Asa Hutchinson Just Did the Right thing

April 13, 2021 by Jim Pierce 18 Comments

One has to be a bit of a wonk to follow the myriad picayune events in day to day state politics, and this issue may just fall into wonk-world. Last week, Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas vetoed a bill his Republican legislature put on his desk. The bill would have outlawed gender reassignment procedures, surgeries and subsequent medical treatment for trans youths. “Eghads”, you say! “How can Jim Pierce possible support the Governor for that veto?”

Eghads”, I respond. “How could I possibly not support him?”

What bothers us most about the progressive left? I argue that it is the relentless assault on our individual liberties and freedom to choose how we exist. We face the assault from the left in virtually every facet of our day to day lives. It is inescapable. We resent it. We feel overwhelmed. We are spectators watching the most amazing country on earth being slowly dissected every day, with the national body parts relegated to the dustbin of history.

What do we stand for? You see, you may not like the idea of parents supporting a child’s decision to change genders. The process certainly leaves me scratching my head. But I don’t begin to pretend to understand what is going on in a young man or woman’s mind and body. In a world of almost no absolutes, I support a minimum age requirement before any such decision is manifested with irreversible surgery. But the fundamental point here is that if we mean what we say about protecting our civil liberties, then who on earth are we to tell consenting fellow Americans that they have no control over their choice of sex?

Earlier this year, Governor Hutchinson signed a bill outlawing trans gender participation in high school sports. That was also the right thing to do. He was protecting female athletes from former males competing as women. The Governor doesn’t think that is fair. I agree. But the Governor stood up and rebutted activists in his own party when they imposed their values on fellow citizens. They chose to make the decision to elect to change genders illegal, and they went as far as including punishment for participating doctors. The Governor was called “dumb” by former President Trump. That just confirms to anyone level-headed person that the former President is a hypocrite. He panders endlessly to his base. It is shameful.

The Governor said “It is compassionate to say we care for all our young people, whether they’re trans youth or otherwise; we care for them. And that’s the message of compassion and conservatism that we need to have as a party….If [the bill] becomes law we are creating new standards of legislative interference with physicians and parents as they deal with some of the most complex and sensitive matters dealing with young people.” Bravo.

He knew he would take a lot of heat. He is still taking it. But he stood up for conservative values and principles. How many other self-proclaimed conservatives would have done the same?

Conservatives and libertarians who profess to want to get government out of their pockets and day to day lives can’t have it both ways. Governor Hutchinson just stood up and did the right thing.

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HR 1- For the People?

March 27, 2021 by Jim Pierce 8 Comments

Once again, the Democrats are poised to pound another nail in freedom’s coffin. The “For the People Act” (aka HR 1) purportedly ends GOP led racism for all time! We all know the Republicans despise minorities and will do anything to prevent them from voting, right? As absurd as that statement seems, there are millions of Americans who have been brainwashed into thinking it is true. So let’s set the record straight. Republicans want fair, honest elections. Full stop. They want to know that each ballot cast has been cast by an American citizen. Full stop. They want to ensure that each American citizen makes an effort to cast one ( and only one) ballot. Full stop.

Where to start? HR 1 is a nearly 800 page Act that at its core attempts to usurp states rights and federalize Congressional and Presidential elections. Article 1, Section 4 makes it clear that the states are responsible for ensuring the integrity of their elections. In fact, at least two SCOTUS judges have opined on this issue. Neil Gorsuch said, “The Constitution provides that state legislatures—not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials—bear primary responsibility for setting election rules.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh separately noted that the state legislative judgments about election rules “reflect[] our constitutional system of federalism.” (Read entire article here.) To be completely transparent, (a word President Biden is using rather sparingly about the crisis on our southern border) Article 1, Section 4 has a provision granting Congress the ability to “make or alter such (state) regulations.” However, this applies only to Congressional elections. Congress has no authority (implicit or explicit) over Presidential elections.

The Bill is alleged by Democrats to “expand Americans access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and implement other anti-corruption measures for the purpose of fortifying our democracy…” (if you are extremely bored, you can read the bill here.) Fine. Beautiful. I mean, to have Nancy Pelosi to stand up and say that we will end up with “cleaner government” by reducing “the role of big, dark special interest money” is rather precious, is it not? Does everyone recall the role the California tech billionaires played in helping Joe Biden get elected? So for the purposes of today’s article, let’s put all the hyperbole about “big money” aside. We could dwell on the bill’s effort to end state legislature driven gerrymandering. There is legitimate room for some good old fashioned “to and fro” on that topic. But given the protection the Constitution provides the states, if HR 1 were to pass, it is most likely SCOTUS would throw their particular federal power grab out on its rear end.

I choose to focus on the pernicious, evil, cynical claim that Republicans are racist because they insist on the notion that a voter must prove he or she is who he or she says he or she is. You know…..voter ID!…there, I said it. I defy any rational person to look me straight in the eyes and say that a voter ID requirement disenfranchises more Americans than the idea of allowing anyone to vote, anywhere, anytime, with no proof of citizenship! The right to vote is a cherished right of being a US citizen. To tarnish that right by removing the integrity from the process is to disenfranchise millions of law abiding Americans.

C. Boyden Grey, former White House Counsel to George H. W. Bush writes “There are other constitutional defects in H.R. 1. Universal mail-in balloting of the sort contemplated by Speaker Pelosi’s bill might violate equal protection principles, giving voters who exercise the franchise by mail advantages over in-person voters who must wait in line and meet a firm election day deadline, in violation of Bush v. Gore‘s holding that government “may not…value one person’s vote over that of another.” H.R. 1 invites unequal treatment of lawful votes by dictating that states “may not require an individual to provide any form of identification as a condition of obtaining an absentee ballot” besides a signature, and mandating that election officials accept even on-the-spot sworn written statements as “workaround[s]” to traditional forms of identification for in-person voters.” (This excerpt is in the article provided in link above.)

HR 1 says “A State may not require an individual to provide any form of identification as a condition of obtaining an absentee ballot.” It goes on to stipulate that a State “may not require notarization or witness signature or other formal authentication (other than voter attestation) as a condition of obtaining or casting an absentee ballot.” The Bill also allows for “harvesting” of ballots.

Proponents of the bill say “Prove where there was fraud in the last election!” Ummmm, do you see the perverse logic? I could list a number of analogies but even stooping to do so is too irritating. Why do we even have to debate this?!

Among myriad other things, the bill will:

— stop state officials from verifying the eligibility and qualification of voters, and open the door to prosecuting those who questions a voter’s eligibility,

— ban voter ID laws,

— restore felons’ rights to vote,

— require names of all Americans who donate to non-profit organizations, and ban those non-profit organizations from contacting any member of Congress about pending legislation,

— and, are you ready for it (?), make a declaration that statehood for Washington DC is Constitutional.

I repeat, at the heart of all this blatant power grab remains the populist premise that Republicans are racist and if the federal government doesn’t make remove various states’ voter ID requirements, minorities will not be able to vote. President Biden said voter ID rules are so bad they are like “Jim Eagle” when compared to the good ole “Jim Crow” days. What? Seriously? How does a statement like that go down without so much as a peep? The Jim Crow era is a blemish on our history. The voter ID discussion is not worse than Jim Crow!

In today’s world, an ID is required to travel on trains, planes, and boats. One needs one to own and drive a car, go to a doctor, get prescriptions, have a bank account, stay in a hotel or motel, get a mortgage, collect welfare or food stamps, or get a job. Get the picture? The voter ID farce is a Democrat canard.

This whole Bill may not get past Mr. Manchin of West Virginia. But if it does, get ready for it to become part of the larger issue of whether or not the filibuster survives the Democrat juggernaut. Yes, the filibuster. The same one virtually all Democrat leaders are on record as saying must always remain in place. Ah, politics. Are we having fun yet?

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Back from the Dead!

March 12, 2021 by Jim Pierce 17 Comments

It has been a very long time since the fingers pecked away on the keyboard in an attempt to string together something cogent. Of course, even with the best of efforts not all readers agree with the cogent part!

Where to start? Well, suffice to say the GOP is a hot mess. Former President Trump still holds tremendous sway, and as long as he does, the party is caught betwixt and between. On one hand, millions of Hillary Clinton’s famous deplorables remain engaged, solely because they love Donald Trump. If he were to gracefully exit (as I suggested he should back in November) it is completely logical to question whether his base would stay engaged.

On the other hand, there are the millions of women and independent but Republican leaning Americans who held their noses and voted for Joe Biden for one reason; they detest Donald Trump. Ergo folks, we have ourselves a serious conundrum.

GOP leaders in the House and Senate are walking the tightrope, trying to keep the base inside the tent, and figure out how to re-attract voters lost because of the DT’s. It is a thin rope on which they walk, and it is nearly impossible to appeal to both factions at the same time. The balancing act also gives the mainstream media massive amounts of fodder, as it is not difficult to portray Republican leadership as feckless.

Adding insult to injury is that some of our very best legislators have had enough. They are tired of the partisan bickering. They long for the days when compromise was accepted as a normal part of the political process. They despair that the idea of legislative give and take is mocked and derided as weakness. There are five Republican US Senators who have announced they are not running for re-election in 2022. They are Richard Burr (North Carolina), Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania), Rob Portman (Ohio), Richard Shelby (Alabama), and Roy Blunt (Missouri). The numbers are already against the GOP in 2022, and these retirements certainly dont help. But these Senators see no light at the end of the tunnel, and they are tired of the endless partisan gridlock. Incidentally, there are no democrat incumbents who are retiring.

Meanwhile, President Biden is, for all intents and purposes, continuing his basement strategy. He pops out of his hole like Punxsutawney Phil every now and then for a photo op with his people, and then, before any questions can be asked that may require a spontaneous, unscripted reply, he is quickly deposited back in the comfortable confines down below. What we have witnessed in his fifty days as President is pretty scary. He will no doubt sign every bill the democrats put in front of him, and there is no evidence whatsoever that his guidance or leadership will be directing any part of the legislative agenda. He is a latter day “nowhere man”. (Click here to see what I mean.)

Shall we also just spend a moment on how successfully the media and democrats are at positioning Joe Biden as everyone’s nice, aging uncle? Good ole sleepy Joe Biden; a real heart of gold. Alas, every American should be required to revisit the Clarence Thomas hearings. Yes, those hearing where then Senator Biden behaved atrociously, as he tried to dismantle Justice Thomas’s entire being. The Detroit Press opined on this last year. It is worth your review. click here. The bottom line is that Joe Biden can be as mean and partisan as they come. Just ask Clarence Thomas.

Last night, the President took the first few steps in what will ultimately be a personal victory march when he declares he has won the war against Covid. Now look, I think President Trump was way too slow to acknowledge we had an epidemic on our hands. He did not lead well, and his failure to do so was a big reason he managed to lose the election that should have been won in a trot. But the Trump administration did get its act in gear, and the work done with “big pharma” was amazing. Mr. Biden is taking all the credit for work done over the past year. Ummm. No.

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Wiping Out the Founding Fathers

January 22, 2021 by Jim Pierce 6 Comments

One of the very first moves by the incoming Biden administration was to remove an important report from the White House website. Not only did they simply make it disappear, but they took the active step to rescind it; in other words, it never existed!

So today, I have a homework assignment for you. Read it. Now. Click on this 1776 to access the report and then please come back to this article.

I hope you have read this wonderful report. I wish every kid across the land would be required to read and appreciate its contents. So, why is it now officially banned? Well, it reminds us how exceptional this country is, and how amazing our founding fathers were. The reader can only but shake his or her head when contemplating how incredible it was that the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams and others found each other, and despite their cultural differences, came together to form a more perfect union than had ever been formed before.

The 1776 Commission was formed by Donald Trump. Alas, that, if for no other reason, is why the incoming administration has relegated it to the dustbin of history. Well folks, no matter how many flies may rest on the figurative corpse of Donald Trump as he resides in his post-Presidential twilight zone, the fact is that good things DID happen in the past four years. Indeed, without re-litigating the myriad positive developments during the Trump years, let’s just remember that there are basically two firewalls standing between us and complete leftist legislative pandemonium. The first one is SCOTUS, and if and when various progressive cases make their way over the next few years all the way up to Justice Robert’s court, we can only hope the Constitution is upheld time and again. Second is Senator Manchin from West Virginia. No one controls the Senator. He will, however, be on the line time and again, as he has to decide whether he will support the extreme leftist legislation that will be headed his way from the House.

The Main Stream Media is reacting to the removal of the 1776 Commission Report in a very predictable fashion. Here is NBC’s take. You see, from the perspective of the Biden administration, and its massively lap-dog like media following, any attempt to teach what actually happened during our founding is an attempt to “REWRITE” history! From the perspective of the left, our real history is that we were founded by a mob of pseudo-intellectual racist hooligans who murdered everyone who got in the way of their quest for power, and who blithely rationalized the institution of slavery. THAT NARRATIVE IS IGNORANT. IT IS FALSE. IT IS DANGEROUSLY DISINGENUOUS FOR THIS REVISIONISM TO FIND ITS WAY INTO THE MAINSTREAM OF AMERICAN EDUCATION, BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING.

George Washington, when leaving after two terms in office, wrote these words. ” The name ‘American’, which belongs to you (the people), in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations….here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole.” Wow. For those students of history, you will know that is the concise and precise sentiment that drove Abraham Lincoln to focus solely on preserving the Union as he prosecuted the war between the states.

So, if you did not read the article, please do it now, and please download it and send it to your family and friends. We have a leadership and media elite that is hell-bent on discrediting our past; our amazing formation. We are a Republic unlike any other. But remember Benjamin Franklin’s response when asked by a friend what was the true result of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. His friend asked “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” With a solemn look (and perhaps a twinkle in his eye), Franklin responded “A Republic, if you can keep it!”

I’m going to make it easy for you. Here (again!) is the link.

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I waited….

January 6, 2021 by Jim Pierce 41 Comments

Yes, you see, I didn’t write until we knew the results of yesterday’s runoff vote in Georgia. And now I take pen to hand.

Oh, I know many of you will not like what you are about to read. I am ready for the assault.

Donald Trump is to blame for our loss in Georgia; not partially, mind you. Totally. His egomaniacal narcissism buried us. His refusal to mobilize the base for the good of our country, and insistence on making everything, (and I mean everything) about himself-and the incessant claims of election fraud- are the reasons we lost these two Senate seats.

Enough already with blaming Dominion and write-in ballots! Enough already with blaming Republicans in Name Only. Enough already with blaming Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, or whomever is your evil spirit of the day. None of those targets are legitimate. None! If you are continuing to hide behind these bogeymen (or, per new House rules, bogeywomen) you are deluding yourself.

We have lost our way. Many of us think the art of compromise is something to be disparaged. Many of us have tacitly approved of the politics of division and derision. What hath we wrought? I’ll tell you what. Defeat. And it is our fault. Too many Republicans are like their children; blaming everyone and everything for this election disaster. Sorry, folks, just as you must tell your children to be accountable for their own actions and mistakes, so too must you look in the mirror and accept the fact that Donald Trump and Donald Trump alone has put us in this position. The November 2020 election was ours to lose. Thanks to “The Donald”, we did just that. Yesterday’s Georgia debacle is just more of the same.

In the next two years, we are going to witness proposed legislation that will, if passed and signed into law, fundamentally change these United States. One can only hope that certain centrist Democrats will have enough spine to prevent the onslaught of self-serving, anti-capitalist, anti-entrepreneurial, anti-private sector, pro Big Brother initiatives that will inevitably pass through the House of Representatives and find their way to the Senate floor. One can only hope and pray there remains an iota of common sense amongst a select few Democrats serving in the Senate. I am not holding my breath.

Lest you think my rant about Donald Trump is over, I am sorry to disappoint you. He needs to go away. He needs to go pursue any number of self-aggrandizing, self-promoting ventures off of which he seems to feed. Leave us alone. Leave the country alone. Let us restore the GOP to the party of hope and dreams for hard working Americans who view their government as their protector, not their paycheck.

If the Democrats do what they say they are going to do, I believe the stage will be set for a GOP house cleaning party in the 2022 mid-term elections. There are only two things that will prevent this from happening:

The Democrats actually rule with broad-minded aplomb-that will not happen.
Donald Trump continues to dominate the discourse in the GOP. That could happen, and if it does, it will be a disaster.

Time will tell. In the meantime, for the love of country and God, please stop blaming everything and everyone for our losses. We need look no further than Le Grande Orange. Time to move on!

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Endless Drivel

December 2, 2020 by Jim Pierce 19 Comments

I took a break. It was necessary. I know some of you are upset that I spoke early and encouraged President Trump to exit with grace and dignity. Alas, I have not changed my position, and, unfortunately for our country, neither has he! Look, there clearly were shenanigans in various states that should not have happened. Why does it always seem to be the Democrats behind this nonsense? Rhetorical question, I guess. But the point remains that the Trump legal team has not been able to prove (in any state!) that those shenanigans (alleged or real) were of enough importance as to actually impact the outcome. Bottom line, for the sake of our country, Mr. President, do the right thing. Help our candidates in Georgia secure the Senate. Fight for years to come to make our elections fair, and ensure that election day means just that; election day, not election week, or election month, or however long it takes to get the desired outcome!

I write today about an even bigger threat to our Republic than Democrats stuffing ballot boxes. Our existential right to exist as free people and free thinkers is under attack. The assault is endless. It is literally 24/7. They are wearing us down under the theory that if they never stop, and they attack everything, soon enough, over the years, we will begin to accept the new normal. Groupthink will be the norm. Vomit.

Who are they? Well, they are the progressives who now dominate the media, the Democrat party, many large businesses, the World Economic Forum, etc. You get the picture? There are millions of them. They do not like the United States I love. The want to eradicate everything, and I mean everything we hold dear. They look at our 250 years of incredible growth and success as the most noble experiment in the annals of man, and see nothing but maladies all created and perpetrated by white, Anglo-Saxon males. To the haters, the United States of America is a horrible place and the entire socio-economic and political structures need to be tossed in the rubbish bin, and replaced by a new normal. That new normal, friends, sounds an awful lot like socialism. Worse yet, I think some of these nutjobs actually believe what they are saying! If it were simply jargon being used as a pathway to power, well, the cynic in all of us could understand. No, this is worse. We are being besieged by ideologues who actually believe the vitriol spewing forth from their oral cavities (or some cavity).

Poor Rudolph! That’s right, even Rudolph and his creators are being thrown under the bus. Click here to watch this absurdity.

Can you believe it? Next will be assaults on Santa, (fat old racist white man) the Easter Bunny, (a Protestant hoax to covertly promote a false Christian narrative), and Halloween (using white ghosts reminiscent of the KKK to propagate a white supremacist world for perpetuity). That is ridiculous, right? Wrong. Does anyone actually think these attacks will stop? If you do, Lord help you.

Ronald Reagan may not have been a deep thinker or one to get into the weeds on policy details. But he had a vision, and he knew right from wrong. He summed up where we are headed in these 45 seconds.

Friends, the threat is real. It is happening. Retain those Senate seats in Georgia. Win the House back in 2022. Show the elites who matters. I guarantee you they don’t think you do.

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The Hypocrisy of the Left

November 10, 2020 by Jim Pierce 8 Comments

I wrote an article a few days ago that managed to anger many readers who lean to the right, and (not surprisingly, I guess) please those who lean left. In the aforementioned article, I said “To be clear, just today I signed a petition for a recount in several battleground states. Do I think this was a clean election? No. Do I think voter fraud is a clear and present danger? Yes. But do I think there was such rampant fraud that SCOTUS (because that is where all roads would lead) would have enough evidence to declare the election results null and void? No.“

My main point was that when all the election litigation is said and done, my guts tell me Mr. Biden will still be the President-elect, and I implored Mr. Trump to exit with grace and dignity.

If I am wrong, and Mr. Trump’s legal team actually has enough compelling evidence to reverse the results of the election, then I will own being wrong, and I will be the first to resoundingly say “the system works!”

Now hear this. The left is borderline apopletic over the idea that Mr. Trump wants to contest the results in several battleground states. Attorney General Barr has now authorized his Justice Department to investigate all “valid” claims of fraud and/or miscreant behavior. The horror!

What an utter load of manure. A considerable portion of the left never (and I mean never) accepted Donald Trump as a duly elected President. They then spent four years trying to de-legitimatize him. They stopped at nothing. They lied. They fabricated an entire Russian hoax. The scandal went all the way into President Obama’s circle of knowledge, and included the sitting CIA Director, and, of course, Hillary Clinton. They have never been held accountable.

We live in a world of double standards. What should be abundantly clear to all is that there is a progressive narrative and it is almost unilaterally supported by the main stream media. It is virtually impossible to get to the actual nub of any story. Media reports today are based upon layer after layer of subterfuge. It is embarrassing. It is scary.

I am not ready to say I was wrong when I wrote that the net result of all this litigation will still be the election of Mr. Biden. But I am ready to say I should have given more time to acknowledging the stunning hypocrisy of the left. Even Mr. Biden has morphed within a week from saying that every vote must count to saying “The people of this nation have spoken. They have delivered us a clear victory. A convincing victory.”

Ummm. There is nothing “clear” or “convincing” about last week’s election. That is the stuff of cloud-cuckoo land.

The attacks from the left have already begun. It is very reminiscent of the Nazi Brown Shirts in the 1930’s. AOC is sending tweets threatening to keep lists of all those who supported Donald Trump. Nancy Pelosi is refusing to repudiate socialism. Hey, folks, you get what you pay for!

As George W Bush said in his statement over the weekend, “President Trump has the right to request recounts and pursue legal challenges, and any unresolved issues will be properly adjudicated. The American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear.” I agree, and the fact that millions of those who lean left think it is outrageous that the President hasn’t yet conceded, is, well, hypocritical! I guess we shouldn’t expect any other behavior from them. It is their way or the highway and it has ever been thus.

To be clear, I am writing solely about the integrity of the American election process, without which we are nothing. Nada. Zippo. All Americans should want to know that all (and only) legal votes have been counted. The last thing Mr. Biden should want is the knowledge that he would take the oath in January, and a minimum of 70,000,000 people think he won by crooked devices. Joe Biden should be first in line to advocate for a clear and decisive victory. Where we stand now is anything but that.

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Time to Go

November 8, 2020 by Jim Pierce 28 Comments

Alas, Mr. President, it is time to do the right thing. There is a time honored tradition in the United States, and you are not exempt. Exit stage right, and do so with grace and dignity. Please.

To be clear, just today I signed a petition for a recount in several battleground states. Do I think this was a clean election? No. Do I think voter fraud is a clear and present danger? Yes. But do I think there was such rampant fraud that SCOTUS (because that is where all roads would lead) would have enough evidence to declare the election results null and void? No.

These blue states need to get their acts together. Allowing ballots to be postmarked up until election day is a sham. Closing ballot stations off and counting ballots in secret is appalling. Ballots should be received by election day, full stop. Election day is election day. By the next morning, there should be a winner and a loser. This isn’t rocket science. Pennsylvania set itself up to be a laughing stock and it did not fail in achieving that outcome.

All eyes are (or should be) on Georgia. My guess is that we will see hundreds of millions of dollars poured into what appears will be two US Senate run-off elections. On the outcome of those races hangs the balance of power. On the outcome of those races hangs the only hope for checks and balances in the next several (well, two, for sure) years.

The Democrats will stop at nothing to achieve a 50-50 split in the Senate, so Vice President elect Kamala Harris can swoop in and break all tie votes. Folks, if the GOP doesn’t hold the Senate, Katy bar the door!

Let’s just reflect for a moment on what an actual blue wave will do to this country. In short, we will witness an all out effort to 1) re-regulate American business, 2) eliminate right to work states, 3) impose higher personal and corporate taxes, while restoring tax breaks to all blue states-oh, the irony- 4) eliminate the presently favorable death tax structure, 5) resurrect the Paris climate accord, 6) destroy energy independence by attacking fossil fuel exploration and development, 7) attack the men and women in blue, 8) re-engage with Iran, 9) make Palestinian agreement a prerequisite to any further Middle-Eastern peace agreements, 10) “pack” the court, 11) add DC and Puerto rico as states, and 12) generally attack our entire history and all that has made this a great country. I kid you not. They do not like us.

Let me be clear, lest someone attack me for saying “they do not like us”. “Us” is every hard working American who believes in equal opportunity and not guaranteed outcome. “Us” is white, black, brown, purple, I don’t care. “Us” is straight, gay, LGBTQ, I don’t care. “Us” is us. OK?

Let’s also hone in on my points above. I am not worried about Mr. Biden. And that is the point, see? Mr. Biden has little chance of being a strong leader. He is surrounded by power hungry haters; people whose entire careers have been predicated on sowing seeds of racial and economic division. And therein lies the irony. They successfully ran a campaign based on one thing; their detestation of Donald Trump. They said he is a racist. They said he is the most divisive President in US history. As my mother used to say, “Well if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black!” The entire progressive movement is based on sowing seeds of anger, discontent, jealousy, and divisiveness. It is alarming, and it is shameful.

So no, this election is not over. it’s now very much centered in Georgia. But for you, Mr. President, it is over. We know you don’t like it. We know you believe you were cheated. Its just not going to come out that way in the wash. When all is said and done, the result will be what we know it to be today. So it’s time to go, and I’ll say it again; it’s time to go with grace and dignity. Please.

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What Happened Last Night?

October 23, 2020 by Jim Pierce 10 Comments

DEBATE TAKEAWAYS: Round 2 highlights policy over petulance | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last night, Donald Trump actually behaved himself. That doesn’t mean Trump haters did not find reasons to consider him insufferable. It just means what it says; he was not a boorish ass.

If the debate were a boxing match, there are two things to note; 1) The fight went the distance, and 2) Trump won on points. Based on how tired and confused Mr. Biden looked by the end of the event, if he really were a boxer, he most likely would have announced his retirement.

So does it mean anything? First, let’s look at the numbers. In 2016, some 55% of eligible voters cast a ballot. That amounts to approximately 138,000,000 Americans. (Well, let’s be optimistic and assume they were all Americans.) This year, 47,000,000 Americans have already voted. That is fully 10,000,000 more people than had voted early at this point in time 4 years ago. To extrapolate that number out, it could mean that the number of people who vote this year may approach 175,000,000.

So you see, that is what people can do with numbers! 175,000,000 Americans probably won’t vote, but something is happening. The exit polls are bi-polar. On one hand, they indicate that Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, and there is a motivated democrat base that is turning out to vote solely predicated on its detestation of the President. On the other, there are indications that the numbers of people who turn out for President Trump will even exceed what we witnessed in 2016.

General consensus is that somewhere between 5-7% of those who intend to vote are still undecided. While that seems small, when one considers that Biden leads Trump in most battleground states by margins of 4-6%, that undecided voter population suddenly becomes very important.

My takeaway on the debate is that Mr. Biden and his advisors have decided they are so far ahead that there is absolutely no reason to take chances of messing thing up by actually going out and campaigning! Last night, it was clear that Mr. Biden wanted to impart the message that the election is about character and integrity. Hmmmm, interesting. The problem for Mr. Biden is that for those who take the time to study this man, character and integrity are not words synonymous with Mr. Biden’s record. The former Vice President has been caught out distorting the truth about his accomplishments on numerous occasions over his career, and let’s not forget his infamous Neil Kinnock “lapse” back in 1988. (Click here if you have forgotten!)

So if character is the lynchpin of his campaign, will his past, the Hunter Biden laptop and Navy Lt. Tony Bobulinski’s (a lifelong democrat) revelations make that 5-7 per cent undecided group think twice about a vote for Biden? Don’t answer me if you have already voted for Biden or plan to. I know you are not changing your mind, no matter what inconvenient facts are surfacing on a day to day basis. But if you are undecided, I would like to hear from you.

Last night, Mr. Biden flat out lied twice. Well, I know of two mistruths. He said he has never come out against fracking. That simply is not true. He challenged President Trump to prove it. This morning the Trump campaign released a short video showing Mr. Biden saying (multiple times) he would ban fracking. (See Newsweek article here.) The Trump campaign needs to make sure voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio understand what Biden’s policies mean to their states.

On the issue of his son’s laptop, he had the opportunity to take the high road, and say he has never been involved in any untoward foreign transactions, and move on. Instead, he blamed the Russians! Will the main stream media actually continue to support that charade? It was a weak, weak moment. He should be held accountable. The Director of National Intelligence (corroborated by the FBI) has already confirmed their is no evidence of any connection between Russia and the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The China story is not going away. It may not pick up steam until after the election, but we will learn more at some point down the road.

On Covid-19, I think all of us watching the debate grew weary of how much time was taken talking about the virus. Here are the two take-aways- 1) Joe Biden attacked and attacked but could not say how his administration would have done anything substantively different, and 2) the President made it very clear we must re-open the economy and schools as a top priority, and the former Veep not only promised a dark winter, but did not close the door on the possibility of shutting things down again. Unlike Mr. Biden, Americans cannot afford to stay in their basements forever.

We don’t know how this will turn out. Things don’t look good for the President or, for that matter, the GOP led Senate. But stranger things have happened. It will be an interesting 10 days.

As always, please let me know your thoughts.

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Help Me Understand

October 21, 2020 by Jim Pierce 12 Comments

My blog has been read with some regularity by thousands of Americans. Most readers appear to be sympathetic to my message. In today’s massively divided America, the logical conclusion is that I have been preaching to the choir.

So, please, help me out here. Some of you to the far right have hammered me ( consistently!) for my firm position that I do not like anything about President Trump. This is notwithstanding the fact that I voted for him in 2016 (holding my nose) and have already voted for him again this year. Let me be clear. I vote for all the good that has happened in this country we love. I do not vote for the man. I vote for our country. I despair that so many Americans cannot see beyond that paradox.

Where do I start?

One of the best Senators in the GOP is Rob Portman from Ohio. He was W’s US Trade Representative, and head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He is a classic public servant. No ego; he just wants to serve his country. Read this article (click here) he wrote for Barron’s. Senator Portman eloquently and factually outlines the amazing accomplishments of the pre-Covid Trump years. Through de-regulation and tax relief, the malaise of the Obama-Biden years were erased. Black unemployment was at an all-time low, and Black home ownership was conversely at an all-time high. This was not accidental. Deregulation and low taxes work! Please appreciate the irony; former Vice President Biden is actually running advertisements suggesting that the pre-Covid economy was a result of the Obama years! Good Lord, help us all!

So bear with me. Let’s take a look at the Biden platform. Allow me to refer you to the 2020 Democrat Platform. Go ahead; please read it. Click here to do so. Marx and Lenin would be proud. Even Hugo Chavez may have risen for a standing ovation. Folks, for the life of me, I do not understood how anyone who loves this wonderful United States of America could possibly pull the lever for a party that espouses America’s destruction. And let’s be very clear; mainstream progressive democrats do not love anything about what has made the United States of America great.

OK, I get it. Some of you do not like the President. No, let’s just get to the bottom of it; you detest him. Great. But are you actually willing to throw away 244 years of history in order to satisfy yourself that you had a hand in deposing “le grande orange”?

If you are still unconvinced, you will be abandoning the party that supports charter schools (the only proven hope for advancement for kids coming from underprivileged neighborhoods). Why? Because the teacher’s unions consider them a threat. Vomit.

You must not like fossil fuels, right? So that means you are ok with no buildings, no glass, no plastics, no steel, no fabrication, no power, no trains, planes, or automobiles. All good, right? Sure! Let’s move back into caves! Let me be clear. The energy transition is happening. We will have more and more alternative sources of energy. But this is not a zero sum game. We need fossil fuels, and we will need them for decades to come. Any suggestion to the contrary is foolhardy.

You don’t know it unless you are a policy wonk, but the Trump administration overturned hundreds of Obama-era regulations and executive orders; all of which kowtowed to progressive special interests and served to slow the economy down. Trump’s executive orders put our economy on steroids.

I don’t know about you, but I really don’t feel like paying circa 50% of my wages to the federal government. Mr. Biden (directly and through hidden fees) will ensure that you and I do. Also on this topic, we finally made American businesses competitive again by lowering the corporate tax rate, and lo and behold, Mr. Biden wants to raise them again. For those of you long enough in the tooth to remember, during the Obama years the United States had the highest corporate tax rate in the western world (sans France). Yes, the United States. Businesses were re-domiciling to the UK! Trump fixed it. Biden wants to eradicate all the progress made. Democrats don’t seem to understand that businesses create jobs. Democrats actually believe that government (ie, your tax dollars) create jobs. Wow.

If I hear one more advertisement about how the GOP wants to take “pre-existing conditions” away from the American citizen, well, I already said I was going to vomit, so I can’t say that again. The GOP has made it very clear that horse has left the barn. No one (and I mean no one) is campaigning against the notion that pre-existing conditions won’t be part of any health care solution.

There is a debate tomorrow night and the topic of “foreign affairs” is not even on the agenda. We truly live in the twilight zone. The President and his team have pulled the UAE and Bahrain into a peace agreement with Israel. The President has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. I know, you missed it. I’ll say it again. The President has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Holy cow! I would venture to say that 90% of America has no idea, and the Main Stream Media would like to keep it that way.

A few more things;

1) When this election is over, mark my words; the Democrats will stop talking about Covid. The virus has been a campaign issue from day one. If they win, they will lose all interest in the topic.

2) Law and order matters. Two black veterans of the Houston Police Department were shot yesterday (and one killed) as they responded to a domestic abuse call. The shots were fired by the abuser responsible for the incident. The abuser was an illegal alien. The left is silent. They will not condemn illegal aliens, (they believe they should be given safe haven in sanctuary cities) and Black Lives Matter is conspicuously silent. So, I’m sorry, but time and time again, when minority officers of the law are attacked and even murdered, is there some reason in God’s world that their lives do not matter?

3) The Hunter Biden laptop treasure trove is real. It has not been denied, and it is now being validated by more and more sources. In short, it stinks. My guess is the Main Stream Media will succeed in burying the story until after the election. What a shame. What a double standard! Can you imagine if this absolute sleeze was uncovered about Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr? It would literally be all consuming on the news. Shame on the media.

One more point; if we lose the Senate, God help us all. We need to win Maine or North Carolina, and Joni Ernst needs to keep her seat in Iowa. Imagine a blue wave, when we lose the White House and the Senate. Bernie, Senator Warren and AOC will be exultant. They will ram bills by and through Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and put them on the President’s desk for signature. Does anyone actually think a President Biden will be able to slow down the progressive train? OK, it was a rhetorical question.

Enough. Viva la vino tinto!

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