Author Archives: Sam Ross Jr.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are having a laugh at our expense. There’s no other rational explanation.

It’s nothing short of unbelievable that this once great land could have not one blithering idiot, but two atop its executive branch simultaneously. They must be acting like utter fools intentionally, just to see how much the public will swallow before seeing through the obvious ruse of their buffoonery.

Viewed through that lens, it all becomes obvious. Biden and Harris, in the spirit of the entertainment trend of the times, are providing updates on classic programming, but spiced with characters of different race and gender in the key roles.

They’ve turned the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy classic, “Dumb and Dumber,” albeit a predictable original with two white guys in the lead roles, into a sendup worthy of 2024 with a non-white female and a doddering old guy who is one facelift short of looking like a leather wallet, as its stars.

In another, long-running cinematic rehash, just for kicks Biden likes to milk the “Forrest Gump” theme, projecting himself into momentous world events. The twist is that while Forrest was portrayed as being clueless at the time, Biden comes off as clueless with his attempts to rewrite history after the fact.

Biden was at it again earlier this week, making the Baltimore bridge collapse all about him by recalling the many times he had crossed the bridge, either by car or train. The problem is, the bridge had no railroad tracks. Maybe the replacement bridge will.

Fie, I say, on all the spoilsports who rushed to social media and other outlets to point out Biden got it wrong – again.

He did it on purpose, I tell you. It had to be that way. This is vintage Biden, projecting himself or his family into situations and getting the facts wrong. Biden’s I had a similar experience . . . is the equivalent of Henny Youngman’s Take my wife, please! routine or Rodney Dangerfield’s I don’t get no respect.

Sure, you Maui residents had your homes vaporized by wildfires, but did you know Biden once had a fire in his house’s kitchen?

Yes, you military families are grieving the loss of loved ones in combat, but did you know that Biden’s son Beau died in combat in Afghanistan? OK, it was from a brain tumor and happened back home, but he once served in the military, albeit not really in intense combat or anything like that. He was a military lawyer.

Speaking of Beau, that trickster Joe, AKA The Big Guy, even worked Beau into his interaction with the special prosecutor regarding Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, apparently being unable to remember when the oft-cited Beau death actually had occurred.

That was enough, according to the investigation’s final report, to get Joe off the hook regarding any charges for the classified miscues. Maybe Joe should have been awarded an Oscar, or Emmy, for the performance.

Now it becomes clear why Joe picked Harris as his running mate, a move viewed at the time as a total sellout to identity politics. He needed a comedic partner in the spirit of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis, or Cheech and Chong.

And Harris has delivered. Her latest triumph was appearing to clap her hands mindlessly and smile as a protester in Puerto Rico sang lyrics mocking Harris, Biden, and the U.S.

It was a nice touch by Harris to display the pained, embarrassed look when a handler seemingly informed Harris they were laughing at her, not with her.

We eagerly expect the next dopey delivery of our Two Stooges. With as bad as things are under their leadership, we can use a good laugh.

Likely by now you’ve seen the container ship ramming and taking down the Francis Key Bridge in Baltimore. It was, and is, stunning video.

Nearly as stunning was the U.S. intelligence community insisting, even as the bridge structure still was hitting the water, that it was not terrorism.

This comes hard on the heels of the Moscow Massacre, in which the usual intelligence suspects were out with assurances even as the bullets still were bouncing around the concert hall venue that this WAS terrorism (ISIS-K, which sounds like a vitamin) and not a rogue act under the sponsorship of Ukraine or any of its collaborators.

Now, let us return to the past summer, when a bag of cocaine was found in the White House. A flurry of activity ensued and an investigation that took 11 days to determine that nothing could be determined. Case closed. Nothing to see here. Keep moving.

Repeat, cocaine was found in one of the most heavily guarded and surveilled buildings in these United States and nearly two weeks later, all we had was a final decision to say they had nothing to say and that was the final determination.

If only we’d had the geniuses who were so quick on the Moscow shootings or the bridge felling working on that cocaine deal, we might have gotten some explanations.

Instead, we got – and continue to get – what is politically expedient for the current Biden regime. They don’t want Zelenskyy’s fingerprints all over the Moscow shootings, just as they don’t want to acknowledge so early in a re-election campaign a terrorist incident on U.S. soil that is going to hamper the public for some time.

This series of events – and widely differing timing for explanations — to put it politely, does not pass the smell test.

Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, was one of those not willing to buy the kneejerk reaction that the bridge incident was not terrorism.

Understand, you don’t have to assert it absolutely was terrorism to say that it’s more than a tad premature to rule out terrorism entirely.

It’s the same with the Moscow attack. Did it have to be Ukraine-related? No. Did it have to be anti-Russian terrorism and nothing else? Also, no.

Was it impossible to get anywhere with the White House cocaine investigation? Well, if you didn’t want to discover the truth, then yes. Absolutely.

But keep buying what they’re selling because this is only the start as we move toward November’s election.

While you were paying attention to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Sunday afternoon, the Pittsburgh Penguins quietly continued their stumble toward playoff oblivion.

Oh, it looked good for a time, with the Penguins inexplicably leading the powerful Colorado Avalanche 4-0 in the second period. But, just as water finds its own level, the stumbling Penguins were able to turn that mammoth lead into a 5-4 overtime loss.

That left the Penguins at dead-even .500 – 30-30-10 — 70 games into an 82-game season. Worse, with several games yet to be played Sunday by their rivals for a wild-card playoff spot, the Penguins sat 9 points out a playoff spot, with five teams ahead of them in that chase for the Stanley Cup playoff field in the east.

The computer rating system at moneypuck.com gave the Penguins a 1.7-percent likelihood to make the playoffs after the Sunday loss. To borrow the line from the movie “Dumb And Dumber,” so, you’re telling me there’s a chance?

Yes. There is a fleeting, rapidly diminishing chance that the Penguins will avoid missing the playoffs for a second consecutive season.

But what would that mean, even if they did pull off the longest of longshots?

This still is a team with a porous defense, as epitomized by defenseman Kris Letang who has taken it upon himself to make critical gaffes in crucial games of late. From misplays in his end, to getting caught spectating as Colorado’s Jonathan Drouin swept past him to score the winning goal in overtime Sunday, LeTang has been a glaring problem.

The top-heavy salary structure of the team leaves little room to accumulate depth, and led to Jake Guentzel being traded away due to a lack of money.

The Penguins also pitched the Guentzel move as an attempt to get younger. He is, after all, pushing an ancient 30 years of age.

This is what happens to dynastic teams, in many sports. From the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s, to the New England Patriots of recent decades, the time comes when age, salary caps and other issues conspire to turn winners into losers.

Just look at what has happened to the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks going from penthouse to outhouse in hockey.

It’s is likely that the Penguins will miss the playoffs this season, and it may not be the last such miss before they can turn over the roster and be successful again.

That’s the way of life in professional sports in the age of the salary cap.

Terrorists have killed a reported 140 and counting in a Russian concert hall attack. Can you say Gavrilo Princip?

It was Princip whose name lives in infamy among historians as having had a significant hand in starting World War I. As a teenager in June 1914, it was Princip who shot and eventually killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife during the couple’s state visit to Sarajevo.

This incident generally is considered to be the spark that ignited the powder keg of tensions across Europe and led to the so-called “Great War.”

The assassination was a series of tragi-comedy errors. Princip was among a team of would-be assassins stationed along the parade route. An earlier attempt by another member of the assassination team, using a grenade, failed, but Princip got his chance when the Archduke’s convertible missed a call to change parade routes, then conveniently stopped and stalled right in front of Princip.

Once, as a youth coasting through a history class, I didn’t do enough reading of the material ahead of a test and missed a question regarding Princip. The name now is imprinted on my brain,

Our current world leaders would do well to read up on the man. Seemingly minor incidents in the big picture can ignite major conflagrations.

And that leads us to the event in Russia. According to some reports, the U.S. knew something was up, having warned the Russians an ISIS attack was imminent, and ISIS has claimed responsibility.

But the Russians are casting an eye toward Ukraine as an abettor. Eleven people are said to have been detained, including four terrorists who participated directly in the attack.

They were caught, according to the Russians, while headed toward the Ukraine border and Russian president Vladimir Putin has come out and implicated Ukraine for being prepared to facilitate the terrorists’ escape.

Considering that Russia already is in a shooting war with Ukraine, the proxy for NATO as led by the United States, this might not seem like anything beyond a development in that confrontation.

But, as NATO members have continued to increase support for Ukraine, up to and including putting soldiers on the ground and escalating the amount and level of weaponry being provided, Putin has been clear that the Russians will not rule out using nuclear weapons to protect themselves.

This terrorist attack, if viewed correctly or incorrectly as a Ukraine production, only pushes us closer to Russia ratcheting up the action.

In a rare moment of apparent sanity, Ukraine spokesmen have denied being connected with the event.

Regardless, what this has done is heighten emotions and push us that much closer to one side or the other over-reacting.

Princip lived to see the fruit of his efforts, although he insisted World War I would have happened even without his contribution. He was spared a death sentence due to being a teenager, but died in April 1918 owing to the effects of his harsh prison conditions.

If this terrorist attack turns into a Princip moment, most of us probably won’t be around four years hence to view the carnage.

We’re nearing the end of day one of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and it already is a raging success, if only because Kentucky has been ousted.

Never mind that this latest Kentucky tournament choke totally screws my two brackets. It is rewarding to see John Calipari’s one-and-done methodology, in which he eagerly allows his program to serve as a one-season incubator for aspiring NBA draft picks, once again come up short in the tournament.

This year, the Mildcats were sent packing by Oakland, the Michigan school you probably never had on your hoops radar previously, unlike, say, Michigan State.

This particular tournament dispatching of the Kentucky one-year all-stars was accomplished on the back of guard Jack Gohlke’s 32 points as he rained 3-pointers on the guys in blue. Gohlke honed his craft in five years at Division II Hillsdale before transferring to Oakland for his final season of eligibility.

Gohlke is not destined to be a lottery pick in the NBA draft, but he made fans of the old days of college basketball feel like they had hit the lottery with the humbling of Calipari’s group of prima donnas.

And that’s why we still watch the NCAA tournament, despite all its failings and foibles.

We watch despite the fact that earlier today we were treated to the heartwarming story of the Illinois star player, Terrence Shannon Jr., able to play only because he and his posse got a court order demanding Illinois drop its suspension of him, owing to a rape charge he faces in Kansas.

The school, ruled the judge, had violated Shannon’s civil rights with the suspension. Those rights included the opportunity to be an NBA lottery draft pick and poach money from the Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) money machine.

That judge’s last name, in a bit of delicious irony, is Lawless.

Shannon may or may not be guilty of the rape. But a school losing the power to suspend players who are under such active judicial scrutiny is the sort of absurd justice now visited upon this country by activist judges.

I’m sure the pompous NCAA types bringing Shannon to postseason media functions were sure to refer to him as a student-athlete, despite the fact his whole court case rested on him being a basketball player, not an aspiring sociologist, with his reported major in sociology.

Generally speaking, during the course of today’s Day One viewing, I saw some bad behavior from assorted teams and players – thuggish moments that had the officials beating a path to courtside tables to consult video replays to decide whether or not to hand out flagrant fouls. Frequently, they did.

I filled out two NCAA brackets this year, just for fun, and already they are candidates for the circular file.

My laughably incorrect theme this year was that the SEC, with its eight teams in the field, was poised to make the sort of national noise usually reserved for the conference’s football programs.

Instead, Michigan State sent Mississippi State packing, South Carolina was bounced by Oregon and, of course, Kentucky was shown the door by Oakland.

Tennessee, the only other SEC team in action Thursday, is up huge on St. Peter’s at the half as I write this, so presumably the Volunteers will survive.

The other four SEC teams – Alabama, Auburn, Florida and Texas A&M — play Friday. I’m expecting all four to win then. But I also expected Kentucky Mississippi State and South Carolina to win today, too.

Doesn’t matter, though, because Kentucky is gone and I’m one happy camper.

Political battles now are playing out in the courts. The economy is great, or troubled, depending on what numbers you chose to follow. We keep hearing World War III being mentioned as a viable possibility.

Against that backdrop, it’s time for some news and views.

NEWS: Follow the bouncing ball. The Supreme Court denied a Clueless Joe Biden regime request to slap down a Texas law allowing local law enforcement to arrest illegals. What a radical concept that would be. But a ruling from the 5^th Circuit Court of Appeals put the Texas law on hold again, over-riding a stay granted by another 5^th Circuit panel.

VIEWS: If you are surprised that our law enforcement and judicial operations have become politicized to this extreme, you have not been paying attention. Leftists have discovered that by installing enough lunatic judges and district attorneys, you run cover for the most outrageous bastardizations of our formerly even-handed justice. It’s a variation of taking over the public schools with WOKE principles, also designed to destroy this republic. And, sadly, it’s working.

NEWS: A drag queen squired around the White House and the vice-president’s residence to celebrate Pride Month and appearing in many social media posts with VP Kamala Harris, is being accused in a Rolling Stone expose of having committed multiple sexual assaults between 2012 and 2020.

VIEWS: Can you say role model?

NEWS: A former top Polish army official has said it out loud: Ukraine is losing the war with Russia. He alluded to 10 million missing people and a Ukrainian army whose average age is 43, with mentally disabled men being sent to fight at the front in this lost cause.

VIEWS: But if we’d just give the Zelenskyy beggar $100 or so billion more it would make it all better.

NEWS: All this comes amidst reports NATO troops from the United States, France, and Great Britain are on the ground in Ukraine.

VIEWS: Newly re-elected Russian president Vlad Putin took note of all this Monday, saying a direct Russia-NATO conflict was yet another step toward World War III. If that breaks out, I’m not optimistic that our military, infested with gender-confused Woke types who think climate change is their greatest challenge, will acquit itself particularly well against the Russkies.

NEWS: Later today the Federal Reserve Board of Governors is expected to announce no change in interest rate targets due to inflation remaining a tick above 3 percent, far in excess of the target rate of 2 percent.

VIEWS: This year began with optimists expecting three to five interest rate cuts. We’re at zero and counting. The Fed meeting comes amidst ballooning debt (both public and private), fears of a commercial real estate collapse, and a general concern that the stock markets are being held aloft by largely undisciplined momentum followers. But, just forget all that and be happy if the Fed decides to do nothing about it all.

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the annual exercise blending schmaltz overkill and roundball, begins Tuesday amidst a troubled backdrop for college sports.

The popularity of this tournament owes in large part to those office bracket pools and, ironically, the pools speak volumes about the state of the event. Where once someone with a knowledge of the sport figured to do well picking winners using that acumen, now the whole exercise has devolved into a crapshoot, a lottery ticket in which the supposedly best teams frequently find themselves failing to win the thing while some longshots prevail.

Simply put, there are no truly great men’s basketball teams any longer, only a lot of pretty good teams.

Why? Excellent players bolting for the NBA after a year or two of seasoning in what has become a semi-pro operation, players whizzing through the transfer portal like immigrants storming the southern border, and NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) which allows “amateur” collegians to earn seven-figure paydays as professional product endorsers and still remain eligible, all have contributed to a breakdown in the team concept.

It also puts the lie to the student-athlete crap being peddled by those televising this and other college sports events. The days of some college kids at the top level playing for the old alma mater are long-gone, replaced by money-grubbing on a vast scale.

The schools being opportunists in seeking greener conference pastures, coaches pulling in multi-million dollar salaries, networks lavishing monstrous broadcast rights fees on the conferences and schools, are just as guilty as the athletes in turning the whole school spirit narrative into a ridiculous fable. The name of the game is not the sport, but the money that can be extracted from it.

The level of play suffers. Just the past weekend I was watching a semifinal game of the SEC Tournament. Florida won the opening tip and the first Gators player to handle the ball over midcourt fired up a three-point try, and missed.

Opposition Texas A&M rebounded and – stop me if you’ve read this before – the first Aggie to possess the ball in the offensive end of the court fired up a three-pointer. He made it. But the tone had been set.

Also, while watching the Atlantic 10 semifinal between St. Bonaventure and Duquesne that same day, a feature ran hailing the Bonaventure coach as something of an offensive genius. But, the storyteller added, sadly he can’t run as many plays as he used to because he has so many transfer players on his roster they can’t process the entire playbook in a single season.

Bonaventure and all those transfers lost. Duquense went on to win the tournament and become an unlikely NCAA team, the school’s first since 1977. The Dukes won the conference title game despite going 1-15 shooting to start the second half, and finishing hitting just 5 of 29 second-half field-goal attempts and scoring a paltry 21 second-half points. But, hey, they’re going to The Dance!

Elsewhere, three of the four eventual NCAA Tournament top seeds lost in their conference tournaments, including Houston’s 69-41 humbling at the hands of Iowa State in the Big 12 championship. Houston, ranked No. 1 nationally, suffered the largest defeat for a No. 1 team since 1968 when it was, again, Houston coming up well short.

It’s not just college basketball being affected adversely by the money grab.

When legendary Alabama football coach Nick Saban retired after last season, he cited the NIL and the transfer portal as having killed traditional college football.

“You hear somebody use the word “student-athlete.’ That doesn’t exist,’” Saban said.

Veteran St. John’s basketball coach Rick Pitino also has bemoaned NIL, noting, “We’re coaching professional basketball players now.”

It’s not just traditional sports being roiled by NIL. LSU has a gymnast reportedly earning $3.2 million, largely for being an attractive blonde.

Elsewhere, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team has won the right to unionize.

But CBS will continue to spread the student-athlete propaganda, building to the playing of the song “One Shining Moment” at tournament’s end.

And you will be expected to swallow the fib that these are just student-athletes playing a game, a lie on par with you can keep your doctor with Obamacare or I’ll respect you in the morning.

Socialists could be laughable if they weren’t so dangerous. Witness the latest nonsense as purveyed by admitted socialist, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Sanders is pushing to have the work week reduced from the now pretty much standard 40 hours, to 32. Of course, there would be no reduction in pay.

You think you are witnessing price inflation now? Just imagine what would happen if people had their work week and, in theory, productivity, reduced 20 percent, but still drew the same pay.

The people selling you services or products aren’t going to eat that 20 percent; most couldn’t even if they wanted to do so.

This means that you will see 20-percent price increases, give or take, across the board. I hope the workers enjoy that 8-hour reduction in the work week, because it’s going to cost them big whenever they need to purchase a good or service.

There was a time when nonsense such as that being dispensed by Sanders would be laughed off as no more than an absurd diversion. Not so, now.

This is the era of the free lunch. And, while anyone with a basic knowledge of economics realizes there is no such thing because someone eventually must pay the tab, too many are willing to let Uncle Sam pick up said tab.

Why not? He’s already paying billions to support illegal immigrants and more billions to support our chronic domestic underclass. Throw in billions to keep the stooge Zelenskyy in charge in Ukraine and billions (trillions?) spent on other government handout projects. Then, to paraphrase the quote of the late Senator Everett Dirksen, speaking decades back about troublesome government debt, a trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.

That’s real BORROWED money. Uncle Sam is just like the typical American consumer, supporting an overly lavish lifestyle with a credit card. It’s just on a grander scale, with Uncle Sam running up debt at the rate of a trillion or so dollars every 100 days.

But Sanders’ proposal to shorten the work week will strike a chord with the give-me types, ranging from college students who inexplicably didn’t understand taking out a loan meant the obligation to repay it, to the people who line up in my area in $50,000-plus vehicles to collect free food handouts just because they can.

I know one guy who tries to pick up as many as four rations of the handout food, that he might distribute it to friends and family who also can afford to buy their own food.

Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Great Britain, identified the essential flaw of socialism when she noted its main problem was “eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

In the case of the United States, there will be a come to Jesus moment when our debt will not be bought without a dramatic rise in the interest rate paid.

Debt levels already are worrisome. A few months back the federal debt (not including current deficits associated with future Social Security and Medicare benefits) was more than $33 trillion, or about 123 percent of our annual gross domestic product.

Eventually, we face the Hobson’s choice of either paying the higher interest rates, which we cannot afford to do, or reducing spending, which the masses in this handout nation will not accept.

We’re bumbling steadily toward that time of reckoning. Ideas such as Sanders’ reduced work week would only hasten its arrival.

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I received a total of two cell phone calls today as of the time this is being written just short of 9 p.m., both of them spam.

First, this indicates I’m not a very popular guy. Point conceded.

But, I mention the calls because I see a correlation between laws we put in place to shield us from such spam communications, having produced the so-called do not call lists, and laws that the anti-gun zealots want to put in place to limit our access to weapons and therefore supposedly protect the public at large from legal gun owners.

In each case, the laws will be ignored by the scofflaws and followed by the law-abiding, producing zero benefit to the people who follow the rules and carte blanche to the hoods.

Don’t take my word for this. On the consumer.ftc.gov web page that explains the do not call list, it is emphasized that the list only works regarding “real companies that follow the law.” This part of the explanation is in bold-face type, just to make it clear.

I am very aware from my post-retirement time doing telephone support for health insurance as a seasonal job how seriously reputable companies take the do not call list and how scrupulously they try to avoid violations and subsequent punishment such as fines.

From my personal life, I am extremely aware of the majority of outlaw companies who have no intent of doing things the right way. They spoof the numbers they actually are calling from, trying to mislead.

They call repeatedly, and in rapid-fire succession if you block the number and delete the call log.

Somehow, our federal, state and local law enforcement, with all their sophisticated electronic surveillance and monitoring tools, can’t put these phone scam artists out of business.

I just ignore the calls. When the phone rang during dinner time tonight, I didn’t even bother to get up and check. When a bit of time passed and there was no indication that a message had been left, I moved on with my life.

Understand, I think this pond-scum-sucking lifeform that makes such calls ought to be drawn and quartered. They deserve no consideration at all considering that all the employees know damn well exactly what they do for a living – that being trying to cheat people.

They are life’s lowest of the low.

And we haven’t been able to legislate them out of existence.

It will be the same with any draconian anti-gun legislation the left can dream up. It is notable that when gun control worsens in jurisdictions, crime rises.

Criminals are emboldened to know that the odds are against an honest citizen target being armed. And so these criminals, with their illegal weaponry, can expect a free ride.

Oh, but it makes for good talking points and feeds raw meat to the raving lunatics who increasingly make up the Democratic party to speak of abolishing private ownership of many common weapons.

Clueless Joe is fond of pointing out in snide fashion that the general public owning weapons doesn’t protect us from the federal government unless that weaponry includes jet fighters and tanks.

The point the Clueless One misses, as is his wont, is that millions of armed citizens can make a stand, even against heavily armed government oppressors.

On another level, look how effective those Houthi terrorists have been in emerging from their caves periodically to sink and/or threaten shipping in the Red Sea with missiles and drones. Each drone we shoot down costs us $1 million or more.

Maybe we can legislate Houthi rebels into submission. Yeah, right.

Those laws would be about as effective as more stringent gun control legislation at home would be and has been in halting crime in such garden spots as Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. D.C.

To repeat, laws only affect the law-abiding, not the phone spam artists or other criminals. Expecting any different result is a mere pipe dream.

People who study such things know that complex systems fail catastrophically, in cascading fashion as one failure triggers other, more destructive problems.

Think of the Challenger space shuttle, which was destroyed in 1986 when abnormally cold temperatures led to O-rings becoming hard and failing to seal joints in a solid rocket booster. This led to hot gases escaping and melting key structural elements of the craft, which in turn led to the craft tearing itself apart with wild, uncontrolled gyrations at high speed.

Now, think of the United States as such a complex system, with an ever-expanding list of small failures that might be enough to cascade and produce a metaphorical pile of smoldering rubble when it all implodes.

Even Democrats, who pledge blind allegiance to Clueless Joe Biden, are nervous about the country’s direction, as evidenced by numerous polls. Call this their one moment of clarity.

We are told that the seemingly unsolvable political rift between right and left will eventually bring down the U.S.

But the root cause increasingly looks like it will be economic, only spilling into politics after the initial failure of the economic system – sort of like that hot gas escaping past the failed O-rings on the shuttle.

Democrats, from Biden on down, are fond of playing the class warfare game when it comes to the economy. Blaming greedy corporations for inflation, the top one percent of earners charged with not paying their “fair share,” and anyone living in the middle class accused of being racist ingrates regarding the great largess the political elites have bestowed upon them, those elites love to pit the citizenry against each other.

But, cracks are appearing in the formerly monolithic support for such narratives.

Anyone with a basic understanding of math knows that when a nation’s unfunded liabilities for things such as Medicare and Social Security are $175 trillion and the economic output of all nations on Earth was a comparatively low $104 trillion by comparison, as was the case in 2023, the system can’t be bailed out by raising taxes on the people who already pay about 46 percent of our Federal income taxes. You could take it all and it wouldn’t make a dent in the problem.

Alas, some people can’t think big picture. But they do know almost everything they need, items such as food and shelter – cost 30 percent or so more now than they did when Biden took office. Somehow, Biden’s brain donor advisers tried to convince these people they were wrong about that and coined Bidenomics as their catch phrase.

You don’t hear much about Bidenomics these days.

Instead, you see and hear reports from Millennials who can’t afford houses, new vehicles, or other formerly common trappings of a Middle Class existence. The U.S. population is being beaten into a two-class system, with the bottom class losing ground rapidly.

Democrats find themselves trapped between a rock and a hard place on this. They desperately need to replace these working class voters who have migrated in large numbers to Donald Trump, so they throw open our borders to recruit illegal immigrants and voters.

But, these illegals cost a lot of money to house and feed, so boneheads propose large giveaways, things like $10,000 preloaded debit cards, free housing, free food, free medical care.

Meanwhile, the poverty pimps and the formerly rock-solid Democratic supporters among the lower class, are beginning to scream about losing their part of the pie to these illegals.

Leftist terrorist supporters are unhappy that Biden stands with Israel — sort of. So, again, more illegals are needed to replenish those lost Democratic voters who now vote Hamas.

It’s an endless cycle every bit as vicious as our overspending federal, state and local governments getting us further and further into debt.

Like those shuttle astronauts, we are just along for the ride, one that is very unlikely to end well.