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It's testimony to the absolute lack of any credible (read: not beholden to Woke-O-Haram) leadership on the left that Ron DeSantis has taken up rent free residence in its head next to Donald Trump. The left knows that DeSantis has the ability to rally the Trump fans to his banner, and that all they have is a Joe Biden whose cognitive abilities are rapidly disintegrating, and a breathtakingly incompetent Kamala Harris. The left may be successful in keeping Trump from running for President again in 2024, but it doesn't matter; if he doesn't, it's a certainty he'll endorse DeSantis, and that's that.

In January, we were energy independent, and had managed to get a number of lesser Gulf states to sign peace treaties with Israel. We also were on the verge of getting the greatest prize, namely such a treaty with the signature of the Saudis. Just 7 short months later, we, despite (or maybe because of) an economic situation which has progressed from bad to potentially disastrous, are reduced of going hat in hand to Riyadh begging for OPEC to please produce more oil. Gone is the once glittering possibility of long term diplomatic success in the Middle East, and back is the prospect of more unrest and possible war there, as the Mad Mullahs of Tehran look on approvingly while measuring their stockpile of weapons grade uranium. And now, we again are beggars, this time pleading with the Taliban to just hold off long enough their capture of Kabul so we can ignominiously flee, as opposed to the Trump withdrawal, which would have at least given the Afghans a chance to prove they were committed to making a strong state. So now, we can expect the Taliban to welcome the terror group of its choosing to set up shop there, and we'll be back to the situation of, say, 1999, with some major attack against the U.S on its soil an inevitably, if it doesn't come from someone who slipped through the U.S. - Mexican sieve first.

And, yes, Joey and the Bidenauts own every bit of this disaster. The 2022 and 2024 Republican campaign ads presently writing themselves are no consolation when compared to the tragedies to come, while the wokesters obsess about how to make America more Marxist and less constitutional a nation. May Almighty God help us, or at least may He make this as painless as possible.

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