I often read stories about Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk visiting campuses, speaking universal truths, and being yelled out, ganged up on, spit on, and run out of town. America’s delusional youth don’t like to hear the truth. What’s more, they appear to be extremely disappointed in an America they barely know. They scream and stomp their feet at perceived injustices, intellectually opting for the gentler embrace of socialism, sitting around campfires with picket signs at the ready, passing joints, and singing “Kumbaya.”

It is evident that they don’t understand true socialism. They don’t understand history because they have never read it. They can’t answer a question without asking Google. They lack knowledge and understanding. They would rot from the inside out if dropped into Cuba or Venezuela. They rail at intellectual honesty as well as fair and respectful discussions and debate, opting instead for in-your-face personal attacks, threats of violence, and the like. Ben Shapiro was on point when he said, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”

 

Don’t Engage, Don’t Argue with Them

America’s colleges and universities have utterly failed to help create useful, productive citizens who can lead dynamic lives, pay taxes, raise families, and become successful in their own right. Instead, we have a generation of an offended class who don’t share our truths or our values. They lack character and appear to play by the Marxist doctrine handbook. They disparage all who don’t agree with them and are intolerant of those who don’t share their opinions and worldview. They seek to recast America’s history and view our country as inherently racist. They embrace a dishonest political platform that is spoon-fed to them by progressives who are intent on tearing apart our society and all America stands for. They spit on veterans, loot and riot, and condone violence to achieve their aims. They are unrecognizable as your neighbors’ children. I have learned not to engage with them since civil discourse is beyond their reach. They offend the vast majority of hard-working Americans who are grateful to live in this country, who recite the Pledge of Allegiance, respect the flag, and stand for the national anthem.

 

America Is Broken

Attention college grads! Stop whining! Stop your never-ending appeals for relief of the crushing burden of repaying loans you entered into lawfully in order to enroll in useless courses at liberal colleges to feel cool, interesting, and connected with peers and that utterly and undeniable did not prepare you to earn a living, pay your rent, enjoy $6 coffee at Starbucks, buy $1200 iPhones, repay your loans, support yourself, or build wealth in the freest and richest country in the history of the world.

I read articles such as one this morning in the Washington Examiner describing how the Biden Administration is freezing loan repayments following court rulings by a pair of federal judges in Kansas and Missouri who blocked parts of the administration’s plan to freeze student loan repayments. Biden’s SAVE program, administered by the Department of Education uses a formula to determine monthly loan repayments based on income, family size, and other factors. It is not surprising that 56 percent of the more than 8 million people signed up for the program qualify for zero dollars per month loan repayment. The courts’ view, rightfully so, is that ONLY CONGRESS has the authority to forgive student loans. Kansas U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree indicated that “blue collar Kansas workers who didn’t go to college shouldn’t have to pay off the student loans of New Yorkers with gender studies degrees.”

It is stunning, sad, and ridiculous that these lawsuits are still winding their way through our courts, taking valuable time, energy, resources, and taxpayer dollars to adjudicate what should have never been allowed to occur in the first place. Meanwhile, the Department of Education— which I feel should be disbanded and metaphorically burned to the ground—has indicated that it will not give up on its promise to fight for long overdue relief for borrowers. Remember, these borrowers borrowed the money, and the loans originated with the federal government. The Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citibank are not at fault. The fault lies with the federal government—a government that insists on coddling, providing entitlements, spending money it doesn’t have, showering favored groups with special advantages, and overstepping executive authority to the point where it is sued to stop violating the law. This cannot end soon enough.

Were my kids in high school and beginning to view their future as a range of possibilities with nothing preordained, I would counsel them that the choices are many, including trade schools, college, military, apprenticeships, and starting a business. In today’s politically charged atmosphere, I would make it clear that dad paying for a liberal arts degree at a college is not on the table.

 

This Thought Has Been Living Rent-Free in My Mind for 25 Years

I was 43 years old and held certain beliefs that helped me make sense of the world around me. One of those beliefs was that you make your own way. No one owes you anything. You work to improve your circumstances, and there are no free lunches. I saw my dad work 60 to 80 hours a week; he understood what hard work was. I put in decades of 60-hour weeks to provide a great life for my family without any expectation of handouts or unearned benefits. As JFK famously said, “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.”

There are tens of millions of Americans who would be puzzled by JFK’s statement and others who would outright reject it. I call them the entitlement generation. They believe they are entitled to benefits because America is an uncaring place that takes advantage of everyone and must elevate those at the bottom to be equal with those at the top so everyone has a fat chicken in their pot, basic universal income, free college education, paid-off student loans, and an electric car in every driveway. They view capitalism as evil, despite the fact that it has enabled America to achieve a level of prosperity that has made it the envy of the world.

 

The Founders Created Three Co-Equal Branches of Government – Not One

Have you ever read the U.S. Constitution? It tells us that Congress is the arm of government that passes laws—not the President. Congress! If you have been keeping up with the news, you may have noticed that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in multiple cases against Biden’s Executive Departments, including the FTC, the SEC, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Education. In each case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Executive agencies are not empowered to make law, that this right is reserved exclusively for Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which states:

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

I happen to be a strong believer in the U.S. Constitution and get very angry when it is pissed on by government officials. If I had my way, the offending government bureaucrats would be very publicly fired and deprived of their government pensions. That would make the consequences very real.

 

Welcome to My Nightmare

No doubt you all witnessed the recent spectacle—uh, carnage—on CNN between two Presidents. While my thought was not to opine on what I saw, I do have to make the following points so I can once again attempt to enjoy a good night’s sleep without waking repeatedly in cold sweats. As I watched President Biden speak, freeze, slur, and look lost, angered, confused, sad, unpresidential, foolish, and generally uninspiring, my mind went to secured rooms around the world filled with the likes of Iranian mullahs, assorted terrorists, President Xi, President

Putin, Kim Jong Un, and others who seek to do us harm, and considered what they must be thinking as they watched CNN. Terrifying!

They have already taken actions that would have been unthinkable four years earlier, and as they watched that night’s debate, I would guess they felt emboldened to attempt actions in the next five months while sleepy Joe is still at the switch. This scares the hell out of me.

Worse yet, understand that Joe Biden is the Commander in Chief with his finger on the nuclear button. If that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, my guess is that you are not conscious.

Welcome to my nightmare.

 

The Five-Pound Locks and an Impressionable Teenager

It was 1970. I was 14 years old and helping my dad at the family laundry in the heart of New York City’s Time Square. Imagine a skilless teenager, sleepy and annoyed, “helping” Dad at 7:00 a.m.—prepping the store for the day’s work. Not only did I not want to be there, but I didn’t even want to be awake. That was not on the day’s menu, however. My dad was a no-nonsense boss who expected things to be done right the first time. So you can imagine his disappointment with his bell-bottomed, long-haired, lazy, inattentive son screwing things up time after time. But something strange happened during those long summer days as I worked 10 to 12 hours side by side with my dad. My thinking started to change, and I developed a work ethic.

For some strange reason, my mind goes back to three heavy steel locks that secured the large iron gates that protected the store’s glass windows from random attacks by New York’s criminals. Each morning, I turned the small keys that opened the three heavy, gleaming locks, and what occurred to me was that those locks were protecting the asset that fed, clothed, and sheltered our family. Without them, Norton’s Laundry & Dry Cleaning Company would be helpless against rocks, bricks, crowbars, and assorted attacked by those who wanted to steal and damage anything not nailed down. Times Square was not a safe place in the 1960s, the 1970s, or the 1980s, and police presence could not be counted on.

 

Make it Count- Make Your Voice Heard 

A big shout-out to my many mentors who have instilled in me many important lessons. Chief among them is that I learned not to play small. It’s easy to blend in, be average, and not rock the boat. It’s comfortable to sit in the back of the room and hope you’re not called on. I guess that’s what many aspire to, and that’s a damn shame. WE need to speak up and make our voices heard, especially on Election Day. If you’re going to play, play big. Whatever you DO, make it count!

 

America Has a Reading Emergency

There is a large swath of our population who receive their information from TikTok and YouTube videos. For them, the written word has been relegated to the trash heap, something their parents and grandparents engaged in that is no longer desirable or necessary. Woe to them when they apply for a job and actually are required to read something. I can see it now:

Job applicant: Um, do you happen to have the employment questions on video? It would be really super if I could watch it on TikTok on my phone.

Potential employer: Sorry, we can’t accommodate you on that. You see, we expect our employees to read and understand. Uh, actually I don’t think you’re a great match for our company. It was nice meeting you, Miss. Please see the person at the desk on your way out and surrender your visitor pass.

Job applicant: I really don’t feel comfortable being called Miss. My professors taught me that is micro-aggression to make me feel inferior. I thought your company would provide me a safe space where I could grow as a social person. I really don’t think I could work here. You probably don’t like me anyway.

Potential employer: I like you just fine, but you appear to have no abilities, and uh, you can’t or don’t want to read. We require our employees to think and read, and it appears you have neither of those skills. We don’t hire the useless. And we are a safe place in that we have never had any harassment claims. I wish you well. This interview is over. Good day.

 

$$$ Better Spent at Home to Fight Crime

The U.S. Department of Labor will invest $4 million to reduce barriers impeding LGBTQI+ youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Evidently, the Biden Administration feels that gay etc. youth have less educational and occupational opportunities in South America and the Caribbean so they feel compelled to send US taxpayer money there to help solve the problem. ’Nuff said . . .

 

YES! We Need More Billionaires

Mackenzie Scott who divorced Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has reportedly given away $16.5 billion since the divorce. In July 2024, she announced another $640 million in charitable donations to 361 small nonprofits. Michael Bloomberg gave away $3 billion in 2023 and $1 billion to Johns Hopkins in July 2024.The list goes on and on—wickedly successful people (or their spouses) giving away gargantuan sums of money to help the less fortunate and endow universities, performing arts centers, hospitals, libraries, and more.

Have you ever noticed the names of folks on hospital wings when you go in for an operation? Odds are that some billionaire donated all the money needed to build the hospital wing that your ass is sitting in. So yes, we need more of these billionaires, the same ones that insane Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders says are cousins of the devil. Capitalism allows the extraordinary to flourish. Think about Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and scores more. According to the Charities Aid Foundation, America was the most charitable nation on the planet between 2009 and 2018. Since then, it has consistently ranked near the top.

Billionaires also pay ultra large tax bills. Data from Americans for Tax Fairness reports that billionaires pay either hundreds of millions or billions in taxes. So the next time you hear some politician bitching that their secretary pays higher taxes then Joe or Jane Billionaire, tell them to shove it because they are lying through their teeth. By the way, President Biden lied when he told Americans that the average tax rate for billionaires is 8.2%.

 

What Is the ROI (Return on Investment) of My Political Science Degree?

Well, as near as I can tell, the ROI of my political science degree—and mind you, this is just an approximation—is, in round numbers, uh, um, zero. Yep. Nothing, nada, zilch, nil. To get my bachelor’s degree, I most likely had to take scores of credits dealing with government, the U.S. Constitution, the courts, the executive branch, and on and on. Not one iota of it has been valuable to me over the last 47 years. None of it has helped support my family, buy a house, pay down a mortgage, send my kids to college, build a nest egg, or grow a 401(k) and other assorted assets.

Instead, what was worth its weight in gold and silver was (pay attention, class; this is a writer downer) everything I learned about selling, marketing, public speaking, networking, goal setting, writing, pig-headed determination , saying thank you, being on time, AND a love of reading. If you are not reading at least two books each month, you are competing with folks who are reading two, three, four, or even five books a month, and YES, you will most likely be at a disadvantage. And when it comes to learning from mentors, there are two time frames to keep in mind—now and not now. Which do YOU think will yield the highest return?

It is imperative that you have mentors who have been there and done that. My list of mentors is long, including Dan Kennedy, Gary Halbert, Doberman Dan, Brian Tracy, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Hopkins, Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Lee Milteer, Jay Abraham, Brendon Burchard, Jeffrey Gitomer, Darren Hardy and others. I learned from these mentors in person and from their books, newsletters, cassettes, and CDs. The magic of it all is to listen repeatedly, read, re-read, absorb the lessons, write your own notes by hand, and read and re-read your notes over and over until the lessons are part of your knowledge bank that you can call upon instantly. Remember, we change lives with the skills we have.

Were I to counsel someone who is having trouble picking a college major, my best advice would be to NOT do what I did. Run—don’t walk—away from political science!

 

There’s a New Reality Coming

Whether Kamala Harris is elected in November and things get decidedly worse or Trump is elected and things get decidedly better, our lives will never be the same. Hopefully, our new reality will include the following:

• American energy independence
• Lower prices at the pump
• Lower interest rates
• Lower mortgage rates
• Lower inflation
• Lower crime rate
• Completing the border wall
• Deporting illegals who have no legal right to be in the United States

 

Cell Phone Idiocy

Do you really need your cell phone every time you go to the toilet? I believe it has something to do with cell phone anxiety—the fear of being disconnected. What if someone posts something on Instacrap and you are not there to respond withing 12 seconds??? Will you be blackballed, ostracized, made fun of, not allowed to sit at the cool kids table at lunch, not be invited to the party, or, worse, be unfriended?

Social media has become today’s Wild West with few rules and many gangsters vying for power and dominion over common folk. Not only do I not personally know anyone with a gazillion followers, I don’t care to. I’m certain that if influencing were a college major, they could not find enough “professors” to teach the classes.

Hi. I’m John. I’m an influencer. I have 289,000 followers. What do you do?

I, uh, work at Starbucks.

I remember sitting in an advanced writing and speaking class taught by Brian Tracy in his Santa Barbara office. Brian is the author of over 70 books that I’m aware of. Something in particular he said resonated with me to my core, and to this day, I have never forgotten it. He said, “The very worst use of your time is to do very well that which need not be done at all.”

So the next time you run into someone with a vice-like grip on their iPhone, tell them to loosen up and get a life.

 

Few People Have Seen a Vault Like This One

The year may have been 1975. I could be wrong. But back then I had a job at the Greater New York Blood Bank. It was somewhere on the upper west side of Manhattan near Amsterdam Avenue. I got the job either through the friend of a cousin or the cousin of a friend. Who knows? The blood vault contained several hundred pints of blood that was the emergency reserve for New York City hospitals.

Anyway, the job was kinda part-time—three days a week, 14-hour shifts, complete with a bed for sleeping on the job. You see, my shift was 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m. the next morning. My job was to answer the phone when a hospital called and said they needed pints of blood or platelets for emergency surgery. It was not uncommon for Beth Israel Hospital, Montefiore Hospital, or NYU Medical Center to scream that they need nine pints of O negative blood for a gunshot wound to the chest. These calls woke me out of a sound sleep on many occasions.

Many nights—I called them the calm ones—I wouldn’t get a call for three or four hours, which allowed me to sleep like a baby and get paid. The ringer on the phone was set to maximum so I would never sleep through an emergency call. When the call came in, I immediately called my medical supervisor who authorized the release of a certain number of units based on how many pints were in the vault. I would then walk into the vault and retrieve the specified number of pints, pack them with dry ice, and call a taxi cab to speed them to the waiting hospital and surgery suite.

And yes, it was one of the strangest jobs I have ever had, not including my week at the Brockport Diner. But that’s a story for another day . . .

 

 

 

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Growing up as a kid in the 1960s in downtown Manhattan (the one in New York, not Kansas), I was afforded a ringside seat to the world of hard work, perseverance, planning, goal-setting, and achievement. The best lessons provided came from watching my dad, an entrepreneur who inherited a small Times Square laundry from his parents and grew it into a large, profitable enterprise that thrived for five decades. I looked around and saw people working, often more than the minimum eight hours, to put a roof over their heads and food on the table. The few folks I spoke with who attended college took courses that instilled skills—something lacking in today’s college curriculum.

Trade schools flourished, teaching money skills such as carpentry, welding, electrical work, plumbing, and the like. There were “schools” whose classrooms were acres of dirt and mounds of sand where students were taught how to operate bulldozers, cranes, scrapers, and other heavy yellow machinery. Truck driving schools taught eager students how to operate long haul trailers coast to coast. These schools were filled with eager minds in search of marketable skills, not excuses. There were no demonstrations or riots over diversity, inclusion, or equality. There were whites, blacks, Asians, and others who were all there for one reason and one reason only—to learn and apply skills so they could get high-paying jobs. They were there to do the work, not complain.

Now, take a look around you. Let me tell you what I see. Half of America doesn’t want to work. They want taxpayers to pay off their student loans, and they can’t cook for themselves, opting for fast food delivery from others who think Postmates, Google Food, or DoorDash are careers. They complain that food costs are too high, gas is too expensive, and buying a home with an 8% mortgage rate is not affordable. And we are supposed to feel sorry for these cretins who voted the current slate of incompetent progressive liberal Democrats into office with their promises of handouts, entitlements, and outright cash.

These same incompetents’ policies have lit the fuse to ongoing high inflation, woke policies, and inane overregulation. Their narrative goes something like this. As all of you self-important Millennials have graduated from college—sans skills—without any useful abilities that are in demand by employers, and as you have retreated to the comfort of your parents’ basement and have no ability to feed or clothe yourself, or obviously to afford the newest generation of iPhone, you need the government to step in and provide entitlements so you don’t starve to death and shrivel up as a penniless, incompetent, whining collection of atoms and molecules.

 

Global Warming and the State of Texas

The climate police would have you believe that every weather event striking our southern states—Texas among them—is the result of global warming, overdependence on fossil fuels, farting cows, and the like. It’s a shame that inconvenient facts get in the way of their narrative.

Take Galveston, Texas, for example. In 1900, long before today’s climate terrorists started screaming global warming, a massive hurricane with winds of 145 miles per hour devastated the island city on the Gulf Coast of Texas, causing thousands of deaths. And this is not a new phenomenon. Major hurricanes are said to hit the Texas coast on average every 15 years. In fact all the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico have a long history of severe storm activity, so Galveston is in good company.

Here’s a message to all the progressive climate activists. Methane from herds of cattle and recent fracking for oil and gas did not bring on a sudden surge of hurricane activity. The facts seem to be inconvenient. I think these progressive and intolerant climate police are skating on thin ice.

 

One Group’s Entitlement Is another Group’s Obligation

I wonder if all those folks who have had their student loans cancelled by President Biden truly understand who is footing the bill for their cancelled debt. Something else I wonder about is whether all the illegals who have crossed our Southern border and were provided debit cards, cell phones, medical assistance, and plane tickets believe—like the delusional students—that the US government paid for it all.

Well, yes, in a sense, they have. But truth has many layers, just like some vegetables I won’t name. You see, the government has money to give away when it goes in debt and when it taxes working Americans. The government takes from one group—taxpayers—and gives the money to another group— illegals or debt-ridden students. I am fine sending all illegals over the border and being rid of them. Hopefully, President Trump will have the opportunity to make my dream come true.

 

Biased Historian – Turn LEFT at Democrat Crossing

A Fox News article written by Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi and published on June 3, 2024, had me rolling my eyes before I even read the second paragraph. Evidently, an MSNBC Presidential historian (didn’t know there were historians on woke media payrolls) warned that if Donald Trump won the Presidency a second time, the United States “would dissolve into dictatorship and anarchy.”

Wow! Talk about extreme right-wing rhetoric passing itself off as informed commentary from a noted news source. The “historian” in question is Michael Beschloss, a prominent political historian turned radical left-wing asshat. In his comments on Twitter about the Mar-a-Lago raid on President Trump’s home, he compared it to the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case. He defended himself by saying, “I was not suggesting that Donald Trump be executed. I was doing a historical tweet about the most famous nuclear secrets case in American history.” A historical tweet? Someone might smack this fellow in the head for uttering such drivel.

I long ago decided to place MSNBC on my do not watch list due to their cultural elites telling me everything I am thinking is wrong and just conservative nonsense, and that only they have the key to American goodness and what’s good for our country. Phooey! My distrust of corporate media skyrocketed as I listened to journalists leaving out key facts that didn’t support their narratives. I liken the talking heads at MSNBC to self-righteous foot soldiers of the far left.

Come to Think of It

You know, I can’t turn around without reading headlines about our knucklehead leader. This time, Mr. Biden was set to veto a military funding bill over abortion, gay rights, and DEI provisions. These are not exactly the three most important things that come to mind when I think of supporting our brave men and women who defend our country.

“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense- to fight the government.”

—Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father, First Treasury Secretary, chief architect of the American financial system

By the way, in June 2023, President Biden berated Second Amendment supporters, saying, “You know, I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is—you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15,”

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My guess is that hospital trauma departments (everywhere but Vermont) would be overflowing should there be a repeat of the Bernie for President movement. While progressives would be high-fiving each other, conservatives such as myself would be experiencing heart attacks, palpitations, and extreme cases of nausea and vomiting. Nothing makes my blood run colder than Sanders, Warren, Nadler, Schumer, Waters, Schiff, Newsom, AOC, Jeffries, and the absurd cast of leftist characters who seek to tear down our constitutional republic and hoist a banana republic in its place.

At age 82, Bernie Sanders has outlived his usefulness in the United States Senate. We could craft a powerful argument that this actually occurred in 2007, his first year as a United States Democratic Senator from Vermont. One astute journalist, Peter Kirsanow, writing for the National Review on February 25, 2020, called him “terminally obtuse” and “the most useful idiot.” I couldn’t agree more. Ben Shapiro, one of the brightest minds in the country, also calls him an idiot, and for good reason. So I’m in good company. Peter, Ben and even Donald Trump agree with me that this senator should be put out to pasture, or at least in a nursing home for the criminally stupid. Count me as one of the tens of millions who do not want to feel the Bern.

I make no bones about it. This progressive neoliberal, defender of economic equality, and all- around asshat would do America a favor by retiring and allowing saner minds to take his place. In a time of intense and growing military threats throughout the world, Sanders is often heard jawboning for reduced military spending. Although I am not a resident of Vermont, his influence is felt from coast to coast as a senior member and Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. What it means is that he has undue influence in the areas of legislation. Think Title IX, misgendering, men in women’s locker rooms, and men playing on women’s sports teams. The list of insane policies he supports is damn near endless. Were I his dad, I would have taken him out behind the woodshed decades ago and beat the snot out of him.

 

Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue

It is not far-fetched to consider the following Democratic scenario: Biden anoints Kamala as his heir apparent and bows out of the race. Probable? Not certain. Possible? Yes. My bags are packed, and I’m ready to go anywhere but here. A Kamala presidency is frankly terrifying. 

Can things go from bad to worse? Yes. During her last campaign, Kamala focused on offering incremental improvements on Barack Obama’s policies. No thank you! Harris is a despicable politicians who lies, cheats, and deceives at every turn. 

If Harris was running America, I fear more of the progressive Democratic policies championed by Biden and Obama, two of the worst Presidents of my lifetime (and that includes Carter when the economy sank into the abyss of double-digit mortgages, sky-high interest rates, and rampant inflation). While Taylor Swift announces that she will leave America if Donald Trump is elected President, I’m fairly certain that Kamala would invite her to sing at the inauguration, and for Christmas, Easter, and Transgender, Bisexual, Non-Binary Appreciation Day. I see the Internet exploding with tweets of joy and the whole World Wide Web crashing to dust. Welcome to my nightmare.

 

Where Do All Those Trump Dollars Go?

Yes, I have donated to the Trump campaign. I’ll keep the amount secret from all but family.

But what is interesting is the amount of direct mail I have been receiving from every member of the Trump family—except young Barron (I haven’t gotten a fundraising letter from him yet, but I wait patiently). What’s even more interesting is that I receive multiple letters every day from Eric, Don Jr., and even Don Sr. himself asking for contributions. And mind you, they are not shy about their ask. There’s no mention of giving $25, $37, or $50. These pros are asking for $100, $500, $1,000 and more. 

The copy (how the professional copywriters crafted their pitch) is worthy of study in advanced direct mail marketing courses. Dan Kennedy would love it! I suspect that the most profitable use of the dollars they collect is to turn around and send more pleas for cash. I guess it works for the majority of those receiving the letters. They must figure that the best return on the cash is to spend it on postage and more letters rather than tablecloths at banquets, flowers, and gas for the limo. As for me, I’m jaded. I understand their strategy, and I only give when the moment strikes me. Still, I read each word of the letters since they are superbly well-crafted. Their focus is on saving America from the horrific policies of the Biden gang. Do you want an MBA in persuasive letter writing? Send the Trump campaign some money, and you will hear from them weekly.

Then study and use the principles they employ.

 

Exclusionary and Outdated – Not on My Watch

All the yelling and foot stomping—I don’t get it. I’m referring to the continued insanity and hysterical theatrics going on in the New York City Council. They have pushed Mayor Eric Adams to authorize in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for gay men employed by the city government. Their thinking, simply put, is that if a husband and wife are incapable of getting pregnant, the city health plan steps in and foots the bill, which runs into the tens of thousands of dollars. Why should two gay men equipped with prostates, testicles, and penises not qualify for the same benefits? Its discrimination! Call out the troops! Make the taxpayers pay!

The lawmakers argue that family building benefits should be offered to all employees, and it cannot be conditioned on a definition of heteronormative infertility. In other words, where pregnancy is a biological impossibility—absent a Dr. Frankenstein cutting off Harold’s scrotum and inserting a working uterus and other assorted internal plumbing—should not determine the availability of benefits. (Read FREE MONEY). I can go on and tell you more of this inane situation, but the more I read about it the worse my headache gets. If you are interested, you have more than enough information to google the rest of it. In other words, have at it! ’Nuff said.

 

The Six Default Behaviors of Dumb Voters

1. Failure to investigate candidates
2. Asking your friend, spouse, brother, sister who they are voting for and doing the same
3. Deciding whether your vote will count and then just voting for random candidates
4. Only voting for President and disregarding all other candidates
5. Voting for candidates whose names you like
6. Failure to understand candidates’ policies and relevant experience

 

We No Longer Use This Word

It seems the Biden administration has stopped using the term Bidenomics since the public does not associate it with good economics. Truth be told, for the average American, it should reflect a 21 percent increase in overall prices during the 3+ years of the failed and harebrained policies of the Biden administration 

 

The Catastrophe at Our Southern Border

In case you missed it, masses of ungrateful illegal immigrants have been captured on video hurling rocks at border patrol agents. They are doing this to distract border agents so others can run across the border and get away. These are not people we want anywhere near our borders. In fact, we should be doing everything possible to throw their asses out of America. I recently spoke with hosts of the Institute of World Politics, and these deranged liberals see no problem with this. They should listen to New York Republican Congressman Anthony D’Esposito who explains why illegals are sucking American resources, and we are all worse off for it.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is complicit with Joe Biden in creating the worst American immigration crisis in modern history. Here is data from the Department of Homeland Security. There were more “gotaways” in fiscal years 2021 to 2023 (1.6 million) than the entire decade from 2010 to 2020 (1.4 million). This is in addition to the reported 9.5 million illegals who entered our country due to Biden’s insane and dangerous border policies.

Don’t be fooled by talk of a compromise plan that the Senate and Biden are pushing that would allow 5,000 migrants to enter each day (that’s 1.5 million per year) before the borders would be sealed. This is basically an attempt to legalize massive immigration and should not be allowed to become law. This is insanity! Schumer is on record as saying that “our ultimate goal is to grant citizenship to every illegal in the country.”

And if you missed it, the world-famous New York Post reported that illegals are flooding the border prior to our November elections, anticipating a Trump win that would immediately shut down the border.

HELP VOTE THESE DISPICABLE POLITICANS OUT OF OFFICE

 

Inflammatory Rhetoric ─ The Biden Administration Superpower

We all remember the Biden speeches that promised to bring the nation together, to forge alliances among diverse groups, and to move the country forward as one nation. Well, that was all a crock of shit. Biden and Company has done more to harm race relations than any other administration in modern memory. Each time he stands at a lectern, his talk divides people and places them in separate categories. Some journalists characterize his speeches as spewing venom. They’re not wrong.

 

Biden Does NOT Surround Himself with Competence

Look at Biden’s advisors. We have an enfeebled gay mayor of a small Midwest city with no relevant experience or expertise acting like a Secretary of Transportation. He was chosen because of his sexual orientation. We have a transgender man in a dress sporting lipstick and high heels and parading himself/herself/itself around as an HHS Assistant Secretary. We have a useless biracial Vice President because she checked off the boxes—(a) woman (b) Black. People are NOT selected based on merit, expertise, experience, and ethics. They are chosen because they can check off the boxes.

 

Boston: I Find You Profoundly Disturbing

I have great disdain for Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu, a progressive liberal. She is an unfit politician who is well-intentioned AND incompetent. Boston has become a city where immorality is commonplace—the new normal. What kind of message does it send to criminals when they find out that some of their crimes will not be prosecuted? Hey, it’s okay. We’ll look the other way. What happens then? They become emboldened and bring it up a notch. I for one don’t want to be there when that happens.

Mayor Wu believes in this policy and is fighting to make it permanent—that lower-level crimes should not be prosecuted. What is a lower-level crime?

• Breaking and entering
• Shoplifting
• Receiving stolen goods
• Larceny
• Driving with a suspended license

Should a lowlife be caught breaking and entering the Mayor’s residence and be caught stealing her personal possessions and adding them to all the stuff he shoplifted earlier that day while joy riding with a suspended license and found to be in possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, this piece of human trash would not be prosecuted.

Just splendid!

Perpetrators of crimes should be punished, not let off because it is politically expedient. Lawlessness feeds on itself. You get more of what you tolerate. It’s a pity that this idiot Mayor doesn’t know that. Evidently, Harvard Law School did not teach Ms. Wu common sense.

Residents of Boston voted this idiot into office. Now they will deal with the inevitable consequences of their poor decision.

 

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It would be really difficult and damn near impossible to look around you and honestly say that we are all better off than we were three years ago. Back in 2020, Barack Obama reportedly said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” It seems my second least favorite American President knew a thing or two about his right-hand man. But let’s get back on point. I’m going to assume that you, like me, love America. Were that not the case, you would have moved by now to parts unknown. But you’re still here—and that tells me you have faith in this country. And if you love America and have faith in it, you want the best for it, right? Do you honestly believe that Joe Biden is best for America? If you do, please tell me why you feel that way. I am willing to listen.

Look at the long list of the Biden Administration’s dubious accomplishments. What do you see? An emboldened liberal Democrat leadership that seeks to control everything? Regulatory overreach that knows no bounds? I think you would see socialist policies that would make our Founding Fathers choke on their evening ale. You’d also see a misuse of government funds on a scale I have never seen before.

Let me share a story with you. Let’s focus on one issue that will serve to highlight Biden’s incompetence and failed policies. Think back to 2021 and the passage of the monstrosity Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that earmarked $7.5 billion for 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations to be built by 2030 across America.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg—former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, population 102,000, who brings NO skills to this present job whatsoever—has attempted to defend why only eight charging stations have been built since funding began in 2021. It’s now 2024, folks, and they have built eight charging stations. What does that tell you? Listening to Secretary Buttcrack is like listening to California Governor Gavin Newsom explain away his state’s massive $60 billion debt by blaming it on “oceans of air currents” and global warming.

Americans understand that snake oil salesmen sell snake oil. These frauds don’t sell the truth. They want power and money, and everything and everyone else be damned. We Americans deserve better. If you love America, vote Joe Biden and his band of deceitful politicians out of office come this November.

 

Duct Tape Won’t Fix Broken America

Nearly every American knows that almost all challenges (“problems”) can be solved with a combination of (a) hard work, (b) money, and (c) duct tape.

This is clear to just about anyone but liberal Democrats, socialists, and anarchists in the Biden Administration who have refused to put in the hard work to secure America’s borders. Current estimates of the number of illegals pouring across our borders top 12 million. Not to beat you over the head, but that’s the population of Maryland and Missouri combined.

The Biden Administration, along with states and cities such as Denver, California, New York, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and more are wasting no time to throw taxpayer money at all manner of illegals. And NO, they are NOT newcomers—they are illegals who have broken our laws.

According to retired police detective and outspoken conservative New York Republican Congressman Anthony D’Esposito, America’s resources are being diverted from helping American citizens in need to helping illegals who should be expelled from this country. D’Esposito serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security. Moreover, this is a politician who arrested murderers, rapists, and all sorts of human garbage during his ten-year stint with the New York Police Department.

In a recent interview, D’Esposito said

“There are places where those resources that normally would be utilized by good, hardworking Americans are being sucked up at this point by migrants.”

There is not enough duct tape to solve the shit storm Biden has created. What we need is a change of leadership and a draining of the swamp. If you doubt this, you’re not as smart as you think you are. Election Day—you know, November 5th—can’t come soon enough.

 

Slapping the American Voter Upside the Head

At what point will the American electorate come to the conclusion that they are worse off under Biden polices? I can drone on about mortgage rates, inflation, immigration, crime, energy independence, regulatory overreach, and more, but I won’t. Instead, I will ask a series of simple questions. When you hear President Biden speak:

• Does he instill confidence?
• Is he clear thinking?
• Is he a strong leader?
• Is he decisive?
• Does he make smart decisions?
• Is he sharp as a tack?
• Are you okay with his mental competence?

Congressman Jerry Nadler says that Donald Trump “is a threat to our democracy, to the rule of law, and to the integrity of our elections.” Gee! That’s what I say about him and his despicable colleagues.

 

Their Plan to Confiscate Your Wealth

In their never-ending strategy to tax every dollar that is not nailed down, some states—among them California—are trying to push a bill that would tax wealth above $50 million. If you have

$50 million, they are seeking to confiscate 1% annually. If you have $250 million, they are seeking to confiscate 2% annually. After all, the states are on a mission to redistribute wealth and pull up those folks who don’t like to work for a living. They want to put an electric car in every garage and a vegan meatloaf in every electric non-gas oven.

An intelligent strategy to counter a state that proposes an annual wealth tax such as the one California is proposing is to simply uproot and move across state lines. California in particular is notorious for figuring out new ways to fleece folks of their hard-earned money. They take pay your fair share to a whole new level. It’s not enough to tax your income; now they want to tax net worth—the wealth successful individuals have built up over a lifetime. Tell me this does not smack of Atlas Shrugged and the warnings author Ayn Rand wrote about over 60 years ago.

 

It’s Time to Retire These Stodgy Old Democrats

After 40 years of serving in the House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer (D-MD) ought to take a victory lap and ride off to a new position, hopefully as a greeter in a big-box store. The 84-year- old Congressman is certainly entitled to one of those fold-up lawn chairs while sitting at his post in the lobby of Lowes or Home Depot. Why not be comfortable as he directs folks to plumbing supplies in aisle 7 or bidets in aisle 20?

Like a quart of spoiled milk way past its expiration date, this stinking Democrat has seen better days. Currently he continues to support squad member Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), someone I find reprehensible although the idiots in her Michigan district reelect her as some form of self- inflicted masochism.

Perhaps Granddad Steny could convince all the other 40-plus-year members of Congress that it’s time to step down and let some unaddled brains take over. Our Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves and shouting, “Get the hell out!”

 

All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.

—Ronald Reagan
First Inaugural Address, 1981

 

Each state, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the Constitution will forever be a federal, and not a national, Constitution.

—James Madison
The Federalist Papers #39, January 16, 1788

 

 

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On May 24, 2024, Schumer delivered a speech where he called for all illegal aliens to be given a path to citizenship and be made legal citizens of the United States. May this deplorable politician be expelled from the country and his passport burned to a crisp.

 

Inflation, and Then Some…

According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of electricity is up almost 30% since January 2021.

U.S. gasoline prices have increased more than 50% since Joe Biden became President. When Donald Trump was President, the average price for gasoline was $2.38 per gallon. Joe

Biden can spin this until the cows come home, but the average family is being screwed by his

policies. I pray that folks wake up and don’t give him or one of his clowns another four years in the White House. March 2024 saw inflation rise another 3.5%. This ain’t over, folks, not by a long shot. Every time Biden says inflation has come down, he is playing the game of lying with statistics.

Let’s look at something as common as the price of butter. We all use it, except for you margarine folks. The price of butter has gone up $1 per pound since Biden took office. Let’s compare the price in January 2021—$3.64 per pound nationally—to February 2024 at $4.63 per pound.

That’s a 27% increase. I wouldn’t be surprised if the President has blamed it on global warming. Don’t think it stops at butter and gasoline at the pump. It doesn’t.

•  Boneless chicken breast up 26%
• White sugar up 44%
• White bread up 30%
• A dozen grade-A eggs up 103%
• Coffee up 30%

Hey, folks! I can do this all day long. Best you get your ass to the polling place in November and vote this clown out of office.

 

Baltimore Is the Undisputed Leader … in Drug Overdose Deaths

I lived in Maryland for decades and can count on one hand the number of times I ventured into Baltimore. Murders, carjackings, robberies, failing schools, race riots, and drugs are nothing new to that city. Baltimore has been grappling with these problems for 40 years or more, while city leaders blame everyone and everything but their own failed leadership.

Baltimore is number one among major cities when it comes to fatal drug overdoses. That was reported in a study published by the Baltimore Banner and the New York Times. Baltimore’s fatal overdose rate has quadrupled in the last 10 years. It seems the situation has gotten worse—much worse—while politicians tell us their policies are successful. Not that I’m an expert on any of this, but it appears the city is doing everything wrong. Three years ago, I bid Maryland a not-so- fond farewell. The decidedly Democratic, high-tax, blue state blamed its poor education scores, crime, drug problem, and poverty on everything but its own failed policies. It’s kind of like California blaming ALL their woes on Republicans, who have not been in power for years.

 

The Tax Hike That Kills the Economy

The Biden Administration has proposed a fiscal year 2025 federal budget that includes a whopping increase in the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and dividends to 44.6%. That’s about an 87% increase, people. The current top rate is 23.8% (including the 3.8% tax called the net investment income tax).

Granted, only folks making a lot of money pay the highest rates, but who do you think keeps the economy moving? If you listen to Biden, he downplays this and calls it a small increase so “the rich pay their fair share.” According to the latest government figures, the top 1% of earners in the United States paid 45.8% of all federal income taxes. Please tell me, President Biden, is their fair share 50%, 75%, or higher? At what point ARE they paying their fair share? Are we there yet?

Mr. Biden, stop playing politics. You are destroying the economy. You clearly are in over your head and should retire to a continuing care retirement community in Delaware.

 

 

Democrats Fall All over Themselves to Fund Ukraine – Not Israel or Our Southern Border

I read that the United States is expected to provide Ukraine an additional $275 million in military aid. The package includes an assortment of artillery rounds, rockets, and more. The amount of money we have provided to Ukraine now tops $50 billion. Meanwhile, aid to Israel and our own Southern border is hardly worth mentioning since they are clearly not priorities for the Biden Administration.

I side with Texas Senator Ted Cruz—give Israel what it needs to eradicate Hamas, and protect our own Southern border. Remember, it was not so long ago that Democrats, after the passage of an aid bill, shouted “Ukraine!’” while waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House of Representatives. The ONLY flag that should ever fly at the U.S. Capitol is the American flag. I think it was a disgusting and inappropriate display by Democrats. That bill provided an additional $60 billion of aid to Ukraine.

And by the way, I don’t remember Biden and company telling Ukraine how to fight their war. Although Biden asked them not to bomb Russian refineries for fear of increased world oil prices, Ukraine told them to go pound sand.

 

I Am Too Gentlemanly to Call the Governor of New York a Moron?

I grew up in Manhattan and spent a bunch of time in the Bronx as well. So I know the place. I just don’t want to live there anymore. During a recent rally for former President Trump in the Bronx, New York’s governor called Trump supporters clowns. Mind you, these are her constituents, residents of New York City, and she’s acting like a juvenile asshat.

Not only did the governor insult a former President, but this left wing turd insulted people who likely voted for her and now are seeing the light of Democratic failed policies. This behavior is typical of left wing Democrats. They can’t fight on the facts so they choose to hurl insults, which corporate media is all too happy to report on. In fact, the governor called these New Yorkers clowns during a CNN interview. Why does that not surprise me? CNN is as far left as it gets, and it is everything pro- Biden and anti-Trump. My sense is that being called clowns by their own governor will not go over well come the November elections. New York is a cesspool that I left in 1983.

 

The Demands for Reparations Keep Coming

Black people living in Boston in the 1600s were treated poorly—very poorly. Is that why almost 400 years later, Black Bostonians are demanding $15 billion in reparations? The Boston People’s Reparations Commission is not coy about their ask. They are demanding.

Who exactly is expected to pay these reparations? College students attending four-year schools in the city? Folks who moved to Boston because they thought it was a cool, liberal place to live? What about the software engineer whose company just transferred him and 100 colleagues from

North Carolina to their new corporate home in Boston? Boston taxpayers pay 5% income tax. In fact, their tax liability rises to 9% if their taxable income exceeds $1,000,000.Woe be on to you if you are financially successful in Massachusetts. Remember, that is 9% on TOP of federal tax liability. And Boston owes some $7.2 billion and is in financial trouble. Adding $15 billion of additional debt would sink the city into the muck of the Charles River. Folks who demand other people’s money don’t consider any of this. After all, it’s not their problem.

And by the way, my guess is that there are thousands and thousands of African American Bostonians who have done just fine financially.

 

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