Throughout the presidential campaign, corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden presented himself, and was presented by the fake news as, “a moderate.”  As with most Democrat messages this was partly true and mostly false.  As for the true part, it’s a matter of degrees.  Having been in Washington for half a century, Biden is a link to the Democrat Party’s past.  Lest we forget, in the not so distant past there actually were moderate, and even conservative, Democrats.  When Biden arrived in Washington, our politics had not yet devolved into the polarized mess it has become.  There were 55 Democrats in the Senate, and 17 of them were from the South.  Both Senators from Maryland were Republicans, and there were Republican Senators in Oregon, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.  The Southern Democrats weren’t the only conservatives.  Frank Church, Birch Bayh, and Henry Jackson were conservative, especially on fiscal issues.   Fast forward to Ronald Reagan, the first  challenger to the control of the Washington establishment.  Like Donald Trump, Reagan was hated by Democrats, and was opposed by members of his own Party.  The nation began to split apart ideologically.  Democrats declared Reagan too old, dumb, and unfit to be president.  Fast forward to 2000, and a close election in Florida.  Democrats alleged election fraud, and declared G.W. Bush illegitimate, dumb, and unfit to be president.  The polarization continued.  Fast forward to 2016 and Trump.  Democrats alleged election fraud, and declared Trump illegitimate, dumb, and unfit to be president.  Seeing a pattern here?  In 2021, Democrats and Republicans are in two very different, and sometimes armed, camps.  It’s sad.  Joe Biden was sold to us as a return to normalcy after the aberration of rude, crude Donald Trump.  But what’s normal?  Whatever the question, is Joe Biden really the answer?  And is he moderate?  By 1974 standards, maybe.  So in today’s world of woke morons, cancel culture, communist professors, ignorant youth, Schumer, Pelosi and the Squad, Biden must be moderate, right?  Wrong!  Enter Democrat falsehood in all its glory.  The problem is that Joe Biden isn’t an ideologue, he’s a weather vane.  The tough on crime, busing opposing Biden would be moderate, but that Biden’s gone.  2021 Biden claims to be moderate, but actions speak louder than lying words.  Democrats lambasted Donald Trump as a tyrant, who ruled by executive decree.  That was a lie, of course.  Every Trump order was litigated, and ultimately upheld.  Biden has been president for two weeks.  So far, he’s issued more than 45 executive orders, nearly all of which are designed to mollify or empower the loony Left.  Biden has virtually ended immigration enforcement.  He’s stopped work on the border wall, so we won’t need Trump’s “beautiful door.”  Invaders can simply walk around it.  The enhanced vetting of people from 7 terrorist States in the Middle East was cancelled.  Detention of illegal aliens was cancelled.  Paraphrasing the late Jim Dooley (anyone remember him?) Biden has encouraged illegal border crossings, by practically yelling, “Come on up!”  We won’t need Catch and Release, because if you don’t catch you don’t need to release.  Trump had the economy humming before the Wuhan invasion.  Once they let people go back to work it will roar again.  A smart politician, who fancied himself moderate, would recognize the underlying strength, be thankful he inherited a good economy, leave things alone, and then take credit for the results.  Biden is neither smart nor moderate.  Because he’s beholden to the nuts on the Left, Biden’s royal decrees seem designed to destroy small business, kill jobs, and stifle a post-Wuhan recovery.  Biden has decreed his support for a nationwide $15 an hour minimum wage.  The federal government pays its own employees less in areas with lower costs of living, because it recognizes that it costs less to live in Alabama than in New York.  They consider this fair, and it is.  But the small business owner in Tuscaloosa must pay entry level employees the same amount they pay on Broadway.  This, they claim is not only fair but imperative.  The Left wants to imposes income equality, you see.  Other countries have it, like Cuba and North Korea.  What could go wrong?  Everything.  The $15 wage is a sop to the prime Democrat victim-hood constituency, low income minority groups.  Only it doesn’t help them.  It either causes employers to cut the number and hours of workers, or it puts them out of business, and everyone’s out of a job.  Great.  In another decree, Biden stopped the Keystone Pipeline – again.  This is a sop to the environmental nuts.  Must end fossil fuels, you see.  Biden has also decreed climate change an essential element of US foreign policy and national security, and has rejoined the Paris Climate Accords.  That’ll show Trump, huh?  Only problem is that all these actions will do is cost jobs, most of them high-paying labor union jobs, you know, those people Democrats keep saying they’re trying to help.  But it stops the oil from being shipped into the U.S., right? Wrong!  Without the economical, environmentally friendly pipeline to move the oil, it will be shipped by train or truck.  The same amount of oil comes in, but on trains and trucks that have to burn oil in order to move oil, plus the inevitable weather delays, crashes and spills.  All great for the environment.  And what about that foreign policy thing?  Biden accused Trump of snubbing our allies.  Last time I looked, Canada was an ally, and the Biden pipeline order just screwed them, without so much as a “by your leave.”  Hands across the sea, right?  Biden owes Black Lives Matter and the rest of the race hustlers too.  So King Sleepy Joe rescinded the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, which would have required schools to teach real history instead of the 1619 Project’s “America was founded to promote slavery” bullshit.  And another regal decree set the stage for the federal  government to rescind zoning laws in the suburbs.  Trump may have warned about that several times during the campaign.  Simply put, Biden’s no moderate, but he is a return to normalcy.  No, not the normal America we remember, where opposing views could be discussed openly and honestly, and the Congress once in while worked together for the good of the citizen.  No, they don’t mean normal for us.  It’s a return to normal for Biden and the Swamp creatures in both Parties, who are once again free to tax, spend, lie, cheat and steal.  Now that’s normal.

This installment of Frank on Friday is about the idiotic, wasteful and malicious second impeachment of Donald Trump.  I looked for a catchy title that included the word “impeachment,” but then it occurred to me that, what we have here is just the latest version of what Joseph Heller described in his novel, Catch 22.  We’ll call it Catch 2021.  The novel is about a WWII bomber crew.  Those crewmen had a 29% chance of surviving 30 missions.  Catch 22 provided that if you’re crazy you don’t have to fly, and to fly missions, you have to be crazy.  You can apply to be excused.  But doing that proves you’re not crazy, so you must keep flying.  Now, we know the Democrats in the Congress are certifiably crazy, and were crazy even before Trump arrived on the scene.  His arrival triggered TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, which drove them to try to destroy Trump, his family, anyone who ever worked for him, and any evidence that he ever existed.  It’s pretty sick.  They impeached him the first time for an innocent phone call, in which he dared to suggest that Hunter Biden might be a fit subject for investigation.  Outrageous!  Of course, while that farce was going on, the FBI never bothered to mention that Hunter already was being investigated – by them.  No harm though.  Trump was acquitted and Christopher Wray got to keep his job.  The second impeachment is an even bigger load of horseshit.  Although Wray’s FBI knew in advance that some bad actors were planning violence at the Capitol, Trump is guilty of promoting insurrection because, after the bad actors had already acted, he told supporters to make their voices heard, “peacefully and patriotically.”  This would be bad enough if Trump was still President.  He’s not in office anymore, but that doesn’t matter, he still must be removed.  Only the president, vice-president or civil officers of the United States may be impeached.  The purpose of impeachment is removal from office, after which, the official may be prevented from holding another office.  Nancy Pelosi says impeachment is necessary to defend our democracy and Constitution.  So, our Constitution says only a designated office holder may be impeached, but the Dems say the only way to defend our Constitution is to impeach someone who’s not an office holder, and shut down the Congress for a sham trial.  You’d have to be crazy to do something like that, and crazy people shouldn’t be running the government.  But if you tell them they’re crazy you’re un-American for failing to protect the Constitution by violating the Constitution.  It’s Catch 2021.  Welcome to the era of Biden unity.  What do the experts say?  Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz says you can’t impeach  a former President, and the case should never come to trial.  Former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig agrees, calling the effort political theater. “Once Trump’s term ends, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him.”  So if they can’t legally do this, how are they doing it?  Back to Catch 22, which also provides, “They have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.”  Hence, whatever they do is legal, even if the Constitution says it’s not legal.  The Great One, Mark Levin has called the endless war against Donald Trump “really repulsive.”  Professor Jonathan Turley is even more blunt, comparing the second Trump impeachment to the Cadaver Synod.  In 897, Pope Stephen VI was angry with the actions of Pope Formosus, who had died in 896.  Pope Stephen decided to get even with the late Pope.   He pulled Formosus out of his tomb, propped him up in court, and convicted him of variety of violations.  They cut three fingers off Formosus’ hand, then threw his body in the Tiber River.  It’s not an isolated case.  Oliver Cromwell was instrumental in the English Civil War that resulted in the execution of Charles I.  Cromwell died of natural causes in 1658, but, 360 years ago tomorrow, on January 30, 1661, a mob dug up Cromwell’s body, hung it in chains and then beheaded it, for treason!  This latest impeachment effort makes almost as much sense.  It makes you wonder what’s motivating the deluded Democrats.  There’s a simple answer.  Hatred and fear.  Soon after The Godfather movie was released, there was a comedy record album called, Everything You Want to Know About the Godfather, But Don’t Ask.  The album featured satiric take-offs on The Godfather theme.  In one of them, two mobsters are discussing the killing of a rival.  One mobster says with pride, “Even after they hit him, they put a bomb in his hearse.  That’s real hate.”  That same kind of hate is one of the motivations for Democrats.  Trump spoiled their 2016 party, and delayed the advance of Socialism.  They used all means, legal and illegal to get rid of him, and they succeeded.  He may be gone, yet they fear his return.  Which is yet another Catch 2021.  According to Democrats, Trump is so universally regarded as a threat to our way of life, and is so guilty and repulsive, that he must be impeached even after having left office.  But even though they’re so firmly convinced that Trump is universally despised and disgraced, they’re also afraid that he’s so popular that he may be reelected.  I rest my case.  Brain damage.  Democrats have to be brain damaged to believe this impeachment will help them.  If they were sane, having defeated Trump, they would have thanked him for his service, and told him, “Don’t let the White House door hit you in the ass on your way out.”  But they can’t let it go.  The truth is Democrats need Trump because hating Trump is the only thing they agree on.  They need a villain to distract the country from corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden.  But by impeaching Trump, they’re playing right into his hands.  Let’s face it, nobody plays the Martyr better than Trump.  “Witch hunt.”  “Fake news.”  The only thing Democrats have to gain by impeachment is to prevent Trump from holding office again.  At 78 years old in 2024, that’s unlikely.  By doing this, Democrats are just giving Trump more coal to fire up his supporters.  It’s a big mistake.  They need 67 votes to convict him.  They may have 55.  Either way it doesn’t matter.  Unless they manage to convict him, cut out his tongue and throw him in the Potomac River, they’ll still have to deal with Trump in the future, which is the ultimate Catch 2021.  They need Trump to stay in power, but Trump is the greatest threat to their power.  Come what may, the Democrats are marching on with impeachment.  Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 character Yossarian said it best, “Insanity is contagious.”

Recent events might cause us to conclude that we’re in uncharted territory.  Many viewed the challenges of 2020 as unique.  Political strife.  Pandemic.  Violence in the streets.  A contentious presidential election.  But it turns out that there’s really nothing new here.  The old French proverb, “the more things change, the more they stay the same” was never more apt than it is right now, because the truth is, not much has changed in the last 100 years.  If you’re a history buff and a political junkie like me I recommend David Pietrusza’s, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents.  It’s a history of the events leading up to the 1920 election.  The title refers to the fact that six men who had been, were, or would be president were involved in the 1920 campaign.  Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and FDR.  Think we’re dealing with issues we’ve never dealt with before?  Think again.  In the 1920 campaign, there were great political  tensions between left-leaning and right-leaning Americans.  Unemployment was high after WWI, and recovery was weakened by the Spanish Flu Pandemic.  Sound familiar?  In 1920, there were race riots in many cities.  In 1920, the Red Scare had leaders checking under every bed for Russian communists out to destroy America.  Russian collusion even then.  Police in 1920 had clashes with anarchist and left-leaning groups in the streets.  In 1920, public health authorities strongly recommended that people wear face masks to stop the spread of the virus.  They also issued social distancing guidelines and urged people to practice proper hygiene.  About 600,000 Americans died of the Spanish Flu.  We’re well on our way to that figure with the Wuhan Flu.  How medicine has advanced in 100 years.  If you need more evidence that our government has made little progress in 100 years, other issues in 1920 were disagreements on immigration policy, and calls for government controlled healthcare.  The 2020 election wasn’t exactly the same as the one in 1920.  2020 being the way 2020 was, some things were ass-backwards.  For instance, in 1920, outgoing president, Woodrow Wilson, was a progressive/socialist, and incoming president Harding a devout capitalist.  In 2020, switch that around.  1920 was the first time women could vote.  In 2020, we expanded suffrage to non-citizens, the unregistered and the deceased.  In 100 years, we’ve gone from one person – one vote, to one tractor-trailer – 138,000 votes.  Progress. Back to Woodrow Wilson.  Wilson was the father of the Deep State.  He saw the Constitution as an outdated impediment to the absolute power of the federal government.  As a result, Wilson built up the administrative State, the bureaucracy, to permit the federal government to expand into areas the Founders left to the States by issuing regulations rather than laws.  100 years later, the federal government has balooned far beyond Wilson’s wildest dreams.  By contrast, today’s outgoing president, Trump, cut into the Deep State by reducing regulations.  Woodrow Wilson did have something in common with Trump.  Both Wilson and Trump contracted the virus that was the culprit in each of their respective pandemics.  Wilson also has parallels with Joe Biden when it comes to diminished capacity.  Wilson suffered a stroke 13 months before the end of his term.  He was bedridden for most of the last year of his term, and it is suspected that his wife was really president that last year.  The difference is that corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden is mentally diminished on his way into office, and his wife has been propping him up for the year preceding the start of his term.  In 1920, outgoing president Wilson had a personal “tone” that was repugnant to many.  Sound familiar?  Wilson was a nasty, arrogant, sanctimonious SOB.  When he proposed his “Fourteen Points” at Versailles, France’s Prime Minister Clemenceau observed, “Fourteen points?  God Almighty had only ten.”  Like Trump, Wilson had problems with people in his own Party.  Wilson accepted the help of Democrat Party bosses to get elected NJ Governor, and once elected, he double-crossed the bosses, refusing even to speak to them.  As a result, the Democrat bosses sabotaged their own legislative candidates to let Republicans take control of the Legislature.  That’s real hate.  Call them the Never Wilsoners.  The 1920 campaign sounded a lot like the 2020 contest.  1920 Republicans opposed Wilson’s attempt to get the U.S. into the League of Nations, running on a slogan familiar to Trump supporters – “America First.”  Warren G. Harding was elected on the pledge that America must return to “normalcy.”  Biden ran on a pledge that things “would return to normal,” channeling Warren G. Harding, “America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration…not surgery but serenity.”  The Chicago Sun-Times was more blunt, “We’ll have a president who is not crazy, erratic, self-serving and intellectually dishonest.”  No.  He’ll just be demented, confused, and personally dishonest.   In any case, some people in the Biden camp aren’t onboard with the normalcy thing.  Witness the words of Lilliputian leader of the loony Left, Robert Reich.  “A return to ‘normal’ would be disastrous.  We can’t give in to the allure of ‘normal’ – because normal is what got us here.  Normal led to Trump.  Normal in this case has been decades of systemic racism as well as shredded safety nets for everyone in need, the most expensive but least adequate healthcare system in the modern world, and a growing climate catastrophe that’s steadily undermining public health.”  Whoa!  Funny that Reich and his Commie compatriots did nothing to stem “systemic racism” or any other supposed catastrophe during the 8 years of Clinton or the 8 years of Obama.  Maybe it’s only “systemic” when they’re not in charge.  And shredded safety nets?  Social spending has gone up every year.  But I digress.  What’s sad about Leftist calls for normalcy is that the Leftist nuts actually believe that they are normal.  It’s a minifestation of their metal disorder, delusions of rectitude.  If you believe you’re always right, then you’re normal and everyone else is abnormal.  The last parallel I’ll share from the 1920 election is that the winner in 1920, as in 2020, had a 7 million vote plurality.  Biden better hope the similarity ends there.  Warren G. Harding was elected in 1920, but his administration was plagued by corruption, and he died in office, reportedly of food poisoning, to be replaced by Silent Calvin Coolidge.  Not bad. If the Squad feeds Woodrow G. Biden the poison mushrooms, we’ll get Cackling Kamala Harris.  Pray for Biden’s health.

What a week, huh?  Let’s deal with the protest at the Capitol first.  Despite what you’re hearing from Democrats and their media lap-dogs, this is a two-part question.  The speech, and the violence.  Second question first.  What those nuts did in the Capitol was a travesty.  I spent all summer denouncing the nation-wide violence of Black Lives Matters and Antifa, so there’s no way to condone or excuse what those people did.  This summer, we watched police stations burn, entire shopping districts looted to the bare walls, and hundreds of businesses, many of them minority owned, robbed and destroyed by what the Left told us was were “mostly peaceful protests.”  The irony, of course is that the self-same elected A-holes who were content all summer with BLM and Antifa’s burning, looting and killing, were shocked, shocked to find that some people, however misguided, might carry out a less violent protest in their place of business.  Surprising no one, the A-holes called this a “coup,” an “insurrection” and “treason.”  I won’t mince words.  The people who stormed the Capitol need to be arrested so they can face the justice that BLM and Antifa criminals were able to avoid.  No sooner had the crazies stormed the Capitol, that we were told whose fault it was.  Again surprising no one, they blamed Trump.  No surprise because these same A-holes having been blaming Trump for all ills, real or imagined, since he descended the elevator in 2015.  They’ve been lying about the man the whole time.  In the interest of full disclosure, at times, Donald Trump has been his own worst enemy, providing ample ammunition to the forces of evil.  And so, it was inevitable that the Left would spare no time claiming that Trump incited the violence in his January 6th speech outside the White House.  He didn’t, but, as usual, the truth is no defense for Donald Trump.  In any case, this is the truth.  The crowd heard Trump’s words and rushed off to take the Capitol building?  Not so fast.  Trump began speaking at noon, and spoke till 1:13 p.m.  The Capitol was a mile and a half from the speech site.  So Trump ordered violence and the mob obeyed, right?  Wrong!  Trump gave the same speech he’s been giving for years.  All his accomplishments.  The crooked media.  Then he recounted the myriad instances of election fraud.  At about 12:05, Trump promised never to concede.  At 12:07, the crowd chanted, “Fight for Trump!”  Not “Kill the infidels” mind you, “Fight for Trump!”  At about 12:13, Trump told the crowd, “You’re not the people who tore down our nation.”  At 12:16, Trump told them to fight hard, go to the Capitol and “cheer on” the Republicans challenging the electors.  But wasn’t it un-American to do that?  Just the opposite.  Seven States sent alternate electors to Congress, and Congress had a duty to at least investigate the issue.  At 1:00 p.m., the nuts were breaking into the Capitol.  Trump was still speaking, as the crowd chanted “We love you!”  Pretty violent, huh?  Anyhow, Trump spoke till 1:13, when he told the crowd to walk to the Capitol, “peacefully and patriotically” to “make your voices heard.”  The crowd was 1 1/2 miles away.  The nut attack caused the remaining Republicans willing to uphold their oaths of office to fold like cheap cameras, and the Establishment was back in control.  The Left won, but it wasn’t enough.  Now they’ve impeached Trump a second time, with less than a week to his term.  Many constitutional experts say they can’t, because he’ll be gone January 20th, and you can’t impeach a private citizen, noting the Constitution only mentions impeaching “the President.”  Some say otherwise, noting the Constitution doesn’t explicitly say they can’t do it.  Why bother?  To right a wrong?  For the good of the nation?  Nah!  Out of fear.  There are two parts to impeachment.  Removal from office and preventing the removed President from holding another office.  Trump showed them up.  He rebelled against the authority of the Establishment, and took their power for a time.  He must be destroyed and must never come back.  That’s what this is all about.  We’ve seen this movie before.  In 1980, George Lucas gave us, The Empire Strikes Back.  Recall that the first Star Wars movie was, A New Hope, where the rebel alliance checks the power of the evil Empire.  In 1980, the Empire struck back, to regain its lost power.  And here we go again.  Darth Schumer and Nancy the Nutt

are out to destroy the rebel MAGA alliance once and for all.  They must forever rid themselves of Don Plaintalker and Princess Melania.  And they’re counting on phony Republican turncoats, like Mitto Romnessian, to finally capture Plaintalker, and seal him in carbonite, so he can’t make any more trouble.  They can’t afford to let Plaintalker get away to launch Episode VI, Return of the MAGI.  The Empire is counting on the lily-livered, useless Congress, an institution that P.J. O’Rourke once branded a Parliament of Whores, to do its dirty work.  They’re clearly whores, who don’t deserve to be compared to a Parliament, so they might pull it off.  The problem is that this isn’t a movie, and many of us are not willing to go over to the Dark Side.  One thing from the movie hasn’t changed.  Corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden does bear an uncanny resemblance to Emperor Palpatine.

It’s January.  There is no more miserable time of year.  Some call it the dead of winter.  If you’re in New Jersey, the weather’s always rotten, but in January, it’s even worse.  It’s cold, it’s wet, and there seems no end in sight.  February and March are no bargains either, but at least you’ve got baseball Spring training, and the prospect of better times ahead.  But not in January.  I was reminded of the first line of Shakespeare’s Richard III, “Now is the Winter of our discontent.”  And let’s face it.  There’s plenty of discontent to go around this Winter.  Where do I begin?  Let’s start with the Wuhan, which continues to spread.  Now there’s concern over a new strain from Britain.  According to the “experts,” it’s more easily communicated, but no more deadly.  Therefore, we may safely conclude that it is more contagious, or it isn’t, and that it’s no more deadly than the domestic Wuhan, or that we’re all doomed.  Anyhow, the number of positive Wuhan tests keeps going up, while the percentage of those infected who are hospitalized in serious condition keeps going down, from more than 0.6% of all cases in the Spring, to about 0.3% of all positive cases today.  Against this backdrop, Democrats continue to preach armageddon.  Although California has mandated more masking and lock downs than any other State, California has the worst Wuhan problem.  The Democrat solution?  More masks and lock downs.  Corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden has promised us “a dark Winter.”  Maybe he blew a fuse in his basement.  The much heralded vaccines are available.  I’m ready to take it, but here in New Jersey, it’s not my turn yet.  On Monday, while my car was being serviced, I was forced to sit in a waiting room and listen to a CNN host lambast an Administration official for not having 20 million people vaccinated by now.  He explained that number of  vaccines were sent to the States.  But, the States decide who gets the vaccine and when.  In my county, we’re still in Group 1A, so only healthcare workers and long-term residents can get it.  There’s a website.  Here’s how screwed up things are.  My sister-in-law went on the site and registered for the vaccine.  She received a confirmation, and went to the prescribed location.  Inside were approximately 100 fully masked and shielded medical professionals ready to administer vaccines – to no one.  No one was there to get a vaccine, except my sister-in-law.  And when they learned she was not in Group 1A, they said she couldn’t have it.  The whole system seems to be 4F.  Moving on, another source of discontent is, of course, the elections.  Trump lost under conditions that virtually assured his reelection.  I mean, if you lose fair and square, so be it, but 2020 is the year of the Never-Neverland elections.  We’ve never had so much blatant election fraud, yet so few elected officials, not to mention media people, willing even to mention it.  The Republican House pickups were the only bright spot in our electoral discontent, but even they’re tainted.  Republicans picked up 12 seats, but 64 days after the election, NY 22 remains undecided, the Republican 182 votes ahead.  In Iowa, a Republican won by 6 votes, and her opponent appealed to Nancy Pelosi to seat her instead.  Pelosi seated the Republican “provisionally,” pending a House investigation.  Yeah, you know what’s coming.  They’re sharpening the screws even as I type.  Then Luke Letlow, elected to the House from Louisiana. He died of the Wuhan last week, before taking office.  Eric Swalwell was a lot closer to the Chinese than Letlow.  Why not him?  Back to Never-Neverland.  The presidential election was a list of Never-Nevers.  An incumbent with an approval rating at 50% had never lost.  Till 2020.  No Republican who won Ohio, Florida and Iowa had lost, except Nixon in 1960, and then only because of LBJ election fraud in Texas and Democrat election fraud in Chicago.  Sound familiar?  An incumbent never got 12 million more votes and lost reelection, e.g., Obama got 3.5 million fewer votes in 2012, and still won.  We were told that, if Trump increased his support among Blacks and Hispanics, Biden could never win.  Trump’s support from Black voters increased by 50% and he got more than 35% of the Hispanic vote, sure harbingers of a Democrat loss, yet we are asked to believe Biden got more than 81 million votes.  And 81 million votes from where?  In 2008, Il Duce Obama won 824 of the 3,007 counties in the U.S., and got 69 million votes.  In 2020, Biden won just 524 counties to 2,483 for Trump, and he supposedly got 81 million votes.  Never-Neverland.  The election was won in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.  It seems that Trump increased his share of the Black vote in every county in the country, except Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Detroit, where Biden supposedly got a larger percentage of the black vote than did Obama.  Believe it or not.  Not.  Then there’s Georgia.  Trump led in the counting until 89% of the vote was tallied, when Biden edged ahead.  After that point, the Georgia totals were updated 53 times, and defying all mathematical probabilities, each of the succeeding 53 batches of votes found that Biden had gotten exactly 50.05% to Trump’s 49.95%.  Some coincidence, huh?  Which leads me to the latest source of Never-Never Winter discontent, the Georgia run-off elections.  The whole system is screwy.  In November, Perdue beat Ossoff by 88,000 votes, but got only 49.73%, requiring a run-off.  The other seat also went to a run-off, and we were told Republicans had never (there’s that word again) never lost a Georgia special election.  Until January 5th.  As this is written, both Republicans appear to have lost, putting the Senate in the hands of the detestable Chuck Schumer and his merry band of Bolsheviks.  This measure of discontent makes an unlikely subject the most powerful man in the Senate.  If he keeps his word, and that’s a big if, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin becomes the deciding vote on the entire whacky Socialist agenda.  Although he won’t want to burn his Democratic Party bridges, Manchin has said he will not vote for such measures such as ending the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, or adding new States.  Now, we’ll see if he meant it.  Manchin seems to be a reasonable and honorable man.  It remains to be seen whether the Winter of our discontent will be turned into glorious summer by this sun of Farmington, West Virginia.  Hope Springs eternal.