Month: February 2020

My Daily Dose of Schadenfreude

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Jonathan Chait is an uber-progressive.  If you don’t mind clicking to his post read the delicious despair as he describes how the Dem field will implode leaving Bernie to win or be cheated at the convention.  Oh, so wonderful.

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/democratic-primary-biden-bernie-sanders-buttigieg-klobuchar-bloomberg-liberal.html

 

 

He-Man Woman Hater’s Club – Part 1

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I found talking about my mad dream to found a continent-spanning, benevolent, fraternal association of American men so much fun, I’ve decided to start formulating various facets in a series of posts. It truly is an intoxicating pleasure to imagine the world returning to normal. A world where an American husband and father truly is the king of his castle.

One of the time-honored rituals of male bonding is the weekly poker game. This was extremely prevalent in the old days and was a great source of stress relief. Now granted it was also an opportunity for all sorts of destructive behavior ranging from alcoholism to adultery but I’m restricting myself to a more domesticated version where the game takes place at the homes of the participants and doesn’t involve hookers and straight razor fights. I prefer the game to rotate around the membership’s homes. That way it takes the burden off any particular wife to provide the necessary foodstuffs. However, the burdens have been lessened thanks to the introduction of online gambling and poker games that could be found when visiting sites like best-casino.net and others. Online gambling allows people to enjoy poker nights in the comfort of their own homes while still having a quiet night in.

It is important to make sure the membership is in relative agreement on which poker games are considered legitimate. Lately Texas hold’em has gathered a very large following but I don’t think restricting the play to one game is necessary. But to each his own. Also there have to be very specific rules on acceptable stakes. Personally, I think it’s better to keep things on the low side. Otherwise you run the risk of scaring off the guys on a limited budget. Besides losing a lot of money to friends is embarrassing and liable to cause hard feelings.

Now, most important, how to integrate the food into the game. Some purists believe that food shouldn’t be allowed during the play and reserved to a break in between sessions. For myself, I think a good pastrami sandwich and some premium chips enhances the game and in fact provides a good opportunity to look for your opponents’ poker tells. But agreement going in is a good idea.

But the most important aspect of poker night is the chance for men to get together and discuss all the important matters of the day without having to hear the annoying, high-pitched yammering of women. And one of those important aspects of life to discuss is the annoying things that wives do. Complaining about and making fun of wives is a time-honored male occupation that has, sadly, fallen out of style. Reviving this tradition is an add-on benefit of the weekly poker game.

And since this is the He-Man Woman Hater’s Club we’re talking about, think of a poker game as a good way to sound out prospective members on their orthodoxy on all the various club tenets. A poker game is a very relaxing environment and a good way to get to know people. It would make sense to allow the prospective member to take the lead on conversation and hang back to see if he’s HMWHC material. Also a poker game may be a good way to raise funds for a project or an outing. Each member can throw in a ten spot per game and accumulate that for a bigger purpose.

So that’s my first topic. Feel free to provide feedback and any stories about your own poker games.

Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer

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Cast your minds back to the Obama days and remember all the horrors, all the defeats.  Remember Black Lives Matter and the drumbeat of charges against police for trying to keep order in the streets.  Remember Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown being painted as innocent children instead of the violent thugs they actually were.  Remember Obamacare and the skyrocketing costs for insurance.  Remember Fast and Furious, the Benghazi fiasco, Queer Marriage, Weaponizing the IRS and of course his domestic spying on reporters and his other enemies.  Remember the unemployment nightmare where a whole generation of young people couldn’t find jobs.  It was a bleak hopeless landscape as far as the eye could see.  And the rhetoric painted it as the inevitable endpoint for our country, permanent stagnation.

But look what three years with the right sort of leader can do.  Unemployment practically non-existent, rising wages, energy independence, our enemies in retreat, England throwing off the shackles of the tyrannical EU, Italy, Poland and Hungary resisting the EU forced immigration, Israel finding alliances with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf States and trade deals with China, Mexico and Canada.

And then it gets better.  President Trump humiliates his enemies at every turn.  Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer have been attacking the President non-stop for four years and they have employed every vicious tactic and lie they could think of.  And the net result?  Today President Trump’s Gallup Poll approval numbers reached a new high.

And finally, we have the 2020 Race.  The Democrats have assembled the most hopeless, unelectable collection of unlikable losers imaginable.  Biden, Bernie, Fauxcahantas and Butt Pete.  And I’m not even going to consider the eliminated nuts like Spartacus.  These are just an embarrassment to the once great Democratic party.  All of them are delusional and a couple are actually insane.  With the Democrats advantaged by the paid for votes of all the parasites who live off the government they should be unbeatable but instead they’re about to get their heads handed to them.

And tonight, President Trump gave his State of the Union Address.  And it was a barn burner.  He touted the almost endless list of accomplishments and advancements that his administration provides for America.  He had dozens and dozens of applause lines.  I think the Republicans will be limping for weeks after all the wear and tear to their old hips and knees from getting up and down so many times.

And he brought on a full card of heartwarming or heartbreaking stories.  Wives and families of servicemen.  Parents of the victim of al-Baghdadi.  A hundred-year-old Tuskegee airman and his great grandson.  Rush Limbaugh receiving a Freedom Medal after the revelation of his late stage cancer diagnosis.

The President poured it on.  And at the end his message was that he was counteracting the negative message of the Obama era and substituting the idea that America’s best days are still to come.  It was masterfully done.  It was confident, upbeat and the facts it presented were undeniable.  It was a little overwhelming but it was very effective.  He truly is a showman.

And most interestingly of all, he completely ignored the impeachment.  Not a single word was said about Schiff or Pelosi or the Ukraine.  And as much as I would have enjoyed him harassing those worms it was exactly the right choice.  The speech is really the President talking directly to the American people and it was presented to give the American people the best sales pitch for giving President Trump his second term.  And in my opinion, it succeeded.