I never thought the day would come when I would be paying $5 a gallon for gasoline. Now that crazy day is here. As with most issues, the problem of high fuel prices has been a subject on which the Biden Administration has contradicted itself. We’ve been told all of the following: high fuel prices are Trumps fault; Putin’s fault; the greedy oil companies’ fault; nobody’s fault, and nothing can be done about it; and all part of a Democrat planned “transformation” of the energy market. Believe the last one. The “root cause” of the high prices is the result of the confluence of two Democrat/Progressive policies – climate hysteria, and the conscious decision to put Americans last. Think about that second policy. Putting Americans last. Biden has consistently made that choice. He opened the southern border, and is admitting more than 500,000 illegal aliens a month. The illegals are only seeking a better life, so they mustn’t be inconvenienced, but Americans will just have to sacrifice. More crowding, more crime, higher taxes for education and police, and fewer jobs for citizens. Americans can’t buy baby formula, but it’s being passed out free to “irregular migrants.” America last. We’re sending Ukraine money and goods we can’t afford. Americans will just have to sacrifice. America last. Fuel prices are no different. Make no mistake. The high prices aren’t the fault of Trump, Putin or the oil companies. They’re Biden’s plan, and it wasn’t a secret plan. Old Joe told us all about it. Candidate Joe Biden laid it all out on the campaign trail. During a debate, Biden said, “I would transition from the oil industry, yes.” Biden made other statements that should have left no doubt about his plans. “No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. Ends.” Biden claimed that he wants to shut down the oil industry because it “pollutes significantly” and needs to be “replaced by renewable energy over time.” How much time? Uh, not much. “I do rule out banning fracking because we need other industries to get ultimately to complete zero emissions by 2025.” “No fracking on federal land.” “We would make sure it [fossil fuel] is eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those.” “I guarantee you, we’re going to end fossil fuel.” And running mate Kamala Harris agreed. “There is no question I am in favor of banning fracking.” President Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden began his destruction of the fossil fuel industry on day one of his term. He cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, that would have facilitated shipping oil and gas from Canada. He cancelled oil and gas leases, imposed crippling regulations on holders of existing leases, and ordered the Federal Reserve to deny loans to the industry. But fear not. It’s for our own good. It’s all part of “a beautiful transition” to alternative renewable energy, from renewable energy sources that don’t exist. Biden’s Cabinet is on board. He appointed John Kerry Climate Czar, a position that never existed before. Kerry’s supposed job is to “pursue green energy policies around the world.” No one knows what that means. The State Department won’t reveal how much he’s being paid, or who, or how many people work for him. So Kerry’s free to fly around the world on a private jet selling America down the river, while lecturing mere American citizens about their carbon footprints. Energy Secretary Granholm is another beauty. She’s eminently qualified. She went to Harvard Law School and then became a politician. As for fossil fuels, she has said, actually she has sung, that oil should be left in the ground. When asked, “What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?” she began laughing. “That is hilarious.” She explained that oil prices are set by OPEC, so America can’t do anything about them. Of course, that’s a lie. Donald Trump made OPEC irrelevant, by encouraging domestic production of oil, which made the U.S. energy self-sufficient, and drove the price of oil to about $60 a barrel. Biden took the opposite approach – discouraged production, increased regulations, threatened increased taxes, and denied funding. As this is written, the oil price has “fallen” to $120. So take a bow Joe –
He did do that. And he did it all to address the “existential threat” of climate change, and because that’s what his Woke masters told him to do. But don’t despair, soon you’ll have an electric car, and just wait till you try to charge it on solar and wind power, when it’s cloudy and still outside. No matter that electric cars cost more than gas cars, and that we don’t have the lithium, cobalt or rare Earth elements needed to produce their batteries. The Chinese will sell us the elements, and use the money they make to open more coal-fired power plants in China. No matter that we don’t have enough charging stations. No matter that oil is needed for the components of electric cars. No matter that electric cars won’t solve the climate problem, if one in fact exists. It’s a beautiful transition, so just enjoy it – or else. And yet, in the midst of Biden’s great and beautiful experiment, Old Joe and his henchmen know that they’re in serious trouble. The Americans that they’ve put last didn’t sign up for $5, or $7, or $10 gasoline, and they’d prefer to stay warm next winter. So, having single-handedly taken steps guaranteed to double the price of oil, Biden is now at work blaming oil companies for the increase. In order to do this, he has had to deny 200 years of economic theory. Economists agree that when a commodity is in short supply, its price goes up. Biden decreased the supply, and now he’s complaining that the oil companies, to whom he denied supplies of crude oil are making too much money refining less oil at higher prices. He’s even threatened the companies, that unless they increase oil supplies (which he cut) he will unleash his “emergency powers.” You may be able to fool some of the people some of the time, but that’s simply bullshit. There is no shortage of oil. There’s a shortage of leadership. So hats off to Joe Biden. He’s done in less than two years what all our enemies failed to do in more than 200 years, he’s brought America to her knees.
In the 1950’s, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy seized upon the issue of communists in the government as a means of gaining political advantage. In truth, there were some communists in the government, most famously Alger Hiss, but McCarthy lost control, and embarked on largely fictional accusations of communists in every field and under every bed. Lives were ruined, and when McCarthy expanded his witch hunt to supposed communists in the Army, the resulting televised hearings ended with McCarthy censured by the Senate. The Army’s counsel, Joseph Welch is best known for this on-air rebuke of McCarthy, “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” And it is ever thus. When a politician or a political Party uses a real problem to advance its extremist political ends, our republic is placed at risk. Today’s Democrats are now using the gun control issue to advance their fading political prospects, and the republic be damned. They’re not concerned by this since they have no use for our republic, preferring instead to rule by decree. The rash of gun crimes, which culminated in the recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde are symptoms of a real problem; a problem which cries out for meaningful action by our lawmakers. The problem won’t be addressed by passing some new meaningless gun regulations that will hamper the law abiding but will hinder the criminals not at all because, and this may come as a surprise to Leftists, criminals don’t obey any laws. The latest mass shootings were perpetrated by people with mental disorders. Keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill should be a priority. Instead of gun control, we need nut control. More and better “red flag” laws might prevent some shootings by stopping bad actors when they show themselves to be potential threats. Schools are at risk. A comprehensive plan would include hardening of school buildings and increased security in schools. Democrats aren’t interested in a comprehensive approach. They want only gun control that declares broad categories of guns illegal, renders them unusable, or orders their confiscations, and the Constitution be damned. Democrat Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island minced no words. When some questioned whether Democrat proposals were consistent with due process, Cicilline said, “spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights.” This neatly sums up the Democrat view of our constitutional republic, as far as Democrats are concerned, “the document which is the supreme law of the land is bullshit.” The left wing media jumped right onboard too. Elie Mystal of MSNBC, claimed that the Second Amendment was only created to “preserve slavery and white supremacy.” Mystal raved on, “This is what those white guys said when they were debating the Second Amendment. They said that they needed a Second Amendment because they needed the armed disciplined.” This goes to show that, in the hands of a demagogue, a bit of truth is what Congressman Cicilline might call, nothing more than bullshit. The “white guy” who said part of what Mystal ranted about was George Washington, who told Congress in 1790,“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…” The object wasn’t to protect “those white guys” from slaves, but to protect the rights of citizens from being stolen from them by a standing army. The Second Amendment was enacted when British oppressions were fresh in the minds of the Founders. It was enacted not to preserve slavery, but to prevent Americans from being enslaved by their new government. Thomas Jefferson agreed, “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” George Mason concurred, “To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.” And no, it wasn’t just Southerners who supported the right to bear arms. “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed” – Noah Webster. “What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty” – Thomas Paine. “Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins” – Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. So, Mr. Mystal, spare me your race-baiting bullcrap. Democrats continually talk about passing “common-sense” gun reforms, but they resist any reasonable compromise. November is coming, so it must be all or nothing. Their left wing contributors will settle for nothing less than confiscation of all guns in private hands. Well, not all guns in private hands, just the guns in the hands of people who obey the law. Democrats have no intention of trying to take guns away from criminals. Here’s a tip for the left wing blowhards. If you insist on confiscating guns, I’m with you, on one condition. You have to start your confiscations on the South side of Chicago. Just send Beto O’Rourke door to door to ask the gangbangers to please had over their illegal guns. After all, the gangsters have more machine guns than Al Capone every dreamed of having. They’ll give Beto the guns, or at least the bullets. But Beto needn’t worry because Democrats are unconcerned about the nearly 10,000 black Americans murdered every year, nearly all by urban criminals with illegal guns. They’re largely unconcerned by urban crime at all. They’d prefer to pass unconstitutional gun laws that will turn law abiding citizens into criminals. And for what? To try to distract Americans from the disaster which is the Biden Administration. They’ll rant about guns, abortion, and white supremacy to try to keep their useless butts in office. They’ll seek political advantage from the blood of little children. “Have they no decency? No they do not.
Memorial Day has come and gone. As each day passes, I’m more and more convinced that, if we don’t get rid of Joe Biden and and the rest of his merry band of Democrat Progressive wrecking balls pretty soon our epitaph will be “In memorium, the United States of America.” Ronald Reagan was prophetic when he issued this warning: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” When Reagan spoke those words in 1964 they may have seemed like no more than political hyperbole. Not anymore. The day Reagan warned us about is here. Our plight has ceased to be merely about which Party controls the Congress or the presidency. The fortunes of Republicans and Democrats or of conservatives and liberals have ceased to be important. What’s at stake now is our survival, plain and simple. You may have noticed that, until the Chinese Wuhan virus plague was set loose on us in late 2019, we were doing fine. For the first time in recent memory, we had a president who was as good as his word. He told us what he planned to do, and then he did it. Amazing. Politicians were promising us energy independence since the 1970’s without effect. Trump did it, and that’s not all. He secured the borders, lowered taxes, created millions of new jobs, brought companies back to our shores, slapped tariffs on China, revamped our trade agreements, strengthened our military, and kept us out of needless wars. Everything was moving in the right direction. But Trump had embarrassed the political hacks on both sides. They had to protect their phony-baloney jobs, and their access to graft, so Trump had to go. The Chinese plague made that possible. Was it a coincidence that it hit just in time for the 2020 election? Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans sold their souls to put Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden in the White House. Politicians like to throw the word “democracy” around, but they wouldn’t dare let their fortunes be decided by mere voters. There’s too much money to be made, too much power to be wielded, and too many foreign interests who need lobbyists. None of the foregoing is surprising, and it really wouldn’t be so bad if the recent change in Administrations was only about the elites getting their hands back on the levers of power. It’s worse. I’ve noted before that everything the Democrats are doing seems to be designed to do the most damage and piss off the greatest number of people. They’re not making mistakes. They have planned each and every disaster that we now face. They don’t like the America we grew up in, and they’re determined to tear it all down. There’s no other explanation for why Biden and company are doing everything ass backward. Think gas prices are too high because of the war in Ukraine. Think again. That’s a small part of it, of course, but Democrats want $7 gasoline. They’ve been planning for that since Obama. Don’t doubt me. When the Secretary of Energy says oil should be left in the ground, you should listen. In quick succession, Biden blamed the oil companies, Putin, everyone except himself. Recently, Biden uttered a rare truth. Just get used to high prices. They’re not going down ever again, but it’s alright, because it’s all part of a wonderful transition to alternative renewable energy. What alternative? He didn’t say, because there isn’t one. So Biden didn’t blunder into high prices. It’s part of their bizarro Woke fantasyland. Wokesters don’t like fossil fuels, so you’ll just have to suffer. Hence, cancelled oil pipelines, cancelled oil leases, and a Federal Reserve that plans to deny oil and gas producers access to loans. More than 500,000 illegal aliens are pouring over the southern border every month. This is not negligence, misfeasance or mistake. It’s deliberate. The Woke are against borders, so you’ll just have to suffer. Woke imbeciles hate the police, so they want to cancel them and make the police the enemy. Woke prosecutors refuse to prosecute criminals. They don’t even recognize criminal behavior as crimes. Gangs of smash and grab thieves have run every Walgreen’s drug store in San Francisco out of business. Democrats don’t mind. They’re in favor of taking legally owned guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens, but are unconcerned that more than 9,000 black citizens a year are killed by illegally possessed guns in the hands of criminals. Ass backward. If we allow them to get their way, we’ll all be at the mercy of armed criminals and we’ll be powerless to defend ourselves. This is not politics, it’s armageddon. It’s the breakdown of the fabric of society. When I got out of law school and became a judge’s clerk, Judge Baime put it very simply, “the first duty of government is to keep people safe on the streets and in their homes.” A government that can’t do that has failed. Failed governments are the hallmark of Third World banana republics, not the United States. Not America, the land of the free. Joe Biden and company have to go. Biden could get oil prices down by permitting U.S. producers to produce all the oil and gas we need, but he won’t do it. Biden is a prisoner of the Left. The perverted Woketards have us on the path to destruction. If they’re not stopped, we will be telling our grandchildren about the time when we were free.
No, this is not about Borax or Death Valley Days. It’s about election integrity. Recently, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, spent several days testifying before Congressional Committees. The Secretary’s fantastic insistence that he has the southern border “under control” prompted a number of colorful exchanges with Republican lawmakers, who called Mayorkas, among other things, a pathological liar and a sociopath. Jim Jordan asked Mayorkas if he had done anything right. Another Congressman told Mayorkas his constituents compared him to Benedict Arnold, and called for his impeachment. It wasn’t pretty. That’s why, for a time, I puzzled over precisely why Mayorkas chose to use these hearings to announce, between ass-kickings, that there is to be established in DHS a Disinformation Governance Board, to be headed by Nina Jankowicz, which has since been put on hold. Why announce it then, and why put the latter day Ministry of Truth in the DHS in the first place? Then the light dawned. On April 25, 2022, Miranda Devine of The New York Post published a story about Dinesh D’Sousa’s latest film, 2,000 Mules. The film tells the story of how thousands upon thousands of mail ballots happened to turn up in places like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia between the times that the polls closed and the early hours of November 4, 2020. Election Integrity organization True the Vote identified the locations of mail ballot drop boxes in the subject States. It then paid some $2 million to buy several trillion geolocation signals from cell phone towers near the drop boxes and near offices of NGO’s, non-profit, non-governmental organizations. The cell phone signals identify telephone numbers of phones repeatedly traveling between the NGO’s and the drop boxes. In this way, True the Vote identified 2,000 “mules,” representing people using these telephones, who made repeated trips from the NGO’s to the drop boxes during hours of darkness. The mules were paid for each ballot stuffed. In criminal circles, a “mule” is a person who carries contraband, typically drugs. They then matched the signals to surveillance video footage from areas near the drop boxes. What they found was astounding. A car pulls up at a drop box after midnight. A man gets out, looks around surreptitiously (also known as “furtive conduct” in the law biz), then he stuffs ballots into the drop box and speeds off to another drop box, and then to another. In Georgia for example, True the Vote alleges there were 242 traffickers who made 5,662 trips to ballot drop boxes between the early morning hours of 12AM and 5AM, potentially unloading hundreds of thousands of illegally harvested ballots over the course of several weeks. After arrests for ballot-stuffing in Arizona were made based on fingerprints on the ballots, mules stuffing drop boxes in Georgia took to wearing gloves. The ballot-stuffing mules were at work in swing States that narrowly voted for Biden. In Michigan 500 mules averaged 50 deposits each, delivering 125,000 suspect votes. In Wisconsin, 100 mules averaged 24 deposits. In Arizona, mules delivered some 20,000 suspect ballots, enough to change the election result. In the City of Philadelphia alone, 1,100 mules delivered some 275,000 suspect ballots, again, enough to change the result of the election. In Georgia, 30,000 suspect ballots were delivered, enough to swing the electoral votes and two Senate seats to the Republicans. How much better off would we be right now if we still had President Trump and a Republican Senate? Dinesh D’Souza describes the drop box stuffing schemes as “a conspiracy. This was organized crime.” True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht describes the “fateful moment” when she had to ask, “How do we take down a cartel?” She said, “That’s when we began to use the terms like stash houses, and drop points, and mules, and trafficking, and voter abuse because that’s what we’re looking at. Informants have come forward to describe how the ballot stuffing scheme was carried out. D’Sousa and Engelbrecht are not wrong. I spent 25 years as a prosecutor, prosecuting people for narcotics racketeering and money laundering. People who are sent from bank to bank with cash deposits under $10,000, to avoid the filing of Cash Transaction Reports, are known as “smurfs.” What True the Vote uncovered is election smurfing, only the mules aren’t cleaning money, they’re befouling our election process. And don’t dismiss the cell tower information. I have seen numerous criminal prosecutions in which an FBI agent gave testimony about cell site information that placed telephones belonging to the defendants in proximity to the scene of a crime. This isn’t some crazy conspiracy theory, it’s powerful evidence. Where did all the money come from? NGOs called the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research claim they are working to make democracy stronger, more secure. Tiana Epps-Johnson is one of the founders of CTCL. She’s a former Obama Fellow (the fish stinks from the head down). According to The Federalist, These two NGO’s pumped $419.5 million into local government election offices, money that came from donors like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. All of it went to elect Democrats, the very hypocrits who used to bemoan “dark money” influencing elections. You can’t give more than $2,800 to any individual candidate, but you can pay the people counting the votes $419 million? There’s something wrong with that. CTCL is suspected to have supported the proliferation of unmonitored private ballot drop boxes which permitted the submission of numerous questionable post-election-day ballots, and created opportunities for illegal ballot harvesting. In Wisconsin, local election officials are the subjects of a complaint accusing them of election bribery after for accepting money from CTCL. In addition to the election rigging news, there’s been increased coverage of Hunter Biden and his partners meeting with Sleepy Joe and company at the White House. So why have someone like Nina Jankowicz as Mistriss of Truth? These are the people who told us that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation, who accused Donald Trump of inciting fascism, who dismissed election complaints as disinformation, and who decried “free speech absolutists.” And why in DHS instead of say the FCC? Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Where better to place an unconstitutional speech content censor than in an agency dedicated to Homeland Security. This Bureau stinks, Jankowicz and her ilk stink, and Joe Biden and family stinketh the most.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Reign of Terror
Make no mistake, we’re in the midst of a revolution in America. Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden and his cronies can prattle on all they want about “democracy,” but a government which rules according to the wishes of the majority is the last thing they want. They are revolutionaries, who are engaged in a reign of terror, reminiscent of that which overtook the French Revolution in 1793 and 1794. This revolution was a long time coming, but it is no less a revolution than the one fomented in France in the 18th Century. When Il Duce Obama told us that he was about to “fundamentally transform” the United States, what do you think he was talking about. If you’re dedicated to the Constitution you’ve sworn to uphold, then you’re not trying to “fundamentally transform” anything. The main difference between the French Revolution and today’s Progressive Revolution is that the French sought to remove a monarch, who they considered to be a tyrant, while the Democrats simply want to substitute their tyranny for the political system that made the United States the envy of the world. The comparisons to the French Revolution are chilling. The French revolutionaries sought to take control of the government by taking violence into their own hands as an instrument of government. The revolutionary Council announced that, “terror is the order of the day.” So-called “First Citizen” Robespierre explained how it worked, “If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the homeland.” Robespierre saw it as his duty to weed out, (kill) all those who lacked the virtue he demanded, which killings he regarded as “justice.” He vowed to “crush the enemies of the revolution … let the laws be executed … and let liberty be saved.” Sound familiar? It all worked fine until July 1794, when “justice” came for Robespierre, and he was guillotined. Today’s Progressives are no different. Lawyers led the French Revolution by manipulating the mob. What do you think is going on 24 hours a day on MSNBC and CNN, where one “legal expert” after another comes on to stir up, dare I say it, insurrection? Robespierre equated violence with justice. Nothing has changed. Progressives talk about “justice” all the time. There’s social justice, racial justice, gender justice, abortion justice, climate justice, Trans justice, and Illegal Alien (I mean Irregular Migrant) justice. And what’s their motto? “No justice, no peace.” The “mostly peaceful” riots of 2020 left no doubt that Progressives view violence, terror if you will, as an acceptable means of seeking what they consider to be “justice.” Progressives use inherently violent groups such as BLM and Antifa to do their bidding. They threaten that, if they don;t get their way, there will be “days of rage,” marches, protests, and inevitably, violence. They are terrorists. The French Reign of Terror was orchestrated by what was called the Committee on Public Safety. The Progressive Reign of Terror is being run by an equally harmless sounding organization, the Department of Justice. This is an organization which pledges “equal justice for all,” but pursues justice only for those whose political views it consider to be acceptable. Dissenters are hounded, persecuted, and jailed. Thus, the DOJ is no better than the French Committee on Public Safety. The riots of 2020 led to the highly questionable election of 2020, and installed the Biden Administration. What has followed has been a virtual reign of terror. Ignoring the fact that Democrats have largely run the government for 140 years, the government was declared “systematically racist.” Although the government exists for the purpose of keeping citizens safe on the streets and in their homes, the police were declared criminals, criminals were released from jail, and prosecutors refuse to enforce the laws. Progressives want to remove guns from the hands of the law abiding, but won’t lift a finger to take them from criminals. As a result, our cities are war zones. Progressives have opened the southern border to more than 250,000 invaders a month, people from all over the world, none of whom belong here. Among them are people on the terrorist watch list. They now demand that we house, feed, educate and care for these people at a time when we’ve been driven more than $30 trillion in debt. More than 77,000 of our citizens die every year from the fentanyl shipped by China to Mexico, and imported to the U.S. by Mexican drug cartels. Progressives won’t do anything to stop this carnage. Progressives have deliberately doubled the cost of fuel as a means of pursuing their addle-brained climate goals. This act, and uncontrolled spending, have caused unprecedented inflation, along with product shortages, and expected food shortages. People are hurting, and it will only get worse, but Progressives see it as “justice.” You may be starving, can’t afford to drive to work, and your child has no baby formula, but it’s all part of a “beautiful transition” on the road to justice. It’s more like the road to Hell. The French Reign of Terror ended only after years of bloody civil war, and put a dictator (Napoleon) at the head of the government. We have an opportunity for a more peaceful end to our Reign of Terror. We can start in November by taking the Congress from the hands of the Progressive maniacs who put us in this position. We can finish the job by winning the the presidency in 2024.