How can you not love America? It is possibly the only country where someone can find a bag of cocaine inside the president’s office, where the world’s most technologically skilled police services can find no way to trace the perpetrator who left it there, and where the country’s political leadership does not get ridiculed by the media over this.
Let us not even begin with all the questions about White House security (anthrax anyone?) and simply note that nobody has been blamed, nobody has resigned, and nobody is forced to answer any questions about the incident. The mainstream media has done their darndest to bury the story:
Americans in general are of course smarter than that. This comment on Twitter eloquently summed up the popular reaction to the cocaine story:
The “January 6th” comment refers to the day in 2021 when a large number of people trespassed their way into Capitol Hill. The political establishment has been trying hard to elevate the events of that day to an insurrection, even a coup, against the U.S. government.
As amazing as it may seem, the cocaine story ties in with the flawed work of the J6 committee. Both are examples of reasons why Americans in general have lost so much faith in their government. Not even fanatic Biden backers can deny that if the police found a bag of cocaine in any other residence except the White House, there would be hell to pay for the occupants of that dwelling.
The Democrat-led January 6th Congressional committee added their fair share to the deterioration of public faith in the integrity of government. They deliberately withheld massive evidence that the events of that day were neither an insurrection nor a coup. There is only one takeaway from this, and it is the same as with the cocaine bag: America now has a two-tiered justice system, and government institutions are more corrupt than functional.
It is sad to see how the rift between the ‘elite’ and the American people is widening. Speaking of the January 6th Committee, their work has in no way changed opinions among Americans about the 2020 election. According to NBC News,
A new Monmouth poll finds 30% of respondents believe Biden’s victory came thanks to voter fraud … That share is virtually unchanged in Monmouth’s polling since November of 2020
Newsweek puts that share at 40%, which in all honesty is probably closer to the real number. This makes the 2024 election all the more important. It is, of course, going to be about serious issues for our country, from the debt crisis to illegal immigration to the cultural war to protect our children from cross-dressing sexual predators. But it is also going to be about restoring the integrity of government that a disturbingly large share of our people apparently no longer believe in.
Inevitably, the next president is going to play a key role in those restoration efforts. So far, there is no shortage of Republican candidates, but Democratic contenders have been few and far between. Beyond Biden, who has announced that he is running for re-election, we find only Robert F Kennedy Jr., the nephew of President John F Kennedy, and Marianne Williamson. Neither of them has ever held public office; both of them have made a name for themselves through public punditry. Williamson, an author, started her career as the ‘spiritual leader’ of a transcendentalist church in Michigan.
It is not unusual to see Democrats rally around their incumbent president. What is unusual this time around is that they line up behind an old man whom the public opinion treats with either contempt or pity for his apparently deteriorating mental capabilities. To the credit of both Kennedy and Williamson, they are 12 and 10 years younger, respectively, than Biden.
Unfortunately, you do not build a strong case for a presidential candidate by marketing him or her as being younger than an 81-year-old. That echoes the sales pitch a journalist sarcastically proposed for the new Mitsubishi Mirage: “It is newer than a used car.”
While more and more Democrat voices are whispering panic about Biden’s chances of being re-elected, their field of declared candidates remains thin. This also means that it is open for any candidates with some credibility who would like to take a stab at it. Now, six months away from the presidential primary season, it seems as though at least one man is stepping up to the plate: Gavin Newsom, the incumbent governor of California.
According to Douglas Murray over at the New York Post, Newsom is already running for president, “he just hasn’t announced.” Among other things, Murray points to Newsom’s appearance on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News, where the governor took jabs at Republican candidates in a way that only a presidential candidate would do.
Newsom got raving reviews across liberal media, which of course swept right past the fantasy land he painted and called ‘California’. Newsom himself did everything he could to position himself as a credible presidential candidate, without actually declaring his candidacy. This was no coincidence: the Democrat party leadership has gradually come to the conclusion that Biden is of no use to them anymore.
His vice president, Kamala Harris, is not much better; check out her attempts at explaining artificial intelligence, and feel reassured that regardless of whether Biden lives out his presidential term or dies in office, America’s nuclear weapons codes are in good hands…
The desire among Democrats for another candidate has grown stronger with the Republican-led House of Representatives credibly accusing the president and his family of selling political influence for money. To add insult to injury for the Democrats, the president’s son Hunter Biden has not only earned a reputation as a drug addict, but also seems to be deeply involved in corrupt dealings on behalf of his father.
Add to this Donald Trump’s unending popularity. What other presidential candidate could attend a mixed martial-arts fighting event in Las Vegas and get more ovations from the audience than the fighters get? Even polls that are normally considered left-leaning show Trump doing remarkably well against Biden. This is after Trump has been indicted under circumstances that reek of banana republic politics, and he has been the target of the most brutal ad-hominem campaign any American politician has had to put up with since Richard Nixon resigned as president.
At this point, Gavin Newsom seems to be their go-to choice. However, if he is going to become a credible candidate with the key constituencies in the centerfield of the political spectrum—the so-called independent voters—he will have to explain to the entire nation why his state is home to the largest urban drug-infested homeless camps in the country, and why he has signed bills into law that have made many property crimes de facto legal.
Newsom will also have to work hard to stem the flow of black voters away from the Democrat party and over to the Republican side. One of the forces behind this flow is Senator Tim Scott, a Christian conservative senator from South Carolina. From a leftist viewpoint, Scott is a political nightmare: he grew up with a single mother who worked two jobs to feed her two sons, he relies solidly on his faith, and he takes every opportunity to reject the left’s use of ‘racist’ as a slur against conservatives.
Looking at the Democrat party as it stands today, Newsom is the natural choice of a candidate. However, not even his most ardent supporters could be foolish enough to believe that he can win handsomely against any Republican. As governor, Newsom has rightfully earned a reputation for being far to the left on social issues, excessively soft on crime, and for never having seen a tax he did not want to raise. The current movements in the American electorate go against Newsom on all these issues:
- The social issues, a.k.a., the cultural war, are inevitably turning against the alphabet-sexual movement and its unabashed attempt at grooming school children; any presidential candidate who expresses tolerance for men dressed as women reading sex stories to school kids will lose next year’s election;
- Under Biden, crime has become a bad problem in many American cities; a sizable portion of the flight of middle class voters and entrepreneurs from California is driven by the state’s deterioration into a crime-infested swamp;
- After more than two years of high inflation, the last thing middle-class voters want is a sweeping package of tax hikes, which is inevitably going to come if the Democrats hold on to the White House and get a chance to write that president’s budgets.
If Newsom becomes the Democrat candidate, he is going to have to choose a vice presidential candidate with appeal to centrist and moderately conservative voters. The only Democrat who would pull this off would be Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, but there is no planet in this universe where Manchin and Newsom could fit on the same presidential candidate ticket. Manchin is an old-school liberal who would be right at home at a barbecue with his working-class voters. Newsom despises the working class and everything it stands for.
A more suitable vice-presidential contender for Newsom would be Liz Cheney. After six years in Congress as a Republican, Cheney has apparently left the party. She is officially undecided as to whether or not she wants to run for president next year, but unofficially she is definitely in the race. To date, as I explained last week, she has positioned herself as a vision-less anti-Trumper, and would face formidable obstacles if she tried to run as a third-party candidate for president.
However, given the logic that often guides decisions by big-ticket political candidates, she could be seen as a vote magnet for Republicans and independents who are lukewarm or openly opposed to another term with President Trump. I find it hard to believe that the radically leftist layers of the Democrat party would accept her, which is a problem given that they constitute much of the grassroots corps of election workers who put in the get-out-the-vote effort. They would have to be convinced that bringing onboard apro-life, traditional-marriage social conservative is in the best interest of their Marxist ideological ambitions.
Cheney on the other hand would only make herself credible as a candidate if she toned down her socially conservative values. She has already done so by concentrating her entire public persona to being opposed to Trump. I have long been puzzled by this, because it is grossly inadequate for her as a presidential candidate. Knowing Cheney from my years in Wyoming, I am well aware that she is intelligent, thoughtful, and strategic. Her refusal to broaden herself into issues beyond opposing Trump did not match up with who she really is.
However, when viewed in the context of shifting priorities within the Democrat party, Cheney suddenly looks like a good fit. Not for president, but for the office her dad held for eight years under President Bush Jr.
I do not agree with Cheney’s fervent anti-Trump sentiments, nor do I agree with what she and the January 6 committee said about the events of that day in 2021. However—and this is more an indictment of the sorry state of American politics than an endorsement of Cheney—I do believe that if given the chance, she would be a capable administrator of the executive branch of the United States government.
Whoever wins in 2024 will have a daunting task ahead of him (or her). Let us hope it will be someone who is up to the job. The world cannot afford four more years of the current brand of ‘American leadership.’
The America Report: In Search of New Leadership
How can you not love America? It is possibly the only country where someone can find a bag of cocaine inside the president’s office, where the world’s most technologically skilled police services can find no way to trace the perpetrator who left it there, and where the country’s political leadership does not get ridiculed by the media over this.
Let us not even begin with all the questions about White House security (anthrax anyone?) and simply note that nobody has been blamed, nobody has resigned, and nobody is forced to answer any questions about the incident. The mainstream media has done their darndest to bury the story:
Americans in general are of course smarter than that. This comment on Twitter eloquently summed up the popular reaction to the cocaine story:
The “January 6th” comment refers to the day in 2021 when a large number of people trespassed their way into Capitol Hill. The political establishment has been trying hard to elevate the events of that day to an insurrection, even a coup, against the U.S. government.
As amazing as it may seem, the cocaine story ties in with the flawed work of the J6 committee. Both are examples of reasons why Americans in general have lost so much faith in their government. Not even fanatic Biden backers can deny that if the police found a bag of cocaine in any other residence except the White House, there would be hell to pay for the occupants of that dwelling.
The Democrat-led January 6th Congressional committee added their fair share to the deterioration of public faith in the integrity of government. They deliberately withheld massive evidence that the events of that day were neither an insurrection nor a coup. There is only one takeaway from this, and it is the same as with the cocaine bag: America now has a two-tiered justice system, and government institutions are more corrupt than functional.
It is sad to see how the rift between the ‘elite’ and the American people is widening. Speaking of the January 6th Committee, their work has in no way changed opinions among Americans about the 2020 election. According to NBC News,
Newsweek puts that share at 40%, which in all honesty is probably closer to the real number. This makes the 2024 election all the more important. It is, of course, going to be about serious issues for our country, from the debt crisis to illegal immigration to the cultural war to protect our children from cross-dressing sexual predators. But it is also going to be about restoring the integrity of government that a disturbingly large share of our people apparently no longer believe in.
Inevitably, the next president is going to play a key role in those restoration efforts. So far, there is no shortage of Republican candidates, but Democratic contenders have been few and far between. Beyond Biden, who has announced that he is running for re-election, we find only Robert F Kennedy Jr., the nephew of President John F Kennedy, and Marianne Williamson. Neither of them has ever held public office; both of them have made a name for themselves through public punditry. Williamson, an author, started her career as the ‘spiritual leader’ of a transcendentalist church in Michigan.
It is not unusual to see Democrats rally around their incumbent president. What is unusual this time around is that they line up behind an old man whom the public opinion treats with either contempt or pity for his apparently deteriorating mental capabilities. To the credit of both Kennedy and Williamson, they are 12 and 10 years younger, respectively, than Biden.
Unfortunately, you do not build a strong case for a presidential candidate by marketing him or her as being younger than an 81-year-old. That echoes the sales pitch a journalist sarcastically proposed for the new Mitsubishi Mirage: “It is newer than a used car.”
While more and more Democrat voices are whispering panic about Biden’s chances of being re-elected, their field of declared candidates remains thin. This also means that it is open for any candidates with some credibility who would like to take a stab at it. Now, six months away from the presidential primary season, it seems as though at least one man is stepping up to the plate: Gavin Newsom, the incumbent governor of California.
According to Douglas Murray over at the New York Post, Newsom is already running for president, “he just hasn’t announced.” Among other things, Murray points to Newsom’s appearance on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News, where the governor took jabs at Republican candidates in a way that only a presidential candidate would do.
Newsom got raving reviews across liberal media, which of course swept right past the fantasy land he painted and called ‘California’. Newsom himself did everything he could to position himself as a credible presidential candidate, without actually declaring his candidacy. This was no coincidence: the Democrat party leadership has gradually come to the conclusion that Biden is of no use to them anymore.
His vice president, Kamala Harris, is not much better; check out her attempts at explaining artificial intelligence, and feel reassured that regardless of whether Biden lives out his presidential term or dies in office, America’s nuclear weapons codes are in good hands…
The desire among Democrats for another candidate has grown stronger with the Republican-led House of Representatives credibly accusing the president and his family of selling political influence for money. To add insult to injury for the Democrats, the president’s son Hunter Biden has not only earned a reputation as a drug addict, but also seems to be deeply involved in corrupt dealings on behalf of his father.
Add to this Donald Trump’s unending popularity. What other presidential candidate could attend a mixed martial-arts fighting event in Las Vegas and get more ovations from the audience than the fighters get? Even polls that are normally considered left-leaning show Trump doing remarkably well against Biden. This is after Trump has been indicted under circumstances that reek of banana republic politics, and he has been the target of the most brutal ad-hominem campaign any American politician has had to put up with since Richard Nixon resigned as president.
At this point, Gavin Newsom seems to be their go-to choice. However, if he is going to become a credible candidate with the key constituencies in the centerfield of the political spectrum—the so-called independent voters—he will have to explain to the entire nation why his state is home to the largest urban drug-infested homeless camps in the country, and why he has signed bills into law that have made many property crimes de facto legal.
Newsom will also have to work hard to stem the flow of black voters away from the Democrat party and over to the Republican side. One of the forces behind this flow is Senator Tim Scott, a Christian conservative senator from South Carolina. From a leftist viewpoint, Scott is a political nightmare: he grew up with a single mother who worked two jobs to feed her two sons, he relies solidly on his faith, and he takes every opportunity to reject the left’s use of ‘racist’ as a slur against conservatives.
Looking at the Democrat party as it stands today, Newsom is the natural choice of a candidate. However, not even his most ardent supporters could be foolish enough to believe that he can win handsomely against any Republican. As governor, Newsom has rightfully earned a reputation for being far to the left on social issues, excessively soft on crime, and for never having seen a tax he did not want to raise. The current movements in the American electorate go against Newsom on all these issues:
If Newsom becomes the Democrat candidate, he is going to have to choose a vice presidential candidate with appeal to centrist and moderately conservative voters. The only Democrat who would pull this off would be Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, but there is no planet in this universe where Manchin and Newsom could fit on the same presidential candidate ticket. Manchin is an old-school liberal who would be right at home at a barbecue with his working-class voters. Newsom despises the working class and everything it stands for.
A more suitable vice-presidential contender for Newsom would be Liz Cheney. After six years in Congress as a Republican, Cheney has apparently left the party. She is officially undecided as to whether or not she wants to run for president next year, but unofficially she is definitely in the race. To date, as I explained last week, she has positioned herself as a vision-less anti-Trumper, and would face formidable obstacles if she tried to run as a third-party candidate for president.
However, given the logic that often guides decisions by big-ticket political candidates, she could be seen as a vote magnet for Republicans and independents who are lukewarm or openly opposed to another term with President Trump. I find it hard to believe that the radically leftist layers of the Democrat party would accept her, which is a problem given that they constitute much of the grassroots corps of election workers who put in the get-out-the-vote effort. They would have to be convinced that bringing onboard apro-life, traditional-marriage social conservative is in the best interest of their Marxist ideological ambitions.
Cheney on the other hand would only make herself credible as a candidate if she toned down her socially conservative values. She has already done so by concentrating her entire public persona to being opposed to Trump. I have long been puzzled by this, because it is grossly inadequate for her as a presidential candidate. Knowing Cheney from my years in Wyoming, I am well aware that she is intelligent, thoughtful, and strategic. Her refusal to broaden herself into issues beyond opposing Trump did not match up with who she really is.
However, when viewed in the context of shifting priorities within the Democrat party, Cheney suddenly looks like a good fit. Not for president, but for the office her dad held for eight years under President Bush Jr.
I do not agree with Cheney’s fervent anti-Trump sentiments, nor do I agree with what she and the January 6 committee said about the events of that day in 2021. However—and this is more an indictment of the sorry state of American politics than an endorsement of Cheney—I do believe that if given the chance, she would be a capable administrator of the executive branch of the United States government.
Whoever wins in 2024 will have a daunting task ahead of him (or her). Let us hope it will be someone who is up to the job. The world cannot afford four more years of the current brand of ‘American leadership.’
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