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21/04/24 07:06
What is this bullshit about Joe Biden greenlighting Iran's attack on Israel? Does that mean that Biden knew about the attack and he approved Iran's launch of the attack? Is that to say that the Mullahs wouldn't have attacked Israel were it not for Biden's sign-off? Who the fuck is Joe Biden to sign off on any attack against Israel? In the wake of the attack, Biden pleaded with Israel not to respond. Is it not up to Israel to decide what Israel does and does not do? Let's just say that I have questions. How much of this back story is going to be suppressed in the media today as I sit here on a Monday morning? One angle might be that Biden wants to head off any escalation in an existing conflict in the Middle East or elsewhere that would drive up oil prices, and ultimately prices at the gas pump, in the months leading up to the election in November. The economy is already a shitstorm and a headwind of Biden's making, so there's that. No need to throw kerosene on a fire already in progress.
I'm feeling a little depressed this morning. I'm not sure why, exactly. The sun is shining, my coffee is still hot, and I don't have a lot on my plate today that I want to avoid one way or another. It looks like a pretty good day for a bike ride, so that's something to look forward to when all is said and done. It is true that I'm struggling a bit with having something to say, so maybe that's it. Then again, this isn't my first rodeo. Been there, done that. I just have to get back in the saddle and do what I always do when this happens. Does any of this have anything to do with the fact that Trump's "Stormy Daniels" trial is starting today in Midtown Manhattan? I don't think so. This thing is going to last for a couple of months, and the only thing happening in the next two or three weeks has to do with jury selection. That won't stop the Trump haters in the media from spewing their usual nonsense, so I'll have to steer clear of that if I can.
We'll have to see if world stock markets can get back on track today after a tough day last Friday. Nothing good happens when the VIX goes above 15 and when major indices break the 50-day moving average, so we'll see if both of those things turn around today. I understand why Iran attacking Israel for the first time had everyone's attention on Friday and over the weekend. You just never know what Iran is capable of when push comes to shove. Israel killed some of Iran's top commanders in the attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus last week, so you had to believe that the Mullahs might have had something special in mind for the Israelis. It was much ado about nothing by the time Iran announced on Friday night that they were done launching projectiles into Israel. Well, aside from the terror that some Israelis may have experienced as a result of the seemingly continuous barrage of missiles that exploded over Tel Aviv, thanks to Israel's spectacular dome defense system. Israel can now turn their attention back to the usual bad actors on their borders like Hamas, Hezbollah, and, to a lesser extent, the Houthis.
I thought Trump said he could solve the Ukraine / Russian conflict within twenty-four hours of his inauguration. I think he was referring to something having to do with his best-selling book, the "Art of the Deal." Now, he's saying that the money we give to Ukraine should be a loan. Which is it, Mr. President? You said that Russia would have never attacked Ukraine had you been president. The majority of the American people want no part of the Russia / Ukraine conflict, just so you know. You also know full well that were we to loan a nickel to that corrupt shithole Ukraine that we'd never see any of it repaid. What the hell kind of fool do you take us for? Is this your idea of paying lip service to the Deep State so they'll be less strident in pushing back against the idea of your presidency? What am I not getting about this thing? How am I supposed to square this circle? It sounds like Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is putting a bill to fun Ukraine on the House floor at the end of this week. I'd like to think that this decision of his would be the end of his speakership, but you gave him your full-throated support this past week down in Mar-a-Lago so he may be able to hang on. It's a clusterfuck either way. It is not what the American people want. Period, end of sentence.
Did you happen to see the pro-Hamas types out in numbers yesterday across the country clogging bridges and other thruways in protesting Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza? These are some sick fucks. Who rallies their fellow men and women in support of killing, raping, and ethnically cleansing any ethnic group, never mind Israelis. Think October 7th. Maybe more disturbing were the policemen and women who stood silently by watching it all go down without arresting or collaring one of them. They could have cared less about emergency vehicles that were prevented from reaching their destination. Anyone heading to catch a last-minute flight at the airport, that wasn't happening. You know, don't you, that one phone call from the White House to enforce our laws and clear any and all obstructions from these fairways was all that anyone needed to fix the problem? Here's the deal: This was the Biden White House siding with the progressive left in their efforts to pressure Israel to cease and desist in their efforts to kill every last member of Hamas in Gaza and elsewhere. This was the Biden White House acting in sympathy with Muslim populations in Dearborn, Michigan, for purely political reasons. Here's the bottom line: You have a clown in the White House who does not now, nor have they ever, had Israel's best interests in mind. As for the protestors, expect more of the same.
I hear what Elon Musk is saying about preparing for future growth for his car company, Tesla, but one can't help but wonder if there isn't more to that story. I'm referring to the announcement yesterday that Tesla is laying off ten percent of its employees worldwide. There may have been something buried deeper in that report about competition from China, but that's a story for another day. My guess, and this may be somewhat self-serving, is that it has more to do with the lack of interest in electric vehicles altogether. They can't sell them because nobody wants them. You've heard what they say about destination anxiety when it comes to electric cars. Right? You never know if you're going to get to your destination because you can't be sure that you'll find a charging station when you need one. If you do find a charging station, there may not be a spot available because there is a line two blocks long of vehicles just waiting for their turn to sit at the pump for the extended period of time it takes to charge their battery. I don't think any of this is going away. As for Tesla the company, they may be just one more electric car thrown on the ash heap of history at the end of the day. So much for Biden's zero-carbon goals by the year 2030.
I agree with Monica Crowley when she tweeted that she would crawl over broken glass to be seated as a juror in Trump's trial in New York City. Can you imagine? "You're in" would be the sweetest words a Trump supporter could hear if this sort of opportunity presented itself. Were it me, I would pray and plot every moment of the trial inside and outside the courtroom on how I was going to end this fiasco one way or another when the final day arrived when I had the opportunity to vote on Trump's guilt or innocence. I would be steely in my opposition to my fellow jurors, who more than likely would cajole, persuade, and ultimately probably want to humiliate or banish me for not going along with the rest of the crazed leftist Manhattan moonbats on the jury. I would argue as vociferously as I could that this was a sham trial from day one. I would remind my fellow jurists that Michael Cohen went to jail for lying, and his testimony should be tossed. I would ask that they resist the temptation to take any of the testimony coming from the whore, Stormy Daniels, or other salacious "experts" who may have posed for Playboy or other publications as nothing more than Bragg's desperate plea to keep jurors from falling asleep during the trial where accounting entries were discussed at length. See where I'm going with this?
I have to laugh. I'm reading a story about Kamala Harris having a chat with Zelensky, during which she requested that Ukraine not attack Russia's oil facilities. How ironic is that? Now, who's working with the Russians to win an election? The last thing Biden can afford to have happen is to see the prices at the gas pump spiral out of control in the midst of a cratering economy with inflation that is sticky, if not unrelenting. Biden has deliberately depleted our strategic petroleum reserves, which helped him and his minions keep prices at the pump down in the weeks leading up to the 2022 mid-term elections. I thought those reserves were meant as a backup for the American people in the event of some cataclysmic event. That is, of course, until you have one of the worst presidents in the history of our great Republic facing an electoral disaster. Then, you pull out all the stops. You deplete the reserves, you put your political opposition in jail, and you work with our adversaries around the globe to ensure that oil prices stay in check. This is the same Kamala Harris whose only job during her first year as Vice President was to manage our southern border. She was our border Czar. Right? How has that worked out for you?
Speaking of politicians and their devious ploys to stay in office, have you heard the latest about that clown of a governor in California? I'm talking about Gavin Newscum. He's setting up an office of genealogy in the state in order to establish a historical record in order to pay reparations if and when that day comes. How fucking Orwellian is that? I guess it's one way to keep minorities on the plantation. Who is going to vote for the other guy if you already have your guy working on a plan to pay reparations? As an aside, just imagine what you can do if you have the DNA of all of the citizens living in your state. It would also be a mistake to think that this is just about black people. You'd be surprised how many people are going to hand over their DNA when there is a chance, however small, that you, too, might participate in one of the biggest payouts in the history of our country. For someone like Newscum, who has national political ambitions, this could be the catnip he needs to drive minorities to the polls when he decides that he wants to run for president. This is bigger than forgiving student loans. This is bigger than the offer of a free college education. This is bigger than the promise of lower prices at the pump. Who needs to steal an election when you can win it outright with the promise of an Escalade in every driveway?
I'm not sure that the Democrats are going to get the mileage they think they're going to get by putting Trump on trial in New York City. Trump actually paid a visit to a bodega in Harlem after being in the courtroom in downtown Manhattan all day yesterday. Not just any bodega, mind you. It's the same bodega where the shop owner killed a robber during a hold-up last year. The District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, the same District attorney who is now looking to convict Trump in a NYC courtroom, brought charges against the bodega owner who killed the robber. The charges were dropped after a hue and a cry from locals. Residents of the area turned out in huge numbers to see Trump. If you had any misgivings about Trump being an outcast in the minority community because of his alleged crimes against the State or, to a lesser extent, his alleged crimes as they relate to accounting entries made by his bookkeeper to pay off a hooker like Stormy Daniels, seeing the locals singing his praises would dispel all of it and more. If any of what we saw yesterday in downtown Harlem was sincere in the least, Trump may now have a fighting chance to win NYC in November. The truth of the matter is Trump has never stopped fighting for New York, and the good people of the city know it.
My head is a completely blank slate this morning. Now that I think of it, what the hell happened in the Senate Impeachment hearings yesterday in Washington, D.C.? That asshole, Schumer, somehow got away with proclaiming that Mayorkis was not guilty of any of the three of four impeachment articles brought against him by the House of Representatives. I'm not sure that Schumer had the right to do that since no such provision exists in the Constitution for the dissolution of charges by a mere vote of the Majority. Are we all just supposed just to roll over and allow Schumer and the Democrats to make this shit up as they go along? Are there no consequences for making a mockery of our beloved Constitution? Who is going to hold them to account? Other Democrats? Nope, they just go along to get along. This is what they do. This is who they are. Not a day goes by when I hear someone in our nation's capitol say that something is unconstitutional, yet nothing is ever done to restore whatever norm has been torn asunder. Maybe what they say about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is true. Now you know why the Bidenistas are so reluctant to give up power. Now you know why it's more important than ever to drive these feral dogs out of our Republic come Election Day in November, root and branch if necessary.
I steamed up some mussels for dinner last night. It promised to be a quick, fat-free dish that I could whip up in no time flat. I was on my own, of course. The missus wanted no part of the mussel dish. I think she has this thing about not eating clams and other things of the sort that might carry deadly pathogens. She ordered a quart of seafood chowder from a local restaurant that I was more than happy to pick up for her on my way home from running an errand. Were it not for the potatoes in the chowder, I might have joined her in having a bit of chowder for dinner. I picked out a few little shrimp from the chowder when she wasn't looking and went on about my business without anyone being the wiser. I contemplated cooking up some whole wheat pasta to have with my mussels but decided at the last minute that it would delay my meal by a good half hour, so that was that. There would be no pasta. I also wasn't interested in smothering my mussels in a red tomato sauce if that is what it came to after preparing the pasta. I steamed the mussels in a nice white wine and garlic sauce and they were ready to eat in about five minutes, start to finish. Just a darn good and inexpensive meal for under eight dollars.
I'm beginning to wonder what role, if any, the World Health Organization (WHO) will play in this fall's presidential election. There are rumors that the United States (Joe Biden) plans to give the WHO sovereignty over our country's health issues. I can't be sure about the timing of this so-called transfer of authority, but I also can't help but wonder if this isn't just coincidentally coinciding with a present-day surge in cases of human bird flu. Think about it. It gives Biden plausible deniability if and when WHO shuts down our country and forces the issue of mail-in ballots, which, as we all know, is how the Democrats stole the 2020 election. The modus operandi of this pandemic is not unlike what we saw when COVID-19 came along. It started with a rumor, and then we saw videos of Chinese healthcare workers in hazmat suits fumigating the streets of Beijing. Then reports started coming out of Europe of elderly people having respiratory issues and dying in rather short order after contracting the virus until Trump gave the order to stop any and all incoming flights from China. I don't know anything about the bird flu in terms of how lethal it may or may not be, but maybe none of that matters. What matters is that Joe Biden gets reelected, bird flu or no bird flu. Just don't call me "conspiratorial."
Dont'. This is all that our fruitcake of a president had to say when cautioning Iran not to attack Israel and then similarly with Israel when they announced plans to attack Iran. Neither Iran nor Israel gave two shits about what our clown of a president had to say. What does that tell you about Biden's moral authority on the world stage? What it tells me is that he has none. What kind of possible moral authority does a person have when he can't complete a sentence without the use of cue cards? How do you give any credence whatsoever to a president who fabricates stories on the campaign trail about his uncle, a pilot, being shot down over New Guinea and who is then consumed by cannibals? None of it is true. Where the hell are the fact-checkers in the media? Then, he cautions Israeli President Netanyahu not to invade Haifa. Haifa, for those of you who don't know, is a major city in Israel. Biden confused Haifa, the city in Israel, with Rafah, the city of one million or more Palestinians living in southern Gaza. There is no cleanup in aisle eight because when you do live interviews, this is what you get. You get an American president who issues monosyllabic ultimatums to world leaders who pay him, or the clowns surrounding him, no attention.
I checked my Twitter feed before going to bed last night and saw that Israel had conducted a bombing raid over major cities in Iran. This was, if we're to believe everything we hear and see in the news, a retaliatory raid after Iran sent some three hundred drones into the skies over Israel just last week. Another tweet talked about futures in the stock market tanking overnight on news of the attack. I left it there, turned off everything, and went to sleep. After four days of losses in the major indices, the last thing we needed was to have someone throw kerosene on a smoldering fire of a market. If you were a futures trader, you probably moved all of your chips into the middle of the table on the likelihood of an even steeper and more precipitous decline in the stock market in the intervening hours of the early morning. As of first thing this morning, it seems that news about the width and breadth of Israel's attack on Iran's cities and nuclear facilities was largely exaggerated. If I'm to believe what I'm reading in my Twitter newsfeed, Israel is now trying to figure out why the United States leaked information about the attack on Iran to the media. The media then ran with the story like it was the beginning of World War III. Of course, they did.
We'll see if the market can rally today on the news that last night's attack was largely a nothing burger. There will be no nuclear holocaust. Both Israel and Iran will live to fight another day. I'd like to see a good counterrally that gets the SPY back to within 100 points of the all-time high. I think that with interest rate cuts seemingly off the table for the foreseeable future, we'll see yields continue to climb, and that is never good news for the stock market. Oil prices spiked on the news of the attack last night but came back down after reports that the raids were largely performative. I'm not sure when, where, or how these Kabuki dances between Israel and Iran are going to end, but they seem to be petering out as I sit here this morning. I'm also wondering if what they say about selling in May and going away, as it relates to the stock market, is a truism this year. If you consider the fact that the market has been up for 24 consecutive weeks in a row since last October, you have to think that it needs a breather sooner or later. A bit of distribution or profit-taking is always healthy for a market. I'm also banking on the fact that the pullback we're seeing in the market is a garden-variety correction and not the beginning of a bear market. We'll need a few more cards to come out of the deck before we know for sure. Jerome Powell, what say ye?
You know that part and parcel of Biden's strategy in this election is to keep Trump in the courtroom and off the campaign trail. Right? The other thing that comes to mind for me is the call early on in Biden's campaign that the more people see "Lunch Bucket" Joe, the better off he'll be. "People want to see more of President Joe Biden, not less", they proclaimed. He's been running around Pennsylvania campaigning while Trump is sitting in a NYC courtroom. There's only one problem. Every time Biden opens his mouth, he makes some stupid or nonsensical comment that goes around the world and back again before he or his handlers have a chance to clean it up. It just continues to feed the narrative that the guy is not ready for prime time. Why is there not more caterwauling in the media about keeping Biden away from the nuclear codes? He has no business doing any campaigning because he's simply not right in the head. "Infirm" doesn't begin to tell the story. The print media gets to say that he's killing it when it comes to the economy and his handling of international affairs. If you're reading the Washington Post or the New York Times, Biden is the best thing since sliced bread. The rest of us Americans and the world at large, who could care less about fish wrappers like the New York Times, know better.
Trump is ahead in most swing-state polls and tied with dementia Joe in states like Pennsylvania as of today. You know what that means, right? The Democrat Party gets to work putting together a plan to take advantage of the "nip and tuck" condition, as it were. We've all heard the stories about trucks backing up to the back door of the tabulation centers at three in the morning with boxes of ballots that someone just happened to notice were lying around uncounted. It's deja vu all over again. Remember in 2020 when Trump came on television at 10 o'clock on election night to announce that he was ahead by tens of thousands of votes in Pennsylvania and other states? Well, we all know how that turned out. Once they counted all the ballots, notice that I didn't say valid ballots, the tide had turned, and Biden had taken the lead and the election. Voila'! Or, should I say, mission accomplished? The die is cast, my good friends. They know what they have to do, and they are greasing the printing presses as we speak. The only thing they don't know as of this moment is just how many ballots they need to print. I can hear them now. Let's print an extra ten thousand, just in case. We can burn the ballots we don't use.
The Democrats' key is to get as many mail-in ballots as they can, manufactured or otherwise, to stuff into drop boxes or other receptacles across our fruited plains. Maximizing the number of mail-in ballots is also important. In 2020, the Democrats used the pandemic to scare the bejesus out of their voters in order to facilitate the use of mail-in ballots on an industrial scale. I talked about the bird flu a few paragraphs back as a likely "pandemic" that the Democrats could use as yet another scare tactic in order to maximize the use of mail-in ballots in 2024. Remember, the key to having a trunkload of ballots available for dispatch to a tabulation center that is "short" of votes for Biden is to flood the zone with ballots so that no one would question a last-minute box or trunkload of ballots should they show up in the middle of the night. It's almost an expectation at this point. This is what they're going to do. If you think this is far-fetched, let me give you an update on the bird flu thing. I'm seeing stories now about how the bird flu virus has moved into our milk supply. This was not a thing a week ago. Everyone drinks milk, so none of us are safe from the virus were it to pass from cow to human. Wait for it. My guess is that Biden is just waiting for the World Health Organization (WHO) to take control of our sovereignty over health issues before the alert goes out that the bird flu is now active in the human population, and we're once again knee-deep in a deadly pathogen-rich pandemic.
Fuck Benny Johnson. Is that the guy's name? He's the congressman who headed up the corrupt January 6th Committee in Congress in the wake of the January 6th riot in our nation's capital. Anyway, he's introducing legislation that removes Secret Service protection from any politician who is found guilty of a felony and sentenced to jail. His target, and the target of this Democrat legislation, of course, is Donald Trump. Johnson knows that one of the problems that most of the leftist judges have with putting Trump in prison for his alleged crimes is that Trump has Secret Service protection for the rest of his life as a former president. This makes it almost impossible to put Trump behind bars as it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Secret Service to protect Trump. Let's understand one thing about these dirtbag Democrats. They want Trump dead, and if they can't manage that, they want him behind bars for the rest of his life. They don't want him to have any protection behind bars because they want bad things to happen to him. I mean, really bad things. How sick are these mother fuckers? That's a rhetorical question. I don't know that Congress has the authority to make any of this happen but that won't stop them from trying. It won't happen with Johnson as Speaker unless you have a few RINOs who go along with the Democrats. Or, maybe it never goes to a floor vote, thanks to Johnson. What happens when Johnson is no longer Speaker? All bets are off.
I don't know much about this Title IX thing that Biden put through this past week (becomes effective in August), but it sounds eggregious. I think Biden's revision of Title IX essentially makes it a federal crime to try and keep men out of women's locker rooms and women's sports. It doesn't stop there. You can now add homeless shelters, prisons, nursing homes, lesbian groups, and bathrooms to the toxic mix of places that men who are confused about their genders have access to. Suburban moms, are you fucking listening? Dads with daughters, are you listening? Black dads and moms with daughters, are you listening? If you have a daughter thinking that she's going to go to the best schools on a sports scholarship, think again. It's one thing to compete against your own gender, but it's something else to have to compete against a man who has the muscle to both beat you and harm you at the same time. We've all seen the videos. Oh, and I think that under this new and revised Title IX, it is a felony to misgender someone. Did I mention that under these revised rules, the accused no longer has the right to confront and challenge their accuser? Put on your big-boy pants, girls. This is happening in real-time. This rule may only be applicable to federally funded institutions, but that's a pretty damn large umbrella of institutions. I've probably only brushed the surface here, but what I've seen so far suggests to me that the pendulum has swung too far to the left under the Biden administration when and where it comes to satisfying the lust of the LGBTQ lobby. God willing, that all changes on Inauguration Day, 2025.
I'm feeling a little depressed this morning. I'm not sure why, exactly. The sun is shining, my coffee is still hot, and I don't have a lot on my plate today that I want to avoid one way or another. It looks like a pretty good day for a bike ride, so that's something to look forward to when all is said and done. It is true that I'm struggling a bit with having something to say, so maybe that's it. Then again, this isn't my first rodeo. Been there, done that. I just have to get back in the saddle and do what I always do when this happens. Does any of this have anything to do with the fact that Trump's "Stormy Daniels" trial is starting today in Midtown Manhattan? I don't think so. This thing is going to last for a couple of months, and the only thing happening in the next two or three weeks has to do with jury selection. That won't stop the Trump haters in the media from spewing their usual nonsense, so I'll have to steer clear of that if I can.
We'll have to see if world stock markets can get back on track today after a tough day last Friday. Nothing good happens when the VIX goes above 15 and when major indices break the 50-day moving average, so we'll see if both of those things turn around today. I understand why Iran attacking Israel for the first time had everyone's attention on Friday and over the weekend. You just never know what Iran is capable of when push comes to shove. Israel killed some of Iran's top commanders in the attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus last week, so you had to believe that the Mullahs might have had something special in mind for the Israelis. It was much ado about nothing by the time Iran announced on Friday night that they were done launching projectiles into Israel. Well, aside from the terror that some Israelis may have experienced as a result of the seemingly continuous barrage of missiles that exploded over Tel Aviv, thanks to Israel's spectacular dome defense system. Israel can now turn their attention back to the usual bad actors on their borders like Hamas, Hezbollah, and, to a lesser extent, the Houthis.
I thought Trump said he could solve the Ukraine / Russian conflict within twenty-four hours of his inauguration. I think he was referring to something having to do with his best-selling book, the "Art of the Deal." Now, he's saying that the money we give to Ukraine should be a loan. Which is it, Mr. President? You said that Russia would have never attacked Ukraine had you been president. The majority of the American people want no part of the Russia / Ukraine conflict, just so you know. You also know full well that were we to loan a nickel to that corrupt shithole Ukraine that we'd never see any of it repaid. What the hell kind of fool do you take us for? Is this your idea of paying lip service to the Deep State so they'll be less strident in pushing back against the idea of your presidency? What am I not getting about this thing? How am I supposed to square this circle? It sounds like Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is putting a bill to fun Ukraine on the House floor at the end of this week. I'd like to think that this decision of his would be the end of his speakership, but you gave him your full-throated support this past week down in Mar-a-Lago so he may be able to hang on. It's a clusterfuck either way. It is not what the American people want. Period, end of sentence.
Did you happen to see the pro-Hamas types out in numbers yesterday across the country clogging bridges and other thruways in protesting Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza? These are some sick fucks. Who rallies their fellow men and women in support of killing, raping, and ethnically cleansing any ethnic group, never mind Israelis. Think October 7th. Maybe more disturbing were the policemen and women who stood silently by watching it all go down without arresting or collaring one of them. They could have cared less about emergency vehicles that were prevented from reaching their destination. Anyone heading to catch a last-minute flight at the airport, that wasn't happening. You know, don't you, that one phone call from the White House to enforce our laws and clear any and all obstructions from these fairways was all that anyone needed to fix the problem? Here's the deal: This was the Biden White House siding with the progressive left in their efforts to pressure Israel to cease and desist in their efforts to kill every last member of Hamas in Gaza and elsewhere. This was the Biden White House acting in sympathy with Muslim populations in Dearborn, Michigan, for purely political reasons. Here's the bottom line: You have a clown in the White House who does not now, nor have they ever, had Israel's best interests in mind. As for the protestors, expect more of the same.
I hear what Elon Musk is saying about preparing for future growth for his car company, Tesla, but one can't help but wonder if there isn't more to that story. I'm referring to the announcement yesterday that Tesla is laying off ten percent of its employees worldwide. There may have been something buried deeper in that report about competition from China, but that's a story for another day. My guess, and this may be somewhat self-serving, is that it has more to do with the lack of interest in electric vehicles altogether. They can't sell them because nobody wants them. You've heard what they say about destination anxiety when it comes to electric cars. Right? You never know if you're going to get to your destination because you can't be sure that you'll find a charging station when you need one. If you do find a charging station, there may not be a spot available because there is a line two blocks long of vehicles just waiting for their turn to sit at the pump for the extended period of time it takes to charge their battery. I don't think any of this is going away. As for Tesla the company, they may be just one more electric car thrown on the ash heap of history at the end of the day. So much for Biden's zero-carbon goals by the year 2030.
I agree with Monica Crowley when she tweeted that she would crawl over broken glass to be seated as a juror in Trump's trial in New York City. Can you imagine? "You're in" would be the sweetest words a Trump supporter could hear if this sort of opportunity presented itself. Were it me, I would pray and plot every moment of the trial inside and outside the courtroom on how I was going to end this fiasco one way or another when the final day arrived when I had the opportunity to vote on Trump's guilt or innocence. I would be steely in my opposition to my fellow jurors, who more than likely would cajole, persuade, and ultimately probably want to humiliate or banish me for not going along with the rest of the crazed leftist Manhattan moonbats on the jury. I would argue as vociferously as I could that this was a sham trial from day one. I would remind my fellow jurists that Michael Cohen went to jail for lying, and his testimony should be tossed. I would ask that they resist the temptation to take any of the testimony coming from the whore, Stormy Daniels, or other salacious "experts" who may have posed for Playboy or other publications as nothing more than Bragg's desperate plea to keep jurors from falling asleep during the trial where accounting entries were discussed at length. See where I'm going with this?
I have to laugh. I'm reading a story about Kamala Harris having a chat with Zelensky, during which she requested that Ukraine not attack Russia's oil facilities. How ironic is that? Now, who's working with the Russians to win an election? The last thing Biden can afford to have happen is to see the prices at the gas pump spiral out of control in the midst of a cratering economy with inflation that is sticky, if not unrelenting. Biden has deliberately depleted our strategic petroleum reserves, which helped him and his minions keep prices at the pump down in the weeks leading up to the 2022 mid-term elections. I thought those reserves were meant as a backup for the American people in the event of some cataclysmic event. That is, of course, until you have one of the worst presidents in the history of our great Republic facing an electoral disaster. Then, you pull out all the stops. You deplete the reserves, you put your political opposition in jail, and you work with our adversaries around the globe to ensure that oil prices stay in check. This is the same Kamala Harris whose only job during her first year as Vice President was to manage our southern border. She was our border Czar. Right? How has that worked out for you?
Speaking of politicians and their devious ploys to stay in office, have you heard the latest about that clown of a governor in California? I'm talking about Gavin Newscum. He's setting up an office of genealogy in the state in order to establish a historical record in order to pay reparations if and when that day comes. How fucking Orwellian is that? I guess it's one way to keep minorities on the plantation. Who is going to vote for the other guy if you already have your guy working on a plan to pay reparations? As an aside, just imagine what you can do if you have the DNA of all of the citizens living in your state. It would also be a mistake to think that this is just about black people. You'd be surprised how many people are going to hand over their DNA when there is a chance, however small, that you, too, might participate in one of the biggest payouts in the history of our country. For someone like Newscum, who has national political ambitions, this could be the catnip he needs to drive minorities to the polls when he decides that he wants to run for president. This is bigger than forgiving student loans. This is bigger than the offer of a free college education. This is bigger than the promise of lower prices at the pump. Who needs to steal an election when you can win it outright with the promise of an Escalade in every driveway?
I'm not sure that the Democrats are going to get the mileage they think they're going to get by putting Trump on trial in New York City. Trump actually paid a visit to a bodega in Harlem after being in the courtroom in downtown Manhattan all day yesterday. Not just any bodega, mind you. It's the same bodega where the shop owner killed a robber during a hold-up last year. The District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, the same District attorney who is now looking to convict Trump in a NYC courtroom, brought charges against the bodega owner who killed the robber. The charges were dropped after a hue and a cry from locals. Residents of the area turned out in huge numbers to see Trump. If you had any misgivings about Trump being an outcast in the minority community because of his alleged crimes against the State or, to a lesser extent, his alleged crimes as they relate to accounting entries made by his bookkeeper to pay off a hooker like Stormy Daniels, seeing the locals singing his praises would dispel all of it and more. If any of what we saw yesterday in downtown Harlem was sincere in the least, Trump may now have a fighting chance to win NYC in November. The truth of the matter is Trump has never stopped fighting for New York, and the good people of the city know it.
My head is a completely blank slate this morning. Now that I think of it, what the hell happened in the Senate Impeachment hearings yesterday in Washington, D.C.? That asshole, Schumer, somehow got away with proclaiming that Mayorkis was not guilty of any of the three of four impeachment articles brought against him by the House of Representatives. I'm not sure that Schumer had the right to do that since no such provision exists in the Constitution for the dissolution of charges by a mere vote of the Majority. Are we all just supposed just to roll over and allow Schumer and the Democrats to make this shit up as they go along? Are there no consequences for making a mockery of our beloved Constitution? Who is going to hold them to account? Other Democrats? Nope, they just go along to get along. This is what they do. This is who they are. Not a day goes by when I hear someone in our nation's capitol say that something is unconstitutional, yet nothing is ever done to restore whatever norm has been torn asunder. Maybe what they say about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is true. Now you know why the Bidenistas are so reluctant to give up power. Now you know why it's more important than ever to drive these feral dogs out of our Republic come Election Day in November, root and branch if necessary.
I steamed up some mussels for dinner last night. It promised to be a quick, fat-free dish that I could whip up in no time flat. I was on my own, of course. The missus wanted no part of the mussel dish. I think she has this thing about not eating clams and other things of the sort that might carry deadly pathogens. She ordered a quart of seafood chowder from a local restaurant that I was more than happy to pick up for her on my way home from running an errand. Were it not for the potatoes in the chowder, I might have joined her in having a bit of chowder for dinner. I picked out a few little shrimp from the chowder when she wasn't looking and went on about my business without anyone being the wiser. I contemplated cooking up some whole wheat pasta to have with my mussels but decided at the last minute that it would delay my meal by a good half hour, so that was that. There would be no pasta. I also wasn't interested in smothering my mussels in a red tomato sauce if that is what it came to after preparing the pasta. I steamed the mussels in a nice white wine and garlic sauce and they were ready to eat in about five minutes, start to finish. Just a darn good and inexpensive meal for under eight dollars.
I'm beginning to wonder what role, if any, the World Health Organization (WHO) will play in this fall's presidential election. There are rumors that the United States (Joe Biden) plans to give the WHO sovereignty over our country's health issues. I can't be sure about the timing of this so-called transfer of authority, but I also can't help but wonder if this isn't just coincidentally coinciding with a present-day surge in cases of human bird flu. Think about it. It gives Biden plausible deniability if and when WHO shuts down our country and forces the issue of mail-in ballots, which, as we all know, is how the Democrats stole the 2020 election. The modus operandi of this pandemic is not unlike what we saw when COVID-19 came along. It started with a rumor, and then we saw videos of Chinese healthcare workers in hazmat suits fumigating the streets of Beijing. Then reports started coming out of Europe of elderly people having respiratory issues and dying in rather short order after contracting the virus until Trump gave the order to stop any and all incoming flights from China. I don't know anything about the bird flu in terms of how lethal it may or may not be, but maybe none of that matters. What matters is that Joe Biden gets reelected, bird flu or no bird flu. Just don't call me "conspiratorial."
Dont'. This is all that our fruitcake of a president had to say when cautioning Iran not to attack Israel and then similarly with Israel when they announced plans to attack Iran. Neither Iran nor Israel gave two shits about what our clown of a president had to say. What does that tell you about Biden's moral authority on the world stage? What it tells me is that he has none. What kind of possible moral authority does a person have when he can't complete a sentence without the use of cue cards? How do you give any credence whatsoever to a president who fabricates stories on the campaign trail about his uncle, a pilot, being shot down over New Guinea and who is then consumed by cannibals? None of it is true. Where the hell are the fact-checkers in the media? Then, he cautions Israeli President Netanyahu not to invade Haifa. Haifa, for those of you who don't know, is a major city in Israel. Biden confused Haifa, the city in Israel, with Rafah, the city of one million or more Palestinians living in southern Gaza. There is no cleanup in aisle eight because when you do live interviews, this is what you get. You get an American president who issues monosyllabic ultimatums to world leaders who pay him, or the clowns surrounding him, no attention.
I checked my Twitter feed before going to bed last night and saw that Israel had conducted a bombing raid over major cities in Iran. This was, if we're to believe everything we hear and see in the news, a retaliatory raid after Iran sent some three hundred drones into the skies over Israel just last week. Another tweet talked about futures in the stock market tanking overnight on news of the attack. I left it there, turned off everything, and went to sleep. After four days of losses in the major indices, the last thing we needed was to have someone throw kerosene on a smoldering fire of a market. If you were a futures trader, you probably moved all of your chips into the middle of the table on the likelihood of an even steeper and more precipitous decline in the stock market in the intervening hours of the early morning. As of first thing this morning, it seems that news about the width and breadth of Israel's attack on Iran's cities and nuclear facilities was largely exaggerated. If I'm to believe what I'm reading in my Twitter newsfeed, Israel is now trying to figure out why the United States leaked information about the attack on Iran to the media. The media then ran with the story like it was the beginning of World War III. Of course, they did.
We'll see if the market can rally today on the news that last night's attack was largely a nothing burger. There will be no nuclear holocaust. Both Israel and Iran will live to fight another day. I'd like to see a good counterrally that gets the SPY back to within 100 points of the all-time high. I think that with interest rate cuts seemingly off the table for the foreseeable future, we'll see yields continue to climb, and that is never good news for the stock market. Oil prices spiked on the news of the attack last night but came back down after reports that the raids were largely performative. I'm not sure when, where, or how these Kabuki dances between Israel and Iran are going to end, but they seem to be petering out as I sit here this morning. I'm also wondering if what they say about selling in May and going away, as it relates to the stock market, is a truism this year. If you consider the fact that the market has been up for 24 consecutive weeks in a row since last October, you have to think that it needs a breather sooner or later. A bit of distribution or profit-taking is always healthy for a market. I'm also banking on the fact that the pullback we're seeing in the market is a garden-variety correction and not the beginning of a bear market. We'll need a few more cards to come out of the deck before we know for sure. Jerome Powell, what say ye?
You know that part and parcel of Biden's strategy in this election is to keep Trump in the courtroom and off the campaign trail. Right? The other thing that comes to mind for me is the call early on in Biden's campaign that the more people see "Lunch Bucket" Joe, the better off he'll be. "People want to see more of President Joe Biden, not less", they proclaimed. He's been running around Pennsylvania campaigning while Trump is sitting in a NYC courtroom. There's only one problem. Every time Biden opens his mouth, he makes some stupid or nonsensical comment that goes around the world and back again before he or his handlers have a chance to clean it up. It just continues to feed the narrative that the guy is not ready for prime time. Why is there not more caterwauling in the media about keeping Biden away from the nuclear codes? He has no business doing any campaigning because he's simply not right in the head. "Infirm" doesn't begin to tell the story. The print media gets to say that he's killing it when it comes to the economy and his handling of international affairs. If you're reading the Washington Post or the New York Times, Biden is the best thing since sliced bread. The rest of us Americans and the world at large, who could care less about fish wrappers like the New York Times, know better.
Trump is ahead in most swing-state polls and tied with dementia Joe in states like Pennsylvania as of today. You know what that means, right? The Democrat Party gets to work putting together a plan to take advantage of the "nip and tuck" condition, as it were. We've all heard the stories about trucks backing up to the back door of the tabulation centers at three in the morning with boxes of ballots that someone just happened to notice were lying around uncounted. It's deja vu all over again. Remember in 2020 when Trump came on television at 10 o'clock on election night to announce that he was ahead by tens of thousands of votes in Pennsylvania and other states? Well, we all know how that turned out. Once they counted all the ballots, notice that I didn't say valid ballots, the tide had turned, and Biden had taken the lead and the election. Voila'! Or, should I say, mission accomplished? The die is cast, my good friends. They know what they have to do, and they are greasing the printing presses as we speak. The only thing they don't know as of this moment is just how many ballots they need to print. I can hear them now. Let's print an extra ten thousand, just in case. We can burn the ballots we don't use.
The Democrats' key is to get as many mail-in ballots as they can, manufactured or otherwise, to stuff into drop boxes or other receptacles across our fruited plains. Maximizing the number of mail-in ballots is also important. In 2020, the Democrats used the pandemic to scare the bejesus out of their voters in order to facilitate the use of mail-in ballots on an industrial scale. I talked about the bird flu a few paragraphs back as a likely "pandemic" that the Democrats could use as yet another scare tactic in order to maximize the use of mail-in ballots in 2024. Remember, the key to having a trunkload of ballots available for dispatch to a tabulation center that is "short" of votes for Biden is to flood the zone with ballots so that no one would question a last-minute box or trunkload of ballots should they show up in the middle of the night. It's almost an expectation at this point. This is what they're going to do. If you think this is far-fetched, let me give you an update on the bird flu thing. I'm seeing stories now about how the bird flu virus has moved into our milk supply. This was not a thing a week ago. Everyone drinks milk, so none of us are safe from the virus were it to pass from cow to human. Wait for it. My guess is that Biden is just waiting for the World Health Organization (WHO) to take control of our sovereignty over health issues before the alert goes out that the bird flu is now active in the human population, and we're once again knee-deep in a deadly pathogen-rich pandemic.
Fuck Benny Johnson. Is that the guy's name? He's the congressman who headed up the corrupt January 6th Committee in Congress in the wake of the January 6th riot in our nation's capital. Anyway, he's introducing legislation that removes Secret Service protection from any politician who is found guilty of a felony and sentenced to jail. His target, and the target of this Democrat legislation, of course, is Donald Trump. Johnson knows that one of the problems that most of the leftist judges have with putting Trump in prison for his alleged crimes is that Trump has Secret Service protection for the rest of his life as a former president. This makes it almost impossible to put Trump behind bars as it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Secret Service to protect Trump. Let's understand one thing about these dirtbag Democrats. They want Trump dead, and if they can't manage that, they want him behind bars for the rest of his life. They don't want him to have any protection behind bars because they want bad things to happen to him. I mean, really bad things. How sick are these mother fuckers? That's a rhetorical question. I don't know that Congress has the authority to make any of this happen but that won't stop them from trying. It won't happen with Johnson as Speaker unless you have a few RINOs who go along with the Democrats. Or, maybe it never goes to a floor vote, thanks to Johnson. What happens when Johnson is no longer Speaker? All bets are off.
I don't know much about this Title IX thing that Biden put through this past week (becomes effective in August), but it sounds eggregious. I think Biden's revision of Title IX essentially makes it a federal crime to try and keep men out of women's locker rooms and women's sports. It doesn't stop there. You can now add homeless shelters, prisons, nursing homes, lesbian groups, and bathrooms to the toxic mix of places that men who are confused about their genders have access to. Suburban moms, are you fucking listening? Dads with daughters, are you listening? Black dads and moms with daughters, are you listening? If you have a daughter thinking that she's going to go to the best schools on a sports scholarship, think again. It's one thing to compete against your own gender, but it's something else to have to compete against a man who has the muscle to both beat you and harm you at the same time. We've all seen the videos. Oh, and I think that under this new and revised Title IX, it is a felony to misgender someone. Did I mention that under these revised rules, the accused no longer has the right to confront and challenge their accuser? Put on your big-boy pants, girls. This is happening in real-time. This rule may only be applicable to federally funded institutions, but that's a pretty damn large umbrella of institutions. I've probably only brushed the surface here, but what I've seen so far suggests to me that the pendulum has swung too far to the left under the Biden administration when and where it comes to satisfying the lust of the LGBTQ lobby. God willing, that all changes on Inauguration Day, 2025.