Rant or Rave Wednesday

Kamala Champions Failed Socialist Policies During Economic Speech

It has been about one month since Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president and two weeks since the VP obtained the delegate votes to be given this designation officially. During this time, her campaign and the media have overtly shielded her from any scrutiny that would require her to let the American electorate know where she stands on issues and specific policies she would implement as president. There have, however, been several stump speeches, where Harris has regurgitated the same lines, talked in generalities, and graced us with that irritating cackle that one might liken to scratching nails on a chalkboard.

Before diving into the subject, it must be stated that whenever Kamala claims that she’ll do something on “day 1,” we must understand that she is the current vice president and could fix any problems America is facing right now. But we are in a gray area where facts, like this critical one, are irrelevant. Last week, during the unveiling of her economic plan, the population and even friendly news outlets were stunned when Harris outlined policies tried and failed in socialist countries like Venezuela and the Soviet Union. Also, many of the economic problems that need to be fixed were a direct result of policies implemented during this current administration.

One of the most obvious concerns for Americans is grocery store prices. It’s something that surged under the Biden-Harris administration and something she simply cannot hide from. During her speech last week, Harris proposed a federal ban on price gouging (which she incorrectly pronounced as gauging). This would allow the government to set a limit on food prices. Anybody with even a minimal knowledge of history knows that government involvement almost always becomes the problem rather than the solution. [Read more…] about Kamala Champions Failed Socialist Policies

Rant or Rave Wednesday

Kamala Harris Avoids the Press – But for How Much Longer?

The one thing politicians aspire to do well is interact with the media and the public. Communication is a necessary skill to get elected so that a candidate’s message can reach the populace. The media’s job is to challenge and press the candidate on major issues so that the electorate has the information required to make an informed decision. The Democratic Party, however, is allowing this critical factor to become a thing of the past.

It all started back in 2020 with Biden when his surrogates used COVID as a pretense to avoid public scrutiny. By avoiding the media and through nefarious acts by our government, like denying the legitimacy of  Hunter Biden’s laptop, Joe Biden was essentially able to slip through the cracks. Despite bad policy ideas and a steep mental decline, Joe Biden won the presidential election and was inaugurated as president of the United States in 2021. Look at how that turned out – the economy on nearly every metric is suffering, the Southern Border is nonexistent, and we are closer to World War 3 than we have ever been, with nations like Russia and China forming an unholy alliance. Our incompetent Vice President Kamala Harris would like to piggyback off this scheme. The question is – will Americans and the press allow this to happen again?

The Democratic Party is simply not playing by the rules. When it became blindingly apparent after June’s debate with Donald Trump that Biden was not physically or mentally capable to continue the presidency for the next four years, the party unabashedly removed him from the race and inserted VP Harris as the nominee, four months before Election Day – primary democratic voters be damned. This act, in and of itself, should disqualify her, but with the media’s aggressive help, Kamala Harris has risen in the polls. The problem for her is that she is devoid of knowledge on any number of issues, she is an unlikeable person, and she is completely incapable of expressing cogent statements. [Read more…] about Kamala Harris Avoids the Press – But for How Much Longer?

Rant or Rave Wednesday

2024 Summer Olympics Controversy

Although still garnering a large audience, the number of people who watch the Summer Olympics has steadily declined since 2008. With the frenzy of Netflix, YouTube, and an excess of other options exploding over the past decade, the drop in viewership makes sense. People are distracted, and the Olympics does not seem to have the same appeal it once did.

Ratings, however, for the 2024 Summer Olympics are seemingly soaring. It’s important to point out that NBC, the network that airs live coverage of the Olympics in the United States, has changed the metrics it uses to measure audience size, and total viewership has yet to be determined, but it is fair to say that the summer Olympics this year is gaining a log of attention. From the offensive opening ceremonies to the participation of biological males in female events, this year’s summer Olympics is becoming a heated and politically charged subject.

This is not the first time transgender participation has been an issue with the Olympics. Transgender athletes have been permitted to compete in this international event since the early 2000’s. However, it wasn’t until the 2020 Olympic games, played in 2021 because of COVID, that the first openly transgender individual, Laurel Hubbard competed. Hubbard’s participation sparked outrage then, as he had an unfair advantage over his genetically female counterparts.

In 2003, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) enforced strict guidelines for a transgender individual to compete, including surgical anatomical changes having been completed. This rule, along with a few others, was dropped in 2015. Hubbard’s case in 2021 required testosterone levels to be below a certain amount. This still disregards a biological male’s obvious advantage with muscle mass and bone structure among other things, but it attempted to level the playing field, at least to some degree. This doesn’t seem to be the case in 2024. It is important to note that the IOC does allow different sports to set their own policies and the guidelines are regularly evolving, which further complicates the matter, but the one sport that seems to be stirring the most outrage in the summer 2024 Olympics is the women’s boxing event.

It’s one thing to debate the merits of trans women in sports like running or swimming, it’s a totally different animal with fighting that involves punching another person in the face. This year the boxing match between Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif and Italian boxer, Angela Carini provoked a variety of thoughts, feelings, and comments. This event goes beyond issues of fairness and involves concerns like personal safety, and potentially life and death. In less than a minute, after only a few punches from Khelif, Carini was forced to quit the bout, something she had trained her whole life for.

Once upon a time, a man punching a woman in the face earned you prison time but not today, not in 2024. This, my friends, is not the most bizarre thing either. It gets worse. The media is in full-blown psycho mode claiming that although Khelif has XY chromosomes, he is a woman. Now, to be fair, Swyer syndrome is a real disorder affecting individuals who have female genitalia but XY chromosomes; however, this disease is extremely rare. Maybe Imane Khelif does have this disease, but I simply cannot trust what the media is saying – they’ve lied too much on too many important things. In my opinion, it is irrelevant if he has this disorder. He should still not be allowed to fight against women because the XY chromosomal makeup, the biological marker of a male, gives him an unfair advantage and can have fatal consequences for his female opponent. Period.

It’s interesting that there are no issues on the opposite end. Notice how there is no standard for women going into men’s sports. There are many biological women, who now consider themselves men. Why aren’t they becoming trailblazers and vying to compete in men’s sports, that is to say competing against those individuals who were born with XY chromosomes? I think everyone knows the answer to that – it would be a futile exercise, as winning would be nearly impossible.

The ridiculousness of what is occurring at the 2024 Summer Olympics is a microcosm of where we are politically in the United States and the world today – the Twilight Zone.  We’re not approaching it and we’re not teetering on the edge. No, we are smack-dab in the middle of a disturbing episode with Rod Sterling’s voice resoundingly declaring, “You’re traveling through another dimension…”

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Kamala Harris is Anointed Democrat Party Nominee

It has certainly been a busy news cycle! An attempt on President Trump’s life, a fresh and spirited Republican National Convention, Joe Biden drops out of the presidential race, and finally folks, Vice President Kamala Harris is anointed as the new Democratic nominee. Who decided this last matter? Your guess is as good as mine – but rest assured it was NOT President in name only Joe Biden. I presume the ‘purveyors of democracy’ that hand-picked VP Harris are the same people who have been running the country in recent years – the nameless, faceless bureaucracy presiding in the shadows of our democracy who are unelected, unknown and unintelligent, given the state of our country and the globe.

First, let’s quickly address our current president withdrawing his bid for a second term. Make no mistake, this was not a voluntary action by him, First Lady, Jill Biden, or those closest to him. This is what happens when you are corrupt for your entire political life – you are beholden to those who can expose you and damage you even further. Biden did not willingly drop out of this race – he was forced out. Reports that he felt “angry” and “betrayed” are swirling throughout the media. Our ‘defenders of democracy’ have seen the poll numbers and decided that there was no chance for Biden to win – therefore, to protect our beloved democracy the party bosses had to force Biden out and insert Kamala. Understand that she was not their first choice, nor was she their second or third. The people who have sanctioned and screamed about race and gender could not possibly pass over a mixed-race woman, so they installed her as the new nominee for the Democratic Party 4 months before election day.

The problem for faceless bureaucrats calling the shots is that low poll numbers do not merit switching your candidate approximately 100 days before a presidential election. Everybody in government and the media knew that Joe Biden was physically and mentally incapable of serving another four years. Heck, they knew that in 2020 but hid under the draconian COVID mandates to conceal Biden as much as possible. He received over 14 million votes in the 2024 Democratic Primary. Kamala received zero. For better or for worse we must respect the process, but Democrats are oblivious to rules – it’s win and win at any cost.

Countless people that I have spoken with in the past week have expressed enormous concern over Harris’ potential to win the presidency. Anything is possible, especially with all the corruption and lies we’ve witnessed and have been subjected to in recent years; however, she is one of the most incompetent and unqualified individuals in the political arena. If this is a fair election, she doesn’t stand a chance. Harris ran for president in 2020 and was forced to drop out of the primaries before a single vote was even cast. At the time, she was polling at an embarrassing 3% with her party’s voters. She clearly lacked a message and vision for our nation.

Just like Hillary Clinton, Kamala is not a likable individual. Don’t take my word for it. Those working directly under her deeply disliked the Vice President. Since assuming her role as second in command, almost 92% of hired staff members quit. One of her aides famously commented that they were forced to sustain “a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism.” Wow. Keep in mind, these are her people.

The media and advocates will use her many titles as qualifications. The problem with that is, for example, being a vice president, particularly in this political climate, is not an achievement in and of itself. The question is, what did you accomplish in this role? The answer for Kamala is nothing. Early on during her stint as VP, President Biden designated Harris to be in charge of fixing the border. True to form – the media have literally begun scrubbing their websites and reporting of this fact. Unfortunately for them, countless pieces of evidence still remain.

Video of Biden appointing Harris to fix the border exists despite their best efforts to rewrite history. There is so much proof, even though they ridiculously claim that this isn’t the case. Perhaps the best evidence is the Vice President’s own words when she tells Lester Holt in an interview that she “has been working on this issue for a very long time.” This is the same video where Harris embarrassingly claims that she has been to the border after which Lester Holt corrects her and informs her that she hasn’t. The untested and frazzled Kamla Harris becomes defensive and remarks that she hasn’t been to Europe either. I can still hear exasperated sighs reverberating from her team and the rest of America after responding with that bizarre comment.

Her quest to find the root causes of the unprecedented invasion of our Southern Border resulted in millions of new illegal immigrants coming into our country from every corner of the globe. The document I have linked here on illegal immigration from the House Oversight Committee offers some stunning facts detailing this issue. It outlines the utter failure of this administration to secure our border with Kamala at the helm. Although, they did send billions of taxpayer dollars to some Central American countries. What those countries used that money for – nobody from this administration can tell you.

This is what happens when positions are handed to you on a silver platter. You don’t have to fight for them. You’re not battle-tested. Avoiding this process, which would have led to growth and a deeper understanding of the issues, leaves you clueless and unable to articulate clear strategies to fix a problem, which epitomizes the ability of Kamala Harris. Her failure to become the next president of The United States should be inevitable, but with the obvious deception and fraud perpetrated by the other side, Republicans must remain vigilant.

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