Consequential Elections
As a rule, I don’t donate to elections. This past month was the exception. I donated to a dozen candidates, eight of whom are running for the Senate, three for the House and one for governor.
As a rule, I don’t donate to elections. This past month was the exception. I donated to a dozen candidates, eight of whom are running for the Senate, three for the House, and one for governor.
I don’t recall ever donating to a gubernatorial candidate, but it would pain me if the idiot running in Florida, Andrew Gillum, who is to the left of Bernie Sanders, actually defeated Ron De Santis. The fact that Gillum is ahead in the polls is troubling, considering he favors open borders, eliminating ICE, and opposing the NRA. He also checks all the usual boxes when it comes to climate change, the illusionary unequal pay for women, and allowing felons to vote.
Perhaps Florida needs to build a couple of border walls, one to stop all those New York transplants from coming to Florida to die and another to stop Puerto Rico from gaining statehood of a sort by moving its entire population to the Sunshine State.
Apparently, whereas Goodman Sachs and certain banks were regarded as too big to fail, Google is too big for the federal government to take on. The company’s moguls have decided that whereas they’d find it morally unthinkable to cooperate with the Pentagon, as Tucker Carlson has often pointed out, they have no problem using their technology to finger real or potential dissidents for the vile Chinese government.
Perhaps Sen. Lindsey Graham could stop kicking Saudi Arabia long enough to pay attention to China and its enablers, including Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein.
Saudi Arabia, whether or not it assassinated journalist Jamal Khasoggi, is, unfortunately, the second-most trustworthy ally we have in the Middle East. It runs a very distant second to Israel, but it’s way ahead of everybody else.
It sends a lot of business our way and it hates Iran nearly as much as we do.
Although I don’t generally approve of nations killing journalists they disapprove of, I have to wonder why, after attacking the Saudi regime for years, Khashoggi thought it was a good idea to enter the Saudi embassy.
To me, that was the equivalent of those slasher movies where after hearing scary noises emanating from the basement, some young woman, armed with a flashlight, ventures down the old creaky stairs to check things out for herself.
Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy is either the funniest guy on Capitol Hill or is the only senator who has comedy writers on his staff. He summed up the Khashoggi mess this way: “With the exception of Israel, I trust the nations of the Middle East as much as I trust gas station sushi.”
Someone sent me a photo of three deluded Democrats: Rachael Dolezal, a demented white woman who headed up a NAACP group by pretending to be black; Elizabeth Warren, who is whiter than white, but has for years claimed to be a Cherokee; and Robert Francis O'Rourke, a chucklehead running against Ted Cruz who has adopted “Beto” as his first name, that being a common Hispanic nickname for people named Roberto. I suspect if he were running in Massachusetts instead of Texas, he’d be running as Robert Francis O'Rourke and linking arms with priests and guys dressed as leprechauns in St. Patrick’s Day parades and singing “Does Your Mother Come from Ireland?” at every bar in Boston.
Add Caitlyn Jenner to the family picture and you’d have what amounts to one of the oddest Christmas cards anyone has ever seen.
Just in case you haven’t noticed how spooky Democrats have become, Mark Salvas, who had been the executive director of the party in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, was recently fired when the county board discovered that he had once said: “I stand for the flag and kneel for the cross.”
Because the board regarded that as a slam against Colin Kaepernick, he was called a racist and his statement was deemed hate speech.
But when Maxine Waters tells her fans to confront Trump’s Cabinet members in public places, Hillary Clinton insists that Republicans are so evil that they’re not entitled to be treated civilly, and Eric Holder recommends kicking conservatives, that’s merely speaking truth to power.
I had been thinking about the matter for quite a while, but it took Ralph Irish’s calling it to my attention that made me focus on those come-ons for politicians and charities that offer to match donations dollar for dollar or even promise to contribute three or four dollars for your paltry single dollar.
It’s bad enough that they never tell you who’s doing the matching. But what does it mean? Is the mysterious donor so unconcerned with the candidate or the charity that unless a lot of other people kick in their contributions, he’s wiping his hands of the whole thing and going off to Vegas to play the slots and take up with wild women?
The always reliable Penny Alfonso sent me a photo of G.I.‘s wading ashore on D-Day with the caption: “Let’s Go Kill Some Socialists…So Our Idiot Great-Grandkids Can Elect Socialists.”
Dick Barry, one of my fellow fans of Tucker Carlson, let me know he wishes Carlson would fight as hard with some of his liberal guests as Lou Dobbs does.
I replied that I didn’t really care how hard he fights, but I do wish he would employ a mute button when his guests refuse to answer a direct question and when they filibuster. If it were my show, I’d also have a trapdoor under their seats so that if they got too annoying, I could drop them into a shark tank just like James Bond villain Karl Stromberg.
The biggest failing of Carlson’s show is that he keeps insulting our intelligence and wasting our time by bringing back the same blithering idiots — Chris Hahn, Richard Goodstein, Kathy Areu — night after night.
After I wrote disparagingly about the Federal Reserve, Brian Ginter wrote to let me know that the Fed is responsible for 11 of the past 12 recessions, due to gross mismanagement.
I replied: “In theory, like Socialism, it might sound to some ears like a pretty good idea. But it’s been around for over a hundred years and it’s been, again like Socialism, an unmitigated disaster. Reality has a way of blowing theories out of the water. Unfortunately, those on the Left tend to regard reality as an inconvenient nuisance and therefore choose to ignore it.
Bob Hunt sent along a joke that, if not old, is certainly middle-aged. But because of recent events involving Brett Kavanaugh, it has taken on a new relevance.
The wedding ceremony had reached the point where the minister asked the gathering if anyone had reason to object to the joining of the bride and groom in holy matrimony.
At which point a beautiful woman holding a baby stood up at the rear of the church and started walking slowly up the aisle.
The witnesses gasped. The groom’s jaw dropped and he stared in shock as the woman came closer.
Chaos ensued. The bride dropped her bouquet and ran crying from the church. The groom’s mother fainted. The bride’s father balled his hands into fists and began to cuss out his no longer future son-in-law.
Only the minister maintained his calm and quietly asked the woman: "Why have you come forward? What have you to say?”
“I just wanted to let you know we can’t hear you in the back.”
And that, as Mr. Hunt points out, illustrates what happens when people are considered guilty until proven innocent.
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