In the spirit of wokeness
The Friday Letter / No. 453 / Orlando, Florida
Taking a cue from my leftist friends, I make no apology for completely blowing my prediction that Cuomo would survive. It must be somebody else’s fault
It would be easy to admit that we blew the Andrew Cuomo prediction. But why do that? Biden's secretary of Homeland Security said the border is under control. Joe Biden says America is back. Anthony Fauci says, depending on what day it is, that masks stop the CCP coronavirus spread. Jen Psaki says Joe Biden is alert and in charge. We just want to be woke and in with the crowd. Being a leftist means you never have to tell the truth or say you're sorry. Maybe someone hacked our email service after we posted last week's Friday Letter.
With a hint of seriousness, we must admit we missed this one, though whether completely or not remains to be seen. Did New York's ambitious AG and governor hopeful tell Andrew she won't prosecute if he just goes away? Stay tuned.
In Jack Dorsey, Trump has a friend
If President Trump wins re-election in 2024, Jack Dorsey has to top his list of people to thank. We wonder if Dorsey understands the significance of his order to ban Trump from Twitter. Like so many brilliantly conceived schemes, this one might backfire on the world's most dangerous enemy of free speech with delightful unintended consequences.
A small but notable segment of 2016 Trump voters who turned on him in 2020 cited the caustic tone and frequency of his tweets. Why someone's cocksure attitude is a disqualification for office but senility and Marxist ideology are not, well, that's another matter. Let's see what's going on right now.
By keeping Trump off the world's most influential soapbox, Dorsey, in partnership with federal law and the current regime, is helping to keep attention on where it belongs: the catastrophic failure of the politburo that is destroying our free society at breathtaking speed.
The uncontrolled invasion by foreign nationals across our southern border is, finally, beginning to draw attention. Well over 1 million illegal aliens have ignored our immigration law already this fiscal year, and the Biden Administration refuses to tell us Americans where these highly-diseased, unvaccinated folks are ending up. Press reports say that more than 200,000 have been resettled in our cities – unskilled illegal aliens who mostly don't speak English or care one wit about our constitutional republican form of government.
Let's hope Trump lies low for a while to let the Left continue to expose itself. He may be doing just that. In time, we'll know his plans. As Corey Lewandowski told “American Adversaries” host Christopher Hart this week, a 2024 run depends on three factors: Trump maintaining his excellent health, Republicans winning back control of the House and Senate next year, and Americans' willingness to keep adding to the Trumpster's $150 million war chest.
19 GOP Senators vote with Dems on $1.2T giveaway
With unmistakable clarity, the Republican Party on Tuesday demonstrated that it is not the Party of the People. It's not the party formed in 1854 on the pledge of returning our country to its founding principles. It has strayed far from those principles and in our view is not worth saving.
Nineteen go-long get-along Senate Republicans voted with Democrats to hand them their dream to bail out irresponsible Democrat-run states, put surveillance cameras in every new motor vehicle, recognize ill-named “gender identity” in federal law, and punish those who disagree with government theology (think of “climate deniers”).
By now, nobody should be surprised that liberal GOP Senators Murkowski, Collins, and Romney eagerly jumped on board of the Democrat giveaway train. With increasing angst, we have to add Republican-turned-liberals Cassidy, Tillis, Blunt, Cramer, and some others to the list. But the Senate Minority Leader, he who should mount the last line of defense against tyranny?
At the national level, the Republican Party has ceased to be viable. This makes it even more crucial that the Party of Trump exercise its muscle and work to clean up the mess in the U.S. Senate.
Republican Senators who voted with Democrats on H.R. 3684
Alaska – Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan
Idaho – Mike Crapo, James Risch
Iowa – Chuck Grassley
Kentucky – Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader
Louisiana – Bill Cassidy
Maine – Susan Collins
Mississippi – Roger Wicker
Missouri – Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee
Nebraska – Deb Fischer
North Carolina – Richard Burr, Thom Tillis
North Dakota – Kevin Cramer, John Hoeven
Ohio – Rob Portman
South Carolina – Lindsey Graham
Utah – Mitt Romney
West Virginia – Shelly Capito
Republican sell-outs up for re-election in 2022
An urgent need right now is for constitutional conservatives to get hot on mounting primary challenges to state-friendly Senators up for re-election next year. This is a tough row to hoe, as most successful campaigns begin years before an election, as Reagan demonstrated after he lost the 1976 nomination and spent the next four years laying pipe, calling in chits and otherwise helping fellow conservative candidates. They are:
Blunt, Crapo, Grassley, Hoeven, Murkowski.
Republican sell-outs up for re-election in 2024
Constitutionalists have more time year but should be vetting possible candidates and raising cash. These Republicans need to be cashiered in 2024: Cramer, Fisher, Romney, Wicker.
It's way past time for constitutional conservatives to start rejecting nominal Republicans who eagerly jump in bed with leftists in order to be popular, respected, and well-liked, none of which they will ever be in Washington. Well, maybe well-liked, but never respected, never taken seriously.
At the same time, Republicans in West Virginia, let's hope, are growing weary of Joe Manchin's constant promises to vote with the Constitution only to flip his vote when the bell rings. This is getting very old, we imagine, in one of the most conservative states in the nation.
Even if Republicans retake the Senate, it's unlikely they will have the votes to remove McConnell as majority leader. But three or four Republican liberals replaced by conservatives could make enough noise to keep him in line. His vote to bankrupt the treasury with giveaways to leftwing special interests is enough to disqualify him not just for leadership but for Senate membership as well.
Election fraud update
In Georgia, state election officials have discovered ballots in which reviewers changed votes from Trump to Biden on ballots where the voter checked both names. State law says such ballots should not be counted, and a voter who makes a mistake or changes his mind should mark the ballot “spoiled” and request a new one. “The adjudication ballots alone are not enough to change a Georgia election in which Biden and Trump were separated by less than 13,000 votes,” Just the News reports. “However, they reveal an imperfect system vulnerable to chaos, subjectivity, or political dirty tricks, especially in a county like Fulton where state officials documented widespread irregularities and misconduct and now want to take over election counting.”
Short takes on the news
Flipping and flopping. The American Academy of Pediatrics said doctors who challenge its assertion that it is possible to change one's sex won't be allowed to have a booth at its upcoming convention, the Wall Street Journal reports. Several years ago the AAP president wrote an op-ed piece in which she explained how one's sex can't be changed because of locked-in chromosomes issued at birth.
. . .American Express invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam's founder to lecture employees in a Critical Race Theory indoctrination session that capitalism is evil, the New York Post reported Wednesday. Employees were asked to deconstruct (whatever that means) “their racial and sexual identities and then rank themselves on a hierarchy of privilege.” AmEx earned $2.3 billion last quarter.
. . . The Village of Prairie Grove, Ill., fined Terry Trobiani, who owns Gianelli's Drive Thru, $200 for displaying the American Flag on Independence Day. Village rulers explained that the flag is a sign, not an ornament, and needs a permit. See more at The Blaze.
. . . Chicago’s anti-police mayor Lori Lightfoot denies an honor guard for Officer Ella French, who was murdered last Saturday by a criminal who was out on bail for a serious hit-and-run and on probation for armed robbery.
. . . New York Senator James Sanders Jr., Democrat of Queens, says the right to control one’s own body does not extend to failure to wear a government-ordered obedience mask. “If we do not take a strong stand and say you have the right to your body, of course; but you do not have to kill other people,” he told the New York Post. He did not explain the rationale for killing an unborn child.
. . . A professor in California who said President Trump would become violent if he lost the election has been arrested for starting some of the state’s wildfires and trying to trap firemen, American Greatness reports. Gary Maynard was arrested last Saturday. “The corporate media have made a point of linking the wildfires—including the Dixie Fire, the second-largest in California’s history—to climate change,” the news website notes.
Vote watch
Rep. Ashley Hinson, Republican of Iowa, stands on principle if not on high hopes for success in her bill that would repeal the 1934 FDR-imposed $200 federal tax on the transfer of a firearm from one individual to another. It has 73 GOP sponsors but about zero prospects for a single Democrat vote. The tax was meant to be punishing when passed and has never been adjusted for inflation. In today's dollars, it would be $4,055, says a GovTrack analysis. But don't tell Democrats. It might give them ideas.
25th Amendment watch
Joe Biden was apparently confused when returning to the White House and wandered off the sidewalk into the bushes even as a Secret Service agent pointed the way, as this video at the Daily Mail shows.