More Random Thoughts

• Politicians, scientists and “consultants” have been calling the shots since the coronavirus pandemic began; but their livelihoods have never been in jeopardy, as have the nation’s small business owners and hourly wage earners who also need a say in this ‘balancing act’ between the economy and public safety.
• I’d like to see the statistics regarding how many people are dying with COVID-19 versus from it.
• The Chinese communist government isn’t a competitor; they’re our adversary and will be into the foreseeable future. So given what we know about how the president has dealt with China for three and a half years, versus how Joe Biden dealt with the Chinese during the Obama years, who do you trust more to establish our China policy moving forward?
• In 2016 Donald Trump told America what he was going to do if elected; and whether or not you approve of his style, that’s exactly what he did–see below.
• The reason the president’s tweets and boorish statements don’t bother me is because since the 2016 election…
  • Our military has been rebuilt,
  • We’ve entered into a partnership with Mexican government to deter illegal border crossings.
  • We’re building a border wall.
  • We’ve become energy independent and are the world’s #1 energy exporter,
  • NATO nations are finally beginning to “pay their fair share;”
  • The world’s two leading terrorists (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Qassim Soleimani) have been killed,
  • ISIS which controlled huge chunks of Syria and Iraq now occupies an area less than 40 miles by 50 miles of barren Syrian Desert,
  • North Korea hasn’t detonated a nuclear device, nor has it tested an ICBM,
  • We now have bipartisan trade deals with all our largest trading partners, i.e., Canada, Mexico, China and Japan
  • The administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russia and Iran, and
  • Prior to COVID-19 ours was the most dynamic economy the world has ever known.
• If elected, does anyone know what former VP Biden plans to do to improve the quality of life of Americans?
• How many progressives do you hear screaming for open borders now that the coronavirus is upon us?
• The integrity of the Obama administration can by synopsized by the comments of three key individuals within his administration.
  • Samantha Powers, told Stephen Colbert on CBS in December 2017, “Putin has got a very high return on his investment,” yet two months earlier, she testified to the House Intelligence Committee that she had seen no evidence of Russian collusion.
  • James Clapper repeatedly called Trump a Russian “asset.” Yet, under oath in July 2017, he told the committee: “I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting [or] conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.” 
  • Former CIA Director John Brennan labeled Trump “treasonous” and “wholly in the pocket of Putin.” But last March, after the Mueller investigation found no Russia collusion, he told MSNBC he might have “received bad information and I think I suspected there was more than there actually was.”
• I think Joe Biden would make a wonderful Thanksgiving Day dinner guest—he’s personable, charming and capable of regaling a roomful with amusing anecdotes. But like many others, I question this avuncular politician’s intellectual capacity and wonder if we’re beginning to see the initial stages of senility.
• The former Vice President has said he’s looking for woman (preferably a minority) as his vice presidential candidate. But considering the former VP’s age and his admission that if elected he would not run for a second term, wouldn’t the country be better served if he put political correctness aside for a moment and looked for someone with hands on experience running something, i.e., a governor, a big city mayor or a successful business person, regardless of gender or minority status?
• Sometimes the left-right debate boils down to a matter of “Political Correctness versus Competency”
• Joe Biden has been a legislator for nearly 40 years and his only foray into running anything occurred when President Obama put him in charge of Ukraine and China – and we know how well that turned out (for his son Hunter.)
• Presidential campaigns are long, grueling, arduous affairs, and travel is a always a major drain on a candidate; so perhaps we should give the former VP a break and forgive his gaffes because of all the traveling he’s doing up and down the stairs to the basement of his home.
• Joe Biden’s career is replete with reversals, e.g., Abortion, the Iraq War, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, Desegregation, Gun Control, Gay Marriage and Entitlement Reform. So the questions becomes, exactly what convictions does Joe Biden have?
• And lastly, it takes big cojones for Barack Obama, whose administration spent two years building a website, to criticize the president’s response to a once in a lifetime black swam event.

Quote of the day: “You must believe in free will; there is no choice.”― Isaac Bashevis Singer