The Antidemocratic Party, Florida Inflation & San Fran Street Poo - Top 3 Takeaways – November 16th, 2023
- 0 for 3. It’s a bad batting line in baseball and it’s a poor performance in court rooms as well. The Democrat party’s antidemocratic efforts to attempt to silence Donald Trump’s voters are 0 for 3. Yesterday a Michigan judge dismissed a legal challenge seeking to remove the former and perhaps future President of the United States from Michigan’s ballots citing the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause”. This follows judges likewise tossing cases in Minnesota and New Hampshire. Notably, what the judge said in dismissing the case in Michigan mirrors what I’ve suggested would be the case right along. Quoting the judge: The judicial action of removing a candidate from the presidential ballot and prohibiting them from running essentially strips Congress of its ability to ‘by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such a disability. Precisely. As I mentioned recently in a related Q&A... Donald Trump has been indicted in four criminal cases with 91 different charges brought against him. Not one of those charges is for insurrection, which is the premise of this and any case. The argument is now that a man who hasn’t even been charged with insurrection criminally and who was acquitted of it congressionally is not only guilty of it but should be disqualified from an office that also isn’t included in the clause...and even then that doesn’t account for a legal principal known as “the rule of democracy”, which is a legal precedent whereby the judiciary is to pay credence to the will of the people to govern themselves including the candidates they want to represent their interests. Democrats are still pinning their hopes on the related pending case in Colorado where the judge has refused to dismiss the case as the judges in the other states have done. Maybe she’ll rule in their favor, maybe she won’t. Many legal observers who think that eventually this issue may be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court might be right. Maybe it should be, and sooner rather than later, if it is eventually to be. Already in states like Michigan where their initial effort has failed, leftist interest groups are promising to issue new ballot challenges following the primary (assuming Trump’s the GOP nominee). If the Colorado judge rules in Trump’s favor, the challenges will continue. If she rules against the Constitution, the appeals process that would eventually end the nonsense would begin. The judge in the Michigan case outlined precisely how this story ends – with Trump’s name on ballots. It’s just a matter of how soon we get there. And btw, this is as clear of an example as there is as to why I refer to the Democrat Party as the Democrat Party. There’s nothing democratic about it. They, and their leftist interest groups, are quite literally attempting to violate constitutional law to deny voters the choice to vote for who they want to vote for. Now, it would be accurate to refer to it as the Antidemocratic Party. That’s an accurate description.
- Inflated. If you’ve heard what sounds like good inflation news but you haven’t personally experienced good inflation news...there’s a reason. Actually, a couple of them. First, no new inflation is what’s now considered to be good inflation. Specifically, the Consumer Price Index Report for October showed that consumer prices didn’t become even more expensive from one month to the next – not that anything became cheaper. And on that note the average cost of stuff is still 3.2% more expensive than this time a year ago. But in South Florida that doesn’t even tell half of the story. South Florida’s Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro has been on a winning inflation streak. Just not the kind that anyone wants to be winning. For the past year inflation’s been higher here than anywhere within the country and that remains the case again this month. South Florida’s inflation rate is most recently at 7.4%, or literally worse than twice the national average. And if it’s felt like you’re still falling behind one month at a time, that’s because you probably have been with the average wage growth pacing 5.2% in South Florida over the same time. There’s no doubt that the cost of life in paradise remains inflated.
- Border busting. On the same day that San Franscisco lined its streets with Chinese Communist Flags, in lieu of the usual street poo (which was cleaned up along with the general urban dumpster fire that San Francisco has become, not because it’s in the public interest but because the most prominent communist, Xi Jinping was coming), we received new surveying about the public perception of Biden’s busted southern border policy. Sinclair asked the question: Do you think the Biden administration's border policies are putting the nation's safety and security at risk? The answer was about as overwhelming as they come. 91% of the thousands responding said yes. It’s clear Americans have their eyes open as to the danger of Biden’s open border. But what about what happened in San Francisco? For months President Biden has been seeking a one-on-one meeting with President Xi...which in and of itself is operating from a position of weakness. But how confident are you with Biden’s ability to go one-on-one in a high stakes meeting with anyone? Biden’s busted border isn’t the only thing making the country less safe. The weakness he projects around the world is why we have currently have so many wars. But if he’s projecting weakness publicly, what do you think that comes across as privately? What are the odds that China’s interests aren’t being served better than our own with these two getting together? Perhaps about as good as American flags lining San Franscisco’s streets as opposed to the poo (the new San Franscico treat) after Xi’s gone... What China does next will tell you how well that meeting went for them, or for us. Let’s hope ‘ole Joe had a good day. Staying out of World War III might have depended on it.