And Then There Were Two.

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After last night’s debate at the grownup table, it was clear that Kamala Harris was the only one who could take on Biden and, therefore, moved herself up the ladder. It’s now a race between Biden and Kamala. Kamala had her pre-planned attack and it made Biden look like a bullied kid on the playground. I actually felt sorry for him. First time ever.

Kamala, although she’s a good speaker, she was a little too rough on Biden. It was bordering on cruel like the left calls Trump daily. She can be a nasty woman as Trump would say. Trump has put food back on the table of the middle class, Kamala. We don’t need you to come up with a plan for that. Done already.

The rest of the candidates talked about typical nonsense: Trump is kidnapping, killing, or caging children, he’s a pathological liar, unemployment hasn’t gone down as people are holding three jobs, tax cuts were to pay off donors–Koch Brothers and NRA, he only cares about Wall Street, White supremacy, wants to go to war with Iran, climate change denier, reproductive rights are being assaulted, has insulted all the world leaders, Russia helped him win the election, and corporate corruption is running the White House. Blau. blau, blau. All the aforementioned are lies, but it’s all they got. Lies. A bunch of Debbie Downers with nothing positive to say about Trump.

None of them knew why we have a sudden increase of illegals invading the country. None of them mentioned that Soros is funding many of their trips. None of them said that they are coming here for Trump’s prosperity not asylum. None of them think that the onus should be on the parents of these children to protect them, not our government. They all want to blame Trump for the conditions at the border, yet it is the Democrats who won’t allow an immigration reform bill to be passed. They were all lying.

There was some #Metoo feminist at the end of the stage that no one knew. Calls herself an author. What a weirdo. She quoted JFK yet never mentioned his infidelity while in the White House. (Guess he got a pass from her.) She was just there for insult-slinging.

Hyper Gillibrand is a Hillary want-to-be and interrupted the moderators over twelve times. She’s rude and abrasive with no manners. The other gentlemen on the stage at least had manners.

Cackling Kamala overplayed the race card. Neighbor kids weren’t allowed to play with her. She was bussed. Poor girl. I thought she was half Jamaican not African American. Who knew? I guess she can play the race card when necessary. At least she’s not claiming to be Native American. Does she want reparations? She never addressed the massive homelessness in her state or the invasion of illegals aside from wanting to give them FREE health insurance plans. They never address how to pay for these pipe dreams or the unintended consequences of incentivizing more Latin Americans to come here.

Bernie looked like his spiel has run it’s course. He wrote his obituary when he mentioned that he wants terrorists to vote a month ago. Buttigeig looked meek as well as tie-less Yang. Swalwell wants the government to buy back all assault weapons from every house in America. Good luck with that plan. There were a few other “no names” from Colorado which is a state with so many problems–not worth mentioning.

Biden was inflicted with the “I did it already” disease that John Kasich had during his debates. Biden said Trump was the first president to thumb his nose at our allies. Really? I do recall Obama thumbing his nose are our close ally, Israel. Biden’s first priority if he wins the presidency is to defeat Donald Trump. Hmmm. Shouldn’t he have already done that? Interesting. Gaff.

But when it was all over, Kamala took on Biden turning him into a stuttering, battered husband and that means she’ll take on Trump which moves her up the ladder in the polls. The rest of them will stay on the same rung.

Last Night’s “Kiddie Table” Debate was Lackluster.

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Some of my predictions rang true: They spent nineteen minutes bashing Trump but didn’t go after each other. They never had a go at Biden or Sanders, nor ISIS, nor the wall, nor North Korea, nor Israel. It’s almost as though the subjects never existed. They offered lots of freebies with no way to pay for them other than taxing the rich. Same ol’ same ol’. In general, they sounded as though we were still in the Obama years with high unemployment and no growth. They ignored Trump’s economic success altogether.

Not one question about ISIS? What happened to ISIS? Did Trump eliminate the threat? Was he given credit for that? But they went back to the war in Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and 9-11. Hadn’t heard those names in a while. I guess eight years of a threat of terrorism from ISIS under Obama and many terror attacks on our soil were an “inconvenient” memory.

But when asked what is the biggest threat to America today, some said China, others said nuclear war, others said Iran, one said climate change, one said Russia, and one nimrod said Donald Trump and the biased crowd cheered. What an insult. Not one mention of North Korea which was an eminent threat when Trump took over. Did they give Trump credit for diffusing that threat? I don’t think so. In short, they have no idea what the biggest threat to America is. That alone should eliminate their chances. I think the answer should have been the invasion at our borders and all that that entails! Clueless group of candidates.

They all lamented on stagnant wages and irresponsible tax cuts only helping the rich and big corporations. Boo hoo! They all lie like rugs. They also ballyhooed about stricter gun laws which could have prevented the last school shooting. Actually, it was the Promise Program that Obama put in action that contributed to the school shooting as it allowed troubled kids to stay in school until they graduated. The Mayor and Chief of Police condoned the Promise Program and the security guard acted cowardice. All three contributed to the school shooting, not gun laws.

What I also gleaned from the debate: Warren is against big corporations, Booker and Beto like speaking Spanish which was real annoying. It was like a “Spanish off” in Spanish class between three of the candidates. Who can speak it the fastest? Obviously vying for the illegal immigrant votes. What country are we living in? The congresswoman from Hawaii was pretty but not a good debater. Klobachar was invisible as well as the rest of them. One Hispanic Governor spoke often and with conviction. They were all hot on women’s right to choose but didn’t want to go into specifics. They were hot on women getting equal pay as men. One candidate mentioned transgender rights. DeBlasio played the race card saying he’s the only one with a Black child and has to worry about him daily with the police. He figured that would get the Black vote. Good luck with that. Blacks aren’t stupid. They know when they are being pandered to. The audience was packed with female voters that liked to cheer when they were mentioned. #Metoo was alive and well in the audience. And LBGT rights too.

In my opinion, there were no stand outs. I didn’t like their solutions to anything as they had none. No solution to the border crisis or healthcare. All these years to think about it and they’ve got nothing. No good ideas. I didn’t see any of them that could stand up to Trump in a debate. They all looked scared. If you’re afraid of Rachel Maddow, you don’t have a chance against Trump, although Rachel is scary.

The one compliment I will give the debate is: the moderators asked tougher questions than expected. I thought they’d ask what your favorite movie was or book was or your pet’s name. Big surprise to me. Those were the questions they used to ask Hillary, the chosen one. But they brought up Mitch McConnell a lot, like he was the sitting president. Probably a method to their madness like Mitch is running the show not Trump. Like they did to Bush. Always giving Cheney credit/blame for Bush’s decisions.

Most of them will stay at the “kiddie table” with the exception of Warren, Booker, and maybe the Hispanic governor. Trump needs to give him a nickname already.

Next!

“Wayfair. You’ve Got What I Need, Unless I’m a Trump Supporter.”

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Wayfair employees are walking out like zombies due to a “government contract” that sends beds to the border. If their employees are that dumb, I don’t want to shop there any longer. These are the folks packaging our online purchases. They have bought into the “concentration camp” lie and shows that they have no comprehension skills, no commonsense, no compassion, and aren’t for the good of America. They’d rather punish kids brought over the border illegally by adults, as an anti-Trump policy statement. Plain stupid.

They and the female soccer players who are already refusing to go to the White House can all get a room together somewhere, preferably out of this country. I hope they lose their jobs. This blind obsession against Trump is all it is–blind. The blind leading the blind. They look like fools.

How did these losers come up with this plan? From Facebook, Google? Someone is behind all this crap. Soros? These folks can’t think for themselves so they walk out like zombies being lead by their crazy leader. Is it the bartender? Hmmm. She may have more power than I give her credit for. I thought most folks saw through her for what she is–a dumb chick. I thought wrong.

Who are these sponge-brained kids being raised by? I’m embarrassed that we’re turning out such wimpy, snowflake, losers. I weep for the future when they inherit it. Hope Trump can save us from them, before it’s too late. Wayfair should change their song to, “Wayfair. You’ve got what I need, unless I’m a Trump supporter.”

Boycott Wayfair. And cancel the bed order with them. Place a new one with a discount mattress store or Sears or Penneys.

Pre-debate Predictions…Goody Basket of Freebies; Trump Smackdown.

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Tonight will be the first Democrat debate of the 2020 Election. What can we expect? Aside from promises of a goody basket of freebies from preschool to college to healthcare to birth control to puppies and Popsicles, they will protect each other and go straight for Trump’s jugular.

Here’s the typical lies they repeat about Trump: He pulls children from parents at the border, he’s killing children at border, he calls Nazi’s good people, he told Russia to hack Hillary’s emails, he’s at war with the media, he’s trying to suppress the vote, he colluded with Russia to win the election, he obstructed justice by saying ‘witch hunt’ and firing Comey, he wants to run for a third term, his tax cuts only helped top 1%, he won’t leave the White House if he loses, he wants war, he’s a chicken, he’s a dictator, he’s lost the dignity of the office, he’s mean and cruel, he’s a racist, xenophobic, homophobic, antisemitic, religious bigot, sexist, and the more recent a rapist. They will stop at nothing to bring this man down. The insults will be flying like incoming sniper fire all directed at Trump. But they’ll protect each other as they’re all part of the Never-Trumper Resist Movement, if not the Insurance Plan.

Maybe one will get the chutzpah to go after Sanders for wanting terrorists and illegals to vote. That was his obituary a few weeks ago. Reparations will come up, and they’ll all be for it. They’ll repeat the disgusting AOC’s lie of concentration camps at the border. It’s sort of “predictable nonsense” that comes out of them all like programmed robots. They’ll avoid the topic of the economy or say it was passed down to Trump from Obama. Another of their lies. They’ll say Trump has never earned anything on his own. All given to him. They’ll call him a “game show” or “reality show” host and ignore his accomplishments as a businessman/builder and developer. Doesn’t matter if it’s day one or day two of the debates, they’ll all spew the same garbage.

So get out your Jiffy Pop and watch the circus of clowns from Spartacus to Pocahontos to Sleepy Joe to Alfred E. Neuman to Crazy Bernie perform–all trying to smackdown our leader before the election. All secretly hoping for impeachment so they don’t have to run against him. All thinking they have the secret sauce to run the country better than Trump or bring it back to the Obama days. All secretly in favor of a “reverse Wag the Dog” to upset Trump’s good economy. All feigning denial that Trump is innocent of collusion and obstruction. All repeating the same lies about Trump. All offering a basket of freebies in exchange for votes.

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Hollywood “Has-Beens” Trying to Convince Us (Lie) that Mueller Report Has Something on Trump.

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Hollywood won’t give up. They think they can convince the rest of us that Trump colluded with Russia, despite the fact that 15 angry, Democrat, Hillary-supporting lawyers couldn’t find shit on Trump. They need to just go to a white sandy beach (preferably out of the country), have a refreshing tropical drink, and forget about it.

Better yet, leave for good and leave the politics up to the politicians. Stop trying to brainwash the rest of us. Just because you played a few politicians in your lifetime, possibly, doesn’t give you license to school the rest of us. No one wants your liberal, lying, biased opinions except for your candidates. So try helping them rather than lying about Trump.

We don’t miss you Deniro or Sheen or Reiner. Your time is up. Go away. You’re not the voice or face of reason. You look ridiculous. You were wrong about Trump, and you have egg on your faces. Admit it. An apology is in order. No amount of public service statements produced by you is going to change the results of the “Muellersham.” You have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and we don’t take advice from you. Get some help.

So gas up your private jets, and begone. Hillary lost. Mueller has nothing on Trump. Get over it already. PERIOD.

KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

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Is Iran Part of the Deep State’s Insurance Plan? Who’s Pulling the Strings?

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Is Trump being set up, yet again? Is this the Deep State’s last ditch effort to get rid of Trump by forcing him into making a strike on Iran? Who’s behind these unprovoked strikes from Iran? Did someone get to Iran and promise them something in exchange for provoking Trump?

The Democrats know that Trump ran on getting us OUT of wars. So if he happened to be forced into one by all these provocative attacks on us, would he lose all chances of winning next year? Is this what they’re thinking? From what the left has gotten away with already, I wouldn’t put it past them. They would sell their souls and their mother to win back the White House. And would also sell out their country to win back the White House. If they are behind these unprovoked attacks this is the real definition of treason.

This is like a reverse Wag the Dog scenario as it’s coming from the opposite side to take the subject off the GOOD accomplishments of Trump and put it on his failing foreign policy. It’s all the libs have left: to tarnish Trump’s foreign policy. Let’s hope I’m not right. I don’t want to be right. I just suspect something is fishy about all these sudden unprovoked attacks on us. And I don’t want Trump to be forced into a war under false pretenses.

[The media has reported that National Security Adviser John Bolton (a long advocate of military force and proponent for confrontation with Iran) was supportive of the strike. CIA Director Gina Haspel also supported a strike according to these reports. However, Pentagon officials reportedly voiced their concerns that we could easily find ourselves in a full-fledged war that could escalate out of control.] J. Turley

I’m glad Trump is not trigger happy and has restraint, so far. But he can only take so many of these attacks. He has commanders that will recommend measured attacks which he’ll need to consider. Trump said killing 150 Iranians is not proportionate to taking out an unmanned drone. I agree. So he called off the strike. The press is calling Trump indecisive which is just another way to provoke him into war. The press is working for the Democrats. They used to revere any president’s restraint from war. Now since it’s Trump, they’re against it. Go figure.

Why did John Kerry go to Iran in 2018? He shouldn’t be over there as he no longer represents our government. Or is he still working for Obama? Did he promise Iran that once Trump is gone, we can get back into the Iran Nuclear deal? Did he tell Iran the end result will justify the means? Something is up.

[Trump appears to be partially referring to a reported meeting between Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at the beginning of 2018, part of what the Boston Globe called “an aggressive yet stealthy” mission to put pressure on the Trump administration to keep the Iran nuclear deal.]

Something is up. I smell a rat. I smell a couple of rats: Obama and Kerry.

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Taylor Swift Mocks Conservatives to Sell a Song.

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She releases a music video portraying conservatives as bigoted hillbillies and rednecks. It was reminiscent of Hillary’s portraying conservatives as deplorables and irredeemables and gave me the same feeling. That didn’t work out so well for Hillary.

The music video of her latest song portrayed conservatives as poor, dirty, toothless, homophobic rednecks that scream in the streets with misspelled signage. The only thing missing was Walmart. It was insulting. She went straight to central casting for rednecks and hillbillies whereas all she needed to do was go to an anti-trump protest and pull those folks for her video. Besides conservatives don’t protest. What’s to protest? We won!

She must be as clueless as they come, blinded by Hollywood with her elitest friends and sycophant followers. She’s trying to stand out as an equality-feminist in the Country Music world. She probably thinks Trump has no women or gay followers. If she had watched only one Trump rally maybe she would have seen people of all economic backgrounds, races, genders, sexual persuasion, and cities–all dressed fashionably. She can join the likes of the Dixie Chicks. Good bye.

If she was smart, which she isn’t, she’d be happy with the Trump economy which allows her followers to be able to purchase her crappy songs. She’d be happy that her audience is no longer in danger from ISIS at her concerts. She’d be happy with the low cost of gasoline as she travels in her band’s bus. She’d be happy that she gets more people being able to afford her concerts and thus make more money. She’d be happy that Trump has restored respect for the American flag and the National Anthem. But instead she’s just aimlessly counting her money. I guess she thinks the good economy “just happens.”

But she’s not happy and is mocking conservatives in order to sell a song. Low-blow Swift is going to lose on this one, like she did with Stacey Abrams. I guess the egg is off her face, and she wants to try again. Since her song is about telling folks to “calm down,” it would make more sense if she focused on the Resist movement and told them to “calm down.” They are the crazies in the streets protesting.

But no one listens to political rhetoric from Taylor Swift in her tweets or in the guise of a song. It’s about as valuable as the bartender’s and Milano’s. Three clueless feminists out to make a name for themselves– albeit not good ones.

She’s lucky she’s good looking as that alone sells. But as far as her feminist group think, she stinks and needs to shut up and sing.

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Mueller Probe: A Smokescreen/Sham From the Get Go and They All Know it. “The Big Lie.”

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At the recent “Impeach Trump” Protest, some of the protesters were asked why should Trump be impeached? All of the answers were perplexing. One guy said, “For all the crimes he has committed.”

“What crimes?” the reporter asked.

“He colluded with Russia to win the election.”

“But the Mueller report found no collusion with Russia.”

“Yes, but he’s involved in a cover up of the collusion. He conned his way into office. He’s a conman,” said the laughing protester. (That must have been one clever, devious guy to con his way into the presidency without leaving an ounce of evidence. Do these people hear themselves talking?)

So you see, Nancy’s talking points of a “cover up” are being planted in the mindless liberals, progressives, or Democrats (whatever they call themselves) and they’re repeating them. Whether they believe them or not is not the concern. The fact that they want to believe the worst about our president is. Any negative tidbit or lie they get, they’ll use it. Just as they believed Harry Reid when he announced that Romney hadn’t paid his taxes in ten years. They ate that up. They’re very thirsty and gullible for negative information.

Another protester smugly said, “He’s an illegitimate president.”

“Why is that?” asked the reporter.

“He stole the presidency from Hillary.” (Way to put what Hillary was involved in onto Trump. The audacity! The guts! What projection!)

“If so, why didn’t Mueller recommend indictment?” the reporter grilled.

“Because Mueller knew you can’t indict a sitting president, so he left it up to congress to impeach him.” (What analysis! These libs must be clairvoyant too!)

These quotes aren’t exact but are the gist of the conversations. This “big lie” is what the left is thinking and spreading around to our youth and in our schools.

The Mueller smokescreen/sham was nothing but a waste of taxpayers dollars in order to cover their own asses in the FBI and CIA which were waist deep in corruption from the fake dossier to spying to unmasking to insurance plan to lying and leaking to the media in order to tarnish Trump’s presidency from the get go. And they’re still at it.

It is the worst, most wide-spread conspiracy in our history. Forget Watergate. This is ten times worse. No telling how many folks are involved in it, yet. And it all started at the top when Obama approved the unmasking of private citizens. The buck stops there!

[“We’ve all seen the reports of the unprecedented unmasking of U.S. citizens by senior Obama official, Ambassador Samantha Power, in the final days of the of the Administration – to the tune of more than one a day. Now, through our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation, we have unearthed evidence of significant political bias during the same time period she was unmasking Americans.” ACLJ American Center for Law and Justice.]

And, of course, Obama will feign no knowledge of Power’s unmasking just like he had no knowledge of Lois Lerner’s targeting conservatives. He gets his drones to do his dirty work so he can keep his hands clean. Squeaky clean Obama.

This spreading of the “big lie” to the common folk of America needs to stop before the next election. Either these protesters are uninformed or they ate the “big lie” hook, line, and sinker and it’s too late to pull the hook out. And I think it’s the latter.

Reports from the IG will be coming out soon to explain how an unverified, fabricated dossier was used at the FISA court to get warrants for spying on the Trump Campaign. This should be enlightening but it is just the tip of the (so-called melting) iceberg.

Why is it the new FBI Director, Chris Wray (who replaced Comey) isn’t that forthcoming and seems to disagree with Trump and AG Barr? Did they get to him already or was he already part of the Deep State and they threw him to Trump to choose? I don’t trust him or his expression. He looks like he’s hiding something. He could be part of the “big lie and the smokescreen.” He could be communicating with Comey daily and getting his head filled with more lies. Time to find a new Director of the FBI, IMO. That should get the left in a tizzy.

DRAIN THE SWAMP before the next election. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

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In Search of a Church…and Failed.

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Five years ago when my life, as I planned it, went off track and I didn’t want to burden my kids and friends with my problems, I decided to go to church to pray and sing hymns in order to find comfort. I chose a church close to town. It had a full attendance so I sat in the back pew. The minister noticed me as a new attendee and asked are there any new worshipers here today? I shrunk in my seat as the whole room turned around to “out” me. “Please stand and introduce yourself,” the minister instructed.

Are you kidding me? This is why I came to church to be singled out in a crowd? I don’t think so, I thought. I obediently stood and introduced myself. I sat through the sermon and sang a few songs and prayed then slunk out quickly afterwards. Amazingly, I came back the following week. This time the minister walked down the aisles and picked me out. “Are you new here?”

“No, I was here last week,” I meekly uttered.

One of the other members confirmed, “Yes, she was here last week!” No, I’m lying in church, I thought sarcastically. Again the whole room turning around to glare. Honestly, this is not why I came to church to be singled out in a crowd. I wanted to blend in, pray, and sing. I wanted to heal. I wanted to be anonymous. That’s it. Afterwards, there was a breakfast where I had to sit with strangers and make small talk. I felt worse than when I came in and decided to find a new church.

Two weeks later I attended a different church closer to home, hoping for a better experience. Once inside an older woman walked down the aisle from one of the front pews and came up to me. “How is it I do not know you?” she asked snobbishly.

“I’m not sure. Maybe it’s a big world,” I answered flippantly. Does everyone have to know everyone? I thought. Who are this church-going people?

I already had my back up when the minister singled me out before the sermon began. He asked me to stand and say a little something about myself. I became defiant and shook my head in refusal. What am I, in school? I thought. But the girl next to me said she would stand with me. It was so humiliating. I almost ran to my car when it ended. And I never looked back. There were no hymns with an organ just the minister singing folk songs with his guitar. Not what I expected.

Needless to say, that was the end of my church experience. I went back to pray in the privacy of my home. I healed on my own by getting engulfed in my first and second mystery novels. Out of everything bad comes a little good. Silver lining.

I never remember church being so “in your face.” Why can’t people just come inside a house of worship to pray? Why do they have to be introduced? Ministers need to understand that not all people like having the spotlight on them as they do. I realize this is the “look at me” generation but not all of us are part of it.

Ministers should introduce themselves in private to a newcomer and don’t ask them to stand for whole congregation. It takes a lot of courage for some of us go to a church alone and there are many different reasons why one would. Don’t ruin the experience for them by singling them out. It may be the church’s way of welcoming new people, but it was off putting to me.

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Happy Father’s Day to All Fathers.

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We see in the news and even in sports the rich and famous getting a shout out on Father’s Day. I dedicate this blog to my father. He wasn’t rich or famous but was the father of four and a husband to one wife which is rare these days. He held the same job for thirty years and always provided for his family. He even had his mother-in-law living with us the whole time. Also rare. That’s a kindhearted, generous man.

My father never rose to the highest position at his company but was a dedicated employee until he retired. He never took us on European vacations but taught us how to fish and camp and be handy around the house. He was a Cub Scout den leader for my brothers. Although he may have had one too many highballs on the weekend and smoked one too many packs of cigarettes, that was his only vice. He was a Navy Veteran of World War II and could fix or build anything. He could replace a clutch in my 1964 Austin Healy Sprite. In all his years of marriage, he never called a plumber or a carpenter and rarely needed a mechanic. He owned three homes during his lifetime and several automobiles from a Buick to Chevy’s and finally a Cadillac. He loved his workshop in his garage and planting vegetable gardens with my mother.

Fourth of July was his favorite holiday and would always host a block party with fireworks for the neighborhood kids to enjoy. Expert at barbecuing and taught us all. Big sport fan of baseball and football–always listening to the games on his portable radio. Didn’t purchase works of art, expensive jewelry, or any frivolous items–just practical stuff.

Always told me if he didn’t like my outfit or my hairdo. He was good at that. Was known for shouting “Yahoo” at high school graduations even though the crowd was told not to. And when I had a broken heart from a boyfriend it was he who came into my room to console me while I cried myself to sleep to say, “I understand. You’ll live. I had my heart ripped out once too.” And once while pregnant with my first child and crying for some other reason, he came again into my room to say, “You have someone inside you who will love you forever. Never forget that.” He was right.

Those are the things I love about my father. Not what movie he starred in, what political office he ran for, what sport he was great at, what charitable foundation he started, or what fortune he amassed. Just that he was kind, sentimental, and great at fixing things; and usually gave me good advice. The simple things in life gave him contentment. Contentment is the secret to happiness which he instilled in all of us. And he was good at being a grandpa. I think becoming a grandpa was his proudest accomplishment. He was grandpa to five grandsons. We all miss him.

Happy Father’s Day to the best and only father I knew and all the other not-so-famous fathers who are loved.

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