If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison

Indulge me today in a little game. I know that anything could happen after November 3rd up to and including the apocalypse. But just for the sake of this post let’s assume that when the dust clears President Trump is clearly the winner of the election and the Republicans squeak out a win in the Senate and the House. What would be my wish list for the coming four years of the second Trump administration. Granted that this is the rosiest of scenarios but it is far from unlikely. So, grant me the premise.
Well that’s enough for this Christmas. Of course, my first present has to happen way in advance of Christmas just to make the other presents possible. I want a resounding election victory for the President. So if that isn’t too much to ask, let’s start there.

The fraternity of the henpecked.
Joseph Addison
After allowing a mob to burn down police headquarters, voting to defund their police department and vilifying police officers as racists the government of Minneapolis was shocked to find out that police are leaving the force in droves. Even more unexpectedly the crime rate and especially the murder rate have spiked. The City Council’s reaction was twofold. First they attributed the spike to President Trump being evil and secondly they ordered police details to provide personal protection for City Council members. With the problem now fully under control they went back to the main order of business, vilifying the police and President Trump.
But as personally satisfying as that action plan has been for the City Council and Mayor it appears that the residents of Minneapolis are still selfishly complaining about the carjackings, running gun battles between gangs, aggravated assaults and the odd murder here and there. Why must these people harp on these petty problems? Can’t they see that every day Minneapolis is getting closer and closer to real racial justice? Oh, well.
Well anyway back in the real world a coalition of people who live in the effected area are begging the city and state government to send combat troops into the city to end the mayhem.
Reading the article you can sense the desperation in people who see their world disintegrating around them. But reading the comments after the article it’s split about 50/50 between those who agree and those who think everything is just fine. Minneapolis is now where New York City was back in the 1960s during the riots. They can retreat from the madness of blaming the police for street crime or they can watch as the middle class residents leave in droves and leave the city a shell of its former self. If I were guessing I’d go with white flight and burned out shell.
It will be educational to see how this latest case of the death of an American city plays out. Who knows, maybe they’ll surprise me and vote to survive instead. Anything is possible.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison
This whole Hunter Biden hard drive thing is surreal. In the video link below there is an interview that Steve Crowder did with Rudy Giuliani (minutes 2 to 19 of the clip). Now Crowder is a comedian on our side of the political divide and being a comedian he’s a little goofy but the interview clarifies some of the history of this computer hard drive. Giuliani says that Hunter Biden brought it into the repair shop and signed for it. When the computer was never paid for and was left for a period that exceeded the allotted time allowed it became the property of the repair shop. The repair shop owner looked at the contents and realized what he had on his hands and contacted people on the Trump side. Apparently he was a Republican type. Now that was a piece of luck. He made a copy of the hard drive and gave the original to the FBI.
Giuliani also says that when this story broke Hunter Biden’s attorney called up the repair shop and asked for the computer back. The New York Post is a sensationalist publication. But it is owned by Rupert Murdoch who has a lot to lose if this were a slanderous hoax. Giuliani states that the validity of the information must have satisfied Murdoch for this story to go forward.
How does someone like Hunter Biden stay alive in the political environment that exists today? Who collects videos of himself smoking crack and and having sex with prostitutes and puts it on a computer hard drive and leaves it with a computer expert? How can all this be? It seems almost too good to be true for the President and his campaign. And on the same computer are these damning e-mails from Chinese and Ukrainian officials that document the influence peddling that Joe Biden has denied being involved in.
There’s only one reasonable explanation, Hunter Biden is part of a secret right-wing cabal dedicated to guaranteeing President Trump’s re-election. Either that or he is a total degenerate who cannot avoid the destruction of himself and everyone around him. Wait a minute. ….. On second thought I’ll go with that second one.
To put the lie to all this talk of inter-generational warfare my friend at The Portly Politico, Tyler and I have decided to reach across the generational abyss and sponsor an exchange of posts. He has posted an essay here at OCF and I have posted one of my reviews at his site (see link below).
Guest Contributor – photog – “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” – A Science Fiction Movie Review
Seriously we thought it would be fun for his readers and mine to get some slightly different material for a change. I think injecting some other points of view on the site is a big plus.
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