Let's Start With the Dept. of Education.

Every school in America has a Principal.  

It's his/her/its job to ride herd on the goings on inside those institutes of higher learning.  Educating our young, so they can live full, productive lives.  

Lives to be lived within the bounds of that which is considered reasonable, moral, ethical and legal (although the ACLU might disagree!).  

And to accomplish that Herculean goal, we dedicate more than 55% of our property taxes nationwide, toward education.  Building and maintaining schools, hiring and training and overseeing teachers and staff, and insuring the safety of the youth we are educating.

There are 98,817 schools in America.  And our property taxes support them.  Additionally we have 6,000 colleges and universities, with 4,724 of them degree-granting post-secondary institutions.  And our property taxes help support them. 

And back to our Principal.  His school is in a District.  That School District will comprise many primary and secondary and high schools.  The one with which I'm most familiar is the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.  It's located in Orange County, CA, where I dithered for more than 40 years.  And 14 of those years were spent as an unpaid volunteer Advisor to its Board of Directors.  It has 32 schools at present, and it runs them quite well.  In fact, one of my wonderfully bright daughters teaches there, to its credit.

Then we have the County Boards of Education, which oversee the various school district boards.  A couple of dozen school boards are overseen by each county.  Looking over their shoulders.  Doing everything in their power to look important.  To seem relevant.  Coming up with new rules and regulations for their underlings to follow.    

Newport-Mesa Unified did a good job.  I have no reason to suspect our other school districts don't do a good job as well.  Except for the Lost Angeles Unified School District, which is our Great Country's 2nd largest.  It has more than 1,000 schools under its management, and a whopping 500,000 students!  Oh yeah, it routinely graduates less than 45% of them.  

Less than 45%!

But the others likely don't need any more outside supervision.  But they get it.  From their respective State Boards of Education.  Every state has one.  And they'll average 2,000 or 3,000 nice folks, each earning more than $200,000, and who have a nice office near the Capitol Building.  They are the folks who produce Edicts From On High to be sent to the County School Boards.  Who will then send them off to the local School Districts.  Like the mandatory implementation of "DEI."  Which rots the brains of our young people.  

None of them are needed.

And guess what?  On top of that we have the United States Department of Education.  There's 4,407 people employed in Washington, D. C.  On The Potomac, with an annual budget of $68,000,000,000 (that's with a "B"), who get paid very well for doing almost nothing.  Except cause the State Departments of Education trouble, which they then pass along in the form of Even More Trouble to their County Boards, and then their District Boards.

Because sh*t, as we all know, flows downhill.  

Think of it as everything past your local County School District as a complete waste of time, effort, energy and money.  And if you live on Long Island, as an example, your average annual property taxes will exceed $15,000!  Often more than your mortgage payment!  Wouldn't you like to have half of that back?

All of this excess is where 55% of your property taxes go.  

The Bottom Line:  We didn't need the Dept. of Education then.  We don't need the Dept. of Education now.  That's why I'm now shining The Chuckmeister's  electronic "Beam of Shame" on it.  It needs to go.  

As Elon Musk has stated, he intends to trim $Two Trillion Dollars off our $6.7 Trillion Dollar budget.  He should start with the Dept. of Education.

Write him on "X" and let him know how you feel...

It Must be the Salt Air!

I have long wondered why California, Oregon and Washington all vote Democrat as a bloc.  Always the same, never varies.

They are as Blue as Blue can be.  In fact, I believe Christ was a corporal the last time any of these states voted for a Republican.  I think it might even be illegal!  So I set about researching the subject to determine the cause.  

We all know that too much salt can kill you.  If you have high blood pressure and injest a bunch of salt, you're toast.  Even if you have low blood pressure and were forced to live in a river of salt, you'd be history within a short while.  Which caused me to put two and two together, and voila!  It's the... 

                 ...Salt Air! 

Think about it:  What do these three states share in common?  The Pacific Ocean!  And what is the Ocean made of?  Water!  And what does the water contain?  Salt!  All three of these states share Salt Air in common.  Kansas doesn't get any Salt Air, and it votes reliably Republican!  Arkansas gets no Salt Air, and it votes Republican!  And Iowa gets no Salt Air at all, and guess what?  It votes Republican.  Clearly we've found the culprit...

Not only does Salt Air rust the bodies of our automobiles, and TV towers, and ships, it must rust the bodies of our Western-most citizens.  Not their livers or their spleens or their bicuspids, but their brains!  My theory is that being subjected to years and years of Salt Air makes one suseptible to Left-leaning hyperbole.  Suseptible to being hipppmotizzzed by politicians who treat them like snot.  Suseptible to all sorts of suggestions that our Founding Fathers would reject out of hand.  And yet, that's how they vote.  

Liberal.  And Democrat, although not nearly Left enough for them, is as close as they can get.  

It's my theory that the Salt Air turns these three states' citizens into mindless automatons.  Into zombies.  Slavishly waiting only for the next time they can vote Democrat.  67% of CA, for instance, has been infected by this religion.  I say "religion," because it's based upon faith and not facts.  It's sad to say, but this segment of our population must be written off for the foreseeable future...

But wait, Mr. Chuckmeister!  Texas borders a mucho bunch of Salt Air!  And Florida has 900 miles of Salt Air shoreline!  And neither of these States vote Democrat!  They are reliably "Red."  They are Republican as Republican can be.  So why aren't they afflicted with this ailment?  

                    Mountains!

Yes, Fellow Patriots, it's the Mountains!  Gobs and gobs of mountains, stretching all the way from Meheeeeeko to Canada.  We've got your Rocky Mountains.  And the Sierra Nevada.  And the Coast Ranges.  And the Klamath Mountains.  And the Cascades.   Plus the Columbia Plateau.  And the Wasatch Range.  And, of course, the Chugach Mountains. 

And in the East?  The Appalachians!  A 1,500 mile long mountain range extending almost from the Gulf all the way to Canada.   

So why should all those mountains make a difference?  Because of the prevailing Easterly winds coming from Alaska and Hawaii.  Pushing air from the West to the East, all day and all night.  Averaging 3 - 5 mph every day of the year.  Except for the occasional "Devil Winds" that afflict California occasionally.  And so rare are these Westerly "Santa Ana" winds that they always lead local TV telecasts.  

But every other day these 70 Million People in the West are subjected to Salt.  And New England?  More than 19 million souls.  Prevailing winds routinely flow from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to North America.  That's how we get hurricanes.  The winds bump up against Florida, then turn right and head on up the Coast.  To New England.  Where they run into Canada.  And then just sit there.  Bespoiling the brains of so many otherwise normal souls.  Salt on either Coast will corrode steel, so it must also corrode brain cells.  

As Matt Walsh would say, "Prove me wrong!"

Oh yeah, I have to mention a couple of outliers.  Minnesota and Illinois.  Minnesota is filled with nice people and 10,000 lakes and heart valve manufacturers and Looney Left politicians.  Ala Tampon Tim Walz.  My thinking is MN is so far gone we should just cede it to Canada.  Maybe in exchange for Alberta.  Right across from North Dakota and Montana and the now-cancelled "XL Pipeline."  We could then frack its phenomenal tar sands all day and all night.

And Illi(noway)?  It's owned by the fat billionaire heir to a hotel empire.  He's spent $400,000,000 of his own money to get elected, and re-elected, and then re-elected again.  He owns Chicago, and he's a commie pinko dumbass Liberal weenie, so the poor souls in the rest of the State are held hostage.  Pluuuuus, Chicago is our National Shooting Range.  Thousands of Black felons kill each other there every year.  Felons they'd otherwise have to prosecute.  Costing them $Millions.  Notice the "Democrat Media" doesn't talk about it.  Blacks killing Blacks.  Nothing to see here.  Move along...

NOTE:  I'm not a doctor, although I spent 40 years in the medical arena and I like to play one on this blog.  I feel I've divulged enough super-secret, semi-pertinent, medicalescent factoids here to engage you for an entire Monday.  Please accord this little offering the credit it therefore deserves.  

But please don't tell me about it...    

 

Common Denominators.

There are a couple of Common Denominators between the 36 States that voted for Incoming POTUS Trump on November 5th, and the 14, plus our Federal City, that didn't.

Those States are CA, OR, WA, CO, NM, MN, IL, VT, NH, RI, CT, NJ, DE, MD,* and the Federal City of Washington, D.C.  

All of the "Red" States required an I.D. to vote.  But none of the above mentioned states required I.D.  

So if you're a felon, an illegal alien immigrant from Azerbaijan, a Saint Bernard, or "Bigfoot," you could have cast your vote on 11/5.  Without divulging your identification.  Or coming clean about not having one.  Funny, isn't it, that the Democrats imported more than 11,000,000 illegal aliens from 167 different countries to come and be a citizen.  But to first get a drivers' license.  Which enabled them to sign up to register to vote.  

Trump won all the states where you had to show an I.D., and Harris won all the states where you didn't.  Seems to me that makes his victory all the more consequential.  And game-changing.  Let that all sink in...

*    It should be noted that only 7 of the Original Colonies voted for Harris.  All the others threw in with Trump.  Apparently the others don't have to worry about the Open Border and the Price of Eggs and Butter and Gas and the crime in the streets.  I guess they're living in the same bubble as those folks in D.C.  Who are all making over $200,000.  They see no need for change.  But to them I say, rest assured, Trump's bringing it anyway...   

I'll Bet They're Good Swimmers.

So let us take a little break from the Election, okay?  Whether you were gratified beyond all explanation, happy that your Country has a chance now to regain its former status, pleased that we're all going forward toward a Bright, New, and Exciting Future,...

...or not.

Either way, I thought I'd give you something else to think about for the next couple of days.  Until I decide to puke forth another missive, that is.  So here goes...

I've noticed, Fellow Patriots, that we do not have a paucity of actors and actresses. 

In fact, we're told there are 32,345 of them.  Already famous, or not. quite. yet.  That's what SAG-AFTRA, their Union, to which they all pay dues, tells us.  

And 98% of them are serving you dinner at the local Ihop.

The other 2% are the ones who you see at the Oscars.  According to the IRS, these few are able to actually earn a living acting.  Memorizing the lines written by somebody else, and then spewing them out on cue.    

And some of those "2%" earn a grand living, indeed.  Tens of millions per movie.  You'd think if they're so very fond of Left-wing causes, they should be required to pool their earnings and throw a few crumbs to the others, right?

Did you know that the average home in Brentwood or Beverly Hills sits on about five acres.  More like a compound, right?  You'd think they'd gladly welcome a few dozen of their beloved "migrants" to pitch tents in their back yards.  With laundry and kitchen privileges thrown in. 

Anyway, these young folk come straight out of their high schools in Bumphuque, Ohio, where they starred in their high school plays.  They got the "big head" and decided they possessed that special quality which would make them a star.  So they came to Hollywood on the Greyhound bus to become the very next (______).  Singer, dancer, actor/actress.  Fill in the blank.

That's great.  To each his/her/its own.  But I've made an observation recently that might help to shape a young ladies life.  And feel free to pass it along if you agree.  Here is is: Don't come west unless you have gigonda bazooms.  Tasty melons.  Enormous jalonies.  Bloated breasts.  Or as one wag said in the vernacular, 

                       Big t*ts.

Have you noticed that AT&T did everything they could to hide Lili Vayntraub's enormous ti*s?  You know, the cute gal who serves as their spokesweenie?  And for as long as possible she was always filmed behind a desk.  But then they burst forth (pun intended) on the scene in one of her minor movie parts!  She's been blessed (or cursed?) with enormous breasts.  Which more or less guarantees she'll be put toward the front of the pack when casting time comes around.  And chosen for a tasty acting job ahead of all the others who have normal bazooms. 

(BTW, I have long thought we should identify women as "Breasted Americans."  They have such trouble on the Left these days trying to define what constitutes an actual "woman," doncha' know.  Maybe we should just change the name altogether.  Call them "Breasted Americans" and that should help to define them.  In this day and age, with so many men "identifying" as women, which is all that's necessary, we need to be sure and not hurt anybody's feelings, doncha' know...) 

Or has that "DEI" and "Equity" religion gone out of business? 

Now then, there are a legion of doctors who will gladly fit young ladies out with enormous boobs (the ones who will cut them off of confused pre-teens are right down the hallway).  A few thousand bucks and, VOILA!  They've got big breasts, too!  But I've discovered that those who bring those big t*ts with them to Hollywood tend to get the big jobs first.  Remember Norma Jean?  She came to Plasticville with Big Ti*s at the ripe old age of 17.  Within a week she was renamed Marilyn Monroe and was cast in her first movie.  

And I've noticed that those without the big hooters have to earn a few paychecks before they can whip out the plastic to pay for that plastic, right?  But if you show up with the goods, you're available from day one, right?  Look at what it did for Lili?  She's from Ukraine, fergodssake! 

And I've noticed also that young starlets to-be tend to take their clothes off and show their jalonies on the way up.  That helps them to get those cushy (but drafty!) jobs.  And that aging stars, those past their prime, the Sharon Stones, tend to take their clothes off and show their gigantic (sagging) Bazooms when they're on the way down.  Pun intended.  To help them pick up some meager jobs when their star has lost its lustre.  Just a fact of nature.  And of life.  

So, as a student of breasts (although an a*s and leg man, myself), I can tell you a fine face and some real talent is one thing.  A fine face, some talent and really big headlights with the high-beams on is quite another.  Right boys?  And girls?  And wannabe girls without the boobs?  So let's raise our glasses high and give a toast to Fine Funbags!  

And another thing.  I'll bet they're really good swimmers...

Having No Royalty of Our Own...

You know how those (not so) Jolly Olde Kings of England treated their court jesters?  Yeah, that's how we ought to treat our "celebrities."

Most don't know it but our movie industry started in New Jersey.  In the late 1800's.  Shortly after Edison invented Kinescope.  It was called "Fred Ott's Sneeze," believe it or not.  Then, following a string of silent cowboy movies, the bizz moved out West because of NJ's weather.  Never one of its good qualities.  If it has any good qualities.  I'm still looking.  But hey, if you know of one, dm me.

Anyway, "Hollywood" back then just sagebrush and sand and train tracks.  No people.  But it was enough to get it started.  And provided the seeds for a robust, now $35.3 Billion Dollar a Year Industry.

Oh yeah, as I stated up there in the title, we Americans don't have royalty.  And it seems that along with a deep-seated love of gold, we have a deep-seated need to be governed.  As one political wag once said, "Americans need to get what they voted for, good and hard!"  The Brits, from where we fled, have kings and queens and princes.  Why can't we have them and a Representative Republic, too, some may wonder?

Even the Brit's discards, Mzzz. Meghan and Harry, can't seem to find a way to fit in.  Even after being given $200 Million Dollars of Netflix' subscribers' money.  They think they're something special.  And some in America agree with them, just because they're sorta' kinda' royal.  Hmmmm.

And then we had the Election.  

The one where Mzzz. Harris brought in about 500 of our richest and most dolled-up "stars."  Starting with Oprah.  Who's worth $3 Billion Dollars.  And yet charged Mzzz. Harris $One Million Dollars to interview her (!).  And the JLo's, and the Beyonce's, and the Legends, and the Cardi B's, whatever that is.  They come down from on high to lecture us.  To teach us po' folks how we should vote.  And then return to their $30 Million Dollar mansions, driving their $3 Million Dollar Bugattis.    

I don't know about you, but that pis*es me off!  And it should have pis*ed off all those folks at Harris' concerts.  I personally think they attended those star-studded rallies to see the stars. 

We knew that.  She didn't know that.

And now we learn that Mzzz. Harris' Team said they were going to blow the $167,000,000 they had on hand this past October 16th.  They were going to "...spend it down to zero."  Well, it seems they blew past zero to the tune of another $20,000,000.  And how they're reaching out to those same "celebrities" to help retire the debt.  Stating, apparently, that it was to be used for "recounts."  

No "celebrities" to be found, as of this writing...

However, in a terrific troll, The Donald offered to throw them a bone and help pay off their debt, as his campaign has a bunch of money left.

And NOW we learn that Mzzz. Harris was paying for all those "celebrity" concerts.  Although many of the "celebrities" opted to donate their services, Mzzz. Harris still had to pony up for their crews and transportation and stage set-ups.  Running up to several $Hundred Thousand each.  Her Team decided that paying "celebrities" to put on concerts was the way to reach those as-yet unconvinced.  They proved wrong.  And it cost Mzzz. Harris campaign more than $50,000,000 of her donors' $Cash.  What fools.

Harris Team believed, and many on the Left believe, that we commoners look up to these "celebrities."  That we want to emulate them.  Hence, all the "influencers."  They think the more we know about them, where they live, and shop, and what they drive, the more we'll be slavishly smitten with them.  It didn't work.

So I think it's time we gather together as a Nation and start treating these condescending "celebrities" like they've been treating us.  Instead of us being subservient to them, I suggest it's time they become subservient to us!  Let's start treating them like Henry the Eighth treated his court jesters.  

For instance, they argued for Open Borders and Unlimited Immigration.  They own 5-acre compounds.  I think we could pack at least 50 illegals in each of their back yards.  They have pools back there, and BBQ's, and hot and cold running water, which is all these poor "migrants" need to keep body and soul together while they wait for deportation.  

This is Cher's opportunity to show us all how bleeding her heart really is.  She should step up and offer these services!  And if she doesn't, perhaps we should declare her back yard, and the back yards of all her tony friends, to be Public Domain.  And then pack them full of the illegals they so dearly love.

And how about T. Swift?  She owns like 15 houses.  She endorsed Harris last Summer.  She obviously embraces Harris' Open Border policy.  Just imagine how many illegals she could put up?  I'd say hundreds!  Maybe even thousands!

Think about it:  We're the folks who pay the inflated ticket prices at the theaters!  The folks who make it possible for them to live in their protective "bubbles."  It's time they came down from the mountain and rejoin us "normal" folks. 

In fact, I suggest we put together Teams to visit them in their walled-off compounds and make sure they're paying those Brown and Black people they employ enough, also.  And check their Green Cards to make sure they're legal.  And if they're not, we imprison a few JLo's, just to make the point.  Not for long, just a few months.

Now, I don't mind if these folks continue to make $20 Mil a picture.  Or $30 Mil!  But if they stop making us laugh, or cry, or whatever they're supposed to be good at, then we'll treat them like Hank the 8th treated his jesters.  Off with their heads!

Errr, maybe we just "cancel" them.

"The Last Full Measure."

More than 1,400,000 of your fellow Americans have died in the service to their Country.  Our Country.

On November 11, 1918, President Woodtrow Wilson inaugurated Veterans Day.  To consecrate and honor and provide eternal remembrance for those who fought and died in the service to this, the Greatest Country on Earth. 

Although you may not know it, Americans have fought in 12 major, and more than 100 minor wars since we declared our independence.  Starting with our first, the Revolutionary War.  Here is a list of the ones costing us the most lives:

     -  Civil War     620,975

     -  WW2          405,399

     -  WW1          116,516

     -  Vietnam*      58,218

     -  Korean*        36,516

In fact, our Country's soldiers and sailors and airmen have been dispatched to foreign wars for 222 of its 241 year history.  Without their wishes or stated goals or desires.  It's what their Country wanted.  And they answered.  And many of them died.

Just think of all the songs that weren't written.  All the plays that weren't staged.  All the inventions that weren't dreamed up.  All the medicines that weren't devised, and all the new benefits to mankind that weren't conceived.  In fighting and dying, these brave men and women were erased from the gene pool.  Leaving their moms and dads and brothers and sisters alone.  But richer because their son or daughter contributed to the safety and security of America.

15.4% of our poeple were directly engaged in the Second World War.  11.5% served in the Vietnam Conflict.  And then we decided that an all-volunteer military was the better idea.  And those soldiers and sailors and airmen protecting America today are older, and smarter, and better educated, and better trained, and more likely to make the military their career.  Yet only 0.78% of Americans are now keeping America safe.

And just so you know, more than 11,000 of our men and women have died in armed conflict just since 9/11.

There are 1,700,000 Veterans of military service in America today.  Please try and find one or two and shake their hands.  And thank them for sacrificing their time and effort and energy, and for risking their lives, for our benefit.  

This is Veterans Day.  Please try and remain worthy.

*    Both Vietnam and Korea were "Police Actions."  They apparently didn't rise in importance to the level of "wars."  Yet they were imporant enough to cost us the lives of nearly 100,000 of our families and friends and neighbors.

The End of an Error.

The Election is over.  The TV commercials have stopped.  And while I'm at it, those infernal Humana ads stop today as well.  Causing the volume on your TV set to go up by 20db.  Early Christmas presents, both.

Oh yeah, the Democrats invested $2,146,000,000 (that's with a "B") toward getting Harris elected.  I'm glad they're not my investment adviser.  The Dems had $146 Million on hand as of October 16th.  Yet, they blew through that $Two Billion and the $146 Million and still wound up owning another $20,000,000.  They're trying to raise enough donations from their Hollywood pals to retire that debt.  You know, the ones who endorsed her.  Good luck.  I think the celebrities have left the building...

Trump raised and spent $336,000,000 (with an "M") in the same period.  Which means Democrats had Seven Times More Money than Trump, and yet still Lost in a Wipeout!  The candidate, maybe?  And the policies?  Or lack thereof?

I think this Election also spells the end of celebrity endorsements.  At least it should.  If Taylor Swift, the Richest Celebrity on Earth, cannot sway an election with her endorsement, who can? *  It appears nobody.  It appears the Democrats may have just learned that.  Or maybe not.  We'll see if JLo or Beyonce or The Boss or Whomever is trotted out to cover the inequities of their next candidate.  

(BTW, I'm betting against their having learned their lesson.  I'm pretty sure they think they just needed that one more actor or singer or dancer to provide a ringing endorsment and everything would have worked as planned...)

The only thing that would have made Tuesday better for me is if Donald J. Trump had "identified" as a woman and run for POTUS as a woman.  So that the miscreants on MSNBC and CNN wouldn't have been able to say that the only reason he won was because of words like "misogynist" and "racist." 

Just think if The Donald had put on a tutu, as the Supreme Troll to all Democrats everywhere, those Upper East Side NYC Liberals and Malibu "Progressives" wouldn't have been able to play the gender identity card.  It would simply have come down to policies.  And capability.  And experience.  

I learned by 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday that Trump looked likely to eke out a victory.  A major surprise after being told it would take until Thursday or Friday to get the news.  And then by 11:00 we knew it was all over.  Trump had kicked their arses.  He'd taken Wisconsin, and then Pennsylvania.  Leaving Harris no pathway to victory.  Trump declared that victory.  Harris went to bed, leaving her supporters at the "victory party" with instructions to see themselves out.  Nice.

Tuesday was a day which will live in infamy.  Because the Democrat candidate and her "Corporate Media" handmaidens were convinced they'd emerge victorious.  And be one step closer to transforming America into the Socialist Paradise they've long desired.  Where they're the Big Dogs and you're the plebes.  The Worker Bees.  They snap their fingers, you hop to it.    

Yet, Big Orange whupped their arses.  Bigly!  He's won more than 300 Electoral College votes, and more than a 5% point advantage in the Popular Vote.  Winning that popular vote for the first time in more than a generation.  Those on the Left now know why he did rallies in NY, and NM, and VA.  He did so to run up the popular vote.  So that his victory would be seen as a mandate when he takes charge on 1/20/25.

If you'd been reading this humble blog, you'd know this upheaval was getting ready to heave.  That Trump had struck a nerve with those who'd been run over by Big Gubmint.  Those who'd been rude screwed, tripple-tatooed, rammed by the rusty rod of reality and f**ked by the fickle finger of fate.  Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, the young, the really old, women, the poor, Whites and the rich.  All of them joined the Trump Team.  

Plus add in the autoworkers and members of three other unions, contributing more than 250,000 of Trump's votes.  Unheard of. 

O'Biden should not have run in 2020.  He was feeble even then.  Recognizably so.  And in fact, he'd guaranteed his backers that he'd only be a one-term Prez.  He would just be the "bridge" to the next leader.  Yet, due to ego, I'm sure, he did.  And he messed up America terribly.  Their "Inflation Reduction Act" caused rampant inflation.  And that inflation robbed us of 20% of our savings, inflated overall costs 24%, drove up the cost of housing by 40%, car insurance by 50%, home insurance by 34%, energy by 29%, and transportation by 30%.  He did that.  

They did that.  

And once that fateful debate showed O'Biden to be non compos mentis, the Democrats pulled a coup on his a*s.  Showed him the door, they did.  The man who'd earned more than 14,000,000 primary votes.  Handing the campaign to a woman who'd never earned a single primary vote.  In any state.  A woman who dropped out of the Presidential campaign the day before the 2020 Iowa Caucuses.  She would not have been the V.P. candidate with O'Biden except for famously Black NC Congressman Clyborn.  O'Biden was fading.  Clyborn offered his help, but only if O'Biden would select "a Black woman" as his V.P.  And the only Black woman acceptable to him was Kamala Harris.  And the rest, as they say, is history.

I've told my friends and family that had this Election gone the other way, it could have spelled doom for the American Dream.  12 of the past 16 years have been under the management of the Democrats.  As Obama said following his election in 2008, "America is the greatest Country on Earth.  Join with me now as we begin to change it!"  

This Election stopped that change.  It sent the Obamas and the Clooneys and the Harrises and, finally, the Bidens to the showers.  Permanently.  You may never see any of them again.  Thankfully.  In the eternal battle between the "Makers" and the "Takers," the "Makers" won this round.  And if the Republicans do what they promised to do, they may well start a Dynasty.  Of small, responsive Government, reduced spending, a strong military, restored basic freedoms, a vibrant energy policy and a secure Border.  And if they do, the Democrat Party will shrink into nonexistence.  

Thank God we won't have to find out if I was right.  Now we can simply try and hold Trump to his promise:  "To Make America Great Again!"

*  Oh yeah, Swift's endorsement didn't stop me from being a Kansas City Chief's fan, either.  Even though she and Kelce are cohabiting.  He will leave someday, and take her with him.  But the Chiefs will still be here, and still be my Team.