mad. I want you to say you are not running, but will support a great candidate.  But, you really need to go now.

Do it because you really do want to Make America be Great Again.

Who's the authoritarian?

 “America's now divided based on what news you consume. People I love and respect who are well educated who watch, I'm just going to say it. . . who read the New York Times and watch CNN and MSNBC are being lied to every single day about every aspect of this pandemic and these vaccines and the policies around them. . . ."

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“I confess that I believed the Russian hoax story too until it was conclusively debunked, not very long ago. I believed things that friends of mine of the Right think I’m crazy for having believed. If you watch CNN and read the New York Times, you’re getting a worldview—I don’t know how to say this, we’ve entered this time and the Smith-Mundt Act is part of this—where it is now legal to propagandize Americans”.

Naomi Wolf, former liberal writer

I know just how she feels. People who I know who watch or listen to CNN, The Times or MSNBC simply have no idea what has been going on and even doubt things that have absolutely happened. They think it is just conspiracy theories or fake news. It is nigh impossible to persuade anyone of anything when they are primed in the other direction and they are lied to every day from sources they believe.

But, still, I will try. We have to keep trying, even if we just tell our spouses and children.

Last month in my post I mentioned a young English professional traveler I listened to on a podcast, who was in Russia at the beginning of the war with Ukraine. He was able to travel for a while, occasionally pulled over on his bicycle a few time by the police and fined (after the cops took selfies with him), and finally arrested and held for three months before his release. Apparently, he is not so good a catch as Griner. In any event, I mention him again because he said that the saddest part of his trip before he was arrested was learning that the people, even non-Russians who he thought would be more cynical, believed all the propaganda coming out of their government.

And all I could think was, well, that sounds familiar.

I know lots of people who agree with me, but it seems to me that the majority of people in America have been swayed or completely convinced by the onslaught of anti-Trump rhetoric by the mainstream or legacy media and big tech’s censorship, that somehow - even if Biden is an idiot, or cognitively deficient or just grossly incompetent, he’s better than that “authoritarian” Trump. Or put another way, that Donald Trump is an authoritarian and, equally amazing to me, that Biden is not. And the Ds are doing everything they can to play this up. Biden made a speech on November 4^th where he almost entirely focused on the threat of “MAGA.” Apparently, he doesn’t think this raises the threat of violence, although this has been happening since before Trump was elected. This is part of mainstream Democrat rhetoric now and there is no push back from their party. Pam Keith, a D running for congress, in 2020 openly called for “open season” on Trump and his administration. Was she arrested? No. Even investigated? I don’t know, but I do not believe so from what I can see. In North Dakota, Calyer Ellingson, only 18, was run down and killed by Shannon Brandt, age 41, because Ellingson was a conservative. Perhaps Brandt is crazy – but remember the national outcry and attack on Trump when it happened in Charlottesville. Then, even idiot Rs jumped on the bandwagon of saying it can only be the fault of the right. We all know Nancy Pelosi’s husband was just attacked. I wrote about this a few weeks ago – and it looks also like a crazy person who believed conspiracy theories on both sides – not that you will read or hear that in the mainstream media.  Read the Naomi Wolf quote again. Until you open yourself up to that, you will not believe what I am about to tell you.

I have my two routines when a friend tells me that Trump is authoritarian or the like, which I usually cut short these days, but they make the point which I have little hope will make a small impact on the listener - such is the power of partisanship it can only be small. One is going through what Trump accomplished and asking them as to each one, if that’s what they didn’t like.  You know, “Is it that you don’t like the peace treaties he brokered between Israel and neighbors?” (which used to be good for a Nobel until Trump’s name was submitted)? Is it taking the handcuffs off our military so they could destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria as he said he would do that bothers you? Was it low unemployment for minorities, promoting decriminalizing homosexuality throughout the world, and so on. They, of course, answer no, no, no to all of them. It’s just, you know, he’s an authoritarian.

The second routine is asking them to tell me what he did that they did not like or thought was authoritarian without using adjectives (egotistic, arrogant, lying and my favorite, authoritarian – because they aren’t facts). Other than one woman who became incensed, and stormed away, most people I talk to about it can come up with nothing. In fact, they almost immediately resort to more adjectives – sometimes the same adjectives. Another, one of the smartest fellows I know said he was “allowed” to just have adjectives and he didn’t need to have facts to back it up, which was contrary to him previously saying to me that he liked data. When they say “authoritarian” or “power-hungry” and I ask them for examples, excluding 1/6 (because they thought he was authoritarian since even before he was in office and Jan. 6 was days before he was out of office, they literally can’t). None. Not one of them can and I guess I’ve asked perhaps a dozen people.

So, at risk of offending those who can’t bear to hear anything positive about Trump (“I don’t want to talk about it” after they’ve excoriated him) and negative about Biden, let’s review the evidence on whether Trump is authoritarian. I can’t prove to you a negative, that Trump was not authoritarian, because there are very few negatives you can prove, particularly if they end with an opinion. So, I’ll just ask you - what did he do that was authoritarian? Leave aside that you think he summoned a mob to take over the government (because, surely, a bunch of unarmed bikers would accomplish that) because you were always told and thought he was for four years and that happened with two weeks left to his term.  I will deal with 1/6 separately another day as it will make this post too long, but his role is ridiculously overstated. But I can tell you this before I show you how authoritarian Biden actually is: You tell me what part of this you factually disagree with:

Trump and his administration made no presidential decree or push for any law which favored some Americans over other because of superficial characteristics like race, religion, sex; didn’t try to force his particular cultural values on anyone; obeyed judicial decrees even when they were ridiculous; didn’t try to destroy any American industries; didn’t try to proselytize new cultural norms; didn’t try to divide the country (you cannot blame the “resistance” on him); didn’t nominate or hire based on superficial characteristics; he didn’t use violence to put down resistance (even in Portland, he sent federal troops to protect federal property and workers, but didn’t attack the rioters and in Seattle had troops only on standby); didn’t try to make non-law enforcement federal agencies, like the IRS, into gun-wielding enforcers; didn’t pretend PTA moms and dads were terrorists because they disagreed with him; didn’t try to stack the rules against male college students but made harassment charges fair for everyone; didn’t try to harm women competing in sports by forcing them to compete with men; didn’t try to stifle free speech or religion; didn’t try to force little girls to share bathrooms with boys; he didn’t try to pack the courts or otherwise turn us into a one-party country; didn’t set forth an anti-American or anti-white race agenda; didn’t free up vandals to destroy federal monuments; didn’t do what he could to allow for the dissolving of the border; didn’t harass journalists, and so on. And didn’t create federal mandates destroying people’s lives because they didn’t want to put a fairly untested “vaccine” into their arms. These are all things the left, and even Joe Biden’s administration did.

If you think any of the above isn’t true, please give me facts, not adjectives. The only aggressive thing he did, and it was clearly reluctantly, was direct GE, which can certainly fend for itself, to make ventilators, because at the time, that’s what the so-called science of the CDC and FDA told us was the answer to serious COVID cases (as so often – wrong again).

Now, let’s look at Biden. And if you don’t know any of the below or will not believe something is true, read the Naomi Wolf quote again).

Here we go. Biden and/or his administration have. . .

Oil and gas. Starting his second day in office Biden attempted to damage America’s oil and gas industry based on the supposed science of anthropogenic global warming (“AGW”), something of course no one can prove (I’m still agnostic about it) which the left nevertheless declares proven (just like the vaccine). Certainty, a non-starter in actual science, is also a left-wing specialty these days. Around 2018, during Trump’s term, we became energy independent, the first time in about 70 years, exporting more than we imported. Now, in the Biden era, we’ve quickly become energy dependent again. Let’s start with the Keystone Pipeline extension coming from Canada. Obama rejected it. Trump, fast-tracked it. Biden shut it down on his second day in office by presidential decree. Recently Biden said there would be no more drilling while he’s president. I’m going to assume that he either meant on federal land, which he has some say over, or just doesn’t understand.

During his campaign Biden repeatedly said he opposed fracking, then in a debate with Trump, claimed he never said it. It was just one more lie for Biden who has made a career out of them. With a fully obeisant left-wing media, which would not even report on Hunter’s infamous laptop, pretending it was Russian disinformation, few called him on it. In his first two weeks in office, he issued to orders pausing new gas and oil leases on federal lands, including, of course, fracking. Not congress and the president, just Biden. It was initially stayed by a district court judge, but unfortunately an appeals court reinstated the presidential order for the time being.

I say unfortunately, because you know the state we are in because of it - gas prices have sky-rocketed ahead of inflation and our emergency reserves depleted by our same hero. Even though we are in a proxy-war with Russia, we are beholden to buy its oil. We had to go begging to our enemy, Venezuela, to pump more. And Biden, who was heavy-handed with our difficult but usual ally, Saudi Arabia, and in begging mode with our enemy, Iran, had to go hat-in-hand to the Saudis to ask for more production, and now is threatening them because OPEC, for its own purposes, is cutting production. Please explain that to me, my left-wing or leaning friends, how this makes any sense? Let’s just say that anthropogenic global warming is real. Then why are we asking other countries to pump more when we can do it? Of course, none of it makes sense. It’s just Biden pushing the narrative, not by law, where congress legislates and the president passes them, but by using his presidential powers (and those at least are powers he has) to harm us to push the left-wing narrative. If you don’t believe it is harming us, go fill up your car.

And, unless you watch or read the legacy media you probably fear – you don’t even know that there is a great diesel oil shortage coming – that heats your home, runs trucks, machinery, etc. We should all be scared. What’s the White House plan? Nothing the WH spokesperson recently said.

Gender

"Those who deny the biological differences between a man and a woman are not only erasing women as a category of people, they’re denying the existence of objective reality, and the ‘truth’ becomes whatever those in power want it to be.”

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“There is no space for freedom of speech, there is no space for independent thought. It is conform or be canceled.”

Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat

Biden’s and the left’s war on boys and girls is hard to believe. Most people, maybe everyone I know, has empathy for men or women who think they were born in the wrong body. What they do not have sympathy for is the assault on boys and girls, including erasing that term in many public schools, even teaching secondary and college kids that there are multiple genders, the nouveau craziness of having people say their preferred pronouns, the insistence that men can have babies and other inanities. But most of all, it’s allowing men in girls bathrooms because they say they are woman. Worse, of course, is the secretive “transforming,” drugging kids with puberty blockers or even performing surgery, without parental permission. I don’t even know how it can possibly be legal to do that to a child with a parent’s permission. For goodness sake, a women recently had her son removed from her home because she got him a tattoo at age 10. Sex change on children is Mengelian. There was a time when the thought of transforming a child into another sex would be a plot in a horror movie.

What has this to do with Biden? It should be nothing, but even far worse than Obama, he wants to use the presidency, like so many, he says he would be the president for everyone, to radicalize our country. His decree sets a policy that includes things that sound nice in the abstract, but are ominous, because we all know or should know – if we pay any attention and read media outside of those protecting the left and original documents, to the best they are available.

The policies which U.S. agencies have been ordered to enforce include: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.  Adults should be able to earn a living and pursue a vocation knowing that they will not be fired, demoted, or mistreated because of whom they go home to or because how they dress does not conform to sex-based stereotypes.” And sure enough, as predicted by many, the USDA, a few months later declared it would enforce the decree. That means, of course, threatening school lunches, though they did not say it directly. And that’s exactly what happened – is still happening. After a lawsuit by religious schools, the USDA has only backed down against them, in August this year. But, all other schools are still targeted – meaning, they have to let boys and even men (who work in school) in girls’ bathrooms, make girls share locker rooms with boys. Any who do not comply are deemed to have harassed the transgender child (I recently in Vermont, an entire girls’ team has been thrown out of their own locker room and only the transgender child may use it (Girls Volleyball Team Banned From Their Own Locker Room Over Complaint About Transgender Student | The Daily Wire – hard if not impossible to find on liberal media).

Of course, as I have pointed out many times, despite the pretense, the left could care less about the plight of the poor – even minorities. Because who are they targeting with student lunches? The meals of rich or middle-class kids? No, poor kids who need the assistance are the one’s who get free lunches. You don’t think this will start happening again soon, now that some red-states have outlawed this monstrous behavior?  

Are you not shocked that the many red-state attorney generals have found it necessary to write Merritt Garland, probably the most leftist federal AG we’ve ever had to ask him not to act on the request of the American Medical Association and other groups to literally – not kidding, please look it up –investigate and prosecute those who question what they are doing to children in the name of “gender affirming care?” Why would they even think this necessary? What Attorney General in America – our America – would ever consider that as a possibility, given the first amendment. Why? Because they’ve already have seen it almost happen with parents of little girls forced to share bathrooms with boys and men, including one father whose daughter was raped who was dragged from a PTA meeting. Not that I’m John the Baptist, but I’ve been screaming into the wilderness here for years that fascism is already here. Merrick Garland is our Himmler. Take a look at the memo. 2021-11-16-JDJ-to-Garland-re-completeness-of-testimony.pdf (house.gov).

Abortion – In June this year, the Supreme Court, after almost 50 years, did what made sense, ended one of the worst decisions by the Court, Roe v. Wade, retuning the power to the states to make up their own laws about a domestic issue, the legality of abortion up to the states. Remember, even Ruth Ginsberg said it was badly decided. Personally, I think the Supreme Court could have said that fetuses (aka “unborn babies”) had a constitutional right to live, which they have just this week turned down from hearing in another case. But, they said nothing like that. Despite the lies of politicians about the decision, claiming it ended abortion – obviously, the Dobbs decision did not.

What was Biden’s initial go to when he was confronted with the Dobbs decision? He said he didn’t have a lot of legal authority to declare a public health emergency (ironically, whatever he did for the health emergency would result in many babies deaths) and then said he was considering it. If the Ds control both houses, it is a pretty sure thing they will try. They’ve already tried for legislation, that didn’t succeed initially, to make abortion legal everywhere. They will try again and again.

Debt

Biden has no right to simply declare which debt will be paid and which will not. There was an emergency rule under COVID to allow debt relief, but it is the height of hypocrisy for the government to declare his relief plan of up to $20,000 for some college debt is because of COVID. It was to garner votes. Fortunately, for the moment, a lower federal court judge has halted it. It is quite possible that a Supreme Court could overturn the stay (the Appeals Court has affirmed it). Of course, judges don’t usually say whether they think something is authoritarian – but, it sure doesn’t seem like the rule of law applied.

Local zoning laws

The left has long been desirous of ending state rights that keep the federal government out of our lives. Of course, state rights have been disintegrating for centuries and there is little left of it. But, zoning laws, things like how big your property can be and where you can do business, have always been left to the states. As far as I’m aware, there are no federal zoning laws.

But, Biden doesn’t want that. He, who lives in 6,850 sq. ft house on 4 lakefront acres in Delaware (he also has a beach house) wants to make a federal law, likely unconstitutional, which will limit you and your children to far less. A WH fact sheet advised that he wanted to do away with local zoning – yes, the federal government will take control, and things like minimum sized plots (in other words, good-bye to beautiful neighborhoods). How much do you want to bet their will be a cut-out for those in congress and other wealthy folk?

You don’t think ending state and local “exclusionary” zoning and making the feds in charge is authoritarian? This is exactly the kind of thing the constitution was created to prevent.

It has come to nothing, but the authoritarian has wanted to do it.

The Vaccine mandates

During the pandemic, we were subject to all kinds of Biden mandates. He made a national speech calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated and told the country it was alright to be angry at the unvaccinated. Thankfully, the courts finally got rid of most of them (they continue to coerce the medical profession). Though there was some red state bullying too, particularly at the beginning, that’s at the state level, and it was the blue states where it was worst.

Again, why do I call these mandates authoritarian? Two reasons. First, there have never been federal vaccine requirements. Everyone made a big deal about a Massachusetts case from 1903 which upheld required vaccines. Arguably, at a local level, it is legal and reasonable, if the consequences are great enough. The authoritarian government orders people to inject themselves with foreign substances which have been barely tested and which more and more evidence is showing has more risks than health benefits. Some judges have ruled against them.  E.g., Judge tosses NYC vaccine mandate, orders workers' backpay (nypost.com). The only shame is that the Supreme Court, ending an aggressive Biden mandate on businesses, let it stand for physicians and other health care workers. Supreme Court blocks nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses | CNN Politics because of the precedent of letting Medicare regulating health care.

Pushing the woke agenda

After Trump learned of Obama era rules pushing critical race theory and other woke ideology on federal employees, including the military, he ended it. No surprise, Biden started it again. While China cleans our clock developing its military capabilities, we are teaching our soldiers a new religion (See, John McWhorter’s wonderful book, Woke Racism). Biden also reversed Trump's reversal of Obama's rules on judging harassment at schools, basically starving male students of due process rights. You can't expect anything else once you ignore the nonsense about Trump and realize that Biden is determined to take away basic rights.

Another example of this agenda was the attack on the federal officers defending our border, accusing them of whipping refugees on horseback, something that not only didn’t happen – the photographer who shot the picture said no one was whipped – but was well known to the Alejandro Mayorkas on the first day to be false. Didn't stop from pretending it was true, saying it was horrific and that our history had not yet turned that page. It ended only recently, only after a year just the way it started, with the acknowledgement that the photographer had said no one was whipped and he had never seen that.

The Big Lie

The Big Lie was not that Trump won the election, it is that it is the Rs who are a threat to democracy. If you don’t believe that, explain to me why the Ds are the party that wants to end the filibuster in the Senate (so that they can win every vote), end the electoral college (so they can win every presidential election based on California’s population), pack the Supreme Court with liberal judges so that they can win every case, do away completely with voter ID and have weeks long voting with unsecured write-in voting predominating. I don’t think you can convincingly. 

I recently wrote on all the lies, and there have been so many more since then. Just for example, we’ve learned that despite the suspension of the horse-back division of our Border Protection, they suspended and castigated those men for supposedly whipping refugees, they knew from day 1 it wasn’t so. Didn’t matter, the narrative was too good to pass up. We’ve had in the past, some in the last few weeks, Biden saying things like that his son, who died of cancer (not Hunter) died in Iraq in the armed services, that his wife escaped when their house burned down (it was a small kitchen fire – nothing burned down), that he desegrated churches and was raised in a black church, that the driver who killed his wife and children was drunk, that when he took over gas was $5 a gallon, that he boosted social security by a record amount. Even media onboard with the anti-Trump, progressive narrative like the NYTimes has called him out on some of these. They seem never ending. Keep telling yourself Trump lied. Sure he did. One, most politicians do. Two, Trumps couldn’t hold a candle to Biden, who never stops.

Intimidation tactics

Of course there are examples of right-wing violence, but it is eschewed by the mainstream right-wing. Democrats either back the violent left-wing extremists like antifa or they ignore them. It has been a left-wing staple for a long-time now, but increasingly, while right wing violence decreases. Just since Trump ran for president in 2016 we have seen assaults and attempts to shut down his rallies during his campaign, the harassment of and even attacks on Republican leaders in public, the murders of police officers, the legal assaults on officers doing their jobs, the leaking of the Dobbs draft opinion, the attempt to murder Justice Kavanaugh and planned murder of other conservative justices, the Biden administrations refusals to stop the harassment of the justices in their homes - even though it is a crime to do so. 

The FBI and DOJ

So sad what the FBI has become under Biden (and even before, in joining the resistance) that it will be a full post coming up. A police state is already here. I know, you haven’t heard about this, right. Sigh. But, it’s terrifying and you really should be scared.

Big show biz finish

I literally can’t keep up myself with this administration’s lies and malfeasance. But, I can’t go on forever here (please don't say - it already has), with thanks to anyone who has even gotten this far. It’s hard to read this stuff without wanting to believe otherwise, and that’s without going over the strong-arm tactics of the so-called Department of Justice, the January 6th murder of Ashlee Babbitt and the kangaroo court known as the January 6th committee, that wouldn't even let Republicans put their chosen members on it - unheard of in congress.

Let me finish then with a few more words from Tulsi Gabbard. I’m actually haven’t been a big Gabbard supporter. Although there have been things I’ve admired about her, I have always been a hawk, believing we need the biggest most powerful military in the world by far and to support countries like Ukraine, and she is almost the opposite. That’s important to me too. But otherwise, Gabbard was shunned by the left and has finally left the Democrat Party because of what they have become, not unlike James Webb before her, after he was so severely criticized because he had the temerity to say All Lives Matter during a presidential primary debate. Unlike, me, Gabbard doesn't use the word fascist. At least not yet. That’s fine. But she understands the leaders in that party are anti-freedom, what I would call fascist. She recently said:

“And because they don't believe in freedom, and because they are, you know, the party is led by fanatical ideologues, they are actively trying to undermine those God-given rights that are enshrined in our Constitution. They're actively seeking to undermine our freedom of speech. They want to control what we say and what we think. They are attacking our religious liberty. They cannot handle it, when people dare to speak out. Or even question, question the things they're trying to employees on us as a society, and the way they foment fear. You see this cancel woke culture. They try to silence anyone who dares to disagree, or anyone who dares to expose the insecurity -- their insecurity, and the weakness in their arguments and narratives. And for a whole host of reasons, and you can go and read my statement on Substack, or listen to -- you know, I spoke about this in detail. On the Tulsi Gabbard Show. But it really all comes down to freedom. And I can no longer be associated with today's Democratic Party, that is so actively anti-freedom.”

Biden said he was here to “restore the soul of the nation.” Instead he is a fraud, leading an authoritarian party.