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As Lev Grossman wrote in The Magicians: “If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, wishing doesn’t make it so.” Something that should be learned by Progressives in Congress.

Michael Goodwin, quite correct as usual on Saturday, June 4, writes about how The Gray Lady, the New York Times, is finally admitting the nation’s crime wave is out of control, requiring confrontation. Reiterating the newspaper’s agenda-setting role for the left, he believes “this one has the potential to be immediately consequential.”

The most amazing part of Goodwin’s analysis is where major complaints are now coming from. Headlined, ’Democrats Are Feeling The Pressure On Crime From Their Own Base,’ stressed is what he calls “police reform” giving way to a plague of violence, one of the biggest pushes for change now “largely from people of color.” 

“Citing Dem campaigns in Baltimore, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Seattle,” another reporter, Alexander Burns, concludes that motivation is not just Republican attacks but rather “mounting outcry from Black, Hispanic and Asian-American communities.” 

Often mentioned before, the far-left consistently demonstrates extremely limited intellect, habitually creating or promoting issues appearing worthwhile to them at the outset, but eventually blowing irreparable holes in their platform due to irrationality.

Combined short-sightedness and stupidity could not be seen more clearly than the current war on fossil-fuels, shutting down production with no viable replacement. As a result, their agenda will be terminated completely when Republicans take back control of Congress in November. Simply because the far-left’s political hatred always outweighs even the smallest indication of plain old common sense.

Far-left demand for police reform has enabled crime to rise across the nation in Democrat controlled populations, not even considering that one's most harmed are “largely people of color.” Outcry’s now come "from Black, Hispanic and Asian-American communities.“  With more of those areas now also voting Republican in far larger numbers.

Another long-range problem for the far-left stems from open-borders. Leadership apparently not considering that many of those freely entering the country are likely to succeed financially, one way or another. And when that happens, just like the minorities complaining about far-left crime policy today, they too will most like vote Republican in the future.

Thus, the real problem for the far-left is a failure to comprehend the American Dream themselves. Resulting in a consistent striving to bring third-world political theory to a population not only succeeding quite well in a free society, but strongly desiring to do so.

Another probable statistical problem for the far-left comes down to sheer arithmetic. “Gallup's latest update on lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender identification finds 5.6% of U.S. adults identifying as LGBT. The current estimate is up from 4.5% in Gallup's previous update based on 2017 data.”

“Currently, 86.7% of Americans say they are heterosexual or straight, and 7.6% do not answer the question about their sexual orientation. Gallup's 2012-2017 data had roughly 5% "no opinion" responses.

“More than half of LGBT adults (54.6%) identify as bisexual. About a quarter (24.5%) say they are gay, with 11.7% identifying as lesbian and 11.3% as transgender.”

Breaking the data down further, if only 24.5% of gays are truly so, that means there are roughly a miniscule 1.37% LGBT’s in the total population. Nonetheless, where they’ve evidently situated themselves has provided voluminous influence. An example of which surfaced routinely while researching statistics.

Advice is given to teachers, as follows:

5 Things You Can Do to Support Your LGBTQ Students

1. Post Safe Space Signs. You can designate your classroom a "safe zone" through stickers or posters on your classroom door. ...
2. Start an LGBTQ Organization at Your School. ...
3. Stand Up Against Homophobia. ...
4. Integrate LGBTQ Topics into the Curriculum. ...
5. Pursue Professional Development.

Taken purely on face value of the language itself, it seems there’s a definitive effort to promote LGBTQ as if it were a cause, up to and including “Stand[ing] Up Against Homophobia.”

The statistics also suggest perhaps why teachers groups and unions were so much against parental involvement in curriculum and subject matter covered in classrooms. Particularly during Covid when now housebound parents were able to see, perhaps for the first time, what was being promoted to their offspring in public schools. In fact, it was curricula like the preceding that helped elect Glenn Youngkin as Republican Governor of Virginia. He strongly supported opening classrooms to parental observation and review of curricula.

Thus, what’s occurring at present is increasing deterioration of the far-left’s platform as it deconstructs issue by issue. Out-of-control crime waves in strongly Democrat cities highlighted today, along with exposure of out of proportion LGBTQ influence in public schools. As at the same time, illegal border crossings continually mount as purposeless rise in the cost of oil spurs run-away inflation.

All of which goes back to Lev Grossman’s opening comment today from The Magicians: “If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, wishing doesn’t make it so.” Already true to a great extent for the far-left, it will be proven undeniably in November when Republican hordes will show up at voting booths everywhere across the nation.

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Several times over the past couple of years, Rush’s thoughts were posted concerning his belief that some kind of national split or separation was increasingly possible, today’s political left and right having such dramatically different credos and objectives. He had no specifics about what form the split would take, only that it seemed logically imminent.

And now, today, Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com, writes: “A new poll shows 44 percent of Americans believe the nation is headed toward another civil war – with a majority of Republicans believing it will happen.

“The data comes in a new poll by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which also found support for the 'Great Replacement Theory' referenced by the shooter who opened fire in a Buffalo supermarket last month.

“A total of 44 percent agree with the statement that the nation 'seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,' according to the poll. That includes 53 per cent of Republicans and 39 per cent of Democrats.”

“The poll by the group and Tulchin Research came in late April, before the horrific mass shooting in Buffalo, where the assailant's digital postings were filled with conspiratorial and racist ramblings. Nearly seven in ten agreed that left wing politicians were deliberately driving economic changes to gain power by 'replacing more conservative white voters' – terminology that suggests people are being 'replaced' by non-white voters coming into the country. 

'What we found was a great deal of hostility for people on the other side of the political aisle,' according to SPLC. 'A majority of both Republicans and Democrats believe their political opponents pose a threat to the country and want to harm their political opponents. That kind of animosity could fuel partisan violence.”

The poll results adding substance to Rush’s predictions, unfamiliarity led to homework on both Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research. According to Wikipedia: “The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs. It was founded by Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin Jr., and Julian Bond in 1971 as a civil rights law firm in Montgomery, Alabama. Bond served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979.”

As for Tulchin, “In March 2010, Tulchin Research was named as the top new Democratic political consulting firm of the year by the American Association of Political Consultants.”

While discovery of both organizations makeup indicates a likelihood of strong bias, there is still considerable probability of validity to their findings. That led to further research on the topics of potential national separation and polling itself.

First comes a long and somewhat complex response from a reader, Lewis Lester, providing quite helpful background on the subject: “It’s unfortunate that polling can’t include an algorithm that accounts for increased or decreased support that is irrelevant. About half of Mr. Trumps poll improvement seems to be in places where it will not make any difference. We learned from 2016 that elections are decided by very specific conditions. We learned that you can take a state like Michigan concentrating on a number of key counties. This is to say the static vote generally remains the same in counties that have been red or blue for three contiguous Congressional elections by more than 10%. A congressional election has a maximum number of voters and has an historic turnout tracking number.

“Some districts actually have weak turnout because the “winner assumption“ is somewhat firm.

“In Michigan for example there are counties that would respond to a National poll but feel there is no need to vote, when you use these factors you will find that the more solid the district the less likely to vote. For about 20 years Republicans convinced voters to vote even though the vote could be hopeless or the vote could be surplus. While the polling is likely accurate and interesting it is becoming less predictive because of these intense micro conditions not being accounted for, someday we will be able to use a bank of questions to find areas that are susceptible to change or as the Trump/Russia group found out susceptible to manipulation.

“Micro lying is the only way to describe what happened.

“The base data was stolen from DNC voters lists, and the issues were researched to misrepresent the facts in a specific fashion to change voters preferences. With the internet you can codify 10 issues and then find the voters that would be responsive. The idea is to not effect specific voters but to find the pockets of voters susceptible to one or two of the specific issues from the 10 different manipulations.”

Thus, what reader Lester is saying is that cleverly timed or placed polling data can be employed to affect voter interest or turnout, thereby swinging electoral results effectively. With that empowerment carrying so much weight, it then becomes quite important as to whom exactly the pollster is.

Further research led to Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com a “website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging. The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college was founded on March 7, 2008, as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. In August 2010, the blog became a licensed feature of The New York Times online and renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus.

Back on March 21, 2021, Silver wrote: “But while polling accuracy was mediocre in 2020, it also wasn’t any sort of historical outlier. The overall average error of 6.3 points in 2019-20 is only slightly worse than the average error across all polls since 1998, which is 6.0 points. There were also presidential years before the period our pollster ratings cover, such as in 1948 and 1980, when the polls exhibited notably larger errors than in 2020.”

Following that, Silver rated pollsters as follows:

What should provide Republicans some confidence and reassurance is that Rasmussen, stalwart pollster for them, is among the most reliably accurate in the nation. While at the same time, leftist leaning Quinnipiac, Monmouth and ABC News/The Washington Post are among the very worst.

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A couple of recent rays of light have appeared despite the darkness and gloom of Biden’s administration. Heidi Przybla reports @polico.com, about a plan “as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts”

In this way, the committee hopes to “rectify an imbalance in favor of Democratic election workers in large urban areas, particularly Detroit, a city that votes reliably Democratic by more than 90 percent. Just 170 of more than 5,400 Detroit election officials were Republicans in 2020, according to the RNC."

“Matthew Seifried, the RNC’s election integrity director for Michigan, “also said the RNC will hold “workshops” and equip poll workers with a hotline and website developed by Zendesk, a software support company used by online retailers, which will allow them to live-chat with party attorneys on Election Day. In a May 2022 training session, he said he’d achieved a goal set last winter: More than 5,600 individuals had signed up to be poll workers and, several days ago, he submitted an initial list of more than 850 names to the Detroit clerk.

“Democrat Janice Winfrey, who serves as the clerk, would be bound to pick names from the list submitted by the party under a local law intended to ensure bipartisan representation and an unbiased team of precinct workers.”

RNC spokesperson Gates McGavick explained: “Democrats have had a monopoly on poll watching for 40 years, and it speaks volumes that they’re terrified of an even playing field. The RNC is focused on training volunteers to take part in the election process because polling shows that American voters want bipartisan poll-watching to ensure transparency and security at the ballot box.”

“In the introduction graphic on his training presentation, Seifried says the RNC’s goal is to “make it easy to vote and HARD TO CHEAT.”

 

What’s encouraging is that as more efforts such as these are implemented across the nation, the odds of a candidate who didn’t bother to campaign, such as Biden, decrease quite significantly.

On another encouraging front, Trump’s acting Director of National Intelligence, Ric Grenell, told Charles Kim @newsmax.com, “he is eager" to see the "Russiagate" investigation by special counsel John Durham get to former FBI Director Jim Comey.”

Grenell was reacting to Bill Clinton’s wife’s attorney, Michael Sussmann's, acquittal for lying to the FBI in the first court trial of the Durham investigation into the origin of the fake Russia collusion narrative that dominated Trump's first term in office.

While the results of the trial itself were quite depressing to Republican hopefuls, Grenell put the outcome in perspective, saying, “"We live in a country where no one is above the law, and this political partisanship that's going on in Washington, D.C., where three Clinton donors and an AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.] donor all get together with the judge who's married to someone who represented Lisa Page, somehow tries to tell the rest of America that we have a really clean, honest, legal system, and I think that the American people can see it," Grenell said. "They know that it's phony, and we got to clean it up, so I'm not going to stop until we prosecute Jim Comey. I think he is guilty. I've seen the evidence, and he needs to be prosecuted."

Whereas Grenell’s experience and insider knowledge provide considerable ability regarding future probabilities, his opinion carries significant weight. And if he still believes Comey vulnerable, that means the chance must surely still exist. With even more exhilaration arising from his stating “I'm not going to stop until we prosecute Jim Comey.”

Considering what remains in the balance, it’s beyond hopeful that estimations of Grenell’s capabilities are correct.

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Michael Goodwins column today @nypost.com addresses Biden’s internal problems currently surfacing with White House staff, frustrated by constant correction from them. The column itself is extremely well-written as usual, but it’s his readers comments that provide a sense of reassurance that voters are surely well-aware of who, how and what is responsible for the nation’s current condition.

Reader Brooklyn Kidd chose to reflect on what Biden inherited as a starting point. The recap underscores just how far Biden has sunk the nation from what he was handed upon inauguration: “This is what I stated Nov. 7th 2020. Today is nearly a week after the 2020 election. Gasoline is currently $1.99 - $2.09 per gallon. Interest rates are 2.65 percent for a 30 year mortgage. The stock market closed at 27,848, even though we have been fighting the COVID for 9 months. Our GDP growth for the 3rd Qtr was 33 percent. We had the best economy ever until COVID and it is recovering well. We have not had any new wars or conflicts in the last 4 years. North Korea has been under control and has not been testing any missiles. Isis has not been heard from for over 3 years. The housing market is the strongest I have ever seen. Homes have appreciated at an unbelievable rate and sell within hours of going on the market, with multiple offers. Let's see if China Biden can even come close to holding that.....doubtful.”

SPANKY LALAVERTURE  responded: “Even come close" would be acceptable compared to what he's giving us, I live in the Northeast and have great fears about the escalating border crisis!”

Cesare Beccaria added: “Biden: Illegal aliens coming over the border are given a new smartphone, cash, a court date and transport to the city of their choice plus vouchers for hotels in that city.

Trump era: Stay in Mexico until your court date.”

 Diane Trudeau provided perspective regarding Biden’s expectations: “Excellent Mr Goodwin-I believe Biden thought he would be elected and be able to coast through his term because he thought everyone loved him-how wrong he was. He destroyed all the good Trump did-let the squad dictate to him-including de-fund the police-open the borders-ditch our gas supplies-etc and he thought the pandemic was over-I won't even get into Putin. Look at where we are-it will take years for some to recover from HIS inflation-coming at the time of the pandemic, which we are still reeling from. Baby formula-his answer was he was not a mind reader-it started last fall! He planned to sit in the office and weekend at the beach-and we are all paying for his clown reign.”

And then there’s an insightful but disturbing posting from MarkinVT: “The "staff clearing up his mistakes" can be attributed to Obama running the White House, and Joe realizing he's not really in charge. But if he pushes against Obama, he'll find himself impeached--by Democrats who'll finally impose the 25th amendment. I'd watch for a Kamala presidency after the midterms. She's more Obama's protege than the irascible fuzzy-headed Joe Biden.

Followed by an absolutely accurate response from reader Paul Gordon: ‘But she’s an imbecile and everyone knows it. That’s Biden’s personal safety net.”

And one more scarily true thought from BxIrishCath: “It’s reached the point where I don’t even have the energy to get mad at this guy anymore. He has no cogent capacity. I think President Klain gives him a daily shot of vitamin B and somehow gets him to stick to the script utilizing cue cards, teleprompters and hand puppets. If Biden was John Q. Public he would not be allowed to drive. This may be the worst case of elder abuse of all time.”

Some sobering words regarding political platform came from reader Dorien Grey, who in one short paragraph encapsulated what today’s voters are feeling everywhere: “Since when does climate change and social Justice feed anyone! Let alone the poor and new immigrants! California my former home is going deeper into bankruptcy ! And crime even in the safe wealthy neighborhoods! Hell there are now no drugstores in Downtown SF! Insanity!”

Then, two more readers added to the affirmation of voter awareness across the nation. Common Sense wrote: “I keep thinking the Democrats are going to pull one more illegal stunt and all hell is going to break loose! Just my opinion, because I have never seen anything like this in my life . All the actions they have taken have caused high cost on everything, along with open borders , high crime and destruction of the county !

“Now they are talking about gun control when New Yorkers can't take the subway safely! Stores are being shop lifted and crime is running rampant ! What next ?”

Jigzsaw replied to Common Sense, confirming that voters know precisely what results to expect from the administration's current agenda: “Riots for Roe v. wade if the decision goes against their wishes. Gas rationing. A change in your eating habits due to food prices. High unemployment in restaurants and vacation venues. People are going to be tightening up this summer. Little driving due to gas prices. Increase in depression/suicide. All designed to keep the people down and under control. Then government checks will be issued (again) to “help” the people but really to get us more dependent on government. I hate to sound so bleak, but isn’t some of this already happening?”

And then, as well-written a summary as one is able to find anywhere from reader Guy Montante: “Joe Biden has been lying his entire political career. He knows no other way. He’s a fraud & has been installed to run this country into the ground. Deep state couldn’t stomach a non politician taking the White House & making good on actual promises like never before. Trump has embarrassed the entire establishment by showing how lazy & all talk no action they all were. We had four years of prosperity, happiness & peace throughout the world. Trump had all the leaders in his pocket. He ran America like a well oiled machine with his business sense & experience. The deep state harassed him from day one without success & still he was able to keep promises & move this country forward. They had to make sure he did not continue his incredible legacy & installed a banana & corrupt administration to reverse all great things & make hard working tax paying American citizens suffer & pick up the tab for their over bloated spending & disastrous planning. The world knows & sees the truth. That’s a fact. Joe Biden crime family along with Pelosi crime family & an incompetent administration & associates are filling their coffers as they rip the fabric of this country to shreds. Truth!”

Taken together, Goodwin’s readers on one hand provide reassurance that despite control of the White House, Congress and the mainstream media, there is a very strong base of intelligent, aware and insightful voters patiently waiting for November’s arrival and the stemming of Biden’s irrational agenda through Republican takeovers in perhaps both Houses. The key word being “patiently.”

Because on the other hand, if takeovers for some reason don’t occur, and Progressive policies continue as they are, there’s no telling what this intelligent, aware and insightful population will do in response. The chances are; however, it won’t be quiet and it won’t be pretty.

That’s it for today folks.

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Researching material several months before the 2016 presidential election, an undercurrent was sensed that Trump had a very good chance of winning. Various non-mainstream websites, along with two or three polls showed him doing quite well particularly in “fly-over country,” the middle-America basically ignored by the mainstream-media. Trump supporters most often provided insight, noting his platform appealed to basic wishes of typical voters.

Mention of Trump’s possibilities typically resulted in disbelief from others, some choosing to reel off all the reasons a Trump win was impossible. After all he was running against  Bill Clinton’s wife they said, a virtual shoo-in. Others tried humoring, to soften the effects of the upcoming loss, whereas their belief was Trump had no chance.

This is mentioned today, because a couple of articles contain the same kind of indicators observed before the previous dramatic presidential election upset.

Eric Mack writes @newsmax.com, about Attorney General Bill Barr’s appearance on  "The Glenn Beck Podcast," saying: "I think whatever you think of Trump the fact is the whole Russiagate thing was a grave injustice. It appears to be a dirty political trick too. Used first to hobble him, then potentially to drive him from office."

“The Durham investigation reveals the Clinton campaign and related operatives worked to spin a political "narrative" against Trump, according to Barr, who told Beck: "I believe it is seditious, yes."

"Whether that can be proved in court as a crime is one issue, but I think people are now coming to see what actually happened," he continued.
"It was a gross injustice and it hurt the United States in many ways, including what we're seeing in Ukraine these days. It distorted our foreign policy."
"I felt that the president was not getting his due as president. He was entitled, having won the election, to implement his administration, and they worked, they had him on the ropes."

Barr then resigned when he says he “could not stand behind Trump's continued effort to hold Democrats to account for election fraud Jan. 6, which he compared to "intimidation" like Democrats and abortion activists are pushing with the protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.”
"One branch of government shouldn't be using a mob to intimidate another branch of government," Barr said.

Despite Barr’s personal misgivings, however, at the time of Trump’s questioning the election results, there was considerable refusal to accept them across the nation whereas voter fraud was suspected.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson put it this way, “doubling down on his pro-Trump narratives, outright accusing the left of rigging the election and peddling Trump’s voting-machine conspiracy theory in his latest election rant.

“Democrats used the coronavirus to change the system of voting. They vastly increased the number of mail-in ballots because they knew their candidates would benefit from less secure voting, and they were right,” he continued.

They used the courts to neutralize the Republican party’s single most effective get-out-the-vote operation, which for generations had been the National Rifle Association. Not enough has been written about this, but anyone on the ground saw it. Thanks to legal harassment from the left, the NRA played a vastly reduced role in the election, and that made a huge difference in swing states like Pennsylvania and others.”

“But above all, Democrats harnessed the power of big tech to win this election. Virtually all news in the English speaking world travels through a single company: Google. A huge percentage of our political debates take place on Facebook and Twitter. If you use technology to censor the ideas that people are allowed to express online, ultimately you control how the population votes, and that’s exactly what they did. They rigged the election in front of all of us, and nobody did anything about it.”

Similarly, although not “rigging,” a similar result is attained through crossover voting where permitted in primary’s. “An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters. Even taking into account the limited sample of early votes, the data reveal that crossover voters were consequential in defeating Trump’s hand-picked candidates for secretary of state and, to a lesser extent, governor.

“Crossover voting, also known as strategic voting, is not exclusive to Georgia this primary season as voters across the political spectrum work to stop Trump-backed extremists from winning control of state and federal governments. The phenomenon is playing out in multiple primary contests, sometimes organically and sometimes in response to a coordinated effort by Trump’s opponents.

“On the forefront of the crossover movement, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has called for an “uneasy alliance” between Democrats, independents and Republicans to take down pro-Trump candidates in GOP primaries whenever and wherever possible. Some states have open primaries like Georgia that allow people to vote in either primary, while other states have more restrictive rules.

 “In an interview, Kinzinger said he was pleasantly surprised by the Democrats’ response in some races. He said he never expected the movement to be an “earth-shattering game-changer” right away.
“Kinzinger’s political organization, Country First, targeted thousands of former Georgia Democrats with mailers and text messages urging them to support Republican candidates for “sake of democracy.”

Beyond the importance of the following text itself, another anti-Trump factor is the clear bias illustrated in the writing’s tone: “Trump warned conservatives about crossover voting while campaigning Saturday in Wyoming, another state where the former president’s opponents are calling for Democrats to intervene — this time to help save Rep. Liz Cheney from a Trump-backed primary challenger. Cheney, like Raffensperger and Kemp, refused to embrace Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. She also voted for his second impeachment after the Jan. 6 insurrection.”

Here, instead of simply reporting about the primary itself, the Associated Press adds their clearly biased ideology in adding the words “Trump’s lies about the 2020 election,” unnecessary to the reporting. Also adding the difficulty of extrapolating what is factual reporting and what is political preference. 

Nevertheless, the data speaks for itself. Because regardless of how Bill Barr believes Trump should have handled his suspicions regarding voter fraud at the time of the election, they were likely correct. Tucker Carlson certainly provided strongly supporting evidence. While at the same time, crossover voting in primary’s produces artificially inflated results for Trump’s adversaries. All in all, developing the same kind of sense arising just prior to Trump’s win the first time, when almost none other than this writer put the array of disparate pieces of victory together.

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Rethinking Friday’s posting raised thoughts that continually referring to the Biden administration as “stupid” was perhaps out-of-line, overly insulting or unnecessarily applied. Then, in compiling information for today, the word coming to mind most often about presidential decisions made is “stupid.”

Memories too were sparked of Robert Gates, defense secretary for the Obama administration saying of Biden: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

For today, another recollection regards the term “marketing myopia” coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt who wrote in a 1960 article: “Marketing myopia strikes in when the short-term marketing goals are given more importance than the long-term goals. Some examples are: More focus on selling rather than building relationships with the customers. Predicting growth without conducting proper research. Mass production without knowing the demand.”

What Levitt was saying was that if, for example, had horse and buggy manufacturers understood and accepted the automobile as the wave of the future, instead of disparaging the competition they would have built the cars themselves and become titans of the future.

In the same vein, it doesn’t take much research to determine that due to the myopic approach taken by the administration, compounded by the limited intellectual capabilities of Progressives in Congress, handling of fossil fuel transition was incredibly inept to the point that “stupid” applies once again.  

Primarily because at present, viable alternatives for fossil fuels don’t even exist. Neither in price nor availability. Nonetheless, in irrational hatred and as a show of newly given power, fossil fuel was slated for elimination in any way possible. Prohibitive pricing became the first step taken.

Had any thought or analysis been applied whatsoever, it would have been realized that in 2020 only 6% of new car sales were electric out of over 3.4 million cars sold in total. Meaning that somehow or other, 3,196,000 gas-powered auto buyers would have had to have been accommodated some other way. Yet, that “other way” didn’t even exist at the time.

While sales of new light-duty plug-in electric vehicles, including all-electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), nearly doubled from 308,000, the total wasn’t even a drop in the bucket against the total volume of vehicles sold. 

And then there’s the issue of price. “The average transaction price for an electric vehicle (EV) is $56,437, according to Kelley Blue Book — roughly $10,000 higher than the overall industry average of $46,329 that includes gas and EVs.” Which means that pricewise an EV is equivalent to an entry-level luxury car.

Some other issues discovered in researching the subject include: “Keeping the inside of the vehicle warm in winter is usually the biggest drain on EV range, especially when ambient temperatures plunge below 15° F. Lithium-ion batteries used in EVs also do not perform as well in cold temperatures, which can lead to further range reductions.”

Electric cars also tend to cost more to insure than comparable gasoline or diesel fueled. Because large batteries are expensive to replace if the car is damaged.

What happens if an electric car runs out of charge?

If you're driving an electric car and it runs out of power, the short and simple answer is: the car will stop—and you'll need to call roadside assistance to get towed to the nearest charging station. Distance-wise, “the median range of new EV models sold in the United States decreased for the 2021 model year, according to the EPA. For the 2021 model year, the median range for EVs was 234 miles, compared to 259 miles for the 2020 model year.”

Mechanically, according to J.D. Power, Tesla vehicles had an average of 176 mechanical faults per 100, compared to 121 for the industry. Tesla ranked 30th out of 33 brands featured in a J.D. Power Vehicle Dependability Survey released January 13, 2022.

Then, when repair is required, Tesla vehicles are quite expensive to fix. According to RepairPal, "the average yearly Tesla maintenance cost is about $832. The average among all car brands was a much lower $652 per year. Also having the third-worst reliability score among all automakers as of April 16, 2022."

Higher price tags and more complex equipment means it also may cost more to repair or replace electric vehicles if they’re in an accident. It can also mean higher rates for comprehensive and collision insurance coverage.

Despite higher costs of purchase, repair and replacement, for those desiring electric vehicles there still remains availability because not enough are manufactured. So, what about a used one?

On April 15, 2022, Aarian Marshall reported @www.wired.com: EV’s are “supposed to lose their value over time. This is why used cars are, generally, less expensive than new ones. But right now, everything is topsy-turvy. A toxic mix of pandemic-era supply shortages and inflation have spiked prices of used cars and trucks, which were up 35 percent in March compared to the same time last year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s not unusual for certain used luxury cars, like Porsches and Corvettes, to go for more than their original sticker prices, says Luke Walch, the owner of Green Eyed Motors, a dealership outside Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in electric and hybrid vehicles. Now, “it’s trickled down into the commoner’s car,” he says.”

Thus, affordability appears once again, this time because those unable to buy a new EV find that used vehicles cost even more than that, leaving them nowhere at all to turn for purchase.

What’s most remarkable about all this is that the preceding information regarding impossibilities of accommodating presidential and Progressive demands for the switching away from fossil fuel took a couple of hours to accumulate, readily available across the web. But either the information was ignored or never researched by them at all, in the balance costing everyday drivers of fossil-fuel powered vehicles billions of dollars and themselves hundreds of thousands of votes.

In summation, it seems Obama said it best regarding Biden as recorded in Business Insider by Thomas Colson on August 16, 2020: “Barack Obama has privately voiced doubts about the ability of Joe Biden, his former vice president, to beat President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a new Politico report.

“The report says Obama told an unnamed Democrat during the 2020 primary campaign, in which he declined to endorse any candidate: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f--- things up."

That’s it for today folks

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Some very valuable habits regarding competition are attained from a sales career. Such as specific reviews or analysis of why individual sales are won or lost. Study of selling situations eventually develops into a virtual diary or “encyclopedia” regarding one’s profession. It also becomes a handbook of sorts, concerning competitors themselves. Knowing what to expect from others, their habits and traits, extremely helpful when encountering them in the field, provides a significant advantage.

In this writer’s case, a personal diary containing industry information of all types along with competitor profiles and technical notes eventually became a book, Selling Equipment Leasing, published by the AMACOM Books Division of the American Management Association in 1994 and still sold on Amazon today.

In its own way, blogging too permits development of a similar knowledge base regarding many of the subjects discussed, particularly politics. And it is in that area the realization arose that over time, encyclopedic troves of information have been gathered here regarding political competitors capabilities, strengths, weaknesses and habitual tendencies. Within that scope, two particular traits stand out among Progressives: Arrogance and stupidity.

Arrogance is consistently shown by Biden who most often talks down to the press, appearing unable to comprehend why his utterings are not immediately accepted as gospel by this irritating, unruly group. But it is across the entire party where true stupidity is evidenced.

Upon taking office in 2021, Progressives had license to institute policy as they chose. Their objective being reversal of any and all governance deemed “Conservative,” or related in any way to Trump. However, their rise to power being so sudden and unexpected, aside from platform and electioneering no administrative framework truly existed.

The intelligent procedure for them, then, would have been to gradually wind down existent policy, replacing what was there incrementally upon proof of performance. Instead, however, not only were legislative rugs pulled out from under so abruptly, the absence of viable replacements worsened the effects.

There was no need, other than political grandstanding, for Biden to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline on day one in office. Whereas no viable replacement for fossil fuels exists, parallel development of alternative energy would have been the proper managerial approach. Keystone cancellation, though, was done in such a grandiose way, political ammunition was provided to foes as a gift. Biden’s self-congratulation then, was spectacularly “stupid.”

It's one thing to open the southern border, exposing the nation to untold costs and threats. But it’s quite another to fabricate invasive events taking place, particularly when live news coverage exposes the actual happenings. But rather than making the slightest effort to even appear interested in protection, obvious attempts are made to distort the facts. Thus, a quite appropriate term for the reality is “stupid.”

While inflation continues to increase living costs for all, resultant of an attack on use of fossil fuel, the administration blames whatever possible happening for rising prices. Here, Progressives could have easily applied the facts, that alternative energy sources being developed would replace what exists when viable. But instead, the approach is taken to make gasoline unaffordable, building animosity completely across the voting public. There is no other classification for that decision better than “stupid.”

And what about defunding the police with no form of replacement whatsoever? Citizenries of major cities, most of them Progressive strongholds, are now fearful of walking their own streets, while those able are moving to safer places. So this one's a double-whammy, as one’s staying where they are become subject to voting for others, while those relocating are building the bases of law enforcement candidates elsewhere. Whereas this situation is well known, continual defunding movements by Progressives is truly beyond “stupid.”

Poll results shown @apnews.com reflect on Biden as representative of Progressive performance, as follows: “President Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party.

“Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s performance as president, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Research, dipping from already negative ratings a month earlier.”

While these new lows reflect known dissatisfaction with Biden and his party’s poor performance, his reaction to the results is positively astounding. He firmly maintains that policy will remain in place and that it is the public's inability to grasp his successes that is at fault, not the policies themselves. And by taking a stance that for political purposes, flies in the face of proven reality, Progressives remove all chance of reelection. Not just shooting themselves in the foot, but just about blowing it off completely.

Now, that’s really pretty stupid.

That’s it for today folks.

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