Slapping together a post late at night is a recipe for incoherence.\u00a0 But that\u2019s my claim to fame.\u00a0 Fame?<\/p>\n
Well, here we are again my old nemesis.\u00a0 What shall we talk about?<\/p>\n
I read a little about the continuing adventures of the Republican House representatives trying to select a new Speaker.\u00a0 They tried another one of the establishment guys, Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the majority whip.\u00a0 Trump posted, \u201cVoting for a globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!\u201d\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n
Now the question that needs to be answered is can they agree on anyone as Speaker?\u00a0 Maybe not.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that the establishment would rather cause a government shutdown rather than allow someone outside of their club from controlling the purse strings in Washington.\u00a0 At this point I think I\u2019m okay with a government shutdown.\u00a0 Sure, it would probably mean chaos and possibly bankruptcy for me personally but I think it might not be a bad way of getting the attention of the people running this madhouse.\u00a0 Eventually the establishment Republicans will cut a deal with the Democrats and make Hakeem Jeffries Speaker.\u00a0 And that\u2019s fine.\u00a0 It will demonstrate to the world that the Uniparty is a living, breathing reality.\u00a0 But I have to admire the rebels in the Trump wing of the House Republicans for sticking by their guns and slapping the RINOs around like they\u2019re doing.\u00a0 It\u2019s great theater.<\/p>\n
It looks like mostly everybody admits that unless Donald Trump is forced off the primary ballot, he will win the nomination.\u00a0 And once he\u2019s in the general election he\u2019s definitely going to get a crapload of votes.\u00a0 Not to say fraud couldn\u2019t beat him.\u00a0 We know from sad experience it could.\u00a0 But regardless of Trump\u2019s towering lead in the primaries there are several candidates who want to stay in the race in case chicanery takes Trump off the ballot.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing DeSantis and Haley are in it for the long haul.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure anyone else has enough money coming in to stay in long term.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a little more than a year before that election but it will feel like forever, especially as the country falls apart around us on multiple fronts.\u00a0 But it will be interesting.<\/p>\n
And speaking of interesting, in a horrific way, the two hot wars continue unabated.\u00a0 Israel is probing Gaza to see where the hostages are hidden and trying to figure out how to wound Hamas critically without losing hundreds, if not thousands of IDF lives.<\/p>\n
And the Ukraine war grinds on.\u00a0 The majority of the Ukrainian \u201cspring\u201d offensive is over and the Russians have taken to the offense.\u00a0 The latest front is the fortified city of Avdiivka which the Russians have begun to encircle.\u00a0 Today they managed to overrun, at very great cost, the high ground northwest of the city called Terrikon.\u00a0 With the loss of this high ground the Ukrainians will be forced to move their artillery much farther west and north of the present positions and that will finally put an end to the artillery bombardment of Donetsk City which has been a humanitarian problem for the Russian Donbas since the beginning of hostilities in 2014.\u00a0 But all indications are that conquering Avdiivka will be a slow painful grind for the Russian army in the same way as the Bakhmut campaign was earlier this year, but smaller.\u00a0 I guess the wars will drag on for months and years but maybe there\u2019s a chance we can put an end to the tens of billions of dollars that Biden keeps shoveling into Zelensky\u2019s (and his own) off-shore accounts.\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t talk about the economy.\u00a0 It\u2019s too gruesome to dwell on.\u00a0 We\u2019re all being sent to the cleaners and we\u2019ll all be a little poorer by and by but that\u2019s just par for the course.\u00a0 Of course, if Joe gets his $100 billion dollars for Ukraine maybe we\u2019ll be a lot poorer and a lot sooner.\u00a0 But leave that be for now.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s my quick synopsis of where we are right now.\u00a0 Everybody, do your best to hang in there.\u00a0 Tomorrow belongs to the people with endurance.\u00a0 Let that be us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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