During the Civil War the country was divided by the Mason-Dixon line. This was originally the line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. It was named after Astronomer Charles Mason and survey Jeremiah Dixon.

More recently there was the “Mendoza line.” This was named after shortstop Mario Mendoza, who played in the majors for nine seasons, but never managed to attain a batting average above .199. Today if a major leaguer is batting below .200, he is considered to be below the “Mendoza Line.”

Now we have the “Menendez line” in honor of Senator Robert Menendez. Menendez is a Democratic Senator from New Jersey. He has been indicted for bribery. This is not the first time he has been indicted. That also happened in 2015. The trial ended up with a hung jury, and he remained in office. In 2015 Democrats did not turn on Menendez. This time, the charges are much more serious, they appear to be well documented and top Democrats have already turned on him.

So, what changed? Or more significantly, why now? One obvious answer is the apparent corruption of Robert Menendez makes Joe and Hunter Biden look like amateurs in comparison. Or at least, that is what the MSM wants you to believe. Another is that this is guaranteed to distract from the Hunter Biden trial for illegally buying a gun and then throwing it away in the trash. Or at least some people seriously hope this is what happens.

In addition, this may be an effort by the DOJ to argue that they aren’t partisan, they investigate criminals in both parties. Right! No one buys that. The only thing certain is that the timing of this is extremely unlikely to be accidental.

This indictment does something else. It makes all the indictments against Donald Trump look rather silly in comparison. Bribery and corruption is more serious than throwing a hissy fit over the 2020 election. (Hillary?) In addition, recent court cases may bring some serious focus, for the first time, regarding the obvious problems with mail-in ballots during the 2020 election. Just like the recent investigation of Hunter and Joe Biden showed that Trump’s comments with Zelensky were not only appropriate, but they were also necessary. Trump was impeached by Democrats for pointing out the truth.

In any event, I think we have a new “Menendez Line.” It is a line between the corruption we have come to expect from elected officials and this a level of bribery that is too obvious to ignore. The wise thing for Menendez to do would be to resign and cut a plea deal. That is also the least likely outcome. He will instead hire attorneys highly skilled at defending against bribery claims. You know, like the ones hired by Hunter and Joe Biden.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez hires Hunter Biden lawyer for bribery case (msn.com)

This probably won’t work for one simple reason. Truly innocent people usually don’t need to hire extremely expensive legal counsel. They just let the facts speak for themselves. That, of course, is something Menendez will never even consider.

This will have an impact on a lot of things. It will impact the impeachment inquiry regarding Joe Biden. It will impact the numerous indictments against Donald Trump. It will give the Democratic Party the covets sacrificial lamb so they can hold on to the illusion of President Joe Biden for just a little bit longer. It will rock the establishment ship of state and we may not learn the full impact for a long time. The only thing certain is that we have crossed the “Menendez Line”, and change is on the way.

TDM

Joe Biden gave remarks from the Rose Garden. He was supposed to be selling his new and exciting office on gun violence prevention. Biden, as expected, said something incredibly stupid:

“After every mass shooting, we hear a simple message. The same message we hear all over the country and I’ve been to every mass shooting,” Biden said.

“I remember when I was young. We have something in common. I got elected to the Senate when I was 29 years old, only difference was he was eligible when he got elected to take office,” Biden said of Rep. Maxwell Frost, lawmaker standing beside him.

“I had to wait 17 days to be eligible. That was 827 years ago,” Biden said.

But Biden being Biden is not new. What’s new is the close-up video of his face. He was squinting furiously, and looked like he was desperately trying to endure a bowel movement. He looked old, very old, and this was painful to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBAK57gv1A

Here is one sample.  I copied a picture, so you don’t have to endure listening to him:

With this video, Joe is done. The only remaining question is how and when. Hence, the problem, Kamala Harris. Democrats know she will be a total disaster as a President and an even worse disaster as a candidate. Joe just put her in charge of his new “Office of Gun Violence Protection.” Gun owners of America, you have nothing to fear! Putting Kamala Harris in charge of this new department is guaranteed to generate the same results as putting her in charge of border security.

At this point, nothing is going well for Democrats. This is so bad that even the MSM is starting to pay attention. Now Joe Biden is planning on joining a UAW strike protest. That is almost certain to backfire. Many of the people striking realize the idiotic plan to replace all gasoline cars with electric cars is a death sentence for their jobs. In addition, they are demanding huge wage increases they consider necessary to keep up with inflation.

Republicans now have the perfect video for the upcoming presidential campaign. They just show this close-up of Biden’s face and say: “Seriously?” This is “About Face” and this picture is worth a lot more than one thousand words, It is worth millions of votes for: “anybody else.”

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Imagine you are a Democrat. Secretly, you know that the 2020 election was stolen. But you don’t care, because the most important thing was to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. Nothing else mattered. Joe Biden is and always was a mediocre has been, but he is not Donald Trump, so who cares.

Now, Joe Biden has been in President for about 2 ½ years. He is acting like he is going to run for re-election. There are no Democrats on the horizon capable of taking over for if he decides to bid farewell. His VP, Kamala Harris, has incredibly managed to achieve polling numbers worse than Joe. What’s a mother to do. What is anyone to do? This is unacceptable, in every way, but all the visible options are worse.

One name mentioned often is Gavin Newsom, Governor of California. But he has made decisions that will absolutely unite the country against him. He just announced he will sign legislation requiring large businesses to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those than come from activities like employee business travel.

California Gov. Newsom says he will sign climate-focused transparency laws for big business (pressdemocrat.com)

“Under the law, thousands of public and private businesses that operate in California and make more than $1 billion annually will have to make the emissions disclosures. The goal is to increase transparency and nudge companies to evaluate how they can cut their carbon emissions.”

The second bill approved last week by the state Assembly requires companies making more than $500 million annually to disclose what financial risks climate change poses to their businesses and how they plan to address those risks.

The Attorney General for California Rob Bonta has launched a lawsuit against “Big Oil”, for alleged climate change deception.

California is suing Big Oil, accusing them of climate change ‘deception’ – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against five major oil companies and their trade association, alleging their involvement in “a decades-long campaign of deception and creating statewide climate change-related harms in California.

So, the state with a runaway homeless problem, rampant crime, skyrocketing costs, and a rapidly declining population has decided to go off the climate change cliff without even considering a parachute. This is certifiably insane. There is ZERO change this will improve anything. We already have a situation where insurance companies are rapidly withdrawing from California. Other businesses are likely to do the same. What is the point of continuing to do business in a state where making a profit is impossible?

There has been massive deception regarding climate change, by the climate change alarmists. None of the predictions of dread climate change results have come close to being accurate. The world is getting warmer, it has been getting warmer since the 1600s. That is referred to by real scientists as the “mini-ice age”. But the rate of change is quite low and contrary to what is being reported in the press, we are not seeing more violent storms because of this. Five minutes of research shows that hurricanes have always been part of cycles, where some years there are a lot of them and some years very few. The El Nino, which has been happening for as long as man could even measure ocean temperature, has a well-established impact on weather. It is temporary and always replaced by a La Nina. Duh! As I wrote previously, the eruption of Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai has had a significant impact on global weather. What is lacking is any credible study showing that increases in CO2 have much of an impact at all. In addition, none of the things being proposed will have any significant impact on CO2 levels and will have even less impact on climate change.

If the liberal left chooses to live in their delusion world, oblivious to reality, that is fine. Forcing the rest of us to pay a fortune to adopt their idiotic strategy that has zero chance of working is something else. I can’t think of a better description of this than “Political Suicide”. Suicide is not painless.

TDM

The Drudge Report burst on the national scene during the Clinton administration. It was the only news aggregator website that reported honestly on the Monica Lewinsky affair. The end result was the impeachment of Bill Clinton, with an acquittal by the U.S. Senate. He was acquitted because the same Democratic Senators who agreed that he had disgraced the Office of President of the United States, voted to keep him because they wanted to keep political power. The rational was that this was just about sex, so it didn’t matter.

For a long time the Drudge Report was predictably conservative. But then something happened, and it switched to becoming very liberal. In recent years the Drudge Report always started with serious shots against Donald Trump. The editors hated Donald Trump with a passion, and it showed. It got so bad that for a long time, I just ignored Drudge because it had become unreadable. That all changed yesterday. Here is a link to that article:

DrudgeReportArchives.com © 2023

MUMBLING IN HANOI, PRESIDENT’S STRANGE BEHAVIOR, PRESS CONFERENCE CRAZY!

Then today:

DRUDGE REPORT 2024®

IRAN DEAL ON 9/11 USA SWAPS PRISONERS RELEASES $6 BILLION

This reminds me of when Walter Cronkite reported from Vietnam that we were caught in a quagmire. Cronkite was wrong, but when President Johnson heard that he commented that if he had lost Cronkite, he had lost the country. Well President Biden just lost Drudge and this could be history repeating itself.

This is not that Drudge is that powerful. Those days are long gone. But Drudge has been carrying the anti-Trump torch for what seems like forever. That has clearly changed and whether Drudge is leading that change or just reporting on that change doesn’t really matter. What matters is that the tide has changed and like most storm surges, this one is guaranteed to do massive damage.

Now when you add in the “Impeachment Query” in the House things are heating up at record levels. So far Democrats and their fawning supporters in the MSM are still trying to spin cover for Joe Biden. But I doubt very many people will buy this. The problem is compounded by the enthusiastic cheering by Democrats and the MSM for indicting Trump for every crime imaginable regardless of the facts or evidence. The hypocrisy is over the moon and increasingly impossible to ignore.

History has a way of changing the way people thought they thought previously. Let me explain. When Kennedy was President, he was not actually that popular. He barely beat Richard Nixon probably because of outright fraud during the 1960 election in Chicago. (Sound familiar?).  But after he was shot, a huge percentage of people said they had voted for him. Obviously, that was not true. The same thing happened after Lincoln was shot. He had widespread opposition, even among his own party while in office. But when he was shot, he instantly became the most popular President in history, with the possible exception of George Washington.

Only this time, the opposite will happen. Soon no one will want to accept the “credit” for selecting Joe Biden to be President and Kamala Harris to be Vice President. The speed at which wise people will start to abandon this sinking ship of state is going to be unprecedented. That will include a surprising number of top Democrats and news anchors in the MSM forced to accept the obvious reality of Joe Biden. He will remain oblivious to the obvious, but no one expects him to be a major factor in the future and even if they like him and want him, the end is near.

In many ways this reminds me of the Monday Night Football game between the Jets and the Bills. Prior to the game the announcers all foamed at the mouth in their effusive praise of all things Aaron Rodgers and how the greatest quarterback ever would lead the Jets to the Super Bowl. He suffered a season ending injury during the first series of downs. Regardless of anyone’s hopes and expectations, and whether fair or not, Aaron Rodgers is no longer part of the equation for a long, long time, if ever.

Ask yourself a simple question. Would you rather be the General Manager of the Jets, who gave away everything to get Aaron Rodgers? Or the General Manager of the Green Bay Packers who “lost” him?

TDM

Since Joe Biden’s decided to embarrass the country, again, while stopping for a visit in Hanoi, I wrote the title to this blog in Vietnamese. “Tôi không mua cái kia” means: “I don’t buy that.” Anyone watching that pathetic performance in Vietnam didn’t buy it either. Here is a video of this performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BNHuwMwJs

This was so bad that it cannot possibly continue. This causes one to ask what would happen if Joe Biden conveniently came down with some illness that prevents him from making public appearances. Since Jill Biden recently had COVID, that seems to be timed perfectly. He will then be confined to the White House or his beach home in Delaware and will only respond to written questions from selected reporters with “written” responses. This is remarkably like when Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke. His wife took over and started to screen all his paperwork and in some cases even signed his name to documents.

But this time there is a very serious complication. No one in either party has any interest in seeing Vice President Kamala Harris become President. Republican are opposed because they know she is totally incapable of performing the duties of President of the United States. Democrats are opposed because they know she is a horrible campaigner, even worse than Joe Biden. If she becomes President during the rest of Joe Biden’s one term as President of the United States, she could accomplish the rare feat of losing a Presidential election in every state. Democrats will put up with almost anything and anyone as long as it keeps them in power. But Kamala Harris fails that test too.

The only thing certain at this point is uncertainty. But people paying attention to the political climate know that a crisis is inevitable. When you combine the increasingly obvious problem with Joe’s dementia with overwhelming evidence of his systemic corruption, the pieces of the puzzle start to fill in at the speed of light. Anyone who has ever worked on a really difficult puzzle knows how this works. The puzzle seems to take forever, until suddenly, the pieces all start to fall into place and then the puzzle gets solved very quickly. That is exactly where things are at with the puzzle of President Joe Biden.

The MSM, in cooperation with the Democratic Party has tried desperately to cover this up. The same MSM that accused Trump of lying every day, about everything, ignores the incredibly stupid lies told by Joe Biden. If Trump is a liar, he is an absolute amateur compared to Joe Biden.

But the coverup is blowing up. Chuck Todd signed off as host of meet the press. Perhaps he realizes the end is near and he didn’t want to go down with the ship. Notice that on his way out, he reluctantly admitted that Republican led states were spot on in sending migrants to places like New York, so liberal sanctuary cities could share in the joy.

We are on the brink of another Bud Light moment. People just aren’t buying this anymore and they aren’t going to buy it in the future. This reminds me of when I was stationed at Pleiku AB, Vietnam. The Airman’s club had, as one would expect, a large quantity of beer available. But it seemed like half of the beer was Falstaff. Each month it was the same, the airmen drank any other beer other than Falstaff. Then when nothing else was available, they would drink Falstaff, which reminded them of why they didn’t drink it before. In 1965 Falstaff brewed 7,010,218 barrels of beer. By 2004 only 1,468 barrels of Falstaff beer were sold in the United States. People just stopped buying it.

Ten years from now, a lot of people will be asking the same question. “Why did anyone buy this nonsense?” Good question.

TDM

I have had a bit of fun lately educating people about the “Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai” volcano. I suggest to people that when they hear someone bitching (sorry) about the hot weather to just say it’s that damn (sorry again) Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai. Few people have even heard of Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai, but this may actually be a significant factor in all the recent extremely hot weather.

Here is an article in NPR admitting the effects of the Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai volcanic eruption. Odds are that most people reading this are going “huh?” Yet even NASA has had to admit that this volcano actually did impact global temperature:

Tonga volcano sent tons of water into the stratosphere, which could warm Earth : NPR

The Jan. 15 eruption came from a volcano that’s more than 12 miles wide, with a caldera sitting roughly 500 feet below sea level. One day earlier, Tongan officials reported the volcano was in a continuous eruption, sending a 3-mile-wide plume of steam and ash into the sky. Then the big blast came, sending ash, gases, and vapor as high as 35 miles — a record in the satellite era — into the atmosphere.

It turns out that this may impact weather, making it hotter, for 5 to 10 years. This article was published in August 2022. It is only recently that some MSM outlets have even noticed. Some probably found this out only after being stranded when their electric car ran out of power.

The following article from LiveScience is typical. After admitting that Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai did cause global temperature to increase, it concludes that this was still caused by climate change, meaning global warming, meaning excess CO2. Huh? There is, of course, no science to support this conclusion while there is a ton of science showing exactly the impact of Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai. But, if people start blaming that volcano, even if justified by real science, that would be an awful display of failing to follow the science.

Did the Tonga eruption cause this year’s extreme heat? | Live Science

If this makes sense to you, keep watching CNN.

But Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai is just one of many examples where the MSM ignores inconvenient truths. They want, no NEED, you to believe that climate change is caused by rising CO2 levels. CO2 is so scary that Joe Biden wants to fund a machine to suck CO2 out of the air. Granted Joe Biden sucks, but not nearly enough. Any 4^th grade student studying science could have told him that this is exactly what trees and other plants do all the time.

So far, the only verified impact from increased CO2 levels is more and healthier plants. But imagine the panic if people started to believe that. Why some may even become opposed to electric cars which are guaranteed to pollute the earth to an incredible level once they start getting rid of old batteries.  Others might express concern regarding those enormous wind farms, ugly as sin that create enormous environmental problems and by the way, in addition to killing birds, kill whales.

If we want to reduce the impact of fossil fuels, start by getting rid of rapidly aging politicians totally out of step with reality. But we also need to pay attention to younger, allegedly smarter newcomers who think they are uniquely gifted at telling everyone else what to do or think. Why the next thing you know some of these people will even try to convince people that there is no biological difference between men and women. They don’t believe in God because they believe they are God. They keep trying the same failed strategies that have never worked in the past and which will never work in the future.

But the best laid plans of mice and men cannot compete with the power and majesty of God, who is very real. For example, if you were God, wouldn’t it be interesting to make things very hot, at the same time people are running out of enough electricity to power air conditioners. Some like it hot, but most people prefer air conditioning.

Tonga Hunga Ha’Apai. It’s a beautiful thing.

TDM

Regardless of how it happened and who is to blame, the country is now hopelessly divided. One certain cause is the absolute failure of the MSM to report fairly on any subject. They are completely in the tank as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. FOX News is slightly better, it but too falls far short of responsible journalism.

Another cause, of course, is the Democratic Party’s willingness to ignore almost anything as long as they can continue in power. No responsible political party would even pretend that Joe Biden is remotely capable of being President of the United States. This is not a minor problem. Whether we like a President or agree with a President on important issues, the office is extremely important, and it must be occupied only by people of character we can trust to make difficult decisions. Joe Biden is not even close to meeting those standards. When you add in the overwhelming evidence of his complicity or more with his son Hunter soliciting and accepting bribes from foreign countries including Russia and China, no responsible political party should accept this.

While Republicans have their faults, it is hard to imagine them tolerating something like this from a Republican President. It wasn’t Democrats who forced Richard Nixon from office, it was Senate Republicans who told him it was time to go. Unfortunately, Republicans are skilled at losing elections and more importantly losing fights on key issues. The reason is quite simple, Democrats are never willing to compromise while Republicans feel that compromise is a virtue. But compromising with people who will never compromise with you is not a virtue, it is dereliction of duty. When the national security of the country is at stake, compromise is no virtue.

Now we are approaching the point where someone must win, and we better all pray it is not the Democrats. Their decision to weaponize the DOJ to indict Donald Trump for political purposes while ignoring evidence regarding potential high crimes and misdemeanors by Joe Biden make it impossible to compromise with them. They simply must be defeated, or we will lose our freedom.

The good news is that the Democratic decision to indict Trump for just about everything, using highly partisan Democratic prosecutors is increasingly obvious to just about everyone not working for CNN. Even some of the other MSM channels are starting, occasionally, to notice things and sometimes even ask questions. Now we learn that Jack Smith, the highly partisan Democratic appointed as Special Counsel to indict Donald Trump, met with White House officials prior to announcing his indictment. Who thought that was remotely acceptable? That is absurd. Particularly when Democrats impeached Donald Trump for asking Ukraine to consider investigating Joe Biden, for things he actually did, before he was even a candidate for President.

Even the worst anchor on CNN, which is a very low bar, should be extremely concerned about this. No matter how much one hates Trump, which they do, this is so bad it may make prosecuting Trump nearly impossible, assuming he actually did something wrong.

This cannot continue. We cannot have a Presidential candidate under numerous indictments forced to fight legal battles each and every day. We cannot have a Presidential candidate, a former President of the United States, ordered to go to a jail, have his mug shot taken and then post bail. Seriously? This is insane. I personally think we are very close to the point where some court is going to have to intervene and put this back on track. If Trump is truly guilty, then he should be held accountable. But so far, he is only guilty of pointing out some obvious facts about the 2020 election. Similar to what happened regarding his comments on The Ukraine, each day there is more evidence showing that Trump is a lot closer to reporting the truth then those desperately trying and failing to cover-up the ridiculously obvious. Democrats continue to try and convince people that Donald Trump tried to promote an armed insurrection to overthrow the government. But my hunch is that few people, including a lot of Democrats, are buying that nonsense. January 6^th was a lot of things, but an armed insurrection was not on the list. Very few people, other than the police, were even armed. If someone was coordinating this, they did a lousy job. There were more people sightseeing and posing for photo ops than there were people seriously trying to kidnap or kill public officials. The only threat to politicians was being forced to listed to very angry people thoroughly disgusted with a 2020 election that literally sinks to high heaven.

I do now know what will happen or when it will happen, but I do know this cannot continue. If Democrats get away with this, no future election will matter. Republicans will have the same chance to win a general election as the do winning a state senate seat in South Chicago. Even if the Democrat running for office was convicted of a serious felony or even died, the Republican would still lose. That is exactly how Democrat describe a fair and honest election.

We have reached the point of irreconcilable differences. Compromise is not an option. Letting Democrats get away with this is not an option. As George W. Bush said after 9-11, “we were not at war with them, but they were at war with us.” Exactly.

TDM

Romans 1:22 “Professing to be wise, they became fools”

One of the biggest problems with the liberals is that they assume anyone who disagrees with them is either ignoring the science or just ignorant. For example, they can’t fathom a truly intelligent person who does not agree with the science concerning climate change (global warming.) They just ignore any evidence or science that conflicts with their world view. They view themselves as the intellectually superior cultured elite and cannot comprehend why everyone else does not understand that.

It is this same mentality that not only embraced the COVID 19 vaccines, only available because of the warp speed program developed by Donald Trump, they literally DEMANDED that everyone get vaccinated. This included people, such as children, with extremely low risk. It included professional athletes, who also had very low risk. It even included people who had already got COVID 19 and recovered given them natural immunity. What makes this incredible and horrifying is that the same people said they would never take a vaccine developed by “Donald Trump”, until Joe Biden was selected to be President of the United States. Then they tried to pretend this was Joe’s ideal all along. Remarkable.

Many of us who watched election results in November of 2020 were horrified at what we saw. Trump had huge leads in some key states, only to seem them dwindle away and finally disappear as more late-night vote totals, all for Joe Biden, all in Democratic controlled districts, swung the needle to the other side. We saw numerous reports of poll watchers being blocked. We saw videos of ballot drops, in the middle of the night. And the problems with Mail-in ballots was obvious. We also heard reports of voting machines with questionable certification. Like we should trust voting machines, designed by Democrats, in Democratic controlled districts. Please!

While there were some truly ridiculous conspiracy theories, like votes being counted in a secret bunker overseas, many of these concerns had the ugly, all too familiar, odor of truth. Anyone who expects a Republican to be treated fairly in an election in places like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, or any other major metropolitan area run by Democratic machines is naïve. We have seen this pattern repeatedly for decades and history teaches us it has been going on a lot longer than that.

Yet the MSM has argued, ridiculously, that the 2020 election was the most honest election in history. When Donald Trump dared to complain, this was called the big lie, discredited by the dismissal of lawsuits even though honest legal scholars know that courts have always been reluctant to decide who won any election. The only time the Supreme Court made a decision was in Bush v. Gore, when the Democratic plan to count only votes in highly Democratic districts was so blatantly dishonest that the court said no. Even in that case the MSM consistently says this was a 5-4 decision by the conservative majority. However, the court found 7 -2, which included liberal judges, that the inconsistencies in manual recording methods and standards between Florida’s counties amounted to a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. If Trump had attorneys smart enough to present this argument, particularly in Pennsylvania where this was blatantly obvious, he just might have won that case. Instead, they brought cases that no court could consider, in view of the circumstances.

This meant that the decision regarding who won the election was up to Congress. Congress was discussing the validity of some of the electors and could have ordered State Legislatures to investigate and report, but that ended on January 6^th. It did not end because of a losing argument, it lost because of the January 6^th fiasco, which scared congress, led by Mike Pence, to rush through ratification of the 2020 election ending any opportunity for a different result, without regard to the consequences.

Now numerous Democratic prosecutors, including an incredibly biased Special Counsel, appointed by the despicable Merritt Garland, are indicting Trump for daring to question the results. They ignore the fact that Al Gore literally sued to overturn an election. They ignore the fact that Democrats proposed alternative electors during the 2016 election. They ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton continues to lie about the 2016 election. No, the only evil here is Donald Trump and we must put him in jail to make sure he never ever becomes President of the United States.

Many in the MSM bought this, and CNN swallowed it hook line and sinker. But the American people are not buying this. For several months polls showed that most Americans think the 2020 election was rigged. Recent polls show that this may be approaching 2/3rds of the voting population. In addition to this, the same polls show that these same people believe that Joe Biden is corrupt.

The response by Democrats and their fawning supporters in the MSM has been to turn up the volume on their microphones and shriek utter nonsense at the top of their lungs. But they are increasingly howling against the wind with predicable results. A wind that is building in intensity and unless something changes a wind that will blow all of them off their self-erected pedestals built on sinking sand.

TDM

When Jack Smith filed a new cause of action, in a DC Court, requesting trial to begin on January 2, 2024. It is clear his intention is to litigate this matter to prevent Donald Trump from being a candidate for President.

Up until this latest stunt, at least the DOJ could argue that they were treating Donald Trump like anyone else and holding him accountable under the law to the same standards as any other citizen. Few believed this, but it was at least an argument. But this latest effort puts their real intentions on full display.

It is important to point out that all the actions allegedly taken by Donald Trump, regarding this new indictment, took place while he was still President of the United States. There is no provision in the constitution that allows an incumbent President of the United States to pursue legal action against his predecessor in office for actions taken by his predecessor while in office. The sole remedy for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors by a President of the United States, while in office, is impeachment. Impeachment charges must be brought by the House and confirmed after trial in the Senate. The Supreme Court has been extremely reluctant to take any action that would interfere with a federal election, but this has now reached the point where they may no longer have any choice.

The House of Representatives, while under Democratic control, tried to impeach Donald Trump on two occasions. The first was based on his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky that took place on July 25, 2019. Here is exactly what Trump said:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-transcript-call/index.html

“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.”

Based on recent developments, only disclosed after Republicans took back control of the House, Donald Trump was pretty darn accurate. Democrats argued that this amounted to election interference, even though at the time Joe Biden was not even an announced candidate for President.

In retrospect, it was the House of Representative, lead by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that engaged in election interference by a blatant attempt to stop Donald Trump from running for re-election. Incredibly for pointing out the truth about Joe Biden.

The Senate refused to confirm the impeachment. Later, the House filed additional impeachment charges against Donald Trump, regarding alleged actions in connection with January 6^th, 2021, with only hours left in his term of office. Again, the Senate refused to confirm the impeachment.

One could and Trump’s attorneys will argue that this latest indictment by Jack Smith involves the same actions that were alleged in the desperate last-minute attempt at impeachment of Donald Trump by the House of Representatives.

it is hard, no impossible, to imagine the Biden DOJ choosing a more obviously inappropriate person to be Special Counsel assigned to investigate Donald Trump. Jack Smith prosecuted the Republican Governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell. He obtained a conviction. This was overturned by a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court. Here is how Politico reported on that decision:

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/supreme-court-overturns-bob-mcdonnells-corruption-convictions-224833#:~:text=A%20unanimous%20Supreme%20Court%20has,politicians%20to%20face%20criminal%20charges.

“A unanimous Supreme Court has overturned the corruption convictions of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, ruling that federal prosecutors relied on a “boundless” definition of the kinds of acts that could lead politicians to face criminal charges.”

If this continues, there will be an immediate demand by outraged Republicans for the House to impeach Joe Biden and remove him from office, making him also ineligible for re-election. Imagine that. A presidential campaign between two candidates, both alleged to be disqualified for office because of blatant corruption. One could describe this a lot of ways, but the peaceful transfer of power required by our constitution is not on the list.

The first primary elections for the 2024 election start in January. The Republican debates start on August 23, 2023. We are rapidly running out of time and out of options. Kicking the can down the proverbial road can’t even be considered.

This reminds me of a quote: “the beatings will continue until morale improves.” Whether they realize it or not, Democrats are trying to win over Republicans by beating them on the head with a war of words. This isn’t working, so in an act of desperation, they have doubled down on insanity. They would be wise to remember than in any war, there are always casualties on both sides. This is too insane to believe, but too believable to safely ignore.

TDM

Joe Biden announced a deliberate sabotage of our national interests similar to what Bill Clinton did. On September 18, 1996, Bill Clinton spoke from the south rim of “Arizona’s Grand Canyon and declared 1.7 million acres in southern Utah as the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. He gave a moving speech, very similar to what Biden gave recently. He used the same law, the Antiquities Act of 1906 Biden cited to support his decision. Clinton gave away an enormous reserve of coal that was uniquely capable of suppling our energy needs with much less pollution. Joe blocked our access to uranium.

1996: Clinton takes a 1.7 million-acre stand in Utah — High Country News – Know the West (hcn.org)

Here is what the MSM refused to cover. “For six years, Kanab, pop. 3,000, has eagerly awaited coal development by Andalex, a Dutch-owned company that would tap into a mother lode of coal – 62 billion tons according to a recent federal analysis – under the remote, grassy Kaiparowits Plateau. The 50-year project was to provide locals with hundreds of decent-paying jobs and billions of dollars in state and local taxes. Now, with one simple proclamation, Clinton had derailed the plan.” 

“62 BILLION TONS OF COAL”

For the record, I am not exactly a fan of coal mining. While there is a serious and legitimate dispute regarding whether oil is even a fossil fuel, coal absolutely is a fossil fuel and coal mines indisputably leave behind a gigantic mess. I just think these kinds of decisions should be made by congress, after reasoned debate, and not by a President grandstanding for environmental extremists.

One again a Democratic President unilaterally made a decision that has significant national security implications.  Joe Biden announced recently a new national monument in Arizona, called “Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni.” This included the largest uranium reserves in the U.S.

Biden announces new national monument in Arizona (msn.com)

At least MSN reported on the Uranium. In 1996, few noticed the coal reserves and mining coal is not that popular. But this time, the cover-up may not work. It is hard to imagine any U.S. President doing something so likely to help our most feared enemies, like China, and Russia, at the worst possible time. While coal is abundant, uranium is not.

This is a reminder of when Hillary Clinton was involved in the transfer of 20% of our uranium reserves out of the U.S. to Canada where it was shipped overseas. The following article from Snopes.com, which is a website designed to discredit legitimate criticisms about Democrats, documented exactly why this transaction was a problem.

Did Hillary Clinton Give 20% of United States’ Uranium to Russia in Exchange for Clinton Foundation Donations? | Snopes.com

Snopes admitted that the Clinton Foundation got $145 million from Uranium One investors. Then tries to explain why this shouldn’t be suspicious, documenting instead why it stinks to high heaven.

“Of the $145 million allegedly contributed to the Clinton Foundation by Uranium One investors, the lion’s share — $131.3 million — came from a single donor, Frank Giustra, the company’s Canadian founder. But Giustra sold off his entire stake in the company in 2007, three years before the Russia deal and at least 18 months before Clinton became secretary of state. 

Of the remaining individuals connected with Uranium One who donated to the Clinton Foundation, only one was found to have contributed during the same time frame that the deal was taking place, according to The New York Times — Ian Telfer (also a Canadian), the company’s chairman:?

Can you imagine the MSM ignoring something like this involving Trump?

All this begs the question: “which is more important, someone who allegedly conspired to get elected by preventing Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden from being President of the United States? Or people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who, when in positions of power, literally blocked the U.S. from access to what is arguably our most important mineral asset?”  At times it may be difficult to be sure who is really our friend, but it is often easy to discern who is most definitely our enemy. Is there seriously anyone who does not understand the importance of preserving our access to uranium? Anyone? (Other than Hillary and Joe)

This should be obvious, even to liberal Democrats. If you give away National Security, what else, exactly, matters.

TDM