Fifty six Days After The November 5 Election, The Democratic Party Are still The SANE Party In Washington.

 America, pay no attention to the media's lies, BS and propaganda about the democratic party being leaderless and at each other's throats.  They are still the SANE and steady party that put the country and its people first.  And it played out in congress after the election during legislation to avoid a government shutdown.  

The chaotic GOP controlled U.S. House could not get its own majority vote together to pass legislation that would prevent a government shutdown and fund the government through the new year.  At the same time the darkness of Trump and Musk were urging the GOP more chaos by supporting a government shutdown if they did not get their way and if their demands were not met.  The minority democrats in the House remained SANE, calm and would not give in to a government shutdown.  As a result, the GOP speaker of the House Johnson dropped the chaotic demands of Trump, Musk and the extreme GOP house members and the democratic party furnished the majority vote that passed and prevented a government shutdown.  

The democratic party stood tall once again for the country and its people and by doing so, demonstrated why history tells us the democratic party are the best at governing.  Trump and the GOP controlled congress will be running government on January 20, 2025 but the democratic party will still be the SANE party in Washington for the country and its people that will shine through the chaotic darkness of Trump and his GOP ditto heads.

Commentary written by Joe Lorio

President elect Donald Trump's Billionaire Cabinet and Other Billionaire Appointments.

 President elect Trump left no doubt who he will depend on to govern the U.S. and its people.  Billionaires who represent the wealth gap in America who supported the huge tax cuts of Reagan, Bush 43 and Trump that benefited them over America's working class.  Trump and those billionaires share the same extreme ideology of dismantling the federal government and it's programs that support the people and their needs.

By destroying government as we know it, relates to their desire to blame government for everything, especially their own corruption.  It is their way to cover the lies, misinformation and election fraud claims of the past four years.  It also represents the way dictators and authoritarian rule to destroy democracy, institutions of stability and the rule of law.  It is those that have so much that want so much more who are now bragging about more huge tax cuts for themselves and corporations.

The same tax cut fever that reduces federal revenue for the need of government operations, an excuse to reduce or even eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA and other needed programs that have helped the people and the country and have been successful.  The billionaire Foxes will be running the White House and government.  The people's house will no longer matter.  The Americans for Tax Fairness and Institute for Policy Studies reported:  Between March 18, 2020 and April 15, 2021 combined wealth of U.S. billionaires increased $1.6 trillion or 55%.  That was during the height of the COVID pandemic.  

In other words, they had the financial ability to bring the nation's supply chain up to date during the pandemic, failed to do so which started the inflation cycle of goods and service.  The billionaires made their money, that is all that concerned them.  They are the same ones who oppose unions and increases in the minimum wage.  President Biden and the democratic party has always been a supporter of both.  

So when Trump takes office on January 20, 2025 and his billionaires go to work, the people know what to expect from the most unfit President and the most unfit billionaire team of anti Americans. 

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

What Will The New Year Bring Politically For The United States and It's People?

When President elect Donad Trump takes office on January 20, 2025 a triple history will take place.  Trump will be the very first convicted criminal to be elected President along with a rap sheet that includes sexual abuse, fraud and a former President who tried to overturn a democratic Presidential election in 2020 with a mob and lies that resulted in a traitorous act by a sitting President.  Trump will be the first President to nominate unqualified billionaires and millionaires to serve in his administration for the purpose of discrediting the federal government to justify his numerous personal attacks against government.   Trump will be the only one to run for President three times and never receiving 50% of the popular vote  

There is a way to fairly judge what the new year will bring politically under the new Trump administration.  It is called precedent, the past history that has taken place during past GOP administrations, including Mr. Trump's first term.  And that history represents failure more than progress as outlined in previous PolitiDose commentary in the past 12 years.  Examples are as follows:

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's recession arbiter for the U.S. for the past 50 plus years reported the nation entered an economic recession in February 2020 that ended 10 straight years of economic expansion that began in 2010 on President Obama's watch.  The recession began two months before COVID took its toll and added to the problems of the economy.  No GOP President has balanced the federal budget since "IKE" in 1960 or recorded a smaller deficit at the end of his last fiscal year compared to what it was when his first fiscal year began.  Every GOP President in the last 100 years has given the nation an economic recession; Reagan was the only GOP President in the last 72 years to leave office with a lower unemployment rate than when he took office;  The largest increases in federal spending in the last 60 years took place on the GOP watch Nixon/Ford 92% increase, Reagan 75% increase and Bush 43, 61% increase;  The largest percentage increases in the National Debt in the last 60 years took place on the GOP watch of Reagan 187%, Nixon/Ford 98% and Bush 43, 105%;  The largest single year fiscal deficits in the last 70 years took place on Trump's watch, $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020, and $2.7 trillion in fiscal 2021;  The largest single year federal spending took  place on Trump's watch for fiscal 2021 at $6.8 trillion;  The worst bank failures in the last 100 years took place on the GOP watch.  The banking collapse during the great depression under GOP Herbert Hoover, The failure of the Savings and loan Industry during the administration of Reagan and the Wall Street Banks failure during the administration of Bush 43; The longest consecutive stretch of unemployment in the last 72 years took place on Reagan's watch when it stood at over 10% for 10 straight months from September 1982 to June 1983.

During Trump's first term, federal spending increased 43%, total deficit spending was $7.3 trillion and the national debt increased $8.2 trillion or 41%.  The unemployment rate was up 1.6% and the economy lost 2.7 million jobs.  It was the first time any administration lost jobs since GOP President Herbert Hoover during the great depression when the economy lost 6 million jobs.  Trump's economy also suffered the largest single year spending spree in fiscal 2021 when spending hit $6.8 trillion.and also hit the largest single year deficit when it hit $3.1 trillion.  Unemployment was down 3.1% on President Obama's watch, federal spending increased 25% and the deficit at the end of Obama's last fiscal year was $666 billion.  The economy created 11.3 million jobs on Obama's watch.  The federal deficit at the end of Trump's last fiscal year was $2.7 trillion.  Trump joined the long list of past GOP administrations that left the country in worse shape politically and fiscally than when they took office.  If anyone thinks those numbers herein are a coincidence over such an extended period of time, they are living in the alternate universe that Trump and the GOP are trying to sell.

Over 6000 years ago, the first civilization, that of the Sumerians said they were taught that the key to a better future was to learn from the mistakes of the past.  Past GOP administrations, including Trump, never understood that wisdom, so for them the future has been like their failed past.  That, coupled by the present GOP led by Trump the autocrat, is so negative in his thoughts and actions to undo the democratic process, the future looks darker than the past because Trump represents chaos, darkness and negativity.  

On January 20, when Trump takes office officially, there is precedent that tells us what the future will look like in his second term in office.   

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Note:  Numbers in this commentary taken from the official reports of the CBO, Office of Management and Budget, The U.S. Labor Department and the Treasury Department 

   

The U.S. Economy Continues To Surprise The Negative Voices. (the ignorant).

 The U.S. Government reported retail sales for November were up 0.7% from October, the third quarter GDP was revised up to 3.1% and the Federal Reserve reported the Personal Compensation Expenditures Price inflation index was up only 2.4% in November year to year.  It was 2.3% in October.  

In the 46th month of the Biden administration, retail sales continue to be bullish, the consumers are still spending, the GDP is healthy and the unemployment rate is still at historically low levels at 4.2%.  During the same period of time during the Trump administration in November 2020 the unemployment rate was 6.7%, the GDP for all of 2020 was a minus 2.8% and job creation was still in the losing column. Yet, the negative voices of doom and gloom, the sky is falling on the economy are still pushing their propaganda and BS about the Biden economy.  

The U.S. economy under the Biden administration has performed better than it did during the inflationary period of the early 1980's in every category and consumer spending, job creation, lower unemployment have remained strong for the past 46 months.  The administration has been able to keep the economy strong despite the massive record deficits left by Trump, 2.7 million jobs lost, COVID, which Trump only winked at, record federal spending and an economic recession that the National Bureau of Economic Research, the arbiter of U.S. recessions, reported took place in February 2020, two months before COVID shut down the nation.  

The real reason for the negative voices reflects the attitude of Trump, the GOP and a willing media to divide the country, its people and blur the facts.  An alternate world to deal with the ignorant.  The final results of Biden's full term in office when he leaves in January will provide evidence just how well the economy performed on the President's watch and PolitiDose commentary will be there reporting the facts

This commentary written by Joe  Lorio 

Judge Juan Merchan Rules No One Is Above The Law, Not Even Donald Trump.

 New York's Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan who presided over the "hush money" trial of Donald Trump refused Trump and his attorneys attempt to overturn his criminal conviction.  The Judge noted Trump and his attorneys failed to offer any real evidence beyond their assertion that the charges should be overturned because of the election and the immunity issue.  The Judge noted neither applied to the case decided by a New York jury of Trump's peers.  

As usual, that night Trump took to his Truth Social to personally attack the Judge over his ruling.  Personal attacks are one of Trump's tactics when he cannot have his way.  It is a deficiency in Trump's mental thinking that he will take to the oval office in the new year to govern by.  It is the same mental deficiency that makes him unfit for office.  

Judge Merchan's decision to hold Trump responsible for his own criminal acts is directly related to the fair administration of justice that no one is above the law.  The conservative Supreme Court failed it's responsibilities when it handed down it's immunity ruling which exempted Trump from the long standing rule of, no one is above the law.  

Judge Merchan's decision balances the scales of justice, the conservative Supreme Court's decision was a disgrace.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Forty Four Days After The Presidential Election and The Media Is Still Just A Side Show.

The Presidential campaign of 2024 actually began after Joe Biden took office in January of 2021.  It began with the media's obsession of Trump running for re-election in 2024 and their willingness to allow Trump to dominate their news cycle.  After the election on November 5, that same media with help from the negative voices attempted to force on America the notion that the democratic party was blaming each other, that their agenda was rejected and their party was without leadership and would take years to recover.

That same media began telling the people about Trump's mandate, especially with the GOP controlling both houses of congress beginning in the new year.  Newsweek even named Trump it's "person of the year" award. (Hardly an honor for a convicted criminal).  The media then ran offense for the President elect by giving him coverage for claiming all the prosecutions against him should be reversed because of the Supreme Court's immunity ruling.  

The true story forty four days later reveals Trump ran for President three times and never achieved or received 50% of the popular vote so there is no mandate, the democratic party is alive, well, sane and their agenda has not been dismissed.  As of this writing, the popular vote in the last three Presidential elections, Donad Trump received 214 million votes while the democratic candidates received 221 million votes, a margin of 7 million popular votes for the democrats.

In that forty four day period we also saw President elect Trump pick billionaires and millionaires for his cabinet and other high positions to run government instead of qualified people with experience.  It is in line with Trump's dictator mentality to destroy government, the same institutions he blames for his own self made corruption.  These are the types of people who would like to shut the government down.  As usual, the media has little or no response.  

In those 44 days the media still allows Trump to dominate their news cycle with his trash talk, personal attacks and the chaotic conditions that exist around this unstable person that are fed this negative news 24/7.   Trump's mental behavior is now a part of the media's make up.  When one can not find anything positive to say their mental attitude speaks load and clear.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio 

  

The 2024 Season For SEC Football Comes To An End.

 On Saturday afternoon the Georgia Bulldogs and the Texas Longhorns played in the very first playoff game for the SEC Championship in the expanded version.  And the Georgia Bulldogs defeated Texas 22-19.  Texas completed the regular season on top of the SEC, but lost twice to Georgia including once during the regular season.  

In the previous 10 years, Alabama and Georgia were the dominate teams in the SEC winning multiple SEC championships and National Championships.  Georgia's defeat of Texas Saturday keeps them the dominate team in the SEC and time will tell who the next challenger will be.  This writer had a kick out of a recently written sports story concerning Georgia not having the top recruiting class this year as if to say that makes Georgia's future look suspect.  

The writer forgot to mention that Georgia's coach Kirby Smart is probably the best coach in college football and that will make the difference.  In fact only the teams with the best coaches will survive, especially with the Portal, NIL, the money and free agency.  Quality coaches is the only answer with the new headaches, courtesy of the NCAA.  

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

The U.S. Economy, Job Creation and the Unemployment Rate for November 2024.

 The U.S. Labor Department announced that the economy created 227,000 jobs in November and that the unemployment rate came in at 4.2%.  It was the 46th straight month of positive job growth.  The job numbers surprised the negative voices who predicted after October's job report, the jobs market was in a slowdown.  They dismissed the fact that the Labor Department contributed October's job numbers were due to the Boeing strike and two hurricanes that hit the east coast.  

The Department also reported that wages were up 0.4% from October and that year to year wages were up 4.0%.  With only 33 days left in office, President Biden will leave office with the best job creation record of any Presidential 4 year term.  His administration will have created more jobs in 4 years than Bush 41, Bush 43 and Trump created in the 16 years they served.  After the job numbers for November were announced, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the following:  The U.S. economy is in REMARKABLY good shape.  

PolitiDose commentary has told that success story since Biden took office, but the media has been more interested in publishing the negative voices of doom, gloom and recession and has paid little to no attention to the positive economic story of the past 4 years.  How sad.

Trump will be taking over a working economy with increase wages, more jobs than Trump ever thought creating in his first term and a strong America.  On the other hand when Trump left office, he bequeathed an economic disaster to Biden.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio  

LSU Football 2024 Regular Season Comes To and End On A Winning Note Defeating Vanderbilt 37-17.

 It is always good to end the regular season at home with a win but it does not indicate the direction the team will take in the future, nor is it a portend of what next season's team will look like.  LSU started the season ranked in the top 10 of the preseason poll and many local sports writers thought the team had a chance to make the playoffs with the new expansion of 12 teams.  But the regular season ended with LSU being shut out of the playoffs and the top 20 poll teams.

And along the way, LSU fans experienced the ups and downs of a team where the coaches appeared to lose control.  LSU played eight SEC opponents and had a record of 5-3.  Along the way they defeated only two SEC teams with a winning record within the SEC, South Carolina and Ole Miss.  They completed the regular season by beating only two teams with a winning record also, those same two teams.  They completed the regular season with a 8-4 winning record.

How do those numbers along with the fact that the season saw LSU's won-loss record regress from last season and how no progress has been made on the issue in the last three seasons.  This writer believes coaching along with the Portal, NIL and compensation for players are the big reasons.  LSU has never recovered from the 2019 season when they went undefeated and won it all.  At the beginning of the season, local sports writers thought LSU would make the expanded playoffs, but lost sight of the fact that the Tigers have fallen behind several other SEC teams since 2019.  Because of factors expressed in previous commentary, this writer predicted LSU should be rated as a "wait and see team" for the season and that is the way it turned out.  

No one in  sports seems to want to talk about it, but college football, thanks to the Portal, NIL and the influence of money out in the open, college football now has "Free Agency" just like the NFL and that is a HUGE MISTAKE.  Players no longer have  any commitment to their school or team.  What a shame for college sports.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio