During the Vietnam War I was stationed in Okinawa for one tour, where I was flying on RC135 aircraft over the Gulf of Tonkin. One day there was a local fair and I saw a sign for a “Habu – Mongoose Fight.” I had heard about the Mongoose but had never seen one. I had never heard of a “Habu.” The Habu is a pit viper found in Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, and parts of China. They are extremely rare, seldom seen in zoos and there are few photographs of a Habu.

I was both appalled and fascinated by the Habu – Mongoose fight. It seemed barbaric, because only one of the two participants would survive. The fight would take place is a large glass cage and people would place bets on who would win, the Habu or the Mongoose.

I always thought the Mongoose was immune to the snake’s venom, but that is not true. If a Mongoose gets bitten by a Habu, it dies. Then I thought the Mongoose would beat the Habu by biting it in the back of the neck. That wasn’t true either. What the Mongoose really does is unbelievable, unless you have seen it in person. It waits until the Habu strikes and then it snatches the fangs out of the snakes mouth. Only after the Habu has been defanged will the Mongoose start attacking the snake.

It became obvious that most “fights” were between a young Mongoose and a Habu. This was an even match, with the result seriously in doubt. But, if a Habu won, the next match would be against this bigger, older, more experienced Mongoose. When that happened, the Habu didn’t stand a chance.

Then I realized that this describes what is going on between Iran and Israel today. Iran, like the Habu, likes to believe that it can strike Israel and to deliver devastating blows. But when all those drones and missiles were launched against Israel, there were all snatched out of the sky, before they could land a blow, and destroyed. There are reports that upwards of 99% of those drones and missiles were shot down before doing any damage. Iran knew this, which is why they posted video of a massive forest fire in Chile, and pretended this was the result of its airstrikes on Israel. No one bought this nonsense.

Then, Israel launched an attack on Iran. Regardless of what Iran may be admitting, the reality is that those Israeli missiles probably hit exactly on target, and I seriously doubt that Iran shot down any of them. Israel sent Iran a message. Don’t mess with us, because we can stop you, but you can’t stop us.

Message received. Almost immediately Iran predictably lied about shooting down Israeli missiles and then said that because of this great victory, they didn’t need to attack Israel anymore. Right!

This is the other reality of a Habu – Mongoose fight. The minute the snake realizes it is in a cage with a Mongoose, it tries to leave. The snake knows it is engaged in a losing battle. The snake does try to attack the Mongoose, but mostly because it has no other option.

Israel sent another message to Iran. Do not think that you can continue to attack us, with your proxies, without any consequences. By attacking Israel directly, Iran made a huge tactical error. It gave Israel the opportunity to attack Iran directly. In addition, other people in the Middle East watched this fight and learned a valuable lesson. They know who really shot down all those drones and missiles. And they know who can strike back quickly and effectively.

Don’t provoke a Habu, that can be deadly, but not as deadly as a Habu provoking a Mongoose.

TDM

People suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome are so absorbed by their hatred of him that they miss something really important. The opposite of love is not hate, it is apathy. Hate and Love are remarkably similar emotions in that both are heavily impacted by the actions of the objects of your love or hate.

Several years ago, actually in 2011, I wrote that it was increasingly clear that whether people hated Trump or loved him, the result was the same. They could not take their eyes off him. That was true then, it is even more true now.

This is why Democrats and RINO Supporters have made an enormous error by allowing Trump to live inside their skulls. They hate him so much they just can’t ignore him. This has now reached the point of absolute desperation, the filing of ridiculous lawsuits designed to stop him from getting elected President again, at any cost. They stupidly thought that Trump would be so distracted by all this nonsense that he couldn’t possibly campaign successfully for office. What they missed is that this just increased the attention on Donald Trump, allowing him to, once again, suck all the Oxygen out of the room.

Another mistake is to assume that everyone who intends to vote for Donald Trump is too in love with him to notice all the baggage. While there are always some people who fall in love with a politician, they are the exception, not the rule. Many people who support Trump politically, including a lot of my personal friends, don’t actually like him as a person, they just like the decisions he made as President. More importantly they preferred the decisions he made to the chaos that inevitably follows a left-wing activist President, particularly one that combines a lust for socialism with an almost unimaginable level of incompetence.

Democrats are rejoicing that, once again, it will become obvious that Trump is a world class narcissist who is also, predictably, a serial sexual philanderer. This is hardly news to anyone remotely familiar with Trump. It is and always has been beyond obvious. But we also realize that many, if not most, of his strongest critics do the same things and are just as contemptable and disgusting. Trump is just more visible than most. Buy a mirror folks, seriously!

This is why these show trials will help Trump more than hurt him. Those who hate him now will continue to hate him. Those who love him now will continue to love him. The rest of us will be forced to endure this and while we will learn little new about Donald Trump, this will showcase the utter depravity of those determined to destroy him.

If Trump’s enemies could just control themselves for five minutes and learn to ignore him, he would quite possibly self-destruct. But far too many people, who should know better, suffer from terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome. I wonder if any of them realize that if he had been re-elected in 2020, he would now be the ultimate lame-duck President, increasingly ignored, with all the attention focused on his replacement. The American people are famous for getting sick and tired of anyone and anything after eight years and they would be ready to move on to something different, anything different. That would have created an enormous opportunity for Democrats, an opportunity that thankfully won’t be available for at least four more years.

Instead, they have stupidly committed to a showboat and have failed to notice that they are sailing toward destruction.

TDM

Huntington Beach California passed a new charter amendment that would require voters to show photo identification in local elections starting in 2026. This also required that Huntington Beach provide 20 in-person polling places and that that ballot drop locations be monitored.

Rob Bonta, the Attorney General for the State of California was outraged. “The photo identification requirement “is not only misguided — it is blatantly and flatly illegal,”

One again the argument is that voter ID laws impose severe burdens on Black, Latino, and low-income voters.

Bonta is also concerned about drop boxes and is concerned lest anyone take a photo, video, or do anything else to recording voters at polling stations or ballots drop boxes “with the intend of dissuading another person from voting.”

This is so unnecessary. California law already requires voters to verify their identity when they register to vote and imposes criminal penalties for fraudulent registration. Voters are required to provide their name and address when voting. What could possibly go wrong?

California sues Huntington Beach over ‘blatantly and flatly illegal’ voter ID law (msn.com)

This explains why, in the minds of Democrats, there is no evidence of wide-spread voter fraud during the 2020 election. Of course there is little evidence. That is the whole point. This is like banning police and radar from a long stretch of highway. It is also illegal to take pictures of a car speeding or to monitor the speed of another vehicle by any other method. Then a report is issued saying that this has been remarkably successful, because no one ever speeds on this section of highway anymore. Anyone challenging that absurd observation is charged with spreading misinformation.

The pattern is clear. Democrats are totally opposed to any action that would limit voting to legally registered voters. They are particularly concerned regarding limitations of mail-in ballots. The alleged reason for this is that Black, Hispanic, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities will be adversely affected. There is, of course, zero evidence to support this. How many people do you know who do not have a photo id? Certainly no one who ever tries to cash a check, or board an airplane, purchase alcohol or cigarettes, apply for welfare, Medicaid, Social Security, Unemployment benefits, buy a car, buy a house, adopt a pet, rent a hotel room, apply for a hunting or fishing license, buy a cellphone, visit a casino, pick up a prescription, donate blood, buy an “M” rated video game or, allegedly, purchase nail polish at CVS.

24 things requiring a photo ID (phillyburbs.com)

Seriously. Have any of you ever seen a minority use an ID for any of the above? This is both insulting and informative. If Democrats can only win elections by gaining overwhelming support from people who can’t figure out how to get a photo ID, then what does this say about their voting base? Even that spoiled brat who just ran up $100,000 in student loans to study Tasmanian Tiger breeding habits, only to have that debt forgiven, illegally, by Joe Biden, just used his ID to buy his new vaping equipment.

At least 33 states have already passed voter ID laws and there are more coming. Most legal citizens, in both parties, agree with Voter ID laws. So why are Democrats so desperate to stop them. Easy. If elections are limited to only registered voters, who can only vote once during an election, how on earth could any Democrat get elected? If this was the standard, how could someone like Joe Biden come close to getting 84 million votes.

All the MSM pundits pretending Joe Biden will coast to re-election, are ignoring this reality, just like they ignore every other reality. But the hunt for Red November is on, Voter ID laws are passing, they are being upheld by the Supreme Court, and they are likely to change things. Nothing could terrify Democrats more than the unthinkable prospect of fair and honest elections.

TDM

One of the important things about an eclipse is that it only lasts for a few minutes. Once the Sun starts to peek out around the moon, the world suddenly become bright again. Here in Florida, the eclipse was barely noticeable. It was still a bright sunshiny day.

We are about to see something similar regarding all those January 6^th protests prosecuted and stuck behind bars by the Biden DOJ. The clear goal was to represent January 6^th as an armed insurrection, a desperate attempt by the despicable Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election. But there is a problem. Regardless of what you have been hearing from the January 6^th committee, Democrats in congress and the shrieking MSM chorus, there is zero evidence of an insurrection.

The DOJ knew this and so did the FBI. That is why more than 350 January 6^th defendants were charged under a federal statute making it a crime to obstruct or impede an official proceeding. In the case of January 6^th, this was the mad rush to certify the 2020 election and ending the last change to avoid the disastrous Biden administration. The amount of damage done since January 6^th is staggering and it was facilitated by those who ignored all the red flags and certified an election that will probably go down as the most corrupt in our nation’s history.

But that is all about to change. It is already changing. January 6^th defendants are quietly being released. They are being released because the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the case next Tuesday and it will issue a ruling in June or July. The fact that the Supreme Court is even hearing this, even after the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld it, has alerted Federal Judges that a new day is coming.

Some Jan. 6 rioters win early release, even before key Supreme Court ruling (msn.com)

This is so obvious that MSN noticed. They also noticed something else. This makes the legal cases against Trump for election interference worthless. Now we may see a rush to get these cases dropped, before the Supreme Court ruling, but if the Supreme Court overturns these convictions in late June or July, the Democratic hopes of stopping Trump with these frivolous lawsuits will evaporate in the worst conceivable way at the worst possible time.

Let me be blunt, now is the time to understand that the talking head so-called legal experts mouthing nonsense on CNN are all wrong. The really smart lawyers, the ones on the Federal Court, can see the handwriting on the wall and they are getting out in front of the coming legal tsunami.

In addition, although the MSM and particularly CNN blatantly ignored far more serious actions by BLM and ANTIFA, the average citizen doesn’t really pay attention to these clowns anymore.

A lot of people also noticed when pro-Palestinian protest interrupted a Senate hearing with Pentagon leaders. You know, they were there to “obstruct or impede an official proceeding.” But since this was a real hearing and not a mock ceremony designed to accept “alleged” election results often in violation of state laws with electors chosen not by a state legislator but rather by unelected Democratic bureaucrats, no one will be put in jail, and most won’t even be arrested.

There’s a new day coming, we can already see it, nothing can stop it, and when the clouds give way most of the country will see things very clearly.

TDM

There is a reason the prosecutors pursing Donald Trump want to have juries in places like New York City and Washington, D.C. In Washington D.C. 76.42% of voters are Democrats, while 6.02% are Republicans. John Durham tried Michael Sussmann, Democrat, in Washington, D.C. for lying to the FBI. The jury acquitted him. I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Republican, was convinced of obstruction af justice and making false statements. He allegedly outed Valerie Plame Wilson, as a CIA agent, when she wasn’t really a secret agent and she wasn’t hiding her employment by the CIA. Judith Miller, who testified against him, later recanted her testimony. This case was so thin that the District of Columbia Bar which suspended his license to practice law in D.C. reinstated him in 2016. The District of Columbia Bar stated the following in support of his reinstatement:

United States v. Libby – Wikipedia

“The Counsel found that “Libby has presented credible evidence in support of his version of events and it appears that one key prosecution witness [sic], Judith Miller, has changed her recollection of the events in question.”

Does anyone think a D.C. jury will really convict a Democrat? Does anyone really think a D.C. Jury will acquit a Republican? Please!

But there more involved in choosing a New York City jury guaranteed to convict the evil Donald Trump. Here are the questions being asked every potential juror in his “hush money” trial.

Letter-re-jury-selection-4-8-24.pdf (nycourts.gov)

You can read the full list for yourself.

Is there the slightest amount of doubt regarding what decision will be made by a jury, selected from New York City, using these questions? Any doubt?

If this trial is not stopped, it won’t matter if the star witness against him, Michael Cohen, was convicted of lying under oath. It won’t matter that they have written proof that Michael Cohen lied. It won’t even matter that falsifying business records, almost certainly not done by Trump, isn’t actually a crime. Trump will be convicted They may try to deny him bond and put him in jail. All the usual suspects will report that Trump was convicted of a felony. They will demand he be removed as the potential nominee. They cannot even imagine how anyone could possibly disagree.

None of this will survive court challenges. The MSM won’t care, they will be too busy rejoicing at stopping the man. But there is no guarantee this will work. One fundamental problem is that while a jury in New York City, selected using this set of questions is guaranteed to stick it to Trump, this is not representative of the real world. It is not even an accurate representation of New York City.

An even more crucial factor is the ugly odor of truth spreading across the land. No amount of spin can explain why all those illegal migrants, flooding our cities, taking handouts with our money, while taking jobs away from legal citizens are a good thing. That is why in Europe, which had much more responsible immigration policies, is facing a rising tide of anti-immigrant sentiment.

The cost of gas is a multiple of what it was four years ago, and it is going up. The cost of everything is going up. The only people in this country doing better are petty criminals who rejoice in the opportunity to steal at will, without regard to the consequences, because there will be no consequences.

Then, the perfect political storm. The people controlling Joe Biden’s public appearances are running out of options. If they could replace him with an AI generated image, they would do that, because the risk of letting him actually speak is astronomical only exceeded by the risk of letting him pretend to think.

What will these people think of next? Blaming the Solar Eclipse on Global Warming didn’t work, so they want to blame it on Donald Trump. Why not, here is the video:

Bing Videos

Trump admitted it. This was allegedly designed to “infuriate leftists.” It worked brilliantly. I wonder if any of them realize this is visual proof he lives in their head.

TDM

The following article from Newsweek is significant because it shows the absolute desperation of Democrats and their fawning supporters in the MSM.

Donald Trump ‘Almost Certainly’ Facing Two Defeats: Ex-Supreme Court Lawyer (msn.com)

Neal Katyal is famous for representing Nestle and Cargill at the Supreme Court. This was a class-action suit brought by former enslaved children who were kidnapped and force to work on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast. Kathal argument was that Nestle and Cargill could not be held liable because the corporation that supplied Zyklon B to the Nazis to kill Jews and other minorities in extermination camps were not indicted in the Nuremberg Trials. Your client should not be held responsible because the people who produced Zyklon B to extermination camps were not held liable. Seriously?

Neal Katyal – Wikipedia

That case was dismissed because the Supreme Court ruled that the Alien Tort Statue (ATS) does not apply because the alleged actions did not take place in the United States. Katyal is a high skilled attorney, who, by the way, got trapped at Burning Man when it rained and had to hike six miles through mud to get out. Sometimes smart people do really dumb things.

Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe – Wikipedia

In any event, other legal experts point out that the “hush money” case will be dismissed because Alvin Bragg doesn’t have standing to bring the case. His argument is that these payments are a form of election interference. Even NPR admitted that this has routinely been called the weakest of the criminal cases against Trump.

Here’s what you need to know about the New York hush money case : Trump’s Trials : NPR

The weakest case may be the alleged misuse of classified documents by Trump. The double standard regarding how Biden was treated is a huge problem. An even bigger problem is that this is specifically addressed in the Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978. Here is a link to that Act.

Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 | National Archives

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, notorious for abuse of prosecutorial power pursuing public officials, is furious that Judge Cannon ruled that the PRA is the law in this case. Smith is trying to pretend this belongs under the espionage act. Espionage Act – Definition, Examples, Cases, Processes (legaldictionary.net). While that case is drawing a lot of media attention, it is going nowhere.

The point being that Democrats are pinning all their hopes on legal cases against Trump guaranteed to fail. This is like pretending an unmodified Ford Pinto could win the Indianapolis 500. The only reason they are doing this is that they have absolutely nothing else. This is the same reason they continue to support Joe Biden. They have absolutely no one else. The only person with approval ratings lower than Biden is Kamala Harris. Gavin Newsom’s management of California is an unmitigated disaster. California has run out of money and no amount of spin can change that.

Democrats are absolutely terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump getting elected President again. They have already proven they will do and say anything to stop that from happening. They are unlikely to give up and they are even more unlikely to even consider doing the right things for the right reasons. Desperate people do desperate, sometimes incredibly stupid, things. Almost anything is possible.

TDM

There was a 4.8 Magnitude Quake in New Jersey today. The response by the media was absolutely hysterical. They were extremely excited and acted like this was a world-changing event. Those of us who live or have lived in California just laughed. My wife and I were at the World Series game in San Francisco when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. Now that was an earthquake. This could be compared to a truck going over a speed bump. There just is no comparison.

This is a reminder that just because something hasn’t happened in quite a while, doesn’t mean it won’t happen again. These types of earthquakes, although rare, are not exactly unprecedented.

In the meantime, the real shakeup is happening in Washington, D.C. Joe Biden is only attractive as a candidate if he is considered the best (only) option to defeat Donald Trump. But there’s more than one problem. Although the MSM will continue to cover-up his history of corruption and telling absurd unbelievable lies, they can’t cover up the mess he has created. In addition, his mental deterioration is so obvious and advancing so rapidly that it is increasingly impossible to ignore. At last count over 70% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don’t think he has the physical or mental capacity to be President.

Staggering 77% of Americans think Biden is too old for second term (nypost.com)

There is no change that this will improve between now and the election. Instead, it is likely to get worse, possibly much worse.

Another huge problem is that Joe Biden is rapidly losing a significant part of the Democratic base. Democrats could ALWAYS count on getting about 90% of the Black vote and a huge percentage of the Hispanic vote. It didn’t matter what they said or did, this voting block was a lock. Democrats and their fawning supporters missed a few things. Like the fact that the skyrocketing cost of food, housing, electricity, and gas impacts lower income people far more than the wealthy. In addition, when reporting on the homeless population, they failed to understand that these tent cities are not exactly showing up in gated communities. More recently they missed the memo pointing out that all those delicious illegal migrants, getting that free food, housing and a “Get Out of Jail Card” are doing most of their damage in low-income areas. The people Democrats take for granted are the ones feeling the pain of Biden economics. They are also the ones most impacted by rising crime. No amount of spin by the MSM can change that. They see it all with their lying eyes.

Black voters are fleeing Biden in droves. Here’s why | The Hill

They also see Joe Biden at a major fund raiser with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama surrounded by filthy rich liberal celebrities. You know, the people who spend extraordinarily little of their income on things like food, transportation, and housing. They spend it on mansions and private jets they use to fly to lavish parties. When Joe Biden says he is going to sock it to the rich, that seems hard to believe when it is those same rich people kissing the royal ring. At the same time, Donald Trump was at the funeral of a Police officer, joining the audience in the Lord’s Prayer. No contrast there.

The cultured elite is having their world view shattered in every way possible. They can’t believe that Donald Trump will, again, escape the legal walls closing in on him. How is that possible? They can’t imagine a world where Black and Hispanic voters vote for Donald Trump. Don’t these people understand that it is the cultured liberal elite, living in gated communities, who love and adore them? Don’t they watch CNN or MSNBC? Perhaps the biggest problem is that the $5 bill, using other peoples money, they grudgingly hand out won’t even buy a Big Mac anymore. But these people would never eat at a McDonalds, so they just don’t have a clue.

The world is starting to shake rattle and roll and unless something changes, it will roll Joe Biden, Democrats, and his fawning supporters in the MSM right out into the street. There, when they finally see reality, it will be far too late.

TDM

The total eclipse is coming. Some places have already declared a state of emergency in preparation for this. The biggest problem appears to be an expected onslaught of visitors. Every time there is an eclipse, people are sternly warned not to look directly at the sun. Every time there is an eclipse someone ignores this warning and is blinded.

In this country, we have an E Clips problem. This is when the MSM deliberately distorts anything Donald Trump says in a desperate attempt to defeat him. These, as all the other feeble attempts to destroy Trump, only make him stronger. Ironically, they could have easily prevented Trump from gaining political power by just ignoring him. But instead, they are drawn to him like bees to honey and whether they hate him or love him, they absolutely cannot ignore him. He lives in their heads.

I personally know many people who will vote for Trump rather than Biden. But they are not blinded to his faults. These are all too obvious. They just realize that one doesn’t have to like him personally to like the decisions he made as President. This is what the MSM just doesn’t get. They assume that everyone who supports Trump is some weird MAGA Republican oblivious to reality. Reality, of course, visible only to those who live in their own self-created delusional view of the world.

The result is a world where increasingly people on both sides ignore the facts and rely on partial or deliberately misleading reporting. There was a time when if we saw a video, or film of something, we could judge this for ourselves. Sadly, that is no longer true. It is too easy to edit video and make things seem hugely different than reality. While the MSM does this all the time when reporting on Donald Trump, many conservative outlets do the same things regarding Joe Biden. The biggest difference is that the MSM tries to pretend they are real journalists only interested in the truth. The result is that it is increasingly impossible to trust the MSM to report objectively on any subject.

The good news is that people no longer rely on the MSM for information. The old saying: “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame of me” is still true today. No matter how many times people try to tell you “Bideneconomics” is working that myth is shattered by anyone who fills up a car with gas, buys groceries or tries to get food at a restaurant, even a fast-food restaurant. No matter how many times people try to tell you the people swarming across our border are not a problem, even sanctuary cities are begging them to please stop coming. No matter how many times people try to tell you there were no problems with the 2020 election, there are almost daily reports proving the opposite. Seriously, letting anyone vote, even if they are dead, multiple times, with mail-in votes counted only by Democrats without checking dates or signatures is not a problem. Please! Even Democrats, other than party leaders, want secure and honest elections.

The real eclipse lasts only for a brief period. The most important thing about an eclipse is that it creates a greater appreciation for sunlight.

The problem with E Clips is that eventually the truth emerges, and people see right through them. But it is important for Republicans to understand that the best defense against the E Clips is to not copy them, but rather to let the sunshine in.

TDM

Most of us learned about the Ides of March as the date Julius Ceasar was assassinated. In 44 BC. It was the midpoint of March, corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian Calendar. The assassination of Julius Ceasar changed Rome forever. William Shakespeare wrote about in in Julius Ceasar. This ended the Roman republican and Julius Ceasars adopted son, Octavian, became Emperor August in 27 BC. Wikipedia has an article about this:

Ides of March – Wikipedia

In the case of Julius Ceasar, he was warned about the Ides of March, he laughed, all the way to the Senate, where he was assassinated. March has frequently been a month of transition. It is often said that if March comes in as a lamb, it goes out as a lion. I certainly have memories of March weather events that were quite challenging. Growing up in the Midwest, March as often the month when you “thought” winter was over, only to get a very unpleasant reminder that this was not necessarily true.

Groundhog day is celebrated at Gobbler Knob in Western Pennsylvania on February 2. In theory, if he sees his shadow, there is going to be six more weeks of winter. If not, then spring is on the way.

March is also a transitional month for a lot of reasons, including political reasons. During an election year, March is when things start getting serious. This year, both Biden and Trump “cinched” their nomination in March. Yet there is no guarantee this fall will actually be a matchup between Biden and Trump.

Democrats believe Trump will be blocked from even running, but so far, every lawsuit filed against him has failed miserably. If anything, they have made him more attractive for one simple reason. “If so many mean despicable people hate him and fear him, he must be doing something right.” Every time they try another legal tactic to take him down, the stronger he becomes. In addition, the press is so consistently negative about Trump, and they lie about him so constantly that even if he does or says something outrageous, few will believe it and even fewer will care.

One must ask, “Can the country really be on a path to an election for President of the United States between two elderly men absolutely despised by the opposition?” Liberals will NEVER unite behind President Trump, and conservatives will NEVER unite behind Joe Biden. The reasons for this are starkly different, yet equally true and extremely significant.

It is time to consider the eyes of March. Those things we all saw very clearly. Last week we were shocked to see the Francis Scott Key bridge destroyed in just a few seconds. This was a reminder that somethings the things that matter the most are the things no one predicted.

Rational Democrats in a position to do anything must be terrified by the eyes of March. The rate of mental deterioration affecting Joe Biden is impossible to ignore. It seems ridiculous to even consider the possibility that Joe Biden will the Democratic nominee. Yet, so far, there is no apparent plan to replace him. Partly because he thinks he is doing great; his wife thinks he is doing great. and Kamala Harris shows no signs of thinking at all.

Yet Spring is on the way, and so is summer. The DNC convention will be held in August. If nothing changes, Democrats are heading full speed ahead for a world class thumping in November. There must be at least some Democrats desperately trying to slam on the brakes or at least point this ship in another direction. They see the same things we see, they are not actually stupid, and panic is the ultimate motivator. The eyes of March have revealed the truth, and those who ignore their lying eyes will pay a very steep price.

TDM

Democrats were already reeling because of the daily mental decline of Joe Biden, the whimpering word salads from Kamala Harris and RFK Jr choosing Nicole Shanahan to be his VP running mate. Nicole Shanahan is beyond rich; she was married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin. While it is unlikely she will help RFK jr. win, she has already been successful in pushing the DNC into full panic mode.

In the meantime, Trump has been having an incredibly good week. It was hard to imagine anything that could make the situation worse. But then we wake up to learn that the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Baltimore Harbor had been struck by a freighter and it immediately collapsed. The video of this is beyond horrific. This obviously shut down the entrance to Baltimore Harbor. It has also shut down the bridge built to give trucks hauling high hazard materials a safer route through the area. Expect to get stories about world class traffic jams that will stagger the imagination.

The usual suspects, the politicians who always seize any opportunity to exploit an disaster have already shown up for the obligatory photo op to show they are important and in charge. Imagine living in Baltimore, understanding the importance of this bridge and learning that Pete Buttigieg is in charge of fixing this. Expect Baltimore to run out of alcohol within hours. Then imagine hearing Joe Biden reflect on commuting across the Francis Scott Key Bridge on his train before someone pointed out there were no train tracks on that bridge. Oops.

But the real pain has just begun. It will take weeks, maybe months, perhaps years, to just clear the debris out of the harbor. Then they can “start” to think about building a new bridge. The old one took five years to build and cost $110 million. This one is likely to take much longer than that and the cost will be in the billions, not millions.

In the meantime, all those people relying on the Baltimore harbor for their jobs are already researching how to collect unemployment and look at other harbors, anywhere, that still function. To give you an example of the cost, Carnival Cruise Lines just announced that they expect this to cost them at least $10 million.

Imagine the response when the environmental lobby realizes exactly what has been traveling across that bridge in a long, endless line of trucks. What if one of those trucks was on the bridge when it collapsed? Carbon emissions anyone?

Joe Biden is almost certain to demand that the federal government be involved in designing the new bridge and will arrogantly insist it be built solely with union labor. That will speed things up and it will absolutely reduce costs. Right?

Perhaps one of the local leaders will step up and fill the leadership gap, but it is still a really big gap. In the meantime, if they do everything perfectly, the results will be far from perfect. This is a hot, actually cold, mess and it is going to get even uglier the more we learn about it. The only thing absolutely certain at this point is that the double secret probation committee is working overtime to find some tiny ray of sunshine regarding this fiasco. Oh, I know, blame it on Donald Trump.

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