Headlines

‘It’s a big, big swing’: Trump loses ground with white voters

CDC says it erroneously posted guidance that said coronavirus spreads through the air and travels beyond 6 feet

CCP media chief seems to confirm that they want Biden to win

... NFL BLM LOL: Sunday night football ratings crash by 17%

Ginsburg to lie in repose Wednesday and Thursday

House Democrats to unveil bill to avoid shutdown, fund government through December

Pennsylvania House of Reps prepares federal lawsuit over mail-in voting

Poll: Most Venezuelans want ‘capitalist’ nation

Trump, without evidence, accuses Democrats of fabricating Ginsberg’s dying wish

Coronavirus live updates: Millions in danger of missing stimulus checks, Black doctor’s group to vet vaccines

Uh oh: Biden says ‘200 million people’ will die by the end of his speech

Black Lives Matter deletes manifesto from website


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Leftovers

We all know what if is like to be served the remnants of an over-stocked meal for the third and fourth nights ... particularly if the original dinner was just so-so. You can just warm over mashed potatoes and grisly meat just so many times before it’s tossed out or given to the dog to turn it’s nose up to too.

If you have been reading this blog for any period of time, kind reader, you know where this post is going with this set-up ... yes, Socialism, Communism and other forms of Marxism ... all reheated versions of the same liberal dystopia that the next generation of Bernie Bros keeps trying to dress up with gravy and parsley to feed to us once again.

These equal-outcome ideologies have been tried over and over and over again ... from the Plymouth Colony, to Russia, to Vietnam, to Cuba ... and now Venezuela ... each time to fail miserably ... the misery suffered by the proletariat, not the leaders who had shielded their future with Swiss bank accounts. And each time, the excuse was that “it wasn’t done right.”

Now, we are offered these same leftovers by the power-hungry Democrats ... hoping that their strategy of hiding the sad history of this ideology by tearing these pages out of our children’s history books would allow them to once again run ... and ruin things.

No thanks, Comrade Biden.


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Mass Suicide

Jonestown

At least three cities, Seattle, Minneapolis and New York City, appear to be committing suicide (citycide?) in puckish defiance of Trump and the safety of their citizens. These are Democrat-controlled cities in Democrat-controlled states whose elected officials are either too weak or too stupid to pull themselves out of the death spirals they are obviously in.

President Trump has this rather unique effect on his opponents ... pushing them to commit hari kari as proof of their hatred of him. These city mayors and state governors are not alone in their political suicide ritual ... Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and much of the Democrat national establishment are also following the polls by denying Trump any hint of victory before the November election ... all in the hope that voters will not wake up to this deception and throw their sorry asses out of office.

So far, they seem to be right. Trump looks weak by his forced inaction and is slumping in the polls ... this is because coronavirus is making a comeback, the economy is still on life-support, the iconoclasts control many of our streets, and Congress is sitting on their hands. The Orangeman seems to sense that those three cities mentioned are booby-trapped if he were to try to fix things ... so he is without a good solution until public opinion has had enough of this lefty lunacy.

Will the US electorate awakening happen before Biden sweeps up and invites Xi to occupy the White House? The answer, dear liberal readers, is within yourselves. Are you willing to believe that Trump, if given half a chance, can Make America Great Again? Are Trump’s petty annoyances tolerable for another four years? It’s either that or we surely will become another Venezuela ... or, worse yet, Jonestown.

Today’s Poser

Is the current hoarding run on toilet paper in supermarkets because of  the coronavirus outbreak ... or because of people worrying we might be turning into Venezuela if Bernie wins the next round of Democrat primaries?

Headlines

Adam Schiff says Intel panel will continue to investigate Trump

A Bloomberg 2020 run could take big donors off the board for Biden, other Dems

Giuliani: They’re going to try to kill me ... will release documents if disappeared

Poll: Torres could win 64-seat majority, 19 -point lead over Labour

Pope on Hiroshima: Use and possession of atom bomb ‘immoral’

Iran faces its most critical moment since the 1979 revolution

Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for chills and fever ...

The real Sondland: Never Trumper, Jeb! donor

Giuliani: Talk of having an ‘instance policy’ on Trump is sarcasm

US wants China trade deal, but won’t turn a blind eye to Hong Kong, Trump national security adviser says

Biden lists four potential VP candidates — but can’t remember any of their names!

Congressman: Chile has well-founded suspicions Cuba, Venezuela funding riots

Civilization

“There is such a thing as too much civilization.” — Anon.

Do you get the sense that the patina of the world’s civilization is wearing thin? Watching cable TV would certainly lead one to conclude that it is ... given the barrage of insults that one hears there.  Of course the obvious culprit is President Trump who is not shy about expressing his thoughts, however hostile. This encourages his haters to wade even deeper into the wallow ... and so the back and forth.

A validation of this swing toward vulgarity is that Trump’s VP, Mike Pence, possibly one of the most honorable politicians around, hasn’t a snowflake’s chance in South Chicago of taking over from his boss in the 2024 election.

But is Trump’s behavior  a cause or a symptom? I suggest the latter. Civility is disappearing all around the world ... Hong Kong, Paris, Ecuador, Iran, Chile, London, Iraq, Venezuela, the House Intelligence Committee, etc. And Trump is but a bystander to these events.

Perhaps it is because civility must run in cycles? As civilization’s veneer is built up layer after layer with fairy-tale memes, it finally becomes too ridiculous for commoners to tolerate ... and the people revolt ... and this precious pretentiousness is scuttled.

To me, kind reader, it seems that we have hit this silliness ceiling ... which has spawned a huge partisan food-fight ... at the obvious cost of our country’s comity. Things won’t return to sereneness until all the fops are guillotined.

Responsibility

Are the people of San Francisco responsible for the deterioration of their city? The people of Venezuela responsible for their failed country? The people of Iran responsible for the insanity of their ayatollahs? The people of Nazi Germany responsible for the holocaust?

You know what? I have come to believe that a city or a country is the sum total of its people. And if these people live in a totalitarian shithole, they cannot shed the responsibility for what they have allowed to occur. The Iranians might be overall good people who like America and what we represent. But, if they allow their government to sponsor terrorism throughout the Middle East ... and their leaders to strive for the possible nuclear destruction of the world, then they are just as guilty as whom they have allowed to govern.

Sorry, kind readers, but yes, an evil society can contain a whole lot of good people. However, if there is enough evil in each of them that it accumulates to an overall evil ... then this society cannot be considered as good.

Reprise: The morality of a society is an amalgam of the morality of its people. — Anon.

Strife

There seems an epidemic of unrest around the world. The globe is aflame with strife against tyrannical regimes. Demonstrations and riots of all types are breaking out all over. To sample these venues, click on the hyperlinks below:

Hong Kong— Fox News Story

Venezuela — CNN Story

London — The Irish Times Story

Barcelona — US News Story

Ecuador — KIVITV Story

Lebanon — AlArabiya Story

Chile — The Guardian Story

The reason for all these altercations? Perhaps plastic straws or climate change?

Useless as Tits on a Bull

Russia brazenly annexed the Crimea and is proxy-fighting in the Ukraine.

Venezuela has been in free fall for years.

Hong Kong is in open revolt against China’s duplicity.

Ecuador is aflame.

Turkey has invaded Syria.

There is an Ebola crisis in West Africa.

North Korea is edging back toward open hostility.

World trade equanimity is full of flaws.

Iran keeps trying to trip the wire.

Where is the UN?

Oh yes, I forgot, they are distracted by Greta Thunberg ...

Headlines

Pompeo: U.K. must look after its own ships

Elizabeth Warren’s recession scare seems long on fear, short on facts

Poll: Even most DEMs don’t want border crossings demilitarized ...

Pete Buttigieg: White supremacy threatens to end United States

Rashida Tlaib: ‘I’m not going nowhere, not until I impeach this president’

Lawmakers strike two-year US debt ceiling and budget deal

Venezuela blames ‘electromagnetic attack’ on blackout ...

Brexit leader Boris Johnson wins race for UK prime minister

DOJ tells Mueller to limit testimony to his report

The market has a technical problem, making it ‘vulnerable’ to a rapid sell-off, JP Morgan

Lights go out in NYC — again ...

Huawei hopes Google will influence White House

Pay Attention

There are a few things that I wish President Trump and the Republican Party would pay more attention to. Yes, I realize that they already have a full plate with trade, immigration, North Korea, the next election, Iran, continued economic growth, the swing to Socialism, Venezuela, Russian mischief, etc.  And I suppose that we might cut Trump some slack on the following  issues. Nevertheless, it would be helpful if these problems were at least mentioned more as being solutioned in our future:

- Our continued deficit spending is continuing to drive up our national debt. We need to see some real moves by Trump and Co. to control this outflow. Some bipartisan support would also be nice.

- There really is a potentially explosive issue in the wide wealth disparity that exists between the classes in America. Although solutions to this problem run counter to the gut instincts of many conservatives, the eventual consequences of this disparity could create a societal rupture with serious consequences. I have made some suggestions along this line ... see: Me a Liberal?

- Fixing our infrastructure has a difficult path when America is running such huge deficits. But, this is an issue that Trump did identify when running for office ... and I believe he needs to fund a way to show some progress on this front.

- The United States finds itself hobbled by foreign entanglements ... most of them legacies from previous administrations. Clearly fixing these conundrums cannot be remedied all at once. But it would be nice if a few of these difficult problems ... Cuba, Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, Qatar, Philippines, etc. ... could be normalized.

So, on top of everything Trump is accomplishing, I want more. And I do believe that, if Trump is re-elected, these concerns have to be addressed.

Afterward: He’s reading my blog ... see: Stamford Advocate Story.

Hating Trump (another list)

Why do many Democrats and just about all of their candidates for president hate Donald Trump with a passion? Let me count the ways. (Dear reader, if you agree with entries on this list, ask yourself if they are of policy or personality? And which of the two is more important?) Here are many of the hating Trump points:

- He exaggerates (lies) in many of his tweets and pressers

- He often brags on himself

- He fights back ... insulting people and the media who attack him

- His has created too strong an economy

- He thinks that some who honor or hate Robert E. Lee are “fine people”

- He has reversed many Obama “changes” ... like war on coal and pipelines

- His nationalism has caused our allies to stop using us as a doormat

- He has called shithole countries “shitholes”

- He is very patriotic

- He has buttered up many tinhorn dictators (except in Iran)

- He apparently has grabbed females by their pussies (is this another lie?)

- He has embarrassed many NATO members into meeting their financial and troop commitments

- He is trying, against fierce Democrat opposition, to control immigration into the US

- He hasn’t released many years of his tax returns

- He is un-apologetically pro-Israel

- He didn’t conspire with Russia to win the last election

- He was angry with (obstructed?) Mueller for his baseless investigation

- He has put China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela and Syria in boxes

- He wants to keep Democrats from getting back their political power and pelf

- His hair is orange and his ties are too long

Headlines

Biden reverses abortion funding stand

If you want to know what a US tech crackdown would look like, check out what Europe did

Top US commander: Iran ‘threat imminent’ ...

House Democrats angling to give themselves a pay raise

White House pledges to barrel ahead with Mexico tariffs

India has to create more jobs. Modi may need some help from state governments

1,072,000 illegals [so far] this year ...

Ilhan Omar hit with campaign finance violations

DOJ, Commerce reject Dem subpoenas for census docs

China wants to pressure the US economy, but the finance sector is probably safe from Beijing

Venezuela now top source of asylum claims ...

Ted Cruz: Tariffs are ‘the wrong solution to the crisis’

Fiddling

Turmoil in Venezuela, North Korean escalations, possible Chinese trade talks collapse, the threat of war in Israel ... lots of international crises that Trump has to deal with. Does he really need a domestic one too? Nadler, Schiff and Pelosi have picked up their fiddles and are playing impeachment tunes while Rome burns. Do they not care that Trump has his hands full abroad?

Apparently not ... for they are scumbag politicians after all ...

Headlines

Trump’s Biden bashing splits his advisers

Qualcomm expects at least $4.5 billion from Apple settlement

Buzz Aldrin: Time to plot migration to Mars ...

Mueller objected to report rollout, but did not say it was inaccurate

Biden goes light on policy, heavy on emotion

Major Wall Street banks are telling clients to be ready for a sudden rip higher in the market

Moscow ‘installs nukes’ in Venezuela?

Mueller report: Special Counsel did not examine DNC servers

Powell ignores Trump, sees no need for Fed to cut rates

Tesla files for a shelf offering to raise capital

American military prepping for Guaido takeover ...

Ilhan Omar: ‘This is not going to be a country of white people’

On His Plate

President Trump has had to address so very many items that his predecessors chose to ignore. Here are just a few of the unsavory things he found on his plate on inauguration day:

- North Korean nuclear threat

- Grossly unfair trade relations with China and the EU

- Broken immigration laws, law enforcement and policies

- Run-away big tech and its insidious invasion of our privacy

- An untamed ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria

- Venezuelan economic and social decay

- Sluggish economic growth driven by bad tax laws and over regulation

- NAFTA’s  hollowing out of American industrial base (inc. steel and aluminum)

- NATO financial and forces slackers

- American armed forces reconstruction

- Activists US judicial system (inc. Supreme Court)

- Iranian nuclear threat and its sponsorship of worldwide terrorism

- A grossly biased American media

- Russian and Chinese worldwide hegemonic mischief making

- And many, many more ...

And, all the while, Trump, as he was addressing this unappetizing fare, was being spit on by the Deep State, the media ... and the Mueller Russian investigation.

Apropos

From Powerline blog

Apropos

Headlines

Pelosi aide sought to undercut Medicare for All

Bitcoin rallies 15% to highest level since Noverber

Whistleblower: Trump team overruled 25 security clearance denials ...

Hofstra students demand removal of Thomas Jefferson statue

Harris raised $12 million in 1st quarter of campaign

Manhattan real estate sales fall for sixth straight quarter — longest losing streak for 30 years

NASA says debris from India’s antisatellite test puts Space Station at risk ...

Kirk: Joe Biden is being eaten by his own monster ...

Senate fails to advance disaster aid package amid Puerto Rico clash

Venezuela’s top court seeks to strip Guaido’s immunity — raising fears of arrest

Polls: Black voters like Bernie just fine ...

Trump may appoint an Immigration Czar

Headlines

Mueller’s move dooms impeachment in Senate

Avenati arrested for alleged $29 million extortion plot against Nike, embezzling client’s money

Brennan: ‘I don’t know if I received bad information’ ...

MSM journalists turn on Obama CIA Director John Brennan

Supreme Court to consider new gerrymandering limitations

Trump’s tariffs costing Americans $1.4 billion per month, study shows

Israel strikes Hamas after Gaza rocket attack ...

Don Jr.: Adam Schiff is the ‘leader of the tinfoil hat brigade’ ...

Britain’s House of Commons takes control of Brexit

Democrats want full Mueller report released to Congress by April 2, while GOP resists

Russia deploys troops, equipment to Venezuela ...

France bans Iranian airline for shipping troops and weapons to Syria

Headlines

Centrists fear socialist tug will cost Democrats the House in 2020

American Airlines union tells pilots not to fly to Venezuela amid unrest

NKorea suspending nuke talks with USA?

Ocasio-Cortez questions ‘thoughts and prayers after mosque shootings

Why Trump didn’t stop a GOP revolt on his border emergency

US manufacturing output falls for second straight month

Brexit on delay ... Deal if May goes?

Maxine Waters: Wells Fargo CEO ‘should be shown the door’

Mass shootings at New Zealand mosques kill 49, 1 man charged

Oil demand is beating bearish forecasts and will push prices well above $70: Goldman Sachs

Israel hits 100 Hamas targets after rockets fired at Tel Aviv ...

Report: US has more millionaires than Sweden’s population