HAPPY NEW YEAR

Obama is famous for lecturing anyone who dares disagree with him.  He is also famous for doing actually nothing to back up his threats.  Up until now the world has just ignored him and giggled privately.  However, with this idiotic hissy fit throwing out some Russian diplomats and proposing sanctions he can’t possibly enforce, he has violated an important rule.  “It is better to stay silent, and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and prove it.”  Russia is literally laughing in his face and saying they will wait until he is replaced by an adult.

We should all be concerned that Obama will do something drastic to try and remain somewhat relevant.  He is clearly frustrated that in less than three weeks he will be totally out of power.  He is desperately trying to influence things after he walks out the door.  He is flailing madly and just embarrassing himself.  This is like a really bad act on America’s Got Talent that tries to keep on performing long after all four judges have pushed their buzzers.  If Democrats are not embarrassed by this, they aren’t paying attention.

Obama is accusing Russia of interfering in our election by releasing private e-mails from the DNC.  No one disputes that these are real e-mails, Democrats are just pissed that the attempted Obama cover-up failed to work.  In effect, Russia apparently interfered in our election by exposing the truth about Hillary Clinton.  This is like the guy who is caught robbing a bank on video filing a protest against the surveillance company for invasion of privacy.  Good luck trying to get a judge or jury to buy that nonsense.

One would note that hacking the DNC computer system is not actually a threat to national security.  Does anyone seriously think that the U.S. is not trying to hack Russian communications?  Come on!  The U.S. literally sent a submarine into the Black Sea to put a wiretap on Russian communication cables.  We tapped everything they said for years.  We can be certain every country capable of spying on other nations is doing exactly that.  The Russians, sadly, may be doing a better job than us, but it is silly to pretend we aren’t playing the same game. Hillary personally tried to interfere in Russia’s election when she publicly questioned the integrity of Russian parliamentary elections in 2011.

What really happened here is that the DNC was embarrassed in the worst possible way.  They were caught red handed (pun intended) stealing the primary election from Bernie Sanders.  They were exposed as being incredibly stupid. The Russians didn’t exactly pull this off with some sophisticated electronic hack.  They sent fishing e-mails that should have been recognized by eight year old.  Senior Democrats, like John Podesta, took the bait; hook, line and sinker and gave away their user ids and passwords.  Brilliant!

A lot of people are expressing fear that Putin will dominate Trump.  The evidence is clear that the opposite is happening.  Putin made some noise about racketing up his nuclear arsenal.  Trump shut him down with the following twitter:

Translation, for liberal Democrats, who don’t understand this stuff:  “Have at it Vlad. You are in for an arms race you can’t possibly win.” It wasn’t Trump who backed down, it was Putin:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-responds-to-trumps-nukes-tweet-jabs-at-democrats/

Even with regard to this childish stunt by Obama, Putin did not retaliate.  That wasn’t because he is intimidated by Obama, he laughed at Obama.  It is because he didn’t want to risk a confrontation with the new sheriff in town.

The good news is that whether he wants to admit it or not, time has run out for Barack Obama and he is headed toward the scrap heap of history.  It can’t happen soon enough for me.

TDM