A lot of people are extremely angry and determined to change things. Unfortunately, the source of their anger is increasingly likely to be based on a false narrative. In Minneapolis Derek Chauvin, goes on trial. The town is already boarding up. There is a security perimeter around City Hall and the Court House. Following is a report about what is happening:

George Floyd’s brutal death sparked a racial justice reckoning. One officer involved goes on trial this month. What you should know. (yahoo.com)

Much of the violence last summer was in protest of the death of George Floyd. This was portrayed as a classic example of unnecessary police brutality. The story was clear and undeniable. A police officer, Derek Chauvin was seen in a video kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes. Floyd died on the scene. The narrative is that police killed George Floyd solely because he was black. We were told that all during this time Floyd cried out that he couldn’t breathe. There was outraged expressed by everyone, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican. But the problem is almost everything you know about this incident is wrong. The MSM still absolutely refuses to report all of the facts. They would rather see the outrage and the violence.

We were told that this was solely because Floyd was accused of using a $20 counterfeit bill. He was handcuffed and pinned to the ground by three heavily armed police officers, who literally killed him in the process. So far there have been at least 1,700 cities and towns where George Floyd has been a rallying cry for police brutality.

But the reason Minneapolis is putting up those fences is that Officer Chauvin is very likely to be acquitted by a jury. It is hard to imagine Chauvin getting a fair trial, in Minneapolis. One would think this would last about two minutes with a quick guilty verdict. But the known, but not public, facts paint a very different picture.

Police didn’t arrest George Floyd because he was black and because he allegedly tried to cash a counterfeit $20 bill. They confronted him because of a 911 call.

Here is the text of that call:

George Floyd: Minneapolis police release 911 call that led to arrest – CNN

“He was sitting in his car and described as awfully drunk and not in control.”

The autopsy said this was a homicide caused by the police officer leaning on his neck. But if you read the actual autopsy it becomes clear that this was a politically motivated opinion.

Read the Full Autopsy Report on George Floyd | Law & Crime (lawandcrime.com)

People would have been outraged if this were not ruled a homicide. What is not widely knows is that the official autopsy ruled out asphyxia. The police did not kill him. George Floyd had severe arteriosclerotic heart disease and hypertensive heart disease.

He tested positive for Caffein, Cotinine, 4-ANPP, THC, Meth, Fentanyl, Norfentanyl, Cannaboids, Amphetamines, and Morphine.

Here is the actual autopsy report:

Read the Full Autopsy Report on George Floyd | Law & Crime (lawandcrime.com)

One notes that there were NO life-threatening injuries identified. In other words, nothing the police did killed him. I have seen credible reports that he had so many drugs in his system that he may have died even if Police had not been involved at all.

The restraint used by Officer Chauvin is what they are taught to do, to avoid injuring a suspect. Someone who can’t breathe cannot say “I can’t breathe.” It is true that Floyd died on the scene. It far from clear that the police killed him. The jury will not hear breathtaking reports from CNN. They will see the entire video of the event. They will hear real eyewitness testimony. They will learn that police actually treated Floyd with patience and respect, for several minutes. The physical confrontation happened when Floyd refused to get in the squad car. They will be getting the full autopsy report and there will be defense experts who will explain that nothing Officer Chauvin did contributed to his death. In Minneapolis, Chauvin may be convicted anyway, because everyone fears widespread violence if he is not found guilty. But he may also be acquitted, because unless there is other evidence out there, his attorneys will probably be able to prove that he wasn’t killed by Chauvin.

This does not mean police did everything right. They probably should have realized he was in serious trouble because of his intoxication. They probably should have called an EMT immediately and that might have changed the outcome. But being wrong doesn’t make anyone a murderer. No one benefited from this false narrative. We even have professional athletes refusing to kneel for the National Anthem and promoting BLM because George Floyd is embolic of systemic racism. We have a President of the United States on a mission to end systemic racism, at least partially based on what happened to George Floyd.

There has also been a false narrative about an armed insurrection on January 6^th, 2021. But police confiscated no firearms. The only person shot was killed by a Capitol Police Officer. The police officer who died, may have died from a stroke. There is no evidence he was hit by a fire extinguisher. Now they are searching to see if someone “could” have caused his death by using bear spray. The Proud Boy who was called a ringleader by the FBI was just released, without bail, by the Judge, who said there was no evidence he did anything other than go along with the crowd.

These false narratives are literally tearing this country apart. The good news is that all of these narratives are falling apart. The truth is becoming more obvious. The bad news is that the MSM and the DNC will not care. They will continue to lie, even when the lie has been totally discredited. If you doubt that, check out how people still push the thoroughly discredited Russia collusion narrative.

But the sun is starting to shine, in spite of the best efforts of those who want to throw shade on things. The lies about COVID are being revealed. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, it is on the way, and no one can change that. Here comes the sun and it is going to change everything.

TDM

Texas Governor Gregg Abbott just issued an executive order lifting the mask mandate in Texas and allowing every business and facility to open at 100% of capacity.  The Mississippi Governor just announced a similar order. The Dam is breaking, and the flood waters of freedom are on the way. Except here in California, where Governor Newsom put on a photo op in a restaurant in Fresno, closed because of COVID. He says he did not eat there but was seen standing next to a table full of food and drinks. Comedian George Lopez joined Newsom and posted a video endorsing the restaurants food. At best, this was beyond dumb.

Now Newsom is calling the decision by Governor Abbott absolutely reckless. So, while the eyes of Texas are peering out over mask free faces, California is deciding whether we are in the  purple, red, orange, or green tier. In the meantime, the state is trying to micromanage when and where children can return to school and who knows when restaurants and, gasp, churches can reopen. This would be great, if these idiotic methods worked, but they don’t.  Dr. Fauci today said he is worried about two states, California and New York. But places like Florida, Texas and South Dakota are doing at least as well as California, without the nonsense. So, while we will soon see people laughing and socializing with each other in Texas, without masks, Governor Newsom will lecture us solemnly on why we must socially distance, wash our hands and always, always, always wear a mask. In the meantime, politicians in California are desperately praying, to the God they don’t believe in, that Texas will become a super spreader site. Because if that does not happen, California moves into the certifiably insane tier.

My guess is that Texas will do just fine and the CDC and the MSM will lie in a failed attempt to pretend this is horrible without regard to the actual results. But it won’t work anymore. Too many people have vaccines and the ability to destroy our freedoms because of irrational fear is disappearing at the speed of light.

The good news is that soon and very soon every state will be re-opened, without regard to the best laid plans of mice, and men and Democratic Governors of either sex. Something else will happen. A lot of people are going to finally start demanding answers about why this was all necessary in the first place. Governor Cuomo is on life support. This is so bad that his own brother has tried, and failed, to distance himself. Now, thanks to this brilliant photo op, the odds of Governor Newsom being recalled just went from orange to purple without even bothering to stop on red.

We have been living in an insane asylum for nearly a year. This time, having the inmates run the institution is a significant improvement.

TDM

I used to tell people that: “as a fatter of mack I suffer from dexlysia.”  I just thought this was a silly joke. Then I checked out the CNN site for their fact checking on the Trump speech last night. Now that is a joke:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/28/politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech-fact-check/index.html

CNN is determined to prove that Joe Biden really won the election fair and square. Their fact checking only proves that they are the ones who are delusional.  My favorite was where Trump said there were more votes than people. He was right about that, but CNN says that only happened in some precincts and state officials said this was just a clerical error, so Trump was lying. Right!

Trump said gas prices went up 30% since the election. CNN admitted that prices are 30% higher, but blamed it, yup, on Trump. CNN says that higher crude oil prices are driven by optimism about coronavirus vaccines. So, while Trump gets no credit for the vaccines, he gets blame for increasing gas prices because people are optimistic about the vaccines. And, that Texas snowstorm was also to blame. I wonder how they will blame Trump when we have $5 gas in California this summer.

CNN said Trump lied when he said that the U.S. doesn’t know anything about the refugees it brings in. Trump clearly was talking about the open southern border, but CNN deliberately distorted that to apply only to legal refugees. This is absurd.

I could go on, but you can read this for yourself. It is impossible for the MSM to report objectively on any subject, particularly if it involves Trump. One will note that they are not fact checking Biden. That is too bad, because he provides a lot of material. The Golden Globes did not tell any political jokes last night. The Trump jokes are no longer funny because he is now out of office. While the Biden Presidency is a joke, it is no laughing matter.

Trump walked out on that stage, smiled, and said: “miss me yet?” He then skewered the Biden administration and RINO Republicans. It was like a breath of fresh air. It was a reminder of the need for someone like Trump who can generate enthusiasm for a better tomorrow. It was a reminder of who is the real leader in the Republican Party.

Trump is a unique individual and no one in either party can come close to matching him. I am not sure he even plans on running for President in 2024, but he clearly plans on leading this country one way or the other. Perhaps he has decided that being a King maker is more fun than being the King. That is particularly true if the King must deal with fact checkers like CNN.

Then I realized something important. CNN did this fact checking because they are terrified of Donald Trump. They know that if people listen to this and believe it, the Democratic Party, and their supporters in the MSM are toast.

It reminds me of an incident when I was on a basketball team. The coach used to throw the ball at players if they did something wrong. I mentioned this to a teammate who said: “I wish he would throw at me; he only throws at people who are going to play.”

I still don’t think a coach throwing the ball at people is a good idea, but I understood the point. The more the MSM focuses on Donald Trump, the more evidence that they are not only terrified of him; they realize he is a real player. That is bad news for CNN, but good news for everyone else. “As a fatter of mack it does make more than a diff of bitterence.”

The steady deterioration of Joe Biden’s mental capacity is increasingly apparent. The United States literally bombed a target in Syria, and no one is quite sure who ordered that attack. Few suspect it was Joe Biden. Today, his press secretary delayed her press conference because she needed to prep Joe for his Texas visit. Seriously, the President of the United States needed to be prepped by his press secretary?

Now it appears that the State of the Union address has been delayed. My guess is that due to COVID 19, the White House will announce that the State of the Union address will be hand delivered to congress so they can read it themselves. That is, after all, the way this was handled for more than a century. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to abandon the in-person speech. It appears even he knew that although he was a gifted writer, he wasn’t exactly a great orator. That is the way every state of the union message was handled until 1913, when Wood Wilson appeared in person.

Dan Bongino is a former Secret Service agent. He was in the Presidential Protection Division for both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Now Bongino claims that friends have told him that the Secret Service is aware of the mental decline of Joe Biden. There is no way to confirm this. Secret Service agents are famously reluctant to discuss confidential information. But it is likely that Bongino either has friends who are currently Secret Service agents or friends who know active Secret Service agents. If any Secret Service agents were going to talk about this it would not be a surprise if Bongino knew that.

However, whether true or not, Bongino should not have repeated this.  I am not sure which would be more dangerous, whether this is true or not true. If true, and it has leaked, it puts us all at risk. If our enemies believe the President of the United States is incapable, they may seize the day. If not true, it also puts us at risk, because it might lure an enemy into making a huge mistake.

But the real problem is that the mental incapacity of Joe Biden is increasingly obvious to everyone. That is why 36 Democrats literally asked him to give up control of the nuclear codes. We are very close to a worst-case scenario. In their lust for power, Democrats may have only succeeded in putting someone obviously incompetent into the most demanding and powerful position in the world. That does not benefit anyone. What makes this worse is that no one, in either party, is expressing any confidence in Kamala Harris taking over.

It seems more than likely that someone, other than Joe Biden, is the acting President of the United States. This may even be a group of people, some of which were never elected and others who are cabinet members confirmed by congress. This is what happens when a political party focuses solely on gaining power with little or no regard to the real-life consequences. What makes this worse is that it sure seems like they cheated during the 2020 election to make this possible.

Sunday night Donald Trump will speak to CPAC. The viewer audience is likely to be enormous. Even CNN will probably cover this, not because they want to, but because they need viewers. The contrast between Donald Trump, focused, energetic and in control with Joe Biden struggling to read a couple of paragraphs on a TelePrompter will be beyond obvious.

We don’t know how long this will last. Woodrow Wilson was totally incapacitated because of a stroke on October 2, 1919.  His wife, Edith, took over. She hid the extent of his capacity from both the press and his opponents. She screened all his paperwork, and some believe she signed papers on behalf of her husband without necessarily consulting him. He remained in office until March 4, 1921 when Warren G. Harding was given the oath of office.

This time things will be different for a lot of reasons. One is that Joe Biden’s mental capacity is impossible to hide indefinitely. In addition, while Wilson did get better, Biden is extremely unlikely to improve. I suspect there are already secret bi-partisan discussions regarding a solution to this obvious problem. But how exactly would that work? Democrats and Republicans are hardly in a compromising mood about anything. Clearly no one thinks Kamala Harris is the answer. Republicans, already furious at the election and the treatment of Donald Trump, are probably not terribly interested in offering Democrats an easy out. This is made even worse by the people nominated for key positions in Biden’s cabinet. None of them are exactly inspiring confidence either.

The only thing certain is that this is a very bad situation, and there is not going to be an easy solution. Eventually, the American people and the MSM will find this impossible to ignore. One only hopes that is not delayed until after there is an unprecedented disaster. We can be certain of one thing. Those who made this happen are going to pay a very high price for inflicting this disaster on the American people.

Our country is bigger than any one man. This is truly a sad state of affairs, but the future still looks very bright. If nothing else, Democrats have exposed themselves as radical socialists determined to press full speed ahead with their radical agenda totally oblivious to how this is impacting millions of Americans. They are putting on a public display on why they can never again be trusted with power. Donald Trump is brilliant at listening to the American people and he will demonstrate that again Sunday night. Time doesn’t stop or even slow down for anyone and that includes Joe Biden and the DNC. The 2022 election will start before summer and November 2022 is getting larger and larger in the DNC rearview mirror.

TDM

I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This would be the time of year when we all looked forward to spring. One of the first signs of spring was baseball. That started with spring training. But the most important day was opening day. I loved to listen to Ernie Harwell broadcast the Detroit Tiger games. I was always in awe that the weather was already warm enough in places like Detroit that they could play baseball games outdoors. In the UP we were still weeks away from the ice breaking up on Lake Gogebic.

This year there are a lot of indications that a good Spring and Summer is on the way. The vaccine roll-out is really starting to show effect. The CDC has finally stopped lying about COVID 19 test results and they have also stopped lying about the number of people dying from COVID 19. While Joe Biden is putting on photo ops trying to take credit for everything, this is not fooling anyone. Even the MSM knows that the only reason we have that vaccine and the massive number of doses available is because of Donald Trump. This was all in place long before the November election.

I strongly believe by Spring most of the current restrictions will be significantly reduced. Indoor dining will be approved everywhere. Schools will reopen and we will be on a path toward normal. While Democrats desperately want to continue social distancing and masks indefinitely, those days are also coming to an end. It is this simple. As of today, 45,237,143 people have already been vaccinated, 20,607,261 have already received the second dose. Today over 17% of adults over 18 have been vaccinated. But what really matters is who is getting vaccinated. Originally it was given to politicians and first responders. Now teachers are shoving their way to the head of the line. But despite the political correctness, people over 65 are also getting the vaccine. Those are the people who want it and need it. I got my vaccine yesterday; my wife gets hers Friday. Virtually all my friends who are over 65 have either gotten the vaccine already or are scheduled to get it. This means by Easter Sunday, the people most vulnerable to COVID 19 will either have been vaccinated or scheduled to be vaccinated.

The scare tactics used to support social distancing and masks will not work anymore. Since people under age 65 face little risk, even if they get COVID 19. There are always exceptions but there are exceptions with every disease. I predict that soon and very soon there will be a serious national revolt against mask mandates. By summer, people wearing masks will be the exception, not the rule. At some point, sooner rather than later, sporting events will again be open to the public without restrictions. In addition to celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, this year we will be celebrating the resurrection of our country.

Right now, Democrats are celebrating, and they have the bit in their mouth. They are dreaming of a socialist society. But Easter Sunday is right around the corner and soon the winds of change will be blowing strongly in the opposite direction. This will have a profound effect on the political environment. People are sick of being locked down, sick of being scared, and sick of having tyrannical governments control every aspect of our lives. Once people experience true freedom again, they will be highly motivated to prevent anyone from taking it away again. The desire for freedom will spread faster than any disease. The implications for the 2022 election cannot be ignored.

When you celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, pause, and say a brief prayer of thanksgiving and celebrate the resurrection of our country and the restoration of the freedom that will soon be returning. It is always darkest just before dawn.

TDM

Tester outlines defense budget strategy – POLITICO

While some people questioned whether Trump should have access to the nuclear codes, there was never a serious effort to change that. This is because things can happen in a hurry and someone must have the authority to take drastic action. While a lot of people hated Trump, they knew they could not make the case for removing these codes from him. There is a reason a President of the United States has that power.

But now several Democrats are suggesting exactly that regarding Joe Biden, and this appears to be far more serious:

REDUCING ‘REAL RISKS’: Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war.

“…Vesting one person with this authority entails real risks,” states the letter spearheaded by Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California. “Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president’s judgment.“

“While any president would presumably consult with advisors before ordering a nuclear attack, there is no requirement to do so,” the letter adds. “The military is obligated to carry out the order if they assess it is legal under the laws of war. Under the current posture of U.S. nuclear forces, that attack would happen in minutes.”

They offer a number of alternatives, including requiring other officials in the line of succession, such as the vice president and the speaker of the House — “neither of whom can be removed by the president if they disagree — to concur with a launch order.”

This is a public slap in the face of Joe Biden, but it is more than that. It is a recognizing that a President of the United States must be capable of making very difficult decisions under stress. That will always be part of the job requirement. If you don’t think the President is up to the job, remove him. That is the reason for the 25^th Amendment. It recognized the need for a legal mechanism for designating a head of state when the president is disabled or dead. But in this case, the problem is that Joe Biden is not disabled, he was never abled in the first place. Democrats wanted to use this against Trump because they hated his personality. But now there is probable cause to use it, because of Biden’s obvious senility. The problem is that removing Biden gives us Kamala Harris, who is arguably worse. The real problem is that Democrats willingly elected someone to be President of the United States even though he was clearly incapable of doing the job.

If 36 Democrats have already figured this out, we can bet more people are going to be expressing their concern. What struck me is that one of them is Jimmy Panetta. He is the son of Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense. Leon Panetta is very partisan, but he is not insane. In addition to being Secretary of Defense, he was Director of the CIA, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the White House Chief of Staff. Leon Panetta is a very serious man. It is hard to imagine his son doing this without consulting his father. Perhaps I am wrong, but it sure looks like some very serious members of the Democratic establishment are getting terrified at the thought of President Joe Biden making presidential decisions.

Soon and very soon, something will have to be done. But notice that no one is talking about the 25^th Amendment, because there is zero enthusiasm for President Kamala Harris. While this is insulting to Joe Biden, it is a devastating rebuke for Kamala Harris. If one feels the President is incapable, then the constitutional choice is to replace him with the Vice President. Since no one is even suggesting that, it means they do not consider her to be a viable option. If effect, they want to replace her with a committee.

This would be hysterical if it weren’t so serious. One of the strongest parts of our national security is the certainty that a nuclear attack on the U.S. would be met with an immediate a devasting response. Presidents have also refused to rule out a first strike with a nuclear weapon, because our nuclear arsenal is also a deterrent to a lot of really bad things like a chemical or biological attack. But what good is our nuclear arsenal if no one thinks we will the guts to use it. I pray we never have to use it but fear the day our enemies our enemies stop fearing us.

We are in end times. End of the illusion that Joe Biden is remotely capable of being President of the United States. There is increasing bi-partisan recognition of the problem. What is lacking is anyone having a viable strategy for fixing this problem. This is what happens when a political party forgets the consequences of electing someone to be President of the United States without regard to whether or not this person is remotely capable of doing the job.

TDM

Few people in this country have had more chances to screw things up more royally than Andrew Cuomo. He began His career as campaign manager for his father. He was the Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development from 1993 to 1997. In 1997 he became the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

It was Cuomo who facilitated the Subprime Mortgage fiasco that came perilously close to destroying the U.S. economy. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Give mortgages to people who didn’t have good credit and hadn’t been able to save up for a down payment. What could possibly go wrong. It did allow a lot of people get mortgages to buy homes they couldn’t afford. But who cared, because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were there to guarantee a lot of those loans. But it turned out that bad loans are bad loans  Ultimately a lot of people, particularly minorities, who got those great loans ended up losing their homes. In the meantime, Investment Bankers and Insurance companies joined the parade. When those homeowners eventually defaulted, the mortgage-based securities market collapsed with them.

There have been numerous scandals, at every office he has held. He publicly renewed an executive order signed by Eliot Spitzer that prevented the Governor of New York from receiving donations from gubernatorial appointment. Secretly he changed the rules. There are reports that 24 of his appointees donated $890,000 to his campaign as well as another $1.3 million from spouses etc. Cuomo admitted his error and graciously returned $2,500 of this money. He used money from Hurricane Sandy to promote New York and its great governor. The Moreland Commission, a commission he established to root out corruption in politics, was disbanded when they started, gasp, looking at him. There have, of course, been the usual allegations of sexual harassment.

But none of this seemed to even slow him down. The Democratic Party was desperate to find someone, anyone, who looked like a leader. During the COVID 19 disaster, Cuomo even won an Emmy for his press conferences, even though New York arguably handled this worse than any other state.  He was like the Democratic version of Donald Trump, only without any actual accomplishments and a glaring lack of a soul. But none of this mattered, because the MSM loved him and could see no evil.

That all changed recently when one of his top aids admitted withholding Nursing Home death data from the DOJ and the New York Legislatures, because they thought it would be politically embarrassing. Cuomo failed to recognize that this was really bad, so he doubled down on stupidity by holding press conferences that just exposed his incredible ability to lie with a straight face and pretend double talk is a substitute for an honest discussion. Even worse, the only error he recognized was the failure to silence his critics.  It soon became impossible to ignore the reality of Andrew Cuomo.

He is now facing a bi-partisan push to impeach him. DeBlasio, easily the worst Mayor in the history of New York, is now slamming Cuomo. Things are so bad CNN won’t risk any more episodes of the Chris and Andrew show where the Cuomo brothers put on a nightly comedy routine.

It is not clear that Cuomo will survive this one. The problem is that in addition to the corruption and arrogance  he clearly is a world-class jerk in real life. Once people sensed the loss of power, they came out of the woodwork to trash him. It seems like everyone has an Andrew Cuomo story, none of them good. Soon Cuomo is going to look like the loneliest man in politics.

In fairness to Cuomo, he is probably no worse than a lot of other people. But everyone is angry because of COVID 19. They are angry at the lockdowns; they are angry at all the controls. They are tired of being afraid. Our schools are closed, everyone is wearing a mask and people are still dying. And Donald Trump is gone so blaming everything on him is no longer an option. But wait, there’s Andrew Cuomo with the same arrogant New York persona that people hated about Donald Trump. He is the Democratic version of Donald Trump, just without the baggage of actual accomplishments. Wait, he did actually kill a lot of senior citizens, but as he said: “so they died, who cares?” Obviously, not Andrew Cuomo.

In any national election, the Governor of New York, the Governor of California, and the Mayor of New York are all considered potential candidates for the Presidency. That is because these are the type of executive positions that teach one how to govern effectively. Look at the background of our Presidents, starting with Eisenhower:

Eisenhower – General

Kennedy – Senator

Johnson – VP and Senate Majority Leader

Nixon – VP

Ford – Congressman (not elected)

Carter – Governor

Reagan – Governor

Bush – Director of the CIA

Clinton – Governor

Bush – Governor

Obama – Ran shoeshine booth at O’Hare International

Trump – Business Tycoon

Biden – VP – Senator

Normally, if one political party had all these positions, the party would be considered very likely to elect the next President. But today those three positions are held by Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom, and Bill DeBlasio, and all of them are stinking up the job. None of them have any realistic potential to be a candidate for President of the United States. What makes this worse, is that the last Presidential election proved that the DNC has no bench. If the best you can do is Joe Biden, then you’ve got nothing.

So, as you watch Cuomo deteriorate on his way out of office at a speed no one would have predicted just a couple of weeks ago, keep this in mind. This was the last best hope for the DNC. After Cuo Mo is No mo, so is the DNC.

TDM

I personally respect Ted Cruz. He is one of the brightest politicians in congress, a true constitutional lawyer. This makes his decision to fly his family off to Cancun while his neighbors were literally freezing beyond idiotic. I suspect Cruz was thinking more like a husband and a father when he did this. His focus was on helping his family. But the truth is he wasn’t thinking at all. He should have known that someone would see him in the airport and that this would go nuclear. Now we learn that he left his beloved poodle at home. Nice.

One of the problems with being self-righteous and arrogance is that it often backfires. Cruz ridiculed the Mayor of Austin for doing the same thing. This is the type of mistake that could literally end his career. It is at least going to make his next run for the Senate more challenging.

At least Ted Cruz realized he made a huge mistake, immediately flew back to Texas, and apologized. But at a time when we desperately need Ted Cruz, we did not need this self-inflicted mistake.

Republicans are set to roll the table in 2022. The Biden administration has made huge mistakes and is impressing no one other than Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper. Since no one else is impressed by either of these guys, he is impressing no one. When Kamala Harris does speak, she literally embarrasses herself. I am sure a lot of people, in both parties, are horrified at the thought that she is making Chief of State level calls with people like Putin. Gas prices are already spiking. The vaccine roll-out is a hot mess, made worse by decisions based more on political correctness than science. The problem is compounded by Biden desperately trying to blame everything on Trump when the opposite is more than obvious. Even CNN has started to turn on the Biden Administration. They still hate Trump, but they are not impressed with the Biden Administration and it shows.

A little common sense could have prevented all of this. It was really this simple. Give the vaccine first to people who want it and need it. Instead they offered it to 30 year old firefighters half of which said no thank you. The same is true of other first responders and teachers. They should have said: If you are over 65 and want a shot, here’s where to sign up. Problem solved, but common sense is always uncommon.

Andrew Cuomo is pouring gas on himself on his exit from national politics. Just imagine if Biden had appointed him to be the Attorney General. At one point he seemed to be a serious contender. Cuomo is rapidly self-destructing. Unless something changes, he is toast. But today the MSM is trying to distract from this by punching at Ted Cruz. That is the way things work. The MSM will always attack conservatives, it is just unfortunate when someone gives them ammunition.

Fortunately, I don’t think this story has legs. But this does limit the ability of Cruz to take well-deserved shots at Democrats in the future. While the MSM ignores hypocrisy by Democrats it never ignores it when done by Republicans, particularly conservative Republicans.

The bad news is that everything we feared about a Biden administration is coming true. The good news is that the problems are already obvious and the MSM is catching on quickly. They are also learning something else. While they routinely accused Trump of lying, primarily because he disagreed with them, Biden does tell lies and his are so bad they are laughable. Like when he said there was no vaccine available before he took office. He apparently forgot about getting a vaccine shot on national TV. Anderson Cooper did not notice, but his audience did.

Ted Cruz also caught a break, because with all the things going on in Texas, Biden is absent without leave. He literally called a lid and went home yesterday. At least Cruz was smart enough to go someplace warm. Biden finally had the following statement issued:

If in fact it’s concluded that I can go without creating a burden for the folks on the ground while they’re dealing with this crisis, I plan to go,’ he told reporters at the White House Friday. 

Biden said he’ll make the decision ‘probably next week.

When George W. Bush made similar comments following Katrina, the MSM went ballistic. Trump, of course, could never do anything right. We can be sure the MSM will cover for Biden, to the extent possible.  Things are so bad that when the White House, predictably was thrown a soft ball question designed to let them skewer Ted Cruz, they took a pass.

“We’re not spending any time, energy or breath analyzing Sen Cruz’s whereabouts or his group chat,”

This storm is bad, a lot of serious problems and no one is getting a free pass. Ted Cruz is back in town and trying to step up to the plate after stepping in it. The good news is he is fully off Cruz control. The bad news is that it was too little too late to prevent the inevitable crash. Cruz, at least for today, is probably glad that Joe Biden is President of the United States. Almost anything he does will be more impressive than this.

TDM

Democrats and their liberal supporters love hot weather. That allows them to crow self-righteously about global warming. They say climate change, but they always mean global warming. They don’t say global warming anymore because that is too easy to disprove. They say climate change, which is perfect because anything that happens proves their point. Except they always warn about things getting hot. They are consistently inconsistent.

Some of you may be wondering why Texas is being blasted with a winter storm and record cold temperatures, when the earth is heating up. Never let logic get between a liberal and climate change. So, they already figured how to blame these freezing temperatures on global warming (climate change). Specifically, warmer weather in the Artic is resulting in extremely cold weather in Texas. In case you think I am making this up, here is the article:

Heating Arctic may be to blame for snowstorms in Texas, scientists argue | Climate change | The Guardian

My favorite part of this article is the following paragraph:

This week, a blast of winter weather has reached deep into the heart of the US, causing several deaths and knocking out power for about 5 million people. Sleet and ice have battered Oklahoma and Arkansas, while many people in Texas have been left marooned, amid unsafe travel conditions, in homes with no electricity.

“The current conditions in Texas are historical, certainly generational,” said Judah Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research. “But this can’t be hand-waved away as if it’s entirely natural. This is happening not in spite of climate change, it’s in part due to climate change.”

Of course, what is obviously true cannot be obviously true so one must hypothesize to prevent people from relying on their lying eyes. Most of us would assume that record cold is kind of contradictory to global warming. In this case the scientists admit that the Arctic is warming at a rate more than twice the global average, and that is disrupting long-established climatic systems. In other words, global warming is not actually global. This type of logic is required when the data is inconveniently inconsistent with the theory. Anything that hints the theory may have flaws is unacceptable, so the data must be altered to conform with the theory.

There is no consensus among scientists over the interaction between Arctic heat and cold weather further south – Francis calls the topic an “active area of research”. Global heating is causing warmer winters, and record cold temperatures are now being clearly outpaced by record hot temperatures, but the complex interplay of climatic conditions still requires further scrutiny, to the consternation of some and even mockery among others, including former US presidents. As a last resort, always blame Donald Trump.

Here is my prediction for 2021. Some places will be hotter than expected. Some places will be colder than expected. There will be hurricanes, tornados, and other storms. They will happen, but we don’t know where. We can’t predict any of this. But regardless of what happens, it will be because of climate change. And one thing is certain, Donald Trump is to blame because he isn’t standing up and saluting the non-existent science. If you do not understand that you are probably huddled together in a basket of freezing deplorables.

Oh, by the way, just because prior to the storm wind was supplying 42% of the power in Texas and after the storm wind was supplying only 8% of the power is no reason to think wind energy had any part of the problem. Otherwise, one might think that the Green New Deal needs rethinking, and we know that those who do not think in the first place are incapable of rethinking.

Rush Limbaugh died today. Some in the liberal left immediately lept to their feet in celebration. Most people, who had listened to Rush Limbaugh, did not. Regardless of whether one loved him or hated him, he was a major factor in American politics. Few people have ever had more impact during their lives.

Rush was also great at exposing liberal hatred and hypocrisy. He did so with his death.  Here is the headline from the Huffington Post:

Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70 | HuffPost

I will not quote from this, other than to point out that almost everything they accused Rush of doing is what they were and are doing themselves. Which is more racist, belittling someone because they are black or because of their white privilege?

I frankly did not listen to him very often. I simply did not have the time. But the times that I did listen showed me several things. He was world class at self-promotion. I suspect that was a pre-requisite for someone trying to build and maintain a massive audience. He sometimes said things that were outrageous. But he also said things that other people were saying, but not daring to repeat. He was also funny. When he used terms like “Commie-libs” and “Feminazi” he was not calling people to violence he was making fun of people. Some people are incapable of even recognizing a joke.  Russ sometimes went where angels fear to tread. In doing so, he made enemies. There was a reason he was called a Shock-Jock. Rush knew how to inflame passions.

There is perhaps one incident which best displays who Rush was and who were his enemies. After the famous Charlottesville incident, the the liberal left immediately began to spin a lie. They constantly said Trump initially refused to condemn white racists. Rush, quoting what Trump said and instantly corrected the record. But liberals desperately wanted to paint Trump with the white supremacist brush. It was only during the Impeachment Trial, when Trump’s attorneys played the entire video of what Trump said, that this lie was finally exposed to the extent that even the MSM gave up repeating it.

Rush did more than that he said groups like Antifa and BLM were the primary source of the violence. He was partly right. There were white supremacists there out for blood. The violence was a direct result of poor decisions by the local government and police. Loud, potentially violent extremist groups were clearly headed toward Charlottesville. Some were for tearing down the statute of Robert E. Lee, others were white supremacists who seized the day. Most of the time police are smart enough to keep these kind of groups separated. When that happens, they make a lot of noise but no one gets hurt. In Charlottesville authorities let the two groups mingle and the results were inevitable.

3 Lessons From Charlottesville After the Riot at the Capital | Time

Far-left and far-right protesters were allowed to park together, and to mix, mingle, and clash at the site together.

Limbaugh conspiracy: Democrats allowed Charlottesville terrorism for political gain | Media Matters for America

Here is what Rush actually said after Charlottesville:

The police were told to stand down, the police are saying, “no, no, no, we were retreating to go get our riot gear.” Well, why didn’t you show up in riot gear? If you retreated to get the riot gear, why didn’t you come back with the riot gear on if that’s where you went? They were ordered to stand down.

He thought that perhaps this was even planned,  because Democrats NEED a crisis. Whether it was planned or not, Democrats and their supporters lied about this constantly for the next three years. Just like they are now lying about the Capitol riots for the same reason.

Rush is now gone, but he will not be forgotten. It is important to remember that while he was famous and influential, he was also a human being. He was just as mortal as the rest of us. It is not for any of us here to judge him. I am only aware that none of us come close to meeting the standards required of almighty God.  The best we can do is acknowledge that and seek forgiveness. Those who are quickest to condemn others are often those who should invest in a mirror. My personal standard is this. If, at any point, I start feeling morally superior to someone else, that is only a sign of my own failings. It is always easier to see the problems in other people then in oneself. Self-righteous indignation is not a symptom of true righteousness it is rather evidence of the opposite.

Rest in peace Rush. You impacted this world more than most people. The simple fact that millions of people listened to you and treasured your advice should give your enemies pause. People like you are extremely rare. You will be missed.

TDM