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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.

It’s one week until mid-term elections and the air is full of the reverberations of crashing narratives.

For our purposes, a narrative is a tale tailored to convey a viewpoint, without regard to accuracy or veracity.

Just today, it was heartening that no less a source than Greenpeace, the organization that would be happiest if the only humans left walking this Earth were these tree-hugging, whale-protecting, climate crazies, threw in the towel on plastic recycling.

The quick synopsis of the Greenpeace news release is that recycling plastic fails because it’s tough to collect the stuff, even tougher to sort, often environmentally harmful to recycle, frequently is contaminated with toxic materials and it’s not economic.

They could have started with the last point, but why spoil their fun?

I got a course in recycling when our tiny borough just gave up on it a few years back. We’d dutifully trekked to the containers every other week, filling the appropriate bins and reaping a slight benefit in terms of paying lower bills for trash pickup.

The borough tried to pass the buck to the residents for canceling the program, saying too many people were not putting materials in proper bins. The real truth is that since so many communities were recycling, the supply of recycled materials was up and the price paid for same was down.

It’s Economics 101. Price usually is hostage to supply and demand.

I suspect that not that many years down the line, hardcore environmentalists will drop their narrative that electric vehicles are environmentally friendly.

That friendliness is only true if you discount the fact they must be recharged – a lot – and the electricity to do so often is fairly environmentally unfriendly in its generation.

Add in the negative impact of mining for metals and various minerals to build the cars, and the recycling nightmare of the battery packs and other aspects of electric vehicles when they no longer are viable, and it’s a loser waiting for the Greenies to ditch the narrative.

Nowhere are narratives more rampant and ridiculous than in politics.

In a week – longer if your state is like Pennsylvania with incompetent election management – we should know the shelf life of many narratives.

They are, in no particular order:

The electorate cares not about inflation, but wants to punish those Jan. 6 protesters.

Or, never mind inflation, what really matters to voters is whether the federal government can ram abortion law down the throats of the nation instead of letting states pass their own legislation.

Sure, recent polls show up to 80 percent of the respondents putting crime at the top of the list regarding problems plaguing the country, but what people really want is for all MAGA types to be imprisoned.

In a similar vein, forget those images of rampant border incursions, or the statistical admission that this is the worst year for such since records began to be kept, what this nation’s voters actually want is more Woke, socialist, left-wing zealots in all phases of government and education.

It’s not that John Fetterman is looking to be short on physical and mental competency to hold a Senate office, it’s that the NBC info babe who opined as much after an interview (and before Fetterman’s zombie-like debate performance) should be fired.

And, last, it’s been posted in The Atlantic, the combination left-wing propaganda rag and trial balloon launch center, that all the over-reaching, self-righteous, pompous and hypocritical tin-pot tyrant bureaucrats who made a mess of Coronavirus measures, should not be held accountable for their ridiculously Draconian measures. Forgive and forget, exactly what they were unwilling to do.

Wear a protective hat should you be going out in coming days, lest you be injured when hit on the head by the debris of these crashing narratives.

Quick hits on a variety of topics:

• It’s actually Halloween today, but like so many other holidays, this has turned into a multi-day celebration. The grandkids already had a treat stop at mommy’s workplace last Thursday, a parade and party at preschool Friday, a trunk-or-treat session downtown Saturday, a trunk-or-treat and dinner at a church Sunday, and tonight is the traditional go-door-to-door-and-collect-candy-from-the-residents-night.

• When I find myself envious of all this and wishing I’d been born later, I correct that thinking by injecting the reality of our present Woke, gender-bender, race-baiting and generally hypocritical society. I’m glad I’m no kid having to deal with all that.
• I understand we live in statistically unlikely times, witness the 2020 presidential vote counting. But I’m thinking it’s unlikely in the extreme that the Philadelphia Phillies can continue to cede 5-0 leads to Houston and win the World Series. That the Phillies are 1-1 in games they trailed 5-0 so far is incredible.
• Speaking of elections and the statistically incredible, our own Pennsylvania vote counters are preparing the populace for another one of those delayed decisions in which the vote total for Dr. Oz in the Senate race is pretty much quantified, then overnight results from Philadelphia and the counting of mail in ballots – which favor Democrats 4-1 in terms of registration (even if those ballots are not proper in terms of dates or persons supposedly submitting them) — push Fetterguy over the top.
• Now that Penn State and coach “Genius” James Franklin have gotten the guaranteed losses to Michigan and Ohio State out of the way, the team can return to the Sisters of the Poor portion of its schedule, win a lot of meaningless games, and proclaim greatness.
• Credit Penn State and sixth-year quarterback Sean Clifford with what seems to be an unmatched feat – three interceptions thrown TO DEFENSIVE LINEMEN in the same game.
• On the topic of interceptions, Steelers quarterback Kenny “They Picked Me Again” Pickett had just one interception in the loss to Philadelphia, a low number for him. Pickett did manage to produce two fumbles, though, losing one.
• With a 2-6 record, the Steelers are going to need to win seven of their remaining nine games to avoid a losing record, which would be a career first for coach Mike Tomlin. The remainder of the schedule has more than its share of weak sisters on it, but not enough for the Steelers to come out on the plus side of .500.
• The people at The Center For Voter Information, a non-profit operation according to the postage information on the mailing, professes to being “fair and reasonable.” But the organization is neither based on this effort. It is steering people toward voting for Clueless John Fetterman, the Joe Biden Beta version. To do so, it paints Dr. Oz as not being in favor of protecting Social Security and Medicare, a familiar false scare bromide trotted out every election to tar unfairly Republican candidates. Dr. Oz also supposedly will send jobs to foreign countries, but will not help farmers. Yeah, right. The fair and reasonable mailing didn’t mention Fetterman’s cognitive difficulties.
• I also got a mailing from the United Steelworkers, which predictably, endorsed Democrat Josh Shapiro for governor. It reminds me of a story I was told regarding a recent teachers’ union function in which the union mouthpiece was claiming bi-partisanship. But, when asked the last time the union had supported a Republican, SILENCE!

The hammering of Paul Pelosi and media reaction both to it and to other news of late, tells us more about Democrats than Republicans.

The words of longtime Democratic stooge Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” come to mind. Allow me to explain.

The news had barely broken of the attack on Paul “Mr. Nancy” Pelosi when the Lamestream media was spitting out innuendo and direct accusations, attempting to link the attack to Republicans, either directly or due to the “toxic environment” they have created by having the temerity to question Democratic propaganda.

You never hear the Lamestream media members opining that if only Pelosi had served some jail time for his little DUI problem, he wouldn’t have been home in his mansion to interrupt the intruder, who reportedly was looking for the man of the house – Nancy.

No, Democrats are in trouble in mid-term elections and here’s a gift-wrapped opportunity to try to wrongfully tar the opposition party and its candidates for the actions of an apparently unhinged individual. You can almost smell the desperation.

A story authored by Michael Shellenberger, raises some points you are unlikely to hear about the alleged Pelosi assailant. He cites items such as the accused man’s rambling online presence that included sharing a post roasting President George W. Bush by left-winger Stephen Colbert, as well as links to altered Disney videos with characters appearing to swear. This “Republican” also proclaimed Jesus Christ is the anti-Christ.

These are not things one is likely to hear discussed at Republican gatherings. But they don’t favor the Democratic/media narrative that this apparent nut is a typical Republican, so they are omitted from the reporting.

The Shellenberger story further tells us that the accused man has a Black Lives Matter sign in the window of his house, as well as having on display a rainbow LGBT flag with a marijuana symbol on it.

The alleged assailant is reported to have lived with a Russian woman for a long time and he originally is from Canada, with no clear statement on his status in this country.

Again, you will not hear or read any of these particulars in Lamestream media reports intent on harming Republican candidates and the party in general by linking them to this attack. The facts don’t further the narrative being pushed, which is not to be confused with reporting.

This also helps explain why media were only too happy to run with charges from a political opponent that Kari Lake, Republican front-runner in the Arizona governor’s race, had something to do with a burglary at her Democratic rival’s campaign headquarters.

Proof? We don’t need no stinking proof!

We didn’t hear such media outrage when Lee Zeldin, a Republican candidate for governor in New York, was attacked onstage during a July campaign event, or when two people were shot outside Zeldin’s home three weeks back.

By the way, the attacker of Zeldin was quickly released from jail.

Even in liberal San Francisco, were putting criminals back on the streets as quickly as possible is a plank of any Democrat’s platform, I’d be surprised if the Pelosi attack suspect gets to use a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Recently a man distributing campaign literature for Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio was beaten severely. His crime? Wearing a Ron DeSantis hat and Rubio T-shirt.

Where is the outrage regarding this politically motivated attack?

When will Democrats be held responsible for the violent deeds of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa groups they support, either outright or behind the scenes?

When will the Lamestream media be selective in its reporting in an attempt to tar Democrats over their associations with these and other far-left fringe hate groups?

Answer: Never.

I’m surprised (sarcasm here) that Democrats haven’t tapped into our little bit of ridiculous violence here in Johnstown the past week, when a trio of females hopped on a school bus and pummeled the monitor, sending her to the hospital.

The three women seemed to be non-whites. The attack happened when the bus stopped at a public housing project. This wouldn’t help the Evil Republican narrative.

Here’s a reality the Democrats should own, with their soft-on-crime policy: A full 78 percent of respondents to an October Gallup survey believe crime is up nationally in the past year.

That’s due, in large part, to lawless big cities presided over by Democrats now and as long as anyone can recall.

Paul Pelosi is as much a victim of Democrats’ policies on crime as of any particular political hatred. But good luck getting the Lamestream media to run with that reality.