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Colbert and Trump in happier times (2015)

Stephen Colbert can stamp his feet all he wants about CBS ending his late-night show.  He can scream and tantrum to his heart’s content.  But in the end the loss of The Late Show is squarely on him.  And the rest of the “talent” on late at night would do well to learn from his example.

Here’s the secret to success at television after the eleven o’clock news.  Most people do not want the last thing that they allow into their minds before going to bed be unrelenting bitterness.  Late-night hosts like Johnny Carson, and Jay Leno after him, knew that people at that hour wanted one last shot of laughter to end their day on.  And those hosts provided that.  Viewers tuned in, got a good chuckle, and wound up going to sleep feeling that however rotten the day had been, ...

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Someone asked me what do I think about it now coming out that Barack Obama, in the closing days of his presidency, conspired with several others to sabotage the incoming administration of Donald Trump.  There is a lot of evidence now that this indeed happened and if it did, then a lot of people including Obama deserve to go to jail.

It won’t happen.

I’m old enough to recognize a rigged game when I see it.  And that is what the Trump Administration is facing.  Nobody is going to be arrested.  There may be indictments but they won’t go anywhere.  And even if they did, there is going to never be a “guilty” verdict from a jury from the District of Columbia.  Washington is a company town, practically everyone there is on the payroll of that company.  The corruption has long taken too much root.

There may be some ...

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 Something I read on a news/politics discussion forum last night that has stuck with me almost 24 hours later:

“The earth isn’t going to produce justice.”

Isn’t that the truth?

As much as things are wrong and we want to make them right, the sad fact is that this is a fallen and corrupted world.  No matter how much we long for it and try to bring it about, there is no lasting good.  There might be some temporary reprieve, it seems.  But it never lasts.  Wickedness will always prevail, at least until such time as Providence sees fit to directly intervene in our affairs.  Indeed, it seems that the more we strive for good, the more that effort is corrupted and brought to ruin.

What do we do, then?

Do the best we can.  Accepting that that’s the best we can do.  Deceive none.  Let your “yes” be yes ...

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To be honest, I had never heard of Zohran Mamdani until this week.  But what I’ve learned in the past few days scares me and it should scare you too.

For anyone reading this who doesn’t know yet, Mamdani just became the Democratic nominee for the office of mayor of New York City.

Here is what Zohran Mamdani is about (partial listing)…

– He is openly Marxist

– He hates Jews

– He sympathizes with the same mentality that brought about 9/11 and a lot of other acts of terrorism

– He wants to fund illegal aliens and provide them with sanctuary (as if that’s not bad enough already)

– He wants a $30 minimum wage by 2030 (which would DESTROY many if not most small businesses)

– He wants to channel funding that SHOULD go to the police department and instead pay for “social workers”, the result of which ...

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The infamous “red speech” in Philadelphia, September 2022

Before I render a final grade for Joseph Robinette Biden’s term as president, let’s wind the clock back four years ago on this blog.  I predicted then that come January 2025 the United States of America would be in the worst condition it had been in, in half a century.

A bold forecast.  I swore then that if I was wrong, I would eat my fedora.  And I would have.  With A1 steak sauce.

I knew there was no chance of me getting it wrong.  Biden has certainly not let me down in that regard.

To everyone who voted for this fool: please don’t do that again.  Because of Biden and his disastrous policies I had to leave a job that I loved.  That’s my own particular tale of woe that came about.

And a few hours ago Biden “pre-emptively pardoned” ...

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I’m going to preface the remainder of this post by saying something which I probably didn’t do my best to get across in this piece.  Mainly, that what I’ve written about is a tragedy.  When any one person has wasted more of a lifetime than too many good people ever get to have, only to wind down his or her time on this earth with naught but pain and hurt inflicted upon others, that is not a thing to gloat about.  That is a very sad thing, indeed.
Time keeps on slipping into the future.  And for all his schemes and plans and plots over five decades, they have ultimately earned Joseph Robinette Biden not an iota of esteem or honor.  He had it all, and it has now come to nothing.
No, there will be no crowds waiting to enter the Joe Biden Presidential Library…

And that is ...

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Well, I’ll be darned.

After months of believing that the election would go otherwise, Donald Trump has won indeed.

I’ve rarely been so glad to have been so wrong.  Harris would have been an unprecedented disaster for America.  There would have been no end to inflation.  In fact, her policies would have made it much worse.  She didn’t see that.  She basically ran on one issue only – abortion, which is ridiculous to believe Trump is going to pass a law banning it nationwide – and that wasn’t enough to persuade enough Americans that she was going to be a competent leader.

Congratulations, Mr. Trump.  You and Melania are headed to the White House, again!  Just try to pick a better staff this time, ‘kay?...

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People will vote their appetites. They will vote for whoever scratches their itching ears. They will vote for the person who promises to protect their debaucheries.
 

I’ve lived long enough, have studied plenty of history, to know that our society is getting worse, not better. Because people will almost always choose what is convenient over what is right.
 
The candidate who I believe will win tomorrow, will cause more harm to be wrought upon the United States than any individual in her almost two and a half centuries of existence.
 
But that doesn’t matter. Only that this candidate “wins”. And that’s what’s most important, right?
 
I am almost tempted to say “damn the fools who would choose such evil.” But as a Christian I am cautioned against calling anyone “fool”.
 
Maybe, someday, if we survive what’s coming, some people will remember that I and
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Something that bothers me about vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance…

He seems to insinuate in statements both past and recent that only people who are married and/or have children should be involved in this country’s politics.  They’re the ones who most have stakes in America’s future, he apparently believes.

Well, what about those of us who for some reason or another never got to have that kind of lasting happiness?  Do WE get afforded a say in the matter?

I’ve been as loyal a citizen of this country as one could probably be, without going into the military.  I came up with American values of honesty, hard work, being the best you could be… values that made this country great.  They’re values that culminated in my earning Eagle Scout and I made a commitment long ago to live my life in accordance with those virtues.

Some might call me a ...

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I spotted this clip yesterday and it is definitely one of the better pro-candidate videos that I’ve ever come across.  This is the kind of thing that the more creative types of candidates’ supporters should aspire toward.  For a lot of reasons I really like this one.

Behold “The Dukes of MAGA”:

So, about who I’m supporting in this election.  Something I’ve very rarely tipped my hand about throughout the history of this blog…

As many readers know, I have a rule.  It’s one that I initiated after my own run for public office years ago, and the TV ads I made for that campaign.  Here it is: I do not vote for a candidate if he or she runs a negative campaign commercial targeting an opponent.  I made three commercials and each of them was positive, upbeat, humorous at times and serious when need be.  There was another candidate ...

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