The Crying Nancies
A COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE: ELECTION 2024
Aw. Poor Nancy made a huge and extremely arrogant gamble in a desperate pursuit to circumvent democracy, but she doesn’t get to cry about it now. When Trump’s stooges tried it four years ago, he didn’t get to cry, either . . . and if memory serves, PELOSI was the first to say it.
PURPOSE: To thoroughly document for posterity and while events are still fresh the facts and my personal impressions of this truly historic and very complicated campaign cycle, which unfolded like a Fellini film. It is doubtless that future years (and media spin) will erase from memory all the incredibly bizarre and fantastic details of this grand political drama.
Biden & Trump
To begin this salacious and sordid story, I must hearken back to the 2020 election. Joe Biden had legitimately won, and the January 6th Riots were still very raw for many Americans, especially Democrats, who assigned the actions of those traitorous two thousand to every single Republican (while simultaneously awarding themselves a Boy Scout Merit Badge of Inherent Superiority for not being associated with it.) The media — an entire treacherous animal all on its own — was in on the fix to promote Biden in all things, and I don’t believe their role in any of what came to pass can possibly be overstated. (For instance, at least one of Kamala interviews were doctored to make her appear presentable.) There were many, many reasons why the 2024 election was the shellacking of a lifetime, despite the Democrat’s repeated claims it wasn’t (due to the popular vote, which Trump only won by 1.5%.) Dems again seem to fail to understand that the popular vote means absolutely nothing in this country, there’s actually very little reason to even have one, yes, 312-226 electoral votes is officially a landslide, and yes, it was a mandate, considering that Trump is a political pariah whom a wide swathe of the country is determined to hate in a truly wild-eyed, violent, and psychotic way. If not a mandate, at least a serious rebuke.
In my estimation, the media’s invective language and aggressive bias for the past ten years played no small part and made the vote more antagonistic rather than supportive to their ultimate goal. It is now obvious to me (a person with a naturally unsuspicious mind) that the Democrats and the media very clearly conspired together to gaslight the American public. Unfortunately for them, it was “too big to rig”, and their sacrilegious enterprise blew up spectacularly, resulting in both institutions being fired. (This time it was Trump and the American people who said: “You’re fired.”) The “underdog, against-all-odds, loathed” Republicans flipped both moderate Dems and Independents, securing the coveted Trifecta in the biggest comeback in modern political history . . . whereas Democrats, the majority party who enjoyed total control of the PR megaphone, lost all three branches of government: Executive, Judicial, and Legislative.
In just four years under Biden (in which we had all been promised an improved New Day that never came), the Democratic Party ushered in what longtime strategist James Carville calls the “Era of Jackassery”. The Democrats have reduced themselves from total political dominance to – again, the Ragin’ Cajun’s words – an “opposition party”. (It may be more realistic to define them as a “minority party”, since that’s the only kind of person whom they wish to represent; since they themselves are in the minority; and since they are on the point of being viewed as fringe, if they don’t pivot away from their current messaging and brand.) On the obverse, the legacy media has lost any nominal shred of credibility; for instance, there was one single conservative pundit on mainstream media who was so singular in his voice that he earned the title – on both sides of the aisle – of “Lonely Scott” Jennings. This, in a country with an alleged free press guaranteed to us in the First Amendment! It initially felt like I was the only one who saw the conflict, with as little as it was addressed in media. Few would remark on the imbalance, because it created a pleasant environment for like minds; but the voter saw it, and “media suppression” cases were brought before Congress. And so while the narrative would continue to flow that the Republicans were the ones who wanted to quash all the freedoms all the time, trust in that illusion was about to change speeds, and only the most devout and simple minds would continue believing that tired, boilerplate line as more and more people saw more and more of their liberties being stripped away in the form of thought, speech, and morality policing. These same people were trusting podcasts more for their news far more than they did the unabashedly biased – but traditional – networks such as MSNBC or CNN. Legacy media is equally as biased as a podcast, but illegitimately attempts to frame itself as a fair and balanced news source. Podcasts, on the other hand, don’t pretend to be anything but what they are and, alarming to me at least, it appears to possibly be the future of news. For example, seventy-seven-year-old Chris Wallace, one of CNN’s most trusted anchors, is leaving his desk for a podcast after the new year.
But all those years ago, back in 2020, the vista of Biden’s Big, Beautiful, Brilliant Brand New Day had yawned bright and shiny before us, and we watched with hopeful hearts as that Punic Wars relic shambled into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave at seventy-eight years old, the oldest man to ever assume that office. Americans wanted change, myself included, but concerns were already swirling; 74% of voters were worried about Biden’s advanced age. He assured us he’d just be a placeholder, only running one term. His platform? He would forgive student debt and act as the anti-Trump.
He had seemed sincere enough – it’s visibly obvious that Biden’s personal contempt for Donald runs deep, which resonated with like-minded voters; but the Student Loan Forgiveness plan was far more divisive, appearing to be a tawdry ploy to “buy” votes and only appealing to those who had student loans, while at the same time causing resentment for those who’d already paid theirs. Still to others, to people like me and Josh (who don’t have student loans but who’d gone to college because someone else had paid for it), Biden’s proposition didn’t seem entirely fair. It seemed to pander to a minority group, as well as subscribe to an extremely unadmirable and unattractive attitude seemingly rampant among said group. To me, standing on the outside, it only further fed into an already latent sense that the youth are whiny entitled freeloaders who would rather live in a woke nanny state than work and fulfill the commitments they’d agreed to when they’d originally signed those loans.
Although historically championed as the “Party of the Working Class”, endemic now within the Democratic party is a chronic obsession with appealing to the snob, the highbrow, the college educated making six figures a year. This makes little logical sense to me – that particular population of voters have already been indoctrinated in the ongoing anti-American propaganda that is churned out of the Department of Education, and their votes are already in the Democratic bag. It’s also not playing to the numbers game, since less than 40% of Americans even have a degree; and of those 40%, far fewer of them have student loans. Thus, Biden’s platform was targeted at a small minority of youth voters who were already programmed to vote Democrat, anyway, who already had a burning hatred for Trump and anything conservative, who were already conditioned to believe that the Earth would crash into the sun if Trump were reelected. This narrative was everywhere and inescapable: it came in the form of all legacy media, Hollywood, television, and even from the White House itself. It was so engrossing and all-consuming that I’m slightly surprised it didn’t somehow leech its way into serious music, such as Toby Keith’s “The Angry American” did after 9/11.
And so the rest of the working class was left holding Biden’s Big Bailout Bill bag, asking, “But what have you done for me lately?”
The Dems had no answer. Next question, please!
After Biden won the bid in 2020, he — strange to many, including wife Jill — chose Kamala Harris as his running mate. She was a suggestion made by perennial favorite and “Had-the-Democratic-Party-in-a-Headlock” Overlord Barack Obama (more on that lame duck later – he and Michelle have finally got to be finished, thank God. This 2024 election has taken down some serious people, from the Obamas to the Clintons to Joe Biden to George Clooney. How in the world does George Clooney fit in? It’s still so weird to me.) Who on earth is Kamala Harris? everyone wondered. Ohhh, that first round ousted radical California attorney turned Junior Senator from the debate, the one where Bernie Sanders looked like Lurch with his shoulders up over his ears. Ok, I remember. Harris viciously accused Joe Biden of being a racist and a misogynist.
“I’m going to start out by saying you’re not a racist, but I’ll immediately follow up that statement with my real statement, which is that, when you are unburdened by what can be, you are actually a sickening racist, whereas I myself am not a racist and can’t be, because as of right now, I identify as Indian, as that is what is most politically expedient for me; but in a few years, I will make myself conveniently Black, or southern, or an ex-McDonald’s employee, or all three.”
Which, to be fair, Biden is a racist. . . and to prove everyone wrong, he has disastrously installed a DEI cabinet, ostensibly to assuage his Old White Man Guilt . . . and perhaps partially to virtue signal over his racist record with bussing, and his racist and misogynistic record with Anita Hill.
Anita Hill. Here is a truly excellent example of the legacy media bias that paralyzed the nation. The Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill trial was a landmark case in American history, and Joe Biden was the Head Chairman for the Senate Committee that heard that trial in 1991. Biden chose to deny allowing three female witnesses from testifying for the prosecution, because he knew that their testimony would be damming to Thomas. Make no mistake: It was Joe Biden who, on a silver platter, delivered Clarence Thomas judgeship for life on the Supreme Court. That was Joe Biden. No one but me has ever brought it up, but how’s that working out now? Justice Thomas is the most conservative judge on the SCOTUS, which the Republicans now have completely sewn up until those judges retire or die. Sonia Sotomeyer is officially a token.
So given the evidence, let’s just admit it. Just because one does something for a long time doesn’t necessarily make one particularly good at it. Joe Biden has been a disaster since the 90s, at least. He’s so freaking old and out of touch.
However, Anita Hill was very conveniently never discussed, except I saw one little article which posited that all anybody was going to have to say in 2020 to stop Joe Biden dead in his tracks would be to speak her name. So why, then, was this never addressed during that election cycle? Interesting, didn’t I think, that in 2020, post the George Floyd Fiasco, that the media wasn’t seizing on the former sexual oppression by the President-elect towards a strong, beautiful Black woman who was simply trying to make it in her career? Fairness and the social order of the day dictated that they must. If these glaring faults were true of a Republican candidate, you can be sure that the media would be decrying it with the most extreme language. So where was the outrage? Many Americans at this time were theoretically unaware that insincere, selective, performative outrage was an inherent and thematic element within the Democratic Party, and so there was no indignation, because the media had already chosen Joe Biden as their darling. He deserved it! He’d been in service to this country for over fifty years! My personal sense is more that he got a job and stuck with it, in no small part because it gives him the power to feed his enormously ravenous ego. Trump is a scoundrel, there is no doubt about that . . . but so is Biden, make no mistake, both personally and professionally, and the media did their level best to keep the voters uninformed on that point. This sycophantic relationship wherein the media acted as a servile host and Biden as a demented, bumbling parasite would only become more intense as his tenure progressed.
Now, I gotta fess up and admit I’m not personally absolved of the mess that followed the 2020 election. I voted for Biden. However, my vote was not so much for Joe Biden as it was against what Donald Trump represented in that moment, and that is an important distinction that cannot be overstated or underestimated. Biden had looked like a way out, and he was the only option. And so he won the election handily. Surrounded by elated party associates, Hollywood elites, and ingratiating family members, so dazzled was Joe by his own success that he failed to internalize the true motive behind his election. His ego — while not as clearly visible to the outside observer as is Trump’s — actually equal to or larger than his opponent’s. But alas! This would not be revealed to the electorate until it was tragically far too late, because it seems the Democrats didn’t think we, the people, ought to be privy to such knowledge. However, given the gravity of apparent “destruction” the Democrats are now telling us that Biden has wrought upon the country, it’s rather inarguable that his ego must match or even eclipse Trump’s. Biden actually believed he’d been elected as a result of his own merits and not because he was the most conservative Democrat available on the ticket and, again, our only possible option if we meant to condemn January 6th.
Things started out well enough. Anything was going to be an improvement over the recent riot from which anyone who wasn’t a right-wing nutjob was made appalled – I personally think people should be publicly hanging from yardarms for treason, and I’m sickened that Trump is going to pardon them now. They’re going to get away with it, and it ain’t right. People died in that Rightest attack. But Biden, who had won the ticket by running the middle, reacted by suddenly pivoting hard Left, filling his cabinet not only with DEI hires but also Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren aides. Did he do this of his own volition? The world may never know, but we all have our serious doubts.
A little over a week has now passed since the 2024 polls closed – the House poll took a week – and the Democratic Party is still trying to figure out to whom, exactly, they want to assign blame. There is no shortage of candidates for this charming sacrificial lottery. But soon they shall make deeper inquiries, such as: Precisely when did Joe Biden lose his grip? I think it may be as far back as 2020, when he began filling his cabinet, because those people did not represent Joe Biden’s politics as he had represented them to the American people; thus his politics failed in representing the people who’d won him the election.
The Democrats have an inherent identity problem in that they pander to the youth via their extremists, represented by shrieking harpies like Bernie Sanders, AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters, and formerly Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, etc. These are not people that normal Americans admire, respect, or whose values they share. Not to say that the Republicans don’t have their own mental patients: MTG and Lauren Boebert are two excellent examples. They’re there, they were elected, and I accept that there are bound to be idiots on both sides when you are trusting regular people to elect other regular people. That’s what a democracy is — mostly you win with this system, but sometimes you lose. However, the Republicans, from what I can see, somewhat contain their mentally deficient family members. Somewhat. They manage it better than the Democrats, who literally boast about letting these particular individuals set all the house rules. This manifested in a host of social ways (ie, defund the police, legalize prostitution, legalize all drugs, etc), but the issues most pressing to Americans as a whole – issues the Democratic Party unwisely chose to ignore – were: DEI politics; Identity politics; and Trans Rights.
To keep it short in a long treatise: Americans don’t like any of them. DEI has been a disaster, because, you can’t simply stick a person in a position of authority and expect them to perform well just because you feel guilty over things that happened before the Civil War. Get real. You’re only setting them up for failure, and you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. It also didn’t do anything to help the narrative that POC are capable. All that happened was POC were put into positions they were not qualified for, based solely on their gender, sexual preferences, and skin color; they predictably failed in those roles; and now there is probably a latent belief among many (and not entirely undeserved due to optics), that POC aren’t as capable as white people. I believe this shall be a long-lasting and very socially damaging effect of Biden’s supposed “legacy”, and for me personally, it further taints an already deeply flawed man.
Then there was the Abbey Gate terrorist attack on August 26th, 2021. Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was an embarrassing horror show, wherein thirteen soldiers died, another forty five were injured, more than one hundred and seventy Afghan civilians were killed, and we left millions of dollars of materiél behind. Per a CNN article published 8/16/21: “After declaring ‘America is back’ following the alienating and destabilizing Trump era on his first overseas trip to Europe earlier this summer, Biden’s first real foreign policy crisis is over a botched US retreat. And the President’s clarion calls for the protection of democracy abroad will be undermined by his decision to abandon a fragile democratic government in Afghanistan.” (For more detailed information on the Abbey Gate incident, see: Hell at Abbey Gate: Chaos, Confusion and Death in the Final Days of the War in Afghanistan — ProPublica)
Anguished Afghanis at Abbey Gate
This failed operation would never stop haunting Biden throughout the rest of his presidency.
We lived in an age where there were two entirely different narratives occurring simultaneously — the one being shouted at us through the Democratic megaphone, and then the actuality of Life in These United States. However, the Dem “message” gearing up towards the 2024 election was that anyone who voted Republican must be all in on authoritarianism and was therefore an unamerican sycophant. At best, this summation was:
“{A total} misreading of the electorate. Voters, including conservative ones, don’t want an authoritarian state. But liberals and progressives consistently fail to recognize the ways in which their own side violate those norms, or seek to impose their own forms of authoritarianism.
Do any Democrats understand that trying to throw your opponent in jail, or bankrupt him with doubtful suits, or strike his name from the ballot, isn’t democratic? Do they understand that they can’t credibly talk about Trump’s threat to our governing traditions when they are also calling to pack the Supreme Court or end the Senate Filibuster? Do they comprehend that trying to strong arm Facebook into suppressing “misinformation” violated the spirit of the First Amendment?
Do they understand that lying about Joe Biden’s health was reminiscent of Soviet propaganda during the reigns of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko? (Nothing to see here but a cheapfake!) Do they recognize the chilling effects of the Progressive Speech Police? One of the reasons Trump won is that Democrats all but erased the difference between them and Republicans when it came to the question of adhering to “democratic norms”.”
A large piece of Dem propaganda that would come back to bite them big time as the election drew nearer was the unbelievably arrogant and highhanded “Don’t believe your lying eyes or your rapidly shrinking bank balance — the economy is FINE, just fine, we eat well in Washington, so shut the hell up, you whiny bitches” canned line the administration spewed pretty much from the outset as regarded their ironically named “American Rescue Plan”, introduced in March of 2021, just two months after Biden’s election.
Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s Press Secretary and The Ultimate DEI Hire, Dropping Her Infamous White House “Wisdom”
This is not really a caricature of what this woman tried to pass off as “information” on the daily. I personally find both her brain and face highly offensive, and I imagine you would have to use a mirror to fight her, like Perseus did with Medusa.
The “American Rescue Plan” was to be the coup de grace of Biden’s presidency (and it would also be his “legacy” and his Enduring Gift to America), but really it was a contentious and ultimately disastrous multitrillion – that’s trillion with a “T” – trap that tied the Senate. Kamala, as VP, predictably broke in favor of the Democrats, as was her duty. It’s always so nice for her when she doesn’t have to actually think about anything.
The results of the other expensive bill, the infrastructure bill, will not be felt until long after Biden is dead (I realize he’s about to die, anyway, but I mean over several decades); however, the inflation that was created was felt immediately following the American Rescue Plan. And when I say ‘immediately’, I mean almost within the same hour — inflation jumped over 5% that very day, eventually spiraling to 22%, a forty-year high. Prices have skyrocketed and remain at that level. To put this into dollars-and-cents perspective, it now costs the average American household more than $11,500 per year under Biden, and over four years, $28k. This was confirmed in reports from economists, CNN, NBC, and The Ways and Means Committee with our own government during the Biden administration.
“None of these failures would be possible without Vice President Harris. She cast the deciding vote to advance the worst parts of the Biden-Harris agenda.”
Key issues included: Families falling behind on bills; 20.3% price increase on everything; real wages and benefits fell 3.9%; inflation was above the Fed’s target for forty straight months; inflation outpaced wages for twenty six straight months; interest rates hit their highest levels in twenty three years; mortgages averaged $970 more per month and median home prices were 85% higher than when Biden took office; one trillion dollars in debt for five calendar quarters; Americans’ personal savings were at historic lows. This is not about whether people earned more money in that time period — later, people will point to these wage increases as evidence that the economy wasn’t so bad. This argument is so disingenuous and simplistic and frankly amnesiac. Yes, people earned more money on their paycheck, but their buying power was in the toilet.
Folks noticed, and as time wore on, anger simmered hotter; the Democratic Party chose to ignore this bellwether, having decided to run with some bizarre economic theory called “Modern Monetary Theory” that dictated “not to be too concerned with the effects of inflation”. This is a direct quote, and I fail to understand why any administration would adopt a policy with this as its foundation; it definitely sounds like Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren aide mischief to me. Some people may like to try novel approaches that play fast and loose with every rule we know about finance, but most do not, and it’s just not wise to surround yourself with those of that ilk for the long game — Americans are never going to accept Progressives in Real Power, and modern Progressive Democrats cannot seem to internalize that this is the population they are stuck with as far as the voters.
In 2022, at the midterm, all the Democrats, Progressive or not, were riding high on positive poll numbers and glowing feedback . . . but only amongst themselves. This is key. It makes sense they were only polling among themselves — it was a primary — but they paid no attention to what was happening across the aisle, and this is a party with a tendency to turn inward, to surround themselves only with other Democrats, and who openly admit — and take pride in the point — that they will not associate with Republicans. This habit led to a false worldview about reality that felt confirmed as true by the media. Their complete disdain for the opposing party is prejudicial; were it directed at any other group, it would not be tolerated, but the omnipresent sense in the ether is that all Republicans are uneducated racists worthy of hatred. And while the language being used against Trump (“Hitler”; “fascist”; “draconian”) openly stated plenty, no one in government had come right out and said it about the voter. Not since Hillary Clinton had made the costly faux pas of calling those who’d voted against her “deplorable” during her 2016 run against Trump.
Joe Biden would soon change this, and with a timing that was either brilliant or disastrous, depending on if you were a Republican or a Democrat. (It appears the new go-to move in Washington is, when all else fails, to call your opponent a name, the more outlandish and/or childish, the better. It matters not whether you are a Republican or a Democrat; it’s something upon which both parties are in complete agreement. And while some extremists on either side may revel in the “Hitler/Libtard” language dichotomy, or find it amusing, I think that by and large, the American public — which is actually mostly represented by a third group called the Independents — is unimpressed by this sophomoric pettiness.)
Up until the minute the 2024 results were called, the Democratic Party’s chronic hypocrisy as they hid behind their cheerful banner of championing so-called “rights” (and how they likewise enjoyed complete control of the national narrative via a corrupted media) rendered them seemingly unchallengeable and impervious to consequence. However, the result of living in such an insular echo chamber wherein you refuse to look at a conservative news article or associate with a conservative person in one’s social life meant that they had lost the pulse on the nation. Joe Biden himself was no different. Surrounded by the Hollywood elite, toady friends, obsequious family, and the other jesters at White House court, there were plenty of people to pet him and assure him he was a star unlike any other. His vanity again took the bait, and like Sally Fields accepting her Oscar, Joe believed that we liked him, we really, really liked him.
We really, really don’t. In just one and a half short years, he would become deeply unpopular, and his “immortal legacy” (previously so revered by the Democratic Party) would be thrown under the bus as the elites cannibalized him, their own elected president and theoretically the most powerful man in the world – in order to self-anoint a new candidate without even holding a primary. Was it the Democratic Party or the Donner Party? It was getting harder and harder to tell. The architect of this Biden Backyard Barbecue would be Joe’s oldtime pal, Queen Bee Bitch Nancy Pelosi; but her role in the following debacle would prove to be a ghastly mistake. (After the election results in November, Pelosi’s scramble to point the finger at anyone but herself in the complete collapse of the Democratic Party is, to me, both maddening and insulting to watch, as though she truly thinks we can’t remember everything that happened less than four months ago. Perhaps she is under this impression because some Leftist Democrats seemingly can’t. For instance, Leftist Democrats are now convinced and even arguing that they voted for Kamala in the primary, even though there was no 2024 primary and she wasn’t on the 2022 midterm. Josh has spoken to one, and I have spoken to one, both of whom remain unconvinced that they did not and could not have voted for Harris unless they were an electorate. These people are both well-educated adults. One is a successful business owner who went to the most expensive college in the country; the other one boasts about being a lawyer. This perhaps reveals some insight into how emotion is choking the logic of even the most educated among us. Either that, or there is a deep failure by extreme Leftists to understand even the most basic tenets of our system. Other examples include: “Trump is going to come after your family” or Whoopi Goldberg claiming on The View on 11/6 that she “knew too many people who had died trying to vote” for Kamala. Serial leftist Susan Sarandon said last November that “a lot of people are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence . . . There are so many people out of work right now [since] November of last year . . . who have lost their jobs as custodians, as writers, as painters, as people working in the cafeteria, substitute teachers who have been fired because they tweeted something, or liked a tweet, or asked for a ceasefire.”
Hyperbole. I want names. Upon whose family did Trump sic the dogs? Who died trying to vote? The people who were fired post 10/7 weren’t fired for “tweeting something”, they were fired for the appalling content of their tweets. We saw their words. That’s the problem with putting something on the internet: It leaves a record. So just stick that in the round file and understand for the zillionth time – nothing being said is believable unless one already does or wants to believe it. To normal people who aren’t plagued by TDS, this kind of narrative is exactly the opposite of helpful.
However, this was the accepted rhetoric surrounding the 2024 election, of which the media was one hundred percent complicit, to the point of collusion and lying.
Incumbent Biden, now thoroughly convinced he was a Great Man, was basically the only real candidate the Democrats envisioned for their 2024 primary . . . even though one of his campaign promises had been to only commit to one term. (That promise would be realized, but not by his own design.) Kamala, who wasn’t on the primary, predictably got zero votes . . . the same exact number she got in 2020. Biden won almost fourteen and a half million votes . . . and very soon, every last one of them would be disenfranchised by Nancy Pelosi, Barrack Obama, and George Clooney, the exact same people who had sold Biden to the American people during the primary.
However, Dem votes still counted at the time, and Biden had walked off with almost 88%. His head promptly inflated like an actor with a cold in a Sudafed commercial; and these statistical numbers (upon which the Democratic Party relies in a manner reminiscent of 1942 pencil-pushing Nazis) gave them false security. However, even then, a shift had occurred; barely reported and with no alarm from the media, (ostensibly since the Senate was under Democratic control) Republicans had flipped seats in the House during the midterm two years before, in 2022. The Republicans had already started to make their move, but it was another bellwether ignored.
At this juncture, I think it’s worth looking back at the last three presidents: In 2012, Barrack Obama won his first term 51% to Romney’s 47% — Romney! In 2020, Biden won by 51% is all. Trump as the incumbent got 47%. It is critical to note that Biden won in 2020 because the Democrats were able to cobble together ten groups of 5% people and their sympathizers (eg, easily categorized voters). The groups may have won them the presidency, but those same groups have now destroyed the Democratic Party (see blog: Democratic Death Spiral — The First 100 Days). I find it highly unlikely that the Democratic Party is ever again going to be able to harness the extraordinary circumstances of being able to piece together so many different activists with so many different agendas into one cohesive whole; I think they may have tried an encore with their attempt to unite everyone in the Trump Hatred, but it failed to work. Really, it had the opposite effect. I also find it very unlikely that Dems will produce or find another person with as compelling an “it” factor as Barrack Obama once enjoyed.
Meanwhile, inflation continued strangling American households, and the price of groceries and gas became exorbitant. Butter costs $7/lb; bacon, $12. Gas is over $4 a gallon. Karine-Jean Pierre (Biden’s dreadful, contentious DEI hire press secretary whom everyone hates and whom the White House privately tried to oust last year, but couldn’t, because she is a DEI hire) reads to us daily from her binder, sternly telling us that the economy is incredible. Maybe it is. But most people don’t know what “the economy” even is. It may as well be a concept, and average people don’t care about “the economy” except for how it materializes for them in dollars and cents and things they can feel in their hands.
Republicans understood this. Again, Democrats did not.
On October 7th, 2023, there was a craven, cowardly, surprise attack on concertgoers at the NOVA music festival in Israel wherein Jews were raped, burned, and butchered by animalistic Palestinian terrorists involved with a political group called Hamas. Hostages were taken, and some of them, theoretically, are alive today, even though I am personally very skeptical.
The relationship between Israelis and the Palestinians is complex, but the Israel-Hamas War is a very simplistic, black and white issue. The United States, as her ally (and also because Israel is our only ally in that volatile part of the world) should prop the Jews up by all means necessary; Israel should do what she needs to protect her own sovereignty; and she should be allowed to go on the offensive in a war being made against her without the condemnation of the world. Such would be the case for any other country. Nor does it make sense that the Palestinians, Muslims by trade, should be allowed to be given their “river to the sea”. It’s absurd to accept the notion that there should be fifty Muslim nations in this world and zero Jewish ones, and at the same time contend that you are not antisemitic and prejudicial in this thought.
The world rocked off its axis, and for me, this is when the real cracks in the Biden administration would no longer bear any kind of inspection. People were angry – they’d been angry for years. They’d been angry about theoretical social things under Trump, but now they were angry about practical things like the cost of batteries, and they were looking for more reasons to be angry. I do think that played a role — a body in motion stays in motion, and an anger that’s simmering is ripe for a boil.
Republicans took the right side of history while Democrats went hard and rabid for the wrong one. They’re still doing it; they badly want to apply the Oppressor/Oppressed dialogue onto the situation as a result of the systemic brainwashing that has taken place in this country, thanks to the ruination that describes the Department of Education. The Dems badly want to complicate something that is very uncomplicated.
As a result of the decades of ongoing and often anti-American indoctrination happening in our schools from grammar to university, a shocking number of people – leftist Democrats all – are aligned with terrorists. Let me repeat that. Leftist Democrats have aligned themselves with murderous terrorists who raped women to death, baked babies, and played frisbees with amputated breasts . . . and then tried to foist off the narrative that Republicans are “evil” or “bad people” because of whom they might choose to elect in a democratic election. This, from the side who had aligned themselves with the terrorists! Is your head spinning yet? How in the world do they reconcile their own “supreme intelligence” and balance their “high emotional IQs” with this narrative? There’s just no way. Be sure that this point would have been brought up nonstop if the reverse were true, but because the Democrats’ darlings, the Leftists, were the ones behaving in this shameful manner, it was widely accepted by the “Girl Friday”-esque liberal media.
This is the truth and there is no other way to spin it or look at it. What was happening as far as the legacy media’s “information and truth telling” was very skewed to the point of open complicity with the Democratic Party. It finally reached such heights that it was heard before Congress that the conservative voice was being systematically oppressed in this country. The hearing found that the evidence supported the claim. Did anybody read anything about this in the news? Of course not! Over the next few months, the machinations of the media machine would begin to break down when newspapers refused to endorse a candidate, when their owners wrote open editorials chastising their own staff and the industry at large for unbalanced reporting, when all the polls came back saying that Americans’ trust in the media was at an all-time low. And still, the media could never resist, they kept trying to run their ingratiating game with even more fervor, until the minute the election was called.
Of course, our official position is that we, the United States, support Israel. But Biden’s enormous ego won’t stop getting in the way. He has a personal problem with Netanyahu, who is no peach himself and wildly unpopular worldwide. The two men bicker; Biden makes childish threats to withhold this, that, and the other unless Israel lengthens the war by making ridiculous concessions to Hamas, who is losing, and badly. It is nonsensical. Quit the war you’re winning! Predictably, Netanyahu replied, “Yeah, no.” The relationship has become so fractured that Israel no longer shares intelligence with us. They are our one ally in the entire Middle East, but that relationship is not as important to the Biden/Harris administration as was capturing the Dearborn, Michigan Muslim’s 2024 vote. Naturally, the most important thing in the entire world is that Michigan always swings, and an election year was coming up! Again we see more evidence of the party pandering to an infinitesimal minority simply because they, the party, wanted to represent them instead of the nation as a whole. It’s good optics, in their estimation; it fit nicely with the “Oppressor/Oppressed” propaganda.
But that’s not the way it works in America. Parties don’t (or shouldn’t) aggressively recruit voters like missionaries, based by niche; and voters hopefully take pride in the fundamental idea that we make up our own minds about the issues and sign ourselves to those thoughts on a secret ballot that is uninfluenced by anyone. It seems to me that the Democratic Party may have lost the thread on that very, very basic principle . . . and this sense is further evidenced by their extremely heavy reliance on (read: paid) celebrity endorsements during Kamala’s 2024 run on Trump, wherein they truly believed that Cardi B’s opinion would have any material effect whatsoever on the voting public. Good grief. If Oracles Barrack and Michelle Obamas’ opinions didn’t, what chance was there for a nothing burger like a pop singer?
But as regards the war in Israel, I cannot even credit the media – or the White House – with being impartial in their reporting of a foreign war. Again the media played the Democratic agenda — it’s almost like jury tampering, really. I hate to sound like Donald Trump, but they truly tried to rig the game. The language that was used in the articles written (surprisingly, disgustingly, and oftentimes by Muslim authors) reported unconfirmed data from Hamas rather than Israel (eg, “Hamas reports” vs “Israel claims”) – Hamas, who is labeled a terrorist organization by 35 nations! This trend continues today. The BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post have all sold their souls; they are Islamophilic. Antisemitic attacks are up hundreds of percent all around the world; when questioned about it, White House press secretary KJP answered by not speaking to that at all, instead only referencing “Islamophobia”, of which I can only recall one case after October 7th. Erstwhile, attacks against Jews in this country have increased 360% since this time last year (Jews who make up 2% of the population and 60% of the hate crimes), Jewish students were being disallowed from parts of campus unless they disavowed their religion, and Leftists were, without incident, going around ripping down posters of the Jewish (and American) hostages that Hamas had captured. The Biden/Harris administration barely acknowledged that Americans had even been left behind there, and for the first time in my life, I lost the golden security I had always felt in that I was an American, God damn it, and they were going to come for me and get me out of there, no matter what. It didn’t matter that I am just a Little Person – America would send her best guys to bring me home. I thought that, because that’s the way it had always been. Now I think, Maybe they won’t. They didn’t go after those Jewish-Americans. And that tracks, for this administration, in three big strikes: Joe is Catholic, and Catholics hate Jews; Kamala is not only a liberal, but one who is positively reeking of California stink (read: believes in taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegal immigrant prisoners, more on that later); and Liberals (more “educated” than the rest of us lowly rubes chewing on a hayseed and gazing vacantly at that big blazing ball in the sky) have been indoctrinated at university to hate Jews.
This extremely one-sided bias continues to this day: for instance, there was an orchestrated pogrom that took place in Amsterdam wherein Muslim subhumans with Palestinian flags hunted Jewish soccer fans in the street, beating and stabbing as they screamed “Free Palestine” alongside curses in Arabic.
“Violence Tied to Soccer Game Prompts Dozens of Arrests in Amsterdam. The police said 57 people were arrested amid violence tied to a game between Dutch and Israeli teams. Israel’s government said the attacks were driven by antisemitism.”
This headline is biased. It suggests English soccer hooliganism of the kind Nick Hornby wrote about with fond recollection in Fever Pitch. That’s not what this was, at all.
The backlash was immediate – “Hi, NY Times. We fixed it for you: ‘Violent Antisemitic Pogrom Prompts Israeli Rescue Mission to Amsterdam. The police said 57 people were arrested after terrorists lynch Jews who were in Amsterdam to watch a game between Dutch and Israeli teams. The attacks were driven by antisemitism.’”
“I fixed your appalling headline. ‘Israeli Soccer Fans Brutally Beaten by Antisemitic Mobs in Amsterdam. The police said dozens of people had been arrested amid violence tied to a soccer game’ . . . Editor’s note: Really? This was just a spat over a soccer game???”
This incident was resolved through Israel sending emergency planes to Holland to rescue their athletes. Amsterdam couldn’t or wouldn’t control it themselves.
This is just one example of what has been ongoing in the media regarding Israel and the Jews since October. The pushback is very rarely this intense, and very few people seem to be defending the Jews.
Nationally, the country was divided. There were a lot of squeaks coming from Leftist wheels about the oppressive nature of Israel, the inherent rottenness of Netanyahu, and the United States’ role, as an arms dealer in the death of these 43,000 Palestinians, mostly children. Democrats wrung their hands and sang “Imagine all the people”; Republicans rolled up their sleeves and got to work, holding Senate hearings to bring those who had allowed the antisemitism to go unchecked on college campuses to account.
And still, the narrative being blasted out at us on the television (and also sometimes from a White House that was trying very hard to play both ends against the middle and who in the end pleased no one), was that war is evil, Israel is a colonizer, and any “Zio” who supported the war or “Israhell” at all were officially evil human beings. There is no middle ground for the extremists in the Democratic Party. You’re either all in or you are an “oppressor”.
But this proved to be a bridge too far; there were too many moderate Democrats, older, who had not previously been indoctrinated in the fashionable antisemitic rhetoric now omnipotent in higher education. They were made confused by this strange new dialogue. They saw the strategic benefit of Israel as an ally in the Middle East. They valued that Israel is the only democracy over there.
In short: Older Democrats that are further away from their college educations, or who don’t have one at all, knew what was right versus what was wrong. There have been no numbers to confirm or deny my position that I am aware of, but based on the results of the election, I have to believe this is true. And this point gives me faith that perhaps we are not as divided on the issues as the media, academia, and the youth would like to portray that we are. It appears the majority of people, Republican and Democrat alike, agree that a college education in modern America is quickly becoming a liability, and this is even being reflected in the workplace as more and more companies refuse to hire graduates from entire classes of certain universities — elite universities — based on their discriminatory records.
The average Democratic voter was/is (this is still true today) far more center than the Party would either see or admit. Joe Biden would come out and say something in support of Israel in the morning; that afternoon, KJP would come out and say something about the terrible risks of the non-existent Islamaphobia plaguing us all (erstwhile, Jewish students were being beaten on campuses); later that evening, both Biden and Harris would state that “both sides have a point” . . . which was no different from Trump saying “there are good people on both sides” during Charlottesville, but of course, the media blipped right over Biden and Harris suggesting that terroristic violent aggressors, many of them foreigners here on student visas, “had a point”.
Somewhere in all the middle of this, two things happened: Biden’s Big Student Debt plan, a cornerstone of his platform, turned to ash in his hands, thrown out as illegal by a federal judge; and Trump went to court over 34 indictments.
He was convicted. Of all of them.
And no one cares.
Democrats try to bring it up sometimes. No one cares. Everyone cares so little that when people bring it up, it just sounds whiny. It’s beyond bizarre that no one cares, but no one cares. And the reason that no one cares is because the Democrats went on an insane witch hunt that made them look like damn fools and a party of Harvard lawyers, and so everyone completely lost interest in those dorky nerds. It was so targeted that, even though Dems had the patent on inventing new words, the Republicans came up with one that actually stuck: Lawfare. The Biden-Harris administration (and any prosecutor eligible and willing) were clearly going after this one man, any way they could, and it wasn’t in the name of democracy, despite what they said. This was personal – they just hated him. The singular goal of the Democratic Party (figuratively, but not outside the possibility of maybe literally, as we will later see) was to Kill Trump. (Later, after his inauguration, their OFFICIAL motto would become “Fuck Trump”, which is just so very, very professional and dignified and indicative of the way the Democratic Party is headed.)
Trump was convicted. In the words of Mercedes from The Count of Monte Cristo: “Did you do these things?” And in the words of Count Mondego: “Yes.” He’s guilty as the day is long, and no man should be above the law. Make no mistake, I’m of the Law-and-Order, Collar-the-Lot kind; it ain’t hard to keep your nose clean. But my dudes. The Democrats were so ridiculous in their overreach that it seemed like a kangaroo court, and I just kept hearing in the back of my mind the defense lawyer from The Ghosts of Mississippi truthfully telling the jury that if the system didn’t work for a piece of shit like Byron De La Beckwith, it didn’t work for anyone. Clearly I wasn’t the only one who felt this way, because Trump’s popularity soared after the convictions. People thought he had been treated unfairly, the way that that Weeble-Wobble NYC prosecutor Alvin Bragg had gone after him for tax implications that had never before been tried in court.
So in the Democratic Party’s dogged enterprise to demonize the man, all they did was martyr him.
As 2024 began drawing closer, excitement started building around the upcoming elections. Concerns about Biden’s age had intensified — we had all seen footage of him staring into space, toddling around, wandering offsides like a moron around world leaders at important historical commemorations, and being manhandled by his truly awful, Lady-Macbeth-reincarnate wife, Jill.
“We finally beat Medicaid.”
The International Brass were whispering behind their hands while Americans watched with a creased brow: What . . . the . . . hell . . . was . . . going . . . on? The White House and the Democratic Elite (including Nancy Pelosi, we absolutely cannot forget, including Nancy Pelosi) haughtily assured us that Joe Biden was sharp as ever and juggling knives on a unicycle as he barked out his daily commands from the Oval Office. This narrative would continue with fever pitch throughout mid-summer, until the ultimate throwdown of Biden Beneath the Bus. At the time that it happened, I said he would take many of the Old Guard down with him, and he did; but as of today, 12/17/24, it unfortunately and unfairly looks like Nancy Pelosi, who in my estimation was so instrumental in this complete collapse of the party here at the end, is going to escape the firing squad. (She is not going to escape the Marble Stairs, though. She recently fell and broke her hip somewhere in Europe.)
At this point in the game, it is important to note that Biden was a deeply unpopular president, a status he continues to enjoy to this day. His approval ratings were in the low thirties, and in my estimation, he is the worst president in modern times and may very well be the worst in all of American history; it’s a race between him, Jackson, Hoover, and Van Buren, despite Pelosi’s repeated fawning claims in late summer that Biden should be “featured on Mt Rushmore”. (It should be mentioned that, as of today, she is blaming him entirely for everything.) Kamala Harris at that time, as the second most vapid person in Washington, was polling as one of the most unpopular politicians of consequence in that fabled city. So while I understand that in hindsight, some people have a natural desire to put on their love goggles and believe that they have always liked her, this is just not true of the American people as a collective whole. She was the first ousted in the 2020 Primary — she didn’t even make it to Iowa. Iowa!
“A former speechwriter for Barack Obama said Joe Biden had polling that showed he would get crushed by Trump in the election – and that his vice president would face a similar fate.
“Still, the president pushed Kamala Harris as the choice to replace him.
“‘The Biden campaign’s own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes (out of a possible 538, or 74% of the country.) That is what their own internal polling said.’ Biden dismissed the polls. ‘He refused to believe polling that showed he was unpopular. They also kept talking about the economy’s success and refused to believe people were upset about inflation.’”
The Democratic Party had been lying to the American people for at least a year about the status of Biden’s health, aggressively stage managing him and surrounding him with a tight-lipped, Rasputin-y inner circle wherein the aides had more power than those in appointed positions.
Biden’s Oval Office
“Dr” Jill (she insists on being called “doctor” even though she has a doctorate in education) sometimes took over in speeches and White House meetings. The Democratic Party just kept bop-bop-bopping along, business as usual, promising us that the economy is great! But the voters were, at the least, dismayed, and at most, appalled and infuriated by what was happening . . . and we did not fail to notice that the rent had gone up yet again.
On June 27th, 2024, the country sat down in front of our televisions to watch the one and only scheduled debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, being held in Atlanta . . . and it was a shit show. There’s unfortunately no other way to describe it. Trump lied — and plenty, that was to be expected — but what dwarfed it was Biden’s unexpected fulfillment of his campaign promise in unifying the country at last. We were now unified in our opinion that his performance was rambling, disastrous, raspy, weak, and terrifying to see as a citizen imagining that this man oversaw our nuclear codes. It begged the question: Who is driving this train? It couldn’t possibly be him. I felt like Jill Biden must be our secret president, or whatever Wormtongue aide was whispering in Biden’s ear on any particular day. It definitely wasn’t Kamala – that woman cannot think. At this point, even Democrats (many of whom would soon suffer a truly remarkable case of mass group amnesia), remembered she couldn’t think. She was frequently telling us how much she loved Venn diagrams, and how we could solve all our problems by drawing Venn diagrams, and that we “had not just fallen out of the coconut tree”, and — her personal favorite — that we should look to “what can be, unburdened by what has been.” Her speeches were always mocked, even in the liberal media:
Other examples of Kamala’s Greatest Hits are: “America was founded on the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to make your own decisions about your body, the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride.” (I have no idea what she’s talking about, but I assure you, America most certainly was not founded on any one of those things); “Inspire us by helping us to be inspired”; “The problem of solving a problem is not a problem, but when a problem solves a problem without any problem, then the problem is not at all a problem” What? Was she kicked in the head by a horse? We didn’t know, we didn’t care, she was a ditzy politician whom the electorate did not like.
Unbeknownst to anyone, Kamala’s five minutes of fame were on deck.
The Democratic Party went into a tailspin even before what would thereafter be unilaterally titled “the disastrous debate” ended; Donald Trump surmised the entire surreal experience best when, after yet another nonsense answer from Biden, he said: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that last sentence, and I don’t think he does, either.”
Trump, we were being told by Hollywood, media, and the Democrats, was going to take away abortion. He was going to take away the vote. He was going to appoint himself Emperor, don a spectacle and pocket watch, and sport a gold crown gaudy with jewels. I know in future this will likely read as though it’s cartoonish and overblown for literary effect, but it truly is so minimal as to not be mentioned. There wasn’t even a token attempt to remove bias from serious news reporting. Meanwhile, the Biden/Harris administration had literally been trying to raise a voter army from illegal immigrants whom they were allowing to flood in through an open border. No civilized country in the world has open borders, but our entire southern border is wide open, with almost two thousand getaways a day. Getaways. It’s been like this since day one, when the Gruesome Twosome began dismantling Trump’s security. (I call them this because the consequences of what they have allowed are unbelievably grim.) In came the people, some of them terrorists, some of them gang members, some of them murderers and rapists . . . but many of them just vulnerable children. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is, in my estimation, perhaps the Devil himself and solely responsible for the murder, rape, loss of, and sexual slavery of nearly two hundred thousand people. He is such a terrible man that he is routinely – as in, almost every week – called in front of Josh Hawley and asked how he sleeps at night. Twice, Republicans have tried to impeach him, but he is protected by a powerful administration.
While Americans bemoan how this is such a terrible country to live in, ten million illegal immigrants who disagree have crossed the border in less than four years, flooding the cities. The Biden/Harris administration did not care but was forced to start paying a minimum of attention when the beleaguered southern and southwestern cities retaliated and sent their illegals north. Chicago and New York began to squawk, but regardless, Dems have practically ignored the issue. It’s unpleasant and decidedly not “joy” or “brat”. During her campaign, Kamala, the “Border Czar”, literally did ignore the border. She never discussed it once in an interview, even when asked directly for a number. I am not saying this facetiously – I mean I never saw her discuss the subject one time. She would obliquely talk about her work as an attorney general in California, “a border state”, whenever it was brought up, but never the strides she had made in her most recent border role, the one she was currently in as “Czar”. Why? Because she had made none and the problem was in fact worse than ever. This was a person who was running for president, and she didn’t once talk about immigration. In America. I assume this is because someone had enough sense to tell her that her wacky wild ideas, such as taxpayer funded sex changes for illegals, are so anathema to the way that the average American thinks that it was highly likely that if we knew this was her stance, we would never trust her to decide anything ever again. Thus, upon her later nomination for presidency, Trump made sure we found out about her positions by producing the single most effective commercial in the campaign.
Meanwhile, Biden/Harris were issuing illegal immigrants taxpayer funded benefits while at the same time denying the same to American citizens – it would be very hard for me to believe that this wasn’t some Republican fabrication if I didn’t personally know a friend to whom it is currently happening. Further proof that it’s true is that incredibly, the presidential administration tried to sue both Alabama and Virginia to keep non-citizens on the voter rolls. This was widely reported on all the media outlets, regardless of bias. That case was thrown out, but it illustrates how radical the White House had become under a zombie President and Leftist leadership. Even then, there still existed some evidence that they were going to try to allow non-citizens to vote in other places, despite the cases being thrown out and polls reading that an overwhelming 90% of Americans felt that only citizens should be allowed to participate. The Democrats were not subtle at all about what they were doing, it was obvious years ago, and for me, as the election drew nearer, I felt outraged at this lowdown import of whoever, in the hopes of capturing that individual’s vote so that one party might remain in power in perpetuity. I wondered how that was all that different than the dictatorship they were so fearful of us all experiencing under Trump.
Trump says he’ll deport this crush of illegals; Biden pretends they’re not here; Harris, based on her past positions in California and if left to her own devices, wants to integrate them and give them voter’s cards and a bag of Doritos.
Kamala is Just Like You! She Loves Doritos!
Doritos were not a small part of Kamala’s identity, and she confessed she scarfed down a “Family Size” bag after her loss to Trump.
Harris had been appointed as the “Border Czar”. That was her job, to oversee the border. She had never even been down there, Republicans seized on the fact, and when she finally did go, to make a show of it, she frustrated and angered workers who reported that “If she wins, the old guys will retire and we’re going to have even worse shortages down here.” (After the election resulted in a Trump victory, The Daily Wire’s headline read: “Border Agents’ Morale is Through the Roof’.) The threat of the migrant diaspora/crisis weighed heavily on the minds of most Americans, right alongside inflation . . . but these were two conversations the Democrats just did not want to have. The economy is great, remember.
Next came the damning verdict in the special counsel report over Biden’s Classified Documents Incident, wherein he’d had around thirty classified documents from his presidency at home in Delaware and also in his old office. BFD, I say, but The Hur Report Counsel found that Biden should not be brought to trial, because:
““Biden would likely present himself to a jury as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory, diminished faculties, in advancing age.””
Ouch. Americans’ already-weather eye on the man became more baleful, focused and scrutinizing. Democratic bigwigs continued to promise us his acuity was razor sharp and that he was eating other world leaders for breakfast. Commentary to the opposite, videos we’d seen . . . don’t believe your lying eyes again. KJP smacked her lips impatiently and snapped that it was “taken out of context”, “edited,” “Republican propaganda”, “cheapfakes”, and told us how very lucky we were to have a President who would even subject himself to a special counsel at all, because we hadn’t had that before. In reference to Trump. Just like all roads lead to Damascus, all Democratic conversations came back to Trump.
She was probably right. But here’s the thing — we knew that already. The constant reminders of what an awful man Trump is were completely unnecessary – hello, we were here for it. They weren’t telling us anything we didn’t already know, and so they didn’t need to keep saying it every twenty two seconds. And no matter what the conversation was, even if they were talking about Joshua Chamberlain at the Battle of Gettysburg, or The Stamp Act during the American Revolution, or the irrational ratio of ‘Goods’ to ‘Plentys’ in a box of movie concession candy, the final line would always end with the Democrats saying what Trump would or would not have done in any given situation, even if it was purely speculative because Trump had never been confronted with that situation in his own presidency. I think the constancy of the speculative hyperbole ended up hurting far more than it helped. No one likes to be nagged, and specious rhetorical statements can only be supported by silly, strawman arguments.
After the debate was over, it was clear to everyone that Biden was circling the drain. Half the country (the half who’d naively believed the daily briefs that Biden was beating chess champions during informal play) was in shock; the other half, who had long been claiming Biden was unwell, was vindicated.
And oh! As Biden napped in his chair in his robe with his hot water bottle, how quickly the Democratic Senators would slither into his darkened chamber, their knives sheathed in rustling robes, with “Washed-Up-but-Doesn’t-Yet-Know-It” Barack Obama, “Democracy-Subverting” Nancy Pelosi, and “Smug-Dipshit” George Clooney leading the charge.
Please note: These are the Democratic Party’s idols. I’m not making this up. This happened in real life, and it was widely accepted by the Democratic Party and the always-helpful media. My hope in documenting this is that, when emotion is cooled and one can gaze down through the dispassionate lens of time, one can see these words and likewise see how it read to the Republican and Independent voter. Enough was enough. We had tolerated a certain level of crazy, but the line had to be drawn somewhere. Three people, among them Mrs. Been-Running-California-Since-It-Adopted-Statehood, Mr. Utterly Irrelevant, and the increasingly unimportant George Clooney (whose antisemitic wife actually went to a fake court, the ICJ, to argue the case for antisemitism) could not be the ones to call the shots in our democracy.
But before Biden’s ignominious demise, there would be a whirlwind of cutthroat intrigue at court for almost a critical month before the old stubborn egotistical glory-seeking codger would finally be shoved out/depart.
No, this is not one of KJP’s so-called “cheapfakes”, this is real. Biden wandered off into the Amazon, and as mysteriously as he came into our lives . . . he was gone again.
Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games.
Things happened very quickly within that month.
The next day, June 28th, Biden rallied in North Carolina and acknowledged that he was “not a young man – I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know, I know how to tell the truth. When you get knocked down, you get back up.”
Four days later, on July 2nd, Lloyd Doggett (D) of Texas called for Biden’s resignation, citing his poor debate performance and that he had been trailing Trump in the surveys all year. Looking at an old article, I can directly quote this particular Democrat as something of an example of the level of rhetoric that was being projected onto the American people.
“Our overriding consideration must be who has the best hope of saving our democracy from an authoritarian takeover by a criminal and his gang. Too much is at stake to risk a Trump victory – too much at risk to assume that what could not be turned around in a year, what was not turned around in a debate, can be turned around now. President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in 2020. He must not deliver us to Trump in 2024.”
I understand the spirit of what he was saying — this is an important election that we won’t want to lose — but find words and expressions like “authoritarian”, “takeover”, “criminal”, “gang”, and “deliver us” hyperbolic. However, Leftists and young people and the media did not hear this and think: “This guy is drama.” They heard it and thought, “This guy is right.” They were the only ones. The change had already transpired. The American people had wholly rejected Biden, and we had wholly rejected the Democratic agenda. We are tired of “woke”. We’ve had it with purity testing. We’re done with pseudo-science. Our lives are worse now than they were four years ago, and it is far more expensive to live. We are sick of the endless crush of illegal immigrants in our cities. We are furious at being made to foot the bill for them, particularly at a time of government-created financial hardship, anyway; now the government is providing for illegal immigrants over our own citizens? No. This cannot stand. The Democratic Party had pandered to the Marxist extremists (and I truly hate to use this word, as it’s bandied about fashionably now and applied to everything in the same way that ‘gaslight’ has become trendy; both words are often used as adjectives to describe something to which they don’t apply) and had for several years tried to force the American people to adopt far left policy; America rebelled and moved not to the center, but hard to the right.
But that change had already taken place within the country months if not years before the November election, as evidenced by the internal White House electoral college projections wherein Trump took 400.
Some Democrats saw the writing on the wall. On this same day, an editorial was printed in the Bangor Daily News:
“While I don’t plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I’m okay with that . . . democracy will be just fine under him.”
The world was atwitter. Three days later, Biden went on ABC and barked that he would stay in the race unless “the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race.’”
Two days later, more Democrats called for him to step down. The next day, July 8th, Biden went onto “Morning Joe” and insisted he wasn’t going anywhere. Democratic leaders (ahem, again, I’m looking at you, Nancy), members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and, of course, Progressives were still standing behind him.
Three days passed. Biden attended a NATO conference wherein he referred to Harris as “Vice President Trump”. Wrong person, wrong color, wrong gender. These could no longer be written off as Biden’s adorable little gaffes for which he was so infamous, and billionaires like Bill Ackman started calling for his resignation — and blaming Jill for the president’s stubborn refusal to step down.
George Clooney, too, got in on this action, something I’m sure he deeply regrets today, and made a huge, loud announcement to the world that Biden just wasn’t the man he used to be and it was time for him to “pass the torch”. This became the ennobling expression to describe something that wasn’t noble at all, but rather absolutely necessary; it was incredibly selfish and also sad at the same time that Biden continued clinging to his selfish, sordid hopes of a second term. It also seems highly unlikely he was cogent enough to even understand, altogether, what was happening to him. Again, one could not help but look askance at wife Jill . . . and, to an increasing extent, his drug-addicted, felonious son Hunter, who also has the charming qualification of having slept with his dead brother’s widow while still married, as well as having an illegitimate daughter with a stripper whom the Biden family only recently came to recognize and has still never met. Joe Biden claimed with a completely straight face that Hunter is “the smartest man I know”, and drew him and Jill closer; Hunter, for his part, encouraged his father to hold onto the presidential bid for the obvious benefits that would be produced downstream for himself (although Biden had repeatedly assured the nation that he would respect the court’s decision and not pardon his son for his part in the “Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal”.) But au contraire, Joe. We all knew you would ultimately blow up your own brand and your high ground protecting this loser by issuing him the weirdest pardon ever, as well as about a hundred others, using an autopen. The autopen currently looms large as a potential issue, as the Trump administration, in their first hundred days, have clearly established that completely erasing Biden’s presidency as an unpleasant detour between Trump terms is right at the top of the agenda.
On July 13th, some idiot named Ryan Wesley Routh tried to assassinate Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania . . . and he wasn’t even successful. From a purely mercenary point of view, in an alternate universe wherein people are not living things but tin soldiers to knock off some giant chessboard, this might not have been the worst end result. So many people dislike Trump’s divisiveness, moderate Republicans and neoconservatives, too, and we could have had a runoff emergency primary and gotten a whole new swing at a candidate. Or at least a new undemocratic appointment, like the Dems had done – someone, anyone other than Trump. But Routh was an inch off target, and he only shot part of Trump’s ear off from a roof with a tiny slope; the degree of the roof would later become a huge bone of contention. It was almost flat, but the Secret Service somehow hadn’t stationed anyone there, on account of it being “too dangerous”.
It was not.
The very scary, super slanted roof that defeated our Secret Service.
There were other issues too, with the women who had been assigned the job, as well as their vetting. Was the Secret Service trying to pull a fast one? The world may never know, but any chatter to that end was generally dismissed as Right Wing propaganda and fearmongering bullshit. However, was it? There was an investigation and people eventually resigned over this incident. And in the end, nothing really happened except Trump got a fucking amazing picture.
AND he yelled, “Fight, fight, fight!” I’m sorry, people can try to deny that they were impressed, but it was totally awesome and badass.
Because Democrats tend to be insular in that they only prefer to associate with like minds, they often forget that not everyone thinks like them, and so they talk openly, assuming that the majority agrees. They focus on The Enemy, the Republicans, and take solace that their numbers are much better, which is true. However, at the same time, they disregard entirely the fact that Independents outnumber both parties. Democrats’ jubilation that Trump was shot, their sincere disappointment that he didn’t die, and their automatic insistence that it was staged by the Republicans, as suggested by Sunny Hostin on The View, was extremely off-putting to most voters, even more conservative democrats such as Josh. It read as disrespectful and unamerican. This wasn’t as though people got banged up because they’d made the idiotic choice to attend a riot. I don’t care about those people – if you play stupid games, you’ll likely win stupid prizes. However, it is not a “stupid game”, regardless of party affiliation, if political leaders feel unable to hold rallies because they might be shot at; the notion that citizens should be able to attend them without being killed is not a “stupid game”. I don’t care if it’s a rally for the KKK or the Nazis – although, even though it’s absurd, I must clarify due to the environment of these times that I sincerely doubt the people in Butler that day were either, despite the accepted rhetoric about Trump supporters. American citizen and fire chief Corey Comperatore was killed in the crowd that day, shot dead simply for going to see a political figure speak in public. There is something very wrong with that, and the fact that we couldn’t all agree on that point was perturbing to me. We were coming to learn, again and again after October 7th, that assault and murder is perfectly acceptable on the Left, as long as the right person is the victim. Just ask the Jewish students at elite campuses, or Brian Thompson, CEO of United Health Care. Oh wait. You can’t. He’s dead, shot in early December for political reasons . . . and his murderer, Luigi Mangione, was celebrated by the Left.
That same day, Biden consulted with his staff, reiterated his determination to forge forward, tightened his already suspiciously small circle, and grew even more combative regarding questions about his mental fitness. On July 15th, he stubbornly told NBC’s Lester Holt that it was “essentially a toss-up race” (despite knowing full well the numbers of his internal polling), and announced again defiantly that he was not leaving the contest. America groaned, particularly the Democratic Party. Trump named someone called JD Vance as his vice president.
JD Vance was known to conservatives for a bestselling autobiography he’d written called Hillbilly Elegy, but I’d never heard of the guy at all. He doesn’t come from some bright, shiny, California/Montreal background like Kamala – sounds like his (now recovered) mom was passed out high on drugs in the trailer for much of his childhood. Nor can he be accused of being racist, because he’s married to an Indian woman. He was educated at Ohio State and Yale Law, and he’s a brilliant debater and extremely intelligent. He will probably be the new face of the Republican party at Trump’s (possibly self-determined rather than pre-determined?) departure. He also has extremely traditional ideas, says the quiet part out loud, and strikes a lot of people as ‘weird’, something that the Democratic party seized upon and ran with, to the point where it (weirdly to me) became a major hallmark of their campaign. It was neither stately nor professional to rely on calling your opponent “weird” in the hopes of securing votes, particularly when you were positively incapable of getting any other kind of message across. It was yet another strange tactic, to dig into this childish characterization while at the same time attempting to court traditional Republicans who were disenchanted with Trump.
<Author’s Note: The problem with the “weird” narrative (and one that would quickly be turned on its head) is that soon, and for the rest of the campaign, the Democrats would have to contend with Tim Walz, a Mr. Magoo of a man who can only be described as a series of unfortunate events. He will soon bring an entirely new meaning to the word “weird”.
Still, despite this handicapping reality, the media would be relentless in their attempts to portray him as normal, popular, and “America’s Dad”. (Him and Doug Emhoff both. It was revealed during the campaign that Doug had hit a date and impregnated his nanny, resulting in his first divorce; but the media ignored it because hey, that’s Kamala’s husband, and he’s strictly off limits.) And even now that the campaign is over, Kamala and Tim, marooned on their political iceberg, have been largely shielded from any kind of criticism. Most of it is instead heaped on the Obamas and the Bidens and the Old Guard and the New Guard and the Woke and the White Woman Voter and the Black Male Voter and the Hispanic Voter and misogyny and racism and the softball interview on that soppy daytime rag, ‘The View’ and the . . . . well, the list goes on and on for the press. But that was only in their scripted TV world. In reality, most people were positively horrified at the idea that this buffoon of a man might be allowed in the same room as world leaders if given the vice presidency. Alongside vacuous Kamala who could not put together a cohesive sentence to save her own life, we would surely get worked by the bad actors in the world. (Later, after the implosion, the Democratic party would lament that Kamala had not chosen moderate Pennsylvania Jew Josh Shapiro as her running mate . . . but how could she? How could she choose a dirty Jew when those pesky Michigan voters and college kids and Hollywood kept getting in the way? Ugh. They were all still so mad about Gaza. Mark Ruffalo couldn’t and wouldn’t shut up in his pro-Palestinian activism; Susan Sarandon announced to the world that the NOVA concertgoers deserved the wholesale, medieval-style butchery of 10/7/23 — it had been coming to them! She is still blocking traffic on New York bridges today, a modern day Joan of Arc, an illuminating think-tank of a woman.
(She was promptly dropped by her agent and studio and can’t get hired for love or money on account of aforementioned ‘activism’.)
“I’ve always been really stupid and angry. But now I’m also old and ugly.”
Pay no mind to the average voter behind the curtain – Kamala absolutely could not alienate Hollywood people. She would be needing some of them in a few months for her big Kamala Koncerts, which was a play straight from Obama’s old playbook. Don’t you know? No one sways the American electorate like Jon Bon Jovi, who sang some good songs but hasn’t had a solid hit since the 80s; or Julia Roberts, It-Girl-Turned-Witchy-and-Zany-English-Teacher who hasn’t been relevant since an HBO special ten years ago? Later, pundits would reflect that perhaps the Old Guard who’d advised it wise to employ Obama’s Give-’Em-the-Old-Razzle-Dazzle scheme might have been fifteen years removed. Now, people couldn’t afford a beer and a hot dog, and thus smug, rich, out-of-touch California celebrities didn’t move voters’ needles. The thought that it might, in this political environment, only indicates further how eroded the Democratic Party’s handle was not only on their own electorate but also the tenor in the entire country.>
However, I’m getting slightly ahead of myself, because at this point in the timeline, it was still only July 15th, and Biden was still determined to press on despite the ever-increasing bevy of cries for him to step down from the public and his own party.
Two days later, on July 17th, more bad news came for Biden when he was diagnosed with COVID and had to isolate at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. A chorus of voices began urging him to “pass the torch” and step down from the presidential race. The next day, Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination in his first speech since the shooting, leading even CNN to say:
“A bullet couldn’t stop Trump, and a virus just stopped Biden.”
Love Trump, hate him, or are indifferent to him, this was the optic.
As things got worse and worse for Joe, Jill became increasingly more and more Lady MacBiden, and her actions did nothing to assuage concerns that the president wasn’t at least partially demented. Jill fiercely supported her husband’s second term in the White House, but she did not have altruistic, wifely motives to adhere to such a position; she simply enjoyed the girlish glamor the White House provided her. In order to conceal from the voting public the terrible deterioration of Biden’s mental state, she shielded him, coddled him, stage managed him, manhandled him, instructed him, treated him like a child, clapped at him, and said condescending things like “You answered every question! You knew all the facts!” directly to his face. The worst crime of them all was that she did all these things while wearing a tragically unfashionable and obnoxious blue shift that said the word “VOTE” all over it in a cattywampus design.
It’s just so cheesy and stupid and . . . teacher-y.
(Parenthetically and by comparison, check out Melania Trump’s fashion choices . . . . )
From an open letter Bill Ackman published on the subject of Biden’s Second Term:.
“I no longer blame US President Biden for not stepping aside. He no longer has the mental acuity to make important judgments about himself. It is becoming increasingly clear that the fault lies with FLOTUS Jill Biden. Jill Biden becomes irrelevant the moment her husband is no longer president. No more Air Force One. No more glamorous life. No more White House dinners for foreign dignitaries. No more being treated like a queen while traveling the world. I am sorry to be harsh, but what has become entirely clear is that the First Lady values what is best for herself over her husband’s health and safety and the security of the country at large. Stress is a contributor to neurological deterioration and the doctors must have told her so. Think about how much stress she is putting Biden under making him continue. Now in public appearances she treats him like an infant (‘You answered every question!’) or an old man as she walks him off the stage. And she gets the crowd wound up and cheering at events. Perhaps she thinks the crowd is cheering for her. Her power has clearly grown as he gets weaker. And she likes the feeling of power. She speaks for the president when he can’t or when he is napping. She tells his team and staff when he is available, and when he is not. She likes being in control. We all do. Which begs the question, how many decisions of the president are actually made by the FL? Her ‘friends’ likely don’t tell her the truth as they want to continue to be invited to the White House and to be able to say that they are friends with the FL and the president. Jill Biden is destroying her own legacy along with the president’s. The whole thing would just be a tragedy for the Biden family if it didn’t put the country at greater risk in a world in turmoil. Perhaps she didn’t understand what ‘in sickness and in health’ meant.”
As was his open letter after the Harvard Humiliation, Ackman was spot on again, and this letter was widely viewed on Twitter millions of times.
By July 19th, there were rumors circulating that Pelosi and her favorite self-appointed “Outstanding Black Man” Obama had made a very stern phone call to Biden indicating if he didn’t drop out of the race, and soon, he was going to just completely ruin the whole Democratic party from stem to stern, that they were going to lose the House and the Senate, and it would be all . . . his . . . fault. Some may say it was noble, they were trying to save the Democratic Party, and Biden wasn’t fit to run. To them I say, they were well aware of his condition when they put him up for the Primary, they should have put up someone else, and there is nothing noble or even remotely democratic about disenfranchising votes and installing candidates. NBC reported that the family was discussing how Biden might step down; the family denied these claims.
Then, quick as a flash, on July 21st, this most illustrious president withdrew his most illustrious bid for another term of his most illustrious presidency . . . via Twitter . . . and endorsed Kamala Harris . . . unpopular vice president Kamala Harris . . . Kamala Harris, who was polling worse than even he was at only 28%! Kamala Harris, about whom he would later whisper with Obama. Without hardly conferring with anyone, he endorsed her to be the President-elect. And after that, the Democrats were kind of stuck with this disastrous choice, whether they wanted to hold some kind of Lightning Round Primary or not, because at this point in time, while they were no longer telling us he was running marathons three times a week, they were also saying he was so brave and noble and one of the “most consequential presidents that we’ve ever had, his face should be on Mt. Rushmore.” For the rest of my life, I will never stop laughing at Nancy Pelosi for saying that about her “longtime great friend, Joe Biden”.
The Democrats had come halfway. They had finally admitted that there was something wrong with their Primary candidate winner. But they still weren’t admitting that they’d lied about his health and gaslit their own electorate.
They still haven’t, and I maintain they should have. It bothered me at the time that they didn’t, and while during the election cycle, everyone ignored it, to me it felt like two de-facto leaders of the Democratic party had very clearly subverted democracy. Now that the election is over, people are talking about the lack of a primary because surprise, surprise . . . Americans like to pick our own candidates. Obama has barely spoken since the election except to tell his biographer that he is very, very worried about his own storied (by whom?) legacy; and Nancy is spinning, unable to shut up, backtracking and trying to pretend that she was not the author of much of this debacle. Time will tell, but probably she’ll get away with it. People will probably believe whatever the last thing she tells them is, because people have a political memory of about ten minutes, and there is now always and forever the excuse of: “Well, what I did wasn’t as bad as Trump!” That’ll shut ‘em up every time, because it’s true. No one died in Harris’ endorsement, or trying to vote for her (unless you believe Whoopi Goldberg. The reason I keep citing ‘The View’, which is a ridiculous show and not to be taken seriously at all, is because this is one of the few platforms Kamala would choose to interview on due to its obscene bias.)
3/23/25 Edit — I was wrong about the Dems forever maintaining the high ground on the Republicans. They destroyed it in one fell swoop at Trump’s First Address to Congress of his Second Term when they went after Cancer Kid, Foster Dad with 40+ Kids, Political Prisoner, and Murder Victim Mothers. See upcoming blog: DEMOCRATIC DEATH SPIRAL IN TRUMP’S FIRST HUNDRED DAYS.
Kamala was a bad candidate for countless reasons — over two billion, to be exact — and Joe’s speedy endorsement after announcing he would not be seeking a second term (along with some of his perfectly timed ‘gaffes’) convinced me that there was a nefarious agenda at play within White House Court. Many people found Harris beyond annoying (“J’accuse!” Leftists shrieked with indignation, defaulting to their go-to play by pointing a finger shaking with agitated, emotional outrage. “Misogyny! Racism!”) Anyone listening to Harris objectively found her nonsensical, as shown in previous examples. Internal numbers revealed she was polling worse than Biden. The Democrats wanted anyone else, they scrambled for anyone else, and the two days between July 19th and July 21st were good ones for the news, since everyone was riveted by what would be produced. Biden had only left the Democrats a mere 107 days before the election (a point that would be discussed at great length and with bitter remorse in the days following the election) and he had close to $96 million in his war chest.
This war chest – along with his endorsement – would prove to be a deciding factor in why the Democrats chose Kamala Harris rather than appoint someone else or have an open primary — that, and ostensibly the “pressure of time”. (Hey, Dems, ever heard of a snap election? Use only the delegates, of course. Britain held one in something like sixty days, involving the public, and during this same time period, so . . . come on. You and I both know that anything they can do, we can do better, we can do anything better than them.) But the bottom line is that Pelosi and Obama were both instrumental in ousting Biden and anointing Kamala Harris as the president elect. Additional names were briefly floated, such as John Kelly and Michele Obama, but Kamala was the best choice . . . in their estimation. As the sitting vice president, she could legally hit the ground running with Biden’s war chest, which dwarfed Trumps. Other contenders could not.
Straightaway there were misgivings. Footage slipped of Biden and Obama talking to each other at one of Harris’ speeches; there’s no audio, but it was disseminated by a lipreader who reported that Biden said something to the effect that she’s not ready, and Obama agreed. I can’t testify as to the veracity of what the lipreader reported and have never before trusted the word of a lipreader, but it makes sense to me. That White House must have been about as comfortable as a den of vipers, since the Obamas hate both the Bidens and Harris; and the Bidens, for their part (particularly Jill), also hate Harris; she had never forgiven Kamala for truthfully accusing Joe of being a racist misogynist on the national stage.
“Don’t ever underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”
But they pushed her through, anyway, and Joe Biden endorsed her, and Nancy rushed the delegate vote through the Electoral College, and whomp, there she was. Kamala “JOY!” “Brat” Harris. A brand-new candidate, here to “save democracy”, our Previously-Indian-but-Now-Identifies-As-A-Loud-Proud-Black-Woman/Savior here to spare us all from the evil tyrant!
The race was on.
Now it must be understood that, as an Indian woman who believes that she is smarter than your average bear, I had not failed to notice that an Indian woman had been nominated VP under Biden in 2020; and since that time, I have been completely disenchanted and embarrassed by Kamala Harris. She does not represent intelligent women of color at all, and I hated that people might even subconsciously see her as iconic of Indian women as a whole. I also well remembered how much she’d played up her Indian heritage during the 2020 primaries (and at the time she was announced VP.) Now, suddenly, she is Black. The truth is she is both, but she rarely presents that way. This is more of the same off-putting race politics that the Democrats find themselves so mired in. These chameleon, Elizabeth Warren “I’m a Native American” race cards play sad and tired, and it reads even to me, a POC, like the Democrats took some poll and found it was most politically expedient in 2020 to be “brown”, and most politically expedient in 2024 to be “Black”, so that’s what they ran with through Kamala Harris, who conveniently checked both boxes. She is an excellent example of someone who “fell up”, who is unqualified, who does not belong and has never belonged in any of the positions she has ever been in. There is now talk of giving her Sonia Sotomayor’s place on the Supreme Court before Biden leaves office in January, as a consolation prize for deliberately marooning her on a political iceberg in the wilderness after the election. (Sonia Sotomeyer refuses to retire for this purpose.) One of Kamala’s staff came out post-election and suggested on CNN that Biden should resign before January so Kamala might have a very truncated presidency, as though the highest office of our country is a toy to be shared. “This would spare her the humiliation of <as vice president> having to certify her own defeat on January 6th” was the reasoning; but this scenario had always been a possibility, from the moment she chose to run against Trump — if you can’t hack it, don’t bite off something you can’t chew. As of 12/17, the headlines read that the Democrats were still floating her for their “2028 comeback”. Based on their lack of self-examination post-election, this is more than likely a pipe dream. I personally can’t see either scenario happening – Joe Biden must cordially despise her by now and will cede not one minute of his presidency to her. The “3-Week Presidency To Spare Some Feelings and Get a Black Woman Up In Here” Plan was laughed at and dismissed out of hand, even by the hosts on the show, and in the example of the Supreme Court: Presidents usually only appoint judges, and Kamala’s never been a judge. I believe the only other person who appointed someone who wasn’t previously a judge was Obama, and that does not surprise me one whit, because I have never thought that guy makes sound decisions. He was a do-nothing president who still wants to be a rockstar, and this opinion is becoming increasingly qualified day by day through his and his wife’s absurd and sanctimonious behaviors with which the American people have finally become exhausted. I will be very grateful when the Obamas aren’t a feature in our lives anymore. Many conservative Republicans absolutely cannot stand Barack for this, that, and the other, and they’ve been burning with anger against him since they met him in 2008. I don’t feel that way about him — I just want him to go away. I don’t find him or his wife at all relevant, I don’t really think they are relevant, I think it’s all a hollow brand, a fake narrative, and a clever illusion, I think they’re self-important, and I think they’re like a less obnoxious, watered-down version of Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Never before has another ex-president and his wife featured so actively in our lives as have The Obamas. I find it both annoying (for me) and pathetically sad (for them). The salad days of your presidency are long over, dead and in the past. Stop dancing. Go. You’re free now. Live your lives.
The Democrats had exactly one rally cry: “Trump is Hitler, you’re going to lose democracy, and if you do, it’s so your own fault, cause you’re the worst person in the world. You must obviously be a racist, sexist, misogynistic asshole, because you voted for him. You’re never going to get to vote ever again, and if you do not vote for Kamala Harris now, it’s going to be the Handmaid’s Tale. Don’t you dare say you’re not going to vote at all. That is not an option. That’s a vote for Trump. If you don’t agree with me one hundred percent, fuck off. Oh, and don’t forget. Go and get your abortion today!” (This abortion addendum is not really hyperbole. Planned Parenthood had mobile abortion and vasectomy vans at the DNC. Oh, I’m sorry – I mean to say near the DNC. It’s not as though that was obviously timed or deliberate or anything, but this distinction of “at” vs “near” was extremely important at the time to certain people. So I will be very clear – the DNC did not directly “fund” the abortion vans, although I would be remiss not to point out that the Democratic Party’s partnership with Planned Parenthood is beyond gross.)
DNC Planned Parenthood Sterilization Van, straight out of a Nazi Germany Eugenic Program. I always thought the bigger question was: A) What man opts for sterilization in a van? and B.) Is this good for society? Yes. I deem it very good for society to allow the men who are willing to be sterilized in a van be sterilized in a van. Roll on, sterilization vans. Roll your way across America.
The RNC was also offensive, but in a different way. A guest comedian said something rude about Puerto Rico being a floating heap of garbage in the ocean, and some people feigned mass performative upset to stoke anger, really hoping that the American public would be so outraged by this slight to a territory that we never even think about that it would prove to be the final death blow to the Republican’s chances. This notion speaks volumes to what level of absurdity the Democrats were pinning their hopes on, but there we had it, and the media portrayed it as something that may be Trump’s final undoing. However, in addressing it the next day, President Biden said:
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
This was insulting to anyone who supported Trump (and even some who didn’t), so some clever little aide scrambled to alter the official little transcript by inserting a convenient little apostrophe between the ‘r’ and the ‘s’ in ‘supporters’. This illegality caused its own little stir, and the White House was forced to change it back. Trump promptly turned the tables and responded to the residual backlash by donning an orange vest and riding around in a garbage truck. This caused a big reaction — everyone loved it. To my amusement, some Dems tried to denigrate it as a publicity stunt — of course it was, you twits, he’s campaigning! They were just jealous they didn’t do something like that first . . . and while they did steal many Republican campaign ideas, they never did try to do anything “working-class” to captivate themselves with that crowd.
Trump Charms Green Bay, Wisconsin
(and a lot of other people, too.)
The election, which we had been warned might take up to a week or possibly more to call, was called Wednesday, November 6th, the day after voting. But we’d known the results the night before. And somehow, despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, America keeps right on trucking along . . . even though Trump won the election and appointed a bunch of hardcases to his new cabinet. And for the last week, the Left has been positively melting down. Thousands of people, many of them in Portland, had formerly believed the years of brainwashing. Thousands of people wept hysterically at Kamala’s loss – including an extremely pathetic, maudlin display by Jimmy Kimmel on his highly-publicized late show. They were all just so disappointed that this was what America was, that this is who Americans were.
I get so emotional, baby, every time I think of you.
“With Hillary’s defeat, we said, the majority of us voted against that, and we felt like we could resist. This year, the American people rejected normalcy, decency, and morality, and they chose Trump. Let’s sit with that.”
Wow, Donna. Clearly the Democrats programmed you to call the American voter a soulless shithead without expressly using the words ‘soulless shithead’.
It’s tired, it’s vexing: will they ever understand they lost the election because of their rigidity? Can they hear that they are now only saying in a different way: “If you don’t agree with us, you’re morally bankrupt. If you didn’t vote the way we wanted you to, you have no conscience. If you don’t agree with us one hundred percent in all things, we are infinitely better than you.” When asked if the Democrats were going to take any responsibility for grooming people into believing that the sky was falling when it wasn’t, when challenged about if it had all just been a political gambit and when questioned about whether they, the Democrats, had ever actually believed that Trump was a “fascist Hitler” after all, the media and elites have basically responded: “No comment.” It’s getting very hard not to feel like there isn’t a giant conspiracy involving tens of thousands of people.
What’s amusing to me about this turnabout is the Democratic voter’s dogged belief that they are not constantly being fed disingenuous misinformation designed to cause divisiveness to the end goal of making Donald Trump (and, as fortunate Party byproduct, the Republican voter) the enemy while at the same time accepting wholesale that these things must be absolutely true of the entire Republican party, to a man. In other words, everyone believes “their” trusted news sources and denigrates most others. So do people really think that one side — the Democrats — are angels incapable of dirty pool while the other is, top to bottom, just a party of reprobates? Give me a break and grow up. I hope people aren’t that simpleminded – it always goes both ways, and the Democrats will put on a spectacular show of appalling behavior within Trump’s First 100 Days. (See blog post: Democratic Death Spiral.)
Trump & Harris
How The {Truncated} Election Went Down
In 2020, Republican cult followers stormed the Capitol at the behest of a defeated megalomaniac, make no mistake; but it happened in a moment of passion by the command and consent of one man in an event that is well-known and oft repeated in the fabric of mankind’s history. However, one could make a case – and some do – that the Democrats have insidiously and systemically weaponized entire parts of the government, including the Department of Justice (traditionally soft-on-crime Alan Bragg going hardline against Trump on minor charges, which some regard as a personal vendetta), Homeland Security (Alejandro Mayorkas is the first federal official to be impeached solely on policy disagreements, and the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in 150 years; this impeachment was revoked by a partisan, Democratically-controlled Congress, and the trial adjourned); and the Department of Education (a liberal clown show forcing DEI and identity agendas that don’t align with parental values). Another fine example of Democrats behaving badly is Marn’i Washington, a FEMA supervisor, who instructed her workers to skip storm ravaged houses in Florida if they had Trump signs in their yard. So far, she is only documented example, but the circumstances of the whistleblowing indicate to me as a layperson that this will probably only be the first of many such examples. Per Washington herself, this is endemic within FEMA, and the culture today is such that it’s acceptable to for a nonpartisan federal organization to deny American citizens taxpayer funded aid based on their political affiliations, and to furthermore document and record these denials in writing. Moreover, in defending the indefensible, I have seen several Leftists claim the same would be true of Republicans . . . but this argument is facile, unproven, and probably untrue (based on the Republicans I know personally). It is a rhetorical situation that has never materialized, and there is no like example wherein the roles are reversed. To speculate about how any given theoretical Republican FEMA worker might react in that situation is rank conjecture and would automatically be objected to (and sustained) in any court of law. And while the Republicans are the party with the reputation for anger and hate, from my view, it’s the Democrats who are living it. This tracks in my mind, because projection is what the Democrats do best, whether it be in trying to reverse a narrative, deflect themselves out of a tight situation, or create excitement. I mean this in only the most positive way. They are excellent at the presentation, at creating buzz, at crafting a piece of fiction and pulling off a PR campaign. Case in point: there is no way on earth the Republicans could have pulled off what the Democrats did in the time that they did it.
The clock was ticking with only 107 days before the election. Not only did the Democratic Party have to “introduce” us to this “brand new candidate”, but they also had to separate Kamala from that unpopular dead albatross hanging around her neck, current boss Joe Biden. This would be tricky without pissing him off and looking like a bunch of cannibalistic Judases. (That part would come later.) The Democratic Party talked a lot about our “introduction to Kamala”, but it took forever to actually materialize, and the American voter, jubilant that they were being given a Mystery Door #3, wanted answers from the anointed candidate. Nothing made sense, nor should it have been that hard. What “introduction”? She’s the vice president, for Christ’s sake. We’d known Kamala since the 2020 primaries, wherein we’d listened to her batshit crazy stances for a few minutes. There was nothing more, because she promptly withdrew before we could vote her down and threaten her career in California.
What was actually shocking was how little we had come to learn about this woman in the four years since we’d actually been introduced, and the reason why would certainly be a Big Reveal: Because . . . there . . . is . . . literally . . . nothing . . . there. This woman is a hollow shell without a single independent thought rattling around inside her atrophied mind. And this would become shockingly obvious to the entire country, except the most committed Leftists, later during an interview with The View.
And so over a month went by without Kamala giving one single interview.
It was possibly the most surreal time in American political history. The President was/is a drooling zombie, his wife was/is Rasputin, his son was/is Wormtongue. There were less than three months before the election. The Democrats kept panicking about how their fabled “introduction” should go; but first, they had to prep Kamala. I can’t even imagine what kind of hardcore political grooming was going on in Washington all that month, but it didn’t happen quickly, and none of it sunk in. So to the outside world, it just looked like they had thrown Harris in a closet for a month with a ball gag in her mouth like she was Patty Hearst, and locked the damn door.
And the fawning public let them get away with it! The Great Psy-Op was working. People who actually could string a sentence together were building her up to the public, and suddenly it was like everyone had completely forgotten that two months ago, she had been despised. It is a testament to both their PR machine and to how much media control they enjoyed that no one asked many questions like, “Why is this happening? Too chicken to let her talk?”
In early August, Harris named Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her VP.
This picture says it all far better than I ever could.
I’ve highlighted some things about Walz before, but it cannot be overstated what a disastrous choice he was. Theoretically, Harris selected him because she “felt comfortable with him”. Oh, I’ll bet she did – he’s the only person in Washington who is dorkier than she is. He also habitually makes strange, aggrandizing lies about himself and is a self-described “knucklehead”, as he would later announce to America and the world at large during his debate against JD Vance. He cries a lot and has a stupid face and waves his arms way too much; he hardly has the high ground on weird, particularly given the insanely wild leftist stances he’s passed in Minnesota, which I am now thoroughly convinced must be the worst state in the union. Based on his misusage of a football term that even I know, I don’t think he’s qualified to be anyone’s high school football coach, let alone my vice president of these United States. He said that he’d carried weapons in war even though he’s never served active service, and he also said he was at the massacre at Tiananmen Square when really, he was in Nebraska. His appeal is very specific and comes in extremely limited amounts, and I think the Democratic Party might have been betting on the idea that people were going to vote not on policy but rather for the person whom they would more enjoy having to their home for dinner. Kamala and Tim are going to win that ticket every day of the week.
But, thank God, that has proven to not be how people vote. People are still voting with their minds more than their hearts; logic, not emotion, carried this day.
Why had Harris chosen Mr. Magoo for VP? I can only surmise it was for the same reason she “felt comfortable” with him – he was the only person in Washington who starts his day with a knock-knock joke. As I’ve mentioned before, regrets would later plague the party about having not selected Josh Shapiro . . . but Josh Shapiro would have killed the Arab vote, and Josh Shapiro would have shown Kamala up. He would have embarrassed her, because everyone would have wondered why the ticket wasn’t reversed. Thus, she had to go slumming for a candidate who wouldn’t upstage her, and the pickins were slim – as in, there was only one man that was really viable.
Enter Tim Walz.
Harris and Walz attended a softball interview on CNN; the public, clamoring for an interview, was irritated that Kamala had brought him along with her. It certainly wasn’t a show of this feminine strength and empowerment she was always yammering about (more about women in this election later.) Seriously? America asked. You’ve been ducking the press for a solid month, and now you show up here with Tim Walz as your security blanket?
To be fair – that wasn’t very fair. Lots of presidents-elect have previously done interviews with their VPs after they announce them. But, unfortunately for Kamala, the “too frightened to say anything without a man beside her” narrative was out in the world, and surprisingly, no one on her team really defended her against that slander. Perhaps that was because, as would be evidenced soon, she was absolutely incapable of performing solo in an interview, and they knew it. However, at that time, we were not fully aware of that. The evidence of her chronic habit to spew her infamous “Word Salads” at humanity had previously been a sense of collective amusement, not a reason for collective concern.
Finally, Kamala started going on extreme softball interviews – really, it’s not fair to call them “softball”, “tee ball” would be a better adjective – and only with outlets that were incredibly sympathetic to the Democratic narrative. The Democrats were quite clearly aggressively stage-managing their candidate yet again. Couldn’t they put up someone who didn’t wear strings like a puppet? All voters, regardless of affiliation, want someone with a clear vision, a vision that the voter feels is shared with one they value, and one their candidate can speak to genuinely and intelligently. They do not want a candidate that merely functions as a horn for the Party agenda.
On 9/10, Trump and Harris had their debate . . . and Harris won easily. She was in her element, because she was able to give a series of mini-speeches. (This would prove to be another key element in the election: messaging. Kamala orated; Trump spoke to me. Kamala hung out with celebrities; soon after he was shot, Trump went and worked at McDonald’s and rode around on a garbage truck, which is charming and relatable and way more my speed.) But on this night, Harris had the advantage. She had been groomed in what questions were going to be presented. However, the debate did not have the same effect on the public as had the debate between Trump and Biden, because as usual, the media bitched it up by sticking their fingers in the pie. The moderators were so clearly biased and on Harris’ side that Trump wasn’t really exaggerating when he said, post-debate: “I think I held my own pretty well for three against one.” That was the sense among many Americans, myself included (and as a former debater).
Following this Democratic triumph was to come the Macy’s Day Parade of Kamala Celebrities. As MSNBC’s paid race-hustler Joy Reid (who contended that Kamala ran a “flawless” campaign and also previously posited that Trump was never been hit by a bullet, and that his campaign had colluded to kill two people in Butler just for a photo op) reported in dramatical post-election outrage:
“She had every prominent celebrity voice!”
And she did! Why a Presidential consultant would actually believe that anyone might be influenced by the unbelievably irrelevant Julia Roberts insultingly reminding women that we can vote for whomever we want to, our husbands don’t have to know, I can’t tell you. Why the Dems or Julia Roberts herself would think she was still remotely relevant is beyond understanding. Josh, as a Democrat, was made extremely irritated by the Party’s hyperfocus on making everything a manic, fun party. He didn’t think they looked like serious adults, and this was probably a feeling shared by many Independents.
The Democratic Party had been on their knees begging the Obamas to endorse Harris, but Barack and Michelle stayed out of it for as long as possible, before at the last-minute waxing hard and philosophical about “the sanctity and gift of democracy”. To be honest, I can’t believe they are as devoted to it as they claim to be, since dedicating themselves to it entirely would have destroyed their summers in the Hamptons. I am not saying that in a disparaging way at all: they, too, deserve to have a life, and I wish they would go live it and let us live ours. While I think Barack Obama is one of the most overrated, lame-duck presidents to have ever charmed his way into the White House, I don’t mean to take anything away from him on this point – love him or hate him, that man gave a lot of himself to this country, and it’s a little much to expect his wife to take up the same banner. They are a married couple, not our political chattel.
But . . . during the two days between Biden being rumored to step down and him actually doing it, Michelle’s name was among those being floated for Presidential-elect, and she was far and away the best contender for the party. A Black Democratic supah-stah woman, wife of “highly popular” ex-pres Barack? We can get a proxy Barack back? Who cares that she’s never been in politics one minute of her life? That’s a can’t miss ticket for the Dems.
Or so they thought. Now, in hindsight, given the major blame game that is happening now, I’m not so sure. The Democrats thought the Obamas were wildly popular, their megastars, but that has proven to be very untrue (as in, Obama has come out and said he is worried about the future of his legacy) and may be further proof of how disconnected the Democratic Party has become from the average voter. In any case, Michelle refused to entertain the idea, even to “save democracy”. So their ensuing paternalistic/maternalistic/finger-wagging stumping never seemed authentic to me.
The Obamas campaigned for Kamala, both of them specifically busting their asses to talk down to and lecture African American men – that is not my private jaundiced interpretation, it is the universally accepted one. Barack Obama literally wagged his finger at grown ass adult men and told them they were misogynists if they didn’t vote for Kamala, thus earning him the title “Scolder In Chief” from The Washington Post, Black Enterprise, the Indianapolis Recorder, The Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times, among others.
Bend the knee and bow NOW, or else.
“Barack Obama is ‘nervous about his legacy’ after president-elect Donald Trump’s historic victory over vice president Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. He has been and remains extremely concerned and nervous about his historical legacy, That has certainly taken a big hit with Trump once again winning. The conclusion for Democrats is that they’ve got to dispense with these people from the past, including Hillary Clinton, too, and move to a new generation of figures who are not in the AOC club at all. Lecturing voters as they campaigned for vice president Kamala Harris . . . listen. People do not want to be talked down to no matter who they are. I thought it was tuned out and clueless for them to preach as they did, and I would expect that perception will be shared by lots of people. If so, I think it reduces their relevance to Clinton territory. Even before last night, I was of the quite strong belief that the tone and condescension with which both Barack and Michelle spoke, particularly towards Black men, was self-defeating to the point of backfire.”
Oh God. I’d rather be almost anybody than perennially angry Hillary Clinton. She’s like Madame Defarge. (It is worth noting that this statement was made in November. As of March, 2025, it appears that the November conclusion has been abandoned, and Dems are doggedly pursuing a leftist agenda with actors like Walz, Harris, Bernie, and AOC.)
“On October 11th, at a local Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh PA, Obama criticized Black men for not displaying the same “energy and turnout” for Harris they showed when he ran.
“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I’ve got a problem that, because part of it makes me think – I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling that idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
Many Black men took offense to the remarks. And then, during an October rally in Kalamazoo:
“I don’t quite expect any man to fully grasp how vulnerable the election makes women feel, so fellas, before you cast your votes ask yourself, what side of history do you wanna be on? Now I recognize that there are a lot of angry disillusioned people out there upset with the slow pace of change. So are you as young men prepared to look into the eyes of the women and children you love and tell them you supported this assault on our safety?”
“‘Certainly I think they both harmed her,’ Garrow said of the Obama's effect on Harris's chances. Garrow surmised Obama would ‘continue to hang out with celebrities and live on Martha's Vineyard.’ Still, Garrow predicts Trump's victory will change something for the Obamas. ‘I certainly expect them to be spending a lot less time in Washington after early January,’ he said.”
Maybe as an isolated incident this would have been overlooked, but Obama, whom I never listened to when he was talking to ‘the brothers’, apparently has a long history of habitually talking down to and lecturing, whereas he never does that to white people. Michelle, alternately, tried to guilt black men into voting her way, Mom-style.
Now, in the gloaming of a whirlwind election that seemed like it would never end, both Obamas are being accused of latent racism by a finger-pointing media; and it has long appeared to me that this couple, whom the Democratic elites had revered as having so much star power, are actually not really germane to the American voter at all. The same is true, except even more so, of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also stumped maniacally on the drumbeat that good and evil are at war in this election, and if you’re not with us, you’re not only against us, you’re uneducated and also a toxic, triggering, miserable person I don’t even want to know. Her infamous summation of this population of voters: ‘Deplorable’. Later, after the election was lost, this retaliatory theme would be played out in spontaneous, selfish, childish movements like “4B” (an angry leftist female vanity project regarding sexual abstinence) and Yale professors advocating on national TV to “Cut Your Trump-Voting Family Out of Your Holiday”.
So diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
But no matter what, Harris was to become another victim in the upcoming cannibalistic cabal of the Democratic Party. The nation watched in bemused horror as the elites turned on many of their own darlings like Goya’s Saturn Eating His Son.
Throughout Harris’ campaign, one’s emotions swung wildly between fear that this braindead radical would actually be elected, and pity for her if she weren’t. If she weren’t, it appeared she would definitely be isolated in the political wilderness forever – she is a DEI hire placed into a position she wasn’t qualified for, then was asked to perform an even more Herculean task; but if she failed, you could predict she’d be cast aside and forgotten (even though, it should be noted that as of today, 3/24, the Democrats are still floating her name for the Presidential bid in 2028, which . . . are you really not going to learn a lesson, after all this? Please stop telling me how smart you are.) If I’d been her, I would have rejected the nomination. What a risk. The brass ring, obviously, is that you “save democracy” and beat Trump . . . but if you lose? Oh, if you lose, you have to crawl back to the White House and deal with the Cantankerous Coot and his Mean Girl wife staring you down, because the entire fate of Biden’s legacy is now completely dependent on whether you win this election or not. If you win, history will remember him as the president who defeated Trump and ushered America onto its “Progressive” path . . . but if you lose? Oh, if you lose, he will be remembered as the man who had defeated Trump only to usher him back to office as the first president since Grover Cleveland to have nonconsecutive terms. Yech. Without knowing anything else, anyone would automatically know that whoever was stuck in the middle there must have been a lousy president, unless he died.
And he is lousy, and he kind of did die. History will not be kind to Joe Biden.
Harris did very, very few notable interviews, they were all softball and stage managed, and some of them were doctored. After the election was lost and the books were tallied, it came out that she’d paid through the nose for every single one of those interviews in the biggest mismanage of donor money the world has ever seen. She also paid all the celebrities for their endorsements. With what money? Well, to install their candidate, the Democrats in their exultation had opened their wallets and raised over $1 billion dollars in six weeks, plus Biden’s war chest. Truly astonishing . . . and in the end, they spent an eye popping two billion dollars on a losing campaign that put their own party $20m in the hole. A truly absurd gamble! Democrats love to waste money, and they are keeping up with this tradition even today, March 25th, with their steadfast refusal to trim any bloat from the US Government, even though Biden’s own administration estimated there is between $233 billion and $521 billion taxpayer dollars lost to fraud every fiscal year. Reducing waste should be something everyone can get on board with, but . . . I can’t wrap my head around it, except to surmise that people are very emotional.
To put the campaign spending in perspective: for every one dollar the Republicans spent on campaigning, Kamala spent ten. Ads? The Trump administration spent 57% less to get their message out and had the single most effective ad of the entire campaign, by magnitudes.
Certain publications are considered “rags”, and I consider daytime television like ‘Oprah’ and ‘The View’ to be of that same quality and ilk, appealing chiefly to women of a very specific type, a type who is already definitely voting Dem, if they even vote at all. The aim of the Harris campaign was to court Republican voters reluctant to nominate Trump again, so appearing on these shows to “introduce” Kamala to “the public” was rather ineffective, in my estimation. (Ironically, her staff members reported to WaPo on 12/17 that it was “useless” for Democratic candidates to do interviews with left leaning publications in future elections for exactly this reason.) Her Oprah interview was unremarkable; the Al Sharpton interview was precisely like what you’d expect anything involving Al Sharpton to be like; but the View? The View broke the trend. The View was notable.
The View did her in. And they had so wanted to set her up for success.
Americans were tired of Joe Biden – the only people who didn’t know it were the Bidens themselves, and apparently the bizarre indulgent bozos they had surrounded themselves with in Washington to make Joe feel cozy. In the immediate aftermath, many people had coddling words for Joe Biden and his “legacy”; but those kind words are falling to the wayside by more and more people as Time distances us from the event and makes us examine things with detachment. More and more people are coming out and speaking the truth: This was truly the most appalling presidency to live through in “modern times” – an era that includes a Nixon resignation, a Trump insurrection, and a Bush presidency which saw 9/11, ushered in a twenty-year War on Terror, and revealed to the world at large FEMA’s disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina.
Americans’ collective fear was that Kamala was just going to be an extension of Biden’s catastrophic presidency. She had been involved in every decision they had made in that administration, they had both repeatedly contended so. And so Sunny Hostin asked something to the effect, How would a Harris administration look different than Biden’s? What would she have done differently? And Kamala thought about it and answered:
“There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of – and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work that we have done.”
This coming from a woman who must have been aware that her singular goal was to separate herself from Joe Biden.
Later, the Harris team would explain that Kamala had been “caught off her guard” by the question. Truly, the things political people say that are then wholly accepted without any kind of follow up is surreal. For instance, as an interviewer, I would have asked: Really? She is running for the President of the United States, she is currently the vice president, and she wasn’t expecting a question like that during an interview? As a voter watching Harris’ bush league display: Alright, that seals it. She is just not remotely intelligent or savvy, at all. Realizing the giant missed opportunity about five minutes later, Kamala interjected, “I would appoint a Republican to the cabinet.” Oh, well. Mighty wide of you. You are the epitome of nonpartisanship. (However, this tiny scrap is better than anything Biden has done or even dreamt of doing, so I do have to give her that.)
As we raced towards Election Day, the signs were all there, and even though the media every day was telling us that this race was the tightest in history and our vote mattered more than ever, in hindsight, it’s quite easy to see there was no way that Kamala Harris could have ever won. Every other job she’s had has been obtained by clever positioning, but you can’t position yourself into the presidency. It was unfair of the Democrats to sacrifice Biden and Harris this way, and it was politically unintelligent of Kamala to accept the nomination. This will be two times she has swung for the presidency, two times she’ll have missed. People don’t remember much, but they will remember that.
And . . . all of this tracks with what we now know about the Democrats. The mask is off. They are very duplicitous, and their best (?) candidate, Harris, is very unintelligent. She so terrible at speaking off the cuff that it’s difficult to imagine her carrying on a normal conversation with another person; I legitimately wonder what her conversations with her husband must be like. Hence why she refused to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast unless it was on her very specific and truncated terms. (There are also rumors that she didn’t go on the show because her radical aides were too disgusted by the idea of her treating with “that man”. He is a ‘cancelled’ person to the Leftists.) Rogan expanded his own terms to be more accommodating, but did not agree to hers, and this proved to be one of the final nails in her coffin. Rogan then endorsed Trump. As former presidential candidate Andrew Yang stated: “It pisses me off. That was a gimme. The Rogan interview would have been almost entirely upside. Targets low-propensity male voters, people that are not inclined to vote for you, so you have nothing to lose.” Elon Musk, a Trump mega-donor and star supporter, said: “To a reasonable-minded, smart person who’s not hardcore one way or the other, they just listen to someone talk for a few hours, and that’s how they decide whether you’re a good person, whether they like you.”
But the Democratic Party had made it policy to abandon men, and now they don’t want to talk about it. Post-election, there is much vitriol from the Dem brass when media even asks about this topic.
I’m a little out of touch and don’t know anything about it, even now, but Rogan’s podcast is the number one podcast in America, or the world, or something, and he apparently resonates with a lot of people, particularly young men who feel disenfranchised by the Democratics. (I personally have no opinion of Joe Rogan, really. He is funny sometimes, and sometimes he says smart things, but he also previously supported Sanders, and I am automatically highly suspicious as to the basic intelligence and inherent politics of anyone who supports Bernie; in fact, Josh and I have often discussed before, who are these voters in Vermont? We ask the same about the voters of Minnesota which, to Sanders’ credit, is a far worse place than Vermont.) The polls had already shown that Kamala was hopelessly underwater with men of all stripes, but there was no way to woo them with the currently embedded Democratic messaging that they were all of them misogynistic, racist, and toxic to a one. Straightjacketed and tied to the unfortunate bed they themselves had made, the Democrats found themselves unable to beat or join the men, so their new plan of attack was to forget them entirely (except the occasional reprimand) and go after us women. The message?
Abortion.
Democratic focus on pet issues tends to be singular and insulting, as it has been for the previous ten years when it had been focused like the Eye of Sauron on Trump.
Now, in hindsight, even the Democrats are admitting they were too singularly focused on Trump. Hasn’t stopped them from being too singularly focused on Trump, however.
It was no different this time with abortion. The Dems played it as though they truly believed all women are single-issue voters who care only about their potential ability to murder the unborn. I am personally very pro-choice and “murder the unborn” is not language I typically use, but seriously, as a layperson, Democratic abortion seems less about what is good for society than it is about killing fetuses just so we can fuck like bandits to our hearts’ content. Furthermore, the narrative that Republicans are “against abortion” is hogwash; most people in this country, regardless of what side of the aisle they fall on, support it. Therefore, the Democratic narrative that Trump and the Republicans are going to “take away abortion” is hyperbole to the point of propaganda – leaving it to the states, as Trump wants to do, should be no impediment, since most people support it and will therefore vote to retain it. In Oregon, it’s enshrined in the constitution. Live in Wyoming? You might have to travel. You might. If you’re too lazy to travel and somehow feel entitled to an abortion, because you’re a hopelessly enfranchised prat, and thus try to get Cousin Bebe in New York to send you an abortion pill, you might get her and yourself in trouble. You might. So, you might have to travel. Deal with it. I really don’t think it’s that big of a deal, a trip up north is way easier and cheaper than keeping a baby, and personally, I am way more concerned about paying for the inflated food for myself and the real child I currently have than worrying about my accessibility to how I might later kill an imaginary one in my womb. We need to eat and pay our mortgages more than we need abortions.
Democrats, secure in their glad-handing bubble, failed to understand that “abortion” did not resonate with women over the age of 25. Instead, they doubled down . . . to the point where even men in the steel world were remarking to Josh that “all <Harris> ever talks about is abortion, abortion, abortion.”
“Trump wasn’t the candidate who made women feel bullied and repulsed. Why did the Democrats think women would not care about immigration or the economy? . . . There is one question that hasn’t been answered: why didn’t more women vote for Harris? She positioned herself as the most female-friendly presidential candidate ever. At the DNC . . . the speeches focused relentlessly on how madame president would “restore abortion rights nationwide”. Yet abortion barely figured as a point of interest in the exit polls. In the swing states, about 11% of people said it was the most important issue. Immigration and the economy both played bigger. Why did the Democrats think they could win on reproductive rights? Or let me phrase it differently: Why did they think women wouldn’t care about immigration and the economy”
It was insulting, but the Left again failed to read the room.
Regardless of how badly they wanted to make it the priority, abortion was not the priority. For two years (2021 – 2022), it was the Democrats who’d held a governing trifecta and who were the ones at liberty to pursue the agendas that have now contributed to excessive inflation and the explosion at our borders; and on November 6th, they paid the price for that. As regards inflation, yes, it’s true that supply chain disruptions related to COVID jammed up the works, and sure, were the policymakers trying to head a recession off at the pass? (Based on the fact that the Biden administration had adopted their fast and loose “let’s not worry about the inflation factor” policy suggests that they possibly weren’t, but let’s just assume that no one actually wants a recession, and their intentions had been altruistic from the start.) By enacting two ginormous federal spending packages on strict party-line votes, the Democrats now get to enjoy complete ownership of the high inflation rates which ensued, rates which to this day are regarded bitterly by everyone, including young people starting off their careers and families . . . the very same people the Dems are meant to represent. It is unlikely that anyone on the outside will ever know to what extent the Biden administration courted this economic and political disaster . . . all we do know is that it happened after a period of liberal elite fascination with the aforementioned “Modern Monetary Theory” (this is actually what it’s called, I can’t make this up. But “Modern Monetary Theory” is just fancy talk for “new math”, and we all know how that works.)
“Inflation fears associated with reckless fiscal policy are mostly misguided.”
This “theory” doesn’t make anything better; in fact, just the opposite, because it infers that the administration fully planned for and then executed fiscally irresponsible behaviors, truly believing that there wouldn’t be an inflationary effect. As though Joseph Robinette Biden had discovered some new way to run a gigantic economy that no one has ever thought of before. “Bidenomics” (one of these newfangled Dem words that has now fallen out of favor, because post-election, they finally got hip to the fact that Bidenomics is akin to letting a four-year-old have carte blanche to a never-ending cookie jar without consequence. It’s so mind-numbingly, shockingly brainless that I wouldn’t even believe in “Modern Monetary Theory” if I hadn’t read about it from multiple liberal sources.)
In the final weeks running up to the election, the tenor in the country reached a fever pitch I have never before experienced in my life. It was nerve-wracking, it was all-consuming, and it was thrilling. It was very obvious to everyone that the election would be decided in Pennsylvania, the Keystone State, aided (or conversely hampered) considerably by North Carolina’s swing. Based on the news reporting and polling, it seemed that the electoral college might be so close that Alaska would make the difference.
But I never believed those reports. They were obviously either lying with statistics, or just outright lying. The media could (and can) no longer be trusted. I predicted weeks before the finish that Trump would win 312 electoral votes, win the popular, and take every swing state. Harris would carry 226.
And that’s exactly what happened.
At the time, though, we were being told nonstop that Harris looked to be in a good position to possibly win most (if not all) of the seven swing states. However, at the same time, Vegas came out with odds . . . and things were not coming up Kamala. I don’t know if anyone else paid any attention whatsoever to this little nugget, but it resonated with me to be far more credible than any of the polls being read to us on the news, because it involved money (in a smaller but more direct way). And now that the election is over, and Democrats are letting things slip, obviously there must have been some kind of complicity between them and the media as regards the poll numbers, because their own internal numbers showed that Kamala wasn’t even close.
More bad news came for Harris when the unions refused to endorse her. It was the first time the unions hadn’t endorsed a Democratic candidate in forty years. Then, the newspapers followed suit, and not a single one would champion her name – not The LA Times, not even that lickspittle rag, The Washington Post. Then, the third strike: the Catholics, whom Kamala had rudely snubbed, refused to endorse her, even though Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are both Dems and self-described Catholics. (However, it should be noted that both exhibit behavior that reveals how lapsed they are; Nancy’s archdiocese has literally forbidden her from taking communion anymore . . . and she ignores him, because she’s Nancy Pelosi, and she does what she wants. Those are basically her words, and their relationship is clearly frosty at best.) The “Kamala is a snob” rumor began dogging the VP after she left every single city.
A day or two before the election, a mousy looking woman from Minnesota named Ann Selzer made an outlier polling prediction, and everyone wigged out (not me). Ann Selzer is the president of a fancy pants Iowa-based polling firm and has been described as “the best pollster in politics.” Iowa was a swing state, and Selzer’s last minute poll had Kamala ahead of Trump, even though all other polling showed Iowa with a significant Trump lead. Because Selzer was so highly respected in her field, the public was alternately alarmed or soothed by this result and willing to ignore all others. Josh, who had been confident all along that Trump would win the election, became concerned, which worried me, because his was always an opinion to respect: so far he had been levelheaded and prophetic in his assessments, not of the people so much, but definitely with how things would play out. I think I was better at reading the people, and I was confident that this woman was incorrect, she was due to miss, that her findings were an outlier because she’d done something wrong. I also had a definite sense she was trying to use her unimpeachable position as an influence, which was a turnoff for me.
And . . . she was so wrong about Iowa that she literally retired about five minutes after the embarrassing finding that she was off by sixteen points, by far the most of any of her polls, ever. She says now that she had always planned to retire after this election, and while it’s true that she is the right age, it seems unlikely that someone so clearly full of themselves and the founder of a notable, specialized firm wouldn’t announce her plan to retire as soon as she had fully committed to it in her mind, which I would think would be at least one and probably more like two years before she actually did it.
(I apparently wasn’t the only one who thought something was “off” about Selzer and her poll . . . on 12/16, Trump announced he was suing Selzer and The Des Moines Register <her client> for fraud and election interference. I don’t think this can possibly be a provable case; but I also don’t know if Trump would threaten someone with a lawsuit unless some lawyer somewhere told him it was winnable.)
I can only speak for myself, but on the day of the election, I was more riveted by American politics than I have ever before been in my life – even more so than post 9/11, which will forevermore be chronicled as The Worst Day of My Life and after which I laid on a couch watching CNN for roughly 16 hours straight per day, every day, for a year. Despite this election being extremely truncated due to one side running two candidates, it had also seemed to last forever – we had been hurtling towards this day, awaiting it as anxiously as we’d ever awaited any political change. Throughout, one point both sides agreed upon and had messaged to the public was that this was a critical, monumental election that would determine the future of our country. What’s it gonna be? “Hitler” or Woke Gone Wild? Those were our choices.
Kamala was at her alma mater, Howard, with the Black women and the college girls and . . . well, I guess that’s about it. Even the college men didn’t vote for her, and Joe and Jill? They didn’t even go. Jill, I’m pretty sure, did not vote for Kamala. She cordially despises her and was seen leaving to go vote wearing a bright Republican-red suit.
I wonder what she could possibly be trying to tell us about how she’s voting.
Other people voted for Harris, of course, folks of all stripes . . . she only lost the popular by less than four million. But those were not the people who were represented at what she imagined was going to be her victory party. Meanwhile, Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, and they really did it up solemn and beautiful, with tons of flags on the stage. Very pretty.
Trump loves to point at people in moments of excitement.
It’s actually a really simple technique to get people’s attention and make them feel special.
We had been warned that, due to the tightness of the race and the sanctity of our ballots, it might be days – possibly a week! – before we would know who our new president was. There were the soldiers to think about, naturally, and we couldn’t forget the expats. But do they matter? I doubt it. The Electoral College had already called the race, and the Electoral College decides the race. This ain’t a popularity contest.
And as happens every presidential election – apparently even in ones in which the Dems lose the popular – there are now clarion cries to get rid of the Electoral College.
I am a huge supporter of the Electoral College because it is the only way to keep things fair. It is the only way to give the little guy a voice, and in America, you should want the little guy to have a voice, even if he disagrees with you. To denigrate or want to uninstall the Electoral College is as about as unamerican as you can get, to me, because what you’re really saying is that you want to silence people, you want one party in power for perpetuity, and you want to amend the Constitution and undo the brilliant work of our forefathers, in the pursuit of power. There’s absolutely nothing positive or noble about that.
Most people in America want rid of the Electoral College . . . because they do not understand the Electoral College. Most people in America are so simpleminded that they can’t wrap their minds around the fact that it is fair. They only see that Hillary got more personal votes than Trump in the 2016, but still he won; and based on their elementary understanding of how a vote works, that seems wrong. It wasn’t. There are two votes, and one (the state vote) supersedes the other, naturally, because the state supersedes any individual, just as federal supersedes the state. This isn’t about population centers in cities. We’re on a tiered system here. It’s not a mind-bender, and if you find that you are mind-bent over this subject, you should maybe stop focusing on the Electoral College and maybe start focusing on how easily you become confused. I have zero fears of the Electoral College being rescinded and find the oft-repeated conversations post every presidential election futile and boring. However, the criminally insane Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, is keeping up with tradition and shouting again that it needs to go away. Not sure why she’s bringing it up now; it wouldn’t have helped Kamala one whit. She lost the popular, too.
Because Trump legitimately won.
Joe Biden had told us he had “run to save us from Trump” . . . and after he was done with us, we begged for Trump back. We went running red. Joe Biden’s LGBTQIA platform ultimately ended up standing for “Let’s Get Biden To Quit In Advance”.
This is Biden’s enduring legacy.
“Trump wins. Ouch! How did the Democrats lose to Donald Trump: the man they mocked and ridiculed as an evil charlatan, a fascist, a felon? How embarrassing! That question will first lead the Democrats to finger pointing. But ultimately they must look in the mirror, because Trump didn’t win: The Democrats lost – and they will keep losing if they don’t learn the lessons. 1. The Biden Deception: For months, top Democratic leaders exited the White House after meeting with President Biden purposely extolling his health, vigor, and mental acuity. And then the American people saw him at the first debate and were shocked at his condition and realized the ongoing Democratic deception. Forcing Biden out of office appeared to be a palace coup. The party bosses’ installation of Harris without a primary was additionally offensive. People choose their leaders and elections matter. The error was then compounded by forcing a short campaign in which Harris was disadvantaged period to. It’s always the economy, stupid. Democrats were disconnected from the lives of working Americans and their painful economic reality. The cost of day-to-day life was the pressing issue of the campaign – and Democrats missed it. Inflation caused by Biden was crushing. Trump always led on the question of “Who is better to handle the economy?” Sometimes the bottom line is the bottom line. Even worse, the concerns the Democratic Party did focus on further alienated them from working Americans. 3. The tail wagged the dog. The “progressive” position of the Democratic Party – originally championed by FDR as a practical program for working Americans – was Distorted by minority far left extremist views on defunding the police, open borders, legalizing prostitution, open borders, sex education in schools, etcetera. The cultural arrogance and elitism of the Democratic Party was epitomized by the “woke” culture. Paris and the gender transition surgery is for inmates issue highlighted the disconnection. The republican ad on this issue saying “She is for they/them and Trump is for you” was devastatingly effective. Again Harris never answered the question. 4. The Biden administration failed to perform. It did not approve basic competence. Government is not an abstract theoretical activity but rather a service Bureau to accomplish meaningful change to improve people’s lives. Legislative achievements never translated to on the ground reality the American people were not better off than before. There was no tangible or impactful progress but rather signs of quite the opposite urban areas were in decline post COVID with crime, homelessness, and chaos in full display with no significant response from local, state, or federal democrats commuting suburbanites and visitors to cities were shocked at the conditions. Once again, the Democratic Party appeared indifferent or incompetent. Six. Leaders are strong. With the world in chaos, americans look for confidence in their leader. The middle east and ukraine conflicts drag on. The potential for global conflicts is deeply unsettling. In this context, harris appeared ambivalent and indecisive. She was pro everything and did not provide confidence that she could handle these massive issues. Trump, for better or worse, projected strength and resolve. Seven. It’s all about the abortion issue, except when it isn’t. Democrats relied too heavily on abortion as a decisive issue. The abortion issue was simply not enough to overpower people’s concerns about their day-to-day existence. Eight. We don’t put our political opponents in jail. Democrats prosecutions of trump backfired, ironically making him a perceived victim of a weaponized justice system. While the january 6th investigation was legitimate, other investigations appeared politically motivated and trivial and actually tainted the original bona fide efforts. Democrats fears of “threats to democracy” seemed disingenuous when they were using the justice system – the one sacrosanct government function – to play politics. 9. There are no facts. At one time people believed the objectivity and veracity of news reports so they had a sense of true and false, right and wrong Fox News was different and that people believed its coverage was biased towards the Republicans. However, today many people perceive all news outlets to be opinionated, so fox is as credible as any other outlet except they have a multiple number of viewers and their constant criticism to the Democratic Party was impactful. 10. Sexism and racism still exist. Sexism and racism still exist in American Society and must be overcome by clearly demonstrating ability capacity and inclusiveness. The Democrats did not reach that threshold. At the end of the day, life is options. The democratic party did not offer one.”
In the end, all the shouting and begging and $1 million dollar payoffs to soft shoe interviewers and handouts to billionaire singers and parades of celebrities and brainwashing, sanctimonious lectures and veiled threats and open threats and name-calling and money in the world could not buy the 2024 election. It wasn’t even close. Not even by any kind of margin. The Democrats got smoked. There hasn’t been a shellacking like this since Reagan. Check it:
I see a country, and I want to paint it red. — The Republicans
I am personally so encouraged by the fact that this hopefully showed everyone good and all:
YOU CANNOT BUY AN AMERICAN ELECTION
There are only tiny pockets of blue left here, and unfortunately, I’m in one of them. The people surrounding me are extremely out of touch with reality or what’s going on outside their own front doors. Their manic, deliberate, uninformed obtuseness and automatic, autocratic disregard for anyone who does not agree with them 100% in all radical things down the line will blind Portlanders to the fact that the writing is clearly on the wall now. The question Leftists are asking is, “What is wrong with America?” but the question they should be asking is, “What is wrong with me?” You can’t say you believe in democracy and then, when it goes against you, blame voters of your own party for having some fundamental character flaw. (Post election, there was no shortage of voter blame being assigned — it was the fault of the Mexicans; no, it was the fault of the white women; wrong, it was all Black men’s fault!) That’s not the way it works in a democracy; there is zero place in the vote to make judgments on other people’s values, only your own. It was such a losing gambit and is never going to win an election, but that’s the game they played. I don’t get it and I think it’s time for Democrats to do some serious introspection about themselves, their identity, and their certifiably insane agenda. Boys are not girls. You don’t just get to say “I’m washed up on the boys’ team, so poof, I’m a girl” and join the girl’s swimming team just so you can annihilate everyone. In reality, you’re a boy, your lungs are larger and your muscles are longer. Nor can you ask people to call you “them” unless you are a conjoined twin. You can’t expect people to accept one’s unscientific gender delusions when last year, that same person was shouting at everyone how “science matters!” about COVID. Gender is not up for interpretation, and boys in girls’ sports was a bridge too far. It’s the rankest, most pathetic form of patriarchy and misogyny I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and the idea that the Dems thought that women who have dedicated their lives to these sports were going to allow this to happen without a fight, or that other even remotely moderate women would not support them one hundred percent is patently absurd. Absurd. Men don’t like this, either. Men have daughters, and sisters and wives who were formerly athletes. Again, the Party’s disconnect from reality proves shocking. They became a party of lawyers that anointed a candidate while screaming that a man who had legitimately won a primary was trying to “steal democracy”. They said he was a habitual liar while insisting Joe Biden was correcting Stephen Hawkings work. They, at one time or another, insulted nearly everyone in America with their labels or their -isms, their hatefulness and divisiveness, their anger and their accusations, and now they are mystified that people did not follow them. They keep publicly insisting that they didn’t get their messaging out and it wasn’t effective, which is yet another mind-blowing Democratic reaction — their messaging was very effective. They put their message out there so effectively and for so many years that the message assumed an identity of its own and became an uncontrollable animal. Yes, we got the message. The message sucked. We hated the message. It’s time for Democrats to get the message: We reject your shit message.
Now that the election is over, do I foresee for America an unbroken path of golden sunshine, going on and on in perpetuity in some endless summer created by Republican rule? Quite the opposite. Trump is a petulant, vindictive little man who belongs on the ash heap of history, not crowned in its halls. Why, oh why, couldn’t we have had a decent candidate, anyone other than Trump? What cosmic yahoo stuck us with a Harris/Trump ticket? If the left one didn’t get you, then the right one would — we had a clown to the left of us, and a joker to the right! Here we were, most of America stuck in the middle, because in a country of nearly 350 million people, these were the two that made it to the top. A convicted felon and a woman who spends a tremendous amount of time in hiding . . . and when she isn’t, cannot think or speak. We had to dodge a bullet by taking a hammer to the face.
And we are glad for that hammer.
Many years ago now, I remember reading with bemused amusement that some country somewhere had voted in a dictator. I had found the concept so oxymoronic and preposterous that even now, I can recall my disdain for those voters. How amusing it is to me that now I am one of them – I supported the man whom everyone — the White House, the media, the Democrats — had told us will make himself King. That reality remains to be seen, but the threat is as real now as it’s ever going to be, or ever has been in America, and I knew this, and I still supported him. This is true of everyone who voted for him. We chose the possible tyrant rather than a Biden lookalike. Good God, anything but that! Faced with the reality of this situation, wouldn’t one naturally assume some deep Democratic introspection and reevaluation would be in order? Au contraire. It has been finger pointing and victimization every damn day for months.
Politics are currently the very definition of riveting because this wasn’t like an election anyone has ever seen. The events are shocking . . . and these same conservative themes are being repeated throughout the world as more and more nations swing right. The two parts I am most interested in at this point in time, post-election but before Trump’s swearing-in, are: the media; and where does the Democratic party go from here? They are not picking themselves up, dusting themselves off, and starting all over again, which is what I had expected. The American public took them to school, and I expected some November introspection and hat-in-handing to the voter would surely follow – we are their bread and butter, after all. But sadly, and predictably, it has only been a sporty blame game that alternates between amusing, desperate, and sad. To elect a man is only ever one side of a story.
Assigning blame is generally the other, which segues neatly into my next blog post: Democratic Death Spiral — The First 100 Days