Top Three Takeaways – June 24th, 2021

Top Three Takeaways – June 24th, 2021

1. Seriously? So, President Biden has adopted an open border policy allowing lord knows who to cross into our country daily. He’s been supportive of cities that have defunded police. He’s ordered ICE to deport a minimum of 75% fewer criminal illegal immigrants as they’re released from our communities but now, he has the answers to solve the country’s recent violent crime problems? This is like having a great white shark tell a seal they should feel safe swimming across a bay. Most annoying to me is the endless focus on inanimate objects rather than people. Look, I completely agree that it makes sense to take sensible measures to try to keep guns away from criminals and to that end I’d be supportive of mandatory background checks for all sellers of firearms – including private sellers at gun show. But please stop treating us as though we’re stupid. The best way to combat violent crime in real-time is to secure borders, fully fund and support our police and deport every criminal illegal immigrant once they’ve served their prison sentence. Often overlooked is that much of the rise in violent crime is gang related. Gangs that are on the rise due to a proliferation of illegal drugs coming into this country most commonly from across our southern border. President Biden wants to point fingers at everything but the most obvious reason we have a rise in violent crime. Him. His policies. And others who govern at the local level like him. But seriously, if we just focus on gun control, criminals won’t commit crimes and will choose to become upstanding citizens.
2. Royal Caribbean's Scarlet Letter. I don’t know if the CDC will come up with a constitutional compromise to amend their unconstitutional directives by July 2nd, starting with the “no sail” and now “conditional sail” order. It’s my hope that Royal Caribbean’s test cruise, set in motion prior to Florida’s smackdown of the CDC in court, isn’t at all what they have planned post July 18th when the CDC’s unconstitutional power grab over the industry is fully done away with. That’s because you’d likely have to go back to the era of Titanic to find such clear division of classes on a cruise ship. But this has nothing to do with money and everything to do with vaccinations. Can those who are vaccinated contract COVID-19? According to the CDC through June 14th there were at least3,729.So why is it, if you’re going to mandate COVID testing, and if the goal is to keep COVID-19 off the ship, you’d only mandate it for those who are unvaccinated? And then once on the ship, if the unvaccinated have tested negative forCOVID-19and the other passengers are vaccinated, which you’re treating as infallible, would you still seclude them on the ship? In fact, you could make the reasoned case that the risk would be greater to spread COVID-19 on a cruise if you kept all the unvaccinated people together rather than had them comingling. This might not be the Scarlet Letter, or even Amazon’s scarlet stickers for unvaccinated employees, but it sure seems like an effort to appease those who’d prefer not to cruise with those who’re unvaccinated, more than anything else. 
3. Fried looks fried. Earlier this week I brought you battleground bombshells. In that story I illustrated the point that President Biden and Democrats generally are literally on the wrong side of every major politically divisive issue according to wide swaths of most Americans. I pointed out Governor DeSantis was on the right side of each of those issues and it’s not a surprise to see his national profile rise as a result. So, boil that down to Florida’s politics. It doesn’t look good for any Democrat taking on DeSantis next year but there does appear already to be a biggest loser and that’s Nikki Fried. When Nikki went on all in the pay-for-play vaccine lie and it blew up in her face with the 60 Minutes debacle, I mentioned her credibility was shot. Months later, it’s increasingly clear. Here are DeSantis’s polling leads over Fried over time – starting in March before the 60 Minutes failure. 1-point, 7-points, 12-points, 22-points. Any questions? How bad is it for Fried? Most recently 31% of Florida’s registered Democrats say they’d vote for DeSantis over her. Fried looks fried and she deserves it.