No... Biden's Inauguration was NOT Historic

The 2021 Inauguration Day is not a historic day. Not even close. I fully believe history will see it as a disastrous day for our country.

But let's look at what happened on January 20:

1) We held an inauguration. Nothing special about that. Has happened every four years since our country's inception. Every inauguration bums some people out, and elates others, but it happens nevertheless. Those who are excited about those who are being inaugurated like to say that it's historic, but it rarely is. Barack Obama's first was historic, for obvious reasons, but outside of that, the only truly "historic" inauguration we've seen in the last century was Donald Trump's. Never before in this country had a true outsider -- a person who'd held no previous political office -- been elected as our President. Not all newly elected Presidents are career politicians, but most of them are, and rare are the few who did not at least have some prior experience in the political field. Donald Trump did not.

2) The man inaugurated today as the 46th President of the United States truly could not be LESS historic. He is as average, mundane, and redundant a candidate as we've ever seen. A career politician who has leached off the government for the last 50 years, without a single significant contribution to the betterment of America from his time in Congress to show for it. And to boot, a man who'd not only tried and failed two times before, but was forced to drop out of a previous presidential race because of corruption. A man like that is nowhere near historic.

3) Characteristically speaking, this man literally represents everything of which the party that elected him claims to disdain:

He's white; the epitome of white privilege that Liberals claim is the scourge of society.

He's old. So old, in fact, that very few people believe his health will survive his four year term. The Democrat Party has spent the last 50 years or so screaming about how the youth of America are the future, how old people are out of touch, and specifically the last four years bashing President Trump in part for his age.

He's wealthy. Granted he became wealthy on the backs of the taxpayer. But Democrats claim to hate wealth, and openly advocate for socialistic redistribution of wealth.

He has a history of racism. If there's anything Democrats like doing, it's holding people's past against them, especially if there's even a hint of racism involved. Then Senator Biden's grilling of black, Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas was nothing less than cringe-worthy from a racial perspective. The kind of grilling that would instantly get lambasted as racist today and likely result in a forced resignation. And the only real legislation Biden in which was ever involved was a Crime Bill in the mid 1990's that resulted in incarcerating black males in historical numbers. Among other incidences, Biden's decades as a US Senator is a litany of one damaging blow to blacks after another.

He's a perv. In addition to the allegations of sexual misconduct, of which there are several, the countless videos of how he nuzzles women and children are downright nauseating. Donald Trump was lambasted almost daily for his treatment of women well before he was ever a politician. And Democrats used completely fabricated sexual misconduct allegations to attempt to bring down a perfectly righteous Supreme Court candidate. On a day when they were also celebrating the first woman to become a Vice President, they literally elected a man as President who has a very shady past as it relates to women -- a past far more damaging and disqualifying then the one they attempted to fabricate against Judge Kavanaugh.

4) Speaking of women, the Democrat party "loved" Kamala Harris -- a woman who has serious allegations of sleeping her way to success -- so much she was literally the first primary candidate to drop out of the race this past year because she could raise no funding in her own party. The party disdained her so much that they would not contribute in any way to her campaign. And of the numerous hose-heads who filled up the Democrat primary ticket, she was the first to drop out of the race. A white woman who literally lied about her racial heritage was vastly popular to Harris, so much so she was considered a front-runner for the nomination well into its latter stages months after Harris had dropped out of the race.

So there's your history. An old, white, crusty, failing health and mental capacity, corrupt, perverted, career politician and a black woman so disliked by her party she was the first to be forced to drop out of the race for its nomination.

And I have no illusions whatsoever about, nor hope for, their promises of unity. Indeed, Biden has already proven through a record-setting flurry of Executive Orders that his administration will be little else than a radical Liberal, vile, vindictive, and highly spiteful assault on Conservatives, and specifically, anyone who supported Trump. And he has no concern for collateral damage, as many of the edicts passed with his pen will hurt Democrat faithful as well. Unity be damned -- it's all out war on Trump and his supporters.

No, this year's inauguration was not historical at all. It was sad.

South Carolina -- 4 Years!

It was early June of 2014. My wife and I were having a discussion. In the past year and a half, we'd lost no less than than three dear friends and family members to tragic, all-too-early deaths. Our oldest son was already out of the house off to college, and in just a couple years, our younger son would leave the nest as well. We'd dreamed of moving and living near the ocean for nearly 25 years, mostly because of the benefits to the Mrs.' health, but also because we were beginning to realize that tomorrow is never promised. And we wanted to make a better life for ourselves. And now we were ready. We realized we could either do it, or still be sitting around 10 years later talking about doing it, if the Good Lord let us live that long.

So we put our house of 18 years up for sale. We moved into a temporary home, and rental from my Mom. A year later, in the summer of 2015, that home flooded, and we lost about 3/4 of our possessions. It galvanized our resolve even further. It was time to move to greener pastures -- or in our case, sandier beaches!

After another year of wrangling and moving from one temporary place to another, and through the sheer grace of God aligning all the stars in our favor, we did it. We packed up what we owned, our dog, and my mother, and we moved to the ocean.

December 12, 2016. Four years ago. It doesn't seem that long, and yet, it almost seems a lifetime ago. Our entire lives, our entire existence, is totally different from the life we lived in Indiana.

I lived in Mooresville, IN, for the first 47 years of my life. My wife and I were born and raised there. It was the only life we'd ever known. Now, four years removed, it almost seems as foreign to me as did living by the ocean 25 years ago. 

Please don't read anything into what I'm about to say in the next few paragraphs: I will always cherish Mooresville, IN. It was a wonderful place in which to grow up and raise a family. We still dearly love and miss family and friends who are still there. I have deep friendships and tight business colleagues with whom I communicate regularly. And it's always nice to see our loved ones when we visit. Our move was never about Mooresville, or Indiana, or the people or places.

It was about us.

But Indiana is not our home anymore. Bluffton, South Carolina is our home now. And we love it! Four years here have entrenched us in the Lowcountry life. Dern-near perfect weather year round, friendly people, robust business, and a vibe in the culture that simply cannot be explained until you live in it every day. We're literally minutes away from some of the coolest places you'll ever visit, like Savannah, GA, not to mention pristine beaches. The ocean and the salt air have done for my wife's health exactly what we'd hoped. And living in the sunshine almost daily never hurt anybody.

The community has accepted us with open arms, as they do everybody, it seems. No one is in a hurry. Everybody is nice all the time. Sure, it's not perfect. There's some black holes in the universe, as there are anywhere. But the positives FAR outweigh the negatives. I've made new friends. Gotten involved in a great church family. Found opportunities to play music -- on my terms! My business has flourished here, as the opportunities for small business people seem almost endless. And even though it surprises my friends and family back in Indy, I do not miss one iota being Mr. Microphone. Not one bit. I had my days on the stage and behind the mic. They were great. I'm not sad they're over.

Mostly, I get to hang out with my wife almost everyday. And her days of being down with illness are so much fewer than before. Aside from the obvious, like brain tumors and sinus surgeries, I'm not sure many of our friends and family in Indy truly knew just how sick Ginger was on a daily basis there. The weather, more than anything, just wasn't her friend. She was a trouper, and never let the outside world really know how bad it was. She's been freed from a great deal of that. No, she wasn't magically healed. Her body and her immune system are such that she will never be completely healthy all the time. But the daily grind is over for her. The ocean is a great place to get well! And her good days far outnumber her bad.

Four years have gone by so fast, and yet sometimes feel like an eternity. There's still a newness and unfamiliarity with so many places here. There are roads in Indy I could still drive to this day with my eyes closed at night. (State Road 144 from 67 to 37 anyone?) I haven't reached that level of comfort yet here, even as things become more and more familiar. It's hard to replace 47 years of brain and muscle memory.

And yet, the last time we were in Indiana earlier this Fall was the first time since we moved that we didn't feel as though we belonged. We felt like visitors. The changes were unfamiliar, even as I still am somewhat in the loop there. It just didn't feel like home anymore. The Mrs. felt the same way. And that's not a sad thing. It's just the reality. South Carolina is our home now.

When we leave, for a visit to Indy, or even a vacation, we look forward to coming home. We miss it here when we're not here. I still get giddy when we drive back into the community the same way I did when we used to vacation here. We love our home, and we love the area even more. We have not one single regret, other than to wish we would have made the move years earlier.

So as I've tried to provide periodic updates, especially to my friends back in Indy, I suspect, unless something drastic changes, this will probably be the last full update. What you need to know is above. We've settled in quite nicely, and while I've learned to never say "Never," I can't imagine life for us proceeding anywhere other than here anytime soon.

And I'll end again with this... come see us! Soon. Today. Don't wait. No, I don't care about a pandemic. Not in the least. We love to show the place off, and our doors -- and our guest bedrooms -- are always open to whoever wants to drop by.

But be careful... it gets in your blood real quick, and you may find yourself making a move soon, rather than later!

My Uncle Paul

My Great Uncle Paul passed away last night. "Great" doesn't begin to describe him. He was my namesake. Having the good fortune to have been born on his birthday, my Mom named me after her favorite Uncle, and I am honored to have shared our first and middle names.

Paul Donald.

Unless we could see each other at Thanksgiving, each year on the day of our birthday, I would try to give him a call, and we would share just a few minutes wishing each other well. (One did not have "long" conversations with Uncle Paul.) A few years ago, we went out together on our birthday, and I phoned him two years ago, which, sadly, was the last time I spoke with him. I didn't call him this year, to my detriment, and COVID cancelled Thanksgiving. Life, sometimes, just gets in the way, and the moment slipped past. But I thought of him, and I'm sure, in some small corner of his mind, he thought of me. I take some comfort in being able to boast that the last time I spoke to him, I told him I loved him.

When I was a young boy, he taught me ways about being a man. His life exemplified how to be a man. Because he was a man.

A real man.

A strong man.

A friendly man.
A good man.

A family man.

A veteran of the Navy, and though retired, he worked -- which is to say, he did manly stuff he wanted to do -- well into his 80's, with the strength and virility of a man half his age. It was not uncommon to see him up on a roof in the noonday sun, working circles around men far younger than he. A nasty fall a few years ago would have done in a man of less stature, but the doctors commented it was that very stature and strength in his advanced years that allowed him to survive it.

When people die at early ages, we lament their passing as far too soon. When they die in advanced years, we take comfort in knowing they've lived life to the full. At 94 years of age, it is easy to be comforted by saying that he lived a long, happy life. And he most certainly did, for sure. And yet, for Uncle Paul, 94 years just seems too soon.

Because he was a man.

His wife of 71 years, our beloved Aunt Pat, and his four amazing daughters are some of my favorite people in the world. And even though we don't see each other much anymore, when we do get together, though our faces are a little more wrinkled, and our hair a little more gray, it's as though time hasn't passed. And Uncle Paul was always there, always friendly, always willing to talk if spoken to, and always with the firmest, manliest handshake I've ever felt.

Because he was a man.

A good man.

Perhaps -- O Lord, just perhaps -- there might come a day when people will say that about me, and I'll know I've made my namesake proud.

Sandy Koufax and the Hall of Fame

Sandy Koufax belongs in the Hall of Fame. I believe that. But if he does, then so do many other players who are not currently enshrined.

First, a few things, for the purposes of full disclosure. 1) I'm a BIG Cincinnati Reds fan. So while this isn't exclusively about them, I'll make the case for a couple players that extends to other MLB players as well. Most of the names are just examples. 2) I'm an old guy. I don't completely dig all the analytics. So I'm not going to bog us down with a bunch of analytic stats, such as WAR, and so forth. Primarily because it's not necessary. Secondly, because most of the guys we're talking about weren't playing in a time when analytics were a thing. And lastly, because I find, in general, stats like WAR, while catching the occasional wildcard, really don't enlighten us to anything we didn't already know.

The top five all time WAR leaders, according to Baseball-Reference.com, are Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Barry Bonds, and Willie Mays. Well, duh! Is that a surprise to anyone? I find that stats like WAR usually highlight the guys who everybody already knows to be the best in the game anyway. And they're almost always the guys who lead in the traditional statistics of HR's, RBI's, Batting Average, Wins, Saves, etc. True, there's a few names in the Top 20, and then Top 50, and so on, who catch you by surprise (Pete Alexander, anyone?) And every now and then, a stat like WAR, or OPS+ will highlight a guy who has a couple of surprising seasons, or a diamond in the rough that might otherwise be overlooked. Helps teams dig a little deeper on a player when they're looking for specific needs in filling out a roster. But in general otherwise, the big analytic stat leaders tend to be the same guys who win the batting crowns, and pitching awards. Not always, 100%, but WAY more often than not.

I also don't want to get bogged down with steroids. For the purposes of this argument, let's pretend steroids don't exist. Keeps things cleaner.

So I don't want to get lost in the analytics forest here, mostly because I don't think the HOF is about analytics anyway. The HOF, primarily, is about honoring the guys who were the best in the game when they played. It is pointless to compare Babe Ruth with, say, Reggie Jackson, or Alex Rodriguez, for a variety of reasons we don't need to get into here, but it is safe to say they were at the very top of their game during their respective careers.

So back to Sandy Koufax. Everyone agrees that when Koufax retired, he was considered possibly the best pitcher in the game at that time. And yet, when you look at Koufax's career stats, and ESPECIALLY if you compare those to other pitchers in the HOF, he's mediocre at best.

Koufax's career record is 165-87, with a 2.76 ERA. (Just to be fair, his career WAR is 48.9, WAY down the line from other HOF's.) It's a record that if you read that line next to anybody else's name, you might say he was a good pitcher, but wouldn't think HOF. (Kevin Millwood had 169 career victories, for crying out loud.) No, when you think HOF, you think 300 wins, 3000 strikeouts, lower 2 ERA, etc. Not 165-87.

Furthermore, Koufax wasn't even that great for very long. A quick glance at his 11-career will show that he was relatively BELOW average for the first half dozen years, and then, the light came on and he was perhaps the best in the game for the last six seasons. Only six really HOF worthy years.

So why is Koufax a HOFer? Because during those six years, he was arguably the best pitcher on the planet, and durn-near unhittable. And he retired at the top of his game. Most people believe had he not retired, he could very easily have turned in another 5-10 years of greatness. Perhaps, but of course, we'll never know.

Which is what makes that HOF argument a little unfair. If Ken Griffey Jr. had retired at the same age as Koufax, everyone would have assumed he would have gone on to become the all-time HR King. But he didn't retire, and we all know how the last several injury-plagued years of his career played out. So did Griffey make the HOF because of his first 10 years in the game, or his last 10 years? Break his career in half and you essentially find two different players.

Koufax cited a sore arm as one of his reasons for retirement, so it is just as likely that he would have blown out his arm in the next season or two. And what we're left with is a guy who was really great for a mere six seasons. And yet, it is solely because of those six seasons he is in the HOF. For six years, Sandy Koufax was the best pitcher in baseball.

And really, THAT'S what the HOF is all about. It's about looking at guys careers and asking, "Was he one of the top players in the game for an extended period of time while he played?" Stats are important, and I believe there are some stat thresholds that guarantee a spot in the HOF, but that's just my opinion. (I think you can make a case for Jamie Moyer. Anybody who's good enough to make a MLB roster for 28 seasons ought to get credit for something, no?) Regardless, I think the HOF was and always has been a place for players who you watched for several years and said, "That guy is one of the best in the game."

Let's look at a couple examples: One of the most glaring omissions for the HOF, in my opinion, is Dave Concepcion. I've had all the stat arguments I care to have over his career. As noted before, it is unfair to make his case solely compared to other shortstops in the HOF. Although, to be fair, his stats, both defensively and offensively, stack up pretty well against other SS in the HOF. But not only was the position viewed differently in different eras, Concepcion was a different player from, say, Pee Wee Reese, and a significantly different player from Cal Ripken, who revolutionized the position into an offensive-minded spot.

What we really should be asking is, like Sandy Koufax, was Dave Concepcion considered to be one of the best shortstops in the game while he played? And I think it's more than fair, and not an unpopular assessment, to say that for the better part of a full decade, from the early 70's through the early 80's, Concepcion was one of the best, if not considered THE best shortstop in the game.

Forget all the other players around him on the Big Red Machine (because that's unfair too.) You'd be hard pressed to name a better shortstop during that time. On Baseball-Reference.com, most of the similarity comparisons made are with players whose careers played out primarily before or after Concepcion's. During his time, there really was none better. And the stats, and the awards, and the All-Star nominations bear that out. The likes of Pee Wee Reese and Luis Aparicio came before Concepcion. And the likes of Trammel, Ozzie, and Ripken all had careers that really took off well after Concepcion's prime. Even Robin Yount, who burst on the scene in 1974, really didn't hit his stride until the late 70's, and he finished up a center fielder. His contemporaries included guys like Larry Bowa, Bill Russell, Roy Smalley, and Ivan DeJesus... all decent, solid players in their own right, but nowhere near the caliber of Concepcion. For the middle decade of Concepcion's career, he was the best in the game at his position.

And the same case can be made for many guys. Look at the Dave Parkers, Dwight Evans, Dale Murphys, Bernie Williams, Steve Garveys, Scott Rolens, Roy Oswalts, and Ron Guidrys of the world, just to name a few. All guys who were considered at the very top of the game for the better part of a decade. By contrast, its why players like Tony Perez, Jim Rice, and Harold Baines were overlooked for so long, and likely why guys like Vada Pinson, Bill Buckner, Johnny Damon, Tim Hudson, and Brett Saberhagen get overlooked completely. While their stats match up very well with other HOFers, they just never seemed to be in the conversation of the guys who were the best in the game while they played. I mean, when you think of the best outfielders of the late 50's into the 1960's, you think of guys named Mantle and Mays and Aaron and Robinson. You don't think of names like Pinson. But check his stats sometime against those guys while they were all playing together. Interesting.

And for how long? How many years does a player need to be considered one of the best to qualify. If Koufax is the standard, then it's five or six, although even that is probably an anomaly. It's likely closer to that 10 year/decade scenario. That's why guys like George Foster, Tino Martinez, Eric Davis, etc, don't really make the cut. Guys who were some of the most feared players and sluggers and best pitchers for a handful of seasons, but couldn't sustain the greatness over a real extended period of time. It's likely THE sole reason Roger Maris isn't in the HOF. One or two great seasons just don't cut it.

The stats of all the players above can be debated. And have been, countless times. For every guy who thinks Scott Rolen is worthy of the HOF, there's another guy who thinks he's a bum. The traditional stats may be Hall worthy, but some analytics guy will tell you why he doesn't measure up. And of course, there's always some analytic that shows a guy like Scott Hatteburg deserves to be in the HOF.

Go figure.

If we take the baseball writers out of the picture for a moment -- because today the writers are mostly pompous slugs who like to lecture us on steroids while having made their careers on the backs of steroid users -- there are those who believe the Hall should be reserved for the very great, but even then, there's very little consensus on what stats constitute "very great." But the HOF was and always should be about the fans. They want to see the best players they grew up idolizing in the HOF. A modicum of common sense should prevail, of course. There's always some kid who grew up idolizing Sexto Lezcano for some weird reason. So something has to serve as the baseline to be sure. But in the end, it's about what the fans want, not what some neurotic writer says it should be. (Surveys, incidentally, show fans of all regions and generations overwhelmingly believe Pete Rose should be in the HOF. So he should be, no matter how big of a creep you think he is.)

When you consider that 19.5 thousand men have ever played Major League Baseball, then the 263 players who make up the HOF comprise just barely over 1% of the total to have ever played the game. If you added 100 very deserving players to the HOF immediately, which you could easily do, you'd still have less than 2% of the players all time. Still a very exclusive club.

If Koufax deserves the Hall -- and I believe he does -- then the metrics of his career, and not just the stats, should be considered for all candidates. If you only look at the stats, Koufax doesn't measure up. Four career no-hitters is akin to Adam Dunn hitting nearly 500 HR's in his career. And NOBODY believes Adam Dunn should be in the HOF.

But it isn't just the stats. It's his status. The very best pitcher in the game for the previous six seasons, and the belief that his dominance would have continued had he chosen to stick it out. That alone is why he is in the HOF, and it's why most fans get real itchy when you start talking about Koufax's career stats.

If Koufax deserves to be there, so do a lot of other guys.

Capitol Riots: Where has all this outrage been?

I was as disgusted by what I saw at the Capitol yesterday as you were. It was wrong, unlawful, ugly, and inexcusable. It was roundly condemned by everybody who watched yesterday, Republican and Democrat alike. Every media talking head condemned it, right and left. As they should have.

Problem is, that same condemnation didn't happen this summer and fall as we saw far worse acts of violence and aggression take place all over the country. For the last seven months or so, far more people died, far more businesses were lost and looted, far more property was damaged, and far more lives were ruined. Government buildings in Minneapolis, and Seattle, and Portland were all overrun, firebombed, and occupied, sometimes for weeks. Police and emergency vehicles and other government property were burned and destroyed. In most places, the violence, and the riots, and the looting took place for days or weeks. Damage estimates reaching into the billions of dollars. From most of the left -- many who bristled with condemnation yesterday -- little more than silence.

And let's not forget the time just a couple years ago when Leftists, mostly women, stormed the Capitol building to protest the Kavanaugh hearings. And media outlets such as the USA Today all but encouraged it!

Today, Washington is calm. The protesting, done. The violence is over, such as it was. One protester was tragically and needlessly killed, by all indications by Capitol police. Otherwise, a few windows were broken, and a few podiums overturned. The violence was so great that our Congressional representatives were able to get back to business within hours in the very building and chambers that were overrun.

Prior to the November 3rd election, businesses in cities all over the country were boarding up in anticipation of rioting after the election. You know why? Because they all fully expected Donald Trump to be reelected, and they didn't need to be reminded of not only what has been going on since the summer, but the violence and riots they watched after he was initially elected in 2016. They watched as rioting broke out all over the country, particularly on college campuses, but also in many cities. They remembered the fires we all saw in downtown DC after his election, and in other cities, and the fires and destruction we saw in Berkely, CA after his election. And they certainly knew what had happened all over the country this summer. In Minneapolis, and Portland, and Seattle, and Madison, and St. Louis, and Chicago, and Atlanta, and New York, and most other Liberal cities.

Had Trump been reelected -- which he was fully expected to be -- Liberals would have rioted even more violently than they had before. It was a sad display as business owners knew what was coming. They were preparing for a new round of fires. And I shudder to think what Liberals would have done to this country if Trump were actually successful in overturning this election.

See any fires yesterday?

Officials in DC had known for weeks about the rally that was planned for yesterday. And yet there is a simple reason why not a single business in DC boarded up in anticipation of it, and why the Capitol police were woefully unprepared for what happened:

Because Trump supporters had never done this before.

His rallies have all been peaceful. Point out the last time a Trump rally turned violent. And even if you mention something stupid like Charlottesville -- which wasn't a Trump rally -- even then, that's about all you got.

No, Trump rallies, and Conservative gatherings in general don't turn violent. Almost, like, never. What happened yesterday was an anomaly. There was no need to board up and no need to beef up security because there was literally no anticipation that anything would turn violent. And while it was completely shameful and unlawful, the media bent over backwards to make it seem worse than what's been happening all summer long. What I saw yesterday, save for a few morons who apparently wanted their picture taken in the House chamber, was several thousand protesters milling around outside doing a bunch of nothing. Waving flags and chanting, and not setting fire to a single thing or overturning a single vehicle.

Protesters completely overran the building, scrambling away virtually all the occupants and security. And with virtually unfettered access to the building, do you know what they did to the countless number of priceless, hundreds-years-old, vintage artifacts, statues and pieces of art in the building?

Nothing.

They left it all alone. Didn't destroy anything. Didn't set anything on fire. Broke a few windows, turned over some benches and podiums, scared the bejeebers out of the Congressmen and security, snapped a few pics, and then left. Mayor called a 6:00 pm curfew, and they pretty much cleared out.

Now, juxtapose that with what you've seen on your TV since this summer. Fires, death, destruction, mayhem, looting. City streets that look like war zones. Innocent people beaten and bloodied. Businesses completely destroyed. People terrorized in their homes. Government buildings overrun and occupied for days and weeks. All semblance of law and order thrown out the window. And the media, and most of the Left, made excuses for all of it. News stories with banners that read "Protests Mostly Peaceful" as fires raged in the background. Media morons and Democrat leaders making excuses, telling us we should all be sympathetic to "why" the protests were taking place. And nary an official on the Left willing to condemn any of it. Certainly not with any teeth.

It was disgusting and sickening. We watched yesterday as the same Democrat leaders who belittled our policemen all summer, labeled Trump a monster for threatening to use the National Guard to quell the violence, and all but blamed all the violence on law-enforcement, were all now cowered under their desks in their safe and secure secret bunkers crying for Trump to bring the National Guard in to make the bad guys go away. It was pathetic.

Here is what Nancy Pelosi said in an NPR interview following the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis this summer... "(President Trump) crossed another threshold of undermining our democracy. That the federal forces would be used to disperse a crowd using billy clubs and tear gas takes us to the status of banana republic... I don't think the president's calling out the military are warranted. I think that there, by and large, have been peaceful demonstrations in large numbers across the country. There has been some violence... And violence must be addressed. But there is no reason for the U.S. military to be called out for this."

I guess that was before her podium got turned over. She's had a change of heart.

Look, I could go on and on. Yesterday, a mob overran our nation's capitol building. For all intents and purposes, those who breached the building could be called domestic terrorists. But the "violence" we saw paled in comparison to what we've been watching on TV for the past several months. Heck, it paled in comparison to what was going on in Portland yesterday at the same time (or did you miss that on the news?)

If you were sickened by what you saw yesterday -- as I was -- then you should have been sickened all summer long -- as I have been. Sadly, Liberals have not been. Democrat leaders and the Liberal media, who didn't outright condone it or encourage it, certainly didn't condemn it the way they condemned what they saw yesterday. They demanded Trump stand up immediately during the protests yesterday and condemn it all, but it took Joe Biden nearly a month to say anything about the violence in Minneapolis this summer.

Pelosi has encouraged "uprisings" in the past. Maxine Waters encouraged her followers to accost and assault Trump followers "pushing back on them" wherever they found them. Kamela Harris is on record as saying the violent protests "should not stop." Chuck Schumer said he was "proud" of the violent protests in New York over the summer (after previously threatening Supreme Court judges with violence) and called them "mostly peaceful" even as businesses and government property was burning right before his eyes. The list goes on and on. I literally had a Liberal friend of mine tell me that what happened at the Capitol yesterday was far worse than "looting a few Walgreens." That's how clueless the left really is and the hypocrisy is revolting.

Democrats and Republicans alike condemned what happened yesterday at the Capitol. As they should. The whole of the United States media conglomerate were outraged by what they saw yesterday. As they should have been.

Unfortunately, when death and violence and destruction were feeding their narrative for the last several months, the Left and their media flunkies weren't offering the same condemnation. Worse, as Americans were dying and losing their businesses and having their lives ruined, Democrats were making excuses for it.

There are some who believe what happened yesterday amounted to insurrection against the United States. I'm no legal expert, but I doubt it. The courts will get to make that determination against some of the rioters soon enough. But it'll be hard to prove insurrection against the government for accessing a public building that you pay for with your own taxes.

If the newly Democrat controlled Congress had any scruples at all, they'd hunt down and prosecute the thousands of people who murdered and looted and ruined peoples lives all Summer long, destroying and raiding and burgling other's private property.

I'm no legal expert, but I doubt that will happen either.