Ruminations on Our Politics

 

Ruminations on Our Politics

 After an unconventional, controversial, almost apolitical term as president, Donald Trump shot himself in the foot one last time, by becoming associated, with the help of the ever-derogatory media, with the destructive break-in at the capitol building on January 6^th.  Although acquitted of another impeachment attempt, this time for inciting insurrection, the popular perception, again fanned by his media enemies, is that Trump was at least partly responsible for the mob that broke into the capitol building. Even some of Trump’s backers, like Mitch McConnell, have opted for political expediency, and condemned Trump as being culpable for the capitol mob.  To add to the indignity, social media, like Twitter and others, have banned Trump from expressing his views to the American public.

 After many positive actions during his presidency, - good for the country, good for the people, but anathema to the left-wing political establishment and their media accomplices, Trump is deemed to have been defeated in a rigged, unconstitutional election, and discredited by not accepting and resisting the rigged results.  His enemies changed the election rules in the swing states, not by lawful state legislatures, but by various democrat party bosses and appointees.  And, a sad chapter in our history, - not only did they get away with it, they are perpetuating it, and persecuting anyone who challenges their illegal distortion of Covid-associated mail-in voting.

 Perhaps the biggest fraud perpetrated on the American people is the current president, Joe Biden, who is the definition of a corrupt, cynical, politician, with no core beliefs except self- aggrandizement.  Joe sat in his basement during the election campaign, while media propaganda portrayed him as a moderate, kindly, grandfatherly figure, who would bring stability to government after years of Trump’s turmoil and “in your face” presidency.  The media exalted Biden and actually hid and distorted news that would be detrimental to him.  In fact, voters said that they would not have voted for Biden if they knew that the scurrilous contents of Hunter’s laptop were true.  And, of course, the media continued to excoriate Trump, blaming him for the corona virus. Big pharma delayed vaccines until after the election so that Trump would not get credit for their “warp speed” development and availability.

 Unannounced and unbeknown to the American public, was the “devil’s bargain” entered into by Joe Biden and his minions with the Bernie Sanders, Sandy Cortez contingent, and the alt-left.  Rather than a moderate, the democrats elected a socialist and borderline communist, as shown by the nearly 60 executive orders that drop from Joe Biden’s dictatorial pen daily. At first these executive orders seemed to be vindictive actions to undo everything, good, bad, or indifferent, that President Trump had touched.  But it soon became evident that Biden’s and his puppeteer’s actions were much more insidious that that.  They are a systematic attempt to change our culture and our government forever, into a Marxist, identity politics, cancel culture based, one party system.

 The one big criticism of Donald Trump during his presidency is that he could not keep his mouth shut, - and it finally led to him being discredited, even by many of his former backers.  But the public, and politics, is fickle.  I’m old enough to remember Richard Nixon in 1962, after he lost the gubernatorial race in California, saying “you won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore”.  To all intents and purposes, Nixon was finished politically in 1962 at that point.  In 1968, Nixon was president of the U.S.

 Unfortunately, the few right-wing activists that attacked the capitol did irreparable harm to the questioners of the legality of the election and the opponents of encroaching socialism.  Scenes of the stars and bars in the rotunda, and that idiot’s feet on Pelosi’s desk are forever ingrained and associated with Trump, republicans and conservatives.  Eugene McCarthy style “witch hunts, and thousands of occupying troops and razor wire barricades in Washington, DC have been employed by the hysterical democrats.

 Informed consensus is that the democrats have swung too far left, and are pushing identity politics, cancel culture, distorted views of racial and gender “equity”, and other views against the grain of normal cultural mores.  Some say that this leftist, globalist, almost anti-American view will abate or expire, and that there will be a return to a more patriotic mien in the 2022 mid-terms.

 Trump is still a force of nature.  Jack Dorsey muzzles him on Twitter?  Trump can start his own social media outlets.  And its not only the old man.  Donald Junior is quite politically active and outspoken, as is Eric.  Lara Trump is considering a run for Congress from North Carolina.  Ivanka and Jared have been working in the West Wing for four years, and have accumulated a lot of valuable experience.  Jered orchestrated the recent Middle East peace agreements.  No, Trump and his patriotic, “America First” policies are not defunct.  74 million Americans voted for him this time, and after seeing the leftist, socialist, politically corrupt abuses of Biden and his handlers, more of the voters that constitute that one third in the middle will swing toward the right.

Ray Gruszecki

February 26, 2021

Changing America Forever

 

Changing America Forever

 

It is dis-spiriting to follow daily news how Biden, the strawman, and his puppet masters, are destroying our country.  It seems at first that these are just hate-filled and vindictive actions to undo everything, good, bad or indifferent, that former President Trump had ever touched.

 But it goes much deeper than that.  It is a systematic attempt to change our culture and our government forever, into a Marxist, identity politics, cancel culture based, one party system. 

 The link below conveniently lists and references all 55 of Biden’s executive orders and pronouncements to date, since taking office on January 20, 2021. This is truly a continuation of Obama’s “dictatorship by the pen”.  These are not laws passed by congress, but they have the weight of laws in practice.

 The one actual so-called “Covid legislative relief bill that the majority democrats threaten to pass with no republican participation, relates less to the pandemic, and more to bailing out democrat cities and states that have been corruptly and inefficiently governed by their democrat mayors and governors.  It is also loaded with other “pork” that has nothing to do with Covid relief, like support to kill more babies, and a transportation link in Silicon Valley.

 Woe our poor beleaguered country.  Opposition to the unconstitutional election, and the dictatorial posturing of increasingly alt-left, socialist, Biden and his minions is suppressed and called “insurrectionary activity”.  Is this our beloved United States of America, or is it some affiliate of dictatorial China or Vietnam, or some other thug-run banana republic?

 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-of-president-bidens-key-executive-orders-in-one-chart-2021-01-21

Ray Gruszecki

February 22, 2021

The “Nuclear” Senate Filibuster Option

 

The “Nuclear” Senate Filibuster Option

 Theoretically, the current democratic Senate majority of one Kamala Harris vote, could ram through whatever legislation the house gives them, including DC statehood, a packed Supreme Court, “Truth Commission”, or any other weird socialist bills the left can conceive.  Most likely they won’t, because there are, after all some responsible democratic senators (and representatives), that know that such actions would destroy our legislative process, and eventually, our Republic.  Don’t put it past Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to try, though.

 Some background:

 The 60-vote rule and filibusters

Beginning with a rules change in 1806, the Senate did not restrict the total time allowed for debate. In 1917, Rule XXII was amended to allow for ending debate (invoking "cloture") with a two-thirds majority, later reduced in 1975 to three-fifths of all senators "duly chosen and sworn" (usually 60).                                                                                                                                                                                Thus, although a bill might have majority support, a minority of 41 or more senators can still prevent a final vote through endless debate, effectively defeating the bill. This tactic is known as a filibuster.

 Since the 1970s, the Senate has also used a "two-track" procedure whereby Senate business may continue on other topics while one item is filibustered. Since filibusters no longer required the minority to actually hold the floor and bring all other business to a halt, the mere threat of a filibuster has gradually become normalized. In the modern Senate, this means that any controversial item now typically requires 60 votes to advance, unless a specific exception limiting the time for debate applies.

 Changing Rule XXII to eliminate the 60-vote rule is made difficult by the rules themselves. Rule XXII sec. 2 states that to end debate on any proposal "to amend the Senate rules...the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting." This is typically 67 senators assuming all are voting. Meanwhile, Rule V states that "the rules of the Senate shall continue from one Congress to the next Congress unless they are changed as provided in these rules." These provisions, by themselves, mean that the general 60-vote cloture rule in Rule XXII cannot be modified without the approval of 67 senators.

 The nuclear option concerning filibuster and cloture.

Essentially, only simple majority required

Rule XX

Although rule XXII requires three-fifths of Senators to close debate, rule XX states that "A question of order may be raised at any stage of the proceedings" and "shall be decided by the Presiding Officer without debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate...and every appeal therefrom shall be decided at once, and without debate".[6]

 Procedure to invoke the option

The "nuclear option" is invoked when the presiding officer's enforcement of rule XXII is overruled by the full Senate without debate under rule XX. Without debate, there is no need for a three-fifths majority to end debate. The presiding officer is therefore overruled by a simple majority.

 Following a failed cloture vote, the majority leader raises a point of order that Rule XXII should be interpreted – or disregarded on constitutional grounds – to require only a simple majority to invoke cloture on a certain type of business, such as nominations. The presiding officer, relying on the advice of the Senate Parliamentarian, then denies the point of order based upon rules and precedent. But the ruling of the chair is then appealed, and is overturned by simple majority vote. For example, the option was invoked on November 21, 2013, as follows:

 Mr. REID. I raise a point of order that the vote on cloture under rule XXII for all nominations other than for the Supreme Court of the United States is by majority vote.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the rules, the point of order is not sustained.

Mr. REID. I appeal the ruling of the Chair and ask for the yeas and nays.

(48–52 vote on upholding ruling of the chair)

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The decision of the Chair is not sustained.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. *** Under the precedent set by the Senate today, November 21, 2013, the threshold for cloture on nominations, not including those to the Supreme Court of the United States, is now a majority. That is the ruling of the Chair.

 And that’s how it could work, to fundamentally change our two-party system, into an oligarchic, one party, socialist system, the first step on the path to a Venezuelan or Chinese style socialism, and all that that one can imagine that entails.

Ray Gruszecki

February 3, 2021

Buyers Remorse?

 

Buyers Remorse?

 Do you have buyer’s remorse yet, all you voters who (unconstitutionally) elected Joe Biden, thinking “we’ll replace that orange monster with this kindly, stable, grandfatherly type who will bring calm and serenity to the government”.  Well, what you got was a borderline communist regime, and an agenda being orchestrated by Biden’s handlers, who are about as left-wing and Marxist as we’ve ever seen in this country.

 You were sold a bill of goods, Biden voters.  Biden sat in his Delaware basement while the biased media hid news that would harm his chances for election, while continuing to excoriate President Trump for killing people with “his” corona virus.  Big tech and big pharma jumped on the bandwagon of lies and deceit and mendacity by censorship, and by withholding news of successful vaccines, and any other news favoring President Trump, until after the election.

 Trump overcame these massed forces before, but this time, coupled with the dubious efficacy of unconstitutionally altered voting laws in swing states, and the mail-in ballot process related to the pandemic, it was too much to overcome, and Trump lost to “Joe in the basement”.

 Biden and his minions glossed over exactly how far to the radical left this crop of democrats were.  Only a few of us took the time to read the Democratic Party Platform, and the Bernie-Biden manifesto upon which it was based, and warn about where the democrats were heading.  It is a pity that more of you Biden voters didn’t read the “manifesto” and get familiar with it, because it is serving as a blueprint for what Biden and his handlers are accomplishing, starting with the 45-odd executive orders Biden has signed thus far.  Here are the links, that have been out there since September, 2020, just for grins.

 https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf

 https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-07-31-Democratic-Party-Platform-For-Distribution.pdf

 We all should read these, because this is what the current crop of democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, AOC and the squad, envision will be our future.  Now, aren’t you all ecstatic that the orange monster is gone?

 So, as our country slips toward something resembling Jerry Brown’s and Gavin Newsome’s California, or Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela in the 1990’s, we can ask ourselves, and particularly we can ask the disenchanted Trump voters who voted for Joe Biden, is this what we expected and wanted?

 And, as an unexpected bonus, we have from the left, persecution, (now called “cancellation” by the “woke”), of republicans, resembling Putin’s Russia, or Eugene McCarthy, here, in the 1950’s.

Ray Gruszecki

February 2, 2021

Shame on the Media, Shame on American voters

 

Shame on the Media, Shame on American voters

For shame, you American voters. See what you have done. You have plunged the country into socialism and incipient communism, and are making America a second rate, subservient country again. Oh, not you one third of voters who have been indoctrinated into the altruistic aspects of socialism and communism by the schools and universities. There is no hope for you, because you believe in the almost Christ-like altruism of socialism, and have closed your eyes to the millions in totalitarian bondage, and the 120 million people killed by that virulent philosophy in the twentieth century. You hold your left-wing and socialist beliefs almost as a religion, resistant to logic and debate.

No, I target those Trump haters who swung the election to “Biden in the basement”, even forgetting the unconstitutional rule changes introduced in several key swing states. You listened to what the lying media told you, and that kindly, grandfatherly, Joe Biden would restore calm and normalcy in the country.

 They told you that President Trump is responsible for the corona virus, in spite of his efforts to contain it, and his “warp speed” management of vaccine development. That President Trump is a racist, ignoring the benefits that he effected for minorities and their positive response. That President Trump is xenophobic, for establishing borders and enforcing immigration laws. For insisting that the U.S. be treated equitably by China, the EU and other countries. By adhering to the science on the climate, rather than international politics. By ending our continuing involvement in foreign wars. And a plethora of other benefits to our country and our people, which have been largely neglected or contorted by a virulently negative media biased against him.

President Trump was not particularly a “nice guy”, or a “kindly grandfather”. He was a hard-nosed boss that got results, and was not concerned about his abrasive personality, or his “popularity” in the establishment. In my long career, I’ve worked for some bosses like him, and others, who were not only abrasive, but dishonest as well. Trump was a hard-driving boss, but he was honest. He told it like it was, many times to the consternation of his critics.

So now we reap the harvest that the biased and dishonest media has sown. The torrent of Biden’s leftist executive orders has one common theme, - hatred of President Trump, and undoing of everything that he had accomplished.  Joe Biden sits there signing executive orders, mumbling into his Covid mask, not even knowing what it is that he is signing. The EO’s are pre-printed for him, and he is the empty vessel affixing a signature. Any comments that he may have are literally mumbled from a teleprompter, or from the cue cards which are evident in front of him.

 This is not meant to demean Biden’s deficiencies. His propensity to stutter comes from a congenital defect that he has largely overcome, and we cannot knock him for that. Similarly, his flashes of incipient senility are not to be ridiculed. We older folks have numerous friends who have been lost to dementia and Alzheimer’s, and we, ourselves sometimes have difficulty remembering “that movie” or “that actor”, but we are not leaders of the free world. On the other hand, we can’t entirely neglect Biden’s deficiencies, either. An absent-minded grandfather figure who has difficulties with “thousands” and “millions”, and such, does not project very well when “good old kindly Joe” has to deal with Xi, or Putin, or Erdogan on the international stage.

 The sighs of relief that “the nasty orange monster is gone”, will soon turn to chagrin as we lose thousands of jobs to China and other countries, lose our energy independence, and labor under the burden of left-wing taxation to support poorly run democrat cities and states. Our taxes will also support Planned Parenthood, killing more babies and selling their parts for research.

 We will all be classified in our “buckets”, per identity politics, to determine whether we should be rewarded for perceived past “ills”, or punished for past or present “privileges”. Our history will be modified to reflect the views of the New York Times “1619 Project”, which proposes that the history of our country begin in 1619, when the first slaves were brought to our shores, rather than 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Per the “woke” rules, we will not all be equal, we will all be the same, including males, females and gender variations. Female sports will be open to anyone “identifying as “female, including muscular physical males.”

 The new Biden administration seems fueled by hatred for anything that Trump has touched in the previous four years. Their avowed goal seems to be to undo everything, good or bad, that the previous Trump administration has done. Here is a partial list, some of which can be accomplished by executive orders, some with considerably more difficulty in a nearly tied congress.

1.) We are a systemic racist country that owes our origins to 1619, when the first African slaves arrived, not 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. We need to address systemic racism as a societal priority.

 2.) We should continue to disarm our police departments, and rely more on psychological and psychiatric interactions in civil and criminal disturbances, particularly those involving our black or brown citizens. The police are racist, and shouldn’t have guns.

 3.) We should register all firearms, with a view toward eventually banning them. There is no need for an armed populace in our modern, "woke", democratic society.

4.) We should all be classified by group, for assigning rewards or condemnation, per Identity politics. Order of preference should be race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/preference, gender.

5.) Use of “cancel culture”, “doxing” and other forms of social ostracism should not be discouraged, since these practices tend to bring recalcitrant individuals back into line with acceptable thought and opinion, i.e., back to “our truth”.

 6.) Adherents of opposition politics, such as followers of Donald Trump, should be “re-educated” to bring them in line with acceptable political thought.

 t.) Wealthy people and companies should “pay their fair share” of taxes, forgetting that they already have “paid their fair share”, and are using their wealth to grow the economy and create employment.

8.) The Keystone Pipeline should be shut down and “fracking” curtailed for environmental reasons. The effect on energy independence is secondary.

9.) We should reverse Trump’s tax decreases and increase taxes as necessary to pay for the recommended social programs. These programs should start with a 2 trillion-dollar relief package which would include another $1400 payment to all Americans and support for foundering democratic-run cities.

10.) We should enfranchise all inhabitants of the country as U.S. citizens, no matter how they arrived here. We should make our borders accessible to all comers, and welcome them to U.S. citizenship quickly and expeditiously.

 11.) We should immediately rejoin the “Paris Climate Accords”, and our country, along with other wealthy western countries, should join to ban fossil fuels, nuclear energy and other “polluting” power sources, and concentrate on renewable “green” energy, (wind, sun, tides, etc.). Participation by other “developing” countries, such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia would not be mandatory, since they are considered poor and “developing”.

 12.) We should export our “democratic” form of government to “hot spots” around the world, and enforce this “democracy” militarily, if necessary.

 13.) We should rely on non-proliferation treaties, with appropriate monetary incentives, to curb the international spread of nuclear weapons.

 Just for grins, we should record some indicators of where we were on inauguration day, 2021.

No wars in four years

Relative job security

Unemployment 6.7 % (with Covid, - was 3.5% before the pandemic)

Oil independence and exporting energy

GDP (2017 CIA) $19.5 Trillion, $59,400 per capita

Gas, about $2.00 per gallon (Texas)

Dow above 31,000

Ray Gruszecki

January 26, 2021

Keeping Track – Biden’s (First) 27 “Executive Orders”

 

Keeping Track – Biden’s (First) 27 “Executive Orders”

 Keeping track.  Most of these “executive orders” are just for show, to make us think that “Teleprompter Joe” is doing something positive, other than acting vindictively against anything that his predecessor accomplished. Most are innocuous, and seemingly of little consequence.  Most of them are blah, blah, blah, leftist rhetoric.

 Shutting down the Keystone pipeline and stopping oil and gas leasing in the Arctic will have a deleterious effect on our energy independence from Middle East sources, and in bound to raise our gasoline and heating energy prices.

 Rejoining the Paris Climate group is toothless, can’t be enforced, and still lets the real polluters off the hook. All it does is give Kerry an opportunity for empty pontification.  Rejoining WHO with Tedros in the CCP’s pocket seems absurd.  We were not leaving officially until mid-2021 anyway.

 Cutting off funding fr the border wall will not make the Border Patrol folks very happy, but 450 miles of substantial wall have been built in the most porous areas, significantly reducing human and drug trafficking.  Apparently, the Biden administration thinks that human and drug trafficking are ok. I don’t think that they’ll bulldoze down the wall that’s built, but you never know with these leftists.  They want those illegal votes from non-citizens.

 The Covid related stuff seems positive, if it speeds up delivery of the vaccines into the arms of the population, and isn’t just more left-wing rhetoric with no action.  Watch the heavy-handed Washington involvement in our federalist system, and their impingement on our freedoms.  A mask mandate at all times on federal facilities is obvious overkill, like Joe’s posing with a mask in front of the cameras.

 Much of the rest of the rhetoric in the 27 “executive orders” is aimed at identity politics principles, so called “systemic racism”, and other favorite leftist terminology.

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/these-are-the-executive-orders-biden-has-signed-so-far/ar-BB1cYmsJ

Ray Gruszecki

January 21, 2021

President Joe “Nottrump”

 

President Joe “Nottrump”

 We are inaugurating another president today.  We can call him “Teleprompter Joe”, or “Joe Obamalike Nottrump”, to reflect the main campaign theme from his Delaware basement and car parking lots.

 Just like in Maduro’s Venezuela, there are over 25,000 military troops in the capitol to ensure that the new regime gets installed without protest or demonstration, First Amendment notwithstanding.  As Saul Alinsky dictated, keep them fearful, they’ll be easier to control.

 Now, Joe is not allowed to speak extemporaneously these days because of his historical propensity to plagiarize, exaggerate and embellish, or as Obama once said, to f--- things up.  This is even more important now with his advancing senility, because he gets lost in the middle of a thought, gets pissed off, and ends up by shouting at perceived opponents in the audience.

 His outgoing predecessor, on the other hand, is Mr. Extemporaneous.  He can fashion both “bon mots” and “mal mots” with machine gun rapidity, both verbally, and on line.  Jack Dorsey has broken his tweeter, though, so he has been somewhat hobbled since his last House impeachment.  He has winged away to his Mar-a-Lago estates in Florida to nurse his wounds on the golf course, and plot his next incursion into the American psyche.

 In the meantime, here comes “The Brave New World” of pseudo-socialism, steeped in identity politics as the standard for choosing members of the cabinet and other administration positions.

Identity politics does not hold qualification and ability as the main criteria for a job, as is evident when one looks at the new cabinet choices.  No, choice for a position depends on what you look like and which bucket you’re in.

 The most desirable buckets seem to revolve around color and ethnicity first, then sexual orientation, then gender.  If you are a black, trans-gender, Jamaican-American, your chances for a high-level job are really good, whatever your other qualifications.  Straight Caucasian women, once aiming for political hegemony, have drifted way lower, to just above white heterosexual males.

 The new administration seems fueled by hatred for anything that Trump has touched in the previous four years.  Their avowed goal seems to be to undo everything, good or bad, that the previous administration has done.  Here is a partial list, some of which can be accomplished by executive orders, some with considerably more difficulty in a nearly tied congress.

 1.)   We are a systemic racist country that owes our origins to 1619, when the first African slaves arrived, not 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. We need to address systemic racism as a societal priority.

 2.)   We should continue to disarm our police departments, and rely more on psychological and psychiatric interactions in civil and criminal disturbances, particularly those involving our black or brown citizens.  The police are racist, and shouldn’t have guns.

 3.)   We should all be classified by group, for assigning rewards or condemnation, per Identity politics.  Order of preference should be race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/preference, gender.

 4.)   Use of “cancel culture”, “doxing” and other forms of social ostracism should not be discouraged, since these practices tend to bring recalcitrant individuals back into line with acceptable thought and opinion, i.e., back to “our truth”.

 5.)   Adherents of opposition politics, such as followers of Donald Trump, should be “re-educated” to bring them in line with acceptable political thought.

 6.)   Wealthy people and companies should “pay their fair share” of taxes, forgetting that they already have “paid their fair share”, and are using their wealth to grow the economy and create employment.

 7.)   The Keystone Pipeline should be shut down and “fracking” curtailed for environmental reasons.  The effect on energy independence is secondary.

 8.)   We should reverse Trump’s tax decreases and increase taxes as necessary to pay for the recommended social programs.  These programs should start with a 2 trillion-dollar relief package which would include another $1400 payment to all Americans and support for foundering democratic-run cities.

 9.)   We should enfranchise all inhabitants of the country as U.S. citizens, no matter how they arrived here.  We should make our borders accessible to all comers, and welcome them to U.S. citizenship quickly and expeditiously.

 10.)                   We should immediately rejoin the “Paris Climate Accords”, and our country, along with other wealthy western countries, should join to ban fossil fuels, nuclear energy and other “polluting” power sources, and concentrate on renewable “green” energy, (wind, sun, tides, etc.).  Participation by other “developing” countries, such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia would not be mandatory, since they are considered poor and “developing”.

 11.)                   We should export our “democratic” form of government to “hot spots” around the world, and enforce this “democracy” militarily, if necessary.

 12.)                   We should rely on non-proliferation treaties, with appropriate monetary incentives, to curb the international spread of nuclear weapons.

 Just for grins, we should record some indicators of where we are on this inauguration day, 2021.

No wars in four years

Relative job security

Unemployment 6.7 % (with Covid, - was 3.5% before the pandemic)

Oil independence and exporting energy

GDP (2017 CIA) $19.5 Trillion, $59,400 per capita

Gas, about $2.00 per gallon (Texas)

Dow above 31,000

Ray Gruszecki

January 20, 2021