"We're in a Constitutional crisis" ...

Talking heads, pundits and politicians who say this are usually displaying their ignorance of the Constitution. Either that, or they are outright lying. 

Neither is a good thing. 

I’m just surprised they get away with ping-ponging on the value and applicability of our Constitution whenever it suits their specific narrative. 

When the Constitution supports what they like, they support the Constitution. Yet when the same Constitution goes against what they like, it’s suddenly an outdated document.

When someone wins the Presidency via the Electoral College, his or her supporters are big fans of the Electoral College. When their candidate loses through the Electoral College, but wins the popular vote, it’s a stupid system that needs to be replaced with the popular vote alone. When the Supreme Court agrees with them, it’s the final authority. When it doesn’t, it needs to be changed. 

Honestly, you can't have it both ways. The Constitution is what it is, period. If anyone wants to change it, there's a process. Until it's changed, you can't just ignore it.    

I tend to think the framers of the Constitution were brilliant in devising the structure of our government.  They separated powers to create checks and balances, so that no one branch of the government – or person – had unlimited power.  That’s lost on too many people. 

Too many are ignorant of how and why the framers structured our system the way they did.  And especially why they opted for a constitutional republic over a democracy. Too many don’t understand why a balance of power is essential for our republic to function properly, or why the framers protected less populated states from being bulldozed by states with bigger populations.

It was all about preventing consolidation of power. And mob rule.  

Congress was originally divided into a popularly elected House, apportioned by population, and a Senate made up of two Senators from each state elected to six-year terms by their respective state legislatures. This way the House reflected the will of the people every two years, while the Senators represented the interests of their states with every state having equal weight. 

I’ve said this many times: many of the current problems we have in Congress – including the flood of money from special interests – result from 17^th Amendment. Before, Senators were only accountable to their state’s legislature which reflected the will of its own state’s constituents.

Changing this was a disaster.

Now Senators are less accountable to their own state’s constituents, and more to out-of-state special interests and deep-pocketed donors.  Senators no longer actually represent their states; they don’t need to because big money for their campaigns is coming from somewhere else. 

Laws and spending had to originate in the House – because that more closely represented the will of the people – and were subject to approval by the Senate. The Senate could take a longer-term view and, as such, could act as a check on legislation that might be popular at the moment, but also shortsighted. This further prevented states with large populations, and more House members as a result, from riding roughshod over less populated states.

This was the same thought process that created the Electoral College. The Electoral College meant that every individual state in the union mattered, not just the overall popular vote.  A candidate couldn’t simply run up the vote in a few big states to become President – he or she needed to win a variety of states to get enough Electoral College votes. This was brilliant.

Finally, the President was tasked with “faithfully” executing the laws of the United States, not creating laws – which was solely in the wheelhouse of Congress.

The Supreme Court was only to be involved when there were disputes among states, conflicts between rulings by lower Federal courts, or when a law by Congress or a state was challenged on Constitutional grounds.  The Supreme Court was the final arbiter.  The Supreme Court had, and still has, absolutely no authority to create law. 

Because that authority belongs solely to Congress. Not the Court. Not the President.   

Why am I bothering with this basic high-school civics lesson?   

Because it’s not being taught in high school anymore.  Hasn’t been for years. 

As a result, we now have generations of people who have absolutely no idea how our government is supposed to work.  Or why power is dispersed among three co-equal branches, and the limits under the Constitution on each of those branches.  They don’t understand what’s in the Constitution. What led the founders to create it in the first place.  Why the Bill of Rights was so important. And why it’s intentionally so difficult to amend the Constitution.

Some of them are now in Congress.  Even more are in the media. Their collective ignorance of our Constitution is sadly on display every day. What they don’t know is appalling.  And dangerous.  Especially since so many in our voting population blindly look to them for guidance. 

If you don’t understand the Constitution and its history, you can’t appreciate why it’s as important today as it was centuries ago.  It’s the one thing that’s been a relative constant from the early days of our nation. It’s the bedrock upon which everything else has been built.  Certainly, it’s been amended and expanded from time to time, but always in a deliberate way.

Yet the basic structure and concept behind it has remained essentially unchanged. 

The creators of our Constitution wanted to avoid mob rule.  They wanted to create a country based on the rule of law rather than the rule of man.  They wanted to prevent would-be tyrants and demagogues from ever seizing absolute power. They didn’t want too much power concentrated in the Federal government, any single branch of government, or any single person.

Or only in the more populous states.

They gave us a constitutional republic instead of a pure democracy, as a result.  A constitutional republic is a representative form of government guided by a central charter that protects the rights of individuals and individual states against the tyranny of a simple majority. 

Our founders never intended the United States to be a pure democracy, run entirely by the will of the majority. That’s because they knew pure democracies often lead to mob rule.   

And chaos.  That’s what some today – particularly those who want to substitute popular opinion for the rule of law under the Constitution – are proposing, whether they know it or not.        

Detaining minors at our border ...

We are being flooded with minors – some as young as 10 years old – trying to cross our southern border illegally. Or, to be more accurate, trying to get caught crossing illegally.   

Some are dying before they even get here. Some are so sick when they arrive, they soon die.  Several children have died while in the custody of border authorities recently. The media and liberal politicians blame our “broken immigration system” for these deaths. They specifically blame our policies for detaining minors caught illegally crossing our border.  

I’d put the blame elsewhere.  More at the source. 

I keep asking who the hell thought it was a good idea to send their child – alone in some cases – on a journey of hundreds of miles, across dangerous terrain, exposed to dangerous human predators as well, with only the shoes on their feet, the clothes on their back, and a backpack.

I understand that some older minors, like 15-18-year-old boys, might leave on their own hoping to find jobs. But no 10-year-old or 12-year-old boy or girl gets up one morning in Guatemala or Honduras and decides on their own to take this journey without their parent’s encouragement.    

What kind of parent would do this?  And why? 

Do they care so little for the well-being of their child that they are willing to put their child’s life at risk – and for what?  The slim possibility their child will succeed against all odds and get here relatively unscathed? And once here will be taken care of?

What the hell are they thinking? Somebody must be telling them it’s an acceptable risk. That the potential rewards outweigh everything else – just get here and life will be better. 

I want to know who that is.  Who is persuading those parents it’s okay to send your own flesh and blood – especially your younger girls and boys – on a trip where their probability of getting raped, abused and possibly killed is so high? And for what? 

Border Patrol agents report that human smugglers are apparently running radio ads in Central America. The ads claim it's easy to get into the US right now.  Agents say they’ve heard this from many of the illegals they’ve encountered recently as what persuaded them to try.    

Then there are our liberal politicians, courts, and media. 

They’ve made illegally entering our country a human right, made those who want to stop or curtail it monsters, and those who protect illegals from capture and deportation folk heroes.  They’ve also sent a clear message that there’s nothing we can do to stop illegal immigration. Nor should we:  they will oppose any effort to curtail illegal immigration or deport illegals here. Even when those illegals repeatedly commit violent crimes and have been deported before many times.   

If anyone thinks the people in Latin and Central America – and criminal gangs and human smugglers from there – aren’t hearing that message loud and clear, they’re delusional.

Organized criminal operations to smuggle people across our southern border are a big and profitable business. Estimates range from $200 million to over a billion dollars a year.  Smugglers and gangs know what works and how to game the system.

So do the people they’re smuggling. Using children is part of the plan. 

Lately it’s been learned that smugglers are recycling some children as props to get various “families” across our border.  Border Patrol has reported that they’ve detained some of the same children multiple times, sometimes traveling with different “families.”  Over a few months, they’ve detained more than 3,000 bogus “families” with unrelated children in tow.  

It's obviously a scam. And it’s been going on for some time.  

Still, the question remains: what do we do with unaccompanied minors detained at our border? What do we do with children we detain who are no relation to the adult or adults they’re traveling with?  Right now we’re giving both sets of minors a pass.

If they already have relatives here, which is usually the case – is anyone surprised? – we generally send them on to those relatives to await their immigration hearing. If they don’t, we try to find them an American adult “sponsor” to stay with until their hearing.   

In the end, most asylum requests by illegals are denied.  So most of the minors as well as any families they might have traveled with should get deported back to their own countries. That is, if they and their sponsor show up for their hearing – which most won’t. 

Instead, like the hundreds of thousands of other illegals awaiting a hearing they never plan to attend, they disappear into our already burgeoning illegal community. 

They win, in other words.  That’s why their parents are sending them.  Despite the risks.    

It’s another glaring hole in our system. Once someone gets on American soil they are entitled to all sorts of support and assistance while they await a hearing on a claim for asylum – a process that can take years, during which they are released because we don’t have enough resources to detain them all. Or even keep track of them.

And during which time, as a result, the overwhelming majority will conveniently disappear and never report for their hearing. 

The easiest solution is don’t let them set foot on American soil in the first place; that way they don’t have any rights.  Build the wall and add more border patrol personnel to stop them. And don't make exceptions for minors or small children; they are participants in the ruse, not victims.  

Next, stop catch and release. If detention centers are overcrowded, don’t build more; make illegals wait somewhere else outside our country until we can process them. If they don’t like that, maybe they should have thought about the possibility of “no vacancy” before they left home.    

Finally, reform the asylum process:  require all requests for asylum be filed first in the applicant’s home country, not here. Show up here without that prior filing and your claim is dismissed.    

Hmm.  Sounds a lot like what Trump has proposed.  Maybe he’s on to something.   

Democrats can't hear the laughter ...

That’s too bad.  It might wake them up to reality. 

It’s not going to take long before a large part of the country – perhaps a majority – moves on from being pissed by Democrats’ bad behavior, to bafflement, to downright ridicule and mocking.

Democrats don’t get it; they don’t see their party’s pushing closer to that line, every day. 

They’re still claiming Trump is a Russian asset – a stooge of Vladimir Putin. That Russians changed the outcome of the last election.  That Barr lied about the Mueller investigation to protect Trump. That Trump’s a white supremacist directly responsible for a rise in reported hate crimes. 

And my personal favorite: that unless we stop using fossil fuels the world will end in 12 years – or 10 according to one Presidential wannabe. That's right: the entire world.  

You can’t make this up. But they clearly have. And they’re okay with that.   

You’d think at some point Democrats in Congress would realize their unrelenting hyperbole about everything makes them look like buffoons. Especially when there’s absolutely no evidence for their claims; in fact, when there’s ample evidence to the contrary. 

Maybe I’m giving them too much credit. Maybe there aren’t any more rational adults left among Democrats in Congress.  It sure appears that way. 

Hearings become tantrums. They see a monster lurking in every closet, even when the lights are on revealing nothing there. They make outrageous claims they know aren’t true.  They cry wolf and impending apocalypse over every little thing. Every innocuous bump in the night, every creak in the floorboards, every word out of context, is a clear sign to them of the end of days. 

Or, at the very least, the end of our democracy.    

And these are not just the Democrats running for President. These are the Democrats elected to the Congress to help govern the country. What were their constituents thinking? Were there no adults available as an alternative?     

At first blush, these Democrats can alarm you – could some of what they’re saying actually be true?  The media seems to think so … or wants them to be true for whatever reason.   

Yet when the facts come in and there’s no “there” there, you’re annoyed and maybe even angry. But as their nonsense continues you finally realize they’re no more than children or at best arrested-development adolescents playing imaginary games, against imaginary foes.

They’ve gotten lost in the game.  They think it’s real – all the monsters, goblins, magic swords, and secret spells – but it’s still just a stupid game, played badly. With our money. 

They take it all so seriously. And themselves so seriously.  Which makes it even funnier.   

Now a lot of us just laugh at their antics. The more off the wall they get, the more hilarious they become. They’re like the crazy neighbor on a sitcom who wears tinfoil under their hat to keep the government from reading their mind. That neighbor always has a conspiracy theory for everything – from the moon landing to why there’s fluoride in the water.    

You know they’re nuts. The audience knows they’re nuts. But they truly think what they believe – no matter how ridiculous – is real.  They’re the only one who knows “the truth.”       

That’s the joke.  That’s why you laugh at them.    

That’s where I am.    

Democrats embarrassed themselves in the Kavanaugh hearings. They’ve embarrassed themselves in the Senate’s hearings with AG Barr about the Mueller report.  The Democrat contenders for the 2020 nomination continue to embarrass themselves daily. The foolishness keeps coming. 

For me, it’s a comedy marathon that never seems to end.  I can’t take them seriously anymore.  It’s just too damn funny to see them make fools of themselves, time and time again. 

Thanks for the laughs, Democrats.  Too bad you can’t hear it.

The student loan crisis ...

If you want to know what’s really behind the student debt crisis, it’s simple.

Too much money has been loaned to people who won’t ever be able to pay it back.

If that sounds familiar it should:  it’s the subprime lending fiasco all over again.

Remember?

Politicians wanted to increase homeownership among people who couldn’t qualify for a regular mortgage.  People with bad credit or no credit.  People with few if any assets to use as collateral.  People whose current income was too low to afford the payments. 

In short, people who couldn’t prove they could afford a mortgage loan. 

So politicians forced banks and mortgage lenders to lower the bar. Just like that, almost anybody could get a mortgage. For almost any amount.  Even applicants banks would have turned down flat a short time earlier.  Whether they could make the payments was another matter. 

With so much easy money flooding the market, housing prices soared.  People bought houses well beyond their means.  When they couldn’t make the mortgage payments, which was predictable, they simply walked away and let banks foreclose. 

Banks were left holding trillions in bad debt they couldn’t recoup, which led to the collapse of the financial industry. That led to a recession. That led to the collapse of the domestic auto industry. All of which led to the rest of us – those of us who lived within our means, saved, and paid our bills – losing huge chunks of our 401(k)s, sometimes our jobs, and essentially footing the bill for what could easily have been prevented. 

Just by not loaning those borrowers more than they could pay back in the first place. 

By any reasonable measure, those people should have never qualified for the loans they got. That’s why banks didn’t want to touch them. 

Then politicians stepped in and forced the lenders.

Fast forward to today.

Politicians decided more people should go to college. But people needed money to go to college.  So government got into college loans, making it ridiculously easy for practically anyone to get a college loan, in almost any amount. 

With so much money flooding the college market, college tuition soared.  That meant students needed to borrow even more – but hey, going to college guaranteed good jobs, right?  No need to worry whether the borrowers would earn enough to pay off their loans.  It was more an “investment” than taking on debt.  It would all work out in the end. 

Too many students decided to use their student loans to simply “follow their passion” in college, without regard to where that would lead.  That might be okay if your parents are so rich you never have to worry about supporting yourself after college anyway. 

But for everyone else “just follow your passion” is perhaps the dumbest, most ill-conceived advice ever given to someone starting college. Especially when following your passion – instead of getting a degree in something with market value – often came with a price tag of $50K to $100K. 

Your passion may have been Ancient Mesopotamian Philosophy, Cult of Mithras Pottery, or something else equally obscure. But unless you become the world’s authority and get a prestigious gig from some big university teaching enough people also interested in those topics, there’s virtually no chance you’ll make a comfortable living from these right away. Perhaps ever. 

Much less pay off a $100K debt in your first 10 years out of school.

Dumb political decisions – as with the subprime lending meltdown – have left us with trillions of student debt whose borrowers are unable, or simply unwilling, to pay back. They can’t find jobs in their chosen field – which isn’t a surprise to everyone else but them.  The jobs they can get don’t pay enough to even start making loan payments – again not a surprise to anyone but them. 

However, this time it’s not the banks holding bad debt. It’s Uncle Sam. For the slow learners in the back row, that’s you and me. We’re collectively holding the bag.  

And that’s because our politicians decided a while back that banks were making too much money on college loans. Plus, were too picky about who qualified and for how much.  Politicians wanted more people to have access to college.  What better way than have government help? 

Great job, government. Thanks for saddling us with trillions in bad debt.    

Democrats on the left have a solution: just let those deadbeats walk away. Elizabeth Warren wants to give blanket forgiveness for up to $50K in student loans for each debtor in default; that would only cost us $640 billion, according to her.

Then she wants to make all public colleges and universities tuition free. No tuition, no future debt, I suppose she’s thinking. 

I have a better idea.  Or, I should say, ideas. 

First, make the debtors pay up. I paid back my college loans. So did millions of others. If they refuse to pay, offer them an alternative: Four years of military service for every $15k of outstanding debt; call it the DB Bill (like the GI Bill, but for deadbeats). Or: Five years of WPA-like work (at prevailing wages) building roads and bridges for every $15K of outstanding debt.

Everybody wins. 

Next, to head off future defaults, make colleges and universities place warning labels on all their courses, and especially on Majors.  Make them disclose that if a student chooses to major in French Poetry of the Middle Ages, for example, there are practically no jobs in their field for them when they graduate; in fact, graduates with that major typically work at convenience stores on night shift for a little more than minimum wage, or as waiters if they’re lucky. Tell the truth.   

Finally, get the government and politicians out of student loans altogether.  They’ve really screwed this up, as usual. Let regular FDIC-member banks handle student loans going forward.

And end government guarantees for student loans – banks will do a better job weeding out future deadbeats if they are on the hook for bad student loan decisions.

Let banks make money in return. It’s only fair.

The fat lady sings on the Mueller investigation ...

So the redacted version of the Mueller Report is out. 

So what.

Like most Americans, I suspect, I’m glad it’s out.  But there was nothing in there that surprised me.  In fact, there was really no “there” there after all. 

I won’t bother reading the entire thing. There’s no point.  I’ll leave all the breathless parsing of every word to the folks in the tinfoil hats.

Like Democrats. And the left-leaning media.  They’ll see what they want to see as they always do.  They’re just like people who see images of Jesus in burnt toast or in a peanut-butter sandwich. Or shadows that prove the existence of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.

They are true believers and there’s no changing their minds. Why bother?   

I say let them have at it.

I have seen enough of the excerpts from both the Trump fans and Trump haters to form my own conclusions, however.  And much like Bill Barr’s summary, I’ll keep it brief. 

First, the Russians did try to interfere with our elections by pumping out disinformation through social media that ultimately had no effect on the results. In a campaign that that spent close to $2-billiion, between Trump and Clinton, the Russians spent a couple of hundred thousand bucks total, mostly on embarrassingly bland postings.

They did have a role in the leaks of Podesta’s e-mails, but nobody associated with Trump worked with them.  They also tried multiple times to get Trump campaign staff to work with them with promises of damaging info on Clinton, but nobody took the bait.  Nobody. 

Net/net: Trump and his campaign never colluded with Russia to win the Presidency.   

Next, here's a big surprise: Trump is not a nice guy. He has a bad temper, especially when he thinks he’s getting screwed over. He lashes out at those he thinks let him down.  He’s not afraid to counterattack publicly when he feels he’s been wronged and call out by name those he believes are attacking him unfairly.  He thinks the media and the political establishment – particularly Democrats and never-Trumpers in the bureaucracy – are out to get him any way they can, by any means at their disposal.

The Mueller Report proves his point.    

Most of the second “volume” of the report is dedicated to exposing all of the above. As if nobody knew all that.  Still, name-calling and being a nasty bastard at times isn’t a crime. 

Nor is it evidence of obstruction of justice. 

Finally, the Mueller team tried desperately to find something, anything, to bring down Trump. It’s clear now that they were absolutely pissed, despite unlimited resources and a hand-picked group of Trump haters working with other Trump haters in the bureaucracy, to come up empty.

They hated Trump for constantly disparaging them as participating in a politically motivated “hoax.” They despised him for questioning their integrity, and the integrity of Mueller. 

They wanted so much to nail him they tried everything.  Yet they failed to prove anything. Any evidence of a crime.  Any evidence of criminal intent. Nothing.   

 In the end, they settled for bad-mouthing him on the obstruction issue.

That’s because they couldn’t actually prove obstruction of justice.

First, you can’t obstruct a crime that wasn’t committed (collusion and conspiracy) and second because they were never denied any access to Trump staff or documents. In essence, Trump never did anything to impede the investigation. He may have wanted to, but he didn't.

Trump encouraged his staff to testify truthfully.  Trump’s people handed over 1.4-million documents requested by Mueller, an unprecedented number of documents for any special counsel probe. Trump never asserted Executive Privilege to withhold anything during the probe, or in the report itself, which he was within his rights to do.

Since they couldn’t prove obstruction, they had to do something to get some revenge. They stated that even though they couldn’t prove obstruction, they couldn’t disprove it either.

What? That’s like saying we don’t have enough evidence to prove you committed a crime, but hey, maybe somebody else might. And oh, by the way, here’s where to start.

They might just as well have said: “Hey … Democrats in Congress, are you listening?”

So much for their impartiality. And they think Trump is petty and vindictive? 

My final conclusion is that the entire Mueller investigation was a sham.  But I thought that from the beginning.  The report just proves it.  If they could have found anything worthy of indictment of Trump, they would have done it. No matter how flimsy or convoluted the case.

But they couldn’t. To me, it’s over.  I’m done with it at last.  Thank God.

Should I be ashamed for being a straight white male?

I know I’m supposed to be. But I’m not. 

I had nothing to do with being a straight white male. I was born that way, and, I guess, I just sort of accepted it. Nothing I could do about it. So I’ve learned to live with it. 

It’s not easy to be me. 

Everything I read these days blames me for all the ills in this country.  Racism. Homophobia.  Xenophobia. Misogyny. Income inequality. Climate change.  Toxic masculinity.  Some even blame me for slavery more than 150 years ago. 

Honestly, I had no idea I was the cause of all this.

I was born in the early 1950s. My parents were white. My grandparents were white. All my aunts and uncles were white. So were all my cousins.  As far as I know, they were all heterosexuals.  I guess I should have expected to be a straight white male – it was hereditary. 

I don’t think anybody in my family ever had anything to do with slavery.  My mother’s parents, and I believe their parents, were Methodists – traditionally abolitionists.  My father’s parents and grandparents were Seventh-Day Adventists, traditionally opposed to slavery, too. Like many white males, I’m confused about my role in supporting slavery generations ago. 

The media and Democrats tell me I had the advantage of “white privilege.” Funny, but I don’t remember having any advantage being white. Nor apparently did my parents or grandparents.

Everybody worked hard all their lives, never made a lot of money, and to my knowledge never got a leg up or special treatment because they were white. Most of the men spent time in the military, served in WWII, and when they came home had to start over. That wasn’t easy. 

My father, for example, was a major in the Air force when he left the service. The only job he could find then was working at a lumberyard in Miami. He got a job at the Post Office working nights to support his wife and two kids; he went to college during the day to earn his master’s degree on the GI Bill.  Then he went on the road selling college textbooks for many years.

He was a hard worker with a good education. That was his advantage. Not his whiteness. It didn’t guarantee him anything, either. In his later working years there were times when he was out of work, which happens to white males, too.  Times when we didn’t have a lot of money. Times when my mother worked to help make ends meet. We were never poor, we always had good food, decent clothing and shelter, but we were never what you would call affluent. 

My sister and I never got an allowance. At an early age we were taught to work and save for things we wanted beyond the basics. If you wanted something extra, you worked for it.     

I had a paper route, sold seeds door to door, mowed lawns, and shoveled snow to earn spending money as a kid.  I don’t think my male whiteness gave me any advantage. When I was 15 I got a summer job hand-sanding cars in an auto-body shop in Miami, taking orders from James – an older black spray-painter, and a good man – I don’t think white privilege had anything to do with it.

Starting at 16 I also worked in a band.  We worked a lot and played for anyone who could pay us.  We once played an after-hours club (actually a topless joint); the almost entirely black clientele that night liked us because we were good, not because we were white.

     

Good grades and good test scores alone got me accepted to the college of my choice. I took out college loans to pay for college, and then paid those loans off in full, on time, even when I was only making about $4,000 a year in my first job out of school. I didn’t think I was special because of that. It was my debt, alone.  Nobody gave me a discount or cut me a break because I was white, or male.

When I ran my own business for about 30 years, some of my client contacts were white; some were black; some were Hispanic; some were Asian; some were gay; and most were female.

I think if you asked any of them how I treated each of them, not one would ever say their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation had any bearing on my relationships with them. I did good work for everyone.  And treated them all the same: with courtesy and respect.

It never occurred to me I should treat them any differently. 

So I’m now puzzled how I could have lived a lifetime without ever understanding how evil I’ve always been. How I – and other straight white males like me – secretly harbored racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and misogynist tendencies all along. And how I’ve always enjoyed some great advantage solely on the basis of being a straight white male. 

I suppose I’ll just have to continue to learn to live with it.

The party of weasels ...

I’ll say it again: I can’t abide a weasel. 

You know who I’m talking about. 

As kids they constantly cheated at every game.  They lost a race because they didn’t hear you say “go.” They swung and missed and yet said they “tipped it” or “checked their swing.” Their foul balls were never out, but “on the line.”  When they dropped a pass they screamed “interference.” If they were losing, they always wanted to stop the game.  Or change the rules. Or start over.  

You hated playing with these kids. 

Now they’re all grown up. And a lot of them apparently became Democrats.  

People like this are the key reason I can’t stand the Democrat Party.  If they can’t win something fairly – by the rules – they won’t just suck it up like a decent human being and move on. No, they try to find some angle, some excuse, to get a do-over. Barring that, they try to renegotiate the rules, well after the fact, or try to change the rules altogether.

They lose a bet and demand a new game of best two-out-of-three; when they lose that they demand best three-out-of-five. It just never ends. It’s do-over after do-over. 

They can’t admit defeat.  They are whiners – another dismal trait, and cheaters.  You can’t take them at their word because their word means absolutely nothing. They lie, they claim you said something you never did; they intentionally take things out of context to “prove” their point.

They refuse to acknowledge their own words and deeds. “That’s not what I meant.” “It’s not the same.” “You’re misinterpreting what I said.” “It’s not how it looks.”

How often have you heard that from a Democrat?

Democrats also love to engage in “what-about-ism,” and false equivalencies.

Jussie Smollett blatantly fakes a hate crime and lies about it, and a jackass like Juan Williams compares it to Trump lying about the border crisis. Huh? 

You dumb bastards:  Smollett was caught red-handed and even wrote a check in advance to his “attackers” plus sent them texts on what to wear – MAGA hats -- and what to do when they “attacked” him. He didn’t want them to hurt him too bad. Just make it look good.  

Yet by all accounts – including comments from Obama’s former head of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson – there really IS a crisis on our border. 

How are these two things even remotely the same? In what universe?    

But when the other side catches them in obvious hypocrisy, they refuse to acknowledge it.   

Democrats were quick to use Kavanaugh’s banal comments about playing drinking games and partying in his high-school yearbook, completely out of context, to vilify him and demand he withdraw his nomination for the Supreme Court.  But when the Democrat Governor and Democrat Lt. Governor of Virginia were discovered to have posed in blackface, at best, and perhaps a KKK outfit at worst, when they were in college … well that’s different, say the same Democrats.

Before he ever ran for office, Trump engaged in tasteless locker-room banter about women that was secretly captured on an Access Hollywood tape. When that tape finally was made public, years later, Democrats called him a sexual predator not worthy of any public office and said he should drop out of the race for President. 

Yet Virginia’s Democrat Attorney General has been credibly accused by two women of sexual misconduct; one claimed he raped her; the other claimed he forced her to perform oral sex on him. One said he told her he knew she wouldn’t bother to report him, since a previous rape charge by her against another student was dismissed.  He said no one would believe her now. 

This should outrage everyone. But not Democrats, or their pals in the media. 

All the Virginia-related stories have conveniently disappeared from the media. And the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General are still in office.  Democrats in the Virginia statehouse have blocked Republican attempts to hold hearings on the charges against the Attorney General. 

Remember, these are the same Democrats that said all women must be believed. The ones who bullied Republicans into holding hearings after sketchy claims of sexual misconduct were lodged against Kavanaugh – after the confirmation hearings had already concluded.  And who believed Avenatti’s “witness” who lied about alleged gang rapes engineered by Brett Kavanaugh while he was in high school.  And who championed Christine Blasey Ford in the Kavanaugh hearings, even after all her claims were discredited.  Just ask Senator Hirono – all men are guilty. 

But the accusers of Virginia’s Attorney General are not to be believed. 

Their hypocrisy is astounding. 

Just the other day I heard some Democrat on TV say that Republicans are hypocrites calling for Virginia’s Attorney General accused of rape and forced oral sex to resign.  Especially when Republicans ignored what “someone who puts his hand over a woman’s mouth” to keep her from crying out for help did – a reference to Ford’s debunked testimony in the Kavanaugh hearings.

As usual with these weasels, it’s not the same.  Not even close. 

It doesn’t matter to Democrats.

They’re still the same little weasels you hated to play with as a kid.  The cheaters. The liars.  The fakers. The cheap-shot artists. The ones who broke the rules and tried to get away with it. 

The ones with no sense of integrity. No honor. No sense of fair play. 

They’ve found a home in the Democrat Party.