Author Archives: Sam Ross Jr.

Watching the Senate vote last week, first to close debate, then to accept a continuing resolution on government spending, reminded me of a similar local story of virtue signaling and hypocrisy.

The so-called cloture vote was 62-38, notably with Democrat minority leader Chuck Schumer leading a group of 10 members of his party who joined Republicans in voting yes to advance the measure to a final vote.

Then, with the Senate needing only a simple majority to pass the legislation, Schumer flipped to a no, which he undoubtedly will trumpet down the line as having opposed the measure. In the final vote, the one that mattered, only one Democrat voted for the resolution.

Another notable flip-flopper – yes on cloture, no on the measure – was our shorts-and-hoodie guy from Pennsylvania.

The final vote for approval was 54-46, a lot of slippage from that 62-38 number, but still enough to get the job done.

An amusing aspect of the cloture vote was seeing some very famous faces lingering around the counting desk, seemingly waiting to be sure there were enough yes votes to close debate.

Once that success was apparent, they rushed to give a thumbs-down gesture, thereby being able to have it both ways. They knew passing the measure was politically expedient to avoid having Democrats painted as the shutdown party, but they wanted to strut around and proclaim they had voted against it.

That bit of hypocrisy reminds me of a story from back in the day at a local television station. The people were about to vote on a contract offer and the thinking was it would pass.

But, one on-air type asked to address the membership and gave what I was told was an impassioned speech to them to reject the offer and send a message to management that their proposal was an insult.

Soon after his performance, the membership voted.

As one union officer was tallying the votes, the guy who had so vociferiously urged the members to vote no was hanging around the table, sort of like those Senators.

Here’s a rough recounting of the conversation.

Turn it down guy: “How’s the vote going?”

Vote counter: “Hey, you really got to them. I thought the contract was going to be approved, but now it looks like we’re turning it down.”

Turn it down guy: “What??????”

Vote counter: “You convinced them the offer is crap and they should turn it down. Way to go!”

Turn it down guy: “But, I just said that. I didn’t really mean it. We’ve got to do something. We’ve got to vote again.”

As the story goes, Turn it down guy, unlike Schumer, was forced to make an ass of himself publicly and tell the membership he hadn’t meant all the things he’d just told them. He urged them to approve the contract. He’d just go stand in front of a mirror fixing his hair while they voted again.

There was another vote and the contract was approved.

It was hard not to think of that story any time down the line when I saw Turn it down guy delivering the news.

It has become evident why Democrats feel such an affinity for Ukraine’s Zelenskyy; both share a fondness for over-the-top rhetoric and underwhelming abilities to back up all the tough talk.

As President Trump so succinctly pointed out to Zelenskyy during the pipsqueak’s Oval Office tirade, you need to have cards to play poker and Zelenskyy had no cards. The reported apology from Zelenskyy, and the Ukraine presence in peace negotiations since then, prove Trump correct.

Fast-forward to the current budget battle and Crying Chuck Schumer is playing the role of Zelenskyy while representing his neutered political party.

If you have not been paying attention, our federal government is about to run out of money once again, forcing a shutdown. It happens all too often, with Democrats clutching their pearls and trying to scare people that their Social Security payments won’t be made (they always have been) and various other outright lies designed to panic the populace.

Democrats, with the help of their lapdogs in the LameStream media, in the past always have seemed able to blame shutdown on the Republicans. But not this time.

This time, House speaker Mike Johnson shepherded a Republican proposal though his half of Congress, despite possessing a thin majority and an abundance of RINOs trying to stand in the way just to get some time in the spotlight.

The proposal went to the Senate, where the arcane rules on such matters require 60 votes to close debate before voting on the proposal. Republicans would need some Democrat votes to close debate and minority leader Chuck Schumer, notable for being a loudmouth father of a fat movie actress, vowed the votes would not be there.

Schumer sounded tough, just like Zelenskyy before his European backers told him they couldn’t protect his tiny butt without the United States military onboard.

This meant Schumer offered no apology – even called Republicans “bastards” in one of those made for leftist cable news moments Democrats seem to prefer these days – then said he’d vote for the spending measure.

Reports of screaming matches heard through the walls at a closed-door Democrat Senate session were shared widely yesterday, in advance of Schumer’s “bastard” appearance.

Since that time, Democrats in the House have whined and accused with predictable fervor leavened with little common sense.

Schumer is, at heart, a politician, a demagogue. He knows this shutdown would be thrown squarely in the lap of his increasingly dysfunctional party. Not a good look for a leftist organization already rating low in most polling.

There is no guarantee that, even with Schumer’s snappy aboutface, enough Democrats will vote to pass this spending proposal. We expect to know later today.

Republicans should be hoping Democrats do not approve the measure. When “non-essential” government employees are laid off and all still functions, it would provide objective proof of the DOGE contention that the government is wildly overstaffed.

And, if someone felt inconvenienced because some facility was not open for business, Republicans could point the finger at the Democrats.

It is a win-win situation for Republicans, and yet further evidence that the Democrats have become a group of raging fools whose rhetoric is, to borrow from “Macbeth,” tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

St. Francis is headed to the men’s NCAA basketball tournament, and the memories come flooding back.

I worked for the local Woke Gazette back in 1991, the only previous time St. Francis had made it to college basketball’s March Big Dance, and got to cover that team.

What a ride it was.

The St. Francis coach then was Jim Baron, in his fourth year at the school, having come from Notre Dame where he was an assistant. Baron was an earthy guy, not exactly a quote machine, but you could get an honest answer from him and he understood the necessity of being accesible and constantly selling the program.

Baron had arrived at Loretto, something of a coaching graveyard, with big goals – and he accomplished them. Baron knew if he could win at St. Francis, it would open doors for him. He was right. That success, at a relative backwater school, helped Baron land the head coaching job at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure, in 1992.

It’s taken St. Francis more than three decades to get back to the NCAA Tournament.

I will confess to knowing next to nothing about this season’s St. Francis team, although I did watch part of a regular-season game in which they played Maryland surprisingly close for a time. Seeing the championship game was on TV Tuesday night, I switched over during commercial breaks of Watters’ World on Fox News.

Every time I tuned in, both teams were missing shots and turning over the ball. Host Central Connecticut, which brought a 14-game win streak to the game, was a 10.5-point favorite, so I presumed the hosts eventually would take the win.

But, I got to watch the final minute of the game and saw St. Francis pull out the 46-43 win in what Red Flash coach Rob Krimmel told the postgame interviewers was a rock fight that set back offensive basketball.

While this NCAA bid would seem to be unexpected considering St. Francis is 16-17, expectations were high in 1991.

That 1991 team made home games in the Stokes Building social and athletic events. Altoona product Mike Iuzzolino, a transfer from Penn State, was a long-range marksman and heady floor general who averaged 24.1 points and four assists in his senior season.

The other main man on that team was 6-5 senior forward Joe Anderson, averaging 21.3 points and 6.3 rebounds. Anderson was a lean, mean, penetrating machine.

That St. Francis team went 21-7 in the regular season and won the Northeast Conference tournament with wins over St. Francis (N.Y.) and Fairleigh Dickinson.

Even though I covered a lot of St. Francis games that season, I missed the FDU title game due to a prior commitment to play in the Pittsburgh Class Championships chess tournament in Pittsburgh (I won my class!).

Baron, in his typical Brooklyn style, chided me afterward about my absence. As I told him at the time, we both won, so no big deal.

But even that NEC title was not enough to earn an NCAA Tournament berth. The Red Flash had to beat Fordham in a play-in game in Loretto to get that bid.

That game, I covered.

St. Francis won and then it was on to Salt Lake City, Utah, to face highly regarded Arizona, in the nightcap, an 11:30 p.m. or so start east coast time, which is bad news when you work for an AM newspaper.

The first game was between BYU and Virginia, a 61-48 BYU win. The center for BYU was 7-foot-6 Shawn Bradley, who set a then-NCAA tournament, single-game record with 10 blocked shots.

The 6-10 center for Virginia looked like a guard trying to defend Bradley,

There was quite a show between games. Arizona had a forward named Chris Mills, who had been part of a recruiting scandal involving an air freight envelope with $1,000 inside and adressed to his father that came open at an airport.

Kentucky ended up on probation and Mills ended up at Arizona. Because of this story, opposing fans took to waving money at Mills and, before the game with St. Francis, Baron’s brother – who looked a lot like Jim – was in the stands waving some bills.

I recall someone asking me – incredulously — if that was the St. Francis coach.

Baron knew his team was overmatched due to Arizona’s overwhelming size and talent, so he packed in his defense. This made a star out of Arizona guard Matt Othick, who averaged 10.5 points a game during the season, but on this night was left wide-open and hit for a team high 25 points, including nailing five of seven three-point tries.

Arizona led 43-29 at the half and the game was not as close as the 93-80 final, despite Anderson’s 29 points and 20 from Iuzzolino.

It wasn’t exactly time to hang black crepe paper, though, because, let’s face it, the St. Francis teams of the NCAA world aren’t really expected to beat the Arizonas.

At the time, I thought it was nice that a lot of good people at St. Francis, like tireless sports information director Kevin Southard, got to enjoy some time in the spotlight.

Just getting to that stage was a success story, an accomplishment this 2024-25 team now can share.

When last we posted here, we provided a list of rhetorical questions, designed to promote thought, not seek answers from the readership.

Today, we’re back with more.

Did anyone else hear CNBC’s Steve Lies-Man shortly after 1 p.m. today describing President Trump’s economic policies as “insane,” and “absolutely insane”?

Does the fact that Lies-Man prefaced this by saying “I’m going to do this at risk of my job” suggest he could or should be fired?

Do you recall it being opined here March 4 that Trump’s cures for the economy will be a form of chemotherapy, or did you read more recently when treasury secretary Scott Bessent used the detox metaphor to describe how there would be short-term pain for long-term benefit?

If so, why are you surprised that the stock market here is throwing a tantrum at a leaning down of government bureaucracy?

Do you think rudderless Canada, which just installed a Prime Minister who is both a Central Banker by trade and a member of his country’s Liberal Party, and never has held an elective office, is going to get along with Trump?

Are you surprised to read reports that a top AOC aide has decided to self-deport to Colombia rather than attempt to avoid ICE and continue a 23-year illegal stay in this nation?

When can we expect Texas loose cannon Jasmine Crock Of It to proclaim the guy did nothing illegal, just as she bloviated recently that being in the United States illegally is not a crime?

Would you be surprised to learn that Ms. Crock Of It is a lawyer by trade, is expected to help write legislation in the House of Representatives, yet does not recognize a crime when she sees it?

Did anyone else find it amusing when MSNBC host Michael Steele, who has made a career of botching things including being the former Republican National Committee chairman, seemed to indicate he is the intellectual superior of Elon Musk?

Do you recall similarly delusional AOC also demeaning Musk, calling him “one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed”?

Have the hosts of The View ever met a meal they didn’t like?

Democrats aren’t using any swear words I haven’t heard thousands of times in a career spent around athletes, and I have been known to swear myself, even noting with pride a recent study suggesting such language provides pain relief, but still, don’t the Democrats sound like kids experimenting with a new word they’ve learned to provoke reactions, sort of like the leftist dingbat legislator who giddly took to the microphone to say she’d like to fuc@ Trump?

Have those suggesting that taking law-breaking protestors into custody is the worst thing that could happen to such activists ever heard of Kent State?

Today, we offer rhetorical questions, asked not necessarily to elicit responses, but merely to stimulate thought.

Should Republicans be a little more restrained regarding their promises and thereby lower the bar for meeting expectations?

Why have Democrats become the party of men with pony tails and women with shaved heads or facial hair?

Is it enough that lawbreakers and obstructionists within government lose their jobs, or should they spend some time behind bars, too?

Why should we give Zelenskyy another cent in foreign aid?

Does January’s mammoth $131.4 billion trade deficit, which included lots of gold being repatriated to the United States, indicate a rush to replenish Fort Knox gold ahead of anticipated audits?

Are you really worried that DOGE has access to your Social Security numbers or tax information, considering it was Democrats who presided over massive IRS and Social Security breaches by hackers in the recent past?

Similarly, are you really terrified that your Social Security payments are going to be suspended, either due to layoffs or outright budget cutting?

Do you not recall Democrats have been warning – incorrectly – of such benefit cuts by Republicans since I was a young man?

Does anyone else find it absurd when European leaders talk tough, then offer about $1.98 in loans to Ukraine and insist that they need the U.S. backing up all their military threats toward Russia?

Did anyone else get a chuckle when Donald Trump poked at UK Prime Minsiter Keir Starmer, trying to get him on the record that those proud British troops could handle Russia by themselves and making the guy extremely uncomfortable before Starmer just ducked the question entirely?

Would you be surprised to hear that the powerful Canadian armed forces to which Trudeau refers numbers all of 63 fighter jets, at the lower end of the allotment of each U.S. aircraft carrier, of which we have 11, never mind our ground-based fighter jets?

Could someone please ask the maple syrup boy about this the next time he spouts off regarding dealing with the United States militarily?

Can Trump and his subordinates please stop changing the tariff plan daily, the better to avoid losing the public confidence?

Has anyone else seen the ad of female Democrat members of Congress “Choose Your Fighter” in which seven of these hop around supposedly simulating fighting, but looking more like a dog straining to deposit a load on a front lawn?

Can we all refrain in the future from helping the Democrats by pointing out how ridiculous they continue to make themselves look?

Rank-and-file Democrats must be so proud of how those who represent them in Washington, D.C., comported themselves during Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.

The behavior of those Democrat leaders was a microcosm of why the party lost so resoundingly the past election and should do even worse in mid-terms come 2026 if there is a God.

This is a freak show of a party, seemingly totally opposed to traditional American values and always eager to align with illegal immigrants, criminals or assorted fringe groups.

Pick an issue on which the nation has a vast majority on one side, and Democrat leadership will rush to the minority position, defending it to the death despite the absurdity of it all.

The Democratic women lawmakers looked like fools wearing their pink outfits, ostensibly in support of women, with the timing so close to Democrats in the Senate all voting against legislation to protect women from transgender men dominating their sports.

My God, to look at them was to require the stifling of a gag reflect. I swear I saw a woman who looked to be about one hundred years old sporting purple hair. Purple hair, I say.

Many of the Democrats wielded paddle signs blasting Trump or Elon Musk; their look was more like elderly bidders at an art auction.

The lowlight came early, when Al Green, looking every bit the stereotypical pimp from one of those Blaxploitation movies from the 1970s, wielded his gold-handled black cane and yelled uncontrollably at Trump before being escorted from the chamber.

If reports of Green’s explanation are accurate, he’s the sort of election denier Democrats profess to hate. Green got his knickers in a knot because Trump claimed an election mandate from his victory in November.

Trump, picking up on the hatred in the Democrat crowd, got in his shots, even calling out Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren when she cheered wildly, apparently in support of the Ukraine-Russia war never ending.

The only part of Trump’s speech that got the Democrats on their feet and cheering is when he recounted how much money we’d blown defending Ukraine. At least they are consistent in wanting to waste taxpayer money on causes such as this, or even the laundry list of Woke ideas Trump went through in explaining how much government waste can be eliminated.

But while the Democrats cheered wildly for sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine, they could not have their butts pried from their chairs, or have their hands forced into clapping to honor guests such as families who had lost loved ones to illegal immigrant criminals.

The hard-hearted Democrats couldn’t even relent to applaud a teenage survivor of brain cancer who was made an honorary member of the Secret Service.

These Democrats are heartless, clueless and ridiculous.

The next time you hear these jerks talk about compassion, spit in their faces.

Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, with Democrats plotting their infantile resistance.

Nancy Pelosi, whose position as symbolic leader of the party is stretched as thin as the skin on her aging, face-lifted forehead, again stands to be ignored by her supposed flock. Nancy wants Democrats, unlike her speech-ripping tirade from a past State of the Union address, to be quiet and not call attention to themselves.

Yeah, right, The party of narcissists can’t ignore the chance to get some air time. As once noted, the most dangerous spot in Washington, D.C., is between Chuck Schumer and the microphone.

We hear talk of eggs and or egg cartons being brought as props to protest high egg prices, noisemakers to disrupt Trump, boycotts, or showing up with ridiculous signs. It is not clear whether there are plans to dress in symbolic colors.

Black would be appropriate for the party that preaches doom and gloom.

Also, there have been stories of Democrats with plans to bring bureaucrats as guests to highlight what a meanie Trump has been in pruning bloated government payrolls.

Some Republicans have guests of their own, like a couple of IRS whistleblowers who got Hunter Biden’s tax violations before the public.

I suspect, however, Democrat guests will be more interesting, Let’s imagine a conversation with one.

INTERVIEWER: Are you here to protest Donald Trump?

DEMOCRAT GUEST: Of course. FUC@ him!

INTERVIEWER: What specifically do you not like about Trump?

DEMOCRAT GUEST: He’s a NAZI, a Fascist, a racist. And Elon Musk wasn’t elected, either. I finally met an African American I didn’t like. How dare they ask me what I did last week? As a man who identifies as a woman, I was barely able to get off my couch – I was working from home, of course – due to menstrual cramps.

INTERVIEWER: If I heard you correctly, you did virtually nothing last week, but still got paid?

DEMOCRAT GUEST: What are you, transphobic? I was available if one of my DEI-loving bosses had contacted me and actually asked me to do something productive. But, I didn’t hear from anyone in a position of authority over me, so I understandably thought they had no work for me. Just say I was on call.

INTERVIEWER: But those cramps have eased up enough for you to attend tonight’s event.

DEMOCRAT GUEST: Listen, I’m not sure how much longer I’m going to keep my job. So, I just changed my shift to night, which means I’m here on the taxpayer dime. Plus, George Soros is offering bonuses to all of us on the left who show up tonight, so I’m double-dipping. I’ve got my eye on a feathered rainbow boa I’m going to buy once I get out of here.

Donald Trump is administering chemotherapy to a sick federal government and economy. It’s really that simple.

Virtually all of us know someone who has had chemotherapy to treat cancer. Some of the readers have had to deal with cancer and chemotherapy firsthand.

Either way, be chemotherapy observed or endured, most know that the process is a tough go. Cancer is being poisoned in pursuit of long-term health for the individual, but in most cases the host body can’t escape without terrible side effects including intense nausea and weakness.

I note this because already the Democrats are trying to gin up whining about Trump’s attempts to cure existing national ills, noting short-term side effects and ignoring long-term benefit.

They lie about air traffic controllers being laid off – they haven’t.

They note unfavorable economic statistics that reflect the time his predecessor was on the job, yet blame Trump for them.

Eggs, they scream, have gone up in price, as though Trump is out there killing hens due to avian flu, which I anticipate will soon rise to attempts to use it as an excuse to shut down the entire economy.

Forgive them, they are blindly partisan types who embrace all things anti-Trump. They side with illegal immigrants, criminals in general, transsexuals dominating women’s sports, DEI zealotry, left-wing bureaucrats looting the public treasury to fund radical outfits, and anti-American sentiment of all stripes, up to, and including, an ingrate showing up at the Oval Office dressed up like a soldier and spouting the talking points Democrats had fed into his egomaniacal mind shortly before the meetings.

Against that backdrop, it is not surprising that Democrats are pointing out that tariffs, the search for government efficiency, refusal to fund wars of indefinite length with unlimited taxpayer dollars, could produce short-term pain here.

In the short run, tariffs can raise prices. In the long run, as already evidenced by the promised $1.7 trillion or so in investment in production facilities based in the U.S. just since Trump took office six weeks back, they will bring production back to our shores and produce jobs – better paying jobs than the lowly crop-picking jobs Democrats tout for illegals.

Similarly, cutting government fat is going to put some government drones in the unemployment lines, where they will join private sector people unemployed because their firms existed mostly by riding the government gravy train.

With all the compassion Democrats such as Clueless Joe Biden offered to blue collar types their policies put out of work, perhaps these people should learn to code (computers).

Funny, back then the LameStream media saw nothing insensitive about that suggestion. If Trump borrowed that line, he’d be pilloried by the same partisans masquerading as journalists.

See how the Joe Biden incompetence, covered up for so long by these propagandists, now is being exploited in books and interviews for financial gain. These people are the worst hypocrites, making Putin look like a model citizen.

Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress tonight will be a chance for him to list accomplishments, and note challenges.

Leftist media will highlight the negative, the unfortunate side effects of Trump’s chemotherapy that is trying to save the nation.

Don’t be a fool and buy what they’re selling.

Allow me to express surprise that the Myopia 2025 people aren’t actively pursuing Ukrainian refugees, a variation on a past theme to cure all that ails Johnstown.

A ready supply could come just from the young men fleeing Ukraine in droves to avoid being conscripted into the military and sent to the front lines to be gound into hamburger by the Russians, all in the pursuit of furthering the legend that Zelenskyy is George Washington, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Ghandi all rolled into one very small package.

Add in Ukrainian civilians tired of having their houses blasted down around them as they dine on chicken Kiev, or who long for the days when the electricity stayed on, the flood of interested Ukrainians likely would make the displaced Afghans that Myopia 2025 once pursued seem like a trickle.

Or maybe Myopia 2025 already is working on recruiting Ukrainians without our knowledge. That is, after all, their preferred method – to operate in secret as unelected elites, hoping to slip their plans into reality before the public catches on to what they are doing behind those closed doors.

Maybe we might be lucky enough to land the main Ukrainian pipsqueak, Zelenskyy. He could just pack up his booster seats and shoe lifts and hop the latest government plane to John Murtha Airport, where he could expect to land to accolades from our lapdog Democrats.

Zekenskyy could dip into the pile of funds he is alleged to have amassed during this war and buy up a couple of those spec $100,000 houses Myopia 2025 proposes for downtown Johnstown.

God knows, the locals aren’t likely to buy them – unless given the kind of government handouts Zelenskyy favors.

Remember, according to the web site theworkersrights.com, Johnstown was No. 1 in Pennsylvania poverty in 2024.

We combined an unemployment rate just under 14 percent with a poverty rate just over 38 percent. Bonuses are that we have a decling population and the lowest median income in the state.

Myopia 2025 number crunchers see fewer people, miserably low income levels and high unemployment and conclude, as their type tends to do, that building houses will fix it all.

I’m sure building houses will help Myopia 2025’s favored contractors. Beyond that, I don’t see it.

If Zelenskyy decides to buy 10 or so of the houses to help out his fellow Ukrainian refugees, then it’s a big win for the contractors. It would be small change for Zelenskyy, pun intended.

For the Ukrainians? Maybe not so much of a win. If the general population there mirrors Zelenskyy’s penchant for whining that a free lunch is not a free dinner, they will be unhappy here.

Underground electrical grid problems downtown mean the power goes off there periodically, just like back home.

While the Russians have not yet felt emboldened enough to attack our downtown, Ukrainians will have to deal with our criminal violence and drug problems.

Our lack of local political transparency will, however, seem familiar to them.

I’d like to compare our unemployment rate and income levels with theirs but, surprise, such statistical information seems to be largely unavailable for Ukraine.

Even if we did have those numbers, I’d suspect they would be inflated, just like Zelenskyy’s supposed 5-foot, 7-inch height.

Here’s an idea: The next time Zelenskyy gets booted from the White House after coming off as a petulant child, have his plane fly over Johnstown to give him the sort of bird’s eye view that might lure him and his fellow Ukrainians here.

If Zelenskyy balks, or asks for a better deal as he has a habit of doing at the last minute, note we have a significant Russian Orthodox population he can persecute, just he has in Ukraine.

That should sweeten the deal enough to get his attention!

Ordinarily, we try to keep this family rated, but not today.

I’m borrowing a page from prominent Democrat politicians and operatives, who proudly gather in public to proclaim FUCx Trump, or FUCx Musk, and so I say FUCx Zelenskyy.

This arrogant shrimp had the gall to use the oval office Friday afternoon as a cheap soap box to vent his frustrations that many of his confidants had warned him – unsuccessfully, obviously — to check at the door.

Zelenskyy is proof that big things – his ego – can come in small packages – his stature.

And the rumors are flying as to why Zelenskyy, who showed up ostensibly to sign a rare earths mining deal with the United States as a prelude to repaying some of the $200 or so billion we’ve gifted his country, not to mention as a first step in ending the war with Russia, went off-script.

Even as Russia first invaded Ukraine years back, many in this nation, including some of my neighbors, rushed to show support with tiny Ukraine flags. I was withholding endorsement of Zelenskyy. I knew his was a nation with a significant Nazi presence, a land of religious persecution, and a boiling pot of corruption.

The Bidens were in that Ukraine morass up to their elbows.

Don’t take my word for the corruption angle, as Zelenskyy went on a rehabilitation tour on Fox News Friday night following his dustup with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office, the subject came up of accounting for all the U.S. military aid that has gone to Ukraine.

All could be detailed, Zelenskyy insisted, and digitally, he added.

Funny, way back in January 2024, Ukraine’s defense minister revealed an audit had uncovered about $262 million in military corruption, just in the four months the guy had been on the job.

Multiply that by nine or so to account for three years of war aid, and it’s quite a lot of U.S. taxpayer dollars lost in the Ukrainian couch cushions.

Remember, too, that Zelenskyy is the guy who found time and money to do Vogue photo shoots, along with his wife, during the ongoing war that is killing a lot of his countrymen and devastating the country.

Ukraine can’t win this war with Russia, most knowledgeable observers recognize, and even this pipsqueak egomaniac admitted things would not go well without continuing U.S. support.

So, how does Zelenskyy go about guaranteeing such support? He shows up and insults Trump, Vance and America in general.

Trump and Vance delivered a severe verbal beating and ordered Zelenskyy out of the White House. I applaud them.

Democrats, whose cultist members make them the party of illegal immigrants, trans athletes and protecting criminals, rushed to the nearest microphone to blast Trump and Vance.

And a who’s who list of European elites were on social media, backing Zelenskyy.

Said one Fox panelist to those armchair warriors, great, now get out your checkbook and start showing your support with money.

Ah, there’s the rub. Europeans have been counting on our nation to bail out their socialist asses for more than 100 years. From two World Wars which, without our intervention, would have had the whole continent speaking German, to us beating back the former Soviet Union to win the Cold War for them, U.S. money has been the blood that keeps the European heart beating.

Trump has been pointing out to these deadbeats, both during his first term and again in recent weeks, it’s time for them to start paying their fair share of defense. It’s the same with our 51^st state, Canada.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was at the White House earlier this week admitting Trump was correct about this defense thing, and pledging to spend a few Pounds Sterling more. Actually, I’m not sure he actually gave an exact number.

To his everlasting credit, Starmer dodged a question of whether his armed forces could take on Russia, without U.S. help, and win. I’ll answer it for him. No freaking way!

So, European elitists, who are butt hurt after Vance called them out recently regarding their attacks on free speech and limited spending for their own defense, perhaps gave Zelenskyy the word that this would be a good time to attack Trump and embarrass him in front of the media.

These tone-deaf, arrogant types again misread the room. This would have worked against Clueless Joe, even though there were numerous media reports he had upbraided Zelenskyy privately on a phone call a few years back for a lack of gratitude.

The difference is Trump and Vance called out Zelenskyy on that lack of gratitude immediately and in public. The little dictator, and his friends in the European elite must have been stunned.

I know the Ukrainian ambassador became a viral figure as she held her head in apparent stunned dismay over what was transpiring.

This was a chance for the public to see what diplomats like to call euphemistically “a frank and open exchange.”

Zelenskyy had a chance to initiate a peace plan and he blew it by symbolically urinating on the carpet.

And, for all the Democrats now wagging their tongues, where have you people been? What’s your peace plan? I guess you were too busy propping up the cadaver of Clueless Joe and trying to gaslight the public that he was fit for office.

Remember, Zelenskyy made what seemed to be a political endorsement of Democrats in the past presidential campaign when he traveled to Pennsylvania – on a U.S. Air Force plane – to tour a munitions plant while on the arm of Democratic Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. Zelenskyy also took shots at Vance in a magazine interview at around that time.

Vance mentioned this affront during the Oval Office give and take today.

Warmongering Neocon Republicans joined in the trashing of Trump for calling out Zelenskyy. But, notably, Lindsey Graham, a Republican who has been quite the Zelenskyy apologist, said he had warned his little protege specifically not to venture down tangents during the meeting, just talk the minerals deal. Now, Graham is talking about a Zelenskyy resignation for having torpedoed peace chances.

This just in, Lindsey, egomaniacs don’t take advice.

I like Trump’s warning to Zelenskyy, either you want peace or you’re on your own against the Russian bear, and good luck on that front.

If Zelenskyy is counting on all those European allies to come through with real help, he’s even more immature and naive than today’s petulant child act makes him seem.