(October 8, 2020) I've come to the conclusion.... that President Trump is going to lose.

I've been doing politics for a long, long time.  Thirty+ years or so to be precise.

I've held many... most... political organizational positions up to the state level, where I actually served as executive director of the Washington State Republican party.

In 2016, I knew almost from the start that Trump was going to win. He was unlike anything the political world had ever seen, and the Establishment hated him.

And they hate him still, democrat and republican. They have been doing all they can to undermine him, attack him, destroy him and his family.

They've weaponized government against him, committed treason, insurrection and attempted at least one coup.  And none of them have been indicted, reinforcing the idea that justice is an abstract construct to those in government; who have no difficulty abusing the Constitution, or in the case of Obama, using it as their own personal roll of toilet paper.

If you or I commit treason, we are arrested/indicted and face a judge and jury.

If you're a member of Congress (Ilhan Omar, for example, is likely guilty of immigration fraud and campaign fund fraud... who should lose her citizenship and go to prison, then be deported) you break the law with impunity.  If you're Maxine Waters, you call for, effectively, the overthrow of the US Government because you don't happen to like who's running it.

And you suffer no consequence for that.

Most reading this, if politically aware to any extent, already know these things.

But these attacks are no different than what he survived to get elected... and I was convinced that he was likely to win.  The crimes these thugs and others have committed had become common place, and ultimately had no impact on the electorate.

So, what's different now?

Riots have gone on for months.  Those arrested, even for felonies, are quickly released.  Murders, arson, looting, assaults, rapes.  No one seems to be held accountable and the White House refuses to act to restore order.  Democrats are silent as their terrorist allies do the dirty work the left feels is needed to get rid of Trump.

That is an extension of what leftist higher-ups have done.  Biden, Obama, Clinton, Comey, the entire upper echelon of the FBI... all should face criminal sanctions.

And when you don't prosecute the top, what message does that send to the bottom?

Terrorist groups like antifa and BLM are given free rein. They Kill.  They assault.  They attack police.  They burn.  They loot, because well, you know, nothing screams "social justice" like gutting a Louis Vuitton store for those multi-thousand dollar social justice purses.

And it goes on and on and on.  While the Fed does next to nothing about it.  Much like they've done next to nothing about the upper end leftists who have and continue to commit criminal acts with seeming impunity.

Trump was supposed to be the law and order guy.  But when it came time to applying those laws and that order, he did nothing more than threaten. As time went on, he became complicit.

Even in football, there's a saying that you're either coaching, or allowing.

After months of unrest, strategically it was becoming clear that he was allowing.

Here locally, we've undergone this same campaign, only in a micro-sense.  And defeat was the outcome.

We had a county commissioner who ran on a platform of opposition to the hated Columbia River Crossing, the unneeded, unaffordable and wasteful rip off designed to get the equally hated light rail disaster of Portland into Clark County.

He defeated a fake Republican who was rabidly in favor of loot rail and who had even lied to me about a local vote on the issue personally.

A local accountant reviewed the project and discovered that the people were being ignored, tens of millions were being misspent and that the entire process was corrupted.

Meanwhile, because this commissioner was being successful in exposing this rip off, local media and the left started vilifying him... a process that was started long before the election and continued for years after.

Leftists hated him so much that they literally changed the county's government in an effort to eliminate him, and Clark County has been suffering ever since.

The local excuse for a newspaper never let up on him.  He was criticized for everything he did, blamed for everything that went wrong and ignored for anything that went right.

He stuck to his campaign promises and became totally hated by the left as a result.

The pounding was relentless.  The lies, exaggerations, attacks... all of it went on and on and on.

So, when he ran for election as the county chair, others ran to split the vote to keep him out and they were successful.

The ultimate winner was that same fake Republican he had defeated in the first place, supported by the many other fake Republicans who endorsed him instead of the only ACTUAL Republican who was running as a write-in.

As Chair, he was the disaster I knew he would be.  RINOs typically are.

Which brings us back to this election and President Trump. Using the election I reference above, the issue becomes one of water torture.  The drip, drip, drip of lies, deceit, gullibility, voter laziness where they don't do the work; and, let's face it, voter stupidity, will have the same variety of cumulative effect nationally as it did here locally.

Joe Biden is a corrupt, dementia-addled, racist, pedophile, liar.

His VP pick is a political prostitute who had affairs with at least one married man to further her own political career.

Because of Biden's physical/mental condition, in a short time, there is little doubt that this prostitute will become president, one of the least supported democrats who ran for the president, a woman gutted on national TV by fellow democrat Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii.

Everyone is well aware of these things.  Biden's racism isn't hidden.  His withdrawal from the presidential race in '88 over plagiarism is well known.  Many of his racist tirades are captured on video and have been played ad-infinitum. His dementia is on full-display for all the world to see.

Harris's background as Willie Brown's slut is also well known, as is her incompetence and political racism as AG for California.

And Biden's supporters don't care.

They operate out of hatred.  They'd elect Heinrich Himmler if he ran as a democrat to get Trump out of office.

And that's exactly what has happened.

This is being written on October 8, 2020.  And I seriously hope I am dead wrong.

But this time, as last time, I don't believe I am.  And I will publish this as soon as the election is decided, regardless of the outcome.

Lord help us if I'm right.  Because as a nation, we will have the government we deserve.

NOTE: (Written November 4) It is becoming clearer to me that Trump's defeat is inevitable.  He needed Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin.  As I write this, it appears he's behind in both Wisconsin and Michigan.  He could have lost one of the other but not both.

This observation has not been published before today and many might wonder why that is.  Many will claim this is revisionist history written after the fact.

Well, I saw no point in putting this out there because conservatives generally had used common sense and logic to determine there is no way... NO WAY.... Americans would ever support lowlife scum like Biden.

They are operating on emotion just as much as the left is.  And they had facts and figures available to support their positions.  Persuasive facts.  Persuasive figures.

But they failed to reckon with the one singular truth of politics: It doesn't matter who votes.  What matters is who counts.

I predicted back in 2016 that every election after that one would become increasingly violent.

This one is the most violent in American history as the left tore cities to pieces without fear of prosecution.

And Trump let them.

His failure was political.  His failure was to put an end to the violence and the leftist disdain for our laws. There is no question that he did a great deal of good.  But his failures... his failures to stop the violence in the cities, his failure to attack CHOP in Seattle, his failure to prosecute the leftists like Clinton, Obama, Comey, etc... his failures are what did him in.

Let this be a lesson to us all:

It is better to lose for doing the right thing than it is to slink away defeated because you ignored the right thing for political considerations.

Thank you Mr. Trump for all of the good you did.  For your efforts to return the Supreme Court to sanity, for your work on the economy.

But the fake Republicans the American people kept returning to office over and over; the failure to enforce the law; the treasonous, lying media... they all spelled doom.

And now?

We're screwed.

COVID: What is Taiwan doing right that we're doing wrong?

One of the things I've noticed over the past year is a stubborn reliance on the part of many to complain about their "rights" being violated.

As our country is passing the quarter-million new cases a day mark. I ponder the meaning of the use of the word "rights" as it's applied in this instance.

I'm fully cognicent of what rights are.  There are many definitions of course, but for the purpose of this missive, I'll briefly discuss rights in the context of what they are in THIS country.

Let me say at the outset that many deniers of this virus have one thing in common: they're dead.  From the very virus they deny.

We have enumerated rights as laid out in the Bill of Rights.  That does not mean that these rights are not subject to abuse.  Freedom of the press, for example, does not include efforts at supporting coup attempts, lies, exaggerations or attacks in an effort to act as the public relations arm of any political campaign.

"...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances," never meant the terrorism of antifa or BLM.  It does not include riots, insurrection, assault, murder, rape, robbery, looting or burning to name a few, or as that right is generally practiced in leftist bastions like the Portland or Seattle.

Those, of course, are among the rights we have that are restricting government power.

But nowhere in that document does it say that we have the right to ignore government efforts to fight a pandemic.  And no court has yet ruled with a survivable decision that we can continue on as if this pandemic simply does not exist and that we have the RIGHT to ignore it even if it doesn't.

Well, it does.  My brother died from it shortly after Thanksgiving.  I was not allowed to be there for that.

And I get it.

I also get the hypocrisy of government officials who make edicts governing behavior which they then blithely ignore; such as those who tell us to stay home, tell us not to eat out in restaurants, tell us not to travel, and tell us to hunker down... while they simply ignore their own rules.  The Speaker of the US House of Representatives.  The governors of California, Louisiana and New York. The mayors of LA, Denver, Austin, San Francisco, San Jose; the entire California Assembly. Council members for LA and Multnomah counties.

Each and every politician, regardless of party or position, who violates the law or these edicts should be forced to resign immediately, or face impeachment.

But none of them do.  Because THEIR hypocrisy is perfectly OK.

And these are just those who've been caught.  What about those who haven't been?

The problem is that politicians send a message when they do this.  They set the example.

When politicians exempt rioters/protestors from the controls they would ram down everyone else's throat, claiming some nonexistent right to riot; when they fail to enforce the law on this suspect class, fail to treat them the same as they treat a business owner, THAT sends a message as well.

You CANNOT claim that eating in a restaurant is bad, but rioting/protesting is perfectly OK. You CANNOT claim, as Inslee stupidly did at the beginning of the response, that PUBLIC construction is fine, but PRIVATE construction is verboten. The same rules have to be enforced for everyone.  When you make a conscious decision to treat different groups of people differently because one is a known political ally and the other isn't?

That's a problem that weakens your position geometrically.

And when others, the "common folk" follow those examples that the hypocrites set in ignoring their own laws/orders... then what?

When it comes to following the rules here in Washington, there have been multiple court challenges to Inslee's edicts, and all of them have failed, as I knew they would.  Just over a year ago, the people of this state GRANTED Inslee the ability to do what he's doing at the ballot box... by an almost 2:1 margin. (For the record, I voted "no.")

We also passed another abortive, killed-by-a-moron-AG-and-Puget-Sound-Supreme-Court-initiative that would have reduced car tab fees to $30.

Many demanded that Inslee obey the vote on the car tabs, only to turn around and DISobey the vote on emergency powers.  Odd that so many seem to think they can have it both ways.

That said, I admit that I support many of the restrictive measures in place.  And the reason I support those measures is simple: the ONLY alternative those who deny the pandemic have yet to offer is to ignore it altogether, as if it's not even there.

Until recently, may of them foamed at the mouth over Sweden, who seemed to be using that particular denier mecca as THE example of how it should be handled.  Sweden, for its part, had pretty much done precisely that: ignored it.  For months.  Until recently. Now?

Not so much.

Never mind that Sweden's' death rate was 2.5 times that of, say, Washington state.  (As of now, Sweden, with it's population of 10.1 million. has 8,000 dead of COVID.  Washington state, with our population of around 7.6 million, claims 3,104.  Sweden has had the highest per capita death rate in all of Europe.  And now that reality has set in, so have their restrictions and the fact that the denier plan, of simply ignoring it to achieve "herd immunity" is a failure.)

The US Supreme Court has ruled over the last century plus that government restrictions as a result of pandemics are, in fact, Constitutional.

It’s not, of course.  The US Supreme Court addressed this issue 115 years ago. (Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)):

“The Constitution,” Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote for a 7-2 majority, “does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint.” Instead, “a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic.” Its members “may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.”

Deniers, for the most part, can and have claimed that restrictions on business to fight COVID are NOT "reasonable regulations." But none have yet to prove their case.

The Supreme Court HAS ruled against efforts to restrict church attendance, for example.  But the reason for that is clear: not that church attendance can't be restricted, but that it cannot be discriminatory in nature... as in you cannot restrict church attendance any more or less than you restrict any other form of attendance to anything or place else.  To which, I obviously agree.

Many others have been telling us on this issue that it's to cover some insidious government effort to control us. Who hasn't seen the sheep memes, or worse yet, the despicable memes comparing this to  Nazi concentration camps.

That the virus would magically disappear once the election was over. 

Well, the election date has come and gone.  They may argue that the election isn't "over" in that the Trump campaign is attempting to dismantle the fraudulent scam of Racist Joe's election, but that isn't what they meant.

Most who made that absolutely unsupportable claim then have forgotten all about it now, because I haven't heard much from them in that regard.

I have personally been attacked by many (The typically usual anti-vaxer types to be sure) but also others who should certainly know better after my 32 years of conservative politics here locally that I'm now a leftist.  That I'm one of the sheep.  That I'm ignorant.  That I don't understand.

What THEY don't understand is I'm not going to base any medical decision on politics.  I'm not going to take a position merely because a leftist puts it out there.  Nor will I reject a position merely because a leftist puts it out there.

We have been cursed with thousands of mixed messages from dozens of agencies who, one day told us it was no big deal, then the next day demand that we go to the mattresses.

We get messages from elected representatives who tell us one thing one day and something else the next.

We were BOMBARDED by garbage like this shit from Inslee: Inslee says any COVID-19 vaccine will get added scrutiny before use in Washington. That doesn't seem to have happened.  So, it was just more of Inlee's hate-Trump shtick and, well, just another lie.

The problem?  It furthered the doubt about the COVID vaccine and increased the number of people who'll refuse to take it.  And the increase in that number? That's all on Inslee.

Yes, I say be cautious about the vaccine.  Yes, we should be careful about side effects, but what vaccine does NOT have side effects?

Meanwhile, many tell me that I don't have a clue. Here's the clue I do have: I wish my brother had the vaccine early last month.

He might still be alive.

As I review the video of my brother's funeral, I think to myself.... yeah, I've got a tiny idea about it, at least.

So, what to do.    

I have been saying for quite some time that Taiwan seems to have figured it out. Taiwan is a country of about 24,000,000.  A total of 7 have died from COVID.  they have had less than 800 cases total.

It would seem to me that we would be much farther ahead if we would follow the plan that those who've met with success have followed.

And yet, Taiwan doesn't have riots or demonstrations over COVID restrictions.  And they DO have those restrictions. Man who broke quarantine in Taiwan for 8 seconds fined $3,500

Is it possible that the people of Taiwan know more about "rights" then the people of THIS country?  Is it possible they understand that sacrifice is required to get past this?

And what about the next pandemic?  Do we decide to ignore that as well?  Can those who lead us get past their hatred of each other and stop calling those who make the decision "racists" or worse when they make the call?

Will we EVER see a government that puts country before power and REALLY puts people ahead of politics?