And Now, What? Reflections on November 5 & its Aftermath

Apologies for having neglected this little blog for so long. I have been traveling back-and-forth to Spain, spent some 10 days as poll watcher in North Carolina, and have been writing on X/Twitter.

Well, what do we make of the electoral results of November 5? What do we Magas do now? To start, we gloat. Yes, gloat. I do not hesitate in rubbing the noses of my "Blue Friends" in the Trump victory. I, particularly enjoy reminding them that I had predicted Trump would win the popular vote and get 312 electoral votes. I am also enjoying watching MSNBC, CNN, and the other mainstream media outlets conduct postmortems on the election. Harris lost, per them, because of racism, patriarchy, bias against a mixed race marriage. prejudice against LGBT (etc), hatred for immigrants, and so forth--you can fill in the rest. YAWN! There is mild criticism of Harris not going on "right wing" podcasts, not responding forcefully to anti-trans ads fro the Trump camp, not holding enough rallies, not enough time to introduce herself, and some other technical issues. They have nothing that gets to the fundamentals of why this incompetent fraud lost. The reason she lost is simple: the leaders of the Democratic Party are CRAZY. Yes, it's that simple. THE modern American "left" is insane. Its leaders are stuck in a bubble echo chamber, hearing only themselves, and their, yes, insane ideas. They are as, even old Bolshie Bernie Sanders recognizes, completely detached from working people and their concerns and aspirations. Note to the DNC: Abortion on demand is not the top concern of most Americans, even most American women. Transgender affirming "medical care" for children is not what parents worry about. Providing tax-funded free stuff, including medical care, and accommodations to millions of illegal aliens, many of them criminals in their home countries, is not what the average American favors. What do we worry about? It's not Project 2025, but taxes, inflation, employment, crime, and war. 

Assuming the crazies don't kill him before January 20, Trump must work at warp speed. He will have at best two years to put the Big Ship on a proper course. After two years, the next presidential campaign begins, and it's likely that the Dems will take the House of Representatives. He has to be ready to go with a package of executive actions and draft legislation making its way thought Congress, at hyperwarp speed. He must immediately close the border, tell Mexico that remain in Mexico is back or we shut the border completely to all people and goods, that Mexico must take back the people who entered the US via the southern border, and instruct ICE and Border Patrol that deportations are back on.  Employers must be told that immigration laws will be enforced; he must inform states, counties, and cities that provide safe haven for illegal migrants that federal funding has ended. Begin lifting restrictions on oil exploration and production. He must begin to implement tariffs on the worst trade offenders, while introducing legislation to lower taxes on workers and on companies that make their stuff here, especially ships, planes, cars, trucks, computers. Must begin to cut the massive federal bureaucracy--Departments of Energy, Interior, Education, Labor, and Commerce are prime targets--and move chunks of it out of DC, e.g. move Agriculture closer to where there is agriculture. Wokeness in the military, intelligence, and law enforcement must end.

There is so much more, but that will do for now. I will write about foreign policy in a bit.

Meanwhile, resume gloating.

On "Weird"

Ah, yes, "Weird"

Ok, the word has gone out from DNC Control to all its minions and bots to refer to the Trump-Vance ticket as weird. 

Have to say it's quite breathtaking to see some outfit like Lincoln Project referring to anybody as weird, given their own history of "weirdness." Also quite amusing to see Congressman Swalwell calling somebody weird, given his own "weird" history of involvement with a Chinese spy, but I guess DNC Control doesn't narrow down its instructions to only the non-weird.

Let's play along. 

Has there ever been a more weird candidate for President than Kamala Harris? As a "friend" of Willie Brown, she slept her way into California politics, and became a disastrous prosecutor in SF. She padded her conviction numbers by getting thousands of black men locked up for smoking weed, while freeing murderers who murdered again. She barely won a seat in the Senate and then decided to run for Prez. In the end, of course, she participated in no primaries, quitting when polls indicated she would receive MAYBE 1-3% of the vote. In the debate of Democrat candidates, however, she called Biden a racist, but got picked by him for VP, anyhow, because she wasn't white, and was thought to be less crazy than weird Stacey Abrams. 

BTW, when I lived in California she promoted herself as Asian. Now, this woman who grew up in Canada in an Indian home, is suddenly black and was some sort of leader or participant--all very vague--in the US civil rights movement: that's "weird." Everything about her is weird.

As VP, she proved practically invisible; her staff was in constant turmoil, many noting that she was a lazy bully, who didn't like preparing for meetings. Biden, a lazy bully himself, made her Border Czar to address the disaster on the border created by Biden's own policies. She made a trip to Guatemala, issued some weird word salad statement, and did nothing more. The border continued to be a disaster. 

Her foray into European politics was also equally as disastrous and her inept and weird policy statements frightened our allies and emboldened Putin. Weird.

Now, she finds herself running for President, not because Biden resigned and made her President, but because some DNC power brokers decided Biden should not run for re-election, since he was going to get smoked, and the DNC needed a new candidate. No primary. No open process, just a weird coalescing around Harris because the Dem bench is very sparse. And, no they did not want to make her President now; they left poor mentally inept Biden in the office because he wasn't as weird.

She's a completely fake candidate around whom the power brokers are trying create an air of weird excitement.

Kamal Harris: How Fake Can You Be?

It seems that the woman, Kamala Harris, who slept her way to the top of California politics, and who unsuccessfully ran for President in 2019, while calling Joe Biden a racist, and who, later, once Biden got DEI'd into taking her as VP,  assured us that Biden was just fine mentally and physically--"sharp as a tack"-- and that he would run for re-election, has now succeeded in engineering herself into the DNC nomination via an extraordinarily undemocratic process which involved pushing aside the old zombie. Well, better put, her handlers have succeeded; they even dragged reluctant Dem party pols such as Schumer, Pelosi, and the Obamas into tepidly endorsing her. The Obamas (yes, plural) endorsement proved particularly cringeworthy, tepid, and reeking insincerity. It's, however, probably enough to get Harris the nomination at next month's DNC coronation convention.

Meanwhile, back at the Ol' Gaslight Ranch, the party elites with the invaluable assistance of the legacy media, and chunks of the tech industry, are busy rewriting her record. The same folks who told us how incredibly successful and consequential the Biden years were, now want you to understand that Harris had nothing to do the disastrous Biden years. "Border Czar"? No, she was never the Border Czar even though we all saw her get appointed by Biden as such on March 24, 2021. Sure the border is a disaster, not her fault, because she wasn't the Czar, but the border is secure thanks to her because she was. . . yeah, OK, George Orwell call your office. 

This is a candidate who openly called for defunding the police, supporting the BLM/Antifa rioters, decriminalizing border crossings, dissolving ICE, and providing illegal aliens the full panoply of public services, but who now says the 20 million or so who have entered the country during her rule as Czar, are not her fault, and besides they are a good thing, oh, and she wasn't Czar, anyhow. Never mind the murders and rapes, and look, there's a fake FBI crime chart to go with the fake economy charts!

Voters in Pennsylvania, I am looking at you, she repeatedly called for a ban on fracking and retraining energy workers in a new field. Now, as of two days ago, she puts out a statement saying she does not favor a ban on fracking: take that Greta! She also has called for an end to offshore oil exploration, and, if any of the states with offshore drilling become politically viable, she'll deny ever having said that. 

The Russians, the Chinese, the radical Muslims see weakness in the USA. Our allies, especially Israel, should be worried as it becomes evermore clear that nobody is in charge in this White House. The disrespect shown Netanyahu has been noted around the world.

Imagine how much worse it would be if  @elonmusk had not bought Twitter.

Biden: Good-Bye and Good Riddance

As of this date, we have heard only via a post on X/Twitter which contained a letter supposedly written, signed, and sent by "President" Joe Biden, in which he declines to participate in the forthcoming election. A few minutes later, we saw a rushed post, again on X/Twitter, saying that, yeah, he endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democrat nominee. His "letter" gave no reason as to why Biden had sought not to seek re-election, but also made clear "his" intention to remain as President until January 20,2025. As I stated, as of this date we have heard nothing further from Biden: no press conference, no official statement from him, nothing. 

His official program for the week remains blank. Where is Joe Biden? Last we knew he was at his beach house in Delaware recovering from COVID. Does he know that he is not seeking re-election despite his endless assertions that he was "in it, to win it," and that he sought "to finish the job"? Do we have a President? 

His party minions appeared on our TVs up until this past Saturday, assuring us that Biden was fine, that he was running for re-election, and looking forward to his next debate with Trump. Now, no more. Well, you never know: he might wake up from whatever Jamba Juice cocktail they have him on, and he will appear vowing to run for reelection . . . 

This all seems very Third World, or, more accurately, like some "Godfather" sequel in which the old man is handed a letter by "the Bosses"and told to sign if he knows what's good for him and his family.

The DNC shills and bots on X and other social media immediately, in good Orwellian fashion, began praising Biden for his patriotism, selflessness, etc. Why? As noted, he never stated why he was stepping away from the campaign. Medical? Who knows? If I had to hazard a guess, the bosses, e.g. Obama, Schumer, Pelosi, looked at the polls and realized the Old Fraud was heading for electoral disaster, maybe one too big to rig, and was threatening to take with him lots of the down ballot. The Democrats were facing a disaster. They had to get Biden out of the way, and try something new even at this late date.

I hope he's gone. 

He was a horrible President, the worst in my lifetime; he posed a serious threat to the USA and to the West. His policies were disastrous, from his open borders to his coddling of the Iranian regime, the absurd withdrawal from Afghanistan, and lots in between. He was a despicable human being with a long track record as a liar, fabulist, plagiarist, promoter of dangerous hoaxes (e.g. Russia interference, "fine people on both sides," bleach injection, "suckers and losers"), a jailer and censor of opponents, bully, sexual abuser, racist, pedo, thief of government documents, and money launderer. He headed a large criminal family which got wealthy thanks to him and his "public service."

Good-bye and good riddance.

Oh and Kamala Harris, who seems to be in the lead for the nomination? She's another fraud who helped cover up whatever was going on with Joe. Another despicable human being. 

A New GOP? Maybe

I have been glued to the TV watching the Republican National Convention. These things can be boring and irrelevant, but, I think, I hope, there is something very different and even exciting with this one. I think, I hope, that we are seeing the birth of a new Republican Party. 

Before I go on, let me acknowledge that I have been wrong before. I had high hopes for the TEA Party and its populist message to transform the stodgy the GOP into something more in touch with the people being hurt by bipartisan economic policies which were hollowing out our industrial base, and bipartisan foreign policies which produced only war after war-- overwhelmingly fought by the very people clobbered economically. That didn't happen; the TEA Party got absorbed by the GOP and faded, with only a defective smoke alarm-like chirp heard every so often in the background. The Republican party, what passed for a conservative party in the USA, remained hardly indistinguishable from its nominal rival, not unlike the British Conservatives vis-a-vis Labour. The West went all in for the "globalist vision" which destroyed Western industry in favor of China's, and now destroys the very basis of Western culture with its promotion of unfettered "immigration"--invasion, really.

Like the Tories in Britain who could find no replacement for Margaret Thatcher's leadership, our TEA party got lost becasue it had no national leader, nobody who could galvanize us into action. It had nobody who could take on the globalist infrastructure and withstand the abuse, the violence, the economic stress, and the "lawfare" that would get thrown at him or her. Those of us of a conservative bent, appalled by what we saw, had to settle for the tepid conservatism of the GOP here, or of the Tories in Britain--a conservatism that in the end conserved next to nothing, if not, in fact, nothing. 

In sum, there is--Surprise!--a role for leadership, and sometimes it emerges in the oddest places.  In our case it came from Donald Trump, a billionaire real estate developer and--Horrors!--a coarse-talking, reality TV star. Many of us laughed at him, saw him as a distraction, and just wanted him to go away, and let us elect Jeb Bush. I was one of those. I was very wrong. Trump saw the malaise and confusion sweeping over our country; he could see where the globalist elites were taking us. Maybe because of his background in construction, and long association with blue collar workers, he understood the mood and anger of the forgotten country. He began asking long-forgotten questions which can be summed up with, "Why do we have to do this, this way?" 

We all know what happened. Trump demolished the line-up of approved GOP establishment candidates, and went on to take-down the despicable Hillary Clinton. The media hated him. He didn't care; he was Rhino not a Rino, with thick skin and incredible energy. Once elected, he suffered repeated attacks which you all know; he made newbie mistakes, the biggest one was trusting other Republicans, e.g., Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, and despite an amazing economic boom and highly successful foreign policy, got taken down by the COVID scam, the Russia Hoax, and, quite likely, some, ahem, creative vote counting in the  2020 elections. 

But he's back, and this time he's not making mistakes. The establishment types, again, are trying to destroy his reputation, his wealth, his freedom, and making it clear that he needs to be stopped by any means. They, at a minimum, created the atmosphere for the attempted assassination--one in which Trump showed incredible bravery. None of this has worked out for the establishment.

As we can see on our screens, MAGA has taken over the Republican Party. I see the choice of J.D. Vance as an inspired one, which augurs well for the future of a MAGA GOP. I had a friend, of sorts, write me and say that it was very unusual for a former Republican President George Bush, and a former GOP standard bearer,Mitt Romney not to be invited to speak. Exactly. This party is not that party anymore. Those people can go speak at the Democrat convention, well that is, as soon as the Democrat circular firing squad runs out of ammo and we see who is left standing. 

Maybe, just maybe, we are witnessing an historic AND positive event. 

The Great Debate

I decided to wait a couple of days before commenting on the June 27, Trump-Biden debate. I wanted the post-debate furor to calm down a bit. 

Mind you, I, as a strong Trump supporter, had serious misgivings about the debate, and feared Trump had let his cockiness lead him into a trap. Trump, it seemed, hastily had agreed to every condition laid down by the Biden camp and CNN--well, I repeat myself: The date; no audience; a mute button switch in the hands of CNN's wildly anti-Trump moderators, who had in the recent past compared Trump to Hitler and had promoted a variety of anti-Trump hoaxes, e.g., Russia collusion, denying the authenticity of the Hunter laptop, pushing the "inject" bleach story, the "suckers and losers" and the "fine people on both sides" canards. CNN spent the typical news day blasting Trump as a "convicted felon," and heaping every possible insult on him, as you all know too well. No way, I thought, could Trump walk out alive politically.  

Well, guess what? Trump proved me wrong, again. Almost every time ever since he rode down that escalator in Trump Tower  in 2015, to announce his candidacy, Trump has shown himself as a master politician with an almost unerring sense of the political game. He, however, did let himself get trapped in a no-win situation by the Covid scam, but I have dealt with that at length elsewhere and won't go over it again. I have no doubt that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by a combination of overt electoral fraud, and a massive Federal-high tech censorship operation, and, as we have seen lately, the use of the DOJ as a political weapon. But, back to the debate.

Let me start by saying that the Diplowife (ret) did not want to see the debate, as it made her "too nervous." She worried as did I, see above, that Trump had fallen into a trap laid by the sort of crafty South Pacific cannibals who had eaten Uncle Bosie. So my three dogs and I sat in the den in our Wilmington, North Carolina house to watch the debate, while the Diplowife (ret) locked herself in another room downstairs to watch Netflix. The minute, however, I saw Biden walk haltingly out on stage with his signature weird gait presumably produced by those no-fall swim fins he wears as shoes, and timidly point at the podium, into my head popped a snippet from the theme from an old TV show, "Petticoat Junction":

                                And there's Uncle Joe/

                                          He's amovin' kinda slow/

                                          At the Junction . . .

Right there, I knew it had ended, game over. I started frantically calling my wife to come upstairs, she would miss a great and rare spectacle of live TV. "Biden is finished!" I kept shouting before he had said a word. Then Trump walked onto the stage, like a great hungry Kodiak bear looking for food along the river bank. It now would prove just a matter of time; the Delaware salmon would get eaten. 

This time I was right. 

Within minutes, it became an embarrassing blow-out. I won't go over it all. You've seen it. Biden had spent days sequestered with 16 advisors at Camp David prepping for the event. His clearly feeble brain had been pumped full of a jumble of facts, one-liners, ready ripostes, and words, lots of words, lots of them. He overloaded; he stumbled; he froze; he stared vacantly into the distance, away from Trump. I expected to see a spinning circle on his chest with the words, "Buffering, Buffering, Buffering."  Trump apparently had prepared out on the streets and fields campaigning, holding his signature mass rallies. He looked energetic, fresh, and relaxed; the contrast with the doddering Biden could not have proven more stark. The split screen was devastating for Biden, who had a vacant, almost frightened look, as though he feared his turn would come up. When it did, his answers made no sense or were just, no other way to put it, lies, delivered in a raspy voice, hard to hear much less understand, and then he would switch into angry old man mode, shouting incoherently. The Diplowife (ret) came by in the middle, and was horrified. She said what I have heard many others say since, "I almost feel sorry for Biden."

Let me take that up. Feel sorry for Biden? Nope. Not one bit. For the past fifty years, Biden has been one of the most disgusting, unprincipled politicians on the American scene. Look up his performance on the Clarence Thomas hearings, for example. He stole years' worth of classified documents, tried to peddle them to a ghost writer, participated in his crack head son's shady businesses, took money from foreign businesses and governments, and was clearly a racist and an abuser of women, and his daughter. He is a borderline pedo. He tanked his first run for the Presidency when he plagiarized an entire speech from, of all people, Neil Kinnock (Ugh!) He has been a serial fabulist making up wild Walter Mitty-type stories about his past, e.g., arrested on his way to see Mandela, taking on Cornpop. He has lied repeatedly about his first wife's death, and that of his son, Beau. More important, he has been a disaster as President, and has caused our nation, and the West serious, perhaps irreparable harm. He has destabilized the Middle East; led Putin to invade Ukraine; encouraged Iran and its proxies to seek nuclear weapons and increase their global terror campaign; he has opened our border and our society to a flood of millions of illegal aliens from all over the world, murders, rapes, and other mayhem have followed. Feel sorry for him? Hardly. 

What will be the consequences? I don't know. Will it all blow over, and the abysmal Biden performance be forgotten? Will he make it to November? Lots of questions. Let me know if you have the answers.

The European Elections: A Slight Shift to the Slight Right

It's a rainy day in San Sebastian, Spain. I am sitting in my apartment there, having peeled off layers of soaked clothing, I turn to the results of the just-held elections for the European Parliament. 

Reading the leftist press, and most press and TV in Spain (and France) is of the MSNBC leftist variety, you would think the Nazi panzers are rolling through the streets. The hysteria is quite remarkable and reminiscent of the left's reaction in the US to Trump's 2016 electoral victory. Postings on X are quite vehement in decrying the victory of the "Nazis and Fascists." I read of violence in some parts of Europe where bands of lefties attack people and institutions considered "right." Sob stories echo throughout the media from "immigrants" decrying the imminent arrival of trucks and trains to send them off to camps and deportation. God forbid that those wanting to live under sharia, should have to live under sharia. 

As usual, the left's minions need to switch to decaf. 

Yes, there has been a welcome shift to the right in Europe. With a couple of exceptions, e.g., France where Macron has dissolved the French parliament and called for snap elections, hardly earth-shaking. The left/center-left continues to hold a sizable mass of seats with which to block the right/center-right and prevent a serious correction to the disastrous voyage on which Europe has embarked. As mentioned above, the left continue to hold the media, and, of course, the entrenched large and very deep state. 

Parliamentary politics has a great failing: the need, very often, to form coalitions to govern. That means, often, a particular party's voters feel betrayed when their party make compromises to get into a coalition. It's prime operating theater for RINOs and their European equivalents. 

I remain pessimistic about the future of the West. Yes, there are some bright spots, e.g., Netherlands, Hungary, but overwhelmingly the left holds a grip on the future, and it's a dark future. I fear for the world of my grandkids.