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News floodgates open
After a week of sitting around waiting for news, the floodgates opened on Tuesday. Someday in the future, historians (if we have any real historians by then) may look back at November 15, 2022, as a key turning point that greatly impacted America’s future, and the world’s – whether for better or worse is not yet clear. Let me run down just a few of the momentous stories.
The splashiest news, of course, was former President Trump’s announcement that he is running for President again in 2022. More on that in a minute. But the most consequential at this moment might be that Decision Desk HQ projected that Republican Kevin Kiley won California’s 3rd Congressional District, clinching the 218th seat for the GOP and the House majority. As Trump happily put it in his speech, that means that Nancy Pelosi is fired.
It also means that while Biden and the Senate Democrats might be able to force some of his terrible appointments onto America, the radical left’s anti-American legislative agenda is (barring any crossover Republicans having a political death wish) dead, at least for the next two years.
Later, GOP Rep. Mike Garcia won his race in California District 27 by 54-45%, bringing the Republican House majority up to 219. To show how the counting is being slow-walked to postpone the inevitable, Garcia won by 54-45% and declared victory the day after the election, but it still took this long for anyone else to call it.
There are still 13 outstanding races, and estimates are that the GOP majority could end up at 221 or higher. Bigger would be better, but a majority is a majority. The Republicans will be making committee appointments, launching investigations and handing out subpoenas (and Democrats had better comply or it's off to prison...THEIR rules!) And no matter whether the margin is large or small, Pelosi is just as fired either way. So just thank God there’s finally someone in DC to apply the brakes. That’s truly a result worth celebrating.
Among the other news with potential monumental consequences for the future was a report that two stray Russian missiles crossed the Ukrainian border and exploded in Przewodów, Poland, killing two Polish citizens. Poland is a NATO nation, and this could potentially trigger a NATO counter attack on Russia.
Fortunately, that seems unlikely, as NATO leaders are trying to keep cooler heads than Putin. They no doubt remember how World War I started and are keen to avoid a sequel. For American public school students whose “history” classes consisted of being told that America invented slavery, I should explain that one radical who got in a lucky shot on the street killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and that sparked a series of events that engulfed all of Europe. Nobody wants that kind of conflagration again, but Putin keeps playing with fire, so who knows what could happen?
While some are already rattling swords, other leaders are urging caution, since this story is still murky. Russia denies firing the missiles, and Ukraine’s defense minister doubts from their trajectory that they came from Russia.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/11/16/missile-update-n2616016
There are claims that the Russian rockets might have been diverted by Ukrainian anti-missile weapons, or be a false flag operation. As this post at Gateway Pundit shows, some people are suggesting even more convoluted hidden conspiracy motives that extend to the collapse of that crypto currency billionaire Democrat donor.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/russia-just-strike-poland-no-ukraine/
Please note that I’m not endorsing these claims, I’m just pointing out that it would be a good idea to know exactly who did what and why before we rush into World War III over it.
And now, back to the initial story that could have a major impact on our future: Donald Trump’s plan to become the 21st Century's Grover Cleveland (again, for US public school history students: he was the only President to lose an election, then come back to defeat the incumbent and win a non-sequential term…so far. By the way, Cleveland’s return had populist support because the economic policies of the guy who’d beaten him, Benjamin Harrison, had made prices too high. Sound familiar?)
While I still believe it would have been better for Trump to hold his announcement until after the Georgia Senate run-off, I was heartened to see that if he's going to run again, he kicked it off in the way I wrote about here just a few days ago. It was an unusually “presidential” speech for Trump, with no attacks on fellow Republicans (he even urged everyone to turn out and vote for Herschel Walker) and an emphasis on his original winning platform of recognizing the problems of the working men and women of America due to Biden’s awful policies and how he planned to fix things. (At this point, it would be a relief to vote for someone who just knows what a man and a woman are, another topic Trump touched on when he vowed to bar men from women’s school sports.)
He reminded listeners of the tremendous successes he achieved that the media did their level best to hide and deny, but he didn’t dwell on the past (and thankfully, never brought up the 2020 election – I agree it was unfair, but it’s time to move past it.) Trump talked of a brighter future and how much greater things can be for America again once we get out of the ditch the leftists have driven us into. And he reminded listeners that he knew how to do that because he’d done it before.
Some critics missed the uninhibited, shoot-from-the-hip ad libs of Trump's rally speeches.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2022/11/16/trump-shocks-the-world-by-nearly-putting-us-to-sleep-n659519
But this wasn’t a red meat rally. Overall, I thought the tone and content were spot-on. If he can just maintain that level of control for two years (admittedly, it will be tough), and cut through the incredibly biased media coverage to communicate directly with the people, he could be unbeatable.
I spoke about this last night with Rob Schmitt on Newsmax TV. You can read about that conversation and see the video here:
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-2024-presidential/2022/11/15/id/1096597/
And here’s an article by another commentator who had the same reaction.
Side note about the Washington Post headline in that link above: “Trump, who as President fomented an insurrection, says he is running again.” Wow, there’s some solid journalism! I just wrote yesterday about today’s reporters who would flunk Journalism 101, who don’t know the difference between an accusation by a partisan source and an established fact. I was promised a mountain of evidence that Trump deliberately fomented an insurrection by the January 6th kangaroo kommittee. That entire disgraceful chapter of Congress is about to be shoveled onto the ash heap of history, and I’m still waiting to see it.
And speaking of WaPo, while they were loudly tarring Trump with an unproven accusation, elsewhere in their fishwrap, they very quietly admitted that their previous accusation against him (that he took classified White House documents for nefarious reasons, like selling nuclear secrets) was, uh, not true. Oopsies!
https://www.westernjournal.com/right-wapo-quietly-admits-truth-trumps-documents-election/
Apparently, it isn't enough of a crisis along the border...
Many of you might remember fiercely liberal partisan Judge Emmet Sullivan, whom we wrote about at length for his Captain Ahab-like pursuit of Michael Flynn, whom he kept trying to personally prosecute long after everyone knew the case against him was dead. Well, Judge Sullivan has once again inserted his personal views into federal policy from the bench by voiding the Trump-era Title 42 COVID emergency order that allows the Border Patrol to quickly expel illegal migrants.
Sullivan found the directive “arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.” This was part of a case brought by the ACLU, which apparently now believes that free speech is not a civil right, but illegally entering the US is. The judge’s ruling sets the stage for another massive surge of illegal immigration, which freshly-reelected Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will counter by declaring an invasion of his state and invoking his power under the Invasion Clauses of the US and Texas Constitutions to take emergency actions.
These include sending the National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety officers to the border to arrest and expel illegal border crossers, building a border wall in multiple counties, declaring Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, deploying gun boats to secure the border and entering into agreements with other nations and US states to enhance border security. In short, he’ll be doing Joe Biden’s job for him.
I’m sure there will be much wailing and gnashing of capped teeth among the liberal talking heads, but first, I’d like them to explain why the pandemic is still such a crisis that Biden is extending his COVID emergency powers to April of 2023 and using it as an excuse to forgive student loan debt, but it’s not enough of an emergency to keep hordes of unvetted and unvaccinated people from streaming into the US from other nations.