Commentary
Recently, I have had discussions with a few friends, who subscribe to this blog, primarily because I have noticed my readership has dipped. Not over my thoughts on a single issue, but over weeks of writing on various issues. One suggested that once Donald Trump got elected there was no reason to read it. Another noted that he felt “much happier by not paying any attention to the news any longer.”
In the 11 years I have been publishing this blog, I have considered several different formats, including single-topic opinion pieces, which I have done on occasion. But I am often asked how many publications I read and news shows I watch, which tells me I am providing you with material you haven’t seen.
Well, my friends, if you believe in making America great again, you can’t be a drop out. You need to be current. You need to know what is being stopped by the hate America crowd and who’s behind it.
After surviving a series of attempts to keep him out of the White House, he won an overwhelming victory in 2024 and has already accomplished more in nine months than any other president. However, Trump haters continue to block his moves.
President Trump needs our continued support, and I plan to provide readers with my observations on him, the issues, and those with Trump derangement syndrome.
The Elections
With more registered Democrats, the states of Virginia and New Jersey – no surprise -stay blue with two so-called moderates winning the governorships.
One contest that the Democrats cannot be proud of – the 52.7 percent victory by Jay Jones as attorney general in Virginia, despite his 2022 threats against the then Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican.
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert gets two bullets in the head.” Further, he hoped that his children would die in their mother’s arms.” Can you imagine a Republican winning, or even on the ballot, after a threat like that?
Then There’s New York City
Zohran Mamdani missed an opportunity for the mayor-elect to extend an olive branch to the nearly half of New York City voters who supported another candidate.” Said Adam Weiss, a political strategist.
“He was an angry Mamdani, a bitter Mamdani. He wasn’t magnanimous.”
If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how two defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani said.
There’s more. He quoted Eugene Debs, the leftist activist influenced by Karl Marx, who lost his American citizenship after being convicted of sedition in 1918, who said, “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”
A friend who has lived much of his life in New York City was dismayed by the fact that we all pledged to never forget 9/11, yet people there elected a Muslim-loving communist. Fellow blogger Don Surber reminded his readers with a photo of “Windows on the World” on the 107th floor of the North Trade Center tower.
Trump Blames Shutdown
While the president blamed Tuesday’s Republican defeats on the government shutdown and the fact that he wasn’t on the ballot, the Wall Street Journal begs to differ. “Mr. Trump was on the ballot – not literally, but nonetheless as the main motivating force behind a dominating Democrat turnout.”
Trump Snubs Cheney
I agree with a friend that Trump’s silence on the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney was misguided. You honor his service to the country and the positions he held and set aside your opinion of his character and decisions he made.
That hasn’t stopped the leftist media. “The vice president came to be viewed by critics as a caricature of right-wing ideology, almost comically strident and coldblooded,” wrote Robert Draper of The New York Times, “dubbing him Darth Vader.”
“Mr. Cheney’s my-way-or-the-highway certitude reached a fateful apogee when he declared in a speech on August 26, 2022,” Draper noted with the Cheney quote, “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”
“Dick Cheney is a career Republican still vilified by Democrats for is bullish defense of the Iraq War as vice president,” Yahoo News reported.
Cheney was often criticized for the torture investigations that took place by the CIA during his watch as VP. The late Sen. John McCain, who was tortured as a POW in Vietnam, opposed it and when the Senate Intelligence Committee issued its report, McCain stated that “it stained our national honor, did much harm, and little practical good.”
But one thing I have learned in my years of following the political scene, Republicans become heroes to Democrats after they die. Democrats have quoted President Reagan favorably several times since his death.
Pelosi’s Retirement
“The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America,” said President Trump, “wasting no time, “adding that she “is a highly overrated politician.”
“She was evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country,” he said, “I’m very honored that she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice.”
Considering what she has done to lead her party against Trump; she deserves these farewell remarks.
The Filibuster
Regular readers will recall my recent urging for the Senate to continue the filibuster that requires a 60-vote threshold. While Trump, on one hand, flirted with getting rid of it to open the government and allow us to “pass legislation at levels you’ve never seen before,” he understands that there’s no Republican vote to pass it and doing so would help the Democrats pass their far-left agenda when and it they return to office.
Why I Do This
Primarily because of my interest in politics, but also because it challenges my research abilities and allows me to continue to write. Hopefully, I provide you with information you’re not getting elsewhere.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
