Yesterday, with little ceremony, I removed the Trump-Pence yard sign that had been a fixture of my front lawn for more than two years.

It was intentional timing that it was done on the day Donald Trump announced yet another run at the presidency.

Understand, if Trump were running tomorrow against Clueless Joe Biden, I’d vote for him again. And again it would be losing effort. Not enough people agree with me; at least not enough to provide a cheat-proof result.

Although the thought may or may not have originated with Albert Einstein, it is true that the definition of insanity is repeating actions and expecting different results.

Allow me to confess up front that I didn’t think Trump could win the presidency in his first run. In assessing that surprising outcome, I told any who would listen that it should go down as the greatest triumph in election history in view of the fact that Trump had to prevail over his own party as well as the opposing Democrats.

I also predicted at the time that Trump could never win re-election. That sentiment was based on my presumption that Democrats had been caught with their pants down – figuratively for once instead of literally – and would employ extreme measures to prevent a repeat win for him.

With Democrats relying on their allies in the LameStream media never thinking to question ridiculous Russian collaboration stories, or other falsehoods both foreign and domestic that were used to assail Trump, he was damaged in the minds of the so-called independents who are said to decide elections in these split-nation times.

Shenanigans in vote tabulation and the rush to make fraud-prone absentee voting the norm, were just the cherries on top of the Democrats’ sundae of deceit.

Trump as a businessman should appreciate when a brand has been soiled and his has been.

The fact that Democrat politicians in the U.S. House have continued their harassment of Trump long after he left office speaks volumes about their hatred and intent. The Romans with their supposed salting of the Carthage soil after the Third Punic War had nothing on grudge-holding Democrats.

Trump also is the subject of several legal actions in various locales, not ideal stuff for a candidate.

Trump doesn’t help his cause, feeding his critics ample material with his penchant for rhetorical hyperbole.

The man has a considerable ego. Duly noted. Now, if you think people like Biden, Schumer and Pelosi aren’t egomaniacs, you need some education on the term. But they are shielded by the LameStream media, where Trump is pilloried for the same faults.

Trump did great things for the Republican Party, most notably making it a grassroots operation appealing to the working class and giving those people hope for a better future. But now, Trump’s considerable ego is getting in the way.

It is time for him to cede the spotlight to the likes of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who just might be able to win the next presidential election by that unstealable margin alluded to earlier as a requirement for a Republican to prevail.

Trump’s grade school level verbal attacks on DeSantis are a sad thing from a man who still could offer so much to the Republican cause.

Republicans need Trump to be more statesman than politician, realizing that for the good of the people he claims as his followers, and to further his ideals, his best place is cheering from the sidelines.

This just in: We have a winner from Tombstone, Arizona.

Voting tabulation has been completed and we can declare that Wyatt Earp has won the race for city marshal. In 1880. It’s not clear if Clanton family survivors will find this validation helpful considering their O.K. Corral results.

Survivors of the original Arizona election officials (all now dead) pushed back on critics, saying they had been severely undermanned and if you want quicker results – say in the same century or two — increase the manpower counting ballots.

There was no way to confirm allegations that some Democratic election officials from that Earp count somehow voted in 2022 mid-terms.

Is this Earp story absurd? Not really.

We’re nearly a week past election day – itself an outdated concept due to pre- and post-election voting that now is perfectly acceptable — and we still don’t know which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives for the next term.

Whether you be Republican or Democrat, you should be demanding action on cleaning up the electoral process, unless you like clouds of uncertainty. Remember, the shoe could be on the other foot in some future election and I’m not sure the peaceful leftists who control the Democratic party would be so accepting should late decision after late decision go against them.

This election already smells. We had the ballot printing problem in Republican strongholds in Phoenix on election day. We had the mysterious camera outage in Nevada in the post-election counting process.

Mostly, we’ve had Democrats winning an unlikely high percentage of the holdout races, making Republican House control an iffy proposition at the moment.

No less an august source than leftist CNN, in a story posted on realclearpolitics.com, is giving the Republicans the theoretical nod.

To quote that story: “It’s still most likely that Republicans will control the House with a narrow majority. Democrats need an improbably near-perfect run through remaining seats to stay in power.”

Take this from a guy who has done his share of gambling, I wouldn’t bet on a Republican House triumph with your money.

When you speak of the statistically improbable, recall the 2020 presidential election, which was improbable squared as Clueless Joe Biden magically got the right number of voters in late, late counts, wherever he needed them to carry swing states.

Once again, we are to believe that Biden defied electoral history. First, this candidate with all the charisma of a cabbage garnered the most votes in U.S. history – and needed almost all of them to prevail in 2020.

Now, with his approval rating severely negative, no matter the polling source, he again defies historical precedent by apparently gaining Senate seats in a 2022 mid-term election (the typical incumbent party loss in these things is 4 or more seats) and keeping a typical House loss of 20-40 seats to a deficit of a few seats– maybe even a few gains as those late election results trickle in from California et al.

Only in Florida, with strict election integrity controls and prompt tabulation, did the much-predicted Republican red wave materialize.

I’m thinking this is no mere coincidence.

In a story from The Epoch Times, posted on zerohedge.com, Pa. State representative Frank Ryan, a former Marine who ran election security for Iraq’s 2005 election, recalled that foreign election.

Please note, those results were available election night. Also note, despite our whining here about the need for hordes of people to vote through the mail, nearly 75 percent of the Iraqis showed up to vote in-person. There was NO mail-in voting due to concerns about electoral fraud.

Repeat: Mail-in voting raises concerns of electoral fraud. This is the case today in such enlightened countries as France, where there are paper ballots, voted only in-person, and no electronic voting machines to further increase the chances to cheat on the count.

The Iraqi turnout was achieved despite death threats to voters, both before and after. Remember, Iraqis had to dip their fingers in purple ink as they voted to prevent repeat voting. This also marked these citizens as voters for days afterward, which is significant considering death threats on voters from terrorists.

To recap, Iraqi voters were willing and able to vote on election day despite concerns that dwarf those of our pampered citizenry, their votes were counted by bi-partisan tabulators and the results was known on election night.

But we need to wait a week or more for results in the United States because one party has found it convenient to bastardize the whole voting process.

Until that is changed, until we don’t let mail-in votes from undocumented voters rain in early and late, until the voting rolls are purged of the dead and ineligible, until we have an election in which there are not mysterious surveillance camera outages, ballot problems, or stunning results that defy exit polling, be prepared for more elections that come with the stench of doubt attached.

You say you’re amazed that Pennsylvania Democrats elected physically and mentally impaired John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate? Get a load of this.

Pennsylvania Democrats also elected Anthony “Tony” DeLuca to the state house despite the fact DeLuca had died Oct. 9.

Repeat, dead for a month and still gets put into office by an informed Democratic electorate. We’re making a logical presumption that Republicans didn’t vote the guy into office. And, no, all DeLuca’s votes couldn’t have preceded his death as mail-in ballots.

You put up Adolf Hitler as a Democrat candidate for political office and in all too many states he would be voted in simply because of the letter “D” on the ballot with his name.

Even as the Republicans were failing to deliver the red wave many had expected in these mid-term elections, there were some amusing highlights.

New York’s Sean Patrick Maloney, the man in charge of getting Democrats elected to Congress, lost his House race to Republican Mike Lawler.

This is in the home district of the Clintons and Democratic super money man George Soros. The irony is sweet.

Also, serial Democratic star losers Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams did it again, burning millions of dollars to lose big. How can they remain major players in the party without ever winning an election?

A familiar lowlight was trouble counting ballots. Somehow, France can run elections with nearly 50 million potential voters, paper ballots and still get the results counted promptly. Notably, France banned mail-in ballots in 1975.

Brazil, with about as many voters as the United States, recently ran two efficient national elections. The results in the second, a presidential run-off, were known within hours. HOURS!!!!!

Florida, which beginning in 2000 and running into recent years had been an election joke, now is a model of efficiency. Ron DeSantis got elected governor, fired some inept voting officials, and the state has run smooth elections since.

Meanwhile, incompetents in Nevada and Arizona, dealing with much fewer voters than Florida, are promising results, in Arizona’s case, by Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s by the latest.

There’s a chance Georgia’s Senate runoff election slated for Dec. 6 will have its results known before the final Arizona numbers are reported.

Conspiracy theorists are noting that the ballot-printing problems in Arizona seemed concentrated in conservative precincts. Election deniers, obviously.

But the optimistic among the Republican faithful hold out hope that the governor and Senate races still will be won in Arizona. There is even more optimism that Republican Adam Laxalt will win the Senate race in Nevada.

Although results are not final, most political pundits see the Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives, albeit by a narrow margin.

If the Republican optimists are correct, they also could wrest control of the Senate from the Democrats, who now run things despite a 50-50 tie due to the vote of the vice president being the tiebreaker.

Against this background, it was strange, yet predictable, that Clueless Joe Biden would emerge from his bunker Wednesday to take a victory lap, based on the election not going as badly as Democrats feared it would.

To repeat, based on the likely loss of the House, and the potential loss of the Senate, Biden and friends are claiming victory, threatening to harass political opponents and generally acting like the pompous asses anyone with a brain recognizes them to be.

We live in curious times, indeed.

It has come to this in American politics and it ain’t pretty.

Even with a president who could be the eighth dwarf, “Clueless,” and with a country whose electorate supposedly is angry about inflation, crime, schools usurping parental authority and a porous border, Republicans might only be able to eke out a slight majority in the House of Representatives and would need a minor miracle in late vote tabulation to avoid Democrats taking the Senate.

Many a conservative is wringing his or her hands this morning wondering what happened. It’s not really that difficult to comprehend.

Readers of this blog will recall that I was less than impressed with many Republican candidates, particularly here in Pennsylvania where the governor’s race was virtually conceded when Democrats helped push Doug Mastriano over the top in the Republican primary.

Carpetbagger Dr. Oz similarly was aided in winning his primary race by Democrats who, correctly, thought he’d be easy to run against in the Senate race.

Even when Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman suffered a stroke and showed poorly in the lone debate, Oz had the lead only in Republican-leaning polls.

Come election time, Fetterman seems to have won a squeaker, meaning Pennsylvania is sending a Clueless Joe clone to Washington, D.C.

We should be so proud.

I never was optimistic about a Red Wave. I thought the House should be won, simply based on mid-term history of the president’s party losing seats. I thought the Senate was a tougher nut to crack and was keeping my expectations down there, despite some outrageous projections late in the campaign that the Republicans would gain an advantage of anywhere from three seats to 11 in the Senate.

I had based my pessimism on factors both local and nationwide.

Begin with my neighborhood, which in my 36 years or so of living here has become a block of leftist-leaners, be they workers in the public sector (schools and government), gays or welfare bums.

I used the unofficial gauge of yard signs to predict bad things for Republicans.

Nationally, I long have pointed out that the Republicans need to make huge gains merely to maintain the status quo considering that public schools and universities are minting fresh classes of mostly leftist voters annually.

In a quote attributed to many, including Benjamin Franklin, but widely disputed now as part of the assault on history, we are reminded that a republic, or democracy, ends when voters realize they can vote themselves money.

Democrats have bought into this purchasing of votes by never meeting a giveaway program they didn’t like. Even now Biden is draining the strategic petroleum reserve in order to suppress gasoline prices and buy votes.

It’s a similar story for student loan forgiveness and recurring stimulus initiatives.

The Democratic motto might as well be Vote For Us And We Will Keep The Handouts Coming.

This runs up against limits in the long run, as evidenced by our burgeoning national debt and rising interest rates. But, it’s fun while it lasts and your average member of the Democratic electorate thinks long-term is the beginning of the next month, when the free money again is direct-deposited.

If the Republicans learned anything from this mid-term election it should be that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the role model.

DeSantis kept his state’s businesses and schools open when others were bowing to COVID fear-mongering. He has been proud to stand up to Woke maniacs. He’s making serious gains in terms of minority support.

Even as he does all this, DeSantis has shown reserve in his rhetoric when appropriate.

This is the sort of candidate Republicans need to duplicate. Otherwise, their future is as a second-banana opposition party, only occasionally being able to wrest control of the political reins on a national basis.

To repeat the grammatically crude open, that ain’t pretty.

As promised, I voted today and then visited a friend who was a poll watcher at a heavily blue precinct.

Here’s my report.

There was no wait at my polling station, a sparse ballot and no apparent problem scanning my completed ballot.

The lack of a line surprised me. But, upon exiting, I asked a volunteer outside for her observations and she said there had been heavy turnout early. I spoke with her just before lunch and she anticipated a rush shortly, and after working hours.

The scene was similar in terms of few voters when I arrived at the voting place where my friend was observing things from the Republican angle.

It was serendipitous to find that the Democrat volunteer, handing out fingernail files with a candidate’s name on them, also was an acquaintance from my days spent working for the local daily rag.

What ensued was some entertaining conversation, a few mildly amusing observations, and a sense of nostalgia for the way politics used to be.

To set the cast, my friend Roger The K is a white Republican. Clyde The W, the other poll volunteer, is a black Democrat.

You might be surprised to learn that Roger showed up with his own chair and table. Noticing that Clyde had no seat, Roger went inside the polling place and got him one.

I wore my red hat which reads “Relax Idiots It’s Just A Hat” emblazoned on the front. No one said a word about it.

Both Clyde and Roger told me that Clyde had been taking a lot of grief from voters unhappy with Democrats. One told Clyde he’d be voting for Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

People, said Clyde, had been harsh.

I observed some people inexplicably taking handouts from both Clyde and Roger. Others gave themselves away by taking from one and disdaining the offer from the other.

Most were polite about it. Some were not.

During the time spent chatting with Clyde and Roger, I ran into one of the greatest athletes in the history of Johnstown High School, Chuck The W. We reminisced about his glory days and caught up on other aspects of life.

He’s black and I’m thinking a Democrat. I’m white and a Republican. Yet all was cordial.

It certainly didn’t feel like democracy was on its deathbed and we soon were to be combatants in a civil war.

There were some amusing aspects to the overall experience.

An older man with a red Trump hat engaged Roger about the sad state of Democrats and was urged to move along and vote by a black security man, lest that Trump man “incite” something.

Roger noted that the man was free to express his opinions more than 10 feet from the polling station, and looking around at a crowd that included no one besides the few workers and me, Roger wondered who the man might incite.

Then Roger offered an opinion to me that Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman is unfit physically or mentally to serve. I agreed and the security man got in his vehicle and left.

Roger told me that man had bought him a coffee earlier and likely now he would want paid for it.

A black man exited having voted and told us, kiddingly I presume, that he’d gotten it all straightened out.

Another duo, a black man and black woman, came out later with the man proclaiming “Frank Burns (a Democratic incumbent member of the state house) for president.”

The pair then climbed into a Cadillac Escalade parked in a handicapped spot and exited the one-way parking lot in the wrong direction.

Ironic, right?

Clyde had just moved his chair a bit to stay in the sunshine on this brisk, but sunny day. Roger was about to go inside to check some tallies.

I prepared to leave. But first, Clyde, Roger and I noted politics needed more of this pleasant give and take. Clyde brought up someone throwing cans of beer at Ted Cruz in Houston and how disgusting that was.

We all lamented voting shenanigans, be they committed by Democrats or Republicans.

“If you have to cheat to win,” said Clyde, “it’s not worth it.”

Well said, Clyde.

And a tip of the cap to Roger The K, who arrived at 6:30 in the morning and by virtue of his poll-watcher status (he had his certificate and showed it to me) would be locked inside when voting ended at 8 p.m. to monitor the count.

How long he was going to be there, he didn’t know.

All of this was as a volunteer doing his bit in trying to insure election integrity. I applaud him for his efforts.

I’m going out to slay democracy later by voting for Republicans. At least that’s what the Democrats would have you believe.

The hysterical desperation of Democrats in the final days of this mid-term election campaign has become laughable on one hand, pathetic on another.

As one host of a cable news show asked a guest Monday night, “Will people actually buy this? Will it make a difference?”

The guest was confident it would not. I’m not so sure.

The killing democracy claims are a new low for Democrats, who also have trotted out other familiar tropes from past campaigns.

For decades, Republican candidates for national office, particularly presidents, were going to do away with Social Security and Medicare according to raving Democratic speeches and ads.

Republicans have coined a term for the ridiculous, repetitive claims – “Mediscare.”

I’m here to tell you that my wife and I both are on Medicare and both are collecting Social Security despite these wild Democratic claims. This, despite various Republican presidents, congressmen and governors throughout the years.

The Democrats are just as wrong about the death of democracy should Republicans prevail today.

My first memories of do-anything-to-win Democrats goes back to the 1964 election. I was 9 years old at the time and I recall vividly my mother coming back from a union rally for Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic candidate for president.

At the time, my mother and several other female members of the extended family were members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, working at local sewing factories that were only a few steps above sweatshops.

I distinctly recall her bringing home decals of black and yellow cowboy hats, with the message “LBJ All The Way!” Through the magic of the internet, I did a quick search and found images of these stickers to confirm my recollection.

But I can’t confirm my most vivid memory of that day. We children of the family were told that LBJ opponent, Barry Goldwater, was in favor of kids attending schools six days a week.

That’s an example of how Democrats groom young people to join the flock and, make no mistake, my family was loaded with Roosevelt Democrats.

Only many years later did I learn of the most insidious Democratic messaging in 1964, the infamous political TV ad of a girl county daisy petals in a field that morphs into a countdown and nuclear mushroom cloud.

The message was clear: Elect Goldwater and we’re all going to die, sort of like democracy will die today if Republicans prevail.

It was remarkably hypocritical considering the only American president ever to use nuclear weapons in combat was Democrat Harry S. Truman.

I’m neither second-guessing, nor criticizing Truman. He was right to do so. But it was wrong to use the threat of unleashing nuclear weapons to vilify Goldwater.

If you really want to understand Democratic hypocrisy, recall that Johnson ran as the anti-war candidate. Once he had won the election, in landslide fashion, he preceded to ramp up our presence in the Vietnam War to its record highs using misinformation regarding the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident as the rationalization for it.

Bottom line: Democracy is more likely to die if Democrats prevail today, based on their upside down view of facts.

Martin Armstrong, a noted analyst of both the financial world and geopolitical events, is speculating that today’s election could be a Fort Sumter moment.

Although I suspect most who read this blog were taught American history in school, I’m aware that younger generations were not and are not, so a moment of explanation is in order.

Fort Sumter was the facility in the harbor of Charleston, S.C., that was fired upon on April 12, 1861. The bombardment came from the shore by members of the South Carolina militia. Just one day later, the Union garrison of the fort surrendered.

This was generally considered the beginning of our Civil War or, if Armstrong is correct, our First Civil War.

Armstrong has a computer dubbed Socrates, into which copious amounts of information are fed, producing often ominous predictions for our future.

According to Armstrong and Socrates, this election will produce such over-the-top cheating, mostly by Democrats, that people will take to the streets to express their displeasure with both the government and the opposition parties.

I’ve seen variations of this prediction by others, positing that no matter the results the losing side will not accept them and civil unrest will follow.

I feel comfortable that should Republicans prevail in the House and Senate, as they should based on historic precedent and current polling, the Antifa and Black Lives Matter shock troops will be activated by the Democrats to make life miserable for the winners and the citizenry in general.

Also, the Democrats have spent recent weeks laying the groundwork for not accepting the results, should Republicans prevail. This would be quite an exercise in hypocrisy by Democrats, who despite their Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams party legacy of whining about the legitimacy of elections, now would brand anyone who does not blindly accept tainted results as “deniers.”

This is a variation of the one-word shaming of any who do not 100 percent accept any stance, action or philosophy, no matter how absurdly wrong, as “haters.”

I will vote today, out of force of habit. That doesn’t mean that I trust the election process, particularly here in Pennsylvania.

I also have hopes of visiting a Republican friend who will be poll watching at a heavily Democratic precinct. My plan is to wear my red “Relax Idiots It’s Just A Hat” ballcap.

It should be entertaining.

But I do not intend to stay up late into Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning following election results.

Eventually, once the Democrats have determined how many votes they need to produce wins for their candidates, the results will come out, and I will check them.

I am thinking that regardless of Democratic shenanigans, they cannot hold the House of Representatives.

The Senate is another matter. As I write this very early Tuesday, realclearpolitics.com is projecting Republicans will take control of the Senate by a 53-47 margin.

I’d be astonished if that were allowed to come to pass. Here’s hoping I’m wrong.

There is great angst among the left-wing social media nerd community, producing great amusement among the rest of us.

Begin with Twitter. Remember all those coddled social justice warriors who got paid to sleep at their desks, read Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, and censor any who did not slavishly agree with their left-wing ideology?

Remember their horror when Elon Musk proposed buying Twitter, for a ridiculously overvalued price, and all those Twits threatening to quit if Musk succeeded?

Like so many other leftists, the Twitter tykes were revealed for possessing hyperbolic mouths and minuscule backbones. It’s the latest version of all the celebrities, many on the B-list, who were going to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the presidency in his first campaign.

He did. They didn’t.

Similarly, the Twitter resignations have been virtually nonexistent. As they used to say in the street racing scene, money talks and BS walks.

But Musk, in a you-can’t-quit-you’re-fired moment, laid off about half the staff of Twitter, not trusting the (insert pronoun of choice here) to be true to their words.

Instead of being grateful for the opportunity to collect unemployment while they, to borrow a favorite phrase of former Steelers coach Chuck Noll, moved on with their life’s work, the Twitter twits curled up in the fetal position, sucked their thumbs and went to court alleging wrongful things.

The lapdog media now is reporting that some supposedly are being asked to return because Musk’s meat cleaver cut some muscle along with all the fat.

Make no mistake, Musk is not looking like a genius for his Twitter purchase. That doesn’t change the facts, those being that Twitter was a left-wing power center posing as a social media company.

If Musk has neutered Twitter, albeit at the risk of losing great portions of his personal wealth, so be it. Thanks for falling on the sword, Elon.

On the subject of social media idiocy, Meta (AKA Facebook) is seeing its market capitalization sliced by $800 billion, give or take, as ZuckerChild insists on his quest to develop and profit from some sort of digital alternate reality dubbed Meta.

What is Meta? No one can really say.

What can be said with absolute certainty is that investors don’t like the story and so ZuckerChild’s baby is being cut to ribbons in the stock market.

This reportedly has the Z-boy prepared to bring out his own ax and lop thousands of drones from the bloated Meta payroll.

As with Twitter, it is entertaining to see the Facebook crowd contemplating with horror the cold slap in the face of reality. These are people raised on participation trophies and receiving accolades for unending navel-gazing

Imagine how these leftist loons, already reeling from being brought back from mental Neverland, will react if the results from tomorrow’s mid-term elections are not good for their socialist Democratic party candidates.

Let the whining begin.

We are in the midst of an eventful weekend in sports, even as we approach a significant moment in politics with the mid-term elections Tuesday. And I’m thinking melding approaches of politics and sports is a natural.

Consider if the reeling Steelers organization took to social media to guarantee No Loss This Weekend!

While that would be true, it begs context and some action from fact-checkers. You know about fact-checkers – formerly left-wingers able to silence conservative thought but now, belatedly, becoming leftists calling out leftist brethren. Example: Joe Biden and his bragging about the Social Security COLA but not mentioning it was due to runaway inflation being fact-checked by Twitter and CNN, among others.

Fact checkers might add that the Steelers have a bye this weekend. And so, while it is guaranteed they cannot lose – again – it similarly is assured they can’t win, either.

Saturday night, the Houston Astros won the World Series, dispatching Philadelphia and, in the minds of some, getting a legitimate title because their 2017 win was marred by a sign-stealing scandal.

Were those who refused to recognize the 2017 victory merely deniers? Will they revisit those past infractions to deny this latest title?

Maybe they can start a Nov. 5 Movement, creating an inquiry panel and stocking it with unbiased fans of the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners, all of whom succumbed to the Astros in this postseason.

The meetings could be scripted by television producers and aired in prime time – sound familiar? – and the stunning conclusion that this Astros title be vacated likely would be watched by upwards of hundreds of viewers.

Those who would view political polls with a wary eye, likely see college football polls through the same lens of distrust.

Saturday was a watershed moment for them. First, No. 3 Georgia totally dominated No. 1 Tennessee. Later, unranked Notre Dame destroyed No. 4 Clemson.

It likely is time for political polls similarly to be revealed for their failings come Tuesday, or Wednesday or Thursday in Democratically controlled precincts where the Republican candidates’ total must be known before enough Democrat votes can be found to turn the outcome.

Alabama lost Saturday night for the second time this season, extremely unfamiliar territory for the program that has dominated college football by winning six national champions since 2009 and playing for the title in other years.

But at least The Crimson Tide has that glorious era of dominance that cannot be changed. Or maybe it can if the far-left types who make it their business to rewrite history books and misinform students in the public school systems decide to turn their attention to sports.

Bonus thought: Could it be just ironic coincidence that the Phillies went down in flames on the very same day that Obama, Biden and friends were holding a political rally in Philadelphia to try to resurrect Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman? Maybe it was merely karma? Can any leftist Phillies fans handle it if Fetterman goes down to Dr. Oz in that senate race?

Whether Clueless Joe Biden intentionally is lying with greater impunity as each day passes, or his utterances are merely further evidence of his confused mental state is not the point. Either way, the man is unfit for the office he holds, which is an open secret even among the Democrats so eager to distance themselves from him.

Just the other day Biden was blaming the war in Iraq for current economic problems such as inflation. He meant to say Ukraine, but this is Biden, after all.

The Clueless One then went with a long-running – albeit 100 percent false – assertion that his son Beau had died in Iraq, presumably in combat. Actually, Beau died on home turf, of brain cancer.

Biden also mentioned speaking with the man who had invented insulin. This is no mean feat since A) Insulin was discovered, not invented and B) The man who did the discovering died before Biden was born.

Now that Twitter is under the ownership of a non-leftist ideologue in Elon Musk, that social media outlet no longer is running with Democratic mis-claims while censoring any who would call out the falsehoods or distortions.

Earlier this week the official White House Twitter feed bragged about the record high cost of living raise coming for Social Security recipients. Musk made sure Twitter noted this was no gift, but just a response to record inflation during Biden’s watch.

CNN, the usually faithful ally of all things leftist, also had its fact checker note that the White House (Biden) bragfest about the COLA had not bothered to indicate it was due to historically high inflation.

The White House (Biden) deleted the tweet. Too late, millions had seen it for what it was, blatant misinformation and hucksterism.

Not that long ago, Biden bragged at another speech about visiting all 54 states! Last I checked there were 50 states. Maybe Biden is moving ahead to providing statehood to D.C., and several territories in the Democratic attempt to pack the Senate and House of Representatives by creating more leftist political subdivisions of the United States.

As Senate candidate John Fetterman stumbled through his debate with Dr. Oz, the one in which he denied ever being against fracking even though a quote from him saying he never liked fracking was displayed over his head, Fetterman kept alluding to his Oz Rule. Ostensibly that means that if Oz is on TV or talking, he’s lying.

Fetterman, in the spirit of bi-partisanship, might want to re-name that the Biden-Oz Rule.

Even beyond Biden’s passing acquaintance with truth and reality, how disturbing are those repeated scenes of someone having to lead Biden, like a blind person, to chairs, to steps from the platform, even to paths to exit a garden.

Biden is far from fit to hold his office and it makes it doubly concerning that we may be sending a Biden clone in the person of Fetterman to the Senate.