D Day was actually the 6^th of June 1944. But we are about to see the modern equivalent of it, only this will be January 6, 2021, a day long remembered, but perhaps for very different reasons than some expect.

Democrats are going all in on the theory that Donald Trump, the worst human being in the history of human beings tried to overthrow our democracy by claiming the 2020 election was stolen. They apparently want everyone to believe that any hint of doubt in the outcome of the 2020 election is tantamount to treason. Speaking publicly about it crosses over into tyranny and pretending there is any potential merit to his claim is grounds for immediate commitment to the nearest insane asylum. Of course, these are the same people who want you to believe that global warming will kill us all, unless we all buy electric cars, made by anyone other than Tesla. The same people who are shocked, I tell you shocked, that giving money and free housing to homeless people results in more homeless people. The same people who demanded we all wear masks, because they were following the science, when we now know the science said this was nonsense. The same people who thought that defunding the police and letting criminals out of jail would reduce crime. Those people.

January 6, 2021 was a tragic day, but not because a handful of people got out of control, perhaps with the help of some Capital police officers, and arrogantly posed for selfies in the Capital. They were angry because no one, including the courts, or congress, or the DOJ, or the FBI, were willing to admit there just might have been a couple of minor problems with this election. Like the vote totals changing mysteriously, overnight, in places like Philadelphia where Democratic politicians have been convicted, throughout recorded history for stuffing ballot boxes. This is hardly news to anyone remotely familiar with Philadelphia politics, but a complete mystery to the geniuses at the Washington Post and the New York Times. They only believe in rigged elections if a Republican accidentally wins. Then it is ok to scream fraud, at the top of your lungs, ala Stacy Abrams, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, without any evidence. But this when this is done by someone like Donald Trump, who actually has a lot of facts, horror of horrors.

Now we are going to have the January 6^th committee, which is going live tomorrow, determined to prove that Donald Trump is a threat to humanity. I doubt that many will watch, because there is not enough alcohol available for most people to watch more than 30 seconds of people like Liz Cheney and Adam Schiffless. Oh CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and particularly MSNBC will watch with bated breath, again, as the walls are closing in on Donald Trump, again, only to learn there are no walls, again. Wiser heads won’t bother to watch at all, while the loyal woke crowd are destined for disappointment when, again, it becomes obvious that there is still no there there.

Trump absolutely did beg people like Mike Pence to seriously consider the consequences of allowing Joe Biden to steal an election. He did suggest they consider the widespread damage the average American was likely to endure when someone like Joe Biden is put in charge of anything. I doubt that Joe Biden will succeed in destroying the country, because he isn’t competent to do that either. But he sure is mucking things up to a fare-thee-well, destined to be the only President in history capable of making Jimmy Carter look good in comparison.

It is bad enough to experience first-hand the consequences of electing someone like Biden but it is infuriating when it becomes increasingly obvious that this could and should have been prevented.

It is quite simple. The constitution requires state legislatures to determine how elections are run. In 2020 state legislatures were bypassed by partisan election committees aided by corrupt Democratic politicians. The rules actually used, and approved by courts, often violated the U.S. constitution, and were considered recipes for fraud, by both Democrats and Republicans, until Democrats realized they could get away with this. When some state legislatures figured this out, and appealed to congress, the courts, the press, the DOJ, and everyone else, no one listened. If someone even pretended to listen, they were accused of being co-conspirators.

Congress, the only entity that could have fixed this did less than nothing. It pretended there was nothing to hear, nothing to see, nothing to investigate, nothing to consider. They might have still decided things the same way, but they still should have listened. The constitution requires them to listen. The American people requires them to listen. Instead, the establishment decided that the only more thing to do was to go with the flow when the flow was headed toward Niagara Falls.

The January 6^th committee is composed of mouth breathing Trump haters whose view of reality is blocked by evil smelling fog generated by their own hate speech. Ironically, they may be at serious risk of accidentally exposing the truth, and the truth can be powerful beyond imagination. If you doubt that, and have a strong stomach, watch the Johnny Depp – Amber Heard trial.

One thing is certain, Trump never considered using the military or armed militia to over throw the U.S. government by force. That is absurd. It is beyond absurd. It is absurdly, absurd. That will become obvious because it is obvious. The only people hyperventilating about January 6^th, are the people who have the most to fear from reality TV. What makes this doubly dangerous for them is that they just aren’t listening. Otherwise, they would know that some report that as many as 45% of Democrats think there were serious problems with the 2020 election. About 99.95% of Republicans and 75% of Independents knew this from day one. This leaves only two options, either the January 6^th Committee knows facts ignored by everyone else, they are much smarter than everyone else, or they are the ones who are delusional. Bets anyone? Anyone? D Day all over again, only this time D Day stands for “Dumb Day.”

TDM

The tragic events in Uvalde, Texas are impossible to ignore. All of us are horrified by this tragedy. No one pretends this is remotely acceptable. Sadly, the knee jerk response by people on the left is to exploit any tragedy to push their dreams of gun control. In some cases, these are true believers, terrified of guns even when used by police. These people long for a world where no one ever has a gun. That is understandable, but hopelessly naïve. And, in some cases, extremely dangerous.

Many people point to Australia as the solution. Australia implemented nationwide gun control after a mass murder in Port Arthur. At the time, it was estimated there was about 3.6 million guns in Australia. Newsweek, hardly a right-wing rag, did an analysis of this and found out that things are not quite what they seem.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-australia-solve-mass-shootings-surrendering-its-guns-1710584

It is estimated that while the percentage of people in Australia who hold a gun license is lower, those who already owned guns have bought more, many more. There are more guns in Australia today than there were in 1997.

One factor people ignore is that the bigger the country, the more people, the more likely something like this happens. It is the law of large numbers. In addition, the definition of a mass murder varies significantly. But the following article shows that, despite the reporting, when comparing the annual death rate per million people from mass public shooting the United States ranks only 10^th. Norway, Servia, France, Macedonia, Albania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, and Czech Republic all have higher rates than the U.S. In 2018 another study showed that the United States actually ranked 64^th in the world in terms of mass shooting rates per capita. Now some can and will argue that these statistics are misleading, but the point is that it is far from as clear as the usual suspects would like to have us believe. One significant factor is that if there is a mass murder in the U.S. it gets immediate and widespread reporting. That does not necessarily happen in other countries.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country

Some things are obvious. Preventing criminals from having guns is always a good idea. Preventing honest citizens from having guns, not so much. It is obvious that someone who decides it would be cool to become a mass shooter has serious mental problems. That does not mean that it is always easy to predict this kind of behavior. There certainly have been cases where all the warning signs were present but ignored. There have been other times, such as the Uvalde shooting, where this was not necessarily easy to predict. There is a fundamental problem in setting a standard for deciding who should or should not have a gun. Remember that liberals believe anyone who disagrees with them is a threat to humanity. They would gladly take away your gun, for any reason, because they don’t believe anyone, other than the armed security they employ, should have guns.

In liberal cities, it is extremely hard for an honest citizen to get a gun, unless you are rich, famous, or a security guard protecting a democratic politician. But it is obviously amazingly easy for criminals to get guns. The result is that often the only people likely to have guns are police, and criminals. Earth to liberals, criminals avoid places where police are present. Duh! When the police arrive, the shooting is often over, and the police take their time before moving in. In Uvalde, the police did arrive within 4 minutes, and they were armed, but waited for about an hour, or more, before charging the gunman and shooting him. It is easy to criticize the police for not doing that sooner, but one notes that the hero, a Border Patrol Agent, heavily armed and highly skilled, was shot in the head and nearly killed. Charging a gunman holed up behind a barricade is not that helpful if the only result is an additional victim.

I spend three years flying combat missions. One of the first things we learned is that if there is a gun fight, and you get shot too, you can’t help anyone. While charging that gunman may have seemed like a good idea and might have been necessary those of us who were not there should hesitate before we judge.

One thing we can be sure of is that Democratic politicians will seize the day and demand the problem be fixed by taking action that is proven to be ineffective. While that may help them politically, it is time to stop the role playing and start listening to each other. Banning assault rifles sound great, until you take two seconds to contemplate what this means. According to guns.com the U.S. has 434 million guns, 20 million AR15s, and 150 million magazines.

Tell you want. Let’s let Kamala Harris lead a task force to confiscate all these weapons. Heck let’s make it easy and only go after people with felony records. A lot of honest people will surrender their guns with no problem. But it only takes a handful of people who decide they will let the feds get their guns when they pry them from their cold dead fingers. Do some research on Ruby Ridge and other places and reflect on how much safer you feel. Did we learn NOTHING from prohibition?

Not only would this result in bad unexpected, but predictable consequences, it wouldn’t solve the problem. The problem is that about 16 people, in a country of 340 million people, got their hands on a gun and started shooting people. Seizing 16 million guns to find 16 people is a brilliant  strategy, probably from one of the geniuses who want to solve global warming by moving away from clean abundant oil and gas to scarce solar, wind and nuclear power. Spare me.

Police are constantly warned against profiling people. But the alternative to profiling is to treat everyone with the same amount of suspicion. This is the logic that has the TSA patting down 85-year-old grandmothers while ignoring those people most likely to be a problem. If you try to monitor everyone you end up monitoring no one, because the worst offenders are the ones most skilled at avoiding scrutiny. This should be obvious, it is obvious, but it is often ignored. Now liberals have replaced that kind of profiling with their preferred option, profiling anyone who disagrees with them. Silence them and if they still won’t shut up, put them in jail.

It should be obvious that if you rage against police, defund them, provide strict guidelines on when and where they can use deadly force don’t expect them to charge an armed lunatic behind a barricade regardless of the risk of personal harm. In addition, if the person they shoot is the wrong color, they are more likely to be prosecuted than to be praised.

Almost every mass murder happens in a gun-free zone, where the killer is pretty certain he will be the only one there with a gun. Yes, it is sexist, but most mass murderers are male. Duh! When these guys are confronted by someone with a gun, they frequently either commit suicide or surrender. The key factors here are the time delay between them starting shooting people and when someone with a gun intervenes. Even if the person planning mass murder “thinks” there may be someone there with a gun, it is likely to give them pause. If you are confronted with a mass murderer, and you must wait for the police to arrive, and them wait for them to organize a response, you have waited too long.

When someone proposes something that makes sense, he or she is immediately shouted down by the usual suspects. Ted Cruz suggested that just locking the door to the school would have made a difference. Seems obvious. If that door had not been propped open by a teacher, it might have made a major difference in this event. He also suggested hardening school security and hiring armed police officers. John Legend responded by losing his mind and calling this suggestion “evil nonsense.” No, Legend in your own mind, evil nonsense is doing the same thing, over and over again and expecting a different result.

What we really need is a lot less gum smoke. Instead of shrieking out why you and only you have the solution, how about all of us listening to each other. Yes, we should prevent bad guys from getting guns. We already have laws that allow that, how about enforcing existing laws first before passing new laws? We know mental health is a genuine problem. How about training people to identify people who really are a threat.

Don’t fight the wrong battles and don’t depend on people like the leaders of the NRA to lead. For one thing the leadership of the NRA has some serious ethical issues. But more important, a lot of people hate the NRA and they have almost no credibility with the gun control crowd. That may be unfair, but it is still accurate.

Another mistake is focusing on the wrong issues. For example, the AR15 is viewed by a lot of people as an assault rifle. Anyone who is remotely familiar with guns knows that this is not the case. The AR15 just looks scary to someone already terrified by guns. While these feelings are not necessarily logical, the feelings themselves are legitimate. The result is that the AR15 and similar rifles sometimes are more of a distraction and perhaps not worth the effort. It is not important to me that someone can just casually buy an AR15, not because the weapon is particularly dangerous, but because a lot of people think it is an assault rifle and they buy it for all the wrong reasons. But when we argue why anyone should be able to get their own AR15, we just give the anti-gun crowd undeserved ammunition. Ok, no one can buy an AR15, without written permission from grandma, even if she is long since departed. AR15s are fun to shoot, but are they really worth the effort? They certainly aren’t worth giving deranged Democratic politicians the illusion of rationality.

As long as mass shooting continue, and they will, shameless Democratic politicians will seize the day making idiotic arguments sound close to rational. But if you stop selling AR15s tomorrow, it won’t likely prevent one mass murder, but it will silence some really awful people, for at least 15 or 20 seconds.

Stop the gum smoke. Stop giving idiots undeserved ammunition. Find a way to protect our kids. Find a way to protect our public spaces.

TDM

Several years ago, my daughter called me and told me about a young man who had been very seriously injured in an accident. The injury was catastrophic, with a broken neck and significant paralysis. The parents were in shock and did not know what to do. My daughter asked if it was ok for them to call me. They did, while I was in Reno, Nevada at Hot August nights. The son was in UC San Diego and had already had four major neck surgeries. Kaiser was pushing to have him transferred to the Kaiser Rehabilitation division. The parents called me, and I advised them that I had have several employees treated at the Craig Institute in Denver, Colorado. I recommended they try and get their son treated there. They said there was no chance that Kaiser would approve this, and they were being pushed to transfer him from the UCSD system to the Kaiser Rehabilitation system. I explained that this type of decision could only be made by certain extremely high up people at Kaiser, and that, although I am not an attorney, I would help them write a letter to the right person. I looked up the President and CEO of Kaiser and helped them draft a letter of appeal directly to him. I wrote that letter from a friend’s house in Reno, and the mother sent it to Kaiser, under her own name. Incredibly, within a few hours, late on a Friday evening, they got a personal email back from the President and CEO of Kaiser who said he had assigned a team to this case. Within just a few days, their son was transferred to the Craig Institute, at great expense for Kaiser. The Craig institute transformed his life. While he is still a quadriplegic, he has made tremendous progress and is learning to leave a productive and happy life with his disability.

Shortly after the son graduated from Craig and returned home his father called me and said: “thank you. I know if you had not gotten involved, my son would be in a nursing home today.” I was humbled and grateful. Grateful that God had put me in a position to help, and grateful that with what can only be described as divine guidance, I was able to provide the advice and assistance they needed.

This injury took place during a church camp. I told the parents that due to the severity of the injury, they had to at least evaluate the potential for legal liability. I explained that they could not possibly do enough fund raisers to fund the expenses of dealing with this type of catastrophic injury. Since no one was preserving the evidence, I suggested they let me interview someone who was a witness to the event, so that this could be documented. One of the other students at the camp agreed to be interviewed, so I interviewed him, with his father present, and recorded the interview. I knew at the time that this interview was worth millions of dollars. This was long before they had retained legal counsel. I then recommended they hire an attorney, since the cost was so high this was the responsible thing to do. They later hired an attorney I recommended, an attorney I knew because she had retained me as an expert witness on another case.

This attorney bravely took on this case and managed it brilliantly. Tonight, I just learned that this case was settled, and their son has now the resources necessary to fund all his future medical care and to take care of him for the rest of his life. This is truly a miraculous and life changing result.

I am mostly in awe of the circumstances that put this family in touch with me at a time when they did not know what to do. I am grateful for the years of experience, overseeing numerous lawsuits and being responsible for purchasing the health insurance for tens of thousands of people. It was that experience that enabled me to understand the situation and to offer the advice necessary to make this all happen. I am in awe of the fact that they trusted me with the future of their most asset, their irreplaceable son. I am humbled that God put me in the right place at the right time to help them when they needed it most. I am grateful and impressed by the President and CEO of Kaiser, who read that email on a Friday evening and immediately took action only he could have authorized. I am grateful for all the people at Kaiser who put the needs of this young man first and did the right thing for the right reason. I am grateful for the local news crews who reported on this story and helped provide additional incentive to make the difficult and financial decision by Kaiser to send this young man to the Craig Institute. I am grateful for the tremendous staff at Craig institute that changed this young man’s life forever. I am a grateful for an attorney, who took on a difficult case at great personal risk because she believed in this young man. I am grateful for that witness who provided the information necessary to document exactly what had happened, and which made the foundation for a successful resolution.

Most of all I am grateful to God, who gave me the opportunity to gain the experience necessary to manage this. I am also grateful that he gave me the wisdom to give the right advise and he put the parents in a position to listen. I am not writing this to brag about my involvement, which is irrelevant to me. I am too filled with joy that God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform and sometimes he even allows someone as imperfect as me to accomplish remarkable things. It is often that way. Never underestimate how God can use you, in the right circumstances, if you are only willing to pray and listen.

I believe. So should you.

TDM

Every rational person recognizes that the mass murder in Buffalo, New York is beyond horrific. No one wants someone like this to have a gun. No one wants someone like this to be present in society. Yet, once again, the usual suspects are determined to learn absolutely nothing from this incident and instead focus on doing things that had nothing to do with this individual and which have zero chance of preventing this from happening again.

We expected the faux outrage over the need for gun control laws that would have done nothing to prevent this tragedy. Democrats never miss an opportunity to exploit tragedy for their coveted gun control legislation. We are used to that. This case is far more dangerous because now they are focused on what they view as misinformation and the alleged tolerance of hate. This person was filled with hate, but he was not a right-wing supremist spurred on by irresponsible statements by Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. If initial reports are accurate, he is more left-wing than right wing. I accidently watched the women of the view, for about 45 seconds, and it was enough for them to slam Mitch McConnell for criticizing racism. To these clowns, disagreeing with them is the ultimate form of racism. If only everyone agreed with them, everything would be great. We would all be singing “Imagine” by John Lennon and the world would live as one. Unfortunately, the opposite is true.

Today we are seeing rampant racism on full display, only the people doing it are either hopelessly oblivious, or they just do not care. The current Vice President of the United States was chosen SOLELY because Biden needed a Black female. So far, she has exhibited zero capacity to do the job. The most recent nominee to the Supreme Court was also a Black female. There is nothing wrong with celebrating when someone from a disadvantaged minority shocks the world by wildly exceeding expectation. But there is an enormous difference between that and choosing someone from a position solely because of race or gender. This is actually easy to understand. Just change the words and say that the only people considered would be white and male. The outrage would, legitimately, reach the heavens.

I sometimes wonder if the people doing this realize that this is an insult. It is the ultimate insult to put someone in a position solely because of race and/or gender because it implies that using any other standard would result in a different decision. True racial and gender equality is not given, it is earned. We should have learned that from Jackie Robinson who broke the color line in MLB by proving that he had earned the right to be there. Tiger Woods did the same thing regarding professional golf, and he would have been insulted if he had been allowed to use the forward tees.

But more importantly, this approach always increases racism. When white men are told they are scum, not worthy of consideration at least some of them will respond in anger. When one argues that all the problems in the world were caused by white privilege, how exactly do they expect people to respond. Oh, the usual suspects will always bend the knee, but they are the exception, not the rule. This anger is not created by those who are pointing out the obvious, but by those who ignore it. There is a concerted effort to change the demographics of this country so that Democrats will win every election. There are many people who believe that our open borders and encouragement of illegal immigration is designed to replace the existing voting population with people guaranteed to vote for Democrats. That is not a far-right theory. It is increasingly obvious. If that is not the actual intent of these policies, it is absolutely the expected result of those policies.

Except Democrats missed something huge. The people hurt the most by an influx of illegal immigrants is not those people sitting in suburbs luxuriating in their white privilege. It is the people living in minority communities who are paying the highest price for this miscalculation. It is these people who are feeling the effects of the rampant increase in crime. It is these people most impacted by new, lower income people, taking their jobs. Those who believe in the American dream are not necessarily enthusiastic when they are pushed out of the way with little regard to the consequences for them. The result is that numerous polls show that Democrats are rapidly losing support among Black voters and Hispanic voters.

But the real problem is more fundamental. No strategy based on an assumption that is not true has any possibility of succeeding. No matter how much people try to spin things, the truth is always there. Ignore it to your peril. History has many examples of this, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. For years yellow fever was a major cause of death. All the scientists of the day had numerous theories about what caused yellow fever, all of them wrong. Yellow fever struck in the summer when it was hot and humid. There were foul smells from rotting refuse and waste. One theory was that yellow fever was caused by a product of environmental factors, including something called miasma. They were all wrong. Mosquitos caused it. One specific mosquito, Aedes aegypti was the culprit.

Dr. Carlos Finlay, a doctor from CUBA, discovered this, but he was ignored by those who were totally convinced that miasma was the problem. It wasn’t until Dr. Walter Reed tested his theory by methods that resulted in the unnecessary deaths of test victims, including some army doctors, that the truth became impossible to ignore.

It should be obvious. Racism results in racism. When you discriminate against someone because of their race, the victims tend to assume that you will be unfair to them because of your race. There are oppressors and there are victims, but both view the world through racist lens. The only real solution is to level the playing field and judge people fairly based on performance and ability. To learn to judge people on the merits, not their race. Elevating someone to a position of power, because of their race, is racism no matter who benefits and who loses.

The good news is that while the cultured elite are struggling to figure this out, most Americans are not fooled. The more the liberal elite and their fawning supporters in the MSM continue to make arguments based on nonsense, the sooner they will be driven completely from power. The process has been accelerated by the insane decision to put people like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer in power. If everything else is functioning normally, most people just ignore politics. But the gross mismanagement and incompetence of the Biden administration and Democrats in general is increasingly impossible to ignore. It is impossible to ignore skyrocketing gas prices, higher taxes, higher crime, a tumbling economy and the possibility of critical food shortages. All of this is already fueling the fire. Ignoring reality and fueling the fires of racism only adds to the combustibility. Screaming, hollering and load violent protests are not actually a solution to anything. We are facing a long, sweltering summer, but long hot summers often result in abundant harvests in the fall. It will come sooner than you think, much sooner than they can even imagine.

TDM

It has been obvious for some time that unless something changes, Democrats are in big trouble during this midterm election cycle. It is tradition for the party of a newly elected president to take a bath during the midterms, that also happened to Donald Trump. But this is on a whole new level. Frankly, we are rapidly approaching the “too good to be true” scenario. But this time there is so much evidence supporting this projection that it would be really naïve to expect anything different. Strategists in both parties, who agree on nothing else, agree about this.

It sure looks like the liberal left leaked that Roe v Wade draft opinion in an act of desperation. One of the more serious character flaws of people on the left is that they assume anyone with half a brain must agree with them. They are absolutely incapable of understanding how much of the world thinks. Frankly, this reached has now reached the point of institutional insanity.

It is often said there are two sides to every issue, but that actually isn’t true. There are a lot of things where there actually is right and there is wrong. There is good and there is evil. There is love and there is hate. People who do not understand that live in a parallel universe. Just because they have convinced themselves of something that is not true does not actually make it true. It just makes them delusional.

Joe Biden literally said that the MAGA movement is the most dangerous in American History. That goes way beyond delusional. It is insane. However, it is incredibly close to the Hillary Clinton “basket of deplorables” description of Trump supporters. This is more evidence that Democrats have moved beyond trying to convince of us things that are not only untrue, but absurdly, to believing this themselves. No political movement, led by the blind who are categorically insane can long endure. The reality is nothing more or less than this. If Democrats really believe this, then they are hopelessly delusional bordering on insanity. If they don’t believe it, but say it anyway, they are irredeemably evil. Take your pick.

California Governor Newsom said that the pro-life movement is led by white men, because men can’t get pregnant. First, that is irresponsible for someone who pretends that one can choose one’s own gender without regard to the physical characteristics with which one was born. How dare he say that men can’t get pregnant. Why the liberal left is demanding that public schools put tampons in boy’s restrooms. Brilliant! Second, the strongest pro-life people I know are, gasp, women. Men tend to be more pro-choice, probably because of feeling a sense of guilt in the event they get someone pregnant. I would suspect everyone knows of a woman who was driven to Planned Parenthood by a boyfriend who was more than willing to fund an oh so convenient abortion. I can pretty much guarantee that Hunter Biden would have cherished such an opportunity.

That is what the liberal left flat out fails to understand. The days of the coat hanger abortion in a back alley are long gone. Instead, you can just come to California, where people like Gavin Newsome will happily provide whatever cash you need to fund your abortion. But something else has changed, like science. The more we learn about fetal development the more we realize the miracle of birth and the myth that this is just tissue, instead of a living human being, has been shredded by actual science. That is why the vast majority of people favor some restrictions on abortions and few people, other than liberal activists, try to pretend that abortion is somehow a good thing. One vocal idiot even said she had an abortion to benefit her unborn child. Seriously? How could you describe this as other than insane?

I predict Democrats will rue the day they decided to Roe, Roe, Roe, their boat. It won’t change anything about Joe Biden’s senility, our international embarrassment, skyrocketing inflation, disappearing food stores and gas too expensive to drive to work. Instead, Democrats expect to turn everything around on the false assumption that the only thing Americans really care about is the ability to abort their babies. Good luck with that. Not, actually the worse of luck with that. Roe, Roe, Roe, your boat.

TDM

Today is one of the saddest days in American History. Just when one thought the Democratic Party and the liberal left had reached rock bottom, they managed to dig deeper, much deeper. The irresponsible person who leaked the draft of the alleged Supreme Court decision deserves to be permanently disbarred. The damage done to the Supreme Court is beyond measure.

I once warned some friends who were leaders in the pro-life movement that they were making a huge mistake. I pointed out that they were so focused on making abortion illegal that they ignored the obvious. This gave the pro-abortion crowd a moral argument where none existed. It allowed them to argue that freedom of choice was more important than the sanctity of life. Unfortunately, I was right about that. That is exactly what happened.

I have had friends who chose to have abortions. I do not judge them. In some cases, these women faced unimaginable choices, such as a seriously deformed fetus or a child conceived as the result of rape. But it is vital to remember that abortion, even when justified, is always bad. Perhaps the equivalent is justifiable homicide. It is wrong to kill someone, life is always sacred. But sometimes circumstances make it unavoidable. We do, at times, live in a world where the only choice is the lesser of two evils.

The result, sadly, has been the false argument that the higher moral value was the legality of abortion rather than the reality of abortion. Abortion is always the ending of a human life and that was once acknowledge by the leaders in the “pro-choice” movement, who said “abortion should be safe, legal and rare.” But the reality was that the “pro-choice” movement made abortion anything but rare.

I have always felt that the “pro-choice” movement is the most racist movement in the history of the U.S. and possibly the world. Jesse Jackson was famously “pro-life” until he realized he could not be “pro-life” and a Democratic politician at the same time. I sometimes think that if Jesse Jackson had continued with his “pro-life” position he just might have been one of the most important Black political figures in our nation’s history. Martin Luther King never considered backing down on his core principles. Here is what Jackson said. Read it for yourself.:

“Abortion is genocide. Anything growing is living. If you got the thrill to set the baby in motion and you don’t have the will to protect it, you’re dishonest… You try to avoid reproducing sickness. You try to avoid reproducing deformities. But you don’t try to stop reproducing and procreating human life at its best. For who knows the cure for cancer won’t come out of the mind of some Black kid. Reverend Jesse Jackson, JET MAGAZINE, MAR 222, 1973; P. 15.

According to the Washington Examiner it is estimated that since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in 1973, abortion has killed an estimated 20 million Black babies.

Since Roe, abortion has killed more black babies than the entire black population of the U.S. in 1960 | Washington Examiner

“The tragic reality is that 79% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are located within walking distance of neighborhoods that have proportionately higher populations of black or Latina women. An analysis of census tract data clearly documents that this kingpin of the abortion industry targets women of color, selling them the illusion that they must choose between career advancement and the lives of their babies. Any doubt about this skewed impact on women of color would be dispelled if Planned Parenthood were to publish data on the proportion of its abortion clients who are minorities. Planned Parenthood pointedly declines to release this data”

This data is not disputed, it is ignored by the MSM and the Democratic Party.

Today the Black population of the United States is estimated to be about 46.9 million. If it were not for the abortion rate of Black babies, it could be higher than 70 million. Northing has or could be done that would cause more harm to those who argue that Black people deserve a stronger political voice. Yet Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court, has the support of NARAL Pro-Choice America and she ruled against the Trump administration when it tried to defund Planned Parenthood. President Biden promised to nominate a justice who believes in the “right” to abort an unborn child. It is one of the few promises he kept.

I believe the draft of this decision was leaked for two reasons. One was to try and intimidate the Supreme Court into changing its mind. I suspect, I pray, that effort will fail. The other is to energize the liberal left base in the upcoming mid-term election, to avoid an unprecedented wipe-out of Democrats in congress. This would be beyond desperate and an admission that they are losing every other argument. I hope and pray they lose this one too.

When this movement has morphed into a situation where in California, they are proposing that killing a newborn child within the first 28 days cannot be prosecuted, it is impossible to remain obvious to the reality of the modern-day pro-choice movement. While perhaps, at one time, they really did believe that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare” they clearly would scoff at that argument today. No one should be confused regarding the goals of the “so-called” leaders of this movement.

I strongly believe the pro-life movement made a major mistake by allowing this to be an argument about what is and is not legal. Instead, they should have said it is not about what is legal, it is about what is right and what is wrong. If they had done that, I believe it would have saved a lot of lives. Now, we may be facing the ultimate moral dilemma in this country. If we allow the Democratic Party to stay in power by making promises that are morally indefensible, we deserve our fate.

TDM

Things are going so bad that it has been increasingly difficult to imagine it getting worse. Well, it just got worse. Democrats are already reeling because Joe Biden’s approval rating is below see level and any of his potential replacements are worse, much worse, if that is even possible. Yet the hits just keep on coming.

Today the Biden administration was shocked to learn that GDP DROPPED 1.4% in the first quarter. Only Joe is naïve enough to think this is anything other than unwelcome news. It is proof that the economy is dropping even faster than we thought.

Meanwhile a guy was found dead in LA. He has been missing for about a year. It turns out he was the star informant regarding Trump’s alleged financial dealing with Russia.

Federal Informant in Trump Probe Found Dead After He’s Reported Missing (thegatewaypundit.com)

This was the “star” witness that was going to bring down Donald Trump. Please!

And by the way, that Grand Jury in New York, investigating Trump, will end next week with no charges.

Meanwhile, the Hunter Biden laptop is the gift that keeps on giving. The only thing certain, at this point, is that Joe Biden lied about this at every opportunity.

The New York Democratic plan to gerrymander their way into permanent power was thrown out by a judge.

A judge in Florida declared the mask mandate on airplanes was illegal and before Democrats could think of a response, the sounds of celebration resounded around the world. Then when Democrats did figure this out, instead of just pretending this was a good thing and claiming victory over COVID, they doubled down and are filing an appeal so that they can retain the right to do something equally stupid in the future.

Fauci said the pandemic is over, Jen Psaki said not so fast. Kamala Harris has Covid, with no symptoms, but she is still taking the Pfizer pill authorized only for people who are seriously ill. Apparently, the cackle needs protection at all costs. To top this off, Fauci won’t attend the White House Correspondent’s dinner, because he is terrified of COVID, but Joe is going, he just won’t eat anything. Seriously?

Mayorkas admitted that they are expecting about 18,000 people to cross the border, all and once, and he has no clue how to manage this. This was so bad even some democrats chimed in on the chorus.

Finally, the FDA decided to ban Menthol cigarettes on the theory that 85% of menthol cigarettes are smoked by Black men, so this will save Black lives. I doubt that they even considered the possibility that this will not exactly be welcome news to those people who like menthol cigarettes. My guess is that the Democratic dreams of getting the coveted 90% of the Black vote just went up in smoke.

TDM

Here are the top ten potential Democratic Candidates for president of the United States, per the Washington Post.

The top 10 Democratic presidential candidates for 2024, ranked – The Washington Post

WARNING, WARNING, WARNING.

DO NOT READ THIS LIST WHILE DRINKING ANYTHING!

YOU ARE EXTREMELY LIKELY TO GAG AND CHOKE.

1. Joe Biden
2. Pete Buttigieg
3. Kamala Harris
4. Elizabeth Warren
5. Amy Klobuchar
6. Roy Cooper
7. Sherron Brown
8. Cory Booker
9. Gavin Newsom
10. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

Everyone agrees that things look plain awful for the Democratic Party in the mid-term elections. Even die-hard Democratic strategist are warning of impending disaster. This is the price you pay when you rig the game to put someone like Joe Biden in the White House. Who thought this was a clever idea?

The sad reality is that no one thought Joe Biden was up to the job. He was only “selected” for two simple reasons. Democrats were desperate to defeat Donald Trump and all the other candidates, including many on the above list, were a joke. Joe Biden was chosen as the only “safe” option. They expected him to be boring and uninspiring, but safe. They were wrong.

No one need point out the obvious problems with Joe Biden. His approval rating is officially reported at 33% which means it is probably much lower than that. People don’t need to like a President of the United States, but they do need to respect the person and the office. Few respect Joe Biden.

The real problem here is that decisions are being made solely because of what is perceived as being politically correct. But this is a reminder that sometimes what is temporarily politically correct may morph into political suicide in the future. Sometimes what passes for political correctness is actually just stupid. For example, the recent new politically correct Supreme Court Justice was asked a remarkably simple question. “Can you define the word woman?” Since both the person asking the question and the nominee were both women, this should have been easy. It would be an easy answer for the vast majority of people, around the world. The answer has been obvious for millenniums. When police find a body, one of the first things they determine is the sex, even if they know next to nothing about the person. While there are exceptions, but they are extremely rare. So, when political correctness causes one to question what is obviously true, catastrophic failure is inevitable.

I would wager a guess that everyone on the above top Ten list would struggle to answer that question. Not because they don’t know the answer, but because they are terrified at the prospect of giving a politically incorrect answer. Perhaps some Republicans are secretly praying that one of the above is the actual Democratic nominee for President. But I remind everyone that in early 2020, most Republicans would have chosen Joe Biden as the ideal Democratic candidate, because he was such an obvious loser. The problem, now all too apparent, is that sometimes these people win elections, despite their obvious shortcomings, with disastrous results.

TDM

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