The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
William Hazlitt
Month: January 2022
Maybe the Stupid Party Has Finally Learned Something
This week the Senate will be debating the plan to eliminate the filibuster. And this was preceded by Dementia Joe’s inflammatory belch of noxious fumes called a speech in Atlanta. In that speech he resurrected Jim Crow and Bull Connor in front of a crowd of black college students who have grandparents who barely remember what those terms refer to.
This law that would enshrine voter fraud in America is being presented as the only way to save us from Ku Klux Klansmen riding horses through our towns and burning crosses on the White House lawn. And normally all that jazz would scare the likes of Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney into subservient obedience. But it hasn’t. In fact, it hasn’t even scared two Democrat senators, Sinema and Manchin, into knuckling under. Arizona and West Virginia aren’t blue states. Their constituencies aren’t rallying around the MLK Day blackmail plot. They literally don’t believe the nonsense being spouted and have no desire to force their senators to back it either.
Is it possible that the Stupid Party has learned something? Can it be that those cowardly imbeciles that run the GOP have gotten it through their thick skulls that people of normal intelligence do not trust the mainstream media and after 2020 certainly don’t trust Joe Biden and the Democrats to protect voting integrity? The answer may be yes.
My explanation for why idiots could be smartening up is that it’s now plain even to idiots that the country is revolting against the gaslighting they’ve been enduring since the George Floyd riots began. Even the stupidest people can’t ignore the reality of a mob burning down their downtown area. And if you can see the truth and at the same time hear the lies from CNN and MSNBC and the three networks then even an idiot will figure out that he is being lied to.
So finally, we’ve reached a place where even total morons can effectively represent us in Congress at least for the moment. The question is have they gotten any less stupid or is this just the lowest common denominator of political response, the equivalent of having a pulse. My guess is they’re still just as stupid as ever but their opponents have been forced in the last couple of years to do insane things and that showcases the superiority of the stupid over the insane. The insane will burn down their own cities. The stupid will limit themselves to applauding the burning. Admittedly it’s not a great advantage but enough to help them win the day. And our party will always be the stupid party. What we have to hope is that we will recognize a smart and courageous man if he appears and put him in a position to lead the stupid party by the nose to do some good despite themselves.
This year, if we’re lucky, will see the Democrats frustrated in their attempt to change the narrative away from their long list of failures. If they lose the Senate along with the House, the GOP can limit the damage that Biden can do. They can even shut down the judicial appointments he might otherwise make. And who knows, maybe they’ll decide to impeach him over the Hunter Biden scandals. Hey, that would be fun. Maybe they’re smart enough to do that.
Another Lib Journalist Wakes Up
This time it’s a journalist at Canada’s CBC named Tara Henley who couldn’t stand the dishonesty any longer. When leftists can’t take the cognitive dissonance you know we’re close to the tipping point. Of course I also find myself thinking, “It’s too bad you couldn’t see that this was the logical outcome of the nonsense you believe in. But it’s not like I think these are reliable allies anyway. These are just canaries in the coal mine showing that the Left has poisoned their own environment beyond what even their own partisans are willing to ignore. It’s just the slightly less insane rats abandoning ship.
18JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
Hayes Carll – Little Rock (2005) – A Country Music Review
I bought this album seven years ago and then didn’t listen to it until last year for reasons that I haven’t been able to remember. And when I did, I just added it to a large rotation of music tracks so that I never even noticed that the songs were by someone new. But today I played the album and said, “Hey I love this stuff!” So, I looked him up and found out his genre is considered “Americana.” I figure that means he doesn’t want to be called a country music singer because he’s a lefty and there’s more street cred with the hippies if you say you’re an Americana artist. Well since I couldn’t find any offensive lefty stuff on his website, I haven’t cast him into the outer darkness.
This guy writes most of his own stuff and it’s good. Stylistically, it’s all over the map. There’s blues, country, rock and roll, folk and a mixture of acoustic and electric instruments. He’s got sad songs and laments, comic songs and tales of the musician life. It’s really hard to pigeon hole him. His voice is a little ragged but definitely interesting.
He’s definitely not mainstream commercial country which for me is kind of a good thing. I’m going to have to get some of his other albums. I recommend this one for country music fans. Whether he’s filthy hippie or not is an open question. I’ll have to do more research.
17JAN2022 – OCF Update – Gaia Punishes Me Again
So we hit the jackpot today. Four inches of snow followed by a half inch of rain overnight. That makes the slop as heavy as possible and plus you’re standing in freezing water. But I meant every bad thing I said about Gaia and don’t take anything back. I’ll clean up this slop and be back with my shoulder to the wheel of OCF as soon a possible.
As an aside, I watched Dementia Joe’s speech down in Atlanta. He really is a lying moron. But his voters are right there at his level of dishonesty and stupidity. So his strategy is probably sound such as it is. Problem for him is the polls show the number of voters on his side has shrunk quite a bit. Sucks being him.
FBI Batting a 1000 on Manufactured Threats, Batting 0 on Real Terrorist Attacks
Sharyl Attkisson details the litany of Muslim extremists that the FBI knew of but failed to stop from mass murdering Americans. Then she speaks to a Congressional investigator who shows that the culture rewards manufacturing cases against right-wing targets but ignores actual Muslim, Antifa and BLM attackers.
Maybe someday a president will fire every FBI manager from top to bottom for incompetence and malfeasance. Just a thought.
17JAN2022 – Photo of the Day
17JAN2022 – Quote of the Day
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favour.
William Hazlitt
Howie Carr Hilariously Kicks Marilyn Mosby Whiles She’s Down
With her Massachusetts roots Howie delights in twisting the knife in recently indicted Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby to hilarious effect. Mosby you might remember was the genius who indicted the cops transporting Freddie Gray to jail in 2015 and helped to provoke the BLM violence that flared up in all the major cities and caused the shooting deaths of several policemen.
In the article Carr goes through all the Democrat politicians and prosecutors involved in Mosby’s legal troubles but relishes her decision to blame Donald Trump as the moving force behind her indictment.
“It’s a federal rap, and the U.S. attorney is a Black Democrat, a former Maryland legislator who works for a rabid partisan Democrat named Merrick Garland, who works for Dementia Joe Biden, who is … a Democrat.
But guess who this loyal Democrat is blaming for her alleged sticky fingers?
“Donald Trump called for me to be prosecuted several years ago,” she thundered on Friday, “and I fought back against his administration.”
Huh? Madam, are you saying that the same DOJ that spent years trying to frame POTUS on utterly bogus charges has now indicted you – at the behest of this very same guy the G-men were willing to commit felonies against in order to railroad him into prison?
Is there anything Donald Trump can’t do? Is there any bad act anywhere anytime that cannot be blamed on Orange Man Bad?”
Howie Carr is one of only a handful of normal journalists in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. I always enjoy Howie’s knife jobs on these crooks. He despises grifters and outright criminals and Mosby is both. Bravo Mr. Carr.