Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book about Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet entitled Team of Rivals.  The book examined the members of Lincoln’s Cabinet, many of whom had run against him for President.  Before being nominated in 1860, Lincoln was a relative unknown outside Illinois.

Once elected, he chose Cabinet members who all were better known, more respected, and better educated than himself.  These were men such as William Seward (Secretary of State), Salmon P. Chase (Treasury Secretary), and Edward Bates (Attorney General).

Doubtless, the prominent men who joined Lincoln’s Cabinet expected to manage country bumpkin Abraham Lincoln and run the government as they saw fit.  They were mistaken.  In the midst of a civil war, Lincoln managed his Cabinet and kept the Union intact.  Lincoln made clear who was in charge.  In one famous incident, Lincoln asked the opinions of his Cabinet members on a pressing issue.  Every Cabinet member voted “No.”  Then Lincoln voted.  The “Aye” had it.

As this is written, Donald Trump is compiling his Cabinet.  His choices have some parallels with the Lincoln Cabinet, as they include people who previously were his political rivals.  Marco Rubio (State) ran against Trump in 2016.  Doug Bergum (Interior) ran against Trump in 2024.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (HHS) was a Democrat who supported Trump only after he was purged from the Democrat Socialist Death Cult that has become their Party.

Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence) was another Democrat who was unwelcome in that Party and joined the Trump campaign.

That said, the upcoming Trump Cabinet is not so much a Team of Rivals, as a Team of Loyals.  Or maybe more accurately, the Trump Cabinet is a Team of Truthfuls.  Donald Trump learned the lessons of his first term the hard way.  I said then, and I repeat now, that the upheavals, what with hirings and firings Trump had in his first Cabinet, were inevitable.

In 2016, Trump was an outsider who embarrassed both Parties by beating them at their own game.  Democrats hated him, and Republican loyalists, the very people who would have flocked to serve in a Jeb Bush Cabinet, stayed on the sidelines to avoid the wrath of Never Trumpers.

Trump had no one to turn to for advice.  The Bushes hated him more than the Democrats.  Trump had to fill 4,000 jobs.  Without a pool of top level candidates for those jobs, he turned to people like Reince Priebus for help.  As a result, Trump made a number of personnel mistakes, chief among them Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who ushered in the phony Mueller probe that hamstrung Trump for two years.

This time it’s different.  Trump has compiled a team he knows and can trust, and more importantly, he now understands how Washington works.  This makes him all the more dangerous, so far as his enemies are concerned.  Typically, the Left is denouncing the Trump picks as unqualified “loyalists.”

In actuality, all are qualified for their positions, and the “loyalist” label frankly is ludicrous.  All presidents staff their cabinets with loyalists.  It would make little sense to choose ineffective enemies, a fact Trump well understands after Term One.  Anybody remember Mad Dog Maddis, Rex Tillerson, and John Bolton?  That’s not going to happen again.

My Team of Truthfuls description derives from the inescapable fact that, time and again, despite the incessant drumbeat of Democrats and their lap dog media, Trump’s judgments and pronouncements have proven to be right.  These nominees stood up to the abuses they took and kept telling the truth.

Trump said the CIA and FBI spied on his 2016 campaign.  The Left scoffed.  He was right.  Trump said the Steele Dossier was fake.  The Left scoffed.  He was right.  The Left lambasted Trump for his objections to Covid mandates.  It turns out he was right again.

What Trump has done is to compile a group of people which is uniquely qualified to uncover corruption, fraud and abuse in government agencies, and to tell the American public the truth about the way its government is being run.  And there is no better example of this than in HHS and its constituent agencies.

RFK, Jr. is nominated as Secretary of HHS, to pursue his Make America Healthy again agenda.  There are some concerns, most of them unfounded, about his stance on vaccine safety.  I’m all for trying to make mass produced food products more healthy, as Americans lead the world in eating ultra-processed crap, and therefore lead the world in obesity and diabetes.  I’m less comfortable with the notion of government mandates.  That said, a fresh approach would be welcome.

The picks to lead the medical agencies in HHS are a veritable Who’s Who of the physicians who were persecuted by Anthony Fauci and friends during the Wuhan Plague, and were later proven to have been right.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (National Institutes of Health) was ostracized by the medical community for his opposition to Covid mandates.  He was a signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, which proposed shielding the most vulnerable (elderly) population, while achieving herd immunity for those at reduced risk from the virus.  He was denounced  as a “dangerous” “fringe scientist.”  In the end, he was right.

Dr. Marty Makary (FDA) is the John’s Hopkins oncologist who was denounced by “Mr. Science” Fauci and company for opposing vaccinating children an opposing school closing mandates, and for daring to prove that the Covid death rate was under 1%, instead of the 3-4 % figure being used by the Fauci group.  He told the truth regardless of the consequences.

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat (Surgeon General) is another physician who questioned the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines, and felt the wrath of the Establishment.  Dr. Dave Weldon (CDC) likewise was an outcast over vaccine effectiveness.  These nominees, it is hoped, will turn their agencies away from politics and back to science.

What the Trump nominees also have in common is their abilities to perform oversight for their respective agencies.  Oversight is supposed to be the job of the Congress, which has become compromised and too often cedes its authority to regulatory agencies.  This being the case, you need someone in those agencies to keep them honest.  The Trump picks at Justice and Defense fit that description.

AG nominee Pam Bondi can be trusted to remove the dead wood and Trump obstructionists from the top level of the Justice Department.  FBI nominee Kash Patel is uniquely qualified to reform the FBI.  Pick up his book Government Gangsters, some time.  Lots of FBI executives who participated in the Russia Gate with hunt of Trump should be updating their resumes right about now.

The best evidence that Patel is the best choice for the FBI came this week.  Swamp Creature John Bolton, who was fired by Trump, denounced him as no more than a Trump loyalist.

In his time at the Defense Department, Patel documented massive cost overruns and fraud in Defense procurement.  Trump nominee Pete Hegseth can be counted upon to uproot these abuses, and he has a mandate to end the idiotic DEI programs and return the military to its proper role – killing people and breaking things.

Assuming Trump can get his nominees through Senate confirmation, his second term shouldn’t be plagued by the problems he faced before.  The Left and the Never Trumpers are on the run, and much of the Resistance has collapsed.  Let’s hope the Team of Truthfuls get to do their jobs.

By now you are well aware that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden has issued his son Hunter a blanket pardon that covers any crimes Hunter committed, “or may have committed” from January 1, 2014 to December 1, 2024.

Biden’s statement regarding the pardon was insulting.

“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” It is a “full and unconditional pardon.” He said he decided to issue the pardon because his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” “Hunter was treated differently” from people who commit similar crimes.”  The president said his political opponents in Congress “instigated” the charges “to attack me and oppose my election.”  He said in his statement, “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice. … I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”  He further claimed Hunter Biden was “singled out” for prosecution “only because he is my son.”

I will delve into this nonsense below.

You also may recall that Joe Biden repeatedly, and unequivocally, stated that he would abide by the verdicts of the courts hearing Hunter’s gun possession and tax evasion charges and would not issue a pardon.  A jury convicted Hunter on the gun charges, and he pleaded guilty to evading more than a million dollars in taxes.  He was scheduled to be sentenced later in December.

What was it all about?  Let’s recap.  The gun charges stemmed from the notorious laptop from Hell, that Hunter brought to a Delaware repair shop, and then never picked up.  On it were thousands of email messages and photographs revealing Hunter’s crooked political kickback schemes (which included his father, “The Big Guy”), and graphic evidence of his drug use and debauchery.

The tax evasion charges stemmed from some of the laptop emails, reams of subpoenaed documents uncovered by Congressional investigators, plus testimony from Hunter’s partner in crime, Devin Archer, business partner Tony Bobulinski, and IRS whistleblowers who documented Hunter’s tax frauds, and Department of Justice attempts to cover them up.  Simply put, the evidence against Hunter and his crooked family was, and is, what appellate courts are fond of calling “overwhelming.”

Ordinarily, which means, if it were you or me, once you’ve been convicted, or pled guilty, punishment is the next order of business.  As they say, you do the crime, you do the time.  Put another way, you have to face the music.  You know, like,”Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do when they come for you?”  That is unless your father happens to be the President of the United States.  In that case, there’s a whole different kind of music.

Joe Biden was born in the 1940’s, so it could be a Swing Era tune, like, Glenn Miller’s Chattanooga Choo Choo.  Here’s Joe now –

“I pardoned my boy, who’s just a crackaholic cuckoo
In room 29, he had the hookers and wine.”

Don’t like that?  How about a more contemporary song, like  Lynn Anderson’s Rose Garden?

“He begged a pardon
As we were strolling in the Rose Garden
I pardoned all crimes
Maybe he’ll tell us what they were sometime.”

Yeah, don’t hold your breath on that one.

For those of us who have been paying attention the past four years, the Hunter pardon came as no surprise.  We know that Biden lies about everything all the time, so when he vehemently denied that he would pardon his son, we gave the statements no more credence than when he told us, “the border is secure.”

However those on the Left, the brain damaged Never Trump, Democrat Socialists, the people who have defended Biden’s perfidies all these years, are not enjoying the music at all.  They have been torn into two camps – one camp is made up of Biden Administration employees and media apologists who lack even a passing acquaintance with reality, and who  continue to alibi for Joe.

These imbeciles are trying to convince the public, as well as themselves, that Biden didn’t lie.  Chief among these is the erstwhile KJP, Biden spokesperson, and Little Orphan Annie impersonator, Karine Jean-Pierre.  KJP told reporters Joe didn’t lie.  “He said he came to this decision this weekend … and he said he wrestled with this and, because he believes in the justice system, but he also believes that the war politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage of justice.”

Even the sycophants of the Press weren’t buying that.

REPORTER: “He’s saying his own Justice Department is broken.”
KJP: “He believes in the Justice Department.”
REPORTER: “He just said it’s infected with politics!”
KJP: ………..
REPORTER: “How many selective prosecutions are there at the DOJ?”
KJP: I can’t speak to that.

See, it wasn’t a lie, it was a reversal.  Joe just backed up into the pardon.

The View co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro placed the blame where all blame belongs, on Donald Trump.  Surprised?  They claimed Biden initially did not intend to pardon Hunter, but decided to do so in order to protect his son from Trump’s alleged plan of executing “retribution and vindictiveness” on his political opponents.  Of course no such plan exists, but what can you expect from a pig but a grunt?

The other camp consists of media figures who were perfectly willing to lie to keep Democrats in power, but now are confronted with Trump Part II, and so must pretend that they are shocked- shocked that a lie ever could pass Joe Biden’s lips.  This group is rightfully embarrassed, as they extolled Biden’s dedication to the rule of law when he said he wouldn’t pardon Hunter.

Crooked former DOJ hitman Andrew Weissmann declared on MSNBC that, “He is not doing it because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country.”  A number of  alleged journalists praised Biden for “taking the high road” unlike Republicans, and proving that “no one is above the law.”  They now regret their rhetoric.

CNN’s Elie Honig – “I mean, Joe Biden, let’s be clear here, he lied to us for a long time.  “Well, now he’s gone back on that.”  You figured that out huh, Elie?

Here’s the detestable Chuck Todd – “What kind of precedent will we have set if both parties accept the premise that whoever is elected is going to politically prosecute his or her opponents?” “What’s the general public supposed to think of the justice system now?”

Whew!  Maybe Biden expects retribution because he and his Justice Department brought political prosecutions against Trump and family for the past eight years.  Hopefully, the public will now be convinced that the Justice Department has been corrupted and must be reformed.

As for Biden’s bogus reasons for the pardon, they simply don’t wash.  Biden respected the justice system before the convictions, but now has realized it’s corrupt?  And don’t forget.  Although CNN now blames the prosecution on “Trump appointed” U.S. Attorney Weiss, in August 2023, when he was appointed special counsel, CNN reported the truth – Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that the Trump-appointed US attorney who is investigating Hunter Biden has been given special counsel status.”

So, we are to believe that Biden concluded that his own Attorney General and his own Justice Department practices selective political prosecutions.  He’s saying his own appointee, Merritt Garland, brought charges against his son “to attack [him] and ruin his election.”  No thinking person  believes that crap.

I suppose one explanation for Biden’s pardon reversal is that Joe Biden really is so brain dead that he failed to notice his Justice Department’s corruption, until a turkey dinner brought on a lucid interval last weekend.  Except that would be just one more lie, as insiders have reported that Biden has been discussing the pardon since last Summer.

I guess the Democrats will have to change “No one is above the law” to “Only Bidens are above the law.”  This truism will be borne out in January, when Sleepy Joe pardons the rest of his crooked family.  He’ll have to do that now, as Hunter’s pardon strips him of his right to remain silent, and his testimony can be compelled regarding what other crimes “he might have committed” and with whom.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning victory on November 5th, leftists and other anti-Trumpers are suffering greatly – much to my extreme delight.  You will recall that, the first time Trump ran, we had constant protests from the alleged Republican Never Trumpers, and the loony Left resistance, consisting of nearly the entirety of the Media, and the rank and file of Woke Democrats, who had hijacked the Party.

At first, the resistance considered the idea of a Trump candidacy a joke; such great fun that the Media covered his every speech and rally – just for laughs.  They were happy when he was nominated, because he would be so easy for Hillary to beat.

When Trump actually won in 2016 there was panic.  In the run-up to the inauguration there was a massive Women’s March, with tens of thousands of pink hat wearing marchers, and deep thinkers like Madonna, musing about wanting to blow up the White House.  Actress America Ferrera (who?) was outraged.  She declared “we are here to stay.”

The 2017 inauguration was punctuated by nation-wide riots in big cities, with the hooded bastards of Antifa committing assault, arson, and property destruction.

They managed to banish Trump in 2021, but now, to their horror, he’s baaack!  And yet, the Left is strangely silent.  To date, they haven’t managed to foment even one good riot, in support of – whatever the Hell it is they’re selling.  Even Antifa has disappointed.  When was the last time they even tried to burn down a city?

The other day the Washington Examiner ran an article entitled, Shell-Shocked Democrats Struggle to Mount a Resistance to Trump.  I mean, it’s been three weeks, and not even one good march, sit-in or riot?  What’s going on?

First let’s deal with the semantics.  The Woke fervor clearly has diminished, because I haven’t seen any objections to the title of the Washington Examiner article.  “Shell-Shock” is simply not a proper PC term for the malady affecting so many Leftists.  “Shell-Shock” dates to World War I soldiers’ experiencing of crippling emotional distress, many times as a result of artillery barrages.

As with so many simple terms, “Shell-Shock” was replaced by a less offensive clinical term – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.  But in the cases of the Trump resistance fighters, their malady is a bit different.  It is PTLSD.  Post Trump Landslide Stress Disorder.  This malady is a combination of the shock of the recent electoral results, coupled with their long-standing bouts of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome – the unceasing and unreasonable hatred of all things Trump.

Their TDS is the driving force that compelled the Biden Administration to reverse any and all Trump policies, no matter what the cost, and no matter how foolish.  And it was those Biden policies which made Trump 47 inevitable.

Flood the country with illegal aliens, defund the police, gender reassignment surgery for children, men in women’s sports, crazy Green New Deal programs, and outlandish spending that caused crippling inflation.  Absent these unforced errors, Que Mala Harris might well have won.

In the throes of TDS, the Left embarked on actions which themselves sowed the seeds of the latest Trump victory.  They impeached Trump twice, over nothing.  They painted the January 6th protests as a phony insurrection to tarnish the MAGA brand, they hoped permanently.  They jailed harmless trespassers needlessly.  How else to label as a usurper a president who offered 20,000 troops to prevent any January 6th disruptions?

They ran the phony January 6th Committee for months, filtering out all evidence that conflicted with their wild claims.  Then they had AG Garland appoint the notorious Jack Smith to return bogus indictments against Trump.  Their lawfare included quasi-legal attempts to bankrupt Trump, and to convict him of crimes once Trump announced he was running in 2024.  In the end, they failed.  This week Jack Smith moved to dismiss his cases, and he will resign, to permit the DOJ to bury and destroy embarrassing evidence of his $50 million boondoggle.

And the Left’s failure seems to be too much for these poor benighted creatures to comprehend.  They did all that and they lost anyway, and now they are well and truly lost themselves.  There have been, and there continue to be post mortem examinations.  How could they have lost?  After all, they are, or so they continue to believe, always in the right.  Their cause was just.  And Trump was evil, wasn’t he?

Democrat pundits continue to blame the messaging.  “The message has to change,” they tell us.  Let’s hope they never understand that it wasn’t their message, it was their product that was rejected by the electorate.

And then, just as the enormity of the prospect of Trump 2.0 began to sink in, the Woke fever broke, and outlets that they had relied upon to keep reinforcing their anti-Trump mania have begun to let the truth escape.  Joe Scarborough and his wife Meeka, MSNBC’s early morning purveyors of the “Trump is Hitler” message, surrendered.

MSNBC ratings are in the tank.  The network is being spun off by Comcast, and sold to some new owner.  Joe and Meeka immediately deserted the sinking ship, and went, hats in hand, to capitulate to Donald Trump at Mar a Lago.  This availed them nothing, however, as conservatives will never forgive them, and the Left now views them as traitors.

Then, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, smiling from ear to ear after Que Mala’s defeat, brought Trump, the man he had only recently labelled a fascist threat to democracy, to the White House and told him “welcome back.”

This pushed the already emotionally broken leftists over the edge.  There is a Women’s March scheduled for January 18, 2025, but there’s little enthusiasm for it this time around.  One of the organizers has said, “Marching now is not a good idea.”

A Democrat spokesperson says, although “the outrage is building,” the Left is “disillusioned with activism.”  I’m sure that by January, they will muster up some public discord, but for now the activist fever has broken.  Simply put, Trump has broken them.

The usual so-called celebrity suspects are threatening to leave the country again.  Good riddance.  America Ferrera (see above) has abandoned her 2017 “we are here to stay” declaration, and she already has left.  Former “Meathead” Rob Reiner really has gone over the edge.  After days of online ranting and raving following election day, he decided to check himself into “a facility” to work on his mental well being. (I always told you they were nuts, now there’s proof).

They don’t want to march, and they’re too despondent to riot.  They seem to have negotiated the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.  For the celebrities, it’s time they accepted that their opinions and their endorsements are just as irrelevant as they are themselves.  Until that happens, there will be a lot more business for mental “facilities.”

For our part, this Thanksgiving week we’re thankful that we dodged the Que Mala bullet aimed at us by the Left.  Trump is back in command, and as he so aptly predicted, everything Woke has gone to shit.  And as for the demented Rob Reiner, “Medication time!”

The election of Donald Trump as our 47th President continues to reverberate through the land.  At this writing, Trump has 76.6 million votes, and Kamala Harris 74 million.  The voter turnout was roughly the same as in 2020.  You may recall that, four years ago we were told that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden received 81 million votes.  So where did the other 7 million votes go?  Trump got 2 million of them.  That leaves 5 million votes we can attribute to the indiscriminate mailing of ballots to the dead and the missing, which was prompted by the Wuhan plague.  Water under the bridge, but I guess Trump was right again.

The result of the election has prompted outpourings of emotion, in vastly different directions.  Trump voters are exhibiting jubilation, which has spilled over into sections of our society recently thought to be ensnared in the clutches of political correctness (which, as you know, I call “political cowardice”).   We’re experiencing a reemergence of sanity, commonsense, and the American spirit that has been sadly lacking due to years of Leftist repression.

The Left had managed to beat large portions of our society into submission with its constant drumbeat of the “you can’t say that,” and “you can’t think that” mentality.  With its stranglehold on education and the media, it enforced speech and behavior codes, which dictated pronouns and attempted to force us to agree that everything abnormal was really normal.  DEI, CRT, gender fluidity, men in women’s sports, illegal alien invasion, defund the police, and so on.  All dissent was to be denounced, cancelled, and punished.  But they went too far.

In 2024, the peasants finally picked up their pitchforks and marched to the polls to tell the Left that enough was enough.  By peasants, I’m talking about the people the Democrats abandoned as “smelly Walmart voters,” “bitter clingers,” “the basket of deplorables,” and more recently, “ignorant, stupid, Nazi fascists,” who were just too dumb to understand that their Leftist masters are always right about everything.

In 2024, the deplorables spoke, and not just in the Red or swing States.  Four years ago, Democrats got a 7 million vote plurality just from California and New York.  This year, 4 million.  Even in deep blue States, the shift to Trump was astounding.  It wasn’t just the reemergence of sanity.  It was the reemergence of America.  Remember when we used to say, “this is still a free country?”  The Left told us it wasn’t, but maybe it will be again.

Trump”s election literally has let freedom ring all across the land.  People who recently were afraid to speak up are no longer holding back.  Even in Hollywood, actors are beginning to admit the unthinkable, that they supported Trump.  The other night, at Mar a Lago, Sylvester Stallone even compared Trump to George Washington.  At Madison Square Garden last weekend, Trump was hailed as a conquering hero.  And perhaps best of all, what has become known as the Trump Dance is sweeping the entire world.  It’s the moves he does to the song YMCA–

The dance is now sweeping the NFL as the most popular sack and touchdown celebration.  Everybody’s doing it.The dancers are announcing loud and clear that this still is a free country after all.  What we’re seeing is the reemergence of freedom, and it’s about time.  But not all segments of society are content.

For the loony Leftist childless cat ladies of the Democrat Party, there’s been a great disturbance in the Force.  Suffering as they do from delusions of rectitude, they had decided that Que Mala was going to win, so now their lives have become unbearable.  Some are shaving their heads, hoarding birth control pills, and vowing not to have sex (which seems counter-intuitive).

I’ve long said these people have a mental disorder.  This week, a medical professional agreed.  Dr. Drew Pinsky said, “The American public has been propagandized to the point that they have literally become mentally ill.  And the thing about delusionality is it can’t be reasoned with.”  Thank you for the consultation doctor.

These people truly are crazy, and I would suggest that they seek help, but the helpers are just as nuts as the patients.  A Yale psychiatrist went on the show The Herd, or is it, The View, and counseled distraught Que Mala voters to cut off their Trump-voting relatives for the holidays, “If they voted in ways against you, it’s fine to not be around them and tell them, I have a problem with your vote.” (Sorry, but is everyone from Yale F’d up in the head?)  “Just because they’re family, they’re not entitled to your time.”  Of course, the heifers of The View agreed.

Not entitled to your time?  Who wants it?  I’ve got a better idea.  No need to cut us off, because truth to tell, we never enjoyed sharing a meal with any of you in the first place.  So do us a favor and stay away.  Personally, I’d rather eat shit off a rusty spoon, than waste a perfectly good holiday listening to your ignorant, whining bull crap.  Politics of joy my ass. (Boy, that felt good).

And if you think the insanity is limited to the ordinary misguided, NPR listening, MSNBC watching voters, think again.  Democrats follow the science?  Maybe not.  The editor of Scientific American resigned after profanity laced online tirades against Trump voters, such as calling Trump supporters “mean, dumb, and bigoted,” and suggesting, “fuck them to the moon and back.”  And, “GenX is full of fucking fascists.”  Whew!

Celebrities aren’t immune.  Michael Moore says that electing Trump proved “Americans are not a good people.”  Listen fat ass, before you presume to speak for Americans, try being one first.

As she did in 2016, the ever-detestable Barbra Streisand has vowed to leave the country.  See ya, Babs!  Tuck in that nose so the door doesn’t hit it on the way out.

Public officials are unhinged.  Newly elected House member Lara Friedman says, “There a lot of fear out there.”  Fear of what?  Prosperity?  Border security?  Peace?  And James Clyburn, the man who gave us Joe Biden, has learned nothing, calling Trump Hitler and Mussolini, and warning of a “return to 1930’s Germany, adding, “I’ve studied history all my life.”  Keep studying Jim.  If you want to see a fascist, look in the mirror.  Adam Schiff (for brains) says he’s worried Trump will use the military against him.  If he was in the military, maybe a Section VIII.  Otherwise no.  He is a pathological liar, but the military has important things to do.

The myriad distraught Que Mala voters face a long road to recovery.  They replaced religion with politics, and religious fanatics are hard to deal with.  Victor Davis Hanson says they just don’t understand that they are despised for their neo-socialist, anarchist policies.  Bill Maher was more blunt.  “Democrats have become like a royal family that, because of so much incest, has unfortunately had retarded children.”  If you object to that description, complain to Bill Maher, but he is so right.

One week from the 2024 election, and the breadth and depth of the Republican victory is beginning to take shape.  Donald Trump won all the swing States and a total of 312 electoral votes.  The results have been startling to both Parties.  Trump increased his share of the vote in virtually every county in the nation.  He cut a 16 point deficit in New Jersey to 5%, and drastically cut into his 2016 and 2020 deficits in New York, California, and just about every other State.  Earlier, I said if Trump got within 5% in New Jersey he would win all the swing States.  At the time, I thought that judgment a bit optimistic, but it came to pass.

On her part, Kamala, a/k/a, Que Mala, Harris was unable to increase the Democrat share of the vote in any county in the U.S.  Republicans won 53 Senate seats, and are poised to maintain control of the House.  The extent of the destruction has been sobering for Democrats.  They staked everything on their hatred of all things Trump, and they lost big time.  The fallout has been so shocking that Democrats were unable to orchestrate anti-Trump protests and riots in the streets.  They may come later, but right now all Democrats have been able to do is to assemble their usual circular firing squad, and blame one another for the defeat.

The extent of their failures is only now coming into focus.  In 2016, Trump won 30 States, and lost the popular vote by 2.8 million.  In 2020, the States were split 25 each, and Trump got 74 million votes, losing the popular vote by 7 million, when Biden supposedly got 81 million votes.  This year, Trump won 32 States, got 75 million votes, and is more than 3 million votes ahead in the popular vote.

In so doing, Trump increased his share of voting blocs dramatically.  +12% among voters under 30.  +25% with voters earning less than $50,000.  +18% with voters with no college.  +15% with Blacks.  +38% with Hispanics.  +32 with Asians.  +8% among all female voters.  His share of votes from Muslims and Jews also went up.  Democrats are justifiably alarmed, and the blame game is in full swing.

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders placed the blame on a Democrat Party that abandoned the working class.  Nancy Pelosi took exception to that judgment, and laid the blame on Joe Biden, who she said should have bowed out sooner to permit an open primary.  Instead, complained Nancy, Biden waited too long and then endorsed Kamala.  Translation – We knew Kamala was no good, but were stuck with her.

Then, proving Democrats still don’t get it, Pelosi pointed to “cultural issues” for the loss, naming “Guns, God, and Gays” as reasons for the defeat.  Clearly, Nancy can’t understand voters’ preoccupation with protecting their First and Second Amendment rights, instead of  prioritizing sexual preference.  What Pelosi means is,  “The voters were just too stupid to choose Que Mala.”

CNN’s Fareed Zacaria came closer to the truth, but still missed the mark.  He named three reasons.  1) Biden was blind to the border mess. (No – the border mess was Biden’s policy).  2) Overzealous political prosecutions of Trump “gave the impression” that the justice system had been weaponized.  (No – it wasn’t just an impression.  The system was weaponized against Trump).  3) Democrats were too concerned with identity politics. (While true, this is a hard fault to fix.  Without dividing voters into groups to be played against one another, Democrats have no plan).

Many of the post-election comments proved that, even after the electoral beating, Democrats still miss the point.  A Que Mala pollster said, “If the economy were perceived by voters as swimming, things might be different.  But for now, it’s clear these voters I’m talking about — particularly young men, Black men, Hispanic men, and rural White voters — do not see the Democrats as addressing their everyday needs.”  Democrats confuse reality with perception.  There wasn’t inflation, there was a perception of high prices.  Crime isn’t running rampant, there’s a perception you’re not safe.

Sorry, Democrats.  The problem wasn’t your message, it was your product.  People don’t perceive that they can’t pay their bills; they’re broke.  People don’t perceive they’re unsafe, they’ve been robbed.  And the working people who voted for Donald Trump didn’t just perceive that the Democrat Party had done nothing for them.  Democrats proved themselves too preoccupied with illegal aliens, transgender surgeries, and Drag Queen story hour to deal with the problems of mere American citizens.  So Democrats paid the price.  As always, Senator John Kennedy said it best.  “Republicans aren’t perfect, but the other side is crazy.”

On top of all this, Que Mala Harris ran the most inept presidential campaign in American history.  Although she had no primary campaign in which to introduce herself to voters, Que Mala at first refused to make public appearances to answer questions, even from fawning psuedo-journalists.  Que Mala had one message – “I am not Trump.”  That proved to be insufficient.

Proving that Democrats never should be allowed to handle money, Que Mala raised $1.2 billion from the usual Leftist suspects.  She managed to spend all of it, and wound up $20 million in debt.  A cursory review of Que Mala’s campaign spending proved that the entirety of her campaign was just as fake as she is.

Que Mala was awash with the support of numerous so-called celebrities, such as Oprah, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Beyonce,  Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry, right?  Well, not so much.  It turns out Que Mala had to pay them for their participation in her campaign.  Billionaire Oprah got $1 million, and the pre-election concerts in big cities cost the campaign the $20 million that Que Mala now owes.  She even paid Al Sharpton $500,000.  Great investment, huh?  These revelations underscore Que Mala’s unpopularity.  Trump didn’t have to pay Elon Musk, Dana White or Hulk Hogan.  Poor Que Mala.  It’s like the old joke, “They had to tie a pork chop around her neck just to get the dog to play with her.”

The truth is that Democrats, all suffering from delusions of rectitude, believed their own bullshit.  They thought Que Mala would win, so she had to win.  Now many Democrats, especially large and small donors who were taken in, are understandably angry.  And Democrat Governors, the place where one normally would look for 2028 nominees, are offering nothing but resistance to Trump.  Or as Al Sharpton once said, “Resist, we much.”  Congressional Democrats are still discussing attempting to stop Trump from being certified as President.  I thought that was called insurrection.  Good luck with that.

Democrats now face a long road back.  Because they believe themselves always to be right, they will have a hard time fixing their problems.  I couldn’t be happier.