Commentary

After the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump, we just knew President Biden’s plea for “the need to lower the temperature in our politics,” as he called for “a cooling down of heated political rhetoric,” were just words.

Two days later NBC aired a taped of Lester Holt questioning Biden about his choice of words that could have fueled the shooting. Biden conceded it was a “mistake” for him to say it was time to put a “bullseye” on former President Trump, adding that he meant to say it was time to focus on his lies.

With the opening of the RNC convention, the DNC pulled their opposition TV commercials and scrapped the billboards calling Trump a convicted felon from Milwaukee’s buses.  But inside the convention hall, it became impossible to control the speeches, many of them by everyday Americans, not politicians.

In her first speeches since becoming the presumptive Democrat candidate. Vice President Harris didn’t waste time to make references to the indictments on Trump, using the line, “I know Donald Trump’s type.”

On Saturday, speaking in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Trump called Harris a “radical left lunatic,” referring to her as “evil” and “unhinged,” while mocking her laugh and the policy that allowed millions of migrants to cross our open border.

In a response by Sarafina Chitika, a spokesperson for Harris, said it was Trump who was “unhinged,” referring to Trump’s claim that if he loses, our country is “finished.”

Nothing too menacing so far, but I’m sure the “back-and-forths” between the two campaigns will continue over the next 100 days.

On the left, the Washington Post, now carrying the water for Harris, published a lengthy piece about Harris “already facing a wave of hate” by the far-right.

Citing a study by the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice, claiming that “women candidates, particularly women of color, experience online abuse and threats, face the risk of real-world attacks by the violent far right,” the Post is out to protect Harris.

The Brennan Center, falsely referring to the January 6 breaching of the Capitol as an “insurrection,” with the claim that it seemed to “mark a new peak in extremist intimidation.”

“Journalist” Dean Obeidallah, accused Trump of unleashing a smear of Harris as being a “DEI Hire,” saying that’s “what racism looks like,” noting a New York Post headline, “America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris.”

As corporations and some agencies have dropped the DEI ideology, the White House still supports it.  So, anyone critical of Biden’s fanciful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program is now a racist.

Using terms like “multiracial democracy” and “feminist democracy” as if they represent a new form of democracy, Alexandria Onuoha, a researcher at Suffolk University in Boston who studies extremist targeting of black women and girls, says Harris’ candidacy is all about.

On the Subject of Democracy

Frequently, I come across a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal or another publication that not only supports what I have been writing, but does so in a concise, powerful statement of that individual’s belief.  The following is one such letter from the Journal I have chosen to share with you:

I don’t want to hear any more about the GOP being a ‘threat to democracy’ after what a small number of Democratic Party elites have done.  The senior party officials convinced President Biden to withdraw, thereby negating the millions of voices of all who voted for him in the primaries after also doing everything they could to prevent others from running against him in those primaries.  Now the same party officials are anointing his successor without allowing the people to have any say about who they want to represent them. Sound like democracy to you?  – Margaret Swanson, Asheville, North Carolina

On the Subject of Lies

With the master of LGBTQ+ matters, Pete Buttigieg, appearing on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream, citing the lies and “cult of personality” of Trump, this is an appropriate time to write about lying.

Trump continues to be attacked for the “big lie,” his view that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen.” 

As I began researching lying in politics, hoping Trump would drop that subject going into 2024, I noted that Time magazine viewed that as “wishful thinking” in an essay on lying in politics, citing the studies of Hannah Arendt.

Lying in politics is not new, and is not likely to disappear, according to Arendt. “Political lying isn’t even lying anymore,” explaining that people are not duped despite being outraged when lies are so outrageous.

Arendt notes, “Some presidents might stake their power on outrageous deceits,” and while I am certain she had Trump in mind, we should also look at President Biden’s deceit regarding climate change.  Why isn’t there outrage over his spending of millions of taxpayer dollars on the audacious lie that it can be altered.

The there was Biden’s lie on ABC News, when he said, “No, No one said that to me that I can recall,” when asked if his military advisors advised him of an alternate plan for the Afghanistan withdrawal.  Generals Milley and McKenzie did.

Where is the outrage over Biden’s tales about Trump’s Charlotteville statement, and his use of the word “bloodbath,” both of which have been fact checked and published, revealing that Biden and his supporters continue to lie.

It was just after the assassination attempt on Trump that Biden, appearing with Lester Holt on NBC News, not only repeated the lie on Charlottesville, but suggested the need to put a “bullseye” on the former president.

Biden, and soon most likely Harris, will continue to accuse Trump of fomenting “political violence,” saying that if he loses there will be a “bloodbath,” but he was referring to an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and autoworkers if China were permitted to sell cars here.

That brings me to the “big lie” owned by the Biden administration and its complicit media, the cover-up of President Biden’s mental acuity with tales of his vim and vigor.  The DOJ knowingly refused to release the audio tapes of the Hur interviews, knowing they would reveal Biden’s frailty.

Finally, as I have written in the past, there are individuals who know the truth but spread disinformation by politically refusing to reveal it. They are liars by omission. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to say whether he advised Biden to drop out of the race.  You know he did, as did others in the Democrat machine.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.