What’s New

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I tried to write something today.  Trump, DeSantis, Biden, Tucker, the Media, COVID, BLM, Antifa, Urban Crime, Ukraine, Russia, China.  It’s all been said.  It’s all been said a million times.  We all know it by heart.  BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!!

All the same stuff.  So, what is new?  What is news?

Well, news is what someone did about it.  And there are bits of news here and there.  That guy Rufo teamed up with DeSantis in Florida to begin cleaning out one of the woke Florida state colleges.  He’s on the board of governors along with a bunch of other conservatives and they are stripping away the DEI initiatives and the HR policies that favor leftist results.  They’re even getting rid of curriculum that serves no purpose other than leftist propaganda.  Now that’s news.

And in Texas the governor and the legislature have drafted, approved and signed a bill that keeps biological males out of women’s college sports.  Now that’s an actual event.

And a number of states have banned transgender transitioning of minors.  That’s news.  That’s worth noting.

And Anheuser-Busch is still losing untold hundreds of millions of dollars in business because they decided to bend a knee to the transgender mafia.  And Target and Disney and a few other corporations have also lost lots of business for similar decisions.  That’s big news.

News worth talking about is real actions that show results.

Liz Cheney and those other RINO congressmen getting bounced out of the House is news.  The fact that Mitt Romney is being primaried next year is news.  There’s a data point about to be unveiled.  We’re going to learn if Utah really is a red state.  If Romney survives it’s purple.  If he gets bounced it’s red.

Twitter (or X) is news.  We’ll have to wait to find out if it’s going to be good news or bad news.  Elon Musk has laid a $44 billion bet that a free speech social platform can make a profit.  We’ll see.

Fox firing Tucker Carlson is big news.  We’ll find out if the right is willing to pay a small amount of cash to get news from our side.  We’ll see.

And the biggest news will be whether the Deep State will send Donald Trump to prison.  In a way this isn’t really news.  This is political theater.  But it remains to be seen if Trump can use this stage to galvanize enough Americans to scare the Deep State into allowing a fair election.  This is the biggest question mark of all.

And there are smaller stories out there.  Christian movie studios and non-leftist book and comic book publishers making real money.  PublicSq providing a marketplace for people who want to avoid woke companies.  These things are news.

So, the news is the seeds that are starting to sprout.  And right now, impact is negligible, infinitesimal, laughably small.  But it’s a start.  And that’s the news.

Forget about the Republican primary.  That’s not news.  That’s a joke.  If Donald Trump is prevented from being the candidate, then it won’t matter who is.  The rank and file won’t show up in November.  Trump is their protest vote.  He’s a thumb in the eye of the powers that be.  News would be if somehow, we ended up with a fair election.  Forget news, that would be a miracle.

And the biggest news would be someone organizing a movement to bypass the Republican party to coordinate the Red State governments to start to standardize and optimize their policies to protect their citizens from the federal government.  And while they’re at it, begin to rein in the national Republican party and make it more accountable to the voters in their states.

07AUG2023 – OCF Update

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I’ll be out and about this morning.  I must venture outside of Dunwich’s accursed borders.  Like everyone else I’m a creature of circumstance and must get some things done.  But I’ll be back to work this afternoon and I’m sure to provide brilliance and mirth aplenty when I reapply my shoulder to the wheel and my nose to the grindstone.

In the meantime I provide this classic tune for your listening pleasure.

07AUG2023 – Quote of the Day

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.

Jack London

Imagine If This is Really True

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Imagine if there really were lawyers willing to sue employers for discrimination based on political views.  That might make a dent in the woke corporate crap currently going on.

The Best Part of Living in a Banana Republic

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There are lots of really terrible consequences of living under a tyranny where none of the protections of a free society exist.  And when you happen to be a despised minority in that country it’s even worse.  At any moment you can be stripped of your privacy, your dignity, your livelihood, your possessions, your freedom, even your life.  You have to watch while those in charge break their own laws and suffer no consequences while innocent men are persecuted and hounded out of public life just because they speak the truth.

But one great advantage of living in clown world is that you get to laugh at all the clowns.  And what an array.  Joe Biden.  Now there’s a rich vein.  Any and every day that he’s on video is comic gold.  Will he fall down, break into gibberish, wander off stage because he’s befouled himself?  Or will he just lie so outrageously that his handlers will have to pretend that he didn’t say what he obviously said.

Or how about his press secretary?  That vacuous nitwit who has to deflect half the questions because there’s just no sane answer that doesn’t include admitting that her boss is a crook.

And what about Hunter Biden?  A man who beds his dead brother’s widow and smokes crack on video while being serviced by underage prostitutes while acting as the bagman for the influence peddling of his corrupt father.  Oh, and he gets like a half million dollars for his finger paintings too.

Or how about the voters of New York City or LA or Chicago or any of the several dozen big cities that have voted in mayors and district attorneys that are now reducing those cities to crime-ridden hell holes in the name of “equity?”

And how about Anthony Fauci?  That’s the best one of all.  Here’s a man who could switch from swearing that vaccines were a panacea to admitting vaccines protected no one at the drop of a hat.  He could say that there was no chance the virus came from a lab and then say there was a very good chance it did.  This man is a consummate liar and he even does it with a smile on his face.

So, this is the silver lining in living in the gulag.  You don’t have to pretend to believe any of it.  Not one thing.  If someone defends the dear leader or talks about the great economy we enjoy or cheerleads for Ukraine there’s one universal reply.

Laughter.

It’s as simple as that.  No anger, no denial, no argument.  Just derisive laughter and walking away.  Nothing else speaks as clearly and powerfully as that.  It’s the perfect retort when a patently absurd statement has been made.  Obviously, it is being made by a partisan hack.  It’s like when that CNN stooge started talking about how family values were a cornerstone of Joe Biden’s political persona.  This was being said about a man who showered naked with his teenage daughter and raised up Hunter Biden to be a crack-smoking, stripper-banging scumbag.  When someone says something like that, derisive laughter is the only reasonable reply.  Well, at least short of violence against the perpetrator which isn’t allowed in a banana republic against one of the regime toadies.

But there are limits.  If the one making the statement is an FBI or IRS agent you might want to keep a straight face and remain silent.  After all banana republics have notoriously dangerous dungeons where enemies of the state sometimes end up.  But if the regime toady is just your neighbor or some rando you ran into then have at it and enjoy yourself to the max.  Let a few tears leak out and slap him heartily on his back to show you appreciate the hilarious joke he’s just uttered.

Yes, that is our only pleasure.  And they say laughter is the best medicine.  We’re gonna need it.