by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 15, 2020) — As the 2020 election and ballot fraud train-wreck continues down the track – and more power to Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell – it becomes increasingly important to review, again, the significance of the 12th Amendment. Although in the past, your faithful servant has cited […]
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Justice Under The Bus
“INTELLECTUAL TERMITES” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Oct. 11, 2020) — Virtually every time you turn around these days, some Democrat politician is yapping hypocritically about the importance of “transparency” in government. This claim is usually coughed up as a prelude to an immediate slap at President Trump for his purported lack of transparency on everything […]
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C’mon, Man!
“THE LOONS OF THE LEFT” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Sep. 25, 2020) — Soooo, faithful P&E readers, how bad do you think it could it get if – by lawful means or…, otherwise…, – Slow Joe Biden and Ineligible Kamala Harris win the general election? Better question: if the Biden-Harris team wins and the Senate […]
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Open Letter 2.0 to Rational Democrats
“LUNACY ON STEROIDS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Sep. 16, 2020) — A week or so ago, your faithful servant offered a post captioned “Open Letter to Rational Democrats.” The post you are now reading is an update to that prior one, as matters have in the meantime necessitated it. First, the prior post referred to […]
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Of Damocles, General Flynn and Intellectual Goo
“GO BACK TO SULLIVAN’S DUNGEON” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Sep. 2, 2020) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has rendered its “per curiam” decision (i.e., no single judge wants to take credit/blame for it) in the continuing kabuki theater saga of the persecution of General Michael Flynn. General Flynn had sought […]
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Is That All You Got?
“‘BRAVE NEW WORLD’ MEETS ‘1984’” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Jul. 9, 2020) — Voltaire: “I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” (1906, via Evelyn Beatrice Hall). BLM2: “I disagree with what you say, and will pursue and punish you to your death because you say […]
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The People’s Republic of CHAZ
DEMOCRATS “ENABLING ITS SPREAD” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Jun. 12, 2020) — As the turgid whirlpool of stupidity now gripping Seattle expands, the true future of an America governed by leftists, Antifa domestic terrorists, progressives and criminally feckless Democrats slithers up and out from its burrow. It is mob rule enabled, sanctioned and defended by […]
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Memo to America: Take the Red Pill
A “DANGEROUS INTELLECTUAL VIRUS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (May 21, 2020) — In the 1999 allegorical sci-fi movie, The Matrix, the protagonist, Neo (Keanu Reeves) is presented with a choice by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) of taking a red pill or a blue pill. If Neo takes the red pill, he will awaken from and escape […]
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“Community Guidelines” vs. Truth
“THE FIRST VICTIM IN ANY WAR” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (May 8, 2020) — The Wuhan COVID-19 virus pandemic has produced a wide spectrum of problematic impacts on the world and, in particular, the United States. However tragic the deaths of people are from this pandemic, the greater tragedy is the threat that the virus […]
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Of Schiff, Impeachment and Mirrors
“AN INFESTATION ON THE CONGRESS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Apr. 26, 2020) — The hypocrisy is stunning, but the insanity is far worse: Adam (“Bug-eyes”) Schiff, Chairman (for the time being) of the House Intelligence Committee claims that, because the effort to impeach and remove President Trump from office failed, thousands of Americans have died […]
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Can a House Divided be Repaired?
“MOVING TOWARD INSANITY” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Apr. 23, 2020) — The adage that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” is found in many places, originating in the Bible and carried forward over the millennia into, among other regions, politics and presidential speeches. It is often repeated here at The P&E as well. The […]
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Of Political Baboons, Police States and Dogs
“WEAPONIZING THE PANDEMIC” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Apr. 18, 2020) — In virtually every presidential campaign since the end of World War II – which ended some 75 years ago — one or the other of the candidates and/or their surrogates and supporters has claimed that “the upcoming general election will be the most important […]
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Trump Defends his Actions on Coronavirus
“YOU KNOW YOU’RE A FAKE,” HE TELLS REPORTER by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 13, 2020) — After taking the Easter weekend off, the White House Coronavirus Task Force began its Monday briefing with President Trump expressing his condolences to Southern states hit by a multiple tornadoes from Sunday night to Monday. As of early Monday morning, […]
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Of Pestilence and Media Piranhas
“CLOSE TO CATASTROPHIC” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Apr. 4, 2020) — We are now approximately one week into the CDC/Fauci/Birx-recommended 30-day America “stand down/stay home” period. In prior times, this was also known as “April.” For the moment, President Trump has paid attention to the scientists, likely a prudent first step. And what have we […]
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Pelosi’s Political Pestilence Can be Cured on November 3, 2020
“THE REST IS UP TO YOU” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Mar. 25, 2020) — “These are the times that try men’s souls.” So begins the first paragraph of the first of thirteen pamphlets written by Thomas Paine in December 1776 – The American Crisis – seeking to encourage and rally support in the Colonists for […]
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Of Führers and Political Pestilence
“IT IS THAT SERIOUS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Mar. 23, 2020) — Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, as well as all cats and dogs reading this: our nation has moved into a new era, the “Era of the Wuhan/COVID-19 Pestilence.” Make no mistake, this epoch will be different from any other period in […]
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The Time For Playing Games Is Over
THE U.S. SENATE VS. “THE PELOSI POLKA” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Jan. 6, 2020) — Well, well, well. Maybe it is just a coincidence, but the statement yesterday morning by Senator Lindsey Graham tracks very closely the tactic posited by Ren Jander here and by your faithful servant here. Whether or not Senators Mitch McConnell […]
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The “End It Now” Option
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A Proposed 2020 New Year’s Resolution
“OUST THE TERMITES” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Dec. 22, 2019) — As explained in greater detail below – this paragraph being only an executive summary – your faithful servant proposes a New Year’s Resolution for 2020. The resolution suggests that all rational American voters of any political persuasion resolve to vote out of office and […]
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The Benevolent Malevolence of the Democrats
“INSANITY ON STEROIDS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Aug. 10, 2019) — The mendacity of the Left and the Democrats metastasizes. What’s new? Answer: what is new is the dark malevolence now even more patently coloring their words and deeds. At the risk of articulating some inconvenient but factually accurate truths, consider the following. After the […]