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Thursday, January 2nd, 2025New Year’s Eve 2024 with Lil Jon and Senator Schatz
Tuesday, December 31st, 2024New Years Eve 2024 with Lil Jon and Senator Schatz
December 31, 2024:
LOS ANGELES: New Year’s Eve is a truly magical night. On this one night, many of Earth’s seven billion inhabitants temporarily cast aside religion, politics, and even sports rivalries.
Peace on Earth briefly breaks out. We bid farewell to a tough year and pray that the incoming new year will be better, perhaps even peaceful.
We pray for peace, love, and a better world.
After over three years of parties being canceled, the parties in 2024 are back on like Donkey Kong!
On January 20, America will honor the late Martin Luther King Jr. We will vow to honor his legacy of peaceful non-violent civic activism. MLK is universally beloved because he believed in fighting for change peacefully.
New politicians will take office on Wednesday, January 3.
Yet the hours leading into January 1 are not about the Republican Party or the Democrat Party.
It is about house parties, club parties, rooftop parties, and the party for the sake of partying parties.
This is before getting to the after-party.
We eat and drink to excess, dance badly, and upload pictures to social media that should never be uploaded.
For one night, much of the entire civilized world is a happy, peaceful, global family united in sheer joy and revelry.
In Gotham City, 2025 commences, and peaceful behavior erodes.
All hell breaks loose with the dropping of the ball in Times Square. People kiss, sing, and then try to escape the freezing weather they have been standing in for the last ten hours.
Of all the global celebrations welcoming the end of 2024, nothing says New Year’s Eve like the convergence of a rap star and an unknown politico.
The rapper is a long-haired, gold-toothed entrepreneur and former Trump Celebrity Apprentice semi-finalist Lil Jon. Dave Chapelle lampooned him as the guy who only says “what” and “ok.”
Lil Jon brought the world one of the greatest party songs, “Shots.”
A celebration of alcohol and fun, plenty of shots will be consumed as 2024 ticks down.
While Lil Jon’s celebrity is established, the senior United States Senator from Hawaii is still barely known on the mainland.
The Senator’s name is spelled “Schatz,” although his last name is pronounced “shots.”
The U.S. Senate has long been about partying, alcohol, and law-breaking in between occasional bouts of governing.
Therefore, the upper chamber of Congress should treat Schatz as a celebrity.
Let Lil Jon do the swearing-in ceremony as the Republican Party and the Democrat Party continue to spend like drunken sailors
at a never-ending New Year’s Eve Party.
Happy New Year Schatzie! Party time!
“When I arrive on the Hill, all eyes on me.
Congressional bender, all drinks are free.
We’re drunken spenders, we’re so far gone.
It’s free money time, so come on down!
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, everybody!
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, everybody!
The ladies love us, when we give free stuff,
We spend your money, on needless fluff,
We’re drunk on power, how ‘bout you?
Bottoms up, let’s go round two!
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, everybody!
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz Schatz,
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, everybody!
If you ain’t drunk on power, get out of Congress now!
If you ain’t drunk on power, get out of the White House now!
If you ain’t drunk on power, get out of government now!
Now where are my spendaholics? Printing presses go!
Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz,
Schatz, everybody!”
Party hearty, Senator Schatz! Greece, California, and Detroit are only a few trillion wasted dollars away!
To everyone else, may 2025 be a year of peace, love, and most importantly for revelers, fun!
Also, in honor of the junior Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, do not hit on strangers after getting drunk. Friends don’t let friends beer-goggle. This is the Hirono rule, when a guy wakes up the next day, realizes what he has done, and yells, “Her? Oh, no!”
Let’s party! What??????
Happy 2025! Ok!!!!!!!!
eric
The Top 10 Powerful Bald White Guys (PBWGs) of 2024
Monday, December 30th, 2024Top 10 Powerful Bald White Guys (PBWGs) of 2024
This list is dedicated to the late radio host Austin Hill. He was a great guy who left us far too soon. He loved this list and gave it more attention than it ever deserved. May he never be forgotten.
This list was inspired by Dann Florek, who played Police Captain Donald Cragen on the “Law & Order” franchises for a couple decades.
A lot of people did not make the list. President Joe Biden is ineligible because he never admitted his baldness, choosing instead to hide behind hair plugs. Vladimir Putin is ineligible because he is a ruthless killer and I do not wish to die. If he asks, I think he has lovely hair. Congressmen Bob Good of Virginia and Chip Roy of Texas came up short. Let’s see if these House Freedom Caucus members do anything in 2025. If they get a conservative agenda passed, they will make the list.Rupert Murdoch seems to be retired. He was on this list for many years.
With that, here are the 2024 Austin Hill Awards dedicated to the Top 10 PBWGs of 2024.
10.) Jeff Bezos: He is no longer the richest man in the world or the CEO of Amazon. Being rich is not the same as being powerful. Bring powerful requires doing things. Bezos is now obsessed with space. He is determined to beat Elon Musk in the space race and retake his position atop the world’s wealthiest list. If he succeeds, he will move up the PBWG list as well.
9.) Kevin O’Leary: Shark Tank’s “Mr. Wonderful” is one of the sharpest investors around. He speaks plainly and with common sense. He actually ran to be the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party in 2017. He should have been on this list for years but 2023 was his breakout year in terms of exposure. He went from being almost everywhere to everywhere. His insights are valuable. He would rank higher except sometimes it is hard to figure out exactly what it is he does.
The next 4 guys are all incoming members of the Trump administration. Normally they would not make the list until they take office, but the Trump administration has gotten an unofficial early start. These guys are already up and running. If they succeed in passing the Trump agenda, they will rank much higher on the list.
8.) Stephen Miran: He is the incoming Charman of the Council of Economic Advisers. For those who have no idea what that even means, he is the head pontificator. Yet unlike many pontificators, he does real work. He is the senior strategist at asset management firm Hudson Bay Capital Management. This means that unlike the rest of the pontificators, he actually knows what he is talking about.
7.) Howard Lutnick: He is the incoming Commerce Secretary and the current head of Cantor Fitzgerald. That was the firm that lost 658 employees on September 11th, 2001. Lutnick will be a unique Commerce secretary. Unlike previous Republican Commerce Secretaries, Lutnick is pro-tariff. Lutnick will be the first Commerce Secretary who will have to navigate cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. Lutnick is pro-crypto.
6.) Tom Homan: He is the incoming Border Czar. He has over 35 years of experience dealing with the Border. He came out of retirement to take this job. He has threatened to arrest elected officials who run illegal sanctuary cities. Time will tell if the Trump administration is truly willing to cross that bridge. That will drastically affect Homan’s position on the 2025 PBWG list.
5.) Steven Miller: He is the incoming Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. He is seen as an immigration hardliner, a badge he wars with honor. Like Homan, his fate on the 2025 PBWG list depends on whether or not his tough talk can be transferred into substantive actions.
It’s one thing to be a powerful incoming member of the government. It’s quite another to be a current member of the government. Biden administration officials have a ton of power until they leave office. They will not be on this list in 2025, but they absolutely deserve to top the list in 2024. Three of the top four spots including the top two spots are the same as last year.
4.) Gary Gensler: The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is a political activist with a thirst for regulating everything in sight. With the stock market hitting all time highs, he again threw cold water on the party. Gensler implicitly mandated that corporations enact woke DEI policies. His calls to regulate cryptocurrencies gave Gensler even more power. He is a former Goldman Sachs guy, which propelled his access to power. Republicans will be firing him on January 20th, 2025. He would rank higher but most of what he has implemented is already being reversed, limiting his long-term impact.
3.) Alejandro Mayorkas: The current Border Czar will also be fired on January 20th, 2025, but he is implementing his border vision up until the last moment. Unlike Gensler, Mayorkas’s policies will have much longer lasting effects and be far more difficult to reverse. While he will not be on the 2025 PBWG list, he has the ability to completely derail Homan and Miller from the list as well. That is power. Until Inauguration Day, he is the highest ranking PBWG in the current Executive Branch.
2.) John Fetterman: The Pennsylvania Senator might be the most confounding member of Congress. He spent his early years as a rich white leftist doing hard drugs and leeching off of his parents. After getting elected, he was expected to vote leftist down the line. Then he shocked the political world by offering startlingly lucid thoughts that broke from leftist Orthodoxy. He came out as a staunch supporter of Israel in a Democrat Party with an increasingly influential and militant anti-Israel left wing. He also called for more border security. He even declared that he was not a progressive. When he was verbally accosted by an angry leftist who accused him of betrayal, he showed a surprising sense of humor. He pointed out his recent stroke and claimed that this left him unable to understand what the angry protester was saying. Senator Fetterman is less than two years into his term, and he has already angered people across the political spectrum. He has at least four more years to confound people without consequences. That is power. Yet for the third year in a row, Fetterman comes up one spot short.
1.) David Solomon: Normally the Head Sled at Golden Sachs is the top PBWG because Goldman Sachs runs the world. Goldman Sachs has a history of flitting in between corporate power and government power. Jon Corzine, Hank Paulson, and Lloyd Blankfein are all former Goldman Sachs PBWG top dogs. Solomon initially missed out on the top spot in recent years due to tough economic times, war raging across the world, and an anti-Wall Street climate. Yet in 2024, happy days are here again. The stock market hit an all time high. Goldman Sachs now has its usual level of undue influence over the government. The company that is too big to fail with executives who are too big to jail escaped scrutiny during financial meltdowns. They are not going to lose power when Wall Street is making money hand over fist.
For being the most powerful guy at the most powerful company, for the second consecutive year in a row, David Solomon is the Top Powerful Bald White Guy of 2024.
eric
The Top 10 B*mbos of 2024
Thursday, December 26th, 2024Top 10 bimbos of 2024
10.) Azeez al-Shaair — The Houston Texans linebacker was suspended for three games for what was deemed a dirty hit on Trevor Lawrence. Lawrence missed the rest of the season. al-Sha-air is a repeated offender. Normally a collision in football would not be news but al-Shaair decided to embrace his role as the villain by bringing global religious events on to the field. al-Shaair, a devout Muslim, wore sneakers praising one of many Islamist groups trying to wipe Israel off the map and eliminate Jews. For being pro-Jihadist, al-Shaair is a cancer to football and an unenlightened dolt. al-Shaair would rank higher but athletes are barely regarded higher than Hollywood celebrities.
9.) Luigi Mangione supporters — Luigie Mangione is a rich, handsome young man with plenty of young female fans. He is from a wealthy family. He also murdered an innocent healthcare executive named Brian Thompson. Mangione is evil. His supportive fangirls are idiots. Mangione has become as much a darling of the socialist left as Che Guevara and Charles Manson. Even Senator Liz Warren implied that the United Healthcare CEO had it coming. This would rank higher but most of these morons have no power or influence.
8.) The ladies of The View — This is an entire program created specifically for imbeciles. Joy Behar, whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin are constantly reading on-air apologies through clenched teeth to avoid being sued for slander or libel. These women just can’t shut up and stick to the facts. So they make stuff despite repeated warnings not to do so. These imbeciles would rank higher but most Americans have tuned them out. They only have influence over other idiots with no influence as well.
7.) Kimberly Cheatle — In 2024 she was the Secret Service Director. She did not climb through the ranks of the Secret Service. She was a former Pepsi Executive who was a Biden Administration Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) hire. She was only hired because of her gender, not any merit. Her inability to do her very serious job resulted in former President Donald Trump being shot and nearly killed at a Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally. A rally attendee named Corey Comperatore was killed. Due to her utter failure to do a job she was never qualified for, America was a millimeter from Trump’s death and global upheaval. The only good news is people like her might result in the death of DEI itself in 2025. We can only hope.
6.) Ivy League Presidents — Harvard’s Claudine Gay, Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth are among several Ivy League University presidents who allowed anti-Semitism to flourish on their campus. At a disastrous congressional hearing, these three pointy-headed academics explained why threats of violence were within the bounds of their university honor codes. Jews lived in fear and under threats of violence on their campuses. They shrugged and bleated that the First Amendment essentially allows anti-Jewish violence. It does not. Gay resigned die to also being caught as a serial plagiarist. Magill stepped down as well. So far Kornbluth has survived. Things will not improve on campuses until the leftists and Islamists in power are all removed root and branch. Jewish and other pro-Jewish donors are starting to pull their alumni support. Trustees and boards need to be put on notice as well.
5.) The Squad — These leftist and Islamist anti-Semitic congresswomen have been annoying since they began infecting Congress in 2019. They primaries out Jewish Democrats in favor of leftists with hostility toward Israel and Jews. Yet their biggest power play came during the 2024 election. when Vice President Kmala Harris seized the Democrat nomination away from Joe Biden, she needed the support of Pennsylvania voters. Josh Shapiro is the Keystone State’s popular Governor. Yet Shapiro is also Jewish. A token Jew on the Democrat ticket probably would have worked on easily gullible liberal voters. Yet the Squad, led by those more concerned about Arab voters in Michigan, deemed Shapiro unacceptable. Harris was pressured into dropped the idea of Shapiro on the ticket in favor of a doofus would fall in line on all leftist issues. The Squad’s move was more than anti-semitic. It was politically stupid. Voters across Normal America rejected the Democrat ticket. All swing states swung Republican, including Pennsylvania. America may have reached peak Squad. Two of them were voted out in primaries in favor of non-crazy candidates.
4.) The Lawfare Squad — Rather than just try and defeat Trump at the ballot box, Democrats used the legal system to torment Trump and anyone who supported him. First there was the attempt by states to remove him from state ballots under some non-existent interpretation of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court rejected those arguments 9-0. So then various District Attorneys and Attorney Generals tried to imprison Trump. New York District City Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis, and United States Attorney Jack Smith in Florida all invented cases out of thin air. These cases all eventually collapsed. Voters saw through the targeted political harassment and reelected Trump anyway. Smith resigned and Willis was disqualified. Bragg and James are hoping to keep their cases alive for five more years so they can prosecute Trump after he leaves office again. Meanwhile, New York is being destroyed by real crime that gets ignored. Bragg deserves another dishonorable mention for prosecuting subway hero Daniel Penny solely because Penny is white and non-liberal. Penny was acquitted, adding to the failures of these ideological zealots.
3.) anti-Biden coup plotters — Former President Barack Obama and Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi Democrats claim to represent the party of democracy, but their version of democracy is overthrowing a legally elected government whenever they feel like for any reason. In their world, the ends justify the means. Joe Biden was selected President despite his obvious mental decline. Yet liberals denied he was declining and hid Biden from the press and the voters until he was safely installed. After a miserable 2024 debate performance against Trump, Biden was finally exposed as senile. Biden was no longer useful, so former Obama and Pelosi blackmailed Biden into stepping down. Kamala Harris was installed as the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee. Replacing an old white male with a younger multi-racial woman angered Democrat donors who preferred an infirm Biden to his replacement. The strategy backfired and Democrats lost the White House. It was poetic justice for the formerly sainted Obama, who has been exposed as a scheming naked emperor. His influence is gone, but that does not justify trying to overthrow two successive legally elected governments.
2.) Tim Walz — He was the Minnesota Governor who let the George Floyd rioters burn his state to the ground. So when Biden was overthrown and Harris needed another running mate after Shapiro was rejected, Governor Walz was Tapped. His selling point was that he looked like a Normal American who enjoyed football and hunting. The problem is he lied about his experience as a football coach and had no idea how to load a shotgun. He was a doofus who admitted on television to being a knucklehead. He kept calling his opponents “weird” despite his own support for placing tampons in boys’ bathrooms in schools. He was an emasculated beta male, making him a laughingstock among real non-emasculated men everywhere. Campaigns to show men crying while watching “Love, Actually” did not win over male voters. For having zero substance, Walz was the perfect number two for a Democrat Party running on vibes, joy and failure.
Yet while Walz was awful, the real person with even less substance was the woman who made it her first big decision to hire him. That leads us to the Top Bimbo of 2024.
1.) Kamala Harris — This annoying, grating, cackling hyena of a woman has coasted life on her looks, charm and sexuality. Her boyfriend and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown introduced her to all the rich Democrat donors living in Snob Hill. Her entire life was a lie. She was never from middle class family. She was was the daughter of upper class white collar professionals. She repeatedly spoke in “word salads” designed to hide her views. She ran for President as a leftist Radical for the 2020 election. She dropped out without receiving a single primary vote. Yet the Obama’s loved her, so they forced Biden to a dd her to to the ticket. She returned the favor by helping the Obamas overthrow Biden. Yet Harris was simply terrible. She was a DEI hire who was terrible at governing, terrible at campaigning, and just terrible at anything requiring substance rather than style. Despite an election that was repeatedly rigged in her favor, she wasted over one billion dollars and lost anyway. Yet her worst quality is her refusal to get it through her thick skull that she needs to go away. Instead, she is debating whether to run for California Governor in 2026 or God forbid run for President again in 2028.
For her utter clueless lack of self-awareness on the biggest stage possible, Vice President Kamala Harris is the Top Bimbo of 2024.
The Top 10 News Stories of 2024
Thursday, December 26th, 2024Top 10 news stories of 2024
10.) The Detroit Lions — For decades, these lovable losers were about as likely to be successful with a football as Charlie Brown. They epitomized a losing culture, even becoming the first NFL team to ever go 0-16 in 2008. Yet Coach Dan Campbell came along and changed the culture. The Lions began this calendar year by reaching the NFC Title Game. Proving they were no fluke, this season’s team has a legitimate chance of reaching their first ever Super Bowl. They last won a championship in 1957. For the first time in their entire history, they were even favored by the betting markets to win it all. History matters. It took decades of suffering, but Lions fans can now roar with pride.
9.) Dow Jones 45k, Nasdaq 20k — Over time, the stock market always goes up. While not a completely accurate reflection of the overall economy, more Americans than ever directly or indirectly own stocks. United States corporations continue to provide the ingenuity that revolutionizes the world. The first three American business revolutions were agriculture, industrial, and the information age that began in 1995. Now the artificial intelligence revolution could remake society in ways we cannot begin to fathom. AI itself would be a bigger story, but we are at least one year away from seeing what it does. For now, this new technology has made many big and small investors far wealthier than they were. The business of America remains business, and the stock market remains its beating heart.
8.) United Healthcare CEO murdered — Not all business stories are positive. In an act of evil, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death by a young man with a grudge against healthcare companies. In an even more vile display, the killer became a hero to many leftist Americans disgruntled with CEOs in general and healthcare executives in particular. Ghoulish comments from leftists in government including Senator Liz Warren tried to rationalize the killing as understandable frustration. Despite the “eat the rich” rhetoric from the left, the real victim was Thompson, a husband and father. He started with nothing and rose to success through honest, hard work. The killer was a rich white leftist heir to a multi-million dollar business empire.
7.) SCOTUS Chevron Doctrine reversed and Presidential immunity decision — The United States Supreme Court alway matters, but this year brought two blockbuster decisions that will reverberate for years if not decades. The most famous case dealt with presidential immunity. The High Court split the difference, even answering questions that were not asked. The court ruled that presidents have immunity from prosecution for official decisions made in the capacity of their presidential duties. This means a president after leaving office cannot be indicted for bombing another nation and killing people. The court also ruled that a president does not have immunity from actions taken in office that were unrelated to the job. Illegal activities are still illegal. Yet on the issue of whether President Trump’s January 6th actions deserved immunity, the Roberts Court basically said “We’re not touching that powder keg” and continued its long tradition of deciding not to decide.
Yet while presidential immunity was the most high profile case, the most significant was Chevron. For decades, the Chevron Doctrine required that businesses and individuals defer to administrative agency state bureaucrats under the notion that these administrative staters were “experts.” This horrendous anti-business ruling allowed the government expert leviathan to exponentially explode, with diminishing results. The overturning of Chevron finally lays bare a message that conservatives have been screaming for years. The supposed experts don’t know everything. In fact, many of them don’t know anything. The Chevron ruling restores sanity to the business world by returning decisions on what businesses do to the people who actually have expertise in doing those things. This ruling if properly followed should lead to the defanging of the administrative state altogether.
6.) Ivy League anti-Semitic violence — Jews have always felt comfortable in America. 2024 was the year where that ceased to be the case. College campuses in recent years had always had pockets of leftist radicals promoting anti-Jewish attitudes. In 2024 the radicals became the norm. Anti-Jewish violence exploded on campuses, funded by everyone from leftist George Soros to Islamists backed by Iran. During a congressional hearing on the matter, the female presidents of Harvard and other universities refused to condemn overt anti-Jewish violence. Thankfully, that disastrous hearing led to a backlash. Several university heads were fired or resigned under pressure. Wealthy Jewish donors canceled their donations. Anti-Jewish protesters were put into a database so that Jewish businesses would know not to hire them. The Jew-hating left crossed the line from hateful but protected speech into physical violence. The response from a largely pro-Jewish nation put the Jew-haters on their heels. The battle for the campuses is ongoing.
5.) The Middle East is being remade — The October 7th, 2023 attacks on Israel shocked the conscience. Israel has a history of waging war successfully but then stopping short of finishing the job. They buckle under cruel intentional pressure motivated mainly by antisemitism. Yet this time was different. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to finish the job, and that “total victory” was his goal. He was derided by the world’s leftists, who insisted that such a goal was impossible. Under heavy pressure from his own left flank, President Joe Biden pressured Mr. Netanyahu to fold. Netanyahu defied the world and was proven right. Hamas was smashed. Hezbollah was blasted. Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Nasrallah were liquidated. A brilliant operation involving exploding pagers had Hamas and Hezbollah on their heels. While not permanently eliminated yet, they were devastated militarily and financially. This tightened the noose on Iran, and indirectly Syria. A domino fell when the Syrian government collapsed. Syrian Dictator Bashar Assad fled to Russia. The incoming Trump administration has given Israel the green light to do what it needs to do to defend itself. Targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities remains an option. Israel’s biggest military victory since 1967 is already having reverberations. A full normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia is back on the table. Outside of college campuses, “Palestinians” are an afterthought. Israel seems to have finally won.
4.) Biden forced out — For the first time in 56 years, an incumbent president was forced out of the race for reelection. In 1968, anger over the Vietnam war split the Democrats and led to RFK threatening to take down LBJ. President Lyndon B. Johnson backed down and decided not to run. Yet at least 1968 was a legitimate fight over policy. 2024 was far more sinister. For several years, Democrats hid that presidential candidate and then President Joe Biden was in a state of deep mental decline. Anyone pointing out his mental decline was ostracized. Democrats have a history of such shenanigans, covering up Woodrow Wilson’s stroke and FDR’s polio. The Biden health coverup collapsed during his 2024 presidential debate with former President Donald Trump. Biden was exposed on live television to 100 million debate watchers to be mentally shot.
When Biden refused to voluntarily drop out, former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi effectively blackmailed him. Either he drops out, or they publicly leak damaging information to force him out. The party that was all about “saving democracy” engineered a coup. Rather than have an open primary process like in 1968, Obama and Pelosi forced Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee. This was expected given that the Obamas forced Biden to put her on the 2020 ticket. Harris, not Biden, was the true ideological heir to the Obama presidency. Biden was forced out for only one reason, that he looked like he would lose. This was craven unprincipled political opportunism. The plan backfired when it became clear that Harris was terrible at campaigning. She did worse with some constituencies than Biden did in 2020. Yet the real story was that Biden and Harris were both puppets. Obama won a third term, and was unable to secure a fourth term. By backing losers, Obama damaged his own brand. His endorsement no longer matters and his party no longer worships him.
3) Trump law fare cases collapse — Terrified that Trump might win reelection in 2024, Democrats devised a complex law fare scheme to ban him from running. They tried arguing that he was an insurrectionist even though neither he or anyone else was ever charged with insurrection. Democrats in multiple states tried to cite the 14th Amendment to have him removed from state ballots. The U.S. Supreme Court tossed out those challenges in a unanimous 9-0 ruling.
Trump also became the subject of four different criminal matters in three different states that were designed to financially bankrupt him or even imprison him unless he dropped out of the presidential race. Rules and laws were contorted and justice was turned upside down. His personal home was raided as Biden Department of Justice officials seized former First Lady Melania Trump’s underwear. These various cases each began to unravel when it became clear that Trump was the only person being charged for words and deeds that had never been criminal before him. These cases were carefully coordinated with the Biden White House. One by one the cases collapsed when it became clear that there was simply no there there. Democrats will keep insisting that he was guilty, but the voters saw through the ruse. Trump rightly reminded the world that if the law can be weaponized against him, it can be weaponized against anyone. Democrats keep bleating that no one is above the law, but the lesson of 2024 is that nobody is below the law either. If they were going to remove Trump, they would have to do so at the ballot box, not in the courtroom.
2.) Trump assassination attempts — When having Trump disqualified and imprisoned failed, the next step for his enemies was simply to try and kill him. America was rocked by the political assassinations of the 1960s and terrified by the shooting of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Then came a lull of normalcy that was shattered on July 13th, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. A young assassin with possible ties to Iran fired off several shots a Trump rally, killing one person and nearly murdering Trump himself. At the very last moment, Trump turned his head, resulting in a bullet grazing his earlobe rather than hitting him straight between his eyes. As expected, many people on the left blamed Trump’s rhetoric for him getting shot. The overall American electorate was more kind than ghoulish, as decent Americans prayed for his recovery.
Immediately after being shot, Trump raised his fist in the air in an act of defiance. Serious Secret Service Breakdowns had people questioning whether the Biden administration deliberately short-shifted Trump from a security standpoint. That investigation is ongoing. Trump faced a second assassination attempt when someone tried to fire at him while he golfed at his Mara Lago resort in South Florida. Despite facing multiple assassination attempts that nearly succeeded, Democrats from Biden and Harris on down kept ramping up the incendiary rhetoric. They kept calling Trump a “fascist” and a “threat to democracy.” The assassination attempts themselves were horrifying, but the reaction was just as evil. Far too many people have gotten to the point where the assassination of a person they hate is “understandable,” a code word for “justified.”
They tried to disqualify him. They tried to bankrupt him. They tried to imprison him. They tried to kill him. Then they finally tried to beat him at the ballot box. This brings us to the top news story of 2024.
1.) Trump returns — The 45th President is now the 47th President-Elect. Trump became the first President since Grover Cleveland to win the White House, lose his reelection, and then win reelection to serve two non-consecutive terms. His return sent a pair of forceful messages. First of all, Reagan’s maxim “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” still matters. Voters were dissatisfied in 2020 due to COVID. In 2024, with the pandemic having subsided, voters determined that the quality of life under Biden was worse than it was under Trump. Harris tried to run as a change agent while being the sitting Vice President. That strategy failed for Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, the sitting Secretary of State at the time of her run.
Yet beyond basic economic conditions and worries about the border and the overall world, Trump’s return was an anti-establishment revolt. Despite having been a sitting President, Trump remained an anti-establishment figure. He was a giant middle finger to the elitist snobs in government who live for regulations, mandates and bans. Voters just want to be free and be left alone. They do not want government taxing and regulating them out of existence. Trump voters were called deplorable, irredeemables, neanderthals, smelly Walmart people, racists, bigots, and other names voters do not appreciate. The voters struck back.
Most importantly, Trump now knows who to trust and who not to trust. His first term was undermined by subordinates defying his orders. Trump is the ultimate disruptor, and now he has bringing in a team of disruptors to root out insubordinate officials. This time his orders will be carried out. Eight years ago business leaders openly worked against him. Now the business community is falling all over themselves to kiss his ring and get on his good side. Even though Trump retakes office on January 20th of 2025, his dominating presence plus Biden’s decline and disappearance have world leaders treating Trump as president already.
Trump shocked the political world in 2016. Yet “The art of the deal” is less impressive than “The art of the comeback.” Trump’s business comeback from financially tough times in the 1990s was impressive. His political comeback is one for the ages. Richard Nixon came back, but not with this much drama and fanfare. Nixon’s victories did not end the Kennedy legacy. Trump’s comeback smashed the Obama and Clinton dynasties to pieces. He remade the entire Republican Party of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Paul Ryan into a populist party not seen since Teddy Roosevelt.
For these and other obvious reasons too numerous to mention, the return of Donald J. Trump to the White House is the top news story of 2024.
eric
Trump and the J6 pardon issue
Tuesday, December 17th, 2024Trump’s return is a blessing for politically liberal Jews
Thursday, November 21st, 2024Donald Trump’s reelection is good news for liberal Jews
President-elect Donald J. Trump did more than replicate Grover Cleveland. Twice in three elections, Mr. Trump caused emotional breakdowns in people before taking the oath of office. Sadly, many people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome are Jewish. If they calmed down, politically liberal Jews would realize that Trump’s reelection is a gift.
Many liberal Jews grasped the big picture. Trump’s Abraham Accords remain the most significant Middle East peace agreements in decades. Trump personally is Philosemitic. He frequently expresses admiration and respect for Jewish military and business leaders who share his successful track record and strong work ethic. His daughter Ivanka is orthodox Jewish. An often-repeated joke is that unlike many of his Jewish critics, at least Trump has Jewish grandchildren. Trump does more to extend Jewish survival than many Jews.
Conversely, Harris was awful for Jews. Despite having a Jewish husband, Harris’s ideology mirrors the Jew-hating Squad. Harris is not an antisemite, but she tolerates antisemitism by cowardly refusing to stop it. The vice president can end antisemitic college riots. Harris stayed silent to placate Michigan’s Arab Muslim voters. Fear caused her to reject popular Jewish Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro in favor of leftist Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Harris and Walz embraced antisemitic Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
On policy, Harris supported former President Barack Obama’s horrendous Iran deal. Trump ended it only to have the Biden-Harris administration attempt reinstatement. Obama-Biden-Harris funding of Iran led to Iran’s newly wealthy proxies Hamas and Hezbollah committing the devastating October 7th attacks on Israel. Biden and Harris shackled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war effort, declaring Bibi’s “total victory” approach impossible. They were totally wrong. Netanyahu was proven right.
Many Jewish voters processed all of this and voted accordingly. Trump won a staggering 45% of the New York City Jewish vote. Jewish voters who still have not had their come to Moses moment need a reality check. Ridiculous irrational fears must be countered.
Trump is not a Nazi, fascist, Hitler, or any other deeply offensive label that should be reserved for real genocidal individuals. He will not bring another Holocaust or put Jews or anyone else in internment camps. He will not return slavery or take black people and “put y’all back in chains,” to quote then Vice President Biden. Trump will not round up and imprison political opponents, although those who framed him for crimes deserve to be tried and if convicted, locked up.
Trump’s lengthy business history and briefer government time reflect a demanding boss who promoted many minorities to top executive positions. Trump had a healthy ratio of top female executives. His campaign manager Susie Wiles will become the first female White House Chief of Staff. LGBTQers will be fine. Trump promoted openly gay Ric Grenell to acting Director of National Intelligence in 2020.
Many liberal Jews only care about social issues, mainly abortion. Trump is the most socially liberal Republican President since Teddy Roosevelt. Trump favors in vitro fertilization and rejects a national abortion ban. Not one woman in America seeking an abortion will be denied. Plenty of blue states codified abortion rights into their state constitutions. Women in red states can travel to blue states. Private sponsors and Hollywood celebrities delight in financing poor women unable to afford abortion travel expenses.
Not one legal American voter will be prohibited from voting. Not one minority will be denied employment based on minority status. Anti-discrimination laws already exist. Liberal marginalized groups may worry, but feelings are not facts.
Trump will deport illegal immigrants. Encouraging illegal immigration is cruelty, not compassion. Enforcing laws is not bigotry. Trump will remove Environmental and Social Governance rules that strangle businesses. He will remove the inherently anti-Jewish Critical Race Theory from public education. Trump will end the anti-Jewish equity movement and replace government’s goal from equity back to equality of opportunity.
Those labeling Trump a “threat to democracy” claim that without consequences. Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and “The View” ladies can excoriate Trump with impunity. Trump was never charged with insurrection. Some January 6th doofuses acted badly but were nowhere near as destructive as violent actors during 574 George Floyd riots. The real threats to democracy are the leftists and Islamists who keep trying to murder Trump. Yes, those people deserve prison.
The challenge for anti-Trump leftists including Jewish leftists is to find one legitimate victim of Trump’s policies. Recently deposed Democrats do not count. Voters fired them, not Trump.
Trump says offbeat things, but observe his deeds. He will crack down on antisemitic campus riots. He will not mandate things he agrees with or ban things just because he disagrees with them. He will not bully social media companies into censoring critical posts or force businesses to produce inferior “green” electric vehicles or lightbulbs. Until and unless one person anywhere can show how Trump hurt them because of race, religion or sexual orientation, bleating sheep must stop crying wolf.
Jews and non-Jews alike should give Trump a real fair chance. On January 20th of 2029, he will leave public office, guaranteed. Relax. Breathe. Everything will be fine. Jews will be fine.
A total and complete rejection of progressivism
Tuesday, November 19th, 2024Election 2024 was a total and compelte rejection of progressivism
My newest Newsmax column.
eric TYGRRRR EXPRESS
Election 2024 Electoral College Predictions
Sunday, November 3rd, 2024Election 2024 Electoral College Predictions
First, the easy calls that should not spark too much if any dispute or debate (number of electoral votes in parentheses).
SOUTH:
TRUMP wins Alabama (9), Arkansas (6), Mississippi (6), Louisiana (8), Texas (40), Florida (30), South Carolina (9) and Tennessee (11) for a total of 119 electoral votes.
HARRIS is guaranteed to win nothing in this region. This is Trump country. She may win 0 here.
PACIFIC:
TRUMP is only assured of Alaska (3). He may win nothing else. This is mainly Harris Country.
HARRIS will win California (54), Oregon (8), Washington (12), Hawaii (4) for a total of 78 electoral votes.
NEW ENGLAND:
TRUMP may get swept here as well, but there could be a couple of surprises. This is mainly Harris country.
HARRIS will win Rhode Island (4), Massachusetts (11), Vermont (3), Connecticut (7) for a total of 25 electoral votes.
MID-ATLANTIC:
TRUMP is only guaranteed to easily win West Virginia (4). Again, this is Harris country for the most part.
HARRIS will win New York (28), New Jersey (14), Delaware (3), Maryland (10), DC (3) for a total of 58 electoral votes. The Trump team insists that they can pull off an upset in New York or New Jersey. I highly doubt it.
INDUSTRIAL MIDWEST:
TRUMP will win Indiana (11), Kentucky (8) and Ohio (17) easily for a total of 36 electoral votes.
HARRIS will win Illinois (19) easily. That is her only guaranteed win in this region.
SOUTHWEST:
TRUMP will win Utah (6). That is his only guaranteed win in this region.
HARRIS will win New Mexico (5) and Colorado (10) for a total of 15 electoral votes. Trump’s campaign rally in New Mexico was a head fake. I do not see him winning there.
MIDWEST:
TRUMP will win Iowa (6), Nebraska (5), Kansas (6), Missouri (10) and Oklahoma (7) for a total of 34 electoral votes.
HARRIS is only guaranteed to win Minnesota (10). The Midwest is largely Trump country. Trump’s campaign has talked about Minnesota being in play, but that is a head fake. Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz is the Governor of Minnesota. Walter Mondale lost 49 states but won Minnesota. On the flip side, Harris’s team is talking about picking up one electoral vote from Nebraska’s district containing Omaha. That happened in 2020, but conditions this time lean toward Trump winning the whole state.
MOUNTAIN WEST:
TRUMP will win Montana (4), Idaho (4), Wyoming (3), South Dakota (3) and North Dakota (3) for a total of 17 electoral votes.
HARRIS will win nothing in this region. This is Trump country.
TOTALS SO FAR: TRUMP 219, HARRIS 205, up for grabs, 114.
NOW FOR THE SWING STATES:
SOUTH:
Georgia (16): Brian Kemp is a popular Republican Governor who won reelection easily by nearly 10 points. The only thing really keeping Trump from winning this state was his feud with Governor Kemp. That feud has been settled. Kemp has endorsed Trump and actively campaigned for him. With the intraparty warfare over for now, a united GOP should win. Kemp is going to pull out all the stops and use his political machine to get Trump over the top so he can avoid the wrath of the many Trump voters in his state. Outside of Atlanta, Democrats benefitted in 2020 from lower turnout in rural GOP strongholds. Lightning will not strike twice.
TRUMP WINS GEORGIA.
North Carolina (16): This used to be solid Republican but with a habit of flipping Governor and Senator seats between the parties. Many conservatives have moved to solid Republican South Carolina and made that state more conservative. The biggest headache for Trump is that the GOP candidate for Governor Mark Robinson is a potential liability. Robinson is beloved by social conservatives and reviled by moderate Republicans. Democrat Josh Stein is expected to win the governorship. The outgoing Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is liked. While North Carolina’s black population is smaller than that of Georgia, it is still significant.
Harris will not get the benefit of rural voters in Western North Carolina being disenfranchised. Despite the devastation of Hurricane Helene, the Trump team has a strong get out the vote effort there. Both campaigns did Saturday rallies in North Carolina.
A decent number of voters are ticket splitting. Plenty of people willing to vote for Trump will not vote for Robinson. Trump may not get Robinson over the hump, but Robinson will not drag Trump down either. Trump defies conventional Republicanism. People are hurting, and Trump has worked the state hard.
TRUMP WINS NORTH CAROLINA.
PACIFIC:
NEVADA (6): Republicans control the Governor’s mansion. Harry Reid is no longer around to whip up his machine, but the culinary workers’ union still knows how to run a ground game. 40% of the state lives in Clark County, home of Las Vegas. If Trump can avoid getting shellacked in Las Vegas, he wins the state. In this state he benefits from a very strong candidate for Mayor of Las Vegas. Republican Victoria Seaman (full disclosure: She is a personal friend who I have enthusiastically endorsed) has a real chance of becoming the first Republican Las Vegas Mayor in nearly 50 years. That alone should help Trump in terms of reverse coattails. Also, the border is a big issue here and that favors Trump.
TRUMP WINS NEVADA.
SOUTHWEST:
ARIZONA (11): Democrats won by a razor thin margin in 2020. The state still has a strong John McCain Republican influence, which is not the same as a Trump influence. This is another state where Republicans are stuck with a lackluster candidate. Kari Lake lost the governor’s race in 2020 and spent four years insisting she won. Whether she was cheated or not, voters by and large believe in gracious concessions. Now Lake is trailing her senate opponent Reuben Gallego badly.
If the McCain Republicans and Trump Republicans make peace, Trump wins. This seems to be a case of ticket splitting where Trump wins but so does Gallego. Plenty of voters who stayed home in 2020 because of Covid will vote for Trump this time. Harris does not poll as well here as President Joe Biden did. Lastly, the border is a major issue here and that favors Trump.
TRUMP WINS ARIZONA.
THE BLUE WALL:
WISCONSIN (10), MICHIGAN (15) and PENNSYLVANIA (19):
If Harris loses Georgia North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, then she needs all three Blue Wall States to have a shot at winning.
WISCONSIN: Madison and Milwaukee are solid Harris and often outweigh the rest of the state. Madison is the birthplace of progressivism. Democrats have the Governor’s mansion. His machine may not be nearly as influential as that of other states, but it should be enough. Senator Tammy Baldwin is fighting for her political life. This helps Harris, as women should put her over the top.
HARRIS WINS WISCONSIN.
MICHIGAN: Yes, there are rumblings that Arabs are going to vote for Trump, but given his pro-Israel record, that sounds hard to believe. They would be cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Michigan is the heart of the unions, and they supported Biden in 2020. Governor Gretchen Whitmer is going to pull out all the stops for Harris to boost her own national prospects. Whitmer will do everything to keep Michigan in the win column. Whitmer has a machine.
HARRIS WINS MICHIGAN.
THIS LEAVES THE BIGGIE: PENNSYLVANIA:
Harris may live to regret picking Tim Walz over the very popular Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who has strong national ambitions of his own. Worse, the conventional wisdom is that Shapiro was rejected solely because he is Jewish. Trump is exploiting that and fighting hard for Jewish Pennsylvania Democrats. As one well-known Pennsylvania expert has told me, the two big constituencies in the state are the Catholics and the coal miners. Harris has angered both of those groups. Even Catholic Senator Bob Casey is fighting for his political survival against Dave McCormack. The Republicans messed up in 2022 by not going with McCormack. They did not make the same mistake twice. If Casey goes down, Harris is toast. The Catholic pro-life vote is powerful in this state, and the coal miners know who wants to put them out of business. Biden won in 2020 in part because he is a Catholic, and it was very close. Harris is not, and she was foolish to skip the Catholic Al Smith Dinner.
Catholics and Coal Miners: TRUMP WINS PENNSYLVANIA.
This puts Trump over the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
THREE PREDICTED UPSETS TO PAD THE LEAD:
NEW HAMPSHIRE (4), MAINE (4), VIRGINIA (13).
New Hampshire used to be conservative, but plenty of Massachusetts liberals flooded to New Hampshire to escape high taxes. They have a strong independent streak. Heck, Pat Buchanan won the state and their are plenty of his supporters backing Trump because of economic anxiety.
Maine is as independent as it gets. Ross Perot won 30% of the vote here. Paul LePage was a two-term Governor in the Trump Republican mold. Yet his comeback attempt against Janet Mills fell short. Northern Maine is rural Trump Country. Southern Maine can go either way. Yet with economic anxiety on the rise, the Trump voters are far more certain to come out. Harris does well among minority voters nationwide, but Maine is a fairly white state.
Virginia went from solid red to solid blue, but Glenn Youngkin shocked the political world by defeating Democrat heavyweight Terry McAuliffe to become Governor. Youngkin is well liked and has a great political machine. Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears is superwoman, a black woman who inspires whites and blacks alike. Southern Virginia is solid Trump country. Northern Virginia favors Democrats because of all the transplants escaping Maryland and the largesse it receives from D.C. Polls show Harris in the lead, but Virginia has a populist streak going back to the Founding Fathers.
I’m calling for Trump to pull off upsets in all three states, starting with New Hampshire and Maine with Virginia the toughest of the three.
FINAL TOTALS:
TRUMP: 32 states
HARRIS: 18 states + DC
TRUMP: 308 ELECTORAL VOTES
HARRIS: 230 ELECTORAL VOTES
SENATE:I see Republicans picking up the Senate by winning races in West Virginian and Montana to start. Jim Justice will cruise with Joe Manchin retiring. Jon Tester is gone.
HOUSE: Democrats could retake the House if they run up gigantic margins in California and reverse their New York losses.
eric
For the sake of peace, Sinwar needs to die and Gaza needs to burn
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024Burn It All Down and Kill Sinwar
Jewish hearts sank with the news that six more hostages were found dead in Gaza. Since October 7th, a combination of malicious antisemites and misguided liberals have demanded a Gaza ceasefire. They could not be more wrong.
Their warped reasoning is that a quick deal would release hostages and end the war. This shallow short-term thinking led to the horrific 2006 Gilad Shalit deal. In exchange for his life, 900 Arab terrorists were released. One of those terrorists was Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7th, 2023 murders of 1,200 innocent Jews.
Do the math. For every three Arab terrorists released for Gilad Shalit, four innocent Jews were murdered. Now the ceasefire coalition wants to exchange 100 Jewish hostages who may already be dead for another 1,000 radical Islamic terrorists. Sinwar, the current Hamas leader, has demanded that any agreement include a guarantee sparing his life.
Useful idiots from Old Europe to Ivy League university presidents to America’s State Department diplomats need to get stuffed. The last thing Israel needs is another phony peace agreement that makes Oslo seem reasonable by comparison.
It is long past time for Israel to burn Gaza to the ground and kill Sinwar. Burn it all down. Burn, baby burn. Burn Gaza burn, disco inferno.
There is no diplomatic solution to dealing with bloodthirsty fanatics.
President Harry Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 100,000 Japanese people. Many of them were innocent civilians. His actions saved the world. Japan quickly surrendered, ending World War II and preserving hundreds of thousands of lives.
As General George Patton said in that war, “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country…We’re not just going to shoot the bastards. We’re going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood…We’re gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we’re gonna go through him like crap through a goose!”
After the September 11th attacks, President George W. Bush smashed al Qaeda to pieces. Saddam Hussein was then captured in a spider hole, put on trial, and hung. As Toby Keith beautifully sang, “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way.”
When ISIS murdered Americans, President Donald J. Trump vowed to “bomb the hell out of ISIS” and let loose hard military power. General James “Mad Dog” Mattis and his men obliterated everyone in their path.
Now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has to do the job that American leaders refuse to do. Who is going to permanently end the Islamist threat on Israel’s border? Does anyone expect President Joe Biden in his condition to do it? Does anyone believe Vice President Kamala Harris would take morally righteous actions and risk losing Arab Muslim Michigan voters?
Remember, Israel should not even have to burn Gaza down. America should do it. One of the dead hostages was a 23-year-old Israeli-American citizen named Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Since when do third world barbarians get to murder Americans with impunity? When did the murder of Americans by foreign powers not result in the severest retaliatory consequences?
Israel has the power to end this war, reclaim deterrence, and secure their border for a generation. They need to let the displaced Egyptian Arabs in Gaza who call themselves “Palestinians” have their come to Allah moment. Either they turn over all the hostages and Sinwar in 72 hours, or Israel ends their way of life.
The time for fretting over collateral damage needs to end. The time for allowing hostages to become blackmail bargaining chips needs to end. The time for respecting opinions of antisemitic professors and their imbecilic brainwashed students needs to end. The time for listening to useless State Department bureaucrats who never solved a single world problem needs to end.
The Islamist grip on Judea and Samaria needs to end. It needs to end now.
That starts with setting Gaza on fire until Sinwar meets his maker. Whether he is killed by his own people, the Israeli Defense Forces, or a revitalized America is irrelevant.
Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were not removed through diplomacy or osmosis. They were removed through force. Force is what will rid the world of Sinwar.
Burn it all down. Kill Sinwar. Then smoke a peace pipe or a cigar, whatever your preference.