Telling It Like It Is

THE ENTERPRISE—ALERT: STOCK MARKET IS NOT THE ECONOMY—DON’T PANIC, UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON—Check out my newest EDITION of THE CHINESE CONSPIRACY

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THIS EDITION HAS BEEN WAITING FOR A  COUPLE OF WEEKS TO SEE HOW THINGS SETTLED DOWN—OR IF THEY DO?  I had no idea how timely if would be!

 

THE VOLATILITY OF THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS IS LARGELY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE TRUMP PUSH FOR FAIR TRADE  WITH USA & PAST POLICIES OF LETTING US TRADING PARTNERS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOW US TARIFFS & HIGH IMPORT TARIFFS (WHEN US PRODUCTS ARE BEING INTO FOREIGN COUNTRIES).

 

The long line of 100+ foreign countries asking to meet with President Trump, to negotiate lower tariffs, is an indication that the rest of the world is realizing that a "free ride at US expense is coming to an end!” It will take time for this to settle down. Increased US revenue from tariffs on goods sold to the USA will start to be evident in import prices (somewhat higher) and increased  US income from those tariffs.

 

The next steps take longer—more domestic (US) production of many products. The second action that  will happen, and is already occurring,  foreign producers selling to the US, will scramble to find ways to offset the tariffs by finding new suppliers, trimming some of the “fat” in foreign profit margins, and ultimately, not just pass everything on US buyers.  People who try to hedge by "buying ahead," will find that’s a temporary solution at best.

 

It took 4 years for Biden’s inept absentee presidency to be exposed as a charade, and do untold harm to the US economy.  For now—watching the stock market plummet, rise and fall again—is unnerving, scary, and alarming…until you understand that it’s a symptom of mass panic, knee-jerk reactions & not imminent economic disaster! 

 

The line has already surpassed 100 countries as it forms to renegotiate tariffs! As that happens, watch the market rise! The US economy is fundamentally stronger than the stock market panicky collapse makes it look!. (Unless the panic gets out of hand—thanks to the opposition news media’s fear mongering trying to impede President Trump's plans!  

 

For the past several years, no one knows who has really been in charge and accountable in the US.  Joe Biden was a shell of a man walking following "tape markers” on the way to read speeches and statements from Teleprompters—loaded by an unidentified group of liberal advisers. 

 

The cover-up of Biden’s decline, being fully revealed now (see the many books, led by  Fight - Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, which reveals a huge series of crimes committed by many Democrats, clueless former VP Kamala Harris, a coverup by a massively wrong, illegal, and the corrupt,  misguided mainstream media. Many believe Barack Obama has been secretly in charge. That’s not so! Obama didn’t trust Biden as far back as his political campaigns. Obama was accidentally quoted on an open microphone saying, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.” 

 

The strength of the US economy is NOT because of Biden’s leadership! It was in spite of it. 

 

We know now how badly Biden was in stages of dementia — and has been for several years. He had very brief periods of clarity, but not enough to finish whole sentences, and definitely not enough to finish a coherent paragraph of thoughts (with out saying, “you know,” or “anyway.”) 

 

What Biden could do was sign bills written for, presented to him, to dump billions of deficit spending into the US economy, much of it being directed to useless (and crooked?) sponsors of misguided causes—under his delusion that he was “doing his job.” The DOGE investigation is now revealing the range of preposterous, stupid, illegal, and politically manipulated spending—some so bad it seems unbelievable!  

 

Democrats had gone so far toward liberal Socialist ideology that the spending became like a gardener dumping entire bags of fertilizer (cash from deficit spending) onto his gardens to stimulate artificial growth, blindly ignoring the fact that plant & crops would quickly meet the opposite fate.  

 

It took Biden-Harris and their “handlers” four years to truly screw-up the US and its economy. The evidence was surging inflation, which excessive spending, like too much fertilizer, damaged or killed the garden.  

 

American voters recognized the inept leadership of Biden-Harris, and their Democrat “handlers" and elected Trump to “fix things.”  The economy, like overgrown or mismanaged plants, grew a lot—artificially—then seemed directionless. The Inflation Reduction Act failed to reduce inflation—it made things worse. Welcome to the wait for a “correction” back upward in the stock markets. 

 

Here’s a short list of headlines that illustrate just a few examples of how this process is starting. Good neighbors quickly get on board and support the pruning & cleanup.  

 

Some will be reluctant or slow to compromise because they’ve become accustomed to the lopsided tariffs (unfavorable to the USA) in place for a half-century.  

Bad ones will whine, complain and try to deny their roles in sustaining lopsided tariffs. 

Those who have no viable plan to fix the messes they created will point fingers, make signs, sing silly songs, demonstrate instead of admit their failed leadership and participate in better plans for America and Americans!

 

HEADLINES

--Social Security’s Cuts Fuel Anger, Frustration—but cutting out dead or excess staffing driven by outdated and/or obsolete systems. That is the right thing to do.

--A Bill to Stop Nationwide Injunctions—Even weeds resist removal, especially as mis identifies as good plants. Local judges who throw-up national obstacles must be reined in.

--The Census Defines Poverty Up—Raising the threshold for welfare support to send money to those who should work and earn their way, starves aid from others who are more deserving of the help!

--Medicaid Spent Billions Covering Same Patients Twice—waste and corruption must be removed like invasive weeds posing as desirable plants.

--Medicaid Insures Millions, And Is Eyed for Budget Cuts—allocations of scarce resources to those who shouldn’t need them, starves those who need them most!

--The Census Defines Poverty Up—Flawed income measure leads to overpayment of welfare, growth in 3 areas since 1990 is huge: Medicaid up +671%, IRS cash welfare-tax credits  up +1463%, and SNAP (food stamps) up +289%.

--President Toughens Tech Approach to Chinese Firms— Many examples of limiting what Chinese companies can buy (or steal) from US businesses operating in China.

--US Missile Launcher Enrages Beijing—new US missile system deployed in Philippines puts key Chinese hubs in 1200 mile range.

--Trump Breaks His Promise to Lower Prices—His tariffs will make life more expensive, in the short term, and Americans rightfully fear that. That fear is fueled by extreme media reactions to support the old/failed ideas they embrace.

--Senate GOP Budget Framework Pencils in $5-Trillion for Tax Relief—Democrat opposition to everything Trump plans will slow the relief for rising costs!

--Trump Has a Chance to Strike a Deal With Iran — he needs to use that leverage now to limit Iran’s power!

--ONLY IF THE POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS—OF BOTH PARTIES—WILL COLLABORATE ON THE BUDGET REFORMS NEEDED: CURTAIL WASTEFUL AND IRRESPONSIBLE PENDING, REDUCE UNNECESSARY REGULATORY OVER-REACH, PROVIDE MORE TAX RELIEF (FUNDED BY MONEY TARIFFS GENERATE)

 

I hope this helps readers understand a little more about the market panic and corrections. How long should it take to fix what Biden-Harris spent 4 years messing up? A year or more?? The USA under Biden was made into big mess.

 

I WILL USE THE ENTERPRISE TO PERIODICALLY BRIDGE THE GAPS BETWEN WHAT'S HAPPENING & WHAT WILL TURN THINGS AROUND FOR ALL AMERICANS, (WHILE TOO MANY DEMOCRATS (A FEW REPUBLICANS), & MAINSTREAM MEDIA & INVESTORS) “FREAK OUT!!”

 

Stay calm. Stay the course. Understand what President Trump his trying to do—in spite of partisan local judges restraining orders  as temporary roadblocks.

 

John

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RELATED CYBER-THREAT NEWS
—Cyberattack Dents Krispy Kreme’s Results (And Operations)
—Hacking Attack Steals data on 190,000,000 Americans from UnitedHealth  (More than HALF of Americans!)
—The Thoughts of Chairman Xi (“The foolish Americans don’t realize we will soon pass them in military, and especially naval, power.”)

TRUMP ACTIONS DOMINATE THE NEWS…THESE ARE SOME HEADLINES TO KNOW ABOUT:

I read the WSJ more than any other single print media. It is arguably less biased NEWS than most other newspapers. If you want to read online news, I suggest NewsNation, which is also less biased, and features Bill O’Reilly often (his site is now one of the most viewed online!)

From Wall Street Journal stories—
—Trump’s Tariff Plans Risk Jolting Economy
—The Dumbest Trade War in History (editorial)
—Xi Who Must Not Be Named (Why is DeepSeek deep-sixing the Chinese president?)
—U.S. Begins Flying Migrants to Guantanamo Bay
—How ‘China Shock’ Upended U.S. Workers (2 decades of mostly Chinese imports crippled many US companies!)
—China Watches as Russia’s Economy Teeters (China is pretending to be an ally of Russia, but hopes US sanctions push Moscow over the edge!)
—401(k) Plans Take Over Retirements ( as 40% of working Americans fail to save enough!)

—Next, Defund the United Nations (the huge $20+ Billion of US support for the UN is wasted on an organization that underwrites a global deep state and does more harm than good!)

—Stocks Fall After Infkation Hits 3% (investors & public mistakenly expect Trump to suddenly remedy 4 years Biden’s stupidity and wasteful spending.)
—Ukraine’s Machines Match Russia’s Men (Aerial drones fight Russian troops)
—Russia Wants to Erase Ukraine’s Future—and Its Past (Putin’s way to rewrite history.)
—Secession From Illinois Is in the Air (multiple counties want to move border & join Indiana!)
—Trump Gets the Cabinet He Wants (right or wrong, Trump’s cabinet choices match his wishes—time will tell if that’s good or bad!)
—Inflation Now Trump’s Problem Too (It took Obama’s 8 years & Biden’s awful 4 years to bury American consumer under excessive & wasteful spending’s inflation
—The Pacific’s Island Crucible (Taiwan’s political future is critical for many world powers.
—Bring Warriors Back to the U.S. Military

That’s enough for now. More later on.
John 

PS: I’m dealing with a treatable, but serious medical issue, that I hope to get behind me before summer.  Stay tuned!

THE ENTERPRISE Part 2: KAMALA’S NON-ANSWERS—WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT HER NOW—CAN HURT YOU & DESTROY AMERICA UNDER TAXES, DEBT, INFLATION & WARS!

THE ENTERPRISE Part 2:  KAMALA’S NON-ANSWERS—WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT HER NOW—CAN HURT YOU & DESTROY AMERICA UNDER TAXES, DEBT, INFLATION & WARS!    Recently I heard Kamala Harris speaking. She smiled as she lied and promised her audience—about “dreams, ambitions and aspirations” and a way to have all the things they hoped for; “everything” they imagined they could want, (even Christmas gifts?) All they had to do was vote for her—but she has yet to tell us HOW she will do it?  

The promise of having all your "dreams, aspirations and ambitions"... & "wishes ...come true" is very enticing—people might be fooled into voting for her—until the reality of common sense shows that both statements below are true.  (She is “playing to women voters” but WOMEN ARE TOO SMART TO FALL FOR HER HOLLOW PROMISES & SMILING PLATITUDES.)

“IF SOMETHING SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT USUALLY IS (not true)…” 

and “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH. (Someone always must pay for it”)

KAMALA’S BRAND OF SOCIALISM has one problem, throughout history. “USING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY TO PAY for  “FREE THINGS,” means “OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY” ALWAYS RUNS OUT!   DON'T BELIEVE her smiling promises—BECAUSE if you vote for her, those Dreams will turn to Dust & smiles to Disappointed frowns, as Reality crashes in. (Then it must be somebody else’s fault—Who? Trump of course—for being RIGHT!)  

DID YOU NOTICE, KAMALA finally went to the hurricane disaster areas—(ONCE—after a week)— (& wore an $85,000 necklace) TO FLY IN— do a Photo Op with a background of the HURRICANE DAMAGE—WHERE PEOPLE LOST EVERYTHING— THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE WATER, FOOD OR SHELTER. (BUT FEMA IS OUT OF MONEY??? Where did the money go—to illegal immigrants.)

KAMALA HARRIS—HAS NO SPECIFIC ANSWERS—NONE—ZERO! SHE IS A SMILING "EMPTY SHELL" OF PROMISES THAT SHE WILL NEVER KEEP. JUST LIKE SHE HAS NO SPECIFIC ANSWERS.  THE CORRUPT MEDIA WON’T ASK. THEY KNOW SHE HAS NO ANSWERS—JUST VAGUE PLATITUDES & her LATEST “WORD SALAD:” …"dreams, aspirations & ambitions?,,, 

AS IF REPEATING WORDS OVER & OVER,IS AN EXCUSE FOR WHATEVER HER MYSTERY PLANS ARE.  HER "NEW WAY FORWARD”. IS "INTO THE UNKNOWN,” Led by a totally inexperienced, and unqualified person, who cannot (or will not) explain ANYTHING with specifics. WHEN SHE’S SMILING, TALKING “SWEETLY,” SHE’S LYING!  IF SHE SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT YOU—IT’S AN ACT—A VERY CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED POSE. She won’t even tell us HOW & WHO WILL PAY THE TRILLION DOLLARS HER SMILING PROMISES will cost US?  

YOU KNOW THE ANSWER—US—YOU AND I & THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS WILL PAY! --ULTIMATELY, HER “FREE MONEY" WILL RUN OUT.  IN CASE YOU HAVE NOT HEARD, FEMA HAS NO BUDGET MONEY LEFT FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANES HELENE & MILTON—IT WAS ALL SPENT ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, HOUSED IN FANCY HOTELS, with FREE CELL PHONES, Meals, Health Care, IDs, AND MORE…even gender alteration surgery for prison inmates and minors, UNLESS/UNTIL, OF COURSE, THE GOVERNMENT PRINTS MORE MONEY, REDUCING THE VALUE OF  OUR MONEY.  WELCOME TO MORE "RUNAWAY INFLATION & MASSIVE DEBT."

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For everyone who thinks, “I can’t stand Trump” or “I don’t like Trump”, here’s THE strongest reason for choosing him—HE’S DONE IT BEFORE AND KNOWS HOW. I’LL REPEAT IT AGAIN. HERE’S  WHY I'M VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP”

• —I'm voting against Socialism. 
• —I'm voting for the Second Amendment.
• —I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s). 
• —I'm voting for the Electoral College and the Constitutional Republic we live in.
• —I'm voting for the Police & Law & Order. 
• —I'm voting for the Military & the Veterans who fought and died for this country.
• —I’m voting for the RIGHT to speak my opinion & NOT be censored. 
• —I'm voting for Secure Borders & Legal Immigration. 
• —I'm voting for the right to praise my God without fear. 
• —I'm voting for every unborn soul the Democrats want to murder.
• —I'm voting for good against evil. 
• —I’m NOT just voting for a person.
• —I'm voting for liberty, freedom & the American Dream. 
• and, I’m voting against mis-guided policies and principles and values of pretenders like Kamala Harris & Tim Walz.

Hurricanes HELENE & MILTON relief INACTION PROVES THAT WE HAVE NO REAL PRESIDENT—BIDEN IS “GONE!"— HE’S A SAD SHADOW OF A MAN (with his Teleprompter) who was PUSHED OUT of his ELECTED JOB, but STILL REMEMBERS JUST ENOUGH TO SAY & READ … UNTIL HE GETS TO … near the end and finishes with... “ANYWAY…you know”  

Meanwhile KAMALA HAS NO IDEA, especially when her Teleprompter goes down, WHILE READING FROM PREPARED SCRIPTS She barely understands. She looked like a deer frozen  in the headlights repeating …”32 days, 32 days, 32 days, 32 days, we have work to do" stalling until her SCRIPT came back on!  (If you have not heard, Kamala doesn’t read the  “briefing papers,” that back up her Teleprompter—she doesn’t like doing “Homework!"). 

Thus she has NO CLUE WHERE HER “NEW WAY FORWARD” WILL LEAD America, or HOW TO EXPLAIN IT—which she never has—and never will—UNLESS SHE can get ELECTED—THEN HER "PUPPET-MASTERS” WILL TAKE OVER. 

I’VE JUST FILLED OUT MY EARLY-VOTING BALLOT (which goes into the mailbox today) FOR OUR FUTURE AS AMERICANS.—WITH REAL LEADERS,  DONALD TRUMP & J.D. VANCE  

(& NOT KAMALA HARRIS & TIM WALZ (her self-named “knucklehead”) and Democrat “puppet-masters, with their minions—millions of illegal immigrants—and trillions of tax increases pay for “vague mystery programs,” and more bigger government, to tell us how to lead our lives!

THIS IS OUR COUNTRY—“WE, THE PEOPLE...”—LET’S TAKE IT BACK! 

GET OUT THERE AND VOTE! TAKE ALONG YOUR ELDERLY PARENTS, RELATIVES, NEIGHBORS & FRIENDS & THE YOUTHFUL VOTERS WHO MIGHT NOT CHOOSE TO GO ALONE.

JOHN

PS:IF YOU NEED ANY MORE CONVINCING, HERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:  WOULD Kamala Harris & Time Walz be the people YOU’D CHOOSE, to LEAD America’s in these chaotic, turbulent, war-torn times to “Make America Stronger Again,” to "Make America Safer Again,” and to make America More Prosperous and Greater Again?

1. TO face down China (Xi) —where Tim Walz (aka “knucklehead”) spent dozens of trips (while in OUR Army) working for Chinese Communist Party schools  & where the Biden family were bought & paid millions—for years?
2. TO support Ukraine, and challenge Russia (Putin) who has taken millions of Ukrainian lives, destroyed Ukraine using Russian youth, convicts and hired mercenaries to kill for it?
3. TO support Israel and stop the attacks by Iran’s Middle Eastern proxies), Hamas, Hezbollah & Houthis) who have been attacking Americans in the Middle East for a decade or more?

 

JOIN ME VOTING IN FOR DONALD TRUMP AND J.D.VANCE—VOTE NOW!

THE ENTERPRISE: KAMALA’S NON-ANSWERS—WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT HER—CAN HURT YOU & DESTROY AMERICA UNDER TAXES, DEBT, INFLATION & WARS

THE ENTERPRISE:  KAMALA’S NON-ANSWERS—WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT HER—CAN HURT YOU & DESTROY AMERICA UNDER TAXES, DEBT, INFLATION & WARS

 I heard Kamala Harris speaking today. She happily promised her audience—e.g. “everyone,” a way to have all the things they hoped for; “everything” they imagined they could want, (she even mentioned Christmas gifts!) All they had to do was vote for her. That’s why she talks about “dreams, ambitions and aspirations.”

The promise of having all your dreams & wishes come true is very enticing—until reality of commonsense shows that both of the statements below are true.

“IF SOMETHING SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT USUALLY IS...” (TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE)

“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH; (SOMEONE ALWAYS HAS TO PAY FOR IT.”)

SOCIALISM has had one problem throughout history. “USING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY TO PAY FOR ALL “FREE THINGS,” THE “OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY” ALWAYS RUNS OUT!

Kamala’s smiling promises—if you will just vote for her, those dreams will turn to dust and smiles to  disappointed frowns, as reality crashes down.

 (Then it will be somebody else’s fault! (She’ll blame Donald Trump for being RIGHT!)

 

EVERY AMERICAN VOTER MUST ASK FOR SPECIFICS FROM KAMALA HARRIS—BUT SHE HAS NO SPECIFIC ANSWERS—NONE—ZERO!  MEDIA WON’T ASK. THEY KNOW THERE ARE NO ANSWERS.

SHE HAS NO IDEA HOW TO ANSWER, NO SCRIPT TO FOLLOW, EXCEPT TALK ABOUT A “NEW WAY FORWARD”. (INTO THE UNKNOWN, LED BY THE UNKNOWING!)

            (WHEN SHE’S SMILING, TALKING “SWEETLY,” SHE’S LYING!  IF SHE SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT YOU—IT’S AN ACT—A CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED POSE.

 

WHO WILL PAY FOR ALL OF HER SMILING PROMISES? US—YOU AND I—THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS! ULTIMATELY, THE MONEY WILL RUN OUT. UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT PRINTS MORE MONEY, WHICH REDUCES THE VALUE OF ALL OF THEIR MONEY. THAT’S RUNAWAY INFLATION & MASSIVE DEBT.

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For everyone who thinks, “I can’t stand Trump” or “I don’t like Trump”, here’s THE strongest reason for choosing him—HE’S DONE IT BEFORE AND KNOWS HOW. HARRIS HAS NO CLUE WHERE HER “NEW WAY FORWARD” LEADS!  

 

THAT’S WHY I'M VOTING FOR TRUMP"

For those of you who say "I can't believe you're voting for Trump.” 

—I'm not JUST voting for him. 

—I'm voting against Socialism. —I'm voting for the second amendment. —I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice. 

—I'm voting for the Electoral College and the Constitutional Republic we live in.

—I'm voting for the Police and Law & Order. —I'm voting for the Military and the Veterans who fought and died for this country.

—I’m voting for the RIGHT to speak my opinion and NOT be censored. —I'm voting for secure borders. 

—I'm voting for legal immigration. —I'm voting for the right to praise my God without fear. 

—I'm voting for every unborn soul the Democrats want to murder. —I'm voting for liberty, freedom and the American dream. 

—I'm voting for good against evil. —I’m NOT just voting for one person.

—I’m voting against mis-guided policies and principles and values of Kamala Harris & Tim Walz

 

I’M VOTING FOR AMERICA AND OUR FUTURE AS AMERICANS.—and FOR Donald Trump and J.D. Vance

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For those who have not seen Trump’s plans  (the longer form is on the Trump-Vance web site.)

HERE’S AN CONDENSED LISTING OF TRUMP'S PLANS— (excerpted from the longer "detail plan" —and updated recently.)

"America First: A Return to Common Sense:

1. Regain Border Control(& Deport Radicals & Criminals to Stop Migrant-Crime)
2. 2.Reduce inflation,by Re-Building Energy Independence ("Drill, baby, Drill")
3. Strengthen & Modernize the Military & Rebuild our National Defense
4. 4. EmphasizeMade in USA—Limit Outsourcing with Tariffs—invest in American workers, jobs, and factories.

—and

5. Cut Taxes for all Americans (Restore Trump’s first-term tax cuts)  
6. Protect Social Security & Medicare,(and Reduce Taxes on Social Security, Tips, & Overtime)
7. SecureElections using mandatory Voter IDs
8. Defend Constitutional Freedoms & the Bill of Rights
9.  Stop Weaponizationof Government against Political opponents
10. Return the Trump De-Regulation(“replaced" by Biden & stop Biden’s arbitrary mandates (on EVs, gas stoves, gas-powered cars? etc).
11. To Avoid WW-III—RestoringPeacein Europe & Middle East & Build a Protective "Iron Dome” to protect American cities.
12. To Maintain the US-Dollaras the World’s Reserve Currency
13. To Unite America—by Creating Record Levels of Success

—TO MAKE AMERICAN GREATER THAN EVER

 

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HERE ARE THREE QUESTIONS FOR EVERYONE TO THINK ABOUT:  WOULD Kamala Harris as America’s leader in these turbulent, war-tbe the person YOU’D CHOOSE to “Make America Stronger Again;" 

1) TO Face down China (Xi) —where both your VP Walz and the Biden family are deeply involved & have been “bought" for years; 

2) TO Challenge Russia (Putin)—where your botched Afghanistan withdrawal encouraged the Ukraine invasion; 

3) TO Stop the attacks by Iran’s Middle Eastern proxies), Hamas, Hezbollah & Houthis) behind the October 7 attacks.

 

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WAIT--WHAT ARE KAMALA’S PLANS? — WHATEVER HER HANDLERS THINK WILL GET HER VOTES BASED ON THE LATEST POLLING! NO SPECIFICS...

Part 2 comes next week.  JOHN

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.