SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES!

If you live in California, the skies are filled with smoke. At last count there are about 370 wildfires raging. Governor Gavin Newsom considers this, as expected, proof of global warming. He apparently missed the part about breaking records set in 1913, long before the dreaded creep of CO2 in our environment. This time it is the Independent Service Operator, ISO, shutting down power. Previously, PG&E shut down power to stop wildfires, but this time power was shut down because California was running out of power. It is such a pleasure to get your electricity cut off when it is about 110 degrees out. Air conditioning is so over-rated. Odds are astronomical that Newsom will propose adding solar and wind power, guaranteed to be inadequate, while banning fracking because who needs natural gas-powered power plants anyway? It is so much better for the environment if we buy electricity at exorbitant rates from coal-fueled plants located in less enlightened states.

But the real smoke is coming from the DNC. This morning one of the local news anchors described Biden’s speech as mostly accurate. He missed the part where Biden, like most of the Media, deliberately distorted what Trump actually said in Charlottesville. Sometimes the facts are just too inconvenient. I also have some doubt that Biden was speaking live. If you think about it, no one was in the audience. Even the news crews were not in the audience. He was talking to an empty screen. Everyone was watching a “live stream” of the speech. It would have been easy to tape this earlier, perhaps with multiple takes. That would reduce the risk of, well, Biden being Biden. It is hard if not impossible to compare the Biden we saw last night to the Bumbling Biden we have come to adore.

However, the real problem for the DNC is that all its speakers were spewing hate speech filled with lies and distortions. That plays well on CNN; they were standing up and applauding. It may even have played well in certain households where Donald Trump is considered the spawn of Satan. The RNC now has several days to prepare a rebuttal and it is likely to be devastating. There are already reports that most of the speakers at the RNC will be live, in front of a real audience. They may be social distancing and wearing masks, but they will be there, and it will obviously be live. The speakers will also come armed with facts. Sometimes the trial doesn’t really begin until opposing counsel has a chance to cross examine witnesses. Anyone can get away with lying if no one does any serious fact checking.

The entire DNC show was a smoke screen. Even the fake audiences were on zoom screens. In the case of Kamala Harris, the staff was too excited to realize they were showing the same people in several difference boxes. Then Kamala waved enthusiastically to people who clearly couldn’t see her.  It was pathetic. The convention ended with the Bidens and the Harris’s social distancing, wearing masks, watching fireworks in front of a half empty parking lot with cars using their emergency flashers. Thank you, COVID.

In addition, there was almost no reporting on the real convention, where far left radicals tried to verbally nudge each other even further left. When people learn about what these geniuses have in store for the rest of us, it is not going to play well in Peoria or anywhere else.

The RNC convention has close to a week to prepare. They will learn from the DNC mistakes. They will also develop a world class rebuttal. Donald Trump will speak live, every day. He may also bring some surprises. But the biggest contrast will be with the Republican speakers. Few of them will bother with hate speech. One doesn’t need people to hate Biden, it is only necessary to point out the obvious: that he is not up to the job and let him retire gracefully. But a bigger problem is that the real Donald Trump will be more than obvious, and the mythical monster created by the DNC and their supporters in the MSM will fade into oblivion. Love him or hate him, Donald J. Trump is very real, indeed.

Most candidate get a bump from their convention. So far, it is Trump who has been getting a bump from the DNC convention. Some people will naively think that the “live” speech by Biden will put the senility issue to rest. It will, for those who desperately need to believe that. But for other people, they saw a very old man, standing in one place, reading a teleprompter and occasionally moving his hands. The contrast between that and Donald Trump, who fills any stage with his soaring personality, will be beyond obvious. There is a reason Donald Trump was a media star of Celebrity Apprentice. There is a reason those managing Joe Biden are keeping him hidden in his basement.

Biden’s performance reminded me of Punxsutawney Phil, the ground hog trotted out on Ground Hog day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to look for his shadow. This supposedly predicts when winter will end. But, in reality, after the show Punxsutawney Phil just goes back to sleep, because that is what ground hogs do when it’s cold outside.

TDM