I'm going to address a topic that I've danced around in some of my posts over the past couple of months, but now I feel it's just time to come straight out and ask the question directly because I feel the writing is definitely on the wall. I don't think that rational, well-meaning people can continue to ignore the evidence of the stories that we have seen since January 20th, 2021 when Joe Biden assumed the office of the presidency.

That simple question is this: When do you, the reader, expect a terrorist incident to occur this year — before the November election or after?

I think it could happen at any moment now.

Of course, maybe you are one of the few who could be asking aloud why I think there's going to be some sort of trouble. I'm going to assume that anybody asking that in good faith possibly has not been paying attention to what the 46th president has done since he assumed office over three-and-a-half years ago, and you have missed all of the stories about a wide open border in the south.

This story from Bonchie, posted over a year ago, chronicles some of the idiocy of the Biden policy — Democrats Are Trying to Rewrite History on the Border, but We Have the Receipts. From that post:

But while those three want to pretend to be tough on the border, and by proxy, tough on the Biden administration, the receipts exist showing that when push came to shove, they folded. As the following thread by Sen. Mike Lee explains, Sinema, Manchin, and Tester had the chance to do the right thing and force an amendment that would have fixed the Title 42 problem. That would have happened in the most recently passed omnibus bill.

You’re going to hear from a bunch of Senate Democrats that they’re HORRIFIED at the conditions at the border as Title 42 is lifted.

But just remember – when there was a vote to save title 42, Manchin, Sinema, Tester all obeyed Schumer and voted against it. https://t.co/XT3H5QRCma

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 12, 2023

Together with Republicans, the three Democrats could have shut down the process and made sure that Title 42 was extended legally. They had all the leverage, and there’s little doubt that Sen. Chuck Schumer and Biden would have been made to capitulate given everything in the bill they wanted to get passed.

Instead, Sinema, Manchin, and Tester bent the knee. And for that, they now own this crisis as much as anyone else. So they can put out their tough-guy statements, but we know the truth, and hopefully, voters won’t forget it come 2024.

Fentanyl is just one part of the disastrous policy of letting anybody walk in that Biden and his team along with his fellow Democrats in Congress have complained about while looking the other way. Of course, the other part is the type of people streaming across the border that might have an ax to grind with the everyday citizens of this country.

Just like these folks who might have some ties to ISIS yet were welcomed into our country by the southern border — Eight Suspected Terrorists With Ties to ISIS Nabbed in Three Separate Cities - All Were 'Fully Vetted.' 

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin released the FBI//DHS joint statement to his X feed.

BREAKING: Per federal source familiar, ICE, in conjunction w/ the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, arrested 8 Tajikistan nationals w/ suspected ISIS ties in NYC, LA, and Philly in recent days. I'm told all 8 crossed the southern border illegally, received "full vetting", and had…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 11, 2024

It gets worse. A New York Post correspondent, Jennie Taer, did the initial reporting on this bust, including purported results of a wiretap:

The sting operation was first reported by the New York Post’s Jennie Taer. 

According to Taer's report, part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs.

"Remember the Boston marathon [bombing]? I’m afraid something like that might happen again or worse," one of the sources told The Post.

With the stories that I've read both here at RedState and elsewhere, the question of when we get hit has been at the front of my mind. However, after watching the Sean Ryan podcast with Ret. General Robert Spalding the question of when morphed into: Will it be before the election or after?

Spalding in the interview above is asked by the host on a scale from one to five how worried he is about an attack on our power grid.

The General's response was: six.

So for those of you contemplating right now how Democrats could steal the 2024 election, what would happen if the majority of the country lost power, and how much of a wrench would that throw into election day in the fall of 2024?

See why I'm thinking about probably before rather than after the election?

And let me be frank here: Even if it happened after a Trump win, the majority of the country getting the switch thrown to the power going out by the Chinese or the Russians would not be a good way to start off next year. This dilemma falls 100 percent on the Biden administration and their disastrous policy of eliminating the Trump executive orders, which kept the border in much better shape than it is now.

This is a problem created by the Democrats who were afraid to speak up when the Biden administration changed the rules that were working under Trump. The country is definitely going to suffer for this dereliction of responsibility, and we, the American people, are going to pay for it.

Greatly.