Debate Aftermath +

Appears my harsh criticism of Trump's debate performance was not shared by some pundits who do this stuff for a living. Perhaps I was prejudiced by my belief that running Trump (when we had several "much less likely to piss off half the electorate") candidates was a HUGE MISTAKE. Oh well, I hope they are right and not I. Only thing that matters is no more of the Obama-Biden-Harris-Squad cabal.

Trump was excoriated for...

Claiming illegals in Springfield, OH (population 58,000 before invasion) were eating dogs and cats. He was aggressively fact checked by the Harris guard from ABC, who immediately pointed out the City Manager denied these allegations (After all, he had no dog in the fight, right?).

Turns out Trump may not have been that far off base. Multiple citizens have testified that..."Springfield is a paycheck to paycheck town. We can't handle 20,000 immigrants. Our healthcare, our police, our town can't handle it. We are overrun!"

This town is only one example of the dystopian nightmare occurring all over the country because of open borders. And Springfield, Ohio is almost 1600 miles from the Texas border.

Also appears Trump was not "all wet" on another flash point. ABC Moderator Lindsay Davis was lightning quick to "fact check" Donald Trump when she declared, "there is no state in the country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born".

Well, guess what, that situation is not so cut and dried as Ms. Davis thinks. The Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Foundation has demanded a retraction, labeling the assertion "inaccurate".

Turns out it is protocol in multiple states for "failed" late term abortion attempts to be "corrected" after birth. The remedy is simple. Babies who survive late term abortions are denied medical care and, thereby, allowed to die.

The CDC estimated that at least 143 newborns died between 2003-2014 because they were left without care after birth. Apparently reporting of this statistic was stopped after those results. A not uncommon practice employed to kill the messenger. It's happened with College Board scores - remember?

Eight deaths after failed late term abortions were reported in Minnesota when Tim Walz was governor. While in Congress, Walz even apologized for "accidently" voting for legislation which made this practice legal. Senator Harris also voted against protection for babies in such circumstances.

This is just another example of Trump being on the right side of issues but, because he is unable to articulate his position in a calm and factual manner, he is labeled a liar and an alarmist. Such a shame.

He ought to take debate lessons from Dennis Quaid who plays Reagan in the newly released movie. Excellent - by the way. First time I've been in a movie theater in 5 years. I was almost alone too.

Looks like Illegals Do Take American Jobs

Since Americans have started waking up to the reality of our country’s illegal immigration problem, politicians, activists and cable news pundits have tried to quell the masses with slogans like "Immigration makes us stronger," and "Illegal immigration is a victimless crime." While these Orwellian messages may have worked in the past, they are failing hard now as people contrast them with their daily experiences and see a nation’s culture, opportunities and security slipping away.  

If the last three-plus years have proven anything, it is that uncontrolled mass migration does not make us stronger and is - most definitely - not a victimless crime. Despite a dedicated corporate & media reframing of the crisis, millions of U.S. citizens and legal residents have lost jobs, property, security and even their lives as a result of our ruling class’s agenda to import the world’s poverty problem here.  Along with future Democratic votes.

While stories of outrageous criminal activity by illegal aliens dominate the headlines in alternative media, far less attention is paid to the impact on Americans’ job prospects caused by adding roughly 10 million foreign nationals to the population in just a few years.

The problem was brought into focus recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report, which showed that native-born Americans lost more than 1.3 million jobs over the last 12 months, while foreign-born workers gained more than 1.2 million jobs.

Ironic, isn't it?

The women who made a lucrative career signing about the bad decisions she's made has endorsed Kamala.

This Must Really Be Bad

Michael Blumenthal, the supreme example of libs in the Senate (since KH moved up), has declared that Americans will be shocked and appalled when (if) they find out what happed in the assassination attempt on Trump. Apparently the SS was more than INTENTIONALLY INATTENTIVE. When a Dem from Connecticut is trying to get out in front of a report that reflects so poorly/suspiciously on Harris/Biden., it must really be bad

(Update) A second assassination attempt occurred on Sunday when an AK-47 toting suspect was apprehended where Trump was playing golf in West Palm Beach.

Sickest Country on Earth

(Largely excerpted from RFK Jr's speech withdrawing from the Presidential Race as well as his interview with Gerry Baker on Free Expression.)

"Today we spend more on healthcare than any country on Earth, twice what they pay in Europe. And yet we have the worst health outcomes of any nation in the world. We’re about 79th in health outcomes, behind Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mongolia and other countries. Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have. During the COVID epidemic, we had the highest body count of any country in the world. We had 16% of the COVID deaths even though we only have 4.2% of the world’s population.

The CDC says that’s because we are the sickest people on earth. We have the highest chronic disease rate on earth, and the average American who died from COVID had on average 3.8 chronic diseases. So these were people who had immune system collapse, who had mitochondrial dysfunction. And no other country has anything like this. Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues. Fifty years ago that number was less than 1%. So we’ve gone from 1% to 66%.

In America, 74% of Americans are now overweight or obese, including 50% of our children. Years ago, when somebody was obese, they were sent to the circus. In Japan, the childhood obesity rate is 3% compared to our 50%. In Western Europe, only 16% of the entire population is obese. Compared to our 74%.

Here, half of Americans have prediabetes or type two diabetes. Fifty years ago, juvenile diabetes was effectively nonexistent. A typical pediatrician would see one case of child diabetes during his entire 40 or 50-year career. Today, one out of every three kids who walks to his office is diabetic or prediabetic, and the mitochondrial disorder that causes diabetes is also causing Alzheimer’s, which is now classified as diabetes. And it’s costing this country more than our military budget every year.

There’s been an explosion of neurological illnesses. ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette’s syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, Asperger’s, autism. In the year 2000, the autism rate was 1 in 1,500. Now autism rates in kids are 1 in 36, according to the CDC. Nobody’s talking about how 1 in every 22 kids in California has autism. 77% of our kids are too disabled to serve in the United States military."

(With my generation, seventy-year-old men, the rate of autism is about 1 in 10,000. And in our kids' generation, 1 in 34… in California, 1 in 22. As reported before - look for something hard enough and you'll probably find it. Diagnosing kids is a frequent remedy for excusing poor behavior and poor parenting, which goes untreated.)

"Why are we letting this happen? Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? These are the most precious assets that we have in this country. How can we let this happen to them?

About 18% of American teens have fatty liver disease. One out of every five. In the 60's and 70's that disease only affected late-stage alcoholics who were elderly. Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old. Young adult cancers are up 79%, and one in four American women is on antidepressant medication, 40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis, 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall, and half a million children are on SSRIs.

So what’s causing this suffering? Two culprits. First and the worst is ultra-processed foods. 70% of American children’s diet is ultra-processed, which means industrially manufactured in a factory.  These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils. Laboratory scientists, many of whom formerly worked for the cigarette industry which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and ‘80s, deployed thousands of scientists to invent new chemicals to make the food more addictive. And these ingredients didn’t exist a hundred years ago, humans aren’t biologically adapted to eat them. Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe. But they are ubiquitous in American processed foods."

(There is nothing more profitable to a food company that a kid addicted to processed foods. A lifelong profit source. Same for a kid with a chronic illness. Pharma is licking its chops. Meds forever!)

"The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies. This assault on our children’s cells and hormones is unrelenting. And to name just one problem: many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors, America’s puberty rate is now occurring at age 10 to 13, which is six years earlier than girls were reaching puberty in 1900. Our country has the earliest puberty rates of any continent on the earth. And no, this isn’t because of better nutrition. This is not normal. Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven and now strikes 1 in 8 women. We are mass poisoning all of our children and our adults.

Considering the grievous human cause of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost crass to mention the damage it does to our economy. But it is crippling the nation’s finances. When JFK was president, our country spent $0 on chronic disease. Today, government healthcare spending is almost all for chronic disease, and it’s double the military budget. It is the fastest growing budget item in the federal budget. Chronic disease costs at least 4 trillion dollars to our economy - five times our military budget. And that’s a 20% drag on everything we do, and everything we aspire to. Poor and minority communities suffer disproportionately. People worry about DEI or about bigotry of any kind. This dwarfs anything. We are poisoning the poor, we are systematically poisoning minorities across this country.

Industry lobbyists have made sure that most of the food stamp lunch program, about 70% of food stamps, and 77% of school lunches are processed foods. There’s no vegetables. There’s nothing that you would want to eat. We are just poisoning the poor citizens. And that’s why they have the highest chronic disease burden of any demographic in our country and the highest in the world. The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies go to commodity crops that are the feedstock of processed food industry. These policies are destroying small farms and they’re destroying our soils.

We give about eight times as much in subsidies to tobacco than we do to fruits and vegetables. It makes no sense if we want a healthy country. The good news is that we can change all this, and we can change it very, very quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that, we need to do three things: first, we need to root out the corruption in our health agencies. Second, we need to change the incentives in our healthcare system. And third, we need to inspire Americans to get healthy again. 80% of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest. These are the people… virtually everybody who Joe Biden just appointed to a new panel at the NIH to decide food recommendations, they’re all people who are from the industry, they are all people who are from the processed food companies. They’re deciding what Americans hear is healthy: the recommendations on the food pyramid, what goes to our school lunch programs, what goes to the food stamp programs, they’re all corrupted and conflicted individuals. 

These agencies, the FDA, the USDA, CDC, all of them are controlled by giant for-profit corporations. 75% of the FDA funding doesn’t come from taxpayers. It comes from pharma. And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies.

Imagine what happens when Medicare starts paying for Ozempic which costs 1,500 dollars a month, and that’s being recommended for children as young as six over a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable and barely even existed a hundred years ago. Since 74% of Americans are obese, the cost if all of them took their Ozempic prescription is $3 trillion a year. This is a drug that has made Novo Nordisk, the biggest company in Europe – it’s a Danish company, and even the Danish government does not recommend it. It recommends a change in diet to treat obesity, and exercise. In our country, the recommendation now is for Ozempic to children as young as age six. Novo Nordisk is the biggest company in Europe, and virtually its entire value is based upon projections of how much Ozempic is going to be sold to Americans."

(continues on to describe plans to reform school lunches and remove self serving interests from agencies and regulation of food safety.)

CNN January 31, 2023: US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries, new report from Commonweath Foundation finds.

Wrap on Debate Observations

1. Trump did a terrible job. Once again he ignored every advisor on planet earth. Professional and otherwise. Once again, he could not control himself. Once again, he failed to stay on message. Instead, resorting to sensationalism, exaggeration and name-calling, consistently failing to deliver cogent, fact-based assertions and rebuttals. I don't understand how the guy is such a competent golfer. With things teed up so high, I am shocked even he shanked it.

   
   

2. I am sick and tired of all the Trump sycophants trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shite by pointing out how independents came away converted. Hah. Not by Trump's debate performance they didn't. Maybe by Harris's dereliction or ABC's flagrant prejudice - but not by Trump.

   
   

3. Here We Go Again. I had a feeling we were in for a long night when I heard Harris' answer to the first question, which was, "When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?" Harris then proceeded to use her entire segment to NOT answer the question. She went on about how she grew up in a middle class family, etc. Not even a veiled attempt to answer the question. Did ABC pursue? Not even a little. I thought, here we go again. Throughout the entire debate, while they checked Trump time and again, Harris, not once. By the way, in her one and only "one to one" interview on ABC a few days later, she gave the same "I grew up in a middle class" answer.

One Supply Chain is Most Certainly Alive and Well.

You will remember, when Biden tried to blame runaway inflation on everything & anything from Donald Trump to the eclipse of the moon, he cited Covid interruptions of critical supply chains. Well, one supply chain that Covid missed and is still flourishing abundantly is the Fentanyl one.

And China is the clear and inarguable root cause. China ships critical chemicals essential to the production of Fentanyl to our neighbor - the Mexican Drug Cartels. There, the cartels use these chemicals to manufacture pills and compounds, which are smuggled into (meaning just plain walked in) to the US via our porous borders.

Quick Facts about Fentanyl

• Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is 50-100 times stronger than heroin or morphine.

• While prescriptions for opioids are down 50% in the last decade, deaths from opioids in the past four years have doubled.

• Now over 100,000 deaths per year, 90% involve Fentanyl.

• Every day, over 250 people die from overdoses involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

• Over a quarter million Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses since 2018.