Aug 22nd, 2020 TOFY – Today’s Observation For You – Convention, suppression and justification

Aug 22nd 2020 Post

TOFY – Today’s Observation For You

………………Convention, suppression and justification…………….

Today marks 73 days to the Presidential elections.. We are two days out of the Democrat’s Convention and two days to the Republican Convention. What have we learned so far?

Let’s first take a look at the Dems Convention.. the first “Virtual” convention ever!

Over four days we watched.. I use the term “we” loosely.. since it had the worst ratings viewership marks nearly a 28% drop from the high-stakes DNC of 2016 convention. The combined broadcast channels ABC, CBS, and NBC were down a staggering 42% with just 6.7 million viewers at 10 p.m. Cable networks Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN were down 16% to nearly 12 million viewers. In total, that’s fewer than 19 million views

It should be noted that Fox’s Tucker Carlson has the highest rated Cable show.. averaging upwards of 4.3 million viewers for his one hour show.. with CNN at about 1.8 million for the same hour.

So if you did tune in.. you saw a lot of Trump bashing.. not too much of what the Democratic plan is.. Not why they are the better choice.. other than we need to beat Trump! They didn’t lay out policy or what they wanted to accomplish.. I think the Republicans were more giddy after the speeches were all done than the Dems were.

Over all the Convention should have been billed

Hate in Prime Time

Kamala Harris gave her historic speech…. Not for her performance… but for being the first Women of Color on a major party’s ticket. Kamala, the same Presidential candidate that came out hard for the primaries and lost ground every day until she finally called it quits.. telling us it was because of bias, Racism and not ready for a strong woman.. the problem there folks is that the primary is only for your party.. yes, it was your party, fellow Democrats that did not want you.. that rejected you.

But now, she’s being rammed down our throats as the best pick ever made for a VP spot.

This is a sitting Democrat Senator rated the most Liberal of all the Senators… now being labeled “moderate” and the New York Times described her as a “pragmatic moderate” She supports something extremely close to ‘Medicare for All, … She’s for the Green New Deal. And thinks criminals like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev convicted in bombing that killed three in the Boston Marathon bombing should be able to vote… from their cells! She has one of the most liberal records in the U.S. Senate, but now believe what we tell you not what you know..

Let us not forget her performance during the Primary debates, she called Joe Biden a Racists… as Dr Jill Biden pointed out .. and said “I don’t like Joe Biden and I do not like his history with certain people and who he’s aligned with, he’s trash to me”.. in June of 2019.. June of 2019.. this isn’t ancient history.. this just over a year ago.

But both candidates continue to avoid the real media… after their joint appearance.. Joe announces that there should be a 90 day mandatory mask wearing policy.. interesting how that very scientific number was picked.. it happens to take us right through the election! Then they both slid right out with no questions.. a wave, a poof of smoke and they were gone like the shapely assistant in a Vegas magic show.

But someone thought it would be a great idea for Joe to do an interview with Cardi B… a Rapper.. not a Journalist, not a News Anchor or Talk Show Host.. much less a columnist or even a Political Blogger. She is a Rapper, a singer.. an entertainer.. no one would mistake her for a member of the Algonquin Round Table .. go ahead Google her if you’ve not had the experience of hearing her speak.. she would have to take elocution lessons to rise to incoherent

Right out of the gate she pulls a Joe Biden and calls Joe Biden “Bernie”… Joe corrected her.. funny, wonder how he felt being on that side of that exchange?

This interview was done for Elle Magazine..that hard hitting news organization.. they covered several topics.. and one was getting out to vote.. and the arrogance of the Democrats when it come to Black, Latino and youth voters will never cease to amaze me.. with Joe telling her that if the same percentage of 18 to 24 year olds had voted as the rest of the population that would have been 5.2 million more votes and we would not have Trump.. we’d have Hillary.. never accrued to him that Trump may have gotten the popular vote as well as the Electoral College.. all those 5 plus million voters were obviously Hillary voters… maybe so.. perhaps.. but just observing the arrogance.

She also let Joe know that Prejudice is dangerous and it could be the start of a civil war.. nobody wants (or as she said “want”) to feel targeted.. Nobody want animosity.. everybody just want the best for themselves, their future, their kids’ future.. tell that to the Police and victims of the riots and Antifa

So the Joe Biden handlers thought they’d address the criticism of not talking to the Press with this interview.. a women best known for, other than her music, which by the way.. her latest song WAP… an acronym for two words I can’t even say on Radio… “Wet” is the first and only word permitted by the FCC and was just noted as the Raunchiest lyrics ever… that is ever, in the history of Songs published! … Google that too.. W.A.P. by Cardi B.. look up the lyrics.. back to her claim to fame other than her songs…it was for drugging men while she was a stripper and robbing them … you don’t think so.. Twitter was all a buzz with that Tweet from her.. and her defense of Rappers who used to be Pimps, robbed people and did scams and committed fraud.. even shooting people.. anything to survive was that justification..

Back to the Convention… we heard from all types.. they propped old and new.. including former First Lady.. who was sure to let us know that she detests politics.. yet was speaking at the Party’s Convention? … she went on to claim that Voter suppression was taking place.. by closing down polling places and purging voter rolls.. gawd.. I hope so.. purging voter rolls.. means removing people who no longer are eligible to vote, taking people who cannot legally vote off the list .. either they moved, have no voter action for several cycles or they died!.. yes, how dare dead people be removed from the voter registration… know how difficult it is for a dead person to vote.. imagine if they aren’t on the Voter Registration when they show up at the polls!

But the most significant part of Michelle’s speech … and the part that isn’t getting any comments or notice.. is the part where she straight threatens us… given the current terrorism, violence and delicate nature of our cities… and the real fear that a Trump win would trigger even more violence and aggression for equality.. apparently our two centuries of peaceful elections and transition of power only works when they get what they want.. given all this Michelle says – “If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me they can and will if we don’t make a change in this election” … if we don’t vote Trump out.. if you don’t vote Biden or whoever we prop up.. as long as they are malleable and can be shaped to our Mob mentality.. there will be more violence, more people ripped from their vehicles and beaten unconscious, stores looted, Police blinded and beaten… so keep that in mind.. wow, talk about “Voter Intimidation”

Now Joe Biden did a good job.. a respectable job on his speech… this is something I warned about.. the Trump people kept lowering the expectations of Joe’s ability.. come on folks, it had gotten to the point that if Joe showed up and didn’t drool he did a good job.. not that his performance is one of the all time greats.. it’s not up there with Washington’s Farewell Speech or Lincoln’s Gettysburg or even George Bush’s Bullhorn 9/11 speech .. but a solid respectable performance… especially given what we were encouraged to expect.

Of course there was a lot of rewriting history.. but what was interesting.. was the Talking Heads on the Left.. you could hear the collective sigh of relief.. CNN contributor Van Jones revealed Democrats were concerned about Biden’s performance headed into the speech.

Jones explained Democrats were braced for a “terrible speech” but breathing a sigh of relief after the delivery.. “That sound that you hear all across the country is the sound of Democrats exhaling,” yea, he said that on CNN national TV.. he also said.. “…We just wanted Joe to get out there. So, you know, sometimes when he gets up there you’re afraid he’s going to make a mistake, he’s going to have a gaffe ….”

Then he must have forgotten he was on TV.. not just goofing with fellow CNNers and the ilk .. because he also said “ As long as he didn’t embarrass himself, we were going to come out here and praise him. You don’t have to make anything up tonight” … wow.. I guess the implied meaning there is … like we usually have to do..

The takeaway for me was .. the Dems are making this an election on character.. I agree.. you see .. I think Joe is on the wrong side.. I know Trump has his flaws.. but only Dems are allowed to learn and grow.. but let us not forget that it is Joe Biden who has been in DC for 48 years.. majority in the Senate..the “Upper” Chamber of Congress…and 8 of those years a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Yet he has done nothing to make our lives better.

He helped author the 94 Crime Bill, he fought Bussing.. calling the Bussing Advocates the real problem’ He also accused Trump of being a Racist, again.. and the narrative that he is a Racist because of what he said at Charleston … does he not know or does he know and just blatantly lies to us.. because we all know.. if you have spent an ounce of effort and at least a high two digit IQ.. that Donald J Trump was referring to the argument of removing monuments when he said “There are good people on both sides” meaning of the argument on removing monuments ….. but the media and Left machine has taken that out of context.. no, not taken .. they put it out of context.. Telling the lie over and over again that he was talking about the White Supremacists in that moment.. yet he also knew what was going to happen and went on to say.. and I quote:

“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”

Yet there was Biden… holding on to the known lie, the false narrative… but he’s played that Race Card before.. with Mitt Romney.. when he was telling his mostly Black audience that he’ll have you all back in chains.. do we really have to go over Joe’s greatest hits?… poor kids as smart as white kids, can’t go into a 7-11 and probably the keeper … the first clean, articulate mainstream Black Candidate in reference to Barack Hussein. But they’ll keep spinning that as the greatest speech ever..

In addition, it is clear, you can count on two fingers how many times they mentioned China, they Avoided Foreign policy all together … just gave that win to Republicans

But folks, this was Joe’s easiest night.. his time to shine.. he was surrounded by love and admiration. But this is not a stable time. We have the George Floyd outrage, rightly so, the Pandemic, Vaccines, Racial Tensions .. and it could all erupt again.

The most basic difference and question people will be asking when they go to the polls.. do I want to go back to soaring stock market, low employment, higher wages, Trade deals that are fair and equitable, my 2nd Amendment safer… not secure.. but safer… or do I want smoldering cities, high taxes and companies leaving in droves.. not to mention China dictating any all terms they want.

Trump said it yesterday… the Chinese will own our country with a Biden Presidency..

Also, let us not forget the speed in which any and all investigations into the criminal activities of those in the FBI, DOJ and Obama Administration will be halted.. buried.. as if they never happened.. just like all the crimes themselves that were committed… and we’ve already been shown that prosecuting Trump after he leaves office is something they’d do.
The Republicans get their shot starting Monday. Hope they took notes as to what NOT to do for a virtual Convention. Trump already said there will be more “live” speeches and interaction.

Trey Gowdy was on one of those group talking shows.. and I’ve always been a big fan of Gowdy’s.. and he never lets me down.. he gave some advice.. and honestly I had the same thoughts.. and that is let other people tout the President’s successes, let the speeches leading up to his introduction talk about what he’s done.. Humility is considered a virtue..

The President shouldn’t keep hammering Joe.. he should hammer what he’s done in a very short, distracting and hostel 3 and half years. Trump should stick to some of his greatest hits:

The number of Judges he’s appointed … the average household income went up … 300 miles of Border Wall built and still going up … lower Prescription costs … set up Traditionally Black Colleges and Universities with record amounts of money and for a ten year stint, they don’t have to come with hat in hand every year now … Criminal Reform and Opportunity Zones… and decimating ISIS and the termination of the most wanted Terrorists .. and let us not forget the recent Middle East Peace with UAE and Israel!
As far as handling the CoronaVirus.. he listened to the experts.. and let the Governors, the States handle their states the best way they thought.. and we have tons of video of even his most fierce critics telling us Trump has been great, anything they need.. checking in with them.. but now it’s all on him.. you know what he did do?.. He used the Defense Production Act like no other President has ever.. he used it 78 times..

The Public/Private partnerships that have developed is incredible.. and there are so many companies that didn’t need the President to use the Act.. they heard the call … and responded, moved to help … because that is what real Americans do … we help, we heal, we take action we solve problems and we’ll continue to do so. Even with those trying to derail and divide, trying to burn it all down.. I’m betting on you America.. and more importantly ..I’m counting on you..

Mr. President, get back on track.. just remind us of what you’ve done, what we were able to achieve under your short Administration..

Remember, you are the Law and Order Candidate, they will stay away from acknowledging the violence and criminal activity plaguing our cities, moving towards the burbs.. just ask Mayor Lightfoot.. who banned “Protests” on her street.. let the city burn and its citizens get beaten, robbed and assaulted just not on my street .. but that my friends is another Observation for another day

I’m Joe Mangiacotti.. @JoeMangiShow

July 29th 2020 – TOFY – Today’s Observation For You – All Protesters are Bad Actors and NO Bad Actors are protesters

July 29th 2020 Post

TOFY – Today’s Observation For You – All Protesters are Bad Actors and NO Bad Actors are protesters

Today’s Observation For You – As I watched the Congressional Hearing on.. well.. everything the Democratic party thought they could score political points from.. with AG William Barr.

First I would have to say, watching AG Barr site there, calm, cool and defiantly collected was like watching a big old bear sitting around watching confused, scared humans while swatting away pesky flies.

We have to remember, Barr used to be considered a brilliant legal mind with integrity and a keen sense of justice and fairness. That was including the first time he was the Attorney General from 1991 to 1993 during the George H. W. Bush administration.

It was also after he was confirmed for positions by the Senate..both Republican and Democrat Senators .. Barr’s service to America has been long and distinguished.. in his early days he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)… you know those guys.. they take anyone.. and barely do a background check.

First hired as a summer intern for two years and then in his law school years he was an analyst in the Intelligence Directorate division from 1973 to 1975, and then transitioning to an assistant in the Office of Legislative Counsel and an agency liaison to Congress in the mid 70s

But William Barr did the unthinkable in today’s world of Trump.. he took a position close to POTUS .. a very dangerous endeavor.. and not one for the thin skinned or week minded.

But what the distinguished Congress people forgot, or maybe never really knew.. William P Barr is a man of Law and Order.. a man who puts the Constitution and the equitable and fair treatment of all citizens above any politics or games that are what the beltway is all about.

When his name was first mentioned as the A. G… you could almost hear the collective sigh.. but no worries.. the disinformation and character assignation machine switched gears almost smoothly and without missing a beat.. Barr has to be painted as a Trump stooge, the Personal Attorney for the President.. Someone who was there to do Trump’s bidding.

The Democrat members sitting on that panel didn’t give AG Barr a chance on any occasion to speak. His opening statement.. one that if you did not watch it.. You should… it was the only time… and I mean only time he was allowed to speak uninterrupted. He was asked insulting questions that attacked his motivations, his integrity and his mission. They would throw the disparaging remarks out and then talk over him and cut him off and then scold him like a child.. shouting with all the enthusiasm and infantile muster of a 7 year old.. “this is my time and I control it”

Rep Jim Jordon brought some balance.. but even he was overpowered and scolded, cut off and when he attempted to play a video accurately depicting the goings on in Portland.. the real situation.. the Bad Actors, Antifa and masked criminals setting fires, smashing windows, throwing rocks, bottles and human waste and fluids.. they cut it off.. they did not allow it to be shown.. Clueless Jerry Nadler, the Rep that literally the day before when asked about Portland violence responded that was a “Myth” being spread around Washington… he then sited some rule about having to give 48 hours notice for any vides to be shown.. plenty of time to prevent it.

Why are they and he so afraid of that footage? So afraid of the truth being shown? Because it immediately and positively removes any notion of “Peaceful” protests. Yes, the real group of protesters are peaceful, are there earlier in the day.. they have their signs and slogans and actually know why or at least think they know why they are there.

But those aren’t the ones we are talking about.. those aren’t the ones causing the problem. The MSM and Leftists seem to want to do the same thing with these uprisings as they do with any form of Double Speak.. they employ the Orwellian method of eliminating words, make no distinctions and limit the ability for thought and debate. Then it is easier to control the dialog and steer and shape the perception.. if you can’ t distinguish between a Protester, Antifa and a Bad Actor.. then A equals B and B equals C therefore C must be equal to A …

So we can’t call the violence, the assaults and the targeted attacks on law officers out.. because you are insane to think that Peaceful Protesters don’t have the right to Protest, that they are not protected by the Constitution.

That you cannot use equal and appropriate force or show of force with them. If we could, if we are allowed to make the distinction and respond as we normally would… as all other Industrialized Nations do.. we would deploy and employ traditional time test riot and crowd control techniques on the Bad Actors.. But you see.. no your arresting, pepper spraying and assaulting Protesters .. who are all Moms, Veterans and upstanding citizens… some are ..probably most are..

but not all Protesters are Bad Actors and NO Bad Actors are protesters.. understand that.

So the rude, childlike behavior continued on the Hill … don’t’ think it is? .. when AG Barr asked for a five minute bathroom break.. Chair Nadler grumbled “No”.. denying a Cabinet Member, The sitting Attorney General and man for superior than himself the permission to use the facility? Shameful, embarrassing behavior.. and not just for the Democrats he is representing.. but for the Congress and the country.. you don’t think this was watched all over the world by our allies and enemies?

What is it that the Left hates about Barr and Trump for that matter.. what do they hate about American values?.. Which ideals are they repulsed by? Respect and adherence to the rule of law? Sanctity of our sovereign borders? Respect for individual responsibility, hard work and rewarding achievement? Respect for our Service personal and military.. in short a strong America? .. please share with the rest of the class what it is.
The interesting rope-a-dope being done there.. was the idea that the violence and bad things only happened when the Federal Officers were deployed.

Yes, nothing bad was happening before that.. their arrive caused them to respond with bad behavior? It was like watching Fifty First Dates, you know when Drew Barrymore’s memory is wiped clean every 24 hours and everyday is fresh start.. nothing in her life existed before her waking up that morning. Did the Democratic party suffer the same fate? The month and half of horrific actions didn’t happen.. everyday was a new day.. with no record of incidents.

Then they employ the “it’s the victims fault” defense.. you know it was the women’s fault for wearing those clothes.. they were only bad because the big bad Federal Officers .. not Gestapo or storm Troopers or even military.. they are Civilian Officers.. showed up and that made them do it.. they had no choice, no control they had to attack and for some reason invade Federal Courthouses and property?

Again, Rep Jim Jordan was calling them out, insisting they let AG Barr speak, answer the questions and answer to the accusations hurdled at him.. having to explain to them like they are children.. if you ask a question to someone, you have to let them answer.. pretty much what we learn in Kindergarten.

Rep Ken Buck from Colorado also did a great job.. laying out the Totalitarian handbook.. disarm the citizens, squash Freedom of Speech and salience opposing views.. and then finally institute policies that root out and crush Freedom in every form. Rep Buck pointed out we see this in most Democrat run cities.. we’ve seen these scenarios played out. To further their political ends.

So if you were able to slice the time out of your day and not lose your cool for hours as the Barr inquisition happened.. good on you.. my excuse is it’s part of my job… but the one clear message that you’d take away from this exercise of political malfeasance.. is the members sitting high on their benches looking down at the “witness” on the hot seat, is that they always seem to go into the chamber assuming they are the smartest between the two.. and they are so often so wrong.. When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds (Will Rogers)… something that was so obviously apparent when they gathered the CEOs of Americas Tech and Social Media Platforms.. Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon.

but that my friends is another Observation for another day

I’m Joe Mangiacotti.. @JoeMangiShow

July 26th, 2020 TOFY – Importance of our Elections

July 26th 2020 Post

TOFY – Today’s Observation For You

Importance of our Elections

For Today’s Observation for you.. Today we are 100 days from the 2020 Presidential Elections. This election, many feel as do I, that it will be a Watermark in our history.. both as a country and as in the history of the world. This is such an important election.. First and foremost because who the candidates are and what each of their Administrations will mean to us and the word. But let’s put a pin in that for a moment.. first lets address the mechanics of the election.

One of the issues we are dealing with is Covid 19 of course.. it came on quick and caught us by surprise, but it really shouldn’t have. We’ve had many Pandemics in the past.. Global public health emergencies.. this one is often compared to the 1918 Flue Pandemic .. but I’d like to look at the differences for a second.. because in that we find some key reasons why we should be paying more attention.

So looking at the differences, the first is the speed in which the virus spread.. that is the most concerning. The world is smaller.. because we are much more densely populated than in 1918. There were fewer than 2 billion people on the planet .. and now there are 7.5 billion.. and we are much more mobile.

In 1918 we had no air travel but today we are literally jetting all over the world, hundreds of thousands per day.. last year nearly a Billion people flew from the United States .. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) estimates that U.S. airlines carried more people last year than in any previous year… 925.5 million passengers, the highest number since 2003 when we started to keep that number. The number of flights performed globally reached 38.9 million last year.

In 1918 we were traveling by horse and carriage, very few cars were on the road yet.. and people traveled Globally by Steam ship .. but mostly people didn’t travel. But we did have service personal and others returning home from the war. And that is one reason the 1918 Flu Pandemic lasted 2 years.. with an estimate 50 to 100 million people dying. What is interesting is how quickly it was forgotten and we’re only talking about it today because of the scope of Covid 19.

We’ve had some other Health scares more recently, the HIV/AIDS virus since the early 1980s, SARS in 2003 and the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza … again, these caught the public by surprise… but scientists who study pandemics were not surprised. The point is our Government has the responsibility to prepare for Pandemics.. No, let me check that. We have an obligation to invest in Public Health systems that protect our citizens from the threat and the reality of future pandemics.

So now because we were not prepared, the politicians left the cupboards bare of equipment and the testing ability … So let’s do some fact checks.. because if you listened to the MSM reporting, you’d buy into their Fake News.. like Trump cut CDC funding, false, as a matter of fact the CDC funding has gone up every year Trump has been in office.

Also, Trump did not get rid of the Pandemic unit at the National Security Council … it just moved to another division with a change in title. The Trump Administration did not refuse test kits from the World Health Organization.. the W.H.O. doesn’t even sell kits .. we built our own kits as did every other country. The production did get slowed down.. and that was fixed quickly.

Trump has been accused of muzzling the scientist, he did not… you can see them.. even if you don’t want to on TV every day… but know who did silence and even Disappeared Scientists.. China.

The spin that Trump told Governors they are on their own for ventilators, just isn’t the case.. he made it clear that the Feds would back them up if they were unable to obtain them on their own and ramped up production of ventilators by both Private/Public cooperation and the use of The Defense Production Act of 1950 … we were never at a shortage of ventilators or hospital beds.. as a matter of fact.. thousands of beds went empty after make shift hospitals where constructed by the Army Corp of Engineers and the revamping of medical ships in record time. And now we are exporting ventilators all over the world for those countries who need them.

And the best example of Fake News surrounding the virus, is that Trump called it a “Hoax”… he did not.. the virus exists.. it is real and real people have gotten ill and have died from it.. he called the way the Left has weaponized it to use against him a Hoax .. you remember the early days, they tried to put the label “The Trump Virus” on it.. and then when it was identified as the Wuhan Virus, as many virus and illness before were labeled for the area or region it originated from. But because Trump used the term and everything orange man says is bad and wrong.. by default it was Racists to call it Wuhan Virus.

Speaker Pelosi just attempted to label it The Trump Virus again this week after the President referred to the virus that originated in Wuhan China as the China Virus.. which of course it is.

Also you’d think that the majority of Americans do not approve of this Administration’s handling of the Corona Virus.. that is also just not true. .. an ABC News poll shows 55% approve of the President’s handling of it.. and a Harris Poll shows 56% approval of Trump’s handling of the Virus…
And then the false narrative that Google has no plans for working with the Administration to create a virus testing site for all Americans.. but Trump called them out.. and shared the Release Google put out themselves… begging the question, where and why did the MSM put that out there.. when it is so easy to check and Google put out a Press Release on it..and just so we are clear.. and even the simplest amount us understand, a Press Release is for the Press… that would also be known as the Media.. main stream or otherwise.

And to wrap up this look at the political aspect of the virus… Trump has put enthusiastic praise behind some medications and therapies.. saying he has a good feeling about one thing or another.. that he is hopeful that we have a vaccine fast and that we’ll flatten out the curve and it will burn out.. but the media and the opposing forces accuse him of giving Americans “False” hope.

You know, I think one of the most important roles of the President is to give Americans Hope and let us know that no matter what we face, we face it as one country, one people with the same goal for everyone. Guess what.. since those first days when the media jumped down his throat for mentioning that a long standing drug, hydroxychloroquine, that we’ve used for decades, well guess what… it seems to help.. and the media made it out as if Dr. Kevorkian carried it in his medical bag… it has been shown to work miracles for thousands.

Let me move back to the mechanics of the election. We’ve seen Pelosi and her Coven try to slip legislation on voting into the Stimulus package.. one having nothing to do with the other. But knowing that Ballot Harvesting would never survive and honest debate on the house floor.. never mind the Senate Floor she slipped it in, trying to backdoor it.

And if you don’t understand what “Ballot Harvesting” means, let me tell you.. ballot harvesting – is when any individual can pick up any voter’s ballot for any reason and deliver it to the polling location completely unchecked. Seriously, you can’t see the problem here.. on its face? The President says that Ballot Harvesting will invite corruption… invite? … No Mr. President, it does not invite.. It serves it on a silver platter.
Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said … Speaker Pelosi wants to make ballot harvesting standard practice nationwide which, like so much in this new bill, would be a win for far-left Democrats and a loss for democracy. Rather than using a global pandemic to push shady election policies, Democrats should focus on the health and well-being of our citizens and our electoral processes

We’ve had “Absentee” voting for years.. and it has its purpose and has worked well. Many on the Left don’t particularly care for the traditional Absentee ballots because those are often used for our Military men and women who are overseas or stationed away from their voting locations. And they tend to vote Republican. But you have to ask for those and fill them out and mail them directly to the Town Clerk or municipal authority in charge of elections in that city or town. They are not mailed out en masse to be found spread around apartment and condo lobby floors or left in stacks on the Post Office docks. Where anyone can pick up and send in… after filling it for you or course.

(The President as have other Presidents used an Absentee Ballot to vote for himself in Florida, where he legally resides)

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). had this to say…”Democrats have said they see coronavirus as an ‘opportunity’ to take more control away from the American people, and their desire to change election law through ballot harvesting is a dangerous example of that,” Voter Fraud has been one of my champion causes for years now… we are subjected to it in almost every election.. remember The weeks-long battle over “hanging chads” in the 2000 Florida Election?

look at the 2018 congressional race in North Carolina that was overturned by the state election board. Or the mayor of Gordon, Alabama, who was removed from office last year after his conviction for absentee ballot fraud Or John and Grace Fleming both were found guilty of duplicate voting, once by absentee ballot in New Hampshire and then in person in Massachusetts.

Voter Fraud exists, it is ever present, it is strong and organized .. and we say we value our Democracy and the power of the American elections.. one person one vote.. so much blood and lives have been spilt and taken to defend it, keep it and we honor all those who have paid the ultimate price for you to have it.. that we don’t require you to vote has always been beyond me.. but then again.. the whole point of a free society is that you have the freedom to be lazy and uninvolved. Just don’t bitch about who your leaders are if you’ve not voted, I don’t want to hear it from you.

The argument, the simple mindset that Voter ID is Racists or that it is Voter suppression is laughable and so transparent. It is a Red Herring misdirect to keep the voting process hackable.. there is no other reason to be against Voter ID than to preserve the opportunity to steal a vote or two.. none at all… convince me otherwise.

The Heritage Foundation made a list of some great points when it comes to the dangers of Mail in Ballots..

First, Absentee and Harvested ballots compromise the secret ballot process, a hallmark of U.S. elections for over 100 years.

Absentee ballots are “the tool of choice” of vote thieves and those willing to compromise the election process.

And according to U.S. Election Assistance Commission surveys, millions of mailed ballots have been misdirected or gone missing in prior elections. Electronic signatures are too imprecise and easily duplicated, and should not be accepted.

This year’s election means Residents of some states may be forced to vote using mail-in ballots and that makes them vulnerable to intimidation, fraud, and chaos as all-mail-in elections move behind closed doors beyond the oversight of election officials, along with prolonged counting and potentially lengthy delays in certifying questionable results and of course my favorite.. the old .. hey we found a trunk load of uncounted ballots in some Radom Poll workers car!

It is important that we take reasonable steps to make it hard to cheat in elections while making it easy for legitimate voters to vote.

Politicians have seen the virus and the fear and confusion surrounding it to usurp power and ignore our civil and Constitutional rights.. but that my friends is another Observation for another day

I’m Joe Mangiacotti.. @JoeMangiShow

July 24th, 2020 – TOFY – Protester, Agitator or Bad Actor?

July 24th 2020 Post

TOFY – Today’s Observation For You

Protester, Agitator or Bad Actor?

For Today’s Observation for you.. I’m watching Mayor Dinkins, Mayor Lightfoot and Clueless Mayor De Blasio as well as other large city Mayors… all Democrats so far… not just saying we don’t need help.. but rejecting the much needed help from the Federal Government.. all while seeming to not understand that their cities are already loaded with Federal Police Officers and various Federal Agents. All whom have the full authority and force of law their respective agencies hold.

The MSM aren’t showing actual footage we can see online and from alternative News sources… the Left maintain these are all peaceful protests.. the White House surprised the White House press corps with actual footage.. causing MSM outlets to cut away.. Gwad forbid anyone shows real footage but them!.. it’s there job to edit, disburse and shape your intake and opinions.

The Speaker calling Civil Law Officers “Storm Troopers”.. Rep Jim Clyburn referring to our own Peace Officers at “Gestapo” and Mayor Ted Wheeler describing those there to protect him.. as “Para Military” .. Wheeler attended the rioting 55 days into the riots and chaos you watch him standing in the middle trying to convince you, while watching it all happen around him.. that it is the ones putting themselves in danger to protect citizens and property that are the problem

They have threatened to arrest any outside Police or Agents.. they’ve threatened to take the President of the United States to court for doing his job.. ensuring the rights and liberties of our citizens.

The misunderstanding of how the Federal Government and state governments work together… from some of these mayors is mind numbing.. pedestrian at best

Not only are the agitators and bad actors with their criminal behavior think that Federal Protection and Police officers don’t have any authority in their cities… but the Left Mayors and Governors are sending the wrong message.. I mean wrong in that that what they are saying is just not true.
Let me set some thing clear… right now and for a very long time.. Federal Agents have been in the major cities of this country and have been working hand in hand with local and state Police and prosecutors. It happens every day.

The criminals who are attacking Federal buildings with smashing in windows and setting on fire with personal in the buildings.. think they can then run across the street to the park.. and they somehow are “Protected”.. that they can’t be arrested or pursued.

Let me make this clear.. you are very very wrong… that was Federal property.. and they are Federal agents and officers.. they can arrest you, they can pursue you.. and they will… and anyone that gets in their way is subject to arrest and prosecution

The Left and Dem Mayors that are rejecting the President’s offer of help.. are idiotic for doing so… but you see they are rejecting Donald Trump… ignoring the fact that he happens to sit in the Oval Office and they are rejecting a long standing precedent and history of the Federal Government supporting and augmenting State and Local authorities when they are in over their head.. and folks.. they are so far in over their heads.. they can’t see the top.

The televised murder of George Floyd by a uniformed officer during an arrest may have set this months long swell of Protests along with riots, vandalism and all around general anarchy in motion … but the BLM movement has taken over the push. The organization that was birthed in 2013 from the death of Trayvon Martin.. the young Black man that was shot by George Michael Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, on February 26 in 2012.

Zimmerman claimed it was self-defense and was shielded by the “Stand your Ground” law in Florida. He was not initially charged… but the political pressure was too great and he was eventually charged… the Media and Black Activists, including the founders of BLM describe Zimmerman, a Latino as “passing for white” or “White Hispanic”.. you see he is light skinned, Zimmerman is the product of an interracial marriage between a white father and Peruvian mother. A young Black man being shot to death by a Latino in self defense was not as Racially Charged as a young Black man being shot by a White man.

And so to deal with that complexity, the New York Times and others adopted the rarely used phrase “white Hispanic” to describe Zimmerman. I was, of course doing Talk Radio in those days and prior to the Zimmerman/Martin shooting.. had never heard the term “White Hispanic”… much less a hundred times a day for months.

But the jury saw fit to uphold the self defense and Stand Your Ground Law and On July 13, 2013, he was acquitted of all charges in … Florida v. George Zimmerman.

The argument for the need of an organization to be the watch dogs of Police brutality, Racial Profiling and just the general all around unfair treatment of Black Americans.. Young Black Men especially.. Isn’t much of an argument.. it is needed.. no question.. BLM as its core mission is needed and valuable.

But either they’ve been hijacked by bad actors with ulterior motives or they have lost control over their emotional charged participants…. Or … and I hope this is not the case.. the Condon the criminal behavior and targeted attacks on Police, Agents, government officials and property.

Civil Agents, Police and innocent bystanders are being attacked.. 3 Federal Agents have had lasers pointed in their eyes causing permanent damage.. blinded, skulls cracked and even a broken eye socket…Commercial grade Fireworks have been shot at them, Agents hands have been impaled by planted nails… they’ve been ambushed and straight out murdered.

The real Protesters.. the peaceful Protesters.. who take our Constitutional Rights to Peaceful Protest serious and adhere to the proven effective civil disobedience practices like The ones who take their cues from Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks.. who practiced Civil Disobedience and the only violence was coming from the Police in those days.

Just today.. as I’m writing this down .. AG Barr was just on the TV and saying the leading cause of death for young Black Males is homicide.. 7500 Black Americans are victims of homicide every year…

This is true, but not from Police or government officials in Black Ops.. at the time I was jotting this down.. Portland is still in chaos.. and Detroit had a horrific couple weeks.. they had 5 mass shootings.. 2 shooting where 4 people were shot, 2 where 5 people were shot and one mass shooting where 9 people were shot… again, at the time of this writing over the weekend there was 33 shootings, 26 injured and 7 killed.. that is one weekend.. in one major city in the United States… If this was happening in major cities in third world countries, the United States and the UN would have sent Peace Keeping Solders!

The Detroit Police in cooperation with various Federal agents.. DEA, FBI and ATF (just those from the Task Force, not the normal Policing).. made 117 arrests this past weekend .. and from those arrests they confiscated 106 illegally owned guns.. Detroit has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation.. zero tolerance .. but you see.. criminals, by definition are not law abiding citizens.. and have illegal guns.. and Gun Laws only apply to law abiding citizens.

So maybe, instead of criminally tearing down statues, vandalizing, assaulting and setting businesses and government buildings on fire… you pressure your elected representatives to legally remove those statues and you address the murder and violence in our cities.. I know Black on Black crime isn’t your narrative.. but it is a problem.. and the longer and harder you ignore it.. the longer you avoid the very difficult steps needed …. The balancing act required.. the more you lose credibility.. the more all citizens will get frustrated in your misplaced energy… and we’ve witnesses your energy.. you have enough to keep the fight on Racial injustices and to address the inner city violence and Black on Black crime.

Police moral is at an all time low, retirement requests have surged.. NYPD had to put a hold on filing.. they disbanded the 600 personal Anti-Crime unit … you know the ones that are in plains clothes, because most criminals although not the brightest bunch.. are smart enough not to commit crimes in front of Police.. or at least that used to be the case… but in NY they’ve empowered the criminal by not prosecuting crimes, doing away with bail and releasing inmates from their jails.

But who is asking for the reinstatement of the Anti-Crime unit? The Black community leaders … you see while the same scared politicians that are de-funding your Police, accuse the Police of wrong doing with no discernment … are the same ones who have $4,500 per day per person private bodyguards that you’re paying for. Yes, they will be protected.. and the rich will have security.. but your security.. commonly known as 911.. won’t be there when you need it.

These people as a whole are the same heroes that we cherished when they blindly ran into the burning Twin Towers after calling home to tell their loves ones … just that.. they love them and probably won’t be coming home that day.

The same people who pull you out of burning car crashes and run after armed crazed perps .. the same people who take the abusive spouse from your home … and track down and arrest child abusers and traffickers… the list goes on with all the good and positive they do for citizens everyday.. and the danger they live in.. I grew up in a Police home.. I can’t remember a time as a kid when I didn’t understand that when my Dad left the house.. it may be the last time I see him.. and my sisters and I would kiss him goodbye and tell him we loved him .. right up to the day he left us.. and we were all in our 30s and 40s ..

So the anarchy may not be on your street today, you may even believe that some of this violence, destruction and murder is acceptable.. But is it acceptable if it is your street, your family are you willing to be vulnerable, scared and in danger? Maybe?

When does the destructive behavior end and the Constructive actions start?

Gun and ammo purchases are sky rocketing.. applications have log jammed DHS.. and seldom has there been a better example for your 2nd Amendment Rights.. and that fight will continue.. but that my friends is another Observation for another day

July 20th 2020 – TOFY – Candidate, Campaign and Consequences

TOFY – Today’s Observation For You

Candidate, Campaign and Consequences

As the days to Election day dwindles and Corona Positive Tests increase.. and “Cases” should be reserved for those that are either hospitalized or placed on Ventilators..not just test positive.

This makes no sense and puts unnecessary panic on us. If we were to test the public’s IQ daily, we’d have an increase number of geniuses and Morons. So the spike in positive test results has driven states to bring back the Shut Downs and even make it mandatory to wear masks in public.. and we are seeing the request now being made to do so in private as well. But this TOFY is not about Mask wearing…

Today’s TOFY is about the former Vice President campaigning from his basement and limiting his access to very controlled circumstances. His own campaign people have told us that he is only around a couple people every day.. his “Body People”.. those are the campaign staffers that .. in his case .. Literally tell him what he is doing.. not so much as a courtesy reminding him about his schedule.. but actually telling him what he’s is doing, where he is .. and as we’ve seen what he is running for.

The official polls and the ones regurgitated on the MSM day after day.. says Donald Trump is behind Joe Biden.. although this past week the Gap narrowed.. from 10 points to 3 points .. but we also know that when it comes to Trump and polls.. they aren’t as reliable as polls have been in the past. In 2016 at this point in the campaign Trump was trailing Hillary by serious double digits.

Even on election day and even several hours after the Polls closed they told us Hillary was going to win.

This has come to be known as the “Silent” majority.. those that are not vocal about their support for Donald Trump.. they just go into the booth and pull the lever. And why would they be open about their support of the President of the United States.

The Bullies of the Cancel Culture will attack you online, in person and behind your back. They don’t like you’re opinion .. your choice for President.. they will and do work to harm you.

The Left has not accepted the results of the 2016 election.. it was not suppose to happen the way it did.. Hillary was supposed to be the first Female President and business was going to go on as usual. The “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation dried up as soon as it was clear that Hillary was not going to be able to deliver on promises made and favors expected. This has not received the attention it should by the Main street media.. because they don’t do their jobs.. Except they think they do.. Because the think their jobs are to further their agenda, their political leanings and their narrative… not report on the facts and not ask the questions that Real Journalists ask.

We also should be having a Presidential debate very soon.. the campaigns have agreed to 3 debates.. that seems very low for such an important election.. and it is a very important election. Probably the most important election in the history of or union.. certainly in our lifetimes. Only the 1980 Carter/Reagan Presidential Race comes close in my lifetime.

So why only three?.. and will the Biden camp want to lessen that number? We’ve seen Joe on the debate stage during the primary.. we saw him look around and see how the other candidates were going to answer before he did.

We saw him lose his place and give up the remainder of his time because he clearly lost his place or did not know where to go from the path he wondered down.

Joe Biden’s campaign did say that the presumptive Democratic nominee would commit to participating in three debates and quickly slammed a push by President Trump’s advisers for an additional debate as an “effort to change the subject.” But wasn’t the subject “Debates” .. the number is all that is up for discussion.

So I for one… and I think you are too.. looking very much to just the two of them.. Donald J Turmp and Joe Biden on a debate stage .. under the lights.. even with the slanted and bias panel of alleged Journalists moderating and asking the questions.

Most of us would pay to see this debate.. but alas we won’t have to pay per view.. just in or time, sitting through some commercials .. and those ridiculous questions we’ve all had to listen to In past debates.

Donald Trump, his Press Secretary and his surrogates have had very rude and undignified questions leveled at them .. from his diet and real weight to bulling him into taking a cognitive test that no other President had taken before.. right up to including “Does President Trump believe that it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War?” and Race baiting questions like “Why are African Americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country?”

The real questions I’d like to hear asked are the ones that really matter.. the ones that should be asked of a nearly 5 decade political operative..
who has had almost 40 years in the Senate and 8 years in the White House to address so many issues and injustices that he now tells us, if we only give him a chance now.. he has all the answers. He’ll make it all right.. that he could have handled the Corona virus better.. even though the Trump Administration built hospitals and converted Hospital ships in record time.. filled the shelves with masks, PPE and ventilator production at warp speed.. to the point we had thousands of hospital beds that sat empty for months and we are now exporting ventilators to other nations.

Sleepy Joe even tells us that he is the one that can bring the economy back.. does he think we have his memory? That we don’t remember the last 4 years.. that Trump cut corporate and individual taxes, cut regulations and renegotiated Trade Deals that brought manufacturing and jobs back to this country? That he, Joe Biden would raise your taxes while loading on so many regulations and Green New Deal rules that manufacturing, job creation and even food and fuel production would come to screeching halt.

Joe has plagiarized too many times to count.. he even is “borrowing” from Trump when it comes to the economy.. with his “made in America” and ‘Build Back Better’ Economic Plan.. seriously? Where have we heard this plan before?

Who really believes that, first Joe would be in charge of his White House and second, everything that has brought this country back to greatness (Trump Administration Policy) would not be completely and utterly reversed?

The questions I’d like and those that should be asked of Joe Biden.. if the media was doing their jobs … then most of us would know or at least be reminded that Former Vice President and Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden is officially under investigation by Washington D.C. law enforcement for his alleged sexual assault against Tara Reade, a former staffer of his campaign in 1993.

Tara Reade went forward with a criminal complaint to the police last month, after revealing the disturbing details of the alleged assault on a podcast with journalist Katie Harper.

The Media would also be asking Sleepy Joe about Burisma holdings.. his son Hunter’s position with Burisma and how he landed that incredibly lucrative job..and the salary and bonuses that went with it.

As well has how he with no money management or track record, he flies to China in Air Force Two and comes home with a Billion and half dollars under his management.. that would give the typical Money Manager 15 to 23 million dollars per year.. not a onetime fee.. that would be the yearly fee, year after year.

The polls may show Trump trailing.. and we know we can’t trust them when it comes to Trump.. we know that the campaign really hasn’t started.. and wont until Joe Biden gets out among the people But the huge Difference between votes.. or I should Voters… a lot of Biden Votes are votes against Trump.. whereas the votes for Trump or overwhelming FOR Trump.. they want Trump.. they aren’t voting for him to NOT get the other guy.. they are passionate… even though they may not be vocal today.. they will be when the time comes.

And that leads to a whole another discussion on elections, election fraud and ballot harvesting.. but that my friends are for another Today’s Observation For You..

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