Month: July 2022

August 16th 2022 – Deep Six Liz Cheney Day

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I have always been open about my love for the vendetta.  As a southern Italian with Sicilian blood, it is probably genetic.  So, it will come as no surprise to anyone that of all the days that mark this mid-term election year it is possible that August 16th will be my favorite.  On that day Liz Cheney is very likely to be flushed down the toilet of electoral politics never to surface again.

She will be booted out of the race for Wyoming’s lone seat in the House of Representatives.  The latest poll has her primary opponent up +22 with the poll at 52% to 30%.

 

Polling Data

Poll Date Sample MoE Hageman Cheney Bouchard Spread
Mason-Dixon 7/7 – 7/11 1100 LV 3.0 52 30 5 Hageman +22

 

Now having just returned from Wyoming I can see how truly poor a representative she is of that state.  Everywhere I looked there were billboards praising the second amendment and the right to bear arms.  I saw MAGA hats and flags all over the place.  My favorite flag flying from the back of a pickup truck said Take America Back Again.

Suffice it to say that Donald Trump has a lot of supporters in Wyoming.  And Wyoming is split 70% – 30%, Republican – Democrat.  Even if every Democrat switches parties to vote for Cheney in the primary she is going down in flames.  On August 17th she’ll return to the January 6th show trial as a lame duck witch hunter.  She’ll probably get all kinds of sympathy from her fellow nut jobs on the committee and they’ll tell her how brave she is and how she’s sure to land a great job at MSNBC or CNN like former Republican Joe Scarborough did.

 

But no matter how this thing is spun it’s gotta be an absolute gut punch for Liz.  After all her father was the Vice President of the United States and the recognized Prince of Darkness by all members of the Left.  That kind of lineage requires a certain level of respect.  To be kicked to the curb by the MAGA crowd must really sting.  After all we’re just riff-raff.  She’s royalty.

 

And so, you can see why this reckoning appeals so strongly to my instinct for revenge.  Liz is a creature of the Deep State.  Her loyalty is to managerial state and she probably despises the deplorables much more than she competes against the Democrats.  After all, they’re friends and neighbors.  Their kids go to the same schools.  They vacation at the same places and they eat at the same four-star restaurants.

So, circle August 16th on your calendar and prepare your favorite snack to stay up and relish the election returns on Real Clear Politics or whatever news source you favor for election results.  I want to hear Liz Cheney’s tearful or angry or just gob-smacked concession speech.  I’m hoping for angry.  I want to know we got under her skin.

We’re nobodies.  Our lives mean nothing to the Masters of the Universe who declare that we may not use gasoline to travel to work or eat meat at our family barbecues or walk on an airplane without a mask.  But in just this little case we can make Liz Cheney sad.  She’ll have to be a pundit on a crappy cable channel instead of President of the United States.  Her dream will be crushed because she was doing the Marie Antoinette act and ignored her constituency.

 

It’s still three weeks away.  I’m very impatient.  That whole, “Revenge is a dish best served up cold.” thing is really annoying.  But I’ll do my best.  Will it be enough?  Nah.  November will hold the promise of so much more.  But Cheney is the microcosm of the whole thing.  RINOs are the worst symptom of our present political cancer.  They’re the kill shot that prevents us from saving ourselves through elections.  They’re straight up traitors to their constituents.  Because of that, flushing one of their careers down the drain is a schadenfreudian delight.

 

Bye-bye Liz.  Don’t think it hasn’t been a pleasure, … because it hasn’t!

 

Update:

Not satisfied with her imminent rejection by the state of Wyoming, Liz is looking ahead to being humiliated in a presidential bid in 2024.

https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1551587914370256896

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So, this was the tail end of a baby-sitting marathon by Camera Girl.  One of my daughters had a five-day anniversary trip postponed earlier in the year by illness and rescheduled during my marathon trip to Yellowstone.  So not only was Camera Girl watching my young granddaughter on Monday, Wednesday and Friday but she was also watching my two younger grandsons from Tuesday to Saturday (today).

Being the highly evolved and supportive husband that I am, I provided all the help of which I am capable.  This consists of me saying things like, “Honey, are these kids allowed to do this?” and “Do you want me to take them outside while you shop, cook dinner and clean the house?”  Of course, that would be under perfect circumstances.  This weekend I’m jet-lagged, dehydrated and have a sore elbow so I restricted my athletic events with the kids to watching them in the swimming pool, playing billiards and being beaten at chess by young children.  The infamy!

Seriously I used to kid myself that I didn’t have to learn about chess strategy.  I was so smart that my instincts would carry me through with anyone below a grandmaster.  Apparently, grandmasters nowadays are really short and have squeaky voices.  My older younger grandson beat me three games running before I finally got a grip and distracted him enough to win.  Then the littlest guy gave me a run for my money in which I barely squeaked out a win.

But between these duties I had a chance to read a bunch of news and opinion articles.  It seems the Left and the Fake Right are trying to convince us that there is powerful evidence that the January 6th Investigation has turned the tide of public opinion across America and made electing Democrats all the rage.  Apparently, Bison Man cavorting in Nancy Pelosi’s office is much more compelling stuff than $5 gasoline, $10 hamburgers and teachers grooming children for sterilization.

Now we’re supposed to believe this notwithstanding that this week Creepy Uncle Joe bottomed out below -20 points in the approval/disapproval scorecard for the first time in his presidency.  Apparently the most unpopular president on record is leading the way to a Democrat landslide in the mid-terms.  I guess it’s possible.  But I’m gonna say no.

Other stuff I read seems more like the beginning of panic.  One guy kept asking how the polls could be so skewed against the Democrats when the Trump Republicans are just so evil.  That one was really funny.

Another pundit was worried by a strategy on the Left of voting in the Republican primaries for what they considered “far right” Republicans in the hope that this would increase the chance of Democrats winning in the general election.  This pundit was truly scared that this would backfire and decrease the number of RINOs by electing actual conservatives.  Terrifying!

One little ray of good news did leak through this week.  That Latino guy who was charged with second degree murder for defending himself against some crazy guy attacking him in the bodega where he works had the murder charge dropped.  Apparently, New York Mayor Adams put pressure on the DA and judge to recognize the self defense aspect of the situation and ended this travesty of justice.  Who knows?  Could some sanity begin to reassert itself in New York City?  Nah.

Now that the grandkids will be away for a day or so I can try to start catching up on my writing and pictures from the trip.  But I have to say it looks like time is running out on the Biden administration.  I saw he tried to declare a climate emergency this week but nobody cared.  It’s not like he can wave an energy wand and terawatts of power will just start flowing into the grid from rainbow fairy dust.  He’s out of make believe and the economy is starting to grind to a halt.  It will be interesting to see if they pull the plug on his presidency before or after the mid-terms.  Either way, I’m thinking we’re about to see some really ugly stuff soon.  Enjoy the summer.

Return to Reality?

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So here I am thirty-six hours after returning from the wilderness where for the most part I had no internet access or information on what was going on in the world for the last two weeks.  And to be totally honest I can’t detect any change in the status quo.

Sure, Joe Biden’s approval rating has sunk three or four more points.  The economy has continued to sink into stagflation.  And the progressive cabal is still doing everything it can to destroy what’s left of the American people.  But headlines from two weeks ago look more or less the same as today’s.

What did change was that I had a chance to relax and think a little about the state of the world.  And I even had a chance to talk to different people about what they thought was going on.  And what I heard reinforced what I’ve been thinking.  Basically, the elites have the rest of us by the throat.  The mask is off.  We and they are not “us.”  They’re calling the shots and unless we want to lick their boots (and even if we do) they’re going to do whatever they can to make us disappear.

I heard the code words and talking points from both sides.  Listening to the conversations among the members of the managerial class on vacation with their families and among the deplorables was edifying.  Even out there in the middle of nowhere with grizzly bears and bison as your closest neighbors, people talk about the 2020 election and the 2022 elections and the January 6th Charade and the economy.  And it couldn’t be more polarized.  The so-called Republicans who hate Trump are searching for a way to get rid of Biden without facing up to the reality that Donald Trump will still be there in 2024.

The reality that I see is we’re just going to have to grind this out.  Any talk of bipartisanship is a ploy.  I read an article from Bret Stephens, a Never-Trumper, in which he tries to apologize for calling Trump voters “moral ignoramuses” but can’t quite do it.  After all they still want to vote for Trump now after the unforgiveable sin of January 6th.  Stephens’ point is that Republicans can’t really want closed borders, safe streets and fair elections because then Trump wins and that is beyond the pale.  From my point of view there is no meeting these people in the middle.  Whether they are progressives or establishment Republicans there is no middle.  It’s capitulation or war.  So, it’s war.

And I’m totally alright with that.  They are going to pull out all the stops.  There will be BLM riots and Antifa intimidation.  The administrative state and the Biden executive orders will make our lives a living hell.  But that’s nothing new.  And the sum total of all this misery is crystallizing the opinion in more and more people of every stripe that the Democrats and their allies are destroying this country in order to satisfy their agenda.

Green energy and the New World Order’s war with Russia are making middle class life impossible for everyone but the members of the elite.  And their war on the police has turned the cities into death traps.  This is the perfect time to see if the elections are completely rigged.  If the Democrats win the mid-terms in this environment, then what the dissident right says about not being able to vote our way out of this mess is verifiably true.  But if there is a landslide that crashes the Democrats in both Houses then that seems like a very hopeful sign to me.

It’s only four months away.  Seems like something worth waiting around to see.  So apparently camping out in the middle of nowhere isn’t really shutting out the world.  It’s more like proving that a microcosm reflects the macrocosm.  People are who they are.  Whether they’re waiting to see a grizzly bear chew on a bison carcass or tweeting about Trump.  They show their true colors.  That’s reality.