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.
Tag: 2024 elections
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.
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.
26OCT2024 – OCF Update – This ‘N’ That
Well, another day in captivity. But there is the possibility I’ll have at least most of Saturday off. Surfacing and looking around I see that the consensus is growing that Trump is leading Harris in the swing states. So, of course that means Harris declares him Hitler. Well, as anyone who’s been on the internet for a few decades knows when you pull the Hitler card you lose. But it’s always fun to see someone bring back the classics.
Honestly, all of the “drama” in the last week and a half of the election is overblown. Harris is an unlikable person who comes off as a phony and an emotionally unstable individual. Really the only question is whether the Democrats have alienated enough of their base to lose so conclusively that normal voter fraud will be insufficient. And since half the polls are rigged, we’re just going to have to wait until election day (or later) to find out.
Well, I’m fine with that. I just hope the Democrats are out of snipers. Trump is doing a rally in Madison Square Garden and there isn’t anywhere to hide on that stage if someone sneaks a gun in. But let’s assume they’re not stupid enough for a third try. Honestly, if anything like that happened to Trump at this point, it really would tear this country apart.
Well, anyway, that’s where the election is right now. In my circles I can tell that the rank-and-file Democrats are very, very nervous. So, I’m just ignoring all the horse race stuff and shrugging off all the “convincing” arguments about why one or the other of them is going to win. It’s mostly just whistling past the graveyard.
It turns out the Yankees managed to get into the World Series this year. Back in the 1990s Camera Girl and I followed them very enthusiastically. But since Major League baseball started allowing their players to take a knee during the national anthem, I swore off all the sports games. So, she was watching the game tonight. Well, she fell asleep and I was writing my post and in the bottom of the tenth down by one run and with two outs the Dodgers get a walk-off grand slam. Poor Camera Girl.
So tomorrow I plan to enjoy all of this unseasonably warm weather. I might even try to photograph some of the remaining autumn color that put on such a nice display when I couldn’t shoot it. I’ll try to find an opportunity to make a few macro focus stacks with the new firmware programming. Of course, everything is turning to mush after the frosts we had last week. But who knows with all this heat the bugs and critters might be reawakening. Now they’re predicting something like eighty-degree weather for Halloween. That would be something. But I’ll still be trapped inside so it might as well be Antarctica as far as I’ll be concerned.
Something occurred to me while I was perusing my Complete Shakespeare. The Honeymooners is sort of a reverse version of “The Taming of the Shrew.” Basically, Ralph Kramden has set the male sex back about four hundred years. Over and over again Alice proves him wrong and shows him to be a pathetic loser. As much as I like the show, it is interesting that the Honeymooners is the template that all modern art uses to describe the relations between men and women. It’s certainly not a flattering paradigm for us.
You know, maybe it’s time to revive Shakespeare’s play. We may have reached the inflection point where giving the girl bosses a taste of their own medicine might be the best action. Even though I’ve never had to beat Camera Girl, I don’t see any reason not to reinstate the rule of thumb. I’ll have to write at depth about this in a couple of weeks from now.
Well, I’ll leave it there. Enjoy the day. I know I will.
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?
20OCT2024 – OCF Update – This ‘N’ That
Ah, the calm before the storm. I have this weekend completely off before the next seventeen days of misery and isolation. So, I’ll enjoy these two days to the hilt and then, “abandon all hope ye who enter here.” For what it’s worth it seems like Trump is enjoying himself a lot more than Kamala. Her cackling has diminished and her ranting seems to have replaced it. From everything I’ve heard she is a truly awful person that makes those around her miserable. If she loses, I wouldn’t be surprised if her marriage ends and many of her other connections to human society.
The latest “controversy” is that Democrat voters will be using the branding ,LA (get it, comma la) on their clothing to get around the restrictions against wearing the candidates’ names or images at the polling place. So, we’ve reached back to, I guess, kindergarten or at most grammar school in our tactics. What’s next, will the Democrats be telling “yo mamma” jokes?
Anyway, the weather around Dunwich has been remarkably mellow for this time of year. I understand we’re expected to have a string of three or four 75-degree days ending on Tuesday. That’s phenomenal. But because I’ve gotten used to fall weather, it’s almost too warm for comfort.
I wrote that post about Sony adding focus bracketing to their firmware update for my A7IV camera. I intended to wait until after my captivity before updating the firmware but it’s killing me to not try it out. I think I’ll bite the bullet tomorrow morning. I have this dead luna moth that I found this summer and I’d love to play around with focus stacking it. Well, we’ll see. Tomorrow is a busy day. We have a kid’s birthday party coming up and I’m sure Camera Girl has a laundry list of honey-do’s lined up for me. And honestly there are several things I should be working on anyway. So even if I update the camera I may have to wait.
It should be interesting to see how the country changes regardless of who “wins” the election. I think there’s a growing cohort that realizes that something is very broken with our whole social order. The fragmentation now extends to a polarization by sex. Younger women and men are lining up in opposition to each other philosophically. I really do believe we are seeing the beginning of a permanent split. Basically, women who have accepted the new template for living for a career will not be having children. And that means that men will have to find wives who want to have children elsewhere. I guess mail order overseas brides will become more the rule than the exception and over time the cat ladies will die out. Well, that’s a solution of sorts.
The “October Viewing” movies has been fun for me but it’s gotten me thinking about what a monster is. Is it only freakish creatures like Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster or can it be a man like Hannibal Lecter or Norman Bates? Obviously, the actual humans are scarier because they really exist. When you hear about the things that Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer did to their victims you understand that inside they truly are monsters. So maybe creating fairy tale creatures like the movie monsters is a way of distracting ourselves from the true horrors that we don’t want to contemplate. But our society has grown up and now we prefer to scare ourselves with realistic monsters. I remember when I read Thomas Harris’s “Red Dragon” back in the 1980’s it struck me as an interesting crime story and nothing more. But when I thought about the way that that the murderer selected his victim families by working in a photo lab that developed family home movies, it chilled me to the core. If a motivated psychopath could select his victims without any direct connection to him then how could anyone hope to protect his family from this random agent of horrifying destruction? Basically, you can’t. Random chance rules all of our lives. That I found horrifying. So maybe I should include “Psycho” and “Silence of the Lambs” in my October Viewings. Or maybe that would take away some of the fun. Well, October is waning I better hurry up and make up my mind. What do you folks think?
15OCT2024 – Same Old, Same Old
So, I don’t have so much to write about tonight. I watched a bunch of political news. It was sort of fun because Mark Halperin’s “2WAY” show was quoted in a bunch of secondary journals. Halperin has a sort of Zoom call with several journalists and politicos along with just the random public. His claim to fame is that he has a bipartisan approach and allows anyone to express their opinions as long as it doesn’t get heated. Well, anyway a few days ago he did a piece where he stated that his sources inside both campaigns agreed that the campaign sponsored polls showed that the voters are trending steadily for Trump. And in fact, it looked like Pennsylvania might be out of play for Harris. Well, when this got out the Democrats started freaking out. People like James Carville started screeching that Harris needs to get out there and tell everyone that Trump is Hitler and he is preparing the death camps right now.
So that was a lot of fun. But who knows if these polls are all that important. After all voter fraud is so much more definitive so I don’t want to get all excited about these reports. But as I said it was fun watching the Democrats running around in circles with their hair on fire.
I saw that Elon Musk has gotten involved in the Trump campaign to some extent. That’s good. He has a lot to lose if the Deep State goes after him but it’s good to see that he respects the idea of freedom. And after the recent feats of technical magic by his SpaceX team, I’m feeling especially friendly toward this particular African American. People are kidding that Musk will be the power behind the throne if Trump gets back in the White House. I kind of doubt that but he could be very helpful to Trump. He might start by telling him which CIA and FBI contacts were the most important in trying to silence regime enemies on Twitter. And he could lend a lot of technical assistance to whatever efforts Trump needs to employ to streamline the government. After all, Musk fired 80% of the Twitter payroll and managed to run the company at least as well as it ran before. And a lot closer to being a paying operation.
But of course, none of this will matter at all if Harris ends up in the White House. It was reported that during an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon asked (jokingly?) how long a prison sentence he would get if Trump loses. Well, maybe not prison, but I could see them bankrupting him. I’m sure they could do that. And they probably will if it fits with their plans.
On the international fronts, the Ukraine conflict grinds on and the Middle East is slowly ramping up to a full-blown war between Israel and Iran. Maybe it won’t involve us. I hope it won’t. I have too many grandsons that I need here and now. But it’s a complete crap shoot. Nobody knows anything and everybody is sick of war, except the neo-cons in the State Department and CIA. They’re never tired of war. Well, let’s hope we dodge this one.
So that’s my report. More of the same. I hope to have some horror movie reviews coming up soon. That should put me in a better mood.