Law and Order or Dictatorship?
Trump’s takeover of the DC police is very instructive. Republicans see it as just another part of Trump’s emphasis on law and order. They see things like the number of arrests and removing the tent city outside Union Station, and say it’s about time.
Democrats react based on TDS and see it as just another step toward dictatorship. They claim crime is down in Washington and is not a problem. It is true, crime stats show a decline from recent highs. However, there are three problems.
The first is that crime is so bad, and the police can do so little, that many crimes are never reported. It is just not worth the effort. The second is that the commander in charge of the stats has been put on administrative leave for manipulating the numbers to make it look like crime has decreased. He did this by reclassifying crimes as ones that were not reported.
Finally, even with the decrease, crime is still very high. If DC were a state, the murder rate would be the highest in the country. Compared to other world capitals, DC has the highest murder rate at 41 per 100,000. The next highest is Montevideo, Uruguay, at 16.1. Baghdad, Iraq, not typically considered a safe place, is third at 15.2. Washington’s murder rate is 2.7 times higher than in Baghdad, yet apparently, Democrats are okay with that.
So, yet again, we have another 80-20 issue, and again, Democrats stake their position on the 20. One interesting development is that, this time, several Democrats are breaking ranks and saying this is a trap, and Democrats should not fall for it. However, so far, they are a minority.
One thing I cannot quite grasp is the DOJ lawyer who threw a sandwich at a federal officer. A young college student might be idiotic enough and not quite understand what they were doing. But this guy was a lawyer working in the criminal division. He had presumably taken criminal law and knew the definition of an assault and the significance of assaulting a federal officer. So why did he do it? Did he want to lose his job and become a convicted felon, risking his career? Did he think he would get away with it? Was his TDS so strong that he could not think rationally?
I guess he does make it clear why people think there is a deep state, and why it was possible to corrupt the DOJ in the Trump-Russia hoax to break the rules and act illegally.
Putin clearly understands Trump. He goes into the summit and announces that the 2020 election had problems and that if Trump had been elected, the Ukraine war would not have happened. I doubt he really cares one way or the other, but he does know how to get on Trump’s good side. As for the peace talks, I am waiting for the outcome, but am hopeful.
It makes me wonder how history would have changed if, in 2016, Democrats had sought to butter Trump up and get as much as they could out of him. Trump is not ideological; he is transactional. They probably could have gotten a lot. Who knows, if they had, perhaps today it would have been the Republicans who were split and in disarray, and the Democrats united and strong, having just won back the White House. Yet this would have required them to give a bit, which they seem incapable of. So, instead, Hillary invented the Trump-Russia hoax, and then Democrats used it to corrupt the Government in an attempt to remove Trump from office.
Finally, we have yet another in a very long line of tragic stories concerning the danger of the sanctuary policies of Democrats. Sure, they want the warm bodies to boost their numbers in the census, giving them at least 14 to 26 House seats. But at what cost? California gave a commercial truck license to Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien.
Driving a semi in Florida, Singh attempted a U-turn on a freeway, suddenly cutting across all traffic lanes. An SUV behind him, suddenly confronted with a semi blocking all lanes, had no time to brake and could only plow into the side of the trailer, killing the three occupants.
Newsom, of course, blamed Trump and said he was either lying or clueless. The problem is that the Federal Government does not issue commercial licenses; the states do. Most do not give them to illegal aliens; California does.
In 2020, the Trump administration rejected Singh’s work authorization request. However, Biden needs bodies for the census, so they approved it in June 2021. So you can add 3 more to the list of people killed by Biden’s failed policies
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Questions
These days I have a lot of questions. I watched a bunch of Leftists on a panel talking about Mamdani and the hope he brings. Yet I kept wondering, this is July 2025, why are they all wearing masks? They didn’t even work that well for COVID, but they keep wearing them. Sure, they could all have had a medical condition, but I doubt it. When I see protesters in masks, I assume their main function is to hide their identity, but that was not operative here.
The double standard in Justice remains. Pro-life supporters block a clinic and get years in jail. Yet a 28-year-old pro-choice supporter savagely beats two elderly (73 and 84) pro-life supporters, kicking them in the head and leaving one with permanent eye damage, and he gets 1 year of home detention. When will there be one standard for all?
Pelosi is still pushing for “gender-affirming” care for kids, and accused the Republicans of “having no winning ideas.” Meanwhile, Frank Lunz said on CNN that Trump is so popular with his base because he is doing exactly what he said he would do before the election, and this is why they elected him. So I guess he has a few winning ideas. What are the Democrats’ winning ideas?
Democratic congresswoman Delia Ramirez from Chicago goes south of the border and says, “I’m Guatemalan and proud of it — first, before American.” Actually, she was born in the US. Predictably, her response to critics was to say that they are only against her opposition to “the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government.” I am surprised she didn’t include racist. Yet, if she thinks this of the government she is a part of, no wonder she is a Guatemalan first. Shouldn’t a congresswoman put Americans first?
Rachel Maddow last Monday said, “That thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming, it is here.” She added, “We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.” Of course, if she were correct, she would not be on TV saying it. Then again, given her network’s falling ratings, is she saying it so that she can blame Trump if her show is cancelled, like Colbert’s?
Sydney Sweeney: You know, if everything is Nazi, doesn’t the word Nazi become meaningless?
Absurdity. Texas Democrats flee the state to oppose gerrymandering by flee to one of the most gerrymandered states: Illinois. But the Democratic Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey takes the cake for threatening to do the same thing in her state if Texas does not stop. The problem is, although Trump got 36% of the vote, Massachusetts has no Republicans in Congress. So, what is she threatening, to redistrict so a Republican can win?
Sometimes the “why” becomes clear. Trump wants a new census that does not count illegals. The Democrats are screaming foul! So, I guess it is now clear why Biden opened the border for illegal aliens. With each congressional district having about 760K people, 10 million illegals equals 13 congressional districts, and this is even if they don’t vote, which some do. So, the at least 11-20 million illegals give the Democrats between 14-26 House seats, probably more given gerrymandering. Now we know why it is that Democrats support illegal immigration and have sanctuary cities. It is just another way of gerrymandering districts to give them more power.
Yes, Republican gerrymander as well, but illegals can be used to magnify voters. If you have enough voters to create a single safe district for your party, with illegals, you could make it two safe districts. While it is theoretically possible for Republicans to do this, they don’t support illegal immigration, don’t want them counted in the census, nor do they have Sanctuary cities to attract them. Chicago is a blue sanctuary city. Most of the rest of the state is red. If you did not count illegals, would Illinois still be a blue state? Also, an audit of the last census shows a number of errors, which is understandable. But the errors always benefited Blue states and harmed Red, how does that happen?
Congressman Campbell’s recent post has another reason Democrats are in trouble. He said, “Education, Health Care, caring for the poor and the environment were supposed to be their signature issues. The only place they can claim some success is in the environmental arena. Air and water quality as well as the status of our national parks has arguably improved over the last 70 years. But that’s it. They used to run on these issues. But it’s hard to do that when it is so obvious that where they have been in charge, the condition of those issue areas has gotten worse.”
Given this, what are the Democrats to do? He writes, “Answer: If we can’t solve any of the real problems out there, let’s make some up.” However, the problems they made up don’t work, alienate voters, and undermine their credibility.
You have to wonder if Democrats have a short-term memory crisis. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been spending a lot of money on illegals, against the wishes of his constituents, such that his approval ratings are between 9-14%. Yet now, according to NBC, he is complaining “many key systems people rely upon, like education, health care, housing and transportation are ‘woefully underfunded.’” How long have Democrats controlled Chicago? I checked online: “The last Republican mayor of Chicago was William Hale Thompson, who served from 1927 to 1931.” Wow, he must really have left a big mess if Democrats are still trying to fix it almost a century later. However, maybe if Johnson had spent the city’s money on the city’s needs like his voters wanted, instead of illegal aliens, would Chicago be in this mess?
As for Trump, he continues to rack up wins. CNBC puts his approve-disapprove numbers at 46% approve, 51% disapprove, though other polls have him as low as 40%. The approval number is up 2 points while the disapproval remained unchanged. Given the nearly 100% negative coverage of the mainstream media, with coverage like Maddow’s saying we are now in a dictatorship, this is not bad. I have to wonder what his approval rating would be if press coverage was 50-50. Of course, if the press covered Republicans, like they cover Democrats, would it be over 60% approve?
In his first eight months, Trump has negotiated eight peace agreements. When you add the Abraham Accords from his first term, how likely is it that Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize? They are such a leftist group, I am very skeptical. Remember, they gave Obama the peace prize for basically just winning the election and the IPCC for climate change. However, what if he can end the Ukraine war this week?
To close, a CBS host put the dumb in dumbfounded. When talking about potential settlements on the moon, he asked Niels deGrasse Tyson if we should be worried because of our history of colonization. Tyson was polite and pointed out that the problems of colonization had to do with indigenous people. No one lives on the Moon.
Short: Why are many people disturbed by Robots? Some see an exciting new technology. Business owners see potential to replace staff. The wealthy see potential house work? Most people see something so expensive they never expect to own one. Where a business owner looks at a robot and sees a machine that can replace an employee, people see a robot that could take their job.
There is no stopping them and they will vastly change the economy and how we think about work. But how? Will these choices be made only by those with enough money to afford one such that by the time the prices drop, we are all stuch with what they decided or will people have a say about these changes? The clock is ticking.
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Odds and Ends
One of my favorite congressmen, John Campbell, now an ex-congressman, looked at the current economic trends in his recent post. After looking at the pros and cons, his basic summary was “I see storm clouds on the horizon, but no rain in sight for this year.” It is worth a read. Note this is a change for him. Early last year, he predicted no downturn for 2024, but possibly one in 2025.
Typically, the Fed cut interest rates last year, but it does not want to cut them now. See Campbell’s post for the mixed effects of such a cut. Meanwhile, predictions of significant increases in inflation have not come to pass, the stock market is at record highs, and real wages are rising again for the first time since Trump’s last term. We even had the first monthly surplus since 2017. Trade deals are being signed, and much of the new investment is beginning to kick in. Consumer confidence has risen significantly. Things are looking promising at the moment. Still, I agree with Campbell about the storm clouds.
Much of the Left is a scam. It is a minority view that can project power far above its numbers. We saw that with USAID, which took billions in taxpayer dollars and used them to support Left-wing causes. Now we have another example. Following the Palisades fire, FireAid raised over $100 million to aid fire victims and fire prevention. None of it went to the victims of the fire. They gave it to left-wing groups, some as far away as Northern California. At least the group that engaged in voter registration among native americans gave the money back. Typically, this would be fraud, but it is California, so I am sure FireAid does not have to worry about that.
You can tell the Left is out of ideas when they try to recycle their problem to attack Trump. They ignored Biden’s mental decline until it was clear that he could not win. Yet, now, they try to claim that Trump’s cognitive decline is such that he should be removed and put in a retirement home. With Biden, they told us to ignore our own eyes; Biden was as sharp as a tack. With Trump, they tell us to ignore our own eyes; he really has declined.
Mamdami wants government-run grocery stores. Not surprisingly, it has been done in the past and does not work. Kansas City opened Sun Fresh, a city-run grocery store in 2018, sinking tens of millions of dollars into the effort over the years. Utopia had arrived. Yet, the place is a ghost town, with many empty shelves and lost $885,000 last year. Other grocery stores in the area turn a profit. The solution? It’s always the same: pour in more money, though it might close. Like most socialist endeavors, they sound wonderful on paper, but never actually work. This is because most have never run a business, and thus they don’t know what it takes. In short, they don’t know what they are doing.
I am reminded of George McGovern, who, when he lost in 1972, was the most far-left candidate the Democrats had run up to that time. Later in life, he opened a small hotel, which ultimately failed. When asked about it, he said he never realized how hard the government makes it to run a business. Perhaps he should have known that before he ran for President.
The evil that was the Biden border policy got even more absurd. We knew that Biden lost over 300,000 children, an unknown number into slavery and sex trafficking. We learned that at least some were given a hotline number to call if they had problems with their sponsors. Ok. But in congressional testimony last week, we learned that 65,000 of these calls went unanswered. They really did not care. They just wanted warm bodies to flood into the country. As one House Democrat put it, she needs more people in her district to help with redistricting.
The first rule of holes? Stop digging. This lesson is lost on the media and the Democrats. Sure, they are having some effect on their base. One pollster pointed out that less than half of Democrats knew about how Obama had ordered the intelligence to be changed to fit the Russia hoax. Meanwhile, most independents and virtually all Republicans were aware of the story.
The media is doing its best to lie and divert attention, but there is only so much they can do. They are trying to claim that Trump is himself just trying to divert attention away from the Epstein story. The Epstein story is probably one of the first big screw up by the administration. However, most Republicans don’t think Trump is trying to protect himself. Most believe that if the Epstein records contained information against Trump, it would have been leaked long ago. After all, what didn’t they do to get Trump? So why would they have held this back?
In any event, it certainly had not affected Trump’s support among Republicans, which, according to CBS, went from 88% positive to 90% following this scandal. It is not that the scandal caused this; instead, there has been a lot of other good news that outweighed any adverse effects from the mishandling of the Epstein story.
Thus, the narrative pushed in the media that Trump is losing support because of the fallout of the Epstein story, and this is the reason for their claims about Obama’s involvement in creating the Russia hoax, is like most of what they report about Trump: nonsense.
The same can be said about their attempt to recast the Russia hoax into simply a claim that Russia tried to interfere in the election. If that had been the story, it would have been like reporting that it gets dark at night. Of course, they tried to interfere, as do all of our enemies in every election. The Russia hoax had three central claims: Putin wanted Trump to win; Their interference had an impact on the election; and Trump colluded with the Russians to win.
Thus, the Russia hoax was the basis for the claim that Trump’s presidency was illegitimate and that he was Russia’s puppet, which was absurd, as he was harder on Russia than either Obama or Biden. Fox has had a lot of fun playing clips of Democrats and Media pundits now claiming they never said any of this, followed by them playing some of the vast number of clips from 2016 forward of them saying exactly that. Is it any wonder that the media and the Democrats are at historic lows in polls?
The Intelligence assessments in the December 6th meeting did not support the three core claims of the Russia hoax. Obama ordered them changed, which they were, over intelligence analysts’ objections. The new assessment became the basis for trying to remove Trump from office.
Nor is this the complete picture. I am confident that many of the same people who were part of the soft coup attempt on Trump continued their efforts into the 2020 election and beyond. The labeling of Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” by “51 intelligence officers” is a case in point. This claim has since been refuted, but it served its purpose by giving cover to Biden during a debate and allowing him to attack Trump as a puppet of Russia. As Harry Reid said about why he lied about Romney, “He lost, didn’t he?”
The problem the Democrats are now having is that their defenders in the media have lost their credibility, and thus much of their ability to defend them. They do not know what to do in the new environment, except make silly TikTok videos and swear a lot. After all, nothing gets your point across like a bleep in the audio track.
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A Few Things.
Former Obama aide Rahm Emanuel once said, ‘Never let a crisis go to waste. A crisis is an opportunity to do things you have always wanted.’ Case in point, California. Months after the fires, the reality on the ground is that residents whose lives were devastated by the fire are now drowning in a sea of red tape. Despite all the “promises” to cut the red tape and fast-track the rebuilding, those trying to rebuild face roadblocks from their government. They get some permits, only to be blocked by vague requirements for others.
What is the Democratic plan? It seems to be stall, stall, stall, until the residents give up in frustration. Then the government can take their land for its purposes. They want to see the Palisades transformed into their vision of utopia, combining wilderness areas, parks, and low-income housing. Of course, that is as likely as California finishing its high-speed rail project, which it has spent billions on for years and has yet to lay any track. I don’t think it will ever be built.
Another California issue: Their green policies are working. The gas tax just went up again in the state that already had the highest gas prices in the country. Now, two refineries will be closing by the end of the year. One report said gas prices could spike to over $8.00/gallon. As a norm, I don’t expect that, but reducing supply will cause prices to increase, and not just in California. California will still get its gas and will pay higher prices for it. However, their gas must come from somewhere; thus, it will affect everyone as the supply problem ripples across the country. Thank you, California.
One thing about Trump is that he seems to get things done that no one else ever has. For Decades, the Right has complained about PBS and NPR for their waste and their liberal bias. I have been in several radio studios and one TV studio. They were very functional, but barebones affairs, different from the publicly funded PBS and NPR, which have nicer studios. Why should the government fund their competition? Because of the bias, I have not supported them since the 1980s. Their bias is clear to any who wishes to look, except their current CEO. Like most left-wing news sources, they claim to be unbiased. They don’t serve the people; they serve the Left. Nor are they needed in today’s world with a multitude of sources. Yet, despite all the promises, their budget could never be touched until now. And of course, Democrats are out there claiming the cuts to PBS and NPR will cost lives, people will die, and then wonder why people are not taking them seriously.
Here is another indication of TDS: On MSNBC, they had a story about the CEO and HR head caught by the kiss cam. “Because who gets to be a cheater in our society can feel maddeningly arbitrary. One man accused of cheating loses his job and perhaps his family. Another man becomes president of the United States. If anything, some of the president’s supporters celebrate his virility or excuse it as the predictable excesses of the rich and powerful.” Really? Must every story become a reason to rant against Trump?
Steven Colbert’s show was cancelled. Democrats say it is political. Others say this is just an indication that the era of late-night is over, given the decline in ratings. Another possibility is that Colbert had TDS and is just another example of go woke, go broke. Rather than being middle-of-the-road and making fun of both sides, Colbert was very one-sided, attacking not just Trump but half of the country. Thus, not surprisingly, his ratings went down.
Is this the end of late-night comedy? Perhaps, but note that, while Colbert’s rating went down in the last few years, Gutfeld has gone up and now dominates other late-night hosts, despite being in only a fraction of homes. Maybe late-night comedians should focus on being funny first rather than just attacking Trump and the Right.
Finally, to no one’s surprise on the Right, declassified documents showed what many of us suspected. We already knew that the Steele Dossier had originated from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and Comey played a significant role using it to launch the Russiagate hoax, which claimed that Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election. We also knew that part of this was the effort to take out Michael Flynn, and they discussed this in at least one meeting with Obama, and Biden suggested that they use the Logan Act. That we already knew.
Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents last week that showed that not only was Hillary involved, but that this was a concerted effort by Clinton, Obama, and his national security team following the election of Donald Trump in 2016 to undermine his presidency. Not surprisingly, this was ignored by ABC and NBC and only briefly mentioned by CBS in an interview with a Democrat asking if there could be charges. Other networks mentioned it briefly, and MSNBC’s primary focus was to downplay the story. “These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along.” As with most other scandals, the more evidence there is, the more the media ignores it.
When Trump first claimed he was wiretapped, this was such an inconceivable idea that he was ridiculed for even suggesting it. It was too outlandish even to consider. Now we know that high-placed Democrats, including Hillary and Obama, actively conspired to undermine the results of an election and try to remove Trump. They lied, cheated, violated established norms and procedures, and even broke the law to try to have a soft coup against Trump. Is the media shocked? No, they fall into line and support Democrats; it’s what they do, and why very few trust them any longer, which is why Democrats are in such trouble.
How Low Can They Go?
A recent poll shows Democrats are at a low. “The poll, conducted between May and June by Unite the Country, a Democratic super PAC, showed voters perceived the Democratic Party as “out of touch,” “woke” and “weak.”
In an article in Axios, Democratic lawmakers say their constituents are unhappy. They don’t see non-violence tactics as working, and it is time for violence; there needs to be blood, and people need to be willing to be shot.
And this is after all the violent protests of the last few months. If the Axios story is true, things will only get worse. Holman recently said that this is going to lead to someone getting killed. Shortly after that, an assailant tried to kill an ICE officer, and the assailant was shot and killed. Unless they stop, more people will die.
What would you expect? Democratic leaders have been pushing inflated rhetoric for decades. There have already been several attempts at murdering officials, such as the shooting of Republican congressmen at a baseball practice, the attempted assassinations of a Supreme Court justice, and the two attempts on Trump.
What is different about Trump is that the inflated rhetoric didn’t work. Yet, rather than try something different, they doubled down. Since 2016, it has only gotten more hyperbolic. Now, Trump is Hitler, his supporters are fascists, the police are the Gestapo, pigs, and the KKK. They kidnap people off the streets, or just disappear them. They send people to concentration camps in order to ethically cleanse the country. They are destroying democracy. If what the Democrats said were true, why wouldn’t people resort to violence?
Attacks on ICE officers are up by over 800%. In the last week, there were two assassination attempts on ICE officers, the one mentioned above, and the other was a coordinated ambush by 12 people where a local police officer was shot in the neck. This group had the slogan “Fight Oligarchy.” Perhaps, you did not hear about that because some of the major “news outlets” did not deem it worthy to mention the attack.
One Democratic Congressman, Salud Carbajal, was given a business card by an ICE staffer. The Democratic Representative showed it to the protesters. The ICE official was later attacked by the protesters and had to go to the hospital. Meanwhile, other representatives and Leftist groups are giving lessons on how to fight back against ICE. But then, after all, how dare the administration try to enforce federal law, when Federal Law is supreme under the Constitution?
While Democrats loudly proclaim no one is above the law, such statements are not operative when it comes to them. They get to pick and choose the laws they like and determine when they apply, which, if true, would put them above the law by definition.
Democracy is based on persuasion. Issues are discussed to reach a consensus. Yet, it is very clear that the Left is not currently interested in persuasion. They use protests, not to change the hearts and minds of America, as the civil rights protestors did in the 1960s; they use them as an act of intimidation through the threat of violence.
There is the saying, The more things change, the more they remain the same. Both parties have gone through considerable changes. Yet, at their core, they have not changed. The Republican Party is the party of the individual and the Constitution. They are the party of individual rights that opposed slavery, preserved the Union, resisted Jim Crow, and fought for Civil Rights. They remain that today, and in fact, one thing Trump has done is return the party to Main Street and the working class.
The Democrats party is the party of groups. They fought to preserve slavery; they were the party of nullification and started the Civil War when an election went against them. When they lost the war, they still fought with the KKK and pushed Jim Crow. They resisted Republican efforts for Civil Rights until that became untenable in the early 1960s. Then they switched to pushing affirmative action to privilege certain groups over others, and identity politics. They complained when the Supreme Court said the best way to end discrimination was to stop discriminating.
Today, instead of nullification, they have sanctuary cities, but it is basically the same thing. They want to nullify federal immigration law. Instead of the KKK, they have Antifa. They complained with some justification about Trump not accepting the 2020 election. Yet, now you have leading democrats questioning Trump’s victory in 2024, and MSNBC is running stories about how Trump plans to steal the midterms next year.
They talk about threats to democracy, but fight the will of the people as expressed in elections. They manipulate language to get the poll results they want to justify their actions. For example, they refuse to use the legal term “illegal alien,” instead using migrant, or immigrant. Then they tout polls showing most people support immigration, for we are a country of immigrants. This is something I too support. But they ignore other recent polls showing that a majority support deporting all people here illegally.
Last time I wrote that there was a chance for a compromise. I think there still is, but it isn’t very likely. It would require the Democrats to put aside their hatred and work with Trump to seek one. They could protect the dreamers. They could probably protect some who have been here a while and are an integral part of their community. But they will not be able to protect all. Will they try to protect any? Probably not. They prefer their hatred.
Here is a key stat that reveals how disingenuous the Democrats are. They have told us they have only been concerned about the children for years. Yet under Biden, the government lost track of over 300,000 children, some of whom were trafficked into slave labor and sex work. They did not care. So far, the Trump administration has found about 10,000 of these children and is actively looking for the rest.
Do the Democrats want to help? Do they even care? Apparently not. When several children were found during the raid on the pot farm, instead of being upset over the violation of child labor laws, something the farm was known to have a problem with, Democrats were upset about the raid. For the Left, the problem was that the children were rescued.
Rather than get some of what they want, they are in the streets violently demanding that they get it all. All or nothing. They are getting closer to getting nothing.
