Most people, who were raised in more modern parts of the country, are unfamiliar with an important part of our history. I was raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan up until I was a junior in high school. From the 4^th through the 9^th grades, we lived in a little town called Bergland, Michigan. This was very remote. It was 35 miles to the nearest grocery store.  In a location like this, there were still a lot of people using outhouses. Even homes that had indoor plumbing often had an outhouse, no longer used, in their back yard. In the UP we used to celebrate “Gate Night” which was the night before Halloween. It was fun to push over some of those outhouses. Some people called it “Devil’s Night.”

In case you think I am making this up, read the following article from livescience.com. https://www.livescience.com/5149-devil-night-history-pre-halloween-pranks.html

Before the 20th century, Halloween mischief in the United States and Canada happened on Oct. 31 and consisted of tipping over outhouses, unhinging farmer’s gates, throwing eggs at houses and the like.

The story goes of a young boy who pushed over his parent’s own outhouse on Gate Night. His father confronted him the next day, furious. It seems that this outhouse was placed near the bank of a river, and when it was pushed over, if fell into the river. The boy had been in school that morning when the teacher told the story about George Washington cutting down an apple tree. When his father confronted him and asked if he had cut down the apple tree, young George confessed. His father was so impressed that he decided not to punish George. It is highly unlikely that was a true story.

But the boy who pushed over the outhouse decided this was worth a try. So, he confessed and admitted to his dad that yes, he had pushed over the outhouse into the river. At which point the father took off his leather belt and beat the living crap (pun intended) out of him. After the punishment was over, the boy sobbed and said: “When George Washington told the truth about cutting down the apple tree, his father forgave him and didn’t punish him. Why did you have to beat me?” The father responded: “Probably because George Washington’s father wasn’t in the apple tree.”

At times like these, a little humor can go a long way. Just remember when Democrats pushed Joe Biden into the White House, they forgot who was in the outhouse.

TDM

Now is a time to remember 1993. Bill Clinton had just been elected President of the United States. We had replaced a President who was extremely qualified and who had done an excellent job with trailer trash from Arkansas. The House and the Senate were both controlled by Democrats. Most people paying attention were horrified. Then, as now, the MSM had been the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Democrats looked like they were in control and Republicans would never win another election. But one man, a congressman from Georgia saw this differently. Where others saw disaster, he saw opportunity. His name was Newt Gingrich, and he wrote the contract with American that resulted in Republicans gaining control of the House and the Senate two years later, in 1994. By January 1995, when that new congress took office, everything changed.

Let me remind people how bad things looked in January 1993. There were 258 Democrats in the House, 176 Republicans and 1 Independent.  In 1993 the Senate had 58 Democrats and 42 Republicans. Democrats had far more control than they have now.  Yet as bad as things were in 1993, two years later, everything changed. In January 1995 there were 204 Democrats in the House, 230 Republicans and 1 Independent. In 1995 the senate had 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats.

Today, in the House there are 222 Democrats and 211 Republicans. In the Senate there are 48 Democrats, 2 Independents and 50 Republicans. Since the “so-called,” Independents vote with the Democrats this is a tie, with VP Kamala Harris holding the tie breaking vote. Democrats are far weaker today than they were in 1993.

Following is an opinion written by Newt Gingrich, on December 21, 2020. This is a reminder to all of us that real leaders, not fooled by the nonsense are still out there. Smart Republicans will pay close attention to what New Gingrich is saying, because he has experience in dealing with an even worse situation and turning it completely around:

Why I will not accept Joe Biden as president – Washington Times

Joe Biden will issue executive orders, most of them idiotic and unconstitutional. They will be truly awful, but also unconstitutional. Most of them will be challenged in court, and like Obama, Biden will lose most of those challenges. Remember, Trump put in 300 new conservative federal judges.

Masses of people are already headed toward our border, toward promises Biden made but cannot possibly keep. This is going to be a serious problem. While Obama talked about open borders, it was Obama who built all those cages. Biden will be lucky if he does not have to start shooting people.

Here are the Executive orders to be issued by Joe Biden today.

*Rejoin the WHO (dominated by China and funded by us).

*Issue a mask mandate requiring face covering and physical distance in all federal buildings and on federal lands. He will ask Americans to wear masks for the next 100 days, everywhere, including indoors at home with family.

*Direct federal agencies to extend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums until at least March 31.

*End restrictions on travel and immigration form some Muslim countries and resume VISA processing.

*Rejoin the Paris Climate accord and restore Obama-era  efforts to combat climate change.

*Revote the permits for the Keystone XL Pipeline

*Revise fuel standards and issue a temporary moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve.

*Count noncitizens in the U.S. Census.

*Bolster sanctuary cities and DACA

*Require every government agency to conduct a baseline review on whether its policy disadvantage any demographic group.

*Shut down the 1776 commission Trump established to reverse liberals re-writing history.

*Install new protection prohibiting workplace discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

I don’t need to tell any of you why these executive orders will be a complete disaster. You already know gas prices are going to skyrocket, taxes are going to increase, regulations are going to increase, and it is going to become very expensive to heat or cool your home. The MSM may not notice this, but everyone else will see this every time they fill up their car or pay an energy bill.

The economy will sink faster than the Titanic. Unemployment will soar and the government, already running out of money, will be forced to cut spending while raising taxes. No one will be happy. The biggest migration will not be toward our southern border, but rather people fleeing blue states run by Democrats and heading toward red states run by Republicans.

Oh, by the way, the lockdowns will continue, COVID will get worse and a lot of people are not going to be enthusiastic about being forced to take a vaccine they considered dangerous and unnecessary. Now combine that with Joe Biden being Joe Biden and more than half the people convinced that Democrats stole the election. Nice!

This is 2021 and if you look out your window today, it looks bleak. But, if you look just a farther you can see 2022 on the horizon and it will get here sooner than you can even imagine. We are in for a bumpy ride, but the bumpier it gets the sooner people will do whatever it takes to get back on a better path. California may lead the way because I really think Gavin Newsom is about to be recalled. Hopefully, he will be replaced by someone better than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Because we live in America, not Venezuela, the future still looks bright, for those willing to see both what is happening now and what is yet to come. As Sarah Palin recently said, I can see 2022 from my window. We all need to look back to the future.

TDM

Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing. We are headed in the wrong direction.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/18/poll-usa-today-suffolk-university-country-wrong-direction-trump-biden/

This has deteriorated rapidly since the end of December. Then, about half of the population thought we were headed in the wrong direction. Now that has leaped to about 2/3^rd. Even more troubling is that only about 22% of the population thinks we are headed in the right direction. I believe we are about to experience a nationwide display of road rage.

Democrats and their supporters in the MSM successfully got Donald Trump out of the White House.  They demonized him to the extent that a lot of people are celebrating without regard to how this impacts them. Too busy rejoicing at his downfall to focus on what happens next. This is easy to understand. Donald Trump contributed to this. He is famous for bragging about himself and all his accomplishments. That turns off a lot of people. No one likes a show boater.

This reminds me of other famous show boaters. One example was Reggie Jackson, who considered himself the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Another was Deon Sanders, who was also deeply in love with himself. But both these people performed very well and the teams that had them were willing to put up with the nonsense in exchange for winning.

This reminded me of a very funny story. My boss was one of the owners of the San Francisco Giants. He called me into his office one day, told me to be silent, and then he called Bob Quinn, the General Manager of the Giants and put him on speaker. The Giants were trying to sign Deon Sanders. So, my boss asked how that was going. Quinn’s response was: “The ego has landed.” I had great difficulty restraining the urge to laugh out loud.

The point being that although Trump has his issues, the country did well under his leadership. That is why about 74 million people voted for him. In addition, in something that is a shock to liberals, some people like his style. That is one reason Democrats were so anxious to exploit COVID 19. Prior to COVID, the country was doing extremely well, and Trump was coasting to re-election. While the media predicably blamed everything on Donald Trump, other people realized that it was blue states run by Democrats that were taking a bad situation and making it worse.

Now that Democrats have seized control, they have also inherited ownership. People think we are headed in the wrong direction and they want that fixed asap. There’s the rub. Nothing Biden is proposing is going to fix this. If anything, he is more likely to make things worse, much worse. Incredibly, even though lockdowns have clearly not worked, Democrats have convinced themselves that doing it one more time, but more efficiently, will fix the problem. Biden is even talking about requiring masks when you are indoors at home. Seriously? They also are relying on the vaccine, we only have because of Donald Trump, and working overtime to muck up the distribution.

For example, some propose requiring children to get vaccinated before they can go back to school. This, of course, is after your child is required to chose its prefered pronoun in case they feel binary. Brilliant, give the vaccine to the people who need it the least. A lot of parents are going to be more than a little reluctant to have Johnny get that vaccine. There are already reports that up to 40% of first responders are saying no. The people who want and need the vaccine, those of us who are age 65 and older, appear to be at the bottom of the list. Biden is already talking about setting up federal distribution centers in under-served areas. That may be politically correct but could slow things down where the vaccine is needed the most.

He is planning on stopping construction on the Keystone Pipeline, something that will guarantee an increase in the price of gas. It will also put thousands of people currently working on the pipeline out of work. Nice!  He is going to have a mess on our southern border because he has been telling people they can come here and get free healthcare and a path to citizenship. Now he is telling them to stay home, but odds are they won’t listen. He is planning on giving 11 million illegal aliens a path to citizenship. He may be shocked to learn that many of them won’t even want that. It is cheaper to work under the table and avoid paying taxes. He is also proposing a $15 national minimum wage which will be devastating to some small business owners and will have the biggest negative impact on minorities.

By the way, the party that wants to defund the police, has surrounded itself with 25,000 troops so Joe can be sworn in safely in the first digital inauguration. I predict a lot of people will respond digitally, using their middle finger.

I could go on, but you get the point. Not only is Biden doing nothing to turn us around from traveling in the wrong direction, but he is also putting his foot on the gas pedal and taking his hands off the wheel. I think we are about to see a nationwide public display of road rage.

TDM

When we first moved to California from Michigan, we were very curious about earthquakes. One day my wife felt a tremor and was sure she had experienced our first quake. She gathered our three daughters and said: “Did you feel that?  I think that might have been an earthquake.” A few minutes later, it happened again. Then my oldest daughter, who was about 12, said: “Mom, do you think that might be the spin cycle on the washing machine?” We have been laughing about that ever since.

Lately, things have been so weird that I wonder if we might all be living through the modern version of that spin cycle. On December 29, 2016, the Obama administration publicized an intelligence report concluding that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election to help Donald Trump. President Obama ordered sweeping new sanctions and expelled 35 Russians. We now know that this was total nonsense. It is far from clear that Russia had anything to do with the Wikileaks disclosure of DNC emails. We definitely know that Russia was not colluding with the Donald Trump campaign. We also know that they were colluding with the Hillary Clinton campaign to stop Donald Trump. The Obama administration knew this too but launched this insane attach on Russia anyway in an obvious attempt to delegitimize the Trump administration from day one.

Now, four years later, the DNI announced that China interfered with our election to benefit Joe Biden.  Last Friday the Trump administration issued last minute sanctions on Iran, China, and Cuba. Just wait for the MSM to complain that Trump was acting irresponsibly. Few of them will even notice the irony. One could say that history is repeating itself, except that this time Trump actually has evidence to support this decision.

Everything we see right now is beyond bizarre. There is so much information that is so contradictory that the truth is more than a little illusive. What we do know is this, the Democratic Party and the MSM continues to lie to us. Somethings never change.

They are trying to pretend that anyone who questions the 2020 election is guilty of a crime. In 2016, it was Russia, this year it is all of us. Yet contrary to reports in the MSM the evidence supporting election fraud is all too real and substantial. Perhaps the most obvious evidence is that no one, in either party, is even pretending that Joe Biden really won a landslide election. Even Democrats are not talking about Joe Biden, they are still focused entirely on Donald Trump.

Our nation’s Capital has been turned into an armed fortress. Why? There are even reports that National Guard troops are being vetted to be sure they are not planning on interfering with the inauguration. There are more troops in Washington D.C. than in Afghanistan. One local resident, when asked about this, said “if you need 20,000 troops to guard you during your inauguration you weren’t elected by the people.” (This is not the actual quote, that was more colorful and profane.)

Do they really fear a well-coordinated armed insurrection? At worst, the incident at the Capital last week involved about 100 people. Most of whom qualify as nut jobs and seemed more focused on photo ops than insurrection. In addition, contrary to claims in the MSM, there is evidence that at least some Antifa/BLM activists were involved and a Boogaloo Boi leader is even bragging about it.

In addition, Democrats, and their supporters in the MSM are trying to silence Donald Trump by blocking him from Twitter, Facebook Google, Amazon, Apple and anywhere else. They are also threatening to block anyone who agrees with him regarding the obvious problems with the 2020 election. Apparently questioning the results of the 2020 election is tantamount to treason. Questioning the results in 2016 was patriotism.

They are even demanding expulsion from congress of anyone who dared object to the results of the election. That would be more impressive if they hadn’t ignored the Democrats who did the same thing previously, only without even a hint of evidence. Some are even demanding that news outlets like OAN and Newsmax, and Fox News be banned, to avoid spreading misinformation. This is absurd. It is also dangerous.

In response to the very real crisis facing this country, Joe Biden has apparently decided that the number one issue is transgender rights. Here is the Breitbart report on this.  This is also reported in numerous other places:

Joe Biden Day 1: Order on Transgender Rights in Sports and Bathrooms (breitbart.com)

His website apparently promises the following:

On his first day in office, Biden will reinstate the Obama-Biden guidance revoked by the Trump-Pence Administration, which will restore transgender students’ access to sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity. He will direct his Department of Education to vigorously enforce and investigate violations of transgender students’ civil rights.

Wow, with this kind of brilliant leadership just imagine what is possible.

Oh, by the way, he apparently intends to make masks mandatory, nationwide, even when indoors with family. Meanwhile Democrats have impeached Donald Trump for inciting a riot that started before he finished speaking and which was planned in advance. Even CNN admitted that, but all the Democrats in the House and ten idiotic Republicans voted to impeach him anyway. What makes this even worse is that it has no chance of removing Trump from office even five minutes early.

This is unlikely to end well, for any of us. With this type of leadership, the Democratic dreams of happy days being here again are about as realistic as thinking the spin cycle on a washing machine is an earthquake.

TDM

For the record, I own an insurance agency and we love taking business away from GEICO. So, this is hardly an endorsement of GEICO Insurance. But they do have some great commercials. One of my favorites is where this group of young people are running in terror from a haunted house. One of the girls suggests they jump a running car and drive away, but the rest of the group says NO! Let’s hide in the garage behind all the hanging chain saws.  Here is a link to a YouTube version of that commercial:

geico commercial chainsaws – – Video Search Results (yahoo.com)

It is one thing to be incredibly stupid during a commercial obviously designed as a joke. It is something else when an equally stupid decision is made by a member of Congress during a real crisis. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez revealed that during the Capitol riots, she did not go a secure location where members of congress were locked down, guarded by Capitol police, because she though the “White Supremacist” sympathizing reps in congress might have revealed her location so she could be killed or kidnapped.

In her interview with Rachel Maddow, who incredibly either believed this nonsense or showed incredible skill at not laughing out loud, AOC, said she literally did not know if she would make it to the end of the day. During this time of crisis, she chose to shelter in place in the equivalent of the garage with the hanging chainsaws. She said that sheltering in an “insecure location” during the riot at the U.S. Capitol, “seemed like a safer bet” than sheltering in the “secure location” with other members of congress who sympathize with “white supremacists.”

Why did she feel this way? “They’ve made public comments that are closely aligned with the beliefs of white supremacists and white supremacist sympathizer organizations, and these are all public record.” She did not actually name any members of congress and did not actually provide any quotes. Rachel Maddow wondered if this was based on the fact that some members have previously shared QAnon content on social media.

Oh my. This is not just delusional; this is downright stupid. I frankly don’t know much about QAnon other than the fact that the bare-chested idiot carrying the spear and wearing horns is apparently associated with QAnon. He is a lot of things, but a threat to assassinate everyone in congress is more than a reach.

Sharing an article, that looks interesting, is hardly the same as supporting White Supremacy. In addition, I suspect the remarks about Muslim-Americans in congress was probably aimed at Ilhan Omar, who has a lot more problems than just being a Muslim-American, such as praising ISIS.

AOC deliberately avoided a place designed to be safe because of alleged white supremacy views held by Republican members of congress, not supported by any facts. Incredibly, Maddow then said AOC had a point because of tweets by Lauren Boebert. She accused Boebert of telling rioters where to find Nancy Pelosi.

Here what Boebert tweeted. Before the riot started, she tweeted: “Today is 1776.” This was interpreted as coordinating with the rioters. Then she tweeted” We were locked in the House Chambers.” Then later: “The Speaker has been removed from the chambers.” It was admittedly dumb for Boebert to be tweeting while this was going on, but hardly evidence of treason.

This makes the kids in the GEICO commercial  look brilliant in comparison. The problem is that AOC is a member of congress and there are lot of other Democratic members of congress who appear to use the same reasoning. When you see this in a commercial, it is humorous. When you see this type of logic used by members of congress to justify impeaching a President of the United States, it is dangerously delusional.

Once again, I remind people that this is typical of how a lot of Democrats make decisions. It is indeed scary. It is hard to imagine people this delusional making good decisions about anything. The good news is that they are destined to muck things up so fast that the clock is already ticking on the length of time they will be in power.

But at least they will be secure, in a safe hiding place, protected by hanging chainsaws conveniently provided by a maniacal serial killer. What could possibly go wrong?

TDM

On January 1, 2021, Twitter stock was selling at about $55.00. Today, after the idiotic decision to block Donald Trump, permanently, Twitter closed today at $45.79.  That means Twitter has lost over 16% of its value since the first of the year. That is billions of dollars. Facebook lost even more.

The stockholders, many of whom could care less about the political views of Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg, are undoubtedly furious about this. If they don’t see this trend reverse, like right now, they will stop buying Twitter stock and may start dumping it. They didn’t buy stock because they liked the politics of the executives, they bought it to make money. Jack Dorsey may believe that he is all powerful, but that is not true. He, like every other executive of a publicly held corporation, reports to the Board of Directors that reports to the stockholders.

Even if the stock recovers, which is far from certain, there are certain to be class action lawsuits against Twitter and Facebook’s Board of Directors. That always happens when a lot of people lose big bucks.  Having been the Risk Manager for a large publicly held organization, I had direct contact with the Board of Directors. They all had several things in common. They didn’t get there by accident and they were very anxious to preserve their own wealth. They were also terrified of stockholder’s lawsuits, since they knew they could be sued personally. My guess is that the Board of Directors for both Twitter and Facebook are very aware of what is happening, and they are beyond concerned. This will be magnified by the fact that they likely own large amounts of stock and have lucrative stock options. I doubt that many of them are finding this amusing.

I used to brief the Board of Directors annually regarding Board of Director insurance including the amount of coverage available to protect the Board Members distinct and above the protection provided to stockholders. They paid very close attention to these briefing and had a lot of questions. They are normally very supportive of the CEO, until they are not supportive. Nothing will change things more quickly than a rapid drop in equity, particularly when that is done by an arbitrary decision made by senior management. Ultimately, every board wants and demands the same thing. Make a profit and keep the value of the stock rising. Do that, and they can forgive a lot. Fail to do that and they can and will act.

A lot of those board members realize that whether you like Trump or not, if he goes, a lot of his 72 million followers go with him. Worse than that, a lot of people who don’t even follow Trump, but follow other people with conservative views, will leave too. This is already happening. Within days, if not hours, this trend may become irreversible. In the meantime, how many people do you expect to follow Joe Biden on Twitter or Facebook. Exactly!

We will soon know. Perhaps the Twitter and Facebook Boards will be more than willing to go along on the ride down, shedding billions of dollars in the process. Anyone want to bet on that? Warm fuzzy politically correct feelings are great, but they are not an acceptable substitute for cold hard cash. If I were on the Board of Twitter or Facebook, I would be demanding answers. Some Board Members are probably already demanding that this policy be reversed immediately, and that Donald Trump is provided with a strong incentive to stay with the program. It will take a lot more than an apology. Trump doesn’t need them, they need Trump.

There are already a lot of very powerful people, with enormous resources, more than willing to handle the baggage that always accompany someone like Donald Trump in exchange for a couple $billion. In this case closer to $50 billion.

Unless this trend changes, this won’t take long.  This is true even if the accusations against Donald Trump have merit. But it is becoming increasingly obvious that they don’t have merit. Just imagine if this weekend and next week becomes extremely violent. It will be hard to blame that on Trump because he has given strong statements against violence, that even the MSM appreciated. Joe Biden, on the other hand, poured gas on the flames. It is one thing to be arrogant, it is something else to be arrogant and wrong. Imagine this phone call. “Nailed that one Jack! Way to go Mark! How are you going get my $51 billion back?”

Even Andrew Cuomo is talking about opening the state back up. Why? Because he has changed his opinion? No. It is because he desperately needs to stop the bleeding. Even Andrew has figured out that paying people more money to stay home and not work is a recipe for financial disaster. If you can make money for not working, why bother to work? This should already be obvious, but then we are talking about people who are very skilled at believing things that are demonstrably false. Ultimately, no matter what one believes, if you run out of money you run out of money. Pride goeth before a fall, but lack of money speeds up the process.

Trump is releasing the Russian conspiracy hoax documents. At least one of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion is a well-known BLM agitator. Another guy, captured on video carrying a huge confederate flag, appears to be a liberal Democrat. There are rumors that the Acting Attorney General will appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate Hunter and Joe Biden. Trump is rumored to be ordering a full audit of the Georgia runoff election. Remember, that the DNI is still required to give a report on foreign interference in the election. This could be a wild weekend for a lot of reasons. In the meantime, a lot of people busy celebrating would be wise to remember that all that Twitters is not Gold.

TDM

One of my favorite shows was the masked magician.  He would show exactly how some of the most famous illusions done by magicians really worked. Even things that seemed obvious and magical turned out to be only tricks of lighting, distraction, mirrors, and other gimmicks. Being fooled by a magician is one thing but being lied to by people who are deliberately distorting facts about something that really matters is far more serious.

Yesterday every single Democrat in the House and 10 Republicans voted to impeach a President of the United States based on an assumption that is patently false. It is not only wrong, but absurd to claim that the allegedly “inflammatory” speech by Donald Trump incited people to riot. They were planning on doing this before he showed up. The assault started before he even finished speaking.

Democrats and people like Liz Cheney blamed everything on Donald Trump for inciting insurrection, because of something that did not happen. This is going to be a huge problem for Democrats. Liz Cheney has committed political suicide. This assault on the Capitol scared a lot of people. It scared them enough to investigate things instead of just parroting the Democratic spin. Even CNN is reporting this. Of course, they are still blaming this on the KKK, but they are also reporting the facts about what happened at the Capitol.

This was a planned event, the FBI knew about, the Capitol police knew about it, and no one did anything to stop it. Numerous news agencies are reporting this. So far, all the “public” arrests seem to have been Trump supporters, but odds are that is far from true. At some point all the arrest records will be released and we will see Antifa and Black Lives Matter people there. There is no chance they could or would resist this type of opportunity. There are numerous eyewitness reports of this, along with a ton of video. Are they all lying? Please!

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/01/13/john_solomon_capitol_riot_was_a_planned_attack_cant_blame_trump_what_did_pelosi_mcconnell_know.html#!

John Solomon made a FOIA request for the records from the Capitol police. They denied the request because they said this would be embarrassing and invade some people’s privacy. Embarrassing? To whom?  Obviously, they are hiding something big. There is no way they can suppress this forever. This response will get the attention of a lot of people, including some in the MSM who will smell blood.

Solomon made a very interesting comment:

“A few minutes after the impeachment went over, CNN matched our story this morning and said there is evidence of significant pre-planning,” he said. “That would have been nice for the American people to know before their lawmakers voted on this impeachment proceeding.”

The News Media can only survive by reporting bad news designed to outrage people. That is why every local broadcast starts with shootings, robberies, fires, traffic accidents or anything else bad that happened. Perhaps they might throw in a feel-good moment or two, but if it bleeds, it leads. For the past four years, the MSM has focused on trashing Donald Trump. But Trump will leave town next week and he is already so yesterday. The MSM is already desperately searching for Susan, or rather something else that will get people’s attention.

People were shocked and outraged at what happened last week in the Capitol. The news media will report the truth because they have no alternative. It will become increasingly obvious that Donald Trump had little or nothing to do with this. Many in the MSM will argue that the whole problem is Donald Trump falsely claiming that the election was stolen. But they have a problem there too because more and more evidence will surface showing that he is right about that. The problems with massive mail-in ballots, while ignored by the MSM, are well documented. So are the problems with Dominion voting systems. Any rational person looking at the results of this election instantly realizes something is very wrong. Pretending this election was as pure as the driven snow is not going to work.

That why there is such a desperate attempt to silence Trump and silence anyone who questions the election. A lot of people are terrified of the truth. They are terrified that someone will pull back the curtain, showing the full extent of the illusion. They should be terrified. It may take longer than anyone wants, but the truth is already starting to come out. People are already developing work-arounds to avoid the censorship by Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, and the other media giants. Their replacements are already out there, and we will hear from them very soon. In the meantime, the current social media giants are about to pay a huge financial price for this mistake. They need those Trump supporters to use their products, more than the Trump supporters need them.

TDM

The following article about the FBI intelligence prior to January 6, 2021 is stunning. The FBI knew two things. They knew Trump rallies were historically peaceful. Angry, yes, but peaceful. They also knew that extremists were planning to hijack the event. They knew this, but it is unclear who they told about this.

Washington Post: FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims that there was no indication of looming violence | WV News | wvnews.com

It is worse than that. The Pentagon, which reported to Donald Trump at the time, asked U.S. Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. They didn’t wait to be asked, they offered.

The following article, from the Huffington Post of all places, is a stunning rebuke of Democrats:

Capitol Police Rejected Federal Help Days Ahead Of Insurrection Attack | HuffPost

“Even though the Capitol police had warnings of a possible insurrection and ample resources and time to prepare, the Capitol Police planned ONLY for a free speech demonstration.”

Why did they do this? It was because Democrats had loudly criticized the Capitol Police regarding what it considered to be a violent response to protests last June near the White House. Officials focused almost entirely on avoiding any appearance that the federal government was deploying active duty or National Guard troops against Americans. The Democratic outrageous response to the June violence is the proximate cause of everything that happened.

Nancy Pelosi knows this. So does Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. They responded by demanding the U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund resign. They also demanded the resignation of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, Michael Stender and Paul Irving resigned as the longtime Sergeant at Arms of the House.

Nancy Pelosi said, correctly: “There was a failure of leadership at the top.” She is right, but she missed the obvious. The Leadership at the top was the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader of the Senate Mitch McConnell. You can also include Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy from the House and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.  Those are the people who should have resigned in disgrace. Instead, they are trying to impeach Donald Trump, who was probably least responsible for this fiasco.

The Pentagon, which reports to Donald Trump, offered assistance that would have prevented this. That assistance was declined because all the above people put politics above principle. Now they refuse to consider the possibility that  it was their own lack of leadership that directly contributed to this outrageous event. What, blame me? Impeach him I say, impeach him. Maybe then people won’t realize that we are the ones who screwed up.

The Capitol Police does not report to Donald Trump, it reports to congress, specifically to the appropriations and authorizing committees. Ultimately to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Mayor Bowser had been warned and to her credit she asked for assistance from the National Guard but was turned down by the Capitol police. The Justice Department’s offers for FBI support were also rejected. Only later, when it was too late, did the Metropolitan Police Department get involved. Agents from nearly every Justice Department Agency, including the FBI was called in. So was the Secret Service, the Federal Protective Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and police from surrounding agencies who all showed up in force. In other words, most of the people who moved in quickly to fix this, reported to, gasp, Donald Trump. Democrats are now trying to remove from office the only person who showed the real leadership necessary to get this under control. In addition, this is an exercise in futility that has zero chance of succeeding.

This is going to all come out. This has been widely reported in the news, just totally ignored by Democrats and their allies in the MSM. Donald Trump did two things that contributed to this. He said the election was stolen. He has evidence of that. He is far from the only one who believes that. He asked people to come to Washington D.C. to protest, peacefully. His rallies had a record of being peaceful. The FBI warnings including an acknowledgment of that. The timeline shows that the violence started before Trump was even done speaking. Odds are few if any people listening to him were involved.

It is ludicrous to think that Donald Trump is the only one responsible. More importantly, by focusing solely on blaming one man, who is scheduled to leave office in 7 days, Democrats are ignoring the obvious. What went wrong? Why did this happen? How do we prevent it from happening again? Fix it first. Then and only then can you look for someone to blame. One thing is certain, impeaching Donald Trump is the least effective thing they could do to fix this.

This is shameful and the truth has already emerged. The only question is when will the MSM and Democrats in congress start paying attention. Or perhaps, when will they care? When will they stop lecturing us about things that had nothing to do with this event and start fixing things? Don’t hold your breath, but a lot of people are watching this and Democrats should be terrified of the public reaction if the truth becomes more than obvious.

TDM

As Charles Dickens once wrote, it was the best of times it was worst of times. He was writing about the comparison of London and France during the French revolution.  The full quote is even better:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…, we had nothing before us, we are all going direct to Heaven, we are all going direct the other way.”

This was written in 1859, about the French Revolution which started in 1789. It was revealing then, it is revealing now. The French Revolution inspired in at least part by the American Revolution ended with a very different result. In the United States, following the revolt against England, the adults took over. They realized that they had to create a system of government that would allow good government but also facilitate freedom. They recognized the dangers of monarchy, but they also recognized the dangers of mob rule. In France, the mob took over, uprooting centuries old institutions and replacing them with a chaotic blood bath. Ultimately, this led to a bloody war and a dictatorship under Napoleon.

Over 17,000 people were tried and executed during the Reign of Terror, and no one knows how many more died in prison without trial. The politicians of that day could not stop fighting each other long enough to agree on a compromise that would allow good governance. They were too consumed with hatred for each other. Sound familiar? Napoleon took over because only the military could maintain good order.

Today we are seeing some elements of that play out right in front of us. But there are important differences. Yes, the Democratic Party has seized control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. Yes, they are dominated by an angry mob that is focused more on destroying perceived enemies than it is on making things better. They are alienating the very people they desperately need to make this work. By the way, they also want to eradicate Christianity, just like in the French Revolution. The big different is that in France the revolt was against the Catholic Church, which at that time was highly political. Christianity today is not dominated by a church denomination. They have chosen the wrong enemy.

Democrats are impeaching President Donald Trump. This is mostly stupid. It has no chance of succeeding but every chance of generating even more anger and hatred.  Democrats foolishly believe all conservatives are naïve delusional followers of Donald Trump incapable of seeing reality and even less capable of understanding.

The only adults in the room are being screamed at and threatened by the angry mob. Incredibly, while simultaneously impeaching Trump for inciting people to riot, they are doing exactly that themselves. If anyone is paying attention, Donald Trump is the one who is acting with class and dignity, trying to maintain calm. It is his enemies who are filled with rage and are hyperventilating.

Trump said he was working hard to transfer power smoothly to Joe Biden. But instead of accepting that, Democrats have the bit in their mouth, and they are running toward what they consider to be certain victory. But the expression taking the bit in the mouth refers to a horse that is out of control, running away wildly to certain destruction.

We are about to see an impeachment trial that will put this on full display. Democrats will be screaming hatred at Donald Trump, with no evidence. He will be defended by Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz, who will not be screaming and who have evidence. This includes direct quotes from Nancy Pelosi claiming that the 2016 election was rigged, and that Donald Trump was not the duly elected President of the United States. This is very likely to be a very public display of arrogance and stupidity. They may convince themselves that they are right, but they are unlikely to convince very many open-minded people watching.

The good news is that both the heroes and the zeros are self-identifying. The zeros are people like Liz Cheney, Chris Christie, Mitch McConnell, Nicky Halley, and Mitt Romney, although Romney was already a self-identified zero. These never Trumpers are so obsessed with their hatred of Trump to realize they are orchestrating their own destruction. We do not know who the future leaders of the Republican Party will be, but we know who it will not be. They seriously think they are the future of the Republican Party. The future of the Republican Party will be better because it will not include any of the above.

The heroes are people like Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunez, Ron De Santos, Kristy Noem, Ted Cruz and many more.  They are standing tall and refusing to back down. Ultimately, people will remember who stood up against the madness and who did not.

In the ultimate irony, it is the impeachment of Donald Trump that is most likely to incite violence. He warned us about that, but no one listened. People are already angry and this idiotic attempt to stop Trump from remaining in office for another week is only evidence that Democrats are even more despicable than he was telling us over the last four years. At a time when COVID 19 is raging, our economy is faltering, we are running out of money and our enemies are gearing up to take us on, Democrats are focused entirely on trashing Trump, one last time, on his way out the door.

This anger and the coming violence is not caused by anything said by Trump. He merely gave voice to people who already felt this way but had no voice. He may be gone, but the movement to which he gave voice is far from gone.

The French Revolution also taught us something else. When people are unable to come together and compromise for the better good, the inevitable result is violence. We saw some of that violence last summer. Instead of condemning it and working together with Trump and Republicans to stop this, Democrat leaders just poured gas on the flames of without bothering to verify the facts. They did more than that, they ignored facts. Much of the violence last summer was based on a false narrative embraced by Democrats and their allies in the MSM. As a result, many black Americans really believe there is an unprecedented wave of innocent unarmed black men being shot, for no reason, by racist white cops. At a time when they need to trust law enforcement, they are told law enforcement is the enemy. The truth is always the truth and should only terrify those afraid of reality. As a result of this, we have genuinely angry people demanding things that are not in their best interest. They haven’t improved race relations; they have set them back about 50 years.

We had the NFL, MLB, NBA, and everyone else demanding social justice oblivious to the anger this is causing in those falsely accused of systemic racism. Sadly, some of them are about to show us what real racism looks like. Democrats believe they have all the power, and they are planning on correcting problems that exist primarily in their own deluded minds. In doing this, they are not fighting racism, they are demanding it.

What, exactly do they expect when they tell us all white people are bad and we should apologize for our white privilege. What do they expect when they argue that all Republicans are dangerous domestic terrorists? Most, fortunately, will respond positively, knowing that everything moves in cycles and this is no exception. But they are also triggering extremely dangerous people, some of whom showed up in Washington D.C. last week. They weren’t there because they were listening to Donald Trump, they were there because far too many people weren’t listening to Donald Trump who was speaking for a lot of us.

We are in for a bumpy ride, but it is Democrats who are on the road to self-destruction. They do not control the military or the state and local police. They do not control the courts. This is what will save us from becoming the French Revolution. In the meantime, be sure to identify heroes and zeros so we know where to find the leadership to turn things around when Democrats have completed their rush to self-destruction.

TDM

There is one scene that I remember from a movie, but I don’t remember anything else about that movie. The scene was where this obnoxious, and scrawny kid would start jawing with kids from another school. He would insult them and egg them on until, in a rage of fury, they would start running at him, obviously intending to beat the crap out of him. He would run around the corner, where a bunch of much bigger guys from his school would be waiting. The people who thought they were in pursuit suddenly became the victims.

There are various versions of this bate and switch. Another example is the good-looking female cop who acts as a decoy. It always works the same. Someone or something lures people into attempting an assault, only to later learn they have been lured into a trap. This is how Hitler started World War II in Poland.

There is at least some element of this regarding the “invasion” of the Capitol last Wednesday. The media is not covering this at all, they are pretending these were all Trump supporters incited by the President. But the facts tell a very different story. For example, the timeline is interesting. The first protestors arrived at the Capitol at 12:40. By 1:00 the Capitol PD Chief reported that officers were being attacked. That is when he requested assistance from the National Guard. In the meantime, Trump was still speaking, a considerable distance away. He did not end his speech until 1:15. The Capitol was breached at 1:50, but the people attending the speech did not arrive until 1:56.

That makes sense, because Trump said they were going to take a stroll about a half mile to the Capitol. It appears that the people who stormed the Capitol were not connected with the crowd listening to the speech. NPR allegedly made reports about the Capitol being stormed, before it happened. There are numerous eyewitness accounts that allege that Antifa was there, wearing Trump gear, and egging people on. There are even reports that in some places the Capitol police opened fences and welcomed people in. There are even pictures of people walking in the Capital Rotunda, between a roped fence corridor, nice and peaceful, looking like tourists. Two Capitol police officers have allegedly been suspended and there are reports one police officer or member of the guard has been arrested.

One thing is certain, the Democratic Party never resists the opportunity to exploit a crisis. They are certainly doing that in this case. With the help of social media, they are attempting to cut off the ability of Donald Trump to communicate with anyone. They are demanding he be removed from office under Section 25. They have filed Articles of Impeachment. All of this because of a speech where he not only does not encourage violence, but he specifically discouraged it.

Trump did want the crowd riled up. He wanted them to march to the Capitol and be noisy, so that perhaps Republicans in congress would listen to what they had to say. There were perhaps 500,000 people there, representing about 50 million other people. They agreed with Trump that this election was stolen, and they were angry that congress was just willing to ignore this and certify fraud.

Contrary to the reporting in the MSM, they are not naïve and delusional people tricked into believing nonsense promoted by Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani. Instead, they saw the results on election night and the morning after. This pattern has gone on for decades. Democrats always try to win elections by “finding enough votes” in Democratic population centers famous for systemic fraud. This difference is that this time it was so obvious and so overwhelming that it is impossible to ignore. They either heard the eyewitness testimonies themselves or saw videos of this. They saw all the experts explain why the results are mathematically impossible. But more important, they saw Trump draw enormous crowds, while Joe Biden couldn’t fill a phone booth. Yet, the arrogant and self-righteous Democrats and the MSM want to pretend this was the most secure election in history and it is Donald Trump who can’t accept reality.  The sad fact is that we cannot possibly believe the same people who have been lying to us 24/7 for over four years and are lying to us now. If they really want to identify who is causing the outrage in this country, they should all buy mirrors.

Sadly, in a failed attempt to blame everything on Trump, again, they have taken a bad situation and made it worse. They want to blame everything on Trump.  Instead, they should be listening to him. Just before boarding Marine One he said that Democrats are causing danger by pushing for him to be impeached a second time:

“For Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to continue on this path, I think it’s causing tremendous danger to our country and it’s causing tremendous anger. I want no violence,”

He is right about that. There are reports, unconfirmed, that armed protests are planned at all 50 state capitols from January 16^th through January 20^th. This is according to an FBI bulletin. Some of these groups are apparently warning that if Congress attempts to remove Donald Trump via the 25^th Amendment a huge violent uprising will occur.

No matter how you feel, don’t even consider participating in any protest until this calms down. This could get very ugly and a lot of innocent people are likely to get hurt. This is what happens when the people in power tell such obvious lies. Perhaps the worst was Joe Biden, who literally said he didn’t see protestors, he saw an insurrection, thugs, and domestic terrorists. There was nothing close to that last Wednesday, but thanks to these kinds of remarks and the obvious assault on anyone who dares hint there might have been a problem with the 2020 election, we may get that now.

We need not fear that these people will gain total control, they are too stupid to achieve that. They probably want that, they probably plan on getting that, but they a destined to fail. Instead, they have taken about 50 million upset people and filled them with a terrible rage. Most of them will respond, thankfully, by just turning off the news, abandoning Facebook and Twitter and being much more selective regarding where they spend their money. In the long run, that will destroy those who are intent on destroying us.

There are some truly violent people out there and they are angry too.  Some of them will be white supremacist groups, well organized, well armed and extremely violent. They have been powerless for a long time, because no one was listening to them. Trump condemned white supremacist groups. No one wanted them. Now, thanks to the way this is handled, these people may feel emboldened to act. When Biden is talking about reparations for slavery, preferential funding for minority businesses and creating a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal aliens, it is Biden who is blowing the dog whistle that will cause these people to act. The Federal Government is and will be justified in doing whatever it takes to stop them. But we need to be careful to distance ourselves from them, because Democrats will undoubtedly use this crisis, they have created, to try and suppress those who had nothing to do with it at all.

This too will fail but stay home and stay silent. Nothing lasts for ever and neither will this. The truth about what happened last Wednesday will come out, there are just too many witnesses and too much video. A lot of people who are very arrogant today may be eating humble pie in the morning.

TDM