It has become increasingly clear that much of the Mainstream Media (“MSM”) has become an propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. It would be great if we had a free and independent MSM to help keep us free. But, sadly, that has rarely been the case. If one researches the MSM during our earliest years as a country, it soon becomes obvious that the MSM has always been partisan. The attacks on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were extremely partisan, incredibly severe and often devoid of facts.

The real problem is the illusion created by the MSM that they are the honest arbitrators of truth, essential to our Democracy, when the opposite is true. This is when the MSM becomes a danger to Democracy itself. One example was how the MSM turned on Richard Nixon. They simply hated him. They investigated him 24/7 and eventually drove him out of office because he stupidly helped cover up the Watergate Burglary. The Watergate Burglary involved some idiots who decided it would be great fun to break into the DNC. Nixon was not involved; he was only involved in helping cover this up. This was incredibly stupid, but hardly a unique threat to democracy. Political campaigns spying on each other? Like that never happens.

There have been several attempts to re-write history and blame everything on Nixon. But, like nearly everything else, there are two sides to the story. It is definitely true that Nixon worked overtime to discredit the media, but the media was working overtime to undermine Nixon. The media hated Nixon and the feeling was mutual. For example; Spiro Agnew once described the media as “an effete corp of impudent snobs” always hostile to the President, out of touch with average Americans. Sound familiar? Few of the books slamming Nixon and blaming everything on him even mention that he won re-election in 1972 in a landslide. He won 60.7% of the popular votes and  49 states. The electoral college vote was 520 to 17. McGovern only won in Massachusetts and DC. One delegate from Virginia defied the vote of his state and voted for McGovern. But the media hated Nixon, so they pretend this never happened. They mocked him at every opportunity. Then, as now, hating the President was extremely popular, among the MSM.

The final result that Nixon was forced to resign. The New York Times begin publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers on June 13, 1971. These papers showed that the U.S. government had been lying to the American people and to congress. But it was the Johnson Administration, not the Nixon Administration that did this. The papers were authored by Robert McNamara and his successor, Clark Clifford received the finished study on January 15, 1969, five days before Richard Nixon’s inauguration.

To put some personal perspective on this, I was a Vietnamese linguist working as an airborne voice intercept operator. I was in the USAF Security Service, which along with, the Army Security Agency and the Naval Security Group were working for the National Security Agency, “NSA.” I had a very high security clearance, and we knew a lot about what was really happening. The MSM wasn’t even close. Here is what Walter Cronkite said during his “We Are Mired In A Stalemate” on February 27, 1968.

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“Who won and who lost in the great Tet offensive against the cities? I’m not sure. The Vietcong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw.”

This was insanely inaccurate. Here are the fact Cronkite either failed to recognize or just ignored. The Tet office began on January 31, 1968. There were simultaneous attacks by 85,000 troops at the direction of North Vietnam. They attacked 5 major South Vietnam cities and dozens of military installations. They had some immediate success, but the U.S. and South Vietnam fought back with overwhelming force and ultimately there were massive casualties, with some estimates approaching 60,000 dead. Even if the death toll was half of that, it was still more than 10 times the fatalities for the U.S. and South Vietnam, which 2,600 fatalities.  It was a massive victory for the U.S, except for the reporting from the MSM and people like Walter Cronkite.

Let me quote a couple of lines from the Britannica report on the Tet Offensive:

Tet Offensive | Facts, Casualties, Videos, & Significance | Britannica

“U.S. and South Vietnamese officials declared that the communists had suffered a resounding military defeat, and this was certainly the case. Communist leadership in Hanoi had gambled on a conventional assault that they thought would sweep aside ARVN forces and topple the “puppet” government in Saigon. Instead, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong advance was checked by surprisingly resilient ARVN defenders, and most cities—with the notable exception of Hue—were liberated within days of the initial attack. In addition, the widespread loss of life and destruction of property triggered a decline in support for the Viet Cong among the South Vietnamese populace.”

But facts did not matter to the liberal MSM who decided we were losing the war and needed to just quit.

“Much of the American public viewed the Tet Offensive as a sign of the undying North Vietnamese aggression and will. The role of the U.S. media in fostering and furthering this belief in North Vietnamese strength during that period has been a topic of study and argument, and the Tet Offensive certainly produced some of the most enduring images of the war.” 

Seriously, lying about what happened “may” have had an impact on the U.S. public. You think?

On October 31, 1965, Johnson ordered a complete halt to all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam. This was conveniently 5 days before the November 5, 1968 election. Hubert Humphrey was getting trounced in the polls, but when Johnson halted the bombing, some were predicting a tossup on election day. Nixon won the popular vote by about 500,000 votes but won a massive victory in the electoral college. When Nixon was elected, congress, dominated by Democrats, decided, after careful reflection, that the war they voted to start wasn’t worth it afterall. Congress voted to cut off all funding for the war if Nixon resumed bombing over the north.

I vividly remember how much things changed when Nixon took the oath of office. This was instant and obvious. During the Johnson Administration the U.S. was bombing North Vietnam. But always with restrictions that made it difficult to achieve the necessary results. Nixon was focused totally on results.

Incredibly, even with Congress undermining him at every turn, Nixon still defeated North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. He signed a peace treaty on January 23, 1973. But once Nixon was removed, Congress made it impossible for President Gerald Ford to use our military force to preserve the hard-fought victory. We couldn’t even give South Vietnam the resources they needed to continue the fight. Predictable, North Vietnam seized the day and two years later invaded South Vietnam against minimal resistance. The rest is history.

As a side note, I spent a year flying on EC47 ARDF missions.  Here is an interesting article about the 6994^th Security Squadron. 95% of B52 raids were based partially or in full on information by the 6994^th Security Squadron. The 6994^th Security Squadron won two Presidential Unit Citations, 5 Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards, with Valor.  Some claim the 6994^th Security Squadron is the most decorated unit in USAFSS history. Here are a couple of articles about this.

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We knew almost everything being reported by the MSM was reporting was wrong, because we were literally listening to the enemy.

Sadly, the myth of the unbiased News media working overtime to find the truth is patently false. There are people who do honest investigations, but they are often brave individuals, conveniently ignored, and often scorned, by the MSM.

Today the MSM is desperate to convince us that Donald Trump is a threat to Democracy. If the MSM wants to see the real threat to Democracy, it should buy some mirrors. Try reporting the facts, for a change. Sadly, that is extremely unlikely, and Spiro Agnews’ words ring doubly true today. He also was spot on regarding the source of our problems, the increasingly liberal colleges who are sadly indoctrinating far too many students. Here is what Spiro Agnew said:

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“Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated, and a contemporary antagonism known as “The Generation Gap.” A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

The good news is that the MSM is also self-destructing. While a certain percentage of people still swallow this nonsense, Abraham Lincoln nailed it long ago. “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” We are no longer dependent for information from those who have proven themselves unworthy of our trust. Time after time the truth emerges despite the best efforts of the MSM to gaslight the scene. The MSM firmly believes that any intellectually honest American agrees with them. The opposite is true. If average Americans, who love this country and are sick and tired of the MSM gaslighting show up this November, the results could be stunning. If not, then the results are likely to be stunningly bad.

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It is now official, the MSM is so blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome (“TDS”) that they are incapable to reporting objectively on any subject. We recently learned that there was a serious threat against Trump and AirForce One while he was in Turkey. Trump went up the stairs to Air Force One, and then left by a catering truck to another, plane. He also did not fly on an older Air Force One. The press just recently learned about this and went hysterical. They are calling him a coward and moaning about the people who could have been killed if Air Force One had been shot down. Almost nothing reported by the MSM regarding this has been even close to being accurate.

In doing so, they totally missed the point. The Secret Service didn’t tell the press pool or anyone else for two extremely good reasons. One is that they know they cannot trust the White House Press Corps. The Press Corps is absolutely famous for leaking everything. If they knew Trump wasn’t on that plan, Iran would have known, because it would have leaked.

Another reason they didn’t tell anyone is that would have endangered everyone who went with Trump. If Iran knew which plane he was on, that would have been the primary target. By traveling separately, Trump reduced the risk to everyone else.

I wish someone would ask the following question: “So you believe protecting you is far more important than protecting the President of the United States?”

Sadly, this is a pattern that goes back a very long time. We now know that the press was directly involved first in trying to get Hillary Clinton elected and later to slam Trump at every opportunity to deliberately reduce his ability to govern. During the 2020 election, no one in the MSM even pretended to follow up on the Hunter Biden laptop fiasco. Numerous reports show that if the American public knew that laptop was legitimate, Joe Biden would have lost in a landslide.

Then, the MSM did little or not investigation regarding the ridiculous lawsuits filed against Trump. I mean he is accused of sexual assault, by a woman who claims this happened in the dressing room of a posh department store, with no witnesses and she can’t exactly remember the month or even the year. The ignored the obvious and just stood by the side of the road applauding this nonsense.

It was Trump who turned in Epstein to the authorities and banned him from Mar a Logo. Epstein hated Trump and tried desperately to attack him. Yet the liberal left continues to allow people to call Trump a pedophile while demanding release of the Epstein papers, which have been released and when the vast majority of Epstein’s friends were, gasp, DEMOCRATS.

Then, when Trump was elected, again, despite their best efforts, they responded by fawning over Democrats who called him a serial liar, a Nazi, a convicted felon, a pedophile, mentally impaired and a threat to democracy. When interviewing a Republican, they almost always used gotcha questions designed to hurt the Trump administration. Sadly, although their viewership has plummeted, far too many people believe this blatantly false narrative. Trump has now been the target of at least two assassination attempts, and probably more. The entire cloak and dagger routine in Turkey was because of reports regarding a legitimate threat by Iran to assassinate Trump. The MSM wasn’t concerned one iota about the threat to Trump, only the threat to themselves. How pathetic, how unprofessional, and how unpatriotic.

The facts are overwhelming and indisputable. It is the MSM that, in partnership with Democrats, is the true threat to Democracy. It is these unelected self-righteous narcissistic left-wing clowns who deserve our scorn. Trump is not perfect, but the opposition to him is perfectly awful. Sadly, many would celebrate his assassination. They would rather see Iran get a nuclear weapon, threatening the world, than to give Trump an ounce of credit. The same people who ignored the open borders under Biden, allowing millions of illegal aliens to flood our borders, are now trashing ICE for daring to try and deport at least some of them. Anyone who watched pictures of who was flooding across our border would have noticed that a high percentage of them where military aged young men. Look at the pictures of the people who swarmed the border with Spanish territory of Ceuta and Morocco, and you will see the same thing. If you pay any attention to international news the problem with runaway illegal immigrants is beyond obvious. Yet the MSM is far more interested in trashing ICE than solving the problem.

I could go on and write more, but the point has been made. The MSM, who should have a mission of reporting fairly regarding every issue and every candidate doesn’t even come close to that standard. They are the full-time propaganda arm of the Democrat Party and in many case, candidates too extreme even for life-long Democrats.

If the MSM succeeds in helping Democrats take control of the House and the Senate this fall, the results will be beyond catastrophic. Unfortunately, since Democrats have perfected the art of the steal, it is extremely important for people who love our freedom and our democracy to show up in force this fall. Any close election will automatically go to the Democrat, without regard to the consequences. If you doubt that reflect on the four years when Joe Biden pretended to be President. Anyone who dares point out the obvious problems with the 2020 election is instantly trashed by the MSM for daring to hint there might have been a problem. They are still ignoring the facts about January 6^th, 2021 while pretending this was an insurrection organized by Trump. Utter nonsense.

Then, if you really want to get sick, Imagine how things would be going under a Harris/Walsh administration. Go ahead and puke, then get scared, then get angry, then vote and encourage every honest person you know to vote too. This time, the consequences if good people don’t show up to vote are beyond catastrophic.

TDM

It is impossible to even load your own Facebook page without enduring idiot AI reports pretending to be legitimate stories and an unlimited number of fake news accounts regarding Donald Trump. It is beyond ridiculous. Trump is referred to as stupid, a serial rapist, a pedophile or a nazi. The same articles accuse Trump of lying at an unprecedented level. There is also at least one Monday morning quarterback saying that Trump is showing serious signs of dementia.

The Democratic Socialist candidates are defeating long-term Democrats in congress and promising things that are totally unaligned with traditional American values. All of this is based on a severe and terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. If Democrats gain control of the House, they will immediately move to impeach Donald Trump again and remove this stain from the Presidency. The MSM, as always, will get nearly everything wrong.

For the record, I am not one of those people so mesmerized by the Donald to believe he is God’s gift to the United States. He is a serial sexual philanderer and quite possibly the most narcissistic person on this planet. He doesn’t know how to shut up, and he constantly pats himself on the back. But that doesn’t make him a bad President. As President he has made consistently good decisions. In addition, on his worst day, Hillary Clinton looks much worse in comparison. Kamala Harris would have lost to “none of the above.”

While some people hate him, no one can safely ignore him. He is brilliant at getting Democrats who oppose him to embarrass themselves in the process. One thing the press does not understand is that Trump loves it when people trash him, because it does two things. It is constant reminder that he is a man of action. The size of the person is directly proportional to the number of people who despise him. Trump wears their scorn as the red badge of courage, and he loves responding to insult with insult. In addition, they are so focused on hating Trump that they ignore the obvious. If Trump be for it, they must be against it, even if it is something that 80% of the American people support. For example, most people, not filled with TDS, understand that there are only two sexes and the differences are beyond obvious. This means that Trump’s narcissistic approach, while his greatest weakness, is also his greatest strength.  Love him or hate him, people just cannot ignore him.

Now we are engaged in a war with Iran. If Iran had gotten a nuclear weapon, which seemed likely, the results would have been instantly catastrophic. If Israel felt truly threatened by Iran’s nuclear program, they probably would have taken action to protect themselves, with or without any help from the U.S. Earth to skeptics, if you are an Israeli, there is one unifying message upon which you all agree, “Never again.” The Jews in Europe prior to World War II paid a terrible price for failing to recognize the danger from people like Adolph Hitler. The leaders of the Jewish government know this, which is why they have nuclear weapons. One of the first Prime Ministers of Israel talked with a holocaust survivor and asked him for advice. The holocaust survivor said: “If someone says they will kill you, believe them.”

The point being that if Iran got a nuclear weapon, and they threatened Israel (again) it would not be surprising if Israel deployed a nuclear weapon to stop them. Even if that didn’t happen, imagine Iran with nuclear weapon on ballistic missile capable of reaching thousands of miles. How many nuclear weapons would have to be deployed over Paris before this became a problem.

Most honest and all smart people would agree that Iran simply cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. But Democrats and liberals ignore this reality because to them it is much more important to trash Trump. There is none so blind, or dumb, as those who cannot or refuse to see.

There is currently a proposal to require Photo Id verifying proof of citizenship to vote. Every report shows that about 80% of Americans agree with that. Anyone who lives here knows that there are a lot of places that require Photo Id. Try flying on an airliner without a “Real Id” driver’s license, which verifies citizenship, or a passport. Contrary to the hysteria from the liberal left, many married women, who changed their names, have Real Id driver’s licenses and/or passports.  Yet they pretend this would disenfranchise American citizens who want to vote. Nonsense.

Now in this case, in addition to TDS, it seems obvious that Democrats need people here illegally to vote for them in elections.

In the meantime, we are flooded with ridiculous lies about Donald Trump that only stupid or uniformed people would believe. He is not a criminal. He is not a pedophile. He is not a nazi. He is not an antisemite. He is not a racist. He is far from perfect, but his enemies are perfectly awful.

He is also one of the most influential Presidents in U.S. History. If you do anything because you love Trump or hate him, then he has influenced your decision. If you believe something that is obviously not true, and which may put you at high risk, because you hate Trump, then this is dumb. And if you act on this, then this is even dumber.

TDM

Donald Trump spoke to the nation Thursday night and the MSM immediately worked overtime to downplay the significance of what he said. Some of the networks didn’t even show the speech at all, others cut away. ABC even brought up the Russia Hoax, as if that was somehow actually credible. But in their haste to trash Trump, again, they missed something beyond dispute. I doubt that any honest American would consider it ok for China to hack information from voter databases. Even if you don’t think this was to influence the election, which seems hopelessly naïve, this is admittedly a serious problem. Yet none of the intelligence agencies or the DOJ or the FBI bothered to tell Donald Trump, who was President of the United States.

This was conveniently omitted from the daily presidential briefing. We can be sure that Trump has copies of those briefings and he can almost certainly prove that this was true. In addition, it is obviously true that the American people were not told about this. That, alone with the decision of all those intelligence officers to falsely claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was miraculously Russian misinformation, tilted the playing field toward Joe Biden. Numerous surveys show that if the American people had known that the Hunter Biden laptop was legitimate, Joe Biden would have been trounced. How would the same people have responded if they knew China was hacking our voter databases?

But there is more. Trump says the declassified documents will show that network reporters were PAID by China to write articles trashing Trump. I haven’t see this documented, but if this is true and it is documented, the results will be beyond catastrophic for the MSM.

This has the potential to blow sky high, because the MSM missed the point. Information was deliberately withheld from President Donald Trump and the American Public. There is no possible legitimate reason for doing that.

There was no reporting about this in the MSM, they were too busy demanding Trump provide “evidence.” At the same time, they were working overtime to suppress such evidence. This time the MSM narrative is a bridge too far, there is too much evidence, and the odor reaches to the stratosphere. Here is the real story. If there is evidence that the Biden Administration, the DOJ, our intelligence agencies and the MSM deliberately lied to the American people, that would be an irrecoverable error. If the MSM continues to try and gaslight this or paper over the facts, it will be even worse.

At some point it may be difficult for at least some Democrat Senators to ignore the need for the Save Act, which is supported by most Americans already. The number of people who support this will go up, not down.

Donald Trump is highly skilled at trolling people and getting them to fall into obvious traps in their lust to trash him at every opportunity. The MSM should have responded to this by saying these are serious charges, and while we have not seen the documents being offered tomorrow, we will withhold judgement until we have had a chance to see the facts. By jumping to conclusions, without having even minimal information, they may have just fallen into a trap from which there is no escape. One of Trump’s arguments was that the MSM was complicit in this, and their actions Thursday night may have made the case for him.

To those of us who looked at the 2020 election with an ounce of objectivity, it always had the ugly odor of rampant fraud. The late-night ballots, from places like Philadelphia, all for Joe Biden should have given everyone pause. But the MSM was too busy rejoicing at the humiliating defeat of Donald Trump to even consider doing even a rudimentary investigation. Instead, they pretended that this had all been thoroughly investigated and this was the safest and most secure election ever. Sadly, too many people, who hated Trump, were all too willing to ignore the obvious and embrace the ridiculous. Just like they swallowed the myth that January 6^th was a violent assault on our government encouraged by Donald Trump.

But in their haste to just ignore the obvious, again, they made another even bigger mistake. Very few people are going to be thrilled to learn that China had hacked our voting records. Even some of the usual suspects in the MSM admitted this was unacceptable. They just tried to bury this as old news.

In addition, the MSM has the problem that they no longer control the news cycle. Most Americans don’t even read newspapers, and MSM outlets are shredding viewers. There are numerous media outlets that have far more influence than the entire MSM combined. Odds are some of them have already figured this out and the battle is already starting.

It is hard to be overly optimistic when New York elected Mamdani who is destroying the city. Some of the other DSA candidates are complete disasters and they beat Democrat politicians who have been in office for a long, long time. Then we had the joke of an election for the Mayor Of Los Angeles. We obviously have a large quantity of people incapable of even recognizing the truth. They are as filled with TDS as the guardians of the MSM. It is important to remember that most people aren’t actually that stupid. Granted the ususual suspects can be counted on to believe utter nonsense if it supports their political view. Those people are incapable of change. In any election approximately 40% of the people will vote for the Democrat, another 40% will vote for the Republican and about 20% have mixed feelings. That is why someone winning an election with 55% of the vote is a big deal. That means the majority of the people who didn’t start the process with their minds made up, voted for that person.

This time there is another important factor. Most people don’t like being lied to. If it becomes obvious that people they trusted were flat out lying, that can really change things.

But most people aren’t actually that stupid.

TDM

If one watches the news lately it would seem like the Reflection Pool fiasco is the final straw that will destroy Donald Trump. MSM reporters have been hyperventilating promoting the theory that all the problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are because of Donald Trump’s incompetence. When Trump pushes back, the immediate response is to simultaneously call him a liar and bluntly state that he lacks any evidence to support his claims that the damage was the result of vandalism.

Recall the moment when Trump became furious during an interview on “Meet the Press” by Kristen Welker. She repeatedly interrupted him and challenged his claims about election fraud and the California vote fiasco. She constantly said he made these outrageous claims with no evidence. When Trump pushed back, she kept repeating the same “no evidence” nonsense. Trump finally had enough and just ended the interview and walked off the set. While some in the MSM are trying to spin this as a victory for Welker, the opposite is true. She embarrassed herself on national TV. If you doubt that, watch the clip and see how desperate she is to get Trump to stay.

While it is true that Trump had his limousine drive on the bed of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, there is no evidence this caused any damage. One notes that instead the MSM is focused on Trump hiring incompetent contractors, because he is incompetent. While it is possible that the contractors did make some mistakes, the reality is that Trump is famous, around the world, for building things that are spectacular. This ranges from golf courses to the Trump Tower. If there was ever a President who knew how to build things it is Donald Trump.

The MSM narrative makes no sense. I mean, seriously, folks. The liberal left is famous for trashing anything Trump. There are paid activists showing up at anti-ice demonstrations.  Does anyone seriously doubt that left-wing activists would hesitate to vandalize the reflecting pool if it would reflect negatively on Donald Trump? Please!

In addition, the MSM totally ignored far more serious problems following Obama’s $35 million, two-year attempt to fix the same reflection pool.

This means, while the MSM has ignored the peace negotiations with Iran and other major stories, they are treating the damage to the “Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool” as a moment in time. Granted, Trump brought some of this on himself by strutting all over the place bragging about how great the renovated Reflecting Pool looks. Trump is, without a doubt, the “gloater in chief.”  But the fact is that he arranged for extremely necessary repairs and restoration to a National Monument. If the pool reflecting the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial does not matter, what does matter?

In addition, in their haste to trash Trump, the MSM missed the obvious.  The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is 2,030 feet long, 167 feet wide and 18 to 30 inches deep. It holds about 6.75 million gallons of water. The mainstream media would have one believe that this was saturated with algae because of incompetent construction. Right! Anyone who lives on or near the water knows that algae can be a problem, but the speed and severity of this algae reeks of vandalism. I happen to have personal friends who are environmental engineers and they quickly point out that this could not happen without some kind of interference with the normal spread of algae.   

The following article written in June of 2025 explains the process:

Polyurea Coatings: A Guide for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool moved from traditional methods, like Joint sealing and concrete treatment to coating the entire pool with industrial-grade blue-tinted Rino Pipeliner 5000. Polyurea results in a thick rubber-like material used to waterproof swimming pools and aquatic features.

What this article does not address is what would happen if vandals intervened. Trump claims there was a 300 ft long slit in the polyurea coating. There is video that shows vandals at the pool. Who knows? But most importantly, recent pictures show that the reflection pool already looks much better with a substantial reduction in algae. Trump has already pledged to get the ripped vinyl liner repaired. One notes that Obama made zero attempt to fix anything after his construction fiasco.

I wrote this while the Reflecting Pool was the top story. Predictably, once it became obvious that the algae was gone, the MSM quickly moved on. The only thing that matters to the MSM is anything that reflects sadly on Trump. More recently the obnoxious jerk running for Senate in Maine was finally convinced to withdraw, after one scandal too many. Today some people are complaining that Trump who is a convicted pedophile and rapist is ignored by Democrats who hold their candidates totally responsible. Incredibly many of them said this with a straight face. There is no credible evidence that Trump is a pedophile, and he is the one who alerted the police to Jeffrey Epstein. As for E Jean Carroll, Trump was convicted by a New York Jury who chose to believe this person, even though she has been proven to commit perjury. She couldn’t remember what year this happened and there were zero contemporary witnesses. In 1995 Trump was married to Marla Maples. He later dated Mary Young, Allison Giannini, Ingrid Seynhaeve, Kylie Bax, Rowanne Brewer. Carla Bruni, Gabriella Sabatini and others. The following article lists these, and other women connected to Trump, along with pictures. There is no way someone like E Jean Carroll could hope to compete with the professional models and actresses ready, willing and able to party with Trump.

Now, the Iran war is back on, and this time Trump doesn’t appear to be interested in negotiating with people who obviously cannot be trusted. Predictably, the MSM is more focused on Trump to Graham Platner. I mean preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon pales in comparison.

Perhaps the real story of the Reflecting Pond is how poorly it reflects on the jerks who seriously thought this would be the final straw, again, that destroyed the hated Donald Trump.

TDM

Last fall I was selected to participate in the Southwest Florida honor flight. It was an incredible experience. We flew from Sarasota Airport to Dulles Airport, near Washington D.C. We were taken to all the famous memorials in D.C. and then returned home. When arriving back in Sarasota, I, along with the other veterans on that flight, were shocked at the enormous crowd that had gathered there to greet us. They filled the entire terminal and loudly applauded us. It was the welcome home I never received when returning home from Vietnam after having flown on over 300 combat missions.  Upon arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, I was greeted by some hippy looking jerks who spat on me and called me a war criminal. Welcome home.

But I am reminded that even these wonderful flights and the stunning Vietnam Memorial Wall, are no substitute for what matters. Abraham Lincoln said it best during the Gettysburg Address:

“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The only way to truly honor those who died protecting this country is to dedicate ourselves to staying the course until victory is achieved. I stood by that wall, filled with emotion, holding my hand over the names of friends who flew with me in Vietnam, but were killed in combat and never returned home. I realized that the only way to truly honor them is to confront the reality of what really happened.

Despite constant attempts by Democrats to undermine him, Richard Nixon led us to victory in that war; the North Vietnamese had surrendered and signed a peace treaty. But Democrats and their fawning supporters in the MSM hated Richard Nixon. They ultimately succeeded in forcing him out of office. Then, when Gerald Ford replaced him, Democrats in congress cut off all funding for the war and even refused to provide any military aid to South Vietnam. The result was inevitable.

Today, Democrats in congress and their fawning supporters in the MSM are filled with hatred of Donald Trump and working overtime to undermine his ability to defeat Iran. They are doing this because hating Donald Trump is far more important to them than protecting our national security.

Iran is gambling that they can snatch victory from defeat the same way North Vietnam did in 1975. North Vietnam didn’t win that war on the battlefield. They won when they saw the anti-war protests in the U.S. and knew that they didn’t need to win, they just needed to wait long enough, and the U.S. would defeat itself and quit. That is exactly what happened.  

If Democrats and their supporters in the MSM have their way, they will gladly repeat the mistake of Vietnam. Hating Donald Trump has blinded them to reality. Iran, under control of the IRGC, is the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world. It will never stop until it obtains a nuclear weapon. A nuclear weapon they are almost certain to use against Israel, against our European allies, and potentially against us. If that happens the result will be a nuclear catastrophe that cannot be overstated. Iran knows it cannot defeat the U.S. militarily. But if they can drag things out long enough, Democrats will undermine the President, Donald Trump, and once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

What makes this even more appalling is that they stupidly pretend this is honoring our troops. It is not. The only real way to honor those who fought, and particularly those who died, defending this country is to listen to Abraham Lincoln. Once again, we need to dedicate ourselves to the cause for which so many gave the last full measure of devotion. There is not, and never will be, any substitute for victory.

TDM

If you listen to the Democrat Party and the MSM, George Floyd was a classic example of an innocent black man murdered by a racist white cop for no reason. These same people are now arguing that the conviction of Karmelo Anthony of murder for stabbing Austin Metcalf to death  was another example of an innocent black man deprived of his rights by a racist white prosecutor and jury.

Most of us who have paid the least amount of attention to either case know that these assumptions are based on a blatantly false narrative, repeated over and over again, with zero consideration for the facts and evidence.

In the case of George Floyd, it has been proven that he was high on drugs and it is quite possible he would have died with or without police intervention. Here is what is reported on this day in history:

George Floyd is killed by a police officer, igniting historic protests | HISTORY

Note that police were called because Floyd had tried to cash a $20 counterfeit bill. That is true, but not the whole story.

Here is the transcript of the actual 911 call:

“Caller: Um someone comes our store and give us fake bills and we realize it before he left the store, and we ran back outside, they was sitting on their car. We tell them to give us their phone, put their (inaudible) thing back and everything and he was also drunk and everything and return to give us our cigarettes back and so he can, so he can go home but he doesn’t want to do that, and he’s sitting on his car cause he is awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself.”

Police tried to get control of Floyd for several minutes, but when they tried to get him to get in the police car, he started to violently resist. That is when he was forced to the ground.  Have you ever watched any police video where a white suspect resists arrest? The exact same thing happens to them.

Most people believe the video shows officer Chauvin leaning on George Floyd’s neck, suffocating him. But other views show him with his knee on Floyd’s shoulder, as he had been trained to do. By this time protestors were surrounding police, pointing cameras at them and screaming insults.

At some point, Floyd because unconscious. The autopsy by the county reported “cardiopulmonary arrest “complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression: and lists underlying heart disease plus fentanyl and methamphetamine as other significant conditions.”

The media immediately accused Chauvin of murdering Floyd and demanded prosecution.

Karmelo Anthony entered a tent where he was not permitted. He was asked to leave. Apparently, Austin Metcalf and him got into an argument and allegedly Metcalf put his hands on Anthony while forcing him to leave. Anthony pulled a knife, stabbed Metcalf in the heart and killed him.

Now one can and should argue whether Chauvin did everything right. But there is little evidence that he intended on killed Floyd. One may argue that Metcalf should have avoided the confrontation with Anthony, but that does not justify Anthony stabbing him in the heart.

But that is not the real point. The point is simply this. If Chauvin had been black and Floyd had been White, all of the rioting would have been in support of Chauvin. If Metcalf had been black and Anthony had been white, all of the anger would have been directed toward Anthony. The motivation in both cases was definitely racism, but not necessarily white racism against blacks but rather black racism against whites. Many prominent blacks interviewed demanded that Chauvin be tried and convicted of murder. The same prominent blacks now complain that Anthony should never have been convicted. The reasoning in both cases is because Floyd was black and Anthony is black they must be given the benefit of the doubt and the white person must be assumed to be responsible. To the loud black voices filled with rage nothing else matters.

But they should seriously consider this. If white people cannot trust black people to treat them fairly how can they really expect white people to trust them if the situation was reversed. The obvious answer is they can’t. If you are black you are assumed innocent. If you are white, you are assumed guilty. There is no gray area, no middle ground. This is the very definition of racism and if smarter and wiser black people do not push back on this racist agenda, there is a serious risk that much of the real progress made against systemic racism in this country will be reversed. What, exactly, do they expect? Do they assume every white person will assume guilt because of the color of their skin? That is absurd.

These are dangerous times. They will become even more dangerous if this continues. This is the polar opposite of fighting racism, it is instead fueling it in the worst possible way.

TDM

We lived in California for over 35 years. We had a beautiful home, in a great town, with a wonderful climate. Except for one thing. In recent years Democrats have totally run California. The results ultimately resulted in us making the decision to move to Florida.

The triggering factor, for us, was the way California handled COVID 19. We were required to wear masks everywhere, including shopping at Costco. If you tried to enter Costco without wearing a mask, you would be confronted by security demanding you leave immediately. We all know now, as many of us knew then, that masks had almost no positive effect in preventing the spread of disease. It was just a silly rule, not based on real science, enforced rigorously by people in power who did not care and did not listen. The only thing they cared about was retaining their personal power.

To those of you who do not have experience with the California election fiasco, let us explain. When we first moved to California, they never checked id, but we did go to a local precinct, where people verified our names and address, and has us sign the register. That was a shock to us having moved from Michigan, where you had to provide ID to vote.

In California, anyone can apply for a drivers’ license with no requirement to verify legal residency. There are millions of people in this country illegally, residing in California, who have drivers’ licenses. When you get a drivers’ license in California, you are automatically registered to vote. The last time we voted in California we brought our ballots to a registered voting site. When we tried to show ID, they waived us away. When we tried to confirm our address, they just laughed. They just pointed to a ballot box and told us to drop our ballots there.

Then California had a problem. Since the California DMV made zero attempts to verify legal residency, the California drivers’ license was not considered a real ID. As a result, if you wanted to fly on a commercial airliner, you had to either have a passport, or present documentation verifying your residency and citizenship to get a “Real ID.” This is when we realized that not only didn’t California bother to check legal residency, but there was also no method to reconcile the California DMV database with the federal citizen registry. They couldn’t have matched their voter database with federal records, if they tried, and they didn’t try. It was only after California offered a real ID that this changed.

Then they changed the law to allow ballot harvesting. Let me explain. 18 states allow anyone chosen by the owner to return a ballot on the voters’ behalf. 16 states allow anyone with certain relationships to the voter to return the voters ballot. 4 states only allow voters to return the voters ballot, with certain restrictions. 2 states require voters to return their ballots by mail. 10 states and the District of Columbia do not specify who can return ballots.

Ballot collection laws by state – Ballotpedia

In California there are people who go out and collect ballots from a wide range of people and then just drop them off at a ballot box. The ballot box may not be monitored. It is difficult to have any confidence that California verifies anything. While other states manage to report results in about 24 hours, in California this can take weeks. Typically, if a Republican is ahead by a small margin, additional ballot drops will start showing up with the vast majority of them favoring the Democrat.

So, if you do show up with ID in California considered acceptable, what do you think that would require? The answer is a “Gym membership card,” “Employer ID card,” “Credit or debit card,” “Prescription drug label,” or an “Insurance card.” It is important to remember that California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants.

When you mail in a ballot, California claims to verify the signature. During the recent election several people, all conservative Republicans, had their ballots returned and their vote rejected. In some cases, these people had voted for decades without this happening. Coincidence?

Keep this in mind when the DNC and members of the MSM show outrage at the mere suggestion that some of this would create at least a small potential for election fraud. How unthinkable. How undemocratic. Do you really think politicians in California are so desperate for power that they would willingly ignore commons sense voter laws. Don’t people realize that the reason every statewide office and every major elected official in major cities are always Democrats is that people in these areas are too smart for vote for Republicans? In California statewide elections, the people getting the top two number of votes in the primary go into a run-off. In most cases, no Republican is even on the ballot.

In 2016 Kamala Harris ran for the Senate from California. Her only opponent on the ballot was Loretta Sanchez, also a Democrat. Would it be a shock for you to learn that in statewide elections few Republicans bother to vote, because it is a choice between two bad options?

Some of you may wonder why Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his VP. The answer is that he publicly committed to choosing a black female and the choice was down between Kamala Harris and Karen Bass. Yes, that Karen Bass.

But there is good news. This time California may have finally jumped the shark. The 2026 primary election is a total fiasco. They are still counting votes, with each ballot drop showing miraculous results for the Democrat. But something has changed. There are federal prosecutors monitoring this and don’t be surprised to see some shocking arrests for blatant election fraud. The stench of fraud is so obvious that even CNN showed signs of detecting the odor.

Democrats are in complete control in Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Assembly, the Senate, and every statewide office, including Governor. Nothing, I repeat nothing, has improved. Taxes are sky high. Homeless people are everywhere. Gas prices are the highest in the country. Roads and bridges are in poor repair. Traffic is unbearable. People are leaving California in droves. Let’s just hope that some of the people leaving are democrats, as long as they avoid Florida.

The result is that the Mayors race in Los Angeles is now down to Karen Bass and Nithya Raman. Karen Bass visited Cuba several times, gloated over the fantastic job being done by Fidel Castro. She traveled with the Venceremos Brigade. Here is some interesting information about that organization:

The Cuban regime’s American sympathizers -Capital Research Center

See any problem here? CNN and the rest of the MSM sure didn’t.

Nithya Raman is the first South Asian and Asian American woman on the LA City Counsel. She supports reducing bureaucratic barriers, streamline permitting process and implementing “gentle density” in single-family neighborhoods to increase housing supply and affordability. She champions a homelessness-first approach, focusing on housing placements, social services, and long-term solutions rather than relying exclusively on law enforcement responses.

Anyone want to move to LA. The weather is great.

TDM

What do you think of when you hear “Hush Puppies.” For me it was a shoe company located in Rockford, Michigan. The company was “Woverine World Wide,” which made Wolverine Work boots. The company was founded in 1882 as a small leather shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. People, like me, who lived in Grand Rapids, understood why they were called “Wolverine Shoes.” The University of Michigan sports team are the “Michigan Wolverines.” I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and some locals claimed to have actually seen a real live wolverine. Officially they were last seen in Michigan during the 1700s and 1800s. In February 2004, some coyote hunters in Ubly, Michigan, about 90 miles north of Detroit, claimed to have seen a real live wolverine. Arnie Karr, a Michigan Department of Natural Resources saw the wolverine for himself and took some pictures of it. It was the first confirmed wolverine sighting in Michigan in over 200 years. Wolverines in Michigan were considered an endangered species until the late 1990s, when the wolverine was removed from the endangered species list because no one expected to ever see one again, at least in Michigan.

First Michigan wolverine spotted in 200 years

This explains why the Michigan football team has weird yellow stripes on its helmets. Those are theoretically supposed to represent wolverines. The wolverine was the unofficial state nickname. I never quite understood the enthusiasm for choosing a creature that hadn’t been seen in over 200 years. But I lived in the Upper Peninsula until I was a Sophomore in high school, and I knew several people who claimed to have seen a wolverine in the wild.  The self-righteous snobs in the Lower Peninsula remained skeptical.

In 1958, the Wolverine Shoe Company, known for its work boots, introduced Hush Puppies as a line of comfortable casual shoes. They became very popular and are still available today.

Other people, thought “Hush Puppies” referred to corn meal dumplings popular in the South. Some thought “Hush Puppies” came from slaves tossing corn meal to the dogs to shut them up. Others blamed confederate soldiers for doing the same thing during the Civil War to quiet dogs. Either makes more sense that a spin-off of work boots based on an animal believed to be extinct.

But today, “Hush Puppies” takes on a whole new meaning. I view it as the few remaining democrats with surviving brain cells calling out the professional loud mouths who have been extremely vocal in their support of lost causes. Classic examples are left-wing Democrats who support issues like “defund the police”, “Open borders”, and my favorite, “Transgender males competing with females and winning sporting events.”  These people have been very loud and obnoxious, but lately even some Democrats are throwing corn at them in a desperate attempt to shut them up. It turns out that running political campaigns based on ideas opposed by about 80% of the people is not actually a winning strategy. I mean it definitely is a winning strategy, if one is trying to win a Democrat primary. But spouting nonsense, which worked in gerrymandered blue districts, is not necessarily a good strategy for someone trying to be elected to the U.S. senate.

There are, of course, exceptions in places like New Jersey and Virginia where left-wing liberal Democrat women won races for governor by pretending they were normal people. Few people, who bought this and voted for these clowns are overly thrilled with the results.   

Perhaps it is wise to remember that while “corn” was used to hush loud puppies, a different kind of corn is being used to silence the liberal left-wing puppies on a regular basis. The best example of this is Spence Pratt, who is running for Mayor of Los Angeles. He regularly makes corn (jokes) about Karen Bass, the current LA mayor, and even if he loses, he has definitely helped quiet her down at least temporarily.

To those of you unfamiliar with Karen Bass, she was one of the final two choices when Joe Biden promised to pick a black female Vice President. Karen Bass was famous for taking trips to Cuba and raving about the world’s greatest humanitarian, Fidel Castro. This may explain why Joe Biden ultimately chose Kamala Harris, with predictable results. Many people were unimpressed with Joe Biden, but few dreamed of President Kamala Harris. Incredibly even Kamala Harris looks good in comparison to someone like Karen Bass.

Democrats have been winning elections with some pathetic candidates but that may be changing. The candidate for Senator in Maine is oyster farmer Graham Platner, who had or has a Nazi Tattoo and thought insulting veterans who were wounded in battle was inspiring. Or James Talarico, running for the Senate from Texas, who thinks there are six genders and “God the Father” is non-binary. The ladies on the view think this is adorable, people living in Texas, not so much.

I think both candidates are going to get trounced in the November elections. Susan Collins in Maine and Ken Paxton are not necessarily great candidates themselves, but they were gifted with these two opponents. Only in this case there is no need to throw corn mean dumplings to shut up their puppy opponents. The louder these clowns bark, and the more people realize what they believe, the better the odds of a Republican landslide.

Hush puppies, whether wonderful shoes or silenced political hounds, are fun to watch.

TDM

It is extremely challenging for the average person in the U.S. to understand the challenges in dealing with Iran. For a long time, this was simple. The Ayatollah was in charge. He hated Israel. He hated the U.S. He was a Muslim extremist. More importantly, he was tied to the doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih. This is sometimes referred to as “Mahdism.” It is unlikely that many Americans understand the significance of this. But it is crucial to understanding what is at stake regarding negotiations with Iran.

To make a long story short, the Sh’ia Muslims in Iran believe in the 12^th Iman. Muhammad al-Mahdi is the twelfth and final Iman. They believe he is alive and in hiding since 868, in a state of “occultation” meaning that Allah miraculously caused him to disappear. He is waiting to return and usher in the takeover of the Muslim, and ultimately, the entire world.

True believers believe it is their duty to pave the way for the return of the Mahdi by eradicating Israel and Zionism. The following article in the Middle East Forum explains:

  Mahdism: The Apocalyptic Ideology Behind Iran’s Nuclear Program – Middle East Forum

More recently, however, the existence of Israel is being viewed and understood as the ‘greatest barrier’ to the reappearance of the 12th Imam. According to the doctrine of Mahdism, part of preparing for the reappearance of the 12th Imam is removing all obstacles and barriers to his return.

This helps explain the IRGC’s demand for a nuclear weapon. The key factor here is described as follows:

For nations whose leaders and upcoming leaders have been systematically indoctrinated into believing that the greatest good is to usher in a “rightly guided” figure from Islamic legend — no matter the cost, including to that nation itself — the implications are nothing short of apocalyptic.

Nations with nuclear weapons hesitate to use them because of the automatic massive destruction in the event of a nuclear war. This is sometimes described as
Mutually Assured Destruction (“MAD”). If one side uses a nuclear weapon the other side would retaliate, resulting in massive destruction of everyone involved. This has worked since no nuclear weapon has been used since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. In effect, using a nuclear weapon would be an act of suicide.

This is the essential problem. Some people who believe in Mahdism are not only unafraid of the automatic self-destruction expected from a nuclear war, but they may also welcome it, because they believe it paves the way for the 12^th Iman to resurface and conquer the world for Islam. Losing millions of their own people is not even considered to be a problem. It is impossible to overstate the risk of allowing people with this world view to have a nuclear weapon. They would be far more likely to use it, without regard to the consequences.

A problem that should not be ignored is that these same people have overseen the education system in Iran and there are reports that youths have been taught Mahdism and are firm believers. This is why just killing the Ayatollah and the leadership of the IRGC may do little to solve the problem. The real question is what do the people of Iran want and odds are a substantial number of them want to see the destruction of Israel and the great Satan, the U.S.

During and prior to World War II Japan was dominated by militarists. There are numerous examples of Japanese soldiers choosing annihilation over surrender. Yet following the war, a different group of leaders took over, who had a very different view, and they changed the Japanese culture.

The point is that negotiating a peace treaty designed to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is only part of the problem. Prior to the 1979 revolution, Iran was a vastly different place. It is not enough to just physically stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The long-term solution requires recognizing the danger of Mahdism and finding a way to change people from an apocalyptic attitude to one where it is possible to transform into a peaceful society.

It is too bad that Democrats, more focused on Trump Derangement Syndrome than reality, do not understand something. We only have one President at a time, and if we undermine that President, we undermine the entire country. Democrats do not care, their obsession with TDS makes it impossible to even consider supporting the President of the United States. Hatred of Donald Trump overwhelms everything else.

We all better hope and pray that Donald Trump succeeds in stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. What, exactly, could be more important?

TDM