Category: Current Events

06OCT2023 – Ah the Irony

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Non-Binary by any other name would smell as sweet.  So the gals in tech are outraged that their job fair has been hijacked by a bunch of Indian and Chinese nerds who claim they are “non-binary.”  Well, well.  I guess if we can’t define a woman then we can’t say whether someone isn’t one.

Keep it coming all you weirdos.  Let the women, whatever they are, stew in the irony of allying themselves against white men for all these years.  Surely the Asian guys who have discovered the joys of non-binary (isn’t computing binary by definition?) will step aside and let the “ladies” through.

No?  Oh well.

What’s Ahead for the House of Representatives

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There’s a title searching for an answer.  What will happen?  What could happen?

Almost anything could happen.  Suppose enough of the Uniparty Republicans get nervous about not sending enough money to Ukraine.  Maybe they’ll vote for the Democratic Minority Leader to be Speaker.  I’m sure it could happen.  Maybe Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan or Steve Scalise sit down and hammer out something that will keep Gaetz satisfied but won’t shut down the government.  Maybe that could happen.  The wackiest outcome would be Trump selected as Speaker by the Republican House members.  I give this outcome something like one in a hundred thousand odds.  And even if this was just a temporary situation, I’d love to see it happen.  The heads exploding in both parties would be tremendously entertaining.  And let’s face it.  Schadenfreude is just about the only thing left to enjoy about our situation.  After all, we’re all going rapidly broke while Joe Biden fiddles and burns everything down.

But it seems fair to say that whoever becomes the Speaker of the House should have to align himself with the Republican voters in this country and all the polls show that the one person that the clear majority of Republicans see as their leader is Donald Trump.  Both the Republican Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority Leader should be taking their marching orders from Trump.  And of course, that goes against their individual financial interests.  Because most of the slush money they get comes from voting for government policies for special interest groups like the defense contractors and banks and pharmaceutical manufacturers.  Doing the right thing for our country is way, way down near the bottom of their list of priorities.

But McCarthy getting bounced and all the anti-Trump congress critters like Liz Cheney getting primaried is starting to make an impression on the Republican politicos.  I think it’s starting to dawn on them that the gravy train could be over if they don’t move “doing the right thing for the country” much higher up the list.  And they don’t even have to believe in what they’re doing.  They can just follow the herd as Gaetz and others tell them what they must do to stay employed.  If Gaetz and his colleagues are clever enough they can convince the bulk of the Republicans that they have the leverage to put the screws to Joe Biden without paying a price in 2024.  After all Biden is despised by the majority of the country.  Making him pay a high political price for the problems he’s already caused should be within the abilities of moderately intelligent politicians.  Precedents are lying around in the recent electoral past.  The 2008 campaign that was a referendum against George W Bush should suffice as a template.

So, I’ve laid out the most optimistic scenario.  Everything more pessimistic is also out there.  Normally at this point I’d state that my guess was much, much gloomier.  But I don’t know, I don’t feel that down on the outcome.  It could be senility or something but I’m willing to see how this thing plays out.  Let Gaetz and his cohort sit down with Jordan and see where this is going to go.  Maybe a few good men can get something done in the cesspool that is DC.

Anyway, that’s enough words for now.  Enjoy the rest of the nice day we’ve been served up.

“Peacekeepers” in Chicago Provide New Definition of Peace

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The video in the linked article shows a Chicago street gang dragging a driver from his car to be beaten to a pulp and robbed.  But luckily a yellow-vested peacekeeper arrives on the scene.  These are community leaders or ex-cons who can intervene to prevent violence.  The peacekeeper intervenes by beating the victim in the face with his own cell phone.  Eventually the police arrived and swept up what was left of the victim and brought him to a hospital.

The peacekeeper was identified from the video feed and was found in possession of the victim’s wallet. It’s good to see that community activists are stepping up and teaching the youth of our cities how it’s done.

Using the victim’s phone as a weapon is reminiscent of that scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey when the ape-man experiments with the large animal bone and figures out what an effective tool for killing his prey it would be.  Inspirational.  We’re seeing evolution at work.  All that’s left is for a stew pot to be procured and the victim to be tossed in for dinner.

Peacekeeping indeed.

City releases video of ‘peacekeeper’ helping group attack and rob motorist in Little Village

A Golden Fall Day

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I look out on the golden sunshine on this summerlike day and rejoice that whatever madness the psychos on the Left have inflicted they still haven’t altered reality.  There are still seasons and sunsets.  The beginning of October means the last of the roses finish off and the Montauk daisies are beginning to bloom and, in a week or two, the wolfbane will open its purple petals and the lycanthropes of Dunwich will assemble to howl at the moon and pull up Camera Girl’s vegetable garden.

But out in the big world all kinds of crazy things are going on.  Republicans and RINOs are engaging in jousting contests to see who will control the Speaker’s gavel.  This is a situation without precedent in the modern age of Washington.  We’re in completely unknown territory and virtually anything seems possible, all the way from incredible disaster to surprising improvement.

Meanwhile, Biden and his handlers are attempting to convince their paymasters that it’s too late to change horses in midstream.  But the rank and file of the Democrat party are seasick from all the turmoil that Dementia Joe’s policies have engendered.  They look at the polls and realize they’re part of an enormous chunk of the country that wants it to stop.  The food and gas inflation, the sky-high mortgage rates, the food costs, the endless billions being shoveled into the Ukraine war, the violence in the cities, the rolling blackouts and the attacks on normal parts of life like gas stoves and gasoline cars, the homeless and the illegal aliens living on the streets and in the parks.  Even Democrat mayors and governors want an end to the millions of illegals flooding their cities.

And the Justice Department and the FBI have made a mockery of justice by their openly partisan and obviously concocted indictments against Donald Trump.  Every week they come up with a stupider basis for attacking the former president.  Now they’re going after him because they say he overvalued his properties when he used them as collateral in a loan application.  As if corporations don’t do their own due diligence when they loan money!  This charge is so absurd, that it boggles the mind that they could find a prosecutor corrupt enough to claim it.

So, as we march on into the fall, the drumbeat of doom and gloom echoes throughout the land.  Well, that’s as much as to say, situation normal.  There’s really nothing much for our side to do except avoid taking any responsibility for the trainwreck the Democrats have created.

The only positive act that can be performed is refusing to feed Zelensky any more money for his minions to steal.  Let that murderous boondoggle play itself out without us taking an accessory role.

Wait a minute, there is one other thing.  Refusing to approve an extension to the Patriot Act seems like the only really important accomplishment that the Republican House can perform.  Let it expire finally.  The fallout will probably be a false flag attack by the CIA.  But what can you do?  Our side can announce the expected attack ahead of time as a likely ruse and assume the American people have seen enough in the last few years to recognize when they’re being had.  After all the CIA is allowed to spy on foreigners.  They should have stopped the 9-11 hijackers before they ever got on those planes.  Any attacks by foreigners, including illegal aliens is handleable by the FBI without the need for the domestic spying built into the Patriot Act.

Well, that’s enough for now.  There are still a bunch of razzberries and grape tomatoes to pick and I’m waiting for the HVAC guy to replace the oil pump on my heating system.  I leave everybody to enjoy the rest of the day and contemplate the “state of the union.”  It should be an interesting season.

Now That McCarthy’s Been Removed, Should Trump Be Speaker?

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So who will be the next Speaker?  I remember someone saying that the Speaker doesn’t have to be in the House.  Well, how about if they elect him Speaker?  Who knows, maybe there’s an immunity for the Speaker not being tried in Court while in office like for the President.

Anyway it would be a hoot to listen to the howling from the Democrats and the RINOs.

Come on congressmen, do the right thing.

It Seems Portugal Didn’t Get the Memo About Climate Protests

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In Germany the idiots sit in their cars like … idiots.  Apparently in Portugal they get out of their cars and drag the smug, self-important idiots by their arms, legs or hair depending on circumstances.  I wonder how many have lost a goodly amount of flesh when someone drags their super-glued hands off the asphalt.

There are a lot of people who are pretty tired of Gaia and her retarded minions.  It looks like patience is wearing thin.

The Trump Apprentice 2024

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I didn’t watch the debate the other night.  And probably very few people did.  It’s not like there is any big payback for watching that stuff.  I did watch NBC’s “five biggest moments.”  Well, I don’t know how they define big.  I watched Chris Christie’s “Donald Duck” zinger.  I guess that was the “cleverest” line.  I have worked out my candidate hierarchy.  Starting from the most annoying and working down I’d say:

  • Nikki Haley
  • Mike Pence
  • Chris Christie
  • Tim Scott
  • Vivek Ramaswamy
  • Ron DeSantis

I left out the governor from the Dakotas because I didn’t see him show up in the clips and I’m not 100% convinced that he actually exists in real life.  He may be a deep fake manufactured to bring the debate number up to Lucky Seven.

I like Ron DeSantis because he has done some very positive things in Florida.  That said, these “debates” are an embarrassment for all involved.  I understand that what is going on is the process of choosing who will be the candidate if Donald Trump is successfully kept off the ballot by the Uniparty.  But that process is a stain on everyone involved.

But I’ve figured out a legitimate way to select an alternative to Trump if the puppet masters figure out a way to keep him from running.

Let Donald Trump choose his own successor.

He should do it now.  In fact, it could be done as an entertainment product; “The Apprentice – 2024 VP Sweepstakes.”  Elon Musk could stream it on X and anyone who wants to watch it could pay two bucks a show and there would be ways for viewers to vote on different aspects of the show and donate money to Trump’s legal defense fund and maybe even a tie-in where a viewer gets to be on the finale where all but one of the contestants get fired.

So, I sound a little tongue in cheek here but I truly believe that Trump should select his running mate/successor early on.  That way if the bugmen keep him off the ballot at least we’ll be voting for the next best choice and hopefully someone who Trump trusts not to sell us out.

Now this would probably be a more difficult choice than Trump faced in 2016.  Mike Pence was probably a strategic selection.  He had social conservative cred and that filled in some of the gaps from Trump’s more cosmopolitan background.  But now he’s faced with choosing someone who can try to save the country from the oligarchs that are already as angry as a nest full of hornets that’s been knocked out of a tree.

And maybe the one he picks wasn’t even on last night’s stage.  Except for DeSantis the rest of them aren’t even close to being qualified to save this country.  And last I looked Trump and DeSantis hate each other’s guts.  Not that that is a disqualifying situation.  Plenty of very effective partnerships were between men who hated each other.

Hopefully he’s already given very serious consideration to this selection.  Trump’s freedom may depend on selecting someone honest enough to pardon him once the dust settles.

But that’s it.  Trump should select his running mate/successor before the primaries start.  And that successor will have to be on the primary ballots too just in case Trump gets knocked off.  Otherwise, one of the establishment candidates would end up as the candidate.

What a strange and depressing political situation we’ve ended up in.  The most popular candidate is despised and conspired against by his own political party and both parties collude to deny the will of the majority of Americans on all the most important governance topics, like immigration, energy and the economy.  So if the powers that be have their way and Donald Trump is kept off the ballot then let him pick his successor.  In the diseased state of “our democracy” that will be as close as we’ll get to the will of the people in that circumstance.

Boy, I’d love to see Trump tell Chris Christie, “You’re fired!”

Sixth Circuit Appellate Court Upholds Ban on Pediatric Trans-Affirming Medicine

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The Appellate Court upheld Kentucky’s and Tennessee’s laws that ban “gender-affirming” medicines and surgeries from being prescribed or performed on minors.  Watch Walsh’s video and you’ll hear just how total a defeat this was for the trans-lobby.  This was not a narrow decision but a refutation of the legitimacy of gender-affirming medicine and all the allegations that it was beneficial for minors.

Walsh is right that this victory should give us hope that other than in hopelessly benighted areas like the West Coast and the Northeast, judges will allow state governments to protect their children from this barbaric and criminal medical malpractice.

I’ve stated before that this cause, stopping this madness, is a politically powerful and morally obvious winner of a fight.  Most people see clearly how outrageous this whole trans-movement is.  The idea that an explosion of children are confused about whether they are boys or girls is a dangerous situation that should be remedied not embraced.

Eliminating the profit motive from this racket is an important first step.  The next step is to look at doctors who perform these procedures on adults and investigate whether they do more harm than good to the patients who come to them for such radical and dangerous procedures that at best produce cosmetic changes and at worst ruin the health and sometimes kill the patients involved.

At the very least, laws should be put in place allowing class-action suits to be brought against physicians and medical centers that practice these horrendously risky procedures that provide no meaningful benefit to the mentally unstable people who seek out these treatments.

I think if the Republicans in red states have half a brain they would ride this horse right through to the 2024 elections.  Even some of the blue states would probably be fertile grounds to attack the trans-medical-industrial complex and expose the money being raked in and the lives being destroyed by this supposedly humane approach to confused children.  I think enough horror stories are already available to educate people out there to the realities of all of this and use the resulting outrage to flush many politicians and mental health officials out of office.

But the stupid party is just that.  Stupid.

I Ask for Donald Trump and You Give Me Nikki Haley?

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The headline reads, “Major GOP donors eye Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis as the top Trump alternatives.”  Farther down it says,

“Mark Harris, the lead strategist at the pro-Haley Stand for America super PAC, released a memo after the debate touting the position of the lone woman in the primary “after two strong debates.” A Haley fundraising appeal on Thursday told supporters she has been “FLOODED with a nonstop SURGE OF SUPPORT,” following the debate.”

So, Nikki Haley is surging.  Her support is rising.  Well my stomach is surging and churning and my gorge is rising just thinking about her.

You know, I think I’d prefer Joe Biden as president rather than Hikki Haley.  It’s hard to imagine but I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t get my vote over Nikki Haley.  Except maybe Barack Obama.  He might be a tad worse.  Luckily, he’s blocked on constitutional grounds.  But even JEB! would be preferable to her.  Romney would be close.  They have a lot in common.  The smug elitist attitude, the tone-deaf position on conservative issues.  But I think even Mitt would get my vote instead of Haley.

It’s amazing to think that establishment Republican operatives see Haley as a top choice.  But it makes sense.  She gives them a candidate that they can package as checking off all the right boxes.  Female, check.  Non-white, check.  Pro-abortion, check.  Pro-Ukraine, check.  Pro-Gaia, check.  Smug elitist attitude, check, check, check.  These are the people who gave us John McCain and Mitt Romney for president.  They know a cheerful loser when they see one.

So, look, this isn’t shocking or even surprising.  The powers that be will select the least authentic, most bought and paid for loser they can find.  And that is Nikki Haley through and through.  Then, why am I writing about this?  Because it makes me crazy knowing that they’ll keep doing this over and over again.

And this is why Donald Trump is the only candidate I can vote for.  He’s the protest vote against all of this phony nonsense.  Even after W, McCain, Romney, JEB and everything that went on in 2020 they still try to push Nikki Haley as a conservative.  It’s enough to make you want to throw up.  Because what they’re saying basically is, “Either you’re too stupid to see what we’re doing or too weak to stop us from doing it and we don’t even care which it is.”

And so, if in November 2024 the ballot for president has the name Nikki Haley as the Republican candidate I’ll vote for the Democrat.  Even if it’s Joe Biden.  Even if it’s Kamala Harris.  Heaven help me, even if it’s the stupidest man on planet Earth, Don Lemon, I’ll vote for him.

I’m not voting for their clowns anymore.  Bought and sold won’t work.  We’ve gotten a look behind the curtain and we’re not likely to forget.  So, 2024 can be the beginning of the new world.  No one votes for fake conservatives anymore and we abandon federal elections until our choices are credible.  No more Mitt Romneys, no more Bushes and definitely no more Nikki Haleys.  Boycotting these phonies is precisely what will change things.  In the meantime, local politicians will gain in importance and eventually one of them will be the clear choice in presidential elections.

Who knows, maybe a new party will replace the Republicans.  The time is past ripe for it.  Once the party starts losing every election I could see a massive defection of conservative Republicans to a third party at some point.  That would leave the phonies and the grifters like Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham high and dry and all alone.  I guess they can call up their old friend Nikki Haley and see what she’s up to.