The Bible’s Book of Revelation is the New Testament’s prediction of the apocalypse, or End Times.  No, I haven’t taken up sack cloth and ashes, nor have I begun to roam the countryside preaching that the end is near.  I don’t have to, and that’s the point of this piece.  We already have an organization that’s been preaching the apocalypse for as long as I can remember – it’s the Democrat Party.  Think about it.  On virtually every issue, the Democrats promise us that the end is near.  It’s always the same song.  Every year, no matter what Republicans are doing, Democrats preach the same gospel.  “Armageddon.  Millions will die!”  They warn of extreme privations that can be cured only when we surrender more of our rights to government masterminds.  It’s right out of the Book of Revelation.  St. John would be proud.  My thoughts went to Revelation in the wake of the Democrats’ latest outrage over Coronavirus.  Unable to defeat Donald Trump over orthodox political issues, Democrats, and their media lackeys, have seized on a disease as their latest hope of ridding themselves of this troublesome president.  In Revelation, we learn of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.  Revelation was written in the First Century.  It was thought to refer to Roman Emperors, but it’s equally applicable to today’s Democrats.  Revelation 6:2: “I looked, and there before me was a white horse!  Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.”  There was a time when the political Parties had more similarities than they had differences.  Each Party had its own ideas about how to get things done, to be sure, but there was a commonality of purpose. Both Parties recognized the Constitution as the law of the land, not just an obstruction on the way to absolute power.  The two Parties worked together when necessary, and our national security was always more important than the next victory.  Now there is no consensus on anything, not even on public health.  It didn’t start with Coronavirus.  Long before this flu season, in their mindless zeal to advance identity politics, Democrats were telling us that screening people entering the country for communicable diseases was a racist policy that offended groups they hoped to cultivate as likely voters.  How is it that the dangers of spreading AIDS, cholera and tuberculosis can be overlooked?  It’s because, for Democrats, politics isn’t about convincing voters they’re right, it’s about conquest.  Behold a white horse.  Revelation 6:4: “Then another horse came out, a fiery red one.  Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.” The second horseman is said to represent civil war.  Who in this country is preaching revolution?  Why it’s Democrat frontrunner Bernie Sanders.  He’s openly advocating the revolution to come, promising to scrap the system that has created all the wealth that he vows to strip from the underserving sinners who earned it.  All Bernie needs is the red horse, he’s already old enough to have biblical roots.  Revelation 6:5: “and there before me was a black horse!  Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.  Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures (the Squad?), saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!’”  The third horseman of the Apocalypse refers to a great famine to come.  The scales are necessary to dole out what little food is left to the starving masses.  This is right out of the Democrat playbook.  They are forever predicting that Republican policies will starve the poor.  “Think about the children!”  Your grandmother reduced to eating dogfood.  But once again, this Democrat foretelling of doom demonstrates their utter inability to perceive irony.  Privation and famine result not from the policies they seek to change, but from their own quest for a socialist worker’s paradise, in which the government controls all from the cradle to the grave.  The people of Venezuela aren’t suffering from the effects of supply-side economics.  Their abject poverty is the direct result of unbridled socialism, to the point where they have run out of dogfood, and have taken to eating the dogs.  This is the promise of Red Rider Bernie Sanders.  Can’t you just picture President Sanders’ Treasury Secretary Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, astride her black horse with her scales held high?   Revelation 6:8: “I looked, and there before me was a pale horse!  Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him.  They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”  The Fourth Horseman is also known by the names “Pestilence” or “Plague.”  This one is ripped right from the latest headlines.  Just watch any of the news conferences being given by the Coronavirus Task Force.  First, they criticized the fact that Vice-President Pence was put in charge of the Task Force.  “Why, he’s, he’s, religious.  He may rely on his religious or political beliefs instead of on the medical professionals.”  Never mind that the medical professionals are all standing behind him answering the questions.  They keep saying the risk to Americans from the virus is low, but Democrats won’t have that.  They’re rooting for pestilence and plague, because they figure it will help them get elected.  Dr. Fauci, “The risk is low.”  “Sure, doctor, but when can we expect the inevitable nationwide epidemic that will kill thousands, and it’s all Trump’s fault?”  Who are the really sick people here, those with the virus, or the media whores?  The Book of Revelation ends with the second coming.  Despite the cries of the Democrat Jeremiahs, I don’t think they’re foretelling the advent of Bernie Sanders.  More likely, what’s coming is the second term of Donald Trump.

The title of this week’s work is a combination of  movie and book titles.  Witness for the Prosecution is a great old Billy Wilder film starring Charles Laughton.  Meanwhile, humorist P.J. O’Rourke wrote a book about Congress entitled, Parliament of Whores.  Stay with me, I’ll put this together.  The subject of this piece is President Trump’s so-called “purge” of the intelligence community in general, and Adam Schiff for brains’ star witness, Lt. Colonel  Alexander Vindman specifically.  Lt. Colonel Vindman was on the staff of the National Security Council.  He listened in on the Trump call to Ukranian President Zelensky.  Vindman decided that what the President did on the call was “improper,” and that his Commander in Chief was undermining the relationship between the United States and Ukraine, the country from which he emigrated, and which previously had offered him the job of Defense Minister.  He then went outside his chain of command, complaining to a State Dept. official, and to “an unnamed intelligence operative,” who some believe is Eric Ciaramella, the so-called whistleblower.  From there, Vindman went right onto Schiff for brains’ witness list.  He righteously testified in the Parliament of Whores that he was only serving his country (which one?) and doing his duty, thus proving Samuel Johnson’s observation that, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”  Following the impeachment acquittal, President Trump removed Vindman and his brother from the National Security Council for insubordination, and had them reassigned.  The Democrats, and their media lapdogs were indignant.  How dare Trump dishonor a decorated soldier?  They really have no institutional memory, or they might have recalled the tenure of General Michael Flynn with the Obama Administration’s Defense Intelligence Agency.  Flynn clashed with other Obama officials and he was fired, after having been accused of having an improper relationship with a female Russian academic by, ready for this, FBI informant Stefan Halper, yes the same Stefan Halper who the FBI later used to smear George Papadopolous.  The Russian woman is now suing Halper for lying about her.  Democrats accuse the President of purging the intelligence community of dedicated professionals.  The question is, “dedicated to what?”  Ever wonder why the President might do such a thing?  There are many good reasons.  Mollie Hemingway, at The Federalist, recently wrote an article detailing the illegal actions taken by the CIA and FBI against this president.  The FBI investigated four Trump campaign aides early in the 2016 campaign.  The four were Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.  The New York Times admitted that multiple overseas intelligence assets were deployed against Trump associates.  FBI informant Stefan Halper was tasked with collecting intelligence on the Trump campaign.  The so-called “intelligence community” that Democrats once hated, but now, apparently support, blatantly interfered in a national election.  Russian collusion in 2016?  No!  It’s FBI, CIA, State and Justice Department collusion you should be worried about.  The Times has finally admitted what honest people saw 2 years ago.  The “intelligence community” sent a woman overseas under the fake name,“Azra Turk,” to oversee the spy operation.  The Times says she works for an unidentified federal intelligence agency.  (Can you say CIA?)  “Turk” claimed to be assisting Halper.  She targeted George Papadopoulos, who reports now disclose was helping U.S. intelligence.  She tried to plumb Papadopolous for information about Russia and other topics.  After the Times published its article on “Turk,” Papadopolous wrote on Twitter that she “clearly was not FBI” and instead “was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intelligence.”  Why target Papadopolous?  He dared to work for Trump.  Meanwhile, who was in charge of the “intelligence community” at the time?  That would be James Comey, the FBI director Trump fired in 2017, and ex-CIA Director John Brennan and ex-DNI James Clapper, both of whom now work for fake news CNN, and who now spend their days attacking Trump on TV, decrying Trump’s “dangerous erosion of U.S. norms.”  That’s what this is all about.  The “norm,” as far as the “intelligence community” is concerned, is that they control whoever happens to get elected president.  They haven’t been able to control Donald Trump, therefore it is Trump who is dangerous.  The indignation of the “intelligence community” increased when President Trump fired the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire, and replaced him with Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.  This move came after Democrats, considering the prospect of Bernie Sanders as their national candidate, revived the Russian collusion narrative.  Schiff for brains was briefed about speculation that the Russians would use a misinformation campaign to interfere with the 2020 election.  Not really a revelation, as the Russians have been doing that for 100 years.  It was suggested that Russia sought to get Trump re-elected.  Schiff for brains immediately told the media, and CNN was ecstatic.  But even fake news CNN had to walk that back when it came to light that Bernie Sanders’ campaign was notified the Russians were trying to help him, and that there is no evidence, that is NO EVIDENCE, of any attempt to help Trump.  So Maguire was out and Grenell was in, as acting Director.  The story is that Grenell, who is being criticized as “a Trump loyalist,” will stay in the job only long enough to clear out the remaining deep State subversives from the various intelligence agencies.  You see, Donald Trump knew in 2017 that he had to get rid of the snakes in the intelligence swamp.  General Flynn was about to start canning them in 2017, but the Deep State got Flynn before he got them.  Remember Chuck Schumer’s warning?  “If you mess with the intelligence community, they have six ways to Sunday to get back at you.”  We’ve had Flynn, Manafort, Roger Stone, the Mueller investigation and the impeachment scam.  That’s five ways.  Wonder what the 6th way will be.  The intelligence scum have managed to dodge the ax for more than three years.  The latest so-called purge is long overdue.  The Chicago Sun-Times says the purge “sends the signal once again that President Trump is not a respecter of the United States intelligence services.”  Given the foregoing, what respect do they deserve?  All of them are whores, doing the dirty work of the Parliament of Whores.  Good riddance.

“If Old McBloomberg ran a farm e, i, e, i oh.”  All of us would be starving.  The recent ascedency of Michael Bloomberg as a Democratic candidate for president is puzzling.  The fact that he has risen to second place in national polling without yet having faced the voters is startling.  But maybe that’s the key.  So far, Bloomberg has avoided having to soil his hands by actually answering questions.  There are many questions that require answers, and from what I’ve seen of Michael Bloomberg, he doesn’t like to be pressed to answer tough questions.  Bloomberg has a lot of splaining to do because his past comments on a range of topics run afoul of just about every loony, liberal, left-wing, PC position held dear by today’s Democrat Party.  Bloomberg has been able to hide behind a phalanx of paid spokespersons, but that’s about to change.  He is scheduled to participate in a Democrat debate this week, the Democrat Party having changed its rules to accommodate Bloomberg, who already has spent more than $400 million on TV ads, more than all the other candidates combined.  One good question he should be asked is, “Are you now or have you ever been a Democrat?”  Reportedly, Bloomberg was a Democrat until 2001, when he ran for Mayor of New York as a Republican.  In 2007, he was an Independent.  In 2018, he was a Democrat once more.  This record proves Bloomberg isn’t Republican, Democrat or Independent, he’s just an opportunist, who assumes any political identity that helps him at the time.  Michael Bloomberg has just one virtue.  He is fabulously wealthy, and he is willing to spend billions to defeat Donald Trump.  And because of that, the Dems in the media at least, are willing to overlook some problematic facts.  Michael Bloomberg has a record of making comments that offend nearly all Democrat constituencies.  Bloomberg has claimed, “I could teach anybody in this room” to be a farmer.  It’s a process, you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on it, add water, up comes the corn.” He also said working at a blue collar manufacturing job was a simple task, but that working in the modern information economy is “fundamentally different, because, “you have to have a lot more gray matter.”  Democrats claim to support “working Americans.”  This won’t help.  Many farmers are historically Democrats.  In the now-swing State of Minnesota, the Democrat Farm Labor Party is important to the Dems.  These comments won’t help.  Maybe Bloomberg can claim he was once a farmer too.

The Democrat Party depends on female voters.   Bloomberg’s company has repeatedly faced and fought allegations that he directed crude and sexist comments to women in his office, including a claim in the 1990’s that he told an employee who had just announced she was pregnant to “kill it.” (This actually might help him with Democrats).  At least two women were fired after reporting they were sexually assaulted by Bloomberg executives.  One of the many Bloomberg spokespersons explained, “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong.”  “He believes his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life.”  Good thing he’s now a Democrat.  That story doesn’t fly for Republicans.  It won’t help him with female voters.  Then there’s stop and frisk.  Bloomberg was all for it as Mayor, but now he’s apologized for it.  In a word, Bloomberg is a fraud.  The problem isn’t stop and frisk.  It’s Bloomberg’s conception of the program.  In 1968, the Supreme Court authorized what is now called stop and frisk.  It permits police to stop and question someone when there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is armed or is involved in some criminal activity.  Done right, the race or age of the individual is irrelevant, and stop and frisk is perfectly legal.  Bloomberg’s comments illustrate the wrong way to stop and frisk.  He talked of putting “all the cops” in minority neighborhoods “because that’s where all the crime is.”  He said you could take a description of murderers and their victims “Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops” because they all “fit one M.O.” (their race), and the way to stop young people from bringing guns out onto the street is to “throw them up against a wall and frisk ’em.”  This won’t help with minority voters.  He may have to send a check to Al Sharpton for an endorsement.  But how about the elderly.  Bloomberg has said, “If you show up with prostate cancer, you’re 95-years-old, we should say, ‘Go and enjoy.  Have a nice long life.’  There’s no cure and there’s nothing we can do.  If you’re a young person, we should do something about it.”  Can you say, “death panels?” Bloomberg’s only strength is also his greatest weakness in Democrat World.  He has a nasty habit of telling the truth. “You can have Medicare for all for people who are uncovered, but … to replace the entire private system where companies provide health care for their employees would bankrupt us for a very long time.”  That is indisputably true, but you can’t get elected by telling Democrats that free stuff isn’t free.  So far Bloomberg has escaped Democrats’ wrath, but that will change.  He’s capitalizing on the blind hatred of Donald Trump among Democrats.  They want someone to beat Trump, and don’t care who it is.  The other day, 64% of Democrats in Massachusetts said they would choose a meteor wiping out all life on Earth to a second Trump term.  They claim Trump favors dictators, but are willing to overlook Bloomberg’s claim that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator,” and the Bloomberg company’s refusal to report stories unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party.  There’s just one problem.  Bernie Sanders’ wild-eyed supporters make up 20-25% of the Democrat electorate.  These are the people who marched in the Occupy Wall Street protests.  They hate people like billionaire Michael Bloomberg.  If they screw Crazy Bernie out of the nomination again, these nuts will not willingly vote for Farmer Mike.  Take away 10% of the Left-wing Whacko vote, 5% of the black vote, 5% of the Hispanic vote, and a bunch of Farm Labor voters, and the Dems are cooked in 2020.  Maybe Bloomberg will simply send all of them a nice check.  He may have to.

The Democrats’ latest attempt to rid themselves of Donald Trump, this time by way of impeachment, went down last week with all flags flying.  Ordinarily, when your opponent sinks your battleship, the game is over.  Apparently, however, the Democrats have never played that game.  For more than three years now, they have been playing at something very different.  Games, you see, have rules, and the Democrats don’t want to be burdened by rules.  If what they were doing had rules, or if they cared about rules, they wouldn’t have corrupted the State Department, the Justice Department and the CIA.  They wouldn’t have destroyed the FBI’s reputation for integrity, a reputation that the FBI nurtured and guarded for the better part of a hundred years.  They wouldn’t have involved diplomats from allied nations in their attempted coup de etat, an act that undermined our foreign policy, destroyed our ability to trust our allies, and gave aid and comfort to our enemies.  They wouldn’t have compromised trust in the judiciary by submitting false affidavits to the FISA Court.  And they wouldn’t have ignored all semblance of fundamental fairness, due process, and the Constitution itself, all in a vain attempt to harpoon their great white whale, Donald Trump.  In the end, the Democrats went the way of Captain Ahab, and their prey simply swam away, once again stronger than ever before.  Although I just said, “In the end,” we know it’s not the end.  No matter how many times the Democrats get that anvil dropped on their heads, they just keep coming back for more.

The impeachment farce was just their latest misadventure.  They’ve already moved on to their next imagined outrage – demanding investigations of whether Trump influenced Attorney General Barr to reduce the sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone from the nine years the Mueller Special Counsel hitmen said they wanted.  He didn’t.  What the Dems don’t appreciate is that Attorney General Barr actually understands that the mission of the Justice Department is to do justice, and not just to punish anyone who dared to assist Donald Trump in the past, and to deter others from working for him in the future.  Anyhow, at this point in our proceedings, as the Democrat presidential field tries to figure out where to go now, after Iowa and New Hampshire, we should explore the winners and losers of the impeachment fiasco. The obvious winner, of course, is President Trump.  My grandmother used to say that, every time my grandfather said he was going to die, he just put down another root.  That’s the way it is for the President.  His enemies keep predicting his imminent demise, they fail to get him, and it just makes him stronger.  When they started their impeachment inquiry, Trump’s approval rating was under 40%.  Now he’s up 10 percentage points, to around 50%.  Trump was elected in 2016 with a 37% approval rating.  Good job, guys.  The acquittal also was a win for every American who understands that it is we who get to decide who our president will be, not Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff (for brains).  On that note, on to the losers.  Adam Schiff was neither respected nor trusted by his colleagues before impeachment.  Now that he has been publicly exposed as the judge, jury and executioner of a kangaroo court, and as an out-and-out baldfaced liar, Schiff’s name truly has become Mudd. (yes, with 2 d’s –  you can look it up).  I’d like to say that the stature of Jerry Nadler also has been diminished.  However, Nadler had precious little stature to begin with, so it’s hard to tell.  Also winding up as losers are the 30 House Democrats, elected in 2018 in districts President Trump won in 2016.  They all replaced Republicans by promising to go to Washington to do the work of the people, and to work with the Administration to solve problems.  Instead, Nancy Pelosi forced them to walk the plank by voting to impeach the President, while getting absolutely nothing of value done.

Their leap of faith will come back to bite them in November, giving Republicans a chance to win back the House if they can turn 20 of those districts back to Red.  And now we come to the biggest loser, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or as she has become known after the State of the Union speech, Nan the Ripper.  Nancy knew impeachment was a loser for her Party.  She said so.  She tried to stop the Mad Bombers in her Party from doing what she knew was wrong.  She failed.  In the end, she lit the fuse on the bomb that blew up in the Democrats’ faces.  Trump emerged as a president armed with real accomplishments, prosperity and peace.  The Democrats emerged as, well – stooges.  Whoo, whoo, whoo, wiseguys!

By sitting there, mumbling to herself, tearing up an official document of the United States of America, and dismissing the President’s indisputably truthful statements as lies, the Ripper diminished herself, her office and the Congress.  She proved herself, petty, petulant, and at 80, long past retirement.  Yes, Pelosi is the biggest loser, but losing her for good would be a big win for America.  It is high time that our Legislature moves on from the constant drumbeat of impeachment and devotes itself to such mundane problems as immigration, our $22 trillion debt, public health and national security.  You know, all those neat things the Framers put into Article I of the Constitution.  It is high time that our elected and appointed public officials stop trying to overthrow the government and start running the damn government.  Simply put, it is high time that we get the the benefit of the bloated Federal government that we are paying for, instead of a gang of Looney Tunes characters who are constantly chasing themselves.  So repeat after me …

On Wednesday the Senate finally brought the impeachment farce to its expected and deserved end, acquitting President Trump of the phony articles of impeachment.  Once the senators voted to proceed without calling witnesses who would add absolutely nothing to the case, the proceedings were delayed until the inevitable final vote.  But not before Adam Schiff (for brains) made one last nonsensical appeal for conviction.  Schiff’s comic opera final argument mirrored the insulting performance the Democrats have been putting on throughout this shameful fiasco.  He lied, begged, lied some more, and threatened the senators he was supposed to convince with evidence he never had.  He spewed that the argument that impeachable acts had be criminal was flawed because “this argument would allow that he could not be impeached for such abuses of power.  Of course, this would be absurd.  More than absurd, it would be dangerous.”  Schiff laughably continued, “But there is more.  Truth matters.  Right matters — but so does decency.  Decency matters.”  Really?  What in the world does Adam Schiff know about truth, right or decency?  Schiff called the President “a man without character or ethical compass,” and accused Attorney General William Barr of covering up for him.  Schiff warned that Trump would “continue trying to cheat in the election” if left in office.  And he warned the Senate: “What shall you say if Russia again interferes in our election and Donald Trump does nothing but celebrate the efforts?”  He threatened that “history will not be kind to Donald Trump,” and promised any senators who did not vote to remove him “your name will be tied to his with a cord of steel and for all of history.”  Whew!  Then Schiff really went nuts, suggesting that voting to acquit Trump could open the door to Trump “offer[ing] Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election” or appointing son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner “to run the country, delegating to him the decision whether they go to war.”  So if you follow the twisted Democrat bouncing ball, Trump was courting Russia by giving Russia’s enemy Ukraine weapons they can use against Russia.  And even a phone call to Ukraine is really about Russia, because everything that’s wrong in America is because of Russia.  That’s crazy right?  Not to the leftist imbeciles of the media.  They were captivated by the Schiff storm.  Rachel Maddow tweeted, “Schiff’s closing argument in the Trump impeachment trial was one for the ages.  Would not surprise me if it’s taught someday as the seminal opposition speech from this era in presidential (and Republican party) history.”  This was too much for Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald.  He replied, “Schiff probably is going to be carved into Mt. Rushmore, & his speech will replace both the Bible & the Constitution as the principal text studied by scholars, students and aspiring gurus.  I’m gathering a group to saw off Lincoln’s head from the Memorial & replace it with his.”  The Mount Rushmore idea is a good one.  I think Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi and Schumer all should be on Mount Rushmore.  I can see it now – Mount Liemore –

Schiff is the third big ass from the left.  And his speech will become one of the most memorable political speeches in our history.  Right up there with Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech.  I can hear it now.  Listen my children, it’s Adam Schiff’s I Have to Lie speech:  “Yes senators, I have to lie today … I have to lie so that people who only watch CNN and MSNBC will never learn of the accomplishments of Donald Trump.  I have to lie to avoid confronting the facts that more people are working today, are earning more money and keeping more of what they earn, are happier, and even are living longer.  I have to lie to slander the President, to undermine his ability to conduct foreign policy and to carry out the duties of his office, because Hillary was supposed to win.  And I have to lie about what the President said and did, even though we have a transcript of what he said, and overwhelming evidence that he did nothing wrong.  I have to lie to give Democrats a chance to destroy the hopes of Americans who, after so many years of despair, have finally gotten the weight of the government off their backs and are experiencing freedom.  So if America is to be a great nation, we must let Bullschiff ring.  So let Bullschiff ring from the human feces covered streets of San Francisco.  Let Bullschiff ring from the liberal hills of Hollywood.  Let Bullschiff ring from New York City and Chicago.  Yes, let Bullschiff ring, and when we allow Bullschiff to ring – when we let it ring only from the 487 counties Hillary won in 2016, but not the 2,626 counties won by Trump, because all his voters are deplorable rubes; every lying, cheating, delusional Democrat will be able to join hands and sing from that old-time Democrat spiritual, “Back in power, back in power, we lied about everything, and we’re back in power.  Can I get an Amen brothers, sisters- and those of you are aren’t quite sure?”  Yeah, that’ll happen.  Anyhow, to tie this back into the title of this work, “La comedia e’ finita.”  The comedy is finished.  Ruggero Leoncavallo wrote that line to end his opera, Pagilacci, in 1892.  The difference is that what Leoncavallo wrote was art.  What Schiff (for brains) is peddling is pure Bullschiff.  So the President is acquitted, and he’s not about to sell Alaska to the Russians.  I wonder what they’d give us for California though?  No.  On second thought, we’d probably owe them.