J D VANCE CAN CAUSE THE DEFEAT OF D J TRUMP IN 2024

   I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and again in 2020.  I had planned to vote for him again in Nov. 2024, but now I am not so sure.  What caused the hesitation??

     I live now in Wisconsin, a swing state.  In 2022 we had a race for the US Senate.  Incumbent Republican Ron Johnson had proven himself to me on committees that exposed Dr. Fauci's lies about Covid, and probed to get more info about the origins of the virus, American funding of the research in Wuhan that could have gone amuck, etc.  Johnson was running against a young Democrat, who was the incumbent Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.  Johnson, white, elderly, a successful business man facing the energetic and very radical black Democrat.  It was extremely close, but Johnson won, returned to Congress and helped to expose the corruption surrounding Hunter Biden and the rest of the Bidens.

     In 2024 we have another Senate race in Wisconsin.  Democrat Tammy Baldwin, an open lesbian, and 2-time incumbent is running against Eric Hovde, a successful business man.  Tammy's ad introduces her opponent as a wealthy man residing in California running to buy the Senate seat in Wisconsin.  Hovde replied in ads that he was born in this house in Wisconsin, attended schools here, was on the football team in Wisconsin and still has a home here.  "If Tammy lies about where I'm from, can you trust her on anything she says about me?"  The most telling Republican ad is when Tammy looks at the camera and declares: "The Biden Adm. is the most successful in generations."  And she votes 90% of the time in the Senate with the other Dems.  If you are a Dem, you are satisfied with Tammy.

      But if you're not a Dem?  Tammy has an ad in which Hove says  "People in nursing homes should not have the right to vote.  50% of them will die in six months anyway."  He implies that the vote should be taken from the elderly.  Tammy's ad features a number of un-young citizens; "That jerk."  "Where did they get this guy?"  Her ad implies that a Hovde bank that  runs a nursing home is under investigation for mistreating some of the inmates.  Another ad shows Hovde suggesting that the obese pay more for their health insurance.  Eat less and shape up.  Tammy's ad than alleges that a third of Wisconsians are obese.

On abortion Hovde now says 12 to 14 weeks should be sufficient time for a woman to decide on abortion.  Tammy says it is up to the woman and her doctor.  TRUMP HAS ENDORSED REPUBLICAN HOVDE.

       I know little about J. D. VANCE, but recent comments are truly disturbing.  He called Kamala Harris a cat woman who has no children.  Then went on to explain, the new young leaders of the Dem Party, like Kamala, Pete Buttigieg and A.O.C. are all childless.  Without children, they have no stake in society.  Only those with children have a stake and therefore should have preferences (and privileges).  First, the government already does this to some extent, as with the taxes, IRS.  Should the childless be allowed to vote?  Of course, we have a stake in this nation too. 

 

      Vance says Buttigieg has no children.  But Buttigieg and his married partner Chasten have adopted two children twins.  So, in Vance's world,  those who adopt are still "childless."  And should lose rights.  What about married heterosexuals who are unable to have children?  What if they go to a doctor to try invitro fertilization?  Will those children count as children?  Oh wait, isn't Vance a member of a church that condemns the practice.  So childless couples should remain childless and lose rights and avoid procedures that may help.  A friend who is gay got together with a lesbian, and had a child.  Despite a good gay man and a good lesbian woman, as their son grew up, it turns out he liked girls.  "The parents are not asking where did they go wrong, as so often happens when the opposite occurs.  Would Vance call these parents?  Or no rights for them.  What about a couple in a traditional marriage who have a girl; she grows up, joins the Marines, is killed in action.  Their child is gone.  Have they lost their special rights too? 

      And then there is the man, usually seen in the early days of tv on local news, who boasts of having 13 children.  Vance would be proud.  But he goes on to say all the kids are with different women.  No, he never bothered to marry any.  That's their problem, he adds.  What a stake he has in society!?  Perhaps Vance would give him 13 extra votes.  Vance holds views that are inimical to the American tradition.  He is a threat to our future.  Holding these views he is a danger as a vice president, a looming threat as a President.

      I am old and came out of the civil rights movement.  I became a convicted felon when trying to order coffee in Woolworths in the first modern sit-in in New Orleans in September 1960.  That civil rights movement stood for equal rights, and some picket signs included the "equals" sign on the posters.  The EEOC would undermine equal rights and impose quotas, and preferences for this group or that, depending on the whims and politics of government.  I have opposed such unequal treatment for decades.  Now VP candidate Vance wants to impose a new round of privileges for those who have children, denying equal rights to what he determines are the childless.  Vance must change his views or be stopped.  He has jumped aboard the quota privilege equity train. He must openly reverse what he as said.  Trump has to disassociate with Vance until he does.  Otherwise, Trump may lose because of Vance's foolishness.  Bluntly, Vance would end the notion that all American citizens should have an equal input in our future.  Parents would have more and a new bureaucracy would determine how many extra votes parents would have, not based on the equality of all citizens but on "equity."  The government employee at his desk would determine how many votes you are entitled to cast - if any.  What if parents divorce?  Does the new husband get the vote of the male parent?  The official will decide that.  What could possibly go wrong with this new family friendly system?  The official would never give extra votes to members of his own party, certainly not!  What a fabulous reform Sen. Vance has suggested.  Democrats will find it the best improvement since mail-in ballots, early voting, unattended drop boxes, and welfare agencies providing election ballots to illegal aliens.

    Moreover, Vance makes a mockery of the Father of our Country, George Washington, who had no children.  Did Washington really have no stake in the country's future?  Should he have been denied the vote?

        What did Vance learn at Yale Law School?  Should he be denied the Vice Presidency?  Some may think I am being vindictive and have a grudge against Ohio Senator.  Quite the contrary.  I think if he were to fully explain the probable repercussions of his new vote-assigning policy, he would gain many new friends, and with luck Kamala Harris might invite J D Vance to be the Vice Presidential candidate on her Democratic Party ticket.

        The childless have a stake in this society.  This is the freest and probably still the wealthiest large nation on earth.  We have not lasted the millennia of Ancient Egypt, but the longer we endure as a nation, the longer we are a beacon on the hill for a relative free and democratic society, a beacon to the world of what regular humans have been able to accomplish.

This paragraph is added later, 22, Sept., 2024.  JD Vance should also think about the case of an apparently brilliant, healthy Russian of about 30, who was a founder of the Telegram website.  A young millionaire, he decided to add his contribution to the world in other ways.  He bragged of having 100 children.  I assume, with as many women.  If Pavel Orlow were to become an American citizen under a Vance Administration, would Pavel be given 100 votes?

Also JD justifies his lies about Haitians stealing and cooking pets of residents of Springfield, Ohio.  He thinks that will bring attention to the problem.  I disagree; if pets are not being cooked and eaten, that is NOT the problem.  JD distorts, and lies, "for a higher cause" in his view.  I think that when most Americans realize it is a crock, a lie, they simply lose faith in Vance, AND also in Trump who repeated Vance's lie during the ABC-TV debate with Kamala.  Vance would be a better campaigner if he would stick to the truth.  If Vance continues with such distortions of reality, it may sink the Trump ship, drowning it in JD's BS.

   

REFLECTIONS ON THE VICE PRESIDENTS AND INDIANS

  Vice President Kamala Harris is now the leading candidate for the Dem. Party nomination of President.  This is a consequence of the withdrawal from the race by Pres. Biden.  In 2020 both Biden and Harris were contenders for the Dem. nomination then, and in televised debates Kamala was the only contender to scrap with Biden over his earlier anti-black comments in the early days of integrating schools in Delaware.  There were about 29 official Dem. candidates running for the nomination, and early polls indicated Harris won so little support that she withdrew from the contest prior to any of the primaries.  Indeed, the race quickly narrowed to 11.  The reporting of votes for the Iowa caucus was bungled, and delayed; while Sen. Bernie Sanders received more votes, South Bend Mayor Buttigieg gathered more delegates.  Sanders narrowly defeated Buttigieg in New Hampshire, and handily defeated him again in Nevada.  In all these contests, Biden did poorly.  Next up, South Carolina, where most Dems are black voters, and Rep. Jim Clyburn  was determined to get a Dem candidate more attuned to the black community.  With Clyburn's help, Biden carried South Carolina.  There was talk that Biden made a deal to select a black woman as Veep, and soon other Dem leaders and donors were backing Biden to prevent the "socialists" Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or newcomers like Buttigieg or Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar found funds had dried up.  Biden won the nomination in 2020 and selected for VP Cal. Sen. Kamala Harris, who was half black and Indian, her dad Jamaican, her mom from Chenna  (formerly, Madras) India.

    Now that Kamala is the presumptive Dem. nominee for President, whom will she choose for VP?  There are various Dem. governors and Senators making the lists of speculation.  However I might suggest a man with real experience at the job, Mike Pence.  A former Congressman, Gov. of Indiana, a Republican and former VP under Trump.  Kamala would show her outreach to those outside her party.  And few others have had the experience of being a Vice President.  Note also that some like Roger Stone had predicted that Trump in 2024 would choose as his VP, Hawaiin former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a Dem. who had run against both Biden and Harris in the 2020 Dem. primary.  Had Trump chosen Gabbard instead of Vance,   Gabbard followed her mother's sentiments and became a Hindu, so though not born in India, Gabbard would have brought an Indian connection to the Trump ticket.

    Of course, J.D. Vance brings another Indian connection to the ticket, his wife.  Usha Chilukuri whom he met a Yale Law School, is of Indian background, and their wedding was both Christian and Hindu.  If Trump/Vance ticket wins, the Indian influence will continue even if Harris is replaced.  In one case, half the person, in the other, half the family.

       What we forget is that there was an earlier vice president of the US, who was a full Indian.  He was VP elected in 1928 as a Republican on the ticket headed by Herbert Hoover.  Of course, VP Charles Curtis was not an East Indian but an American Indian, born in Kansas of the Kaw Nation.  Of course, events of 1929 would bring changes, and though many tiny villages sprang up named Hoovervilles, it was not because they were promoting the Republican President whom they blamed for causing the depression and forcing them to live in shacks or tents shanty towns.  In 1932 the Hoover Curtis ticket lost the election to a Franklin Roosevelt.

ON THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AND HOW TO LOSE AN ELECTION

 .Trump began his acceptance speech with a riveting story. Terrific. Theeennn. In some ways, his rally stump speech, but without enthusiasm, bored delivery, unity, don't make anyone angry. I fell asleep watching on tv.


LESS ON FROM THE PAST. The dream ticket of 1948: NY Gov Tom Dewey and for VP Calif Gov Earl Warren to bring Republicans back to the White House. The GOP in 1946 easily took control of the 80th Congress. The Democrats in bad disarray. Division so bad, defections left and right. The left formed the Progressive Party led by former FDR VP Henry Wallace; the Right formed the States Rights Dem Party (Dixiecrats) led by Strom Thurmond. The bewildered man from Missouri was President only because FDR died in office and VP Harry Truman took over. The polls said Dewey was shoo-in. So advisors told him -do not rock the boat; say nothing controversial, Pablum speeches. Truman came out with his nasal twang fighting, AND HE WON. If Trump wants to lose, let him give more "unity" dull, no fire speeches, and Democrat Whoever will win in November.

Best speech at RNC, when Wiscon. Sen. Ron Johnson declared the Democratic Party a clear and present danger to democracy in America.---Hugh Murray

Remember, Dem. officials who refuse to testify before Congress, or present subpoenaed documents to Congressional Committees, or invoke executive privilege, almost never go to jail, like ois. Lerner who at Internal Revenue used her agency to go after conservatives on alleged tax violations (but not after Dems), Dem Atty Gen Holder under Obama who supplied weapons to drug cartels in Mex. and one used to kill a US officer, etc.  But Steve Bannon, is NOW in prison for invoking executive privilege about his conversations with then Pres. Trump; Peter Navarro just got out of prison for same reason, Former NYC Mayor is going into poverty because he led legal attacks on the 2020 election (question that election of Biden is like treason in the new US), and some 2,000 imprisoned for going to the Capitol on Jan. 2020 to protest the official election results.  Some were violent, many or most were not, some invited in by the police.  These are political prisoners.  Also a grandmother in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic.  Trump himself was facing a prison sentence, out at the whim of a Dem. judge in a Dem. city, with a Dem. jury.  No, Trump was not ordered to prison, but then he was nearly assassinated.  This in "free America" where the Democrats push more political opponents into prison or worse.  I do not agree with all on the GOP  agenda, but I see a closing door of freedom under the Dems.  And a worrying collusion between the leaders of our intelligence agencies, CIA,FBI, et al and the Democrats.  Time to push open the door so we can be a free people again.  Hugh 

IS THE THREAT OF ASSASSINATION NOW OVER?

 In October 2020 just prior to the last Presidential election, 51 major American intelligence agents intervened in that election. The NY Post was exposing Hunter Biden's laptop, which revealed not only the personal drug and whoring activities of Hunter, but the corrupt dealings that involve Joe Biden too. At the behest of then Dem. Party operative, Blinken, the 51 leading intelligence agents signed a letter in WHICH THEY LIED TO HELP BIDEN WIN THE 2020 ELECTION. The lied saying the Hunter Laptop was Russian disinformation. They lied to elect Biden and defeat Trump. Surely, one of Trump's first acts if he becomes President again in Jan. 2025 will be to fire 51 liars for the Democratic Party, those 51 agents. Oh, and in accomplishing this operation, might that have helped Antony Blinken become Sec. of State? Coincidence.

51 major intelligence figures know their careers end if Trump is re-elected. I hope the threat to Trump is now over, with the death of the young Pennsylvania terrorist, Thomas Crooks. But is it???

How democratic is America???--------Hugh Murray

ON TODAY'S NATIONAL ELECTION IN FRANCE

 There is an old saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword."  Today's revision - Le Pen is not mightier than le Rouge."  Though Marine Le Pen's National Rally was expected to come in first, as it did in last week's first round of voting for the new parliament, the media stressed fears of the return of the Right Wing to power.  Some decided to return instead to Macron's "moderate" globalist party (which last week came in third).  The surprise winners were the New Popular Front groupings, basically socialists, communists, and other leftists, or simply the reds or in French rouge.      Hugh Murray

The results were, the Left 180 seats, the Macron party 160, and the Right received 140.  Despite coming in third, the Right nearly doubled it number of seats in Parliament.  The chart below shows how many more votes the right-wing party got above both the Left and Macron's.  Strangly, the Le Pen party and its allies is depicted in the center of the chart.

HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?

    HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY?

                            by Hugh Murray

    Recall the political party primaries of 2020. About 13 Democratic candidates debated on the stage, so many, that they had only a few answers to make an impression on the national tv audience. Most were in the mainstream Democratic party general positions, though one, a Congresswoman from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard, seemed much more conservative than the rest. Former California Atty. General went after former Vice President Joe Biden, calling him a racist for his earlier comments when school integration was to come to Delaware. Biden, former VP under Democratic President Obama, was generally a known figure to most of America, having served 8 years nationally, and for many years prior as a Senator from Delaware.

    The first of the contests was the primaries was the iowa caucuses. The system is complex, but the early returns showed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont first, Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of West Bend, IN, 2^nd, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren 3^rd, and former VP Joe Biden 4^th, followed by Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, and wealthy business man Andrew Yang. Though the voting was on 3 February, and an “official” result was finally announced on 19 February with the Nuttigieg and Sanders forces disputing the new count giving the Mayor first place. The electoral dispute did not conclude then, but continued into the Democratic convention that summer. I wonder if they are still recounting the 2020 Democratic caucus votes. Yet, the Democrats maintain the if you dare question the election results of November 2020, you might have your license to practice law revoked as was former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

I quote now from the Wikipedia discussion of the Democratic primaries: “

“ The first primary was marred by controversy, as technical issues with vote reporting resulted in a three-day delay in vote counting in the Iowa caucus, as well as subsequent recounts. The certified results of the caucus eventually showed Mayor Pete Buttigieg winning the most delegates, while Senator Bernie Sanders won the popular vote in the state. Sanders then won the New Hampshire primary in a narrow victory over Buttigieg before handily winning the Nevada caucus, solidifying Sanders' status as the front-runner for the nomination.[4][5]

Biden, whose campaign fortunes had suffered from losses in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, made a comeback by overwhelmingly winning the South Carolina primary, motivated by strong support from African American voters, an endorsement from South Carolina U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn, as well as Democratic establishment concerns about nominating Sanders.[6] After Biden won South Carolina, and one day before the Super Tuesday primaries, several candidates dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden in what was viewed as a consolidation of the party's moderate wing. Prior to the announcement, polling saw Sanders leading with a plurality in most Super Tuesday states.[7] Biden then won 10 out of 15 contests on Super Tuesday, beating back challenges from Sanders, Warren, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, solidifying his lead.[7]”

        My point – the real leaders of the Democratic Party did not like the early results of the primaries. Sanders and Warren were considered too radical. Buttigieg was gay, and would have trouble with many voters choosing a President. Kolbuchar's personality was not friendly. Voters would not choose wealthy Yang or Bloomberg. I suspect after Biden's poor showing in the earlier primaries, the real Democrat leaders conferred with SC Representative Clyburn urging a big get-out-the-vote effort for Biden in that state's primary. Even so, Biden received only 49%, Sanders 20%, wealthy businessman Tom Steyer 11%, Buttigieg 8%, and Warren 7%. This was the first primary with a significan black vote, and it went for Biden. I suspect that at this point the Democratic donors and power types (former Pres. Obama or his representative, and some others got together before Super Tuesday, telling most to get out of the way of a Biden victory. The day before Super Tuesday Buttigieg and Kolbuchar withdrew, and donor funds were undoubtedly drying up too. No more debates of 13 or more candidates. I would be between Biden and Sanders mainly. And Biden with the “moderate” message won. The Democratic primary voters followed the will of their behind the scenes leaders, and voted for Biden delegates on Super Tuesday and beyond. By the opening of the Democratic convention, Biden had won 19 million Democratic votes, Sanders 9.7, and Warren 2.8. Biden was the choice of the Democrats, but ONLY AFTER the behind the scene leaders had decided to pick Biden. The other candidates suddenly found no more wind behind their sails and no more money in their coffers.  They chose to bow out of the race for President.  Because the bosses had chosen Biden first.

    In the modern world we think that the era of Boss Tweed, or the big shots in the smoke-filled rooms making all the important political decisions is over.  Well, the rooms may no longer be smoke-filled.  Or if so, with a different kind of smoke.  Or it may be a zoom "room."  Possible players in these decisions, former Speaker Pelosi, the Obamas, the Clintons, Senate leader Schumer, Clyburn, and now Dem. House leader Jeffries.  And a few billionaires.  They are the ones who make the big decisions, Biden in 2020, should we replace him in 2024, if so, with whom?  They make the decisions.  They are the Party Bosses.  We simply ratify their decisions, or not.

    Now in June/July 2024 the behind the scenes leaders of the Democrats may be deciding they no longer need or want Biden. The NY Times questioning his mental ability; the strange early scheduling of a debate with Trump in June (suspecting Biden would do what he did), and now further calls for Biden to go. Is it the people who decide this? How democratic is the Democratic Party??? We shall find out as the campaign unfolds.  I suspect the attitude of the power-brokers of the Democratic Party is simply this:  We put Biden on the ticket in 2020, and we can take him out in 2024, and anyone else who stands in the way.