Last night, I missed the full-length interview with Kamala Harris, a presidential candidate. Today, I viewed a CNN segment of her performance. Here are my takeaways: 1.) It was strange to see her pick for VP sitting at her elbow during the questioning. I had visions of how she would use him if she became president. The first image was of the 3:00 a.m. phone call to alert the president that a nuclear bomb was headed to the USA. Will the Vice President be by her side in bed? How would she handle the situation, or would he do it? 2.) What has changed your mind on the shift toward policy that is the opposite of your previous position? Her response was that her values have not changed. What that told me is that she hasn’t changed her positions at all. She is however, using Bill Clinton’s technique for winning elections. “Tell them whatever to win, then do what you want after.”
I didn’t find the full interview, so I switched gears to move on. I will surely see the entire interview in tiny segments throughout the week. I saw enough to convince me that Kamala is not presidential material. Afterward, I watched an interview with Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman defending Trump. Now, she is an example of a woman we could trust in the White House: poised, confident, eloquent, and determined. I’d love to see her debate Kamala without any babysitters present.
When it is all said and done, none of the above matters. Kamala is going to win because she has the Obama halo. She is half black, educated (but not smart), deflects challenging situations with a cackle, and is a woman.
This is one of those days when I don’t have anything to write about. So, I’ll resort to beginning with words that might not make sense at the start but may mean something by the time I finish. When I experienced my greatest readership a few years ago, I was writing opinion pieces about Obama. At the time, I thought he was a born-in-Africa communist dressed in Brooks Brothers suits and pretending to love this country. Today, I am quite certain that he is a communist born in Kenya. He was hell bent on implementing his communist father’s proposal to redistribute the wealth of America, and dividing the country into hate groups. The President of Kenya hired him, and promptly fired him when Daddy Obama began to propose his plan to take from the rich to feed the poor.
The hate groups BO tickled into functioning were not just black vs white, they were Muslims against Christians, queers against straight, Europe against Russia, the world against China, etc. the list is endless. There is more division in America today than there has ever been among peoples of the world since the beginning of time. He couldn’t accomplish the deed while in office illegally, so helped steal the last election from Trump, his greatest enemy, for a candidate that he himself believes to be a dimwit. He knew he could control the dimwit from within the depths of the Deep State bureaucracy.
During his presidency, Obama was afraid he might be exposed as a charlatan if he pushed the radical left too hard to bankrupt America. In walks the dimwit, who immediately erased every positive move Trump made while in office, he ignored all existing laws, and proceeded to open the border to allow millions of unvetted immigrants to cross. The dimwit then bussed, flew, and transported them to unidentified cities across the country and assured them that America would care for them with free stuff. At the same time, dimwit began a deep-state war against Trump to ensure that his innovative ideas to save the country will never happen. In effect, Obama granted himself a third term as president.
We all know that Obama was elected under the guise of affirmative action. We needed a black president to cool the 20 percent of the population that feels they need a savior to lead them to the promised land. The promised land where they can live happily ever after, stealing people’s stuff and shooting each other at will. I feel sorry for the blacks who live righteous lives, and I despise the blacks who are spoiling life for their brothers and sisters. Obama and dimwit will label me a racist for saying that.
We are a nation with our heads in the sand regarding placing blame where it belongs. The powers that be ignore that the lousy education system is the result of teacher unions that are more interested in making a fortune for doing nothing than in taking responsibility for poor educational outcomes. The Congress is responsible for drafting and passing stupid laws creating a culture of black families without fathers. Congress is responsible for never repealing stupid laws only making them more stupid by amending them with more complicated twists, turns, and loop holes. Congress is also responsible for abdicating to the lobby industry all responsibility to write laws. Congress, then fills the lobby written laws with pages full of porky earmarks that help them get re-elected. When will the common man be allowed to lobby a congressman to write laws that make sense and might even work? The DOJ must be renamed to the Department of Injustice for dividing law against order.
Our government does not work the way the Founding Fathers envisioned it. For one thing, I’m positive that George Washington and his cabinet did not envision the mess we have brought upon ourselves. The first immigration law was passed in 1892 and has been enhanced, improved, and complicated at least ten more times since its inception. The number of people working for all the immigration services has changed from 180 in 1891 to about 320,000 in 2024. Politicians love to blame every problem at the border on our “broken” immigration system. The problem as I see it is that they have so much help and so many conflicting policies that they are tripping over themselves trying to get the job done.
My personal experience with immigration came when I offered to help an immigrant who has lived in America for over twenty years but is not considered ‘legal’. I couldn’t live with that, so I made it my responsibility to get the immigrant processed as quickly as possible. To date, it has cost nearly ten thousand dollars, and it has been three years in the making, but still no Green Card. There is no estimate for how long the process will take. Most of the cost is for processing fees. The excuse I get is that the Law makes the immigrant responsible for the cost of his becoming ‘legal’. I see a future in this racket for immigration attorneys who specialize in understanding the laws and its loopholes. And there are loopholes a many. In trying to understand how complicated the system is I have visited the USCIS website many times and have learned that there are over 500 different forms that pertain to the laws with provisions for loop holes in each. Depending on an immigrant’s specific situation decides which form is used to use. After examining several of them I learned that the government is paranoid about anyone telling a lie on a form. Each form has a half page codicil of fine print explaining the penalty for lying on an application. Most penalties are jail, deportation, and/or fines.
My question is this: how many years will it take to:
1.) Find ten million people who have entered the country in the past three years without the necessary paperwork?
2.) How long will it be before these people achieve legal status?
While we await the answer to those questions Congress, no doubt, will spend its time drafting new revisions and laws to make the processing more complicated. They will then spend endless hours on TV news programs explaining how these new laws make us more secure than the previous law did.
Hopefully, I fulfilled my promise at the beginning by delivering final words that make sense.
One problem with writing a post everyday is finding themes. In that regard I admire Daniel Greenfield who writes for his blog called Sultan of Knish. He posts several times a week and each time it is an academic essay on some aspect of politics or world affairs. His posts are between 1200 and 3200 words each time. On the other hand, when I am in good form I will post about three times a week and average about 600 words. Lately, my posts are about four times a month, and I am having difficulty thinking of stuff to write about.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone labels me racist again, because when Obama was president he did so many things I disagreed with that I couldn’t stop writing negatively about him. When Trump was president, I didn’t want to fan the fires of those who were against him because the press didn’t need any help from me. Biden on the other hand hasn’t done anything I like, and I believe he is destroying the country. Biden is making Obama look like an amateur when it comes to stupid policies and stupid governance. I don’t want to waste my time repeating what the daily news is already doing. Besides sleepy Joe is an old timer like me, and I won’t pick on someone who can’t help himself because his brain has stopped functioning. There is nothing sadder in life than watching a person who was a fireball while younger, and who has lost it to Alzheimer’s. I saw what happened with my wife, and it is truly saddening that so many people end their time on earth by slowly losing their memory to the point where they forget how to breath.
One memory invoked by Sleepy Joe is the era of Jimmy Carter when inflation kept rising and the Federal Reserve couldn’t do anything but raise interest rates to 16%. It was a great time for people with cash who could buy Certificates of Deposit earning a 16% return for a five year period. They advanced the size of their savings dramatically. The high interest rate eventually worked, and the economy adjusted so the rates began to drop, and about the time the 16% CD’s matured the rates were back to a paltry 3%. So for anyone looking at how long this pain will last history says it will be at least five years after the current rates rise to 16%.
For the past twelve years we have enjoyed an economy that was operating on free money. Loans were down to the low 3.0% range and that allowed many people to buy the house of their dreams. Those who had cash in the bank were sadly only making 0.1 % on their savings. Most people invested in stocks to make decent money. My retirement has been happy because of the earnings I have received, but I’m not so sure I will be happy moving forward as the economy begins to falter. My advisor continues to admonish me to look at the long run, and not the short term. Excuse me, but just how much longer do I have? Ten minutes, ten days, ten months, ten years? I worry that my paltry portfolio will not be strong enough to keep me going for the duration.
Last week I went into a McAllister’s deli for a sandwich($20 for a cup of soup and a six inch sandwich), and I swear the lady who took my order was older than me. I had a vision of me behind the counter making sandwiches, and that is not appealing. I’d rather spend my time standing in the middle of busy intersection dodging traffic with a bucket in my shaky hand collecting money for my Lions club.
In the good old days everyone was a farmer who worked until he died. It was only after the industrial revolution, and the Great Depression that people began looking at work as a forty-five year duration. Pensions, vacation, and medical insurance all became perks for workers. These benefits were being offered by companies desperate for help. With Trump’s economy we saw a huge shortage of help, but I didn’t see anyone offering huge new benefits to lure workers to their factories. About the most extreme benefit I saw was the work from home model which came because of Covid. Let’s hope things get better sooner than later.
During 2007-2016, my one goal was to bash Obama at every chance. I even published a book of my cartoons and editorial opinions titled “Nightmares from Obama.” When I first listened to Mr. Smooth, I suspected he was a political charlatan. He was definitely a word master. His ability to say many things and make them sound logical and essential was masterful. The one promise he kept declaring during his campaign was that he wanted to transform America. He never, once, told us what he wanted to transform us into.
I am old enough to remember Fidel Castro’s rise to become the Cuban leader. He, too, was famous for his speeches, smooth talk, and promises. Barack emulated Fidel in too many ways. For one thing, Fidel kept his intentions a secret during his campaign. When he finally achieved success, he released his real intent to turn Cuba into a communist state. Obama never came out to declare what he wished the USA to become, but it was clear that he was overly sympathetic to Muslims and Socialists. Even the church he attended was a sign of his leftist leanings.
The internet was loaded with articles about Obama’s Kenyan birthplace, which should have disqualified him from being president, but behind him was an organization that kept those facts away from the public. Before he ran for President, his meteoric rise within the Illinois state government was a tip-off. When he was elected State Senator, the ink was still wet on the ballots when the press asked him if he would run for president. How can someone so obscure rise to the highest position in the land without the backing of many influential people who saw him as their political messiah?
One story that was printed then disappeared almost immediately had Obama visiting the Man’s Country, a gay bathhouse with Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel. His affinity for men is supported by reports from Hawaii, where he was raised and mentored by Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying communist. Obama’s Kenyan father eventually returned to Kenya and was given an elite government job. During his tenure with the Kenyan president, the father promoted the idea that Kenya adopt a plan to redistribute wealth. The Kenyan president was wise enough to reject the plan and demoted the father to a menial position. My point is that many clues were pointing at Obama’s transformation plans. If only the press had the balls to follow up and investigate his past. Instead, they chose to become hypnotized by his slick delivery of words that made him sound educated and presidential.
Obama’s cabinet controlled the narrative. They suppressed the need for the press to investigate by putting government-drafted news articles into their hands. Again, the press, whose job is to seek the truth, slept on the job by taking what was handed to them, thus avoiding the need to work. If ever there was a “fake news” distributor, it was Obama.
The whole reason I am telling all of this is that since Biden has been president, Obama has been invisible, that is, until the last couple of months when he suddenly became a voice again. As Biden sinks in the polls, it has become clear to Obama that his puppet Joe will not be president again. What, then, will Obama do to retain his hold on the testicles of the US Government? Whoever that might be, the new man could quickly shelve Obama and his ideas forever.
Congress, the Supreme Court, and Legislative branches cannot fix our problem. The one thing they can’t do anything about is the bureaucracy. Obama infiltrated the bureaucratic agencies with progressive democrats who gladly continue to over-regulate within their non-elected agencies to bypass the Constitution and make things impossible to control. I also believe the entire Bureaucracy should be disbanded (drain the swamp) to reset the government. Whatever chaos and confusion resulting from this action will be worth the benefit. The Lobby industry will be upset, and the cost of doing business will be reduced and confusing until Congress can legislate out the confusion. A significant benefit of draining the swamp is that it will give Congress something worthwhile to do again. They now pass laws to provide the lobbyists with what they want.
Here is what I want:
Banish Obama to Kenya, where he can become King and rule his people.
Disband every Bureaucracy, and begin with a clean sheet of paper.
Put Joe Biden to pasture at one of our best and most comfortable Federal Prisons.
Limit spending on National Campaigns for President, Senate, and Congress to Fifty million dollars. That gives candidates one million dollars per state to spend on campaigning.
Forbid stipends from outside interests to any government member while in office. They get paid enough for what little they do.
A set of national guidelines for elections. The States can pass election laws if they meet the federal guidelines. Define voter eligibility
Winners of National elections must be announced within 24 hours of the vote.
Charge any country that we support with armaments for the stuff we send them
Support only our staunchest allies with military help.
Rewrite our immigration laws:
a. Open all borders to allow free passage in or out / OR
b. Reset immigration laws to make them simple and manageable with a limit on the number of people that can enter based on what can be assimilated into the population and the economy.
Settle national abortion based on what is morally correct. Define the moment of conception as the instant the sperm makes it into the egg.
Add Capitalism as the only system the economy will operate under
Prohibit Socialized medicine within the Constitution.
Writing is a chore. It was fun at one time, but now I consider it work. I long for the day I wrote my opinion pieces lambasting Obama for his socialist ways. Then it was fun, exposing his transformative ideas stolen from the communist manifesto. I admit he was Mr. Smooth in his delivery and his ability to put people to sleep with his melodic big-word speeches that sounded important but were all loaded with bullshit. It is not the same with Joe Biden. His brand of mumbling through speeches doesn’t appeal to me at all. Besides, I grew up in Chicago, the home of gangsters, and he is definitely one of them. The gangsters are evil, and so is Joe.
How this guy survived in the Senate for so many years is baffling. How he was ever chosen to be the VP candidate by Obama was equally baffling, except Obama is a crook too, and crooks of a feather must stick together. The biggest mystery to me is how he was ever elected to become president. I know he got more votes than Trump. That’s how. My boyhood was spent reading headlines about the “Machine” politics of Chicago’s Richard Daley. It wasn’t uncommon to have votes coming in very late from wards, which always seemed to lose a bunch of ballots and then mysteriously find them as the count proceeded. The system has been operating this way for as long as I can remember, but no one ever does anything about it. Except for Donald Trump, who finally questioned the veracity of the lost ballots being brought forth in the middle of the night from places no one ever knew existed, did anyone try to end the mystery of how they went missing and how they were found?
The audacity of the man, who is he to have challenged the process so carefully designed and developed over the years to bring home winners? The only way it seemed to beat this process was to be voted in by such an enormous landslide of votes that even the least savvy among us would understand it as a win.
Modern politics is an extravagant stage show by political actors to convince us that their process is fair and democratic. I turned on regular TV last night to watch the Republicans, who all want to become a better president and bring the system down. I’ve been watching debates since Kennedy and Nixon, and this one was the worst excuse for a debate ever. The moderators, three of them, never controlled the show. They explained how they would conduct the show, and then the free-for-all began. In most civil debates, the debaters will take sides and attack or defend the subject. This forum was composed of several candidates, and each was given a chance to answer a question posed by one of the three moderators. The candidate was given time to answer. Before the debater could answer, the entire stage jumped into the fray simultaneously, attacking him and posing new questions. It reminded me of how when in a football game, a player fumbles the ball. In his attempt to recover, both teams attack him, pushing, shoving, grabbing, digging, and trying to steal the ball to take possession. In a ball game, the referee continues to blow the whistle and summons his co-workers to assist him in determining who really has the ball. The rules dictate that the ref has the final say in the game. It didn’t work that way in the debate. The seven debaters were all speaking rapidly to get their points in. They all shouted to be heard over all the others with the net effect that no one got anything, much less a point, to the audience.
I watched the debate for ten minutes before I switched to Netflix to watch the final episode of Ozark, which is about Mexican drug cartels controlling US Citizens by threatening them with death. The bullet always seemed to settle arguments and disputes. Perhaps we should require that the moderators be armed to help settle disputes and conduct a civilized debate.
