Both my wife and I have taken the Covid Vaccination. Obviously, we cannot exactly be chalked up as anti-vaxers. However, that does not mean we think the Covid vaccine is necessary or even a good idea for everyone. Out our age, the reward outweighs the risk. It has been known from day one that Covid is far more dangerous to older people. In addition, if it turns out the Covid vaccine has some nasty side effects, twenty years from now, that probably will have little impact on us if we are even still here.

But, trying to force someone who is young and in good health to take an untested vaccine against a disease that is not very dangerous to them does not seem wise, fair, or even responsible. Yet, the same people who said they would question any vaccine developed by Trump, are now demanding everyone take the vaccine, developed by Trump. This is beyond obvious to everyone not employed as an anchor in the MSM. A lot of people are not buying this, so now they are trying to bribe them. Governor Newsom wants to establish a lottery with big bucks for people who volunteer to get vaccinated. But he is going to have a problem. What about the millions of people who already got vaccinated, without the bribe? Are they to be left out? If not, what is the point. If yes, how is that remotely fair? We are rewarding people for bad behavior. By any definition, dumb.

But not the first time. Democrats are talking about reparations for slavery. I say fine, if you limit the cost to people who actually facilitated or benefited from slavery. That certainly should not include people whose ancestors were in the Union, who fought a civil war to defeat slavery. If anything, one could argue that they are the ones due reparation. It should not include people in the South who never owned slaves or benefited from slavery. It should be limited to people who are or whose ancestors were slaveholders or who benefited from slavery. We call them Democrats. Republicans fought against slavery, against the Jim Crow laws, against the Ku Klux Klan and for Civil Rights. Democrats fought for slavery, for Jim Crow laws, for segregation, for the Ku Klux Klan and literally filibustered the Civil Rights Act. They were punished by having buildings named after them in Washington D.C. by, you guessed it, Democrats.

It is not just politicians who do this. Aaron Rodgers is demanding he get traded to a team that loves him more than the Packers. He will also demand a massive increase in salary. He is 38 years old, recently engaged to a left-wing activist. Does anyone really expect another MVP season.  Anyone see a work ethic even approaching that of Tom Brady? There are numerous stories of other “star” athletes who got big bucks only to fade rapidly into oblivious. With the exception of Tom Brady and Phil Michelson, time doesn’t seem to slow down for anyone. Certainly not for people as arrogant, selfish, and self-righteous as Aaron Rodgers. Odds are someone will pay the bribe and they will regret it big time. The only other thing certain is that Aaron Rodger will blame everyone and everything other than, Aaron Rodgers.

Some would argue that politicians have paid bribes to Antifa and BLM to stop them from rioting and destroying things. The bribes included covering up the violence and defunding the police who are desperately trying to stop this. George Floyd’s family got $27 million because their son overdosed on drugs and died while in police custody. Being a popular victim is increasingly similar to winning the lottery. The result is more arrogance, more demands and more violence.

Numerous Democratic Governors and Mayors are paying already paying bribes to homeless people and promising more. If you are homeless, you get free housing, free food, free health care and heroic victim status. Why does it surprise anyone that if you pay people to be homeless, you will get more homeless people? The more you give, the more you get. In addition to the benefits, being homeless gives one far more status than working for a living and paying for your own food and housing.

All of these bribes have the same result. When you reward bad behavior, your get more bad behavior. More recently some clowns got millions for a ransom ware attack on the pipe line. Insurance carriers have also paid huge bribes. . We may not hear from these specific people again, but we will sure hear from their friends and family.

One would be wise to learn from history. One of our first wars was fought against the Tripoli Pirates. The slogan for that adventure was: “Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.” There is a statute of Winston Churchill, but no one even wants to remember Neville Chamberlain. He tried to solve the problem with Adolph Hitler by bribing him. How did that work out?  He has the support of much of the British establishment. But Winston Churchill learned to weaponize the British people.

I strongly believe that a lot of politicians will be shocked to learn that many, if not most people, are deeply offended by bribery. Pretending this is not true, changes nothing. Doing something stupid, while stupidly believing this is brilliant, is still doing something stupid.

The Democratic Party has become the father of the bribe. This is increasingly obvious. Nothing is working well. The economy is tanking. Democrats are botching COVID. Inflation is on the way. Numerous restaurants have been destroyed. Now democrats want to bribe people into switching to full electrical power, just when ransom ware thieves are proving why this is a huge mistake. The party is already over. People are sobering up rapidly. I can see 2022 from my window.

TDM

The MSM is desperately trying to discredit the Arizona audit. But there is increasing evidence that the results will be dramatic and undeniable. This is easy to understand. When something dramatic happens, the first verbal responders are always the opportunists. If a black man is shot, for any reason, the Al Sharpton’s of this world immediately make travel plans. Almost everything they say, at the start, is ultimately discredited. But the true investigators often say nothing. That is because they intend to let the facts speak for themselves.

I know nothing personally about the Arizona audit, but some things are obvious. One is that a lot of money is being spent on this and more is on the way. That would not be happening unless someone was reporting some very important results. The first sign of failure is a drop off in funding. No one wants to spend money on a lost cause.

There are other states who are also doing audits that appear to have the potential for startling results. It only takes one audit, done right, with indisputable results, to change everything. Arizona may not be the state with the most fraud, but it may be the state with the most provable fraud. If that is true, it will rock our world.

In the meantime, Joe Biden appears to be getting worse. Kamala Harris is meeting with World Leaders and no one looks impressed. The decision to green light the Russian pipeline while cancelling the Keystone Pipeline is impossible to defend. The MSM, which adored Liz Cheney, if she was trashing Trump, turned against her when they realized she supported the voter registration laws. The Liz Cheney’s of this world never learn.The MSM is only interested in them as instruments of destruction. Her usefulness as a Trump troll is gone and she is running out the clock on her fifteen minutes of fame.

There are only two options here. Either the 2020 election was rigged, or it was not. If it were rigged, there would have to have been corruption and manipulation on a massive scale. That would be impossible to hide forever. Just too many people and too many places involved. If those of us who believe this was rigged are right, then there is no chance it will be successfully covered up. It only takes one case where someone can prove a lot of votes were manipulated to change everything overnight.

We may just be headed toward the ultimate constitutional crisis. What if our real Fourth of July present is not only shedding our masks but also removing the blindfolds from the MSM. What if there is undeniable proof of the election fraud so many people suspect. In California there is already a recall election of our Governor. That is one thing people like about California. Some states have talked about calling a special election to decertify the 2020 election. It is hard to imagine any process for overturning a national election at this stage, but there is also no precedent for what is going on. Every poll shows that virtually no one voted for the radical Marxist agenda being promoted by the Biden administration. If you combine that with a genuine and credible belief that the election was rigged, then something will have to be done, sooner rather than later. My hunch is that it may start in Georgia with a special election regarding one or both new Democratic Senators. If that happened, it would immediately flip the Senate. Then Republicans are only a handful of votes away from flipping the House. If that happened, almost anything is possible.

The liberal left, in its four-year long pursuit of removing Trump from office by any means, may have accidentally set the stage for removing Joe Biden. They were the ones demanding that people reject the results of an election and they may pay a high price for that.

Only a few things are certain. The COVID panic in the U.S. is over and everyone knows that only the vaccine developed by Trump that made it possible. Ironically, the only weapon in the Democrat’s limited arsenal to maintain control is the vaccine Trump got for them. The more they praise it and demand everyone take it, the more absurd their position. At some point, even CNN will notice.

The entire country watched Don Lemon pull off a desperate publicity stunt to try and trick people into watching his show. It failed and his ratings, already in the tank, are sinking even lower. Change is inevitable, because at some point no sponsor will pay for people to not watch something.

The national audit is already underway. We are in for a long, violent and dramatic summer. The only thing certain is that things will really start to heat up.

TDM

Brett Baier recently interviewed Liz Cheney and it was just plain awful. She was on her usual irrational rant about Trump telling lies about the 2020 election. Rather than pushing back on her highly selective and irrelevant lies and distortions, Baier apologized and said FOX News had pushed back against these lies too. It was absurd. It was idiotic. It was flat out wrong. It was embarrassing.

There are literally mountains of evidence giving reason to question the 2020 election. While it is true that no court took a serious look at this and congress caved and voted to accept the irrational results that does not mean there were no legitimate concerns. When Trump pointed out serious problems with the way this election was run and the way votes were counted, he was right. One may and can argue that the election is over and the decision by congress to accept the electoral college results made this moot. That is, sadly, correct. But it does not mean that the 2020 election was a pure as the wind driven snow. It does not mean Liz Cheney is even close to right when she says Trump was lying about this. It does not mean that she was justified voting to impeach Trump for things he simply did not do.

The real danger here is not the “insurrection” on January 6, 2021. That was not even close to an insurrection. It was a lot of people, furious, because neither the courts nor congress were willing to do squat to investigate this. People like Liz Cheney, who pretend that up is down and wrong is right do not help. They just pour gas on a smoldering fire. The election is over. Joe Biden is President. Trump has left the building. All that is true. But it is also true that this election reeked of corruption. No one may ever be able to prove the full extent of the corruption, because the election was conducted in a manner so sloppy that no evidence may even exist. But that does not make this right or fair or remotely acceptable. Millions of ballots were mailed in. There are extremely poor records of who exactly voted. That should concern everyone, including the self-righteous and arrogant Liz Cheney. We get it. She hates Donald Trump. She has a right to her opinion. She does not have a right to her own facts.

Brett Baier let her walk all over him. Just like FOX News let people walk all over them during and following the election. The only good news is that other reporters at FOX are doing a better job. In addition, FOX News is reducing the impact of the pathetic Chris Wallace by letting Harold Watson “Trey” Gowdy III have his own show, rather than just repeating the comedy hour starring “never-Trumper” Chris Wallace.

Earth to Brett Baier, who I actually like most of the time. If Newsweek thinks you botched it, you botched it big time. You had the opportunity to push back on Liz Cheney in a way that would have been unforgettable. Instead, you apologized, for your own network, for irresponsible, weak, and biased prior reporting. I wonder if CNN is looking for another Lemon.

TDM

Democratic politicians across the country are paying a very high price for shoving Joe Biden into the White House. They were too busy celebrating the humiliation of Donald Trump to consider the consequences of a Joe Biden Presidency. They were already paying a high price for this. The policies being shoved down our collective throats are not popular with a lot of Democrats either. Now that these policies were simultaneously melting down, buyer’s remorse is visible everywhere. But prior to today, many Democratic politicians, particularly Democratic Governors were willing to overlook everything in exchange dreams of a desperately need influx of delicious tax dollars.

But they missed something important. Biden seldom gives any consideration to anyone other than himself and he is obvious to the real world. His decision to allow the CDC to announce the end of the “mask mandates” for everyone fully vaccinated probably seemed like a great idea. It would be a great idea, if he hadn’t chosen to drop this on everyone, with no warning, simultaneously throwing blue state Governors completely under the bus. Just hours after Gavin Newsom gloated about perhaps ending all mask mandates by June 15^th, Joe Biden just ended them immediately. How, exactly, is Newsom going to convince people to keep wearing masks after this performance? Biden not only tried to take full credit for the vaccines developed solely because of the leadership of Donald Trump, he didn’t even pretend to give some small credit to all those blue state governors. If they are not furious, it is only because they are too stupid to be furious.

I do not know what will happen elsewhere, but Newsom is between a rock and a hard place. If he reduces mask mandates sooner, then he will get almost no credit for this. If he tries to extend the mask mandates, he is likely to face a full-scale rebellion. Just Monday, according to CDC guidelines, there was Biden, meeting with fully vaccinated people, in the Oval Office, all wearing masks looking terrified at spreading Covid. Just hours later, the masks aren’t necessary at all. So, were they lying then or are they lying now? Easy, they were lying both times.

Now if Donald Trump had allowed the CDC to say masks are not necessary and then set the example himself, the liberal left would have exploded. They would have said he was bullying the CDC into making irresponsible decisions. But Joe, he’s supposedly their guy, they can’t even pretend to play that game with him. The masks are coming off and there is nothing the blue state governors can do about it. Are they going to question the CDC? Or are they going to say that Joe is not up to the job?

We can be sure that there are emergency war room meetings in a lot of blue state capitols, and they are taking turns between throwing up and throwing temper tantrums. What makes this worse is the knowledge that they made this all possible. They all knew, during the primary, that Joe was not remotely capable of being President of the United States. But they were so focused on defeating Trump, by any means, that they didn’t even admit it to themselves. They knew the election was unbelievable. They did not care. They only wanted Trump gone and nothing else matters. Now, a lot of them are quickly figuring something out. It was better to have Trump in charge, insulting them, but running the country pretty well, than to have Joe Biden, not in charge, watching the country go to hell in a handbasket. At least with Trump in office, they could always blame him. Who do they blame now? Themselves? Unthinkable. Joe Biden, hmmm?

Now they are pushing people to give shots to 12-year-old children who have close to zero chance of getting COVID, an even lower chance of getting seriously ill and an even lower chance of dying. But we don’t know the impact this vaccine will have 20 years from now, when they are young adults. That is why the COVID vaccines were only approved for emergency use, it takes years to document the long-term effects of any vaccine. Smart parents know this. Wealthy white liberal parents living in the Washington D.C. bubble, not so much.

While everyone was cheering Joe Biden’s brave new mask less deal the media missed something big. They weren’t cheering Joe Biden, and they weren’t cheering Kamala Harris. They were cheering the end of the insanity. People recently released from an insane asylum rarely return to thank the staff that kept them there. We are now all looking at a New Mask Less Deal. Incredible.

TDM

Governor Newsom has now announced that as early as June 15, 2021, he may end all mask requirements. Congratulations. He has figured out what the Governors of Georgia and South Dakota knew in March of 2020. Remember the 400,000 people who gathered in Sturgis, not wearing masks. Remember how that turned into a super spreader event? What? You don’t remember? That is because while the event was held, the super spreader event is still on hold. He figured out what the Governors of Florida, Texas and other states realized months ago. He figured out what Dr. Fauci knew over a year ago, before he developed amnesia, and then miraculous remembered this week. Masks, that are not intended for medical purposes, are not intended for medical purposes. That is because they serve no medical purpose. That includes preventing the spread of Covid 19. Oh, there will still be true believers, there are always true believers. There will just be a whole lot less of them.

Once again, Newsom is billions of dollars short and about a year late. The CDC just announced that people who are fully vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask. Indoors or outdoors. Oh, they tried to keep exceptions for large crowds and planes, but this is so over. Starting tonight, heck starting this afternoon, you can go in any place you want, without wearing a mask. Wait, you say? What if I am not vaccinated? Well, what is a business owner supposed to do. Demand to see your vaccination card. That, friends, is a violation of privacy. Good luck with that. Business owners who did not want to fight back against the mask mandate will not want to fight back against the no mask mandate.

The masks did work, they made it easy for government to control our lives. They made it possible for Democrats to steal a general election with massive mail-in fraud (excuse me) “voting.” Despite the lack of reporting by the MSM, numerous courts have ruled that these changes to our election law were and are unconstitutional. They just didn’t see the need to stop a fraudulent election. To them it was more important to have the electoral college vote and make Joe Biden President of the United States. What could possibly go wrong?

Now we know the answer to that question. Just about everything. If you doubt that, name one thing that has improved under the leadership of Chairman Joe. Are race relations better? Is the economy doing better? Is he handling immigration better? Is violence and crime under control? Is our spending under control? Is there peace in the Middle East? Is there peace anywhere? Are gas prices higher or lower? Are food prices higher or lower? Are building supply prices higher or lower? Has there been an improvement in the tone of politics?  All Joe has brought us is chaos, inflation, and war. Nice work that.

There is a reason the CDC made this announcement today. They had no choice. This was their last chance to pretend they matter. It is an act of desperation.

Look around you, the masks are coming off as we speak. The first thing you will notice are all the smiling faces all around you. But soon, you will notice something else. A whole new class of “woke” people. People who are confronted with the reality that Joe Biden is an absolute disaster as a President. That putting Progressives in charge has resulted in change no one can tolerate. Everyone is angry. Everything is worse. There isn’t even hope of things getting better. Today Pete Buttigieg was on CNBC and they literally laughed at him. For four years all that was necessary for a good laugh was to trash Trump. Well Trump is gone and while a lot of people hated him, they loved the way things were going when he was in charge. Soon and very soon, the MSM will start trashing Biden. Not because they want to or even because it is fair, but because some people are not happy unless they are unhappy, and Joe absolutely is the target of opportunity. But don’t be surprised if the attacks on Biden are even worse than what happened to Trump. The reason is that the anti-Trumpers always hated Trump. They didn’t expect good results. But these clowns seriously thought that electing Joe Biden was a good thing. We are soon going to see a nationwide case of buyer’s remorse. Those who do not understand this will pay a very high price. No one more than Liz Cheney.

The dam has been breached. The Genie is out of the bottle. Use whatever analogy you prefer. This is so over. Freedom is the most contagious disease in the history of the world and once Americans taste it once more, things will never be the same.

Joe, Joe, he’s our man, everything’s going according to plan. That is exactly the problem. The plan sucks. This summer will be a nationwide no mask parade party. Enjoy.

TDM

In addition to the weather, be very grateful if you are living in California. We are used to paying higher prices for gasoline than other states. That is because California gas is formulated differently to reduce pollution. Those of us who remember driving in Los Angeles during the smog days, are very aware of why this was necessary. It might be interesting to note that one of the first things European visitors to the Los Angeles basin noticed was smog from the Indian Campfires. Fortunately, the air in LA is much cleaner now and those of us living in California appreciate that.

But, even if the price of gas is higher, it is still readily available. That apparently is not necessarily true if you are living in the Southwest and may not be true for much of the East Coast shortly. Part of the problem is that Joe Biden cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, which has already had a negative impact.  Now the Colonial Pipeline is shut down and that impacts much of the East Coast.

I used to have season tickets to the Oakland Raiders. I cancelled them when they decided to love to Las Vegas. But I went to a lot of games, and we took Bart trains to the stadium. I have vivid memories of passing rail yards where there were long lines of railroad tank cars. As a risk manager that shocked me because transporting oil is dangerous and transporting gas is extremely dangerous. As an Underwriter, I was trained to recognize the danger of hauling flammable liquids and gas tankers are very dangerous. In my opinion, railroad tank cars hauling flammable liquids is a recipe for disaster. Just imagine if there was a derailment in a highly populated area. Even a derailment anywhere has the potential to disrupt rail traffic. We already have severe gas shortages because although we have a lot of tanker trucks, there is a shortage of certified drivers. It takes special training to operate one of these vehicles safely.

This is what the environmental lobby ignores. It is far safer to transport flammable liquids through properly designed and operated pipelines. Ironically, the same people who are pushing for high speed rail to promote mass transit of people, are ignoring the most efficient and safest mass transit system possible, a fuel pipeline. The Alaska Pipeline has been operating safely and efficiently for decades. Remember the last major incident on the Alaska Pipeline. You probably don’t, so here is a list from Reuters.

FACTBOX-Incidents on the Trans Alaska Pipeline | Reuters

Feb. 15, 1978 – Sabotage at Steele Creek near Fairbanks by an unknown person blew a hole in the line, causing about 670,000 gallons to spill (16,000 barrels).

* March 24, 1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill, 11 million gallons spilled. Tanker had loaded at the pipeline marine terminal, operator Alyeska was faulted for poor preparation and response, and wound up paying a civil settlement.

* Oct. 4, 2001 – An intoxicated man fired a high-powered gun and shot a hole in the pipeline at Livengood, roughly halfway down the line, resulting in a release of about 250,000 gallons (6,143 barrels) onto the ground.

* Nov. 3, 2002 – Denali earthquake, magnitude 7.9. Pipeline was closed for 66 hours for inspection but no spills or damage. Pipeline determined to have responded to the earthquake as designed.

* 2007 – Fire at storage tank at Pump Station 9, about 105 miles south of Fairbanks, closed the pipeline for more than three days.

* May 25, 2010 – Electrical outage during scheduled maintenance caused crude oil to overflow at a storage tank at same pump station. About 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) overflowed from the tank into a lined containment area on the ground.

That right, between 1968 and 2010 there were 6 incidents in about 30 years. The most serious incident, the Exxon Valdez accident, was not caused by the pipeline, it happened when the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker hit Bligh Reef. The environmentalist Nazis blamed the pipeline, but it reality it is when oil is transported by ships, trains, or trucks that the risk is magnified. At least with a tanker truck, the damage is typically limited to one vehicle. But if a train derails it may involve several, much larger tank cars.

The result is approaching perfect storm proportions:

Gas stations begin to run out of fuel after cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline | Daily Mail Online

The story speaks for itself. The political implications are off the wall. Democrats will try, and fail, to blame this on Trump. But most of the blame will fall, correctly on the Biden administration. There are few things that will have more impact on politics than the price of gas and skyrocketing prices. Both are happening right now. Every time someone puts gas in their car, they are reminded of the brilliant job by Joe Biden. If you watch closely, you can already see Democrats starting to distance themselves from the Biden administration. Publicly, they may still feign support, but privately they understand this is nothing short of a full-fledge disaster.

The country is running on empty; it is no longer possible to blame everything on Trump, and the amount of anger and the number of people experiencing it cannot be overstated.

TDM

In 1968 21 billion barrels of oil were discovered in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay. They found the oil but needed to build a pipeline. Congress has passed the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) which required congress to regulate things like pipelines but provided no guidelines for doing that. There was fierce opposition to the pipeline, very similar to what we have today. Congress would probably still be arguing over this, but OPEC imposed an oil embargo on the U.S. in retaliation for the U.S. supporting Israel during the Arab-Israel war.  In an act of desperation, because we were literally running out of gas, Congress took up legislation called the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act. It passed in the House, but predictably the Senate was deadlocked. Enter Vice President Spiro Agnew, who cast the deciding vote. That’s right folks, Spiro was the hero who saved the pipeline and the day.

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. After Joe Biden, with roaring support from liberal Democrats, cancelled the Keystone pipeline there was rejoicing, by people like Warren Buffet who owns all those rail tank cars and oil tankers. The rest of us, not so much, because we were already set to run out of gas, again. Those of you too young to remember should ask your parents or grandparents about the days of Jimmy Carter. Speed limits on interstates were limited to 55 miles per hours, Jimmy was lecturing us from the Oval office, wearing a sweater, saying we needed to use less energy. If you could find a gas station, with gas, there was a long line, and the price would probably increase three times before you got to the pump.

Trump came in and made us energy independent for the first time in decades. Gas was cheap and abundant. Something had to be done. So, Joe stopped the pipeline. Now the Colonial Pipelines is down because it has been hacked. This is no big deal, because it only delivers about 45% of fuel used on the East Coast. The DOT had to issue an emergency declaration to reduce regulations for drivers carrying gasoline and other fuel products. Some are saying that Russia is behind this, but we know that cannot be true, because they were too busy trying to help Trump beat Joe Biden in the 2020 election. No one knows how, exactly, they were doing this, but why let a good Russian conspiracy go to waste.

The Administration said not to worry, because the COVID 19 restrictions make it hard to travel anyway. So far, we do not know when service through the pipeline can be restored. This pipeline is barely 5,500 miles long and only supplies about a million gallons per day, so no big deal. One wind farm in Washington D.C., located near Democratic Senators could easily replace this amount of energy. Some would call that clean energy, but they probably haven’t listened to what is actually being said.

Meanwhile the Palestinians are fighting with Israel. The Biden administration is criticizing, Israel.

Israel calls on Biden administration to stay out of Jerusalem crisis (yahoo.com)

President Biden has thus far viewed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a very low priority in comparison to other foreign policy issues.

• The White House was not interested in spending much political capital or time on the issue, and was seeking to avoid a fight with Israel over the Palestinian conflict.
• But the Jerusalem crisis that erupted over the weekend prompted many members of Congress and progressive organizations to weigh in and demand that the White House intervene.

Israel responded by telling the Biden administration to back off.

• Israeli officials said Ben Shabbat told Sullivan during the phone call that Israel believes the Biden administration and the rest of the international community should stay out of the crisis in Jerusalem and avoid pressing Israel.
• Ben Shabbat told Sullivan that “international intervention is a reward to the Palestinian rioters and those who back them who were seeking international pressure on Israel,” according to an Israeli official briefed on the call,

This reminds me of a skit that used to run on Saturday Night Live, back when it was occasionally funny and worth watching. Several people, including Bill Murray, Gary Kroeger, Terry Sweeney, and Phil Hartman played Senator Ted Kennedy. At some point the actor playing Teddy Kennedy would offer to give one of the females a ride home. Since most people know about Mary Jo Kapecki. they always, wisely, said thanks but no thanks.

No sane person, other than the anchors on CNN, who are not necessarily sane, takes Joe Biden seriously. Wise people absolutely do not want or need his help trying and failing to fix things. The more he does get involved, the faster things will “Spiro” out of control. Currently Joe is working a good solid 20 minutes per day. It is frightening to think what he can fail to accomplish if he is given even more time.

TDM

Joe Biden is well known for telling ridiculous lies, they are just ignored or downplayed by the MSM. But he managed to outdo himself, if that is even possible, with his rant about Amtrack. If Trump had done that the MSM would have had a complete meltdown. They will barely report on this, if at all.

Here is what Biden said:

When I became Vice President, one of the Capitol Hill newspapers estimated that I had taken more than 7,000 round trips in Amtrak over my career. I think that’s an exaggeration. I’m going to rely on those two conductors that, Mr. Weaver will remember. One of them was a guy named Angelo Negri. Angelo, there was an article I guess my fourth or fifth year as vice president, saying, “Biden travels 1,300,000 miles on Air Force One.” The Secret Service didn’t like it, but I used to like to take the train home. My mom was sick and I’d try to come home almost every weekend as vice-president to see her. I was getting on the train and Angelo Negri came up and he goes, “Joey, baby.” He grabbed my cheek and started to squeeze it like he always did.

He said, “Joey, what’s the big deal? A 1,200,000, 300,000 miles on Air Force Two. You know how many miles you’ve traveled on Amtrak?”

He gave me the calculation and he said, “You traveled 1,515,000 miles on Amtrak.” The fact is I’d probably take Angelo’s word before I took the word of what the article said. But the point is, in the process, as Conductor Weaver will tell you, Amtrak became my family. I literally, literally every single day that I was in the United States Senate got either the 7:28, it became the 7:32 and, or and got home on, if I got lucky I got the Metro, the last one left at 6:00 or I got the 7:30 coming home. You get to know everybody. You get to know the folks.

Here are the inconvenient facts. In 2013, Joe Biden was in his fourth year as VP. However, Angelo Negri had retired from Amtrack 20 years earlier, in 1993. He died in 2010.  That was over 20 years prior to Biden traveling 2 million miles on Air Force 2. Joe’s mother, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan died in 2010. So clearly Joe was not exactly traveling home almost every weekend to see her unless it was to visit her grave.

So, unless Joe talks regularly to dead people, neither Negri nor Joe’s mother were available in 2013. By the way, Joe celebrated traveling over one million miles on Air Force 2 in 2015, so he was wrong about that too.

Now this is just plain silly, but typical for Joe Biden. He has lied and exaggerated almost everything about his personal history. The real issue here is that the MSM simply does not care. It should be more concerning that Biden is proposing another union wage high speed rail plan destined for disaster. They have been trying, and failing, to build high speed rail in California for years. Each year the cost goes up. They are building like mad and bragging about it, but we are years away from seeing any actual trains. When done, it will go from Madera to Bakersfield. That is 124 miles. Currently you can drive that in a little less than 2 hours. Have you ever been to Madera? What do you remember? This train will apparently also stop in Visalia before ending up in Bakersfield.  Originally this was going to connect San Francisco and Sacramento to downtown LA. That turned out to be impossible, but a great idea can never be discouraged just because it is impossible, so they are still building, building, building away.

If Joe’s plan is successful, we will see similar projects allowing Amtrack to travel from Florida to Tampa and to fix that tunnel in New York Now!

“Ya know, if you think about it…when I was Vice President with Barack, he allowed me to put together a budget for Amtrak and it had money for a high speed rail at 200 MPH — from, from uh, uh Charlotte, one, another line going from…in Florida, down to Tampa, another line — if we had moved…we’d have that tunnel fixed in New York now!”

If you notice, Joe claim he was responsible for getting this done while VP. Obviously, nothing was done.

If this does not make sense to you, it is probably because you read and understand English. But if the MSM even attempted to report honestly on this, it would expose Biden as a hopeless liar. If they actually reported on what he said, it would expose his dementia. Instead, they are focused on his “Rooseveltian” State of the Union address. If anyone read or listened to that speech it was obvious that even when reading from a TelePrompter, Joe lies all the time.

Donald Trump has said the big lie is the myth that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. He is right that the MSM continues to lie about that, but the real Whopper is that Joe Biden is remotely capable of being President of the United States.

TDM

We all saw the video of George Floyd dying. It was truly awful. Even Donald Trump said it was an outrage. It “looked” like Derek Chauvin leaned on George Floyds neck and choked him to death. Yet, few people actually saw the entire video, along with video from other directions. It is not clear that Chauvin even had his knee on Floyd’s neck at all, but rather on his shoulder. The goal of the MSM, from day one, was to convince people of two things. That Derek Chauvin deliberately killed George Floyd as he lie there helplessly on the ground. That this was just the most recent example of systemic racism and abuse of power against unarmed black men.

The fix was on from the very start. Extreme pressure was put on the Medical Examiner to find this a homicide. There was extreme pressure on everyone, including, but not limited to, the Mayor, to the Police Chief, and to the President. All demanded one thing, the conviction of Derek Chauvin for murder.

Minneapolis had previously fired its police chief in 2017. In November 2015, Jamar Clark was shot by police. They were trying to handcuff him when he reached for the officer’s gun. The officer shot him. There were days of protests. In July 2016, police shot Philando Castile, because they believed he was reaching for a gun. Some remember this because his girlfriend livestreamed him while he was dying. The police were tried, and acquitted. There were also protests about this.

Minneapolis was also where former police officer Mohamed Noor shot and killed Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who had called police to report an assault in process, only to have the police shoot her. The City of Minneapolis paid $20 Million to her estate.

Mohammed Noor was black, and Justine Damond was white, so while there were protests, there were no large crowds screaming about systemic racism. Most, but not all the protestors were white. No one alleged racism. It does appear that the Minneapolis police had a history of killing people, under murky circumstances, but not necessarily because of racism.  So, when the George Floyd case exploded, the fuse had been lit years before. Like most deadly encounters between police and a suspect which results in a death, things are complicated.

In any event, the circumstances all impacted the Derek Chauvin trial. It got worse when Maxime Waters demanded violent protest if he was acquitted, and Joe Biden said he was obviously guilty. He even claimed to be praying for a conviction. Joe Biden also said this was evidence of systemic racism.

Other than the fact that George Floyd was black, there does not appear to be anything racist about this. If you doubt that just imagine a white man, get high on alcohol, methamphetamines, fentanyl and weed, try to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, and then get behind the wheel of his car, apparently planning on driving some place. His treatment by police would probably have been similar. And, oh, have him resist arrest. The primary difference is that no crowds chanting insults at police while filming with cell phones would have been around.

George Floyd did die, and that is tragic, but it is unclear that Derek Chauvin killed him. If police had not been involved, with this tox screen this would have probably ruled death by overdose. Something that happens, unfortunately, all the time. It is interesting to note that the medical examiner’s report does not mention asphyxiation.  Early reports revealed no findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. The independent medical examiner, hired by the family, said that he died from asphyxiation.

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/04/869278494/medical-examiners-autop

Under pressure, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner concluded that the cause of death was:

“cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” 

One also notes that while there was evidence of blunt-force injuries to the skin of Floyd’s head, face, upper lip, shoulders, hands, elbows and bruising of the wrists consistent with hand cuff, there is no evidence of injury to his neck.

But none of this mattered because the jury was determined to convict Chauvin from the start. Now we learn that one of the jurors was at a BLM rally, last summer, apparently wearing a shirt that included a reference leaning regarding leaning on George Floyd’s neck. He did not consider this important information to give the court when evaluating him as a juror.

It now seems certain that the Chauvin verdict will be overturned.  He may or may not be tried again. If he is, it is unlikely to be a week’s long televised event. The outcome of that trial, if there even is a trial, is obviously not known at this time. What we do know is that Minneapolis is in for a long hot summer of violent BLM protests, many of them holding pictures of George Floyd.

Ironically, in the desperate attempt to convict Chauvin, that black juror may have instead set him free. This case is troubling. Someone should have noticed that George Floyd was no longer breathing. But we should also consider what it must be like to be a police officer, involved with a potentially violent suspect, surrounded by people screaming at you and filming everything with cell phones. That is a guaranteed recipe for bad results. We should also note that the Minneapolis Police Department has been “retraining” officers to prevent violence for at least five years. In the meantime, thanks to irresponsible reporting, black men are, if anything, more likely to resist arrest than they did in the past. The results are guaranteed to be catastrophic; the only question is who will get hurt most, the suspect, or the people he injures if he can escape.

We will all pay a high price for Nail Chauvinism. The highest price of all will be paid by people living in minority communities plagued by black on black crime.

TDM

Democrats have been dreaming of turning Texas blue since forever. They thought they had their chance in the 6^th congressional district in Northern Texas. Ron Wright won election last fall by a healthy margin. Unfortunately, he died before taking office. Democrats and RINO Republicans attacked. Here was their chance. It wasn’t even close. Democrats really thought they had a shot, because there were 23, yes 23 candidates.  Two Republicans polled high enough to compete in the run-off election. The closest Democrat, Jane Lynne Sanchez came in a distant third. Over 60 percent of the district voted for a Republican.

Donald Trump endorsed Susan Wright, the widow of Ron Wright, who came in first. Second place went to Jake Ellzey, also a Republican. The anti-Trump segment, endorsed by Adam Kinzinger, who has the coat tails of a nude mouse, came in way, way back.

Not that Democrats didn’t try, they even accused Susan Wright of killing her husband by giving him COVID 19. Just when you thought Democrats couldn’t go any lower, they keep digging.

Once again Democrats were reading their own press releases and ignoring reality. If you watch the MSM and read any of their biased polls, you probably think Joe is doing GREAT! He isn’t. He is stinking up the joint and the majority of Americans, who refuse to watch the MSM, know that. After the State of the Union speech, CBS did an instant poll of viewers. It showed that Joe hit it out of the park. They reported that 85% of viewers loved it.  Not only that, 74% of them thought Joe’s policies would help them.

Eighty-five per cent of viewers approved of Biden’s speech, poll shows (yahoo.com)

There was just one problem. They polled about 1,000 people who actually watched the entire speech, staying awake through the entire ordeal. Only 169 of those people happened to be Republican. Not only does this show that the poll was hopelessly biased, but it also showed who was and more importantly, who not watching Joe mumble his way through the dullest State of the Union address on record:

OBVIOUS BIAS: CBS poll gave huge approval rating to Biden speech by including only 169 Republicans out of 1,000 respondents | The Post Millennial

Perhaps I am wrong, but it seems as if only 16.9% of people who watched were Republicans, and 85% of people thought It was great, Biden’s entire support base apparently comes from the limited gene pool still willing to watch CBS and pretend this is reporting.

Quietly, at least some Democratic strategists did see this, and they also saw the results of that Special election and promptly threw up. Let me remind you of what the experts were reporting as of April 30, 2021:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/551073-tomorrows-special-election-in-texas-is-the-democrats-best-house-hope-in-202

They described it as the best hope for Democrats in 2021. They called this a district transforming from red to pink. They predicted, correctly, that Susan Wright would come in first. But they though Sanchez, the Democrat, would come in second. Nailed that one.

Although the MSM didn’t notice, many of Biden’s applause lines were actually plagiarized from Donald Trump.  That should not surprise anyone paying attention, because Biden had been plagiarizing people from the start of his un-illustrious political career. That, is of course, only when he is not flat out lying. Now the MSM is even trying to pretend that Operation Warp Speed was a failure and Biden saved the day with his progressive leadership. This proves that some of those CNN anchors, despite the bias, have tremendous skill, because they said this with a straight face.

Of course, Democrats never get it. The LA Times ran an article admitting that Governor Newsom is in deep trouble and likely to be recalled.

Letters to the Editor: Recall foes are seriously mistaken if they think Newsom can coast to victory (msn.com)

Of course, they printed the following at the bottom of the article:

“To the editor: I just read that this recall will cost taxpayers up to $400 million. It would be reasonable that those who want to remove Newsom from office should pay for this election. Why should those who do not want to recall our governor have to pay for it?

Do we not realize what we could do with $400 million? We could build housing for homeless people, pay teachers more or restore music and other classes for our children that have been lost because of funding cuts.”

That’s it. Money would be better spent building housing for the homeless, paying teachers more and restoring classes we can’t afford because of paying teachers.

They eyes have it and no amount of spin by the MSM is effective at hiding it. A lot of us are seeing this with our own eyes and yes, it is obvious. The Biden administration is a sad joke. We are the laughingstock of the entire world. And while the MSM is still drinking and spitting out the KoolAid, the rest of us don’t find this even slightly amusing.

By the way, when you are queuing up this summer, waiting to purchase $5 gas at service stations that are running on empty remember this. Joe Biden totally got 80 million votes, and everyone is absolutely thrilled with his performance, not. But, at least you will be safe,  because you will still need to wear a worthless mask.

TDM