Trump trumps the sideshow

The Friday Letter / No. 555 / Nov 10, 2023

Updated with minor edits at 10:23 a.m. and at 4:04 p.m. ET. Updated at 9:23 a.m. Sunday with correction of the spelling of Doug Burgum's name

I didn't watch the third GOP presidential clown show on Wednesday night moderated by two leftist Democrat Party-affiliated propagandists from NBC and a moderate Republican. Gov. Doug Burgum, banned from the circus, said it was nothing more than petty sniping and name-calling. I will never know and don't care.

On the stage were two legitimate governors (DeSantis and Haley), a flaky entrepreneur, and a Taft-size loudmouth whose only aim is to prevent President Trump from winning his third presidential election.

While I can only speculate, the quality of interrogation was likely in keeping with the loaded questions in the first two shows posed by the likes of Dana Perino and that non-English-speaking Democrat from some Spanish network, the air-headed offerings of lightweight FNC star Martha McCallum, and the intentional bias that favored Nikki Haley and allowed Doug Burgum only a single question in the first hour.

If Republican and undecided voters truly want to choose the best candidate to reverse the relentless march of Marxism, they would convince Burgum, DeSantis, and Haley to ditch the GOP circus and agree to sit around a table and lay out their vision. No side shows, no theatrics, but rather on the order of the Pence-Kane exchange in 2016.

(Jason Whitlock once described the NFL as a television show. The same is true of the ill-named presidential debates. It is not about offering voters serious insight. It is nothing but television entertainment.)

Our moderator would not be an attention-seeking Fox News Channel celebrity or partisan Democrat but a skilled, even-keeled interviewer, someone in the mold of Dick Cavitt or Brian Lamb, a fair-minded interviewer like Britt Hume or Stuart Varney.

His job would be to maintain order and decorum and give each candidate roughly equal time, and cut the mike of anyone who interrupts. Civility, we used to call it. That should entail expanding the answer window to a couple of minutes or so while preventing Kelly Anne Conway-style filibustering that sucks up all the air like a cigar in an oxygen tent. And cut the thing to 90 minutes with no overtime.

These three sitting and former governors are best equipped to lead our country out of the wilderness. Trump continues to harm himself not because of his Soviet-style persecution but because of his inability to control his mouth. If he is the nominee, he gets my vote Once again, he would make a fabulous president. Look at the record.

Current polls have Trump winning everywhere he needs to. But these should be taken lightly if at all, because to win, Trump must run up vote totals beyond the margin of fraud. That's a tough row to hoe.

If you think he can win Pennsylvania, where election fraud has the blessing of both the state supreme court and SCOTUS; Arizona, where fraud in Maricopa County seems to be encoded into state law; or Georgia, whose petty, vindictive governor will sell out the country before allowing President Trump to finally serve the term he legitimately won in 2020, you are hereby advised to stop reading now and switch over to the Chinese propaganda machine Tik Tok for your information. There you will find like-minded good company with the middle school crowd.

Pennsylvania voters, pleased with the 2020 election fraud that allowed tens of thousands of ballots to fall from the sky in the nick of time to hand the state to Joe Biden, flipped a seat on the state supreme court from Republican to Democrat. It doesn’t make any difference, as the court and SCOTUS previously gave their blessing to election practices that ignore state law and the Pennsylvania constitution.

Why these three? All have run large organizations as elected chief executives. Haley is a fairly successful former governor and former ambassador, not my favorite but qualified to serve. DeSantis is a former Naval officer and sitting governor whose success is unmatched anywhere else in the country. Burgum, my favorite, is a sitting governor who created thousands of jobs and enormous wealth for himself and the citizens of North Dakota. He understands and can explain federalism and the 10^th Amendment better than anyone else I have heard. He's not much in favor of boys being able to kick out girls' teeth on school sports teams. He says it's up to California voters and their legislature to decide when it's OK to kill unborn babies, though he is staunchly pro life. And he has demonstrated his unqualified support of national sovereignty by sending National Guard troops to the southern border.

And not one news story about the third debate we saw on Tuesday even mentioned his name, even to say that he was disqualified.

The Trump rally in Hialeah was vintage Trump. I watched a lot of it, but the useful part begins here at the 3:12 mark (that would be three hours and 12 minutes) with Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders' classy warm up. Anything that came before from the Real America's Voice commentators was merely second-tier stuff in my view and not worth the time. (As well as everything that came after.)

Trump did carp about the 2020 election but thankfully laid out his vision for saving the country, beginning with closing the border and launching what he calls the largest mass deportation operation in US history.

I am curious about one thing. Why does every Trump rally have an obnoxious, immature ignoramus standing behind him, mugging for the camera as if he were the star of this show? Is this to illustrate knuckle dragging mentality? Wednesday night was no different. An overfed kid of maybe 18 or 19 waved his arms and his MAGA hat, constantly looked at his phone and shouted while Trump was speaking. Why can't the TV producers see this and have security remove these boorish children?

And why did the producers try to drown out the last 10 minutes of Trump's speech with loud, annoying music? He almost had to scream.

In the news. . .

The Daily Caller
Two Democrat candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates thought that posting videos of themselves peeing in the snow would be a swell campaign strategy. Sadly, their hopes were flushed away, and both women lost to Republicans. . . . In South Korea, a robot crushed a man to death after apparently mistaking him for a box of vegetables. The man was trying to inspect the robot's sensors.

Reminds us of an unfortunate incident when Mr. Potato Head slipped and fell into the Vegematic.

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Hello readers: I dedicate this issue No. 555 to my American Legion Post, the Matthew Blount Post 555, affectionately called the Triple Nickel. It is named for our commander and retired sergeant major Barry Blount's late son, 2^nd Lt. Matthew Blount.