I was under the illusion that with Donald Trump back in charge and the wind at his back Washington Republicans might actually take off the gloves and say eff-it and take on the swamp. With the failures inherent in the Big Beautiful Bill, it appears I was wrong. I don’t blame Trump. This abysmal betrayal of the American people was written in the halls of Congress…
Monday, June 2, 2025
DOGE, the Big Beautiful Bill and the 'Rich Men North of Richmond
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Joe Biden Considers A Scorched Earth Policy On His Way Out The Door
Scorched earth is one of the most brutal strategies in war. It can be an offensive or a defensive strategy and usually leaves a wasteland of destruction and starvation in its wake. One of the most famous examples of an offensive use of scorched earth is Sherman’s “March to the Sea” from Atlanta to Savannah in November to December 1864. He not only burned Atlanta to the ground, but for a wide swath all the way to the ocean he left a trail of destruction, from military targets, to infrastructure to crops. The goal of course was to damage the military, but more than that to destroy everything and impede logistics and commerce. The larger goal was to break the morale of the South and any hope that they could not only never win, but show them that their lives would be destroyed if they continued to fight. He succeeded in spades and his campaign proved critical to the Confederacy’s surrender five months later.
The most famous defensive
use of the policy was probably that of Emperor Alexander I when facing an
advancing Napoleon during the French invasion of Russia in 1812. As the French
advanced further, the Russian troops embarked on a campaign of taking whatever
supplies they could carry then setting fire to or destroying virtually anything
that could be of use to the enemy. While in Moscow many buildings were spared,
they were largely empty husks by the time Napoleon arrived. Having far
outdistanced his supply trains and unable to live off the land, the Napoleon
began his slow retreat from a campaign that would leave 350,000 dead French on
the fields of Russia.
Another use of scorched
earth is retribution. This was possibly most famously utilized by the
Romans in Carthage after the Third Punic War in 146
BC. Wanting to inflict revenge against the city that had loosed Hannibal on
them half a century before and ensure their greatest rival never threatened
them again, the legions leveled the city down to bricks, burned farms forced
citizens to relocate 10 miles inland and barred them from rebuilding. Carthage
would remain a desert for a century until Ceasar recognized its strategic value
and begin rebuilding it.
Joe Biden, who, unlike
Sherman or Napoleon or Hannibal or Ceasar, will be forgotten the moment he
exits the stage, is nonetheless looking at the scorched earth policy with a
keen eye.
Biden, the politician
who’s never had a job that didn’t come from the government, has contempt for
the Republic. For him, America, and in particular the government is just
a vehicle for accumulating power and money.
The man is an inveterate
liar. He lies about important things and trivial. He lied about riding the train, the death of his grandfather and about being shot at in Iraq. He lied about the truck
driver who killed his wife and daughter in 1972, claiming that the man had been drunk despite police records of the
time showing no such thing. He cheated in college, lied about his standing at graduation in law school and, fatally for his 1988
presidential run, plagiarized Neil Kinnock, a British politician.
If there is a legacy to
Joe Biden pre Barack Obama, it is his destruction of the confirmation process
for the Supreme Court. For most of our history up until that point in 1987
Supreme Court nominations were largely collegial processes that focused mainly
on the candidate’s knowledge of the law and their qualifications for sitting on
the bench. Joe Biden and fellow liberal urchin Teddy Kenedy savaged Bork
for his conservative views and, as the New York Times suggested, the Bork
nomination “… in some ways, was the beginning of the
end of civil discourse in politics.” From that point forward, politics was no longer an arena where ideas
were debated as a sidebar to American life. From that point going forward,
Democrats shifted hard left and in less than two decades the cancer of the left
would infect virtually every element of American life.
Joe Biden did that.
Not satisfied with ruining
our economy, adding trillions to the national debt and allowing 10 million
illegal aliens to invade the country, on his way out the door Joe Biden may be
getting ready to eviscerate what’s left of our justice system and the rule of
law.
Presidents have used their
pardon power for years, with the most famous being that of Richard Nixon by
Gerald Ford. Last week Joe Biden, despite saying he would not do so, pardoned his son for every federal crime he may have
committed over the last 11 years, both those for which he had been convicted
and those he had not. That ensures that the Trump administration cannot
charge the younger Biden once they take over the White House.
Biden’s pardon was
unprecedented. Most pardons are for specific crimes, and while Ford’s
pardon of Nixon was a similar blanket immunity, it was specifically tied to the dates he was
President. The younger Biden’s,
however is far from specific and applies to no official duties. It just
happens to coincide with the moment Junior joined the board of Burisma, the
Ukrainian energy company, despite having zero experience in or knowledge of the
energy business.
Controversial pardons are
nothing new. Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 Puerto Rican
terrorists in August, 1999 and later his brother, but Biden is said to be
mulling doing something extraordinary, preemptively pardoning the people who
used the justice system to persecute Donald Trump and his supporters, including
the treacherous Liz Chaney and Adam Schiff. Then there’s also Anthony
Fauci, the COVID liar and General Milly, the traitor who thinks it’s his job to inform enemies of his
Commander in Chief’s plans. There are no doubt many others he’s
considering, including Mayorkas & Garland. And to top it all off, Biden
is being encouraged to, and is no doubt considering, offer a blanket pardon to all illegal aliens who are here in the United
States illegally.
Combined with the $2 million the DOJ paid Page and
Strzok for releasing their
text messages about conspiring to keep Trump from winning in 2016, what we’re
seeing Biden contemplate here is a scorched earth destruction of the rule of
law. Basically one party is telling its stormtroopers they can use the
police power of government to persecute their opponents with no limitations
because if they succeed, their opponents never make it into office to hold them
accountable, and if they fail, their crimes can be pardoned before the enemy
ever takes over. Heads we win, tails you lose…
If Biden burns down the
Republic on his way out the door, Democrats has better take cover. The
Constitution is, as John Adams said, “made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Democrats have shown themselves to
be anything but. If they see fit to torch it, they should not be
surprised if the GOP doesn’t decide to stop playing the patsy limiting
themselves to the Constitution’s Marquess of Queensberry Rules. There’s a reason FAFO videos are so
popular. Americans covet justice; Democrats flout it at their peril.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Trump’s Resilience And The Inevitable Endpoint of Democrat Politics
First published on July 19th...
Forty years ago, after the assassination attempt on Ronald
Reagan I remember watching ABC anchor Frank Renyolds violently slam his fist on
the desk when he was given some conflicting information about the president’s
fate. The ABC brass quickly marched Sam
Donaldson out to co-host, hoping to keep Renyolds calm. The country was shocked
and somber. While the left disliked
Reagan, there wasn’t a hint of joy (that I remember) expressed that he had been
shot or that it was unfortunate that he survived.
Fast forward 43 years and we have another maverick
Republican president (albeit not in office at the time) who’s wounded by a
would be assassin’s bullet. This time,
while most of the country was shocked and appalled, there’s a significant
element of the press and the left who argue that the president
was responsible for the shooting, as others openly wish the shooter hadn’t
missed.
What’s interesting is that as every day goes by we find out
more about the utter absurd, incompetence or worse that put Trump at risk. We discover that the DEI clown running the
Secret Service diverted
Trump’s usual detail to protect her patron, Jill Biden and left Trump with
the practice squad. What’s worse, we
discover that the building upon which the would be assassin set himself didn’t have
a sniper on it because
the roof was sloped – and a SS sniper might fall off – and that authorities
knew
the killer was there for more than 20 minutes before the first shot rang
out. They were even
in the building itself! The most
charitable assessment is that those in charge are utterly incompetent imbeciles. A less charitable assessment would conclude
that they were somehow complicit in the attack.
But of course this is just the latest attempt to destroy Trump.
The Democrats conspired to sabotage him from before he was president and never
gave up. There have been lies about
Russia, kids in cages, “Good people on both sides,” suckers and losers, and of
course Trump encouraging the drinking of bleach. He was impeached
for talking with Ukraine, investigated for allegedly trying to coerce
Georgia’s Secretary of State of Georgia to create votes after the 2020 election
and impeached for incitement
of the January 6th “Insurrection” despite the fact that no such
insurrection occurred. And the countless
manufactured court cases were just more of the same.
All the while Democrats and their mouthpieces in the
Propaganda Ministry have been telling Americans that Trump is a threat to the
nation, calling him Hitler and suggesting that if he gets into office he’ll
never leave.
Donald Trump has been on the defensive for the last eight
years. What’s more, his supporters have
been abused, harassed, thrown in jail and in the case of Ashli Babbitt on
January 6th and Corey Comperatore on Saturday, killed.
All of this presents a picture of America that is much
different than the one that the Democrats and their fellow travelers in the
swamp and the media want you to think exists, and last night Joe Biden
inadvertently highlighted it. He told
the NAACP “And
when you peacefully protested George Floyd’s murder, Donald Trump called for
the National Guard to go after you.”
During that Floyd inspired “Summer of love” Democrats were calling
for and supporting
violence against the fiction of “systemic racism”. And now, while claiming they
never encourage violence, they’ve been telling their sheeple for years that
Trump is the new Hitler,
a threat to freedom and a threat to “our democracy”. They and their cronies have suggested that
if he gets back into office he’ll likely never leave.
One wonders, given the left’s extraordinary propensity for
violence, what might have happened if rather than Trump being shot, it was the
sainted Barack Obama in the crosshairs when he was a candidate? And what if the attempt had been
successful? I can only imagine that the
resulting cataclysm would have made the “Summer of Love” look like a Boy Scout camp
fire.
But it wasn’t Barack Obama and there weren’t any riots. As a matter of fact, there weren’t any
protest marches, there weren’t any threats of violence, there was… nothing. And that’s the difference between Republicans
and Democrats. One seeks to govern and advance its agenda through debate,
legislation and the ballot box while the other seeks to use slander, intimidation
and violence to achieve its means.
The last time Republicans were given a proverbial punch in the face – the
stolen 2020 election – what did they do?
They protested in Washington, and almost all of the them doing so peacefully,
as Trump had implored them to.
Unfortunately, Democrats conspired to leave the capital largely
unguarded and decried the GOP when the predictable chaos ensued after police
and agents incited a riot by firing stun grenades and rubber bullets into the
peaceful crowd. This of course was labeled an “insurrection” but it was
nothing of the sort. Whatever it was, it was not equivalent to the Democrat’s Summer
of Love with burning cities, widespread violence and murders of innocent
people. That’s simply not the Republican
way.
The bottom line is, Democrats think we live in a democracy
while Republicans – for the most part – understand we live in a republic. The former is the hallmark of tyranny of men
while the latter defines a nation based on freedom and rights guaranteed by a
constitution.
So that is where we stand today. We’re not at a hot war, but then we’re not
far from it. The Democrats and their
comrades in the media along with their Antifa, BLM and pro Hamas stormtroopers
have made it clear that a GOP victory in November will essentially put America
where Germany was in the early 1930s. That
logic, taken to its logical conclusion, asks if you could go back in time and
kill Hitler, would you? Many of us might
say yes. Well Democrats are telling us that we’re facing the same threat now in
the form of Donald Trump. Given the level of gullibility and mental illness
that characterizes the left, how many of them will not choose to become martyrs
for the cause, or at a minimum, foot soldiers?
Let’s hope this attempted assassination has a silver lining, that the
rhetoric on the left is dialed down a few notches and a few Democrats start
listening to sources outside their silo.
If Amber Rose can do it, maybe a few million others could too and there
just might be hope that Trump’s coming victory won’t trigger a leftist cataclysm.
Friday, June 21, 2024
The Swamp fears Donald Trump, With Good Reason
As we all know, Democrats and the Swamp hate Donald Trump. They probably hate him more than any president ever. Those elites, including celebrities, journalists and politicians used to love Trump, with thousands of them smiling and taking pictures of him over the years. But not anymore.
All of that changed in 2015 when he decided to run for
president. It wasn't that he was running for president that made him
enemy number one, but rather because he was running for president as a
Republican.
But of course being a Republican wasn’t always the
polarizing factor that it became in 2015 and beyond. Sure, the media
disliked Bush and McCain and Romney, but they were OK because they were all
within the acceptable limits of what could be tolerated and controlled.
Trump was and is something altogether different.
To understand why he was and is different, look at the
people at the heart of the Swamp, the government.
Nancy Pelosi, is 84 years old with 47 years in politics
& government, a Political Science major with no experience in the private
sector.
Chuck Schumer, 74 years old, 49 years in government, a
lawyer with no private sector experience.
Hakeem Jeffries, 54 years old, 17 years in govt. A lawyer
with no private sector experience.
Joe Biden, 82 years old, 50 years in government, a lawyer
with zero private sector experience.
Bernie Sanders, 83 years old, 53 of which were in politics
and government, a Political Science major who held a smattering of odd jobs
prior to joining government.
Adam Schiff, a 64 year old lawyer who’s spent 38 years in
government with zero private sector experience.
Pete Buttigieg, 42 years old, 12 years in government, a
Political Science major who spent 3 years working for consulting giant McKinsey
& Co. mostly working with NGOs and corporations. He was in the Navy
and did a stint in Afghanistan.
AOC is a 35 year old Econ and International Relations major
who’s spent 8 years in government and whose private sector experience is that
of a bartender.
Gavin Newsom, a 57 year old Political Science major who’s
spent 27 years in government and who in 1992 was brought in by his friend,
Gordon Getty, as the co-founder of PlumpJack Winery in Napa, California.
Elizabeth Warren, a 75 year old lawyer who’s spent 30 years
in government and has zero private sector experience.
And it’s not just Democrats…
Mitch McConnell is an 82 year old lawyer who’s spent 50
years in government and never held a private sector job.
Kevin McCarthy is a 59 year old MBA who worked in government
for 37 years and sold sandwiches out of his uncle’s yogurt shop while in
college.
Paul Ryan is a 54 year old Political Science and Economics
graduate who spent 28 years in government before retiring to become a lobbyist
in 2019. He was a waiter and fitness trainer in college.
For these people, government is virtually everything in life. For most of them, they know nothing about the private sector, the thing that powers America. They know nothing about running a business, creating jobs, meeting payroll, and perhaps most importantly, doing all of those things while risking everything and while trying to abide by a stultifying labyrinth of ever changing government regulations from an endless array of agencies.
None of them, aside from Newsom, has built anything of any
consequence. They have no experience of what it’s like to be in
business, where 86% of employed Americans work, run a business or be
an entrepreneur, the economic fount of America. For most of their adult
lives none of them had to worry about the solvency of their next paycheck.
Their healthcare plans and those of their families and their employee’s
families weren’t resting on their success. They’ve not had to worry about
selling enough products or services in order to keep the lights on, the
employees’ paid and fresh product on the shelves or services in the
pipeline. Worrying about and conquering those pressures are what created
America’s prosperity. Those are the things that fund the paychecks Americans
pay taxes out of that the government turns around and redistributes.
Those are the things that make most Americans’ lives better than those of
almost every person in human history. It’s those things, not government…and the
people arrayed against Donald Trump have virtually no experience with any of
it.
But Trump, he has it in spades. He’s built giant
hotels in the midst of economic turmoil. He’s done so having to deal with
unions, mafia, government regulators, contractors, competitors, bankers and
more. He’s built hotels, golf courses, casinos, apartment buildings,
communities and more around the world. He owned the Miss USA and Miss
Universe pageants. He was a founding member of the USFL, a competitor to
the NFL. He was the star and producer of the Apprentice, the business
focused reality show that averaged 14 million viewers per episode for its first
six years. Sure, Trump’s had failures, bankruptcies and lots of lawsuits,
but you don’t accomplish anything without risking those outcomes. He’s
failed plenty of times, but he’s succeeded far more often. He’s created
companies that have made millions of paycheck deadlines, that have fed tens of
thousands of families and have generated billions of dollars in revenue.
Donald Trump accomplishes things. Not only without
government, but usually in spite of government. Maybe the best example of
this is his renovation of Wollman Rink, a project that had languished for six years
in the hands of the NYC government, who wasted $13 million working
unsuccessfully on the project. Trump completed it in a matter of months,
and under budget. And that’s what scares them the most. The Swamp cannot
afford to let Donald Trump, on the world’s biggest stage, show Americans that
they don’t need government to succeed, that problems can be solved without
government “help” and to demonstrate that many times, government is actually
the problem. If you’re in the government business, that’s a bad thing because
as anyone who’s ever picked up a history book knows, Americans, when unshackled
from government regulation, can do extraordinary things. And once they’re
reminded of that, all bets are off.
The last time Trump was president he said he was going to
drain the Swamp. He didn’t. The truth is, he had no idea how deep or wide
the Swamp was and is. Most of us didn’t. Now he does and now we do.
This time he’ll be under no illusions about what he’s up against, and ideally,
will act accordingly. The Swamp knows that. They see the writing on the
wall. And it terrifies them.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
The Fundamental Transformation of a Nation - Barack Obama's "Gift" to America
Barack Obama promised to fundamentally transform America. He tried… We can look at the politicization of federal agencies under his watch, at victimization becoming a virtue, at the intrusion of government into American’s health decisions and we can look at the damage his Justice Department inflicted as they coerced cities around the country into “consent decrees” that neutered police forces. There is of course much more, but in reality the most fundamental transformation for which Barack Obama is responsible has nothing to do with his time in office.
The backlash against the leftist policies of Obama brought us the unabashed patriot, Donald Trump. But by the time Trump was inaugurated the cancer of 8 years of Obama had done their damage and much of the federal government had become fully engaged members of the cult of progressivism. From the fiction of widespread white supremacy, to environmental extremism to LBGTQXYZ fanaticism to the open borders lockstep, leftism was now baked into much of the government ruling America.
Trump shocked the world and stepped into a Washington that more resembled a swamp of vipers than the seat of a functioning government. The leftist cabal – including a wide swath of those government workers – spent 4 years seeking to derail the plans of the dually elected president of the United States. This treachery culminated in November of 2020 when the government colluded with the media and social media to execute a coup against the sitting president under the guise of “The most secure election in American history”.
And it is that coup with which Barack Obama achieved his greatest success in “transforming” the United States; it gave us Joe Biden.
As bad as everything Obama did while in office, nothing he did compares to Joe Biden. Since being installed as president, Biden has done an insane number of things that simply make no sense from a rational perspective.
Literally the first thing he did was reduce the amount of energy available to Americans. He cancelled completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline which would have brought more Canadian oil. Soon thereafter the administration threw up roadblocks to domestic oil production both offshore and on federal lands. First they curtailed new leases and “reviewed” existing ones. Later, when they backed off a complete ban, they instituted a virtual ban, which included increases in fees and other elements to make extraction more expensive for energy companies and everything more expensive for Americans.
Next his administration propelled mandates for the untested vaccine that swept across the country which saw Americans subjected to restrictions on travel, shopping, employment and more. Nationwide tens of thousands of firemen, police, teachers and even Navy Seals lost their jobs and incomes because of vaccine mandates for a virus with a survival rate of above 99.9% for almost everyone. Building on that lunacy the Biden CDC recently issued a recommendation that states require Covid vaccinations for school children despite the fact that the survival rate for ages 0-19 is 99.9997%. So this administration would have seventy five million American children vaccinated with a medicine that has had no long term testing and where the long term effects are, by definition, unknown. This is part and parcel for an administration with so little regard for children that it supports the castration and mutilation of children who are not old enough to vote or to drive, often without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Then of course there is the economy. With the American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act Biden poured trillions of dollars into the economy and drove inflation to levels not seen in 40 years. Everything, from energy to housing to food to clothing… virtually every single thing Americans use has gone up in price since Biden became president, often by giant leaps. As a consequence Americans are fighting to stay afloat financially, with 60% worse off than they were a year ago and a staggering 40% of businesses missing their rent payments in October.
As if making Americans less prosperous wasn’t enough, Joe Biden has made the world less safe. In August of last year the Pentagon exited Afghanistan in such haste that it left behind literally tens of billions of dollars of weapons for the terrorists now running the country to use as they please. Not content to arm one just one terrorist government, the administration pushed to reopen negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal. Then there is Russia and Ukraine. Early on in the conflict when the sides were close to an agreement to cease hostilities Biden sent his puppet Boris Johnson to scuttle the negotiations and as a result the world is the closest it has been to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
All of this has changed America, and not for the better. But while rising prices and forced vaccinations may change American behavior, they don’t rise to the level of transforming the country.
But changing the demographic makeup does. And this is where Joe Biden is fulfilling Barack Obama’s goal. He invited essentially anyone willing to make the trip to come to the United States by telling them that they would not be detained and they would be able to get healthcare. Not surprisingly, millions of people from impoverished nations crossed the border into Club Biden. Since Biden became president it’s estimated that more than 5.5 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border. And that doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands or millions who crossed and were never seen by the Border Patrol in the first place.There is something called “replacement theory” which Democrats label as a conspiracy theory amongst racist whites. It’s not that. As Tucker Carlson demonstrates in a piece from earlier this year, replacement theory isn’t a right wing conspiracy theory at all, but rather a plan Democrats have spoken about for years. As they will tell you, the goal is to outnumber the mostly white, American born population with people who look and think differently. Not surprisingly the way they accomplish that is by inviting in millions of people from countries that rarely share American mores and values.
To put that 5.5 million plus people in perspective, that’s more people than live in 28 out of the 50 states, it’s more people than South Carolina, Oregon, Oklahoma and Connecticut individually or Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware and Washington DC combined! It’s also more than the population of every single city in America other than New York. Every single one…
At this rate by the end of Joe Biden’s first term as many as 15 million new illegal aliens could be here, all of whom need healthcare, schooling, food, shelter and clothing, provided free of charge by American taxpayers already struggling to put food on the table, fuel in their cars and keep a roof over their heads.
That is a fundamental transformation. Once those 15 million people get to vote Republicans will never win another election and America will become San Francisco. But “they’re not citizens” you say, and they can’t vote. Given the current state of affairs and the Democrat’s fading allure among actual Americans, how long do you think before that changes? Remember, these are the people who told us that gay marriage was all they wanted but are now telling us men can have periods and allowing hospitals to do unnecessary mastectomies on girls without their parents’ knowledge.
We are on the cusp of a real, fundamental transformation of America. There are however those who want to move the country back in the direction of sanity. Hopefully when all of the counting is done tonight - or tomorrow or next week or next month or whenever - they will have been elected and the Democrats will have been sent packing.
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