The 800 pound gorilla remains in the room.

For years now, Joe Biden's competence, mental acuity and abilities have been called into question by most honest observers.

And literally, for years now, leftists lied to our faces about his condition. Leftists including Kamala Harris.

Why did they lie to us?

Days ago, every leftist talking head in America lied to our faces. NONE of them questioned his condition, competence, abilities or awareness.

Joe Scarborough assured us not long ago:

"BUT COMPARING THAT GUY'S MENTAL STATE -- I'VE SAID IT FOR YEARS NOW, HE'S COGENT, BUT I UNDERSOLD HIM WHEN I SAID HE WAS COGENT. HE'S FAR BEYOND COGENT.

IN FACT, I THINK HE'S BETTER THAN HE'S EVER BEEN INTELLECTUALLY, ANALYTICALLY, BECAUSE HE'S BEEN AROUND FOR 50 YEARS AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE KNOW THIS OR NOT, BIDEN USED TO BE A HOT HEAD.

SOMETIMES THAT IRISHMAN WOULD GET IN FRONT OF THE REASONING, SOMETIMES HE WOULD SAY THINGS HE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY. THIS IS -- AND I DON'T -- YOU KNOW WHAT I DON'T REALLY --

START YOUR TAPE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.

AND EFF YOU IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. THIS VERSION OF BIDEN INTELLECTUALLY, ANALYTICALLY, IS THE BEST BIDEN EVER.

NOT A CLOSE SECOND.

AND I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR YEARS. THE BRZEZINSKIS HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR 50 YEARS.

IF IT WEREN'T THE TRUTH I WOULDN'T SAY IT.

Indeed. He wouldn’t say it. Yet, he knew he was lying when he DID say it. One wonders: why did Joe Scarborough lie?

Why did they put power ahead of the needs and security of this country?

Who, exactly, has been acting as president since it's clear the one we’ve got has morphed from Chief Executive to Chief Mushroom?

There's so many things democrats have lied to us about. Biden's condition is merely the most recent.

So now, we're expected to shove all of that aside and vote for the liars? The PROVEN liars?

Why?

Democrats, including Harris, have called voters stupid. Jonathan Grubber, architect of the horrific Obamacare plan (If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.) outright made the claim voters are stupid.

Are we?

Voters support candidates for a variety of reasons. Likeability plays a role. Getting that emotional connection. Overt manipulation. Taking the voters for granted, particularly the party of the self-admitted stupid, plays a role. Most importantly, as the democrats have shown, time after time, lying to the voters plays a role.

And as we ramp up to this November, I have to ask:

They lied to us for years. Repeatedly. They're ramming a candidate who never received a single primary vote, ever, down the democrat's throats... and we're now expected to believe them? 

Kamala Harris is a younger version of Joe Biden. She has the mental acuity of a guppy. She used her body in large part to achieve her goals. She is to the left of Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx.

She has lied repeatedly. She has sold herself out repeatedly. She has embarrassed this country repeatedly.

Why?

Why would anyone believe anything they say? Why would anyone believe anything Harris says?

Harris earning her political position the hard way with married California Speaker Willie Brown

Do they have a record of honesty and transparency?

Really?

Where's the Biden-Hur tape? Why do they still refuse to turn it over?

Harris is the candidate of crime, open borders, defunding police, homelessness and drug overdose deaths. She shilled for donations to free terrorist scum arrested as part of the riots which resulted in murders, rapes, assaults, burning, looting and destruction.

Voting for that lends credence to the claim that American voters are, in fact, stupid. We're lazy, we don't dig down, we don’t do the work, and we don't look at the record of what has actually happened on her watch and what will get even worse in the future should we suffer the misfortune of her election.

We have the government we deserve. But no one deserves the horror show about to be unveiled with Kamala's coronation.

Just a brief note as the next primary election rolls in upon us.

I became politically active in Clark County back in November of '88, I believe it was, when I volunteered for the Bob Williams campaign. I spent 30 years on that course.

I ended my active political involvement roughly 5 years ago with my final term as a PCO as I moved to Cowlitz County. Along the way, I served as a District Chair (17th) delegate to the county and state conventions, legislative assistant in Olympia and Executive Director of the State GOP. I consulted on campaigns for years (It was my business for 14 years) and won more than I lost. My degree is in government/political science.

Unlike some (Kathy McDonald or Jon Russell) I never sold out for a paycheck and, on occasion, walked away from money on the table.

There were candidates I refused to support or work for. They were crooks or liars. They were dishonorable. And when I found out, their party didn't matter. I was done. (Which, come to think of it, is why I opposed Jaime Herrera from the moment she was parachuted in here to run against Brian Baird)

I learned a lot and saw a lot, I observed the worst in people and occasionally, the best.

And the thing I regret the most is this: There is, essentially, an almost complete lack of accountability on the part of those we elect.

They have one job: to represent us. They are SUPPOSED to be our voice. And all too frequently, they forget all about us. They forget all about the promises made to GET elected as they become coopted in the positions we put them in.

They make horrific decisions that hurt us but benefit them directly. Some, like Steve Stuart, former Clark County Commissioner and current city manager of Ridgefield, NEVER represented us in his deliberations. Due to the almost complete lack of accountability of our electeds there was no need, and he admitted his position on video at a county council meeting:

"And I've said it before: I don't speak for the people... I will NEVER speak for "the people," I speak for Steve and some of you are going to agree with me and some of you aren't."

I give him props for telling the truth about THAT at least. But I'm pretty sure that's not particularly what the Founding Fathers had in mind back in the day.

I mention all of that to set the table for the most important thing I'm learned about campaigns.

When I first got here after I left the Army, (Nov '87) campaigns were, to put a point on it, quite different.

When people ran for office, they'd generally tell you with some specificity what they would do and what they wouldn't do.

Most of it was rather straight forward: pledges such as "I will not vote to raise your taxes."

Or "I oppose funding illegal aliens in our colleges." Or this classic: "I will oppose the CRC Scam."

Straight forward. Easily understood. Boxes that could be checked. Promises made that could be ran on as an incumbent.

If the promises were kept.

Sometimes, these people we trust(ed) lied to us. The easiest example that comes to mind was Ann Rivers' Senate campaign back in the day, where she promised to oppose any gas tax or tab fee increases.

And she did.

Until she didn't. And then, she lied about WHY she didn't.

But, like most politicians, even today, she calculated that the voters of the arguably arch-conservative 18th District, who never would have elected her at all had she ran on a platform of increasing our taxes (which she did more than once) would not remember at ballot time, and she would be easily reelected.

And she was.

That was an example of zero accountability.

And along the way, the promises of campaigns changed. Subtly at first. Now, blatantly: Candidates (not just Rivers, pretty much all candidates) sank to the level of non-specific glittering generalities.

They would say or pledge something like "I support the 2nd Amendment"

What they rarely to NEVER do was tell you HOW they'd support it.

Would they run a bill protecting our rights? What would be in the bill? How would it work? What would it do? What bills would they stop?

That part gets left out. And it gets left out on purpose.

Why?

Zero accountability. The more specific candidates are? The easier it is to hold them accountable. Solution? Leave out the specifics.

As our ballots come to our mailboxes in our easy fraudulent mail-in-only voting system, I urge you to do the work. Do more than read the soap-sales garbage candidates put in the voter pamphlets.

Identify the issues important to you. Do the work to find out if YOUR representative represented YOU or OPPOSED you.

Otherwise, you have to settle for a Steve Stuart, never-been-a-voice -of-the-people type.

And that rarely ends well for us.

Today's quiz questions concerning the Trump assassination attempt:

 OK. Today's quiz questions.

How would this kid know that there would be no Secret Service on that roof? And why were there no Secret Service on that roof?

Secret Service shooters on the roof, weapons aimed in the direction of the assassin

The Secret Service had shooters on a roof that had this guy directly in their sights. Two of them were set up and looking right at him based on the picture

Why didn't they take him out before he fired?

The shooter, post neutralization

Multiple bystanders saw this guy climb up to the roof with a clearly seen rifle and notified police before the shooting took place, yet there was no response.

The body in the picture was just as visible before the shooting, but no one in authority could see it?

There can only be two reasons: rank incompetence by the Secret Service and other law enforcement present.... or... well... you fill in the blank.

There's no viable excuse for failing to have Secret Service on that roof. None.

Diagram of locations at the rally.  Upper center, shooter location Lower center in line of sight, Secret Service shooter location.

How is this even possible?

Wow. Leftists who've fomented political violence against Trump and his supporters are suddenly thrilled he survived an assassination attempt they've wanted for years.

I'm shocked at leftists who've called Trump everything from a dictator to Adolf Hitler are now expressing how happy they are that he survived an assassination attempt that they've been fomenting for years.

Trump with blood on his face, reacts to getting shot.

Their actions and characterizations, like Biden's remark that "It's time to put Trump in the bulls eye" in a private call to donors on July 8th are what's responsible here

Now these same people that have clearly wanted him out of the picture are suddenly concerned about political violence (which many, like Vice President Kamala Harris; among many, many others have supported in the past) after their concerted efforts to engage in it.

There are still many questions to answer. But there can be no doubt that the left's tepid response to riots, looting, arson, assaults and several murders in the past, their incessant fear mongering and lies about another Trump presidency and language like that used by Biden in "his official capacity" played a role in this horrific murder attempt and in the destruction of a totally innocent bystander and his family.

Can you imagine... even remotely... what would be happening today if roles were reversed.... if Biden had been wounded... and Trump would have been found out as saying ""It's time to put Biden in the bulls eye?"

Political violence is a leftist specialty in everything from antifa and BLM riots to the assassination of police around this country.

Yesterday, before any of this happened, I posted my perspective on the state of the race and efforts to get rid of Biden. Here's the money quote:

"Biden doesn’t HAVE to do anything. And it appears there’s nothing anyone can do about it (forcing Biden off the ticket), short of the unthinkable things leftists would really like to do to Trump. And let’s face it, if something bad were to happen to Trump, hatred-fueled leftists would be celebrating in the streets."

They didn't disappoint.

Now then, the question becomes, how are those who've been pining for Trump's blood to be held accountable now that they've got it?

Media delusion v political reality.

Much has been made about the “pressure” Biden is allegedly under to get him to acknowledge reality (he has little to no chance of beating Trump) and the negative impacts for the rest of the ticket (it’s likely that if Biden stays, the dems will lose the Senate and have zero chance to take back the House; and negative impacts for democrats will likely be felt all the way down to the local level) must be considered.

That’s the media delusion.

This is the political reality:

“Pressure” is a force. Force is used to move something or cause something to happen.

What happens when force is applied to an immovable object?

Well, nothing.

Biden won the primary. No one knows anything now they didn’t know during his primary races.

That democrats refused to publicly acknowledge it; that they attacked anyone in any position pointing out his obvious dementia-related issues and his inability to string together and maintain a coherent thought is key.

As recently as June 16^th, leftists at the White House lied to us about “cheap fake videos” for example.

They weren’t cheap. And they weren’t fake.

For months his obvious infirmities were characterized as “elder abuse” by many observers, including this one.

But none of that matters now.

Joe Biden has all, or the vast majority of all the delegates to the national convention.

Biden doesn’t HAVE to do anything. And it appears there’s nothing anyone can do about it, short of the unthinkable things leftists would really like to do to Trump. And let’s face it, if something bad were to happen to Trump, hatred-fueled leftists would be celebrating in the streets.

So when the media continues to insist there’s “pressure” being applied to Biden, it’s unlikely he knows the extent of it or cares. Because as damaged as his brain may be, there’s enough left for Biden and his handlers who would sell their own children to maintain their hold on power, he knows those delegates are chained to him, and there’s zero mechanism available to cut those chains unless HE, Biden, allows it.

The reality is that where it counts, there’s no pressure on him at all.

He owns those delegates. The democrats, refusing to acknowledge any remote reality insisted on voting for Biden in the primary.

What’s the upside for Biden if he withdraws?

People babble about “his legacy” but the guy is circling the drain and if there was a bulletin in the next minute that he had died during a nap, would any of us be surprised?

Conspiracy theorists would go nuts for obvious reasons. Leftist have shown a propensity to engage in 3^rd world politics whenever the mood strikes vis Trump, why wouldn’t they do the same to this obstacle to continuing in power?

But regardless of how Biden “leaves this mortal coil,” it becomes apparent that he’s not long for remaining with us. How many 82 year olds in his condition do?

In short, does anyone really believe he cares about a “legacy” that he will only be aware of for a short time, win OR lose?

And do we not all know, if not admit to ourselves, what that legacy will be?

He will not be known for his incessant lies in office (Inflation reduction Act my right butt cheek.) He won’t be known for showering with his daughter or sexually assaulting Tara Reade or refusing to acknowledge a grandchild from the stripper Hunter “Laptop” Biden impregnated.

He will be known and remembered for his brain-damaged policies and his ACTUAL brain damage while the left continued to maintain HIS finger on the nuclear trigger.

And win or lose, that’s all he’ll be known for regardless.

There is no “pressure” on Biden to do anything. He’s surrounded by people far more concerned about THEIR best interests than they are the country’s. And it’s been that way since day one of his regime. And it will take decades to repair the damage he has caused.

So, no. No pressure, and that’s why he will be on the ballot this November. Looking at it from his perspective, which none of the naysayers do, what has he got to lose?