The Big Guy
15/01/23 07:07
Remember Ashley Babbit? She was the only person killed on January 6th, 2020, when Americans took their grievances peacefully and patriotically into the People's House in our nation's capital. She was killed by one of the Capital Police Force when she attempted to enter an area where this particular policeman was waiting with his gun drawn. Ms. Babbit was unarmed and posed no real threat, yet she was gunned down in cold blood. Worse yet, he was lauded by the government for his actions, and an internal investigation resulted in no charges whatsoever. This particular police force is now Kevin McCarthy's police force. Will he do the right thing by reopening the investigation and holding hearings about what really transpired on that fateful day? Will he hold every last one of Pelosi's henchmen responsible? America will be watching.
We took Mrs. G out for a ride yesterday. I had wanted to watch the New England Patriots play the Buffalo Bills on the telly a little after noon, but it was such a beautiful day outdoors that staying indoors for the afternoon seemed sinful at best. Y'all know I could give two shits for the game of football, and we're not talking soccer here, but I have a particular interest in seeing the New England Patriots get their asses handed to them. Who watches a game on the telly to see someone lose? Right? I had a hundred and one ways to follow up on the game, so off we went to pick up Mrs. G. I thought we might surprise her by taking her to Kentucky Fried Chicken in Seabrook, but that went sideways when the missus spilled the beans before we even got out of sight of Mrs. G's independent living facility. You know what they say about the best-laid plans of mice and men.
Mrs. G seems fairly preoccupied these days with where she may or may not have to park when she goes to get her car inspected. So much so, in fact, that before we left for Seabrook yesterday, she insisted that we drive by the garage where she planned to have to car inspected so she might get a better sense as to where she might be able to park when she arrives for the inspection. My sense, as I sit here thinking about it this morning, is that she's overly wrought about all of this and that me and the missus ought to take care of that for her. I just sent her an e-mail suggesting as much, and I suspect she'll be open to our offer. It begs the bigger question, of course, that if she has this amount of consternation about something as straightforward as parking, might it be time for her to consider getting off the road altogether? Just thinking out loud here.
I need to do a better job when it comes to collecting my thoughts and putting down ideas on what I might put in this here blog every day when I sit down to write. I seem to get ideas here and there throughout the day, and when I sit down every morning to do this blog thing, I can't recall any of it. Maybe it's time to take away my car keys. Only kidding. All of it could have been avoided if I had had the presence of mind to keep a notepad or something on my person to keep track of the things I wanted to write about. I'm getting the job done, so maybe it isn't that big a deal. In other words, I have a track record that I can point to that says notes aren't necessary, and shooting from the hip, at least for me, works pretty well.
I read somewhere yesterday about a college south of where I'm sitting that now requires their students and faculty to wear masks. I am so tired of these fucking health zealots and Nazis who haven't a clue about this Covid bullshit. I'm probably also not wrong about assuming that they also require their student body to be immunized and boosted with the latest and greatest vaccines from the Pfizers of the world. You know, the same vaccines that are allegedly responsible for twenty-somethings dropping dead while engaging in sports activities, be they basketball players, martial artists, or football players. When will they get it through their fucking heads that masks are useless against these viruses and, if anything, they keep people from developing natural immunities to the normal seasonal stuff that comes around every year? It's especially irritating when you consider the fact that the latest strains of Covid, by most reports, are less dangerous and seldom lethal.
I told the missus yesterday about Bumbles Biden's trip to El Paso on our southern border. I told her that it was all smoke and mirrors. Bumbles has been taking a considerable amount of heat over the last couple of years for not going to our southern border while leaving that very same border open to hordes of illegal aliens who now plague our towns and cities. Who knows who and what these people are, what crimes they've committed, what pathogens they carry, and what their intentions are now that they're here? Anyway, Bumbles, in his demented state, made his way down to the border town to do whatever presidents do when they pay a visit. What our media didn't tell you is that Bumble's advance team cleaned the streets and alleyways of every last illegal alien in sight so Bumbles wouldn't be embarrassed by their presence. More importantly, the media would have a sanitized version of El Paso to sell to the American public that counters the vicious and persistent rumors of what has become of our border towns since Bumbles opened our borders. Like I said, smoke and mirrors.
I like what our new Republican House of Representatives is doing now that we have a Speaker in place, but I worry about how much of what they do or announce that they've done is purely performative. They passed something last night about defunding the IRS, or more to the point, they effectively clawed back billions of dollars in funding that the previous democrat congress passed into law that would add 87,000 new IRS agents to the rolls. It sounds good, and who doesn't like the idea that the common man can now sleep better at night knowing that their chances of being audited by the IRS is less likely, but one has to wonder whether or not the House of Representatives has the power to unilaterally reduce or cut the funding that has already been passed into law. The devil is always in the details, so we'll see where this goes. Maybe this is just another pig in the poke deal where you think you're getting something when you're not.
I don't think I realized that the IRS funding of 87,000 new agents was designed to provide funding for the Green New Deal, the Administration's Climate Change initiatives, etc. It's all a crock of hooey if you ask me, so taking a meat cleaver to the lot of it makes imminently good sense to me. Have you heard the latest? The Biden Administration wants to outlaw gas stoves. Wut? Can they do that? You know what's next, right? They'll point to some study that says marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by the use of gas stoves, and, God forbid, that needs to be rectified. The sooner, the better. They'll get some Biden judge to sign off on the rule, and, voila, you can kiss your fucking gas stove goodbye. Do you have a gas fireplace? They're probably coming for that too. How about your favorite restaurant? You know, the one down the street that cooks your favorite dish using gas stoves. Their days are numbered too.
Tell me that this latest story about Biden and the classified files that he's had for years now isn't the juiciest story going. You should hear the liberal media spinning the facts to separate Biden from Trump and the alleged criminality of the "crimes" committed. There is no criminality on the part of Biden, they say. He forgot that the darn things were there. No harm, no foul. His attorney's called the people who are responsible for storing these items, and they have since been turned over to them. There's one big difference between the two stories. Trump had the right to declassify documents, and Biden, as Vice President, had no such authority. That makes what Biden did a criminal matter. Where is the Special Counsel, Attorney General Garland? Where are the articles of impeachment by the republican House of Representatives? Let's fucking go!
Did I mention that I bought a second Echo Dot? I want to do things with these devices that may not be possible, but I'm a hacker at heart, so where there is a will, there is a way. Can I use these devices as Bluetooth speakers? I read somewhere that previous models had an external speaker plug, but the model I now have has no such thing. Can I play an audiobook on my phone on my Echo Dot? Or will the Echo only play audiobooks from places like Audible, etc.? I'm not a big fan of audiobooks, but I like to push the functionality of these devices to the point where I know what they can and cannot do. Some things are not advertised for one reason or another, and those are the so-called Easter eggs that I'm looking to tap into. Is any of this making any sense? I now have devices in two separate rooms but don't know to manage how and when they work together if they work together at all. I might want to say, Alexa, transfer my music to the other room. Will that work? What do I do when the missus says that she wants some privacy? Do I turn down the volume on the device that is in the room she occupies? Is that even necessary? I need to sort these things out.
I heard yesterday that we are bringing Ukrainian soldiers to America to train them on how to operate the Patriot Missile Systems. It's just one more example of the West fighting a proxy war against Russia while using Ukraine as a backdrop for it all. How sophisticated can these systems be that they need to take these fighters off the field of battle so they can train them for however long it takes them to do the training? If you were fortunate enough to go to America while your fellow soldiers were dying by the hundreds back in the homeland, how excited would you be to get back on a plane to go to the meat grinder that is Ukraine when the training was over? You know where all of this is going. You know that Americans will ultimately end up operating those Patriot Missile Systems. Here's my advice to Zelensky: Cut a fucking deal and stop the senseless killing of your countryman, for chrissakes. There is not now, nor will there ever be, anything approximating an assured destruction of your enemy, the country of Russia. No amount of money from the West will assist you in that endeavor.
I caught a clip last night with Robert Kennedy and Tucker where they were discussing how the government has been using social media platforms to stifle free speech. It's not as benign as it sounds. Kennedy made the point that social media platforms, by virtue of their freewheeling nature, allow voices and opinions that often depart from the news that the government wants you to hear, and they are having none of it. If the government can control what news gets reported, it can essentially control the messaging. If it can control the messaging, it can control the populace. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Twitter, in the pre-Musk era, employed maybe hundreds of ex-governmental types, and those employees were complicit, if not directly responsible, for the banning or silencing of voices that offered opinions contrary to those offered by the mainstream media. This is not the America that our Founders envisioned. It is the America that they warned that we could lose were tyranny to come to our shores. We are now on the precipice of that reality. It's time to wake up.
My goodness! What's that? Did you say that they found a second tranche of classified documents that Biden had in his possession? Holy cow, Batman! The funny thing is, they aren't telling anyone where they found this second tranche of materials. You can ask until the cows come home, but nobody's talking. You know what that means. Right? They were likely not stored in a locked closet like the first tranche. Not that being in a locked closet means anything because getting into a locked closet, unlike accessing the inner sanctum of Mar-a-Lago, which had 24/7 governmental security, is a relatively easy thing to do. One has to wonder, why now? Why is all of this coming out now? Is this the deep state looking to rid the White House and the country of the moron sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office? Have they decided that he (Biden) and his criminal family have done enough damage? Is this how it all ends?
I tuned into CNN last night and then turned to MSNBC, and neither channel featured the discovery of this second tranche of classified materials as their lead story. Can you imagine if the Feds had discovered a second tranche of classified documents in one or more of Trump's properties? Every last one of these liberal shows would be on fire, with their respective hosts and guests calling for the immediate imprisonment of Trump and his extended family. What the hell kind of simulation are we living in, anyway? I flipped back and forth throughout the hour, and they never covered the story. I'm looking at a couple of headlines this morning, and I see that the White House asked the networks to ignore the story after it broke. Do we have a free press or not? Is this not a story worth covering? Does anyone care that Biden likely shared these classified documents with America's enemies like China, Russia, etc.? How much were they paid? Just how compromised are we as a nation now that Biden has sold us out for his sixty pieces of silver?
Poor Kamala. She must have figured that she'd be our sitting president by now. Bumbles Biden could barely string two sentences together as a presidential candidate back in 2020, with his dementia worsening by the day, if not the hour. Even with the use of a teleprompter, Bumbles was and still is, a laughingstock on the world stage. Kamala was probably promised that she could measure the drapes in the Oval Office while Bumbles was sitting behind the Resolute desk, and Bumbles was so far gone that he probably wouldn't even notice that she was there with her measuring tape in hand.
I think the media is largely constrained these days by their loyalty to both their leftist ideology and their leader who sits in the White House to put his deficiencies on display anymore, so we now have what can only be described as a sanitized version of Bumbles on the stump. I think this is what they refer to as a sleight of hand in the world of chicanery. None of it gets Kamala any closer to her dream of being the first female president of the greatest country on the face of the world. That has to be a great source of consternation for her and her staff, who probably joined her in the Vice President's residence, thinking they would join her in the White House in the near term. That may still happen, but it hasn't happened yet.
I'm more and more impressed with Common Roots every time I go there. My latest purchases included a nice sweet potato corn chowder, three containers of mushroom chili, a nice turkey dinner complete with mashed potatoes and gravy, and a lovely container of roasted vegetables. One never knows what to expect when one goes to their store looking for foodstuffs for dinner, so it's always nice to be surprised on the upside. I can't say that I've ever been disappointed, but I haven't much interest in vegan dishes, so more often than not, I end up walking away with little to nothing to show for my efforts. If I'm not wanting to disappoint the missus by arriving back home with little to nothing for an upcoming meal, I'll grab a blueberry or lemon poppyseed muffin on my way out the door. But, having said all of that, maybe what I see here early on in 2023 is an effort to expand their menu in a way that is pleasing not just for the vegans but for the rest of us as well. Whatever they're doing, they need to keep doing it.
The early morning snow has tapered off now, and we're expecting it all to turn to rain for the rest of the day. I threw a handful of little peanut nuggets out onto our back deck that I bought the other day at a local store, and they have largely disappeared beneath a thin veneer of snow. I can never keep the names of the bird species straight, so I can't say for sure which birds made a beeline for the nuggets, but that congo line has gone flat now that the nuggets are no longer visible. I have a good mind to shovel a section of the deck off so the birds can have easier access to the food I'm putting out for them, but maybe it's not a good idea with rain in the forecast. I topped off my thistle feeder, and I restocked my suet feeder the other day, so whatever we have coming down the pike in the way of bad weather, it'll likely not deter the birds that typically grace us with their presence in good weather and in bad.
What was all of that nonsense with the air traffic nationwide coming to a grinding halt yesterday? Initial reports said something about a computer issue. So, planes in the air were okay to go about their business, but none were approved to take off. So that you know, we've not seen a nationwide shutdown of our airlines since 9/11. What was this, exactly? Was it a dry run to see how our country handles a shutdown in an emergency? Was it a dry run to evaluate our country's defenses should, God forbid, we be attacked by a foreign enemy? Was it due to the sheer unadulterated incompetence of our country's Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Pete Butt-Edge-Edge? You know, the guy who couldn't fix the potholes as mayor of his town, South Bend, Indiana? Yeah, that guy. That's who we're talking about. The very same clown who loves to talk about how he proposed to his husband in an airport terminal. Yes, the very same guy who mismanaged our country's supply chains back in 2021, which resulted in hundreds of container ships stacked up at ports coast to coast. Or, was this a thinly disguised redirection play to give the media a good excuse not to talk about the second tranche of classified documents found in Biden's possession? Maybe all of the above. What say you?
Did I say second tranche of classified materials? Well, neighbors and friends, we now have three tranches of classified materials that have been uncovered at one or more of Biden's residences. We didn't know about the third tranche until yesterday's press conference by Attorney General, Garland. He set out the timeline, and if you were paying attention, you learned that Garland recently discovered the existence of yet a third tranche of classified materials. You never heard a peep about the third tranche in the media. Maybe they knew and didn't want to pile on when their man was down on all fours, and maybe they didn't know at all. Garland also announced that the Justice Department had named a Special Counsel to investigate possible criminality on the part of one Bumbles Biden for crimes related to the theft, possession, and possible distribution of said files. All felonies, I might add. Here's the kicker: Garland announced his investigation into Trump's mishandling of documents when he knew about Biden's alleged crimes but said nothing. Can you say, "double standard"?
It's all very delicious, don't you think? What, pray tell, was that nonsense rolling off Bumble's lips about his garage being as safe a place as any because that's where he stores his Corvette. Is he out of his fucking mind? Was that not an admission of guilt? The media put a video of Biden's garage on a loop where you could see boxes stacked upon boxes in the rear corner of his garage. The garage door was open, and his Corvette sat outside the garage in the driveway. I want to know who had access to the garage and when were these so-called classified documents placed in the garage. I hope I'm not repeating myself, but how precisely did Bumbles get these documents out of the White House? Did he steal them? Did he sell their contents? Did Hunter have access to these documents? We know Hunter was rubbing up against the head of the Chinese Communist Party back in the day, so what role did he play in the placement or distribution and possible sale of these classified files?
There is a lot of concern on the part of those of us who want to see justice done here that the Special Counsel assigned to Biden's case is just another government hack who'll whitewash it all. I'm just repeating what I heard many people saying yesterday in the aftermath of the presser by the Attorney General. You have to believe that once someone starts scratching the surface of what's in play here that they are going to find far-reaching tentacles into the multi-faceted Biden Crime Family and their sordid and unscrupulous worldwide pay-for-play and money laundering schemes. That should come as a surprise to nobody. Others were saying that Congress needs to wrestle this away from the Department of Justice, where they can do a proper investigation. If criminality is uncovered, Articles of Impeachment can be fast-tracked, and the appropriate criminal referrals can be made to the agencies that deal with such things. If Biden is ultimately found guilty of treason, which is quite likely, we all know how that movie ends. Let's just call it just desserts.
Is it me, or does this look like someone is out to get rid of Bumbles? Who the hell is dropping a dime on where all of these classified files are being found? Nobody's buying Biden's bullshit about the story of his attorneys who were sent to box up his office at the Penn Center when they discovered the files. Nobody pays attorney's fees in the $1k to $2k per hour range to box up and move files. I mean, they just don't. How about the files that were discovered in his garage in his home in Rehobeth, Delaware? How the hell would anyone even know to look there? Was that search set in motion by Garland and his people? Did the FBI search Biden's residences, and it was never announced? One lamebrained democrat suggested that the files might have been "planted" by someone looking to frame or otherwise bring down Bumbles Biden. I also heard that Biden was looking to announce his candidacy for a second term this week, and all of this classified stuff has pretty much nixed that eventuality for now.
Most of the mainstream media is leading with the story of the untimely death of Lisa Marie Pressley this morning. If you were hiding under a rock in the past twenty-four hours and woke up to these headlines, you'd know nothing about Bumbles Biden being the subject of a criminal inquiry by the Department of Justice. That's how the mainstream media does what they do. They misdirect, they confuse, they lie, and they deliberately tell stories to distract from stories they don't want you to know about. They are the penultimate praetorian guard. If they want Bumbles Biden off the front pages, they'll make something up so they don't have to inform you about what's really taking place in our nation's capital. They'll even overplay their hand by blowing a story like Pressley's death out of proportion if that is what they need to do. Does anyone give two fucks about Pressley's death? Apart from her fans and family, probably not. Does this look like one of those vaccine-related deaths? Indeed it does, but no one is even suggesting that that angle is worthy of a byline. The Pressley family is probably pleased with the coverage, but the stench of the Biden story persists and is still the real story of the day.
It looks like my financial newsletter was right when it predicted a bit of a run-up in the stock market in January. How high and far it goes is yet to be seen. And then what? Are we back in Slumpsville for the rest of the year? Is this the end of the bear market? This isn't how bear markets end, as far as I know. Whatever happened to the capitulation stage? Are we not going to see the mother of all buying opportunities? I have a lot of questions, as you can see. And what's up with the run-up in the coins this morning? I don't follow bitcoin, but I do know that they were up around $65k a coin not that long ago, and then they dropped to $15k a few months back. They're up to $20k this morning. I guess that's good for the crypto crowd, who have held their coins all the way down from $65k. We know one thing. Hope springs eternal. Tell that to the people who bought Teslas only to see Musk reduce the purchase price of new Teslas by 10-20% due to the dropoff in the price of materials used to build his vehicles. That's good for buyers but bad news for sellers.
Speaking of Musk, I'm a bit disappointed in what he's doing with Twitter. I'm still being shadowbanned, and I'm not the only one. I don't even bother posting anymore because whatever I say never sees the light of day. I use Twitter as a news feed for the most part. I heard somewhere that you'll never see Musk posting anything bad about the Chinese because he's beholding to them for both the financing that they provide as well as the fact that he has a manufacturing facility in Shanghai. In other words, he's bought and sold. The Chinese Communist Party has him by the balls, and when they tell him to jump, he jumps. Consequently, there is a dearth of news and truth when it comes to knowing what we need to know about our existential enemy, the Chinese Communist Party. I saw a tweet from one of my favorite tweeters this morning about the Fauci files. "Did I miss them?" she tweeted. Musk promised that he'd release it all, and none of that seems to be coming to fruition. I'm not even seeing that many tweets this morning about Biden and his theft and leveraging of classified files. It's only the biggest story since Donald Trump came down the elevator in 2016. What up, Elon?
I'm really looking forward to the Congressional hearings on everything from how Biden and his people fucked up the Afghanistan withdrawal to how our Intel agencies were behind the January 6th insurrection bullshit. The Republicans are in charge now, so I expect we'll see the lot of these criminals subpoenaed and frogmarched into our nation's capitol. I want to see their texts, their phone call logs, and if criminal referrals are warranted, I want to see lengthy jail sentences handed down. They should be treated no less harshly than the January 6th defendants and, God willing, more harshly when and where appropriate. As I understand it, Jim Jordan will be chairing the first hearing about Biden and the recent revelations concerning the discovery of classified files in Biden's possession and the assignment of a Special Counsel to oversee the investigation. You start tugging at the threads on that story, and it will be the beginning of the end for Bumbles and his minions. Speaker McCarthy is even talking about expunging Trump's two impeachments due to the faulty basis on which they were launched. That's what we're talkin' about.
I'm also reading some tweets this morning about an increase in the flow of military air traffic in and out of Poland. The tweeter seems to suggest that there is a possible amassing of NATO troops on the border of Poland in advance of what could be the start of a chapter in the war in Ukraine. Another tweeter reports the sighting of Russian Strategic Bombers flying over Ukraine. Is this Biden's wag-the-dog moment? Are we supposed to rally around this fool of a president as he puts Americans in harm's way due to a border skirmish in which we have little to no national interest? We see it for what it is. It will be a sad day indeed if we lose one ounce of American blood on Ukrainian soil because Bumbles Biden wants to distract Americans from the showcase of a Hague-like trial that will most certainly expose him and his family for the corrupt criminals that they are. These are all high-flying postulations, to be sure, but you have to believe that there's a kernel of truth in every tweet you see, no matter how ridiculous they sound. Jump to your own conclusions if you dare.
It will be interesting today to see how all of this Biden classified documents business is handled by the Sunday talk shows. It will tell us a lot about where we are in terms of the democrats looking to oust this demented fuck from office, or will it be an all-hands-on-deck effort to get behind their Commander-in-Thief? Clearly, Bumbles is now a liability, and perhaps even a threat to the Democrat's efforts to hold onto power come 2024. Don't believe for a minute that the talking points have not been circulated far and wide by the Democrat establishment to ensure everyone stays on script. That may well be easier said than done. We'll see the usual phalanx of Democrat hacks doing what they do best: Lying through their teeth. It may not be nearly enough to stave off the obvious questions that lead to the inevitable conclusion that Bumbles has been stealing our country's secrets for decades and has been selling them to the highest bidder across the globe to fatten his family's coffers. Am I wrong?
We took Mrs. G out for a ride yesterday. I had wanted to watch the New England Patriots play the Buffalo Bills on the telly a little after noon, but it was such a beautiful day outdoors that staying indoors for the afternoon seemed sinful at best. Y'all know I could give two shits for the game of football, and we're not talking soccer here, but I have a particular interest in seeing the New England Patriots get their asses handed to them. Who watches a game on the telly to see someone lose? Right? I had a hundred and one ways to follow up on the game, so off we went to pick up Mrs. G. I thought we might surprise her by taking her to Kentucky Fried Chicken in Seabrook, but that went sideways when the missus spilled the beans before we even got out of sight of Mrs. G's independent living facility. You know what they say about the best-laid plans of mice and men.
Mrs. G seems fairly preoccupied these days with where she may or may not have to park when she goes to get her car inspected. So much so, in fact, that before we left for Seabrook yesterday, she insisted that we drive by the garage where she planned to have to car inspected so she might get a better sense as to where she might be able to park when she arrives for the inspection. My sense, as I sit here thinking about it this morning, is that she's overly wrought about all of this and that me and the missus ought to take care of that for her. I just sent her an e-mail suggesting as much, and I suspect she'll be open to our offer. It begs the bigger question, of course, that if she has this amount of consternation about something as straightforward as parking, might it be time for her to consider getting off the road altogether? Just thinking out loud here.
I need to do a better job when it comes to collecting my thoughts and putting down ideas on what I might put in this here blog every day when I sit down to write. I seem to get ideas here and there throughout the day, and when I sit down every morning to do this blog thing, I can't recall any of it. Maybe it's time to take away my car keys. Only kidding. All of it could have been avoided if I had had the presence of mind to keep a notepad or something on my person to keep track of the things I wanted to write about. I'm getting the job done, so maybe it isn't that big a deal. In other words, I have a track record that I can point to that says notes aren't necessary, and shooting from the hip, at least for me, works pretty well.
I read somewhere yesterday about a college south of where I'm sitting that now requires their students and faculty to wear masks. I am so tired of these fucking health zealots and Nazis who haven't a clue about this Covid bullshit. I'm probably also not wrong about assuming that they also require their student body to be immunized and boosted with the latest and greatest vaccines from the Pfizers of the world. You know, the same vaccines that are allegedly responsible for twenty-somethings dropping dead while engaging in sports activities, be they basketball players, martial artists, or football players. When will they get it through their fucking heads that masks are useless against these viruses and, if anything, they keep people from developing natural immunities to the normal seasonal stuff that comes around every year? It's especially irritating when you consider the fact that the latest strains of Covid, by most reports, are less dangerous and seldom lethal.
I told the missus yesterday about Bumbles Biden's trip to El Paso on our southern border. I told her that it was all smoke and mirrors. Bumbles has been taking a considerable amount of heat over the last couple of years for not going to our southern border while leaving that very same border open to hordes of illegal aliens who now plague our towns and cities. Who knows who and what these people are, what crimes they've committed, what pathogens they carry, and what their intentions are now that they're here? Anyway, Bumbles, in his demented state, made his way down to the border town to do whatever presidents do when they pay a visit. What our media didn't tell you is that Bumble's advance team cleaned the streets and alleyways of every last illegal alien in sight so Bumbles wouldn't be embarrassed by their presence. More importantly, the media would have a sanitized version of El Paso to sell to the American public that counters the vicious and persistent rumors of what has become of our border towns since Bumbles opened our borders. Like I said, smoke and mirrors.
I like what our new Republican House of Representatives is doing now that we have a Speaker in place, but I worry about how much of what they do or announce that they've done is purely performative. They passed something last night about defunding the IRS, or more to the point, they effectively clawed back billions of dollars in funding that the previous democrat congress passed into law that would add 87,000 new IRS agents to the rolls. It sounds good, and who doesn't like the idea that the common man can now sleep better at night knowing that their chances of being audited by the IRS is less likely, but one has to wonder whether or not the House of Representatives has the power to unilaterally reduce or cut the funding that has already been passed into law. The devil is always in the details, so we'll see where this goes. Maybe this is just another pig in the poke deal where you think you're getting something when you're not.
I don't think I realized that the IRS funding of 87,000 new agents was designed to provide funding for the Green New Deal, the Administration's Climate Change initiatives, etc. It's all a crock of hooey if you ask me, so taking a meat cleaver to the lot of it makes imminently good sense to me. Have you heard the latest? The Biden Administration wants to outlaw gas stoves. Wut? Can they do that? You know what's next, right? They'll point to some study that says marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by the use of gas stoves, and, God forbid, that needs to be rectified. The sooner, the better. They'll get some Biden judge to sign off on the rule, and, voila, you can kiss your fucking gas stove goodbye. Do you have a gas fireplace? They're probably coming for that too. How about your favorite restaurant? You know, the one down the street that cooks your favorite dish using gas stoves. Their days are numbered too.
Tell me that this latest story about Biden and the classified files that he's had for years now isn't the juiciest story going. You should hear the liberal media spinning the facts to separate Biden from Trump and the alleged criminality of the "crimes" committed. There is no criminality on the part of Biden, they say. He forgot that the darn things were there. No harm, no foul. His attorney's called the people who are responsible for storing these items, and they have since been turned over to them. There's one big difference between the two stories. Trump had the right to declassify documents, and Biden, as Vice President, had no such authority. That makes what Biden did a criminal matter. Where is the Special Counsel, Attorney General Garland? Where are the articles of impeachment by the republican House of Representatives? Let's fucking go!
Did I mention that I bought a second Echo Dot? I want to do things with these devices that may not be possible, but I'm a hacker at heart, so where there is a will, there is a way. Can I use these devices as Bluetooth speakers? I read somewhere that previous models had an external speaker plug, but the model I now have has no such thing. Can I play an audiobook on my phone on my Echo Dot? Or will the Echo only play audiobooks from places like Audible, etc.? I'm not a big fan of audiobooks, but I like to push the functionality of these devices to the point where I know what they can and cannot do. Some things are not advertised for one reason or another, and those are the so-called Easter eggs that I'm looking to tap into. Is any of this making any sense? I now have devices in two separate rooms but don't know to manage how and when they work together if they work together at all. I might want to say, Alexa, transfer my music to the other room. Will that work? What do I do when the missus says that she wants some privacy? Do I turn down the volume on the device that is in the room she occupies? Is that even necessary? I need to sort these things out.
I heard yesterday that we are bringing Ukrainian soldiers to America to train them on how to operate the Patriot Missile Systems. It's just one more example of the West fighting a proxy war against Russia while using Ukraine as a backdrop for it all. How sophisticated can these systems be that they need to take these fighters off the field of battle so they can train them for however long it takes them to do the training? If you were fortunate enough to go to America while your fellow soldiers were dying by the hundreds back in the homeland, how excited would you be to get back on a plane to go to the meat grinder that is Ukraine when the training was over? You know where all of this is going. You know that Americans will ultimately end up operating those Patriot Missile Systems. Here's my advice to Zelensky: Cut a fucking deal and stop the senseless killing of your countryman, for chrissakes. There is not now, nor will there ever be, anything approximating an assured destruction of your enemy, the country of Russia. No amount of money from the West will assist you in that endeavor.
I caught a clip last night with Robert Kennedy and Tucker where they were discussing how the government has been using social media platforms to stifle free speech. It's not as benign as it sounds. Kennedy made the point that social media platforms, by virtue of their freewheeling nature, allow voices and opinions that often depart from the news that the government wants you to hear, and they are having none of it. If the government can control what news gets reported, it can essentially control the messaging. If it can control the messaging, it can control the populace. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Twitter, in the pre-Musk era, employed maybe hundreds of ex-governmental types, and those employees were complicit, if not directly responsible, for the banning or silencing of voices that offered opinions contrary to those offered by the mainstream media. This is not the America that our Founders envisioned. It is the America that they warned that we could lose were tyranny to come to our shores. We are now on the precipice of that reality. It's time to wake up.
My goodness! What's that? Did you say that they found a second tranche of classified documents that Biden had in his possession? Holy cow, Batman! The funny thing is, they aren't telling anyone where they found this second tranche of materials. You can ask until the cows come home, but nobody's talking. You know what that means. Right? They were likely not stored in a locked closet like the first tranche. Not that being in a locked closet means anything because getting into a locked closet, unlike accessing the inner sanctum of Mar-a-Lago, which had 24/7 governmental security, is a relatively easy thing to do. One has to wonder, why now? Why is all of this coming out now? Is this the deep state looking to rid the White House and the country of the moron sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office? Have they decided that he (Biden) and his criminal family have done enough damage? Is this how it all ends?
I tuned into CNN last night and then turned to MSNBC, and neither channel featured the discovery of this second tranche of classified materials as their lead story. Can you imagine if the Feds had discovered a second tranche of classified documents in one or more of Trump's properties? Every last one of these liberal shows would be on fire, with their respective hosts and guests calling for the immediate imprisonment of Trump and his extended family. What the hell kind of simulation are we living in, anyway? I flipped back and forth throughout the hour, and they never covered the story. I'm looking at a couple of headlines this morning, and I see that the White House asked the networks to ignore the story after it broke. Do we have a free press or not? Is this not a story worth covering? Does anyone care that Biden likely shared these classified documents with America's enemies like China, Russia, etc.? How much were they paid? Just how compromised are we as a nation now that Biden has sold us out for his sixty pieces of silver?
Poor Kamala. She must have figured that she'd be our sitting president by now. Bumbles Biden could barely string two sentences together as a presidential candidate back in 2020, with his dementia worsening by the day, if not the hour. Even with the use of a teleprompter, Bumbles was and still is, a laughingstock on the world stage. Kamala was probably promised that she could measure the drapes in the Oval Office while Bumbles was sitting behind the Resolute desk, and Bumbles was so far gone that he probably wouldn't even notice that she was there with her measuring tape in hand.
I think the media is largely constrained these days by their loyalty to both their leftist ideology and their leader who sits in the White House to put his deficiencies on display anymore, so we now have what can only be described as a sanitized version of Bumbles on the stump. I think this is what they refer to as a sleight of hand in the world of chicanery. None of it gets Kamala any closer to her dream of being the first female president of the greatest country on the face of the world. That has to be a great source of consternation for her and her staff, who probably joined her in the Vice President's residence, thinking they would join her in the White House in the near term. That may still happen, but it hasn't happened yet.
I'm more and more impressed with Common Roots every time I go there. My latest purchases included a nice sweet potato corn chowder, three containers of mushroom chili, a nice turkey dinner complete with mashed potatoes and gravy, and a lovely container of roasted vegetables. One never knows what to expect when one goes to their store looking for foodstuffs for dinner, so it's always nice to be surprised on the upside. I can't say that I've ever been disappointed, but I haven't much interest in vegan dishes, so more often than not, I end up walking away with little to nothing to show for my efforts. If I'm not wanting to disappoint the missus by arriving back home with little to nothing for an upcoming meal, I'll grab a blueberry or lemon poppyseed muffin on my way out the door. But, having said all of that, maybe what I see here early on in 2023 is an effort to expand their menu in a way that is pleasing not just for the vegans but for the rest of us as well. Whatever they're doing, they need to keep doing it.
The early morning snow has tapered off now, and we're expecting it all to turn to rain for the rest of the day. I threw a handful of little peanut nuggets out onto our back deck that I bought the other day at a local store, and they have largely disappeared beneath a thin veneer of snow. I can never keep the names of the bird species straight, so I can't say for sure which birds made a beeline for the nuggets, but that congo line has gone flat now that the nuggets are no longer visible. I have a good mind to shovel a section of the deck off so the birds can have easier access to the food I'm putting out for them, but maybe it's not a good idea with rain in the forecast. I topped off my thistle feeder, and I restocked my suet feeder the other day, so whatever we have coming down the pike in the way of bad weather, it'll likely not deter the birds that typically grace us with their presence in good weather and in bad.
What was all of that nonsense with the air traffic nationwide coming to a grinding halt yesterday? Initial reports said something about a computer issue. So, planes in the air were okay to go about their business, but none were approved to take off. So that you know, we've not seen a nationwide shutdown of our airlines since 9/11. What was this, exactly? Was it a dry run to see how our country handles a shutdown in an emergency? Was it a dry run to evaluate our country's defenses should, God forbid, we be attacked by a foreign enemy? Was it due to the sheer unadulterated incompetence of our country's Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Pete Butt-Edge-Edge? You know, the guy who couldn't fix the potholes as mayor of his town, South Bend, Indiana? Yeah, that guy. That's who we're talking about. The very same clown who loves to talk about how he proposed to his husband in an airport terminal. Yes, the very same guy who mismanaged our country's supply chains back in 2021, which resulted in hundreds of container ships stacked up at ports coast to coast. Or, was this a thinly disguised redirection play to give the media a good excuse not to talk about the second tranche of classified documents found in Biden's possession? Maybe all of the above. What say you?
Did I say second tranche of classified materials? Well, neighbors and friends, we now have three tranches of classified materials that have been uncovered at one or more of Biden's residences. We didn't know about the third tranche until yesterday's press conference by Attorney General, Garland. He set out the timeline, and if you were paying attention, you learned that Garland recently discovered the existence of yet a third tranche of classified materials. You never heard a peep about the third tranche in the media. Maybe they knew and didn't want to pile on when their man was down on all fours, and maybe they didn't know at all. Garland also announced that the Justice Department had named a Special Counsel to investigate possible criminality on the part of one Bumbles Biden for crimes related to the theft, possession, and possible distribution of said files. All felonies, I might add. Here's the kicker: Garland announced his investigation into Trump's mishandling of documents when he knew about Biden's alleged crimes but said nothing. Can you say, "double standard"?
It's all very delicious, don't you think? What, pray tell, was that nonsense rolling off Bumble's lips about his garage being as safe a place as any because that's where he stores his Corvette. Is he out of his fucking mind? Was that not an admission of guilt? The media put a video of Biden's garage on a loop where you could see boxes stacked upon boxes in the rear corner of his garage. The garage door was open, and his Corvette sat outside the garage in the driveway. I want to know who had access to the garage and when were these so-called classified documents placed in the garage. I hope I'm not repeating myself, but how precisely did Bumbles get these documents out of the White House? Did he steal them? Did he sell their contents? Did Hunter have access to these documents? We know Hunter was rubbing up against the head of the Chinese Communist Party back in the day, so what role did he play in the placement or distribution and possible sale of these classified files?
There is a lot of concern on the part of those of us who want to see justice done here that the Special Counsel assigned to Biden's case is just another government hack who'll whitewash it all. I'm just repeating what I heard many people saying yesterday in the aftermath of the presser by the Attorney General. You have to believe that once someone starts scratching the surface of what's in play here that they are going to find far-reaching tentacles into the multi-faceted Biden Crime Family and their sordid and unscrupulous worldwide pay-for-play and money laundering schemes. That should come as a surprise to nobody. Others were saying that Congress needs to wrestle this away from the Department of Justice, where they can do a proper investigation. If criminality is uncovered, Articles of Impeachment can be fast-tracked, and the appropriate criminal referrals can be made to the agencies that deal with such things. If Biden is ultimately found guilty of treason, which is quite likely, we all know how that movie ends. Let's just call it just desserts.
Is it me, or does this look like someone is out to get rid of Bumbles? Who the hell is dropping a dime on where all of these classified files are being found? Nobody's buying Biden's bullshit about the story of his attorneys who were sent to box up his office at the Penn Center when they discovered the files. Nobody pays attorney's fees in the $1k to $2k per hour range to box up and move files. I mean, they just don't. How about the files that were discovered in his garage in his home in Rehobeth, Delaware? How the hell would anyone even know to look there? Was that search set in motion by Garland and his people? Did the FBI search Biden's residences, and it was never announced? One lamebrained democrat suggested that the files might have been "planted" by someone looking to frame or otherwise bring down Bumbles Biden. I also heard that Biden was looking to announce his candidacy for a second term this week, and all of this classified stuff has pretty much nixed that eventuality for now.
Most of the mainstream media is leading with the story of the untimely death of Lisa Marie Pressley this morning. If you were hiding under a rock in the past twenty-four hours and woke up to these headlines, you'd know nothing about Bumbles Biden being the subject of a criminal inquiry by the Department of Justice. That's how the mainstream media does what they do. They misdirect, they confuse, they lie, and they deliberately tell stories to distract from stories they don't want you to know about. They are the penultimate praetorian guard. If they want Bumbles Biden off the front pages, they'll make something up so they don't have to inform you about what's really taking place in our nation's capital. They'll even overplay their hand by blowing a story like Pressley's death out of proportion if that is what they need to do. Does anyone give two fucks about Pressley's death? Apart from her fans and family, probably not. Does this look like one of those vaccine-related deaths? Indeed it does, but no one is even suggesting that that angle is worthy of a byline. The Pressley family is probably pleased with the coverage, but the stench of the Biden story persists and is still the real story of the day.
It looks like my financial newsletter was right when it predicted a bit of a run-up in the stock market in January. How high and far it goes is yet to be seen. And then what? Are we back in Slumpsville for the rest of the year? Is this the end of the bear market? This isn't how bear markets end, as far as I know. Whatever happened to the capitulation stage? Are we not going to see the mother of all buying opportunities? I have a lot of questions, as you can see. And what's up with the run-up in the coins this morning? I don't follow bitcoin, but I do know that they were up around $65k a coin not that long ago, and then they dropped to $15k a few months back. They're up to $20k this morning. I guess that's good for the crypto crowd, who have held their coins all the way down from $65k. We know one thing. Hope springs eternal. Tell that to the people who bought Teslas only to see Musk reduce the purchase price of new Teslas by 10-20% due to the dropoff in the price of materials used to build his vehicles. That's good for buyers but bad news for sellers.
Speaking of Musk, I'm a bit disappointed in what he's doing with Twitter. I'm still being shadowbanned, and I'm not the only one. I don't even bother posting anymore because whatever I say never sees the light of day. I use Twitter as a news feed for the most part. I heard somewhere that you'll never see Musk posting anything bad about the Chinese because he's beholding to them for both the financing that they provide as well as the fact that he has a manufacturing facility in Shanghai. In other words, he's bought and sold. The Chinese Communist Party has him by the balls, and when they tell him to jump, he jumps. Consequently, there is a dearth of news and truth when it comes to knowing what we need to know about our existential enemy, the Chinese Communist Party. I saw a tweet from one of my favorite tweeters this morning about the Fauci files. "Did I miss them?" she tweeted. Musk promised that he'd release it all, and none of that seems to be coming to fruition. I'm not even seeing that many tweets this morning about Biden and his theft and leveraging of classified files. It's only the biggest story since Donald Trump came down the elevator in 2016. What up, Elon?
I'm really looking forward to the Congressional hearings on everything from how Biden and his people fucked up the Afghanistan withdrawal to how our Intel agencies were behind the January 6th insurrection bullshit. The Republicans are in charge now, so I expect we'll see the lot of these criminals subpoenaed and frogmarched into our nation's capitol. I want to see their texts, their phone call logs, and if criminal referrals are warranted, I want to see lengthy jail sentences handed down. They should be treated no less harshly than the January 6th defendants and, God willing, more harshly when and where appropriate. As I understand it, Jim Jordan will be chairing the first hearing about Biden and the recent revelations concerning the discovery of classified files in Biden's possession and the assignment of a Special Counsel to oversee the investigation. You start tugging at the threads on that story, and it will be the beginning of the end for Bumbles and his minions. Speaker McCarthy is even talking about expunging Trump's two impeachments due to the faulty basis on which they were launched. That's what we're talkin' about.
I'm also reading some tweets this morning about an increase in the flow of military air traffic in and out of Poland. The tweeter seems to suggest that there is a possible amassing of NATO troops on the border of Poland in advance of what could be the start of a chapter in the war in Ukraine. Another tweeter reports the sighting of Russian Strategic Bombers flying over Ukraine. Is this Biden's wag-the-dog moment? Are we supposed to rally around this fool of a president as he puts Americans in harm's way due to a border skirmish in which we have little to no national interest? We see it for what it is. It will be a sad day indeed if we lose one ounce of American blood on Ukrainian soil because Bumbles Biden wants to distract Americans from the showcase of a Hague-like trial that will most certainly expose him and his family for the corrupt criminals that they are. These are all high-flying postulations, to be sure, but you have to believe that there's a kernel of truth in every tweet you see, no matter how ridiculous they sound. Jump to your own conclusions if you dare.
It will be interesting today to see how all of this Biden classified documents business is handled by the Sunday talk shows. It will tell us a lot about where we are in terms of the democrats looking to oust this demented fuck from office, or will it be an all-hands-on-deck effort to get behind their Commander-in-Thief? Clearly, Bumbles is now a liability, and perhaps even a threat to the Democrat's efforts to hold onto power come 2024. Don't believe for a minute that the talking points have not been circulated far and wide by the Democrat establishment to ensure everyone stays on script. That may well be easier said than done. We'll see the usual phalanx of Democrat hacks doing what they do best: Lying through their teeth. It may not be nearly enough to stave off the obvious questions that lead to the inevitable conclusion that Bumbles has been stealing our country's secrets for decades and has been selling them to the highest bidder across the globe to fatten his family's coffers. Am I wrong?