Biden's War(s)

 I sit here in my living room this advent season remembering Linus's lines from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special - "Peace on Earth and Good Will to all Men". 

Then I started thinking about the Ukraine war and my blood pressure rises. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the US estimates that about 210,000 troops have died in the Ukraine conflict in less than 2 years.

My father, a WWII vet, said work for peace, but if you have to fight, you can't do it sitting with your hands folded. His generation understood.

I remember Vietnam. A limited conflict micromanaged by politicians lasting a decade and killing ~58,000 US troops.

NATO. Make no mistake, the principal partner in NATO is the US. Germany is a distant 2nd. The current leader of the US is Joe Biden.

When Russia invaded with tanks, the US gave the Ukraine fighters Javelin missiles. Russia has now lost 4380 tanks. But the Javelin has a very short usable range, so the Russians learned to use artillery instead of mechanized infantry. 

The US gave the Ukraine fighters artillery, but only with ammunition that has a shorter range than the Russians. Ukraine losses mounted. In fact, the majority of the death is due to artillery.

The US then gave the Ukraine fighters the HMAR missile system, but only with the short range missiles. Ukraine pushed the Russian artillery back. But Russia then turned to cruise missiles and aircraft.

Then the US gave the Ukraine fighters a couple Patriot batteries, but only enough range to stop direct air strikes well within Ukraine. Russia continued with cruise missiles destroying civilian infrastructure. To date, the US hasn't given Ukraine any means of stopping cruise missiles.

Other NATO members wanted to give Ukraine Russian aircraft - stuff Ukraine pilots and support were trained on, but Joe Biden quashed that. The US says they are giving Ukraine F16s - probably too little, too late.

In case it is not obvious by now, I believe Joe Biden's micromanaging is just more incompetence by his administration.

The Biden administration incompetence is killing soldiers at a rate not seen since WWI. And the US media is covering for him.

Russia is an old toothless 3 legged dog that lies in its bed and barks at shadows. But Joe Biden's administration is afraid. So the killing continues.

This micromanaging of the Ukraine war smells of Barack Obama - the guy with the red lines in Syria. The guy's successor, Donald Trump, destroyed ISIS in 6 months.

The media is running stories now that America has grown tired of Ukraine support. Probably trying to condition Americans for Biden bailing/abandoning - just like Afghanistan. After all, Joe is trying to get reelected and Ukraine is starting to be viewed negatively. I can't imagine that I am the only person to notice the rank incompetence.

A clock with only a second hand

 I like to be right - most folks do. It bugs me when I discover that my view on a subject is factually wrong - especially when I've been misled by media. Shame on me because I've known, since the 2016 Trump presidency, not to take anything the American media purports at face value.

The Nord Stream pipeline bombing. The American media has been very quiet about this event, likely because President Joe Biden authorized the pipeline destruction.

I was misled by media reports on the details. It wasn't until I stumbled upon Erik Andersson's (Swedish engineer) substack that I got a scientifically correct analysis. I was always bothered by the media report that a couple of divers carried down enough explosives to lift ~700,000lbs of steel/concrete pipe out of it's trench. The scale of explosion necessary was more in line with anti-ship mines, not a few hundred pounds of explosives.

What Erik noted, that the media left out, is that two of the three bombed pipes were pressurized to 164 bar (~2400psi). When the explosives cut the 1.6" thick steel 4 foot diameter pipe, the escaping gas generated thrust of ~1.5 SpaceX Merlin engines. The thrust was more than adequate to cause the pipe to whip around up and out of the trench it was originally laid in. 

So I was duped by the mindless media, again.

If you want the real analysis of the pipeline event, read Erik's fine analysis. And thank God for independent minds having an outlet to counter the brain sludge of the mainstream media.

https://anderssonerik.substack.com/p/a-trip-to-the-nord-stream-blast-sites

Supporting the meat grinder

 I was curious about the Ukraine/Russia war death toll. So I started scouring various sources and soon discovered huge discrepancies in reported casualties. So I finally decided to go with US intelligence estimates and that's when it hit me.

The US lost ~405,000 in WWII,  ~37,000 in Korea, ~58,000 in Vietnam, ~6300 in Iraq & Afghanistan. Of note, we were 8 years in Iraq and 20 years in Afghanistan. 

The US Intelligence estimates ~120,000 Russian and ~90,000 Ukraine dead. Over 200,000 dead in 18 months.

6300 dead by a first-rate military action spanning decades versus 200,000 dead by 3rd-rate military action spanning a year and a half.

It should be obvious to thinking people that the Ukraine/Russia war is killing a ridiculous number of soldiers. 

It should also cause thinking people to ask "Why the hell are we supporting this carnage?

Pretty clear that Russia is no longer a conventional military threat. Russian GDP at $1.4 trillion is no match for the $12 Trillion Chinese or $22 Trillion US GDPs. Essentially Russia is a shrunken turd of a country we could completely ignore if not for their nuclear weapons.

So now I'm wondering why we are involved with NATO? NATO's sole purpose was to counter the now non-existent USSR. 

And I'm also wondering why we aren't dragging Ukraine and Russia to the bargaining table to end this meat grinder conflict. I don't expect much out of the current POTUS, but it seems that the Military Industrial Complex Ike warned us about is making a lot of money off the dead bodies.

Our media won't report on it, but it is hard to ignore 200,000 lives lost.

Damn, but I'm beginning to think Trump was right again.

Vetting the AI

 Ever wonder why anyone cares what schools were attended, what GPA was earned, what papers were published in peer reviewed journals?

Or how senior someone is and whether or not they are respected in their vocation?

We screen prospective candidates for important positions - we just don't let anyone become a Supreme Court Justice who "feels like it" (and most of them can explain what is a woman). We wouldn't pay attention to Jordan Peterson if he were just a grumpy Canadian convenience store owner.

This process of checking out "experts" before we place them in important roles is called "vetting". We do it all the time in everyday life.

Do you know why we pay more attention to a 65yr old's advice than the noise from a 20yr old's pie hole? Because the senior citizen likely knows much more than the college kid with their preferred pronouns written on their shirt.  Older people generally know more because they've lived more.

Who is vetting the AIs in use?

Lets say someone custom designs and trains an AI application to decide who to parole. The idea is to reduce the manpower & time (cost) to make thousands of decisions. Guaranteed that the people using the AI application will NOT understand it, nor will they be able to evaluate it's performance. If the AI has a bias, how will it be detected? How will the errors be rectified? (This exact scenario happened).

Again, who is vetting the AI?

The media, as usual, has got it wrong. The first problem we face with with AI isn't SkyNet (Terminator), the first problem is vetting the AI applications before they are in the hands of  unsophisticated users.

We pay attention to Dr. Jordan Peterson because of his education, his teaching, his publishing, his clinical work and his public speaking. About 35 years of "work experience" we can reference and review. Peterson, like him or not, is vetted.

Finally, who is vetting the AI?

Stopping INCELs

 

Young men without purpose have always been a problem in every culture. Military and marriage seemed to be the most successful remedies.

Involuntary Celibate - losers. These are young men emotionally incapable of competing in life. They can't lose and learn from it, nor can they win and benefit from it. They can't attract a mate, and they aren't accepted by matured men. We can discuss why they, INCELs, are they way they are another time. I'd like to focus on dealing with their propensity to want to kill a bunch of innocent people.

The media only focuses on shootings when they can be used to advance a narrative. A "narrative" is a story used to explain why things happen and in so doing often misleads the listener. When something shockingly bad happens, naive people are susceptible to really stupid narratives. Right now the media is advancing the narrative that the availability of a certain weapon is the reason for the shootings.

But thinking people reject such blatantly stupid narrative - after all, 99.9999% of owners of "guns of the narrative" do not commit mass shootings.

Who does commit mass shootings? Muslims, crazy people, INCELs. I've researched every mass shooting starting with Columbine and I haven't found one that doesn't fit into one of my neat & tidy categories. But I'm a nobody who is doing nothing more than the obvious.

But back to INCELs. Emotionally stunted losers. No criminal record. No mental health intervention. They pass the NICS background check. Guys that everyone around them knows something is off. How do we stop them from committing murderous rampage? 

We need to remember that as a percentage of all shootings, mass shooting is very small. This is a problem with our "if it bleeds - it leads" media who refuses to provide context. A media that only reports shootings when they occur in predominantly white suburbs.

One solution is to shoot them on sight. Seems as though citizens and the police are getting good at shooting the shooters. I think people are accepting that "a good guy with a gun" does work. More folks are carrying a handgun legally and willing to intervene decisively. 

Another way is a reference system. For example, if the buyer is male and under 25, he would provide a character reference. It could be a person or it could be transcripts - or maybe both (FOID card). Since firearm permits are used in a couple of states already, maybe there is some measurable efficacy.

Perhaps we don't need to do anything other than focus on not making INCELS in the first place.

I'll add more if some brilliance pops into my head - enough for now.

The Slime Rodents Will Win This One

 I'm talking about the Durham Report.

At the conclusion of a long investigation, we now know definitively that the FBI colluded with the Clinton campaign and the media to:

• Stop Donald Trump from being elected
• Unseat a sitting President

 So does the media report on this? Nope.

So at this point in history, Hillary Clinton's political career is over and the FBI is the Democrat goon squad.

From my perspective, the Deep State, Swamp, whatever you call it, has won a battle. A battle to maintain some semblance of blind justice, free from political corruption.

We no longer have a free press.

We no longer have an unbiased DOJ.

We do not have a cognitively capable POTUS.

We no longer have an image above a banana belt junta in the world's eyes.

Can we repair this in November 2024? Yes, I believe so. Will we? No, because GenZ believes the goal of stopping Trump justified the means of doing it.

The Continuing Power of TDS

 1.1 million people in the US have died from Covid. Yet I read that not only do we know that Covid is an engineered virus that escaped from a Chinese lab, but the NIH is funding research into a deadly version of Monkey pox as well.

But what does the American media focus on? Trump.

Why does the American media focus on Trump? Because more Americans hate Trump than those who are angry about tax dollars funding research into stuff that has killed a million of us.

Let's see, on the one hand I have a populist former President who put a porn star under NDA and on the other I have a Government funded virus that killed over 1.1 million people. Have I got it right?

Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very real mental disorder marked by an irrational hatred of all things Trump.

Now I can understand hating the man if he shafted you in a business deal, slept with your mother, or his limo ran over your puppy.

When I've asked folks why they hate Trump, they struggle to articulate their reasoning. They often drift off into incoherent babbling about supposed crimes he's committed. Some continue to believe Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary in 2016.

TDS blinds people to what is important.

I think TDS is a symptom of tribe mentality. I think it started during the Clinton administration (Newt Gingrich) and became a source of government dysfunction during Bush's 2nd term (Nancy Pelosi). 

I've read that TDS is a Baby Boomer problem as that generation has never faced a crisis requiring focus and compromise. The Duster generation (greatest generation) focused on what was good for America and would work across parties to get things done.

Again, TDS blinds people to what is important.

If Biden runs again, and I think he will, his theme will be "NOT TRUMP" again. Why? Not because he is an embarrassment, but because it works. It worked in the mid-terms and I believe the Democrat election cabal can make it last through 2024.

Remember, it was GenZ, arguably the most mal-educated generation to ever cast a ballot, that voted into the Senate a man who cannot understand speech (Fetterman). Who reelected a woman to the House who is woefully ignorant and the butt of jokes(AOC). And of course voted a dementia patient to be POTUS (Biden).

GenZ, read "Sarah has two mommies", but not Orwell's "1984" or "Animal Farm", and never heard of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" or "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Never taught about the Russian 73yr experiment "Soviet Union" or Castro's Cuba. Such a mal-educated mess - will they ever wise up!?

So while our Government funds research into science that has the potential to wipe out all human life - a million times more dangerous than nuclear weapons, what does our media focus on? Trump

Not hard to believe at all.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has released a darned good expose on how the US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline Sept/2022. I sure do miss the days of investigative journalism.

If this were a criminal investigation, you'd have to agree that the US had motive, opportunity, and capability. Biden is on record saying he was going to do something about the pipeline. Doesn't require an inspector Jacques Clouseau to solve this mystery.

Moving 50 meters of that pipe would require thousands of pounds of explosives — not something a team of divers can do. So it would appear that mines were laid. The pipe diameter is 48″, wall thickness is 1.6″, each section is 39′ and weighs 48,000lbs. 164′ of pipe has been displaced/removed/shredded - no longer in the trench were it was laid. There is about 100' separation between pipes - 3 of the 4 pipes were destroyed. A very big bunch of KABOOMS indeed.

I would imagine those responsible for planning this were worried mostly about the blowback from Germany, as the Germans are in the midst of a cold winter without Russian natural gas.

Edward Snowden, now a  citizen of Russia, commented in support of Hersh's theory. Sad that so few challenge our biased media and Government disinformation. The Twitter files have shown us how far the FBI and DHS will go to censor stories and people — why would any thinking person doubt that the Biden administration would lie about their deed. Pre-Musk, Twitter would've suspended Hersh's account at the Government's request.

Russia is a tiny economy and is powerless to punish the US. However Germany is Europe's largest economy and could do something — if they wanted to. Somehow I suspect we're selling them LNG at a very good price.

About Fricking Time

Waaaayy back in 2020, while everyone was divided into their camps of "vaxxed" and "unvaxxed", I was screaming into the internet emptiness "mRNA VACCINES CAUSE CELL DEATH!". But nobody paid attention because (a) I'm a nobody and (b) the NIH, CDC, and FDA were silent on the subject.

It took a long time for me to learn this, as Google had done a great job of sanitizing Covid information so that only Fauci's narrative was put forth. I happened to watch a video by a developer of mRNA technology who let slip the fact that any cell expressing the spike protein would be destroyed by the immune system. Duh - made perfect sense.

I may not have a medical background, but it certainly wasn't nuclear rocket science to see that you damn well didn't want to inject mRNA vaccine into a blood vessel. And it wasn't hard to believe that nano lipid particles might be hard to corral into one place.

Now, if you pay attention, various people are talking about mRNA vaccines causing cell death in places where we don't want cells dying - like the heart.

OK, so what's my point? We let the Government (NIH, CDC, FDA) lie to us. We allowed our media to lie to us. And I haven't seen Fauci walk to the gallows yet - but that is the subject of another rant.

I got vaccinated and boosted. Why? Because at my age and health the danger of the pre-omicron variants was much greater than the risk from the mRNA vaccine. I made an informed decision. I'm not so sure about parents who had their children vaccinated.

The pandemic is over - time to analyze what we did right versus wrong. 

• Was Fauci's 1960's public policy of treating Americans like mushrooms (feed us shit and keep us in the dark) the best approach?
• Was Fauci's effort to demonize any prophylactic treatment in order to encourage vaccination, (which directly caused the deaths of a couple hundred thousand Americans too stupid to get vaxxed), the right tradeoff?
• Was the Government collusion with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the legacy media to stifle the exchange of information warranted?
• And finally, why haven't we replaced the FDA, CDC and NIH with a completely public funded super agency? 

Unfortunately, nobody in Congress outside of perhaps Senator Rand Paul, has any interest in fixing our pandemic response. 

Too bad we don't have an independent investigative media anymore.

It's Been Awhile

 The 2020 election shocked me - Trump got his ass whipped by a dementia patient hiding out in his basement.

Now Trump might still not want to admit it, but he got beat by some mighty fine, (and legal), electioneering. 

And it is sad that there are so many painfully stupid people who hate Trump because the media told them to do so.

So we've been living with a puppet for POTUS, a man having a great day when he doesn't shit himself on national TV. A man controlled by Ron Klaine and Susan Rice. A man who says, promotes and signs what he is told - a puppet.

The sad thing is that the uber-stupid generation called "GenZ" demonstrated that they are also puppets - as shown by their voting party line for Democrats during the mid-terms. Can anyone honestly defend electing a stroke patient to the Senate? Gonna be a rough couple of decades until GenZ wises up.

Joe Biden has done just about everything wrong. In fact, I can't point to one thing he has done right. But Joe is in dementia bliss - he doesn't give a shit.

Now that the House is Republican, it almost appears that the Progressive Left has discarded Joe like a used Kleenex. Suddenly he is racking up problems with misplaced Classified material at his home, tax problems from payoffs from his son. I get the feeling that the Media is no longer covering for Joe.

Inflation beat the hell out of me in 2022. I keep waiting for the day Fauci is walked to the gallows. And Ukraine has showed us that Russia is a 3rd rate military. "Should Trump run?" seems to be the big question and there are still about 40 million voters who think Joe Biden is a great President.

Elon Musk has done us all a great service by showing the Government sponsored censorship of social media (Google, Facebook, Twitter). He should receive the highest civilian honor.

2023 is going to be fun.

Test kits, Trump and too many Doctors

The media is pushing the narative that people are dying because of a shortage of test kits. And the shortage is somehow Trump’s fault. But intelligent people know this is rubbish, that the real issue is how the testing was conducted.

Medical professionals have limited testing to those presenting a certain set of symptoms. And the test results have been closer to 95% negative - meaning the professionals suck at diagnosing covid19 by visible symptoms. What is worse is that we can't use the test results data to shape policy decisions as the data only measures the accuracy ofthe prescreening.

Fortunately, a couple of governors (Cumo and Newsom) ordered controlled random testing studies carried out in major population centers. Cumo shared some preliminary results showing that the morbidity (infection) rate is about 10X higher than the CDC and WHO reported, and the fatality rate is about 0.5% - not the 2.6% parroted by the media (flu runs about 0.2%). We will know much more when Newsom’s LA basin data comes in.

If we had economists, instead of Doctors, advising President Trump, we would have done the random testing much earlier and spared us the pain of the economic shutdown. Without intelligent data collection to counter the media craziness, people have been needlessly panicked.

I'll wrap up by stating that this incorrect reaction to covid19 was brought to you by medical professionals who can't appreciate the value of accurate data. And I can understand Trump not wanting to fund WHO (I'm sure he said "you're fired").

Our OODA loop and covid19

The following is a shameless cut & paste: "The OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) is a four-step approach to decision-making that focuses on filtering available information, putting it in context and quickly making the most appropriate decision while also understanding that changes can be made as more data becomes available. "

Mistake upon mistake.

First mistake was testing. The testing methodology was wrong - everybody except the mindless media realized it. The only thing we learn from the current testing is that medical professionals are wrong about 95% of the time.

The next mistake is ventilators. The treatment protocol kills 50% of the patients. They die isolated, unable to talk, separated from family and friends.

The next mistake falls squarely on the public who believe the medical system is one giant monolith, instead of a loosely connected system of privately owned profit & loss centers.

The biggest mistake is the current quarantine. We are killing our economy because a Doctor thinks it is "worth it". It is becoming clear that we should've quarantined the high-risk groups, and allowed everyone else to get on with life.

And now another mistake: trust in a cloth with openings 250,000,000 times too large to capture a covid19 virus.

The issue isn't that we made mistakes - mistakes are part of the normal process of dealing with a new threat. The real issue, as I see it, is the rate we recognize and react to our mistakes.

Today I read that Los Angeles is going to begin systematic random testing for covid19. This is starting about one month after smart people pointed out the flaws in the current test methodology used in most of America. It has taken a month for folks in charge to realize that the issue wasn't test kit availability, but rather that they were doing the testing incorrectly (people were being pre-screened for acceptable symptoms before testing. Thus the data gathered only told you how accurate the pre-screening was - and it wasn't very good). A month of properly random testing data would give us an accurate view of infection rate, fatality rate, etc. - databwe don't have because of a hodge-podge approach to testing.

I'm hoping the next mistake to be corrected is the current quarantine. It is clear that the pain of the looming recession/depression is greater than the loss of life. The better approach is to quarantine the high risk  groups and let everyone else get on with life.

Both of the above mistakes could've been prevented if an economist, not a doctor, was making policy decisions.

Like I said, mistakes are normal. But what need to improve is the rate at which we cycle through our national pandemic OODA loop.

Tooting His Own Horn - and Well.

End of Trump's first term and he is completely in charge of his own narrative.  Brilliant.

He's tooting his own horn and people are hearing it. No President I remember has been able to play the media like Trump. They hate him, yet he uses them. They lie about him, yet he goes around them and delivers the truth. They try to shut him out, but he completely overwhelms them.

I don't know how he came up with his list of 81 accomplishments, but I'm not going to grade him. He impresses me most because he's mastered the mindless American media. He's much better at reaching heartland America than his predecessor.

I believe the Republican Congress is feeling endangered, and they should be, as the mid-terms will likely wash some of them away. Their only hope is to get onboard with Trump's agenda, because Trump can toot a horn louder than anyone.

Naratives are important. Trump's "Make America Great" is much more popular than Obama's, "Hope and Change", "Yes We Can". Americans like a President that puts America first.

I'm still not sure whether or not Trump is a good President. But I gotta give him credit for mastering the forces that ham-strung his predecessors.

Fake News

There once was a time when fake news was relegated to the checkout line tabaloids. Headlines such as "Elvis back from the dead with amazing new UFO sex diet"*, told you that what you were about to read, was fake. Everbody knew it, yet those over-priced newspapers sold (and still do).

Fake news is like a Peanut Buster Parfait to a diabetic. The smell of a cigarette to someone struggling to quit. A Crispy Creme to a person on a diet.

Fake news fans the flames of polarization.  I.e. Fake News couldn't survive if we didn't have a desire for it. If we dislike Trump, we're vunerable to Fake News. If we dislike Hillary we're vulnerable to Fake News. If we're struggling with our weight we're vunerable to diet gimmicks.

So how does a person protect themselves from fake news today?  The answer lies in maturity, balance, and biology. Maturity in recognizing our biases and knowing that there are always many sides to a story. Balance by seeking out multiple sources - not just those that fit our bias. Biology in understanding that our minds abhor a vacuum, and our brain will catalog away a lie just as easily the truth to fill the void (doubt it? Ask people what Sara Palin said about seeing Russia and see if they don't repeat Tina Fey's lines from SNL).

The media has largely abdicated their fiduciary responsibility to the public.  Whether this new form of journalism is a protected by the 1st amendment is subject to debate as you could make the argument that it is akin to yelling "FIRE!" in a theater or "ALLAH AKBAR!" aboard a plane. But my point here is that thinking people don't explicitly trust the media.


* Dave Barry, Miami Herald.

Liberal Idiocy and the NFL

I just love how Trump is able to lead the media around by the nose. Political Science students are going to study this for years to come......

The NFL is suffering a ratings slump, an attendance slump and a general interest slump. Along comes an angry black quarterback, (Collin Kapernick), who decides to diss America as a form of protest over a social issue. As of this writing  that angry QB is out of a job, probably a combination of mediocre skills and  image liability.

Once again Trump says what heartland America believes - kneeling for the national anthem is extremely disrespectful.  And professional athletes should behave better. And as if on command by Trump, the media circus begins.

My guess is that pro sports needs a reminder that they are entertainment.  The kind of entertainment that gives the viewer an escape from the soggy-brained programming that fills the airwaves. Dragging divisive, (and mostly mindless ), "Black Lives Matter" into a competition is a downer.

So once again Trump is right. Once again liberals are writhing like vampires in sunlight with disgust.  Once again Trump is leading the media by the nose.

The Trump presidency is on track to be the most interesting ever.

Trump was right - again

Donald Trump had the nerve to say what everybody already knew - the extreme left was also to blame for the violence in Charlottesville.

And of course the liberal darkness took this as an opportunity to attack the President.

Nobody with a working brain, especially not those in Seattle,  Portland, and Berkeley,  would deny the violence perpetrated against free speech by the alt-left and antifa.

Slow summer news cycle for sure. The seething liberal darkness has been unable to wound Trump with the Russian investigations.

I wonder if the left realizes how damaging this is to their causes?

The Empire Almost Strikes Back

It has been 7 months since Hillary was defeated yet the sore-losers have yet to get on with life. Trump has had his wins and losses as he conducts the Presidency, while the seething liberal darkness attacks him at every turn.

The Media has been trying to make a sinister Trump-Russian relationship appear by chanting "conspiracy"  while standing around a pentagram of candles. The Media even created a giant circus of non-speak and non-think around the forthcoming testimony of the former FBI director Comey (that Trump sacked). Comey testified, said nothing useful to liberals and the seething liberals slithered back into the shadows.

At some point a rational person has got to ask - "why can't we all just get along?".

The sore-loserman liberals in America slipped a cog when Hillary was defeated. Personally, I think this was worse than when Bush the younger defeated Al Gore in 2000. The media is fast becoming irrelevant and I don't think they get it. After all, they didn't get the 2016 election either.

We have real issues that need addressing. ObamaCare has been repealed by the House, who is working on it's replacement. We need somebody other than those who caused the run-away health-care cost to be working on this. There's a lot of work to do, and Trump is trying to get it done - despite the seething liberal darkness.

It Is Finished

The election is over. Trump won, Hillary lost. And the Main Stream Media (MSM) was wounded.

Trump did the Obama - brilliant. Now he has gained the White House. Perhaps Republicans nationwide will take notice of how to run a campaign nowadays.

The MSM are writhing like vampires in sunlight trying to explain why they were so completely wrong. The day after saw them blame it on ignorance, racism and misogyny. The point is that they've blamed everyone else - anyone who voted for Trump.

But Trump won the election, so nobody cares what  the MSM says right now as they creep away into the darkness to lick their wounds. Republicans gained the Oval Office, retained Congress and now have 80% of the Governor offices. Clearly both Democrat party and the MSM are out of touch.

The MSM and Democrat Oligarchy jointly because they dismissed the anger of the average American:

• uncontrolled illegal immigration.
• the abuse of the H1B system
• the steep premium increases with the ACA
• a very weak foreign policy
• unelected plutocrats seemingly controlling DC

Both the Left and Right were angry for differing reasons, but Republicans stuck with Trump while Democrats ditched Bernie.

The Democrat party because they ran a status quo candidate when voters wanted change. They seemed to be emboldened by a completely wrong MSM and convinced that this country mainly needed a woman President - even one with significant baggage.

But like I said, the election is over. Trump won. The Clinton oligarchy has been defeated. The Republican old guard has been severely wounded. Madonna gave up, celebrities are back-peddling on their promise to leave, and Canada put up signs saying "GO AWAY (please)".

Doing the Obama

30 years ago nobody would've imagined a Junior Senator, lacking both private  and State governance experience, making it into the White House. But he did. And he did it because his campaign emphasized emotion over substance. Remember "Hope and Change", "Yes We Can"? Oh and by the way, lest we forget: he did it twice. And the last time he whipped a vastly more qualified opponent. I call this "doing the Obama".

I know that Trump is "doing the Obama" to get into office. Trump's a fast learner and he's leveraging what works. The other Republicans either co-opt Trump's approach or they are gone. Trump's approach to campaigning is brilliant.

So what is "doing the Obama" really? It is leveraging the angst of low-information voters. Frankly, today's voters are probably the most ignorant in a couple of generations. Lots of reasons for it: 3rd-world Public Education system, entitlement mentality, Media ignoring their fiduciary responsibility, and the glaring fact that the gyrations in the Oval Office have little impact on everyday life.

So is "doing the Obama" bad?  Not really. After all, as demonstrated by Obama, you can make all sorts of promises and then renege on them once in office. And if the public continues to hold the Office of the President in low esteem, nobody will be shocked.

Trump is a smart businessman with a big ego. He has a good shot at the Presidency, assuming he doesn't self-implode. Whether or not he can be a good President is anyone's guess. But I'm impressed at his campaign, and disappointed in his Republican opposition.

Trump's Wall

The various talking heads of the entertainment side of the media have had a lot of fun with Trump. He's arguably good for their business. He gives them lots of buzz to sell, and in so doing he gets his populist notions aired. Doubt it? Well think of Marco Rubio's approach to uncontrolled Mexican immigration - can you remember anything? Nope? That's because Rubio couldn't get the time of day from the media, and now he is gone.

Trump's wall is a polarizing idea. Why? Because it will work. And that defines the ideological split in America on the subject of immigration. I know there are entertainment talking heads who deride the idea as fundamentally unworkable, but these are not very bright people - they just work for laughs. The Wall most certainly will work.

There are those in America who believe borders are meaningless - we are all "citizens of the world" - to misquote Barack Obama. Conversely there are those who believe America is a sovereign nation, American citizenship should convey special privileges, American citizens should be economically protected, and America should be selective on who we allow in. In my view, this defines the tension in the immigration debate in general.

Much of the wave of popularity Trump is riding is generated by the rising anger of Americans who feel betrayed by the Beltway. President Obama has long since lost his sizzle to thinking people, he no longer commands the bully pulpit. Can you think of Obama's solution to uncontrolled Mexican immigration? Did positive thoughts come to mind?

America has absorbed 12 million unskilled, uneducated, from Latin America - probably the largest foreign aid program ever run under a different name. Made sense to prop up failing Latin American States back in the Reagan years when the Soviet Union was creating proxy states. Doesn't make sense now.

The entry-level job market has been hammered by a gross over-supply of labor. Wages have stagnated for years, causing some jurisdictions to pursue a silly course of mandating "living" minimum wages.

So if you are in ideological agreement with President Obama, the Wall scares you. If you disagree with the President, the Wall is one real solution that doesn't require an act of Congress.