Category: Current Events

This One Sums it Up

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This must be occurring to urban Democrats just about now.

When there are no police and your only weapon is your bare hands and they come for you it’s going to be a little too late to start talking about your constitutional rights. Hey maybe they’ll respect your rights because you voted for Biden. You can try telling them that. But I don’t think they speak English.

Surrounded by Imbeciles

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I was trying to relax tonight and take a break from the world.  I went to a high school athletic awards ceremony for one of my grandsons.  It was exactly as anyone who has been to such an event would expect.  Coaches make short speeches in praise of the athletes and the kids seem uncomfortable and awkward as they stand on stage and accept the awards and the applause of their peers and relatives.  From my perspective it was very rewarding.  To see the young people behaving civilly and appropriately while the outside world is descending into barbarism provides a splinter of hope for the future.

I came home in the glow of good spirits and was prepared to watch with Camera Girl, the pre-recorded episode of her current favorite tv show, Wheel of Fortune.  But alas, it had been pre-empted by a news report about Donald Trump being indicted by the Justice Department for possession of some supposedly classified documents.  We were fast-forwarding through the recording so I couldn’t hear any of the audio but I could read the banner under the video and that was what it was about.  But what can you do?  When you live in a banana republic these are the things that go on.  So, I looked for some other way to amuse myself, although my buoyant mood was substantially quenched.

I had recorded the Keanu Reeves remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”  Previously I had seen short segments of the film while looking for something to watch and it hadn’t looked too promising but I figured, “How bad could it be?”  Well, I found out.

The original movie had suffered from a lethal dose of sanctimonious pacifism.  This latter edition is orders of magnitude worse.  In addition to having the painfully wooden acting abilities of Reeves on full display for most of the film, it also tried to convince us that John Cleese was an Einstein-level physicist and that Kathy Bates was the Secretary of Defense (although the latter would make perfect sense in a second Biden term).

And in this remake the aliens aren’t going to destroy Earth.  They were going to save it by eliminating mankind.  They even went to the trouble to airlift animal species off the planet to save them for after the Earth had been swept clean of man.  And even after Klaatu is persuaded to save humanity from his swarm of ravenous nanobots, he imposes some kind of draconian solution that renders electrical generation, anywhere on Earth, impossible.  In other words, he saves us but pushes us back into the pre-industrial era.  Here is Gaia’s revenge.  Instead of Keanu Reeves why didn’t they cast Al Gore as Klaatu?  It would’ve been the perfect cherry on the sundae of this pile of crap.

And somehow, I found a perfect alignment between the Trump indictment and the sensibilities of this dismal mess of a movie.  We’re surrounded by imbeciles.  Only an imbecile would believe that the indictment was anything but naked partisan lawfare.  Only an imbecile would enjoy the self-loathing and junk science that informed this vacuous mess.

We’re in a lot of trouble.  The country is run by very bad people.  And unfortunately, the stupid obey them implicitly and the stupid are in the majority.  I’ve been trying to guess what the most likely outcome for all of this will be.  It almost seems that the destruction of our civilization will be accomplished momentarily.  The cities are crumbling and the economic wealth of the country is being drained off before our eyes.  Maybe the speed with which the damage is being done will panic even the stupidest leftist into changing course and throwing out the Democrats.

But somehow, I don’t see it.  I think they’ve figured out the bread and circuses routine sufficiently well to keep the Millennials and Zoomers sitting in their parents’ basements right through the apocalypse itself.  Lately the pediatric transitioning has elicited a response from people.  But is it just a reflex?  Is the brain already gone and this is just the muscles spasming?  Sorry, this is so dark.  But right now, I think we’re in a very dark place.

Lord, save us from the imbeciles.  They’re everywhere you look.

Flagging Confidence

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Back in the bad old days every road project had its police detail to direct traffic and drink coffee.  This was back when unionized police were a Democrat constituency and providing them with perks like this kind of detail was a fringe benefit of the job.  And all things being equal a cop at one of these road restrictions meant that the drivers would pay attention.

But cops make a lot of money and as Democrats shifted their patronage priorities to illegal aliens and transgender grade school teachers it occurred to them that they could save a lot of money by letting the construction workers take care of the traffic by designating one or two “flag men.”  And for the most part this worked pretty well.  The workers probably divvied up the flag work to give themselves a break over the course of the day.  Since they had a handle on when to stop traffic for various phases of the work and since they were mostly capable human beings the traffic was handled relatively efficiently.

Recently I think flag man has been broken out as a separate job.  They seem to be assigning relatively stupid people to this assignment.  Now granted, it doesn’t take much to flip a sign around from STOP to SLOW.  But you do have to coordinate with another person and understand the risks involved.  And lately things haven’t been going as well.  Several times in the last few months I’ve happened upon a road work site where the flag man wasn’t even trying.  Once he held his sign on SLOW while the other sign read the same thing.  He was talking to one of the workers and not even looking at the road.  Luckily for me I was paying attention to the traffic coming from the other direction and anticipated.

I was thinking of saying something or reporting it to the state but then I realized.  Who am I kidding?  This was some diversity hire.  He wasn’t a construction worker he was a DEI check mark.  My complaint would be considered a hate crime.  The smart play would be to confirm the traffic flow myself from now on at one of these work sites.

But now we’ve reached the final stage of flag depreciation, flag girl.  Lately all the flag holders are women.  Now you might think that this doesn’t pose any additional risk.  After all there were several male flag holders that displayed extreme disregard for the safety of the drivers.  But women present a different challenge.  As I’ve learned from Camera Girl, women have a different spatial sense than men.  Back in the old days before GPS we used things called road maps to find our way along the American highway system.  And occasionally I would use Camera Girl as my map man on a trip.  Now she is a very intelligent woman.  But for some reason I could ask her which fork in the road I should take and after looking at the map she would say right and then point left!  This can be a terrifying and dangerous situation if there are only a few seconds to react.

So, imagine one of these flag girls standing there flipping this sign from STOP to SLOW or vice versa and the driving public at the mercy of her sense of direction and her feminine logic.  It’s enough to make you want to give up driving.

But soon artificial intelligence will save us.  Robots will take over this function and then we’ll really have something to worry about.  Well, whatever else they do I hope they put a beard on the robot just to be sure.  You can’t be too careful.

Tucker’s First Twitter Commentary

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Tucker’s first opinion piece on Twitter dropped today.  It started out talking about the media pretending that Russia blew up their own dam in Ukraine just like they pretended that Russia blew up the NordStream pipeline.  Then he used this as a jumping off point to show how the media feeds the American public the talking points that the regime wants promulgated and ignores anything that isn’t sanctioned.  As a case in point he mentioned the recent UFO story.  And to drive the point home he compared it to the way information was handled in the Soviet Union.

It was a nice coherent ten minute piece.  It goes without saying there isn’t an opinion piece on any of the cable or broadcast news shows that I would listen to for ten minutes because it would be too painful.

Well done Tucker.  Keep it coming.  And well done Elon.  Without you there would be no place this could be seen.

We’ve Found ET?

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So, some former military guy says the government has UFO’s and dead aliens.  Sure, why not?  It’s no stranger than all the other lies the feds tell us.  So, is this the distraction that’s supposed to get us through the Silly Season this summer while we learn how much gasoline will cost and how much cricket dust will be added to the hamburger we’ll be eating?

Personally I don’t believe it at all.  Let me know what you think of all this, below.

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