Or, the normies realize that rule of law is dead. After watching rioters get away with Burn, Loot, Murder while it is called peaceful protest and real peaceful protestors get decades long sentences for years – coupled with blatant election fraud for 2 national elections in a row they will have to realize that.
Now what?
Now the normies can no longer ignore what has been true for years and they stop obeying the laws.
Nothing overt – they don’t want to be jailed for decades on the charge of parading – but small stuff. Little things that add up. This is how a society falls apart.
Category: Current Events
Guest Contributor – Milo Mindbender – 21JAN2024 – Another Vision of 2024
This could be one scenario, but the most likely will be a repeat of the 2021 rallying cry ” Greatest threat to our democracy everrrr” and a total blockade against judicial intervention orchestrated to make this the new normal, that is until the WEF implementation of AI predictive elections.
If this does happen the Constitution is revoked, and all bets are off. By getting away with this in 2016, but not cheating hard enough, and again in 2020, but being too obvious they will advocate for a peaceful solution. In 2020 the movie “The Hunt” was delayed in release because it directly displayed the elites content for Joe Normal, I predict the upcoming predictive movie “Civil War” will also be delayed lest it make people start to wonder.
Any remedy will leave approximately half of Americans feeling betrayed by their government, either because they are forced to accept alphabet Mafia training, DIE inclusive hiring, and give up their property to the replacement serfs, or the alphabet Mafia gets told welcome out of the closet, now stay away from the the children, judgment based on content of character rather than skin tones, and securing the border, with deportations of foreign nationals, and loss of welfare support for said imported replacements.
No one solution will create a unified country again, without an external threat to make us forget our petty first world issues. Forgive the rant, typing as stream of consciousness while the coffee soaks in.
I’ve Found the Leftist Pundit of the Week
PBS’s ‘Firing Line’ host Margaret Hoover does her best George Stephanopoulos impression trying to shame RINO Chris Sununu into saying he would vote for Biden over Trump. To his credit Sununu wasn’t cowardly enough to let her force him into that. She keeps pecking away at him to say that January 6th was such an abomination that Biden would be the only legitimate choice because of “our democracy.”
When she parrots the line about Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his enemies Sununu amusingly mentions that some people say that the Democrats have already been doing just that. You can see the frustration in her AWFL face.
So as much as Sununu is a typical New England Republican, meaning a libertarian Democrat, he has the basic political survival instincts not to completely betray his own party on air.
If even Chris Sununu has the sense to see that Donald Trump is popular enough to get enough votes to become president then the Democrats must be feeling the heat in this campaign environment. I bet they force Joe Biden out. Some people say he won’t be pushed. But the FBI has all the evidence they could possibly need to expose the Biden Crime Family for what it is. Biden is not a courageous man. He’s a stooge. He’ll do what he’s told.
Poor Margaret Hoover. Even Chris Sununu has begun telling her that the Biden jig is up.
What Happens If 2024 is Rigged Too?
Suppose 2024 is a carbon copy of 2020. At 11:30 pm, with Donald Trump ahead by comfortable margins, the counting stops in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia and after several days of slow-motion vote counting, Biden wins these states and the presidency.
This is the Dissident Right’s checkmate scenario; a permanent Democrat lock on the federal government. No matter how lousy the Left’s handling of the economy and the border and foreign affairs Republicans will be shut out of the White House and Congress and eventually through attrition the Supreme Court too. Checkmate.
The question to answer is what, if anything, will the Right do about it?
And here is another case of no one knows for sure. Could it all just go forward, not with a bang but a whimper? Certainly, it could. Maybe even, it’s likely it would. And that would seal the fate of the “constitutional republic” for at least a generation and maybe for good. So that’s the worst case. What else is there?
I think the best-case scenario is a Conservative Convention. I don’t mean a Republican convention. In fact, I would hope the attendees would studiously ignore their party affiliation and concentrate on their status as normal Americans. I think every state should select delegates and these men should open up negotiations on forming a Red State Council. This would be an organization to allow the Red States to coordinate, integrate and amplify the efforts of these states to neutralize the deleterious effects of the federal government and at the same time build alternative institutions both private and public to advance the interests and nurture the citizens they represent.
For the normal Americans trapped in the Blue States this Council would provide an indirect leadership. Commercial support by these Blue State inhabitants for any businesses fostered by the Council would be mutually beneficial for both consumers and corporations. And these refugees can benefit from such resources as conservative colleges where their children can get a sane education.
None of these things will happen easily or quickly, which is an even more important reason that they need to begin immediately after the futility of federal elections has been proven once and for all. It will only be by beginning the process of forging a separate identity that any sense of hope will appear. This identity should be based on a refusal to surrender our rights to freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, freedom of association, freedom of religion and the rest of the Bill of Rights. By choosing these rights as the basis for our identity we demonstrate that we are the direct successors of the American republic and therefore the legitimate heirs to its heritage. This will provide us with the basis for our efforts to form new institutions.
For instance, we should sponsor the creation of communication and media companies that will respect freedom of speech and the fourth amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
We can’t have phone companies and e-mail services allowing the government to spy on Americans anymore. The only way this can be enforced is if the Red States enforce these restrictions themselves.
And the Red States will have to police illegal immigration themselves. Expelling the immigrants either back to their countries of origin or else to “sanctuary” blue states could be part of this policy.
And there are a thousand things from affirmative action to sexual deviancy that needs to be addressed by a conservative coalition. But the only way anything will be achieved is by making a start. Until we hear that such a gathering has been arranged, we live without hope of regaining our rights and freedoms. And the day that should begin is the day after the 2024 election is stolen.
Ice Spikes
I’ve got guests this week and Camera Girl is killing the fatted calf and there will be much rejoicing. And there is not as much time for writing. But still enough. Today I’m in an upbeat mood. No doom and gloom today.
I went out and scraped some ice off the driveway and bought about five hundred pounds of tubesand (yes, that’s a real thing) and scratch it into the ice with a garden rake and voila! Traction. And I’ve been exposed to the joys of ice spikes and chains that can be attached to boots or shoes. With these wonder devices I can sneer at glass smooth ice fields. I feel like some kind of winter super hero. New vistas have opened up. Even the dogs; those canine klutzes, are now in awe of my agility and speed on ice fields. So yeah, I’ve fully adapted to winter and relish the next snowstorm. But just in time for my new attitude I read that warmer weather and rain is due by Wednesday. Bah.
Well, I listened to a bunch of lefty loons today. Eric Holder, Joy Reid, Claire McCaskill, Gretchen Whitmer, Rachel Maddow, Kamala Harris, James Carville, David Axelrod and on and on and on. And they’re all freaking out. Trump’s Hitler and he’s going to open concentration camps and he’s going to force women to wear those funny costumes from the Handmaid’s Tale and travel around the country in Air Force One groping them randomly and he’s going to paint the White House gold. And OUR DEMOCRACY!
Wonderful. It’s wonderful to see them running in circles trying to figure out how to make Nikki Haley the Republican nominee for president. And they can’t make up their minds whether Biden must get out of the race right now or that he must be the nominee but younger, smarter, faster and better than the doddering old doofus who keeps showing up at the White House podium announcing which airstrikes he’s approving against people whose name he can’t pronounce, never mind locate on a map.
Next Tuesday is the New Hampshire primary and presently it looks like Trump will win that too, even though so many Democrat ringers will be crossing the border from Massachusetts to vote that it might temporarily raise the IQ of Massachusetts by ten or twenty points. It’s said that if he beats her by fifteen points the nomination is more or less decided. And the prospect of this has Bill Kristol and the rest of the GOP establishment going crazier than the Democrats. The Bulwark and the Atlantic have called in suicide prevention professionals to coax most of their RINO pundits off the ledge.
Now does all this mean Trump is a shoo-in to win the November election? Oh, far from it. States are trying to ban Trump from the ballots and you know the absentee ballots are being printed up by fraud squads in all the precincts of Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit and various other Democrat strongholds across the swing states. There will be cheating on a scale that will make 2020 look fair and transparent. No, there’s every chance they’ll cheat us again.
But today I don’t care. I won’t borrow the trouble that’s due in ten months. Why should I? I’m just luxuriating in the agita and panic radiating off of these mental midgets. They’re honestly scared and that’s just fine by me. People do stupid things when they’re scared and that’s what we need. They need to say stupid things, which they are. That shows who they really are and that makes them look unhinged to moderates and independents. And that’s a good look for them going into this election season.
The second half of January is starting pretty well. Everyone’s healthy and working hard so what else can I ask for in this lunatic asylum called America? Our enemies are scared. We need to pay attention to our own affairs and stay alert to what is going on in the outside world. It’s a dangerous place and requires a lot of careful thought to navigate safely. Keep your balance and don’t slip on the ice.
Correcting the Civil Rights Acts
Chris Rufo has written what I think is an interesting article in the City Journal. It’s called, “A New Civil Rights Agenda:
The only hope for a diverse nation is a regime of colorblind equality.”
Rufo points to the Civil rights Act of 1964 and some of the later additions to it for our unfortunate situation. He claims that both Libertarians and the Dissident Right advocate solutions that he feels are unworkable.
“The question is what to do about it. Libertarians have long argued that the Civil Rights Act compromises core freedoms of speech and association to such a degree that only repealing the law can restore them. Another faction argues that the solution to minoritarian identity politics is majoritarian identity politics—that is, if the legal regime has become a racial spoils system, then Americans of European descent must develop “white racial consciousness” and fight for their share.”
Instead, he outlines three steps that he feels would eliminate reverse discrimination:
“First, reformers should outlaw affirmative action and racial preferences of any kind. … The next president should rescind Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246, which established “affirmative action” and marked the initial deviation from the standard of colorblind equality.
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Second, reformers must eliminate the “disparate impact” provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co., both of which have entrenched the doctrine that disparate group outcomes are de facto evidence of racial discrimination.
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Third, legislators should abolish the DEI bureaucracies in all American institutions, which openly discriminate against disfavored racial groups, impose ideological orthodoxies on American citizens, and restrict freedoms of speech and association. In addition, federal legislators should radically reduce the size of the federal departments of civil rights enforcement.”
I am not a politician or a lawyer but even an uninformed layman can see that those changes will require either control of both houses of Congress and the president or the Supreme Court to get involved in outlawing whole bureaus of the executive branch out of existence.
I’m not saying it can’t be done but I can understand why there might be a high degree of skepticism on the part of dissidents. Conservatives have been bamboozled by the Republican establishment into hoping for colorblind reform forever and it’s never happened.
But recently we had the Supreme Court strike down affirmative action in college admissions. If they decide to strike it down entirely then possibly all of the three actions that Rufo outlines might actually be covered under this decision. With a conservative president and the Supreme Court outlawing reverse discrimination we might see sixty years of injustice eliminated in short order.
Okay, enough happy, happy talk. Rufo’s thesis is that conservative government would be well within its rights to eliminate almost all of the most obnoxious components of today’s racial reverse discrimination policies. But what he describes would take a courageous Supreme Court and a conservative president willing to use his authority as head of the executive branch to bring the various agencies to heel.
Let’s just say that I completely understand the Dissident’s Right’s skepticism. And all this depends on a conservative president. Will we ever see another one of those? Stay tuned till November.
Fake News for Stupid People
I’ve had a lot of fun mocking our heroic pundits on the Left. Whether it’s Joy Reid and her completely hollow skull or Rachel Maddow and her total lack of self-awareness or Jeffrey Toobin and his missing boundaries; all these people share the circumstance that they are unqualified to act as journalists. Granted, their employers really don’t expect or want them to perform that function. The last thing that MSNBC or CNN want is honesty and objectivity. Heaven forbid!
What these dullards and liars are supposed to do is mouth the talking points they are handed and pretend to be serious adults. In some cases, this is impossible. Joy Reid can’t even pronounce the word objectivity. Jeffrey Toobin couldn’t forego autoerotic activities while at work. And the Rachel Maddows and Chris Hayeses and Chris Lemons simply crawl with tics and mannerisms that announce to the world, “Here is a nut job.”
So, yeah, it’s a lot of fun and beyond easy to slap these meat puppets around whenever one of them takes to the airwaves and pontificates about Donald Trump or someone else on the Right who won’t kowtow to Barack Obama or some other creepy “lightworker” who they pull out of the woodworks. It’s easy because they’re idiots and because the things they say have become demonstrably false. COVID was built in a lab and the vaccine didn’t protect us from it. Biden has let in ten million illegal aliens and they are overwhelming New York, Chicago and every sanctuary city that claims to want them. Biden has inflated cost of everything from food to gasoline to rent until now working-class people can’t afford to live.
As I say, it’s easy to slap them around. But that only helps if so many people demand change that even the fake election producers can’t fake the results. And unfortunately, there are plenty of people like the Karens of the world who would rather see working class people starve to death rather than allow Donald Trump in the White House. The Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFL’s) are perfectly happy to pretend that Joy Reid is a genius if it validates their own intelligence.
But the final laugh will be on them. White females have finally fallen off the edge of the critical race table. Whiteness has finally sunk them too. There just isn’t enough room in the zero-sum game that is the Democrat coalition to allow them to keep their heads above water. BIPoC women need their jobs and their status. So, it’s time for them to go. And at the same time if the Supreme Court invalidates sex based affirmative action in the workplace, then there won’t be anything at all left for them to console themselves with as they come home to their little apartments filled with boxes; wine boxes and cat litter boxes.
But one thing they’ll still have will be MSNBC. Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid will always be there to remind them that black women and white lesbians can go on tv and tell them all the things that white people (including AWFL’s) have done to harm this world and why they need to be punished.
So, these dullards and liars have a real function. It’s to tell fake news to stupid people. I stand corrected.
My Favorite Iowa Moment. Send in the MSNBC Clowns
As Trump was declared the winner by NBC Rachel Maddow announces that MSNBC won’t be airing Trump’s victory speech. But it’s not spite, she says, it’s their high journalistic ethics that will not allow lies (lies!) to be broadcast on their channel. Hah! But luckily for us they will monitor the speech in case there is anything that needs to be conveyed (or more likely refuted).
Well, thank goodness we have MSNBC to let us know what is newsworthy. I mean, if you can’t depend on MSNBC to provide objective reporting who can you? Isn’t it rich.
Guest Contributor – Ed Brault – 17JAN2024 – Vermont Driveway Survival
Before we escaped the Peoples’ Republic of Vermont, I would stretch a poly tarp over my car. This covered the windshield, side windows and the door locks. A couple of bungie cords kept it tight. Come out in the morning, or night, and pop it off and the ice/snow/frost came with it. No scraping, and especially no fumbling trying to get keys into frozen locks. (Yes, this was back in the Ice Age when I was a specialist in stone knives and bearskins.)
Dunk Tank Justice
Tuesday was a chaotic day. We had snow, then rain, then sleet. When I got out of work today my car was a popsicle. But being a really lazy guy, my ice scraper was sitting at home where I left it, in front of the kitchen porch where it was definitely of limited value. So, I used my bare hands to scrape this thick ice off my windshield and remove the ice from the roof and trunk. Liquid water is an amazing heat transfer material. The ice on the car was wet enough to make my caveman act extremely effective at freezing my fingertips. So, there I am driving along trying to use the dashboard car heater to thaw my fingers enough to feel the steering wheel.
On the way home I filled up my five-gallon plastic gas can with some three-dollar gasoline and headed home to the horror that was my driveway. Because there was still a freezing rain falling, I put on a raincoat. And because my fingers were still kind of tingly-numb I decided that I needed to protect them from getting frozen again. I made a glove sandwich. I put a pair of thin Thinsulate gloves on and covered them with a pair of disposable kitchen gloves. Not the tight-fitting rubber ones for doing the dishes but the loose clear thin plastic kind that restaurant workers wear when they handle cold cuts. Then I put a pair of work gloves on top of this. It worked like a charm. Keeping the insulated glove dry kept my hands warm and the work gloves provided the strength to protect the thin plastic gloves from damage. Edison the Man!
Snow blowers are pretty good with dry snow. They’re so-so with wet snow and they’re pretty abysmal with slush. And that’s what I had. The slush would separate in the auger and form a cylindrical plug of solid ice that would slowly travel up the outlet and when it got to about a foot long it would break off and fall out of the chute and then a burst of watery slush would shoot out for about thirty seconds and then start to clog with ice again. It took about three passes over the whole length to get most of the slush off the driveway and even then, it was still a mess.
Last week, I bought this fancy shovel which works better at pushing than shoveling the snow down the driveway. It has a couple of handles at different points on its length and works really well for quickly clearing this heavy wet stuff. I went over the whole upper driveway again with it. This was slower and more tiring than the snowblower, but much more successful. By the time the light failed at about 5 pm I had gotten the upper driveway and enough of the rest of the pavement cleaned up to the point where tomorrow I should be able to get in and out without trouble. Camera Girl provided sufficient wifely verbal sympathy for my heroic efforts and also a hot meal that was greatly appreciated.
Afterwards I watched a few clips on the results of the Iowa caucuses and was happy to hear the Lefties on MSNBC caterwauling about white privilege and racism. It’s interesting how even Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow only seem somewhat moronic when in the company of someone as profoundly stupid as Joy Reid. She was jabbering away about how White Christians were plotting with Donald Trump to subvert the country and disenfranchise everyone who wasn’t white and Christian.
And I thought to myself, “If only Trump was this evil dictator. I think I would submit to a purported dictatorship of these Midwestern, Elks or Shriners or whatever, if only they would promise to sit Joy Reid on the shelf of a dunk tank filled with ice water and gave me a dozen baseballs. Now I’m not a monster. I would allow her to be fished out between dunks and dried off and warmed up. But I would consider it one of my finest moments if I managed to hit the target even once and consigned Joy Reid to the icy depths if only for a few moments. And I thought, “That’s a pretty good idea.” Dunk tank justice would provide satisfaction to the multitudes. Imagine if every aggrieved conservative got a turn at freeze dunking Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden or Nikki Haley for saying really stupid things. This would be a happier world. Of course, some of the frailer losers like Pelosi might catch pneumonia. But I’m willing to take that risk.
I guess maybe the cruel and unusual punishment standard of justice might forbid dunk tank justice. But I tell you, I don’t see why we couldn’t get a constitutional amendment to cover it. And I’ll bet if Joy Reid thought that she could get dunked in ice water for saying things as stupid as what comes out of her mouth currently, maybe she’d take up some more noble profession, like rodeo clown. But unfortunately, being a rodeo clown takes brains, of which she has not a scintilla. Well, how about doorstop?