It's time for Trump to move on ...

I think he did a lot of good things as President. 

I’ll always appreciate the good he accomplished.  Plus, he had a unique ability – much to my everlasting joy – to mock and humiliate the know-it-all blowhards in the DC establishment and the media. He exposed them for what they really were – a bunch of whiney, self-righteous, over-educated hypocrites who openly despised ordinary working-class Americans.   

He was the antithesis of political correctness.  My anti-establishment hero.  Those who opposed him called him a fascist.  But in reality, they were the fascists working hand in hand with big corporations and tech monopolies, and violent mobs, to crush any dissent and opposition. 

He angered a lot of people. Justifiably so, at times. And, let’s face it, he was exhausting; you never knew what ill-conceived tweet he sent out at 3 AM while in a fit of pique.  

I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020.  Still, I wasn’t completely surprised he didn’t get re-elected. He’d been under assault by the Feds, DC establishment types, and the media for four years.  

I am surprised Biden got 80-some million votes because he is and always has been a weasel, a liar, and a moron, essentially on the wrong side of nearly every important issue in his less-than-stellar 40-plus-year career. Yet I suppose the hatred for Trump, coupled with America’s exhaustion with some of his antics, and the nonstop pounding against Trump by the media, helped Biden hit those numbers.  

The loss was bad enough for Trump’s supporters but what he did next was worse. He became a sore loser who refused to accept the results.  Just like Hillary. He blamed everybody else but himself for his loss. He insisted, as Hillary did, that the election was stolen.  

It might very well have been rigged. Ballot box stuffing happened for sure. But it wasn’t stolen.  No one took votes from Trump, except Trump.  

He can’t get over it.  To this day he hasn’t moved on. He’s still settling scores with those who didn’t support his attempts to overturn the results. It’s sad. It’s also causing damage.  

He blamed the governor and secretary of state of Georgia for his loss there. Mostly because, after a few recounts affirmed the vote totals and his loss, they said there was no basis to overturn the results. In his anger, he encouraged Georgia Republicans not to vote in a runoff and a special election which in turn cost Republicans two Senate seats they should have won easily.  

Which gave Democrats effective control of a 50-50 Senate, where VP Harris can break ties. 

He’s still meddling. He’s still causing damage. Because of his hatred for Kemp, Republican Governor of Georgia, he engaged in unrelenting attacks on him during and even after the gubernatorial primaries. Kemp won in spite of Trump’s vitriol. But the damage was done: Trump’s opened the door to handing Kemp’s job to Democrat Stacey Abrams in 2022. 

That would be a disaster. 

In another special election to take on the full Senate term against Democrat Ralph Warnock, he helped his friend Herschel Walker overcome a better and more attractive Republican candidate to face off against Warnock.  Walker has no political experience and may have won a Heisman at UGA, but he also has a history of mental illness, domestic abuse charges, and other baggage.  

But he loves Trump. And supports Trump’s claim that the last election was stolen.  

The Republican he beat in the primaries didn’t and would have had a better shot.  Especially with moderates who would rather have hot pokers stuck in their eyes than vote for Trump.  

The common denominator for Trump’s support clearly is not electability. It’s whether a candidate buys into Trump’s belief that he – not Biden – actually won the last Presidential election. 

Nothing else matters to Trump.  Nothing. Not past racist statements.  Not sexual harassment charges. Not criminal investigations into sketchy business dealings. Not domestic abuse allegations. Not a history of saying nutty things about QAnon and other "conspiracies." Not documented mental health and addiction issues.  

All the things that would otherwise disqualify someone in the eyes of normal everyday voters simply don’t matter to Trump when he endorses a candidate. Just that one thing.  

He continues to rail against anybody who won’t follow him blindly.  He disparages otherwise good Republican candidates just because they don’t pass his litmus test; candidates who could win seats from Democrats and help Republicans take back the House and Senate.  

He’s had some success in a few races so far.  But he’s also had some embarrassing losses by backing candidates that love him but were unelectable from the start.    

So why does he keep going on the same path?  Ego? Anger? Craving for attention? Whatever.  He’s never going to overturn the 2020 election.  Why he persists is unfathomable.  He knows he can’t.  Everyone knows he can’t.  Even his supporters know he can’t. 

Sadly, the memories of the good he accomplished as President are being eroded day by day as he keeps trying to relitigate something that happened almost two years ago.  

He still puts on a great live show, nonetheless.  His rallies still attract thousands. But most are there primarily to be entertained, and to continue to give a middle finger to the DC elites and the political establishment.   

As he did, and still does.  As they always did, too, when they voted for him.    

But the bottom line remains unchanged: the 2020 election is over. He lost.  

That ship has sailed. He should get on board and enjoy the ride. Yet there’s a rumor he might run again in 2024. Please don’t. His base may still love him. And because Democrats and Biden have done such a terrible job Republicans should run the table in 2022 and 2024. 

The only thing that could stop Republicans now is Trump.  That's why the only people seriously promoting the idea that he'll run again are the media and Democrats.  

One way to reduce mass shootings by young males ...

Hold their parents responsible.  Simple as that.  

I’m not saying it would end mass shootings – most of which are by mentally ill young males still living at home. But at least the parents of these shooters would have some skin in the game; maybe if they shared responsibility, they’d be more likely to intervene earlier.  

Maybe they’d get off their asses and report their demon spawn to authorities and get junior committed and off the streets before he committed a horrific crime. 

Call it the “we’ll lose the house” threat parents used years ago to keep their kids from even thinking about doing bad stuff in their community.  Only now step it up to “you’ll also go to prison and perhaps get the death penalty, too” idea.  

I am simply so tired of hearing parents claim, after their kid or young adult still living with them murders innocent people, that they “had no idea,” saw no red flags, and had no warning signs of what their monster was planning to do.  They are as “shocked” and surprised as anyone else.  

Oh, and how sorry they are now.  A little too late for the victims, you lying bastards.  

You knew.  You enabled your monster. 

You may have even helped him get the weapons he ultimately used. As was the case in the Sandy Hook, Parkland, and now the Highland Park July 4th massacres among others. 

What the hell were you thinking?    

You may have already covered for him when he exhibited early signs of sociopathic behavior.  Like torturing and killing small animals for fun.  Like the pictures he drew of him shooting people or blowing up things.  Like the posters in his room celebrating mass murderers. Like his obsession with suicide.  Like his social media posts about an act no one would ever forget. And about settling scores with neighbors, classmates, teachers, and anybody else he thought had offended or bullied him.     

You saw all this. 

And for whatever reason – fear of embarrassment, foolish hope he would grow out of it, thinking it was “just a phase,” fear of saddling him with the stigma of mental illness – whatever, you saw plenty of signs something was desperately wrong with your kid. Your kid was telling you he was about to do something terrible. You consciously ignored it all. You did nothing to stop him.  

So spare me and the victims’ families your self-righteous bullshit that you had no idea what he was up to.  You could have stopped him. Because you didn’t, he killed innocent people.  Their blood is on your hands. Their pain is not lessened by your “prayers for the families.” Their loved ones are dead because of you and your indifference or temerity.  

I hold you equally responsible. You should go to prison.  

I would like to see a law that would make parents of children still under their roof fully liable for the actions of those offspring. If they are still under their roof, the parents are responsible for everything they do. If you can keep your kids on your insurance until they’re 26, then you can also be responsible for all the bad things they might do. 

Having a child should be like signing up for liability for as long as they live with you.  They’re in your house. They’re eating your food. They’re living off you, which comes with certain rights and obligations for you. You get to make the rules. If they don’t like your rules, they need to leave.  

But as long as they are under your roof, you’re responsible. Period.  

If a law like this passed, I believe it would reduce the number not only of mass shootings by single deranged young males through earlier intervention, but probably reduce crime by young males overall.  If you as a parent know your kid’s about to commit a crime that could put him and you in prison, you’ll probably think twice before ignoring it.  

Until parents share full legal responsibility for the actions of their kids still living with them, there’s no incentive for parents of would-be monsters to step up and make sure they don’t harm others. They’ll just keep saying they had no idea, no signs, no warning what was about to happen.  

I’m not buying it.  They knew. And they always did. That makes them responsible.  If not for the final act itself, then at least as an accomplice who helped make it happen. 

They may not have personally pulled the trigger, but they did nothing to prevent it.  

And they could have. They're just as guilty.     

Democrats and the left are hurting us on purpose ...

For a long time, Democrats and the left dismissed us as nothing more than rubes. 

People not as smart or as enlightened as them, and worse yet still clinging to foolish traditions and ideas.  Like standing for the national anthem, respecting our flag, believing that all men and women were created equal, that everyone was entitled to equal justice under the law, and that people should be judged only by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. 

That this was still the land of opportunity where anyone of any race, color, ethnicity, or religion could succeed.  And most of all that America and its people were inherently good.   

They sneered at all that. They mocked us at every turn as hopelessly naïve. In fact, they said, America was a terrible place. A racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic country. An oppressor of minorities everywhere. A greedy pig sucking up the world’s resources and destroying the planet in the process just to make a handful of capitalists richer on the backs of the poor. 

And we were just too stupid to see it.  But they did. So they constantly lectured us.    

The condescension toward us was annoying.  Yet also hilarious at times because they were clearly ignorant of basic biology, science, economics, and especially history.  Some of the stuff they sprouted was so ridiculous and downright silly it made us laugh out loud. 

Like claiming men could get pregnant, have periods, and breast feed their babies.  Like fervently arguing there were more than two human genders – in fact more than 100 – and anyone, anytime, at any age, could change their gender at will.  Like insisting millions of toddlers and prepubescent adolescents suddenly had “gender dysphoria” that required radical hormone therapy and perhaps gender-reassignment surgery.  

Outrageous stuff. Often funny stuff. At least to us.   

They can’t stand being mocked.  And when Trump won in 2016  largely by rejecting political correctness and this type of silly nonsense from the left, they went into a rage. 

Now they openly hate us.

But that’s not enough for them. They want to hurt us.  They want to inflict as much pain as possible on us, perhaps to teach us a lesson for putting Trump in office.  Or maybe they just enjoy tearing apart the things we treasure like a kid in a tantrum ripping the heads off his sister’s favorite dolls.   

Since Trump’s election and more aggressively under Biden, they’ve done everything possible to attack and destroy our institutions. Especially the ones we’ve traditionally trusted most.

The military.  Law enforcement. The Supreme Court.  The Constitution and Bill of Rights.  Our public education system.  And so much more; not because there was anything wrong with these, but because they want to knock out any pillar that made us feel safe.

They’ve politicized our military. They’ve put radicals in charge to hollow it out from within and demoralize the rank and file, through purges of the unvaccinated, and of supposed “white supremacists.” They’ve changed one of our most outstanding examples of pure meritocracy by now placing a higher emphasis on diversity than merit for promotions. 

The same military wokesters embarrassed us to our allies by allowing Biden to leave Afghanistan on short notice, sacrificing the lives of our own troops to a suicide bomber as we retreated, and leaving our Afghani allies and translators and their families unprotected from Taliban reprisals. And also leaving the Taliban about $85 billion of our military gear, making an army of former goatherders one of the most militarily advanced and best equipped in the Middle East. 

Here, they’ve worked to gut police forces nationwide. They’ve elected pro-criminal DAs with the help of billionaire anarchists like George Soros to stop prosecuting crime in our cities, causing crime to surge. They’ve never prosecuted rioters and looters who engaged in months-long rampages in our cities costing innocent lives and billions in Federal and private property damage.

But when pro-Trump protestors entered the US Capitol for about three hours on January 6, often escorted by Capitol Police, causing minimal damage and no deaths, this was deemed an insurrection and attempt to overthrow the government.  The FBI quickly found these "criminals" and prosecuted more than 800 of them, many of whom remain in solitary confinement to this day. 

They’ve cancelled any further construction on a border wall and left billions in already ordered and delivered materials for that wall to rust unused.  They’ve deliberately opened our border to unprecedented levels of illegal migrants from all over the world, and then given those same illegals and their families benefits – like baby formula in short supply – at the expense of American citizens and their families.  They’ve flooded our cities with illegals brought there on chartered busses and planes paid for with taxpayer dollars, laundered through NGOs to hide the source of funding. 

At the same time, they’ve attacked Border Patrol and ICE agents as racists merely for doing the job Congress tasked them with.

But the worst is what they’ve done to destroy the robust economy they inherited from Trump. 

Prior to Biden we were energy independent. But on his first day Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline designed to bring Canadian crude in the US, canceled drilling leases in the US, increased EPA regulations and declared war on our energy industry.  Immediately, fuel prices started to rise dramatically. Because everything is affected by rising fuel costs either in manufacturing or transportation, the price of everything at the grocery store, restaurants, and everywhere else is soaring.   

Now inflation is 8.6% – the highest in four decades; gas, diesel, home heating oil, and jet fuel are at all-time highs, crushing families and small businesses.  And by juicing the economy through dumping too much money into the system as “Covid recovery” every dollar is now worth less. 

Through vax mandates a lot of people who should be working either have given up or decided they don’t need or want to anymore.  That’s caused labor shortages that affect not just small businesses like restaurants but our entire transportation system, which in turn cause supply-chain disruptions.  These disruptions are resulting in shortages, forcing prices even higher.  Wages are up practically everywhere to attract workers, but inflation is outpacing the higher wages.     

In 18 short months Biden and the left have managed to weaken our faith in the integrity of our institutions and inflict unprecedented pain on most Americans. They’ve used the power of virtually every branch of the administrative state – including the FBI and DOJ – against the very citizens our elected leaders have sworn an oath to protect and defend under the Constitution. 

They should be ashamed. But of course, they are not.  They are proud. 

As one of them made the mistake of saying the quiet stuff out loud the other day, we’ll all just have to get used to this as part of the new “liberal world order.”  

The fact that most Americans are suffering greatly doesn’t bother them at all.  

Because they believe we deserve it.