Telling It Like It Is

THE ENTERPRISE: SPECIAL EDITION: BEWARE--KAMALA & TIM ARE LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE--TIP: IF THEY ARE SMILING, THEY ARE LYING!

THIS WAS SHARED WITH ME BY A REAGAN FAMILY MEMBER, BECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE. 

PLEASE READ ASAP,  AND PASS IT ALONG TO EVERYONE—

SO THEY CAN REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTING DONALD TRUMP & JD VANCE WINNING IN NOVEMBER—

AND NOT EVER LETTING KAMALA HARRIS  & TIM WALZ GET NEAR THE US PRESIDENCY—

 

(my emphasis was added in bold type)

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

For Democrats this historic election is about only one issue – Trump. Whoever wins the White House, it won’t be because of issues like high inflation, trillion-dollar annual budget deficits or the humiliation of Afghanistan.  It’s going to come down to one simple but big thing – How many Americans love Kamala Harris and how many hate Donald Trump.

Democrats know that if they can convince voters to hate Trump more than they hate high interest rates, higher taxes and the open border, Harris will win.It won’t matter if she makes a fool of herself in a future interview with Jake Tapper, has a disastrous TV debate with Trump or never says an unscripted word to a journalist between now and election day.

Republicans, meanwhile, know that if they can convince more voters to love Trump, he wins. Trump is strong on the core Republican issues, and he already has the MAGA Nation solidly in his corner. But to defeat Harris he needs to get millions of other non-Republican voters to love him.He has to win over the independents, the suburban women and the conservative Democrats who’ve had their fill of Biden-Harris failures at home and abroad.

Only Trump can capture the hearts of the noncommitted. But to do it, he needs to make some serious changes. He needs to stop arguing like a teen-age boy over his crowd sizes. It’s stupid – and no one but him cares anymore. He has to stop calling Kamala Harris dumb. It may be true and it may get the people who already love him excited. But nicknaming Harris “Lyin’ Kamala” is not the best way to endear yourself to voters who are still uncommitted.

Trump should let his 30-second campaign ads deliver the dirt and the insults, not him. He should concentrate on tying her to all the policy failures of the last four years – everything from cancelling college loan debts to the war on covid. He should hit her on how she blew it as the Border Czar.

And he should constantly remind people how Harris lied to the public by pretending Biden was sharp as a tack – right up until he proved he was no longer capable of running for re-election.

But to win more love and affection, and the election, Trump has to tone down, lift up, soften and streamline his campaign style and his core message.He needs to realize it’s 2024 – not 2015. His rambling, jokey, folksy, 90-minute speeches no longer cut it.

Instead of feeding his addiction to his followers’ applause, he should be delivering punchy, 30-minute speeches that discuss the dinner-table issues people care about and talk about – inflation, illegal immigration, schools, war and taxes. Nobody cares about tariffs. Nobody. Most people don’t even understand what they are.

He needs to find a great speechwriter like Peggy Noonan or Ted Sorensen and become more like Reagan or JFK and less like Trump. It may still make him feel good to be speaking to adoring crowds of 40,000 like it’s 2016 again. But if the uncommitted voter at the dinner table isn’t clearly hearing his message today, and isn’t deciding that Trump deserves a little love, Trump is going to lose.

He needs someone to write him a short, sweet but powerful stump speech targeted at Republicans and the uncommitted voters the GOP needs. He should deliver it over and over again — and he should stick to what is written on the teleprompter.

Democrats had problems when Biden went off script. He would say things that would even make Nancy Pelosi cringe and force the White House to clean up his weekly gaffes.  Well, Trump’s no different. When he goes off script, he makes a lot of faithful Republicans cringe. The uncommitted voters he’ll need to win in November are much less forgiving.

Copyright 2024 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

 

A REALLY GOOD QUESTION

 

THIS WAS SHARED WITH ME BY A REAGAN FAMILY MEMBER, BECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE. 

PLEASE READ ASAP,  AND PASS IT ALONG TO EVERYONE—

SO THEY CAN REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTING DONALD TRUMP & JD VANCE WINNING IN NOVEMBER—

AND NOT EVER LETTING KAMALA HARRIS  & TIM WALZ GET NEAR THE US PRESIDENCY—

 

ANECDOTE & HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION:

We have an employee that we just hired 3 1/2 years ago. She was given tasks, but completed none of them. She just had a performance review and failed it, so she backstabbed her elderly supervisor. Now she's demanding a promotion in November, but refuses the interview for the new position. She promises if she gets the promotion, she will do all the tasks she didn't do before, but she won't do them now, in order to force us to give her the promotion. What would you do with such an employee?

 

FIRE HER, & TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHY YOU DON'T WANT HER IN OFFICE,

AND WHY?

SHE INSISTS HER VALUES HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE 1999, WHICH MEANS THE THINGS SHE SUPPORTED THEN, ARE THE SAME ONES SHE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT, (DESPITE HER RECENT CAMPAIGN "FLIP FLOP" STATEMENTS TO THE CONTRARY!

 

WHAT DID KAMALA BELIEVE IN 1999?—WHAT VALUES DOES SHE STILL HOLD ONTO TODAY?

NO MATTER WHAT CAMPAIGN PROMISES SHE MAKES,  SHE IS A RADICAL CALIFORNIA, LIBERAL.  

AND SHE WANTS GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL YOUR LIFE.

SHE’LL BRIBE YOU WITH "FREE EVERYTHING" TO GET THAT, BECAUSE THE BILL WILL COME LATER,—IN YOUR TAXES.

HERE'S KAMALA'S 1999 LIST—cost over ten years —$1.4 TRILLION:

• Guaranteed income $6 000 cash (on top of welfare, food stamps, etc. for anyone who doesn’t "earn enough".—Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free college education, not only at public colleges—at any college—Free,, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free Child care, Free,, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free Health Care—In Canada & England people wait months (or years) for care, or go elsewhere—OR DIE. But it is Free,, paid for by taxing workers.
• Medicare for All (Bernie Sanders program) and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• After childbirth, six months of paid leave, and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Non-citizens—illegals get the right to vote, and services & health care, and you guessed it: Free,, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Late term Abortion "on demand" up until the moment of birth (and shortly thereafter), Yes,  you guessed it: Free,, paid for by taxing working Americans.8(There are only three Non-Communist countries of the 195 in the world that offer this: Singapore, Canada--if you can wait, & Netherlands.
• Kamala’s sudden Cease Fire plan- NOT Free, was made because she is Anti-Israel and supports Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthi (Death to America posters) —just as she opposed the assassination of Soleimani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader)

HAS TIM WALZ BEEN GROOMED BY COMMUNIST CHINA. IT SURE SEEMS LIKE IT!

Tim Walz first travelled to China in 1989-1990 to teach in the southern city of Foshan. In subsequent years, he organised study tours to China. By 2016, Walz had visited China some 30 times, including a honeymoon trip after marrying a fellow teacher on June 4, 1994, the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. He also earned a nickname in his time there: 田华 or “fields of China”. Republicans and the conservative media have viewed Walz’s China ties with suspicion. Senator Tom Cotton demanded an explanation for Walz’s relationship with China. And Senator Marco Rubio proclaimed, “Walz is an example of how Beijing patiently grooms future American leaders” View this photo

BEWARE: IF KAMALA & TIME ARE SMILING, THEY ARE USUALLY LYING TO YOU!

 

MORE LATER,

JOHN

 

THE ENTERPRISE—MEET THE DECEPTIVE DEMOCRATS LED BY KAMALA HARRIS & TIM WALZ (who?) SMILIN’ & LYIN’, BUT NEVER TELLING YOU HOW THEY PLAN TO CHANGE AMERICA TO A SOCIALIST COUNTRY

THE ENTERPRISE—MEET THE DECEPTIVE DEMOCRATS LED BY KAMALA HARRIS & TIM WALZ (who?) SMILIN’ & LYIN’, BUT NEVER TELLING YOU HOW THEY PLAN TO CHANGE AMERICA TO A SOCIALIST COUNTRY . Read on—Here’s their philosophy.

 

NOW IS THE TIME TO CAREFULLY THINK ABOUT WHO YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR, TO LEAD, AND MANAGE OUR COUNTRY! Not just as President & VP—that’s the biggie, but for the Senate (we only get two per state) and for the House (closer to home—we can actually meet them and tell them about our wishes and needs!) 

 

BY NOW MOST READERS OF THE ENTERPRISE KNOW I HAVE CHOSEN DONALD TRUMP. & JD VANCE 

ALTHOUGH TRUMP HAS HIS FLAWS, HE PROVED (DURING HIS PRiOR TERM AS PRESIDENT) THAT THE USA DID VERY WELL, AND HE CAN DO IT AGAIN

 

Watch JD Vance’s Sunday Face the Nation interview. He was brilliant “against” a clearly biased and contentious interviewer. 

It’s long, but you’ll see how good he was. Watch a little of it and smile. Kamala will never be asked such tough questions and answer them so well!

https://youtu.be/pK1V2q05Zi8?si=0LLiydJ_eaf9IlCh.  Could either Harris of Walz handle that kind of grilling? (No adoring mainstream media will ever challenge them.)

 

Ask yourself whether things were better under Biden’s past 3-1/2 years, or during Trump's prior 3-1/2 years—(until Covid hit the USA). 

TRUMP ACTUALLY HAS FUTURE PLANS (contrary to the Democrats claims) TO REJUVENATE AMERICA, BOTH DOMESTICALLY & GLOBALLY. 

UNLIKE HARRIS-WALZ, HE’S NOT AFRAID TO TELL AMERICANS WHAT THOSE FORWARD-LOOKING PLANS ARE

—Here is an edited (partial list from his platform): "America First:A Return to Common Sense"

• Regain Border Control, Deport Radicals & Stop Migrant Crime
• Reduce inflation, Re-Build Energy Independence
• Strengthen & Modernize Military & National Defense
• Emphasize Made in USA, Limit Outsourcing
• Cut Taxes for all Americans & Protect Social Security & Medicare
• Defend Constitutional Freedoms & Bill of Rights
• Avoid WW-III, Restore Peace in Europe & Middle East, Build a Protective "Iron Dome”
• Cancel Regulations and Mandates (EV, etc.
• Secure Elections & Stop Weaponization of Government 
• Maintain US$ as World Reserve Currency

• Unite America by Creating Record Levels of Success

THE CHOICE OF WHO TO LEAD AMERICA COULDN’T BE MORE CLEAR—COULD IT? TRUMP & VANCE CAN “FIX" AMERICA—BUT WE MUST ELECT THEM.

THE RECENTLY FORMED DEMOCRAT TICKET OF KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALD IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE—THE MOST LIBERAL (PROGRESSIVE, BORDERING ON SOCIALISM) IN AMERICA’S HISTORY.

 

SIX QUESTIONS EVERY AMERICAN VOTER  (and Trump—in the debate) NEEDS TO ASK KAMALA HARRIS

I hate to pose these troubling questions, but the coming election is only 3 months away and one candidate is being “recreated" with false narratives after doing nothing and hiding in wait to sabotage her boss and replace him! (I call it "Democrat Deception.”)

1. —Can Americans ever trust you (Kamala Harris—who’s who’s been lying for 3-1/2 years about Biden’s decline and failing at everything else.)
2. —Does your (Harris) staff turnover at 90+% tell a story of incompetence and ineffective leadership?
3. —Who stood to benefit when Biden’s massive cognitive decline was hidden for years? (Harris, so she could be re-cast as the “savior!”)
4. —Would your (Harris’) Socialist ideas & plans bankrupt America or force it into a Depression? (Of course they would!)
5. —Why has Socialism failed over and over? Because there’s never enough of other people’s money to pay for it.
6. —Why do all of your (Harris) new speeches avoid mentioning your record of failures? (It takes time for the media to create a new identity for her.)

—Watch the countless video clips from her beliefs—see for yourself! 

They will be shown on Fox News, (because MSNBC the Democrat Deception network, and the other mainstream news networks are part of her propaganda campaign.)

—For more objective reporting, check NewsNation. 

 

—Donald Trump’s presidency created the most successful, prosperous period for Americans since Ronald Reagan. Remember his first term pre-Covid?

 

—Can you imagine Kamala Harris (following Biden) with Zero experience, as America’s leader in negotiating its future with Xi of China? Putin of Russia? and the Mullahs of Iran and their proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah, & the Houthis? (She’s already siding with Hamas after its bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel!) Kim Jong Un of North Korea?

IF HARRIS & WALD ARE ELECTED AS PRESIDENT & VP, there are FEW limits to what THEY (Harris-Walz) CAN & WILL DO!

Example: Do you realize the state of Minnesota, a smallish rural state, has only one big city— Minneapolis-Saint Paul, BUT IT HAS THE FIFTH highest tax burden in the country—under Walz. He taxes everything—a lot! Of course Harris agrees! That’s why she chose him. MN is looking like CA, NY, & IL!

HERE’S A BUNCH OF HARRIS/WALZ’ PHILOSOPHIES SUMMARIZED:

Walz says, “I'm a regular guy. I got my little cap on.” Then proceeds to “pick your pocket” all day long, He is the biggest tax spender. He came into MN with almost $3 billion in surplus. Gone! Every liberal cause—free. “This is free, that is free…” Everything is free in Minnesota—especially if you're an ILLEGAL, undocumented, immigrant. 

It's NOT worth your time to go to Mexico; just GO to Canada; get a canoe, paddle over to Minnesota—where you'll get everything free!  

Plus a driver's license so you have a legit photo ID. Expect Legalization for every undocumented here in MN, USA—Harris-Walz, open borders all day long, every day!

Walz emphasized DEI— Diversity. Equity. Inclusion — and “Woke" policies. Skin color will matter in the employment area. Woke—Yes (If you're conservative, you're NOT going to get due process of law.)

Walz believes no restrictions on abortions up until birth. Only Three countries (Noncommunist) nations in the world have this: Netherlands, Singapore and Canada. Every other country on the planet says “No, that's too barbaric to be killing an unborn child just before it's ready to be born!) Most Americans choose to limit that—not them; not Walz; He signed anytime late abortion into law in Minnesota. 

They are for LESS police power. “Reimagining police” to them means "defunding and not supporting" the police. Both Harris and Walz want to do it. They don't want the police to have much power at all.

Fewer guns. Even though Wallace is a "hunter, he just spun 180-degrees, and now he’ll confiscate every gun— if he can. There isn't one far left takeaway they won’t try—not one—including levying a wealth tax-

Watch their rally in Philadelphia. What are these people applauding for? What exactly? What I just laid out? That's okay with their rally goers? And the answer is yeah! Even thought they have no idea what that includes. And why is a large part of the attendees shown obvious AI insertions to make the crowd look bigger?

DO Millions of Americans like this slate and the invisible people behind it, a huge, powerful government to tell them what to do, every day, and then give them the money (from other people’s taxes—or more national debt—or more inflationary newly printed money). 

IF I'm black or brown; And I can't get ahead; And I want a better life; And with less police to make me obey the laws—if I even know the laws, because I'm an illegal immigrant?)—"Give me the money." I came to America from  _________________  (fill in a name of one of the 150+ countries). 

"Give me the money"... for food, housing, & medical care. IF I identify with a different gender, and I am big on trans, so "give me money.” (Or I’ll demonstrate and set things on fire if you don’t honor my wishes! 

I tried working but jobs are hard! "Give me the money,” free health care, to stay at home and/or to demonstrate or come to rallies.  "Give me the money”—USA’s  BIG rich government owes it to me!

And that's what the far left does. Income redistribution. That's what these people are cheering for. Look at their faces—young, naive, female (we want power), shades of dark skin. They are cheering for Walz .YET These people barely know who he is!

BUT GIVE ILLEGALS THE RIGHT TO DRIVE, VOTE, and give US the money for that “better life WE WANT & deserve”—Don’t MAKE US WORK to earn it, after all, we just call it  Neighborliness.” Right? Really???

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IF YOU AGREE WITH THE TRUMP PLAN FOR MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN--America First:A Return to Common Sense THEN JOIN ME IN INFLUENCING EVERYONE YOU CAN THAT AMERICA DOES NOT WANT TO BE A SOCIALIST (PROGRESSIVE) COUNTRY.

 

MORE LIES AND "DEMOCRAT DECEPTION” CONTINUES—AS THE DNC STARTS SOON. (GET YOUR ANTI-EMETIC READY FOR 3 DAYS OF THE WORST CANDIDATES & MEDIA-FUELED "DEMOCRAT DECEPTION.”)  (REMEMBER, WHEN KAMALA IS SMILIN’, SHE’S LYIN, OR MAKING PROMISES SHE CAN’T KEEP.  IF HER IDEAS ARE SO GOOD, WHY DIDN’T SHE DO THEM FOR HER TERM AT BIDEN’S SIDE?)

 

JOHN

 

For readers who don’t like this edition, the DNC will be a display of how these Socialists will try to ruin America. Kamala is already stealing Trump ideas (No Tax on Tips) because she has none of her own. 

 

Example of "Democrat Deception" in campaign ads

(NewsNation) — A new campaign ad touting Vice President Kamala Harris‘ border security credentials has potentially misleading claims about her record. The ad, which aims to bolster Harris’ image on immigration issues, depicts her as a tough prosecutor who took on drug cartels and cross-border smuggling.  However, our NewsNation fact-check reveals several exaggerations and mischaracterizations. While the ad portrays Harris as a “border state prosecutor,” her role as California’s Attorney General from 2011 to 2017 primarily involved state-level criminal justice matters. The ad’s implication that she was directly involved in border cartel cases appears to stretch the truth. Claims about Harris jailing gang members for cross-border smuggling also seem inflated. While she did prosecute gang members, these cases mostly involved local drug offenses rather than international smuggling operations.

 

 

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HERE’S A RECAP from the prior edition of THE ENTERPRISE, THIS IS WHAT HARRIS-WALZ BELIEVED—(BEFORE “DEMOCRAT DECEPTION” MAKES UP NEW STORIES)—LYING, ABOUT WHAT THEY “CLAIM" TO BELIEVE NOW! (Thanks to Bill O’Reilly for this list. www.billoreilly.com.

 

Here’s what Kamala Harris was for doing as a Senator, a succession of extreme Socialist policies. 

She was "involved with" 164 pieces of legislation—none of which passed — (whew!)

 

Here are some of the Dems policies stated in recent years (condensed for brevity). Their Media is trying hard to help them walk away from their past plans:

• Guaranteed income $6 000 cash (on top of welfare, food stamps, etc. for anyone who doesn’t "earn enough".—Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free college education, not only at public colleges—at any college—Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free Child care, Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free Health Care—In Canada & England people wait months (or years) for care, or go elsewhere—OR DIE. But it is Free, paid for by taxing workers.
• Medicare for All (Bernie Sanders program) and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• After childbirth, six months of paid leave, and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Non-citizens—illegals get the right to vote, and services & health care, and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Late term Abortion "on demand" up until the moment of birth (and shortly thereafter), Yes,  you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• (There are only three Non-Communist countries of the 195 in the world that offer this: Singapore, Canada--if you can wait, & Netherlands.
• Kamala’s sudden Cease Fire plan was made because she is Anti-Israel and supports Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthi (Death to America posters) —just as she opposed the assassination of Soleimani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader,

—SEE IF THIS FITS YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT?

It would be nice if either of them had relevant experience — without lying about what they were, what they had done, and had actually done anything like what they hoped!

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THE ENTERPRISE—TIME FOR TRUMP TO USE THE “VELVET HAMMER” ON KAMALA—CITE & CHALLENGE HER RECORD OF SOCIALIST ASPIRATIONS & FAILURE AS BORDER “CZAR"

Subject: THE ENTERPRISE—TIME FOR TRUMP TO USE THE “VELVET HAMMER” ON KAMALA—CITE & CHALLENGE HER RECORD OF SOCIALIST ASPIRATIONS & FAILURE AS BORDER “CZAR"

NOTE: This is the fourth time I’ve started writing this edition of the Enterprise. The other three were almost finished, and I had to rewrite them because the events were happening so fast that the content had become irrelevant or inaccurate before I could get THE ENTERPRISE out to you. 

 

THE NICE THING ABOUT RUNNING AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS IS TO EXPOSE HER INCREDIBLY BAD, SOCIALIST/LIBERAL IDEAS—OVER AND OVER. 

 

Here’s what Kamala Harris was for: (She’ll claim she wasn’t, but records don’t lie (even though she does: Her rebuttal to all criticism will be that it is "racist or feminist.”)

(Kudos to Bill O’Reilly’s No-Spin analysis provided a concise list of what San Francisco Socialist-Kamala as President would want to do.)

As a presidential candidate in the 2020 primaries, she finished dead last, and dropped out. 

As the VP, she lied openly to all Americans for much of Biden’s presidency about his declining cognitive competence. What else will she lie about?

 

She was appointed the "Border Czar," but never went to the border for months, then did nothing…but records show her "appointment to fix” the border crisis. 

(Eleven million+ illegals later, she wants to claim "that wasn’t her title”)

 

Here’s what Kamala Harris was for doing as a Senator, a succession of extreme Socialist policies. 

She was "involved with" 164 pieces of legislation—none of which passed — (whew!)

 

Here are some of them condensed for brevity:

• Guaranteed income $6 000 cash (on top of welfare, food stamps, etc. for anyone who doesn’t "earn enough".—Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free college education, not only at public colleges—at any college—Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free Child care, Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Free Health care (Canada & England have it & people wait months years (or never) for treatment or go elsewhere.Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Medicare for All (Bernie Sanders program) and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• After childbirth, six months of paid leave, and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Non-citizens—illegals get the right to vote, and free health care, and you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• Late term Abortion "on demand" up until the moment of birth (and shortly thereafter), Yes,  you guessed it: Free, paid for by taxing working Americans.
• (There are only three Non-Communist countries of the 195 in the world that offer this: Singapore, Canada--if you can wait, & Netherlands.
• Kamala’s sudden Cease Fire plan was made because she is Anti-Israel and supports Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthi (Death to America posters) —just as she opposed the assassination of Soleimani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader,

 

THE UPCOMING DEMOCRAT CONVENTION WILL ATTEMPT TO "REDEFINE KAMALA" AS A “JOAN of ARC” SAVIOR, BUT IGNORE HER RECORD OF FAILED IDEA AND FAILED PERFORMANCE (Note: Her speech writers and TelePrompters will be fed by the same writers as Biden’s failed plans—Kamala will just read them better and not end with “..anyway” ...as Biden did to replace the forgotten point.)

 

I’m going to stay short here, to comment on what’s happening at the moment.  Trump survived the assassin's shot, which the bullet grazed his ear, coming within 1/4” of killing him. He was surrounded by valiant Secret Service people. Trump rose, albeit awkwardly, but with an upraised fist, ready to fight on!  In a few days, was at the convention with a bandaged ear.

 

The Republican Convention was an impressive example of party unity with “Everyday People” of all genders and ethnicities, relating their life experiences, and nearly all of Trump’s opponents in primaries made strong endorsement speeches,  (even Nikki Haley did so, and the exceptions were early primary drop outs, Asa Hutchinson & "attack dog” Chris Christie) 

 

We know now that the Secret Service Director had no idea (she said) how to explain the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. It was clearly a case of incompetent leadership and siloed, confusing communications, resulting in a dangerous failure, and risk of death for Trump. Only a slight turn of Trump’s head, and a rushed shot by a young, nervous assassin saved his life. (Was it divine intervention? Maybe. Only God knows.). It’s clear that the leader of the the Secret Service was an incompetent “diversity hire,” hand picked by Joe Biden out of his and his wife's personal security detail! That choice almost did what Biden couldn’t do— kill Trump!  

 

I’M GOING TO WRAP THIS ONE UP, BECAUSE MORE NEWS WILL BE COMING. 

 

I WANTED TO SHOW THE LIST OF HOW THE DEMOCRATS AND KAMALA HARRIS  WILL DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO “CONVERT" AMERICA TO A “SOCIALIST", GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED COUNTRY—A POLITICAL SYSTEM WHICH HAS FAILED/IS FAILING, ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.—RUSSIA, CUBA, CHINA, VENEZUELA, ETC.

 

JOHN

THE ENTERPRISE—PAST RESULTS ARE PREDICTIVE OF FUTURE OUTCOMES—NO MATTER THE PERSONALITY ISSUES

HEADLINES

A series of Headlines signal dramatic managerial “sea changes” that give clues to future outcomes, and reasons.

• TikTok is shaping Gen Z’s Money Brain—Controlled by Chinese, filled with Communist/anti-American propaganda, aimed at American youth.
• Hacking Threat Grows as a Fear for Companies— 9 of 10 companies cite security risks rose: Cybersecurity, Regulatory, Digitization, Privacy.
• The Dow Is a Terrible Index.  But it is telling us something important. A measure of formerly great companies, but is it a relic of a bygone era?
• Remote Work Is a Leadership Killer. Choosing employees who thrive in solitary settings can be detrimental to those who aspire to lead and manage.
• Don’t Waste Your “Power Hours” in Meetings.  Want to be more productive? Figure out the best time to buckle down or space out. It isn’t enough to think about "what we need to do," we must also consider "when we should do it."
• Letting AI do The Work. AI may increase productivity, but it also creates workers who lack accountability for results & adds to lazy work habits.
• Faster, Stronger Charging: The Path to Electric Cars with Better Batteries.  Innovation wins. Political “target” EV mandates lose favor & prove that clueless politicians are dangerous. 
• Biden tries to buy young voters with yet another Student Loan forgiveness scheme, ruled out by Supreme Court before
• A Million Barrels of Fuel to Be Released, from the strategic reserves after superstorm Sandy. (Now—To lower gas prices for July 4 weekend.)
• China Edge In Minerals Widens. Key battery materials—Cobalt, Nickel, & Lithium are controlled by China, up from 55% in 2015 to 70%+ in 2024.
• Russia Influence Racket Redux. Expect the most polluted election ever as MSNBC redefines “Russia hoax;” caught red-handed again fabricating discrediting material (e.g., the Steele dossier) about Mr Trump.
• Biden’s Demoralizing Speech to Morehouse Grads.In his 2013 address, Obama stressed opportunity. In 2024, his successor emphasizes victimization.
• Biden to Graduates : America Hates You. The President’s tries to stir resentment among graduates, on a day to celebrate, as he faces slipping support. 

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Excerpts from a teachable example for President Biden,  from the world of entertainment.

"The George Costanza Presidency” ©WSJ, by Alysia Finley

In a classic “Seinfeld” episode, George Costanza bemoans that every decision he’s made has been wrong. His life, as a result, has turned out the opposite of what he intended.

Joe Biden might relate. His presidency probably hasn’t gone as he’d hoped either. Two wars, a border crisis and near-record inflation have erupted. … But like Costanza, Mr. Biden has only himself to blame. Both men created more trouble for themselves, as each poor decision leads to another…. As do the president’s ploys to win voters. Mr. Biden, like George, now risks getting dumped.

Consider the chain of … acts that led to the president’s threat last week to withhold weapons from Israel to appease his party’s leftists. Mr. Biden worries he’ll lose re-election if young progressives don’t turn out in November—or if they cast ballots for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Jill Stein. It isn’t an unreasonable concern.

Yet Mr. Biden’s bigger problem is that the pandemic handouts that Democrats hoped would win them votes have backfired. Excessive spending has fueled inflation and led to the highest interest rates in a generation. Young people have been especially harmed because those who don’t own homes now can’t afford them. ...Young voters aren’t fond of the former president…or his policies. 

Mr. Biden has tried to boost his support with young people by canceling student debt. It hasn’t worked. His repeat rounds of debt forgiveness have ... infuriated Americans who didn’t go to college, grads who repaid their loans, and parents who made sacrifices to pay tuition.

Mr. Biden’s climate policies have proved similarly ineffective at energizing young voters, while alienating working-class Americans and fueling higher energy prices. The president in January surrendered to a small army of TikTokers calling for a halt to new liquefied-natural-gas export projects, without thinking how it would play with U.S. allies or workers whose jobs depend on the natural-gas industry, especially in Pennsylvania…. 

Then Mr. Biden charged forward with a de facto EV mandate that is deeply unpopular, especially in Michigan…. EVs require less labor but more capital to produce. U.S. automakers have laid off thousands of employees to finance the government-forced EV transition….

Mr. Biden has tried to compensate for these unforced errors with working-class voters by opposing Nippon Steel’s acquisition of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. ...The United Steelworkers union cheered, as the president’s intervention will discourage foreign investment that creates good-paying U.S. jobs and snubs to Japan, whose help the U.S. needs to contain a bellicose China. 

Meantime, to counter higher energy prices caused partly by his anti-fossil-fuel policies, Mr. Biden has eased enforcement of oil sanctions on Iran and Russia, which has given America’s enemies more ammunition to attack Israel and Ukraine.

His flagging support among working-class voters,...has heightened the imperative to keep progressives under his collapsing tent. Hence, the embargo last week on U.S. weapons to Israel. This display of weakness will embolden America’s enemies and may result in more casualties.

Like George Costanza, Mr. Biden keeps digging his hole deeper the harder he works to get out of it. Perhaps he should take Jerry Seinfeld’s advice to George and do the opposite of what his instincts tell him.

Appeared in the May 13, 2024, print edition as 'The George Costanza Presidency'. 

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2024: A Certain Fatalism Sets In  (Headline only ©WSJ.com)

 

TO EVERYONE TROUBLED ABOUT THE CHOICE OF TRUMP VS. BIDEN

     --Trump’s behaviors have been troubling (And probably will be again) but Trump’s time in office led to the best period for America in decades, economically, and in both foreign & domestic matters.

     --Biden’s time in office has been a series of mistakes, bumbling and terrible outcomes in both foreign and domestic affairs—especially in a few big areas: 1) Law & order not enforced, 

2) Border chaos & Immigration “invasions,”  floods USA with criminal elements,

3) Spending cuts lead to decline in national defense readiness, & excessive, “Woke” spending wastes taxpayers money, and 

4) Deterioration in America’s global stature and position: after disastrous exit from Afghanistan, President Biden allowed America to be drawn into three separate traps/wars, and two 

a) Ukraine — support or not vs. Russia

b) Taiwan — support or not vs. China

c) Israel — support or not, vs. Hamas Iran and Hezbollah-Houthi proxies 

All this amidst weak, confused policies and flip-flops, about the use of America’s military/defense capacity.

d) Abortion — after a Supreme Court decision in favor of states rights, permitting local choice, Biden & Democrats promote ignoring Court decisions.

e) Student loan forgiveness (to “buy votes”) again circumventing a Supreme Court decision that it was illegal.

 

Thus we face a choice again. 

Two flawed presidents: Trump with personal issues—but excellent results for America & Americans; Biden with a bumbling/uncertain, and confusing period of cognitive impairment, embarrassment, poor leadership, and countless mistakes & reversals.

 

How to Decide?  We can reflect on the contrasts, and choose what outcomes you want (to vote for:)

—Biden (age 81) Old, fragile, cognitively  weak, reads from Teleprompters or note-cards, few ad-hoc press conferences. (Even NYTimes criticizes!)

+ Trump (age 77) Vigorous, active, energetically addressing small groups, or large rallies on all issues (while enduring multiple legal challenges in Dem venues.)

 

—Biden: Chaos in streets, encampments in cities and protests at universities, amidst flip-flopping of support for Hamas vs. Israel. 

+ Trump: Relatively peaceful global affairs and economic prosperity.

 

—Biden: Huge consumer price inflation (highest of past 5 prez first terms) hurting almost all Americans despite a strong but uncertain economy.

+ Trump: Low inflation, prosperity and positive growth for all economic groups, especially minorities.

 

—Biden: Racial discrimination and chaos. 

+ Trump: Racial progress in every category.

 

—Biden: Lawlessness and disorder, ill-advised catch & release, defunding police, allowing mob rule. 

+ Trump: Law & order enforced, supporting police, stopping mob rule.

 

—Biden: Higher taxes (even on under $400k earners) and heavily increased regulation, adversely impacting growth and prosperity. 

+ Trump: Lower taxes and less regulation, fueling growth and prosperity.

 

—Biden: Border & Immigration chaos, an invasion of illegals from worst, most troubled areas of the world,  floods of criminal/troubled immigrants (not families and children—from all over, not just Latin America; from crime ridden places like Venezuela, the Middle-East, China, and Communist countries. 

+ Trump:Increased border security and control, following laws, stop fake asylum claims, finish the Wall, enforce strong border/immigration policies.

 

—Biden: US fertility rate falls due to inflation/lowering household formation, illegal immigrants by millions, neither working nor law-abiding, nor assimilating legally creating a burden on America's working taxpayers. 

+ Trump: America growing, replacing household formation, construction booming.

 

—Biden: Bans energy projects, mandates Green energy use (EVs, gas appliances, restrictions) goes from global energy leader and net exporter, to a government of regulated & rationed energy use. 

+ Trump: America energy independent, net exporter, building abundance using proven technologies.

 

—Biden: Use “Lawfare” to interfere with elections, litigate in friendly court venues (NY, DC), to slow or silence opponents, no press conferences, staff “walks back misstatements. use censorship to control/manipulate information flow. 

+ Trump:  Frequent, open press encounters, free information flow & transparency (albeit controversial positions and statements.)

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IT’S NOT AN EASY DECISION TO CHOOSE WHICH ONE TO VOTE FOR, WHEN BOTH CANDIDATES HAVE FLAWS THAT ARE SO EVIDENT. 

 

HOWEVER, WHEN THE OUTCOMES OF THEIR ACTIONS ARE SO DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT—THAT DIFFERENCE PROVIDES A CLEAR REASON FOR VOTERS TO DECIDE TO REPLACE BIDEN. 

 

BIDEN’S POLICIES AND SOLUTIONS SIMPLY DIDN’T, AND AREN’T WORKING. WHEREAS TRUMP’S WERE MAKING AMERICA STRONGER, AND AMERICANS MORE PROSPEROUS.

 

Biden’s policies have failed and he knows it.  Instead of his promise to unite Americans, Joe Biden is doing the opposite (see George Costanza article above).  Young and old Americans of all skin colors alike, recognize this, and those who understand the facts, and outcomes of Biden’s flaws and mistakes—and will vote accordingly. 

 

Best, JOHN

 

 

 

THE ENTERPRISE—FUTURE UNCERTAINTIES AND HIGH PROBABILITIY OF BAD OUTCOMES--I'M UPSET AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO!

 

 

THE STOCK MARKET AND INVESTORS HATE UNCERTAINTY—but that’s all there is for the middle of 2024! What will come in the Biden vs. Trump presidency election? Who knows? The Fed is unsure whether to lower interest rates, to fuel economic growth and risk more inflation, or leave them alone (and be afraid to raise them!) Will “trumped up” legal attacks on Donald Trump by Democrat Prosecutors cripple him? Or will Biden’s continuing cognitive decline, family corruption and track record of failures cause Dems to force him out? Can the Democrat doctors no longer find drug cocktails to stimulate the feisty Biden from the SOTU SPEECH? Then what? President Kamala Harris? OMG!

 

HOW TO CHOOSE — WHEN THE CHOICE IS HARD

Peggy Noonan’s WSJ column called it a choice between “old crazy” (Trump) vs. “old cranky” (Biden) if that’s the 2024 choice. I’ll repeat the answer I give when asked how to choose:

 

Do it based on evidence and a few simple answers based on their past track records—who is more likely to:  

1–restore the rule of law & order in America, (refund & support the police)
2–restore America’s border & immigration control (stop the invasion)
3–fund & defend America against its enemies (foreign & domestic)
Hopefully, both parties will agree to follow the current law—the states choosing their abortion policies—allowing residents vote on those choices.
That’s what the Constitution and the most recent Supreme Court ruling made the “law of the land”—state by state. But when Biden is determined to ignore the Supreme Court ruling on student loan forgiveness—who knows what other laws he will ignore?

CONSIDER THE ARRAY OF BIDEN’s OTHER MADDENING “MANDATES” and their uncertain consequences. Biden’s  mandates are costing US COMPANIES BILLIONS & DESTROYING American  jobs.

THE EV GLUT
ELECTRIC cars (EVs) are sleek, expensive and sitting on producers’ lots, unsold, as consumers realize they may be new, neat and interesting, but they have some not-so-nice drawbacks and differences. AND, The market is going through a shakeout as innovative upstarts run out of cash and struggle to survive as they can’t fulfill lofty feature promises. 
      TESLA is suffering too, but it has proven to be the best in planning, design, production & charging systems, which matter more than all the nifty styling and lofty promises about range, features and delivery.  
CHINESE MADE EV’s will flood the US market harder than anything since the Japanese car invasion of several decades ago, unless new tariffs stop the dumping!.
      JAPAN TOOK BIG CHUNKS OF US CAR SALES costing millions of US jobs, by making fewer models/variations & colors/interiors, offering the most popular features as standard equipment—with superior build-quality. Viola’ —Japanese cars became best sellers and grew to take big market shares.
Korean cars  (Hyundai & Kia) also grabbed a big share of the US car market, copying Japan’s quality of design & build, but with more stylish offerings and higher specs, at value prices. Now Honda & Toyota are showing their strategic wisdom, by offering excellent “transition” cars — the gas-electric hybrids. 
American Car-makers reacted to Biden’s poorly thought out mandates with cars that look nice, but have fewer compelling competitive advantages. So the American makers spent $-billions to comply, only to fill lots with stylish, but slow-selling American EVs.

TOP TEN BIDEN FAILURES 
After 3+ years, “Clueless” Joe Biden has more “faux pas” to add to his growing list of failures, many of which he tried to blame on Trump—but that was neither true nor credible!
1) the awful Afghanistan pull-out, terribly rushed & mishandled
2) the chaotic, uncontrolled border/illegal immigrant invasion, 
3) crippling the US auto & labor industry by a forced rush into EVs
4) the failure of Bidenomics — when trips to the grocery store or gas station or to finance a new home or car, cause huge shocks in cost of basic needs—transportation, housing, food & gas.
5) the “California craziness,” now expands to mandating huge minimum wage increases (crippling small businesses) on fast food (except Panera Bread?).
6) EV and fuel economy mandates and similar misguided-mandates add even more problems to an overloaded US electric power grid (to start with, to serve California crazies “electrification of everything” —led by the smiling liar Gavin Newsom.
7) Biden is creating foreign policy debacles by meddling in foreign conflicts, while arguing with and ignoring allies (Israel), fueling riots of Palestinian/ Hamas supporters in American streets, and much more (remember the “defund the police” riots, migrant encampments and flash mobs looting America’s downtowns, repeat criminals from the  catch & release DAs, fiascoes,  etc.)
8) Biden is cozying up to Xi & China (after son Hunter funneled money from the Chinese Communists to the “Biden family fund!”) while defense spending remains inadequate and misdirected.
9) Biden wants to force fossil-fueled power-plants to close, when the US electric grid can’t handle a 10-15% projected increase in demand near term! (Where does the electricity come from to charge all those EVs? Existing fossil-fueled power plants, and in China, where EV growth is increasing rapidly—you got it—from more fossil-fueled power plants!)
10) After Biden's angry rambling State of the Union speech, in which he promised to “fix everything, ”— with no regard for the cost to American Taxpayers, or how that would be managed (Note the Democrat failure in almost all large cities and states where they control the governments.)

Barack Obama was right about Biden during his campaign a “hot mic“ captured him saying—“everything Joe touches, he screws up!” 
Biden also learned many of Obama’s bad habits, but without the glib, clever oratory to explain away the problems—(most often, “blame Trump”!!).  Biden fails to lead, and speaks only from TelePrompters, scripted material or ad libs with stumbling gaffes. 
     
Biden staffed his cabinet with politically-correct-incompetents, so blaming others for problems is easier (Biden even tried to blame Trump for the Border Chaos, after Biden threw out all the Trump border controls, which were working! (a typical revisionist play) Finally he employed an old Obama trick, throwing tax-payers money at so many problems that none ever get fixed—(e.g., Can you find the network of EV charging stations that Biden promised to use $ billions to build? Of course you don’t! Very few were ever built!)

Finally, Biden resorted to paying for fixing his failures by “Taxing the rich”, which makes good sound bites in campaign rhetoric—but if the government took ALL of the wealth of the top 1% of “rich Americans”—it wouldn’t cover what Biden wants to spend just in the next year!

Is everything Biden’s fault? No, but it’s hard to find the things he did that turned out well—6except for big monetary handouts!  Even the Recovery from the Covid induced recession was certain to come, businesses reopened and vaccines accelerated by Trump’s Operation Warp Spreed, helped reduce new outbreaks — in spite of Dr. Fauci’s constantly changing directions & guidelines! 

THE BIDENOMICS RECOVERY IS A NEGATIVE RECOVERY—AN AMERICA IN DECLINE!
—The American people are 18-20% worse off financially than when Biden took office!
—Inflation ate all the wage increases …and then some… as companies scrambled to cut costs and stay in business.
—Americans have moved  en masse away from failing states like CA, NY, IL and many more, escaping to FL, TX, TN, OH,  and other CENTRAL & SW states.

BIDEN’S BIGGEST, WORST AND MOST DANGEROUS MISTAKE WAS OPENING THE US BORDERS TO THE “ILLEGAL-IMMIGRANT INVASION” OF MISCREANTS COMING FROM THE WORLD’S MOST TROUBLED, LAWLESS PLACES!      
       Unvetted illegal immigrants continue to flood across America’s open borders, from all the trouble spots in the world. It’s likely that before this “illegal immigrant invasion” slows or is stopped, illegals will make up almost 5%+ of the US population—and be given government funded free housing, food, health care and more—paid for by hard working American taxpayers!
        These immigrants are no longer primarily families seeking a better life. They are the lawless, rebellious, miscreants for everywhere in the world—especially America’s enemies!  Crime is certain to rise, as depleted police forces have been defunded! Migrant encampments blight the unmanageable sanctuary states and cities!
        The pro-Biden American Voters’ worst mistake will be if they accept his continued failures, uncontrolled spending, his own personal decline and yet still vote for him and his shallow, & incompetent VP Kamala.       
       Yes, Trump’s personal life has admittedly been a messy melange’ of actual and alleged misbehavior and massive attacks based on questionable legal fabrications, tried in unfriendly jurisdictions, all controlled by Democrats in power. One thing is certain to anyone looking without political biases—Trump’s full term as President was far more successful in helping the American economy and people to build on the country’s strength.

DON’T LET THE DEM’S LIES FOOL YOU:
       The Dems are socialists, wrapped in a “progressive-labeled blanket" of lies and misrepresentations. Socialism has failed over and over around the world, because throwing “other people’s money” at self-induced problems, has never worked, and the other people’s money runs out, with few of the false promises fulfilled.
       Simply look at the record of failure in large American Cities and States—NY, CA, IL to name just three of the worst run states, with their biggest cities—New York City, Los Angeles &  San Francisco, and Chicago. Adding dozens of large cities like Baltimore, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, etc.

HOW TO CHOOSE — WHEN THE CHOICE IS HARD
Peggy Noonan’s WSJ column called it a choice between “old crazy” (Trump) vs. “old cranky” (Biden) if that’s the 2024 choice. I’ll repeat the answer I give when asked how to choose:
       Do it based on factual evidence and answer a few simple based on their past track records—which candidate(s)—is more likely to:  
1–restore the rule of law & order in America, (refund & support the police)
2–restore America’s border & immigration control (stop the invasion)
3–fund & defend America against its enemies (foreign & domestic)

This proves that Democrats in control cause "Democrat Disasters." This is what the inept Biden and his Democrat party wants to impose on America!   HELP STOP THEM! PLEASE?

FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!

A frustrated, worried and upset American…Me…and I’m far from alone!

John

THE ENTERPRISE—THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME Date:

THE ENTERPRISE—THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME
Date: January 29, 2024 at 9:44:12 AM EST

NOTE: If you want to see where Biden got a lot of his (unoriginal) ideas, check out our book on Amazon: 
Hope Is Not A Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency— https://a.co/d/bvl2M2L 
Each chapter details an Obama “lesson” (Mistaken idea).  E.g., “Never take blame—shift it to others— or the Republicans,” or, “Throw money at problems;” even if that won’t fix them, people like “free money!”

DO IOWA CAUCUSES & NH PRIMARY REALLY MATTER MUCH?
With Trump polling at close to 50%, how much do the frigid Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary really matter? Maybe they help sort out if either DeSantis now withdrawn) or Haley really have a shot at the GOP nomination.

Peggy Noonan’s final sentences of her fine WSJ OpEd The Voters Finally Get Their Say sums things up in a distressing way:  “If your intention is to stand and fight and make things better he’d (Trump) be the least effective choice. Ms. Haley is a steely, orderly lady. Mr. DeSantis is a bull. Mr. Trump a malign screaming meemie.” 

 

Peggy’s recent column, “Nikki Haley Should Go for Broke” WSJ Ja. 27-28, 2024. It’s a great playbook for Haley to battle Trump. 

 

My sense is that Trump knows more about How to do, What needs to be done, but Will he do it? His past lack of self-discipline and meteoric lack of good sense to say and do the right things, or not—might again lead him to “defeat himself” — in spite of the terrible opponents (Biden/Harris). 

Nikki Haley would be better for America, but IF the GOP voters can’t agree on that, Trump will win the GOP nomination.  But can he win the general election (at this time) vs.Biden & Harris, a terrible pair of leaders. One is reading scripts from TelePrompters because he can’t be trusted to coherently speak freely. The other, Harris, speaks freely, but says nothing that makes sense. Democrat primary voters ignored her when she was one of the lowest choices to fall out of their presidential  primary in 2020. 

Biden chose her only because he promised a “diversity choice,” a female of color. Now they will stop at nothing to stop Trump, using every device at their disposal to do so— as they have before!  Is Trump a flawed candidate? It seems so! The many legal battles say yes, but in America, he’s innocent until proven guilty. As time goes on, more and more of Biden’s questionable history (and his family ties) are exposed too. So we have a terrible challenge, and poor choices in leading candidates.

That’s a problem for Americans. In 2016, when Hillary was clearly a worse choice  than Trump. Now Biden is clearly in cognitive decline, embroiled in family legal issues, with Harris (incomprehensible) the Dems offer an equally undesirable choice.  Compare Trump’s  uniformly strong results in America, fixing problems and throwing money at them — until China unleashed Covid on us — with Biden’s results of throwing money at  the wrong things—causing immigration chaos, causing inflation and debt, ignoring failure of law & order and allowing America’s decline in foreign standing.  Whether you hate Trump or love Trump, and things seem that extreme.  A change in DC might be just what America needs.

Hopefully, American voters will sort that out and choose one and reject the “least bad” choice, (whoever). Haley could be better for America.

God help us all in making the right choices and that includes regaining GOP control of both Houses of Congress! (Readers may know, I’m supporting Frank LaRose for the Senate in OH, but two wealthy primary opponents are not the best. LaRose continues to be a proven leader—shown by his performance as Sec. of State!) 

BOEING NEEDS TO GET IT RIGHT—ACROSS ITS ENTIRE DESIGN AND BUILD PROCESS & WHAT IT RELIES ON SUBCONTRACTORS TO DO
Airplanes are enormously complex, very large assemblies of hardware and software. When human attention is relied upon to "get it right” every time, that won’t happen. As a young engineering supervisor, I was tasked with designing wiring panels for computers. It became obvious that more attention and more output were conflicting goals. We must demand that airplane builders do better! Boeing is struggling.  I hope Boeing and its airframe subcontractor Spirit Aerosystems, have developed methods and systems to assure quality—but evidence shows they are not “perfect!"

A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE CULTURAL AND SOCIETAL DIRECTION OF AMERICA IS HERE

TOO MANY WORK-AVERSE GEN Zers OPEN UP JOBS FOR ILLEGAL—BUT THE WELFARE STATE & SANCTUARY CITIES PROVIDE NO INCENTIVE FOR ILLEGALS TO WORK. GEN X is growing more mature and sensible, but Gen Z is acting less responsible, more spoiled and entitled. Illegals and GEN Z-ers just want to live “ wherever” or have fun and/or let big government and taxpayers pay for their lifestyle.

ILLEGALS SQUAT ON SIDEWALKS AND BUILD ENCAMPMENTS, While GEN Z-ers rent apartments, & lease electric cars they can’t afford and follow cell phone addiction (via Chinese TikTok and ). Let the last responsible generation(s) pay for their foolishness—until it all crashes down around them! Many GEN Zers don’t seem to like real food.—they eat at the smoothie bar and drink strange concoctions instead. Cities struggle to cram more, smaller, (affordable rent) housing units into less space, and roads fill up with short-commute EVs (soon to be Chinese built).

IMMIGRATION CHAOS due to Biden’s irresponsible border policies will take years to reverse—if ever. People flood into America expecting welfare and sanctuary city policies to take care of them.  They’d rather not work or strive for legal status—a hopeless mess.

The FED has fueled a “generation of renters” with policies that dampened inflation with high interest rates that crushed hopes of owning a home and having a family in it, as a goal!  People ask why risk putting money in my biggest asset— if it won’t appreciate? 

BEWARE OF CYBERTHREATS THAT CAN UNDO THE NATION’S POWER GRID, INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Billions of cell phones are ripe for viral infections like a Covid of the cell phone world. Nobody will detect or prevent it until it’s happened. Shut down cell phones, texting and IMs and the naive youth will be disconnected and muted…and then deluded into believing everything pumped through propaganda networks.  Scary? Right! Possible? Absolutely! The Power Grid is also vulnerable to malicious vandalism by acts like Rifle shots known to disable essential transformers.

THE NEW GLOBAL THREAT WILL BE THE “CRINKs”— China, Russia, Iran, & North Korea, developing their own weapons and communications infrastructure while the grey-haired elderly incumbents in US Congress and Government (the largest employer in the country) dither about how they should have stopped the CRINKs with their AI, ChatGPT, DeepFakes and more. Gloomy? YES.  This needs to be Congress and a “thinking presidential” focus. Biden is unable and his manipulators are unwilling to take the right steps!

ELECTED OFFICIALS AT AGE 75+ BECOME “RE-ELECTED ROYALTY”, WHO PASS THE LAWS BUT WITH NO CLUE HOW THE “REAL PEOPLE” LIVE, SHOP, SHARE INFO, & THEIR HABITS, IT IS ALMOST TOO LATE TO FIX
We must elect a whole generation of younger, more informed, tech savvy and competitive leaders. Leaders who will listen to our messages, both via direct contact and at the voting booth.  Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer a candidate, but listen closely to his words and warnings. He’s brilliant, a bIT naive and less experienced, but he’s smart.Many like him are filling the staff spots, right under the 70+ elected “incumbent royalty” governing in America. We need to make sure they respond to our (voters) wishes!

DON’T SAY YOU WEREN'T WARNED. SPREAD THIS MESSAGE FAR AND WIDE. 
(And it’s written by an 80+ person who’s looking “around the corner” at the future!

What to do? Here’s a To Do list, that candidates for elected office are asked to make pledges to support.
—Secure the border, & deport illegals who do not “sign in” upon entry. Assimilate those willing to get in line for citizenship and work legally while waiting.
—Rein in runaway spending by stopping inflationary (non-zero) annual budget increases, and support economic growth with lower taxes on wealth creating entities, and investments.
—Rebuild Law & Order, re-fund police and remove & replace Attorney generals who will will not stop arrest & release of criminals (to commit more crimes.)
—Stop unconstitutional government regulatory overreach. Focus on common sense laws favoring tax-paying citizens, and economic growth — regain energy independence as a first step to fund that.
—Expect and demand government to ONLY do things Americans can’t do for themselves!  Push action back to states and shrink the Federal Government Bureaucracy!i
—Build stronger national defense (America first, but help allies fighting oppression who want help.) stop all payments to unfriendly and/or enemy countries!
—Eliminate the useless parts of the Federal Government and Cabinet positions that are unnecessary! Start with the Dept. Of Education and send it back to local control by States, counties and cities where elected school boards to control their own destiny.
—Rebuild election integrity—Require picture IDs to vote, and ban “insecure” mail in ballots, enforce anti-“ballot harvesting” laws strictly.
—Stop trying to “regulate” people’s personal lives—follow the laws or pass new ones.
—Institute Term-limits on all elected offices (similar to the President’s): 2-terms in Senate, 4-terms in House, court judges age out at 75, 
—Block CRINK owned companies from US info system access (e.g., Tik-Tok, et.al.)
—Use Reciprocal Tariffs, and remove China (& other non-qualifying countries) from the WTO Most Favored Nation status,  while restricting US travel from “enemies of the USA (create a category for LIMITED & BANNED TRAVEL countries.)
—Reduce funding to the United Nations dramatically until or unless it changes the rules for how lower funding countries gain disproportional voting rights. (E.g. on its human rights committee).
—Pass National Right to Work laws, and a new set of laws to restrict & exclude government employees from membership in unions due to “influence buying”—  political contributions — made with union dues.

 

THERE COULD BE MORE, BUT START WITH THESE!

John

THE ENTERPRISE: FINALLY, AN UPDATE ON A FEW OF THE MANY ISSUES FACING AMERICA. MAY GOD HELP US!

THE ENTERPRISE—"BETTER LATE THAN NEVER”  

I’LL USE HEADLINES THAT SAY A LOT, EVEN IF/WHEN THEY ARE INCOMPLETE OR MISLEADING. 

WHAT ISN’T THESE DAYS?

 

This edition of THE ENTERPRISE has been a long time coming, interrupted by some medical/surgery issues. Those issues are treated now and my recovery is well underway.  This will be a big "catch up."  I don’t expect to prescribe fixes for many issues I mention, but I’ll expose them, provide info and thoughts you won’t find in the mainstream media (unless you are a voracious reader)!  I’ll leave it to you to sort out the built-in biases you’ll find in nearly everything we read or hear!

 

I DON’T KNOW WHETHER TO LEAD OR END WITH THIS TOPIC, SO I’LL DO BOTH: 

“What Universities Have Done to Themselves” ©WSJ & Peggy Noonan

This fine WSJ Dec.. 16-17, 2023 column by Peggy Noonan zeroes in on the problem. Universities, even the big famous ones (featured in the news—Harvard, MIT, Penn) but many others too, have lost their way, their ethics, and their purpose. Many major UNIVEFSITIES. are well on their way to losing students, parents and corporate supporters, followed shortly thereafter by also losing their reputation and standing. Worst of all, they don’t even recognize how rapidly their downfall is coming at them. You can read the whole WSJ piece in this attachment, but I’ll reiterate the most important point from it in my closing.

Download What Universities Have Done to Themselves

HEADLINES THAT ARE IN THE NEWS—OR SHOULD BE!

 

RUSSIA HAS LOST NEARLY 90% OF ITS PREWAR ARMY, US SAYS

300,000+ killed or wounded, but another 300,000 conscripts added to replace them, many of them prisoners released to fight (or be imprisoned or killed!!). Putin will never give up until he is overthrown and can find a face-saving way out of the horror he’s created.

 

TRUMP SINGES THE GOP AS HE BLAZES AHEAD 

“Mr. Trump may prevail in the nomination battle, but words and actions matter. His scorched earth attacks on his Republican challengers and their supporters could cost him the nomination or, worse, the general election.” —Karl Rove

When Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are both polling in the teens vs. Trump’s 40-50%, the surprise is NOT that both of them do better in head to head polls vs. Joe Biden, with Haley beating Biden decisively. It’s why aren’t more of the GOP supporters shifting to her!

Wake up American GOP (& Independent and moderate Democrat voters—it’s time for a new generation of leadership! 

 

NOT TRUMP VS. BIDEN AGAIN!

 

THE REAL TRUMP RISK FOR REPUBLICANS (LOSING AGAIN!)

“…only Chris Christie attacked him as a would be dictator. But that misses something important about what happened on stage.  Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis warned GOP voters that Mr. Trump is likely to fail in a second term and explained why—the best evidence is the record of his first term.” —WSJ EDITORIAL Dec. 8, 2023

 

THEY ARE RIGHT. TRUMP HATERS WILL COME FROM EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY, ENCOURAGED BY DEMOCRAT OPPONENTS, AND REMINDED OF HOW TRUMP BEHAVED AFTER “blowing it” AT THE END OF HIS FIRST TERM.

 

ALARM GROWS OVER EUROPE’S WEAK ARMIES, EMPTY ARSENALS

This same concern applies to America’s shrinking Defense and weapons capacity and capability.  While Biden dithers & meddles in Israel’s war plans, and partisans argue about continuing help for Ukraine, who’s tending to America’s Defense security? NOBODY? American elected leaders have never been weaker.  SPEAK UP—contact your Senators & Representative and “demand” their focus and attention!

 

AMERICAS UNSECURED BORDERS ARE AN EXISTENTIALIST THREAT TO ALL AMERICANS (not Biden & Kerry’s phony climate issues!)

Thousands of unvetted, potentially dangerous illegals flood the US every day. No one is tending to that threat, or trying to help those with good intentions find a path to a productive, legal immigrant status. WHY? So called LEADERS are clueless about what to do and HOW to fix this huge blunder before it results in internal attacks in America

 

ACTORS TRICKED INTO RECORDING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA VIDEOS

Fake news, deep fakes, AI, ChatGPT, etc., BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU READ & BELIEVE!

 

EVS ARE HARD SELL, DEALERS SAY

The Biden mandates insisting that Americans buy EVs is costing $Billions, as unsold cars pile up on lots, after companies spent $Billions rushing to design & produce them!  By the way, Biden’s vaunted $$Billions to build charging stations has never been implemented. 

TESLA LAUNCH CAUSES STIR It’s CyberTruck, all stainless steel, is delivering late due to delays in forming the new stiffer metal.

TESLA RECALLS TWO MILLION CARS because of concerns about the Auto-driving system. These are fine, albeit expensive vehicles, except—it seems—that EV innovation is tricky and hard, and buyers are reluctant to pay the high prices, with driving ranges often overstated, and charging stations and times hard to find and maintain—and now self-driving cars misbehave (just rarely, but dangerously).

 

THE U.S. IS DEFENSELESS AGAINST A DRONE TERROR ATTACK

ARTICLE in the WSJ Dec.9, 2023 

The Hamas attack in Israel showed the power & danger of drones. Federal laws make it hard for law enforcement to respond to threats, by bestowing all kinds of rights to own & fly drones with few or none of the responsibilities for the harm they can do!. Drones are small, flexible, hard to detect, and can carry deadly payloads. As usual, the technology is attractive to disruptive users because  (small—.55lb. To 55 lb.) are virtually invisible and untraceable, since there’s no transponder to identify who’s flying it, and from where—to do what!

     The big military MQ9 Reaper is more of a remotely piloted fighting plane, but with a remote control pilot that can be continents away!  

As usual, places like China, North Korea and other smaller rogue states love them for their relative low-cost, invisibility, untrackabikity, and ease of inflicting damage, large and small, anonymously! 

Download DeSantis vs. Newsom

WHILE POLITICS FEATURE DEBATES OF GOP PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS all far behind Donald Trump, and now dropping like flies.

RON DESANTIS WIPED THE FLOOR IN A “GOVERNORS DEBATE” WITH A SMILING (& LYING GAVIN NEWSOM, with made-up answers) Because every metric used was a Loser for Newsom & CA vs.DeSantis & FL. 

     No matter how hard Newsom smiled and tried to change the subject and the metrics, he couldn’t alter the true facts. Check the facts in the attachment above. Newsom is glib, cute, stylish and very short on substance, long on style! When he’s smilin,’ he’s lyin’. His results stink, both as Mayor of San Francisco (a disaster) and as Governor of California (becoming a disaster), led by LA’s crime and streets full of illegal immigrants and the homeless, and lawless. 

 

WILL THIS EVER MATTER? NOT UNLESS OR UNTIL DESANTIS AND NEWSOM SQUARE OFF IN A HEAD TO HEAD ELECTION.

It’s just another piece of evidence showing how badly Biden has hurt America with his chaotic, failed leadersip and dangerous open borders fiasco.

 

TO WRAP UP WITH A FINAL SNIPPET FROM THE PEGGY NOONAN OP-ED PIECE:

"The elites who run our elite colleges are killing their own status. They are also lowering the esteem in which college graduates are held. … Well, if that’s the case, who needs them? Is it even worth having them around in the office? The people of a country have a greater stake in all this than universities and their students understand. And the elite schools are lowering their own standing more than they know."

THE HOPE AT THE END OF THIS DEBACLE IS THAT SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, BIDEN GETS OUT OF THE WAY (WITHOUT YIELDING TO THE AWFUL INCOMPREHENSIBLE HARRIS) AND TRUMP, FOR WHAT EVER REASON, ALSO GETS SIDETRACKED (HE’LL NEVER CHANGE)

 

We have seen Haley and DeSantis as the new leadership Americans desperately need. (Remember, Ronald Reagan was not expected to win either!)

 

IF FOR SOME REASON THE POLLS ARE RIGHT AND TRUMP IS NOMINATED TO RUN AGAIN, HIS ODDS OF HIM BEING HIS OWN WORST ENEMY, ARE GREAT, NO MATTER WHAT THE POLLS SAY. (Maybe he’ll adopt a “basement campaign"?😉)

 

THEN IT’S IN THE HANDS OF GOD — AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE — LET’S HOPE THEY CHOOSE WISELY.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY (less war torn) NEW YEAR

JOHN

 

PS: I’ll be back in touch as the frantic campaigning for 2024 gets really rolling. I’m privately hoping for the GOP to both regain the Senate Majority AND hold onto the House, while some miracle sorts out the Trump vs. Biden disaster scenario.

 

 

THE ENTERPRISE: THE ELECTRIFICATION OF EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY VEHICLES, AND OTHER MINDLESS MANDATES — AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON

WHILE THE WORLD WATCHS ISRAEL GO AFTER HAMAS, DEFEND ATTACKS BY SYRIA, HEZBOLLAH, WITH IRAN’S HELPAND WHILE UKRAINE FIGHTS FOR THEIR VERY SURVIVAL AGAINST A MURDEROUS DICTATOR, PUTIN, IN RUSSIA
AND WHILE CHINA STEALS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM THE USA TO CLAIM THE SOUTH CHINA SEA & TAIWAN
AND WHILE NORTH KOREA IS THE ILLICIT SUPPLIER TO ALL OF THE "EVIL EMPIRE”

AMERICA SUFFERS FROM BIDEN & OTHER MISGUIDED LEADERS WHO INCUR INFLATION AND IMPOSE A HUGE DEFICIT, FOR ALL THE WRONG PURPOSES.

IN AMERICA, WE ARE BLESSED WITH DIVERSIONS (SO FAR, ANY WAY, UNTIL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CREATE DANGEROUS US SLEEPER CELLS.)
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LET’S COVER THE  LAST ITEM FIRST—THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE AMIDST A SCANDAL

BACKGROUND: There’s a saying, “Football isn’t a matter of life and death around here—it’s more important than that!” Well.maybe that’s extreme, but “The" Ohio State University, (near where I live) and the University of Michigan (The Team Up North —TTUN) are two huge universities, with big alumni fan (short for “fanatic” followings).  In case you’ve been out of the US for two years, (or two weeks,) and haven’t heard, after a long dominant (9 of 10 years) winning streak, OSU has lost to TTUN in each of the past two years. Three years ago, Jim Harbaugh (“TTUN coach”) refused to bring his team to Columbus where they were nearly certain to get badly beaten. He blamed “Covid," but many think it was his “Career" he was worried about. He’s been interviewing with NFL teams for several years.

THEN in a “coincidence of events” Michigan borrowed some coaching from Jim Harbaugh’s brother John’s NFL team and were fortunate to recruit a bunch of good football players. Viola'—Michgan suddenly became a powerhouse team.  

Two Steps: It turns out that the resurgence had two important factors: 
1) Recruit a group of good players, and then borrow help from your brother’s NFL coaching staff, then maximize the impact by CHEATING! 
2) No more guessing at what opponents would do on offense or defense: “just steal & video the opponents’ game signals"—BAM—you can become dominant.  Use a low-level staffer (Connor Stalions) to secretly violate the BIGTen Sportsmanship rules on “stealing" opponents offfensive play call and defensive signals—FOR TWO SEASONS!  (which Coach Harbaugh claims “deniability”— "I don’t know anything about this.”)  Offensive and Defensive Coordinators now can know exactly what the opponents are going to do—in real-time from stolen signals—which is a huge advantage. 

THIS IS WHEN HARBAUGH CLAIMS THEY WERE VICTIMS OF HARDSHIP AND PERSECUTION BECAUSE THEY WERE CAUGHT CHEATING AND PUNISHED! HE CLAIMS THEY ARE NOW ‘AMERICA’S TEAM” AND SHOULD GET SYMPATHY FOR BEING PUNISHED ("because everybody does it: steals signs & signals” BUT NOT IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE BIG TEN RULES.)

The additional claim is that the players should not be punished in their winning season—but what about the players on every other team they beat, and the teams they displace in the College Football Playoff.

THE “CHEATING SCANDAL” in a nutshell:

In its letter to Michigan, the Big Ten released some evidence that it cited when handing down this punishment. Some of the items were not revealed until today. Some of the evidence includes the following:

A large and detailed chart listing the names of individuals assigned to attend past and future games of opponents of Michigan
The NCAA gave the Big Ten evidence that they could prove that videos taken through in-person scouting could be linked directly back to Connor Stalions.
The 2023 schedule of Michigan’s scheduled football opponents
A color-coded chart reflecting past attendance of games and where individuals still needed to attend future games.
The names of individuals assigned to certain cities and locations.
Monetary amounts associated with attending certain games.
The SEC Commissioner also gave the Big Ten information that a staffer purchased a ticket to the SEC Championship Game.

As you can see, the Big Ten had plenty of evidence to hand out the punishments that they did. They also said in the letter to Michigan that further punishments may take place based on future evidence gathered by the NCAA. This saga is far from over.

As it turns out, Michigan has several other issues under investigation, one including a former coach’s computer, containing allegedly illegal  practices (not yet fully disclosed) resulting in Coach Harbaugh starting this season with the first of two 3 game suspensions, alleging multiple NCAA offenses. The second 3 game suspension was just imposed and is being appealed & litigated, but it is little more than a slap on the wrist—banning Harbaugh from sideline coaching on game days but still permitting all practice and game prep cocahing to continue. More NCAA violations are under investigation with possible penalties to come. Risks involve gambling issues, NCAA sanctions, etc.

The final chapters are yet to come: 
The Ohio State  vs. Michigan game on Nov. 25 — AT Michigan—to see who wins, without the CHEATING help. Hopefully no lives are lost, but sadly, careers of players and coaches of competitors are damaged, and the considerable talent and hard work of the players is marginalized by breaking the rules.

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THE FEATURE—ELECTRIC VEHICLES —(AND "THE ELECTRIFICATION OF EVERYTHING”)—ARE AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS NOT QUITE HERE YET—BUT BEING WIDELY MANDATED BY “CLUELESS JOE" AND HIS MINIONS IN GOVERNMENT.

HOWEVER, OFTEN THE BEST OF IDEAS COME WITH UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES 
A wise man once said, “One  fool can ask more questions than a thousand experts can answer.” When Americans vote “fools” into the leadership roles of American government (e., g., the Presidency, the Vice Presidency and multiple key Cabinet, Senate & House positions,) the results are what is evident now—CHAOS caused by foolish decisions and mindless mandates. When large groups of people with vested interests pressure these “fools” into mandated actions, (which nobody understands the full consequences) trouble follows—not caused by climate change or weather; caused by foolish humans.

The Climate crazies…blame everything they need to justify (to support their lifestyle) on “Climate Change”.  E.g., Biden’s “existential change warning.” This massive HOAX has spread through a media desperate for sensational news, while intellectually competent scientists actually try to rein in their peers, they are called “deniers”,” then ostracized or shouted down!  For those “Climate Change” devotees reading this, here are three thoughts and two credible books to read.

Infamously, Al Gore said “the truth is an inconvenient thing,” only to learn later the he was distorting or misstating what he thought was truth! He was famously wrong!
Facts:

Climate is different from weather. Climate is much longer term and spams millennia. Climate existed long before human population in the billions began spewing pollutants! During much of this time, centuries ago, no effective measurements of “climate change” even existed. The reliable, long-term historical data comes from geological studies and deep-ice-drilling.  These reveal the enduring nature and true long-time-cycles of Climate Change, which humans have minimal effect on when viewed for centuries or millennia.

Weather is highly variable, volatile, unpredictable, and much shorter-term than climate. Weather spans months, years, decades, and (maybe) longer time frames. When countless humans in places like China, India, etc., began fouling planet Earth with heavy metal contaminants, massive air pollution, caused by fossil fueled (coal) power plants they altered weather (but had minimal impact on climate.) Less developed, (populous) countries had little or no concern for pollution. Much (70%+) of China’s arable soil is contaminated beyond recovery! Its air pollution is so bad, it is sickening or killing Chinese people, while blocking the skies with clouds of polluted air.  Weather, however, is the volatile and more immediate consequence of human behavior that destroys the places where humans should have never built, in spite of the known vulnerability to storms, floods, and such. Weather is measurable now, but very difficult to predict.

Climate has withstood the Earth’s population growth from a few million to billions.
The foremost expert for the Obama Administration, Stephen Kooning, quit after years of watching the myth of Climate Change be spread, misused and distorted! He  took time to write a scientifically insightful book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters. Because zealous climate change advocates don’t want the truth to be known, readers are still unconvinced by Kooning’s book.  to them I offer Heaven, and Earth, written more than a decade ago, by Australia’s leading geologist, Ian Plimer, which says the same thing, but based on geological studies: “the rocks don’t lie.”

With this underpinning consider the foolish, lemming-like mandates of being carbon free, or “green” with fossil fuels eliminated by 2025, 2030, 2050 or whenever.  These “fools in high places had no idea how those lofty but arbitrary goals could be achieved, but creating multiple consequences, some of them unintended. Further, the vaunted Paris accords (which Biden, Kerry, et. al. are pushing the US to transfer billions of dollars to the worst of the polluting countries, with little evidence of improvement—except American taxpayers money wasted.

Here are the problems, issues, and consequences of the EV mandates with no idea of how—or if—they can be dealt with:

1.  Electric grid and capacity in the US is unprepared for the “electrification of everything”—especially millions of cars, trucks, stoves, etc. (Worst case, A solar storm could wipe out part of the grid, as could a clever hacker or vandals with rifle shots into power transformers!) China generates electricity to produce its EVs and required components by burning coal—the dirtiest environmental option!

2.  Charging electric cars takes much longer than pumping a tank full of gas—extending trips by hours. Delivering electricity to an out-of-power EV is far different than a gas can full of gas. Trips that require recharging en route need more careful planning to find, use and hope charging stations are in the right places. 

3.  Finding compatible charging stations is difficult, and sometimes, impossible, and while Tesla has a good network, it’s far from enough locations to serve other vehicles. Deals between Ford & Tesla to use compatible charging stations will help—eventually!

4.  Travel range estimates are overstated, and seldom consider the loads, terrain, temperature and how far a full charge lasts until low charge warnings pop up. This is a potentially  huge “stranded traveler problem!”

5. EVs are very different. Heavier, mechanically simpler but much more electronically complex, potentially vulnerable to hackers, with far fewer trained repair mechanics or technicians.

6. Drivers are unfamiliar with “how to drive EVs” and can damage or limit them by stalling them under load or running batteries too far down.

7. Reality is setting in: Automakers rushed to proclaim plans introduce EVs, only to find they cost more, and after the initial novelty, sell slower than expected. (China is far ahead in making lower cost EVs, which could flood the US car industry with imported cars.)

8. States depend on gas taxes to fund new road construction. No one has considered how to replace infrastructure carrying heavier vehicles (batteries are heavy) not using gas! (Fuel economy regulations need manipulation to fund comparable metrics.)

9. Mandates force auto makers to rush into US Battery production which is lagging behind mindless mandated conversion schedules. Most of the battery materials come from China or other faraway places, not the USA—not yet anyway. Joint auto company & battery maker plants are just being built. (Tesla built its battery plants first. US makers are rushing to catch up. A big Honda/LG joint venture is underway in OH, and several other large JVs are just starting now.)

10. New EV Supply Chains must be built to support the potential of EVs, and that includes Trucks, which represent a totally different set of challenges—range, load, time to charge & between charges, and huge infrastructure issues. This takes time, money and planning—not just "reacting to mindless mandates!"

Bottom line: these "mindless mandates" of carbon-free deadlines from politicians (some of whom are the “fools, who have no clue about the many other consequences (e.g., power grid insufficiency, fire hazards, and disposal of depleted batteries) will plague EVs of all kinds for the rest of this decade. The next time you hear these promises, remember the warning I opened with— A wise man once said, “One fool can ask more questions than a thousand experts can answer.”   Maybe it should say, “leaders with little regard for the problems their mandates cause will be long gone, leaving the voters who elected them with the consequences, problems, and bills for fixing them.”

It seems that Honda & Toyota are on the right track, building gas-electric hybrid self-charging vehicles for the next transition, maybe five-ten years, while America figures out how transition to EVs and to solve the problems caused by "fools mindless mandates" and we build an entirely new industry, supply chain and EV infrastructure.

I’M JUST THINKING OUT LOUD. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
John

 

THE ENTERPRISE—TRUTHS—WHO TO BELIEVE, WHAT TO BELIEVE, WHY TO BELIEVE IT & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT ALL!

THE ENTERPRISE—TRUTHS—WHO TO BELIEVE, WHAT TO BELIEVE, WHY TO BELIEVE IT & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT ALL!

SOMETIMES IF YOU WAIT A WHILE, PROBLEMS RESOLVE—OR GET WORSE!

This edition has been sitting for a few weeks, during which the world went bonkers! Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, who plans to return the favor, and attack back. Non-Hamas Palestinians are going to be caught in the cross-fire. That’s not good. But Hamas must face retribution for its brutal actions. If others like Hezbollah, a larger nasty version of Hamas, attack Israel from the North (the Hamas attack came from the South), the “war” gets much more difficult.

 

MEANWHILE, RUSSIAN DICTATOR PUTIN CONTINUES SHELLING OF UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WONT ADMIT HE’S LOSING.

More countries including the USA are coming to Ukraine’s aid. Putin acts like he doesn’t care—but he does! Putin’s Russia needs to find a face-saving strategy to claim (rename) victory from his defeat. What are they waiting for? More money and arms from China, North Korea, and Iran! The “evil axis” still exists! Iran helped Hamas plan the surprise attack on Israel. For that, Iran should be sanctioned in every way possible!

 

BIDEN’S SPEECH WRITERS WROTE AN AGGRESSIVE SPEECH ABOUT RUSSIA & UKRAINE, HAMAS & ISRAEL & HEZBOLLAH, AND THE CHINA + IRAN BACKING. Trouble lurks around every corner, and Biden’s border chaos is probably welcoming more of America’s enemies every day!.This was a change of pace for Biden, but unless he follows it with the right action, it will be another hollow speech like too many of his recent proclamations…false … or unintelligible. And mean little.

A FEW WEEKS AGO, I WROTE: “CAN WE BELIEVE WHAT JOE BIDEN SAYS?”
His past and present is littered with countless outright lies and bumbling distortions. When he whispers that “Bidenomics is working.” Most Americans must ask, "what country is he living in?" Often Biden’s revisionist history is just not believable, and his staffers must either evade questions about what he said, or walk them back, explaining "what he really meant to say!" But videos don’t lie—even if Joe does!
Lately the Census Bureau was able to expose the lies.  Here’s what it found:

JUST THE FACTS

Surprisingly, the country teeters on the brink of a long expected recession, it also shows surprising strength in spots (jobs, retail sales to name two) as consumers spend the post Covid money giveaways. A famous quote from the old TV show Dragnet, Joe Friday often said, “just the facts, ma’am.” Now the US Census Bureau delivers the facts that expose Biden’s lies about how Bidenomics is working. “Real incomes at every decile were lower and income inequality was greater than in 2018. America’s bottom 10% of earners were 6.3% poorer last year than in 2019 while those in the top 5% saw their incomes decline 4.1%”

WHO IS IT WORKING FOR? THE GOVERNMENT!? (TAXES UP, INCOMES DOWN!)
Joe says "it’s working." Are we supposed to believe him? Inflation was driven in varying parts by spending in Bidenomics, Biden’s delusional energy policies, and costs not attributed to the chaotic mis-management of Biden Appointees (like for border lack of control, “real" train wrecks, confused/dangerous foreign policies, and the inept VP Kamala Harris).  Real median earnings have fallen $3620 for men and $2880 for women, neither of which kept up with increases in the cost of living. If that’s Joe’s idea of success, we must disagree!

TRUTH  IS ELUSIVE—BIDEN & HARRIS ARE TOTALLY CLUELESS ABOUT TRUTH.
WHEN Joe speaks from his prepared scripts he is grossly misleading, unless he ad-libs, and then they are simply incoherent! When Kamala speaks, she makes no sense at all, meandering in circular platitudes, repeating nonsensical phrases. It is Staggering that these are the elected leaders of our country. 

 

MEANWHILE GROUPS OF GOP HOUSE “FACTION” MEMBERS BEHAVE LIKE PETULANT CHILDREN, WHO NEED A GOOD SPANKING!

Matt Gaetz started all this by single handedly forcing out Speaker Kevin McCarthy, using a rule McCarthy foolishly agreed upon to reach his majority—and now it backfires.

 

AN IGNORANT FEW IN THE GOP KEPT THE MAJORITY FROM CHOOSING MAJORITY LEADER STEVE SCALISE, AS SPEAKER, CLEARLY THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB.

Tough, heroic, but uncompromising Jim Jordan is running the gantlet now—but his years as leader of the Freedom Caucus will likely doom his chances. Ironically, a different ignorant few from tiny factions with selfish agendas (Give New Yorkers more Federal money taken from hard working American in “fly-over” stares.) Now the House goes leaderless as America faces multiple crises needing attention& action! Ugh!

 

C’MON GOP SELFISH MINORITY—DO YOUR JOB NOW—OR FACE DEFEAT IN UPCOMING PRIMARIES,

TRUTH— AMERICANS ARE GETTING WHAT THEY VOTED FOR—DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES & STATES IN DISTRESS (Thanks partly to Biden’s border fiasco & Harris who can’t even find the border.) 
NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc., etc. are a mess! They look like third world countries in places.
NYC mayor is sounding distress alarms as 10,000 more illegal immigrants flood the city every month, clogging sidewalks and creating chaotic security issues.  Chicago O’Hare is housing illegals in a secret part of the airport. A Michigan avenue exec says looking out his office window “is like a scene from Mad Max” (the post apocalyptic movie from decades ago.);Seattle has devolved into anarchy. LA is reeling under its own sanctuary city vs. migrant problems. Minneapolis wanted to punish the Police for their failure to handle what the politicians created by opening the borders indiscriminately and irresponsibly or then not prosecuting criminal behavior!

MISSING FRIM THE SCENES OF THE CRIMES—The perpetrators Joe & Kamala and their Democrat cohorts—who want to be re-elected to finish the ruination of American cities & states. They found a new accomplice, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Getty family “pretty boy” who has ruined SF & LA and is working on ruining CA, while smiling his well coiffed persona onto the national scene — to make still  more new messes This story line repeats in most big Democrat mismanaged cities and states 

THE GOP SLIGHT MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE CANT EVEN AGREE ON A SPEAKER—HOW SADLY IRRESPONSIBLE! Ugh!

Where is the clueless duo of Joe Biden (who caused the border crisis, letting in countless terrorists, and now wants to wash his hands of it) & hopelessly inept Kamala , who played “hot potato” with border chaos trying to hand it back to Joe before she was held responsible. Finally, Biden concedes the need for rebuilding part of the (Trump) Wall.

BUT TRUMP HATERS ABOUND, ALTHOUGH HE SAID WHAT HE PLANNED TO DO, THEN TRIED TO DO IT—TOO MANY STILL HATE HIM,  The USA prospered under Trump — until misguided reactions to Covid stopped progress. Then, Trump had no support from Congress, which meant he usually got things done in less than ideal (ugly) ways (by executive orders.)

 TRUTHS— SURPRISING, COMPANIES ARE NOW HIRING HUMANS TO FACT CHECK AI CONTENT FOR REASONABLENESS!
It’s a whole new world as THE ENTERPRISE predicted months ago! Deep Fakes, ChatGPT, AI (unchecked), Where is the TRUTH?

TRUTHS— WE WANT WHAT WE WANT!  PEOPLE DEMAND OZEMPIC & WEGOVY, BU’T IT’S WANTED FOR WEIGHT LOSS, NOT FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE—OF CURING ILLNESS!  There’s a shortage of these new drugs that actually help control or cure real diseases: Type 2 diabetes & some heart conditions! Weight loss by artificial methods doesn’t last.

TRUTHS—REVISED “Temporarily” : WALL STREET REACTS TO GOV'T ECONOMIC DATA ONLY TO DISCOVER IT WAS WRONG, OVER AND OVER.

A common occurrence when government generated data comes out is for Wall Street and investors to react to it. Then a month later revisions are released totally reversing the conclusions of the data. Beware. 

TRUTHS MISDEFINED: CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO EARTH OR THE USA—JOE BIDEN‘S ADMIN & HIS INEPTNESS, PLUS RUSSIA-CHINA-NORTH KOREA COLLUSION ARE THE TRUE EXISTENTIAL THREATS!

TRUTH—HEADLINES TO MAKE YOU SHAKE YOUR HEAD…

• CHINA’S DATA—IS IT MANIPULATED OR FLAWED? (Yes, both!)
• XI’S TAIWAN TAKEOVER THREAT IS REAL. STOP THEM!
• JUST LKE PUTINS UKRAINE INVASION IS REAL STOP THEM!
• SCREENING FOR ANXIETY JUST MAKES US MORE ANXIOUS! (True!)
• ROBOTS KEEPING BRIDGES FROM COLLAPSE.(True!)
• NURSING HOMES CLOSE AS NEED FOR CARE GROWS (Can’t hire care-givers!)
• DO YOUNGER OF OLDER DOCTORS GET BETTER RESULTS? (It depends),
• FEMALE SURGEONS GET BETTER RESULTS THAN MALE COUNTERPARTS (True, more careful, fewer complications.)
• EUROPE FORCES APPLE TO SWITCH FROM LIGHTNING TO USB-C CONNECTOR
• DISNEY—SPECTRUM SETTLEMENT—MAY SIGNAL HUGE SHIFT FROM CABLE TO STREAMING.

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PRAY THAT THE GOP CANDIDATES COALESCE INTO  A VERY FEW, AND THAT DONALD TRUMP IS SOMEHOW ABLE TO (OR FORCED TO) WITHDRAW FOR LEGAL REASONS.

 

AMERICAN GOP "UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL"—AND LOOK FOOLISH IN THE PROCESS!

(THE DEMS ARE WRONG, BUT THEIR BLIND UNITY MAKES THEM STRONGER.)

 

FOR A DIFFERENT NEWS SOURCE—WITH LESS BIAS—TRY NEWS-NATION!

BEST, 

JOHN

 

 

 

 

THE ENTERPRISE—TRUTH—WHO TO BELIEVE, WHAT TO BELIEVE, WHY TO BELIEVE IT, AND WHAT TO DO NEXT?

 

THE TRUTH IN SUMMARY—NOTHING THE DEMOCRATS ARE RUNNING WORKS—WHY LEAVE THEM IN CHARGE?

Large cities are nearly all failing, drowning in debt, riddled by sanctuary city policies, rampant crime and there’s no solution in sight after “defunding the police” movements have left police forces helpless because Dem prosecutors simply release criminals within hours of their arrest. Nationally, most Americans are reeling from inflation (gas, food, services) and interest (every kind of loan—credit cards, mortgages, etc.) businesses must cut the only expense they can control—cutting jobs & people.

 

TRUTH—WE CANNOT BELIEVE ANYTHING JOE BIDEN SAYS
His past and present is littered with outright lies and bumbling distortions. When he whispers that “Bidenomics is working.” Most Americans must ask, "what country is he living in?" Biden’s revisionist history is just not believable, and his staffers must evade questions on what he said, or walk them back, explaining "what he meant to say!" 

But videos don’t lie—even if Joe does!  (Lately the Census Bureau was able to expose the lies.  Here’s what it found:)

A famous quote from the old TV show Dragnet, Joe Friday said, “just the facts.” Now the US Census Bureau delivers facts that expose Biden’s lies about how Bidenomics is (NOT) working. “Real incomes at every decile were lower and income inequality was greater than in 2018. America’s bottom 10% of earners were 6.3% poorer last year than in 2019 while those in the top 5% saw their incomes decline 4.1%”

TRUTH—WHO IS BIDENOMICS WORKING FOR? BIDEN & THE GOVERNMENT? (TAXES UP, INCOMES DOWN! MORALE DOWN TOO.)
Joe says "it’s working." Are we supposed to believe him? Inflation was driven by spending—Bidenomics, Biden’s delusional energy policies, and costs of the chaotic mis-management by the Biden Cabinet (border lack of control, “real" train wrecks, confused/dangerous foreign policies, and inept VP Kamala Harris).  Real median earnings have fallen $3620 for men and $2880 for women, neither of which kept up with increases in the cost of living. If that’s Joe’s idea of success, we disagree!

TRUTH  IS ELUSIVE—BIDEN & HARRIS ARE TOTALLY CLUELESS ABOUT TRUTH.
WHEN Joe speaks from prepared scripts he is misleading, unless he ad-libs, and then he is incoherent! When Kamala speaks, she makes no sense at all, meandering in circular platitudes, repeating nonsensical phrases. 

It is frightening that these are elected leaders of our country. 

TRUTH— CITIES ARE IN DISTRESS (Thanks to Biden’s border fiasco, Harris & Cabinet members who can’t even seem to find the border.) 
NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Baltimore, etc., etc. look like third world countries.

NYC mayor sounding distress alarms as illegal immigrants flood the city, clogging sidewalks and creating chaotic security issues. Flash mobs rob big Dem city stores at will. Chicago O’Hare is housing illegals in secret parts of airport. A Michigan avenue (Chicago) exec says looking out his office window “is like a scene from Mad Max” (post apocalyptic movie from 1979.);Seattle has devolved into anarchy. LA is reeling under its own sanctuary city vs. migrant problems. Minneapolis wanted to punish the Police for their failure to handle what the politicians created by opening the borders indiscriminately and irresponsibly or then not prosecuting criminal behavior!

TRUTH—MISSING FRIM THE SCENES OF THE CRIMES—The perpetrators Joe & Kamala and their Democrat cohorts—who want to be re-elected to finish the ruination of American cities & states. They found a new accomplice, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Getty family “pretty boy” who has ruined SF & LA and is working on ruining CA, while smiling his well coiffed persona onto the national scene — to make still  more new messes This story line repeats in most big Democrat mismanaged cities and states 

TRUTH—WHERE IS THE CLUELESS DUO? Joe Biden who caused the problems and wants to wash his hands of it. And KamalA who played “hot potato” with it trying to hand the border problems back to Joe,  before she was found to be responsible for not fixing anything. VP Kamala Harris, who stayed as far from the border as she could, muttering “root cause, root cause” while flying anywhere where she could deliver her cackling laughing, and pointless word salad speeches far—from the border.

 

TRUTH—WHO IS REALLY RUNNING THE US GOVERNMENT— IF NOT BIDEN? IS IT BARACK OBAMA THROUGH HIS OLD ALLIES?

TRUTH—TRUMP HATERS ABOUND, ALTHOUGH HE SAID WHAT HE PLANNED TO DO, THEN DID IT. And the USA prospered — until misguided reactions to Covid stopped progress. Trump had no support from Congress, which meant he often got things done in less than ideal (ugly) ways—by executive orders. The US economy was hemming along until the Chinese produced Covid Virus and with Dr. Fauci’s help, shut it down.

TRUTH— COMPANIES ARE NOW HIRING HUMANS TO FACT CHECK AI CONTENT FOR REASONABLENESS!

It’s a whole new world as THE ENTERPRISE predicted months ago! Deep Fakes, ChatGPT, AI (unchecked), Where is the TRUTH?

TRUTH—WE WANT WHAT WE WANT!  PEOPLE DEMAND OZEMPIC & WEGOVY, BUT FOR WEIGHT LOSS, NOT CURING ILLNESS!  There’s a shortage of these new drugs that actually help control or cure real diseases, Type 2 diabetes & some heart conditions!

TRUTH—REVISED: WALL STREET REACTS TO GOV'T ECONOMIC DATA ONLY TO DISCOVER IT WAS WRONG, OVER AND OVER.
A common occurrence when government generated data comes out is for Wall Street and investors to react to it. Then a month later revisions are released totally reversing the conclusions of the data. Beware. 

TRUTH—MISDEFINED: CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO EARTH OR THE USA—JOE BIDEN‘S ADMIN & HIS INEPTNESS, PLUS RUSSIA-CHINA-NORTH KOREA COLLUSION, INFLATION, MANDATES ARE THE TRUE EXISTENTIAL THREATS!

TRUTH—HEADLINES TO MAKE YOU SHAKE YOUR HEAD…

• SCREENING FOR ANXIETY JUST MAKES US MORE ANXIOUS! (True! The more questions asked, the more the answers reveal.)
• CHINA’S DATA—MANIPULATED OR FLAWED? (Yes, both! China lies & misinforms to hide its failures—empty cities built but unoccupied )
• CIA POLITICIZES INTELLIGENCE ON CHINA! Lets China off the hook for creating Covid virus in its labs.)
• ROBOTS KEEPING BRIDGES FROM COLLAPSE.(True, if regulatory tangles permit!)
• U.S MUST LEARN TO CUT STEEL AGAIN (How to cut & shape heavy plates for icebreakers is a forgotten skill)
• NURSING HOMES CLOSE AS NEED FOR CARE GROWS (Can’t hire enough care givers!)
• DO YOUNGER OF OLDER DOCTORS GET BETTER RESULTS? (It depends on situation—some of both!)
• FEMALE SURGEONS GET BETTER RESULTS THAN MALE COUNTERPARTS (True, more careful, fewer complications.)
• EUROPE FORCES APPLE TO SWITCH FROM LIGHTNING TO USB-C CONNECTOR (Apple can sell us all new cables & dongles!)
• DISNEY—SPECTRUM SETTLE—SIGNAL HUGE SHIFT IN CABLE/STREAMING (on threshold of streaming replacing more & more cable.)
• WHAT WE ARE TOLD BY “AI" IS NOT TRUE OR MISSTATED: (Companies hiring humans to proof read & check AI generated text.)
• DECONGESTANT SOLD FOR DECADES—DOESN'T WORK AT ALL! (Phenylephrine has many side effects but none to relieve congestion! 

• THE BIGGEST ONE—HOW BIDEN’S EV MANDATES ARE HANDING US AUTO INDUSTRY JOBS TO CHINA—Because China dominates the strategic materials supply chain used in EVs

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DID YOU WATCH THE GOP "TRUMP-LESS" DEBATES? THE GOP IS IN DISARRAY— IT’S CLEAR—ONLY TWO REAL “TRUMP ALTERNATIVES” AS PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL WERE ON THE STAGE 

 

NIKKI HALEY & RON DESANTIS — If they join forces, how do their chances look vs. Trump?

 

TRUMP UNDERSTANDS HE WILL BE IN COURT FOR THE NEXT YEAR? (HIS AGE SEEMS TO NOT BE AN ISSUE—BECAUSE HE IS STILL SHARP ALBEIT ONLY 3 YEARS YOUNGER THAN BIDEN.)

 

TRUMP KNOWS HE MUST ANSWERS MANY QUESTIONS: 

• FAILURE OF THE GOP TO AGREE & UNIFY ON POLICIES & PLANS 
• ABORTION POLICIES (THE POTENTIAL SWING ISSUE)
• THE BORDER FLOOD—"INVASION OF IMMIGRANTS" 
• TARIFFS & IMPACT ON US vs. CHINA 
• UKRAINE/RUSSIA WAR THREAT
• CHINA/TAIWAN INVASION THREAT
• NORTH KOREA ROGUE NUCLEAR STATE THREAT, 
• JAN. 6, RIOTS OVERHANGING HIS IMAGE
• MULTIPLE INDICTMENTS OVERHANGING HIS CANDIDACY
• THE DOMINENCE OF SOLID DEMOCRAT BIG STATES ON ELECTORAL RACE: CA, NY, IL, MI, PA, CT, MA, ETC…

• THE BIG ONE—ELECTABILITY—HOW TO OVERCOME THE TRUMP HATERS, MEDIA PROPAGANDA & GOV’T DIRTY TRICKS

WHAT’S YOUR OPINION—AND ANY SOLUTIONS?  — TRUMP AGAIN? — OR HALEY & DESANTIS? — 

(OR default to the Democrats again. WILL THEY PUSH OUT BIDEN? WHAT IF HARRIS BECOMES PRESIDENT?

 (Is Gavin Newsom waiting in the wings to step in?)

 

BEST, JOHN

 

 

 

THE ENTERPRISE—Politics, pragmatism, & preserving our founding freedoms & ideologies, in a politically partisan free-for-all, where voters have choices!

THE ENTERPRISE—Politics, pragmatism, and preserving our founding freedoms & ideologies, in a politically partisan free-for-all, where voters have choices!

United we stand, divided we fall

Patrick Henry used the phrase in his last public speech, given in March 1799, in which, ….clasping his hands and swaying unsteadily, Henry declaimed, "Let us trust God, and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall

 

MORE THAN A DOZEN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER; SO IS ONLY ONE!

it became obvious that perhaps half of that dozen had much to offer. The others, while good people, were role players. 

 

When Donald Trump joins the stage on Sept. 27, the dynamics will change immeasurably. He will charm, rant, rave, take credit (not blame) for, and claim his righteous role as the candidate—BUT HOLD IT. I bet there will be dissenters on the stage. Maybe they have less name recognition, but maybe they are more stable, less meteoric, and certainly have less political and legal “baggage.” 

 

I voted for Trump in 2016 vs. Hilary. She was a terrible candidate. No contest. I voted for  Trump again in 2020 (just once) against another terrible candidate, Basement dweller—Joe Biden. Also no contest, except whoops, somehow enough votes “materialized,” from the uncontrolled wee hours blizzard of unregulated mail-in ballots and Biden “won.” 

 

If you voted for Joe, please admit your error. He has been terrible. If you voted against Trump, I understand, because he was a flawed candidate, and still is. Now we do it again in 14 months. Better this tine, I hope! Preferably not Biden vs. Trump AGAIN

 

Biden may not be able to find the polling place without an escort —Dr. Jill, (or a TelePrompt to read how he should vote) unless he’s under family-related legal indictment. Trump will also likely be in court, or in jail, somewhere, or awaiting sentencing, or appeals, or maybe even out free? 

 

That is not a prescription for choosing the best qualified occupant of the White House. Trump may lead in the GOP polls, even in polls going into the election failing Joe Biden, inept Kamala Harris! But the only Poll that counts is at the Ballot Box (or wherever legal votes are tallied!)

 

America and its future leaders must grapple with many huge issues which can skew the voting greatly. Inflation-fueled by government spending and over-reach must be reined in. 

 

1–No Democrat—Liberal—Socialists will do that, because giving people money &  free things “buys their votes.” Thirty million young voters wanting Biden’s illegal student loan forgiveness stopped the GOP Red Wave in mid-term elections. SCOTUS should have acted faster to stop that, as it must to stop a handful of other Democrat vote-buying (or illegal vote harvesting) schemes. “Buying votes with Taxpaying (Other) Americans’ Money” MUST BE STOPPED!

 

2–Abortion is an emotional vote-buying scheme too. Nikki Haley’s excellent positioning during the Aug. 23 debate was a great platform to limit that election promise trickery. Adopt it!

 

 3–No Democrat will “fix Biden’s great border fiasco” the illicit opening of the US Borders with little or no controls. Expect the next Dem “trick to offer immunity and amnesty” to millions of illegals in America due to Biden’s Fiasco.

 

4–SCOTUS must STOP the weaponization of the Dept. of Justice, the FBI and other Federal agencies against Dems political opponents. The rebuilding of law & order in America is essential, as lawlessness and illegal immigrant refugees take over major cities/states—run mostly by Democrats.

 

5–FIND A WAY to avoid a Trump vs. Biden 2024 election. Biden’s may be self limiting as his cognitive decline grows worse and worse—but yielding to Kamala Harris is an awful next outcome. She is blatantly inept and unqualified.

 

6–Recognize and act on the threats from Russia’s Putin, China’s Xi & (it’s decline, while still controlling the supply of many critical materials, products, drugs, etc.), their apparent alliance and aspirations to take over Ukraine and Taiwan, while supporting North Korea & Iran/Middle Eastern threats.

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7—Education is a total mess. It’s gets an F for Flawed, Failing or Futile.  In any case, the Dept of Education should be shut down and expelled. It never did what it was intended to do. It just became another huge political bureaucratic governmental intrusion, where it doesn’t belong,—one that doesn’t deserve to exist—at all.

 

The list could be much longer, AND getting any of these to happen is a long shot. How about term (and age) limits for members of Congress—or even of SCOTUS?

 

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NEXT: WHICH IS BETTER?

THE REAGAN EXAMPLE: VOTERS MUST CHOOSE WHAT TO DO AND HOW—WHICH IS BETTER?

—GOP: HOPE, CONFIDENCE AND GROWTH W/LAW & ORDER, WITH LOW INFLATION & LOW TAXES 

—DEMS: PESSIMISM, FEAR AND LIMITS/REGULATION & LAWLESSNESS, WITH HIGH INFLATION & HIGH TAXES

 

This is a simple choice IF THERE IS UNITY IN POLICIES behind these principles.

—Politicians make glowing promises only to break or ignore them.  

—Leaders make commitments then flow them with actions to Mert those commitments.

—WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER TO LEAD YOUR COUNTRY?

 

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The choice is simple. Vote for candidates and a party that will not just TALK THE TALK, but rather will WALK THE TALK, and make meaningful change.

 

How can you tell the difference? 

Their action and results speak so loudly you can’t hear their words,  

Look at SIX of America’s most populous states and compare them:

 

DEMOCRATS RUN: New York, Illinois, California —DEEP IN DEBT, RISING TAXES, PEOPLE & COMPANIES LEAVING BY THOUSANDS

 

REPUBLICANS RUN: Ohio, Florida, Texas—FISCALLY SOUND, LOWERING TAXES, PEOPLE GOING THERE BY THOUSANDS.

 

Even on Abortion philosophy:

Dems: Pro-abortion = abortion anytime: anywhere up, until the moment of birth

GOP: Pro-life = no abortions after 6-15 weeks (unless extenuating circumstances)

Which seems more morally right?

 

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THE CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX: IS UNPROVEN, UNSETTLED & PROMOTED BY POLITICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS WHO BENEFIT FROM THE MONEY

NOTE: Climate is different from Weather. Climate spans centuries, weather spans months/years. 

• Humans affect climate little over centuries, (proven by geology & arctic ice drillings)
• Humans build things where weather events cause loss of life and huge property losses every few years
• Humans fail to manage forestry and ground plant growth, then complain when storms or wildfires in places known to be risky to build or develop and driven by weather/humans; burn it, or blow it, or flood it away.

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HOW to KNOW? and what to believe?

 

Mass-media news is no longer unbiased, honest or truthful. It relies on spreading sensationalism that attracts viewers who attract advertisers. Finding unbiased media is nearly impossible because it is driven by subscribers, viewers and an audience.

 

Finding unbiased candidates is difficult. They are expected & supposed to be biased in favor of the ideologies & philosophies they believe will best serve & satisfy their constituents, and their beliefs & wishes (and get them reelected).

 

Finding and forming your own beliefs, philosophies, and political biases is the best way, and those are best based on facts, hard information, observation, morality and human behavior.  Those come closer to revealing the truth than any other method.  THEN SUPPORT & VOTE FOR THE BEST CANDIDATES IN 2024.

 

JOHN

 

PS — I’ll go out on a limb in the next edition of THE ENTERPRISE and name My 2024 GOP Ticket 

(No matter who the Dems choose to run, with one exception.)