A loud and clear message was sent by voters on November 5th

November 26, 2024

The people spoke on November 5th, voting to make Donald Trump and J.D. Vance our next President and Vice President, and to give both houses of Congress a Republican majority.

And now, even after the disastrous message provided by the election results, the political left still is committed to divisiveness, unpopular attitudes and even illegal activities.

The election was a mandate from the people. The policies and realities of the last four years are highly unpopular, and voters want to restore the nation to the condition of the four years before President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in 2021, and to continue policies of that nature.

The election was a thumbs-down message about the absurd and dangerous virtual “open-border” policy that allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens to enter the country at will. The Biden administration even secretly flew thousands of illegals into the country, avoiding the border altogether. 

These illegal aliens are people with a variety of motives for coming here. Some are coming for the right reasons, even if their method of entering is a crime. But many, many others are drug dealers, women traffickers, child traffickers, robbers, rapists, murderers and other types of criminals. And some of them are on the terror watch list.

While many of them have been charged with crimes, the recent guilty verdict in the trial of the illegal alien with a heavily checkered criminal past who was accused of murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley is indisputable proof that this and other crimes have occurred because the border security measures that were in place when Biden and Harris took office were cancelled in what looked like a 5-year-old’s temper tantrum on Biden’s part.

None of this seemed to even attract the interest of the Biden administration, which attempted unsuccessfully to blame the problem they created on the Republicans in Congress. The Republicans voted down a bad bill that supposedly was to address the situation, but wasn’t available until early 2024.

Biden’s reversing of Trump policies that were working pretty well also threw the country into four years of exceedingly high inflation. The war on domestic oil is responsible for the high gasoline and diesel prices, and shattered America’s energy independent status. It forced us to import oil and gas from other countries instead of using our own resources.

Under the Biden economic policies, people can’t afford things that had previously been affordable. Prices rose by more than 20 percent, a 40-year high. The average family of four was paying an additional $17,080 per year. The goods and services they could afford before January 2021, had risen to $1,423 per month more than before.

Businesses are caught in the middle of this mess. They have to deal with higher prices for the goods they market, and the components of the goods and services they produce. Increased costs lead to increased prices. And increased prices lead to unhappy customers and fewer customers who can afford the higher prices.

This affects small businesses greatly, as they are less able to deal with higher operational costs than the large companies. Some of them are forced to close down, putting workers on the unemployment line.

The public complaints of price increases on needed items led presidential candidate Harris to play politics with the inflation caused by the Biden/Harris administration.

Harris threatened to introduce a national ban on price gouging, if elected. She told an audience that her plan would “stop companies taking advantage of the desperation and need of the American consumer and jacking up prices without any consequences.”

These so-called “progressive” policies so badly affected the American people that they voted against them, and said a very loud “Stop it!” They don’t want open borders. They don’t like the much higher prices. It was a definite “No” to the exceedingly foolish Biden policies.

The country now looks ahead to next year when the Trump administration can begin to address the problem of millions of illegal aliens in the country and the costs in dollars and lives they bring. But blue state governors and blue city mayors have publicly announced their intention to fight the administration’s efforts to deport the millions of illegals who were happily, but illegally, welcomed into sanctuary states and cities.

For example, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has said that he would “fight to the death” against the Trump administration if it acted against New Jersey’s “values.” And Matt Platkin, New Jersey’s Attorney General, commented on X (formerly Twitter) that while he respects the electoral process and trusts in the peaceful transition of power, he will resist what he termed Trump’s unlawful attack on the “rights” of New Jersey residents to be in the country illegally.

But a majority of the country’s voters has said loudly that they are fed up with the dangers and expense of millions of illegal aliens being here, and with the unnecessarily high prices on everything they need and want.

They want an end to the foolish policies that brought these problems to us. The question now is, will the Democrats get the message and give up their radical un-American impulses?

What is happening in the aftermath of the 2024 election

November 12, 2024

“A relatively trouble-free presidential election was good news for those working to restore faith in the system,” the Associated Press (AP) reported last week. “Less encouraging was a flood of misinformation that sought to undermine trust in voting and sow chaos, something experts say is likely to get worse in the years ahead.”

So far, not many problems have been reported, but the AP did note that “The most significant test for officials on Election Day was a series of bomb threats reported in five battleground states, some of which forced polling places to be evacuated temporarily.”

Early voting saw more than 84 million people who voted either in person or by mail. Together with votes from polling places, former President Donald Trump won the popular vote with 74,783,561 votes and the Electoral College with 312 votes. Vice President Kamala Harris received 71,187,165 votes and 226 Electoral College votes, as the AP reported Sunday. 

Green Party candidate Jill Stein received 704,468 votes, and Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. received 681,096, even though he had withdrawn from the contest, and despite his efforts was left on the ballot in some states.

Now that this much-anticipated election of the next President, members of Congress and various state and local races is over, people might expect things to settle down.

But no, there is still a very lively atmosphere in the country. Of course, Trump followers are pretty happy with the results. They are now concerned with the transfer of power and seeing who Trump will put in the important positions of the new administration.

But those on the other side are having serious problems dealing with what happened. A lot of comments were focused on Donald Trump and all of the reasons why he shouldn’t have won, rather than on why Harris didn’t win.

Some serious and sensible observers, however, have focused on problems with the Harris campaign, generally giving her accolades, but also mentioning things she didn’t do that would have helped her, and things she did that didn’t help.

In a column in The Washington Post contributing columnist Matt Bai said this: “But you must admit that Harris, like Hillary Clinton then, was not a perfect candidate with a clear message. I think the most stunning numbers in some of the state exit polling are those that show Trump winning significant shares of union voters, Black voters and Latino voters. To me, that sort of confirms my instinct that it was risky, if not negligent, for Harris to run a campaign that was almost entirely about how awful her opponent is.”

And comedian Bill Maher, a self-described liberal who often says some very wise things, called the Democratic party “losers” and suggested that they “look in the mirror” following the election. “We had an election,” he said during a “Real Time” monologue on HBO Friday night. “I did not vote for the winner, we’ll see what the winners do now. They won, now they have reality they have to deal with. We’ll see what they do.”

But not everyone is so calm and sensible. We find the common idea of some celebrities threatening to move out of the country, while others refuse to perform in red states. There have also been videos made by disenchanted Harris followers screaming at the top of their lungs about their plight.

They are predicting that there will be no more elections, and that Trump will go after his political enemies, just as the DOJ and the left has done to him. 

“I think that we also have to deal with the issue of race and gender. There was a lot of gender bias in this,” said Al Sharpton. “There was a lot of race bias in this and I think that we thought a lot of voters were more progressive in those areas than they were.”

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin was "profoundly disturbed by the results." She feels for the working class, the elderly and her own daughter, claiming she "now has less rights than I have." She worries that Trump will establish "internment camps." And she also said that "sexism and misogyny" were how Trump won the Latino vote in a Texas county that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.

Other Harris supporters made these comments: “I might wake up a slave.” “I’m in Texas and I am so afraid.” “If you’re a black man and you voted for Trump … I hope that cop beats you so good.” “Trying not to worry too much but I’ve been up since 3 crying and panicking.” “I feel like i’ll [sic] be going 6ft under.” “I’m panicking [for real.] We need a proper evacuation plan.”

Fortunately for us all, we did not elect a candidate because of their race or gender, or because they refused press conferences and answering questions in a serious manner. And we did not fail to elect a candidate because of their personality, the baseless and silly references to Hitler and fascism, and because they are a lawfare victim. 

Instead, we elected a candidate based on policies proven far better than what the American people and the nation have suffered under for the last four years.

Biden yields to party’s demands and withdraws from the race

July 30, 2024

In convincing President Joe Biden to abandon his fierce determination to run for a second term, the Democrats demonstrated how they work to “save our democracy” by using a highly undemocratic method to persuade him to step aside, and to choose his replacement. This left Democrat voters wondering what happened to their ability to select who will be their party’s candidate.

This action prompted many to say that if the party believes Biden cannot adequately serve another term, he is therefore fit to complete his current term. And the idea of replacing him as president is still being bandied about.

After convincing Biden to step aside, they next undemocratically anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as the new candidate, at Biden’s urging.

And now Harris has her honeymoon period to see if she can sway the voters to her side. Early indications are that she is successfully proceeding down that path. Time will tell, as the anti-Harris movement gears up.

Vowing to work his final few months as the president, Biden outlines his effort to make changes affecting the U.S. Supreme Court through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment is a serious matter, as it makes significant changes to the Court as originally established. Biden’s plan includes proposals for legislation to impose term limits for the justices and an ethics code with an enforcement feature, according to sources.

He is also reportedly considering calling for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, which could have a negative effect on how people perform in those positions, knowing that their best efforts may not be protected.

In considering Harris for this critically important job, her performance in previous positions is important. 

“When she ran for San Francisco district attorney in 2003, she beat incumbent Terence Hallinan in a nonpartisan runoff by running to his right, attacking Hallinan for not being tough enough on crime, while also courting the police union, with whom Hallinan had run afoul,” Politico reported.

“Yet when the Los Angeles Times profiled her a year into her term it referred to Harris not as a tough-on-crime crusader but as being “in the vanguard of progressive reformers who say that California’s criminal justice system is in dire need of drastic change,” the Politico story continued. Her desires at the time included defunding the police. As a prosecutor, she was criminal friendly, and unconcerned about their victims.

Having served as San Francisco's district attorney, and then as California's attorney general, Harris opposed the death penalty for harsh crimes, but took a hard line against banks over home foreclosures. She also prosecuted parents of children who skipped school, but declined the death penalty of a man who had killed a police officer.

While her record in California has earned her the “soft on crime” descriptor, she prefers “smart on crime.” Apparently, this has to do with her penchant for politically motivated policies. Citing her policy contradictions, some critics call her a “shapeshifter” whose ideology is flexible. They say she is someone willing to change her mind quickly as the political moment requires.

Seeking the presidential nomination in 2020, she supported two major progressive legislative building blocks: the radical Green New Deal and the tremendously expensive and socialistic Medicare for All. 

She is somewhat wishy-washy in supporting Israel in the war in Gaza. Harris has been “pushing for a more sympathetic policy toward Palestinians,” according to Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.).

Harris has few if any restrictions on abortion rights. “She has been the most effective voice when it comes to abortion justice … health-care justice, student debt cancellation, the racial wealth gap,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).

And as a U.S. Senator she is regarded as the most left-radical of all, even more so than Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.

Her most notable and most catastrophic role is as our “Border Czar.” Suddenly, Democrats and the liberal media are jumping up and down in denial of her having that title.

However, Biden said that Harris was “leading the effort to coordinate with Mexico and other Northern Triangle nations to address issues such as the surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border” in a March 24, 2021 video.

According to Politico, Biden had made Harris the "point person on immigration issues." 

"Biden tasks Harris with 'stemming the migration' on southern border," NBC News reported. A headline from the Associated Press read, "Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges."

While her official title regarding her responsibilities at the border may not have been “Border Czar,” she was clearly placed in charge of the border and its issues. And the millions who have crossed into the country illegally, and the deaths and other harm done to Americans are certainly connected directly to her.

Other favorites ideas of hers are: eliminate fracking, decriminalize illegal immigration, free healthcare for illegal immigrants, student loan cancellation, eliminate private healthcare, infanticide, oppose school choice, oppose Title IX, defund the police, dismantle ICE, support sanctuary cities, nationwide gun registration, and oppose parental rights.

Harris remains relatively unknown to most Americans.  However, if elected she will be a worse president than Joe Biden.