President Trump vetoed [H.R. 6395 (116)] the National Defense and Authorization Act spending bill last month, because the bill did not include a demand to repeal legal protections for social media companies known as Section 230. Additionally President Trump opposed forcing military bases to be renamed; and more importantly Trump objected to congressional limits on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan & Europe.
Congress used the NDAA to demand U.S. troops remain present around the world to expand our military influence. Various foreign governments pay congressional representatives -via the leadership PAC and monetary laundry service- to retain the blood of U.S. service-members on their soil.
DC politicians accept foreign money and trade in the currency of dead U.S. military members to enlarge their own stock portfolios. President Trump was viewed as against the interests of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees for his ongoing attempts to stop this payment scheme.
Today the senate voted 81-13 to override President Trump’s veto of the bill. Thirteen democrat and republican senators voted to support the veto, however, some of the GOP were hiding their alignment behind an opportunity to give the illusion of MAGA support.
The republicans supporting the veto were: Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and John Kennedy (R-La.). The democrats supporting the veto included: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
(Via Politico)[…]“For 60 years in a row, the NDAA has provided necessary support for our troops and national security,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), said in a statement after the vote. “Today’s vote sent a clear message that Congress will not allow President Trump to stand in the way of that support, and I’m relieved the critical bipartisan priorities we fought for will become law.”
[…] “A lot of people contend, as I do, that every year the NDAA’s the most significant vote that we have,” Senate Armed Services Chair Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said on the floor ahead of the vote. “This year especially so in light of all of the disruptions and problems that we’ve had.”
“This legislation is essential to the national security of the United States and to the welfare of the troops and families who defense us every day,” added Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Armed Services Democrat. (read more)
Hey, if it takes a few arms and legs to keep our portfolios fat and happy… and simultaneously we can protect our donor friends at Google and get rid of this annoying Trump…. well,…
2021 Can't Be Any Worse Right? It Will if Biden Gets His Way
What a difference a terrible year makes.
Last year at this time, my wife, Colleen the travel agent, and I were
getting ready to take 40 of her clients on a 15-day cruise out of Dubai
to India and back.
This year, thanks to the COVID-19 virus and the strict lockdowns
imposed to fight it, the world's travel industry barely exists and
Colleen and I will be spending January under house arrest.
Unfortunately, house arrest has become the new normal for 40 million Californians.
We've been locked down, masked up and ordered to stay in our
basements for so long by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that many of us
have forgotten what freedom feels like or what it's like to simply eat
in a restaurant.
The news is filled with stories of people and businesses leaving this
state in droves because it has become so unlivable in so many ways.
Californians who can afford it are moving to red states like Arizona,
Texas and Florida, where taxes are lower, homes are cheaper and
governors are not nannies and wannabe dictators.
Life in Los Angeles is especially unpleasant, which is why I've
rented an escape house for my family two hours away in the sleepy Santa
Ynez Valley.
Most of L.A's 10 million people are not so lucky.
They're stuck living 24/7 in a locked down city with tens of
thousands of homeless people and drug addicts living under overpasses
and on the sidewalks.
But many well-to-do citizens are buying second homes outside the city
in places like Palm Springs, Desert Springs and up here in the Santa
Ynez Valley.
My friends here in Santa Ynez tell me the local real estate market is on fire.
Houses sell in a day. One real estate guy predicts home prices will double in two years.
Ditto for homes in Palm Springs and other places close enough to L.A.
for people to commute to but far enough away to escape the slow-motion
destruction of a great city.
Life has gotten so depressing in L.A. that a friend of mine flew five
hours to Miami just so he could eat dinner inside a restaurant.
That's the kind of madness that 2020 has brought us.
Some folks are saying that the COVID-19 vaccines will let people go back to normal in 2021.
But based on what our future pessimist-in-chief Joe Biden has been saying, I don't think that's going to happen.
Listening to his dark speeches about the sad state of the union, how
it's only going to get worse and what dumb things he plans to do about
it is like listening to Jimmy Carter squared.
Carter had his problems in the late 1970s with a high "Misery Index,"
which was a way to gauge the economic conditions of the average
American based on the inflation rate plus the unemployment rate.
But the future Biden is talking about will be total misery for all Americans.
He's saying we won't get the vaccines to enough people, and even if
we do, we're still going to be living in a masked and locked down
country that resembles 2020 California, not 2019 California.
Pessimism like that from a U.S. president is not normal —or healthy for the country.
You may hate President Trump for a lot of reasons, but you can never fault him for not being optimistic and upbeat.
Other presidents — most recently my father, Bill Clinton, George W.
Bush and Barack Obama — looked on the bright and hopeful side of things.
Biden is the opposite. He looks on the dark side, the Jimmy Carter side.
He and the liberal media sing the same grim tune - that things are bad and they're going to be bad in the future, maybe forever.
On Jan. 20 we're going to lose the only guy in Washington who was
consistently optimistic in 2020, one of the most horrible years in our
history.
I'm an optimist and I used to think 2021 couldn't be any worse than 2020.
But with Biden and his crew about to take charge of our lives, now I'm not so sure.
Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, has caused a stir after
quoting Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in his official New Year
greetings cards, sent out to hundreds of elected officials and
institutions across the region.
After a tough 2020 and
apparently seeking to inspire some camaraderie heading into the new
year, Lallement drew on a passage from the founder of the Bolshevik Red
Army in which Trotsky attempted to rally his “comrades” against the Russian bourgeoisie.
The
French police chief selected a couple of lines from Volume One of
Trotsky’s ‘Military Writings’, dated April 21, 1918 - months before the
infamous ‘Red Terror’, the Bolshevik-led campaign of violence and
executions in Russia.
“I am deeply convinced that we will create the necessary order by joint efforts, no matter how the black crows croak,” the quote reads.
“Just know and remember firmly that outside of this - collapse and destruction are inevitable.”
However, far from being a rousing message for 2021, Lallement’s
quoting of Trotsky was questioned by French politicians of all shades,
including right-wing Marine Le Pen who said the police chief had a “strange conception” of France’s Republican values.
“Should we see the source of his complacency towards the thugs of the extreme left?” the National Rally leader asked in a tweet on Thursday.
Socialist Party lawmaker Remi Feraud also chimed in to share his bafflement at the quote: “What drift ... Where have the republican principles that should found the authority of the State gone?”
Meanwhile, National Rally MEP Jean-Lin Lacapelle was stronger in his condemnation of quoting Trotsky in the cards.
“Let
us recall that this sinister individual was a fervent supporter of the
Red Terror, a repressive policy of mass arrests and executions, which
killed at least 140,000 people,” he said.
Lallement, who took office in March 2019, is something of a
controversial figure among France’s political establishment and public,
with as many as 40 percent of French people wanting him gone, according
to a recent YouGov-HuffingtonPost poll.
His new year message contrasts to his call just a month ago for French police to hold “the republican line to the end”
against those protesting controversial new security legislation, which
included banning people from taking pictures identifying on-duty
officers.
The government later pledged to remove that element of the bill.
In 2019, Lallement was captured by TV cameras telling a member of the French ‘gilets jaunes’ protest movement that “we are not in the same camp,” an incident that further marred his image as police chief for many members of the public.
What is “Your past comes back to bite you on your ass?” I’m guessing Jeopardy’s biggest winner (and ResistanceLOL hero) Ken Jennings could get that question right.
After Jeopardy launched this Keebler elf to celebrity status, Ken Jennings decided he was free to tell Jeopardy’s core audience what a bunch of backward dummies they were.
And he did – frequently. Jennings made a cottage industry out of lampooning and insulting them with wild abandon on Twitter.
But then Alex Trebek died. Now Ken Jennings is thirsty as hell to take his place as host of Jeopardy.
And his years of nastiness are coming back to bite him on the ass.
So Ken is back-peddling harder than Kamala Harris.
Jennings took to Twitter yesterday afternoon to issue a multi-tweet mea culpa — apologizing for being an asshole to the very people who have kept Jeopardy on the air for generations.
Now that he needs the support of those gap-toothed rubes he delighted in mocking, Ken has decided that if 2020 “has taught us anything, it’s that we should be kinder to one another. I look forward to heading into 2021 with that in mind.”
What are “ulterior motives?”
Sorry, Ken. No sale.
The only thing 2020 taught you is never shit where you plan to eat.
What is “go pound sand?”
What kind of moron would believe Ken’s faux mea culpa anyway?
Okay, maybe Kamala Harris.
And probably Elizabeth Warren.
But even they wouldn’t truly believe Ken Jennings is sincere in his regret. It’s just that both of them know what it’s like to suddenly need to appeal to people they’ve disrespected for years.
What is “watching your hopes of being a household name go down the tubes?”
Democracy has changed 'right & wrong' – and we want to export it?
Pat Buchanan notes, 'abortion and homosexuality have become new constitutional rights'
In its most recent exercise of liberal democracy, the state Senate of
Massachusetts voted 32-8 to override Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of what
is called the Roe Act.
One day earlier, Monday, the state House had voted to override.
The Roe Act is now law in the Bay State. And what does it say?
Drafted and adopted to protect a woman's right to an abortion, should
Roe v. Wade be overturned by the Supreme Court, it guarantees
16-year-old girls the right to abort their unborn children, without
their parents' consent, through the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.
At 24 weeks, an unborn baby has a 60% to 70% chance of survival.
But the Roe Act covers this problem as well. If the "mental health" of the teenager is imperiled, she can still get an abortion.
Valerie Richardson of The Washington Times quotes the reaction of the
state's Catholic Action League. This measure "will reduce the age of
parental or judicial consent for minors seeking abortions, remove born
alive protections for infants who survived abortion, lower the medical
criteria for late term abortions, and make abortions more dangerous for
women by allowing (midwives) and nurse practitioners to perform them."
The ACLU, NARAL and Planned Parenthood hailed this as a victory for women's rights.
Speaking for the Catholic Action League, executive director C.J.
Doyle blamed Catholic religious officials and Catholic organizations for
their failure to rebuke lawmakers who routinely vote for abortion
rights.
"None of the Catholics who voted for this life-ending measure will
suffer a word of rebuke from any priest or prelate in Massachusetts. …
There will be no articles or editorials critical of them in the Catholic
press. No one will be denied Holy Communion. No one will be expelled
from the Knights of Columbus."
This silence, said Doyle, "equals consent." And given this silence,
"no rational person can reasonably be expected to take seriously
Catholic opposition to the killing of the unborn in Massachusetts."
Former New England Patriots star Benjamin Watson, a pro-lifer,
described the absurdity of what the legislature did. A teenage girl
still needs her parents' permission to get a Tylenol from the school
nurse, but she doesn't need permission to have an abortion and kill
their grandchild.
What the Bay State did, again in an exercise of democracy, raises
questions that go beyond normal arguments among Americans on this most
divisive of social issues since slavery.
In the 1950s, abortion was regarded as shameful, even criminal,
mandating excommunication from the Catholic Church. Abortionists were
social outcasts, often prosecuted and punished.
Now, within the span of a lifetime, abortion has been raised, in what
was once "God's Country," into a constitutional and a human right.
To be accepted as a "progressive" today, it is almost an imperative
to support a woman's right to terminate the life of her unborn child.
Even "devout Catholic" Joe Biden has come around.
He now favors repeal of the Hyde Amendment he had supported in the
past, which bars the use of federal funds to pay for abortion except to
save the life of the woman or if the pregnancy arises from rape or
incest.
Something comparable has happened with homosexuality and same-sex
marriage. Also once regarded as shameful, this, too, is now a civil and
constitutional right, and the LGBT flag flies atop U.S. embassies during
Gay Pride Month.
As abortion and homosexuality have become new constitutional rights,
the old rights of the First Amendment have taken on new meaning.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" has been interpreted to mean
that God, the Bible, the Cross, prayer and Christian symbols all have no
place in the schools that educate America's children.
"Freedom of speech" now protects blasphemy and the burning of the American flag.
"Freedom of the press" now protects dissemination of what used to be criminalized as pornography.
In brief, using democratic methods and means, and normal legal and
judicial procedures, what was once immoral and even criminal has come to
be officially declared both constitutional and morally correct.
Scores of millions in the "silent majority" may yet embrace the old
beliefs about right and wrong and good and evil, and what is
pro-American and what is not, but the nation has changed.
And it raises an even broader question.
Can moral truth be altered? Can the killing of unborn children,
unjust and immoral in Christian teaching and Natural Law, be made right,
and moral, if a legislature uses democratic processes to declare it so?
If right and wrong can be changed by plebiscites and political votes, what do we do with those who refuse to go along?
Before we go to war again to defend "American values," ought we not be told exactly for what values our soldiers are fighting?
For if "democracy" inevitably produces the consequences we see in
America today, what is the argument for killing people to persuade them
to embrace it?
It
is that time again when liberals, sensing the possibility of being in
control, are revving up the debt engines. So many things need to be done
in a post-COVID world, and there is so little revenue to pay for it.
Debt is the way out, they claim.
Now
is the time to borrow a way out of the crisis. Congress has not even
waited for the New Year. Bipartisan efforts are currently underway to
negotiate a quick fix for the bargain price of just under a trillion
dollars.
Debt Addiction Affects Everyone
Unfortunately,
debt addiction affects both political parties. Every administration
this century has run budgets at a deficit. The average deficit over the
last two administrations has been around one trillion dollars annually.
The COVID crisis has been an occasion to throw caution to the wind and
borrow like there is no tomorrow.
Some
Republican legislators maintain the role of a fiscal conscience. They
loudly complain about deficits, especially when the opposition is in
power. However, the uproar has diminished as officials scramble to find
the means to throw money at the problems they want to go away.
Embrace and Love Debt
The
latest buzzword in economic circles is that Americans should not
deplore but embrace debt. They should even learn to love it as a saving
tool in a chaotic world.
Of course, most Americans need no tutorials on how to embrace debt. Consumers are buried in some $14.3 trillion
of it. They manage to spend it on houses, cars, education, home
improvement, and credit-card charges. Everywhere they go, they spend
beyond their means. In the frenetic intemperance of the marketplace,
embracing debt comes all too readily.
Loving
debt is more difficult, especially when the bank notices come due.
People learn quickly that unsecured commercial acts have abrupt and
tragic consequences.
A Fiscal Paradigm Shift
However,
the rules that apply to consumer debt that can end so badly do not
apply to government spending. Such fiscal acts apparently have no
negative consequences.
Thus,
liberals are asking that the floodgates of federal debt be opened. Now
is the time to help those suffering from the coronavirus crisis, build
up its sagging infrastructure and finance their wish list of underfunded
causes.
Liberal economists say there is no cause to worry about federal debt. The New York Times’
Paul Krugman, for example, explains that the nature of government debt
has changed. He claims there has been “a fiscal paradigm shift” that
makes borrowing different and desirable. “The bottom line is that
government debt just isn’t a major problem these days.”
Reasons to Borrow
They
wrongly claim debt is not a major problem for many reasons. One of them
is that America borrows in its own currency and thus can always issue
more money to finance its debt. The circular logic of the Modern
Monetary Theory (MMT) is popular among liberal legislators anxious to
receive a blank check to expand federal spending.
However, the main reason why columnists like Krugman encourage debt
is because of the low-interest rates that make money cheaper to use. He
argues that there are no red lines in the sand dictating the limits of
how much can be borrowed. Conservative legislators conjure up these red
flags to scare people into not spending money.
Thus,
he says cheap money costs the taxpayer little in the long and short
term in interest payments. If there is a time to spend, now is that
time. The U.S. government should take full advantage of this opportunity
to invest heavily in the future. That means making big government
bigger. That means public investment in climate control, education and
children (as long as they are not unborn). The panic of the coronavirus
gives the spending spree a sense of urgency.
What
is there not to love in this new fiscal wonderland where every liberal
desire can be fulfilled as if by magic? There are so many reasons to
embrace and love debt.
Very Dangerous Assumptions
The
Krugman solution is based on very dangerous assumptions. What he
proposes is the equivalent of borrowing money from oneself, over and
over again with an ever-increasing principal. It might also be compared
to paying an extra-low minimal monthly payment on an ever-increasing
credit card bill. As long as people make timely payments, everything
will work out fine.
It presupposes order and stability over the long term. Krugman affirms that in today’s upside-down world, there will always be very low-interest rates. He notes that “all indications are that they’ll stay low for years to come.”
Issuing
government debt also assumes that people worldwide will want to buy
American debt -- and a lot of it. As the world’s reserve currency, most
people see treasury bonds as a safe harbor despite their low yield.
However, should something unexpectedly disastrous happen to America, all
this could change -- just as life changed with the coronavirus crisis.
Such
wildly optimistic assumptions are dangerous. One great financial
calamity could bring down the whole system as it almost did in 2008. It
would introduce a new “fiscal paradigm shift” of a different nature.
Changing the Nature of Things
There
is something metaphysical in all this debt magic. It reflects the
socialist mentality that holds human nature can be changed, and the most
bizarre schemes can thus be implemented.
In
this case, the “love-debt” scheme contains the idea that people will
act responsibly once they realize they possess a money machine that
produces as much cash as they want. Such wishful thinking ignores the
fact that fallen human nature always seeks the easy way out. People will
turn to the cash machine whenever difficulty strikes. In addition,
corrupt people will find ways of gaming the system to favor their
self-interest. Once the floodgates of unbridled debt are opened, they
will follow the unbridled passions to ruin. Human nature has not changed
in the face of easy money.
However,
liberal moneymakers also want to change the nature of money and debt.
Money is an obstacle for those who want a world without restraint. It
creates inequalities that liberals wish to overthrow. Money forces
people to make an effort to exchange the value of their actions for
goods and services. People with jobs delay gratification by working so
that they might later enjoy the fruits of their labor. Those who work
harder will earn and prosper.
Debt
is a ticket to instant gratification. It delays working so that people
might enjoy now the goods and services they desire. The need to pay back
loans curbs people’s desire to borrow and introduces an element of
responsibility.
Living in the Krugman Fantasyland
In
the Krugman fantasyland, the nature of money changes. It is no longer
the same means of exchange, measure of value and storehouse of wealth.
Money becomes the great equalizer that allows everyone to share wealth
regardless of the disparity in their efforts. It becomes a mechanism
created out of nothing to serve the political ends of government. Debt
is no longer a burden that needs to be paid off. It is a revolving door
of obligations that can be put off indefinitely. The nature of debt
changes when there is no intention of repayment.
When
debt has no immediate consequences, gratification rules. A society thus
organized is beholden to the only real power left -- a strong central
government ever ready to issue more money to “borrow its way out of
every crisis” until the day of reckoning comes. If they choose to do
this in their personal lives, the consequences are theirs alone to bear.
However, it is criminally negligent for political leaders to clamp the
debt millstone around America’s neck and still expect the country to
swim its way to safety.
Those who embrace and love debt do so at their own risk.
This year has been dominated by the pain and suffering thrust upon the globe by the criminal acts of the Chinese Communist Party. Even amid these harsh challenges, President Trump persevered to reach historic achievements. Therefore, as the year draws to its conclusion, it is worth detailing his 2020 accomplishments, as I have previously catalogued for each of the lastthreeyears.
The Vaccine. Millions of Americans have begun the process of inoculation, leading to an eventual reality where COVID-19 becomes a bad memory. The speed of this achievement defied skeptics and amazed scientists everywhere. Along with the brilliant government researchers and innovative private sector pharmaceutical companies, President Trump deserves enormous credit for his inspiring leadership of Operation Warp Speed.
Broadening the Nationalist Movement. The “America First” uprising pre-dated Trump’s entry into politics, with roots in the Tea Party cause. But the movement found its indispensable leader in Trump. Not content with his upstart victory of 2016, Trump massively broadened the movement, in every sense. Geographically, Trump gained vote share in each of America’s four largest cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston) in 2020 vs. 2016. He added 500,000 raw new votes in Los Angeles County alone. Among the 11 million new voters rallying to Trump’s candidacy were millions of Latinos, as the president split the Hispanic vote in Florida and gained 10 percentage points over 2016 to earn 40% of the Hispanic vote in Texas. Under Trump’s leadership, in 2020 the America First cause morphed into a large, sustainable, multi-ethnic, cross-racial workers’ movement.
Abraham Accords. For the first time in a quarter-century, Arab nations agreed to normalized relations with Israel. President Trump harnessed diplomacy combined with toughness toward Iran to forge truly historic new ties in the region. The 2020 agreement among Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain represents a massive breakthrough, one that encouraged similar pacts with Morocco and Sudan.
Economic Recovery. The rally from the spring lockdown lows defied all predictions, and included massive surges in home and automobile sales, as pickup truck purchases soared to all-time highs. The U.S. economic performance was the envy of the advanced world. The U.S. stock market roared back far higher than the indices of Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Simply put, in 2020 the United States was an island of growth amid an economically stagnant world.
The Wall. Contrary to the media narrative, considerable progress has been made in building the president’s controversial border barrier, despite constant obstructionism from both Congress and the courts – and the unrelenting hostility of the press. Some 423 new miles of impressive border walling now stand guard at our southern border. Officials of Customs and Border Protection make it clear that the wall plus Trump’s “remain-in-Mexico” asylum policy regained control of our previously lawless border region.
Trade Agreements. For decades, our government pursued disastrous trade deals at the behest of K Street lobbyists, benefiting foreign nations plus the top executives of American multinationals, regardless of the harm to American workers. Donald Trump won the presidency vowing to fix these untenable trade structures, and in 2020 he signed the USMCA pact with our neighbors Mexico and Canada, a material improvement over the outdated and unfair NAFTA championed by bipartisan globalists. This success led to the Phase Two agreement with China as well, continuing the process of holding Beijing to account for its massive abuses of America via product dumping, industrial espionage, and a dearth of trade reciprocity.
Afghan Peace Deal. This commander-in-chief pursued an America First foreign policy of realism and restraint. It paid off. As made clear by the December 2019 bombshell “Afghanistan Papers,” published by the Washington Post, Trump’s predecessors misled our citizens while wasting precious American lives and treasure during that pointless two-decade war. Trump is winding down such adventurism and reached a historic peace deal with the Taliban in 2020. Despite howls from the “America Everywhere” foreign policy establishment inside the D.C. Beltway, Trump’s deal to end the Afghan war has won rare, broad, bipartisan support among voters.
Striking Down Terrorists. Instead of wasteful and unsuccessful mass invasions or grandiose commitments to “nation-building,” this president used surgical strikes to eradicate threats to our security. After America’s successful hit against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019, the 2020 strike against Iranian military leader and terrorism exporter Qasem Soleimani eliminated perhaps the most dangerous terrorist in the Middle East. Soleimani directly engineered the slaughter of American troops in Iraq, and he met instant justice courtesy of American missiles in an attack ordered by an intrepid commander-in-chief.
Space Force. The first new branch of the U.S. military in decades, President Trump showcased his vision as an unpredictable political leader in establishing Space Force as the sixth U.S. military branch as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. America now stands as the only country with an independent, dedicated military space force. Such foresight highlights Trump’s willingness to think in unconventional ways.
March for Life. Donald J. Trump became the first U.S. president to attend the annual massive pro-life march in Washington, solidifying his stature as the most pro-life president in American history. In so doing, he fulfilled campaign promises to protect unborn life as well as religious liberty. The president boldly declared that “every child is a precious and sacred gift from God.”
At home and abroad, President Trump proved that there is, indeed, method to his madness. Though his unorthodox and sometimes frenetic approach confounds his critics, Trump’s disruptive leadership remained highly effective in 2020, even as our country and his administration faced many unwelcome challenges. Whatever the future holds for him, the 45th U.S. president compiled a record of achievement over these last four years that is impressive and historic.
5 Reasons Why You're Not Crazy to Question the Election Results
You’ve gotten the memo from the leftist chin-strokers on social media. It’s simple. You’re
insane for questioning the 2020 presidential election result. Joe Biden
is the president-elect, so you just run along and ignore the copiousnews stories about electionfraud and get over it. Man up!
Political titans on Capitol Hill look visibly concerned when asked by
MSM reporters about the president and his millions of voters who aren’t
convinced that this election wasn’t filled with fraud.
Here are just five reasons why people are notcrazy to question the results of the 2020 election.
1. Enthusiasm
While Joe Biden was stumbling through basement
Zoom calls to the fortunate few who were selected to ask him
pre-arranged questions to which he fumbled his scripted answers, Donald
Trump went before enthusiastic and huge
crowds, giving speeches where he’d wander off the teleprompter to offer
off-the-cuff jokes, barbs, and snappy patter for more than at hour,
multiple times per day, for days.
— President-Elect thesourwarhead (@thesourwarhead) October 16, 2020
Trump’s famous rallies were all done pre-and-post COVID shutdown to
the giddy delight of those who waited in line for hours for the
privilege of not being able to go to the bathroom and getting felt up by
Secret Service agents.
By contrast, Joe Biden’s events, to the extent he had any, were
sparsely attended. His “rallies” took on the look of the ribbon-cutting
for a puppy mill, there were so few people. Later, he asked the big guns
to help him out, such as Lady Gaga, which probably left Gaga wondering,
“What the hell am I doing here?’
Dismal audience participation for Lady Gaga while she is campaigning for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/igsCHs353Z
Joe’s car rallies looked a little more alive, owing to the lights and horns of the few who showed up.
Wait, the thinking goes, voters didn’t bother to come out and see Joe when he and Punxsutawney Jill – excuse me, Doctor Punxsutawney Jill – came out of the basement of their Big-Guy-paid-for manse but did show up to vote for him?
The enthusiasm deficit for Joe Biden is a huge reason why people are leery of the reported election results.
President Trump made the antifa and Black Lives Matter riots, looting, arsons, and violence a campaign issue.
When is Slow Joe Biden going to criticize the Anarchists, Thugs & Agitators in ANTIFA? When is he going to suggest bringing up the National Guard in BADLY RUN & Crime Infested Democrat Cities & States? Remember, he can’t lose the Crazy Bernie Super Liberal vote!
He attempted to stop the nightly attacks at the Portland, Oregon,
federal courthouse, eventually acceding to the demands of the governor
and mayor, who promised they’d deploy state police to stop the assaults,
which they did for two seconds.
While Trump made unrest from antifa and BLM a campaign issue and
demanded Democrats denounce them, Biden’s “denunciations,” such as they
were, were often muddled, and siding with antifa outcomes. In a
statement in May,
when Portland, Kenosha and other cities were on fire from anti-cop
riots, Biden weighed into the fray saying that “protesting police
brutality is ‘right and necessary’ and the ‘American response.’ But
burning down communities and needless destruction is not.”
For observers of the antifa and BLM riots of the spring, summer, and
fall, riots and protests were of a piece. You didn’t have one without
the other.
By putting himself on the side of the politically-motivated rioters being cheered on by his party’s Left,
Biden seemed to embrace the Democrats’ defund-the-police and
anti-police messages even as rioters set fires, destroyed other peoples’
property, threatened others’ lives, and acted like terrorists.
Trump knew this. There was no question of where he stood. The
president expanded the First Step Act and gave clemency to people who
had been arguably wronged by the judicial process. He supported law and
order but most of all he demanded justice and was ready to make it right
where he saw a wrong.
The idea that millions more people favored the guy who was ambivalent
about the literal terrorism on the streets of America was unthinkable
to Trump supporters. Who would vote for a guy who would give the old
¡Olé! to people looting, burning, and threatening people? Surely, fewer
than those who voted for Trump…
Early in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and after he stopped
travelers from China, President Trump took a federalist approach to much
of the response. He held daily news conferences along with Vice
President Pence and he led the federal government in ticking off a daily
checklist of things that needed to be done to confront the new virus.
The White House amassed information and began the effort to get a
vaccine on track using the CDC, FDA, NIH, and the military. President
Trump sent military medical ships to California and New York to help
with any emergency room overflows, which thankfully never occurred.
Trump pressed into service U.S. manufacturers, sometimes using the Defense Production Act, to get companies to build ventilators and even hand sanitizer, which was in short supply.
In so doing, Trump resupplied spent emergency stores never
replenished by the Obama administration after the much smaller H1N1
pandemic.
President Trump got the ball rolling on the big-picture items needed for a country to respond to a pandemic.
As he did this he devolved hands-on responses to local governments,
in the federalist approach, where he believed it belonged and where it
would be more efficient.
Many big, top-down government fans didn’t like it and often blamed
the president for not commanding shutdowns and arrogating more power to
himself to oversee response at the granular level. If he had any notion
of doing such a thing, Trump didn’t give into it.
While Trump took hits for leadership lapses in the COVID response,
complaints were usually uttered by leftists who wished he’d done more to
lock down, force vaccinations, and take a greater hand in shutting down
the economy.
Trump’s approach and his sideline Twitter sniping let people know he
didn’t want a wholesale shutdown. He’d hoped to reopen the economy “by
Easter” and tried to cajole Democrat governors into lifting the reigns
on the people and the shutdown of the economy. Democrats like Governors
Jay Inslee, Kate Brown, Gavin Newsom, and Gretchen Whitmer did the exact
opposite. Citizens organized recall efforts to respond to the
governors’ autocratic response.
Trump deemed the federal government’s response as “the greatest
mobilization since World War II.” And he’ll never get the credit for
getting a country on war-footing to fight a pandemic from the ground up.
4. Coattails …?
Stories about President Trump’s weak coattails were legion before the election. His likability was questioned and still is, but, what ho! Look what actually happened.
After the usual midterm 2018 thrashing for the president in power (George W. Bush and FDR
are the only presidents who added seats during the midterms),
Republicans made up some of those losses in congressional races and
statehouses across the country in 2020.
Ballotpedia reports that while Democrats won 222 seats to Republicans’ 212, the GOP unexpectedly flipped 14 seats from D to R compared to three seats for the D’s.
Among the claw-backs were four California seats
lost in the 2018 election to the new “ballot harvesting” measures
Democrats put into effect. Trump didn’t come to California to hold
rallies but did he did come to fundraise.
The candidates won on the backs of law and order (sound familiar?)
and opening up the economy. They were Trump messages without the man.
And Republican Michelle Steel
is already working on getting Governor Gavin Newsom to change his
disastrous tax and law and order policies that have made California so
unpopular that people are fleeing in droves and the state could lose a congressional seat.
“We can’t afford to dither any longer or California will permanently lose hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs to states like Texas that place value on business and investment.”https://t.co/nLz8itjkVs
The media are loathe to give Trump any credit, but Trump received ten million more votes than he did in 2016 – the most of any Republican president ever. He energized the voter base and flipped back a bunch of seats in both state houses and Congress.
What’s the definition of coattails again?
5. Another ‘Election’
If President Trump is so divisive and unlikable and truly the worst,
most contemptible person in the world, then why did he win the Gallup Poll’s “most admired” person, outstripping the Obamas and Joe?
Who are these people? Rubes? Or could it be that the oldest public polling firm in America captured the lightening in the bottle that shows what has really happened in the body politic?
Trump – 18%
Obama – 15%
Joe Biden- 6%
Dr. Fauci – 3%
The Dalai Lama came in at a — womp, womp — 1%.
We all know about public opinion polls. Joe was supposed to win by 10
or more points in 2020 and Hillary was going to easily get into office
in a landslide. But Trump trebling the declared president-elect in a
public opinion poll done in December? You can’t blame that on a sympathy
vote. Nobody feels sorry for Donald Trump. They just love – or hate –
him.
So you can be forgiven for your skepticism about the presidential results.
Thus,
he says cheap money costs the taxpayer little in the long and short
term in interest payments. If there is a time to spend, now is that
time. The U.S. government should take full advantage of this opportunity
to invest heavily in the future. That means making big government
bigger. That means public investment in climate control, education and
children (as long as they are not unborn). The panic of the coronavirus
gives the spending spree a sense of urgency.
