Month: May 2022

Biden Has Used Up All the Stupid Voters

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Watch this performance.  This is an act that he’s been using.  He selects some point he’s trying to make.  In this case it’s food shortages and he starts emoting about victims of this food shortage and works himself up into an angry tirade over the injustice and “un-American” nature of the problem.  He’s done this about insulin costs and other problems he’s showcasing.

But now he’s taken the act one step further.  Here he is flipping out about food shortages but he’s the one who is causing all the problems he’s railing against.  Biden locked down the country for a year and then can’t figure out why companies don’t produce things like baby formula.

I’m sure there are people stupid enough or emotionally unstable enough to be swayed by Dementia Joe’s play acting.  But at this point only the very stupid haven’t seen through his act.  I’m going to take a guess and say that number is less than ten percent of people.  If you add in the people who don’t believe the act but are bought and paid for by the Democrats, I think we’re looking at less than forty percent of the country.

This forty percent isn’t evenly spread out across the country.  The deep blue states like California and New York have a disproportionately large share of these people.  So even if there is a highly organized voter fraud effort in the swing states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we may be reaching the point where some actual blue states begin to peel off and vote Republican.  There are indications of this in places like Nevada and New Hampshire.  We’ve already seen how Virginia flipped to a Republican governor and legislature.  Even deep blue New Jersey came very close to electing a Republican governor.

So, this is a testable hypothesis.  There’s been talk about a red wave capturing the House and Senate.  But more telling will be if blue states elect Republican governors and legislatures.  Places like Wisconsin and Minnesota were engulfed in the George Floyd street drama.  If places like these bring in Republicans that will be a clear signal that they’ve had enough.

If they don’t then we’ll never see a nationwide rollback of the progressives.  There will never be a clearer case of Leftist madness.  The destruction of the cities and the breakdown of law and order is crystal clear.  There is no doubt how it happened and who was responsible.  If this doesn’t convince moderate democrats to abandon their woke party leaders then nothing ever will.

So, I’m really glad to see Biden descend into lunacy, raging against the crises that he himself has orchestrated.  The majority of people will recognize this as absurd and demonstrably false.  The longer this goes on the more outraged the majority of the country will become against the Biden administration.  By November it will be responsible for a wave election.  By the end of 2024 it will be a tsunami that will displace the whole Democrat party for years to come.

But as I’ve stated before, that won’t make it any easier for all of us to survive until then.

Larry Correia Advocates for a New Federal Agency: THE DOFYJS

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Larry who is an accountant by training (and the author of books about monster hunters) explains why whittling down the federal bureaucracy is a life and death priority and thus proposes forming an agency of accountants to audit the rest of the federal government with the mission to eliminate 90% of it.  He calls it “The Department of F*** Your Job Security!”

Well, I might quibble about the name but the point is well made.  The bureaucracy is a parasite that has finally undermined its host.  Along with the thousand and one maladies that the progressives have saddled us with supporting the useless bureaucrats has become the cancer that will finish us off.

Kudos to Larry for identifying the chemotherapy that is needed to treat this disease.

Camera Girl Angers the Lightning God

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Many years ago, when Camera Girl was just a simple housewife.  This was before she became a jet-setting companion to a high-powered photographic dynamo; me.  One day while I was at work, I got a call from home.  She informed me that the fire department had to be called because our electric stove had malfunctioned and burst into flames.  The highly professional volunteer firemen had heroically dragged the stove out of the house and it was lying on the driveway like some stricken beast brought low by forces beyond the control of nature.  And she further informed me that the meat loaf was still in it and unless I wanted to try carbonized beef we would need to eat out.  Now, I know for a fact that she’s always disliked electric stoves and ovens.  She claims that only gas stoves provide the kind of temperature control she needs to cook food correctly.  I’m not saying she sabotaged that stove but it is true she was glad to get a new one.  Even if it was also an electric model.

Well yesterday lightning struck again.  At about 4 pm I heard a loud crackle of electricity like something out of the Frankenstein laboratory scene coming from the kitchen followed by Camera girl screaming something incoherently.  I ran into the kitchen to find smoke pouring from the oven.  I shut the power to the oven and turned on the vent fan above the stove.  Then I took the smoke alarm off the wall and put it where it wouldn’t go off.

Sure, enough for the third time in her career as chief cook and bottlewasher in “Chez photog” the heating element in one of her ovens failed.  This time I was there so the fire department wasn’t needed.  I could see the element was cracked and the sound I’d heard was power arcing over the gap.  After gently coaxing Camera Girl off the ceiling fan, I comforted her in her terror and convinced her that all would be well once we got our local appliance store to send a serviceman to install a new element.

But when I called them, it wasn’t as simple as that.  After providing them with the stove’s model number they informed me that they would have to order this critical part.  And when I asked them when they would be able to send someone to install it the pleasant young fellow on the line said, “In three or four weeks.”   I dared not tell Camera Girl that her stove would be out of service for a month so I asked the guy how difficult would it be for me to install it myself.  He thought it would be quite simple and foolproof.  So tomorrow morning I’ll go and pay fifty bucks for this replacement part and spend some part of the day installing it.

Obviously, this is a double-edged sword.  On the up side, I get to save a hundred fifty bucks in service call charges and appear to be a competent and self-sufficient alpha male.  On the down side if I louse up the installation Camera Girl will mock me mercilessly.

Well, there’s nothing to be done about it.  I must rise to the challenge.  I was thinking of watching some episodes of the Honeymooners tonight to see if I can get any pointers from Ralph Kramden’s technique handling Alice’s bouts of sarcasm.  What’s the worst that could happen?  Where did I put that fire extinguisher?

 

A Handy Primer on Nuclear Weapons

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If you’ve got an hour and a half and want to find out exactly what a three stage thermonuclear weapon is and how it works or whether a neutron bomb was really invented to empty a city of humans but leave the buildings intact then this guide might interest you.  I’d always wanted to know how a cobalt bomb worked.

I watched it with great interest.  I learned a number of things that I hadn’t known.  For instance, in a multi-megaton bombardment of a city very few of the deaths will be by radiation poisoning.  The fireball and blast wave will kill mostly everyone who would have received a fatal dose of primary radiation from the fission and fusion neutrons and gamma radiation.  and the fallout will be dispersed into the stratosphere by the mushroom cloud for the whole world to enjoy later.  And I didn’t realize that hydrogen bombs were filled with styrofoam.  Don’t tthese monsters know how environmentally unfriendly styrofaom is?

 

 

Conservative PACs Dominate Texas School Board Elections

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“Candidates backed by conservative political action committees (PACs) swept Texas school board elections held on Saturday, as last year’s nationwide pushback against critical race theory materializes into on-the-ground victories.

Among the big winners was the 1776 Project PAC, a group that defines itself as forwarding those who “want to reform our public education system by promoting patriotism and pride in American history.”

Another group that found success over the weekend was Grapevine-based Patriot Mobile, a cellphone company that poured half a million into a PAC to support candidates in Tarrant County school districts, according to The Texas Tribune.

All 15 candidates endorsed by 1776 Project PAC won their races across six school districts representing suburban Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, the group announced through Twitter.  Out of 11 endorsed candidates by Patriot Mobile Action, 10 won their races.

1776 Project founder Ryan Girdusky highlighted during an interview with Breitbart that his organization has a perfect record so far this year, and he hopes to continue the success with the upcoming school board elections in Georgia and Maryland.”

Now if we could multiply this success by about a thousand that would be a good beginning.  But it’s still encouraging that it’s at least starting to happen.  These are the victories that have a real world impact.  Kids are protected and Leftists who are damaging children can be stopped.  Kudos to the groups organizing this effort.