The 2026 Midterm Election, Part VII

By Rich Kozlovich,  Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!", Post updated today.

No form of government is flawless,  Every government leftists has ever overthrown had flaws, which the radicals/anarchist/Marxist/Islamists exploited at an emotional level to generate outrage among the people, especially the young and dumb.  However, while their message may be laudable, and understandably appealing such as; "end poverty, discrimination and suffering.  Offer affordable housing, free higher education, universal health care", and ....now here's the tricky one.... "economic fairness"... , it's the outcome that matters.

 

Who doesn't want things to be "fair".  But who can define "fair"?  Who wrote the book of fair?    It's been my experience what's fair is based on who's ox is being gored. Who exactly wrote the Book of Fair? There is no Book of Fair and it can't be codified without being unfair to someone, anyone or most for that matter. Who decides what's fair? I certainly don't want some government bureaucrat in Washington DC who went to college and then to work in the government, who never had a real job, never started a business, never put his home on the line with the bank to keep that business running, never had to skip a paycheck in order to meet payroll for his employees, never had to work 14 hour days for weeks on end telling me what's fair.

 

When a totalitarian government imposes "fairness', everyone will find they will ultimately be stunningly "unfair" to a lot of people.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.   No matter what promises are made, here's what they will ultimately deliver:

 

"runaway spending, suffocating regulation, costly green-energy mandates, and open immigration policies that strain public resources — have helped create the hardships now used to justify still greater government control.  The proposed cure is more of the disease."......."The lesson is unmistakable: Charitable works, political accommodation, and reassuring alliances do not necessarily diminish an extremist movement’s ultimate ambitions, particularly when the alliance is with Islamists.  Nor does cooperation today guarantee protection tomorrow.

 

As David Horowitz has said, "Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out".  Did it ever occur to these young demonstrators to ask why it is millions fled communist/Islamist totalitarian nations, many to America, but no one is "fleeing" America to live in those nations?

 

Totalitarians have been with us forever, and have only one moral foundation they adhere to religiously.  Do whatever it takes to get and hold power in order to control everyone's life.  If they can't get that power legitimately, they'll cheat.

 

Top congressional Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, filed suit this week alleging the administration has unlawfully pressured states to clean suspected noncitizens off their voter rolls and has leaned on local election officials to comply. Schumer called it bullying. He called it un-American. He said the voters decide elections, not Trump.  

Fine. Then let only the voters who are legally entitled to decide actually be the ones deciding. That's the entire point of a clean roll. Democratic leadership is suing to stop a process aimed at confirming that the people voting are the people legally allowed to vote, two weeks before an election. Read that sentence as many times as you need to. That's not a lawsuit defending voting rights. That's a lawsuit defending the status quo of whoever's currently on the rolls, questionable eligibility included.

That nullifies legal votes by diluting them with illegal ones. That's how a candidate can run a campaign largely from his basement, speak carelessly about black voters in ways that would have ended a Republican's career in a single news cycle, and still walk away claiming 80 million votes with a straight face.............. This cycle, from a pure narrative standpoint, should be a layup for the party out of power. Inflation fatigue, approval numbers, a president voters have spent years being told to resent.  But they're nuts. And these are difficult, genuinely concerning times to be voting in anything but full possession of the facts.

1. So San Diego says it's having trouble finding translators for all those thousands of non-English-speaking voters out there  while the U.S. Department of Justice reports that nearly a third of noncitizen voters have cast a ballot......... 
2.  1 in 3 LA Non-Citizens in ‘Sample’ Had ‘Voting History’ And may even be as high as 60%.  The thing that the media says isn’t happening? Boy, is it ever happening........
3. Watch: Pro-Katie Hobbs Canvassers Are Willing to Let Noncitizens, Felons Vote - Undercover video captured canvassers aligned with Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) saying they don’t believe in asking about immigration status or actively encouraging self-identified noncitizens and felons to register and vote. All of that, of course, is completely illegal.....
4. Why Do Democrats Continue to Peddle This Lie About Mary Peltola and Dan Sullivan? - First, we learned this last summer: Democrats found a man named Dan Sullivan, and a Democrat operative helped file his Senate candidacy paperwork against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK). We knew about the plan; Joe wrote about it in May.......
5.  Exposed: Mary Peltola Knew of Plot to Recruit Spoiler Candidate Named Dan Sullivan Even Campaign Lawyers Involved! - Democrats in Alaska reportedly created a plan to find a second candidate, also called Dan Sullivan, as Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan (R-AK) and Alaska Democrat U.S. Senate candidate and former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) face off against each other......
6. Why Is Decoy Dan on the Run? - If retired Petersburg, Alaska teacher Daniel J. “Decoy Dan” Sullivan truly wants to represent Alaska in the Senate, he’s not doing a very good job campaigning for the job. His official position statement, as provided to the state’s Division of Elections, reads in part, “I will not stand by while professional politicians try to rig the system,” yet campaign finance records show he’s spent nothing actively campaigning, and nearly all of his campaign contributions have gone to a Washington, D.C. law firm........
7.  Evidence Suggests Alaska’s ‘Decoy Dan’ Illegally Colluded With Democrat Dark-Money Group -Americans for Public Trust outlined in a Federal Election Commission complaint how “Decoy Dan,” a purported spoiler candidate with the same name as Alaska’s incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, may have violated federal election laws by coordinating with a dark money group. Recent reporting by The New York Times alleges that Democrat candidate Mary Pelota’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee actively recruited candidates to confuse voters and manipulate Alaska’s U.S. Senate race............ 

If they can't take power by cheating, they use violence. 

1. Is the DSA Open to Violent Revolution? An Organizer’s Remarks Raise Some Serious Questions. - A top organizer within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has raised a disturbing question about the movement’s ambitions: whether some within its ranks envision not just an electoral revolution, but a violent one. .....
2.  A Warning From France - The chaos in the streets of France has a familiar ring to Americans who watched several cities burn in the summer of 2020. What started as “mostly peaceful” protests were quickly hijacked by chaos actors who whipped up excitable populations into a looting and pillaging frenzy, resulting in police crackdowns in the best cases but utter destruction in the worst cases......
3. The DSA Is Planning to Import Europe’s Riots and Burn the Republic Down - France is on fire. Cars torched, city halls ablaze, hundreds of police officers injured, businesses looted, and the media still calls it “student protests.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a calculated campaign by organized, well-financed hard-left networks to sow anarchy across Western civilization.  And according to Issues & Insights, the Democratic Socialists of America already have the playbook to bring the same chaos here.......

Tomorrow's election day, and the violence the DSA was planning hasn't occurred, but the planning did occur with this goal:

 

The goal is sustained mass violence and street clashes designed to push President Donald Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act. Once invoked, Democratic governors and progressive organizations would treat the order itself as evidence of “fascism” and a reason to undermine federal authority....

 

I have no doubt violence will erupt after the election if the left fails to take control of either house of the Congress.  The DSA is deceiving, sinister, and abominable, and have no intention of giving up if they lose, and they'll immediately start working on the 2028 election.  So, what happens if the Democrats take over both houses of Congress and then the Presidency in 2028?   

 

"They will make Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico states, expand the Supreme Court, open borders..... blank amnesty".....Medicare for all, which will be a disaster, taxes will be increased, and while Democrats claim they only want to tax the rich, make no mistake, once Wealth Taxes in put in place it won't be only for billionaires, it will ultimately include anyone with investments.. and...hand them "permanent one-party rule.” 

 

Here was Victor Davis Hanson's view of this midterm three weeks ago saying:  

 

Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism......

 

If they win here's what he thinks will happen:

1. The House they'll spend two years impeaching Trump, investigating and hounding his family and supporters.
2. They will block any legislation they don't approve of.
3. They will attempt to appease Iran and except their promise they won't be bad little boys any longer.
4. The price of energy will soar because they have to stop global warming.
5. Allow unbridled immigration.
6. Prevent anyone from ending fraud to social services that's costing the nation billions of dollars. 
7. Impose DEI on government and private enterprise, with "the idea that race, outward appearance, gender, and sexual preference are essential rather than incidental to one’s identity is a central doctrine of the contemporary Left. Race-based hiring, admissions, dorms, and graduations would return and proliferate."
8. Reparations will gain traction.  
9. Islamic efforts to impose Sharia law will have greater impact on America's laws and culture.   
10. Regulations will proliferate. 

If this happens government will grow and bureaucrats will once again unconstitutionally usurp legislative and executive powers.  But not all may be well in the Democrat party, as this author asks: Will anti-socialist Democrats swing the midterms?, noting "there’s a hidden demographic on the left that many polls possibly are not accounting for."  NBC News data analyst has some bad news for Dems in Minnesota.

We'll see!

Updated today:

1. Report Exposes 50+ Election Integrity Threats Before 2026 Midterms - There are more than 50 threats to election integrity in the United States ahead of the 2026 midterms, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI)........America’s elections face threats from every direction – foreign adversaries, political operatives, dark money, and government officials who refuse to enforce the rules,” GAI president Peter Schweizer said in a statement. “This report exposes more than fifty documented vulnerabilities.”......
2. Democrats’ Alaska Ballot Operation Went Beyond ‘Decoy Dan’ Candidate - Washington Democrats didn’t just put a second “Dan Sullivan” in the Alaska Senate race — they also boosted Republican Gerald Heikes, a perennial candidate for office, with the help of Chuck Schumer and a longtime Alaska Democrat consultant named Jim Lottsfeldt in a year-long effort to boost Democrat Mary Peltola in Tuesday’s general election.......
3. Here We Go: Maricopa County Claims “Power Related Issues” Causing Vote Center Closures - The Maricopa County Elections Department announced on X, “Due to power related issues, the Vote Centers located at Paradise Community College and Sunset Canyon School are temporarily closed. Please visit https://Locations.Maricopa.Vote to find a nearby voting location.”........Lake told The Gateway Pundit, “Maricopa County is up to its old tricks again. Vote centers are closing over supposed power issues, a fire alarm got pulled at a site in heavily Republican Mesa, voters are being told during ballot curing that ballots were cast they didn’t know about, and we’re still dealing with the same late-night activity at the tabulation center.”.......

Cartoon Roundup and The Week That Was

By Rich Kozlovich 

Violence erupted in France two weeks ago and hasn't abated.  In fact it's increasing and spreading to other nations, with threats from the far left they intend to have the same kind of rioting here in America.  I have six pieces dealing with this midterm election, four of them appearing this week.  The seventh, and last one,  will appear on Monday.  Then we're going to see what happens, and it will be interesting.  Who will emerge victorious?  We're coming to a pivot point in American history.  One party wants to destroy the Constitution and the other party doesn't have what it takes to defend it.  The young are so misinformed and indoctrinated with leftist swill they think socialism is the answer to all our problems, as it seems they still "Feel the Bern".  History shows socialism "is" the problem.  

The Week That Was 

1. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part VI
2. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part V
3. China Will Like Xi.... or Else!
4. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part IV
5. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part III
6. France: If it Looks Like a Civil War, It Must Be a Civil War
7. The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
8. Observations From the Back Row

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The 2026 Midterm Election, Part VI

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!". 

Democrats are running their midterm campaigns with this hard and fast rule. Anything goes!  The polls say there will be a "blue wave" and the Democrats will take over both houses of Congress.  Yet, over and over again we find that polls... and pollsters.... are totally corrupt. 

I stopped paying attention to polls 30 years ago as it was clear to me they were all all designed to favor Democrats, and leftist agendas.  It's been said statistics is the arcane science because you can make them say anything you want them to say.  Polls are even worse.

As one writer stated, polls are the AIDS of American politics, showing how wrong they've been while favoring Democrats, or favoring DSA candidates against other Democrats as in the case of El-Sayed giving him a double digit lead in the Michigan primary senate run.  He barely won.  These polls are scams.  Wedgewood Polls, who was noted for pushing the Democrat agenda admits they made up everything!   They claim it was just a social experiment, saying: 

“an experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern political polling industry. We wanted to test a simple hypothesis: How easy is it for an entirely fabricated polling firm to gain traction, be taken seriously, and expose how little scrutiny exists in media and public commentary? The short answer: Far too easy.”

A social experiment to fix the corruption that permeates polling?  Really?  Well, maybe and maybe not, but the fact is their polls impacted the election and caused serious damage to people running:  

“As one of the candidates featured in these polls — the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) — here’s the impact of this ‘experiment’: Donations dried up. Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do. Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out,”......

“Sure, a point was proven. Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people poured their hearts, time, energy, hard-earned money into something they believed in — for a year-and-a-half, and it was treated like a game. Our volunteers gave their all. And then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down.”

Wedgewood wasn't alone in this kind of manipulation.  It turns out a firm called SoCal Strategies may well be peddling fake polls.   

1.  NYT and Nate Silver Included a FAKE Pollster Pushing Democrats
2.  Just In Time for Midterms, President Trump Supposedly Trailing In Another Faux Fox Poll
3. Trump’s Approval Among Voters Has Stabilized, But Is That Enough To Boost GOP In Midterms? I&I/TIPP Poll

According to Bret Baier of Fox News the Republicans could outperform the polls and hold the Senate, and as it turns out Republicans are leading in early voting in key battleground states. Traditionally, the party in power loses seats in midterms, but the 2026 Midterms just might fool everyone.   

As I said at the beginning, the Democrats are running the midterms with this hard and fast rule. Anything goes! So, if polls no longer work, they can always fall back on something that's been tried and true for them in the past.  Voter fraud.  

The Pravda media insists voter fraud is rare and this is just a scam by Republicans to suppress voting.   Well, yes that's true, they're wanting to suppress voting by people who have no right to vote.  Non citizens who are here legally and illegal migrants have no right to vote in America.  

1.  ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ Feds: 405 Noncitizens Voted 1,500 Times 
2.  The ‘Myth’ of Noncitizen Voting Strikes Again: 48 Foreign Nationals Charged

In Minnesota Somalis are told they can show up to vote without proof of citizenship.  James O'Keefe and Cam Higby have been charged with with felonies for daring to expose the shocking flaws in that state's voter system.  

In California a LA County clerk says they have no way to verify citizenship of five million voters, and "First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli told The California Post it’s “very highly likely” noncitizens have already voted, as the Justice Department fights to have California set aside ballots tied to more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens."

1. Trump Administration Again Demands California Perform Voter Roll Checks

The left excels at lies, logical fallacies, twisted reasoning and "projection", claiming their opponents are doing what they themselves are practicing or have practiced in the past. They're claiming Trump is undermining the integrity of the vote to keep the Republican Party in power, but we've already seen how Democrat run states have already destroyed the "integrity of the vote".  

1. Report: Dozens of Democrats Silent on Alaska Election Rigging While Calling GOP a ‘Threat to Democracy’
2. Top GOP Senator Accuses Chuck Schumer of Yearlong Collusion to Plant “Decoy Dan” Sullivan in Alaska Race 
3. Dems Cheating in Alaska Is So Bad, Even “The View’s” Cat Ladies Are Horrified

They're also upset that Trump might have federal agents monitoring the polling places to prevent illegal voting.  First of all, just how many agents do they think the federal government has, and if illegal voting isn't happening, or is as rare as they claim, then why would it matter if agents were there or not?   

Update, 11/1/26:

1. California city councilwoman says her district is one third illegals, and she wants them to vote - Voter turnout has fallen in Orange County, but not by a third.  As California's non-citizen voting problem draws more attention, and judges overrule the Trump administration's efforts to shut it down, meet one of the problem's enablers, who unwittingly outlined the scope of what's happening...............
2. DOJ Flagged 300,000 Possible Non-Citizen Voters - We’re seeing this now play out in California and Washington where secretaries of state insist that there are no non-citizens registered to vote, then admit that they have no ability to check the citizenship of whoever is voting, but insist that there’s no reason to believe that there are non-citizens voting because it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote… and so they don’t have to worry about non-citizens voting.......
3.  It's Happening Again - 20,000 Ballots 'Minimum' Found Belonging to Non-Citizens, Yet California Refuses to Isolate Them - We are eight days from the midterm elections, and shenanigans are already afoot in California. The Trump administration is moving to block 20,000 mail-in ballots from the state’s count, demanding they be set aside over fears that noncitizens filled them out. If those ballots are put with the others, they will be indistinguishable. The New York Post reported that First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, along with Attorney General Todd Blanche, is asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to have California put those ballots aside and verify each voter’s citizenship status....................
4. 25 Percent of Non-American Citizens in Single Town Illegally Voted in at Least One Federal Election: Nonprofit - According to a revelation out of one Maryland community, a substantial share of non-citizens allowed to vote locally also cast ballots for other races. According to the American Center for Law and Justice, roughly one quarter of the non-citizens that Cheverly, Maryland, allows to vote in local elections have voted in at least one federal election.  “This is either evidence of massive voter fraud where non-citizens are voting in yet another state or gross incompetence on the part of voter registry officials,” the ACLJ wrote...................

The 2026 Midterm Election, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!". 

Recently I've been asked if I think the Republicans will hold the Congress after this midterm.  I said the Republicans, in spite of themselves, will hold Congress.  Their legendary ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory has been usurped by the Democrats by offering the biggest circle of babbling radical circus clowns to ever run for public office in American history.  The biggest thing Republicans have going for them are Democrats.  Otherwise, the Republican party is a party without form or merit.   

Mitch McConnell holds nearly $7.4 million campaign surplus away from Republican  committees.  The man is vile and corrupt to the bone.   He'll soon be gone, and I don't just mean out of office, and the nation will be better off, but he's not alone in his perfidy.  

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski endorsed the Democratic candidate to be Alaska's next governor.  Trump calls her the party's worst senator, and the Bush family still haunts Republicans, with Bush raising money for Senate candidates, but not for Ken Paxton.   George Bush's daughter Barbara donated $2500 to Talarico's campaign. She's almost as bad as Dick Chaney's daughter. 

This midterm election is exposing many in the party for who and what they are, which they've deceptively hidden from the American public for many years. The youngest Bush brother, Neil Bush, openly stated he voted for Talarico, a stunning weird man saying: “I have been enormously impressed by the way he approaches complicated and controversial issues".....and ..... my genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico."  

 Ya just can't make this stuff up.  

Talarico is a truly weird man, and yet Neil Bush is "enormously" impress with him and his character? I wonder if Neil Bush is certifiable?  

Ken Paxton says his primary opponent, John Cornyn, is working against him, to teach those Republicans a lesson.  Cornyn denies it but given events, does anyone believe him?  Both Cronyn and Tellis were defeated in their primaries, but that hasn't prevent them from being insufferably in an attempt to "ingratiate themselves with Democrats, who also hate them".

Karl Rove is openly supporting a Democrat in Texas because he believes he created the conservative Republican party and resents "his" party having been taken away from him by the peasants, so he spouts out vitriol against legitimate conservatives in the Republican party at every opportunity, especially against Trump. 

Former Governor Chris Christie: says Trump created a rotten moral core in the Republican party, and, GOP Rep. Bacon: Trump's deportations aren't humanitarian or Christian enough.  How about this,  crime plummets under Trump, and his deportations are a major factor in that happening.  How's that for being humanitarian and Christian enough?  

If the Republicans hold the Senate will Thune run to be the Senate leader? Make no mistake, he'll run again.  The big question is will he be chosen again?  Mitch's cabal has been weakened by primaries, but you can't beat someone with no one, so, who will challenge him as the Republican's leader?  That will be interesting to watch.  

1. Republicans Are a Cancer. Democrats Are The Grim Reaper. - The Republicans are the cancer. They have refused to pass the SAVE America Act or rein in a rogue judiciary. They have indicted exactly zero people for the theft of the 2020 election, for the Russian Collusion hoax, for the COVID travesty, for ActBlue illegally funneling billions into Democrat coffers, or for the persecution of the J6ers, all the while spending like drunken sailors. And their greatest failure is not nuking the filibuster, something that will have a half-life of about one millisecond once the Democrats need it gone.

Republican Senator Tim Scott is nonetheless convinced Republicans will not only hold the Senate, but may well expand their hold.  Then we come to the polls and voter fraud, which I will address in Part VI

China Will Like Xi.... or Else!

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Between October 26 and 29 China held their "Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party", which are "high-security closed-door gatherings", with "around 200 full members and over 150 alternate members of the CCP Central Committee (totaling roughly 300+ officials), who make up the party’s top decision-making body".   

 

In a five year period seven of these events are scheduled with "each having a distinct political role".  The "Fourth and Fifth address party-building, legal frameworks, internal governance, or ideological discipline (such as the Fifth Plenum in October 2026), which emphasized anti-corruption drives and party loyalty."

 

In this Fifth Plenum the CCP has pledged "to deepen its anti-corruption campaign, adopting a resolution on stricter Party governance and confirming dozens of previously ordered expulsions of senior officials, endorsing Xi's demand for more control and power to be centralized in his hands, and laying the ground work for Xi to "secure an unprecedented fourth five-year term."

 

I’ve been following and  and I have said I hope Xi continues to rule China as it’s clear… at least to me…. he wants to become a Mimi Mao economically and culturally, and if Richard Nixon hadn’t bailed Mao out it’s my view the CCP would have ended up on the ash heap of history.  That could still happen with Xi in total command.

 

No matter what his real reasons for these purges may be, I think this talk about these purges being over corruption is absolutely true.  Corruption in the CCP and China’s military is traditional, and has always been high. 

 

The corruption in the military was blatant, but for years the unwritten rule between them was if the CCP left them alone, they’d leave the CCP alone.  I didn’t see how Xi could tolerate that.  He’s cleverly dismantled their network, and no matter what’s being said about how this impacts their military’s effectiveness, personally, I doubt these purges will impact their military effectiveness because I don’t think his military is effective other than it’s huge, and taking up massive amounts of money they don’t have, and it’s impacting their economy, which is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.  Something I touted 20 years ago when everyone was slobbering all over themselves over China’s economy. 

 

These purges aren’t going to improve anything, any more than did the Mao’s purges.  This will consolidate all economic, social, cultural, military and political decisions in his hands, just like Mao, and the CCP will rubber stamp all he wants, because they understand, any who challenge him will be gone.  But like Mao, he’ll be safe, surrounded by sycophants, yes men and flunkies, just like Putin, as long as their economy doesn't collapse, and I'm expecting that to occur.  So, I do believe he understands if he’s out of power, he’ll be purged by whomever takes over, just as was done with Mao’s wife as part of the Gang of Four. 

 

The 2026 Midterm Election, Part IV

“So-called “progressives” are ignorant, bitter, nasty, wannabe tyrants who contribute nothing to the society that they so wish to destroy.” Eric Utter

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!". 

James Carville, famed for his theme while running Bill Clinton's presidential campaign was: "It's the economy stupid", and who thought the Harris/Walz act was "classy" and the Trump/Vance act was "trashy".  Imagine that, James Carville defining trash.  

• First-Of-Its-Kind Poll Finds TDS Is Real, And It’s Shockingly Widespread

Well, I've always thought Carville had a screw loose, but he's right, it really is about the economy.  So let's take a look at that. 

The Democrats have ranted about "affordability" and the media ignored the "affordable" reality of the Biden and Obama administrations, while in the real world Trump's economic efforts have been .... at least by comparison.... stellar.  

Let's start with the price of gas, which is not higher under Trump than Biden, and when it was skyrocketing under Biden the left was thrilled as they wanted it to be like Europe at ten dollars a gallon to fight...global warming.   So, let's ask ourselves, how can the Democrats run on affordability, and not just on the price of gas? Energy as a whole is higher in Democrat run states. 

• The New York Times Shows Democrats How To Run On "Energy Affordability".......for reasons that I don’t understand, the price of electricity seems to be a big issue for Democrats in the upcoming elections. The post cited easily-available data from the federal Energy Information Administration showing that, among the contiguous 48 states, there is a sharp divide between states run by Democrats — which have the highest prices — and those run by Republicans — which have the lowest prices. .....If you study the issue even a little, it becomes obvious that the higher prices in the blue states are driven in part by higher taxes and more regulations, but particularly by so-called “climate” policies that in practice greatly drive up costs.....

Under Trump the BLM has opened up 35,000 California acres to oil and gas leases, and is considering gas tax suspensions, while Democrat states with " green energy mandates" have increased the cost of electricity for their citizens.  

The difference between economic reality and the media take By Jack Hellner|  The media and other Democrats are falsely claiming that they are the party with policies that will address inflation and affordability. They cheered COVID mania and Biden’s policies as inflation rose from under 2% when he took office to a forty-year high of over 9% by June 2022. The Democrats didn’t care about inflation or affordability then, and they don’t care now because they support the same policies. They care only about winning, no matter how many lies they have to tell. In March 2021, Democrats passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, essentially printing and handing out money like candy. They passed this act based on a lie that continues to this day: that Biden inherited a disastrous economy.......

Most Democrat run states, all adhering to party principles, are running states that are "less affordable.” If that's true, and it mostly is, why would we think they're going to bring a different result to the rest of the nation if they take over the Congress? They want more government, more spending, more taxes, and more regulations, and the failed consequences of those policies are provable.  Not to mention their insatiable desire to steal everything!   

Robert Reich And Organized Theft - What is it with Democrats and their unrelenting lust for other people’s property? Are they hardwired to steal because they can’t build anything themselves? ..............Robert Reich is encouraging the Democrats to “lay the groundwork for nationalizing” SpaceX and Starlink..........71% of Democrats and 80% of self-identified liberals want to see Musk in prison for the dastardly crime of teaming up with President Donald Trump and daring to downsize the federal leviathan..............

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to nationalize the entire U.S. economy. If Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act had become law, it would have led to “the outright confiscation of wealth through the nationalization of corporate boards that would be forever beholden to political figures.” 

During the ugly Biden years, top Democrats urged the president to nationalize the oil and gas industry. In the 1970s, around the time he was kicked out of a “commune for loafing,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders advocated for “the nationalization of most major industries, including energy companies, factories, and banks.” 

Federal regulations are a massive.... massive.... undeclared tax on the nation to the tune of up to three trillion dollars a year, and that doesn't include the cost of state and local regulations.  Trump's solution? His EPA amassed $1.6 Trillion in savings through cuts to regulations, all of which the Democrats would almost immediately reverse.

The left... especially those from the nitwit celebrity brigade... scream cuts in Medicaid will kill thousands, but what cuts are they talking about?  Medicaid spending shot up 8% in 2026 to the tune of just under two trillion dollars.  Not one peep out of them about the massive fraud in Medicaid possibly as high as 100 billion dollars a year.  Fraud the Democrats are working hard to maintain. 

Trump became the abundance President by doing the exact opposite of the Democrats.  During his second term, Americans without college degrees are having one of the best job markets in years.  The private sector added 90,000 jobs in September, growth for the second half of this year was upgraded and consumer spending soared in August.  As for inflation, which is like a chronic disease, it was much lower than expected.

But then we come to my personal passion.... the national debt.... 40 trillion dollars which increases by six to seven billions of dollars .... a day.... and make no mistake, the clock is ticking, and the nation needs a knight to drive a spear into that dragon.  Which party will be the white knight to slay that dragon?  Neither of them if America doesn't force fiscal responsibility from Congress by choosing fiscally responsible candidates... no guts no glory candidates.

Update, 10/30/26:

1. Questions The Media Should Be Asking Democrats About Affordability - Two things are missing from almost every media report attacking President Trump over affordability: acknowledgment that Democrats supported Biden’s policies during the inflation surge, which left Americans paying substantially higher prices, and any serious examination of which Democrat policies would actually make life more affordable...... Instead, much of the media focuses its scrutiny on Trump while ignoring the economic consequences of Democrat policies. It treats Democrat promises as solutions without demanding details or examining past results.  Americans deserve better. They deserve journalists who ask hard questions of both parties, investigate the consequences of government policies, and distinguish genuine affordability measures from campaign slogans.

 

The 2026 Midterm Election, Part III

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!". 

If the left couldn't lie what would we have?  Blessed silence.  Life is about patterns of behavior and the social circles that promote that behavior, which repeats over and over again.  I've been an avid history buff all of my life, and I truly believe history is everything, as it has all the answers to all the questions, but there's a problem with that,  you have to read it, you have to honestly correlate history with current events, and to see the historical patterns clearly you must see it devoid of preconditioning ideology.  Both Stalin and Mao were avid readers, and yet the only thing they grasped from history was how to get and hold power, at any cost, and that cost in human life was massive. 

History is about facts and reality, and if you really want answers you have to follow those facts wherever they lead.  And here's one fact that's absolutely foundational to understanding.  There's traditional wisdom that has stood the test of time, and conventional wisdom which is the philosophical flavor of the day and may not last as long as the ladies latest fashion, and usually leaves devastation in its wake.   That's history.  

Over the years I've tried to pay attention to things going on in the world, and I have adopted what was supposed to be the motto of science, "de omnibus dubitandum", (Everything is to be questioned), but since science has now abandoned that in favor of grant money, I've made it my personal motto.  A motto that should be embraced by every thinking person on the planet.  However, there are some rules I've found to be immutable.  People will always be people: the patterns of life keep repeating over and over again,; everything is the basics, and the criminal mind never gives up the con.  

People are what people do, and if we don't read; if we don't think; if we don't pay attention to the consequences of people's actions; if we don't challenge the conventional wisdom in favor of traditional wisdom, society collapses.  In order to see the patterns of life, and know what people do and why, means we have understand the cultures were dealing with.  To know and understand what basic things we need to know requires the willingness to put in the effort to achieve clarity.  

At this point you're asking.... so what has this to do with the 2026 midterm elections?   Everything!  

Definition leads to clarity; clarity leads to understanding; understanding leads to good decision making, and good decision making leads to harmony, and any political party that unending panders to race hustlers and, criminals and willing embrace and encourage violence and intimidation, along with lawfare threats designed to destroy and silence adversaries with massive legal bills, will not be a party that can deliver harmony.  All I've outlined there is synonymous with the Democrat party.

•  'Grossly incompetent': Trump shreds Obama as ex-president campaigns for 'a Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist, who hates Jews and Blacks and AMERICANS'

Senator Elissa Slotkin is now threatening "young people who might choose to consider working for the Trump administration or, most likely, any Republican administration, by prosecuting those who work for Trump now … as deterrence."   Now she's claiming Trump is going to ‘come up with national security incident’ to change election outcome."  What evidence does she offer?  None!  One has to wonder whether or not she's certifiable, which actually is a common thread in the Democrat party.  Who they are is what they do. 

1. Secret Mega-Alliance Exposed as Data Republican Keeps Dropping More ‘Democracy Files’
2. Dem Rep. Garcia: We Will Aggressively Go After Trump Family
3. Washington Warned Us About Slotkin’s ‘Deterrence Message’
4. Dem Hack Drops the Mask and Lets Her Fascism Freak Flag Fly
5. Democrats’ Plan to Weaponize the Govt. Takes Shape

In Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas was arrested by federal authorities over a number of charges including, drug trafficking, fraud and money laundering.  Her defense against this arrest?  She insists this is nothing more than political targeting, which is the equivalent to rule four of the criminal mind.  Everything from the left is predicated on pandering to the worst who exist in society.  In Philadelphia cops were shot because they were white, and if this were reversed it would be 24/7 wall to wall coverage demanding the police be defunded, dearmed, and the abolition of the police because they're racists.  Who's responsible for that?

The Democrat party is firm in it's conviction they need to protect all this fraud that's costing the taxpayers untold billions of dollars, and if they take over the Congress, that will be job one on day one, and they intend to take over Congress with organized violence nationwide, which supporters of Abdul El-Sayed enthusiastically embrace.  Trump warns what we're seeing in France is exactly what the Democrats want for America.  

While crime and violence permeate democrat run enclaves, nationwide Trump has had amazing results on crime in America, as arrests, prosecutions and deportations have fueled a record drop in crime, which Democrats avoid discussing as they've descended into a persistent anti-Trump hallucinatory state.  

As for the Marxist Democrats, I think this article in American Thinker really defines who they are as followers of Karl Marx, When Democrats espouse Marx, are they following a raving lunatic, or a demonically possessed man?, who clearly was a deranged monster of Satanic proportions.  

France: If it Looks Like a Civil War, It Must Be a Civil War

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:  The World's Nine Orders

On October 17th I posted this piece,  Even de Gaulle Couldn't Stop the French From Being French, followed by  What I'm Reading: France and Europe is Doomed, on October 19th.  Then, Hello! Europe is Erupting, Is Anyone Paying Attention?, on October 21st, and finally, While France Is Burning Macron Grooves.  I also added 28 updates, and the hits just keep right on coming.  

I’m gonna spout this again. We’re at the end of a historical cycle, which is always filled with economic downturns and violence. The time is coming when the decision makers will have no say in what’s going to done or not done because at some point things will get so bad the masses will take matters into their own hands, and it won’t just be these Marxist/Maximalist who are rioting.

When that happens, these governments will collapse with anarchy and terror taking full reign for a time, just like the French Revolution. Who will win? No one! These western European nations will dissolve into smaller regional mini states, which is the foundational social paradigm of Europe. And who knows… possibly a few mini-Muslim states scattered throughout, which will cause unending conflict, just like Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in Israel.

Clearly, I’m not optimistic, but this isn’t the first time this has happened, and since people will always be people, there’s no reason to believe it won’t happen again.

These "mostly peaceful" riots are not spontaneous, they're organized and spreading to Portugal, Spain and Greece.   Let's stop being idiotic about all this.  There's an adage that says, "if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck".  Well, if it looks like a civil are, and it sounds like a civil war, then it must be a civil war!  

France's leadership is typical of all of Europe's leaders, delusional and blinded to reality by ideology and self interest.  Macron admits his government had no idea these "mostly peaceful" riots were coming.  How delusional is that?  The French, with the usual attitude of  arrogant superiority have looked down their noses at anyone who questioned their "enlightened" views on welfare, globalism, environmentalism and multilateralism, so it's hard to be sympathetic to their plight, and makes you wonder if maybe France deserves to burn. 

1. Europe Distributes Preparedness Plans In Case Of ‘Crisis Or War’
2. Debt, disorder and open borders: a midterm warning from EU’s riots for U.S. consideration 

France is unraveling, and these riots are merely exposing how badly.  

1. France has a debt burden they can't repay.  
2. Their economy is a mess, which Italy and Greece following closely behind.
3. Much of their debt crisis is being fueled by illegal immigrants who immigrated for the welfare benefits, and have no intention of ever getting off welfare.  France has a massive illegal immigration problem and most of them are on welfare.  
4. Macron can't cut spending without losing the next election and the legislature refuses to cut spending.  
5. The people are not only demanding there be no cuts in welfare spending, they're demanding more welfare spending.  
6. There are "bitter divisions" over immigration.
7. They can't defy the socioeconomic demands of the EU because if they did they'd lose their agriculture subsidies, and if that happened their agricultural industry would collapse.   

Unlike the American government, with 150 trillion dollars in assets, they’ve borrowed massive amounts of money they can’t repay, and yet they embraced the welfare state and the people are demanding they don’t stop spending. That’s coming to a head now and all their delusional visions will not change that.  Everything is about the basics, and Europe has failed in all of them

While publicly they may profess confidence in their capabilities, that’s delusional, and typical of European leadership. The fact is, they’re broke, and getting more broke by the day, and the day will come when they will no longer be able to borrow money to fund their welfare state, and that day can be seen on the horizon, along with other EU nations.

I seriously question if the EU will even be in existence by 2030 as their economy is built on bamboo, their individual cultures are disintegrating, multiculturalism has destroyed their ethnic harmony and is literally destroying their nations.

France is now a facing an existential crisis...... again! It's a cultural social paradigm for the French.   Think about this. The French have had at least 13 primary forms of government and up to 20 if you include short term provisional controlling authorities since 1789.  In 237 years they've had, in one form or another, 20 ruling authorities in France.  That averaged out to one every 11.85 years.   If you only consider the 13 primary forms of government that averages out to one every 18.23 years. 

1. Constitutional Monarchy (1789–1792): Began with the Revolution and the limit of the king's power before the monarchy was abolished.  
2. First French Republic (1792–1804): Established after the king's overthrow, featuring the National Convention, The Terror, and the Directory, which ended with Napoleon's coup.
3. The Consulate (1799–1804): A transitional authoritarian regime led by Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul. 
4. First French Empire (1804–1814): Imperial rule under Napoleon I.
5. The Bourbon Restoration (1814–1815 / 1815–1830): The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Louis XVIII and Charles X (briefly interrupted by Napoleon's Hundred Days in 1815).
6. July Monarchy (1830–1848): A more liberal constitutional monarchy under King Louis-Philippe.
7. Second French Republic (1848–1852): A short-lived republic created after the 1848 revolution, ending in a coup by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.
8. Second French Empire (1852–1870): Imperial rule under Napoleon III.
9. Third French Republic (1870–1940): A long-lasting parliamentary republic that ended with the German invasion and defeat in World War II.
10. Vichy Regime / French State (1940–1944): An authoritarian collaborative puppet state led by Marshal Philippe Pétain, alongside the Free France government-in-exile.
11. Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–1946): A temporary post-liberation administration led by Charles de Gaulle.
12. Fourth French Republic (1946–1958): A parliamentary republic plagued by cabinet instability and the Algerian crisis. 
13. Fifth French Republic (1958–present): The current semi-presidential system established under Charles de Gaulle with a strengthened presidency.

The Fifth Republic, championed by Charles de Gaulle, replaced weak legislative rule with a semi-presidential system featuring a strong executive branch designed to ensure political stability.  But this is France, and even Charles de Gaulle said even he "can't stop the French from being French", and we may see the end of the Fifth Republic.

Updates today:

1.  Far-Left Mayor Bagayoko Calls for Censorship of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally - The far-left mayor of the multicultural Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, has argued that so-called “far-right” politicians such as those from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally should be banned from speaking in public over their supposed racist rhetoric....... (My Take - Well, he's a black Muslim Marxist, and I always find it amazing how blacks, Muslims and Marxists who not only spout hateful violence against whites, conservatives, Christians and Jews, but also violently act on their hate always.... always... demand censorship on everyone else calling their views.....among other things...... racist, Islamophobic or xenophobic.   His ilk are rioting, attacking people, pillaging and burning down the nation, yet he doesn't have one word of condemnation for that.  But he wants Le Pen censored for her "far right" views. RK)
2. Hand In Hand Toward The Abyss -  With massive state demand, Berlin and Paris hoped to escape the debt spiral. But economic data show that, in the end, not even statistical pseudo-growth remains. The pillars of the EU are crumbling amid structural failure.  Fateful weeks on the bond markets: The rise in French bond yields continues unabated. At the same time, German yields are falling -- the first wave of capital flight within the eurozone has begun. Investors are steering toward the supposedly safe harbor of Germany.............Hand in hand, Germany and France are steering toward the abyss -- with different domestic political goals, perhaps, but with the same fatal outcome: People are fleeing into the superstition of collectivism. They trust the political class rather than summoning the courage to follow Argentina’s example and smash the bureaucracy. In Argentina, 50,000 public-administration employees were dismissed, and the budget was repaired with a primary surplus. And the economy, too, got back on its feet.....................

Update, 10/31/26:

1. France Prepares For Third Weekend of Youth Unrest, 70,000 Police Officers Deployed -  France prepared Saturday for a third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and education, deploying 70,000 police and gendarmes and rerouting the Paris march to the capital’s edge as youth-led demonstrations spread across Europe.....

Update, 11/2/26:  

1. French State Will Cut Welfare Benefits to Rioters and Looters - Finally, France initiates consequences.  The French state has decided to cut welfare benefits to anyone convicted of taking part in riots and in looting. More on this welcome move can be found here: “France moves to cut welfare benefits for convicted looters and rioters,” by Carl Deconinck, Brussels Signal, October 20, 2026:.... (My Take - I'd say this falls under the category of "Whodathunkit?"  Has someone in France has grown a backbone?  Nah, as I see this as coverup and a distraction from the failure of the French government and the French people.  After all, if they've been not only been convicted of  rioting, but looting, drug trafficking and other crimes, why should they get any welfare benefits at all?  If a Charles Martel doesn't rise up in France, they're doomed.  RK)

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same

 By Rich Kozlovich

Some years back I created a page called Club For the Galacticly Stupid, and linked articles dealing with the idiotic things prominent politicians say and promote, with some comments of my own.  But that was just more work and stopped posting new links with the same kind of idiocy that seems to be chronic and incurable.   Well, I'm finding that page is being hit so I went back and started reading the links.  These links go back to 2012, 2013, and 2014, and nothing's changed, except some of these people have passed away.  But the fact remains..... you just can't fix stupid.  Some of these links no longer work so you will have take my word for what I'm presenting.... or not.... it's up to you.

 Let's start with SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor.  In 2014 the Michigan legislature passed a law forbidding racial discrimination in college admissions (yeah... Michigan's changed a lot in the last 12 years). But Sotomayor decided prohibiting racial discrimination is racial discrimination, which race hustler Attorney General Eric Holder thought was just fine and dandy.  Sotomayor owes Ketanji Brown Jackson as the latest court member a big... .big .... thank you. since now Sotomayor is no longer the dumbest member of the court. 

We're watching the current Justice Department go after politicians who've broken the law, and who were getting a pass from Obama and Biden.  The link to this article no longer works, but in 2014 Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee,  said that the nation’s current debt of $16.7 trillion dollars is not endangering the company  and thinks "some debt is not a bad idea".  An idea  other Democrats shared with him.  In 12 years that debt has spiraled to 40 trillion dollars, and Bloomberg reported there was no need to worry because the USA has an infinite amount of money.  It comes off printing presses.

Barney Frank compared al Qeada to the Tea Party, Senator Harry Reid told the press; "You guys have an obligation to report the democrats are right", and they agreed, and have acted according.  Yale mulled paying for students' sex change operations, and the President of the Club For the Galacticly Stupid, Maxine Walters claimed any sequester over the budget would cost America “over 170 million jobs”, which was interesting because at that time only 134 million people had jobs, and fewer than 113 million had full time jobs. 

Disgraced Charles Rangel who was censured by the House of Representatives for dodging his taxes sued to have his censure overturned.  I would be willing to bet that almost everyone else in the United States who dodged income taxes on rental property for 17 years, filed misleading documents knowingly to the IRS, failed to report three million in dealings from 2002 to 2006 and didn't list the earnings on the sale of property would have had to worry about a lot more than censure.  

He didn't go to jail, he didn't lose his seat in Congress, he didn't' pay the big fines ordinary citizens would have paid, and he is still whining. In fact two other prominent Democrats,  former Senator Tom Daschle and Tim Geithner who became Secretary of the Treasury all were also caught making “honest” or “careless” mistakes so none of them had to pay the penalties everyone else would have to pay. I'm just shocked he didn't declare that it was all inspired by racism.  Now we're seeing the same kind of idiocy in defense of Ilhan Omar.  No one is above the law, except Democrats.

Michelle Obama said   Walmart had a moral obligation to sell healthy foods, and she would decide what was healthy.  

Walmart has no moral responsibility other than to obey the law and honestly make as much money for their stockholders as they can.....which is coded in law and known as “ fiduciary responsibility”.....and that's it.   Get over it!

All this Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) claptrap these companies fall for is a clear demonstration that the guys at the top,  making the big bucks, are still capable of qualifying for the ‘Club of the Galacticly Stupid”.  When companies fail to properly identify why they are in business that is when things start to go wrong….just do your job and society can make all the other decisions.

Walmart already sold healthy foods.  I don’t care if its cake, candy, bacon or whatever else society wished to buy, the responsibility to decide what is healthy belongs to the public.  For people to be telling companies what they should be selling to society is a form of central planning, which has failed everywhere by everyone who has tried it.   It isn’t Walmart’s responsibility to tell people ‘what to buy’ it is their job to sell what the public ‘wants to buy’.   If there ever was a clear delineation between liberals (or whatever they wish to call themselves now) and conservatives this is it.  Conservatives who live a vegan lifestyle….if there are any…merely do it and keep it to themselves.  Leftists who live a vegan lifestyle aren’t happy until they can force everyone else to live one also.

I will say this.  If Michelle wishes to see that people only eat the kind of foods she approves of then let she and her friends collect enough money and buy Walmart and then sell what they deem proper......or moral as it were.  Or, if that is too expensive then start their own company in competition with Walmart and force them out of business by selling only what you determine is healthy.  I do so admire people act on their principles with their lives, money or both.  I'll be watching! 

Finally, I picked this one from 2012, and for obvious reasons.

Francois Hollande lurches Right in historic U-Turn to save French economy "bowed to massive pressure for business tax cuts to pull France’s economy out of slump and stave off industrial decline, ditching a core element of his socialist platform.   Company taxes will fall by €20bn a year equal to 1pc of GDP, to be phased in gradually by 2015 under a convoluted system of rebates."  

That was 14 years ago, Hollande, lasted five years and France is now a facing even a bigger disaster.   Think about this. The French have had a at least 13 primary forms of government and up to 20 if you include short term provisional controlling authorities since 1789.  In 237 years they've had, in one form or another, 20 ruling authorities in France.  That averaged out to one every 11.85 years.   If you only consider the 13 primary forms of government that averages out to one every 18.23 years. 

1. Constitutional Monarchy (1789–1792): Began with the Revolution and the limit of the king's power before the monarchy was abolished.  
2. First French Republic (1792–1804): Established after the king's overthrow, featuring the National Convention, The Terror, and the Directory, which ended with Napoleon's coup.
3. The Consulate (1799–1804): A transitional authoritarian regime led by Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul. 
4. First French Empire (1804–1814): Imperial rule under Napoleon I.
5. The Bourbon Restoration (1814–1815 / 1815–1830): The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Louis XVIII and Charles X (briefly interrupted by Napoleon's Hundred Days in 1815).
6. July Monarchy (1830–1848): A more liberal constitutional monarchy under King Louis-Philippe.
7. Second French Republic (1848–1852): A short-lived republic created after the 1848 revolution, ending in a coup by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.
8. Second French Empire (1852–1870): Imperial rule under Napoleon III.
9. Third French Republic (1870–1940): A long-lasting parliamentary republic that ended with the German invasion and defeat in World War II.
10. Vichy Regime / French State (1940–1944): An authoritarian collaborative puppet state led by Marshal Philippe Pétain, alongside the Free France government-in-exile.
11. Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–1946): A temporary post-liberation administration led by Charles de Gaulle.
12. Fourth French Republic (1946–1958): A parliamentary republic plagued by cabinet instability and the Algerian crisis. 
13. Fifth French Republic (1958–present): The current semi-presidential system established under Charles de Gaulle with a strengthened presidency.

The Fifth Republic championed by Charles de Gaulle, replaced weak legislative rule with a semi-presidential system featuring a strong executive branch designed to ensure political stability.  But this is France, and even Charles de Gaulle said:

"I have tried to left France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomiting.  I cannot prevent the French from being French"

"You see, there's nothing to be done in this country. The French will go back to vomiting. France will go down the drain. It will slide to the edge of the abyss. And then fate will conjure up a man who will put things right. As soon as he turns his back, rest assured, the mess will start all over again."

We may see the end of the Fifth Republic. 

 

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, another week has flown by and Power Line has published their weekly, "The Week In Pictures," edition.  As I've said in the past for some reason I can't copy and paste most of their pictures, so ..... here's my take on some of what they've presented, along with some observations of my own.  

It appears Ilhan Omar... or whatever her name really is.... isn't sure if she married her gay Muslim brother or not.  When asked if she married her brother she answered: "Not to my knowledge".  

Somali immigration has made it impossible for Manchester, England to feel like Pakistan any longer.  During the "student" riots in France it became obvious to the "mostly peaceful rioters" schools would not be fixed and Palestine would not be free without stealing Louis Vuitton handbags, along with a host of other items.   Once they had all they could steal they celebrated by burning down the shops that used to sell them.  The upside to this?  Those shops will never have to worry about being broken into again.  

Perhaps no one is seeing this properly.  Perhaps the real problem is in definition?  Is all this "mostly peaceful" violence and destruction really rioting, or is it sparkling social discontent?  Did it ever occur to anyone all this was actually started by Trump to be used as massive midterm campaign ad strategy for Republicans?  Just a thought. 

Life is about patterns and circles, and one pattern that seems to play out regularly is represented by this circle.  People vote for far left politicians and crime and poverty increases.  You don't feel safe so you move to another city, but refuse to change your voting habits and elect far left politicians, who create crime and poverty, making you fell unsafe, so you move..... well.... you get the picture circle.  

Ya just gotta chuckle at these leftist women who support Islamists.  The Islamists say they're going to enforce Sharia on western civilization by killing gays, bringing back slavery, striping women of their rights, and introduce child marriages.  Leftist women laugh and say, 'no you're not, you're brining peace and love to the world", and they're sure they can keep the rights western civilization accords them.  It's good to be sure.

A solution has been offered to end the rioting in France and fix the Palestinian problem.  A two state solution.  Split France in half and give half to the Palestinians, with the ethnic French providing all the needs of the Palestinian half.   Kinda like the deal the French made with the Nazis and Israel's doing in Gaza.  

It's been noted the IQ in France is dropping due to technology.  And that technology is called a rubber raft.  What is the real cause of migraine headaches?  Listening to leftists for too long.  These are the people who called the police on people for not wearing masks and complain we're living in a police state.

Here's a snarky satirical video about Tucker Carlson asking why WWII was even fought, where it's being claimed both Hitler and Stalin were great guys and that darned Churchill was nothing but a trouble maker.  Satire isn't meant to deceive, it's meant to expose realities and absurdities, but most of the time satire isn't far off from reality.  

One final thought.  Talarico claims he's a true Christian.  But, if that was so, would the Democrats still support him?