The Alleged Schism in the GOP
I don’t know why any Republican, let alone one with conservative leanings, would loathe Trump.
Now that Liz Cheney has been expelled from her leadership position, she is casting herself as a political martyr. She is a lot of things, but a martyr isn’t one of them. The mystery to me is how she came to hold the party’s third most powerful position in the House in the first place.
I keep hearing that she has a very conservative voting record, as if that should be enough to overcome the fact that she voted to impeach President Trump even after he was out of office. In fact, compared to her hatred of the nominal head of her party, people like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, almost seem like Trump boosters.
For the life of me, I don’t know why any Republican, let alone one with conservative leanings, would loathe Trump. Not liking his tweets or his persona isn’t enough. I didn’t happen to like Ms. Cheney’s father and I don’t like her face, but that’s not enough of a reason to object to her remaining Conference Chair. But saying you would not vote for the ex-president should he be the party’s nominee in 2024 calls for your being exiled to Siberia.
One of the things she claims has soured her on Trump is that he won’t admit he lost the election. The question is why he should. To believe that Biden won, you’d have to believe that in spite of garnering several million more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, Biden actually garnered 81 million or roughly 17 million more votes than Obama or Mrs. Clinton received.
Is there any honest person who suspects that Joe Biden could possibly attract more votes than the first black or the first woman to run for president?
Besides, how can any Republican be opposed to a man who, although he has been de-platformed by the oligarchs of the Silicon Valley, manages to get the word out that “I see that everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It seems to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has CREATED crisis after crisis.”
So, farewell, Liz, don’t let the door hit you in the fanny.
The Democrats are trying to push through a bill that would codify all the cheating that took place during the past election. In response, several states are trying to pass legislation that would prevent it, but none of it goes far enough, presumably because they don’t want to appear to be limiting the voting rights of black people.
They do that because the Democrats have lied about blacks not being able to come up with photo IDs for so long that it has forced Republicans to always play defense on the issue, even when nobody has ever come up with this phantom who lacks the sort of proof that’s required of people boarding planes, buying liquor, cashing checks, opening a bank account, checking into a hospital or entering a courthouse.
My rules for voting are these: Voting is limited to one day. Any absentee ballots arriving the day after will be invalid. And everyone, aside from members of the military, will have to have a medical exemption in order to obtain an absentee ballot. Photo IDs will have to be presented at the polls. All voting will be conducted on paper ballots. And any attempt to interfere with the casting or counting of votes will call for a mandatory 10-year sentence in a federal prison.
In San Francisco, where the fumes of the bay must be as toxic as those from the Potomac, the teachers’ union has agreed to open classes for one day only in order to qualify the city for $12 million in state funds. I would say this qualifies as a city-sanctioned con game.
When the Soviet Union was in full flower, American leftists couldn’t get enough of it. In spite of the fact that Stalin murdered his political foes, starved six million Ukrainians to death and later conquered all his neighbors, people ranging from Dalton Trumbo to Lillian Hellman, Alger Hiss to FDR, sang his praises.
But once, thanks in large part to Ronald Reagan, the dictatorship was cut down to size (half our population with Italy’s economy), Russia, as it once again being called, became the object of the Left’s fears and contempt.
They kept insisting that Donald Trump was Vladimir Putin’s puppet, which made about as much sense as suggesting that China’s Xi Jinping takes his marching orders from North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.
Even with Trump out of office, the Left keeps pretending that Putin is a combination of Stalin, Hitler and Darth Vader, when in fact he’s basically a gangster, but less a big-time Mafioso like “Lucky” Luciano or Frank Costello, more like Mickey Cohen.
But anyone, like, say, Tucker Carlson, who points out this obvious fact is labeled a Russian agent looking to spread disinformation (formerly known as “lies” before jugheads who insist on using five-syllable words when using a four-letter one will do took control of the language).
The awful truth is that those who vote for people like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, A O-C, Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, hate America more than our foreign enemies do.
People occasionally write to let me know they aren’t interested in movies, TV, baseball or some other subject I decide to address. Those messages don’t upset me. I like to know what my readers are thinking, especially when it concerns me.
But just so everyone understands, maybe it’s time that I explain that I wrote about what interests or amuses me. If it also happens to interest or amuse others, that’s a bonus.
Besides, because of the nature of my articles, if a certain topic bores you, simply jump ahead a few hundred words and you just might find a more fascinating topic.
And if worse comes to worst, there’s always tomorrow.
After I voiced my objection to baseball players taking the field wearing necklaces, my friend Steve Maikoski mentioned that a lot of basketball players not only wear necklaces but earrings. He said that when he sees these guys wearing a fortune in jewelry on the court, he finds himself wondering if it occurs to the customers in the seats that “This is why my coke costs me $12.”
Speaking of which, when he got word that the telecast of the Golden Globes was canceled because of the group’s lack of racial diversity, he wondered “Does this mean that they will not carry NBA games for the same reason?”
James Popielec wrote: “You often write that you are secular, yet you still identify as Jewish. Since Judaism is a religion, how does one identify as being a secular Jew? I was raised a Catholic, but I identify as Polish for my heritage. I would like to get your spin on this.”
I replied: “There is a scene in the Oscar-winning "Gentlemen’s Agreement” and, presumably, in the novel it was based on, that takes place at a New York cocktail party. A character played by Sam Jaffe, but obviously bad on Albert Einstein, is asked why he identifies as a Jew.
“He explains that as a man of science, he is not religious. His nationality is American. And he knows there is no such thing as a Jewish race. He explains [keep in mind the movie was produced three short years after Germany was defeated and the concentration camps liberated] that he identifies as Jewish because he’s stubborn and because he knows the world has made it an advantage not to be one.
"Besides,” he concludes on a light note, “with this nose, who would believe me if I denied it?”
I’m stubborn, too. What’s more, my parents and grandparents were Jewish and if I denied being Jewish, I feel I would be insulting them.
“Plus, with this nose……………………”
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