Articles by Mike LaChance

Trump has made it clear that he is making a major play for the state of New Jersey in 2024 and he is smart to do so.
One need look no further than the massive turnout for his rally in Wildwood this weekend.
FOX News recently spoke to a few voters from the state about this and they all agreed that Trump can flip New Jersey red this fall.
From FOX News:

NJ voters say Trump could flip state red despite legal woes: ‘There’s momentum’
A panel of N.J. voters joined “Fox & Friends First” to discuss why they believe the former president has a shot to secure those electoral votes in November as he campaigns in between his various legal appearances.
“It’s not having a negative impact, so if anything, it’s going in the opposite [direction] because they can’t believe that this is happening to a civilized nation,” resident Roy Paret told co-host Todd Piro on Friday. “What’s happening with their trial is really what you would think would happen either in communism or a Third World country, so this, I say, is definitely helping.”
“When he has free time, of course he has to stay local. He went to the bodegas in Harlem. He’s doing things in New York, and 100% this will help him, I feel, in multiple states, and it’s showing already,” he continued. “And New Jersey, I agree, will turn red this time around as long as they can follow up on voter integrity [and] check out voter IDs. I feel New Jersey will be switching just like many other states out there.”
Watch the video below:

NJ voters say “there’s momentum in New Jersey” and the NY show trial “is not having a negative impact, so if anything, it’s going in the opposite [direction]…what’s happening with the trial is really what you would think would happen either in communism or a Third World… pic.twitter.com/eONl3jebrj
— Julia (@Jules31415) May 10, 2024

Don’t forget, in 2021 Republican Jack Ciattarelli came extremely close to winning the governor race in New Jersey. The election was closer than anyone expected it to be. That spirit is still out there. […]

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas slammed life in Washington, DC while attending a recent judicial conference.
He described DC as a ‘hideous place’ and explained that this is part of the reason that he and his wife like to go on RV trips.
It’s hardly surprising that Thomas feels this way when you consider what he has been put through over the years by Democrats and the beltway media.
RedState reported:

Clarence Thomas Unleashed: Calls DC a ‘Hideous Place’ Where ‘People Pride Themselves in Being Awful’
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is often viewed as a cipher, considering that for years he sat silent on the bench and for a decade didn’t ask a single question during proceedings. He’s been more vocal in recent times, however, and on Friday at a conference of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama, he was anything but quiet.
Political operatives in the nation’s capital are simply “awful,” he told the audience:
Thomas… described Washington as a place where “people pride themselves in being awful.”
“It is a hideous place as far as I’m concerned,” Thomas said.
“It’s one of the reasons we like RVing,” he added. “You get to be around regular people who don’t pride themselves in doing harmful things merely because they have the capacity to do it or because they disagree.”
Thomas should know—he was at the center of the Anita Hill fiasco—overseen by then-Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Joe Biden—where he was subjected to evidence-free, humiliating claims of sexual harassment during his SCOTUS confirmation hearings in 1991.

This classic clip helps to explain why the left has been so nasty to Thomas over the years. He does not change his views with the winds of public opinion. He believes right is right no matter what.

Justice Clarence Thomas:
North is still north!
Right is still right!
Truth is still truth!
Nothing can stop what’s coming…
pic.twitter.com/OJ6vVjBn6s
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) May 11, 2024

Nothing triggers the left like a black man who is a conservative. […]

The city of San Francisco is using tax dollars to buy vodka and beer for homeless alcoholics. Who thought this was a good idea?
Aside from the issue of using tax dollars to do this, how is this good for the homeless alcoholics? Shouldn’t the goal be to get these people off the street and into treatment?
How are these people helped by the city feeding their addiction?
Breitbart News reports:

‘Where’s the Recovery in All This?’: SF Buying Beer, Vodka for Homeless Alcoholics with Taxpayer Money
Homeless alcoholics are getting free beer and vodka under a taxpayer-funded pilot program in San Francisco as city leadership grapples with the homelessness crisis plaguing its streets.
The city’s Department of Public Health runs the Managed Alcohol Program (MAP) to give doses of alcohol to the addicted, Fox News reported on Saturday.
Officials hope the program will “keep the homeless off the streets” and decrease incidents in which emergency services have to step in.
“Experts say the program can save or extend lives, but critics wonder if the government would be better off funding treatment and sobriety programs instead,” Fox noted.
Here’s more from the FOX News report:
The “Managed Alcohol Program” operated by San Francisco’s Department of Public Health serves regimented doses of alcohol to voluntary participants with alcohol addiction in an effort to keep the homeless off the streets and relieve the city’s emergency services. Experts say the program can save or extend lives, but critics wonder if the government would be better off funding treatment and sobriety programs instead.
“Established in countries such as Canada and Australia, a managed alcohol program is usually administered by a nurse and trained support staff in a facility such as a homeless shelter or a transitional or permanent home, and is one method to minimize harm for those with alcohol use disorder,” the California Health Care Foundation explains in an 2020 article describing the pilot program.
How bad does life in San Francisco have to get for voters there to reject progressive policies? […]

During a recent appearance on ‘Firing Line’ on PBS, CNN host Fareed Zakaria said that Joe Biden should adopt Trump’s immigration policies.
A cynical person might think this is more about Zakaria trying to help Biden win the election, and not about protecting the southern border.
Also, Zakaria doesn’t get everything right here. He uses the term ‘Muslim ban’ which is incorrect. He also repeats the claim that Trump told Republicans not to pass the immigration bill that Biden and Democrats offered, which doesn’t tell the whole story.
Townhall reported:

What a CNN Host Just Said About Trump and Illegal Immigration Shows That Hell Might Be Freezing Over
Is Joe Biden becoming the grim reaper for liberal media figures? I only say that because it feels that one by one, he’s making such prominent figures turn against him, even claiming that Trump-era policies were the correct ones on issues like illegal immigration. Of course, these folks will probably vote for Biden in November. Still, it’s saying something about the president where even CNN’s Fareed Zakaria says Biden must re-adopt Trump-era immigration policies. Zakaria was on PBS’ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, where the GPS host said millions are especially gaming the asylum process…
So, is hell freezing over?
Biden is so wrong that CNN hosts are saying Trump’s immigration agenda was not just better but correct. We all knew when Biden issued those infamous executive orders reversing the border policies at the border. We now have millions pouring in, receiving better treatment than American citizens in some cases.
Watch the video below:

BREAKING: CNN Host Fareed Zakaria said in an interview that former President Trump’s policies to have immigrants apply for asylum from their home country and wait in Mexico worked and urges Biden to put them back into place. pic.twitter.com/FrqGVkKsM4
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) May 10, 2024

Even if Biden changed his approach and adopted Trump’s policies, it’s too late. People would assume he was doing it just for the sake of the election and would open the border again after November. […]

The border crisis has entered a new phase of insanity with some illegals working with criminal networks to steal truckloads of oil in west Texas.
These are not refugees in need of asylum. They are criminal thugs trying to rip off the United States.
Oil is energy and energy is a national security issue. This is not like stealing sneakers or jewelry. It’s much more serious.
The Washington Examiner reports:

Illegal immigrants stealing oil from Permian basin near Texas border
Authorities in West Texas have begun to see illegal immigrants aiding criminal networks in the stealing of truckloads of valuable oil and materials from the nation’s largest oilfields in the Permian Basin.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district spans 800 miles of the Texas border, organized federal and local law enforcement in the region Friday to come up with a plan of attack as the largest U.S. oilfield, the Permian Basin, continues to get hit by thieves. The matter is not only a border security matter but an energy security problem.
“The bottom line is the border crisis is expanding, and it is morphing into other things, and part of that is you have folks that are Cuban nationals that are kind of settling out in West Texas and in some cases are part of this increase in oil theft,” Gonzales told the Washington Examiner Friday in a phone interview, who later added that Cuban involvement was “growing.”
Winkler County Sheriff Darin Mitchell told reporters at a press conference at the epicenter for the oil theft on Friday that this type of crime had “increased dramatically” in recent months.
How did it get to this point?

Energy security is national security. ⛽️
Proud to be joined by West Texas law enforcement in the fight against oil theft across the Permian Basin. Don’t mess with Texas! pic.twitter.com/XJ9APvbWji
— Rep. Tony Gonzales (@RepTonyGonzales) May 10, 2024

The border crisis just keeps getting worse and no one in Washington seems interested in stopping it. […]

Democrat strategist and former Bill Clinton staffer James Carville is not doing well. He is extremely frustrated and angry that none of the attacks Democrats have tried to smear Trump are working.
Carville understands polling, and the numbers are making him crazy. He notes that Trump is ‘more ahead than he’s ever been.’
He also seems very frustrated that the public doesn’t care about January 6th. He is having a total meltdown.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

JAMES CARVILLE: Trump’s more ahead than he’s ever been, more — fewer people think January 6 was any kind of what it was, an assault on the temple of democracy, our Constitution, whatever you want to say.
It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working. Everything that we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included. It’s hard starting your 80th year, and like everyone else I have an opinion of myself. And the opinion I’ve come to is I don’t matter.
It doesn’t matter. You can prepare and you can be on TV, you can write pieces, you can have a YouTube channel, you can have a podcast and nothing, nothing!
We’ve got to try to think of something different because what we’re doing in really really not working.
Watch the video below, this is glorious:

James Carville is frustrated that Trump is ‘more ahead than he’s ever been’, and that Democrat tactics are ‘not working’:”It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working.Everything we’re that throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included. We gotta try to… pic.twitter.com/OAMsDA37Ng
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 10, 2024

Has anyone ever seen him this frustrated and upset? Is it possible that he has seen internal polling and that it’s completely dreadful? He certainly doesn’t seem confident about the way things are going. […]

The 2024 Democrat National Convention in Chicago may end up being a chaotic freak show. Dem officials and the Biden campaign know that they may end up dealing with mobs of angry leftist protesters and they’re already taking steps to deal with it.
What they really fear is a repeat of the 1968 convention, which was a disaster.
One approach they are considering is a hybrid convention that is partially virtual so that they can hide the ugliness from the TV audience.
Politico reports:

The DNC Is Preparing for the Worst in Chicago — Without the Help of the City’s Mayor
President Joe Biden’s top advisers are all too aware the ghosts of 1968 may haunt their convention here, but they’re grappling with a pair of more urgent and thoroughly modern-day challenges as summer nears: How far can they go in reprising their virtual 2020 convention to mitigate the threat of disruption inside the arena, and how will they navigate a rookie mayor who unabashedly sympathizes with protesters?
Trumpeting the success of their Covid-era convention four years ago, some in Biden’s orbit are aggressively pushing to make the 2024 conclave a hybrid production. That would mean in-person speeches from the president, party luminaries and rising stars to draw television attention alongside a mix of pre-recorded testimonials and videos from other parts of the country.
The goal: drive maximum viewership on television and the internet while minimizing live programming and openings for protest in Chicago’s United Center. This would mean moving party business, such as rules and platform votes, off the floor and denying would-be demonstrators a chance to seize on contentious debates.

Who had 1968 on their DNC bingo card this year?
The DNC Is Preparing for the Worst in Chicago — Without the Help of the City’s Mayor – POLITICO https://t.co/Kc1XDqvB1q
— CalRadioHost (@cal_host) May 10, 2024

The Democrats helped to create this monster and now they can’t control it.

Hiding from your own voting base. But the campaign is doing super otherwise.
— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) May 10, 2024

More important than that, they need a very controlled environment to present Biden.
It’s 50/50 he’d crap his pants. https://t.co/6ULX13Xvz3
— Mark Noonan (@Mark_E_Noonan) May 10, 2024

“We’re going to do the DNC but we’re afraid of our own voter base.”
And Biden still thinks he’s going to win https://t.co/GWpOZC8pfO
— Michael Edwards (@MEdwardsVA) May 10, 2024

Things could get out of control very quickly. […]

Byron York of the Washington Examiner appeared on the Laura Ingraham show this week and explained why voters aren’t buying Joe Biden’s economic message.
It comes down to reality and memory.
You can tell people that the economy is doing great and things are better for them but people still remember how much better things were under Trump.
You can’t lie to people about their grocery bill.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
LAURA INGRAHAM: [Biden] also apparently said Trump never succeeded at creating jobs and I, meaning he, has never failed. What’s the Truth-O-Meter saying?
BYRON YORK, WASHINGTON EXAMINER: I think the Truth-O-Meter is off the scale on false because obviously Trump created a whole lot of jobs. We all know what happened in 2020 with the pandemic. But Trump’s economic record before that was quite good.
The bigger problem that Biden has is you can’t talk up the economy if people are feeling pain in their personal lives. They hear him talk and they say that is not what I’m seeing when I go to the grocery store and we’ve been trying to buy a house and it’s not working. You can’t talk up the economy when it disagrees with people’s own perceptions…
We have a number of interesting things going on. We had an article in Politico today about remember in the first years of the Biden administration, Democrats were rushing to pass as much spending as they could, trillions and trillions of dollars to use as sort of post-pandemic momentum to keep levels of spending at enormously high levels.
Watch the video below:

BYRON YORK: Trump created A LOT of jobs pic.twitter.com/k4xoYe9Cg2
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 9, 2024

Joe Biden can brag about job creation until he is blue in the face, but it won’t work. Trump was better for jobs and the economy and everyone knows it. […]

A car thief behind the wheel of a Lamborghini in Los Angeles fled the police at more than 100 miles per hour and moments later crashed the vehicle, totaling it and getting thrown hundreds of feet from the wreck. He died at the scene.
Thieves are not usually very smart and this guy was no exception.
People who have never been behind the wheel of a vehicle like the Lamborghini have no idea how much power these cars have and how easily you can lose control. This man found out the hard way.
This happened in April but the footage just became available.

FOX News reported:
LA Lamborghini thief dies in 115 mph crash seconds after fleeing traffic stop: dashcam video
Los Angeles police pulled up behind a driver asleep at the wheel of a Lamborghini, discovered the vehicle was stolen and the suspect had outstanding warrants before he sped off on video lost control of the car and died in a high-speed crash just seconds later.
The suspect, 51-year-old Los Angeleno Elliott Dugan, woke up, refused to cooperate with law enforcement, and sped away to his death up the street, body and dashcam videos show.
The incident happened on April 6, but police released the videos Wednesday.
“Do you know why I pulled you over?” an officer asks.
In a conversation with officers, Dugan denied that the car was stolen and claimed he had rented it. Police asked him repeatedly to get out of the vehicle.
Dugan asserted that he did not have to get out of the car until police gave him a reason why. The officer said he would be detained and asked him several more times to get out.
He hit the gas instead.
Watch the video below:

LAPD released footage of a stolen Lamborghini Huracan fleeing officers driving over 100 MPH before a violent crash that shredded the vehicle in pieces sending the driver flying pic.twitter.com/ZqnB1sOVWI
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) May 9, 2024

That’s one guy who won’t be stealing any more cars.
He paid the ultimate price for his crime. […]

The well known boxing promoter Don King was recently asked for his thoughts on the 2024 election and if he had a message for Trump.
He responded, ‘Get reelected.’ He went on to say, ‘We must reelect him to save ourselves.’
Love him or hate him, Don King is an icon and he certainly understands what’s at stake in the election.
RedState has more:

Don King has spoken, America. The Don King, I mean.
The 92-year-old legendary boxing promoter on Wednesday endorsed former President Donald Trump to become future President Donald Trump in November.
Like Trump, King has never been afraid to speak his exact mind.
Referring to the former president as “the only man who’s got the intestinal fortitude to be able to stand up and fight the system like it should be fought,” King’s endorsement of Trump was unequivocal.
Get reelected. And we must reelect him to save ourselves. You know, a vote for Trump is a vote for yourself. Because we’ve got to fight the system of lies and the creation of wrong being right and right being wrong. That’s got to be eliminated.
Say what you will about Don King, but the sometimes controversial promoter hit the 2024 presidential nail on the head— and in fewer words than most politicians use, just warming up.
Here’s the video:

JUST IN: ⚠️ Former powerhouse boxing promoter Don King endorses Donald Trump for President..
pic.twitter.com/A2bAUQpuXd
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) May 8, 2024

King is certainly right about saving ourselves.
Does anyone believe the country can survive four more years of Joe Biden?
(Image:Source) […]