DPT – March 1, 2024
Given the fact that Democrats (including DNC powerbrokers) are finally losing faith in dirty old—and vulnerable—Uncle Joe’s chances of being reelected, the word is that a brokered Democrat convention is in the works.
Once upon a time, a brokered convention in either political party was viewed as a slap-in-the-face to the electorate and thus a surefire way to forfeit the election. But today’s compliant Democrat minions, being ignorant of such historically democratic values, are wont to shrug off any such insults to their character—and don’t think that has been missed by DNC powerbrokers.
In spite of the fact that Democrats have no up-and-coming “star” that would make their constituency swoon, a number of names have been tossed about. Laughably, tired old Hillary has been mentioned; and the Man Who Killed California—Gavin Newsome—has generated some excitement, albeit subdued.
But ever since the wee hours after Biden was “elected,” I have quietly speculated that none other than Michelle Obama would somehow be the Wite-Out replacement for Biden on the 2024 ballot.
Voila! Today I’m reading reports reminding me that Michelle has been preparing to run for President since 2016 by following the same formula as Barack did before her. This includes writing an autobiography, giving the keynote speech at the Democrat National Convention, and heading up a voter registration organization.
And it’s not lost on Democrat insiders that Michelle is unaccountably one of the most popular figures in America, leading Gallup’s “most admired woman in America” during several polling cycles, far outclassing heir-to-the-throne Kamala Harris.
Along with that, other (unverified) reports say that the vice president dilemma, a traditional “next-in-line” candidate to succeed the sitting president—who happens to be a “woman of color”—would be solved by putting hapless Harris on the Supreme Court and running Michelle, who also happens to be a woman of color.
Suddenly, getting the unpopular and inept Harris in the Supreme Court makes a lot of sense for Democrats, even if it would be a disaster for the country. Supposedly, to that goal, there have been recent calls for Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire and open a seat on the court for Biden to fill.
The latest out of D.C. from whistleblowers to the National Association for Gun Rights is that just weeks ago the White House is hatching a plan to ban all private sales of firearms and create a national gun registry.
It’s hard to conceive that his campaign would allow that to come about in an election year—but what if one of the above scenarios played out and Old Joe became Old Lame Duck Joe?
It’s plausible that his administration—Obama-Biden Administration: The Sequel—would issue an Executive Order accompanied by pending legislation to that end.
The whole purpose of the Second Amendment is not that we can hunt, take target practice, or even defend our homes from lawbreakers—although those protections are included because of the amendment—but it exists to give us a means to defend against a tyrannical government. And don’t they know it.
Even the Democrat trifecta here in Minnesota has yet more gun control legislation in store for this year’s session.
If you weren’t aware of how important this upcoming election is before—in all contests, state and local—maybe you are now.
Had your fill of ESG (Environmental, Social And Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) yet?
Many have, and it’s no wonder. Both of these notions are little more than a form of coercion to get businesses and investors to comply with various items on the woke agenda, thereby herding the masses into holding paddocks ruled by our dysfunctional government and progressive control freak billionaire globalists. In short, it is Mussolini-style fascism. I say government, because the Biden (Obama) administration is neck-deep in wokism, as are most Senators and Congressmen.
“Wokism,” by the way, is a dumbed-down way of not having to say “communism”—too many syllables.
The problem, though, is wokism is finally losing traction among many businesses and investors, and it’s not hard to see why. The two primary reasons can be summed up in just two words: customers and earnings. Without one, you can’t have the other, and woke-victimized businesses and investors are bleeding both.
St. Louis County has hired Carl Crawford to serve in its newly created position of Equity and Inclusion Specialist. Is the County going woke?
On the surface, equity seems to be fair, just, and impartial. But upon further investigation, you find that the outcome of equity is anything but fair, just, and impartial.
Equality is treating everyone the same. But that’s no longer the case. Instead, the Left has hijacked equality by socially engineering it into something predicated on equal outcomes (i.e., equity), not based on equal opportunity.
The late Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek articulated the difference between equality and equity by writing: “There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means a new form of servitude.”
The idea of a “new form of servitude” is to mistreat the fortunate and to treat the less fortunate “fairly.”
The truth is that equity doesn’t promote fairness, equal opportunities, or equal outcomes. As a matter of fact, it snubs individuality, stifles creativity, cheapens competition, steals from hard earning workers, lowers the standards of achievement, and actually advances partiality—and often, promotes racism.