Hurricane Idalia, the GOP Presidential Primary & Biden Crime Family Bombshell – Top 3 Takeaways – August 28th, 2023
- The Big Bend. If a hurricane is going to hit Florida, as appears will be the case over the next couple of days, there’s no better place than the Big Bend to do it. Right now, 11 million or roughly half, of Florida’s population lives in one of the 33 counties that are under an emergency declaration issued by Governor DeSantis. There’s the potential for a massive impact if the storm skews towards the Southwest coast of Florida which is still attempting to rebuild from the devastating effects of Hurricane Ian less than a year ago. While asking for the forgiveness of the of the 25,101 people who live in the Big Bend region of the panhandle, who most certainly wouldn’t feel that their neck of the woods is the best place for this soon-to-be hurricane to go...it is. The Big Bend is home to protected wetlands, parks and some of the best hiking in the state. Based on current projections from the National Hurricane Center, a strong category three hurricane with winds of approximately 115 mph, will make landfall Wednesday morning with storm surge that could exceed 9 feet. There is no other region of the state, which is more sparsely populated, so if it’s going to happen somewhere that’s the somewhere for it to happen. While we watch, wait and hope for the best for our neighbors on Florida’s Gulf Coast once again, comes the latest reminder about how much more prevalent hurricane landfalls on Florida’s Gulf Coast are in comparison to the east coast. And also, just how fortunate we continue to be in Southeast Florida having not had a direct landfall from any hurricane since Wilma in October of 2005. El Nino continues to aid in the protection of Florida’s east coast this season as it’s upper level winds have continued to prove effective in shredding disturbances in the mid-Atlantic while also pushing a hurricane like Franklin to the north and away from us. In the Gulf, however, those steering currents which are pushing to the east, are the very steering currents which are positioned to push Idalia directly towards Florida’s Gulf Coast. The wind continues to be our friend on the east coast of Florida. Not so much on Florida’s Gulf Coast which historically, and most recently, has experienced more hurricanes than the east coast. The panhandle has been struck by more hurricanes than any other region of Florida in recorded history. They appear poised to add to the total this week.
- The more things in the GOP race change...the more they appeared to have stayed the same. Last week was an eventful one for the Republican Presidential primary process. The first debate which was skipped by Trump, but then followed the next day by his fourth arrest and mugshot seen ‘round the world. And typically, the biggest move we see in a presidential primary process preceding actual votes being cast is the movement which typically takes place following the first debate. If what we’ve now seen is the extent to what we’re going to see for now – the die has most certainly been cast. There have been three national Republican primary polls released with completely post-debate samples. The survey says the average of those three show Trump with 52% support, DeSantis at 15% and Ramaswamy rounding out the top three with 8% support. How does that compare to where we were pre-debate? Trump averaged 56% support to DeSantis’ 15% and Ramaswamy’s 7%. The early signs show Trump may have lost just a bit of support which was gained by Ramaswamy, Haley and Pence but that essentially nothing has changed. Including DeSantis not budging at all. Maybe subsequent polls will begin to show something different (most important are the early state polls in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina), but for now the Republican Primary race looks essentially the same today as it did before the eventful week – which appears to be great news for Trump and really for nobody else. Speaking of eventful...
- Biden Crime Family bombshell. As the House Oversight Committee’s work has continued to produce revelation after revelation, like leading to the prompting of AG Merrick Garland to elevate David Weiss’ status to Special Prosecutor, we’ve seen the alleged quid-pro-quo storylines of the Biden Crime Family enterprise coming together. Perhaps most notable was then Vice President Joe Biden demanding the firing of the prosecutor investigating the corrupt Ukrainian Energy Company Burisma, that his son Hunter was working for over the threat of the loss of over $1 billion in US foreign aid to Ukraine. Well, not only are the revelations well documented, not only did Joe Biden himself publicly joke and brag about having actually done this, we now have the prosecutor himself, Victor Shokin, during an exclusive Fox News interview on the record saying this: Poroshenko (the then Ukrainian President) fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma. There were no complaints whatsoever and no problems with how I was performing at my job. But because pressure was repeatedly put on [then-Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko, that is what ended up in him firing me. Not only is Shokin himself coming public in this country with this commentary – he also stated he was told by Poroshenko that it wasn’t a decision he wanted to make but one in which he had no choice. Also, in the interview Shokin said: I have no doubt that there were illegal activities engaged in by Burisma. As a matter of fact, the criminal case had been started before me. It continued to expand and Zlochevsky, who at the time held the post of minister and was the founder and CEO of Burisma, started bringing in people who could provide protection for him. Hunter Biden was among them and the corruption network expanded as a result. The walls are continuing to close in on the Biden Crime Family. Now Shokin appears poised to testify for those who are willing to listen...