There is a rapidly forming super cell political storm on the horizon. Those who colluded to remove Donald Trump and replace him with Joe Biden are about to reap the whirlwind. Several things are coming together, all at once, to create a perfect political storm.

THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP

The MSM now admit this was authentic, after denying it during the election cycle. There are already a lot of Democrats who say they would never have voted for Joe Biden if they knew about this. In addition, the emails on this laptop are being released and scrutinized. Some of them at least appear to directly implicate Joe Biden in influence peddling, involving some of our worst enemies. The more people learn about this, the angrier they will become and the louder the calls for action.

KAMALA HARRIS

No one in either party thinks Kamala Harris is even close to being acceptable as President of the United States.

UKRAINE

We now are seeing the full impact of war; in a way few people have witnessed before. This is a stark reminder of what really matters. People are naturally reluctant to send our troops into battle. That is a good thing. But sometimes the alternative is even worse. The pictures from the Ukraine provide brutal evidence of what is worse.

COLLUSION

The Hillary Clinton campaign was fined for spreading the Russia Collusion hoax. Some may still try to ignore this, but the significance is over the moon. Remember that Richard Nixon was forced to resign because some rouge operatives tried, and failed, to spy on the DNC headquarters. That pales in comparison to Russia collusion hoax.

GLOBAL SWARMING

WE now learn that some of the green groups, promoting global warming hysteria, were funded, at least in part, by Russia. That causes one to wonder who is really behind the green energy movement and why.

The Great Russian Energy Scam: Russian ‘Dark Money’ Funding ‘Green’ Groups in West :: Gatestone Institute

If this is accurate, the implications are enormous for the entire western world.

Every day the MSM becomes more hysterical, predicting things that are extremely unlikely to happen. I heard one yesterday say that earth would warm by 7 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 30 years. Then, in hushed tones, we are told that this will cause sea level to rise by an enormous amount, flooding much of the world’s coastline. At some point, when you keep predicting things that never actually happen, people stop believing. We are extremely close to that point. If it turns out much of this was the result of Russian misinformation, that would be the ultimate irony of the Russia Collusion Hoax.

GUN CONTROL

There was a mass shooting in Sacramento. The usual suspect local Democratic politicians rushed for the nearest microphone, with tears in their eyes, demanding more gun control to finally fix this problem. But, if they had waited five or six minutes, they would have learned that the real problem was that people previously in jail, extremely dangerous, were released early with predictable results. The guns involved, like most guns used in gun violence, were in the hands of criminals already forbidden to have guns. At least one of these guns was stolen. Odds are none of them were obtained by people who pay any attention to gun control laws.

ECONOMY

I filled up my car yesterday. The cost was $80. I looked around and saw a lot of angry people. Most of those people know exactly who to blame. Joe Biden led a war on oil and gas, with predictable and disastrous results. No one wants this. In addition, the cost of everything has skyrocketed with no end in sight. Inflation is already out of control and the fed has to take action to protect the bond market. Some economists predict interest rates of at least 9.5% will be required to show down the inflation. There is zero chance that would not result in a recession.

WOKE WORLD

A small minority of people with an outlook quite different than the vast majority is now dominating critical issues. Just think about two examples, the man, who looks like a man, and swims like a man, is beating girls in national swimming meets. This is not playing well in Peoria or anywhere else. The other was the idiotic decision by Disney to go all in on opposing a bill in Florida that does not even mention the word gay and just says please stop trying to promote a sexual agenda on children in kindergarten through third grade. A bill supported by 55% of Democrats and a vast majority of everyone else. But because “some” Disney employees were offended because of misinformation about this bill, Disney went full woke. They should have looked around and realized who is and is not coming to their theme parks and watching their movies. One quickly sees, families, with children who are not amused by this.

THE OBAMA BOMB

Joe Biden stupidly invited Obama to the White House for a photo op. It was an unmitigated disaster. It was the equivalent of an athlete standing next to Shaquille O’Neil and trying to look big. It soon became obvious that Obama was the man, and Biden was the frail pathetic shell of a man, in the background, ignored by everyone else. It made him look even smaller and more incompetent if that is even possible.

There is more, but this is more than enough. The winds of change are already here, and they are getting stronger by the minute. An unprecedented political storm is on the horizon. Almost anything can and will happen. The only thing certain is widespread destruction.

TDM

Several years ago, I was working with a claims adjuster on a case. He happened to be black, he was exceptionally good, and I enjoyed working with him. But at one point we saw a political advertisement on TV regarding a local election. The person in the ad was white. This guy immediately said, “as a Black man, I could never vote for a Republican.”

At the time, Democrats were routinely getting a huge percentage of the Black vote. I have sometimes seen this in excess of 90%. This always surprised me, because my own research regarding the history of the Democratic Party shows that for decades, it was the party of racism. The first Democratic President, Andrew Jackson, was racist. It was the Democratic Party in the South that ultimately led to the Civil War. It was the Democratic Party in the South that passed all those Jim Crow laws. It was Democratic Senators from the South that signed the Southern Manifesto. It was Democratic Senators, including Robert Byrd, a former member of the Klu Klux Klan, who desperately tried to stop the Civil Rights Act with a filibuster.

It should be pointed out that the racist Democratic Senators were from the South. This does not mean that all Democrats were racist. But it does mean that it is impossible to ignore the long history of institutionalized racism within the Democratic Party.

The question, for me, was why on earth would anyone assume that overnight Democrats became pure as the driven snow and Republicans became racist. The answer, sadly, is that they just lied about this and far too many believed the lies. I have heard liberals repeat the myth that all those Southern Democrats became Republicans and that the Republican Party took on the mantle of racism. The problem is that this is simply not true. Most Dixiecrat Senators died as Democrats. Two, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, became Republicans. The Republican Party did not accept them until they renounced racism.

If you go to Washington D.C., you will find buildings named after racist Southern Democrats. Earth to liberals, it wasn’t Republicans who gave such high honor to racist politicians. The Russell Senate Office building was named for former Senator Richard Russell, Jr. Among other things he co-authored the Southern Manifesto, with Strom Thurmond. He filibustered the Civil Rights Act, and when it passed anyway, he led a Southern boycott of the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

For decades, two groups of voters have always supported Democrats. Black voters and Hispanic voters. But a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. The Democratic Party is, finally, losing support among these communities. Part of this is because the unemployment levels for minority groups improved, for the first time, while Trump was President. But more importantly, the brilliant economic strategy employed by the Biden Administration has been bad for everyone but devastating for minorities.

The real problem is that the policies proposed by Democrats are increasingly devastating for minorities. There is an enormous difference between pretending to be your friend and actually paying attention and listening to your concerns. If recent polls are accurate, and Democrats lose any significant percentage of minority voters, they will be in serious danger of getting wiped out in the mid-term elections.

Let’s just hope that Republicans are smart enough to pay attention.

TDM

Years ago, people used to celebrate the “Hunter’s Moon,” sometimes called the “Blood Moon.” It was typically the first full moon in October. It was a sign of the end of summer and time to get serious about winter. It was a time for hunting, slaughtering, and butchering

We are now looking at a different kind of “Hunter’s Moon,” but it is also a time of hunting, slaughtering, and butchering. It is increasingly clear that the entire establishment, both Democrat and Republican, and their supporters in the MSM are so done with the Joe Biden show. At first, this probably seemed amusing, because the hated Donald Trump was gone. Then it became annoying, as he implemented extreme liberal policies publicly embraced, for political reasons, by the establishment but secretly despised. These are things they promise, but never ever expect to see happen, at least not to them.

That was bad enough. But now Joe Biden is literally blundering on an international stage with a situation in Ukraine so dangerous that he risks setting the world on fire, again. Everyone in the establishment agrees on one thing; Joe Biden is dangerously incompetent.

Something must be done and there are signs that some of it is already in play. The admission by the New York Times that the Hunter Biden laptop was real could not be ignored, for long. Now the rest of the MSM, including the Washington Post and even CNN is reporting on this. That would never have happened without the specific approval of the real establishment, in both parties. They disagree on a lot, but the incompetence of Joe Biden is not on the list.

Some still pretend that the Hunter Biden emails etc. do not necessarily impact Joe Biden, but they know this is not possibly true. Hunter made millions by influence peddling, and since few are impressed by him, that meant he was peddling the influence of Joe Biden, when he was Vice President of the United States. Influence peddling only works if you have influence to peddle and Hunter Biden, without Joe Biden, had none.

We have never seen anything like this before, so this is impossible to predict. But don’t be surprised to start seeing Kamala Harris start to become a figure of interest. When the establishment conspired to remove Richard Nixon from office, they took out Spiro Agnew first, and replaced him with a more pliable Gerald Ford.

While the world will be focused, rightly, on the disaster in Ukraine, other things are already happening. People we may not even know exist, are having secret meetings, once again making decisions that impact everyone else. Let us pray they get this right, but we should avoid over optimism based on the insane decision to replace Donald Trump with someone as plum awful as Joe Biden.

TDM

One of our clients was involved in a minor accident. The vehicle involved was damaged, but there was a dispute with the insurance carrier regarding whether some of the damage had been pre-existing. So, they investigated and found a series of pictures taken of that car, in various locations including on the highway and while parked, showing the license plate. I have personally seen those pictures and they are all too real. They found a way to search databases for any pictures taken of that license place. In some cases, these pictures went back five years.

While I can understand why an insurance company would want to verify damage, this just seemed shocking to me. It caused me to think of all the times a camera took pictures of my license plate. While shopping at Walmart? Driving down the road. Based on these pictures, almost anywhere. Somewhere, out there, is a data base, with pictures of my license plate, showing exactly where that car was located on a specific date and time. Now, frankly, I don’t think I have ever driven or parked my car someplace that would create a problem for me. But this still seems like an invasion of privacy.

I have never attended a Trump rally. But, with this DOJ and this Attorney General, would they consider tracking license plate pictures to try and track down anyone who did attend a Trump rally? Did they use this to track down people they considered to be suspects regarding the January 6^th, 2021, event? The potential for serious abuse is beyond obvious. But at least the DOJ has to get a search warrant with at least some argument for probably cause. It doesn’t appear as if the insurance industry has any such restraints.

This reminded me of another case, where I was approached regarding expert witness work. I was shocked to learn that an insurance company had demanded copies of the insured’s telephone records because they disputed a claim. I question whether a law enforcement could demand this type of information without a search warrant. This makes me wonder about the extent to which our private records are already on file and subject to search without our knowledge and/or consent. It is even more frightening to consider the potential abuse with a highly politicized DOJ that seems to be more focused on punishing political opposition than on stopping serious crimes including real terrorist threats. The people involved in the January 6, 2021, event often acted irresponsibly and probably did break the law, but they were hardly a terrorist threat.

I am not a conspiracy type person, but it is clear that all of us need to pay more attention. Some very untrustworthy people are collecting personal information on everyone and storying it for future exploitation. Most of us, who are not considered a threat, will be blissfully ignorant of this. But it is now clear that this could affect all of us and we need to be aware. Many people have been warning us about the enormous amount of data that is and has been recorded. Our primary protection against abuse of that data was the legal restraints against this being used irresponsibly. Sadly, with this administration, this Attorney General, and this DOJ, relying on their character is not particularly comforting. I easily predict that there are going to be some earth shattering cases regarding what data can and cannot be collected and who can and cannot have access to that data. If you are not thankful for anything else, give thanks that it was Donald Trump, and not Barack Obama or Joe Biden who appointed the last three Supreme Court justices.

TDM

Those who conspired to put Joe Biden in office as President of the United States are now reaping the rewards for this major miscalculation. They foolishly believed their own propaganda, that anything or anyone was better than Donald Trump. They were wrong, very wrong. Now everyone is paying a steep price for this mistake. People have already figured out Joe Biden. Now they will start looking around for who to blame. It will be an exceptionally lengthy list. It is bad enough to be one of those people who foolishly believed the lies told by the MSM and naively voted for Joe Biden. It will be much worse for those who conspired to put him there. All Trump need say at this point is: “I would rather be blamed for trying to stop Joe Biden then for foolishly putting him in the oval office.”

The 2020 election was rigged, there is no doubt about that. The only question is the extent to which people went to defeat Donald Trump. At a minimum there was massive collusion by the DNC, RINO Republicans and the MSM during the run up to the 2020 election. This not only included massive misinformation about Donald Trump, but it also included a conspiracy to cover-up serious concerns about Joe Biden. The failure to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story, by itself, may have been enough to change the outcome.

To makes things even worse, it seem increasingly likely that when this campaign still failed, they may have resorted to an unprecedented level of election fraud. Then they covered that up by conspiring to pretend this existed only in the delusion mind of Trump and his equally delusional supporters. That ship has sailed. There are numerous real cases moving through the system, any one of which may completely change this narrative. All it takes is on case where fraud is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and it will cast doubt on the entire election.

But the more fundamental problem, increasingly obvious, is that Joe Biden was never remotely capable of being President of the United States. While the usual suspects can and will deflect blame for the collapsing economy, the runaway gas prices and the out of control crime, Joe just put on a display, in front of the entire world, that simply cannot be ignored. Nor can it be explained away. His incompetence and blundering has literally put the entire world at risk of an unprecedented disaster.

We are now at a point where whenever Joe Biden speaks, he is immediately discredited, by his own staff, because the alternative is even worse. When Biden talked about the need for regime change in Russia, the entire world shuddered. Not because they disagree with him, but rather because it has the potential to push an already paranoid Putin over the edge. The result could easily be World War III and could include chemical weapons and even nuclear weapons. The unthinkable is once again moving dangerously close to reality. One thing is absolutely certain, is that no one and I do mean no one is even pretending to expect leadership from Joe Biden.

Biden met with the U.S. troops stationed in Poland, and it was a major embarrassment for all involved. I believe we are perilously close to a point where even though Joe Biden is President of the United States, if he speaks it is far from certain anyone will listen and increasingly unlikely they will not follow his orders. That alone is dangerous beyond words. Our allies know this. The American people know this, and our enemies know this.

While the MSM liked to pretend that the entire world lost respect for us, because of Donald Trump, the opposite was true. The rest of the world did not like Donald Trump, but they respected him, and they feared him. They do not respect Joe Biden and certainly do not fear him. Whatever happens in Ukraine or even Taiwan will be in spite of Joe Biden, not because of him. A problem made more difficult by the sad fact that the only person less qualified for this position is the one next in line.

We can take small comfort in the knowledge that Putin has managed to do tremendous damage to himself by underestimating his own capacity for enormous miscalculation. We can also be grateful for the people in Ukraine who stood up for freedom, against all odds, and just may defeat the Russian army. Putin is now in a position where he may have more to fear from his own inner circle then from his declared foreign enemies.

In the meantime, on the verge of war, the only way to describe the increasingly bizarre behavior of Joe Biden is to call it: “Full Mental Jacket.” One really wonders what is going on in what is left of his already questionable mental capacity. The only thing certain is that Joe himself will be the very last to realize there is a problem.

TDM

We all know that inflation is a problem. But the media is downplaying this, probably in a failed attempt to protect Democrats. Yahoo reported that the inflation rate in February was 7.9%, which was a 40 year high. If only that were accurate. But the real measure of inflation is “what was the cost last year, and what is the cost now?” By that measurement, 7.9% seems absurdly low. What on earth are they measuring?

Last April the average price of gas was between $2.76 and $2.99 per gallon. Today it is between $4.11 and $4.34 per gallon. Unless you are in California, where gas is much more expensive. I will choose the higher estimate of $2.99 for last March and the lower estimate of $4.11 for this march. That is still a 37.4% increase, and no one expects this to end here.

Last year you could buy a ribeye steak for about $10.99 per pound, but today that costs $17.99 per pound. That is an increase of 63%. I don’t really know of anything that has increased by only 8% from last year. Do you?

Have you been to a restaurant lately?  First, you have to find one that survived COVID. You probably have to wait in line. Your waiter is likely to be inexperienced. Service will be slow because of understaffing. Food portions will be smaller than last year. But the price has been lowered to only about a 50% increase to make up for this.

Don’t even think of buying a new car. Few dealers will consider selling a car for the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. They will mark it up substantially. Sometimes it is hard to even find a new car because the parts are on a slow boat from China. But you can find a new used car, for just about the same amount someone paid for it last year. Only now it has 30,000 miles on it.

Incredibly, the only solution proposed by the Biden Administration is to buy less gas from Russia, to block building pipelines and suggest that somehow, miraculous, switching to clean energy like wind and solar is going to reduce costs. They suggest people consider buying an electric car. Why not? Just because it will cost a lot more, the battery is an environmental nightmare, and you need to use electricity, usually generated by what they call fossil fuels, to charge your car. And, by the way, good luck finding a charging station if you travel more than 50 miles from home.  There was a guy on TV last night promoting a portable charger. He can come out to your electric car and give you a charge good for 50 miles. Nice!

The fed is talking about raising interest rates .05% per quarter. In Brazil the current interest rate is 11.75%.  I doubt we will get anywhere near that, but interest rate increases are coming. I have a degree in economics and have done graduate level work in economics and even taught this at the college level. Yet I could never understand how raising interest rates, which raises the cost of everything, somehow magically reduces inflation. What it does do is limit the ability of people to buy things, so I suppose lowering demand eventually reduces price. However, this distinction is unlikely to be embraced by someone having trouble affording the cost of the gas necessary to get to work.

Naturally at a time like this, one looks for the dumbest possible solution. Well, here it is: “Let’s lower the national speed limit to 55 and stop driving on Sunday.” This makes sense, because there are still too many people who go to church and Lord knows we can’t have that.

The only thing certain is that the people currently in power will ignore the obvious and embrace the ridiculous. Everyone will pay a high price for this, but ultimately, they will be the ones who will reap the full benefit of what they sow. How high? Hopefully high enough to replace the entire class of clowns who know nothing but consider themselves pillars of wisdom. That high!

TDM

While everyone is, appropriately, focused on the death and destruction in Ukraine, this is far from the only serious problem. There is the obvious problem with fuel prices. It is even reported that Russia reversed the flow of natural gas to Germany, just in time for that warm March weather. But one of the biggest financial losses is mostly ignored. Most people know that countries stopped airlines based in Russia from going anywhere. But they also stopped airplanes, already in Russia, from going anywhere. Those airplanes are not cheap, there are a lot of them, and the cost to replace them is enormous. Aircraft-leasing companies are trying to recover those planes, but this is not exactly an ideal situation. Some of them have warned insurance companies of potential claims and insurance companies have started cancelling policies and may challenge claims since the planes aren’t actually damaged, just grounded.

Putin may be pure evil, but he made a decision that allowed Russian airlines to keep their aircraft until the end of the lease and re-register in Russia. Yet according to the European Union sanctions, leasing companies have until March 28 to cancel contracts. Insurance carriers are scrambling to avoid paying for this mess.

The following article explains:

Airplanes in Russia Promise Insurance Havoc with Claims on the Way | ProgramBusiness

It turns out there are about 509 airframes leased to Russian Operators. The estimated value of these claims is estimated at $1.7 billion. If all are considered damaged the claims could get north of $4 billion. Anyone in the insurance industry knows that one is far more likely to underestimate the extent of the damage than to exaggerate it.

One notes that some planes were seized by Iraqi forces during the invasion of Kuwait. The insurance industry moved at light speed to resolve those claims and as a result the litigation only lasted for about 20 years.

Not all the planes in Russia were leased to Russian operators. Airlines from other countries also had planes stranded in Russia. Good luck with that. Any volunteers to fly to risk and try to steal one of those planes back?

In 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland, the result was World War II. But the situation in 1939 is very different than the situation today. For one thing, no one was worried about what happened to hundreds of airliners. To some extent we are already involved in World War III, the real question is how it will be fought. Many worry about this becoming a nuclear war. That is a legitimate concern, but the reality is that this is far more complicated than anyone realizes. For example, some historians believe the Rothschild’s almost single handedly funded the war of 1812.

Did the Rothschilds fund the War of 1812? – JanetPanic.com

Di you ever wonder where Hitler got the money to fund his war machine. The follow article says at least part of this was funded by companies like General Motors, General Electric, Dupont, and wall street companies like J.P Morgan and Chase.

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler – the history of banks who funded Nazis (bastabalkana.com)

The point being that someone has to finance this mess. While all of us have been focusing on Putin and his war machine, a little attention should be paid to the money involved. Once again, follow the money. History teaches us that the filthy rich are truly filthy, but they are also irredeemably greedy. Right now, it looks like Putin is costing everyone a lot of money. If the truly rich decide enough is enough, well the buck truly stops there.

TDM

Everyone watching the news is rooting for the citizens of Ukraine to defeat Russia. There are no circumstances where it is remotely acceptable for Russia to use brutal military force to take over a clearly independent country. But, as always, there is more to the story. A story that the MSM has totally ignored. It is a story of blatant and systemic corruption. A story complicated by the inconvenient fact that Hunter Biden appears to have been a direct participant in that corruption on behalf of his father, Joe Biden.

The U.S. gave billions to Ukraine, under the direct guidance of then Vice President. Joe Biden is rich man. How, exactly, did that happen? Is it a coincidence? There is even a video of Joe Biden demanding Ukraine fire the prosecutor investigating fraud, or he would personally block additional aid. No one in the MSM appears to have given this a moment of thought. They were too hysterical over the possibility that Donald Trump suggested Zelensky investigate a situation that sure looked suspicious.

The following report identifies some of the alleged corruption. While this may or not be totally documented, there are numerous reports from multiple news entities reporting on systemic corruption in Ukraine:

Billions of Dollars in Ukraine Have Gone Missing Yet US Politicians Send Off Billions More (thegatewaypundit.com)

I still believe we should give aid to Ukraine. We simply cannot turn our back on the brutal military assault by Russia. But we should also do some serious investigating on how we got here.

This should have been a concern to everyone, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. Since when is it acceptable for the U.S. to send our hard earned dollars to a foreign country famous for corruption? If that money had been used properly, it is possible that The Ukraine may have been better prepared to defend itself. They certainly could have more resources than they had when this invasion occurred.

Donald Trump suggested the new President of Ukraine, Zelensky, investigate the obvious corruption, but since this involved Hunter Biden, Democrats responded by literally impeaching him. Apparently suggesting investigation regarding what still looks and feels like blatant corruption, was a crime against humanity. Why? Because if it turned out that Hunter Biden was funneling money to his dad, who happened to be running against Donald Trump, that could have influenced the 2020 election. Duh! They are right about that. If the American people knew the truth about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, it would have influenced the election. Trump would have won. We just might have avoided at least some of this mess.

Which is worse? Trump doing something that could help him politically, or Joe Biden getting rich off blatant corruption? Which is worse, trying to stop someone like Joe Biden becoming President, or conspiring to put him in office without regard to his ability to do the job and with even less regard to the consequences.

The New York Times just reluctantly admitted that the Hunter Biden laptop is legitimate,  and the emails that seem to refer to this father are legitimate. But when this story broke, the New York Times not only refused to investigate it, but they also dismissed it as “Russian misinformation” invented out of whole cloth by Russia to help the Trump campaign. More utter nonsense fueled by the totally discredited Russian Collusion hoax. They were quickly supported by Twitter, which banned the New York Post for daring to report on this. Again, part of the conspiracy between the DNC, the MSM and social media to defeat Donald Trump, without the slightest regard to the truth and with even less regard to the consequences.

Well take a look at the consequences. Who, exactly, benefited from this? It sure didn’t benefit the citizens of The Ukraine. It didn’t help us, as we now have the ineptest President in the history of the United States, confronted by an extremely dangerous situation literally risking nuclear war, and the only person less capable is next in line for the position.

Truth or consequences.

TDM

During a time when much of the news is dark and dreary one takes comfort from the occasional event that offers a least a glimpse of better days ahead. ESPN just announced that they have signed both Troy Aikman and Joe Buck to long term contracts to broadcast Monday Night Football. Rejoice, I say rejoice! Now there is only one day of the week where one has to turn off the volume in order to watch a major sporting event. For years we have endured watching Joe Buck’s smirking face during broadcasts of the World Series, NFL football games and major league tiddlywinks. Perhaps it is just me, but I don’t know a single person who can stand listening to Joe Buck. A lot, probably too much, of the buck has landed on Troy Aikman. As far as I can tell Joe Buck got the job because his daddy was a good announcer, and someone made the false assumption that he would be good too. Then he kept getting plush assignments because he previously got plush assignments.

He reminds me of the judges on shows like American Idol, America’s Got Talent, and The Voice. The announcers think the show is all about them and occasionally we get to see an actual performance. Even then it is often ruined by self-serving, arrogant, and patronizing commentary that only distracts from the performance itself. I must admit that I haven’t watched any of these shows in years because of this, while years ago we watched shows like American Idol all the time.

Joe Buck has elevated this to an art form. It is made worse by the producers who seem to think we must endure hours of puff broadcasting about individual athletes they want to promote. Often the athlete featured in the pre-game nonsense fails to perform very well during the actual event. The only thing that makes these broadcasts even watchable is that the game itself is shown, during brief interludes between commercials.

I don’t know what genius made this decision at ESPN, but I suspect they also worked overtime to give us President Joe Biden. Look how well that worked out!

In any event, this is a case where addition is gained from subtraction. I do not know who will replace Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, but it will take skill and effort to find someone worse. Just being able to turn on a major sporting event and not seeing Joe Buck is more than enough to brighten one’s day. Enjoy!

Free at last.

TDM

When George Bush made the decision to invade Iraq, Colin Powell allegedly gave him a stern warning. “If you win it, you own it.” The point being that if Bush succeeded in Iraq, which was likely, he would end up owning the results for what followed. Whether Powell actually said that or not, the prophecy was true. Defeating Saddam Hussein and overthrowing the government of Iraq was relatively easy. But Bush inherited a mess that to a large extent still remains unresolved. While some people in Iraq celebrated freedom, others chose to launch a campaign of terror in response. When Bush left office, Iraq was reasonably stable, but only after a great cost to the U.S. Then President Obama just withdrew all our troops, with no conditions, and the result was ISIS.  Few would argue that Iraq, dominated by ISIS was anything resembling a success.

The point being that even if Putin wins in Ukraine, which is increasingly in dispute, what will he actually win. He has succeeded in destroying an unbelievable amount of property and has displaced reports of over 2.7 million people. But if Ukraine surrendered tomorrow, what on earth would or even could Putin do with the remains? There are still over 40 million people in Ukraine, many of them are very well educated and all of them hate Putin. This is not exactly going to be a place of peace and harmony. Who on earth is going to rebuild what has been destroyed? Russia? Please! The Western World, which rebuilt Germany after World War II is not about to rebuild Ukraine if Putin is in charge. In the meantime, Putin is going to be trying and probably failing to revive the already faltering Russian economy. Putin has already been a success at destroying. There seems to be no possibility that he will be successful in managing the results. Odds are that only by removing Putin will anyone be willing to help restore Ukraine and even then, it will take years.

So how did this happen? The answer, sadly, is that the Democratic Party and their fawning supporters in the MSM were successful in destroying Donald Trump, but the cost was putting Joe Biden in power. The entire world is paying a very high price for that mistake. To some extent it doesn’t matter if the election was stolen through fraud or merely by deliberate and continuous misrepresentation. The result is the same. The DNC and the MSM colluded to defeat Donald Trump. Congratulations, you own it.

The cost is becoming more obvious by the hour. Unfortunately, under our constitution, the people who engineered this masterpiece are left with few options to fix it. No one considers replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris to be an option. Few could drink enough to stomach President Nancy Pelosi. It appears the only option is to let this play out for another two years and eight months and hope someone capable shows up in November of 2024 with a plan to fix this. There will be a lot to fix.

Things are already changing. Republicans are going to trounce Democrats during the midterms, but then to some extent they will also inherit at least some of the problems. I really can’t predict how this all ends. It is hard, perhaps impossible, to imagine Joe Biden lasting another two years and eight months. It is hard to imagine anyone, in either party, tolerating Kamala Harris. There is even less chance people will tolerate Dr. Jill acting as President similar to what happened during the last couple years of the Woodrow Wilson administration. Neither party will accept that. Unfortunately we know a lot about the wrong answers with few hints of a real solution anytime soon.

Garth Brooks wrote a song called “Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers.” Perhaps that helps put this in perspective. A lot of people prayed for the defeat of Donald Trump, because they didn’t like his hair and his mean tweets. Well, they got their wish, and everyone is paying the price. The question here is who were they praying to? Many of them don’t even believe in God. Perhaps, this is all a reminder of who is actually in charge. Two things Russia and the Democratic Party have in common is a determined movement away from trusting God. The woke movement tolerates anything and everything, except God fearing church going people. Freedom of religion in Russia means freedom only as long as you support the government. How did that work out?

I do not know what will happen but I do know who is actually in control. I think we will all look back on this, with amazement, because ultimately, in spite of the best efforts of people like Putin and Biden, evil is its own reward. When it wins, it loses. Chaos is always temporary. Sometimes it lasts much longer and does much more damage than anyone thought possible, but it always ends. The reason is quite simply because chaos builds nothing. Nothing will change until the good guys take over, and once again clean up the mess left by others. That day is coming, probably sooner than you think. Unfortunately, we seldom learn the most important lessons until we learn the full cost of ignoring the importance of distinguishing between right and wrong, and between might and right.

In a way, only one person is likely to benefit from this, and that is Donald Trump. Joe Biden just may make him the most popular former President in history. That does not mean that he will ever be President again. A lot of things, including his age, may prevent that. But few will argue the simple truth, that sometimes: “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Til Its Gone.” The good news is that more and more people are waking up to what is gone. The question is, who or what is going to bring it back?

TDM