All the stuff about Tucker Carlson has got me sort of bummed out. Sure, I knew they did all this stuff. But they’re not even trying to pretend they’re not doing it. Hell, they’re bragging about it. They want to us to know they don’t even care if we tell the world. Basically, they’re taking a victory lap. All the stuff they did in the Russiagate operation they are now doing openly. Not a single one of them suffered any consequences for the treason they committed and they can now do it completely openly because they own the Justice Department, the Presidency and the Courts.
Intellectually I knew all of that already. I guess viscerally it’s hitting home. This is East Germany, this is North Korea, this is Saddam’s Iraq. Elections will be 100% assured, the security agencies will arrest the right people and more importantly will not arrest the left people, the people in charge will live very comfortable lives, everyone else will shut up and take what they are given.
I guess the part of it that’s so depressing is how docile the millennials are. They’ve been bought off. They’ll take their guaranteed income and live in their basement apartment with their three roommates and slowly shrink to nothing, evaporate or sublimate as if they never existed. Not with a bang but with a whimper.
Well, anyway, the power’s been off for about ten hours. The thunderstorm must have taken down a powerline or zapped a substation. Probably the former. The generator is humming along. The guy who installed it and the transfer switch is sort of a crazy guy but he knew his business. It runs on propane and is relatively quiet, a little quitter than my lawn mower. It’s a quiet day here and I already cut the lawn before all these thunderstorms dumped about four inches of rain on us recently. It cooled off today. It went from ninety to seventy and that’ll give me a chance to get some outdoor stuff done without getting fried. I took a few pictures this morning. The deer have eaten most of the daylily buds but with a little luck I’ll get a few to shoot. The blueberry bushes are very full of fruit. Maybe I’ll get a few pints of them.
Camera Girl will soon provide me with my list of chores for the upcoming parties. And that’s okay. I like playing the host. The summer is going well. I’ll try to enjoy all the things that there are to do. Even in Stalinist Russia people still tried to enjoy life right up until the KGB knocked down your door and dragged you off to the interrogation cell.
Which is worse, living as an outcast, a third-class citizen in your own country or being a stranger in a strange land? I guess that’s the choice I’m struggling with. In a way it feels like I’m already living in a foreign land. All of the customs and familiar parts of life are being torn down and reviled. The people in charge are strange creepy weirdos and criminals. Could it be any worse in Argentina or Singapore or Hungary? I wonder.
Post Update – 2pm and the power’s back on at the street. Maybe that’ll lighten my mood.
I am amazed that Tucker is still on the air and how well he is handling these issues.
One another level, if you have time, would you elaborate on the setup of your propane generator. The February freeze here in Texas with the blackouts got my attention.
Neill, I bought a 20kW Kohler generator. That’s quite a large one. It handles all the electrical needs of a fairly large house in either winter or summer. It has an automatic transfer switch that kicks in after a delay that we’ve set at 10 seconds. Ten seconds avoids turning the thing on when the street power has the usual hiccups. I have it hooked up to two (2) 100 gallon propane tanks. I think conservatively (of course) this will provide enough power for over a week of continuous use. The gasoline powered units require people to find enough gas… Read more »
Mine is also 20 KW. I also could use a 10KW but because the neighbors beg to run a line over here to keep their fridges from melting I need more. I have the one generator in my cul-de-sac. If they don’t mooch I can run the whole place, including the washer and dryer and water heater. I have a Generac and it runs on natural gas, which fuels my furnace and water heater. It’s water cooled and can run for weeks, technically. The longest I’ve had to run it was four days after a bad T-storm and tornadoes which… Read more »
I envy that you have a natural gas line. Propane is okay for a week. But if something really bad happened and we were out for a month I’ll bet the propane dealers would start having issues.
Thank you for the information. Now I need to generate some form of productive action
from my sedentary circuitry.
You’re welcome. Yes, I have to do something productive today too. I need to force myself into a better mood.