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29NOV2025 – Country Song for the Morning – Aaron Lewis – Sinner
Various Kinds of Pruning
Monday was a good day at work. Progress was made and I’ve got a much better understanding of what we’re going to be up against in the next couple of weeks. Sure, madness will break out now and then. But it’s not just this fog of ignorance. There’s the beginning of planning and a path forward.
And there’s the situation going on in the world. Charlie Kirk’s murder is disgusting and the more details that come out the worse it shows the Left’s psychotic fringe to be. These people aren’t merely insane. They have ceased to be human. The assassin was a “furry.” The fact that his “partner” was trans wasn’t enough. He also pretended to be an animal. These people are so far beyond help that simple execution might be the kindest thing we could do for them.
Hopefully Kash Patel is up to the job he needs to do. Proving conspiracy by all the other members of Robinson’s associates is the first step. Then he must widen out the investigation to locate the entire Antifa network and trace back their money to the donors and NGO’s that fund them. It would be nice if Obama gets caught up in that net. But first things first. Shut off the money and arrest the ringleaders who call the shots. Without them and the money, the small fry psychos will wander off and starve on the streets.
I’ve heard Trump is pivoting from invading Chicago with ICE and the National Guard to going to Portland, Oregon instead. Now that’s an interesting idea. Portland probably has the highest per capita number of trans weirdos, Antifa thugs and homeless drug addicts of any city in the country. It would be the perfect place to haul away tractor trailers full of degenerates and psychopaths. But I hope they’ve planned this carefully to avoid injury among law enforcement and maximize the jail time meted out to the Antifa “community.” I know they like throwing Molotov cocktails at law enforcement. Intelligence will be needed. But Portland is definitely in need of pruning.
I have a feeling I’ll be self-publishing my book. I don’t think there are many traditional publishers who are brave enough to embrace my dystopian world of armed insurrection against the deep state. It is pretty radical. I’m still trying to learn the basics of book marketing; especially advertising on Amazon and elsewhere on the web. But I have gotten the book out there in the real world now. I have a friend reading it and I’m very interested in getting his feedback. My intention is to decide one way or the other about self-publishing and then send out a bunch of copies of the manuscript to friends and associates and see what they think. It’s pretty heady stuff to even have a small audience read your words.
The weather has been summer-like for the last few days and the forecast is for another couple of weeks of the same. That should allow me to handle the winterizing chores easily and plan for next year’s spring. Probably the highlight of the garden season was the thornless raspberries. I took a chance that they were the kind that mature in one season. I cut all the canes to the ground and added a bunch of fertilizer and they grew like crazy and spread and produced tons of fruit. In fact, they’re not done yet. Next year I’ll do the same (cut down and fertilize) and I expect them to spread to almost double where they are now. We’ll have to give them away to strangers. But I’ll eat a ton of them myself. They’re delicious.
Well, that’s enough talk of pruning for Monday.
10SEP2025 – Country Song for the Morning – Old Wore Out Cowboys
Ward Davis has Willie Nelson and Jamey Johnson singing with him on this song. How can you go wrong?
This was written by Ed Bruce.
Guest Contributor – JT – 29AUG2025 – Cody Jinks – When You Can’t Remember
Another favorite track of mine on the ‘In my Blood’ album is, ‘When You Can’t Remember.’
28AUG2025 – Country Song for the Morning – Cody Jinks – In MY Blood
Yesterday was a very long day. I had to take a series of eight on-line course exams and then a qualifying exam for all of them for a job requirement. But it turned out they were all due this week so a very long and boring day.
No time for a post. But a good friend whose a country musician said this was a very good song by Jinks so i gave it a listen. I haven’t made up my mind on it but I figured I’d put it up here for everyone to hear.
One piece of good news for the week, I finished my book. Now I just have to figure out how to publish and market it.
Guest Contributor – Tregonsee – 18AUG2025 – A Miracle?
What we have is a miracle. To be honest after 2020’s lopsided “defeat” I figured the Democrats had a lock on things at least through 2028. The reality was that Biden was a REAL mess and the infighting within the White House made it look like there were three or four different factions fighting for control of the Presidential puppet. That and the choice of the clearly DEI VP candidate (Biden SAID he was going to choose a black female outright) who was not even competent in her previous tasks lead to a result that baffled the Democrat pundits come November 2024.
Trump and his team have been going gangbusters. Not that there haven’t been issues. Someone that understands engineer types needed to soothe Mr. Musk’s feathers in particular praising his team for what they did get done against incredible odds. Getting USAID under control has done much to starve the Democrat punditry and nomenaclatura. The Trump people also had less control of the Senate, the President Pro-tem is slow walking things. In addition, there seem to be lots of district and appellate court nominations going wanting and many deputy positions also unfilled. This is where the current troubles are. That said for 7-8 months into a 4 year term they’re not doing too badly given the headwinds they’re sailing against.
2026 is going to be a battle Royal. This is do or die for the Dems. If they can’t take back either the House or the Senate this just keeps rolling on for 2 more years and likely there would be strong restrictions on the remote voting the Democrats are so fond of. If the Democrats can get one arm they can tie things up and maybe even negotiate some minor wins as many Republicans try to play nice. This is like playing nice with a nest of Black Widow spiders but somehow some Republicans fail to perceive this.
Honestly, where the heck the Democrats go in 2028 baffles me. in the last decade or so there have been 3 wings to the Democrats, The Clinton wing, The Obama Wing, and the AOC/Bernie/Squad wing. The Clinton “middle of the road” (it ain’t middle by at least three rows of tall trees) wing seems to be heading to dormancy/decline. Newsome is sort of their kind of candidate charismatic, and he’s positioning towards the “middle” although like the Clintons before him his real positions are far to the left of what he’s staking out. The Obama wing really has no one. Mrs. Obama may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but she is smart enough to know she doesn’t want the job. Most of the Biden appointees are absolute messes (e.g. Pete Buttigieg, who couldn’t even manage to not run DOT into the ground). The Squad has some known names like Ocasio-Cortez, but none play well outside deep blue enclaves. I suspect if Mamdani wins the NYC Mayoral post, he’ll be so awful he’ll make Mayor Dinkins look like Mayors Koch or Giuliani. That will sour red and purple US districts to ANY of the Squad/Bernie type candidates. So I think we get at least 1 term of Vance. This crosses the 2030 barrier and may mean a more precise census.
No it’s not a golden era. To fix things we REALLY need huge advantages, 2/3 in both houses and 3/4 (38) of the state legislatures, so amendments could be moved through to pin down some things (e.g. Citizenship, Census taking, Supreme court judge numbers, etc.). But it is surely that worldline is far superior to what would have happened if Dems had remained in control. Down that path lay some variant of Mr. Schlicter’s Peoples Republic at best.
What If We’re Not Doomed
How many times have pundits (including my humble self) declared that we are already irrevocably tobogganing down the slope toward the decline and fall of the American Empire? Probably too many to count. And it’s not as if there isn’t a lot of dysfunction everywhere you look. I won’t go through the litany. It’s almost endless but all we have to mention to provide an undeniable example of societal rot and insanity is the spectacle of the American Medical Association embracing “gender affirming” treatments for minors including hormone therapies, mastectomies, hysterectomies and castration.
But what if things are about to improve? Suppose the Trump administration is followed by the Vance administration and during this reprieve from leftist lunacy the country gets its financial health back to a greater extent. Let’s go with that scenario. People have enough money to buy houses again and raise kids and plan for the future. What would that look like? Of course, I have no way of actually knowing but let’s play the game and throw out some ideas and see if it leads us somewhere.
First off, I think it’s important to say what it won’t look like. It’s not going to look like America in the 1950s or even the 1980s or 1990s. The adults and children today; the millennials and the zoomers are very different from my parents’ generation and mine. They’ve been propagandized in school and through social media to despise the world from those olden times. They’re ashamed of their parents and grandparents and want to conform to the norms they’ve been taught.
Some of this can be seen in the situation playing out in New York City’s mayoral race. The last two mayors have been liberal Democrats and under their administrations all the improvements in quality of life and safety gained during Republican mayors have been lost and the city is on the verge of collapsing into chaos. So, what do the people there want in the next mayor? A communist! Now this is just an example. There are others. A similar radical is running for mayor of Minneapolis. So, there is no lack of evidence that the millennials believe insane things. Now it is true that there is precedent for people who believe these things being gob-smacked by reality and changing their minds. Maybe that’s what we’re going to see. It happened to the baby boomers in the nineteen seventies and eighties. Maybe it’ll happen again.
But regardless, things will be very different. I believe there has been a breach between the older America and what will follow. It will not be the monolithic culture. It will be several, or possibly many separate cultures. Identity groups have been spawned and they will not disappear. Ethnic and locality identities will develop and they will complicate social cohesion. Hollywood and other purveyors of cultural content won’t be able to put out one product that resonates with everyone. We already see that. The multicultural experiment with superhero movies and other content have fizzled because people recognize they’re being handed a narrative to cheer for someone else’s team. How many teenage boys want a female superhero beating up on much larger men as the template for the movies they are being handed. They just stay home and play video games that allow them to control the narrative.
So, America might recover and even thrive. But it will take generations for it to coalesce into a common identity. In the meantime, we and our descendants will have to look out for our own interests, forming alliances and voting blocks where advantage exists. There may even be a shining city on a hill. But on the next hill may be a hellhole. And that’s just the way it’ll have to be.
What Have We Got to Lose?
This week Donald Trump has a meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin. I find this intriguing. And not because I believe they are on the cusp of agreeing to the end of the Ukraine war. Far from it. Ukraine and Russia are killing each other there at an industrial scale and there does not seem to be an end in sight. So that doesn’t seem to be on the agenda.
And maybe that’s the point. I think both men are getting together despite knowing that no peace deal is currently possible. So why are they getting together? I’m not really sure of the answer but maybe it’s because they both know they are in a sort of unique position. I think that maybe both of them want to find a way out of this nightmare and maybe they figure if they meet up without those in their orbits who want to keep the war going forever, that maybe they can figure something out that would satisfy both sides.
I know that Trump doesn’t want any part of this war but the neo-cons are very powerful in the Congress and even to some extent in his administration. As for Putin, he’s in a million dead Russians so he can’t just walk away. And even if he could there are a lot of Russians in Ukraine and he’s carving out a homeland for them.
But all and still, there may be a way to move this thing forward so that the killing stops. And maybe that’s why both of them are there. Trump’s whole persona is “the art of the deal.” He probably figures it couldn’t hurt to talk to the other head honcho. It’s not as if he’s afraid the other guy will talk him into a bad deal. So how could it hurt?
Of course, if the two of them walk away accomplishing absolutely nothing and can’t even come up with some story about how these are the “first steps toward peace” then it will look like a loss for Trump. And Trump must know this. So, he must think there is something to be gained that outweighs that risk. And that’s what intrigues me. Could both of them be there for entirely the right reasons? Could these two supremely egotistical and cynical men be getting together because they want to change the trajectory of the world? Because if you think about it, they’re the only two men on this planet who have the authority and clout to actually do it. Between the two of them, they control about 90% of the nuclear weapons on the planet and between the two of them they control some enormous amount of the resources (both natural and financial) of the planet. Now certainly, both of them are constrained by the political systems they exist in. Believe it or not Putin is considered a moderate in his regime structure and Trump has to deal with the military-industrial complex that is still insanely powerful.
But they still are the chief executive officers of two very, very powerful entities. And imagine if the reason they are going to meet is to try and untangle the conflagration that Biden and the neo-cons has allowed to engulf us. Maybe they can find a path. Or maybe it’s hopeless. But I give them both credit for trying. What have we got to lose?
Too Long a Day for a Post. Let’s Go With Some Music
A great party. Lots of fun. A really long day and no chance to write. Some good tunes will have to do.
And here’s one I posted not too long ago. But I really love this song.