Make It Make Sense
24/03/24 07:11
Thank God for our Constitution. Can you imagine Joe Biden pulling a Putin? Having predetermined elections and having any and all political opposition taken out of the race by nefarious means? That's not to say that it's not happening with Trump, but one way or another, we would never see a third term for Biden, thanks to our Constitution. Was it President Roosevelt who was up for a third term? I'm not sure how that happened, so I should do a little homework before I blather on much more. How about Maduro in Venezuela? He's another strongman who will likely never lose another election. We all know how Venezuelans feel about him. They're all crossing our southern border to escape the monster. We're also getting their prisoners en masse, so, net-net, it's a mixed bag. I would also condemn the Republicans if they did what we see Biden and his regime doing day in and day out to make sure he gets a second term. By hook or crook, as they say in the movies.
Shall we call it the "Bloodbath Hoax"? The Democrats and their praetorian guard, the media, are in full spin mode after Trump made comments in his rally over the weekend about having a "bloodbath" if he's not elected in November. His comment was all about a financial bloodbath in the automotive industry, and it had zero to do with his winning or not winning the presidential election in November. The media would have us believe, even this morning, after the passing of several news cycles, that Trump is threatening a January 6th-style bloodbath should he lose the election. The good news is that social media stepped into the fray the minute lies started to circulate and called the lot of the news organizations out for their lies and misrepresentations. It does have me wondering if this wasn't a messaging sleight-of-hand crafted by Trump's handlers in order to out the criminality and hypocrisy of the mainstream media. Elon Musk even stepped in on Twitter (X) to correct tweets that sought to perpetuate the lie that the media wanted to go viral. All hands on deck?
I watched one of the liberal talking head shows on Sunday. If I have her name correctly, it was the show hosted by Martha Raddish. Talk about a loon-fest. If I was curious as to what strategy the media would employ to get their boy, Biden, back into the Oval Office for another four years, let's say I'm no longer curious. I'm referring to the part of the show where Raddish sits down with four or five other "anal-ists," and they discuss everything under the sun as it relates to politics and Donald J. Trump. After listening to the analysts beclown each other for the better part of fifteen or twenty minutes, the strategy seemed to be to smear Trump using any and all forms of rhetorical flourish available. They're not waiting for Trump to be convicted on one or more of the ninety or so indictments outstanding. That horse has left the barn. It's fucking game-on, and I'm not sure there isn't anything that they won't do or sign off on in order to see that Trump doesn't win the election. They are maniacally focused on taking him down before he gets one foot out of the gate. It may be too little, too late.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the media weren't doing their best to create a cloud of toxicity of sorts around Trump such that someone might take their words, as intentionally despicable and virulent as they often are, as giving them license to do bad things to Trump and, by extension, Trump supporters. Trump is a threat to Democracy! If we learned nothing from the endless Russia Russia Russia trolling of the public by the mainstream media during Trump's first term, we learned that they would stop at nothing to use their platform as a political battering ram in order to defeat their enemies and prop up their political bedfellows. Keep in mind that it's not just the media. The entire Deep State and its political infrastructure are at risk should Trump be re-elected for a second term. There is no question that they have the will and the means to prevent Trump from winning the election or, worse yet, to see that he never becomes the nominee/president.
I see that the Kenyan goat herder Obama is in London visiting 10 Downing Street as I sit here this morning. What the hell is he doing anywhere on the world stage representing the United States? Forget for a minute that he is likely calling the shots, or maybe more appropriately pulling the strings, in the Biden administration. That would certainly explain why the United States' foreign policy is in a shambles. He's just confirming what everyone suspects, which is that he and his Marxist toadies are behind every decision that comes out of the White House. It's his third term, don't you know. For those of us who were on to this Kenyan goat herder a long time ago, it's like deja vu all over again. Is he there in London to assuage the fears that 10 Downing Street has about the declining mental health of one Joseph Biden? Is he there to assure them that the United States will stay the course when Michelle Obama gets sworn into office in January 2025? Has he gone so far as to promise them that Donald J. Trump will never be the 47th president of the United States? What then?
It's so funny. We're finally getting around to getting a generator that we don't have to wheel in and out of the garage every time we lose electricity. Our neighbor has a nice set-up where her generator turns on automatically when the power goes out. It's a bit more expensive than the stand-alone generator that we have, but, truth be told, it's time. I told the missus that were I to get hit by a bus tomorrow she would have to deal with the generator. She would have to wheel it out of the garage and pull the starting cord until it was up and running. Both she and I know that that ain't happening. She doesn't know the first thing about such things and she's probably not about to learn now. I asked the guy who came out to give us an estimate of how much I could get for my stand-alone generator. He said I might get around a grand unless I were willing and sell it the next time we have a storm. I don't have the estimate yet, but it's probably not going to be cheap to get all of this up and running. The funny part about all of this is no sooner did we start discussing the reality of doing this then I started to notice how many homes hereabouts have propane tanks and generators sitting on their property. I never noticed that before.
Maybe we'll get a gas stove if we're going to have propane tanks on the premises. I'm no Chef Ramsey, but I can appreciate how much nicer it would be to cook on a gas stove. On the other hand, every time I turn around these days, the cucks in the White House are coming out with one directive or another about stopping the sale of carbon-based appliances like gas stoves. More recently, they threatened to ban gas stoves in New York City. I think that went nowhere but make no mistake. These climate cultists ain't about to give up on their wet dream of getting rid of anything and everything that puts so-called pollutants into the atmosphere. It makes you wonder what their endgame is. I think it's all about weakening our country to the point where we are incapable of defending ourselves in the event of a global conflict coming to our shores. What else could it be? You don't honestly think that it has anything to do with cutting back on cancer rates or keeping ice floes around for the polar bears, do you? I can be a bit of a worry-wart sometimes when it comes to something like a gas stove. Did we leave the stove on? Did you turn off the gas stove? No, I thought you did. See where I'm going with this?
I'm sorry to see Peter Navarro go to jail for four months. He's headed to jail because he decided to ignore the subpoena sent to him by the J6 Committee. So that you know, Navarro was a personal advisor to President Trump during his first term. He thought, apparently wrongly (Until proven otherwise), that he had some sort of immunity that would preclude him from testifying. I'm not an attorney, so I may not have the terminology quite right, but it's probably close enough for government work. I'd be curious to know which prison he's heading to. Is it going to be a Riker's Island-type joint where he has to have eyes in the back of his head every time he drops his bar of soap while showering? Or, will it be the kind of place Martha Stewart stayed during her stay in prison after trading stocks using insider information? Knowing the Bidenistas as I do, I fear that Peter may be for a tough four months behind bars. Will his association with Trump help him or hurt him once he's on the inside? Maybe he can teach classes on economics to the lifers he's holed up with. I think he has a doctorate in economics. Since when do those types of people go to prison unless your name is Bernie Madoff? Only in Joe Biden's America. May God protect him.
Bumbles and his minions are publishing new emissions standards/requirements today. Is anyone surprised that car manufacturers will find it difficult, if not impossible, to meet these new standards? With electric vehicle sales slumping due to declining demand, they had to do something to turn that around in order to meet their ridiculous zero-carbon goals. Fuck the lot of them and the horse they rode in on. I ain't buying an electric car. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. I'll walk before I'll bow to the bullshit they're selling. I'm just waiting now for the manufacturers to sue the shite out of the government, who would see them lose their businesses before they'd let them roll another gas-powered vehicle off the assembly line. I hope the car companies in Michigan are listening. I hope the voters in Michigan are listening. If Trump wins Michigan in November, he takes back the White House, and all of this bull-fuckery goes away. Can Congress do anything to thwart the idiocy coming out of the White House? God, I hope so. Go big and go bold, is what I say. Trump wasn't wrong about the "bloodbath."
I have no idea what The Donald is going to do to raise the money he needs for the half-billion dollar bond he needs by next Monday. It's such an absurd fine to begin with that I don't know where to start. Will that cretin of a District Attorney really start liquidation proceedings of Trump's properties in order to satisfy the amount of the bond? I'm hearing more and more business bigwigs speaking publicly about what this means for investors around the world who may have been interested in investing in New York City but are now having second thoughts after watching what's been happening to Trump. To a person, they say that they've never seen anything like this, and it's the kind of thing that only happens in third-world banana republics but not in our country - until now. It's a cautionary tale, to be sure. Articles I'm reading say that thirty-some-odd bond companies have turned Trump down in his request to float the bond that he needs. Any guesses on how many of those bond companies were threatened not to do business with Trump or else? Would any of this be happening were Trump not running for president? Of course not. A little divine intervention would be nice.
I'm a little troubled by the latest ruling by a black federal judge in Illinois that illegal aliens have the right under the Second Amendment to bear arms. I only mention her race because I'm not entirely sure that there isn't a racial component to her decision. That is to say, she may believe in her heart of hearts that the only way we colonialists stay in power is if we have the wherewithal under the Constitution to protect ourselves should push come to shove. She'd likely like nothing better than to do what she can to improve the odds of her fellow blacks and other minority classes, including some ten to thirteen million recent arrivals now here in our country illegally, by granting them rights under the Constitution that don't otherwise exist. Think about it. If this invasion of tens of millions of so-called migrants brought to us by Joe Biden morphs into an armed invasion of young men of military age, this could be the revolution that blacks and other underprivileged classes have been crowing about for the last one hundred years. Unfortunately, we have an underbelly of complacency in our country that might well see our citizenry rolling over without a fight when the shit hits the fan. It would make January 6th look like a walk in the park. Is it any surprise that this Federal judge from Illinois is an Obama appointee? Let's get this damn thing overturned before it's too late.
Have you heard about the latest craze of squatting? No, not that kind of squatting. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about where you have homeless people breaking into homes that are on the market for sale or other and refuse to leave. This one case, coming out of Queens, New York, had the squatters replacing the front door with a new door complete with new locks, etc. When the owners show up and try to get them to leave, the squatters call the police on the owner. The owner actually got arrested in this case. In some cases, the squatters show a fake lease to the officers, and the officers have no choice but to turn the matter over to the court system. It can take months to resolve when courts are backed up, not to mention the delays caused by the backlogs created out of whole cloth when you factor in tens of thousands of itinerant illegal aliens whose cases are clogging an already clogged judicial system. I don't know about you, but I'm thinking twice before leaving my house these days. With my luck, I'd run out for a quart of milk and return home to find someone else living in my house. Johnny would not be happy. Can someone get me the number for rent-a-vigilante? I will not go quietly into the night.
What are we to make of these financial markets? The stock market has gone almost vertical since the beginning of November 2023. Is this 1999 all over again? No one is willing to go that far, but the market seems to be ignoring all the usual market forces that would otherwise give us a pause here and there before getting back on track. The good news for the bulls is that Powell delivered a dovish message yesterday promising to take his foot off the pedal when it comes to quantitative tightening and rate cuts. Anyone who's been paying attention to the wild fluctuations and last-minute surges in the day-to-day machinations of the market would tell you that someone somewhere has been tipping the scales to stop the market from going down. Pullbacks, which are normal in any market, are almost non-existent. Forget the 50-day moving average. We can't even break the 21-day moving average these days. This is also a little reminiscent of 2021. You knew things were getting frothy, but you couldn't get out of the market for fear of losing out. Hell, some people were taking out loans to buy stocks. The returns more than made up for the interest the banks were charging. How much, if any, does this have to do with the latest AI craze? Are we in the middle of another dot.com-type mania? Or, is this just Biden and his boy at the Fed, Powell, juicing the markets to win an election?
I'm thinking about the State of Arizona. As far as I know, the electorate is somewhat purple-ish. Presidential races are decided by a few thousand votes every four years. Polls this year have both Biden and Trump either up or down depending on the poll. Here's what I'm not understanding: There have been hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into Arizona, and the usual margins between the political parties have barely budged. You would think that the citizenry of Arizona might have an issue with the invasion of their great state by illegal aliens whose very presence in the state has every conceivable metric from crimes committed to meeting their health care needs just off the fucking scale. In other words, the guy who wants to deport them all, Trump, should be 10 points or more ahead at this stage of the game. Maybe more appropriately, Biden should be ten points behind. The senatorial race between Kari Lake and this Gallegos guy shouldn't even be close, yet Gallegos is four points ahead as I sit here today. Why on God's green earth would Arizonans want to send a Democrat like Gallegos to Washington when everyone knows that he would endorse Biden's bid to keep our borders wide open? You'll never convince me that Arizonans want more illegal aliens in their state. Are we then to conclude that roughly 50% of the Arizonans want more of the same? Make it make sense.
Did you see the hordes of illegals breaking through the razor wire fence down there in El Paso, Texas, yesterday? If you were watching CNN or MSNBC, you probably didn't. It was frightening. Biden told them to surge the border, and, God damn it, they are surging our fucking borders. What the hell are our National Guardsmen supposed to do? They did the best they could to stop the crushing crowds of filthy travel-worn migrants from coming into our country, but they were too few in number and not properly equipped to keep them from breaking through. Not one soldier raised his rifle or raised a hand to try and stop the feral mob. Imagine what the Biden Administration would do with film footage of one or more soldiers opening fire on the marauding migrants. You probably recall the hoo-haw they came up with a couple of years ago when the Border Patrol had officers on horseback trying to corral the border crossers. They accused them of whipping and traumatizing the poor migrants as they came to America to build a better life. Horseshit. Nobody got whipped or traumatized, but that didn't stop Biden and his people from condemning the actions of the officers and trying to put them out of their jobs.
I hope to hell the Appeals Court steps in today to put a stop to Lateisha's efforts to take control of Trump's properties. I know Monday is the deadline but nobody wants this to go down to the wire. And the last thing we want to see is this cunt of a District Attorney standing in front of Trump Tower in New York City, taking possession of the property and forcing the eviction of its tenants. The fine of some half billion dollars is beyond ludicrous for this so-called victimless crime, and someone needs to pay a political price for going down this road and trying to destroy a man and the legacy he's built up over the course of his lifetime. Everyone sees this for what it is. It's lawfare at its finest. If they can't put Trump behind bars before the election, they will bankrupt him and take everything that he's ever worked for in order to take him down. Don't think for a moment that Joe Biden isn't getting hourly updates on the efforts of everyone working on his behalf to destroy his political opposition. He's only ultimately revealed himself to be the corrupt and criminal politician that he's always been going back some fifty years. Here's the dirty little secret: It's not just Joe Biden. It's the cabal of leftist freaks working behind the scenes in our beloved White House.
It seems like everything this Biden White House touches turns to shit. They convinced the Ukrainians not to engage in talks with Russia at the beginning of the war, and we now have hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians dead. They keep trying to micromanage the Israeli war, and thankfully, Israel has ignored their overtures. There is something almost Machiavellian about how the Biden Administration conducts themselves across the globe. Having taken millions of dollars from our enemies overseas, it looks more often than not like Biden is bending over backward to protect or promote the interests of our enemies at the expense of our allies. I'm looking at an overseas headline this morning about Biden and his Administration calling on Ukraine to cease and desist in attacking Russia's energy infrastructure. You can't make this stuff up. Let me see if I have this right. Biden wants to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine so they can mount a credible and, God willing, crippling defense against the advancing Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. But, God forbid the Ukrainians launch a counter-attack on Russian soil. Here's the deal: Biden can't have the price of Russian crude influencing global markets and pushing prices up at the pump at a time when he's running for reelection. This has to have the Ukrainians wondering whose side he's on. Just another Putin stooge?
I think I need a new iPhone. I'm a few generations behind, so I think it's time. My phone still works fine, don't get me wrong. Should I be concerned that I can no longer get software updates? Let me rephrase that. I cannot update my current operating system to OS 17. Word has it that Apple is building AI into the iPhone 17, which is, as best I can tell, a couple of years out. The latest model available is the iPhone 15. They always do this. They put a rumor or two out there in the ether, and the next thing you know, you're deciding whether or not whatever it is they're promising is worth waiting for or not. If I'm not wanting or willing to wait, will the AI thing be available as a software update when they get around to rolling it out? I also have to decide which model I want from among the many models available. Do I want the Max Pro model? How about just the Pro model? Do I care more about size than price? Is the Max model too big to fit in my pocket when I go for a bike ride? Will this latest anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple by the Justice Department have any bearing on anything? Next steps? I'm planning a visit to my local Best Buy, where I can see for myself what the various models look and feel like. Do I even want AI on my iPhone?
Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Russia yesterday, where around 115 people were gunned down in a large mall in Moscow? You never know what to believe when you hear these sorts of things, but this story seems to have legs. One story I saw put out a list of the countries offering their condolences and another story had the Kremlin criticizing those countries who had yet to offer their condolences. I think the United States was on both lists. Like I said, you never know what to believe. Another story had the culprits getting away, while this morning's news has a story about the four terrorists who were stopped in a car that was reportedly heading for the Ukrainian border. I asked myself, if I were a terrorist and I just killed a bunch of people in Moscow, would I be stupid enough to head for a border where the Russians were likely to be looking for me and my fellow assassins? You have to assume that the Ruskies probably thought that Ukrainians were involved. And then you have the infamous warmonger, Victoria Nuland, who said recently that Russia would be in for a few "nasty surprises." I can't even begin to read between those lines. I guess I'm still not sure what is and what isn't "fair game" when it comes to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Is this just more tit-for-tat? Or is this over the top, as they say in the movies? Maybe it depends on whose side you're on.
I'm hearing that some people are suggesting that this attack was a false flag operation by Russia. That is to say, Putin can now use the attack as a premise for an all-out attack on Ukraine without pushback from world leaders. It would be no different than what Netanyahu is now doing to Hamas. Despite the whining of various countries regarding the needless deaths of civilians, no one is pushing back on Israel's right to rout out their enemies wherever they are. Well, almost no one. There is also consensus about the fact that there are forces afoot who will not abide by any efforts to seek a settlement or resolution with the Russians. That may explain why we hear people like Macron out there threatening to send French troops into Ukraine. You don't really think that that's Macron speaking, do you? Who is he taking direction from? I think I can say with some confidence that the American people have no beef with Russia or her people. I can't say the same thing for our government. Who the hell knows what they're thinking? Maybe they have some ridiculous belief that our country can rise up out of the ashes after a nuclear holocaust and become the Marxist nirvana that they've always wanted. Here's my advice to Putin: Don't take the bait.
Shall we call it the "Bloodbath Hoax"? The Democrats and their praetorian guard, the media, are in full spin mode after Trump made comments in his rally over the weekend about having a "bloodbath" if he's not elected in November. His comment was all about a financial bloodbath in the automotive industry, and it had zero to do with his winning or not winning the presidential election in November. The media would have us believe, even this morning, after the passing of several news cycles, that Trump is threatening a January 6th-style bloodbath should he lose the election. The good news is that social media stepped into the fray the minute lies started to circulate and called the lot of the news organizations out for their lies and misrepresentations. It does have me wondering if this wasn't a messaging sleight-of-hand crafted by Trump's handlers in order to out the criminality and hypocrisy of the mainstream media. Elon Musk even stepped in on Twitter (X) to correct tweets that sought to perpetuate the lie that the media wanted to go viral. All hands on deck?
I watched one of the liberal talking head shows on Sunday. If I have her name correctly, it was the show hosted by Martha Raddish. Talk about a loon-fest. If I was curious as to what strategy the media would employ to get their boy, Biden, back into the Oval Office for another four years, let's say I'm no longer curious. I'm referring to the part of the show where Raddish sits down with four or five other "anal-ists," and they discuss everything under the sun as it relates to politics and Donald J. Trump. After listening to the analysts beclown each other for the better part of fifteen or twenty minutes, the strategy seemed to be to smear Trump using any and all forms of rhetorical flourish available. They're not waiting for Trump to be convicted on one or more of the ninety or so indictments outstanding. That horse has left the barn. It's fucking game-on, and I'm not sure there isn't anything that they won't do or sign off on in order to see that Trump doesn't win the election. They are maniacally focused on taking him down before he gets one foot out of the gate. It may be too little, too late.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the media weren't doing their best to create a cloud of toxicity of sorts around Trump such that someone might take their words, as intentionally despicable and virulent as they often are, as giving them license to do bad things to Trump and, by extension, Trump supporters. Trump is a threat to Democracy! If we learned nothing from the endless Russia Russia Russia trolling of the public by the mainstream media during Trump's first term, we learned that they would stop at nothing to use their platform as a political battering ram in order to defeat their enemies and prop up their political bedfellows. Keep in mind that it's not just the media. The entire Deep State and its political infrastructure are at risk should Trump be re-elected for a second term. There is no question that they have the will and the means to prevent Trump from winning the election or, worse yet, to see that he never becomes the nominee/president.
I see that the Kenyan goat herder Obama is in London visiting 10 Downing Street as I sit here this morning. What the hell is he doing anywhere on the world stage representing the United States? Forget for a minute that he is likely calling the shots, or maybe more appropriately pulling the strings, in the Biden administration. That would certainly explain why the United States' foreign policy is in a shambles. He's just confirming what everyone suspects, which is that he and his Marxist toadies are behind every decision that comes out of the White House. It's his third term, don't you know. For those of us who were on to this Kenyan goat herder a long time ago, it's like deja vu all over again. Is he there in London to assuage the fears that 10 Downing Street has about the declining mental health of one Joseph Biden? Is he there to assure them that the United States will stay the course when Michelle Obama gets sworn into office in January 2025? Has he gone so far as to promise them that Donald J. Trump will never be the 47th president of the United States? What then?
It's so funny. We're finally getting around to getting a generator that we don't have to wheel in and out of the garage every time we lose electricity. Our neighbor has a nice set-up where her generator turns on automatically when the power goes out. It's a bit more expensive than the stand-alone generator that we have, but, truth be told, it's time. I told the missus that were I to get hit by a bus tomorrow she would have to deal with the generator. She would have to wheel it out of the garage and pull the starting cord until it was up and running. Both she and I know that that ain't happening. She doesn't know the first thing about such things and she's probably not about to learn now. I asked the guy who came out to give us an estimate of how much I could get for my stand-alone generator. He said I might get around a grand unless I were willing and sell it the next time we have a storm. I don't have the estimate yet, but it's probably not going to be cheap to get all of this up and running. The funny part about all of this is no sooner did we start discussing the reality of doing this then I started to notice how many homes hereabouts have propane tanks and generators sitting on their property. I never noticed that before.
Maybe we'll get a gas stove if we're going to have propane tanks on the premises. I'm no Chef Ramsey, but I can appreciate how much nicer it would be to cook on a gas stove. On the other hand, every time I turn around these days, the cucks in the White House are coming out with one directive or another about stopping the sale of carbon-based appliances like gas stoves. More recently, they threatened to ban gas stoves in New York City. I think that went nowhere but make no mistake. These climate cultists ain't about to give up on their wet dream of getting rid of anything and everything that puts so-called pollutants into the atmosphere. It makes you wonder what their endgame is. I think it's all about weakening our country to the point where we are incapable of defending ourselves in the event of a global conflict coming to our shores. What else could it be? You don't honestly think that it has anything to do with cutting back on cancer rates or keeping ice floes around for the polar bears, do you? I can be a bit of a worry-wart sometimes when it comes to something like a gas stove. Did we leave the stove on? Did you turn off the gas stove? No, I thought you did. See where I'm going with this?
I'm sorry to see Peter Navarro go to jail for four months. He's headed to jail because he decided to ignore the subpoena sent to him by the J6 Committee. So that you know, Navarro was a personal advisor to President Trump during his first term. He thought, apparently wrongly (Until proven otherwise), that he had some sort of immunity that would preclude him from testifying. I'm not an attorney, so I may not have the terminology quite right, but it's probably close enough for government work. I'd be curious to know which prison he's heading to. Is it going to be a Riker's Island-type joint where he has to have eyes in the back of his head every time he drops his bar of soap while showering? Or, will it be the kind of place Martha Stewart stayed during her stay in prison after trading stocks using insider information? Knowing the Bidenistas as I do, I fear that Peter may be for a tough four months behind bars. Will his association with Trump help him or hurt him once he's on the inside? Maybe he can teach classes on economics to the lifers he's holed up with. I think he has a doctorate in economics. Since when do those types of people go to prison unless your name is Bernie Madoff? Only in Joe Biden's America. May God protect him.
Bumbles and his minions are publishing new emissions standards/requirements today. Is anyone surprised that car manufacturers will find it difficult, if not impossible, to meet these new standards? With electric vehicle sales slumping due to declining demand, they had to do something to turn that around in order to meet their ridiculous zero-carbon goals. Fuck the lot of them and the horse they rode in on. I ain't buying an electric car. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. I'll walk before I'll bow to the bullshit they're selling. I'm just waiting now for the manufacturers to sue the shite out of the government, who would see them lose their businesses before they'd let them roll another gas-powered vehicle off the assembly line. I hope the car companies in Michigan are listening. I hope the voters in Michigan are listening. If Trump wins Michigan in November, he takes back the White House, and all of this bull-fuckery goes away. Can Congress do anything to thwart the idiocy coming out of the White House? God, I hope so. Go big and go bold, is what I say. Trump wasn't wrong about the "bloodbath."
I have no idea what The Donald is going to do to raise the money he needs for the half-billion dollar bond he needs by next Monday. It's such an absurd fine to begin with that I don't know where to start. Will that cretin of a District Attorney really start liquidation proceedings of Trump's properties in order to satisfy the amount of the bond? I'm hearing more and more business bigwigs speaking publicly about what this means for investors around the world who may have been interested in investing in New York City but are now having second thoughts after watching what's been happening to Trump. To a person, they say that they've never seen anything like this, and it's the kind of thing that only happens in third-world banana republics but not in our country - until now. It's a cautionary tale, to be sure. Articles I'm reading say that thirty-some-odd bond companies have turned Trump down in his request to float the bond that he needs. Any guesses on how many of those bond companies were threatened not to do business with Trump or else? Would any of this be happening were Trump not running for president? Of course not. A little divine intervention would be nice.
I'm a little troubled by the latest ruling by a black federal judge in Illinois that illegal aliens have the right under the Second Amendment to bear arms. I only mention her race because I'm not entirely sure that there isn't a racial component to her decision. That is to say, she may believe in her heart of hearts that the only way we colonialists stay in power is if we have the wherewithal under the Constitution to protect ourselves should push come to shove. She'd likely like nothing better than to do what she can to improve the odds of her fellow blacks and other minority classes, including some ten to thirteen million recent arrivals now here in our country illegally, by granting them rights under the Constitution that don't otherwise exist. Think about it. If this invasion of tens of millions of so-called migrants brought to us by Joe Biden morphs into an armed invasion of young men of military age, this could be the revolution that blacks and other underprivileged classes have been crowing about for the last one hundred years. Unfortunately, we have an underbelly of complacency in our country that might well see our citizenry rolling over without a fight when the shit hits the fan. It would make January 6th look like a walk in the park. Is it any surprise that this Federal judge from Illinois is an Obama appointee? Let's get this damn thing overturned before it's too late.
Have you heard about the latest craze of squatting? No, not that kind of squatting. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about where you have homeless people breaking into homes that are on the market for sale or other and refuse to leave. This one case, coming out of Queens, New York, had the squatters replacing the front door with a new door complete with new locks, etc. When the owners show up and try to get them to leave, the squatters call the police on the owner. The owner actually got arrested in this case. In some cases, the squatters show a fake lease to the officers, and the officers have no choice but to turn the matter over to the court system. It can take months to resolve when courts are backed up, not to mention the delays caused by the backlogs created out of whole cloth when you factor in tens of thousands of itinerant illegal aliens whose cases are clogging an already clogged judicial system. I don't know about you, but I'm thinking twice before leaving my house these days. With my luck, I'd run out for a quart of milk and return home to find someone else living in my house. Johnny would not be happy. Can someone get me the number for rent-a-vigilante? I will not go quietly into the night.
What are we to make of these financial markets? The stock market has gone almost vertical since the beginning of November 2023. Is this 1999 all over again? No one is willing to go that far, but the market seems to be ignoring all the usual market forces that would otherwise give us a pause here and there before getting back on track. The good news for the bulls is that Powell delivered a dovish message yesterday promising to take his foot off the pedal when it comes to quantitative tightening and rate cuts. Anyone who's been paying attention to the wild fluctuations and last-minute surges in the day-to-day machinations of the market would tell you that someone somewhere has been tipping the scales to stop the market from going down. Pullbacks, which are normal in any market, are almost non-existent. Forget the 50-day moving average. We can't even break the 21-day moving average these days. This is also a little reminiscent of 2021. You knew things were getting frothy, but you couldn't get out of the market for fear of losing out. Hell, some people were taking out loans to buy stocks. The returns more than made up for the interest the banks were charging. How much, if any, does this have to do with the latest AI craze? Are we in the middle of another dot.com-type mania? Or, is this just Biden and his boy at the Fed, Powell, juicing the markets to win an election?
I'm thinking about the State of Arizona. As far as I know, the electorate is somewhat purple-ish. Presidential races are decided by a few thousand votes every four years. Polls this year have both Biden and Trump either up or down depending on the poll. Here's what I'm not understanding: There have been hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into Arizona, and the usual margins between the political parties have barely budged. You would think that the citizenry of Arizona might have an issue with the invasion of their great state by illegal aliens whose very presence in the state has every conceivable metric from crimes committed to meeting their health care needs just off the fucking scale. In other words, the guy who wants to deport them all, Trump, should be 10 points or more ahead at this stage of the game. Maybe more appropriately, Biden should be ten points behind. The senatorial race between Kari Lake and this Gallegos guy shouldn't even be close, yet Gallegos is four points ahead as I sit here today. Why on God's green earth would Arizonans want to send a Democrat like Gallegos to Washington when everyone knows that he would endorse Biden's bid to keep our borders wide open? You'll never convince me that Arizonans want more illegal aliens in their state. Are we then to conclude that roughly 50% of the Arizonans want more of the same? Make it make sense.
Did you see the hordes of illegals breaking through the razor wire fence down there in El Paso, Texas, yesterday? If you were watching CNN or MSNBC, you probably didn't. It was frightening. Biden told them to surge the border, and, God damn it, they are surging our fucking borders. What the hell are our National Guardsmen supposed to do? They did the best they could to stop the crushing crowds of filthy travel-worn migrants from coming into our country, but they were too few in number and not properly equipped to keep them from breaking through. Not one soldier raised his rifle or raised a hand to try and stop the feral mob. Imagine what the Biden Administration would do with film footage of one or more soldiers opening fire on the marauding migrants. You probably recall the hoo-haw they came up with a couple of years ago when the Border Patrol had officers on horseback trying to corral the border crossers. They accused them of whipping and traumatizing the poor migrants as they came to America to build a better life. Horseshit. Nobody got whipped or traumatized, but that didn't stop Biden and his people from condemning the actions of the officers and trying to put them out of their jobs.
I hope to hell the Appeals Court steps in today to put a stop to Lateisha's efforts to take control of Trump's properties. I know Monday is the deadline but nobody wants this to go down to the wire. And the last thing we want to see is this cunt of a District Attorney standing in front of Trump Tower in New York City, taking possession of the property and forcing the eviction of its tenants. The fine of some half billion dollars is beyond ludicrous for this so-called victimless crime, and someone needs to pay a political price for going down this road and trying to destroy a man and the legacy he's built up over the course of his lifetime. Everyone sees this for what it is. It's lawfare at its finest. If they can't put Trump behind bars before the election, they will bankrupt him and take everything that he's ever worked for in order to take him down. Don't think for a moment that Joe Biden isn't getting hourly updates on the efforts of everyone working on his behalf to destroy his political opposition. He's only ultimately revealed himself to be the corrupt and criminal politician that he's always been going back some fifty years. Here's the dirty little secret: It's not just Joe Biden. It's the cabal of leftist freaks working behind the scenes in our beloved White House.
It seems like everything this Biden White House touches turns to shit. They convinced the Ukrainians not to engage in talks with Russia at the beginning of the war, and we now have hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians dead. They keep trying to micromanage the Israeli war, and thankfully, Israel has ignored their overtures. There is something almost Machiavellian about how the Biden Administration conducts themselves across the globe. Having taken millions of dollars from our enemies overseas, it looks more often than not like Biden is bending over backward to protect or promote the interests of our enemies at the expense of our allies. I'm looking at an overseas headline this morning about Biden and his Administration calling on Ukraine to cease and desist in attacking Russia's energy infrastructure. You can't make this stuff up. Let me see if I have this right. Biden wants to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine so they can mount a credible and, God willing, crippling defense against the advancing Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. But, God forbid the Ukrainians launch a counter-attack on Russian soil. Here's the deal: Biden can't have the price of Russian crude influencing global markets and pushing prices up at the pump at a time when he's running for reelection. This has to have the Ukrainians wondering whose side he's on. Just another Putin stooge?
I think I need a new iPhone. I'm a few generations behind, so I think it's time. My phone still works fine, don't get me wrong. Should I be concerned that I can no longer get software updates? Let me rephrase that. I cannot update my current operating system to OS 17. Word has it that Apple is building AI into the iPhone 17, which is, as best I can tell, a couple of years out. The latest model available is the iPhone 15. They always do this. They put a rumor or two out there in the ether, and the next thing you know, you're deciding whether or not whatever it is they're promising is worth waiting for or not. If I'm not wanting or willing to wait, will the AI thing be available as a software update when they get around to rolling it out? I also have to decide which model I want from among the many models available. Do I want the Max Pro model? How about just the Pro model? Do I care more about size than price? Is the Max model too big to fit in my pocket when I go for a bike ride? Will this latest anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple by the Justice Department have any bearing on anything? Next steps? I'm planning a visit to my local Best Buy, where I can see for myself what the various models look and feel like. Do I even want AI on my iPhone?
Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Russia yesterday, where around 115 people were gunned down in a large mall in Moscow? You never know what to believe when you hear these sorts of things, but this story seems to have legs. One story I saw put out a list of the countries offering their condolences and another story had the Kremlin criticizing those countries who had yet to offer their condolences. I think the United States was on both lists. Like I said, you never know what to believe. Another story had the culprits getting away, while this morning's news has a story about the four terrorists who were stopped in a car that was reportedly heading for the Ukrainian border. I asked myself, if I were a terrorist and I just killed a bunch of people in Moscow, would I be stupid enough to head for a border where the Russians were likely to be looking for me and my fellow assassins? You have to assume that the Ruskies probably thought that Ukrainians were involved. And then you have the infamous warmonger, Victoria Nuland, who said recently that Russia would be in for a few "nasty surprises." I can't even begin to read between those lines. I guess I'm still not sure what is and what isn't "fair game" when it comes to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Is this just more tit-for-tat? Or is this over the top, as they say in the movies? Maybe it depends on whose side you're on.
I'm hearing that some people are suggesting that this attack was a false flag operation by Russia. That is to say, Putin can now use the attack as a premise for an all-out attack on Ukraine without pushback from world leaders. It would be no different than what Netanyahu is now doing to Hamas. Despite the whining of various countries regarding the needless deaths of civilians, no one is pushing back on Israel's right to rout out their enemies wherever they are. Well, almost no one. There is also consensus about the fact that there are forces afoot who will not abide by any efforts to seek a settlement or resolution with the Russians. That may explain why we hear people like Macron out there threatening to send French troops into Ukraine. You don't really think that that's Macron speaking, do you? Who is he taking direction from? I think I can say with some confidence that the American people have no beef with Russia or her people. I can't say the same thing for our government. Who the hell knows what they're thinking? Maybe they have some ridiculous belief that our country can rise up out of the ashes after a nuclear holocaust and become the Marxist nirvana that they've always wanted. Here's my advice to Putin: Don't take the bait.