Month: December 2020

photog’s Right-Wing Guide – Part 2 – Reviling Creepy Uncle Joe Effectively

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Briefly, to explain the title change, the first installment of this series was called “Right Wing Guide to Living in the Democratic People’s Republic of America – Part 1.”  As you can see that is pretty long.  And if I add a subheading for the individual essay it can get out of control.  Therefore, the shortening.  Well, you’ve got to admit it’s easier to remember.

Whatever Joe Biden’s place will be in America, whether as unsuccessful presidential candidate or as stinking, undead corpse littering up a back room at the White House, I think it is important that all good Americans heap as much scorn and derision on this lying, plagiarizing, bullying, woman-groping, hair sniffing, shoulder squeezing, influence peddling grafter as we possibly can without becoming truly offensive.

This policy has multiple advantages.  First and foremost, it is warranted.  There may be worse human beings in Washington.  After all it is a moral cesspool.  But at most they’re just barely nosing him out.  He truly is human garbage.  If an actual time machine existed it would be justified to go back and convince his parents to sell him at birth to a circus freak show as the dog-faced boy.  There he would have found his true calling.

Secondly, it feels right doing it.  There is a surge of joy when a truly fitting insult is found.  The “mot juste” as our snail, frog and cheese loving friends would say.  It is the joy in creating an apt word portrait.  Sure, the portrait resembles the evil, rotting, leprous portrait of Dorian Gray but that is still an accurate and useful work of art.  Mocking evil is fun.  I couldn’t stop laughing for several minutes when I reread this thing.

Thirdly and most importantly, his handlers hate it.  They’ve got to sell the image of Joe Biden as a wise elder statesman.  He must be painted as a saintly and totally legitimate leader of the United States.  Painting him as a doddering, crack-brained, idiot with the habits of a zoo chimp and the morals of a loan shark make that very difficult.  Joe is going to be asked by his employers to try to sell the American people on the idea of staying locked down basically forever.  If something that horrible is told to you by a demented circus monkey it’s going to seem less than compelling.

What I’d like people to summon up when they think of Joe is an image of his face on the body of a chimp inside of a cage with bars sitting in a truck tire suspended on a rope and flinging his own poop through the bars at the spectators.  I think this image will give Joe exactly the dignity, gravitas and credibility he deserves.  Keeping this image clearly in mind whenever he is speaking will remind the American people of exactly what he is doing.  He is throwing a bunch of crap in our direction and we should do whatever we can to avoid whatever he is pitching.

I’m sure over time other images of what Joe represents will come to me but for now Joe “zoo chimp” Biden is my current favorite.  If I can get this out there to the whole world it might have some interesting long-term effects.  Once the COVID thing is over Joe may want to shake hands with other world leaders.  If this meme gets out there some of those leaders may think twice before shaking Joe’s paw.  After all, where has it been?

Getting into the Christmas Spirit in 2020

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With all the horror that 2020 has provided I thought it would be extremely difficult to enjoy my annual ritual of watching my favorite holiday movies.  Just to start it off correctly I watched both the 1951 and 1984 movie versions of “A Christmas Carol.”  Surprisingly, I enjoyed them even more than I did last year under much less trying circumstances.  The scenes with Scrooge after his repentance are exactly what I needed to start enjoying the holidays the way I like to.  Surrounded by the squalor of the election fraud and the forced isolation of the COVID overreaction I needed to see scenes of joy and heartfelt emotion to wake my spirit up to the feelings of the season.

Wherever we are, even those of us locked down in this sad sham of an epidemic, we have many friends and loved ones that we can reach by phone or e-mail or by sending a little gift with a card.  Doing that will relieve some of the isolation and it will do a great deal of good for both the recipient and you.

And even if you are completely alone, maybe you can make a special meal for yourself and read a good book or watch a pleasant movie and reminisce about better times and look forward to better times to come.  Life ebbs and flows.  There are bound to be highs and lows.  This is a low point.  It will improve.  But letting Christmas pass without acknowledging it would make it even worse.  And I’m definitely not saying people should spend a lot of money or go through elaborate preparations for a party that no one will be attending.  Far from it.  One of few advantages that the present situation provides us is extra time for reflection.

We all rush through life without considering if we’re missing the bigger point.  Children grow quickly and people age without us realizing it.  We drift in and out of the lives of friends and then we’re left standing at a funeral wondering what happened to the time.  There’s definitely room for re-ordering priorities and reaching out to those we’ve lost track of.

When the world is going to hell in a handbasket is probably the best time to get your own life into better shape.  And the natural time to do that is at the end of the year.  Christmas and New Year are the perfect time to reflect and not just on the negatives.  Even those of us going through extremely hard times can take some solace from memories of the better times.  Those good things were real and we did enjoy them.  Remembering that joy can get you through some tough days.  Reliving it with someone who was also there makes it even better.

I come from a large family that truly relishes dark humor.  We reminisce about the most awful circumstances that we lived through together.  But this year I’ll look to remind them of some of the happier things that came with growing up in a large family.  If nothing else we can celebrate that we’ve beaten the odds and are all still alive and relatively healthy.  And we’ve got kids and grandkids too.  None of us is starving and there isn’t even a really strong feud going on in the sibling group which is pretty remarkable for us.  We won’t be getting together for Christmas which will break a decades long tradition.  But we can have a video conference and we can exchange presents and greetings.  That will help.

So, this is long enough.  My advice to everyone out there is don’t let the bastards get you down.  Make an effort to revive your Christmas spirit and I’ll bet it will be well worth your effort.

American Mind Has an Interesting Article – The Separation

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This is a pretty long article  with a good amount of prefacing discussion about where we are as a country.

The Separation

But by the end he gets to the nub of what he thinks we need to do, loosen the Union:

“The Separation is not a departure as much as return to the Constitution of the founders. The Articles of Confederation foundered on the three key functions required of the federal power: an effective army, a unified foreign policy, and a treasury that can incur liabilities for national functions. The federal government would retain its authority and taxing power for these functions.

Activities outside these spheres and the refereeing of interstate issues would be seated with the states. Broader latitude is provided to the states to effect and fund policies for their citizens. Blue states would no longer “subsidize” Red states. Greater funding for everything from climate change to social programs will be possible. The dust would be blown off the 9th and 10th Amendments.”

When he gets down to the amendments to the constitution it becomes a little less clear cut to me whether this is the simplest way:

“The Separation can be effected with a limited number of amendments to the Constitution: 1) a new amendment circumscribing the federal mandate to conform with the core functions above, 2) adjustment of the 16th Amendment to tie the taxing power to these functions, 3) elimination of the 17th Amendment so the state legislatures again elect Senators, 4) a new amendment formally providing the Supreme Court the power of judicial review but focusing that power on matters related to federal and interstate issues (i.e., the final word on the right to bear arms, free speech and abortion would be in state courts), and 5) a new amendment providing federal term limits.”

But this kind of idea is I think the direction we need to go.  What we have is a marriage that isn’t working.  Giving each side some space is the best option.  Whether it will happen is the question we have to answer.