Year: 2024

The Debate Presents Big Questions

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The debate unfolded as I had foreseen but with even more dramatic results. As anticipated, Biden’s performance that night revealed his vulnerabilities, leading to a swift abandonment by many of the party’s leaders and media supporters the following day. The critical difference is that Biden’s unsuitability was starkly exposed, prompting an immediate exodus. This outcome aligns with our suspicion of a plan to replace Joe with a candidate perceived as more competent at the top of the ticket. Nearly a year ago, in my post, ‘Why Republicans Lose,’ I outlined how, once Trump secured the Republican nomination, the Democrats would discard the weak old Joe and his baggage and nominate a fresh, younger candidate.

While some still resist the idea of a new ticket, their numbers are

thinning faster than those on Ozempic. The Democrats are not about to concede any election. As I’ve stated, for Democrats, politics is a blood sport, while for Republicans, it’s a pastime. Most Democrats rely on their ties to the state, whether directly or indirectly. They will seize any opportunity to win. With Biden, the best they can hope for is a lame duck for four years, and only if he manages to win.

A new ticket significantly enhances their chances of victory, and this triumph could pave the way for eight years of unchallenged dominance. Try convincing us again that the Democrats are standing by Joe. It’s only a matter of time before everyone realizes that replacing Biden was always part of the plan.

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The Debate Isn’t About Problem Solving

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As we realize the catastrophic impact of our response to the COVID-19 epidemic, it’s crucial to acknowledge the profound, long-lasting effects on our children’s education. Many will struggle to make up for the learning loss from unnecessarily closed schools. The staggering borrowing to offset income losses from a shutdown economy will burden us for years.

Those in charge, like Anthony Fauci, owe the nation an apology on many levels, from scientifically unsupported policies to the apparent coverup of the pandemic’s laboratory origins. Instead, the good doctor gets a friendly reception on his book tour. My series on COVID left no doubt about my feelings about our actions from March ’20 on. Out front of every lousy decision was Dr. Fauci. Yet, welcoming Dr. Fauci as some hero in progressive stops nationwide is commonplace.

It’s as if everything we learned about the pandemic and our awful response missed a large part of the electorate. We see similar blindness among many when it comes to the Gaza War. Brutely attacked, Israel counter-attacked against the Hamas perpetrators. In contravention of the accepted rules of war, Hamas has located its military in heavily populated areas, hospitals, schools, and Mosques. Breaking the prohibition of using civilians, especially women and children, as human shields have resulted in preventable civilian casualties; the leader of Hamas tells the world how little they value Palestinian lives by saying they’re winning world opinion with the increasing civilian deaths. Yet, the progressive left blames Israel.

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Short Time Till We Find Out Who Is Running In ’24

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As we approach the First Presidential Debate, a pivotal event less than two weeks away, we find ourselves in the middle of June with a nation in disarray. This condition is primarily a result of an administration on its last legs, leaving behind a legacy of significant failures. The abrupt Afgan pullout has emboldened our adversaries, leading to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, all due to our reluctance to confront the wrongdoers.

Overspending has resulted in the highest inflation in forty years. Illegal entrants overrun our borders, and shipping them across the nation is bankrupting many communities. No one feels safe in many of our greatest cities, and antisemitism runs rampant in Universities and on city streets.

When Joe Biden steps into the debate room, it will be his swan song. Even if he tries to project energy and vigor to dispel the notion that he’s a political corpse, it won’t hide that his record is one that only our worst president, James Buchanan, would applaud. The responsibility for these failures is clear, and it’s a burden he carries with him, like a second skin.

Confirmation of Biden’s political demise will come right after the Debate. Typically, even if a Democratic candidate has a horrible night, the legacy media will loudly applaud the performance while in unison declaring the Republican sucked. This time, they’ll be highly critical and concerned. Joe did his best, but he didn’t have it. If he’s this bad now, he’ll only get worse.

Chances are high Joe is in for a stormy debate night. Defending his record of failures is bad enough, but his DOJ handed Trump a club to beat him. By entering Hunter Biden’s laptop into evidence in the gun trial, they verified its contents for all to see.

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The Roadmap To Conviction

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We now have a roadmap for convicting your political opposition in court. First, locate a state under the control of your party. Then, find the counties where nine out of ten voted your way. Choose the one where the county attorney is determined to get the other side. Charge your opponent with a felony. If t you can’t readily find a crme, put some stuff together that appears it might add up to a felony. Top it off by assigning the case to a judge on record of supporting your side and against the opposition.

With the judge in the prosecutor’s corner, there is no need for the niceties of due process, such as informing the defendant of the nature of the charges. If you can get some unrelated salacious details to embarrass the defendant, so much the better. Make sure you have some lawyers on the jury. The other jurors will look to them for guidance—people who make their living before judges with our party label aren’t about chance an acquittal. Everyone, including judges, will know how they voted. The rest of the jury may feel similar pressure from friends, family, and employers. Bingo, you have your conviction.

Overturning the conviction may eventually occur, but that will probably be well after we win the election. Remember the Ted Stevens case. Vindicated after finding breathtaking prosecutorial misconduct, unfortunately, as a convicted felon, he lost re-election. With his loss, the Democrats had a Senate majority and passed Obamacare. Wiping his record clean occurred only after the release of the Schuelke report but only after damage. The lesson is that even if we lose on appeal, we’ll already win the prize.  

The problem with this unethical recipe is both sides can use it. A county prosecutor in a Red state gets a grand jury to indict a state resident who is one of the fifty-one retired intelligence officials signing the letter claiming the Hunter Biden Laptop was likely Russian disinformation—the charge of conspiring with others to deny the state’s voters vital information fraudulently.

The other signers, Anthony Blinkin, who originated the plot, and his boss, Joe Biden, are also indicted as co-conspirators. While state election law may or may not be a felony, linking it to a fraudulent conspiracy will do the job. Indict anybody else found having a hand in the fraud, too, including government agents, such as the FBI, who pressured the media to suppress the story.

Including underlings, this large cast may contain some willing to turn state’s evidence to save themselves or their money. This case keeps getting better.

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Inflation Hurts And The Pain Will Continue

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Democratic Politicians and allied media, echoing some economists like Paul Krugman, paint a rosy picture of our economy. They question why we’re less content while supposedly outperforming other nations. Catherine Rampall, the Washinton Post economics columnist, tells us, “Nearly everything Americans believe about the economy is wrong, according to a recent Harris-Guardian poll. And that’s pretty much everyone’s fault.” This narrative implies that our dissatisfaction is unfounded. But is this the whole truth? Are there no deeper economic issues that we need to address?

After a lifetime of talking to people about their finances, I have gained a profound understanding of how people assess their financial well-being. In most cases, having a growing amount left over at the end of each month tells them whether they’re just subsisting or can think of the things that make life worth living—a vacation, maybe with your family, or a better house. Whatever your dream, it always requires money. Unless you have discretionary income, you can’t fulfill it, whatever it is.

When every basic bill, from rent to utilities and insurance, elicits a gasp, even a raise can’t alleviate the feeling of being trapped. The necessities of life, like food, transportation, and clothing, become burdens, and dreams start to fade. This situation is actual for many hardworking Americans struggling to make ends meet.

While economists discuss prices and wages, the reality is far more complex. Your pay may rise, but your grandpa’s and grandma’s income may be more fixed. Where they could pay their way in the past, now they need help to meet their rising bills. You thought you had the kid’s education covered, only to find a widening gap. These stark realities are not just isolated incidents but the daily norm for more people. No wonder those telling us how well we’re doing only get blank stares.

Inflation is the source of most of our angst, but if you feel future inflation isn’t dangerous, steps to rein it aren’t topping your to-do list. Everybody seems to be waiting for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, which presupposes inflation is under control. How likely is this situation to be accurate in the future?

The classic definition of inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods.” We have to borrow when revenues don’t cover our government’s expenditures. If we dump ever-growing amounts of debt on the market and the Federal Reserve fails to intervene, ever-rising interest rates will be required to find buyers. Already, we pay more on our debt than on defense. In the future, the payments will crush the entire budget. This crisis is not a distant possibility but a potential economic catastrophe that we must address:

Of course, the Federal Reserve can buy the debt with money created out of thin air. This course of action is how we get runaway inflation: one way or another, overspending results in the unkindest tax inflation.

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