Yes, The Debates Are On…

I think down deep, we always knew there would probably be presidential debates this year. I guess I took it for granted. After all, we’ve got the Presidential Debate Foundation, or whatever it’s called that usually puts the whole shebang together. And they did this year, setting the first debate for this fall at Texas State University in San Marcos. Well, that’s probably not going to happen.

Now, you’re going to be hearing a bunch of stories as to how the debates came about, and who’s going to benefit from them most. So, here’s my take on all of it.

First of all, the debates were most likely started by Joe Biden himself. I’m sure he’s seen the poll numbers and if I were him, I’d be cowering in a corner somewhere wondering how it got this bad. And yes, it IS this bad if you’re Joe Biden. Everything that guy and his reelection team have tried haven’t moved the needle. They tried outspending Donald Trump. That didn’t work. They tried lying about what life was like under him as president. That only made him stronger. They come up with the cockamamie idea to “lawfare” the guy. Well, you’re seeing how that’s playing out. Nothing has worked. And it’s because Americans don’t feel like Biden has helped them at all. In fact, about 77% say he’s hurt them. You don’t win many elections with people feeling that way.

So, Biden did what any candidate in that position does. You throw a hail Mary. You call for debates. His team got with two of the more liberal news outlets out there, CNN and ABC, and got them to send Donald Trump an invite to debate. It was probably the best campaign idea they’ve had so far, because Trump has often said he would “debate anytime, anywhere”. OK, try debating when the moderators are slightly to the left of Bernie Sanders or AOC!

And Trump had to say yes. If he would have backed out or said no to the deal, it would have been a huge plus for Biden. Not a game changer per se, but it would have been a big deal. Maybe enough to sway a few hundred thousand independents, which could be all Biden needs.

So, the rules are that there will be an empty TV studio, no raucous crowds cheering for Trump, which he loves. They are going to automatically cut off mics when the time is up, which was something that bugged Biden the last round of debates they had. Biden didn’t want to have the bi-partisan presidential debate people doing the debates, he wanted something more liberal, so he went directly to two of the more liberal outlets. They are going to be sitting, not standing, which means Biden doesn’t have to stand for an extended period of time. All of these things favor Biden, not Trump. Oh, and NO RFK Jr. It’s only Biden v. Trump. Of course, that didn’t sit well with RFK Jr.

And to boot, Biden also asked for one vice presidential debate.

Now, in the debates in 2020, Biden did a pretty fair job. Trump interrupted him, and threw him off of his game, but there was no doubt Biden won the first debate, and Trump won the second. And Joe was lucid for these things too. He must have had a shot of some sort to wake himself up.

Oh, and speaking of waking up, the debates aren’t going to be at 9pm eastern time. They’re going to be earlier. Joe doesn’t want to miss his bed time.

But at the very least, we’ll get to see the two debate. And I’m sure you won’t see Biden much over the next 42 days or so. He’ll be busy prepping for it!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

And He Thinks This HELPS?

I’m not saying anything new when I write that I think Joe Biden has some serious mental issues while running for president. I mean, the guy makes more gaffes than Dan Quayle ever did, and the White House press staff has to be on guard 24/7, even more than the Secret Service just to keep up with all of the gaffes and lies.

And I’m not talking about the CNN interview Biden did this past week where in 17 minutes he was found to have lied a total of 15 times! I’m talking about something entirely different. Biden was making remarks following his vice president, celebrating Asian American Month, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Here’s what he said:

“My name’s Joe Biden. I work for Kamala Harris,” to a smattering of laughter and applause. “I asked her to be my vice president because I knew I needed somebody smarter than me.”

Now, I get it that he was trying to make a joke out of the whole thing. But when 80% or more of the country doesn’t think you have the mental capacity to finish out your first term, much less have a second term, you have to wonder who in hell was writing his speech?

And this is just another day in the life of Joe Biden. It’s caused me to actually rethink my original intentions on the guy. See, my feelings on every person on this earth are that no one, or at least very few, are pure evil, or pure good. Everyone has some good in them, and everyone has a dark side. No one is a total idiot, and no one is the smartest person that ever lived. We are all in the middle somewhere. And even someone like Joe Biden has some redeeming qualities.

I think I was wrong.

I’ve come to learn that Biden hasn’t made one solid move since he’s been in the White House. He’s wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars on meaningless programs that haven’t worked. He touts an electric car that is at least ten years away from ready for public consumption. He thinks that climate change is the worst enemy we face. He’s in bed with China. He wanted to restart the talks with Iran, even as they were sending billions of dollars to terrorist groups to attack Israel, and the west. He’s cloaked bills like “Infrastructure” and “Inflation Reduction Act” to fund Green New Deal Projects. And of course, he’s left countless Americans behind, both in Afghanistan, after the botched withdrawal, and in Gaza where Americans are still being held hostage. He’s still got Americans being held prisoner in Russia, and all he cares about is sending the Ukrainians, the Taiwanese, and the Israelis more money (as long as the Palestinians get a fair share as well).

Biden screams that the rich needs to “pay their fair share”, yet his tax proposal that will be implemented next year includes letting the Trump Tax Cuts expire, which will void his campaign promise not to raise taxes on anyone making under $200,000 a year. You WILL get a tax increase next year if he’s reelected.

And I haven’t even touched on the top two issues in this campaign, inflation/and the economy, and the southern border fiasco, which has ballooned into much more than just a crisis. It’s a takeover of our country. Currently homeless people sleep on the streets of every major city in the nation while illegal aliens are given $250 a night hotel rooms, $10,000 in pre-paid credit cards, free healthcare, and yes, voting rights.

And Donald Trump is the one on trial here?

Please…someone tell me when we got turned into bizarro land! I’m reminded of Isaiah 5:20, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” I think that guy was talking about the US in 2024!

And yet, America is still looking at just six states that will determine the election in less than six months. Are you kidding me? This should be the biggest landslide since George Washington ran unopposed for the presidency!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

If I Were Judge Juan Merchan…

As former attorney Michael Cohen gets set for a second day of testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, there are things happening that I find to be rather astounding. Now, we can all agree that this “lawfare” is having some rather dire consequences, but not for Trump himself. There was a poll that came out yesterday that showed the former president is leading the current president by rather wide margins in five of the six “battleground states”. Only Wisconsin is slightly favoring Joe Biden, and that’s within the margin of error at 2 points.

So, what does this tell you? To me it shows that Trump’s trial is having the opposite effect that Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan wanted to have. Instead of getting Americans to switch to Biden, they are leaving Biden in droves and moving to Trump. In fact, Trump held a rally in very blue New Jersey over this past weekend, and between 80,000 and 100,000 people showed up. We’re talking Taylor Swift type of crowds here.

In fairness to the sitting New York Judge Merchan, I thought today I’d be nice and try and help out his career a little. Judge, here’s what you need to do:

1. Stop sustaining all of the Trump legal team’s objections. It’s not working. It only makes you look like a fool. You’re not fooling anyone with your bias. Everyone and their cousin knows you and Alvin Bragg are in cahoots on this trial.
2. Lift Trump’s gag order. You didn’t include anyone in the prosecution in the gag order, which usually tells BOTH sides to keep quiet. You showed your conflict of interest right then and there.
3. When the prosecution rests, which I hear should be sometime this week, the Trump team will ask for a directed verdict of not-guilty. Not only has Bragg’s team failed to prove Trump is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they haven’t even been able to define what the felony is. Not to the jury. Not to the media. Not to Trump. Not even to Merchan himself. So, stop playing games and call this thing over before it becomes a landslide in Trump’s favor.

If Juan Merchan were smart, he’d end the charade before it really gets bad. Already, Alvin Bragg is going to be facing a tough reelection bid because he’s wasted tons of taxpayer money on bogus charges that never should have been brought. We’re talking about stuff that happened almost two decades ago, and the statute of limitations has already run out. Merchan can’t be so big of an idiot to not realize that he’s going to lose all of this on so many points of appeal that the Appellate Court could be blind, deaf, and mute, and still overturn any guilty verdict.

And that’s just what happens IF the jury comes back with a guilty verdict. I never thought I’d say this, but as bad as this trial has been for the prosecution, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the jury comes back and acquits Trump on all charges. Hell, we don’t even know the charges yet!

Juan Merchan can save whatever is left of his career if he wraps this thing up, and dismisses the charges as soon as he possibly can. He probably should have done that after the Stormy Daniels testimony, but he blew it. Regardless, he still has a chance to save his career, otherwise he’s going to be going down in flames along side Bragg and Letitia James as laughing stocks in the Empire State!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Isn’t What’s Good For The Goose…?

Look, I’m a consistency guy. Basically that means that if you’re going to come out in favor of something because it benefits your side of an argument, that’s fine. But when the same issue comes out and it doesn’t benefit your side of the argument, you need to accept the fact you’re going to lose on that one. You can’t be wishy-washy and sway in the wind. Too many politicians are like that in this day and age. Remember back when the whole same-sex marriage thing was swirling around? Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the White House. They said they were against same-sex marriage, but were for same-sex unions. It wasn’t too long after the gay mafia caught up to them and they decided that maybe they were indeed in favor of same-sex marriage. As they put it, “they are evolving.” Right.

Well, what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. And this time around it has nothing to do with same-sex marriage. It has to do with bribery charges.

Fox News came out with a story that alleged Hunter Biden had taken bribes in order to advance a foreign country’s agenda. The source of the bribe leak to Fox apparently was a guy by the name of Alexander Smirnov. And now the White House wants Fox to retract it’s story and apologize. Why? Because Alexander Smirnov was indicted for lying.

Uh…can we wait just one cotton-pickin’ minute here?

Today in New York City, at Donald Trump’s trial over his paying “hush money” to Stormy Daniels (not a crime by the way), taking the stand will be one former attorney for Trump, a guy by the name of Michael Cohen. Now, Michael Cohen has not only been indicted for lying. He’s been convicted of it. He’s served time for lying to Congress among other charges. He was put away for three years, right? And the funny thing is, we haven’t heard word one about this from the White House. They want Fox News to retract a story because they are using a liar as a source, yet they are OK with Alvin Bragg and Juan Merchan having Michael Cohen, a CONVICTED liar that has served time for it, on the stand against Trump? And this guy is supposed to be the star witness in the whole circus? Really?

Am I the only one that sees the irony in this? If Fox News can’t use a liar as a source in a story regarding the president’s son, then why in the world can the prosecution use a convicted and pathological liar on a witness stand, under oath, to give testimony regarding Trump’s alleged payments to Stormy Daniels? Seems to me they are one and the same thing.

No, Fox News shouldn’t be retracting their story. In fact, they probably should be expanding on it. Especially if later today (I’m writing this rather early this morning), Cohen does end up taking the stand as a witness.

What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.

And with that,

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Trump’s Trials & Tribulations

It’s been a while since we’ve discussed what’s going on with Donald Trump’s many trials, but it’s also been a time when a lot has happened. So, with that in mind, let’s look at the four trials with some 88 charges against the former (and future?) president!

The trial in Georgia hit a major snag for the prosecution when the Trump legal team appealed the judge’s decision to allow Fani Willis to remain on the case if her boyfriend would resign as the prosecutor. He did, and she stayed. But the Georgia appellate court agreed with the Trump team’s appeal to hear why Willis and her office should be disqualified from the trial. As it stands now, that’s going to push the trial way past the election. The Georgia appeals court has two sessions, the next one starts in August, and it’s doubtful that the attorneys can be prepared by then, and the court’s docket is probably full anyway. That leaves the second session, which doesn’t begin until the spring of 2025, well after the election. The overall feeling is that if the appellate court sides with the Trump team and removes Willis and her office from prosecuting the case, it will basically be yanked.

Next you’ve got the case regarding Trump’s classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Judge Aileen Cannon has postponed the trial indefinitely, citing issues surrounding the eight motions that have been made by both sides. She said she needs until at least July to reach a determination as to those motions. Of course, the FBI kinda sorta screwed up in the paperwork department. And that’s going to play rather large going forward as well. I don’t really think this one is going to have any chance of being heard before the election at all.

You’ve got the case with Jack Smith prosecuting the whole January 6th protest at the US Capitol. That has gone before the US Supreme Court, as to whether Donald Trump has immunity of things he’s said and done while president. Based on the questions the Justices asked during oral arguments a while back, one can surmise that they don’t side with either Smith, nor the Trump legal team, but will fall somewhere in the middle. The smart money says they are going to send it back to the lower court to outline under what circumstances a president should be considered to have immunity, and under what circumstances. That alone will push the start of any trial well past the November election.

And of course, there’s the ongoing circus in lower Manhattan where chief clown, Juan Merchan is holding court. That’s basically referred to as the Stormy Daniels trial. What’s been interesting about that trial is that pretty much everyone and their third cousin believes that this has been a political show and nothing more. The witnesses have pretty much solidified Trump’s position that it’s a witch hunt. And you can add to that the fact that every single person on the prosecution’s side (and the judge), are heavily vested in the Democrat party. Merchan hasn’t done much in the way of helping Trump at all, yet it seems that 55% of the public think the trial has been unfair. The real question is will it become a hung-jury, a conviction that needs to be overturned on appeal, or an outright acquittal, which would be rather stunning seeing how it’s being held in one of the most heavily Democrat areas in the entire country. But with each day that passes, it becomes clearer to most of the talking heads on TV, even at CNN and MSNBC, that Alvin Bragg is way over his head on this one and should go back to trying subway marauders.

Overall, Trump is holding up better than Biden is, who’s free to move about the country and campaign. And like I’ve mentioned at least once or twice, at this point, it really doesn’t matter. This is a fundraising phase of the presidential election and not many people are paying attention yet. That won’t occur until after Labor Day, holding this trial now is the best for Trump. He’ll get his campaigning and fundraising in, with plenty to spare.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Maxine’s Words Come Back To Haunt Her

Let’s go back in time a little bit, shall we? How about six years ago. Donald Trump was the President of the United States, and he was doing an admirable job. The economy was humming along nicely. People of all races, creeds, colors, religions, and even sexual orientations were working. Unemployment was at record low levels. Trump had succeeded in putting “America first”, much to the chagrin of some of our allies who really wanted America to pay for their foibles.

So, what did the prissy little Maxine Waters have to say about it all? Besides screaming, “Impeach 45” anytime there were cameras near her, she demanded that her supporters harass Donald Trump, and those that worked for him any time they saw them. She wanted her minions to follow these folks to the bank, the grocery store, the dry cleaners, and scream constantly at them.

My how the times have changed!

Six years later, the shoe seems to be on the other foot. Nowadays, Maxine is the one that seems to be getting the people following her, and calling her out. And she doesn’t like it one bit! Her comment was, “As a member of Congress, when people, you know, who evidently had a racist attitude, and recently one of them even confronted me in a restaurant. And they don’t say racist things, but what they say is they don’t like something I said, they don’t like a position that I took, but you know that, you know, if you were not black, you would not be approached that way.”

She played the race card.

And of course, video of that comment took off and became viral on X after her tirade. Apparently, it’s OK for us regular folks to go after Republicans in power, but as a “member of Congress”, you are racist if you disagree with someone that is black, or certainly a long time member of the House of Representatives! That’s unforgivable.

The hypocrisy here is about as loud as it can get. Maxine doesn’t like it when she’s called out for her uber-leftist views and racist comments. But she’s alright if Donald Trump and his staff feel that the heat. First off, let’s be clear, questioning someone’s policies, or their stance on an issue is not necessarily racist. It happens all the time to members of both parties, and race doesn’t play a part in probably 99% of it. I’m sure there are some folks out there that are indeed racist, but that’s not the overwhelming minority of what we’re talking about. I’m sure those are isolated examples. And I have no idea how Maxine Waters can determine that someone “evidently had a racist attitude”, or whether they just didn’t like her position on an issue.

The mere fact that she was about as unprofessional and rude as a politician could get toward Trump and his staff is not lost on the fact that anytime someone disagreed with her, it was because of race. Maybe SHE was the one that was racist when she was attacking Trump. Did anyone ever think about that?

The good news in all of this is, Maxine Waters is 85 years old. She doesn’t have much time left on this earth, so we don’t have to put up with her for long. And I’d say that if she were black, white, brown, red, yellow, or green. The color of her skin doesn’t matter. When you’re an idiot, it transcends race.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Are Dems Thinking Of Replacing Biden?

Oh, it’s only a rumor right now…but it’s one I’ve heard coming from several different sources. Here’s what’s going around.

Sometime in May (as opposed to sometime in March, which was the last rumor), the Democrats are going to get together and decide they aren’t going to nominate Joe Biden for reelection. He’s going to have to come up with some reason, possibly his health, as to why he’s not going to run again, but he’d drop out of the race. Then, K-baby Harris is going to say that whomever gets the nod to be president, she’s fine with that as long as she’s on the ticket for VP, but she’s OK with being the VP for now. And in steps Gavin Newsom to take over for Joe.

That’s the rumor in a nutshell. I’ve heard it from several different places, with only minor changes. One had K-baby Harris taking over the top spot, and one had Michelle Obama reconsidering a run for president. Other than that, the rumor was basically the same.

And here’s what I find to be interesting with all of this. First off, let’s get rid of the Obama theory. Michelle Obama has made over $200 million with her hubby since getting out of the White House. They have a house in Hawaii and one in Martha’s Vineyard. And she gets $200,000 per speech when corporations or countries want to hear what she has to say. She’s not going to be handcuffed to running the country. However, should she change her mind, polls show she COULD beat Donald Trump.

Then there’s the Gavin Newsom angle. He’s been an absolutely terrible governor in California. Their economy is in shambles, people are leaving the state, and while he may look like the younger, more energetic candidate with the slicked back hair, he’s got a long way to go to be on the national stage. Ron DeSantis absolutely destroyed him in the debate that was held earlier this year on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News. Trump would eat him as a snack before breakfast.

As for Harris, there isn’t any way she could compete with Trump either. Her approval rating is lower than Biden’s. She’s viewed as vapid and stupid by pretty much every media outlet, even the liberal ones. But rumor has it that she would be boosted by a media-makeover. They’d start by saying what a great Attorney General she was in California. And it would go on to say how much she had done in the US Senate (very little actually). She co-sponsored 80 bills during her time in Congress, but co-sponsoring is easy and most every person on the Hill has co-sponsored something from time to time. She would lose in a landslide to Trump

Personally, I think win, lose, or draw, the Dems are stuck with Biden. I don’t think it’s going to bode well for him, as he has a number of problems besides all of the issues. His party is splintered over his waffling on the Israel/Hamas war. And he has solidified (somewhat) the youth vote because of his expansion of the student loan debt elimination. But he’s also upset more of the working class folks who see themselves as paying for doctors’ and lawyers’ educations while they work more menial jobs. That’s not even to start talking about inflation, the economy, or the southern border. He is upside down on every issue except abortion, and we’ll have to wait and see what happens on that one since Trump has come out saying the states will have to decide it for themselves (which is exactly what the Supreme Court said).

Carry on world…your dismissed?

Should Presidents Get Immunity?

It was less than two weeks ago, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments that Donald Trump (and presidents in general) should receive immunity from criminal prosecution for acts they have committed while in office. Now, the high court won’t rule on this until most likely the end of June so we’ve got about another couple of months before we hear the outcome. But there are some interesting points that Trump’s legal team makes.

First of all, presidents are immune already from civil prosecution for acts committed while in office. That ruling came down about 40 years ago, right after Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate affair. But no one has tried to get that immunity expanded to criminal prosecution until now. And the only reason it’s before the high court now is because of the lawfare that we’ve been witnessing in New York, Georgia, and with Jack Smith, and the January 6th fiasco, as well as the Mar a Lago classified documents case.

I’m going to refer to a couple of things I’ve talked about for quite some time. The first is the Harry Reid Rule (or that’s what I call it). It was when Harry Reid was Majority Leader in the Senate and passed a rule that appointees other than Supreme Court Justices needed a simple majority, not 60 votes to get appointed to whatever position they were up for. It backfired on Reid because when Mitch McConnell took over as Majority Leader, he expanded it to include the SCOTUS nominees. And that’s what led to the 6-3 conservative court we have today.

The second thing that is going to come back to bite Democrats is what Chuck Schumer did in the Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment. He basically made a motion that the impeachment was unconstitutional, and it passed along party lines. What this basically means is that if there is an impeachment dealing with the out of power party in the Senate, the party in power can simply state that the charges are unconstitutional, and kill the impeachment without a trial. And while you know I’m not a fan of impeachment unless you’ve got enough votes to not only impeach in the House, but convict in the Senate, this was a really stupid move on Schumer’s part. It will come back to bite the Democrats as soon as the Republicans lose the House and take over the Senate. Wait and see.

Well, in this case, with presidential immunity on the line, what happens if a president is worried that he’s going to be charged with a crime if he makes the wrong decision. Does that top him making the right decision because of his fear of getting charged and prosecuted? Take the case of Bobo Obama, who ordered a drone strike in the Middle East and took out a 16 year old American citizen, who just happened to be a member of ISIS. Could Obama, without immunity, still today be charged with that boy’s murder? After all, there is no statute of limitations on murder.

And what about Joe Biden, and the problems he’s got with the whole Hunter Biden fiasco? Could he be criminally charged with accepting bribes from Ukraine, Romania, and China in exchange for favorable outcomes to those countries while he was Vice President or even President? Presidents, of both parties, need to have the ability to make tough decisions without the fear of being called on the carpet for it later on. Now, that’s not to say that a sitting president has carte blanche to go after anyone they choose anyway they choose. There has to be some sort of litmus test. But that could very well be decided by the lower courts. I doubt the Supremes are going to get that involved in it. But I certainly can see them sending this back down the line and having the lower courts come up with what circumstances would need to exist before a president could invoke immunity on a criminal charge.

And for Donald Trump, that would mean victory. That would mean that there would be no way to hold this trial prior to election day. It would take months at the very least for a lower court to gather the information, hold hearings, and decide what constitutes immunity and what doesn’t.

And if that happens, Donald Trump could very well have skated on all four of his trials on his way to reelection.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

What Biden Needs To Do To Win

OK, I know first of all, that Joe Biden or any member of his team don’t read this blog. So, unless one of his liberal buddies gets hold of this and sends it to him, there is no way in the world that he or anyone associated with his campaign is going to hear what I’m saying here. But with that in mind, he needs to realize something, and I think even Joe Biden realizes this…

He is losing to Donald Trump.

And for a guy that despises Trump probably more than anyone else in the world, that’s got to sting. The fact of the matter is Donald Trump has 100 times Biden’s energy, 100 times (at least) his mental capacity, and 100 times his political savvy. That’s not to say Trump couldn’t lose. He could. But only if Biden were to do the following.

The first thing I would do if I were advising Biden is, get rid of those executive orders you signed that did away with Trump’s policies at the southern border. Shut down the border for “national security” and only allow folks with proper ID and work visa’s into the country. The rest can go back where they came from. If they claim asylum, take their information, and send them back to Mexico to wait for their hearing. Anything else is a losing proposition. Biden stepped in it big time on his first day in office and he is the one that needs to rectify this. It’s not a Trump problem, it’s a Biden problem. And while Congress could indeed come up with a solution to the whole mess, they’re not going to tackle it in an election year. If Biden were to do that, he takes the issue away from Republicans. And it’s one of the top issues in this campaign.

The second thing I’d tell him to do is to lower taxes. Everyone, even the rich gets a tax break. And while he’s at it, he needs to cut the budget by 35%. Not a “Washington DC cut”, which is basically to slow the growth of something, but a physical, actual cut. If a department was getting $100, now they get $65. I do that across the board, except for social security, Medicare/Medicaid, and the military.

Third thing I’d do is to shut down the government’s money presses. That was the cause of the inflation in the first place. So, shut it down. Yes, it will hurt short term, but you’ll start to see inflation come down quickly when you have fewer dollars being printed.

And the fourth thing I would do, in fact, ANY politician would do in Biden’s situation, I’d debate Trump as often as he’d like. You don’t see people that are shoo-in’s for election wanting to debate because they have nothing to gain. You only see people who are in a tight race or are behind in the polls want to debate. Now, Trump is a much better debater than Biden is. And he would probably win. But you have to ask yourself, if Trump is winning without debates, without campaigning because he’s in court all day every day, what are you able to do to at least give the appearance that you’re out there trying to beat his brains in? As it is, Trump has controlled the narrative in this election cycle from day one, and Biden is seen as an afterthought.

If none of the above things work, or he isn’t listening to any of them…I’d tell him to drop out. He’s going to lose if he keeps on this path anyway, why risk the embarrassment of a sitting president losing to a guy you beat just four years earlier. All that does is solidify you being the worst president in US history.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Do Voter Registration Drives Work?

Well, the answer is yes and no. Voter registration drives has been a key page in the Democrats’ playbook over the past several decades. Their thinking is, if you register through a Democrat run voter registration drive, you’re more likely to become a Democrat and vote with that party. That’s not proving to be the case this year. And that’s going to be the main reason you don’t see as many Democrat drives as we go through the summer.

If you want to look at it in terms of the numbers, those that register for the first time, and are “certain” they are going to vote for their candidate, Biden leads Trump 52-48%. But, if you look at the first time registration folks who aren’t yet certain who they are going to vote for…the “fence sitters”, they break for Trump, 56-44% over Biden. But it gets worse.

With the remaining people in the “unregistered pool”, they favor Trump over Biden 64 to 36%. That means that if the Democrats continue to register new voters, they are running into a buzz saw that is going to back Trump rather than Biden come November, by almost a 2 to 1 margin. So, if Dems continue to register new voters, for every new vote they get, they’re giving the Republicans two.

The study was done by the Marquette Law School in the month of March of this year. And it just happens to be more bad news for the Biden campaign. Already, Biden is in trouble because he’s underwater on every single issue that’s important to voters except abortion, and his base is splintering over the Israel/Hamas conflict as Biden continues to waffle between the two sides. He is in a terribly poor “no win position” in that Middle East conflict. And it doesn’t matter which side he takes, he is going to lose voters. Either he upsets the youth vote that he’s trying so hard to get by transferring their student loan debt to the rest of us, or he is going to upset a usually loyal group, the Jewish community, who back Israel in the conflict by a 5-1 advantage.

Let’s just hope that the Republicans don’t shoot themselves in the foot over the next six months. They’ve been very good at doing that lately!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!