There is so much going on, all negative for liberals and Democrats, that it is challenging to limit discussion to those things that are most significant.

There has been a lot of discussion about Twitter and how Elon Musk may or may not buy it. But what really matters is that Twitter is in serious trouble because they made the same mistake liberals repeat over and over again. They assume that because they believe something, everyone else must believe the same thing. They are extremely unlikely to ever realize this reality, let alone admit it. But facts are stubborn things, and most people are not impressed with nonsense and see right through it.

Twitter blocked Donald Trump and celebrated but ignored the fact that Trump had 32.4 MILION followers. At least some of those followers buy things. If you ignore your target market because you don’t like Trump, don’t be surprised if you start losing money. Duh!

Netflix is learning the same thing. So is CNN. Now the executives at those companies remain oblivious and are still waiting for the rest of the world to catch up with their enlightened view of reality. But the people who have enough money to own stock in these organizations are increasingly unimpressed.

This reminds me of two studies done by Harvard University. These were part of the curriculum when I was working on my MBA. The first was a study called “Random Walk.” This did an analysis between the results obtained in the stock market by the professionals who studied this on a daily basis, with a program they called “Random Walk”. This was ridiculous. They had a student, blindfolded, throw darts at a board listing commonly traded stocks. They would then make purchase and sell decisions based on which stocks were hit by the dart. The reason for the blindfold was to make this as random as possible, since the person throwing the darts was blindfolded and was not allowed to see the stock board in advance.

“Random Walk” routinely outperformed the market and the professional analysts. Luck, it seems prevailed over learned wisdom.

The other was a study that showed that the most common characteristic of incompetent people is they do not know they are incompetent. In fact, many of them believe they are exceptionally talented. When confronted with facts, showing that are wrong, they ignore these facts and continue believing they are right. This failure to recognize areas where improvement is necessary is what makes them incompetent. It is also what often makes them the very last person to realize they are incompetent.

If you look around today, you see many narcissistic people, unfortunately in positions of power, who are incompetent. Perhaps this has caused you to wonder why this is so obvious to you, but not obvious to others. Sometimes, this is because of motivation to ignore the obvious in exchange for access to power. For example, there were people who fawned over Hillary Clinton, even in cases where they actually despised her, because she held powerful positions, and some even hoped she would become President of the United States. But when she lost to Donald Trump, many of those people quickly walked away from her. But sometimes it is because these incompetent people have been evaluated by incompetent people forming a perfect circle of self-delusion. It resembles the very definition of insanity, where people keep doing the same thing, over and over again, expecting different results.

We see this happening regarding a lot of people, all at the same time. That includes the folks at Twitter, Netflix and even Disney. Just think about that. How on earth could anyone in a position of management at Disney fail to realize that families with children are the major source of their income. How could management at Netflix possibly believe that paying the Obama’s millions to produce expensive productions that few are willing to watch is a good idea?. How could Twitter think that banning someone (Donald Trump) with 32 million followers (some estimate 85 million) is a clever idea?

The answer was given above. Sometimes people who think they are brilliant are actually stupid. Sometimes other people, equally stupid, put them in positions of power. But truth always outs, and stupid people do stupid things with predictable results. All that twitters is not gold and sometimes is doesn’t actually twitter at all.

TDM

People who work on car engines know the significance of the timing belt. If that malfunctions the engine simply will not run. Today we are seeing the pollical equivalent of a broken timing belt and the results are remarkably similar.

This all started, ironically, after the 2020 election. President Donald Trump nominated Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizella to be a U.S. District Judge in Tampa, Florida. Democrats, as always, were opposed. They boycotted the Senate Judiciary committee, so she was sent to the floor with a 12-0 vote, with no Democrats voting. She is a brilliant attorney, but the ABA felt she was unqualified because she had never presided over a trial. No one questioned her academic or legal background. The Senate approved her, after the 2020 election, but before the new congress took over.

This is the judge who just ruled that the CDC mask mandate is illegal. The response was immediate and thunderous. Within minutes the TSA announced they would no longer enforce the mask mandate. Major airlines and Amtrack made similar announcements. There are videos of flight attendants and passengers celebrating the decision while on aircraft.

The timing of this is devastating to the Biden Administration. They were caught by surprise and the masks came off before Biden was escorted back to reality by the Easter Bunny. Now they are between a rock and a hard place. If they try to litigate this, they will just make a lot of people even more angry, and there is no guarantee they would win. But this decision made them look plain silly. Which they deserved, because they kept extending this mask mandate, with extraordinarily little if any medical science behind the mandate. It is obvious that a lot of people were really tired of this and frankly it looks like everyone wants to get COVID behind them.

In addition, the one place people do still want restrictions is on letting people into the country illegally while ignoring COVID protocols. In other words, if you are here legally, you have to follow the rules, but if you come here illegally, nothing matters. This is so illogical that ten Democrats just crossed party lines and voted with Republicans to continue enforcing Title 42.

Bipartisan bill to extend Title 42 latest sign of moderate Dem opposition to Biden border move – 1010 WCSI

That included Senators Mark Kelly, Kyrsten Sinema, Jon Tester, Joe Manchin, and Maggie Hansan. Senator Mark Kelly, up for re-election, said:

“The Biden administration was wrong to set an end date for Title 42 without a comprehensive plan in place,”

The timing of this and numerous other things could not be worse for the Democratic Party. They gained what they thought was total power, in the worst conceivable way, mucked things up to a fare thee well, and don’t have any plan or even a theory on how to fix any of this, other than to reverse all the anti-Trump decisions made by the Biden Administration. Admitting you have done something wrong is seldom seen by any politician and admitting the other guy was right is just beyond the realm of possibility.

Things are so bad that even Democrats know they can’t steal enough votes to change the outcome this fall. I am not sure we have ever seen something like this in the history of this country. If you had any doubt about how things are going, just watch those videos of people on planes reacting to that judges decision. The timing could not be worse for the Biden administration, and this just may be the ultimate Timing Belt.

TDM

The following article provides a lot of history regarding why so many people are fascinated by the number 33.

The Secret Meaning Of The Number 33 | Beginning And End

It is the number of worlds nourished by the four rivers that pour out of the Divine Mouth as the verbum fiat. Beneath the so-called symbolism of alchemy is concealed a magnificent concept, for this ridiculed and despised craft still preserves intact the triple key to the gates of eternal life. Realizing, therefore, that alchemy is a mystery in three worlds–the divine, the human, and the elemental–it can easily be appreciated why the sages and philosophers created and evolved an intricate allegory to conceal their wisdom.” – Manly Hall, Secret Teachings Of All Ages.

The article also talks about the connection between Masons or Freemasons and the number 33.

The 3 times 3 is part of the mystery of the 33rd degree of Freemasonry, for 33 is 3 times 3, which is 9, the number of esoteric man and the number of emanations from the root of the Divine Tree.

Now for the record, I am not a Mason so am not qualified to say whether or not this is accurate. But I have several friends who are Masons, and they all have some things in common. They are hardworking and honest people, they are good friends, and they are people who believe in making this world a better place. For example, the Shriners do a marvelous job of providing hospitals for kids who need it the most. While Masons are sometimes described as a secret and dangerous organization, none of the people I know who actually are Masons, are people who would even consider being involved in something like that.

There were at least 14 Presidents of the United States who were Masons or Freemasons if you prefer. Some believe that there were as many as 32. The following article explains:

How Many Presidents Were Freemasons? | Freemasons Community

The Bible also mentions 33. Revelation 12:1-4

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

I could go on and point out things like the assumption that Jesus was crucified at the age of 33 in the year 33 AD. Or that our own nervous system otherwise known as our spine, has 33 vertebrae connecting to the brain. Some believe that the same serpent who tricked Eve, who then tricked Adam, let 33 1/3% of the angels to rebel against God.

I have no idea what Kundalini energy or chakras is about, but apparently this is somehow connected with the “third eye” which when opens makes one truly conscious and awake so they can access the spirit realm.

But enough is enough. It is more important to know the current significance of 33. It is the latest approval rating for Joe Biden. It is the point at which it is nearly impossible to pretend any more. It is the rock bottom, where the only people buying this are those who simply cannot bring themselves to consider any alternative, without regard to actual facts. You know, the kind of people hired to report the news on CNN.

TDM

It is now beyond obvious that Joe Biden is a complete disaster as President of the United States. It is even more obvious that the 2020 election resulted in a worst case scenario where the most powerful man in the world is totally incompetent and there is no available solution to fix this. Even removing Joe Biden solves nothing, because his replacement is Kamala Harris, one of the few people guaranteed to be even worse. This begs the question. How did this happen, who could have prevented it, and who is capable of making sure it never happens again.

Most honest observers realize that there was massive voter fraud during the 2020 election. While this was obvious, that does not mean there was enough evidence instantly available to change the result. Unfortunately, some of the people pretending to be able to lead the charge to overturn the results absolutely failed to deliver. That does not mean, like the MSM pretends, that Trump was lying when he said the election was stolen. That seems to be the most likely explanation for the results. But they are right in pointing out that no one claim close to making the case during the limited time available to change results. In addition, the MSM made zero attempt to investigate it themselves.

Anyone who has been paying attention could have predicted where and when election fraud would occur. It happens every election, it has happened many times in the past, and if nothing changes it will happen again. As far back as I can remember, every close election found us waiting for results from large metropolitan areas famous for voter fraud. Places like Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia immediately spring to mind. While some people blame voting machines, and they may have contributed to this, the real problem is ALWAYS either fraudulent ballots or fraudulent counting of ballots.

There were only a few states that even mattered. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. That is because these states have a lot of electoral votes and neither side is guaranteed to win. Election fraud may be rampant in places like California and New York, but that is expected, and these states seldom decide a presidential election anymore. There are other states where Democrats rarely win.

The bottom line is that the Trump haters and the Democratic Party was better organized and more motivated to defeat Donald Trump than Republicans were to keep him in office. In addition, Trump was President of the United States, and he did little or nothing to stop this before it happened. While some of the blame must fall on his staff, which may not have provided him with the support he needed, the problem was obvious, and he could and should have done more. If you are President of the United States, then you should have seen this coming and you should have done something to stop it. Trump thought he would win by such a large margin that Democrats wouldn’t be able to steal enough votes. That was a major miscalculation on his part and to some extent he did lose this election.

Democrats clearly had organized teams of people to stuff drop questionable ballots in drop boxes. This was and is a recipe for fraud. But if you knew this was going to happen, you should have prevented it. If there were all these people ready, willing, and able to drop of questionable ballots, Republicans should have organized people ready, willing, and able to prevent this or at least document it. It sure looks like Republicans were asleep at the wheel, even with an obviously dangerous road ahead. Instead, Republicans relied on poll watchers and then did nothing even when they were sometimes blocked from actually observing. The problem was magnified by the see no evil position of the MSM that was conspiring with the DNC to defeat Donald Trump.

I remember a friend of mine who took his son to a Detroit Tigers baseball game. A home run was hit in the stands near him. His boy ran over and tried to get the ball. But he was pushed out of the way by a Black kid who got the ball. The boy was upset, but his father quickly put this in perspective. He said: “you wanted that ball, but he had to have that ball.”  Republicans wanted Trump to win, but Democrats “needed” Joe Biden to win. That is why we are here and why this cannot be fixed until Republicans want this bad enough to do whatever it takes to fix it.

This is remarkably similar to the Democratic approach to gun control. Democrats want to end gun violence by enacting laws that only make it more difficult for lawful citizens to get a gun. Criminals don’t care about any laws, including gun laws. Republicans are pointing out, correctly, that the path to less gun violence is to arrest, convict and detain criminals caught with possession of an illegal firearm.

Republicans need to take a similar approach to election reform. Stop focusing on things that have not and will not work and recognize the real problem. You are consistently out hustled by Democrats who simply want power more than you. They are winning and that won’t change until they muck things up so bad it won’t matter, or until Republicans learn how to play hardball.

You can’t fix anything until you first do failure analysis to determine what really went wrong and then develop a plan of action to fix it.

TDM

Two things happened this week that will rock your world. Or I should say, more optimistically, they will rock the mythical world created by the MSM. The first was when one of the January 6^th defendants, finally got his day in court, and he was acquitted.

Judge acquits federal defense contractor on Jan. 6 charges (nbcnews.com)

Matthew Martin was a federal defense contractor with a top-secret security clearance. He was arrested and charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

Judge McFadden said “it was “not unreasonable” for Martin to assume that outnumbered officers were allowing protesters to enter the Capitol. McFadden said the government didn’t show evidence of Martin crossing police lines that the mob had broken down before he arrived.”

Note that the FBI has admittedly made 775 arrests, it has hundreds of outstanding cases in the works, and the Justice Department has requested more funding for prosecutors. Never in the course of human events have so few people been harassed by so many with so little justification.

This has already sent shock waves through the system and other defendants are withdrawing guilty pleas.

But the second thing that happened will have even more effect. Several people were charged in connection with a bizarre attempt to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer. Barry Croft, Daniel Harris, Adam Fox, and Brandon Casert, were put on trial. Two of them were found not guilty of conspiracy. Daniel Harris was acquitted of charges related to explosives and a gun. The jury could not reach a verdict on anything else.

Whitmer kidnap plot: 2 men acquitted, hung jury for 2 more | Health | stltoday.com

In a Grand Rapids courtroom, during 13 days of testimony, prosecutors offered evidence from undercover agents, a crucial informant and two men who pleaded guilty to the plot. Jurors also read and heard secretly recorded conversations, violent social media posts and chat messages.

Their defense was not that they did not do these things, but rather that they were:  “weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk and often stoned on marijuana.” They said agents and informants tricked and cajoled the men into targeting the governor.

These guys are not exactly pillars of virtue. But the defense argued that these losers couldn’t have come up with this idiotic plan without the help of the FBI who “wanted” this to happen. In other words, the FBI created the problem.

2 men acquitted in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; jury deadlocks on other 2 – mlive.com

“Defense attorneys contended that the FBI and its informants directed the alleged planning and, while denying their clients took part in the plot, said they were nonetheless entrapped.

Several witnesses subpoenaed by the defense invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify. One of them, Stephen Robeson of Wisconsin, described in court records as a “double agent,” was accused by the defendants of driving the plot.”

It is impossible to ignore the implications of this result. Several have argued that much of the chaos that occurred on January 6^th, 2021, was “led” by undercover FBI agents and/or informants. There are videos of people who appear to be leading the charge, but who have been ignored by the FBI and the Justice Department. Anyone who even hinted that the FBI might have been involved in these types of activities has been quickly dismissed as believing in fairy tales or ridiculous conspiracy theories. Well guess what folks, that jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan just sent the FBI and the world a strong message. “We aren’t buying this crap anymore.”

Let me be blunt. These clowns did try to kidnap Governor Whitmer and they came armed with guns and ammunition. Even if the FBI tricked them into doing this, it was beyond bad. Now compare that to the January 6^th, 2021, event, where most people focused on photo-ops, and if there was some kind of organized plot to overthrow the government, it remains invisible. These guys really were trying to kidnap Governor Whitmer. If the jury did not buy this, it is solely because they cannot trust the FBI. That is nothing short of another shot that will be heard round the world.

All those fingers the FBI has been pointing at January 6^th, 2021 defendants are now pointing directly as the FBI and the DOJ.

TDM

Everyone, in both parties, agrees that Joe Biden is a complete flop as President. They also agree that Kamala Harris is not an acceptable replacement. Incredibly, the line of success for a President of the United States is a follows:

Vice President – Kamala Harris

Speaker of the House – Nancy Pelosi

President pro tempore of the Senate – Patrick Leahy

Secretary of State – Antony Blinken

Secretary of the Treasury – Janet Yellen

Secretary of Defense – Lloyd Austin

Attorney General – Merrick Garland

Secretary of the Interior – Deb Haaland

Secretary of Agriculture – Tom Vilsack

Secretary of Commerce – Gina Raimondo

Secretary of Labor – Marty Walsh

Secretary of Health and Human Servics – Xavier Becerra

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development – Marcia Fudge

Secretary of Transportation – Pete Buttigieg

Secretary of Energy – Jennifer Granholm

Secretary of Education – Miguel Cardona

Secretary of Veteran Affairs – Denis McDonough

Secretary of Homeland Security – Alejandro Mayorkas

If you can read this list without throwing up, you have a stronger digestive system than me.  Elections have consequences. This is what the geniuses who rigged the 2020 election have delivered to the American people.

The only alternative is for the Vice President to leave office, for any reason. Then the President “selects” a new Vice President to fill out the remainder of the term. The new Vice President must be approved by both the House and the Senate. Then and only then is the President removed. That is how Gerald Ford became President.

Some have suggested that Biden could be removed and replaced by Obama. But there would be a lot of opposition to that, in both parties, and it is questionable whether Obama is even eligible. He certainly is not eligible to run again and something like that would likely end up at the Supreme Court. This is probably Obama’s dream, but a nightmare for everyone else.

In the meantime, the clock is ticking rapidly, because of the mid-term elections. If Democrats wait any period of time, it will be increasingly obvious that Republicans are going to retake the House and the Senate. Trying to force something like this during the midterms with a lame duck congress where the Senate is already tied and Democrats control the house with paper thin margins, would be a real challenge. A challenge magnified if Kamala Harris is no longer VP, because she currently casts the deciding vote in the Senate.

I frankly cannot even imagine a solution to this, other than to point out the obvious, that overturning the results of the 2020 election is far from the worse case scenario, even for the Democratic establishment. History teaches us that Winston Churchill was considered the worst possible choice for Prime Minister, by all parties, until the reality of World War II made him the only choice. This is impossible to predict, but it is what happens when the MSM and the Democratic Party conspired with social media in a joint effort to defeat Trump with little regard to what takes his place. When you combine the recent reports that just may prove that even this coalition was not enough, this result was gained by people literally stuffing ballot boxes with illegal votes, and outrage is not a strong enough word to describe how the American people are likely to respond.

What we do know is that the American people are already rebelling and as always it starts locally. The Chief Executive of Kenosha County is now a Republican, something no one would have predicted six months ago.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/06/samantha-kerkman-wins-kenosha-county-executive-chair-republican-first-time-decades/

School boards all over the country are seeing liberal board members removed and replaced with angry parents who have had more than enough. This is so obvious and so bad that even CNN is likely to notice, that is the few survivors of the ongoing CNN purge will notice.

The only thing certain is change, change at a level not seen in this country for a long time, if ever. Change that is already happening, change that cannot be avoided and change we all better pray is led by people far more responsible than the class of clowns that delivered this disaster. My only prediction is that the most popular choice will be “none of the above.”

TDM

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