I think there’s just been too much going on in the news in recent weeks.  The Russia-Ukraine war rages on.  Israel is attacking Gaza.  The U.S. is blowing Venezuelan drug boats out of the water.  ICE agents are under attack.  And then, the murder of Charlie Kirk and its aftermath.  We really needed a break.  Perhaps that’s why the news this week has been consumed by debate over the plight of formerly nameless, faceless, and humorless late night TV host, Jimmy Kimmel.

Don’t let the title of this piece fool you.  I’m not a Kimmel fan.  In point of fact, I haven’t seen anything he’s done since the days when he appeared on the NFL pregame show on Fox.  At that time he actually was funny.  Prior to that, from 1999 to 2004, Kimmel had a show called the Man Show, which featured such sophisticated comedy as a segment called, “Girls on Trampolines,” in which scantily clad women bounced in the air.  Very educational.

In many respects Kimmel has led a charmed life for a TV performer.  The Girls on Trampolines bit predated what became known as the Me Too movement, so Kimmel escaped the sanctions for sexist misconduct that snared the likes of Al Franken.  Kimmel even repeatedly appeared on TV in blackface, and survived.  Being a left-wing shill means never having to say you’re sorry.

Amazingly, Kimmel began his late night Jimmy Kimmel Live show in 2003.  I say “amazingly” because I hardly noticed.  During those more than 22 years I watched his show a total of Zero times.  From what I’ve heard, the Kimmel show followed a familiar pattern of current late night shows.  He was hired as a comedian, he started out doing funny material, and then decided that, rather than emulating Johnny Carson or Jay Leno, he fancied himself a political commentator.

This is a common occurrence nowadays.  There’s a long list of these pretenders.  Joy Behar was an alleged comedian.  Whoopie Goldberg also did comedy.  Then they decided that they were, not only political experts, but the human embodiment of truth, justice and democracy.  As a result, their show The View (or is it the Herd?), contains no joy and no whoopie.  Instead of entertainment, it’s a daily forum for bitching, carping harridans, howling at the moon.

Steven Colbert and John Stewart also were alleged comedians.  Then they went on TV and went fully political.  Stewart’s show ended, and now Colbert has been fired.

Then, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Kimmel went on the air, after it had become obvious that his killer was motivated by hatred of Kirk’s political and religious beliefs, and said this, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Coming as it did in the brand new, if not to say refreshing, atmosphere in which people saying such blatantly false and infuriating things were being roundly denounced, cancelled, and even fired, Kimmel’s words led directly to his “indefinite suspension” from his ABC show and he was taken off the air.

This action by Disney, which owns ABC, was not surprising.  Since January, Kimmel had lost about half his already limited audience.  Reduced viewership equates to reduced ad revenue.  So what Disney had was a low rated show, that obviously was losing money.  Couple this with unfortunate timing in which Disney is negotiating for a new deal with the NFL, which would be loath to embark on an enterprise with a network that employs an insulting bonehead.

Add to the above the actions of two groups of network affiliates who refused to air Kimmel’s show.  One of the affiliate companies is negotiating a profitable merger, which Kimmel’s idiocy put in jeopardy.  Then add to all this Kimmel’s outright refusal to issue an apology, and is it any wonder all Disney did was to suspend the stupid bastard?  People have been fired for much less.

This scenario would have remained a strictly corporate decision, had not the Trump FCC Commissioner stirred the pot, suggesting that ABC’s broadcast license might be at stake.  As it often does, the movie Network comes again to mind.  “You have meddled with the primal forces of nature [corporate profits] Mr. Kimmel, and you will atone!

The ham-handed intrusion of the FCC permitted the Kimmel incident to quickly be spun as a First Amendment issue.  It never was.  No thinking American could believe that President Trump could dictate to the networks what they should or should not put on the air.  If he could, he wouldn’t have to put up with broadcast network defamation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

No matter.  The story became the lie that the government had taken Kimmel off the air.  This was, of course a bullshit story, but because the broadcast networks are the official U.S. distributors of bullshit stories, it was enough to muddy the waters to permit Kimmel to play the victim.

So on Tuesday, ABC put Kimmel back on the air, less the stations of the two still highly pissed affiliate companies which account for about a third of his stations.  Kimmel did what all left-wing demagogues do, he played the martyr, making the incident all about himself.

“[I]t was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.  I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.  I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed, sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I meant it.  And I still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what — it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make, but, I understand that, to some, that felt ill-timed or unclear or maybe both, and for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset.  If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I’d have felt the same way. I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don’t agree on politics at all.  I don’t think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn’t, ever.”

He was just misunderstood.  Sure.  Lying about why a an innocent man who was just murdered may have been “ill-timed.”  You think?  And check out his language.  “Some of my best friends are conservatives.”  People to whom he refers as “the other side.”  No Jimmy.  There should be only one side.  The side on which those entrusted with broadcast time on a major network understand that it’s not a good idea to pour gasoline on smoldering embers.

Kimmel didn’t get that last week, and he still doesn’t get it now.  So why, “Welcome Back Jimmy Kimmel?”  It’s very simple.  Although he doesn’t understand this, Jimmy Kimmel serves an important purpose for the good of America.  As a spokesman for the “leftists are always right” crowd of deviants who running the Democrat Party, his words lend support for them to continue to push their suicidal political policies.  Without Kimmel’s help, Democrats might realize that what they’re pushing is highly unpopular with the American electorate, they might change course, and make themselves stronger.

Better that Kimmel stay on the air and keeping feeding them the perverted pablum that supports their mistaken notion that they are in the mainstream, and the rest of us are out of step.  When your opponents are digging themselves a hole, keep passing out the shovels.  So welcome back Jimmy.  Keep up the good work.

The story we can’t escape is the murder of Charlie Kirk.  I didn’t know Charlie,  but I knew about Turning Point USA.  It’s an organization that mobilized young voters by telling them something they had never heard before – the truth.  Shocking!

Charlie was murdered last week by a young man who decided that it was justified to kill him, or for that matter anybody else, who held and expressed opinions that he did not share.  In the aftermath of the killing, we’ve been subjected to the same tired story, that political violence resulting in the murder of a man who did no one any harm is to be expected because – “Both sides do it.”

The “both sides do it excuse, is what I’ve been calling liberal answer number two.  When you tell a liberal, a progressive, or whatever they’re calling themselves nowadays a fact, you always get one of two answers.  Answer number one is, ‘That’s not true,” even though it is true, or answer number two, “Both sides do it.”

Even were that true, it wouldn’t justify wanton murder.  Only it isn’t true.  Currently, the Left is spinning the yarn that 76% of violent political acts are being perpetrated by “right wing extremists.”  To these imbeciles I say, “Please give me the names of the last three right wing extremists who committed politically motivated murder.”  If you don’t have the names, then tell me where it happened.  They can’t, because it’s a fantasy, but one to which all dedicated leftists subscribe.

How long have I been saying on these pages that leftists all suffer from the same mental disorder, which I call “delusions of rectitude?”  Having convinced themselves that they’re always right, it’s just a short step to concluding that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong, and is a dangerous extremist who must be killed.

That perverted rationale was played out last week, and Charlie Kirk was the person who paid with his life.  And after he was killed, we were treated to the same tired excuses.  The leftist lap dog media told us Kirk was “divisive.”  That means, Charlie didn’t agree with them.  Remember the leftist psychosis.  We’re right, so if you disagree, you’re divisive.  Never forget that these twisted bastards really believe they’re in the mainstream, so if you dissent, it’s you who are out of step.

Of course, the reality is that, if they were right, then Donald Trump never would have been reelected,  The Democrats think it’s perfectly acceptable to foment  violence by demonizing Republicans as fascists, or Nazis.  They’ve said that Republicans, and anyone who dares to support them are deplorables, who are existential threats to democracy.  They’ve called Trump Hitler, said he should be targeted, and Biden said he should be put in a bullseye.

When they tried to kill Trump twice, they said it wasn’t their fault.  To the Left, Charlie Kirk was divisive because he dared to challenge young people to think for themselves.  He went onto college campuses, those places that are supposed to be venues for the open exchange of divergent ideas and opinions, and dared to suggest that what the young people were being fed was propaganda, rather than the truth.

To add insult to injury, Charlie never yelled, preached or put down the kids.  He went with a smile, with an open mind, and with a tent emblazoned with the logo, “Prove Me Wrong.”  He invited those who disagreed with him to step up and have a conversation.  In so doing, Charlie committed three capitol crimes so far as leftists are concerned.

He supported free speech, especially speech that was uncomfortable or controversial, the very speech that the First Amendment was designed to protect.  Democrats oppose free speech.  They’re the people who chase conservatives off campus to silence them.  They’re the people who weaponized social media to gag and deplatform conservative voices.  And they’re the people who killed Charlie Kirk.

Kirk’s second offense was to advocate for the values of faith and family.  He invited young people to embrace religion, to get married, and to have families.  Leftists are opposed to religion, and the most dedicated left wing ideologues oppose traditional families.

But Kirk’s most egregious offense was to break the Democrat stranglehold on young voters.  Largely through the efforts of Turning Point USA, young men made about a 30 point turn from Democrat to Republican between 2020 and 2024.  This was unforgivable.  Kirk was working the Democrats’ side of the street, and beating them at their own game.  They had to  do something to stop him.  They did.

A recent poll found that 34% of self-described liberals think violence is always or usually acceptable to get what you want.  Another 42% found violence to be sometimes acceptable.  Is it any wonder leftist violence is out of control?

Democrats stirred the pot with their lies for years.  The leftist drumbeat went on 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  Trump is Hitler.  Democracy is over.  Elections will be cancelled.  Your rights will be stolen.  Trump and his supporters must be targeted.  And their mind-numbed followers, victims of years of educational malpractice, isolated by the Covid lock downs, spending hours on violent video games and communicating solely online, without face to face human contact, ate up their crap.

Simply put, the Left created thousands of mindless, soulless, amoral monsters and turned them loose.  And now Charlie Kirk is dead.  His wife lost her husband.  His children lost their father.  Yet the Democrats still don’t get it.  It’s still not their fault.  Nancy Pelosi said, “People don’t have any intention of saying something that’s going to lead to something dangerous,”  “But we cannot take responsibility for the minds that are out there and how they hear it.”  Bullshit.  When you’re the one who warped those minds, you are responsible.

Democrats don’t think so.  They couldn’t even sit still for a moment of silence or a prayer on the floor of the House of Representatives.  When it was requested, Democrats shouted “No!”  The detestable Chuck Schumer warned, “This is not the time to point fingers.”  That’s true, especially since all the fingers are pointing at Chuck and the rest of his perverted party.

Then Illinois Governor Fatass Pritzker weighed in.  “We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota.  We’ve seen other political violence occur in other states, and I would just say it’s got to stop.” (Is that like a Joe Biden, “Don’t?)  “And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.” (You figured that out, huh?)  Pritzker knew just who to blame.  “I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it.  We’ve seen the January 6th rioters, who clearly, have tripped a new era of political violence.”  Sure, blame the victim.  He equates trespassing with murder.  A new era of violence?  No mention of the pre-January 6 BLM and Antifa riots that burned and looted cities, including Chicago, killed scores of people and injured thousands of police officers.

The useless media picked up the theme.  MSNBC spokes-idiot Katy Tur worried, “You can imagine the [Trump] administration using this as a justification for something.”  Yeah, like maybe law enforcement and public safety.  That would be a shame, huh Katy?

Since fired, MSNBC ‘s Matthew Dowd said, “he’s [Kirk] been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures, in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, or sort of aimed at certain groups.”  “And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions, and I think that’s the environment that we’re in.” “People just… you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and then not expect awful actions to take place.”

What an ass.  “Hate speech” is any speech a leftist hates.  Dowd’s message was plain – Charlie Kirk deserved what he got.  Representative Anna Paulina Luna called the Democrats out. “Y’all caused this!”  “I am done with the rhetoric this rotten House and corrupt media has caused. EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU WHO CALLED US FASCISTS DID THIS!”  That’s telling them Anna, but it will do no good.

Prayer vigils and memorials to Charlie were held all over American and all over the world.  Most of the participants were young people who embraced Charlie’s message.  Leftists desecrated memorials to Charlie Kirk, and disrupted prayer vigils with violence.  In person and online, leftist ghouls reveled in Kirk’s murder, some chanting and dancing in the streets.  And therein lies the difference between the Left and decent people.  They celebrated Charlie’s death.  We celebrate his life.

There are signs of hope.  Scores of the most repugnant celebrators of Kirk’s death have been fired by their employers, signalling that responsible businesses may have some common decency, or at least, are no longer cowed by the Woke speech police.

Meanwhile, the work of Turning Point USA will continue.  The murder of Charlie Kirk isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.  Those who thought killing Charlie would kill his movement are sadly mistaken.  Much as Admiral Yamamoto warned after Pearl Harbor, they have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.

The gloves are off.  We’re no longer giving Democrats the benefit of the doubt.  We’re no longer presuming that they have good intentions.  They have proven otherwise.  We’re no longer going to hold our tongues to spare the feelings of people who consider assault, murder and firebombings appropriate political behaviors.  The next time one of them tries to spread his, or more likely her, bullshit, challenge him, civilly but strongly, and on the spot.  Be “divisive.” Their only tactic is to tell a lie often enough that it will be believed.  The only antidote for that poison is the truth.  Evil can triumph only if good people do nothing.

I have to wrap this up.  It’s already the longest Frank on Friday I’ve ever done, but the events of the last week really pissed me off.  The only way to convince Democrats to stop the violence by their supporters is to punish them at the ballot box.  Even if the elected Democrats won’t accept it, Charlie Kirk’s murder has further damaged the Democrat brand.  Take a page from Obama Butt Boy Eric Holder.  “When they go low, we kick them.”  Now is the perfect time for a few swift kicks in Leftist asses.  Figuratively, of course.

And to those who believe killing Charlie Kirk will benefit the Left,  I commend to you the words of Schmuck Schumer, “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.  You won’t know what hit you.”

As Summer turns to Fall, the continuing saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia marches on.  Let’s recap.  We’ll begin at the beginning.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden was elected President.  We now know (I always knew) that Biden was an empty shell, who was put in place as a figurehead who could pretend to lead while nameless, faceless Socialist destroyers erased our borders to permit millions of illegal aliens to pour into the country.

With no one looking, the stage was set for an unprecedented invasion of America.  Illegals from more than 180 countries (I didn’t know there were that many) marched across our borders to the tune of tens of thousands a day.  There was no vetting.  No names were taken.  There was no consideration of communicable diseases.  And the invaders were aided and abetted by Biden Administration and by Democrat locales, that provided free phones, clothing, transportation and luxury accommodations.

Among the throngs of wretched refuse Biden welcomed in were hundreds of thousands of alien criminals.  Some came of their own accord.  Some were infiltrated into the country from places like China and the Middle East as agents in place to wreak havoc when the time comes.  Others were languishing in foreign prisons and other institutions, until their governments realized they could export their problems to Uncle Sucker.

The result was that foreign criminal gangs set up shop in America, courtesy of Sleepy Joe and his craven cohorts.  One of their number was the now famous, or infamous, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.  He’s from El Salvador, the nation whose most notable accomplishment is that it’s the birthplace of the murderous gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.

If America had a responsible government from 2021 to 2025, someone would have reasoned that, given the facts that MS-13 leaves scores of dismembered bodies everywhere it exists, and that President Trump arrested and prosecuted so many MS-13 members, anyone entering the country from El Salvador warranted enhanced scrutiny.  Only there was no scrutiny of any kind, the scrutiny having given way to the screwing of the American citizen.

Illegally enter Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who sneaked in and settled in Maryland.  No, he’s not a Maryland dad.  He’s an illegal alien who knocked up his girlfriend in Maryland.  The result was their marriage, followed by two separate domestic violence restraining orders.

In 2019, he was arrested in Maryland in the company of known MS-13 gang members.  Gang members only hang out with other gang members.  Two immigration courts found cause to conclude he was in MS-13, and subject to deportation.  Having your two days in court is what we call due process.  So whenever you hear some idiot complain about Kilmar’s due process, remind them he already had his.

And then he had more due process.  Kilmar convinced a federal judge he was at risk from rival gangs in El Salvador, and the court ruled he couldn’t be deported to that country.  After that ruling, the Maryland dad came to the attention of law enforcement when he was stopped by a Tennessee patrolman while in the act of trafficking 8 other illegal aliens from Texas to Maryland, so they could “work.”

The Tennessee cops notified ICE, but it was 2022, and the Biden Administration couldn’t be bothered with illegal alien human trafficking, so they just let him go.  And he went about his dirty business until March of this year, when he got swept up with hundreds of other criminal aliens, and got his ass shipped to El Salvador.  When the morons squeal about Kilmar being “illegally deported,” the problem wasn’t the fact that he was deported, just the place to which he was sent.

No matter.  Kilmar became the poster boy for the “Trump is a dictator” crowd.  So intent on opposing anything Trump, the Left adopted the MS-13 gang member, human trafficking, wife beating, Maryland dad as one of their own.  Maryland Senator Van Hollen even traveled to El Salvador to share a drink with him.  They demanded his return.  The courts obliged them.

Trump brought him back, and charged him with human trafficking.  The federal court, the same institution that incarcerated grandmothers for years without bail for the heinous offense of trespassing on January 6th, released the illegal alien, abusive gang member pending trial.

Then the government decided to deport Kilmar, but to where?  A court already had said he couldn’t be sent to El Salvador, where he belongs.  Kilmar didn’t stop there.  Having the meddling federal judge in his pocket, Kilmar provided a list of 22 different countries to which he said he couldn’t be sent to for fear of persecution: El Salvador, Uganda, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Why do I say “meddling federal judge?”   Although they believe they are kings, the judge’s role has limits.  Once a court has decided that Kilmar may be deported, and that is not in dispute here, it’s really none of the judiciary’s business where the executive, in this case ICE, decides he is to go.  When a court sentences a defendant to prison, the defendant is committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.  The judge may recommend, but the executive picks the destination.

More importantly, I’m disgusted that the federal courts have become the political accomplices of Left wing hacks whose only recognizable policy is opposition to President Trump.  They’re using Kilmar for their purposes, and Kilmar is exploiting the system to keep his crooked ass among us.  How do I know this?  From 45 years of experience dealing with judges.  If these federal judges weren’t acting as political partisans, they never would put up with such nonsense as Kilmar’s No Go List.  They sure wouldn’t take it from any domestic litigant.  The judges have become the willing accomplices of a lying, cheating, wife beating, illegal alien criminal, and it makes me sick.

But the game goes on, and the Trump Administration has just upped the ante.  Can’t go to those other 22 countries, huh Kilmar?  Okay, we’re sending you to – wait for it – Eswatini.  Eswa -what?  What’s an Eswatini?  Not a cocktail.  It’s a small nation in Southern Africa, that used to be called Swaziland.  Genius.  How can Kilmar be threatened by people from a place that he’s not only never been to, but that nobody has ever heard of?

Yes, it’s another FAFO moment, and one I’m sure some court will find some reason to try to frustrate.  In a sane world, society would tell Kilmar, “Adios, it’s finis, you’re off to Eswatini.”  Then, when Senator Van Hollen, goes to visit him, he’ll need a dengue fever vaccination before the two of them get together for a drink.

Maybe they can order what I’m calling the Kilmar Eswatini.  Here’s the recipe:  Fill a cocktail shaker with ICE.  Sneak in 3 parts Salvadoran rum, one part sour grape juice, a dash of banana oil, and a pinch of assault.  With a wooden muddler, stir the pot until the ICE goes away and the mixture is thoroughly muddled.  Pour into a rose colored glass, sprinkle with nuts, and garnish with a miniature bloody machete.  Keep drinking these till you actually believe Kilmar’s bullshit story.  Then you’re qualified to be a federal judge.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warned the multitude to “Judge not, that ye be not judged.  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”  This advice should be given to the rogue judges who are abusing their authority to prevent the President of the United States from implementing the policies that the voters reelected him to carry out.

The sermon was aimed at neighbor judging neighbor.  But what of the group who are chosen to be judges?  Appointed for life, who judges them when they are seriously in need of judging?

Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently issued her own warning to judges who view themselves as dictators rather than the referees that the Constitution intended them to be.  Justice Barrett counseled,  “We judges don’t dispense justice solely as we see it; instead, we’re constrained by law adopted through the democratic process.”  Barrett continued, “On the bench, we must suppress our individual beliefs in deference to those that have prevailed in the enacted law.  Our job is to protect the choices that citizens have made, even when we disagree with them…”  “[Judges] They are referees, not kings, because they decide whether people have played by the rules rather than what the rules should be.”

Justice Barrett gave a personal example.  She stated that, personally she opposes he death penalty, but that she cannot allow her personal beliefs to affect her judgment.  “The people who adopted the Constitution didn’t share my view of the death penalty, and neither do all my fellow citizens today.”  “If I distort the law to make it difficult for them to impose the death penalty, I interfere with the voters’ right to self-government.”  Amen.  It’s good to see that, every once in a while, a high-ranking government official recognizes the voters’ right to self-government.

And Justice Barrett has practiced what she’s preached.  A few months ago, in her majority opinion in the case that struck down the improper nationwide injunction in the case challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, she made a harsh rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent.

“We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”  Justice Barrett suggested that Justice Jackson should heed her own admonition, “Everyone from the President on down is bound by the law.  That goes for judges too.”

Although, in June, the Supreme Court warned District Judges against taking the law into their own hands, the rogue judges have not exhibited contrition, as they continue to try to make the law, or be the law, rather than simply interpret the law, which was the role intended for them by the Constitution.

In 1787 and 1788, as the States were considering the adoption of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, writing under the pseudonym “Publius,” published 85 articles to promote its ratification.  In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton argued that the federal judiciary would be the “least dangerous” branch of government, lacking the power of the sword or the purse, but possessing the vital power of judicial review to interpret the Constitution and safeguard individual rights by checking legislative acts.”  He advocated for judicial independence through lifetime appointments to ensure judges could make rulings free from political pressure and uphold the rule of law.

The Founders conceived the federal government as a government of delegated powers, which was to exercise only those functions specifically granted to it by the Constitution, all non-delegated powers to be left to the States or to the people.  Sadly, as the other two branches of the federal government have ballooned out of proportion, the judiciary has experienced commensurate delusions of omnipotence.  Sadder yet, the current tyranny of the judges is all the more obnoxious because it is wholly political.

I’ll explain.  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution spells out what functions the Congress may perform.  Coin money, establish a Post Office, promote commerce, etc.  It’s not supposed to intrude on non-delegated functions, like education, and local safety regulations.  But the federal government couldn’t control itself.  It branched out into non-delegated functions, often by tying State compliance to federal funding.

Ever wonder how or why all 50 States enacted the 55 MPH speed limit in the 1970’s?  Think it was due to an energy crisis or to protect the environment?  Think again.  After Jimmy Carter screwed up the oil industry with equally unconstitutional energy regulations, the States were told, either adopt 55 MPH or lose federal highway money.  And since federally financed boondoggle highway projects are a great way for State politicians to wring “campaign contributions” from wealthy road contractors, the States readily complied.  The federal carrot and stick method of using federal funds to enforce compliance is a time-honored tradition.

Using money to extort the States like mobsters is bad enough, but the recent judicial tyranny is purely political.  It has but one aim, to stop President Trump from carrying out the will of the voters who elected him.  As noted above, Presidents have used the granting or withholding of federal money as a tool for generations, and, until recently, judges have turned a blind eye to the practice, correctly concluding that they had no authority to interfere in the operations of the Executive.

That changed when Trump became the Executive.  This week, a rogue Obama judge ruled that Trump can’t withhold funding for Harvard University unless it addresses its antisemitism problem.  According to the judge, Trump’s action violates the right to free speech.  The judge misses the point.  Harvard can do or say whatever it pleases.  It just can’t rely on the federal government to fund its pleasure.  They have the right to free speech, but no right to government money.  The same principle applies to the defunding of PBS and NPR.

And the judicial tyranny goes beyond the funding cases.  Rogue judges are holding up or forbidding lawful deportations of illegal aliens, most of them criminals.  The Constitution delegates control of immigration and naturalization to the federal government.  Congress has enacted laws governing immigration.  Yet, while the Biden Administration flaunted, ignored, and blatantly violated Title 8 of the U.S. Code, the judges did nothing.

In other words, the judiciary overlooked Biden’s failures to enforce the law of the land, but now constantly intrudes on Trump’s efforts to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed,” as the Constitution commands every President to do.  The blatant lawfare and forum shopping has turned officials who are supposed to be impartial judges into partisans, who have abandoned their oath to uphold the Constitution.  This must not be tolerated.

Perhaps, as applied to the judges, the admonition to “Judge not” should be amended to “Judge what you were hired to judge, and no more.”

The late, great radio talk show host Bob Grant used to observe, “It’s sick out there and getting sicker.”  That was more than 12 years ago.  Things “out there” have not improved since then,  If anything, the folks “out there” have gotten even sicker than they were before.  And there is no group “out there” that is any further “out there” than the denizens of the Democrat Party.

In the wake of their devastating loss in the 2024 presidential election, there’s been lots of coverage of the Party’s post mortem “soul searching,” and claims that it’s reviewing its policies to ferret out why so many voters have turned against them.  But that’s just empty talk, because the truth is they’ve learned nothing.  You can’t accomplish soul searching unless you have a soul.  They don’t.

We are being subjected almost daily to reports of Democrat retreats, where they undergo hours or days of reflection to pinpoint why their brand is about as popular as genital warts.  They haven’t come up with the answer, although the answer is obvious.  The inmates are running their asylum, and until they can wrestle the power back from them, get them sedated, and return to reality, things for the Democrats will not get any better.

What I mean by this is that, by ceding control to the Leftist fringe, they have abandoned the issues and the voting groups that were reliable Democrat voters for decades.  Working class voters, Black and Hispanic voters, and young voters didn’t leave the Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party left them.  All their problems are self-inflicted.

The Party is spending time and money wondering what went wrong, but they know the answer, or at least, they knew it in 2020.  If you want to get elected, you have to convince the majority of voters that that you’re relatively normal.  You have to at least pretend to have moderate policies.  They sold Biden as a moderate.  Then they used the empty shell that was Biden to pursue policies that are inimical to the majority of the population.

Simply put, the Democrats have done everything they possibly could have done to alienate the greatest number of voters.  Not too long ago, even Democrats understood that running up trillions of dollars of debt, opening our borders to untold millions of illegal alien invaders, preventing the police from enforcing the law, and hiring prosecutors who refuse to prosecute criminals, were ruinous policies that would destroy our country.

They lost their way.  They forgot that their bread and butter supporters aren’t the sad socialist or anarchist cat ladies with purple hair, who have nothing better to do than march and chant idiotically in support of the rights of male athletes to injure female athletes while making a mockery of Title IX.

After the 1968 presidential election, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg published a book entitled The Real Majority.  In it, they identified the center of the electorate, the real majority, as moderates who were more liberal on economic issues, such as protecting social security, and more conservative on social issues, such as controlling crime.  Their description of “the average voter” was the 52 year old wife of a blue-collar worker in the Midwest.  Their message – if you win those voters, you win the election.  That was true in 1970, and it’s true now.

Democrats once understood this.  Bill Clinton won Ohio and in 1996, he also won Florida.  Il Duce Obama, The Great Pretender, who posed as a moderate (remember, he started out against gay marriage, before he “evolved”), won Ohio twice and Florida once.  Ohio, once a swing State, recently has swung steadily toward Republicans, and Florida is decidedly Red.  At the same time, Democrats have swung Left, away from their traditional base, and increasingly away from reality and normalcy.  This is a recipe for disaster.

Democrats have been mindlessly following this recipe for 10 years for only one reason.  Donald John Trump.  The Democrats are Ahab, and Trump is the White Whale they’ve been pursuing for a decade.  To get Trump, they have set every trap, broken every law, abandoned any pretense of fair dealing, and in so doing have distracted themselves while their base has steadily trickled away.

Democrat hatred of Trump has been Ahab-like.  Ahab said, “From hell’s heart, I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”  “I would chase him around the globe.  If it took me to the last corner of the earth, I would find him.” “I will set my sails towards revenge, and nothing will stop me.”  Sound familiar?  Democrats say, “Trump is an existential threat to democracy, a fascist, a Hitler, a Mussolini who must be stopped.”

Every Trump policy is compared to those of Nazis.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden said it’s “time to put Trump in a bullseye.”  NY Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman told MSNBC, “It is just unquestionable at this point that man cannot see public office again.  He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated.”  Talk like this led to two assassination attempts, in which Trump was shot, a man was killed and two others severely wounded.  Democrats learned nothing.

If they are unable to shake their obsession with Trump Derangement Syndrome, they inevitably will go the way of Ahab.  Snared in their own ropes, bound to their Great White prey, as he takes them under for the third time.  In his first term, Trump was his own worst enemy, making statements and personnel decisions that hamstrung him.  He learned from his mistakes.

It may have taken Trump’s appointment of most of the staff of Fox News to his second Administration, but he’s finally found effective and loyal subordinates.  And he’s figured out that all he needs to do is to come out in favor of an issue, any issue, and Democrats will trip over themselves to oppose it.

Trump secured the border, and is relentlessly deporting criminal aliens.  Democrats are urging the courts to keep alien criminals in our country and on our streets.  That’s not popular.

Trump sent federal law enforcement into D.C., causing crime to plummet, and D.C. residents to praise his actions.  Democrats are against enforcing the law, taking criminals and guns off the streets, and protecting innocent lives.  Not too smart.

A Trans maniac in Minnesota gets his/her hands on guns and shoots children in a church, and Democrats immediately announce it’s Trump’s fault, for not taking legal guns away from law abiding citizens.  No thinking person buys that crap, especially since Democrats have no desire to take illegal guns away from teenage gangsters.

There are myriad other examples of Democrat stupidity, but here’s the point.  Until and unless Democrats accept the fact that Trump beat them, and that they’ll have to cooperate with him until 2029, they will just keep losing ground.  Unfortunately for them, since they’ve let the loony Leftist toothpaste out of the tube, it’s going to be hard to put it back in and return to normal values.  Moving to the middle is bound to alienate their 20% nutty Leftist base.  Let’s hope it takes them, about 12 years to figure it out.