Gangsta's
07/08/23 07:10
For the first time this summer, I ran into several pockets of icy air while riding my bike along the ocean the other day on an otherwise hot and humid day. It occurred to me that this was Mother Nature's way of signaling a change in ocean currents, which, if I'm not mistaken, presages a change of seasons here in the Northeast. I just don't remember ever having to wait this far into the summer season to experience the kind of relief that these offshore breezes provide. There have been increased sightings of Great White sharks off the coast of Massachusetts this summer compared to past summers, and in the state of Florida, water temperatures off the coast have exceeded 100 degrees for the first time ever. The lawns hereabouts are about as lush as I ever remember them this late into the summer season due to record rainfall over the past month or two. I'm not sure what any of this means, but I think it bears watching. Less snow this winter would be nice if I had to pray for anything.
Devon Archer is testifying before a closed-door session of Congress today. He's Hunter Biden's business associate who sat on the board of Burisma with Hunter and has intimate knowledge of the Biden Crime Family's shenanigans. He is allegedly going to spill the beans on the Big Guy, who, incidentally, has said from day one that he's had nothing to do with his son's business interests. Archer has had other commitments to testify before Congress that he's not kept, so we'll see how this works out today. Don't think for a minute that the Bidens wouldn't like to see Archer meet with an unfortunate accident on his way to his meeting with Congress, so let's not count our chickens until they hatch. With Biden's Department of Justice doing his bidding these days, no matter how corrupt or criminal his bidding be, Archer's life could be in serious jeopardy. Maybe he'll plead the fifth. I'd hate to think that the launching of the impeachment inquiry into Biden's corruption depends on Archer's testimony, but that may be where we are today. Let's git er done, Mr. Archer.
There's a little too much talk these days about that freak prosecutor from Biden's Department of Justice, Smith, putting Trump behind bars for my tastes. Anyone with half a brain can see that this is where they want to put Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. I think we're up to forty counts in the latest volley of indictments that Smith has brought against Trump in his hopes of getting even one count to stick where Smith can ask the judge to put Trump behind bars. Is there any doubt that the judges are in cahoots with the prosecutors to get Trump? It's all coming down from the top, my friends. Biden has declared this priority one for his praetorian guard in his Justice Department. You'll not see any evidence that Biden is pulling the strings, but you know it wouldn't be happening were it not coming directly from the Oval Office. Trump commented this past week that he's running no matter what, even if he has to do so from a jail cell. Something tells me that we'd see some 100 million writing in Trump's name if they remove him from the ballot in some states.
I guess that's that. Fast forward twenty-four hours, and we have Devon Archer on record telling the world that Joe Biden was on the phone with Hunter and the Burisma executives at least twenty times. This is the guy, and I'm talking about Joe Biden here, who claims he never once talked to his son about his business dealings. They have this fool Biden on a loop on the telly, making those farcical and far-fetched claims time after time going back to Joe Biden's time as Vice President. It begs incredulity. It truly does. In recent days, their story has gone from "I've never talked to my son about his business dealings" to "I've never been in business with my son." After Archer's testimony, according to Dan Goldman the democrat congressman, "What father doesn't talk to his son when his son calls"? Biden's lackeys used to claim that none of these so-called crimes occurred while Joe Biden was in office. Wrong. And, as for the charge of bribery and treason, Biden took a $3 million dollar bribe from a Russian oligarch and, just coincidentally, did not put her on the list of Russian oligarchs to be sanctioned.
Will Archer's testimony move the needle in getting an impeachment inquiry moving? Is this not the sort of thing that justifies impeachment hearings and removal of the president if found guilty in the Senate? If we had some Republicans sitting on the bench before Archer's testimony, have they now moved off the bench? Some things are so atrocious when it comes to the criminality of our sitting presidents that they can no longer be ignored. Our Constitution demands that our citizenry get the hearing they deserve in order to hold our representatives to account. If they fail to hold our representatives to account, they too shall be held to account for not meeting their obligations. Is the calculus on the part of Speaker McCarthy that not impeaching Biden will strengthen the hand of the Republicans in the 2024 election? Really? I, for one, will vote to remove any and all Republicans who fail to do their jobs as constitutional representatives. With extreme prejudice, I might add.
What the hell is going on in Niger? They had a coup in Niger, and they have since installed a new government, much to the chagrin of certain Western countries. I might have preferred a more democratic approach to changing political parties, but they do things a little bit differently in Niger, for better or worse. I also do not condone the use of violence to achieve political ends. Anyway, both France and the United States have now demanded that the previous president be restored to office. Is this overreach by the US government? Was the previous president of Niger a puppet installed by Biden and his minions? France is actually threatening to send in troops to restore the previous president. Niger's neighboring countries are now siding with Niger and threatening to come to the aid of Niger if they are attacked by foreign forces. It seems the coup is probably here to stay, at least as of the last twenty-four hours anyway. They have also cut off supplies of uranium and other rare earth metals to both the US and France for their bombastic and not-so-idle threats to restore the previous leader by force. Even imperialism has its limits.
I'm getting outside my comfort zone here talking about something I know nothing about. I'm talking about Niger and Niger politics. I have seen, in recent days, photos of Putin shaking hands with certain African leaders. Does this have anything to do with the coup in Niger? Did Putin back the ouster of the previous leader of Niger because he was a puppet of the West? I have a rather romanticized version of Africa in my head, thanks to my time as a child watching Tarzan reruns on the telly. That's crazy, right? The truth of the matter is that both China and Russia have made serious inroads into Africa in the last several years, both politically and physically. I'm not sure how that compares to the efforts of Western nations to do the same thing, but if what happened in Niger is any example, China and Russia seem to have more support from some, and maybe most, African nations at last count. Africa is a resource-rich nation, and that is not lost on any of those countries looking to profit from their affiliations with the Africans. I should probably stop while I'm ahead.
I don't know what point they are trying to make by putting photos of Biden at the beach out there for public consumption. I'm not seeing photos of other world leaders lounging at the beach with their coolers and their little sun umbrellas. Is this supposed to suggest to Americans that their president doesn't have a care in the world and he is out there enjoying time at the beach with his family like most other families in America at this time of year? Do they know how completely addled and stupid he looks? To me, it suggests that they want Biden as far away from the White House as they can get him so they can go about their business of running our country into the ground without him fumbling around the Oval Office and having to respond to his constant and nagging inquiries about the latest money transfers from his son and his overseas interests. Once a grifter, always a grifter. Put a tee shirt on, you old fool, before you get sunburned.
All it took was for the Biden grift story after Archer's testimony to linger for a day or two, and the Bidenistas had had enough. It was time to announce another indictment against Trump to get the Biden grift story out of the news cycle. Funny how that happens. What better way to redirect the news cycle than to give the media what it loves and craves: Another story that defames Trump and threatens to put him behind bars. This time, the asshole Jack Smith conjured up some really fantastic tales culled from the January 6th insurrection in order to support his indictment against Trump. If found guilty of all charges by a Washington, DC jury, and it's a certainty given the venue and their rabid hate for Trump, Trump will serve the next 455 years behind bars. It probably doesn't matter what they charge him with, he's going to be found guilty. That is unless Trump is successful in having the Supreme Court dismiss the case as they should. The charges have more to do with the suppression of free speech than anything related to January 6th. Questioning the outcome of an election is the right of every American. It's that simple.
I was so depressed yesterday. I never get depressed. The song I'm trying to learn is giving me fits. I'm following the tutorial to the tee, and I just can't get it down. Is this the equivalent of writer's block? The problem I'm having is that the notes he's telling me to play in the tutorial on YouTube are not the same notes that he plays when he plays that section of the song. I can't slow the song down slow enough to see which notes he is playing, nor can I replicate that small section of the tune with the notes he's telling me to play. I can usually see the notes that he plays, and that's a great help, but his fingers are all bunched up when he plays the section that I'm trying to learn, so I am shit out of luck. I've gone looking for other tutorials to see if they help, but it seems everyone plays this song a little differently. That's not a bad thing, but it's not much help to me. I'm pretty well along in learning the song, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I can't just stop where I am. I'll have to muddle through whatever that means. I'll take another poke at it today and see if I can see something that I didn't see yesterday. Does that make any sense?
What I don't get about this Trump stuff is how it all goes down, and there is seemingly no mechanism for calling it what it is: Election interference. Trump is being buried with indictments across the country by blue state Attorney Generals who want to put him in jail to take him out of the race or both. Trump is clearly favored to win the 2024 Presidential election, and every poll out there bears that out. This is too much to bear for the Bidenistas, so they and their Democrat hack counterparts across the country have unleashed the hounds of hell against Trump to take him out of the race. It's called lawfare, plain and simple. Are there no laws against this sort of thing? The Massachusetts Attorney General is looking into the Republican currently in second place and his role in flying illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard. In other words, they have lawsuits in the queue to bring against DeSantis once Trump is either jailed or taken out of the race. They'll look to put DeSantis in jail as well. Can Congress do anything here? What about the Supreme Court?
I need to get out in the yard today and start hacking away at everything and anything that is overgrown. I started the process yesterday and made some progress, so I need to build on that. I had a mind to go rent a chainsaw, but I think I can do what I need to do without the heavy machinery. I'm a little leery of getting tick bites, so I try to stay out of the thickets when I can avoid them. It shouldn't take me long, so that's not the issue. When all is said and done, I need to cart the cuttings across the street into the woods. It's so overgrown around the shed in the corner of our back lot that the shed is in danger of disappearing out of sight. I need to have someone come and cart that shed away as it's lost its usefulness in the last couple of years due to its somewhat dilapidated state. I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to do that myself, so I'll need to think about finding the right people or business to get the job done. If I owned a bulldozer, I'd bulldoze the damn thing and bring the resulting pile of wood to the local recycling center. I will not be renting a bulldozer.
I start every day these days by catching up on everything remotely geopolitical in Ukraine, Russia, and around the globe by reading tweets posted by "Spriter Team." He, or they, posted something today about Trump's opening a bar in New York City called "45" or something along those lines. The poster referred to Trump's new business as a "vanity" venture. Is that because Trump was the 45th president of our United States? That is what passes for a "vanity" project in the eyes of some? What if Bumbles Biden opened a bar somewhere and called it the "46th"? Would that be considered a vanity project? Or, is it just someone like Trump, who is the king of branding and someone who has successfully built some of the most awesome hotels and golf courses across the globe, that is so deserving of some twat's derisive commentary? Spriter has clearly been watching too much CNN, if I had to guess. Or, God forbid, MSNBC. I may have to reconsider how I start my days if Spriter can't get a grip on his Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
I suppose if anyone were going to do it, it would be Tucker. He sat down with Devon Archer for an interview. I'm not exactly sure what the point of the interview was other than to reveal the extent of the Biden Crime Family's exploits and, more specifically, Joe Biden's role as the Big Guy. I'm still a little confused as to why Archer wouldn't agree to sit down in front of Congress in an open session to tell his story. He went behind doors and met with a select group of congressmen and women instead. Maybe Tucker felt he had a responsibility to get this guy on record for Americans to see and hear for themselves what kind of lowlife and degenerate criminal we have sitting in the Oval Office. Is this the lynchpin testimony that will move those Republicans sitting on the fence when it comes to impeaching Biden? If so, they all need to get their asses back from vacation, and they need to get this thing moving. The well-being of our Republic demands it. Our Constitution demands it.
Trump will arrested and arraigned today in Washington, D.C. I'm not sure if he will appear in person or not. I could really care less. I'm sure the left-wing media will revel in the circus-like atmosphere that they've created for their moonbat audiences, and we may even hear a champagne cork popping here and there as the proceedings go down. I'm hearing some less-than-favorable things about the judge who will be presiding over the trial. Is it true that she actually worked at the same law firm as Hunter Biden back in the day? Dershowitz painted a very ugly picture of this particular law firm as one of the more scurrilous and unethical firms in the city of Washington. Those are my words, not his. What are the chances that she'll recuse herself from the case? What are the chances that she'll remove herself from the case where she will go down in our country's history as the judge who sentenced an ex-president of the United States to a life sentence behind bars? Not just any ex-president, mind you. President Donald J. Trump. She will be a hero in the eyes of the Marxists from coast to coast for time immemorial. You can't put a price on that kind of fame.
Some of these charges being leveled against Trump are a real reach. So much so, in fact, that some people say that they think the case may never actually go to trial. And, even if it does go to trial, and Trump is found guilty, which is likely given the venue in which the case will be heard, it will be overturned by either the Appeals Court or the Supreme Court. Is that what this slimeball of a prosecutor, Smith, is looking to do? He wants to dirty up Trump to erode his support with the hopes that a dirtied-up Trump will be less of a threat to Bumbles Biden when election day rolls around in late 2024? No, I'm quite certain that the goal is to have Trump sitting in a maximum security prison on Election Day in 2024, if not sooner and for longer. I heard one legal expert talking about the egregiousness of the case being brought by Smith and that Smith himself could be indicted for his blind judicial malevolence in trying to put an ex-president behind bars. Wouldn't that be lovely! He and Bumbles can share a bunk, God willing. One of the four charges being brought against Trump dates back to the Civil War and has something to do with the Klu Klux Klan. Have they lost their fucking minds?
If DeSantis thinks that Trump's legal troubles are going to increase his chances of success in securing his party's nomination, I think he has another thing coming. His donors are running, not walking away from his campaign. He's laid off any number of staff in order to reduce the burn rate of the monies sitting in his war chest, so that can't be good. Every time Trump gets indicted again, Trump's numbers go up, and DeSantis's numbers go down. Things have gotten so bad for DeSantis that he's no longer sharing videos of his performances at his so-called rallies. He's a stiff, and it just isn't a good look. Not only that, his "crowds" are more of a gathering than a crowd. It reminds me of the circles that Biden used to construct in parking lots at his rallies in order to keep his eight or nine supporters at a safe distance from each other during the height of the Covid craze. And now, I'm hearing that DeSantis has agreed to debate the Marxist governor of the state of California, Gavin Newsome. Newsome is rumored to be Biden's replacement if Bumbles can't run in 2024. That, my friends, is what they call "desperate." It's even a bit presumptuous if you ask me. Nobody likes "presumptuous."
What do you think of our Department of Defense putting our soldiers on commercial ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz? Let me get this straight. So, if there's an oil tanker delivering oil to China, we're protecting that transport with our soldiers? Let the ChiComs defend their own fucking transports. Is this yet another example of Biden, as a wholly-owned asset of the CCP, doing the bidding of his Paymasters in Beijing? I would venture to say that the answer to that question is a resounding "yes." And since when is it the business of the United States to protect others' interests in those faraway waters? When are we going to start minding our own damn business on this planet? No wonder countries across the planet, tired of our endless sanctions and our self-declared hegemony in global politics, are looking to get away from the US dollar and expel our so-called diplomats from their territories. Biden's minions and their collective bloodlust for military intervention and bullying around the globe have tainted what little respect any country had for us in the space of 2-plus years since his inauguration. Now that Biden has joined his fellow Marxists around the world by jailing his political opposition ahead of the 2024 elections, things are likely to get worse before they get better.
I like Mark Levin's proposal to have Trump take his case directly to the Supreme Court. Not so that they can interfere in the election process but rather that they can ensure that the political process remains a fair and balanced process for all parties. The Supreme Court can put any and all litigation across the country on hold until after the election. It's abundantly clear to anyone with half a brain as to what the Democrats are doing to ensure a win in the upcoming 2024 election. They are tying up the leading Republican candidate in a series of lawsuits that promise to take said candidate off the campaign trail and further constrain his campaign by robbing him of resources needed to run said campaign. It is a clear-cut case of election interference, and our Supreme Court has a role in seeing to it that elections for all political parties in our Republic are not hindered by the shenanigans and foul play of one party at the expense of another. Mark says it's the process, not the specific charges leveled in the indictments against Trump, that the Democrats have undertaken that run afoul of the rules of fair play.
I watched a video on YouTube yesterday that gave me five pointers on how to do a bit of maintenance on my snow removal equipment. More to the point, on one of my snow removal machines. It was pretty cool. I'm so bad at doing these kinds of things. It's more about procrastination than anything else. This guy made it look easy, so I think I'll head over to Walmart today to buy a quart of oil and a can of WD-40. I'm actually feeling a little guilty for neglecting the service that my machine needs. Think of it, if you will, of giving it a little love. I can probably do what I need to do in the space of a half hour. That's the kicker. I should have done all of this when I put the machine away after the final snowfall of the winter of 2022. This has been going on for a lot of years, so it's pretty ingrained in my psyche at this point. In other words, I'll not likely change in a significant way in the coming months and years. I'll aspire to do a better job, but I'm thinking I know how this movie ends.
My guitar practice is coming along pretty well. I've been spending a seemingly inordinate amount of time trying to learn to play this one particular song. They say that practice sessions should include a few different things, and no one says that you should devote your entire session to learning one song. One constant in learning anything is to try and do it every day or so. That's fine. Developing muscle memory around certain songs, chord progressions, and note selections is a good thing. I can actually play certain pieces of the song I'm learning without looking at the strings on my guitar. I feel good about that. It's also true that I've been struggling with certain parts to the point where I think I keep making the same mistakes because they are somewhat built into my muscle memory. Do I need to unlearn this somehow? I feel like I've dug myself a ditch of sorts which I now need to climb out of before I can move on. Will putting any of this down in writing help me get over this hump? The mind works in mysterious ways, so I guess we'll see. I guess I'll see. Who's we, Tonto?
What the hell is that fat slob, Chris Christie, doing in Ukraine? You've seen the pictures. He's shaking hands with the scoundrel and grifter, Zelensky. Did I mention that he was a comedian before he became president of Ukraine? I'm talking about Zelensky, not Christie. Is this now a requirement for candidates running to become president of the United States? You need to prostrate yourself in front of Zelensky and commit to your dying day, or at least for the four to eight years you are in office, to support his dying and corrupt regime with every last American taxpayer dollar you can muster? I want to be careful about maligning Christie because of his obvious struggles with his weight, but the contrast between the weasely little Zelensky and the rotund Christie was not lost on people around the world who saw the photo and thought that the contrast was, well, illustrative. Illustrative of the excesses of the West and, by comparison, the gaunt and deprived, if not hollowed out specter of everything Ukraine. Ironically, were it not for the excesses of the West and the weapons that the West has poured into Ukraine at the expense of every Ukrainian, Ukraine might well be a more robust, if not stronger, country than it was before the Russians invaded.
With a good 60% of Americans now calling for the defunding of Ukraine, it seems a little odd to me that any politician would want to embrace Zelensky and his shithole of a country. Maybe Christie is sending a message to the Military Industrial Complex that he will support their global warmongering initiatives with a kiss on both cheeks. That is to say, with a wink and a nod. I don't know that the Military Industrial Complex has a role in who does and who doesn't get elected at the end of the day, but one has to wonder if they can't tip the scales in one direction or another for their preferred candidate. Word has it that Biden is now looking to redirect funding from the catastrophe that he's helped to create in Ukraine to beefing up the military might of Taiwan. Will Christie be on the next junket to Taiwan? Who's next? That toadie of an ex-congressman, Hurd? How about DeSanctimonius? Is he in single digits yet? If I hear that clown, John Bolton, saying one more time that Trump is going to get our country out of NATO if he's elected in 2024, I'm going to puke. Sorry. I'm getting off on a bit of a tangent today. You deserve better.
There are stories in the news, and then there are stories in the news. Some end up in the news because they qualify as newsworthy, and others end up there because someone wants to create or perpetuate a narrative for one reason or another. This latest story about Obama and, according to his biographer, his "fantasizing back in the day about having sex with men" falls squarely in the latter category. I don't know if I worded that quite right, but you get the gist. This all comes on the heels of the story in the last week or two about Obama's chef who drowned while paddleboarding in the waters off the shores of Obama's estate on Martha's Vineyard. Oddly enough, Obama's whereabouts on the day his chef drowned has yet to be determined. Rumors suggest that he may have been one of the people who was present on the day his chef drowned. And then we saw the pictures in the days after his chef's death of Obama in public with bandaged fingers and sporting a black eye. Where is all of this coming from? Someone has it out for Obama, and I think they're not done. It's not nothing that everything they are now accusing Biden of was done while he was Obama's Vice president. That is to say, Obama is undeniably complicit. Was he, in fact, a co-conspirator? Have we been gaslit all along about who is and who isn't the "Big Guy"?
I was telling the missus that I think it's better that we let Mrs. G know ahead of time when we plan to take her out for a ride. Not that everyone doesn't like a surprise now and then but I think there's something to be said for being able to look forward to something. Maybe it's just me. Take yesterday for example. We showed up as we usually do around 3 or so on a Friday or Saturday afternoon. Mrs. G had her lists ready of things that she wanted us to help her with or otherwise discuss. It was all good. What we didn't want to do was to sit there for hours on end and then tack a drive in the country on at the end of our time there. There are only so many hours in a day. Taking the bull by the horns, as is my style, I offered to take the lot of us out for a drive before we barely had a chance to warm our seats. Mrs. G was delighted and accepted the offer without hesitation. We took the back roads to Seabrook where we got Kentucky Fried Chicken takeout and then we drove back to her place but not before stopping into Applecrest Farms. Did I mention that Mrs. G got her favorite, mashed potatoes and gravy, at KFC? It made for a bit of a long afternoon for everyone but it was a nice change of scenery for Mrs. G and that is always a good thing.
I need to sort out the problem with my mice. I'm talking computer mousies here. Some are working better than others. By that, I mean that some are downright erratic and others, not so much. I don't know why it has to be so complicated. I've jury rigged a couple of things when it comes to my peripherals so that might be contributing to the problem. My latest hunch is that I have a couple of my devices that are a little too close together and my problem stems from the resulting electronic interference. I can separate a few things here and there to see if makes a difference. If I thought just going out and buying another mouse would solve my problem, I would do that lickety split. Did I mention that I'm using a cordless mouse and that requires a receiver? I also have a mouse or two that connect wirelessly using Bluetooth. Even the Bluetooth mice I have get jiggy with me so I'm not sure what to make of it. Restarting my devices or unplugging and plugging in my receivers helps for a while but then everything gets jiggy again sooner or later.
Devon Archer is testifying before a closed-door session of Congress today. He's Hunter Biden's business associate who sat on the board of Burisma with Hunter and has intimate knowledge of the Biden Crime Family's shenanigans. He is allegedly going to spill the beans on the Big Guy, who, incidentally, has said from day one that he's had nothing to do with his son's business interests. Archer has had other commitments to testify before Congress that he's not kept, so we'll see how this works out today. Don't think for a minute that the Bidens wouldn't like to see Archer meet with an unfortunate accident on his way to his meeting with Congress, so let's not count our chickens until they hatch. With Biden's Department of Justice doing his bidding these days, no matter how corrupt or criminal his bidding be, Archer's life could be in serious jeopardy. Maybe he'll plead the fifth. I'd hate to think that the launching of the impeachment inquiry into Biden's corruption depends on Archer's testimony, but that may be where we are today. Let's git er done, Mr. Archer.
There's a little too much talk these days about that freak prosecutor from Biden's Department of Justice, Smith, putting Trump behind bars for my tastes. Anyone with half a brain can see that this is where they want to put Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. I think we're up to forty counts in the latest volley of indictments that Smith has brought against Trump in his hopes of getting even one count to stick where Smith can ask the judge to put Trump behind bars. Is there any doubt that the judges are in cahoots with the prosecutors to get Trump? It's all coming down from the top, my friends. Biden has declared this priority one for his praetorian guard in his Justice Department. You'll not see any evidence that Biden is pulling the strings, but you know it wouldn't be happening were it not coming directly from the Oval Office. Trump commented this past week that he's running no matter what, even if he has to do so from a jail cell. Something tells me that we'd see some 100 million writing in Trump's name if they remove him from the ballot in some states.
I guess that's that. Fast forward twenty-four hours, and we have Devon Archer on record telling the world that Joe Biden was on the phone with Hunter and the Burisma executives at least twenty times. This is the guy, and I'm talking about Joe Biden here, who claims he never once talked to his son about his business dealings. They have this fool Biden on a loop on the telly, making those farcical and far-fetched claims time after time going back to Joe Biden's time as Vice President. It begs incredulity. It truly does. In recent days, their story has gone from "I've never talked to my son about his business dealings" to "I've never been in business with my son." After Archer's testimony, according to Dan Goldman the democrat congressman, "What father doesn't talk to his son when his son calls"? Biden's lackeys used to claim that none of these so-called crimes occurred while Joe Biden was in office. Wrong. And, as for the charge of bribery and treason, Biden took a $3 million dollar bribe from a Russian oligarch and, just coincidentally, did not put her on the list of Russian oligarchs to be sanctioned.
Will Archer's testimony move the needle in getting an impeachment inquiry moving? Is this not the sort of thing that justifies impeachment hearings and removal of the president if found guilty in the Senate? If we had some Republicans sitting on the bench before Archer's testimony, have they now moved off the bench? Some things are so atrocious when it comes to the criminality of our sitting presidents that they can no longer be ignored. Our Constitution demands that our citizenry get the hearing they deserve in order to hold our representatives to account. If they fail to hold our representatives to account, they too shall be held to account for not meeting their obligations. Is the calculus on the part of Speaker McCarthy that not impeaching Biden will strengthen the hand of the Republicans in the 2024 election? Really? I, for one, will vote to remove any and all Republicans who fail to do their jobs as constitutional representatives. With extreme prejudice, I might add.
What the hell is going on in Niger? They had a coup in Niger, and they have since installed a new government, much to the chagrin of certain Western countries. I might have preferred a more democratic approach to changing political parties, but they do things a little bit differently in Niger, for better or worse. I also do not condone the use of violence to achieve political ends. Anyway, both France and the United States have now demanded that the previous president be restored to office. Is this overreach by the US government? Was the previous president of Niger a puppet installed by Biden and his minions? France is actually threatening to send in troops to restore the previous president. Niger's neighboring countries are now siding with Niger and threatening to come to the aid of Niger if they are attacked by foreign forces. It seems the coup is probably here to stay, at least as of the last twenty-four hours anyway. They have also cut off supplies of uranium and other rare earth metals to both the US and France for their bombastic and not-so-idle threats to restore the previous leader by force. Even imperialism has its limits.
I'm getting outside my comfort zone here talking about something I know nothing about. I'm talking about Niger and Niger politics. I have seen, in recent days, photos of Putin shaking hands with certain African leaders. Does this have anything to do with the coup in Niger? Did Putin back the ouster of the previous leader of Niger because he was a puppet of the West? I have a rather romanticized version of Africa in my head, thanks to my time as a child watching Tarzan reruns on the telly. That's crazy, right? The truth of the matter is that both China and Russia have made serious inroads into Africa in the last several years, both politically and physically. I'm not sure how that compares to the efforts of Western nations to do the same thing, but if what happened in Niger is any example, China and Russia seem to have more support from some, and maybe most, African nations at last count. Africa is a resource-rich nation, and that is not lost on any of those countries looking to profit from their affiliations with the Africans. I should probably stop while I'm ahead.
I don't know what point they are trying to make by putting photos of Biden at the beach out there for public consumption. I'm not seeing photos of other world leaders lounging at the beach with their coolers and their little sun umbrellas. Is this supposed to suggest to Americans that their president doesn't have a care in the world and he is out there enjoying time at the beach with his family like most other families in America at this time of year? Do they know how completely addled and stupid he looks? To me, it suggests that they want Biden as far away from the White House as they can get him so they can go about their business of running our country into the ground without him fumbling around the Oval Office and having to respond to his constant and nagging inquiries about the latest money transfers from his son and his overseas interests. Once a grifter, always a grifter. Put a tee shirt on, you old fool, before you get sunburned.
All it took was for the Biden grift story after Archer's testimony to linger for a day or two, and the Bidenistas had had enough. It was time to announce another indictment against Trump to get the Biden grift story out of the news cycle. Funny how that happens. What better way to redirect the news cycle than to give the media what it loves and craves: Another story that defames Trump and threatens to put him behind bars. This time, the asshole Jack Smith conjured up some really fantastic tales culled from the January 6th insurrection in order to support his indictment against Trump. If found guilty of all charges by a Washington, DC jury, and it's a certainty given the venue and their rabid hate for Trump, Trump will serve the next 455 years behind bars. It probably doesn't matter what they charge him with, he's going to be found guilty. That is unless Trump is successful in having the Supreme Court dismiss the case as they should. The charges have more to do with the suppression of free speech than anything related to January 6th. Questioning the outcome of an election is the right of every American. It's that simple.
I was so depressed yesterday. I never get depressed. The song I'm trying to learn is giving me fits. I'm following the tutorial to the tee, and I just can't get it down. Is this the equivalent of writer's block? The problem I'm having is that the notes he's telling me to play in the tutorial on YouTube are not the same notes that he plays when he plays that section of the song. I can't slow the song down slow enough to see which notes he is playing, nor can I replicate that small section of the tune with the notes he's telling me to play. I can usually see the notes that he plays, and that's a great help, but his fingers are all bunched up when he plays the section that I'm trying to learn, so I am shit out of luck. I've gone looking for other tutorials to see if they help, but it seems everyone plays this song a little differently. That's not a bad thing, but it's not much help to me. I'm pretty well along in learning the song, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I can't just stop where I am. I'll have to muddle through whatever that means. I'll take another poke at it today and see if I can see something that I didn't see yesterday. Does that make any sense?
What I don't get about this Trump stuff is how it all goes down, and there is seemingly no mechanism for calling it what it is: Election interference. Trump is being buried with indictments across the country by blue state Attorney Generals who want to put him in jail to take him out of the race or both. Trump is clearly favored to win the 2024 Presidential election, and every poll out there bears that out. This is too much to bear for the Bidenistas, so they and their Democrat hack counterparts across the country have unleashed the hounds of hell against Trump to take him out of the race. It's called lawfare, plain and simple. Are there no laws against this sort of thing? The Massachusetts Attorney General is looking into the Republican currently in second place and his role in flying illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard. In other words, they have lawsuits in the queue to bring against DeSantis once Trump is either jailed or taken out of the race. They'll look to put DeSantis in jail as well. Can Congress do anything here? What about the Supreme Court?
I need to get out in the yard today and start hacking away at everything and anything that is overgrown. I started the process yesterday and made some progress, so I need to build on that. I had a mind to go rent a chainsaw, but I think I can do what I need to do without the heavy machinery. I'm a little leery of getting tick bites, so I try to stay out of the thickets when I can avoid them. It shouldn't take me long, so that's not the issue. When all is said and done, I need to cart the cuttings across the street into the woods. It's so overgrown around the shed in the corner of our back lot that the shed is in danger of disappearing out of sight. I need to have someone come and cart that shed away as it's lost its usefulness in the last couple of years due to its somewhat dilapidated state. I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to do that myself, so I'll need to think about finding the right people or business to get the job done. If I owned a bulldozer, I'd bulldoze the damn thing and bring the resulting pile of wood to the local recycling center. I will not be renting a bulldozer.
I start every day these days by catching up on everything remotely geopolitical in Ukraine, Russia, and around the globe by reading tweets posted by "Spriter Team." He, or they, posted something today about Trump's opening a bar in New York City called "45" or something along those lines. The poster referred to Trump's new business as a "vanity" venture. Is that because Trump was the 45th president of our United States? That is what passes for a "vanity" project in the eyes of some? What if Bumbles Biden opened a bar somewhere and called it the "46th"? Would that be considered a vanity project? Or, is it just someone like Trump, who is the king of branding and someone who has successfully built some of the most awesome hotels and golf courses across the globe, that is so deserving of some twat's derisive commentary? Spriter has clearly been watching too much CNN, if I had to guess. Or, God forbid, MSNBC. I may have to reconsider how I start my days if Spriter can't get a grip on his Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
I suppose if anyone were going to do it, it would be Tucker. He sat down with Devon Archer for an interview. I'm not exactly sure what the point of the interview was other than to reveal the extent of the Biden Crime Family's exploits and, more specifically, Joe Biden's role as the Big Guy. I'm still a little confused as to why Archer wouldn't agree to sit down in front of Congress in an open session to tell his story. He went behind doors and met with a select group of congressmen and women instead. Maybe Tucker felt he had a responsibility to get this guy on record for Americans to see and hear for themselves what kind of lowlife and degenerate criminal we have sitting in the Oval Office. Is this the lynchpin testimony that will move those Republicans sitting on the fence when it comes to impeaching Biden? If so, they all need to get their asses back from vacation, and they need to get this thing moving. The well-being of our Republic demands it. Our Constitution demands it.
Trump will arrested and arraigned today in Washington, D.C. I'm not sure if he will appear in person or not. I could really care less. I'm sure the left-wing media will revel in the circus-like atmosphere that they've created for their moonbat audiences, and we may even hear a champagne cork popping here and there as the proceedings go down. I'm hearing some less-than-favorable things about the judge who will be presiding over the trial. Is it true that she actually worked at the same law firm as Hunter Biden back in the day? Dershowitz painted a very ugly picture of this particular law firm as one of the more scurrilous and unethical firms in the city of Washington. Those are my words, not his. What are the chances that she'll recuse herself from the case? What are the chances that she'll remove herself from the case where she will go down in our country's history as the judge who sentenced an ex-president of the United States to a life sentence behind bars? Not just any ex-president, mind you. President Donald J. Trump. She will be a hero in the eyes of the Marxists from coast to coast for time immemorial. You can't put a price on that kind of fame.
Some of these charges being leveled against Trump are a real reach. So much so, in fact, that some people say that they think the case may never actually go to trial. And, even if it does go to trial, and Trump is found guilty, which is likely given the venue in which the case will be heard, it will be overturned by either the Appeals Court or the Supreme Court. Is that what this slimeball of a prosecutor, Smith, is looking to do? He wants to dirty up Trump to erode his support with the hopes that a dirtied-up Trump will be less of a threat to Bumbles Biden when election day rolls around in late 2024? No, I'm quite certain that the goal is to have Trump sitting in a maximum security prison on Election Day in 2024, if not sooner and for longer. I heard one legal expert talking about the egregiousness of the case being brought by Smith and that Smith himself could be indicted for his blind judicial malevolence in trying to put an ex-president behind bars. Wouldn't that be lovely! He and Bumbles can share a bunk, God willing. One of the four charges being brought against Trump dates back to the Civil War and has something to do with the Klu Klux Klan. Have they lost their fucking minds?
If DeSantis thinks that Trump's legal troubles are going to increase his chances of success in securing his party's nomination, I think he has another thing coming. His donors are running, not walking away from his campaign. He's laid off any number of staff in order to reduce the burn rate of the monies sitting in his war chest, so that can't be good. Every time Trump gets indicted again, Trump's numbers go up, and DeSantis's numbers go down. Things have gotten so bad for DeSantis that he's no longer sharing videos of his performances at his so-called rallies. He's a stiff, and it just isn't a good look. Not only that, his "crowds" are more of a gathering than a crowd. It reminds me of the circles that Biden used to construct in parking lots at his rallies in order to keep his eight or nine supporters at a safe distance from each other during the height of the Covid craze. And now, I'm hearing that DeSantis has agreed to debate the Marxist governor of the state of California, Gavin Newsome. Newsome is rumored to be Biden's replacement if Bumbles can't run in 2024. That, my friends, is what they call "desperate." It's even a bit presumptuous if you ask me. Nobody likes "presumptuous."
What do you think of our Department of Defense putting our soldiers on commercial ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz? Let me get this straight. So, if there's an oil tanker delivering oil to China, we're protecting that transport with our soldiers? Let the ChiComs defend their own fucking transports. Is this yet another example of Biden, as a wholly-owned asset of the CCP, doing the bidding of his Paymasters in Beijing? I would venture to say that the answer to that question is a resounding "yes." And since when is it the business of the United States to protect others' interests in those faraway waters? When are we going to start minding our own damn business on this planet? No wonder countries across the planet, tired of our endless sanctions and our self-declared hegemony in global politics, are looking to get away from the US dollar and expel our so-called diplomats from their territories. Biden's minions and their collective bloodlust for military intervention and bullying around the globe have tainted what little respect any country had for us in the space of 2-plus years since his inauguration. Now that Biden has joined his fellow Marxists around the world by jailing his political opposition ahead of the 2024 elections, things are likely to get worse before they get better.
I like Mark Levin's proposal to have Trump take his case directly to the Supreme Court. Not so that they can interfere in the election process but rather that they can ensure that the political process remains a fair and balanced process for all parties. The Supreme Court can put any and all litigation across the country on hold until after the election. It's abundantly clear to anyone with half a brain as to what the Democrats are doing to ensure a win in the upcoming 2024 election. They are tying up the leading Republican candidate in a series of lawsuits that promise to take said candidate off the campaign trail and further constrain his campaign by robbing him of resources needed to run said campaign. It is a clear-cut case of election interference, and our Supreme Court has a role in seeing to it that elections for all political parties in our Republic are not hindered by the shenanigans and foul play of one party at the expense of another. Mark says it's the process, not the specific charges leveled in the indictments against Trump, that the Democrats have undertaken that run afoul of the rules of fair play.
I watched a video on YouTube yesterday that gave me five pointers on how to do a bit of maintenance on my snow removal equipment. More to the point, on one of my snow removal machines. It was pretty cool. I'm so bad at doing these kinds of things. It's more about procrastination than anything else. This guy made it look easy, so I think I'll head over to Walmart today to buy a quart of oil and a can of WD-40. I'm actually feeling a little guilty for neglecting the service that my machine needs. Think of it, if you will, of giving it a little love. I can probably do what I need to do in the space of a half hour. That's the kicker. I should have done all of this when I put the machine away after the final snowfall of the winter of 2022. This has been going on for a lot of years, so it's pretty ingrained in my psyche at this point. In other words, I'll not likely change in a significant way in the coming months and years. I'll aspire to do a better job, but I'm thinking I know how this movie ends.
My guitar practice is coming along pretty well. I've been spending a seemingly inordinate amount of time trying to learn to play this one particular song. They say that practice sessions should include a few different things, and no one says that you should devote your entire session to learning one song. One constant in learning anything is to try and do it every day or so. That's fine. Developing muscle memory around certain songs, chord progressions, and note selections is a good thing. I can actually play certain pieces of the song I'm learning without looking at the strings on my guitar. I feel good about that. It's also true that I've been struggling with certain parts to the point where I think I keep making the same mistakes because they are somewhat built into my muscle memory. Do I need to unlearn this somehow? I feel like I've dug myself a ditch of sorts which I now need to climb out of before I can move on. Will putting any of this down in writing help me get over this hump? The mind works in mysterious ways, so I guess we'll see. I guess I'll see. Who's we, Tonto?
What the hell is that fat slob, Chris Christie, doing in Ukraine? You've seen the pictures. He's shaking hands with the scoundrel and grifter, Zelensky. Did I mention that he was a comedian before he became president of Ukraine? I'm talking about Zelensky, not Christie. Is this now a requirement for candidates running to become president of the United States? You need to prostrate yourself in front of Zelensky and commit to your dying day, or at least for the four to eight years you are in office, to support his dying and corrupt regime with every last American taxpayer dollar you can muster? I want to be careful about maligning Christie because of his obvious struggles with his weight, but the contrast between the weasely little Zelensky and the rotund Christie was not lost on people around the world who saw the photo and thought that the contrast was, well, illustrative. Illustrative of the excesses of the West and, by comparison, the gaunt and deprived, if not hollowed out specter of everything Ukraine. Ironically, were it not for the excesses of the West and the weapons that the West has poured into Ukraine at the expense of every Ukrainian, Ukraine might well be a more robust, if not stronger, country than it was before the Russians invaded.
With a good 60% of Americans now calling for the defunding of Ukraine, it seems a little odd to me that any politician would want to embrace Zelensky and his shithole of a country. Maybe Christie is sending a message to the Military Industrial Complex that he will support their global warmongering initiatives with a kiss on both cheeks. That is to say, with a wink and a nod. I don't know that the Military Industrial Complex has a role in who does and who doesn't get elected at the end of the day, but one has to wonder if they can't tip the scales in one direction or another for their preferred candidate. Word has it that Biden is now looking to redirect funding from the catastrophe that he's helped to create in Ukraine to beefing up the military might of Taiwan. Will Christie be on the next junket to Taiwan? Who's next? That toadie of an ex-congressman, Hurd? How about DeSanctimonius? Is he in single digits yet? If I hear that clown, John Bolton, saying one more time that Trump is going to get our country out of NATO if he's elected in 2024, I'm going to puke. Sorry. I'm getting off on a bit of a tangent today. You deserve better.
There are stories in the news, and then there are stories in the news. Some end up in the news because they qualify as newsworthy, and others end up there because someone wants to create or perpetuate a narrative for one reason or another. This latest story about Obama and, according to his biographer, his "fantasizing back in the day about having sex with men" falls squarely in the latter category. I don't know if I worded that quite right, but you get the gist. This all comes on the heels of the story in the last week or two about Obama's chef who drowned while paddleboarding in the waters off the shores of Obama's estate on Martha's Vineyard. Oddly enough, Obama's whereabouts on the day his chef drowned has yet to be determined. Rumors suggest that he may have been one of the people who was present on the day his chef drowned. And then we saw the pictures in the days after his chef's death of Obama in public with bandaged fingers and sporting a black eye. Where is all of this coming from? Someone has it out for Obama, and I think they're not done. It's not nothing that everything they are now accusing Biden of was done while he was Obama's Vice president. That is to say, Obama is undeniably complicit. Was he, in fact, a co-conspirator? Have we been gaslit all along about who is and who isn't the "Big Guy"?
I was telling the missus that I think it's better that we let Mrs. G know ahead of time when we plan to take her out for a ride. Not that everyone doesn't like a surprise now and then but I think there's something to be said for being able to look forward to something. Maybe it's just me. Take yesterday for example. We showed up as we usually do around 3 or so on a Friday or Saturday afternoon. Mrs. G had her lists ready of things that she wanted us to help her with or otherwise discuss. It was all good. What we didn't want to do was to sit there for hours on end and then tack a drive in the country on at the end of our time there. There are only so many hours in a day. Taking the bull by the horns, as is my style, I offered to take the lot of us out for a drive before we barely had a chance to warm our seats. Mrs. G was delighted and accepted the offer without hesitation. We took the back roads to Seabrook where we got Kentucky Fried Chicken takeout and then we drove back to her place but not before stopping into Applecrest Farms. Did I mention that Mrs. G got her favorite, mashed potatoes and gravy, at KFC? It made for a bit of a long afternoon for everyone but it was a nice change of scenery for Mrs. G and that is always a good thing.
I need to sort out the problem with my mice. I'm talking computer mousies here. Some are working better than others. By that, I mean that some are downright erratic and others, not so much. I don't know why it has to be so complicated. I've jury rigged a couple of things when it comes to my peripherals so that might be contributing to the problem. My latest hunch is that I have a couple of my devices that are a little too close together and my problem stems from the resulting electronic interference. I can separate a few things here and there to see if makes a difference. If I thought just going out and buying another mouse would solve my problem, I would do that lickety split. Did I mention that I'm using a cordless mouse and that requires a receiver? I also have a mouse or two that connect wirelessly using Bluetooth. Even the Bluetooth mice I have get jiggy with me so I'm not sure what to make of it. Restarting my devices or unplugging and plugging in my receivers helps for a while but then everything gets jiggy again sooner or later.