There was a time when Democrats, who now go by the misnomer “Progressives,” spend much of their time asking the question, “Why do people from other countries hate us?”  Misbegotten leftists pondered that problem at length after the 911 attacks.  The answer was as obvious then as it is now.  A strong America, dedicated to the personal freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution is an irresistible force that can impose its will on lesser nations, and those lesser nations resent it.  However, I submit that the real question to be pondered is, “Why do Democrats hate America?”  This is the subject of a new book by Mark Levin, and while I have not yet read the book, the answer once again seems obvious.  Shortly before to the 2008 election, Il Duce Obama gave a speech in which he stated, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”  He didn’t explain what he wanted to transform the country into, but in the years since then we  found out.  Today’s elected Democrats, almost uniformly Progressive, Woke, or just simply leftist, really don’t like the United States of America, or at least the America that was envisioned by our Founders, and which is based on our Constitution.  You may have noticed that Democrats don’t approve of the Bill of Rights.  Left to their own devices, they would cancel the First Amendment rights to free speech, religious exercise, and a free press.  They really hate the Second Amendment.  When they want to spy on you they don’t respect the Fourth Amendment.  The Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee fair trials.  One look at what they’ve done to Donald Trump and the January 6th defendants should convince you Democrats are against those.  The 10th Amendment limits the scope of the federal government and protects the rights of the States and the people.  Democrats don’t even acknowledge that one exists.  They’re transformative, and the transformation was outlined in a 1966 plan by two Democrat-Socialist professors, Clowerd and Piven.  Their 8 point plan is designed to collapse our government, so it can be replaced by a new Socialist model.  Here are the components: control healthcare and you control the people; increase poverty,  poor people are easier to control; increase the debt to an unsustainable level; impose gun control to prevent people from defending themselves from the government; take control of every aspect of life, food, housing, and income; take control of what people can read and listen to and of what children learn in school; remove the belief in the God from government and schools; and promote class warfare.  Democrats are hard at work on all of the above, the object of the exercise being to stress the system to the point of collapse, thus permitting a Fascist takeover.  Don’t doubt me.  Democrats may be crazy, but they’re not stupid.  If they’re not working on the Clowerd and Piven plan, then what they’re doing defies explanation.  Look at the border, or lack of one.  Democrats have long complained about homelessness, or at least they do when Republicans are in office.  Streets in our big cities, and most notably in California and the West coast, featured tent cities before Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden erased the southern border.  Simply put, there was a glaring homelessness problem among American citizens, many of them veterans, long before Biden opened the floodgates to illegal alien invaders.  Given that fact, if not to collapse the system, what could be the purpose of admitting 6 million homeless invaders, who must be housed, educated, fed, and provided medical care?  Even New York City, the premiere Sanctuary City, is feeling the stress from the alien invasion.  In 2022, faced with 17,000 “migrants” Mayor Adams laid the blame where it belonged, on Joe Biden, announcing a “state of emergency.”  This year, faced with nearly 125,000 hungry invaders, Adams is panicked.  New York has a Right to Shelter consent decree, imposed in 1981 to address the needs of homeless New Yorkers.  Adams, Governor Hochul, and even Slick Willie Clinton are now advocating for a change to that agreement.  As this is written, Eric Adams is visiting Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia, where he’s telling prospective invaders not to come to New York.  However, in order to maintain his hold on stupidity and Democrat hypocrisy, Adams is also calling for the border to remain open.  He just wants the invaders to go somewhere else, like, to Texas.  Democrats fervently hope to overwhelm Texas with millions of migrants to turn it Blue, and forever prevent the election of a Republican president.  They adamantly deny that they’re trying to replace American voters with new voters, and because they always lie, that proves it’s precisely what they’re doing.  Slick Willie admitted as much last week. “We should build more housing just over the Rio Grande, and Mexico, I think, would support that, keep people there, and let them in as quickly as possible if they are going someplace where we know they can get a job, and they’ll be welcome.”  Yeah, Democrats know the invaders can get jobs in Texas, they’ll make them poll workers in the next election.  And the illegal alien invasion is but one component in the plan to collapse America.  They’re promoting class warfare to the point where there’s a risk of actual warfare in the streets.  The George Floyd riots fanned the flames of a racial divide.  The ridiculous calls for reparations and guaranteed incomes added to the conflagration.  And the leftist war against law enforcement: defund the police, abolish bail, and refuse to prosecute crimes, has fundamentally transformed our cities into unrecognizable Hellscapes.  Thieves are permitted to loot stores to the bare walls without fear of arrest or prosecution.  Stores in these neighborhoods close, establishing what leftists like to call “food deserts,” places where residents don’t have access to food or drug stores to obtain the basic necessities of life.  That forces the government to provide more, hastening its collapse.  Faced with rampant robbery, theft, and carjacking, citizens are increasingly resorting to self defense.  Absent a functional justice system, vigilante justice is the logical next step.  What could be the goal of the purposeful destruction of civil society?  The only answer I can think of is “See Above,” these bastards want to collapse our system to usher in their Fascist takeover.  The most disturbing proof that they’re planning our collapse is the Left’s attempt to control speech in the media and on the internet.  What do you think the Democrat obsession with stamping out “misinformation” is for?  When politicians get to decide what is true enough to be heard and seen, the end is near.  Russian painter Elena Gorokhova put it best, “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”  If that becomes our reality, we’re through.  Don’t let the bastards win.  Remember those inspiring words of Al Sharpton, “Resist we much!”

I used to hate it when the Left kept telling us, “the walls are closing in” on President Trump, but today, it actually appears that the walls indeed may be closing in on the current resident of the White House, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden.  Biden truly has screwed up absolutely everything he’s touched since he assumed office in 2021.  Before the Chinese attacked the world with the Wuhan plague, Trump had given us lower taxes, higher wages, energy independence, no inflation, full employment for all groups including minorities, a secure border, greatly improved trade agreements, a revitalized military, a fully funded NATO alliance, China, Russia, North Korea and Iran in check, and peace throughout the world.  True to form, and as Il Duce Obama predicted, Joe Biden has managed to F up all those things and then some.  His withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster that needlessly cost the lives of 13 Marines.  Biden’s energy policy, which is – leave oil and gas in the ground in favor of solar, wind and pond scum – is about to result in $150 a barrel oil, up from $50 under Trump.  That fueled runaway inflation, costing families an additional $700 a month, just to get to work and provide food.  Delusional Joe Biden calls this Bidenomics, which he hails as a great triumph.  Add to this Joe’s continual lies about his involvement in a foreign bribery scheme run by his crack-head son Hunter, and his disturbing episodes of mumbled gibberish  and wandering off during public events, and the picture is bleak.  In fact, it has caused 75% of Democrats to conclude that Old Joe should not run in 2024.  How does all this relate to the recent indictment of NJ Senator Bob Menendez?  Patience, I’m getting there.  Senator Menendez, who a few years ago escaped conviction for bribery with a hung jury, has been indicted once again for bribery related to his position as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  The indictment charges Menendez with taking bribes from Egypt, and from businessmen seeking government contracts to provide U.S. aid to Egypt.  Investigators seized more than $500,000 in cash, three kilos of gold, valued at $200,000, and a 2019 Mercedes automobile.  Many of the payments were made to Menendez’s wife who also was indicted.  Now, a NJ politician being accused of taking bribes is nothing new.  Years ago, when Congressman Hugh Addonizio left Congress to run for Mayor of Newark, a Congressional colleague asked him why he would want a seemingly lesser position.  Addonizio explained, “As Mayor I can make $1 million.”  He did, and he wound up in prison.  As a Democrat, Menendez assumed he couldn’t be touched.  He was wrong.  He crossed Obama and Biden on Iran and other issues.  And NJ Governor Murphy needs a new job, so Bob was expendable.  But what’s the connection to Biden?  The Bidens have done the same things as Menendez and wife, only more so.  Joe Biden has escaped charges – so far.  It’s good to be the King.  But that may change.  Remember the Left preaching that there’s no evidence connecting Joe Biden to Hunter’s receipt of money from China, Russia, Ukraine, and other nations?  Their BS story was that Hunter’s solicitation of payments from foreign actors based on a promise of his father’s political influence didn’t implicate Joe because the money was paid to Hunter, and not to Joe.  The Menendez indictment spoils that theory.  The law is settled.  When a family member takes money in return for a promise of political favors from the elected family member, that’s bribery no matter who pocketed the money.  The timing of the Menendez indictment thus serves two purposes.  It gives NJ Democrats enough time to nominate a different crook to take Bob’s place in next year’s election, and it serves as a warning to Joe Biden.  There are parallels between the Menendez charges and the information we now have on the Biden Crime Family.  The only difference is that what the Bidens have done puts Bob Menendez to shame.  Menendez got $500,000 cash.  The Bidens got anywhere from $20 to $50 million.  Menendez got gold bars.  The Bidens got a 3 carat diamond from China worth $80,000.  Menendez got a $50,000 car.  Hunter Biden got a $142,000 car.  It is good to be the King.  Topping that, Menendez has hired the same lawyer who’s representing Hunter.  The bottom line is this, when 3 out of 4 Democrats want you to retire, then it’s time for you to go, quietly, or else you and Bob Menendez may wind up as cellmates.  The signs are all there.  For three years, Democrats have protected Joe Biden by covering up for his many gaffes, and simply denying that he’s a gibbering fool who’s made everything worse.  Now that’s beginning to change.  Polls are showing Trump ahead of Biden nationally.  One had Trump and Biden tied.  Another had Trump 5% ahead.  Last week, a Washington Post/ABC News poll had the four times indicted Trump ahead of Biden by 10%.  The release of such polling is not coincidental.  It’s part of the message to Biden that it’s time to go.  The poll had Biden’s approval at 37%; 30% on the economy, and 23% on the border debacle.  If Trump truly is ahead of Biden nationally by any measure, it spells disaster for Democrats.  They know they must rid themselves of Old Joe.  The rats are beginning to desert Biden’s ship of State.  This week, “unnamed Administration officials” leaked the fact that Joe Biden has a problem standing and walking.  Orthopedic physicians have recommended a walker, which is optically unacceptable, as Karine Jean-Pierre keeps insisting Joe’s so spry she has trouble keeping up with him.  The result has been daily physical therapy and a recommendation that Joe wear sneakers.  So why leak this now?  Well, Old Joe is pretty stubborn.  If he insists on running again, he will be hard to get rid of.  The problem for Democrats is that they know they’re in big trouble.  When it comes to elections, Democrats don’t take chances.  They have to make Joe go away, one way or another.  Ideally, they’ll convince Joe to step aside due to infirmity, with the private assurance that he won’t be prosecuted.  But if Joe digs in the heels of his sneakers and refuses to go, I would not put it past the Democrats to take him out, physically if need be.  So, you could view the leak of his physical problems either as the prelude to his announcement of retirement, or as a way to prepare the public for a tragic “accident” which accomplishes the same result.  Then then Left will have to find another stooge to finish their destruction of America.

The House of Representatives has begun an impeachment inquiry of Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, concerning the receipt by companies run by Hunter Biden and his partners of in excess of $20 million from foreign companies, many of which are affiliated with foreign governments.  Records obtained by the House committee to date show that much of this money made its way into the bank accounts of members of the Biden family.  Demonstrating their utter contempt for the American people, and exhibiting a level of hypocrisy that only leftist Democrats have the unmitigated balls to utilize, we have been treated to a chorus of complaints from Democrats, some Republicans, and a lapdog media which long ago abandoned any semblance of impartiality  and respect for journalism, that there exists “no evidence of any wrongdoing by President Biden.”  Such statements would be ridiculous and insulting enough coming from any Democrat.  However, when they come as they have from the likes of Adam Schiff (for brains), Nancy Pelosi, and Eric Swallwell, they really strain credulity.  The House is conducting an impeachment inquiry because that’s the only way to break through the tissue of lies, foot dragging, and obstruction of governmental functions that has come from the Biden Administration, and its coconspirators in the Justice Department. They want to short-circuit any scrutiny whatsoever into the activities of the Biden Crime Family, from the time when Biden was Vice-President, right up to this very day, as Joe Biden continues his relentless destruction of our form of government, our economy, and American culture in general. When these obstructionists say that, at present, there is no definitive proof that Joe Biden is corrupt; a smoking gun if you will, that may be so.  However, it has become abundantly clear that the obstructionists are justifiably afraid of what inevitably will come to light should the investigation go forward, as it definitely should.  The Democrats, you see, are devotees of the Three Monkeys school of law.

  They are content to let the sleeping monkeys lie, for fear that the investigation will uncover the truth, which is that, since his arrival in Washington in 1973 as the poorest Senator in the Congress, Joe Biden and family have lined their pockets with graft, realizing a fortune which has been amassed by Joe Biden’s shameless sale of whatever public office he has held.  The claim that “no evidence of wrongdoing exists” is a sick joke.  Democrats subscribe to the notion, attributed to Joseph Goebbels, that a big enough lie, if told often enough, eventually will be accepted as the truth.  Studies have shown that a person needs to hear something 9 times before it’s believed, and the Democrats and their media are putting that theory to the test.  But, “no evidence exists?”  What is evidence?  First, let’s cover what evidence is not.  Even in a criminal trial, it isn’t necessary to prove something beyond all possible doubt.  Jurors are instructed that it isn’t necessary to prove a crime to an absolute certainty, but just beyond a reasonable doubt. Thus a jury must be firmly convinced of guilt.  Now, keep in mind that, for impeachment, the standard of proof isn’t even that high, and further keep in mind that right now, we’re not even talking about an impeachment, but merely an investigation into whether an impeachment is warranted.  No case, civil, criminal, or political presents itself right out of the box with iron-clad evidence of culpability.  Simply put, nothing can be proven if you close your eyes and refuse to look.  To begin a criminal investigation, a prosecutor needs a good faith basis, which basis comes from a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing by some individual or group.  In the case of Joe Biden, that basis unquestionably exists.  For that matter, for my money, what exists already is a case of criminal culpability.  Evidence may come from testimony of witnesses, documents and records of activities, and statements of suspects about those activities.  All those forms of evidence already are in this case.  The evidence may be direct or circumstantial.  Direct evidence may come from an eyewitness or participant in the activities.  Circumstantial evidence may come from the surrounding circumstances which leave the fact finders with the firm conviction that a crime has been or is being committed.  Both direct and circumstantial evidence exists in this case.  What evidence?  The committee has bank records from about 20 companies associated with the Bidens, through which more than $20 million has flowed from foreign companies in Romania, Russia, China, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.  Those countries coincidentally are countries over which then Vice-President Biden exercised oversight responsibility during the Obama presidency.  At least 16 times, Joe Biden has lied about his involvement in son Hunter’s overseas business dealings, claiming he had nothing to do with his son’s activities.  Hunter’s business partners Tony Bobulinski and Devon Archer have testified that Joe, also known as the big guy, was involved in those dealings as a partner in many of them.  That’s evidence.  Hunter’s emails and other messages from his laptop corroborate the involvement.  That’s evidence.  The Bidens used at least 20 shell companies to move money from account to account, much of it finally winding up in bank accounts of Biden family members.  FBI and IRS whistle blowers have confirmed this.  That’s evidence.  You know who uses shell companies to hide or obscure financial transactions?  Criminals, specifically money launderers, who are trying to hide the truth from accountants, the IRS, and ultimately from the unsuspecting voters.  To this day, it’s unclear exactly what Hunter Biden was selling to foreign companies in exchange for all this money.  He made no product, and offered no legitimate services.  Hunter’s partner Devon Archer has explained, telling investigators that “the Biden family was the brand.”  They were selling Joe’s influence.  Hunter himself confirms this stating in an email that his value to Chinese investors “has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name.”  Joe took Hunter to these countries 15 times on Air Force Two.  He met with Mexican and Ukrainian business partners, and he hid his communications with Hunter by using at least 3 aliases in emails.  You know who use aliases?  Criminals.  The activities caused the U. S. government to issue over 100 Suspicious Activity Reports on suspect financial transactions.  Even one such report is grounds for a criminal investigation.  On top of this, Hunter himself complained that he “has to give half his salary to Pop.”  When Ukrainian investigators threatened to expose corruption in the Biden Burisma contract, the Ukrainian partner asked Hunter to “call D.C.”  He did.  This led to the famous or infamous Biden trip to Ukraine, during which Joe later boasted he threatened to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee unless the prosecutor was fired, “and son of a bitch, he was fired.”  When Donald Trump tried to get the Ukrainians to expose this criminality, Nancy Pelosi and company impeached Trump.  Yet these are the same lying bastards who are telling us with a straight face that there’s no evidence that Biden’s corrupt.  Of all the lies and liars who populate Washington, D.C., this latest atrocity has to be the worst.  Tell your friends that, yes Virginia, there is evidence that Biden’s a crook.  If need be, tell them that at least 9 times.

Officials who identify themselves as Republicans, but who don’t advance conservative values, are known as R.I.N.O.’s, Republicans in Name Only.  It occurred to me that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is a P.I.N.O., President in Name Only.  Now over 80 years of age, every public appearance Biden makes is an embarrassment to the United States of America which gives aid and comfort to our enemies.  It has been apparent from day one of his Administration that Joe Biden cannot be running the show, because he’s incapable of doing so.  For Democrats, Biden was the perfect candidate at the perfect time.  Their formula for victory was his advancing senile dementia, a phony media, content to overlook any flaw and swear to any lie, and  the Wuhan Plague that permitted Biden to hide in his basement, and permitted Democrats to count dubious mail ballots weeks after election day.  It worked.  They sold Biden to America as a moderate, which indeed he had been.  Now, Joe Biden never was the sharpest tool in the shed.  Even before he became Il Duce Obama’s Vice President, Mark Levin was calling Joe, “the dumbest man in the Senate.”  He was on the Obama ticket not to give Il Duce advice, but to give the appearance of experience to a presidential candidate who himself had very little political experience.  Obama always knew what Joe was though, famously telling people in 2020, “Never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up.”  However, Biden was the perfect empty vessel to be used by the Woke imbeciles running the Democrat Party.  Does anyone seriously doubt that it’s Il Duce Obama and his minions who are pulling the strings behind the scenes at the White House?  Sleepy Joe has admitted he’s really not in charge on several occasions, telling reporters he can’t answer their questions because “I’ll get in trouble.”  With whom?  So clearly, Joe’s not running the show.  Biden began proving that he was mentally null and void from the first day of his presidency.This was a signing ceremony on January 20, 2021.  Biden was heard to say, “I don’t know what I’m signing,” to which Kamala replied, “Sign it anyway.”  After that things got worse.  How many times has Biden “fallen up” the stairs to Air Force One?  He fell off his bike during a publicity event designed to show how vigorous he is for his age.  He fell at a military ceremony.  His public appearances, even those with visiting heads of State, often devolve into bouts of mumbling gibberish.  And he has a habit of falling asleep at inappropriate times.  Here he is during a speech on climate change, which Biden insists is an existential threat-

In Maui, supposedly to comfort victims of fires that destroyed Lahaina, Joe just couldn’t keep his eyes open –

Last week, Biden went to the G20 Summit in India.  He stopped in Hanoi, where he praised the Vietnamese for erecting “a memorial to John McCain.”  The memorial actually celebrates the fact that they shot McCain down and imprisoned him.  At a press conference, Biden answered a question about relations with China with, “Tell you what, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.”  Then, the first president not to be in New York or Washington on 9/11, Biden stopped in Alaska, where he advised that we should “Never forget, never forget, never forget.”  It’s a shame he lacks the capacity to take his own advice.  And then there are the constant lies that the media chooses either to ignore, or to affirm.  Former New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia really was the perfect political candidate.  His father was Italian, his mother was Jewish, and he was a Protestant.  When an opponent accused LaGuardia of antisemitism, LaGuardia challenged the man to a debate – in Yiddish.  I guess Biden wants to be like Fiorello, because, according to him, he either was raised in Pennsylvania by Irish parents, or by people from Poland, Italy, Puerto Rico, or was raised in Jewish synagogues.  Take your pick.  Joe Biden’s entire private life is no more than a fable.  He has claimed all of the following, all of which are bald-faced lies:  he was born in the same hospital where his grandfather died days before; he was appointed to the Naval Academy; he went to an historically black college, Delaware State; he graduated at the top of his law school class (really 76th of 85); his former wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver; oil refineries in Delaware gave him and his neighbors cancer; his son Beau died in Iraq.  And not content to lie only about his private life, Biden’s pronouncements on political affairs are equally lacking in credibility.  With the truth staring him in the face, and the complicity of the lapdog media, Biden has uttered complete lies such as:   Take-home pay has gone up; We have created a record 12 million new jobs; I have presided over the largest deficit reduction in American history  (It’s about to balloon to $3 trillion); Two years ago, our economy was reeling (it expanded by 7%); Oil companies have invested too little of their profit to increase domestic production and keep gas prices down (he cancelled oil leases); Now, thanks to all we’ve done, we’re exporting American products (we have a$ 1 trillion trade deficit).  Then there’s the old Democrat standby, the wealthy don’t “pay their fair share.” The top 1% pay 50% of taxes, and the top 10% pay over 70% of taxes.  Biden claims he was offered a job by an Idaho lumber company; they have no record.  He claims he “used to drive” an 18-wheeler — it didn’t happen.  He’s said he visited Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue after the 2018 massacre – he’s never even been there.  Then this week, Biden recounted a visit to Ground Zero on 9/12/01.  He wasn’t there. Biden’s bad poll numbers have prompted some Democrats to grease the skids to get rid of Joe for 2024.  The word has gone out to the lapdog media that it’s now OK to criticize his age and mental acuity.  An opinion piece published by Newsweek noted, “Biden is the first president in modern times to end press conferences without taking impromptu questions from the White House press corps.  The “lid” time that ends presidential activity for the day generally closes in the early afternoon.  In public statements, Biden often loses his place, mispronounces words, forgets names, interjects inapposite or inappropriate phrases, veers into weird digressions, and fails to complete sentences.  At major events, he has been filmed unsure of his surroundings, acting disoriented, and falling asleep.  The President stumbles and falls with alarming frequency for a man who must stand toe-to-toe against Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.  And when challenged by reporters or frustrated by White House aides, he lashes out in confused and incoherent rages.”  Yet outlets like MSNBC continue to shill for Biden, “We’ve seen little to indicate that Biden is suffering any real cognitive decline.”  MSNBC chides reporters for saying Biden is too old, because, if the media says that, people will believe it.  We don’t need the media to tell us he’s too old, we can trust our own eyes.  We can’t afford a President in Name Only.  We deserve a physically and mentally fit president who we know is in charge.  Unfortunately the MSNBC commentator mentioned above isn’t all wrong.  Democrats will believe whatever the media tells them.

As Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has noted many times, “You can’t fix stupid.”

We’ve had many remarkable presidential elections in America, but the impending 2024 contest is shaping up as a potential train wreck.  More than 60% of those polled say they’d prefer candidates other than Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden and Donald Trump.  I’ve made my feelings known.  I think Trump did a great job as president, but the Left has succeeded in poisoning his name, making his ability to win a general election of real long shot.  Most Americans agree with my assessment of Trump’s accomplishments.  In a Wall Street Journal poll, 51% say Trump had a strong record of accomplishments.  Remarkably, 40% said the same of Biden.  Wonder what they’re smoking?  The latest poll had little good news for Sleepy Joe.  Between 52 and 63% of those polled disapproved of Biden’s handling of the economy, inflation, the border, China, and Ukraine.  28% of those polled said the economy has improved since 2021.  This 28% must be made up of government employees, illegal aliens, and recent visitors to cannabis dispensaries.  The economy sucks, and Bidenomics is a bigger fraud than its namesake.  When asked who they would vote for if the election was held tomorrow, the result was a tie, with both Trump and Biden at 46%.  This was a surprising result for both candidates, but for different reasons.  An incumbent president at 39% approval, and polling 46% in a shaky economy is troubling.  Two thirds of Democrats want someone other than Joe.  That Trump remains at 46% is remarkable.  In 2016, Trump got 46.2% of the vote, after 24 hour a day bashing and lies from the Media, and a coup attempt by the Obama Justice Department and the CIA.  Between 2016 and 2020, Trump suffered constant riots, a world-wide pandemic, a phony Russia investigation, a traitorous Deep State bureaucracy, and 2 impeachments.  In 2020 Trump got 46.8% of the vote.  Since 2020, Trump has undergone the same Media barrage, plus bashing from Fox News and other Murdoch outlets, a reduction in big donor revenue, 2 civil suits and 4 indictments, and he’s still at 46%.  Democrats spied on Trump, they used so-called law enforcement agencies to keep him from being elected, they sabotaged him after his election, created a phony Russian collusion investigation, protested, rioted, and impeached him twice with no effect.  Now they’ve decided to imprison him for life, but after 4 indictments his support hasn’t wavered.  I shudder to think what’s next from the Party that stops at nothing.  All this said, it’s safe to say then, that we can expect Trump to get about 46% of the vote in 2024.  The problem is, in a two-way race, given the Democrat penchant for ballot box stuffing and other election shenanigans, that’s just not going to be enough.  And these are the numbers that have convinced me that Trump is unlikely to beat Biden head to head.  This is why running against Trump is the Democrat plan for 2024.  If they have to face another candidate, the Dems are in deep trouble, and they know it.  But what if 2024 isn’t a two-way race? If Joe Biden remains the candidate, and that remains in doubt given his frailty, his increasing dementia, and the evidence of his lifelong criminality, he faces serious impediments.  73% of Democrats say Biden is too old to run again, and only 36% of voters say Biden is mentally fit to be president.  Given that statistic, the fact that 46% would still vote for him makes you wonder about the 10% who know he’s unfit and will vote for him anyway.  And no, these are not low intelligence or low information voters.  Professor Alan Dershowitz is one who knows Biden is both inept and corrupt, but even he says he’d vote for him again.  I ascribe it to Leftist brain damage and Trump Derangement Syndrome.  But the truth is, no matter how many times Biden tells us that inflation is down and that he’s reduced the deficit, people know the truth.  They’re spending an additional $700 a month to maintain the same standard they had under Trump, and the deficit and debt just keep going up.  Add to this Biden’s constant gaffes, falling down and spewing of gibberish, and the 7 million newly arrived illegal aliens, and that’s trouble for Democrats.  Their only hope is to beat Trump head to head, because more than half the voters won’t vote for Trump.  But what if voters have another alternative?  We’ve had a number of presidents elected with less than 50% of the popular vote, when third Party candidates have drawn off enough votes to make a difference.  In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected with 41.8%.  Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt got 27.4%, Taft got 23.2% and Socialist Eugene Debs 6%.  Four years later Wilson was reelected with 49%.  1968 was a wild one.  Nixon was elected with 43%, Humphrey got 42% and George Wallace got 13.5% and won 5 States.  Bill Clinton never got more than 50% of the vote.  In 1992 it was Clinton 43, Bush 37 and Perot 19.  Clinton got 49% in 1996, when Perot’s vote fell to 8%.  In 2000, many believe Green Party candidate Ralph Nader cost Al Gore the presidency, when he got nearly 3 million votes, 2.75% of the vote.  Bush won with 47.9%.  I already mentioned Trump’s 2016 46.2% victory.  Having a Republican elected with less than half the popular vote wouldn’t be a novelty.  The Republicans have cracked 50% only once since 1988, with 50.7% in 2004.  Will there be a third party run?  Well, Cornell West is already the Green Party candidate, but I doubt he’ll make a difference.  The No Labels Party is already on 10 State ballots, and is flirting with running a candidate.  Depending on who the candidate is, No Labels could spell the difference between a Trump defeat and a victory.  Names have been thrown around like Joe Manchin, RFK, Jr., and former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.  I doubt Manchin would pull the trigger.  He always talks a good game, then folds himself back into the Democrat swamp when the chips are down.  The only possibility of him running is if he’s convinced he won’t win reelection to the Senate from West Virginia.  I also don’t think RFK is going to be the candidate.  Like Manchin, he’s a Democrat and will remain a Democrat.  Unlike Republicans, who are supposed to be elephants, it’s the Democrats who never forget.  If Manchin or RFK go to No Labels, they can never go back to the Democrat Party.  Clearly, lots of people are dissatisfied with both Trump and Biden, if ever there was a time for No Labels to run a candidate this is it.