At slight risk of sounding boring, America is now in pursuit of its independence and always has been. Sometimes it is worth just looking at the simple facts.

We just came off another presidential election and six weeks after inauguration we are already beginning the next election staging. It’s all about the next elections, they say.

No wonder people get discouraged when it seems politicians are only focusing our attention on the next election. Status quo sits in a dormant closet, untouchable for the interim, because it is always up to our next election to deal with it. Except that particular election or referendum never comes.

On the other hand, come actual election time, all we hear is “get out and vote. It’s very important.” I don’t deny that. But what goes on between elections is important too.

This isn’t about just voting though. It isn’t enough to just vote; but it is why and what you vote for that matters. And there will always be politicians telling us why it is important and what to vote for. But for the most part, those are all just symbolic reasons.

However, some of us are voting for the wrong things. But if you can successfully frame the vote in the proper light, you can get better results. So framing elections is a cottage and strategic industry.

How many times have we heard this is the most important election in our lifetime? And we ourselves say it and believe it. Actually you can make a case that every election is the most important one. There are plenty of reasons to think the latter.

I can make an argument that every major election is a referendum and vote for/against the Declaration Of Independence. I know, that is old news and it has already been decided . War and bloodshed determined it. But no, it is always on the ballot.

For instance, we dismiss the right to vote so easily. Many people cannot be bothered. But what if all that stood between you and freedom was your vote? How important would voting be then? It is not a game, freedom really is on the line every time.

We always hear elections have consequences. They do it’s true. But if every election was the difference of having a sovereign country and not, those are huge consequences. The odds do add up. That makes every election a consequential and important one. And it makes every vote an important one.

We are spoiled today, we depend on leaders or politicians to decide for us what issues will be important in the election. With Democrats, those issues are what matters and what they vote on. But the real vote is still based on will we stay an independent country or not? In some ways it supersedes every other question or issue. Everything seems trivial to that.

For years we all have been looking at our situation saying “it’s all backwards, everything is upside down.” But if you look at it another way it really can make some sense. The radical left’s goal is control. Even that is yet another understatement. They want government to have full control over our lives. That is as long as they control the government apparatus with that control.

Of course, most of us know that. We know that control is their game. So when they vote, everything lines up through that prism. They have spent decades making sure they control every part of the levers of government which would control everyone, especially their opposition.

It doesn’t really matter if the issues are cultural, political or legitimate government concerns. They use them all toward one end. The government apparatus also knows this. It knows the enormous power they wield as a bureaucracy. Chuck Schumer summed it up best talking about Trump and the intelligence apparatus. He said (ha ha), intelligence agencies “have six ways to Sunday to get back at you.” In rare instances the Democrats do speak the truth, coldly and bluntly.

So the point to all this is to realize Democrats are not following the same rules, laws, or plans the rest of us are following. The thinking is different. They have a mission in mind that does not compute in modern vernacular. They are undermining the independence and sovereignty of the country in almost any way they can. All of which would lead to others having control over us. Again, as long as Dems can control that entity. They have never met any rogue thing or power they could not co-opt. It is just another day at the office to Democrats.

Sure maybe we do know all that. But we have to internalize that perspective when voting. The proper way to see it is we are constantly fighting for our freedom, or sovereignty, even though we may believe it has been secured long ago. That is still all up for grabs to Democrats.

Ever sit and wonder why it is the Democrats would facilitate and encourage an invasion of our country? Because they really don’t believe it to be secured in the first place. And why is it Biden would go right along with an invasion and facilitate it? It was a no-brainer.

Just as they don’t believe in the sanctity of the constitution — and see it as evolving –they don’t accept any boundaries of the country or our freedom and independence to be a done deal. It would be one thing if they were always in pursuit of freedom (or independence) but they are not. Their job is to break it and any independence with it. Our independence is an anathema to them.

We, however, must always see this as a struggle to secure our freedoms, because to Democrats it really will never be secure if they have anything to do or say about it. That is just the way it is. It doesn’t matter what the left says, it spends day and night working to undermine any independence we have. But we have to see it like that and vote accordingly. Vote for independence always.

The minute we get dragged down to just a battle of this issue or that issue, we lose focus of the wider war going on. Therefore, we must always be in pursuit of Independence, else we won’t be and never will be Independent.

The USA must be in a perpetual pursuit of Independence.
It is the most consequential issue of all time, some 248 years afterward.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2025

Remember that old Dunkin’ Donuts commercial with the guy who gets up predawn to “go make the donuts” at Dunkin’ Donuts every day? It was good with a real point. Just like the “where’s the beef?” commercial.

There is something to be said for ads and simple communication skills. Actually, I haven’t been a fan of Dunkin’ for years. But that commercial was in the days when they had full racks of various donuts.

Several of the now “Dunkin’s” I went to don’t have selections anymore. Seems that old guy died and was never replaced with someone to actually make all those different kinds anymore. I know, some people will argue with me but that is my experience. And I don’t do 5.00 lattes either.

Why does any of that matter? Communication. Some people do it, some people don’t or can’t. You knew with me it was about politics and you would be right. Communication is important in politics — be it on talking points or simple explanations. Trump has a knack for it but what the hell is wrong with other Republicans? Even when the facts are on your side, when it should be a no-brainer sell, you need messaging. “Time to make the donuts.”

Why do I say that? Democrats have talking-point messaging down even when they are lying their asses off, which is most of the time. At least they coordinate a message. (and do that well) So why do Republicans have to lose on the messaging? I mean they have some smart people. Why do they have such a hard time with direct communication?

One can get an impression Republicans think they don’t have to communicate a coherent message. It’s suppose to sell itself, everyone buys it. Except you must overcome hoards of loud radicals in the airwaves. You do not have to dumb it down, just tell it like it is.

This is no more apparent than on the big agenda items like economics, spending or national security. Future posterity depends on basic communication.

I love Larry Kudlow for doing just that. He still has a top rated show on Fox Business. He’s been pounding on economics for a few years. Now that he is pounding on the tax cuts message, it seems more and more that he has to take on Republican knuckle-draggers.

Weird how all that works.

First Republicans in the House said we will have two bills, and will do tax cuts later in the second. Larry said that was nonsense, they need to do it now in the first one because it is such a top economic priority.(don’t you think Dems know that too?) It cannot simply wait till Congress can figure it out and strategize. Lord knows they don’t do anything fast.

In fact, some Republicans didn’t even care that delaying the tax plans — or the risk of forfeiting it altogether — will effect the next election because it won’t kick into the economy in time before the 2026 election. Republicans just don’t understand priorities or elections — winning — like Democrats do.

Democrats line up on everything with their talking points in hand. Often Republicans would rather hand Democrats a hammer to hit them with, then flail around like it could not be helped. It is hard to feel sympathy for an intentional victim. (and Republicans do not play the victim card too well anyway) Well, that is when Republicans don’t get in their own way and kill off their agenda outright, all by themselves. Dems never do that.

So when it came to the economic and tax plans, Republicans just stand there like it’s a pinata – “swing away, I won’t get in your way!” Let media have at it, too, go right ahead.

To be honest, those plans should sell themselves to the people (who are already onboard 80-20) but they need a little help and certainly need to be shepherded through Congress. Why put success at risk? Why would anyone want to do that?

This should all be simple and boiled down — if not distilled into 100 proof vintage. We have a growth agenda on the table, as Larry says. The Laffer curve, which is really the JFK curve because Kennedy did it first, demonstrates you get a return.

Flashback, you know how Democrats frame all their big spending as “investing”? But when it’s an investment you get a return on it. Big government spending doesn’t. It is not growth — except in growing big government. And big government, above all else, costs and costs. Or like Reagan said the closest thing to eternity on earth is a government program. And it keeps on costing every year.

Now that the curtain is pulled back, we see all this wasted spending — no matter who is doing it. There is not a speck of growth in any of it. On the contrary, almost everything Trump talked about or proposed is a growth agenda. We will get more revenues in return for it. Funny how the first thing Democrats will say is “you cannot grow your way out of a 36 Trillion dollar debt.” You want to bet? You certainly can’t reduce it by sending condoms to Gaza, or spending billions to sponsor an illegal invasion. Or hog-tying our energy resources while hiring thousands of bureaucrats. But Dems cannot spend enough money.

You know their preferred response when we want to do something that “costs” is to say but we have to cut something to pay for it, or pay-fors. There is no money for it outside the pay-for process, according to Democrats. (that’s just a stonewall tactic) But where are the pay-fors of condoms to Gaza policy? Or for all the transgender spending for foreign countries? Or pay-for of transgender operations? Where was the pay-for for the 50 million to put illegal aliens in 4 star hotels — and that came from FEMA while complaining they didn’t have enough aid for disaster relief to our own citizens?

So here is the rub, with Republicans we have a pro-growth agenda which will bring us a return and give us a a greater, safer country. And the bitch of it is that is exactly what people want and have been screaming for. The results came in the first Trump administration. The proof came on the explosion of revenues from the tax cuts.

Lastly, with all the massive, wasteful spending we found just in the first four weeks, there are plenty of so-called pay-fors right there. Just cut the crapola. I don’t want to hear the Trump agenda will cost or cause inflation. The proof came in the first Trump term. Now it is time to finish the cleanup in isle #1. Tariffs are another communication slur in the mainstream media. No. The tariffs are not the end; tariffs are the means to the ends.

This just in: James Carville says “Dems are flooded in shit.” Well, yeah, but no reason the rest of the country has to suffer for it. Someone has to do the adult thing and flush it.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2025

In America we have communication bottlenecks the same way we have bottlenecks in traffic on roads and in air travel. We know the complexities on land and in air. We deal with it and mitigate the factors. Still there is rubbernecking happening, too, when something happens.

But we have the same thing in communication, whether it is congress or in media, or in investigations. So take the recent air crash just for the sake of example. It has only been only 24 hours but all the symptoms are there.

In watching the media coverage as the story broke, which is a dangerous and often toxic place for communications, one report after another seeking out experts and information. I heard one expert after another talking about all the problems with air traffic, control, and airspace management in general. Maybe it is a good thing for a crash that all these factors come out. Maybe that creates problems too?

So would we even be talking about all those things if not for the tragedy itself?

Okay  I got it, the vacuum for information sucks up everything whether relevant or not. And that is the problem a lot of it may not be relevant. But this is the time it all comes out like a hemorrhage.  That is the inevitable landscape.

So all these things get brought up whether relevant to this crash or not. Then there is the speculation that also occurs. The what-ifs are everywhere.

You have a commuter airliner with 66+ people and a Black Hawk, military helicopter involved. Immediately experts say but there is a blind spot when choppers are under another flight they cannot see it, and planes cannot necessarily see something right beneath it. I mention these as just a few examples of the ongoing dialogue, among experts.

Then comes video footage showing the accident. And you see the flight paths of the two flights. Just basic information but all this peripheral stuff keeps flooding out. For instance, what about air traffic control and their DEI policies? Sure there is something to these issues. But the helicopter is on a training mission too. All very interesting, maybe?

Then the media and reports have to plug in every other known crash in the last 30 years, relevant or not. Let’s just discuss it anyway. And what are the staffing conditions in the control tower? We gotta know. Maybe we can reverse engineer it and figure it out, using all these random tidbits of info? There is communication diarrhea.

Back to the crash itself and the communication controllers had with the two flights. Stick to basic facts and other arguments about over under with blind spots melt away. Much of the other stuff is only extra noise.

Data info says they are both at 400 ft altitude. Not an over under scenario. Then look at the flight paths and see they were on cross paths. That is the first initial information. The plane is locked into a landing path.

Now why can’t we just stick to the facts and state the obvious? Why did the military helicopter not  avoid collision with the passenger jet?  That is the only real question. The plane had to be in visual sight to the chopper. Again why did the helicopter fail to avert the crash? It’s the central question of the matter. Why confuse the issue? Follow that and you might get the answer.

But actually the helicopter should not have been at that altitude according to flight restrictions. It should have been much lower. It was outside its designated airspace. Why? It is common sense. All the other stuff can just be color to the coverage/reporting. Answer those someone but it really is not making sense there. Why does a helo not see the plane crossing in front of it? Why crash? Why complicate the question?

But this is only one example of the communication breakdown in all kinds of things from news reports to nomination hearings, to natural disasters and weather. And sometimes the basic facts just don’t make sense or add up.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2025

Racial profiling is illegal; and racial preferences are required.

That is Dems’ doctrine. And now the race-hustling left is back to their boycott tactics.

Something grabbed my attention on the technology front today. No, not the ever-pressing Tik Tok-ban debate. I’m over that issue. But if millions of Americans want to willingly turn over their data information to the Chinese, it is their problem.

This concern stretches into the AI world. Not that I’m an AI alarmist here, but there are concerns. Maybe I’m not as informed as some people since tech isn’t really my lane. This one seemed to jump out of that tech lane, and right into main street.

Many people have been writing about concerns with jobs being eliminated or the control of businesses due to emerging AI. I take all them seriously. However, this one breached the alarm button in ways I hadn’t been focusing on. So AI can be a great asset or also an existential threat to humanity. (more than eliminating jobs)

So today I heard a clip that AI is capable or already being used to write code. Well, suppose that is wonderful for some fortune 500 companies and such. But the thought occurs soon after that about what kind of problems that poses.

I have talked with old IBM-ers over the years about the advancements and how important  code writing is — I even tried studying up on it through books given me by one expert. Let’s say that code is apparently not my forte. I sort of wish it were.

Over decades coding has been important in the tech-sector. I get that much about critical operations. When I see the chance or opportunity of AI to take over a chunk of the coding, it gives even me pause.

All is fine, they say, when AI is used in ever-helpful ways. What about when it isn’t a help but a threat? Okay, so the job factor is one part of this AI equation. How many jobs were created in tech over the years in coding? What great salaries and opportunities for advancement were there? Bill Gates himself is an avid coder.

Then we have whole sections of Universities working in that area teaching it. What of all those bright young futures they are creating? So how to save the sector, and many jobs, from a looming takeover from AI?

If you turn the bulk of coding over to AI, well, Houston I think we have a problem. When AI  can take over that sector, or control it, we are in really new territory. Can you see and imagine all the  consequences to that? (hostile takeover or not)

I think we are way past potentials of using AI to write an essay or article on any topic. This is about AI being able to write, or rewrite, fundamentals all over the place.

Now that AI has gotten basic fundamental building blocks down, it should be a short downhill slide from there to a future of big problems.  So I have a potential theory here: he who controls coding controls technology and he who controls technology can control almost whatever they want. Are we that far along already? What are the guardrails when AI has a lock on coding? So do we have a big problem here or am I imagining things.

Maybe that new little news just put it on the radar for me. Am I making too much of a basic operation of technology? Are we nearing the end or only at the beginning?

Right Ring | Bullright | 2025

Not the food seasoning but State and Local Taxes are on the table. Under the original Trump tax cuts SALT was an ingredient in the entire package, capping the federal deduction of state and local taxes, in predominately high-taxed blue states, at a moderate 10,000 dollars. (I don’t know the breakdown per couple or individual filings)

Now with the incoming Trump administration and the extension of the tax cut plans, with new tax cuts on the table, SALT is again a hot topic of discussion among Republicans. They are lining up to lift the caps. The question is how much?

First off, I have lived in a few of those pro SALT, Democrat states. The resident taxpayers do pay an awful lot in those state and local taxes, as opposed to other states with lower taxes overall. And there are big tax differences between states.

The argument comes from the other states who say they and their federal funds should not be subsidizing blue, high-taxed states. It’s a fair and reasonable argument. However, those high taxes — and whatever they are supposedly funding — are only state and local issues.

The bare issue to me seems to be that the high taxes become incentivized by the federal deductions they create. It is a backdoor way to raise taxes in those states, and then off-shift their high taxation schemes to the federal level through individual deductions.

The argument for those high taxes is, “what do you care, if you are getting deductions on the federal end to offset the higher tax rates? It’s all good.”

Then the resentment comes in from fiscally conservative states saying it is not fair that they have to subsidize those high-taxed states. And that high-tax states get far more back in government funds than the others do. Those are very valid points. The defense of SALT deductions is that “well, we pay much more into federal government.”

Again, I am against this excuse making for the high-taxed states. They have an incentive to just keep raising the taxes, and the federal government would just indirectly keep paying reimbursements (i.e. funding) to those taxes.

Look, it is up to state and local people what their taxes are being used for. If they have spending problems and tax problems in their states, it is really their problem. But it is not up to the federal government to facilitate and fund these escalating tax bases, endlessly.

So once again it is back on the table to lift that cap. Ten thousand dollars is no small number. But if they do raise the cap, like everything else, how much should it be raised? Congressman Mike Lawler of an affluent area in NY state is talking about up to a 100,000 dollar cap, more for couples.

That sounds entirely out of line. That is a massive incentive for NY areas to keep raising their exuberant tax bases. All because they can tell people “no worry because in the end you won’t  pay those taxes, the government will.”

It starts to look more like a money laundering scheme fully legitimized by government. Is there any end in sight to it? Not really. It shifts the burden onto federal government.

So I oppose this endless cycle of fundraising (gold digging) by blue states. If that is what they want, then they have to manage their own budgets. But because they are big spenders does not mean the federal government should keep funding it.

As to the cap issue, maybe it could be raised but not to those 100 thousand dollar amounts. What is the purpose of the cap in the first place? There must be a reasonable limit. Doubling it could be a viable option. Even that is high.

Then I hear others talking about a 60,000 dollar number.  Yes, it looks more like a laundering scheme. What incentive do SALT states have to lower or cut taxes?

I say it is a backdoor incentive for states only to raise state and local taxes to extract even more federal funding for states. It needs capped at the least — 10k was substantial.

So get ready for the great SALT food fight. The kitchen table is now a smorgasbord.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2025

Just a stupid question, Cali, but what is going to happen next year when you need those people to pay property taxes on their multi-million dollar homes (or entire neighborhoods) which aren’t there anymore, and will take about five years to rebuild under the best-case scenario? Just wondering.

Wow, do I smell another ask in the works?

But Gavin does know exactly how to fight off a recall effort. Wildfires, not so much.

Nope, not really! Now there is a headline that can never be written. Nobody can really have a conversation with Biden. It is just not possible. You could have a conversation about Joe Biden but not a rational conversation with him.

It is not only my opinion, we already have that official sentiment from a prosecutor, saying Joe is basically too incompetent for prosecution and would likely appear a sympathetic character to any jury. Wasn’t that Biden’s shtick through his career?

That is to be sympathetic enough to the public while being a pariah of public opportunity. Simply, as crooked as a snake and just as venomous, yet somehow able to retain an endless basket of sympathy for himself. (enter Trump’s snake poem)

Over the years I had an opportunity to talk to many people in nursing homes. You got to know who was who and how with it they were, some more than others. But there were many people I would liked to have had a rational conversation with, and they were such interesting characters, but it just was not possible. Sadly, if you do not have those type of instincts on circumstances, you are wasting your time.

Just because I want a rational discussion with someone doesn’t mean we can get there.

It has been years since Biden was up to any real conversation; or since he was near competent for the position he held. But why would everyone just pretend he was? Allies went so far as risking their own credibility by lying about Biden’s mental condition.

Months ago, then in defense of Joe Biden’s reelection, Joe Scarborough said “this version of Biden — intellectually and analytically — is the best one ever!” And that may be true in one sense, because it protects him as the incompetent boob he is. It makes a good defense. That says more about Morning Joe’s credibility than Biden’s competency.

If you ever do see the headline of a conversation with Joe Biden, you’ll know immediately it’s a bold lie. But it is deeply disturbing to me how anyone could still have sympathy for Joe at this point. I’d rather interview scholars in an asylum – at least it would be real.

And yet on another turn of events, Joey Bananas told a reporter he is not done in the public arena, he will continue to be involved. He claims he will stay engaged on foreign policy and environmentalism. See what I mean? What’s missing here?

Right Ring | Bullright | 2024

This could easily be just a post on the corruption and deterioration we come to know in Washington, but it is not. It is also about the opportunity it gives us to envision something past the corruption and debilitation of the nation’s capital. Or all that crap we’ve complained about for years to no avail.

First though, has it really gotten so bad as we now see? And how could it have gotten this freaking bad that even half the country would now realize it? And roundly vote to reject it?

Anyway, the media are even waking up to smell the coffee on the back burner. How convenient of them. All I can say is what took them so long?  But here we are probably against their will as much as the election was. Media look like the pouting kindergartners in the corner. Well, they put themselves there.

We have had a US Senator in Pa trying to overturn his election loss, with Mark Elias representing him. Some things just don’t change. The wonderful web of denial.

So it quickly gets very depressing only talking about the corrupted, politicized state of  government. It almost begs to be countered with at least some good news, of real hope and change.

But the dirty secret is finally out about our condition. It is no longer labeled terminal, there’s hope. Let’s also say that any appeared change of heart by the longtime opposition is as fake as media has been all along. Even chameleons can’t change their DNA.

Morning Joe decides to take a little trip to Mar-a-largo. Mika and Joe leaving the plantation? Nah, don’t “bet your sweet bippy!” (Rowan & Martin “Laugh-In” reference)

Since Trump is in the process of picking nominees, the lie is getting harder to hide. The elite and academia are never going to like any pick that Trump makes, because those don’t make sense to them. Any Trump nominee is an anathema to leftists.

However, now that we have the liberal organ of resistance broke — much less the government it holds hostage — we can relish in the moment anyway, for what it’s worth. It’s harder yet to believe that Kamala’s candidacy was ever that serious either. In hindsight, her insincerity only becomes clearer. She’s Hawaii bound and down.

The only game in twisted-in-knots Washington left to play is interpreting the results of the election  in a way to make their anti-Trump case they haven’t been able to do for 8 years. People just don’t buy it anymore, in fact they are repulsed by it, enough to reform the government wholesale into something less insulting to the people it represents.

As typical, the Leviathan it has become is more worried about exposing problems with the swamp rather than doing the right thing for the people it represents. Which has been much of the problem all along. By the way, they and their media allies really don’t like the word mandate applied to Donald Trump. So they are really trying to disprove that notion.

We lived under a reversed reality so long that they expect we don’t remember what is supposed to be, and what is not supposed to be. Besides, interpretation and perception rule in the Leftist universe.

I know this has become sort of a rant so let me change up the negativity a little bit to compensate.

Wow, even the special counsel case against Trump gets officially dropped. Well, it was all about screwing election 2024 anyway. I’m sure wacky Jack Smith will show up somewhere of influence. Brokeback Jack may get a media job…  That’s right, if media can save itself from disrepute.

The other news is legacy media — itself — losing half of its already pathetic ratings. At least we know who the real fascists are now. CNN and MSNBC are locked in a race for bottom now. But then who would even want to buy either of them?

James Carville now scolds defeated Dems that “you slap your mama to win.” Whatever you gotta do! “Winning Is Everything, Stupid.” (appearing in a new documentary) But you soon realize the Washington swamp and DNC are just two limbs of the same beast.

Speaking of kitchen table politics, if one shows up or doesn’t at Thanksgiving is apparently a litmus test for who voted for whom. We’re in deep now – in denial that is.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2024

This is the week,  at least in politics, which was never supposed to happen. Trump was not supposed to win, nor ever get the popular vote, nor the diversity of people he has.

That was all just an illusion, remember?

Of course, Joe Biden was not supposed to be ousted either. Donald Trump was supposed to be for all practical purposes locked out of politics, let alone the White House — if not outright locked up in the process as Joe claimed shortly before the election.

We the people were supposed to be told to sit down, shut up and accept the losing results and just render ourselves defeated. In effect locked out politically.  Or that is how it was all planned to go down. But the working class were not supposed to matter either.

All coldly and sinisterly calculated ad nausea by an elite politic of authoritarian class.

So the events we see now unfolding were never intended to become reality. The Left were willing and able to pay any price to see that it didn’t. So this was only an aberration.

Just like the name-calling does not work anymore, their tired old Obama playbook didn’t work either. It turns out that the liberal Left could not control our votes. And we (the people) certainly were not taking our election cues from their powerful media arm.

Moreover, in what is left to the mind of Joe Biden, none of it should ever have happened. The experience of 50 years in the Washington cesspool was not supposed to be rejected, questioned, or in anyway minimized. Yet Trump did all that while the mainstream media attacked and undermined him any way they could.

No, it did not work. Actually their political plans didn’t work either — and those were far bigger than just Trump. Everyone was supposed to remain in their designated space.

What was supposed to matter above all else is their radical political agenda, despite all the conditions people were looking at. The lie didn’t fly, the Spruce Goose could not get off the ground. In fact that made their loss worse. The economy, open border, crime, abuse of power and corruption were never supposed to matter. Except it did, in spades.

Thus, discussions or media coverage you now see were not meant to happen as well.

Actually, we were supposed to be the crazies needing therapy when it was over, or locked up for the political threat we were. My, how much of it all has changed?

Right Ring | Bullright | 2024

In coming months a lot will be made over the ingredients of the campaign that Trump rode to victory. Maybe it will be studied in historical context?

However, let me just take Kamala Harris’s loss for a primer. It should be a glaring warning to others. But lets only say this much for openers on her 2nd presidential campaign. (the first was an epic failure itself) A centerpiece was the joy theme. Then she branched out calling herself a unifier, who could bring people together. (whilst creating more joy) She attempted to display that. It didn’t work.

Kamala tried to blame Trump for being a divider — like Biden and Hillary before her.

But who would strategize a unity campaign based almost exclusively on abortion, arguably the most divisive and polarizing issue in the country. That only showed how hypocritical she really is.

That proved her dishonesty and insincerity.

Then she proceeded to call the people names and mock half of America. That’s a good way to unite, no? It always brings me closer to someone that makes fun of me and despises me.

Of course the underlining problem is Kamala was 2nd in command of a disastrous administration. But she wanted to be seen as an outsider, as the insurgent candidacy.

So the agitating sore her strategy created was palpable. Actually, the 2024 campaign and election was a referendum on her and Biden’s record in the White House. But in utter arrogance and projection, she turned the election — at least her campaign — into a referendum on us, the American voters. It should be the other way around.

This ended up being Kamala’s base strategy in a born-to-fail campaign for president:  a referendum on we the people rather than the government that is causing the problems.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2024

If I were Trump, this would be my closing argument, and it’s only 4 words:

‘Our Values Haven’t Changed.”  Those time-honored American values still matter.

I have a serious question that deserves an honest answer, and it’s geared more toward the hard left (these days that is all the left) than others but please play along yourself.

Say about sixty years ago, what would be your reaction if a handful of Generals came out telling you who you should vote for, or whom you should not? (granted, even if you didn’t live then or cannot remember) What would you say or do?

I bet the same reaction would come from both sides of the isle. Though maybe not for the same reasons.

When exactly did we have our military Generals or intelligence officials pick our representatives, and the president? The answer is we didn’t. But there is a reason for that.

The Constitution does not endorse such a concept either because we are a Republic. So when exactly did this become vogue or Constitutional? It didn’t. But when was it even considered a good idea for the military and intelligence apparatus to decide elections?

Well, we the people (citizens) choose our government, not the military. And we don’t need to have the military decide who should be president. It wouldn’t be prudent, you know.

No, we elect the president and civilians oversee our military. We choose the president, who by the Constitution, is also the commander in chief. The civilian leaders control the military, not the other way around. And we don’t take our voting cues from Generals.

I don’t care if it is General Mathis, Milley, Kelly or other brass and intelligence officials; they have it completely backwards. Why is it the fashion now to divert to military leaders to pick who can or can’t be president? Where did that chain of command come from?

It sounds a little circular to me. But that’s just me, I guess.

Thanks, you military and intelligence types, but we will pick the president and commander-in-chief not you. And they insinuate that if you all don’t agree with them, and do as they say, then you too must be a fascist just like Trump. I think we got this.

“Of, by and for the people” are not just words.

Right Ring | Bullright | 2024

The last 2 weeks before an election should be branded the celebrity influence campaign. That is the time all the celebrities come out to tell us who we should vote for.

So if celebrities tell us who to vote for, then who tells celebrities who to vote for?

The second step is after they do, any self-awareness on their part is strictly forbidden. But then they also confuse their influence fetish with performing public service. They actually believe that.

Who would you want to take voting advice from? Celebrity blowhards, every time – not!

How about for just once in the last 50 years, have they ever been right?

Yet they keep doing it as if it matters. Like anyone cares who they support.

And if anyone thinks that a vote for Kamala is a vote for democracy, they’re crazy.

So Pennsylvania is  a centerpiece in the 2024 election. No surprise there. I’ve been following Pa closely for years and been disgusted in the last few years. But it is back in the spotlight.

Looks like the Keystone state will be critical in the election. That might give you pause thinking about Dems’ strongholds in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It is the usual setup argument for Democrats.

But the key to the Keystone state is really in Erie County. (dubbed the swinging-est county) Let’s hope Trump remembers that. Dems like to think of it as a Democrat stronghold but it isn’t. In 2016, Trump won Pa as Erie County went for him. He lost Pa in 2020 as Erie county went for Biden by 1 point.

I know all eyes are on Phili and Pittsburgh, but don’t be fooled. I sure hope Erie had enough of this crap. When even Senator Fedderman stated that fact a while back, it validated the little known point.  I don’t like the idea that it can all hinge on a swing county but it does. I think they like getting visited.

The recent polls should make me more confident about the Northwest county, but it doesn’t.

Now, like Punxsutawney PA, Erie has a chance to make a big statement on the future outcome. A real one. That could also make it a target for shenanigans. We know who does those.  Still, my confidence there is waning cold – lukewarm. Let’s hope it comes to its senses. It is not San Fransisco, after all.

I kind of like political slogans when they fit correctly. (sometimes they don’t and are horrible – which then do nothing but inflame informed voters)  But the good ones do work. So that in mind, here are a couple.

1) “Stop the Pain campaign”  The new Republican Senate candidates should use this one. Stop the open border, the war on energy and economy, inflation, the administrative state and out of control government, etc. Stop the Pain! This needs to be repeated often.

2) #45 for ’25. So I’m sick of hearing about the so called 2025 agenda and Trump. We already know Trump’s plans and have four years to base it on. This flips their mantra off a bit. I want “#45 in ’25.”

I like the first one a lot and the second works for what it’s worth. Just “Stop the Pain“.