News Commentary for July 21

 What is in the news? Nothing more, or less, than usual. Democrats pulling their virtue signaling, ongoing and endless investigations against both guilty and innocent people, celebrities doing what they do, etc. That being said, let's go through some of it.

First off: Hunter Biden. The coke-head loser son of our geriatric-in-charge. According to FoxNews the investigation into his affairs has reached a 'critical stage.' What does this mean for our favorite foreign-compromised, corrupt, disgraced First Son? Probably absolutely nothing. The report went on to say that sources indicated that charges were not being put against him, yet. No surprise there. After all, Uncle QuidProJoe isn't going to let his one and only boy go to prison for anything. Not tax evasion. Not lying to the FBI. Not being a foreign agent for the Chinese, Russians, Ukrainians, or anyone else that paid him for access to the Vice President, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. The Barr/Durham investigation is just another huge waste of the taxpayer's money to make us believe that they are actually doing something about the corruption in DC.

The Associated Press reports that a group of bipartisan (is there really such a thing anymore?) senators agreed on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 because of the 'attack' on the Capitol and Trump trying to 'overturn the 2020 election.'

What this proposal does is update the post-Civil War act on how election results are tallied. It is supposed to shore up the ambiguities of how votes are counted, who is in charge and making sure that everything is up to snuff. All of this because, as the AP article states, Trump's 'unprecedented attempt to challenge the electors sent from battleground states to the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.'

I am old enough to remember what happened on January 6, 2021. I really don't care what the Democrats, RINOS, and never-Trumpers say. Donald Trump had a rally and said he believed the election results were corrupt and fraudulent. He admonished Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the results because of the rule changes, ballots miraculously appearing in the middle of the night, observers not being able to see the counting of votes, etc. in the battleground states. Did he instigate a riot? No. Did he orchestrate the 'breaching' of the Capitol Complex? No. Was he in any way responsible for the few idiots that actually did damage to the Capitol and took over the House Chambers? No.

USA Today has an article stating the US Attorney General Merrick Garland doesn't want to indict former President Donald Trump before the election. Why does he not want to? Mainly because he says it could be construed as election interference. I guess it's the same thing as all the negative press about Hunter Biden being suppressed before the 2020 election. I'd really like to know just how Trump could be charged with insurrection when there was none. We, the People, have the Constitutionally guaranteed right to peacefully protest anything that we feel is unjust. What happened on January 6, 2021 was a far cry from what Antifa and BLM did the summer before with all the violent riots, looting, arson, and assault; not to mention the weeks long firebombing of the Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Yeah. While all the goes uninvestigated and unpunished, actual peaceful protesters are persecuted and called insurrectionists and terrorists.

The Hill reports that the House has passed a $400 billion spending package. What are we, the taxpayers actually paying for? This bill covers the DOT, VA, HUD, and, of course, climate change. I don't know what these elected officials are actually spending all this money on. Our roads are still crap, the VA still sucks, I really don't know what all Housing and Urban Development is going on unless it's giving housing to all the illegals that Biden is letting into the country, and it doesn't matter how much money is extorted from the American taxpayer, the climate is going to do what it's always done- change.

I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of the government stealing my money and then telling me what I have to do to make them more powerful and rich. I am not an anarchist. Anarchy leads to chaos. I do believe that the Federal Government should be as the Founders intended it to be – strong on defense of the nation, foreign affairs, and the military, weak when it comes to internal business of how the country is run. That is what the state governments are for.