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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.

 

 

 

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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025 Has Arrived

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Twenty-twenty-four is all but out of the door.  Our fearless 2025 predictions have arrived.

The first six months follow.

January

Mike Johnson retains his House Speakership.  The Oregon Ducks capture Natty #1 in their school’s history beating Georgia 34-28.  Joe Biden wishes Jimmy Carter luck for the next four years on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration.   Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that the H-1B Visa is a variant of the Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 KP.2.3 virus, that must be taken seriously.  Taylor Sheridan signs on with Paramount Plus to develop yet another series, this one tentatively titled New Jersey Drones.

February

Philadelphia and Buffalo send Super Bowl LIX to overtime before the Bills win their first Lombardi Trophy 34-28, oddly the same score as the CFP Championship.  President Trump begins the deportation of illegal immigrants and is forced to call out the National Guard in Chicago.   Troublesome interest rates sink the Dow Jones under 40,000.

March

Doug Emhoff and Kamala Harris announce their pending divorce declaring they both wish to be “unburdened by what has been.”  Florida beats Auburn to capture the NCAA March Madness Basketball National Championship in an all-SEC final.   Canada agrees to become a US Territory and is renamed North of North Dakota.

April

An EF3 tornado rolls through northeast Oklahoma causing 10 million dollars of improvements.  The World Health Organization recommends the removal of all birdhouses as the bird flu caseload reaches nearly 200 worldwide.  Mitch McConnel abruptly resigns from the Senate.  After spring practices conclude the NCAA transfer portal has more players in than out.

May

Donald Trump says that the US is exiting the WHO calling its leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus a bird brain with a long name.  California Angels OF Mike Trout is placed on the 60-day disabled list with a chronic hangnail.  Ukraine signs a treaty with Russia ceding Crimea over to Putin.  When Joe Biden was asked to comment from his Delaware beach chair, he says “ah, Crimea, crime,a, ah, crime” was already declining in the US under his watch.

June

Hollywood, CA one way UHaul rentals surpass all previous records as the Epstein List is set to release on June 25th.  The OKC Thunder beats the Boston Celtics 4-1 to capture their first-ever NBA Championship.  LeBron James retires and concludes his presser by saying “I diddy the best I could.”  Elon Musk, feeling the power from his non-government, government position says Mars is not the final destination.  He wants to launch a rocket aimed at Uranus.

 

July through December prognostications will hit Al Gore’s internet by week’s end.

Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

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Donald J. Trump wrote The Art of the Deal in 1987, which sold over a million copies and was number one on the New York Times best-seller list for 13 straight weeks.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was fifteen years old then.  Likely, The Art of the Deal was not on his high school English class reading list.  Perhaps it should have been, along with a speed reading course.

Though Johnson’s House Continuing Resolution blew up faster yesterday than he could have read it.  The 1500-plus page bill is was longer than three War and Peace novels.

When Elon Musk starts a Twitter war there is no peace.  Elon and Vivek dissected the bill.  In 280 characters or less, they told us that it was more Washington pork being force-fed to the American people who just voted to stop the DC hogs and their special interests.

Mike Johnson brokered a deal with the devil that offered everything from a Congressional member pay raise of 73k per public servant to a three million dollar study on molasses testing.

How about a new three-billion-dollar NFL stadium in DC?  If you have a House seat on the hill you get a sweet suite seat in the stadium.

All he needed and all America needed was funding to keep the government open till Trump got his feet under the Oval Office desk and some additional disaster relief for the two devastating hurricanes the southeast endured in September.

Instead, he chose to include Democrat-driven pet projects.  After the dawn of DOGE he should have known better.

Vote the straight party line on the lighter version of the bill and send it to the Senate.  The Senate is controlled by the Democrats until 1/2/25.  If they reject the bill and shut the government down it’s on them.  Government shutdowns aren’t shutdowns anyway, but politicians like to scare us.

Instead, he tried to please everyone which pleased no one once the richest and smartest man in the world spoke, er, tweeted.

Notably silent yesterday were the RINOs that would have voted with the Democrats to deliver the slab of bacon and run home for the holiday break.  Elon’s watching.  He has the money to primary you, fine folks, soon.  Don’t get him started.

Mike Johnson is gone sooner.  He won’t survive his 1/2 casting call.

Johnson didn’t read Trump’s book.  And, he wrote the wrong bill.

He didn’t read the will of the American people.  Enough already adding shamelessly to the debt.

Reading, writing, and arithmetic.

 

 

Droning On

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It’s been a quick, but busy, 30 days since Kamala Harris stopped droning on about being “unburdened from what has been.”

Now we’ve got drones over New Jersey airspace unburdened by any American government department.  Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense said they don’t know their origin or purpose, but there’s nothing to worry about.   Comforting indeed.

Perhaps the Chinese “weather balloon” that traversed across the sky high above us for days on end 18 months ago was deemed a trial success.  Before you know it Boeing 737 MAXs will be airborne again as well.  Hallelujah, we think.

President Joe Biden’s been flying high too.  His trip to Africa was a long but successful one.   Biden’s visit, the first to Angola by a U.S. president, is meant to promote billions of dollars of commitments to the sub-Saharan African nation for what he called the largest ever U.S. rail investment overseas.

“The United States is all in on Africa,” he said between naps in meetings.

This comes a day after his 50-billion-dollar loan pledge to Ukraine.  Hell hath no fury like a President scorned. Dr. Jill was back stateside openly mocking Kamala beginning her speech by asking everyone to have “joy.”  Hell hath no fury like a First Lady scorned.

Christopher Wray is wrapping up his tenure as FBI Director.  He knows that a new sheriff is coming to DC soon.  If Mickey Donovan had the same sensibility for his son Ray Ray a lot of hubbub could have been avoided.

Wray’s wrap is ahead of the parade.  When the Kings of DOGE hit DC the real towel-waving begins.

The “experiment” of lesser government wrapped up one year in Argentina. It should be viewed as a blueprint.

President Javier Milei announced a tax reform plan to eliminate 90 percent of existing taxes after slicing 18 government ministries to nine reducing the country’s inflation year over year from 25.5% to 2.7%.  It’s terrible to subject citizens to such bloat for so long.

It’s also terrible that more than a few zealots took to social media to cheer the murder of the head of UnitedHealthcare exclaiming that you have to challenge the medical establishment.  Weren’t some of them the same ones wanting you dead for criticizing Pfizer, the vaccine that wasn’t a vaccine, and the booster that wasn’t a booster?

Maybe permanent social distancing isn’t a bad idea.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Ten Reasons to be Thankful

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It’s that time.  It’s time to be thankful for all of our blessings.  Below we count 10 of them.

  1.  We ugly Americans complain a lot, but who has it better than you? Maybe Canada does. Several Hollywood types threatened to move to Canada if former President Trump was reelected.  Thankfully no news outlet has reported that the traffic at the northern border going out is similar to the traffic at the southern border coming in.
  2. However, Ellen Degeneres and her wife said thanks for the memories and flew over the pond to the UK.  She says the move is permanent.  TPS is attempting to clarify if the memories referenced were days in America or nights at P Diddy’s.
  3.  Covid 19 is no longer.  Walgreens is still advertising COVID-19 vaccination shots.  Or, are they called boosters these days? They should be thankful that they ar closing only 500 stores next year.
  4.  About 4 million illegal immigrants from 2020-2021 will celebrate Thanksgiving here because the pandemic was never bad enough to shut down the border.  Will it be their last here?
  5.  Thankfully no legacy media outlet will need to interview James Carville for another four years.  Hopefully, his LSU sweatshirt will have dry-rotted by then.
  6.  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have made nice with Donald Trump just in time to pass the gravy.  They say they will call it right down the middle from here on.  Weren’t they before?  They’ll be thankful if NBC still owns MSNBC in a year and Elon Musk doesn’t.
  7.  The tariffs are coming!  The tariffs are coming!  Thankfully Donald Trump understands the Art of the Deal better than most.
  8.  On Turkey Day while watching America’s Team (how bout dem Cowboys?) you won’t be interrupted by a message from a cackling hen dressed in a pantsuit.
  9.  Donald Trump will sleep way better in the cozy White House than a penitentiary cell.  “Now even Jack Smith admits the Left’s lawfare against President Trump has failed,” David Bossie, president of Citizens United, said.  Both federal cases are being put on ice.
  10.  Speaking of sleeping, turkey does not make you so.  While the big bird does contain tryptophan, there isn’t enough in the gobbler to have an impact. You would have to eat about eight pounds of turkey to have a high enough level to make you sleepy.

Give it a go!

Gobble, gobble.

Night, night.