Back then the hits kept on coming for Brittney Spears.  One of her smashes was “Oops! I Did it Again!”

Back then plagiarism turned lies kept on coming for Joe Biden.  One of his smashes was when told us he conducted an Amtrak train on numerous trips.  Oops!

Brittney stopped making new music years ago.  Biden continues to cook up one whopper after another.  You’d think he works for 20$ minimum wage at Burger King.

But Wednesday’s falsehood has to be his Billboard no. 1 greatest hit.

On the campaign trail in Pittsburgh across the state from Scranton where he grew up in an Irish, Italian, Puerto Rican neighborhood and attended black churches, Biden addressed some more staged enthusiasts.

“And my uncle, they called him – Ambrose, they called him Bosie… and he became an Army Air Corps before the Air Force came along, he flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones,” Biden remarked.  “And he got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of the New Guinea.”

They call his “for real” squeal a tell at the poker table.   I have nothing in my hand.

US official investigations concluded old Ambrose, er, Bosie was shot down well out in the ocean.

Karine Pepe Jean Claude Le Pew Van Dame Eiffel Pierre, the first ever female black lesbian press secretary, tried to deflect on Thursday.  She said Biden “simply expressed how ‘incredibly proud’ he was of his uncle’s service in uniform.”

We wonder if he was equally proud of his service out of uniform.  We digress.

Do cannibals eat at Burger King?  No one else does.  We digress again.

There’s a bit of humor in all of this.

There’s more than a bit of sadness too.

And, most of all, this 81-year-old serial liar is our President.  And, he might be again.

It’s would hard to watch Brittney warbling her golden oldies in some smoke-filled room near the slot machines in a Minot, ND casino when she’s 81.

One is reminded of Jeb Bush’s request, “Please clap.”

President Biden was multitasking yesterday.

That unto itself is a rarity.   After all, there’s only so much time in his four-day workweek.

He was taking a victory lap on student debt loan forgiveness that he calls cancellation.  At the same time, he was stumping in Wisconsin for votes in the critical 2024 swing state.

He likes to personalize things.  While addressing debt and college, Biden said, “I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college, and watch my dad struggle to help me get there.”

Let’s unpack this pack of falsehoods.

First student loan debt isn’t cancelled.  Its obligation for repayment is transferred from the borrower who agreed to repay(the student) to the citizens of the US who now have to repay.    Instead of cancellation, we should call it more of the same- another pile of debt to stack on top of a mounting debt obligation.

Also, Biden wasn’t the first in his family to attend college.  How do we know?   One of the reasons we know it’s a lie is because Biden has bragged several times in the recent past about how his grandfather played college football.

Another reason why we know is because he told the same fib way back in 1987.   That is when The New York Times caught Biden making the same two contrary claims.

He was making his first run for president that year.  Yes, the “big guy” first ran for the big job nearly 40 years ago.   The NYT employed actual journalists back then.

The nearly 40-year-old article stated, “Mr. Biden had said he was the ‘first in his family ever to go to university.’ Mr. Biden said today, ‘There are Finnegans, my mother’s family, that went to college.’”  It goes on to intimate that several falsehoods drove him out of that failed campaign.

You know that old saying, “If, at first, you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.”

How about when the supposed youthful Amtrack conductor aged to the point of reminding us, “We’ve reduced the deficit by 40 million, trillion, 80 billion, pick a number, come on man, you know, no joke.”

It is a joke, except it isn’t funny.

The oldest President has at least a 50/50 chance of adding to his age record with a second term as President.

And, with yesterday’s CPI number, is it safe to assume inflation isn’t under control?  And, therefore, is it safe to assume that interest rates aren’t coming down anytime soon?  Bidenomics.

That leads us to sharply increased borrowing costs, which leads us deeper into debt.  Bidenomics.

What would George Washington have said through his wooden teeth about all of this?  It might have started with “Father, I cannot tell a lie…”

Maybe we should ask Biden what Washington said.

Surely met George during the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

No joke.

The question is a simple one.  The answer is not.

Can the 45th President, Donald J. Trump, become the 47th President of the United States?

In 2016 it helped that he wore down a tired, old opponent who represented the swamp.  In 2020 an old, tired opponent who represents the swamp beat him. Now The Donald needs to unseat the man who unseated him.

And, Trump doesn’t like to lose.  In his mind, he never has.

The polls had it wrong in 2016.  The silent majority favored the outsider.  In 2024, the polls that constantly enter your medium of choice seem to favor Trump again.

And, the ones that examine the sitting President Biden conclude that he is an unpopular President that a majority feel is too old or unfit, or both to serve again.  And, boy does he sit a lot, especially when he visits the Delaware beaches each frequent three day weekend.  But, we digress.

Fox News, which used to be fair and balanced, trots out poll after poll showing Biden’s age a factor, the border is the biggest issue, inflation is a close second, his approval rating is lower than Jimmy Carter’s, the world is on fire, etc., and ad nauseam.

It’s over.  It’s a Trump landslide.  Except it isn’t.  It isn’t over, and it won’t be a landslide.

As an example of the hyperbole, more Michigan folks voted for Trump last evening in the Republican primary than all of the Democratic choices (Biden, some tool, and undecided) combined.

In Dearborn, where Biden hasn’t exactly endeared himself to the large Arab American and Muslim communities with his support of Israel, “undecided” beat Biden by 56 to 40 percent.  But, that doesn’t mean that they will show up in 8 months and vote for Trump, does it?

Remember, every vote counts.

A deeper dive will tell you that every vote doesn’t count.   Forty-something states are already decided barring something big changing the voting landscape.

And, when it gets down to the two, the DNC and Biden will launch a multifaceted negative campaign bigger than the daily one they preach now.  In November you have to count the folks that will never vote for Trump.  Are they the 2024 silent majority?

No current poll can accurately predict how many will hold their nose and vote for Biden because they can’t hold their nose and vote for Trump.

Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Arizona, and maybe Colorado will decide the race.  And it will be a small subset of the voters therein.

Forty-something percent of the voters in those states will vote for Trump.  Forty-something percent of the voters in those states will vote for Biden.  That will leave about 12 percent of the citizens who vote in a handful of states to decide the final electoral college tally.

Trump didn’t want to turn in his bike at the end of the rental term.  Biden falls off of his regularly.

Trump took his classified documents and went home.  Biden already had his.

Trump is headed to the border tomorrow.  Biden is headed to the border tomorrow.

This could get interesting if it wasn’t already.

Thanks to Al Gore and Bluehost, our beloved website is running again after a nine-day buzz-killing journey into the IT NeverAgainLands.

To catch up we offer a much-needed Q and A.

Q.  Why is 97% of all gun violence in the blue counties and 97% of all gun ownership in the red counties?

A.  You know why.  The government knows why.

Q. Why was Ghislane Maxwell sentenced to jail for 20 years for sex trafficking minors to apparently no one?

A.  See the answer just above.

Q.  How did the “harsh” sanctions that the US imposed on Russia right after the Ukraine invasion harm them?

A.  They didn’t.  Biden promised a harsher round today.  Putin must be shaking in his Russian snow boots right about now.

Q. Why is it a crime when Trump takes out a loan and pays it back with interest it’s a crime, but when students don’t it isn’t.

A.  It buys votes.  It is a transfer of obligation from the student to the government.  That means you pay.  No biggie, just add 138 bil to 35 tril.

Q.  Why does Biden and a willing press call the student debt handout a “cancel of a loan?”

A.  See the answer just above.

Q.  Why does Senator Chuck Schumer say “Ted Cruz is the one who wants to do nothing on the border?”

A. It’s the blame game at its finest.  I blame you for what I do.  Many “low information voters,” as Rush used to call them, know no better.

Q.  Why does the IRS have paragraphs on its website that remind people that if they have income from stolen property or illegal activities they must report its FMV?

A. It’s the IRS.

Q.  Why don’t we have term limits for Congress?

Short A.  It takes away their power trip and money train.

Long A.  It must be approved by two-thirds of the members of both the House and Senate, and if ratified by three-fourths of the States, will limit United States Senators to two full, consecutive terms (12 years) and Members of the House of Representatives to six full, consecutive terms (12 years).  Can you see 2/3rds of those fine folks voting to limit themselves?

Q.  Per Biden, “Two million Americans live without running water, and tens of millions lack access to safe water.”  How can a man who has been a Senator since 1972, a VP for eight, and a Prez for three say that with a clear conscience?

A.  Have you seen him try to walk up stairs lately?

Q.  What do you say when you run out of questions?

A.  Have a good weekend.

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