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2020: One long dead parrot sketch

Up is down. Black is white. Big is small. And that parrot is pining for the fjords. This is where we find ourselves in nearly 250 years since our founding. We’re told by government, corporate, and media elites that a virus with a 99.7% survival rate will kill us, violent rioting is peaceful protesting, all whites are racist, President Trump told us all to inject bleach, the virus will kill any guests you invite for Thanksgiving but not any Democrat politician speaking to protesters, Joe Biden wildly outperformed Barack Obama with the most votes in US history without having…

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Massive election reform

It’s difficult to say whether or not President Trump will win his challenge to the 2020 election. Few of us know much about what’s really going on behind the scenes, so it’s hard to predict how it will turn out. But from where all of us spectators sit, one would have to guess Joe Biden will be the next President. However it turns out, one thing is clear: We have to reform our entire election apparatus. Many conservatives believe that if Joe Biden really becomes President, conservatives will never win another election. Without voting reform, that may be entirely…

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But who’s behind it?

If you’re watching any conservative media, you know there’s quite a build up to whatever evidence the Trump team has to prove massive voter fraud. The rumblings and rumors include hundreds, if not thousands, of people who’ve come forward to claim their vote wasn’t counted, someone voted in their name, dead people voted, ballots were thrown out, ballots were added, the software was rigged, and GOP poll watchers weren’t allowed anywhere near the vote counting. Meanwhile, President Trump and his lawyers are slowly starting to appear more and more making claims of significant voter fraud and implying heavily, if…

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Biden’s deal

Heading into the election, many people were saying that Joe Biden made a deal with Bernie Sanders that allowed him to win the nomination in exchange for adopting Sanders’ platform. This would explain Biden’s embrace of things like the “Green New Deal,” and support from Sanders acolytes like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and “The Squad.” I think we’re now discovering that the deal wasn’t with Sanders. It was the entirety of Washington D.C. Beating President Trump was the most important thing to D.C. denizens, and they’ve been singularly focused on it for four years. What people didn’t notice is to what…

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Visions of 1934 Germany

No, I’m not going overboard. For one, Joe Biden is no Adolf Hitler. He doesn’t have the confidence, the plan, the acuity, the motivation, or the agenda. But his followers do. It only took a few hours after the networks started indicating Biden was the likely winner before Democrats started feeling themselves and calling for retribution and retaliation against any and all Trump supporters or enablers. This is who they are. It’s not about the possibilities of the future, it’s about the sins of the past. It’s about getting even. It’s about correcting perceived injustice. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wondered aloud…

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Trump, Palin, and Joe McCarthy

As I consider President Trump’s past four years and where we are in this election process, I can’t help but think about Sarah Palin and Joe McCarthy. In four years, Donald Trump has exposed everything the left is all about: the corruption, arrogance, deceit, lust for power, desire for control, move toward socialism, contempt for average Americans, disgust for liberty, lack of morality, and desire to destroy the meaningful institutions that define America. The left has been been referring to it as “divisive,” but what Trump’s rhetoric and actions have really been is “defining.” He has more clearly defined…

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Early voting for civics lessons

For all those who want to make voting easier: Early voting Mail-in ballots Registration kiosks everywhere Ballot harvesting Felons vote Voting age reduced to 16 I’ll trade you. You can have that if we can insert America-loving conservatives in every classroom in the country for kids 10-16 years of age to teach them about America, it’s founders, and the liberty and freedom it promises for all who want to pursue it. Deal?

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Context: the enemy of the sheep

When people want to believe something badly enough, they’ll be quick to believe something that is edited or presented to look the way they want it to look. Today’s example comes from President Trump’s rally in Prescott, AZ. During the rally, he talked about how he would go about fundraising if he had no dignity and wanted to raise money in big $25 million chunks instead of the grassroots support he’s currently getting. A short clip was taken from that 1.5 hour speech which shows Trump talking about a call to Exxon to raise money. Of course, as is…

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Another emotion on the way

You never know when someone will say something seemingly simple that will change your whole outlook. I woke up in a really bad mood today. Mad at the world. Sick of all the discord and stress. Done with the politicization of everything. I was just angry. So, I called a member of my in-house staff, and we talked it through. But in the midst of our conversation, she happened to say, “emotions are like weather fronts, they’re always changing and there’s always another one coming to replace the current one.” It struck me because it’s absolutely true. If you’re…

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Voting: Ya gotta want it

If it were up to me, voter registration drives would be illegal. There would be no mention of when election day is. Pro-voting advertising would be forbidden. One would have to pass the US citizenship exam before being allowed to vote. We would only vote in person, on election day. There would be no early voting. There would be no mail-in voting. Barack Obama is out with a series of videos repeating the line from the 2020 Democrat National Convention: “Make a plan to vote.” What the hell does “make a plan to vote” mean? It’s not hard. Get…

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