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There is an argument to be made that Donald Trump and Republicans would be better off losing this upcoming election, largely because the nation is poised on the brink of what likely will be economic and financial collapse.

You don’t have to be Nostradamus to predict this sort of thing. In fact, I’ve made similar predictions in the past.

In 2000, it was clear George W. Bush was inheriting a NASDAQ tech bubble that had burst in March of that year and would lead to tough sledding for the nation. Little did we know that the seeds already had been sowed for the 911 terror attacks that would come months after Bush finally had been certified as the winner.

It was rough going for the United States, but we bounced back, in part because the nation was not in nearly as bad fiscal shape back then. The 2000 national debt was listed at $6 trillion. Fast-forward to 2024 and it’s an admitted $36 trillion, but some argue it actually is in the $200-plus trillion range if the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare are included.

By the end of Bush’s second term, we were mired in the so-called Great Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and Barack Obama was swept into office.

As bad as they were, that 2000 tech bust, and the housing/real estate bust that inspired the 2007-08 financial collapse, were mere preludes to what we now face.

You probably are not aware, but gold, a canary in the coal mine of economic and financial distress, hit an all-time high above $2,700 an ounce Friday on the spot market. It’s little brother in the precious metals area, silver, was up more than $2 an ounce just Friday alone, to the $33.75 or so an ounce mark. This is well below the all-time highs of $50 give or take in 1980 and 2011, but it’s trending strongly.

You might hear the term BRICS being tossed around. This is a economic bloc named for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but others have joined. They are trying to get out from under the yoke of the U.S. dollar, which sees this nation shutting out some nations from world trade and also arbitrarily seizing their assets.

There is talk that this coming week’s BRICS confab will produce a gold-backed currency to compete with the dollar. I think this is premature and expect to see gold and silver sell off this week. But, long term, both precious metals should have great upside.

The high-flying stock market might continue its surge for a time, too, but it is on borrowed time, as it was in 2000 and 2007-08.

We got out of those previous collapses. But, to stress again our debt situation, this nation and the world were in much stronger financial shape back then.

China is having economic distress, with the tried-and-true measure of government stimulus being tried to pull that nation out of its spiral. Germany’s economy is struggling, Japan is having a crisis with its currency, the Yen.

And on. And on. And on.

Things are on the bleak side and easily could fall apart quickly.

And that means the candidate and party that win this election could come up big-time losers in the long run.

I posted on laughable government statistics earlier today, went for the daily walk and returned to find yet another effort to skew statistics, this a 10-16-24 posting by CBS News.

The tale alluded to Donald Trump and Kamala Chameleon Harris sparring over crime numbers and, predictably, gave the nod on accuracy to the Chameleon.

The story prefers FBI figures, but neatly ignores that the FBI has come clean that their reported drop in violent crime in recent years has been revised to an increase. I guess all the Hate Trump types at CBS were too busy with that crusade, or editing Chameleon interviews, to notice that FBI stealth update.

There is another aspect to all of this that I didn’t get into in the previous blog post, but will here: Crime statistics mostly are based on reports to police and arrests, and an awful lot of crime is not showing up in these metrics.

Think of all the shoplifters in California who are careful to stay under $950 in total goods stolen on each encounter, which is the cutoff below which the authorities basically ignore the crime.

Think of all the illegal immigrants allowed into this country on ridiculous exemptions and go on to commit crimes that largely go unreported and unsolved. Again, the numbers fail to capture accurately the level of crime.

Think of thousands of people rioting and burning property, harming innocents, and generally taking over portions of major cities. But few if any get charged, so there is no crime committed, right? Give me a break!

Such bastardization of reality leads to the likes of the infamous CNN banner about mostly peaceful protests against a backdrop of flaming cars and buildings.

This sort of media sleight of hand helps explain why a record low of 31 percent of the U.S. population surveyed in Gallup polling trusts the LameStream media to be accurate.

Trust figures for the federal government and its bogus statistics, are higher, but still well below 50 percent.

Keep on mis-stating, massaging, and outright lying about the numbers and those trust numbers will continue to plumb record lows.

The public increasingly is catching on to the propaganda. Welcome to reality, people.

Government statistics, like “60 Minutes” interviews and ABC presidential debates, tend to be inaccurate, slanted and subject to ex post facto revisions.

And yet they are consumed without hesitation by the gullible and used freely to make decisions from the political to the economic.

Why this is so – an ongoing triumph of hope over experience — remains a question for our times.

The government bureaucracy is particularly bad in being willing to massage those statistics to back up the prevailing narrative as espoused by the political left.

Recall all those job gains designed to make the Clueless Joe-Kamala Chameleon economy look stronger and then about 850,000 jobs got revised away?

More recently, FBI violent crime statistics were revised upward in a large fashion. You might remember from the debate that Donald Trump noted rising violent crime and was fact-checked by the moderators in their typically one-sided fashion. They cited FBI crime numbers.

The Trump campaign was quick to point out the Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey saw a 37 percent rise in violent crime since Kamala Harris arrived in 2020 as vice president.

Now our unbiased FBI, the same organization that gave Shillary Clinton a pass on mishandling classified information, used lies to get wiretap authorization on Trump, and had agents actively exchanging get-Trump texts, has come clean on crime numbers.

That widely reported and cited 2.1 percent DECREASE in violent crime in 2022, now is a 4.5 percent INCREASE!

Not surprisingly, we didn’t receive official mea culpas from the FBI. That suspect organization just slipped in the changes and hoped no one would notice.

Whoops.

Today was a big day for government data releases.

Retail sales were strong, a plus .5 percent month over month, with the help of a “seasonal adjustment.” Without that adjustment, it’s down 7.5 percent month over month. That is the largest seasonal adjustment in history.

I’m sure the leftist bean counters in the bureaucracy didn’t goose the seasonal adjustment with an election less than a month in our future and so this would be their last report until after the voting. I mean, they can always do one of those magical downward revisions after Americans have made their choice for president and various other offices.

In another government data release, U.S. manufacturing numbers for September came in down .4 percent vs. an anticipated .1 percent decline. They couldn’t even seasonally adjust this away. But just ignore it, please, and vote Kamala Chameleon and Tampon Tim.

Democrats and their surrogates consistently say the economy is strong and those who disagree are either mistaken or flat-out fibbing.

They point to record highs in investment markets as proof. But stock markets are not the economy. Stock prices can be and have been inflated with rash fiscal spending.

Eventually, those stock prices can be expected to come in sharply if and when the sugar high of enormous governmental spending ends.

Crime is up – even the FBI now agrees.

Prices are up. When you hear about declines in inflation, remember that’s just the rate of increase slowing. Prices remain 30 or 40 percent higher than they were when Biden-Harris took office. Also, a 3 percent increase on a 130 percent base (current prices compared to pre-Biden) is equivalent to a 3.9-percent increase on the pre-Biden costs.

All these blatant errors and manipulations in government statistics give pause as we approach an election, with vote counting being the most impactful government statistic of all.

Kamala Chameleon and Tampon Tim, AKA The Lump and The Chump, are making the rounds to convince you they are big gun supporters.

As usual, they are laughable in their attempts.

We were treated just this week to a video of Tampon Tim struggling to load a shotgun,ostensibly as part of a pheasant hunt although we have heard no birds were harmed during this “hunt.” He looked like a transgender fiddling with a malfunctioning tampon dispenser in a Minnesota school bathroom.

The unkind on social media nailed it, likening Tim to cartoon stooge Elmer Fudd. There was Tampon Man, all dressed in blaze orange and various accessories of the well-dressed hunter, failing with the basics of loading his gun. All we needed was some “be vewwy quiet. I’m hunting wascally wabbit” commentary.

Tampon Tim fiddled while trying to load the gun – we’re not quite sure if he ever succeeded — talked nervously and generally looked like he was lost as he used his scrotum to brace the butt of the gun while he jammed away at the loading port.

Although I have successfully loaded such weapons, I felt the need to back up that memory. I searched for and found a shotgun manufacturer’s video on loading such pump-action weapons and the woman had no problem either loading, or unloading the weapon, in seconds.

We are left with several lasting impressions.

First, Tampon Tim’s fumbling with the weapon recalls the equally absurd Mike Dukakis tank moment.

Second, if this is how Tampon Tim functions with a firearm, it’s a good thing he never really carried a weapon of war in combat and had to defend himself.

Third, who laps up this ridiculous political theater?

And then we have Kamala Chameleon, who has found that opposing the 2^nd Amendment is but another issue on which she is going to need to perform a 180-degree position pivot if she hopes to chuckle her way into the Oval Office.

The Chameleon assured us during a debate with Donald Trump that she and Tampon Tim both were gun owners and weren’t coming for your guns. In her defense, she never actually claimed they knew how to load or use them.

But the underlying point flew in the face of the Chameleon’s long record of supporting legislation to come between guns and lawful owners as defined by the Constitution.

As if that absurd debate moment were not enough, the Chameleon later proudly told Oprah that if someone breaks into the Chameleon’s house, “they’re getting shot.” She sounded like a female Dirty Harry character of movie fame.

That’s probably true, someone is getting shot, assuming her Secret Service protection detail is doing a better job than Trump’s. But it won’t be the Chameleon pulling the trigger. She did, however, provide one of her hyena calls after the utterance to Oprah.

On yet another softball interview session elsewhere, the Chameleon proudly detailed ownership of a Glock handgun. This is precisely the sort of weapon she railed against in her political career, having tried to ban handgun possession in San Francisco, argued in a Supreme Court brief that the 2^nd Amendment does not cover ownership of handguns for self-defense, and also worked to try to ban “high-capacity” magazines such as the minimum 10-round examples Glocks customarily sport.

As Tampon Tim confessed in his debate with JD Vance, “I’m a knucklehead at times.” The Chameleon is giving him a run for his money on that front.

Behold Elon Musk, the poster boy for what happens when the radical left turns on a former hero.

Clueless Joe Biden, who went from supposedly one of the greatest presidents ever to being unfit to run for a second term, at least in the opinion of the far left, would understand.

You think Joe’s not bitter about this? Then notice how he takes a shot at Kamala Chameleon any time he can, from donning a MAGA hat at a photo opportunity, to defending Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ hurricane relief efforts even as Kamala was being critical of same, to strolling into the White House press briefing room for the first time in his term just as Kamala was about to go live in Detroit with some insipid recollections of growing up in a middle class household.

It’s clear that Joe, as he once threatened to do to Trump, would like to take Kamala out behind the gym and kick her ample butt. Unfortunately, as in the case of Trump-Biden, my money would be on Kamala in a fistic throwdown with the walking cadaver known as Clueless Joe.

It may be hard for some to understand, but the same Musk recently seen dancing around a Donald Trump rally stage in Butler as “Dark MAGA” once was adored by tree-huggers, climate crazies, socialists, communists and just plain loons on the left.

Sure, Musk was getting rich, but he was saving the world with his electric vehicles. And the guy was entertaining in the way he’d go off on tangents. Recall the flamethrowers? How about the Cybertrucks being hit with gunfire to prove they could withstand same?

If government money was being thrown at Musk’s Tesla EVs in the form of tax credits, well, that’s the price you must pay to advance the uneconomic green agenda. It’s the same with throwing billions of dollars at erecting a few charging stations, or taxing corporations into oblivion due to their carbon footprint, or creating a faux market trading carbon credits to help enrich the likes of Al Gore.

The leftists saw Musk as one of them, milking the government for money to advance an agenda.

But then Musk left the ranch. He bought Twitter, exposed the leftist tilt of that social media platform, and ended the company’s efforts to silence any conservative voices.

The leftists screamed in horror.

And it’s only gotten worse. Now Musk is endorsing the hated Trump for president; might even have a role in helping make the government as efficient fiscally as one of Musk’s companies.

Oh, the humanity!

Has-beens and career B-listers from Shrillary Clinton on down rail that Musk be fined, deported, even imprisoned. His crime is promoting free speech.

It doesn’t matter that his SpaceX seems to be the only American company that can routinely put rockets into space.

They want Musk deported. Funny, they don’t scream that Hungarian-born leftist funder George Soros be deported. They note that he obtained U.S. citizenship.

So did Musk, along with Canadian citizenship to match the South African citizenship he obtained by being born there.

I’ve noted this hatred for Musk growing for some time on, of all places, business and investing shows I watch, particularly on CNBC.

As long as Musk was predictably left – in lockstep with the Gates and Bezos types — he was one of their guys. Now that he’s become a big supporter of the constitution and Trump, he’s ridiculed often by the left-leaning panelists and guests on CNBC.

Musk has hit a nerve and he has the money not to run around terrified that he’s going to be canceled.

Funny how the leftists are willing to rail against this immigrant who came here and is living the so-called American Dream.

I guess that’s because he did it legally.

A few days back, I reported on a surprisingly quick visit by my brother to the ER at the Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center.

My brother was back at that ER Saturday night with an allergic reaction to medicine prescribed in visit one and, as a statistician might note, there was a reversion to the mean.

Specifically, where the previous visit had been an uncharacteristically brief encounter lasting an hour or so from dropoff to my brother being back at his home, Saturday night it was more like an eight-hour experience. It turns out the quick ER visit was the statistical outlier and the typical ER visit still is going to be more oriented to the ordeal end of the scale.

I guess I jinxed it all by writing about the surprising improvement last time.

At the risk of belaboring a point, these sorts of unpleasant interactions with Conemaugh have been more the norm since the sale of the place to Duke LifePoint in 2014. It wasn’t perfect before. It was, however, better.

I got the call at about 8:30 p.m. from my brother, telling me the swelling, itching, etc., that we had discussed earlier in the day had worsened and he thought it was again time to go the ER.

Nearly eight hours later, at approximately 4:30 a.m., I dropped him off at his home.

He described an ER and surrounding areas crammed with people, many of them on mobile reclining chairs of sorts. Some had IV’s attached. Others sat with a vacant stare common to those stuck in this healthcare purgatory for mini-eternities.

I’m thinking of Dante’s line from “The Divine Comedy,” “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

Is this the pleasant surprise one state house candidate promised the masses when the Conemaugh sale was taking place? If so, I’ll take a double shot of unpleasant, please.

By the time I got up Sunday, having gone to bed around 5 a.m., it was a sunny afternoon and perhaps time to cut the grass.

I had planned on a medicine run. Unfortunately, my brother is loyal to a failing national pharmacy chain that doesn’t fill prescriptions on Sundays, so he will wait until Monday to get a fresh bit of medication

I pray this works, and he won’t soon be returning to the Conemaugh ER.

I witnessed a minor miracle Thursday night involving Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center and feel duty bound to share.

Specifically, my brother was suffering a reaction after having some teeth pulled recently. He called me for a ride to the ER and I dropped him off at 9:55 p.m. I then returned home for what I thought would be a lengthy wait, with an eventual late-night/early-morning call to take him back home.

Imagine my surprise when my cell rang at 10:42 and he was done and ready to be driven home. I dropped him off at his apartment at 10:55, meaning his whole ER experience, including his ride home, had taken roughly one hour.

Color me amazed.

My mind raced for an explanation. I have none. My previous ER experiences, particularly since the hospital sale to Duke LifePoint in 2014, which has become a focal debating point of the Burns-Bradley race for the state house, have been almost all bad.

A notable exception was when a granddaughter broke her wrist at summer camp last year and she was treated promptly and well at the Conemaugh ER.

But my brother, my mother, a cousin, and others I know have had miserable experiences including, but not limited to, long delays, lack of information exchange and some flat-out questionable treatment.

Plus, the place is filthy and the staff, judging from overheard conversations, is not particularly thrilled to be working there.

Frank Burns has tried to blame the hospital decline since the sale on Bradley. As previously pointed out here, Bradley didn’t sell the hospital. She did, however, sell the idea to the public in her role as hospital spokesperson that it would not be a negative and any surprises might just be positive.

This does not reflect well on her judgment, or worse.

Another issue in the Burns-Bradley contest is Bradley’s association with the Myopia 2025 elitist group looking to tell Johnstowners what is good for them, no matter what they think.

This led to a secretive effort to transplant Afghan nationals here, a plot that fell apart under the disinfectant of public exposure.

That matter was detailed here previously in a 9-5-24 post, Yes, Virginia . . . in which I wrote of a discussion with a Bradley loyalist at the county Republican office in Richland who said we owed it to the Afghans to let them come here and they would all have been vetted properly beforehand so, no problem.

In response to a demand from this guy, I detailed in that 9-5-24 blog post numerous examples of “vetted” Afghans doing bad things to American military in Afghanistan.

Now, in recent days comes word of yet another “vetted” Afghan national being arrested in these United States, specifically Oklahoma, charged with plotting an election day terrorist strike. This man is reported to have worked with the CIA in Afghanistan.

He was vetted, perhaps three or more times, we have read. Not very well, apparently.

With any luck, he could have landed in Johnstown.

To sum it up, one must consider fresh evidence and adjust opinions if warranted.

If the Conemaugh ER functions well down the line in cases with which I’m familiar, I’m willing to sing its praises.

And, if “vetted” Afghan nationals continue to plan or commit crimes against Americans, it only strengthens my resolve that Myopia 2025 and Bradley were wrong on the matter of bringing them to Johnstown and Burns was correct to oppose it publicly.

I began my 35-year career in journalism in news, shifted to sports for most of it, but ended up doubling down with sports and news columns for a time, both while late in my run as a full-timer and then as a free-lance writer in retirement.

I’m feeling the urge to combine the two subjects again. That means it’s time for an installment of news and views.

NEWS: The New York Rangers hammered the Penguins, 6-0, as both opened their NHL seasons last night.

VIEWS: Yes, the Rangers scored on their first shot, and two of their first three efforts vs. Tristan Jarry (AKA The Sieve). But, the good news is an apparent Rangers goal was disallowed by one of those pesky long-after-the-fact offside reviews. I mean, losing 6-0 is no big deal, but 7-0, now that’s embarrassing. Expect the Penguins to bounce back tonight at Detroit, whose once-formidable Red Wings haven’t made the Stanley Cup playoffs since the 2015-16 season. By way of comparison, the last postseason appearance for our lovable loser Pirates came in 2015.

NEWS: Inflation, both headline and core, has checked in higher than anticipated in the latest government data dump, and the initial jobless claims number has surged.

VIEWS: Never fear, the government will “revise” those numbers in the near future to some distant approximation. Recall the 850,000 or so jobs that were revised away? If only we could revise lower our grocery, utility or insurance costs.

NEWS: Donald Trump’s campaign has rented Madison Square Garden in New York City to hold a rally late in the race despite New York being an assured Democrat state for many decades.

VIEWS: As Trump noted, it’s hard to imagine a state being run worse by its Democratic politicians than New York. The former governor was driven from office by an onslaught of allegations of sexual harassment and since has been outed for very questionable management of the COVID-19 crisis. His successor has been exposed for having a Chinese secret agent as an aide. And the mayor of New York City has been indicted on five federal charges involving bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy, some involving foreign interests. But Kamala will carry the state. This is a different “New York State of Mind” than that lauded in the Billy Joel song.

NEWS: A professor at the University of Kansas lectured his class that men refusing to vote for Kamala Chameleon should be “lined up and shot.”

VIEWS: Ironically, his last name is Lowcock! You can’t make up this stuff. The school put him on administrative leave, likely with pay. Bet he’s voting for Kamala. Remember this guy, and prominent Dems such as Shrillary “Deplorables” Clinton, the overall efforts to make it easy for illegals to vote and to make it virtually impossible for Republicans to purge voting rolls of ineligible people – including those either dead or nonexistent – when Democrats break out those “We’re protecting Democracy” lies.

NEWS: Kamala Chameleon said during a recent stop on “The View” she’d do nothing different than Clueless Joe and later tried to insert herself into the Florida Hurricane Milton matter by whining that the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, was not taking her calls.

VIEWS: It must be exhausting for the Chameleon’s immediate staff and the extended group of lackeys in the lapdog media to continue to explain away her gaffes. But they try. The headline on the CNN report of the Biden comment on “The View” read there was “not much” she’d have done differently than Biden, Actually, Harris said on the show “not a thing” as correctly reported by a New York Post headline. DeSantis did a good job of rebutting the Chameleon, noting he has dealt with Biden and FEMA regarding Milton and the Chameleon never seemed interested in hurricanes as VP, only now that she’s running for president. Clueless Joe, to his credit, sided with DeSantis, but that’s more due to lingering resentment over that knife the Chameleon plunged into his back to get the nomination. Between the Chameleon, an empty pants suit we shall call The Lump, and her misspeaking running mate Tampon Tim, The Chump, we’re staring at a scary four years should the Democrats be able to engineer another “vote-enhancement” triumph.

Both Penn State and Pitt are unbeaten and the Pittsburgh Steelers lead their division as mid-October approaches.

What’s going on here? Glad you asked.

Penn State, at 5-0, is ranked No. 4 in the AP Top 25 poll. You’ve got to like the chances for the Nittany Lions to make this year’s expanded college football playoffs, with considerable nods to the schedule makers both in-house, and at the conference level.

Likely you have noticed the Big Ten has an influx of west coast members this year. The best of that bunch, No. 3 Oregon, does not appear on Penn State’s schedule. Pathetic UCLA and over-rated USC, do make the schedule.

Also absent from Penn State’s schedule is traditional nemesis Michigan. Although the Wolverines are nowhere near their national championship level of last season, based on past results would you really bet the house on Penn State if the two schools were playing this year?

That leaves Penn State with a game vs. No. 2 Ohio State as the only remaining ranked opposition. The Nittany Lions could suffer their customary loss to Ohio State and still make the postseason thanks to the rash of upsets that have littered the rankings with one-loss teams.

Penn State’s nonconference schedule was soft to say the least. Probably the best of the bunch was a mediocre West Virginia team. Bowling Green was surprisingly tough and Kent State had no business being on the schedule. We’ll talk more about Kent State later.

If Penn State coach James Franklin somehow botches this playoff chance he only bolsters his burgeoning reputation as perhaps the most over-rated, and overpaid coach in college football.

Penn State was expected to start well this year. Pitt, 5-0 for the first time since 1991, is more of a surprise and the Panthers finally have slipped into the Top 25 at No. 22.

Pitt hopes history won’t keep following the 1991 path. That team followed the 5-0 start with a four-game losing streak.

Next up for Pitt this year is California, a 3-2 conundrum of a team. Somehow, the Golden Bears led No. 8 Miami, 35-10 midway through the third quarter Saturday, and managed to lose, 39-38. This was a Cal home game.

In the previous game, Cal had been in Florida for an inexplicable loss to hapless Florida State (1-5).

Pitt’s delay in getting into the Top 25 despite an unbeaten record speaks to the great-escape nature of some of those wins, and the two easy victories coming against Youngstown State (2-4) and Kent State (0-5).

Any major college football team scheduling Kent State should be ashamed. Are you listening Penn State and Pitt? Kent State lost to Loretto’s St. Francis this year!

Pitt will not make the national championship playoffs, but it’s been a nice ride so far.

And then there are the Steelers who, despite losing two straight, share the lead in the AFC North with Baltimore, each at 3-2.

The loss to Indianapolis two games back was strange. Arguably, the loss to Dallas Sunday night was worse considering Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott tried his best to donate the game to the Steelers, with two interceptions and a fumble. Two of those turnovers came in the red zone, costing points.

The Cowboys also had a field-goal try blocked and committed 11 penalties for 87 yards. They came into the game with injuries to several key players, had more hurt in this game, and still pulled it out.

It was not a great moment for the Steelers.

Still, with the AFC looking weak in the extreme, the Steelers should at least make the playoff as one of three wild cards.

Legislating against that is a back-loaded schedule that includes the Kansas City Chiefs on Christmas Day, two games with Baltimore, and one each vs. the surprisingly strong Washington Commanders and the Philadelphia Eagles.

That is punctuated with two games each against typically hapless Cleveland and surprisingly inept Cincinnati.

Before the tough games begin, the Steelers have a good chance to improve to 6-2 by virtue of games vs. the Las Vegas Raiders, New York Jets and New York Giants.

All in all, area football fans are having an enjoyable fall, one likely to continue along that path — at least for a time.

If only Kamala Harris had grown up in Johnstown, admiring neighbors’ lawns, ostensibly working at McDonalds, advancing through life unburdened by the past and honing her holistic approach to things, she’d have personal experience with natural disasters such as floods and, as a result, she and partner in political malfeasance Clueless Joe Biden wouldn’t be doing such a bad job helping victims in North Carolina, Georgia and other states.

Alas, Harris is a California girl, more into glitz than substance; rhetoric over results.

In her warped world, showing up for a 20-minute photo opportunity at the border more than offsets nearly four years of ignoring the problem and allowing upwards of half a million illegal immigrant criminals into the country to scatter to parts unknown and cause real harm to legitimate Americans.

Even worse, as evidenced by this crisis of flooding from Hurricane Helene, money that should be available for relief to U.S. citizens was spent on illegals. Those tax dollars were vaporized providing food, housing, cash vouchers, phones, trips to wherever Democratic vote enhancement was needed most, and maybe even a few sex change operations, all to illegal immigrants.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is claiming it’s broke after all that misguided spending. This means, if you’re still clinging to a tree on some North Carolina hillside waiting for help from your federal government, tough luck.

Kamala Chameleon made a stop somewhere near the flooded areas, not anywhere too hard hit you understand, and spoke of massive $750 payments from FEMA for people to get them over their problems.

I’m not sure about you, but my house, cars, and other various personal possessions, not to mention loved ones, are worth a bit more than $750. And the fact that the $750 wouldn’t cover what is spent on each illegal weekly, if not daily, only strengthens the tendency to gag.

It was pathetically obvious that Kamala Chameleon made this flood relief stop political, being careful to wear a jacket emblazoned with some sort of presidential seal. It was as tone deaf as wearing the $62,000 necklace on that ridiculous border visit.

Both gaffes recall the infamous 1988 photo opportunity of Michael Dukakis riding in an army tank. It was a chance for the tiny guy with a reputation of being soft to show how tough he was.

It didn’t work.

There are those who recall the assembled media laughing out loud. Back in 1988, you see, the LameStream media wasn’t a propaganda organ of the Democratic party. These were real journalists who recognized ridiculous performances and, more to the point, shared that view with their public.

Dukakis went on to suffer a thumping at the hands of George H.W. Bush in the presidential election, an electoral college landslide of 426-111.

But, in 2024, Kamala Chameleon’s absurd politicization of events, her tone-deaf approach to any and all matters, goes unchallenged except by the shrinking number of media members still trying to do their jobs the old-fashioned way.

I’m sure it’s only a coincidence that Kamala and Joe are ignoring victims in what are mostly rural areas Donald Trump could be expected to carry in the election.

And wouldn’t it be serendipitous if hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens could be flown in to replace the displaced flood victims, both as residents and Democratic voters!

Talk about your win-win outcomes for a couple of losers like Kamala and Joe.