By Ray Cardello for February 17, 2025, Season 30 / Post 40

The Democrats have two choices. They can put their collective heads together and come up with solutions, which will never happen because, even collectively, there is no level of intelligence to develop solutions. They can put their tails between their legs and work with the Republicans, who have the majority support of Americans on key initiatives. We know that will not happen because it is not in their DNA to work with the other side, even though they always claim bipartisan, but I think they see that as a sexual term. That leaves a third option. Sit on the sidelines, keep your mouths shut, and watch the Trump-driven Republican Machine show how it is done.

There are three situations that came to mind when I started this article: the Border, Inflation, and the Ukraine War with Russia. Since the Democrats either created and exacerbated or ignored Biden’s actions/nonactions with all three of these, I believe the Democrats have no right to speak out against Donald Trump and the solutions in place since January 20. Just get on the sidelines and sit this one out. You look foolish with every comment.

Nobody on the Left saw a problem with millions of undocumented migrants, criminals, and terrorists coming across the Rio Grande and climbing under or over the concertina wire to illegally broach our border. They lied to us for four years that the border was secure and that the stories of Venezuelan gangs terrorizing American communities were exaggerated or fantasy. They watched the videos of both scenarios and denied them as they did the Hunter Biden laptop. They watched the busloads of illegals dropped off in New York City, Chicago, or Los Angeles and welcomed our new “Americans.” They took our hard-earned tax dollars and redistributed them to these migrants like a Welcome Wagon Basket. Now that we are finding these criminals, murderers, rapists, and terrorists and deporting them to their home country, the Democrats are apoplectic that we are deporting families. Don’t trust the video; believe the Democrat rhetoric.

Hakeem Jeffries went on the talk shows to declare that Trump did not honor his promise to lower grocery costs. Trump is less than one month into his term, and Hakeem, who some say is the leader of the Democratic Party, has submitted the final report card. Jeffries is no fool. He knows he is a fool for saying such things, but the truth is, the fools on the Democrat side believe him. You know he won’t talk about the Democrats stealing from the Medicare fund to seed parts of the Inflation Reduction Act or, knowing it did not work, doubled down and took more. To hide that story, they need to fabricate theirs. He refused to give the same depth to the 60-plus approval ratings of Trump on key issues but condemned him on the cost of eggs, which was created by the killing of millions of chickens by Joe Biden. They are grasping at straws, and those straws are plastic.

Finally, Trump is deep into negotiations with Putin and Zelenskyy and will probably bring this war to an end very soon. The Democrats never urged talks for three years because they were willing to send billions of our dollars to Ukraine, knowing it would never be enough to defeat Putin, but because some of that money was finding its way back to Joe Biden, the Big Guy, or the Party coffers. They do not even know where half of the money went but keep writing the checks. European leaders held a hasty meeting today to discuss the potential end of the conflict and are bent out of shape that they are not in on the talks. They are in the same boat as the Democrats. You had your chance to urge discussions but would rather close your eyes and ignore reality. Get on the sidelines, and I’m sorry, shut up.