The 2020 presidential election will come down to one poignant thing – the facemask. The country is divided by different social and economic problems. The two sides are hoping their candidate, either Joe Biden or Donald Trump comes out victorious in November. The ideology driving both sides is a complex mismatch of several political issues… Read More The Mask Election
Campaign disinformation troll houses have become synonymous with Russia. There is no doubt that Russia is interfering in the 2020 elections. But there are other players playing in the social media arena who are also trying to manipulate elections in other countries. Some of them are American. Social media platforms have become voter outreach centers… Read More Russia Is Not The Only Campaign Disinformation Purveyor
One thing that Americans generally hate are cheaters. That is what many want you to believe. Cheaters not only diminish the hard work of others, but cheaters also take opportunities away from others. The IRS Oversight Board 2014 Taxpayer Attitude survey showed that of the thousand individuals the survey surveyed, 94% frowned on taxpayers who… Read More Americans Love To Cheat
Congress is in its summer recess while the American economy faces further devastation. Covid-19 has devastated the American economy with the closure of businesses resulting in the worst unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Without workers churning out products and services the American economy falters in place. The problem – in its simplest terms –… Read More Congress Devastates Economy Further
We are amid major changes in the global economy and the way we live our lives. Those of us that have lived through the currency devaluations of our countries or other major economic changes mostly understand what is to come. We have lived economic chaos before. Most Americans do not understand how lives will change… Read More The Age of COVID-19
The Democratic Party delegate race heated up Saturday night when Joe Biden scored all the delegates up for grabs that night. Biden’s decisive win in South Carolina shows that the Democratic nominee will be selected by traditional party politics. Much has been made about Bernie Sander’s “revolution” and Pete Buttigieg’s emergence as the unlikely candidate… Read More Democratic Party Delegate Race Heats Up
Last week, according to news reports, 71 boxes filled with over 2,000 fetuses were discovered in a doctor’s garage. Another 165 fetuses were found in the doctor’s car. Put aside the debate about abortion for a moment. The question that readers should ask themselves is, what kind of country allows thousands of fetuses to be… Read More What Does 2246 Fetuses Say About The Country
Appropriately named Shadow, Inc. is at the center of the Iowa Caucus controversy. They are the software company that developed the APP that has delayed the caucus results. As more and more details come out about the company behind the APP, the more it leads to questions about political subterfuge and even corruption. Let us… Read More Shadow Politics
As you likely know, the Senate voted 51 to 49 not to call witnesses in the trial to impeach Donald J. Trump. Two Republicans, voted to call witness, Susan Collins and Mitt Romney. Although there was some intrigue before the vote, the outcome did not surprise anyone. More and more evidence of Trump wrongdoing continues… Read More The Impeachment Farce
I noticed a curious thing about the GOP response to the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. It somewhat surprises me because it says a lot about the impeachment. It says that the Republicans are resigned to Donald Trump being impeached. Here’s why. The GOP has decided that the House will issue Articles of Impeachment. Note… Read More Note How The GOP Responds to Impeachment
Beto O’Rourke and his supporters do not know it yet, or are unwilling to admit it to themselves, but the Beto O’Rourke presidential campaign just ended. It all comes down to gun control. The problem is not whether gun control is necessary but whether the U.S. electorate is willing to support gun control. It sounds… Read More The Beto Campaign Is Over
Beto O’Rourke’s quest for the presidency fizzled into oblivion. The campaign remains stagnant at less than two percent in the major polls. Although Beto has survived to make it to the first three national debates, his stagnation remains steadfast. And then 22 people were murdered in his hometown. Beto O’Rourke has often claimed the “safest-city”… Read More The Beto Moment?
Let us face it. Today Robert Mueller is set to testify before Congress. In other words, it is Mueller Time. As such all politics will take a back seat to the spectacle of the crimes alleged against Donald Trump. Because all politics will take a back seat to the show, anything posted today that is… Read More It Is Mueller Time
There is an ongoing debate about whether the citizenship question should be added to the 2020 census. There are many who believe that it is an important question. There are also those who believe the question will discourage participation or skew the results. Lost in the debate is one group of individuals that no one… Read More Citizenship and the Census
Want to understand why nothing ever happens in Congress? Look no further than the idea that Congress can fund the wall with Chapo’s money or that student loans can magically be erased. It is not the ideas that are the problem. It is that politicos who make promises they know they can’t keep. The perfect… Read More The Stupidity of Congress
The Democratic presidential nominee front runner seems to be Joe Biden. Biden’s supporters argue that Joe Biden is best equipped to beat Donald Trump in 2020. They are wrong. Joe Biden is an incarnation of the Hillary Clinton debacle that delivered Donald Trump to America. We have Donald Trump today because the party politics of… Read More Joe Biden Is Another Hillary Clinton
The Democrats are too busy playing party politics to resolve the American crisis. Yesterday, a letter signed by over 400 former federal prosecutors made the point that Donald Trump needs to be investigated for criminal obstruction. But the Democrats, like the Republicans and, of course Donald Trump, are too busy jockeying for the 2020 elections… Read More Democrats Stop Playing Games
As I have written numerous times before, the issue of immigration is the singular item that is often misused by politicos to get votes. This is true for the Democrats and the Republicans. As I have written over many posts before, the Democrats are worse for immigrants than the Republicans but that is hard to… Read More Immigrant Pawns At The Border
It amazes me how many individuals defend an undefendable position just because of political party affiliation or hoping a favorite individual wins a political contest. Joe Biden is such an individual. Although Biden has yet to officially announce his intention to run for the Democrat presidential nomination, many party loyalists are dreaming of a Biden… Read More Joe Biden Should Step Aside
Whenever I bring up México in any debate the issue of corruption becomes the center of the discussion. Americans tend to believe that only other countries or governments are corrupt forgetting that Americans are just as corrupt. While Donald Trump and his supporters bask in the belief that Trump was “exonerated” the examples of corruption… Read More American Corruption – Smollett and Avenatti Style
Americans do not want The Wall. We know this because even with a Republican-controlled Congress in 2018, Donald Trump was unable to get funding for The Wall. Now that the Democrats control the House, Trump is on a tirade that the Democrats are against border security. He is trying to equate border security with The… Read More Americans Do Not Want The Wall
Today’s, vote is simple. American voters will either vote to impeach Donald Trump. Or, the American voters will vote to keep the status quo. Should voters elect Democrats to both houses of Congress, then there is no doubt that Donald Trump will be stopped on his tracks. His politics of hate will come to a… Read More Vote to Impeach
Next week will put to rest whether America supports the politics of Donald Trump or it does not. On Tuesday, we will know the results of the Midterm elections. The outcome will clearly tell us whether Trump’s politics are acceptable to the American voters, or not. American voters have a checkered history of casting votes.… Read More Next Week We Will Know
Political talking heads on both sides of the isle are talking about the so-called “blue wave.” The Republicans may be publicly underplaying it, but they are worried as evidenced by GOP proponents – like Sean Hannity – going on about how Republican voters “must do their part” to keep Trump’s agenda going. The Democrats are… Read More Beto and The Blue Wave
I’m not surprised that yesterday’s post about Claudia Ordaz and the missing laptop elicited several emails and telephone calls. Many of them were about my “dislike” of Beto O’Rourke, Ordaz, and/or her husband, Vince Perez, while others argued that I was just a Ted Cruz “guy,” or a “Republican.” Those that have read my blog… Read More My Politics and My Claudia Ordaz Post
What transpired yesterday in regard to the Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford controversy proves that the America that everyone knew is no more. America used to stand as the world leader on how Democracy and the rule of law is supposed to work. Now, America is just another banana republic where political necessity puts… Read More America Is No More
Make no mistake about it, the Republicans are desperate to get Kavanaugh confirmed before the midterm elections in November. That is the driving rush behind the GOP to get the Kavanaugh appointment on the Congressional calendar. This is also the driving force behind the Democrats’ politics, which is to delay as much as possible the… Read More The Brett Kavanaugh Circus
If I could cast a vote for the upcoming Ted Cruz-Beto O’Rourke race my vote would go to O’Rourke. The problem with the binary option offered by American politics is that the choice is between two options. When both options are bad, the decision comes down to which option is the lesser of two evils.… Read More Voting for Beto O’Rourke
Immigrants for some Americans are disposable commodities. Right now, Donald Trump and cohorts blame immigrants for criminal problems in America, violence and for taking jobs away. In the history of the United States and immigrants, we are in the midst of the third cycle of hating on immigrants. The first cycle was during the Great… Read More Immigrants Are Pawns in American Politics
We know that Donald Trump is against any type of immigration reform that allows immigrant workers into the country but does not pay for The Wall. The Republicans, however, have mostly supported immigrant labor if they could keep the notion that they are anti-immigrant in the minds of the voters. The Republicans have historically been… Read More The Republican Immigration Hypocrisy
It is the common understanding that American elections are determined based on how the electorate feels about the economy. Basically, if the electorate feels the country is economically going the right direction it will vote to keep the incumbents in office. As we come upon the midterms it is commonly accepted that as long as… Read More It Is The Economy Stupid
There is no question that the United States is a divided country. Tribalism and party politics exists in all nations and has existed in the United States since the country was founded. From the moment that Donald Trump took on the Republican Party, the country split into two major factions, the Trumpsters and those who… Read More The Divided States of America
It doesn’t matter how the Republicans, Paul Ryan or Donald Trump tries to frame the Ryan departure, in the end it is as simple as Paul Ryan seeing the writing on the wall. The midterms are going to be a disaster for the Republicans and Donald Trump is only going to get worse for America.… Read More Paul Ryan Abandons the GOP Ship
As expected, Veronica Escobar has won outright today and will likely be the next Congresswoman of El Paso. I write “likely” because I am two hours ahead of El Paso and I am not staying up late to see the final results. Historically, early voting is a good indicator of the outcome. At 61%, it… Read More Veronica Escobar is the Next Congresswoman from El Paso
I know that politics is a dirty business. As much as I try to understand the nature of politics, I invariably come back to the fact that politics is a dirty business. But understanding that unpleasant fact does not explain the mindset of the U.S. voter. The U.S. voter mindset is a contradiction – two… Read More The El Paso Dedazo for Veronica Escobar
Immigration reform has been an ongoing issue for many decades with both US political parties using immigrants as fodder for political purposes. I have previously posted examples of how the Democrats have failed on immigration reform whereas the Republicans have been more open to immigrants in the past. That is, until Donald Trump came into… Read More Why the DACA Debate is Important
Late last month I posted that party politics is killing America. (link) I used the Veronica Escobar versus Dori Fenenbock race as the example of how party politics has supplanted public policy as the determining factor in an election. I argued that the El Paso race was about who was “more Democrat” then the other,… Read More Party Politics is Killing American Democracy
Although I shouldn’t be surprised about individuals using labels to argue politics, it nonetheless makes me laugh when people ascribe a label to me just to argue that my point of view on a political issue is wrong. I’ve been labelled an “idiot,” an “illegal alien,” and even been defined as a “Democrat” or a… Read More Labels, Labels and More Labels for Political Arguments
The reason we have Donald Trump to contend with today is because of party politics. It is these party politics that have led to the diminishing of U.S. national prestige across the globe, and a value system that sees three UCLA thieves as nothing more than a kid’s prank gone wrong. U.S. voters are voting… Read More Party Politics is Killing the Country
Although Donald Trump and surrogates like to tout fictitious Donald Trump triumphs, the fact remains that as of yesterday, Donald Trump has not been unable to deliver any substantial legislative promises. Trump promised his voters a “magnificent wall” on the U.S.-México border, the repeal of Obamacare and tax reform as his major signature items. Ten… Read More The Republican Civil War Courtesy of Trump