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All D, No O

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As 1980 turned to 1981, Carter was on his way out and Reagan was on his way in.

Jimmy’s welcoming gifts to Ronald were the mess that Iran was, a hostage crisis, an energy crisis, inflation, and a newly created Department of Education.

As 2024 turned to 2025, Biden was out and Trump was back in.

Joe’s welcoming gifts to Donald are the mess that Iran is, a hostage crisis, restrictions and bans on oil production, inflation, and a 44-year-old Department of Education.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

After 1980 it took the Democratic Party 12 years to recapture the White House.  And, it was helped greatly to get there by George H.W. Bush in year 10 saying loudly “Read my lips, no new taxes.”  Then he raised taxes.

Will it take the Democratic Party 12 years to recapture the White House this time?  Will they need a goof-up the size of Bush’s, a new identity, or both?

Why is a new identity needed?

The reasons are numerous.  The origin is debatable.

But it says here that it started in 2018 when the first four members of the squad were elected to Congress.  Young, eager, and diverse the four had grown to eight strong by 2022.

They came in loud and proud.  Nancy Pelosi tried to put them in their place in the Party but they’d have little to none of that.

By 2020 Joe Biden sold his soul to the far left to help get him elected.  He promised a female VP.  He promised a black female Supreme Court Justice.  He promised diversity, equity, and inclusion in his cabinet and administration.

Meritocracy was out.  Skin color and race-baiting were in.

He opened the border near and far.  He forgave student debt.  He brokered the Green New Deal.  He supported men in women’s sports.  He supported men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.

In short, he catered to the far left.  He was run by the far left.  He was beholden to the far left.  He even told us “They want me to leave the stage now and not answer your questions.”

And, out of that was born the party of common sense.  Imagine thinking that DJT would be looked at as the leader of the Common Sense Party.

Who’s leading the Dems these days? Maxine Waters screams daily into a bullhorn.  Take Chuck Schumer, please.  Nancy’s still leaning left, but is now supported by a HurriCane.

What’s the message?  Is anyone listening?

If you’re yelling you’re losing.  And, they are yelling “bigly” as 47 might say.

The current strategy is to tie Trump’s executive orders up in court and scream “Constitutional Crisis!”

But that’s defense.  Where is and what is the offense?

Meanwhile, Trump is about to put Iran and her proxies in place.  He’s gotten some and is about to get more hostages home be it the USA or Israel.  Drill Baby Drill!  And, DOGE is descending on the Department of Education.

Somehow it feels like 1980 all over again.

It’s not over for the Dems, not at all.

It’s always the darkest before dawn.

But, it sure is dark for now.

 

 

 

 

The Party’s Over

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There’s not much difference between the word “dodge” and the acronym “DOGE.”  Capital letters aside, drop the letter “d” and voila.

But the USA that we lived in yesterday when four presidents consecutively dodged facing the burgeoning deficit and government waste is very different than the present.

George W started the reckless spending by exceeding the taxes collected by 4 trillion.  Barack followed, and in two terms rang up an 8 trillion dollar tab.  Trump 45, saddled with COVID bailouts ran through 7 trillion more than collected.  And Joseph Biden was sound asleep at the wheel as another 5 trillion piled on top.

Donald Trump 47 got elected and put Elon Musk in charge of finding and eradicating excess, fraud, duplication, and other unnecessary government waste.  DOGE, the unofficial non-paying Department of Government Efficiency, was born.

Warren Buffet once said, “You can tell who is skinny dipping when the tide goes out.”  Apparently, a lot of politicians and government agencies prefer au naturel.

The screaming is so loud that it hurts.  And that’s a good thing.

Imagine if the government treated the money like it was our own.  It is.  They just needed a stark reminder.

Musk has the blueprint in his hands.  He bought Twitter, then walked around the downtown San Francisco headquarters and found out what people there did for the organization.  He quickly realized a lot of them had no idea and provided no value.  Pink slips.

Why should the government be run any differently?

Last week his team uncovered 151 projects that received special funding whose expiration dates had come and gone as long as a decade ago and were still being funded.  Remember that trial subscription to Peacock?  You need to cancel it.

The whaling reached a crescendo yesterday when Musk suggested that USAID be abolished or greatly reorganized, and Trump nodded in the affirmative.  Be honest, 48 hours ago you had no idea that there was such a creature lurking in DC named USAID.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the principal U.S. agency assisting countries recovering from disaster, escaping poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.  It sounds nice, and it uses 40 billion of your tax dollars to assist.

The developments come after USAID’s director of security and his deputy were put on administrative leave after reportedly denying Musk’s cost-cutting task force access to its secure systems Saturday.  Translated, “We don’t want to show you who we’re funding and what their ’cause” is.

When Schumer, Warren(Pocahontas), Sanders, and AOC are upset, you know you’re onto something.  They’ve called Elon some unsavory things recently.  Wait till next week when the Department of Education goes up in smoke like the signals emanating from Warren’s teepee.

The questions are simple.  Do you want a bigger government or a smaller one?  Do you want to reduce debt or add to it?  Do you want to balance the budget or exceed it? The correct answers from here are smaller, reduce, and balance.

Do you want the service on the debt to surpass the entire Department of Defense budget?  It is this year for the first time.

It was a heck of a party.  But it’s past midnight on the debt clock.  Maybe the Cristal Champagne for $400 a bottle wasn’t a great idea after all.

Now the bill is due, and the hangover has already started.

Musk isn’t handing out any aspirin.

 

 

 

 

 

All Systems Go

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If you’ve lived for a few decades or more you’ve seen a few things come and go.  In the last ten years, the comings and goings have come and gone at an accelerated pace.

Fast forward to the last few months and we’ve hit SpaceX speed.

DEI isn’t DEAD, but the Grim Reaper is in hot pursuit.  It’s hard to take the most divisive policy in a long time and use it to make America less divisive.  Meritocracy makes capitalism great again.

Misinformation and disinformation are getting missed and dissed to bring back good old information.   With a big assist from Elon Musk, we get to decide what is or isn’t factual.

The southern border is well on its way to being a border(a line separating two different geographies, philosophies, or countries) again.  Trump 1.0 lost a battle with Congress back then for $5 billion to finish a wall already started by his predecessors.  From then to now lives lost, children trafficked, and fentanyl smuggled collectively cost the US a price that you can’t put a tag on.

The “undocumented” are illegal aliens all over again.   The border czar from 2020 through 2024 loves a good word salad.

Law and order is pushing back hard on lawfare.  Biden and Trump pardoned enough criminals, whether charged, or not, convicted, or not to help take the fair out of lawfare.

Swiftly, bathroom use is returning to biological ID for entry.  Dress how you wish.  But when it’s time to go choose the door you open carefully.

Big Pharma might be in for a downsizing.  RFK Jr would like to help with the root cause of illness, addiction, and disease.  What you put in your mouth now causes the need to put a pill in later to rectify the wrong.  Did you know that in its history Pfizer has never made any medicine that cures what ails you in its entirety?

Binder sales have taken a hit.  Karine Jean Claude Van Damme Pepe Pierre made it a fashion piece or two around the White House attached firmly to her arms.  Twenty-seven-year-old Karoline Leavitt’s first press room briefing ushered in a new binderless era and laid down the rules for the legacy media assembled.

CNN’s Jim Acosta accosted any staff member of Trump 1.0.    Yesterday Jim resigned before financially-strapped CNN said the quiet part out loud.  Legacy media is listing badly from leaning too far left for too long.  Podcasts are in and broadcasts are out.

Like the weather wait a minute and we’ll soon learn what else has changed.

The fires are mostly out in LA, but DC is lit.

Nonsense is out and common sense is back.

For now, Trump 2.0 is all systems go.

 

 

 

It’s On in a Bigly Way

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God Bless America ends “from sea to shining sea.”  But, should the final line be changed to “from sea to shining Gulf of America?”

It’s debatable, but rest assured there is a sea change in the air.   And, it was so obvious yesterday that it hit hard like a rare winter snowstorm in the deep south.

The contrast hasn’t been this stark since Ronald Reagan took over the mess left by Jimmy Carter.

Forty-Six had one foot out of the door but signed dozens of pardons for those not legally accused of a crime while investigating J6, much less imprisoned.  Forty-seven got his foot in the door and by nightfall had pardoned all but six of those imprisoned for their “crimes” on J6.

The pendulum stopped moving left around midnight on November 5th, 2024.  The pendulum began falling back to the center from there.  Yesterday, it accelerated past the midpoint.

As Joe Biden sat helpless and dumbfounded a few feet away, Donald Trump in his Inaugural Address undressed many of the policies ushered in during the Biden term.   Later he sat down and signed dozens of executive orders turning words into actions.  He delivered on promises from the campaign trail at a dizzying pace.

With a simple signature, the border was closed.  That wasn’t that hard after all.   The WHO once more became “who?”  DEI went off to DIE.

The country went from two genders in 2020 to 73 by 2024.  It swiftly reverted to two yesterday.

Donald wears it on his sleeve.  He likes the First Lady, but unlike the First Lady, he doesn’t keep things under his hat.  His pronouns are here/now.

Isn’t it a special day when free speech and common sense are back in style?

It must be.  Musk saw it as a way for him, his company, and his country to survive and eventually thrive.  Bezos and Zuckerberg saw it coming and borrowed the reverse of an old cigarette jingle.  It would be better to switch than fight.

Of course not everyone gets it.  That is fine.  Debate is what makes us great.

AOC skipped the festivities.  She refused to honor a convicted rapist she said.  George Stephanopoulos said the same on ABC a few months back.   ABC has fifteen million reasons to tone down the reckless rhetoric.  AOC might soon as well.

MSNBC and CNN saw Elon’s sheer exuberance for the moment as a Nazi hand signal.  Increasingly others aren’t very exuberant for legacy left-leaning media anymore.

Hillary Clinton snickered when Trump announced the desire to rename the Gulf of Mexico.  She wouldn’t fare very well at a poker table for dummies.

After three speeches, one sixty-minute no-notes press conference, and three inaugural balls in the evening 78-year-old President 45/47 was already in the Oval Office this AM.   His energy level is, as he might say, “bigly” higher than Biden’s.

There’s much work to be done and Congress needs to get after it as well.

If you prefer common sense yesterday was a good start.

 

 

 

If Not Now, When?

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First thing first.  The loss of 14 lives in NOLA on 1/1 and the loss of an unknown number of LA lives, animals, and property damage a week later are devastating tragedies.

Second thing second.  Realistically, perhaps the only thing harder to prevent than a determined radicalized terrorist from driving a truck through a crowd is stopping a high wind raging wildfire.

But.

Third thing third.  Prevention might be out of reach at times.  But, anticipation, preparation, prevention, and planned reaction can at least minimize the carnage.

Priority one for elected city officials and their hired teams is public safety. In both cities(and states) their leadership failed them.  And, this isn’t the first time for either.

In NOLA long, long ago broken bollards were recently sent out for repair leaving the city vulnerable.  Forty million dollars worth of mobile archers that could have prevented an approach onto the sidewalks lay unused.  The NOLA police chief publically stated, ” I didn’t know these existed.”

The city has purchased some new bollards to replace those that are not repairable.  A city spokesperson said, “The new bollards are made to stop only lighter vehicles traveling at speeds under 10 miles per hour.”

The state told NO repeatedly that the French Quarter was a high-risk target.  The “City That Care Forgot” didn’t care enough to heed all the warning signs.

In Cali high winds over dry areas are very predictable.  Tens of thousands of wind turbines capture some of that wind and harness its energy.

The southern half of the state has had a water supply problem for half a century.  Millions of gallons of water from the north are diverted into the Pacific Ocean that could be used to fill reservoirs and/or saturate the land itself.

An environmental study said the life of a fish called a Smelt could be jeopardized by an overabundance of fresh water flowing south.

How about cleaning out the underbrush?

The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1) authorized $7.545 billion in general obligation bonds to fund ecosystems and watershed protection and restoration, water supply infrastructure projects, including surface and groundwater storage, and drinking water protection.  It sounded good.

The LA Fire Department is 300 firefighters short of its needed number.  Its current DEI hiring policies and termination of any firefighter who refused the COVID-19 jab didn’t help with recruiting.

All of the above screams out that our government takes our money, spends it foolishly, or reroutes it, forces dumb law to contradict original intents, and fails to come close to achieving its clear number one goal.  To label it as incompetence is being kind.

That goal is YOUR safety.

Is it too soon to point fingers, assign blame, and demand real change?  It’s never too soon.

Politicians don’t fire politicians.  Citizens do, but only at the ballot box and not nearly often enough.

In NOLA if the mayor or the police chief had any shame they’d be gone already.  In CALI when the smoke clears the governor, the LA mayor, and the police chief should step down.  They won’t.

It’s time to ask for resignations.   And, it’s time to be loud about it.

What would that do?  It would serve notice that we the people run the government.  We own it.  The government doesn’t run the people.

Big picture the swing from lunacy to objectivity feels like it has already begun.

If not now, when?

 

 

Doing the People’s Business

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In early November the voters spoke.   Joe Biden listened from the outside of the ropes.

With two weeks left in his presidency, Scrappy Joe from Scranton is punching back with fists tightly closed save for his two middle fingers extended dead straight at America’s voted-on desires.

The man who said he would not pardon his son Hunter did.  He even included unknown crimes that he may have committed prior and in the future.  Perhaps he should do the same for himself.

The only time Soros ever leaned right
The only time Soros ever leaned right.

He didn’t stop at Hunter though.  He commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal inmates sitting on death row to a life of confinement.  Joe played God.  Either you’re against the death penalty or you’re not.  Why not the other three?  Why any at all after multiple courts of law imposed the sentences?

How about a Congressional Medal of Honor for anyone who supported him or his party’s cause?  How about 19?  Included was George Soros.  George hates America but has a big wallet.  He funded “woke” judgeship races near and far.  He financed a great deal of the illegal immigration that got the Dems tossed out of office.

Fashion is a Biden passion.  Who knew?  Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, who hosted political fundraisers for the Biden campaign, got one.

Ralph Lauren, a design industry titan, was among the honorees.  Lauren’s clothing has long been a favorite of the Biden family, including first lady Jill Biden.  Has Ralph lost a few miles per hour off his fashion fastball with the wallpaper dresses Jill sports?

Fashionista Pants Suit Hillary got hers.  Biden got a Clinton Foundation humanitarian award back in September.  Maybe dropping out of the race was humane.  If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

Yesterday news broke that Smoking Joe is banning offshore oil exploration in 645 million acres along the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf Coast.  It’ll take months of court wrangling to reverse that one effectively poking a stick in the eye of Donald Trump’s vision to “drill baby, drill.”   Somehow the west side of the Gulf Coast was spared.  Texas and Louisiana don’t need environmental protection it seems.

Last week Biden approved governmental work from home through 2029 covering the Trump four years.  This will help the people who serve the people to dodge DOGE.  Take that Elon!  How this helps Americans who want a leaner and more productive government is anyone’s guess.

With the clock ticking how else can career public servant Biden help?  Surely there are more greenbacks in the government coffers to spread around.  Maybe another Green New Deal giveaway?  Is Ukraine running low on American cash again?  What about a Delaware Beach Enhancement Project?

Will Donald J Trump drill Biden in person during his inaugural speech?  Or will he stay above it?

Drill baby, drill!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Political Joke

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Do you know what George Washington and Joseph Biden have in common?  Nothing.

George Washington told his father he could not tell a lie, “I did cut down that cherry tree.”  Hunter Biden’s father repeatedly told the US he would not pardon his son.

There is no truth to the rumor that Joyless Behar defended Joe by saying on The View yesterday, “Well, he didn’t say which son he would not pardon.  Maybe he was talking about Beau.”

Too soon?  In today’s world, it’s never too soon.

What’s really curious is the fine print.  The Big Guy took out the Mont Blanc.  He absolved Hunter “For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted.”

In other words, he went back eleven years and covered any crimes Hunter may have committed but hasn’t yet been charged with.  Hmmm.

Does this make one curious about the Burisma “work” Hunter did?  It shouldn’t.  After all 51 public servants within the DOJ and the CIA swore that Hunter’s laptop which may contain incriminating evidence of “pay for play” didn’t exist.  They wouldn’t lie either.

If you believe in the Deep State you can see why so many folks around DC are a bit edgy as Donald Trump’s inauguration looms and new sheriffs will be in town snooping around.

Yesterday, a tweet trending on X concluded, “Joe Biden did what any loving father would do by protecting his son and giving him a second chance.”

The problem is that only one loving father in the US would have such a chance.  You have to be President.  Talk about white executive privilege.  Also, Hunter has had way more chances than two.

Did Hunter celebrate by making snow angels on the WH lawn until the wee hours?

Biden handed Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy another two billion yesterday.  But the clock on the ruse is winding down.  Biden’s reelection got short-circuited.  Biden publically endorsed a laughing hyena before the Dems in the shadows could anoint their next puppet.  That ensured Trump got reelected. Trump already has Putin publically saying he wants a peaceful resolution.  The laundering stops here.

The no-pardon lie wasn’t Biden’s first.  He had to withdraw from his first Dem presidential nomination race back in 1988 for lying.  His incredible run as a public servant, train conductor, and 18-wheeler driver has included another falsehood or three.

Do you know how a politician is lying?  See if his mouth is moving.

The funny thing is the joke’s on you.

And only Hunter is laughing.

 

 

It Swung Quite a Bit

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Whether your “team” won or lost last night it’s time to go to work for all of America.

America spoke.  Once when Barrack Obama spoke he said elections have consequences.

Speaking of work we hope this website’s glitches are behind us.  It’s beginning to feel like Arizona ballot counting around here.  If you’ve read this far we’d love a comment below from you saying that you “got the email” from The Pendulum Swings directing you here.  It’s important to our crack IT staff.

Below are ten random thoughts about last night.  The new TPR deadline mandates brevity.

  1.  Speaking of mandates, with a divided country, this strong move to the right of the center is about as close as you can get to one.  When it’s all counted Trump will be over three hundred electoral votes.  The Senate might be as high as 54-46, and the House should stay red.
  2. The country decided to be unburdened by what has been.  The border and inflation “trumped” abortion.  Men voted in droves.  The black vote was stronger for Republicans than in 2020 and the Hispanic vote was much stronger.
  3. Elon Musk might be this century’s Ben Franklin.  Additionally, his purchase of Twitter paved the way for noncensorship and was the anti-mainstream media.  His campaign work and campaign donations were significant.   He went into PA Amish Country and got the vote out and it was red, red, red.  Who would have thought it?
  4.  There was not a single county (parish if you’re talking Louisiana) in America where Kamala outdid Biden by 3% or more.  She was tied to the last four years as she should.
  5. Oklahoma has seventy-seven counties and every one of them is red.
  6.  Donald Trump has been called every “ist” in the book many times.  The most common one that Dems try to pin on him is “racist.”  His team’s performance in the Black and Hispanic demographic was amazing.
  7. Two former McDonald’s workers squared up.  At least we think it was two. The orange octogenarian grabbed the golden arches.
  8. Joe Biden gets to play president till 1/20.  Joe is done as a politician. Is Kamala done as a politician?  You’d think so.
  9. Trump has taken down Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris.  He’s now neutralized Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell(sort of), Liz Cheney, and George Bush.  And, suddenly even Barrack Obama seems less relevant.   That’s an outsider doing inside work.
  10. Speaking of outsiders, or at least peeps who think outside the box, Tulsi Gabbard, Megyn Kelly, Elon Musk, Ron Paul, Tucker Carlson, and Danica Patrick have some work to do.
  11. Rand Paul needs to be the Senate Majority Leader.  He’s even-keeled, open-minded, and steady.  Mike Johnson might keep his gavel.

Hopefully, they all hit the ground running and use Argentina as the blueprint.

The debt clock alarm is screaming.  Wake up America.  Yesterday you did.

The pendulum swung quite a bit.

 

 

Yes and Yes

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Here are two simple questions, but they come with one qualifying request.  The request is to put politics aside to answer them.

Question one: Do you believe freedom of speech is one of our most important rights?

Question two: Do you prefer a smaller but more efficient government than we have today?

Would anyone answer “no” to either question?

We strongly suspect that Elon Musk would answer with a loud “YES” to both. He’s at the center of both questions as the 2024 presidential election draws near.

Once upon a time, Musk was loved by the left.  Then he bought Twitter.  Now he’s not loved so much.

What happened?  What happened goes to the very core of both questions above.

Musk quickly ended the imbalance of censorship from the left on Twitter and in the process unwound the one-way definitions of disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech.

Ex-employees of the company now known as X

Along the way he kept asking employees at Twitter what they did for the company.  What is your job?  Incorrect was the answer “Umm.”

He quickly slashed a ton of dead weight on the payroll.  The social media platform now has only 1,500 employees, down from the 8,000 employed at the time of the acquisition.

Late last week he was drawn even nearer to the crux of the questions.

VP and Prez want-to-be Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that “he has lost his privileges and it should be taken down.  You can’t have one rule for Twitter and another for Facebook.  These social sites have to understand their power.  They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any oversight and regulation and that has to stop.”

Isn’t freedom of speech a right, not a privilege?  Who has oversight and regulates what Kamala says to millions and millions?  Maybe she doesn’t like Musk’s resistance to conform to government-approved narratives?

Marc Zuckerberg admitted last week that he wished that Facebook would have more overtly pushed back on the Biden/Harris administration’s multiple requests for FB to censor jokes or dissents to be published about the government’s position on Covid 19 back in 2021.  Well well.

Former President Trump is reportedly eyeing a plan to involve prominent business executives, including Elon, in auditing federal agencies to identify programs to cut.

Elon’s blue checkmark tweet response was,  “I can’t wait.  There is a lot of waste and needless regulation government that needs to go.”

Back up the Waste Management trucks to DC and start managing the waste.

Real free speech and real government cuts.

New Texas resident Elon Musk says “Giddyup!”

 

 

 

The End

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Shortly after POTUS Barack Obama became the former prez he uttered the infamous sentence, “Never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to mess things up.”

Actually, he did not say “mess.”  What he did say was a four-letter word though.

In 2019 Barack didn’t give Joe what he asked for.  Biden came to the clear Democratic Party leader and asked for his endorsement to run for president in 2020.  Instead, he told Joe, “You know you don’t have to do this.”

But Biden soldiered on.  He told us that the soul of the country was at stake.  This was after his son sold his and Joe’s soul to Ukraine, but we digress.

Eighty-one million votes and one “insurrection” later, Biden started calling the White House home.  Is Arizona finished counting votes yet?  We digress again.

Fast forward to the first debate of 2024 on Joe’s way to reelection, and he hit a pothole.  And, it was one big, incoherent, babbling run-on sentence after another surely caused by jet lag and a cold.  Or, not.

This was the beginning of the end publicly.  For DNC brass it was the middle.

When one runs for the highest office in all of the land he or she must win two votes.  The first one is the coronation from the internal powers who control the donation kitty.  The second is the Electoral College.

A couple of weeks later facing sharp persistent criticism, Biden landed in Los Angeles for a heavy Hollywood-hitting fundraiser hosted by Obama’s tight buddy, George Clooney.  With 28 mil secured Biden boarded Air Force One to head east.

But, once the checks cleared Clooney did the switch art of the old bait and switch.  He said the obvious out loud.  Biden has(most would say had) deteriorated significantly and wondered if he was fit to serve four more years.  Clooney, by Obama’s proxy,  green-lit the lieutenants.

Adam Shiff became the 20th Dem Rep/Senator to ask Biden to reconsider.  Reports are that friend Chuck Schumer, in a one-on-one, told Biden directly that he should stop the campaign.

Joe pressed on.  His inner circle has no conscience.  Yesterday, he forgot his appointed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s name in an interview.  He referred to him as “the black man.”  Oh, yes he did.

By nightfall, he did all he could to stay vertical climbing ever so slowly up the short steps of Air Force One.

Now it’s Covid for the thrice-boosted one.  Joy Reid said this could be a benefit to the campaign. “He can remind people of what hell we went through because of Donald Trump.”

Campaign?

“It ain’t over ’til it’s over,”  Yogi Berra wisely reasoned long ago.  Joy heartedly agrees today.

The DNC plans to push back their convention a month.  Hmmmm.

Barack Obama has spoken.  Therefore, the money has as well.

It’s over.

The end.