Random thoughts
June 7, 2024
Trump found guilty in New York show trial. What did you expect? What is interesting is the reporting on those who would not vote for Trump if he were found guilty. What is not reported is how many of these would not have voted for Trump before the verdict.
So now Biden wants to tighten the border ahead of the election. I think voters know that he is the main cause of the open border and will see through the ruse. We will know if it is a serious effort if AOC and her ilk go ballistic.
Did you see where over 350,000 amnesty cases have been dismissed since 2022? This means that the amnesty claims were not reviewed and they are allowed to remain in the country indefinitely.
Much like Biden’s policies are the result of high energy costs and gas prices, his releasing gasoline from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to temporarily lower case prices is a similar ruse. We all know that gas prices are over a dollar a gallon more than when he took office. So don’t you love Biden claiming he is fixing problems that he himself caused?
The headlines shouted that Mexico has elected its first woman president. What is less known is that both candidates were women.
Isn’t it interesting that both sides claim that the other is a “threat to democracy”? I guess the left has jumped on the Trump off comment about being a dictator for a day while the right claims that Biden has been a dictator for three years. I know that some will say that the congress is endorsing his actions but doesn’t the Politburo rubberstamp Putin’s?
Biden claims that the republicans are attacking “bedrock freedoms”. What are these freedoms? He says women’s reproductive rights, Social Security and voting rights. How is abortion a “bedrock freedom”? What radical changes to social security have the republicans endorsed? How have voting rights been hindered? More fundamental are the dems wanting to stack the Supreme Court, to abolish the Electoral College, to make the Constitution a “living document”. Which is the greatest threat to democracy?
Both parties present the other in a dystopian view. However, it is much more dangerous to rule by the flavor of the moment than in staying true to fundamental principles.
A lot has been written about the dems favoring open borders in order to convert the illegals into voters – assuming that they would mostly be democrats. The right considers this an attack. But little has been written about whether such an effort if successful would permanently enshrine the dems in power. It would depend on where the illegals settled – if they got the vote. If they landed in New York, Illinois, California, Washington, Oregon or other democrat run states, they would not have an impact – except perhaps supplanting blacks as the favored minority. But what about Texas and Florida? Those would be interesting. I doubt if they could flip Florida and south Texas is strongly republican due to bearing the brunt of the illegal invasion.
So Fauci finally admitted that there was no scientific basis for masking or social distancing. He has kind of admitted that Rand Paul was right about the gain of function financing of the Wuhan lab. I guess I was ahead of my time when I was writing for the USA newspaper in Knoxville which refused to publish my article in 2020 listing all the restrictions placed by our health department. I wrote that I could find no scientific evidence for any of the restrictions. The paper being in the “keep them scared” camp would not publish it so I quit and starting writing for a local weekly. I don’t reach as many people but at least I am no longer censored.
We are on our third camping trip of the season. For us camping is in a fifth wheel with 2 flat screen TVs, air conditioning and all the comforts of home. We don’t like sleeping in strange beds and if it were not for the fifth wheel, we would likely not travel to any place other than the farm in Gray, GA. We are in Florida and it is 100 degrees with oppressive humidity. There are no tents at out campground. It is a testimony to how awful it must be to live in the democrat run states in the north that their residents are moving to Florida with its heat, palmetto bugs, mosquitos, black flies, love bugs, alligators, fire ants and boa constrictors. Do they still have walking catfish?
Finally, the left is gleefully calling Trump a convicted felon. The Babylon Bee points out that before the conviction the left was imploring a change in “hateful language” preferring the term “justice impacted individual.”
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