North Korea is a huge problem.  We have a mad man literally threatening to launch nuclear missiles against us.  Thanks to the failure of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama to deal with this, Trump has been handed a mess.  If the threat is not already here, it will be here tomorrow.

There are limited options.  We can try to stop him with increasing sanctions.  That, of course, has never worked.  In 1941 FDR tried that with Japan.  The result was Pearl Harbor.  We can try to negotiate a diplomatic settlement with the help of Russia and China.  Does anyone think that will work?  We can try to buy him off.  That was tried by Clinton and we just funded his nuclear weapons program.  We can do nothing and hope this somehow works out.  That was the Obama approach.  Or, we can attack him and destroy his ability to make war.  North Korea would definitely lose, but the cost would be beyond horrific.

There is another more option.  It is the only strategy that has any chance of working. That is for Donald Trump to convince North Korea that if they do not stop, he will destroy them.  This is like when cops confront violent criminals.  Sometimes the most violent people surrender when confronted with certain destruction.  That does not always work, but it at least has a chance of working.

Donald Trump sent a blunt warning to North Korea. This just may be our last chance of avoiding a truly horrific outcome.  Sadly the main stream media is still trying to push the ridiculous Russia collusion myth and RINOs like Graham and McCain continue to undermine the President.   If Joe Biden was still in the Senate he would probably be making a speech promising to impeach Trump if he attacks North Korea.  That is exactly what Biden did to George W. Bush with regard to Iran and it is exactly why Iran is well on the way to having a nuclear weapon.

We better pray that North Korea ignores Democrats, RINOs and the idiots in the main stream media.  Sadly, that seems unlikely and the most likely outcome is that Donald Trump will be forced to choose between the unthinkable and the truly unthinkable.

Barack Obama warned North Korea that we could destroy them.  They did not believe him.  No one believed him.  I believe Trump.  I pray North Korea believes Trump.  We better all pray that North Korea believes Trump.

TDM

I recently received a pair of Enchroma sunglasses as a gift.  They are incredible because they allow me, a color blind person, to see colors very differently.  This has caused me to ask a simple question:  “What color is California?”  Most people consider California to be the bluest of the blue states.  Every statewide elected official is a liberal Democrat and our legislature constantly dreams of new ways to make this the most liberal state in the union.  Sometimes the only thing between California and absolute insanity is our 78 year old Governor, Jerry Brown.  Since Governor Moonbeam is a hard core liberal himself, the distance to insanity is very small.

The rest of the country has watched many states switched from blue to red.  There are now only six really blue states left, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island and Oregon.  California used to lead the nation in creative ideas, recently it looks like the nation has left us behind.  Now we may know why.  It is quite possible that many if not most of the Democratic gains were the result of massive voter fraud on a level never seen before in the history of this country.  The following article is stunning and the facts are undisputed:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-warns-california-clean-voter-registration-lists-face-federal-lawsuit/

“Judicial Watch noted that Los Angeles County officials ‘informed us that the total number of registered voters now stands at a number that is a whopping 144% of the total number of resident citizens of voting age.’”

This is not a surprise to those of us who live here.  Our state gives drivers licenses to people who are not citizens.  Numerous politicians inform illegal aliens that they have the same rights as everyone else.  Why would anyone be surprised if they thought it was ok to vote?  California makes zero attempts to check citizenship when someone registers to vote.  If you say you are a citizen, California considers that to be the final source on the subject.

We know that there are a lot of Democrats here, but the results of the 2016 election are absurd:

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php

California:

Hillary Clinton:    8,783,792.   Donald Trump:  4,483,814. Margin:  4,269,978,

In Los Angeles County, Hillary received 2,464,364 votes compared to Trump’s 769,743 for a margin of 1,694,621.

National:

Hillary Clinton:  65,853,652. Donald Trump:  62,985,134.   Margin:  2,868,518

This means if it wasn’t for California, Hillary would have lost the popular vote nationwide and nearly 60% of the margin came from Los Angeles County.

I did a little math and if there were 44% more voters than people in Los Angeles County that would mean there were potentially 1,049,371 illegal votes in just one county.

No wonder the liberal left is terrified of the voter-fraud commission.  They are determined to resist this at every level, but they are losing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/29/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-wants-to-know-the-voting-history-party-id-and-address-of-every-voter-in-america/?utm_term=.645e4ab61fc1

In May, Trump created a commission to investigate alleged acts of voter fraud after he claimed, without evidence, that 3 million to 5 million undocumented immigrants voted illegally in the 2016 election.  (Hmmm.   Seems like Judicial Watch has some pretty interesting statistics that look a lot like evidence!)

Democrats are concerned that this is “laying the groundwork for voter suppression, plain & simple.”  They are right:  this is an attempt to suppress the votes of people who are not citizens.  It’s about time.

Now look at California with different glasses.  In 2010 10,095,185 people voted for governor in California.  5,431,210 voted for Jerry Brown, 4,128,931 votes for Meg Whitman.  Now take away 1,000,000 votes away from Jerry Brown in Los Angeles County and say another 10% in the rest of the state.  Say hello to Governor Meg Whitman.

Put on different glasses and California looks a lot less blue.

TDM

Donald Trump is the duly elected President of the United States.  Democrats do not believe that he is up to the job.  Democrats didn’t think Abraham Lincoln was up to the job either.  RINO Republicans don’t think Trump is up to the job.  RINO Republicans didn’t think Abraham Lincoln was up to the job either.  Democrats are more than willing to remove a President of the United States they despise.  They tried with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war and they succeeded with Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War.

They are trying to overthrow the government of the United States without regard to the law, without regard to the constitution and with even less regard to the facts.  Sadly, RINO Republicans are not only refusing to defend Trump, they are often pouring gas on the fire.  So far, the only known criminal acts are being committed by those people entrusted with our national security illegally leaking classified information.   Instead of being prosecuted, these people are viewed as heroes by the elite media.

The Washington Post printed the entire transcript of a phone call between Donald Trump and the President of Mexico along with the entire transcript of a phone call between Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of Australia.  There should be outrage by both political parties.  If this had happened to Obama, CNN would have called it treason.  They would have been right.

Consider the consequences if during an emergency a foreign Chief of States is afraid to talk to the President of the United States on the phone because he or she fears this being reported on the front page of the Washington Post.  This is a very legitimate fear.  This is beyond dangerous.

Suppose, for example, Mexican official learns of an imminent terrorist attack against the United States.  The President of Mexico is afraid to call Donald Trump, because he cannot be assured of confidentiality.  If you think this is unlikely keep in mind that Great Britain cut us off from intelligence regarding the Manchester bombing because our media irresponsibly leaked the name of the suspected terrorist?

This isn’t going to stop anytime soon.  Democrats and the main stream media think they have Donald Trump on the ropes and they are determined to remove him from office.  Nothing else matters. They are literally attempting another coup, similar to the one removed Richard Nixon from office.  Richard Nixon won re-election in 1972 by a landslide.  Democrats with the help of the main stream media went on a mission to destroy him.  W. Mark Felt, an FBI Agent, started leaking highly classified information to Woodward and Bernstein.  That’s right, another FBI Agent violated his oath of office and the main stream media gave him hero status.  After all, he also hated Richard Nixon and that justified anything.  They kept investigating Richard Nixon until they eventually found a crime.  He ordered a cover up of the Watergate Robbery.  This was more than enough for the liberal left to remove a President they despised from office.  The result was the loss of the Vietnam War, the abandonment of the mission for which over 55,000 American troops gave the ultimate sacrifice and the death of millions in South Vietnam and Cambodia.

What do you call it when there is an organized resistance movement dedicated to the overthrow of our government?  The only word I can think of is treason.  If we allow this to continue, the results will be very similar to what happened in 1974.  Only this time we live in a far more dangerous world and the consequences could be far worse than just losing the Vietnam War.

TDM

One of my favorite cartoons shows a drawing of a pond of quicksand. There is a single hand sticking up out of the sand, flipping the bird. The caption goes: “There goes a bitter young man.” If you substitute “old” for “young” it describes John McCain perfectly. It was bad enough that he voted against health care reform, after running for re-election promising to repeal ObamaCare. He did it at 1:00 a.m. in the most theatrical way possible, to provide maximum humiliation to his Republican colleagues in the Senate.

John McCain is routinely described as an American hero. That is true if you give that label to anyone who served in combat during the Vietnam War. It is true if you grant hero status to anyone who was a POW in North Vietnam. He was definitely brave enough to fly very dangerous combat missions over North Vietnam. No one should blame McCain for breaking under torture while a POW in the Hanoi Hilton, but understanding and awarding hero status are very different things. It is widely reported that McCain produced propaganda tapes that were broadcast over the radio to U.S. troops and played constantly on the prison loudspeakers.

Most people don’t know that McCain was involved in in three major air crashes, before he was shot down over Hanoi. Most people don’t know that McCain was involved in a major incident on the USS Forrestal that resulted in the death of 134 sailors.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea

McCain apparently did not stay on deck to help fight the fire and the next day he got a ride off the ship on a helicopter with New York Times reporter Apple. This happened during a time when critically injured sailors were desperately waiting for transportation off that ship. Apple wrote the following:

“Today, hours after the fire that ravaged the flight deck and killed so many of his fellow crewmen, Commander McCain sat in Saigon and shook his head. ‘It was such a great ship,’ he said. Later, Apple wrote: “It was almost three months ago that the young, prematurely gray Navy pilot was sitting in a villa in Saigon, sipping a Scotch with friends and recalling the holocaust that he had managed to live through. He was John Sydney McCain, 3^rd, a lieutenant commander. The day before he had watched from the cockpit of his Skyhawk attack plane as flames suddenly engulfed the flight deck of the Forrestal, on which his squadron was based. ‘It’s a difficult thing to say; he remarked after a long time. ‘But now that I’ve seen what the bombs and the napalm did to the people on our ship, I’m not so sure I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam.’ ”

I cringed when Donald Trump, who appears to have sat out the Vietnam War with highly questionable medical deferments, trashed John McCain. At least John McCain served which is more than what Trump did. But when Trump said the following about McCain: “he’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured” he was rude, crude and truthful. McCain did receive a lot of medals, but almost all of them were because he was a POW.

McCain clearly enjoyed sticking it to Trump, and the country, on his way out of the Senate. Once again, with John McCain, it is all about…John McCain. Like I said, there goes a bitter old man. I wish him well in his fight against brain cancer, but “hero worship,” not so much.

TDM

The following story is a classic example of what happens when God is replaced by secular humanism. Warning, the story is horrific in every way possible. What makes it more horrific if that the same evil logic is being promoted by the supporters of Planned Parenthood in the United States today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739580/Woman-abortion-later-child-survived.html

An 18 year old Chinese woman became pregnant, but didn’t tell anyone until she was 35 weeks along. She went to have an abortion and was told it was successful. But somehow the baby miraculously survived. The midwife who performed the abortion saved the baby. Then she sold it to a cousin who wanted a baby. The woman who went for an abortion was outraged that the child was allowed to live. She sued the midwife for medical costs, lawyer’s fees and support costs. The court did not give her any money, but they did sentence the midwife to two years in prison for abduction of the child. One will note that if she had killed the baby, no one would have cared.

The story does not mention what happened to the child. Apparently no one in the Chinese legal system thought this mattered.

Sadly, this same type of logic is displayed by the supporters of Planned Parenthood on a daily basis in the United States today. The rising star in the Democratic Party is Kamala Harris who prosecuted the people who filmed Planned Parenthood officials trying to sell body organs from aborted fetuses. That is like prosecuting someone in Germany who filmed the holocaust without permission from the Nazis. It is the same logic used to sentence a woman to prison for daring to save a child a pregnant woman desperately wanted to abort.

If we do not recognize pure evil when we see it, we are doomed. Abortion is a complicated subject and there are circumstances where may argue that it is the lesser of two evils. That I can understand. What I cannot comprehend is how anyone can be so indifferent to the rights of a baby who miraculously survived an abortion, against all odds. If this is not evil, then evil doesn’t exist. Some people wonder how the holocaust was possible. How could people bring themselves to tolerate the extermination of millions of people? Show them this story. It explains everything.

TDM

Wise people have learned that Donald Trump is not the loose cannon on twiiter portrayed in the mainstream media. That caused me to read his recent twiiter regarding his power to pardon very carefully:

Here is what trump actually wrote:

A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Sessions: These illegal leaks, like Comey’s must stop!

“While all agree that the U.S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us, FAKE NEWS

The media went crazy with the theory that Trump was planning to pardon himself. That, of course, is absurd. For one thing, neither Trump nor anyone involved in his campaign or his administration have eveR been identified as a suspect with regard to a crime. I believe Trump warning Robert Mueller that unlike George W. Bush, Trump can and will use his pardon power to prevent another I. Lewis “Scooter “ Libby fiasco.

The last special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald was retained to find out who leaked Valerie Flame’s name to the press. He quickly learned that there was no possiblity of a crime, because she wasn’t an undercover operative. He also learned that the person who leaked her name was Richard Armitage, who was a vocal anti-war critic. This left Fitzpatrick with nothing to investigate that would justify his existance. So he decided to indict Scooter Libby for remembering a conversation differently than Tim Russert. This was tried in Washington, D.C. where any member of the Bush administration could have been prosecuted and convicted for breathing too heavily.

George W. Bush should have pardoned Libby because this was a miscarriage of justice. He did not do so, because he wanted to respect the system. I personally believe he would have shown more respect for the system by correcting a miscarriage of justice.

Trump will not make that mistake. Trump knows that Robert Mueller is not going to find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because it never happened. He is putting Muellar on notice that Trump will not tolerate another Scooter Libby fiasco where someone is indicted because a Special Counsel is desperate to justify his existence.

Naturally, the main stream media missed the point entirely. What a shock!

TDM

I subscribe to Sports Illustrated by accident. I tried to non-renew it but missed the deadline. It has become utterly worthless. The current edition is a classic example of what is wrong with sports today. The title is “Fashionable 50.” It lists all these athletes, not by their accomplishments on the field, but rather by how they dress. For example this is what they say about Russell Westbrook:

“He’s the most provocative eccentric, enigmatic dresser and player in the NBA.”

 Here is how Westbrook earned this acclaim:

Sorting through racks of ripped jeans and graphic tees at Topman in lower Manhattan in March, Westbrook—sporting a full gray Adidas sweat suit, fresh off a flight from Oklahoma City to New York City—is focused, calmly tuning out the gathering group of photo-grabbing, Snapchatting fans. …He slithers between the maze of mannequins and stacked shelves, stopping to find his size, when an item catches his eye. (His 6’3”, 200-und chiseled frame easily fits into off-the-rack styles.)

I cannot type any more of this because I don’t want to risk ruining a good computer by throwing up on the keyboard. In a bizarre way this article is brilliant, because it is a case study in how delusional and ignorant the cultured elite has become. Perhaps this really does appeal to millennials. If that is true, it explains a lot about what is wrong with millennials.

This is not a new development, but it has now reached the point where it simply cannot be ignored. I doubt that Sports Illustrated will even survive. I know many people who are sports fans. None of them care what Russell Westbrooks wears on his trip to Manhattan.

This also does a good job of explaining why the main stream media is self-destructing in its failing mission to destroy Donald Trump. These people are so self-absorbed by the illusion of their own superiority that they don’t even realize they are embarrassing themselves. Fox News has now starts a lot of shows just by showing video clips of the main stream media and they are hysterically funny.

This reminds me of a study, I believe done by Harvard, of incompetent people. The number one characteristic of incompetent people is that they don’t know they are incompetent. This explains why someone who cannot sing auditions for America’s Got Talent convinced they will win it all. It also explains why the main stream media thinks it is winning the media war with Donald Trump. They literally do not realize that they are humiliatingly incompetent. Fortunately more and more people have figured this out which is why CNN now ranks somewhere between 13^th and 14^th right behind reruns of 50 year old cartoons.

TDM

Sometimes the most important question is the one no one bothers to ask.  Like when Nixon was asked whether or not there was any kind of recording device in the oval office.  Yesterday, someone asked a simple question that was ignored.  Who leaked the Donald Trump Jr. e-mails to the New York Times?  Unlike Hillary Clinton, the Trump organization seems to have pretty good internet security.  We aren’t exactly seeing a lot of private Donald Trump e-mails being published in WikiLeaks.  It also seems unlikely that anyone close to Donald Trump Jr. would be in a position to gain access to those e-mails, particularly after more than a year. Yet obviously the New York Times obtained access to them, somehow.  It has been widely reported that Donald Trump Jr. released those e-mails ONLY after he learned that the New York Times had a copy.

In view of this, I came up with five questions I think should be asked over and over again until someone comes up with an acceptable answer.

• How did the New York Times get a copy of Donald Trump Jr.’s e-mail?

Was this done by the NSA?  If they did, who authorized them to unmask this e-mail?  Is this further evidence that Trump Tower was wiretapped?

• If this was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, why did this Russian lawyer spend so much time with Democrats?

She has numerous contacts with the DNC dating back years.  She was escorted around Washington, D.C. by Ron Dellums.  Her visa may have been personally approved by Loretta Lynch.  She is sitting in the front row, behind Obama’s ambassador to Russia, McFaul, days after the meeting with Donald Trump, Jr.

• Which is worse?  Saying you would like to get dirt from Russia regarding your opponent.  Or actively working with Russia to leak dirt on your opponent.

The Russia dossier, thoroughly discredited, appears to have been generated with significant input from the KGB.  The person who created this report, Christopher Steele, was funded by anti-Trump Republicans and later by Hillary supporters.  John McCain sent an aide to England to pick up a “hard copy” of the report and gave it to that pillar of integrity, James Comey.  Comey may even had paid Christopher Steele to keep up the good work.  This fake document, so bad even CNN wouldn’t touch it, appears to be the sole basis of the Russia collusion investigation.

• Why is no one in the main stream media even considering the possibility of collusion between the Clinton campaign and Russia?

The following article by Investor’s Business Daily is stunning:

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/democrats-real-pervasive-collusion-with-russia-somehow-lost-in-medias-hysterical-anti-trump-campaign/

None of this is disputed, it is just ignored.

• What is the purpose of a free press if it ignores well documented scandals when they involve Democrats and rushes to judgment on a daily basis with any story that criticizes Donald Trump, without regard to any actual facts?

Donald Trump may be right when he says this is worse than fake news, it is fraudulent news.

TDM

The Donald Trump, Jr. meeting with the female Russian lawyer was politically naïve and stupid.  It is another unforced error and will again distract this administration.  However, the main stream media, including Fox News has this all wrong.  The problem for the self designated cultured elete is that they continually over estimate their own intellect and underestimate the American people.  This may be difficult for the experts to understand, but for the rest of us this is really simple.

Donald Trump, Jr. got an e-mail saying Russia wanted to help the campaign and this person could provide documents and information regarding Hillary’s connections with Russia.  Need I point out that if Donald Trump, Jr. or anyone else in the Trump campaign really had secret channels with Russia, they wouldn’t need this kind of meeting?  On the other hand it sure looks like Hillary is the one with some questionable Russian connections.

Of course Donald Trump, Jr would have loved to get some good dirt on Hillary.  What is remarkable is that Donald Trump, Jr, unlike the main stream media, quickly realized there were no facts here, so he moved on.

If that is not enough, it turns out that this lawyer has already been interviewed on TV and she clearly has zero relationship with the Russian government.

The truth is really obvious to those who are not dazzled by the illusion of their own brilliance.  Senator Tim Kaine has already accused Donald Trump, Jr. of treason.  Seriously? The main stream media will over-react and just expose themselves to another round of self-inflicted wounds.  In the meantime the rest of us, who can see this for what it is are wondering, once again, “are they really this stupid or do they just hope we are this stupid.”

TDM

I used to love fishing for bass. My favorite lure was called a jitterbug. It traveled on top of the water, made a louse noise and wobbled. Since it traveled on top of the water, it rarely snagged. But the real beauty was the way fish responded to it. It would drive the bass crazy and they would literally leap out of the water in an attempt to deliver a lethal blow. The usual result was a dead bass and a delicious supper.

When reflecting on this it suddenly dawned on me that President Trump is using his tweeter account as an electronic jitterbug. I suspect that Trump sends these out deliberately; laughing because he knows the main stream media simply cannot ignore the bait. They launch into furious attacks desperately trying to destroy the jitterbug and end up just exposing themselves as irrational and out of control.

This is actually hysterical if you think about it. Trump lured Mika and Joe into postponing their vacation and putting on a rebuttal show that was beyond pathetic. These silly people were shrieking insult after insult at Donald Trump about his inability to restrain himself. Think of the irony here. Trump sent out a 140 character tweet and the Morning Joe puts on an hour shriek fest in a failed attempt to prove that Trump is the one out of control.

Now Trump forwarded an obviously fake video and liberals are convinced the end is near.  It showed an obviously fake Trump punching out an obviously fake CNN logo. It was stupid, but that was the point.

There are people who can and should tell Trump to tone it down. None of them work at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC or NBC. None of them work at the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times or the Washington Post. If you don’t like the jitterbug, stop attacking it, because the whole point of the lure is to get people to set the hook on themselves.

Trump will stop using the jitterbug when it stops working.

TDM