Don's Tuesday Column

     THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   11/01/2022

Delusional gaslighting, new normal?

So much delusion: Hillary Clinton’s embarrassing hypocrisy—having conceded the election, then spending years denying President Donald Trump’s legitimacy because her rightful victory “was stolen,”—now “projects” election-stealing onto Republicans in 2024. Her email pleaded for funds to stop future theft; it was Hillary holding a digital gun to her own head if you don’t confirm her fantasy. The gullible probably responded because it scratched the Dems conspiratorial itch.

White House Occupant Joe Biden (thinking that his utterances shape the narrative) continued economic “gaslighting.” Reporter: Why “given record inflation, should people choose Democrat?” Biden: “because it’s not record inflation any more, I’m bringing it down…people are now in a position where the combination of pay raises and job security, they’re now in a better off, even with inflation, than were before it…” (word for grammatically-flawed word).

 Don’t look for fact checkers to dispute Biden’s falsehoods; they’re obsessed with propping up failing Democrat fortunes by prevaricating over things Republicans say or do. 8 to 9 percent inflation understates real 10 to 30+ percent inflation, as itemized previously—record high since the 1980s. Biden has personally caused gas, oil and energy inflation by fulfilling his campaign promise to wage war on American oil production.

Americans are poorer than they “were before it” if “it” is his presidency; “real wages” after inflation declined by hundreds of dollars per month, thousands per year. A Republican Congress can’t reverse it but—given that the $5+ trillion of excess deficit spending has cheapened every dollar you earn and spend—sending Doug LaMalfa back to help a Republican-majority rein in foolish profligacy is a start. Democrats are congenitally incapable of reversing budgetary deficits.

It would be good if America’s Gross Domestic Product increased by 2.6% in the 3^rd quarter, but it was a deceptive number. In “How Good Is the GDP News?” Jeffrey A. Tucker explains that the 2.6% number is solely due to “unsustainable increases in exports to Europe (mostly oil) and an increase in government spending.” Sending tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine enriches no American.

Taking oil from the Petroleum Reserve to sell to Europe and China doesn’t grow American paychecks; it’s as manipulated as slight drops in gas prices, still 50% higher than when Biden took office. Government spending is a phony method of goosing the economy; it’s either taken from current taxpayers or borrowed, with interest, from future generations.

The bottom line: Removing the temporary trade surplus from exporting oil, the 3^rd quarter GDP remains negative. Biden gets no credit for reducing inflation or growing the economy. Look up, “How do you successfully lie to 300 million people,” by John Nantz. Short answer: you make big, simple lies, repeated so often that people give up refuting them, while regime-compliant news media promote them.

So, Biden does the “look, squirrel” routine over “junk fees” for extra leg room, checked luggage or bank/credit fees. Fees are just business’s way of not inflating all their prices which they’d otherwise have to do in Biden’s stagflation economy. Savings have declined drastically; borrowing has shot up to replace lost “real disposable income.” “Private (and nonresidential) investment”—the stuff that actually drives real economic growth—has declined for multiple quarters.

USA Today’s poll: Republicans are drawing “40% of Hispanics and 21% of Blacks” (Trump got 32% and 12%). With high Republican enthusiasm and turnout, Democrats are doomed in Congress and state races like Oregon, set to have its first Republican governor in 40 years; likewise, state AGs like Minnesota’s DFL progressive Keith Ellison. It’s the economy and crime, stupid.

The “party of diversity and tolerance” is blocking Rep. Mayra Flores, the first Mexican-born member of Congress, from joining the Congressional Hispanic Caucus because she’s Republican. Meanwhile, a stroke-impaired PA U.S. Senate candidate, Democrat John Fetterman—who, God bless him, can’t even read or string one sentence together and is less capable than a one-eyed man of driving a UPS truck—has big-contributor Dr. Chen tell us “Nothing to see here.” Chen’s message: “Who you gonna believe, me or your own lying eyes?”

The Dem/media cabal’s message: “Uncle Fester”/Fetterman’s disabilities entitle him to a U.S. gov’t office. “That’s the ticket,” put a guy who can’t comprehend the spoken or written word in a position to cast a vote on spending, taxes, gov’t power to prosecute, or maybe even going to war. His wife wants a woman, who simply “reported” on his cognitive challenges, to be punished. Why not give him more power?

Democrat-aligned election interference: 1) The Census Bureau undercounted five Republican states and overcounted six Democrat ones, giving Democrats more members of Congress, federal funding and, in the 2024 presidential election, several more Electoral College votes. Coincidence? 2) Biden’s 2021 executive order illegally turns federal agencies into de facto Democrat turnout boosters, but ignore “the man behind the curtain.”

3) A leaked FBI document, “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet,” lists potential election crimes for possible prosecution, including “false or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally.” Just trust the same folks that use their power to persecute/prosecute Trump supporters.

4) While illegal ballot harvesting ramps up again (Florida), and hundreds of thousands of ballots in PA have insufficient verification, the Dems have a new conspiracy theory: Poll/drop-box watchers (meaning Republicans) are a threat to Democracy. The DOJ is concerned because only nightstick-wielding New Black Panther thugs are allowed to intimidate voters (Philadelphia, 2008).

And 5) The “gates of hell” will open when Elon Musk allows free speech to replace conservative censorship, on Twitter.