If you need a good laugh watch some of this. But pace yourself. The level of mental pathology is shockingly high. Sure it’s funny as hell but consider that these people are out there walking around free without minders to stop them from walking into traffic or running with scissors. Remember small doses and take a break between sessions to clear the toxins.
Category: Trump
Read It Great Trump!
It would make sense that the true America Caesar wouldn’t be a general but rather a huckster. P T Barnum is more or less the archetype. Here is Trump; a man who all alone against the omnipotent federal government single-handedly wrestled them to the ground and pushed their faces in the mud.
I was talking to a friend tonight and we were both marveling at how Trump instinctively knows how to manipulate every person and situation to his advantage. He exposed the phoniness and selfishness of oligarchs like Jeb Bush and Hilary Clinton to the American working and middle classes. He exposed “free trade” as the weapon of the rich against their own fellow citizens. He refused to allow the elites to use forever wars to control the whole planet and at the same time whittle down the warrior class to a manageable force.
And now he has exposed the incompetence and imbecility of Biden, Kamala and their handlers before the whole world. Before our eyes he put on the “greatest show on Earth” and blew the Biden and Kamala clown cars right off the road. While not as hilarious as the 2016 Hilary “Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth” medley, it’s still plenty funny to listen to the various pundits screeching about how Trump will bring to life the “Handmaid’s Tale” and force these 80-year-old hags to dress in the nun outfit and bear him children. Well, I guess everyone is entitled to a secret dream, even 80-year-old hags. I wonder if he has to dress up as a pirate in that dream?
So, my hat’s off to him. Bravo!
The only thing I wonder about is how much will he be able to achieve that will be of lasting benefit. Look at what they did to his vibrant economy. All it took was the Summer of George Floyd and COVID19. Imagine if he really went after the CIA, FBI and the IRS. They’d probably unleash a hybrid of small pox and Ebola.
But Trump deserves to have his chance. He’s shown himself to be resourceful and fearless. With a lot of work and even more luck he might achieve some very worthwhile things. And we all have our secret wish list. Here’s mine:
- Pardon himself. This one’s a no brainer.
- Pardon everyone who’s been persecuted by Democrat lawfare. That goes for everyone from Rudy Giuliani to the J6 protestors languishing in prison.
- Disband the FBI. Or, at least, all of the offensive parts.
- Declare a national emergency and end all immigration until the illegal aliens have been deported.
- Deport all the illegal aliens.
- Get Elon Musk to “right-size” the federal government, with a chain saw.
- Rationalize American foreign policy with regard to military actions and develop an acceptable status quo with Beijing and Moscow.
- Make Rudy Giuliani the Attorney General and use the Justice Department to punish all federal and state infringements on the first amendment. This includes freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion and free association.
- Use the Justice Department to crack down on all federal and state infringements on the second amendment.
- And lastly, make Joy Reid wear a bag over her head whenever she’s on tv.
There! That’s not so bad.
3 AM Check In
I just got home and checked the internet and it says Trump won his race. Well, I hope it’s true. I’m a little surprised that the networks have called it. Well, specifically FOX called it. But I see that Kamala hasn’t conceded yet so maybe they still have some cards to play.
Well, we’ll see. I have to get back to work early so I won’t have much time to post until later tomorrow. I think I’ll let this sink in. Another Trump term. That might be interesting.
Maybe Kamala Really is Toast
I was watching this video and it seems that even Democrat pundits are becoming alarmed by the early voting numbers.
So, this is nothing to bet the farm on but it will be hilarious if it pans out. I was thinking, What the hell would Kamala do if she lost? I mean who would ever employ a pathetic loser like her?
Maybe Hillary and Kamala could form some kind of consulting company. Their specialty could be losing to Donald Trump and laughing maniacally to deflect embarrassing questions.
And if they added Joe Biden to the firm they’d really have something to amazing.
Seriously, I’ve been ridiculously busy for the last couple of weeks so I don’t have a good feel for how the race is actually going. But regardless of whether Trump could actually produce the changes he says he wants to create, if he wins this election the screeching that will go on in cat lady land will be epic. It will eclipse the crap-fest that erupted in 2016.
I remember fondly the best-of videos with the likes of Rachel Maddow and Miley Cyrus howling and barking at the moon. It would certainly make for a marvelous early Christmas present if we could have a repeat in November.
It’s understood that Trump winning the election will not in any way guarantee our escape from Deep State. They’ve already demonstrated their ability to undermine even a wildly popular president. Chances are they’ll resort to something much more deadly than COVID. Probably some kind of combination of small pox and Ebola.
But even if we can’t win we can still enjoy the spectacle of the “ladies” on The View and the whole cast of MSNBC including Morning Schmoe and Lycra Spandexy inveighing against the Orange Man and vowing to resist with all the fervor of their black hearts.
So just to remind us, this could be a taste of things to come.
Berries and Tech Stuff and Trump, Oh My!
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will be a marathon for your truly so I might as well say a few words about whatever I think of to talk about now. This balmy weather has been amazing. And whenever I get a few minutes outside it puts a smile on my face. Today I walked past the garden with the red raspberries and what do you think? There were a ton of them ripened on the plants. I tried to carry them in my hands but they kept dropping so I filled up my hat. I got a pint or so and I’m sure Camera Girl will wash them and serve them as dessert tonight.
I decided to try a couple of focus bracketing shots with the A7 IV’s new firmware upgrade. I’ll be processing the results later on today. I put together a phony indoor version of the autumn ground cover, complete with pine needles and cones, acorns and a bunch of leaves and dead flowers. Very evocative. Then I took a dead Luna moth from last summer and threw it on top. I hoping it produces a nice effect. But more importantly I want to see how the stacking program handles the files I made.
If I use a small number of files (30 – 50) the program can crunch through the image processing in a short time. But I think one of them was 150 files. I know it will take a long time but I’m not sure it won’t have the AI equivalent of a nervous breakdown. I’m looking forward to the results.
Speaking of technology issues, a couple of weeks ago my generic MP3 player gave up the ghost. Since then, I ‘ve only been able to listen to the music from my collection in the car. I bought a new and improved device a week or two ago but being a broken-down engineer from the 20th century every time I have to interface with equipment it has mutated again into an unrecognizable form. I’m sure this new device will not work with my earphones or carrying device of something else. It’s funny how quickly I became a Luddite.
I was talking to an old friend today and he asked me about my plans for the election. He’s going to be on a zoom call during the results period. I told him I’ll be incommunicado until probably 12:30 am. He gave me his condolences for this situation but I told him I’m glad I won’t be covering the vigil. On reflection, he agreed saying it will probably be a week-long marathon involving lawyers and rioting and other absurdities. Best not to get too caught up in the ballyhoo. After all, if Trump wins, they’ll do everything the can to stop his agenda. And if he loses, I’ll have bigger fish to fry.
Well, here’s my post for Sunday. If I can get three more in the can I can try and cover the interregnum and spare Orion’s Cold Fire from the ignominy of dead air. But in the words of Bob Wiley and Dr Leo Marvin, “Baby steps, baby steps.”
H/T to Vox Day for the Funniest Post I’ve Seen in a While
Regardless of how jaded we may feel about the American electoral system, Vox has provided an inspirational reason to vote.
The mental image of Bono driving his car over a cliff a la “Thelma and Louise” is just the perfect antidote for the sad reality we see around us.
What’s Going to Happen?
I intended to review “Sleepy Hollow” tonight for “October Viewing.” But I haven’t seen it since it was in the theaters many years ago and it was too late tonight to watch it because I have work Monday. So, I have to come up with something else to talk about.
Alright, let’s see.
So, the snipers didn’t get Trump at Madison Square Garden. That’s good! Because in a little more than a week we’ll get to do the Election Day charade. Maybe they’ll let him win or maybe they won’t. I’m beginning to think they will let him win because they think they can make him the fall guy. It wouldn’t be so hard. The economy is in tatters. It’ll take months to even begin to clear the wreckage they’ve already made of things. But I’ll confess, I’m curious to see if Trump really has a plan to fix the economy and also fix the Deep State. And when I say “fix” the Deep State, I mean it in the same sense that you send your dog to be “fixed” by the vet.
After all, these people have been after him for more than eight years. Maybe he’s just crazy enough to come back at them with both guns blazing. Now that would be delicious. Taking away their prestigious and lucrative perches in the intelligence agencies and State Department would be a very good start to hitting back at them. My only hope is that this time he’s ready to appoint men who are loyal to him but also have the smarts needed to dismantle the government bureaus that need demolishing. I’m not sure he is ready to do this but I’d like to find out.
So, we’ve got another week or so to fantasize about what he could do if he wins. If he loses, he’s going to jail. They’ll take away his money and they’ll put him in prison for the rest of his life. And the rest of the world will see our country for what it is; just another thugocracy. But one where the thugs go to Harvard, or at least Yale. And that will be a “teachable moment” as that “fraud from Chicago” used to say. Anyone who grew up in the middle class will understand that the fairy tale they used to tell us about America is just that; a grifter’s tale that helps them fleece the rubes.
But what we are seeing is that America was special because we thought it was special. If we no longer believe in that exceptionalism then quite honestly it won’t be. People were willing to cooperate to build a better world for their children. But if they’ve revealed that they don’t even want us to have children then all bets are off. Instead of cooperation they’ll find competition. Competition to loot whatever is left of the patrimony that prior generations built up. We’ll be looking for our piece of the pie.
And don’t even imagine that these people will send their sons to fight in someone else’s wars. That’s just ridiculous. The trust fund kids told us back in 2001 that it wasn’t their job to fight George W. bush’s wars. Well, it’s time for us to return the favor. Send the Venezuelan gang-bangers to fight in Ukraine or wherever else you want to start a war. It won’t be our kids. We have better things for them to do.
So, let’s enjoy the ride. There seems to be a certain amount of angst in the Harris camp. Maybe someone told them what’s going to happen after the 5th of November. Now we’ll find out too.
Adapt and Thrive
Sunday, I head back to the salt mines to dig out that salt. I get back onto the galley and start rowing that oar. I return to the mill and push that millstone round and round. The mind deadening drudgery looms before me like towering wave that will roll over me and drown me in its awful size. So let it be written, so shall it be done.
But for tonight I’m content. I got plenty of sleep last night and I only had a couple of hours of lousy work today and even that was tolerable and unavoidable. So good enough.
What I was thinking about today is that it’s time to move beyond the election and all of that way of thinking. All of this anxiety over whether Trump will win or Kamala. Living in a blue state it really hardly matters. I already live under a woke communist regime. Really, all that is necessary is to start thinking about what things I can control and what I cannot. And just looking at things through that lens clarifies my thinking and removes a lot of the anxiety that comes from depending on “magical” processes.
For instance, I supposedly have to vote for Trump. Well, I have to vote anyway because there are local races that I can influence the outcome of. So not voting for Trump would be kind of silly, so I will. But I don’t imagine I’m making any difference by voting for him. And whether he wins or not, my life won’t change very much at all, at least not for quite a while. If Trump wins and a Republican Congress passes legislation that allows Trump to deport the millions of illegal aliens beyond partisan judges’ ability to block him, then eventually after several years I will notice some improvements in my quality of life. And if he balances the budget and on-shores the jobs that were sent to Asia then I will see America start to revive. But that’s a long time from now and I have a limited span on this planet. So, this election is almost an academic exercise in political philosophy.
Instead, what will be interesting and useful is to try and find private endeavors and resources that individuals can utilize and patronize either collectively or individually. For instance, if I ever finish my never-ending science fiction novel, I might decide to market it and advertise it by starting a go-fund-me page. Well, even selecting something as ordinary as that is fraught with challenges because many of these crowd-funding companies are either run by or strongly influenced by left-wing zealots who police these sites looking to cancel anyone who doesn’t share their convictions. So, researching the activities and tendencies of these types of sites is important if you want to avoid a potentially disastrous launch for a creative work like a book.
And the same applies for other commercial or cultural organization. Especially if Harris is installed in the White House, I’m hoping that various enterprises will spring up to service an audience from our side of the political spectrum who need everything from entertainment, to news, to snacks, to educational services, to dating services, to you name it. With the government monolithically leftist it will behoove us to become entrepreneurs and connoisseurs with respect to the things that will be unavailable from official sources. And we’ll have to become very creative at avoiding government interference, which means we’ll have to become adept at camouflage and subterfuge. And even that secrecy sounds like fun to me. Belonging to a private club has its own pleasures.
So, as the election date approaches, I have a new attitude about the future and I think it will serve me better than what happened after the last presidential election in 2020. In fact, it can’t help but be better, no matter who wins.
Could Trump Win?
The Election Fraud in 2020 changed my outlook on American elections. What I saw happen that November convinced me that outright theft of the presidency is completely within the scope of the Democratic Party’s purview. Suffice it to say that I am highly skeptical of Trump’s chances in this election. I assumed they are low; less than 25%.
But then I watched this:
2WAY is a creation of Mark Halperin who was a talking head on one of the networks, I think ABC. Sean Spicer was one of Trump’s first press secretaries. Dan Turrentine is a “Democratic strategist.” I’ve never heard of him. Anyway, Halperin hosts these zoom calls with various Democrat and Republican talking heads and a bunch of everyday people who come on to give their two cents but without any screaming or name-calling. More or less Halperin attempts to be an honest broker who allows both sides to talk about the election without too much spin.
For the last week or two, Halperin has been saying that the inside polls and the early voting data is increasingly good for Donald Trump and bad for Harris. In this short video both Spicer and Turrentine seem to be agreeing with him. Now, I hate to get my hopes up because that is a dangerous thing to do, but it’s getting harder to resist. Well, I’m “all growed up now” so I guess I shouldn’t be scared of working through what’s going on in the real world.
With two weeks left before election day it’s still too early to get too excited about this “trend.” I think this Friday would be a good place to evaluate where the race and the indicators stand. What Spicer thought was that if the Democratic campaign thinks things are going south, they will immediately start attacking Trump with anything and everything they’ve got. Well, that’s interesting. I’m not sure where you can go after you’ve already called him a despotic, demented, unbalanced danger to the republic. I guess Harris can approve a commercial where a picture of Trump morphs into Adolph Hitler or Darth Vader. But I’m interested to see if something like that does surface on my local television station. Of course, this being New England, that would be preaching to the choir and an awful waste of money. But perhaps Pennsylvania and Michigan might be bombarded with such stuff.
Look, I’m skeptical as hell. I’ve been burned before and don’t enjoy getting my hopes up. But I have to confess that with the fallout from the Biden administration looking like a list of biblical plagues not seen since the time of Moses, it’s hard not to believe that the American voters would rise up and demand the end of the Democrats’ reign. So, let’s just say that I’m more than a little interested in the increasingly worried statements coming from the Harris campaign behind the scenes. I’ll review things on Friday and maybe I’ll have more to say at that time. Now that’s cautious and bland enough. Isn’t it?
Trump Said He’s Going on Joe Rogan’s Podcast
Trump Said He’s Going on Joe Rogan’s Podcast
Well, I guess this is a positive. Rogan has a viewership of men who should be Trump’s natural target audience. But every opportunity is also a risk. Tread carefully Mr. Trump. And stay away from the pot!