The Way Life Should Be?
29/10/23 16:07
The Chinese have six warships heading for the Middle East. The United States has a few thousand troops sitting on destroyers and carriers off Israel's coast. Israel has yet to commence with sending troops into Gaza to ferret out Hamas, but that appears imminent. Countries bordering Israel are threatening to come to the aid of Hamas and the Palestinian people in Gaza if the shelling by Israel continues. It's a veritable tinderbox that could turn into World War III literally overnight. Republicans in Congress still have not replaced Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House here in our country, so we are, in a word, speaker-less. We have a president who can't read his own cue cards, and despots across the globe are moving forward with their own agendas to fill the vacuum of leadership resulting from our collective weakness on the world stage.
I heard someone suggesting yesterday that Bumbles Biden would be voted in for a second four-year term by the American people because they are loathe to replace a sitting president in the middle of an active war. I think most people realize that we wouldn't be in an active war across the globe were it not for Bumbles Biden and his abject failures in foreign policy. Bad actors around the world know a weak leader when they see one, and one doesn't need to look very far to see that the president of the United States is both cognitively impaired and about as corrupt and morally depraved as they come. I think that most Americans, and this is born out by polls, know full well that we're where we are because of Bumbles Biden and his leftist policies. I don't care how many wars we're in by the time Election Day rolls around a year from now, people will be crawling over broken glass to replace the clown that we have in our beloved White House.
Maybe this is the great reset that Alex Jones has been talking and writing about now for years. Bring the damn house down and rebuild it from the bottom up. That's what it feels like at the moment here in the United States. Our economy is teetering on the edge; We're sending billions of our taxpayer dollars around the globe to prop up fanatics and despots; We have military assets spread perilously thin from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf; Millions of Hamas supporters are taking to the streets in our major cities to condemn Israel and the United States for supporting Israel; China is on the verge of reclaiming Taiwan as its own and, when that happens, they will control the flow of semi-conductor chips across the globe; We have, at last count, some eight-million young men of fighting age from countries around the world coming across our southern border at the invitation of Bumbles Biden and his Democrat party; It's just a matter of time before the next pandemic is unleashed on our people; 10-year Treasury yields are now above five percent for the first time in decades and heading higher; Layoffs and bankruptcies are spiraling out of control; And we have a demented president sitting in the Oval Office. What could go wrong?
I'd feel a lot better if I knew that someone in our government was trying to bring one or more of these conflicts around the globe to an end. Instead, we seem to be adding fuel to the fire and prolonging conflicts instead of trying to resolve them. It's hard even to say or know who the hell we're in bed with when it comes to these things. We're enriching Iran by not enforcing sanctions, yet Iran is behind both Hamas and Hezbollah, who are bombing the living hell out of Israel. We have known Iranian assets working inside our defense department who are acting on behalf of Iran and at the expense of our allies like Israel. We have a president who has sold off our oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the point where we're vulnerable should war come to our shores. It's almost as though that was the plan all along. Is this all about enriching the Military Industrial Complex at the expense of our existence as one of the greatest and most powerful nations on the face of the planet? Knowing what we know about the Biden Crime Family and their penchant for enriching themselves, maybe this has more to do with filling their coffers than advancing the interests of America.
I was watching a bit of football on television this past Sunday and was more than a little surprised to see ads for the iPhone 15 at every commercial break. I'm not accustomed to seeing a hard sell from Apple when it comes to iPhones. They literally sell themselves. There was little new in the way of functionality in the ads, and it was all about the aesthetics of the device. I've got news for Apple. Their devices have always been about aesthetics. This is nothing new. I don't care how you package the hard sell. Two ads in a row for any product, in my humble opinion, is a sign of desperation. It's like they got ahead of themselves in terms of how many iPhones they thought they were going to sell, and now they've got a serious backlog situation that nobody planned for. Does this have anything to do with stories about the new iPhone 15 overheating? And, pray tell, how the hell do you fix that sort of problem with a software patch? Has Apple really invented anything worthwhile since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod way back when? Well, there was a watch and some overpriced earbuds, I suppose.
It's hard to know what's going on with the Americans kidnapped by Hamas in Israel two weeks ago. Thanks to the American media, I can't give you a single name of an American being held. They simply don't want to expose Bumbles Biden for the abject failure of an American president that he is ahead of the 2024 elections. They are, however, pleased as punch to put pictures of him and Dr. Jill walking along the beach near their home in Rehobeth, Delaware. I suppose if there were a byline to attach to the picture, it might be that this president is a president who takes his responsibilities as a president in stride, and despite his age and the challenges that confront him on the world stage, he faces adversity like a president half his age. What I see is a demented fool of a president who could give two shits about Americans held in Gaza by terrorists and, like the thirteen American soldiers killed in Afghanistan when Bumbles ordered our withdrawal, this mother fucker will sleep like a baby no matter how many Americans are held, tortured, or killed. Who the hell is going to speak for the hostages if not the president of the United States?
It is interesting that neither Russia nor China came out strongly against the murderous activities of Hamas in Israel two weeks ago. I think I heard one or the other say that nations have the right to protect themselves, but that is not in and of itself an indictment of Hamas and the country that sponsors their activities, Iran. Of course, everyone knows that Bumbles Biden is in bed with the Mullahs of Iran like his boss before him, Barack Hussein Obama. Some even say that Bumbles doesn't know what day it is, and that the real president behind the curtain is Obama. At first, I thought the warships sent by China to the Middle East were there to protect Iran's interests. If we're to believe that Bumbles has zero interest in anything having to do with bombing Iran back to the Stone Age on behalf of Israel, China would be wasting its time sending reinforcements to the region. So, what the hell is really going on? Does this have anything to do with China positioning assets in the Middle East to block the movement of American naval assets in the event they decide to take Taiwan? Don't think for a minute that China's destroyers aren't equipped with hypersonic missiles that can sink an aircraft carrier faster than you can say "lickety-split."
Wouldn't that be something if Republicans elected the first black Speaker of the House? Is "elected" the right word? Anyway, I like this Byron Donalds guy who has thrown his hat in the ring for the position. He is unapologetically MAGA, and that could be a problem for him. He seems to have the backing of a lot of his fellow congressmen, so I guess we'll have to see how it goes today. The vote is today. Right? Remember how the Democrats became apoplectic when Republicans nominated the first black man to the Supreme Court? They excoriated Clarence Thomas in a disgusting and racist fashion in the well of the United States Senate. It was despicable. They dragged out alleged victims of Clarence Thomas to sully his name and reputation without so much as an ounce of evidence. This is what they do. This is who they are. I'm already hearing the lies of Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media talking smack about this and that when it comes to Congressman Donalds. They would much prefer that their black man, Hakeem Jeffries, be the first black man to be Speaker, so expect them to pull out all the stops and then some to end Donald's nomination. Not wanting to jinx Donald's chances, Trump has not endorsed a candidate. I have a funny feeling that were he to endorse a candidate, Donalds would be his first choice.
So much for Donalds. He got out of the race and cleared a path for Emmer. Emmer is a never-Trumper so that you know. He would have been a disaster. The good news is that Trump, while not voicing a preference for those in the running, put up a post on Truth Social once it looked like Emmer was the likely candidate and winner that Emmer was not to his liking. That was the end of Emmer. He bowed out, knowing that he was never going to get the votes he needed. Why embarrass yourself? Right? I was a little worried that we'd see Democrats vote for Emmer since he'd likely be their best choice if they had a say in the matter. Anyway, he's out now. The new guy in the barrel is Mike Johnson, a conservative from Louisianna. From what I've seen of this guy over the years, he's smart as a whip and a solid conservative. I guess I'm not sure why his name wasn't tossed in the ring sooner. It sounds like they can wrap this up today if they get their act together. He's already said that his first act as Speaker was going to have something to do with funding Israel. I hope that means he's giving the middle finger to any Ukraine funding. Their European neighbors can help them out, or not, as the case may be.
I don't think we as Americans have any clue as to the immigration nightmare that awaits each and every one of us as a consequence of Biden's immigration policies. Never mind that some eight million illegals from every country across the planet have crossed into our country since Biden's inauguration. I heard yesterday that we have illegals coming into our country from terrorist hellholes, and they aren't even vetted. I don't know how much clearer I can be about the danger that these terrorists now pose to our citizenry here in our country. I don't live in or near a major city, so I feel somewhat safe and less exposed to the areas that might bear the brunt of any terrorism, but I fear for my fellow Americans who may be exposed. You have to ask yourself, why would a government do what Biden is doing? If we're to assume that Biden is just a continuation of the Obama Administration, and we know that most of the people in the Obama Administration now work in the Biden Administration, what we're seeing is a fundamental transformation of America. More loosely translated, an America that is more to the liking of a radical Marxist and the kind of society that is more familiar to the Muslim than the Christian. In many states, and maybe every state for all I know, it's against the law for the police to ask about someone's immigration status. Let that sink in.
I've been telling the missus that I don't think it's a good idea for her to continue to drive back and forth to Massachusetts to put in a few hours of work here and there anymore. The drive is too long, and the highway too perilous as highways go. Perilous in the sense that it is a major thoroughfare and fraught with speedsters, texters, and maybe illegal aliens, all of whom pose a considerable threat to someone who is not a frequent traveler on that particular roadway. Add bad weather, or god forbid snow, and things go from bad to treacherous in a snap. The missus has informed her employer as such, but I'm not sure he has her interests at heart since it's been two weeks since she's apprised him, and he's now requesting that she come in to work. I think he hears what he wants to hear, and he knows the missus does not want to disappoint him, given their lengthy working relationship going back literally decades. He's also become more frail in recent years and is more needy, if that's the right word, relying as he does on her assistance to do the work he continues to want to do. If anyone is going to put their foot down, it has to be the missus. She has to be the adult in the room. In another time and place, I'd tell her to grow a pair. She can be available by phone, so that has to count for something.
My neighbor is off to Florida for a few weeks in a few weeks. She says that she's made plans to have someone "punch" through any snowfall in her driveway, and she's asked that I give her a call if there are any problems with oil deliveries to her home during her absence. I usually snowblow her driveway, so I'm happy to be off the hook for that task for at least the time she's away. One less thing to do after a snowstorm is always a good thing. Her driveway is two cars wide and two cars deep, so not a big job as jobs go. Our driveway is just a bit bigger, so I do ours first and then go on to do hers. The missus would rather I not take on the extra work, but I just see it as an extension of the work that I do for myself. Calling my neighbor in Florida if her oil deliveries don't work out is something that I'm not sure I can get my arms around. How will I know if there's an issue? If there is an issue and I'm not aware of it, what does that look like? Will I be responsible if her pipes freeze? I'd rather just do the driveway and let someone else look out for the oil man, but that's just me. Then again, I'm happy to be off the hook for the driveway, so I'm willing to let the chips fall where they may.
Would someone kindly tell me why the governor of California, Gavin Newsome, is in China visiting with Xi Jinping? That's like the mayor of some province in Greece coming to the United States and meeting with the president of the United States. Is this supposed to elevate Newsome's status as a potential presidential candidate ahead of the 2024 elections? Is this Xi giving his implicit approval to Newsome as the candidate of Xi's choice? Is getting Xi's approval to run for president now a prerequisite for our presidential candidates? I've always suspected that China had a hand in delivering the White House to Biden in 2020. How China pulled that off, I can't be sure. Did they manufacture the fake ballots that put Biden over the top in the swing states after Trump was winning handily on Election night? We know one thing. We know that they unleashed the COVID-19 virus from the labs in Wuhan just ahead of the 2020 elections. That forced many states to use absentee ballots that, if my hunch is right, were produced in China and used to manipulate a win for Biden. Nobody, and I mean nobody, believes that Biden got 81 million votes. Didn't Biden even admit once that they were going to win the election by hook or crook, in so many words?
But this Newsome thing is concerning. California is a lovely state, but right-minded people can't move out of that state fast enough. It was so bad around about last Fall that you couldn't find a U-Haul truck or trailer to move your stuff even if you wanted to. Companies are fleeing Newsome's major cities due to crime, and, if they choose to stay, they are forced to lock down every last item in their store to prevent the theft of their merchandise. Newsome's California is the template for the Democrat's takeover of America and the installation of a one-party state from coast to coast. Newsome has presided over most of it, and California will likely never see another Republican governor going forward. If they have to resort to skullduggery to ensure that Democrats don't lose, then so be it. That's the price they are willing to pay to hold on to power. I would go so far as to say that the immigration policies under Newsome, which have turned the California citizenry more brown than white, is the model now in use by Biden to fundamentally transform the rest of our country into a one-party country. So, Xi's visit aside, why the hell would anyone want someone like Newsome to be the president of our great nation? The dirty little secret is, it doesn't matter what we the people want.
We have another mass shooting. This time, it's up in the State of Maine. At last count, there are twenty-two dead and 50 or more injured. Maine seems like the last place you'd expect to see this sort of thing, but it is what it is. Isn't their state motto, "The Way Life Should Be"? Hell, there are more moose than people in Maine. Not sure why that matters, but I thought it bore mentioning. That may go a long way toward explaining why they don't have this guy in custody. He's probably hunkered down in a duck blind somewhere with a month's ration of food on hand. That's a lot of people to kill, you have to admit. How do you even begin to explain what reason or reasons he may have had for inflicting this level of carnage on citizens of the city of Lewiston, Maine? I initially thought that the killer may have been lashing out at the Somalian community, given their infestation of the area in recent years. There are no reports now, some 12 hours later, on the racial makeup of the victims, so I'll not assume anything. There are reports of the alleged shooter having mental health issues. I'm not sure if those reports are misleading by design or factual. Reports of his being a shooting instructor in the National Guard may explain how it is that 22 people are now reported dead. The alleged shooter is a white man, so the story is likely not going away any time soon. It's only a matter of time before they report that he was a Trump voter and fan. That's how the media rolls.
The stock market seems to be in a definable downtrend. It's down ten percent from the most recent high. Year-to-date, the S&P is down seven-something percent. It's been a slow descent of sorts, not the elevator-down type action you usually see when things start to go to hell in a handbasket. Nonetheless, it's down four steps, up two, down four, up two, ad nauseam. I like the guy who says when the time comes to get back into the market, you won't want to. I think he's referring to a point in time when there is extreme fear in the market in terms of investor sentiment. I don't think we're quite there yet. And, what about the year-end rally in the markets that is typically on everyone's calendar at this time of year? That's the Santa Claus rally. Right? I suppose if the market drops another ten points or so, you can make the case that we're overdue for a relief rally. Every so-called relief rally I've seen lately has shit for breadth, meaning there are more stocks down than up on the trading day despite it being an up day, and almost every last one of them sells off into the close. That is the very definition of a bear market. Then, there's the guy with the handle "Wifey," who tweets quite often that, "whatever you think, it will be worse." What say you?
I watched Hannity's interview with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, last night. Johnson won the speakership barely 72 hours ago and agreed to go on with Hannity. I think Hannity is an idiot, so I adjusted my expectations accordingly. Just between you and me, I think Hannity has a little bit of that demented stuff that we see in Bumbles Biden. If I hear him blather on one more time about his days when he did manual labor, I think I'm going to puke. There were times in the interview when I couldn't quite figure out where Hannity was going with his questioning. One minute, he's talking to Johnson about his time as an attorney defending this or that group back in the day, and the next minute, he's off in another direction that seems to have nothing to do with anything. I don't know if he was trying to ensnare Johnson or what. We all know that Hannity is a McCarthy rump swab, so it's possible he was looking to embarrass or humiliate Johnson. Whatever he was trying to accomplish, he failed miserably. Johnson came across as a reasonable, god-fearing conservative who took his guidance and inspiration from the bible and the Constitution. He spoke with incredible clarity and purpose, unlike any of the snake oil salesmen that I've ever seen coming out of the bowels of our nation's capitol. I couldn't help but wonder how much better off our country would be if we had a steady hand like Johnson sitting in the Oval Office. There, I said it.
Remember when Bumbles Biden warned the terrorists in the Middle East about intervening in Israel's routing of Hamas in Gaza? His admonition consisted of one word: Don't. I can still hear the Jihadists across the Middle East howling with laughter at Bumble's words. In the last two weeks or so, our troops in the Middle East have seen incoming from various factions and bad actors without any reprisals whatsoever from Bumbles and Fat Albert, his Defense Secretary. So much for red lines. Reminds you a little of Obama and his red lines. Right? So, last night, reports out of the Middle East were that the US conducted air strikes in Syria. If I had to guess, I'd say that our pilots took out a couple of camels and tents but little else so that they could say they did something. Everyone knows that Bumbles is in bed with the Iranians and their sponsors in Beijing, and anything that takes place that looks remotely retaliatory is purely performative. Bumbles is doing the bidding of his paymasters in Beijing, nothing more and nothing less. That means giving the Iranians the means to make a nuclear bomb come hell or high water. If bringing Iranian agents into our government is what it takes to achieve that end, it's game-on. We all know who they are, and, yes, they are still employed by the Biden Administration.
Am I the only one shocked by what I'm seeing on the streets of our country as it relates to our Jewish friends and neighbors and the seemingly unrelenting march toward antisemitism? I mean, holy jumping Jesus. Do I think for a moment that people carrying flags for Palestine while waging war on Jewish people in our country have a clue as to why they're doing what they're doing? I don't. Maybe it's just one more example of how polarized our society has become in recent years. That's probably an oversimplification. I also don't think that the utter decimation of the people in Gaza by Israeli troops is helping to win any hearts and minds across the globe. It's anything but measured as responses go. Is hatred of the Jews, as expressed in antisemitism, one of those centuries-old dilemmas that flare up from time to time regardless of what Jews do or don't do? I don't know where I'm going with any of this other than to say that what I'm seeing happening to Jewish people on the streets of our great country is very disturbing. It feels like a tinderbox of sorts, ready to explode at any time. We're not at the night of broken glass (Kristallnacht) yet, but it certainly looks and feels like we're moving in that direction. Just say no.
Don't be so fucking sensitive. I'm talking about Twitter. I saw a story yesterday about the Supreme Court in Colorado coming out with a ruling that irked me. I figured that the US Supreme Court would step in and remind them that their ruling was extra-constitutional or something along those lines, so I tweeted something about the US Supreme Court spanking them and spanking them hard. The next thing I know, I'm getting a note from Twitter informing me that I've broken this or that rule and my privileges were being curtailed for the next 12 hours. At the same time, I'm seeing post after post on Twitter of Israel wreaking complete havoc on the population of Gaza. I'm thinking to myself, you've got to be kidding. Maybe their AI picked up the word "spanking" and automatically tagged me as a domestic terrorist or some sexual pervert. I'm talking about context here. I've actually been a lot less snarky on Twitter in recent months, so I was very surprised to see the flags go up on my account. I couldn't imagine what it was that they thought I said that somehow violated their rules. Now that I know, I think I'll stick to using the service as a news feed and not a sounding board for my snarkiness.
A person very dear and near to me just received a diagnosis that is not good news. I have no experience in dealing with these kinds of things, so it's been kind of a roller coaster in the last few days. But this isn't about me, so I need to keep reminding myself of that fact. I want to be there for this person, whatever that means and whatever that looks like. I can't imagine how she feels about what's happening to her or about what her longer-term prospects may or may not look like, but I don't know how anyone prepares themselves to hear the news that she heard. It wasn't quite a "get your affairs in order," as I understand it, but she was nonetheless prepped for what's to come in the coming days and weeks. It's a path with a lot of different forks and, needless to say, more forks in the road that end up in the shit house than not. I understand that she took considerable comfort in the words tendered by the physician who gave her the news, and I'm grateful to the doctor for that. We're going to do this, that, and the other thing to try and get our arms around this problem, or something to that effect. That's me thinking out loud about the conversation that started this so-called journey that is just beginning. If you wondered why I was up in the middle of the night last night praying to the Baby Jesus, now you know. I'm just getting started. If this goes sideways, it won't be because I didn't call in every last favor I think I'm owed from the guy upstairs.
I need to start paying more attention to the electric vehicle (EV's) industry. Word has it that sales of EV's are falling off precipitously. So much so, in fact, that I think I heard something the other day about General Motors stopping the production of certain GM models due to a lack of demand. I hope that demand falls off the fucking cliff, but that's just me. I also hope that the CEO's of these companies are spanked and spanked hard (There's that expression again) for allowing themselves to get sucked into this green new deal bullshit by the Biden administration. I want to see junkyard after junkyard overflowing with EV's that nobody wants and that dealers literally can't give away. Can you imagine? Ford thought that they could convert one of their most popular models (F-150) into an electric version and that they'd have urban and rural cowboys lining up coast to coast to order them. Wrong. When I hear the people who own them trying to justify why they're sticking with them, their reasoning sounds more political than practical. If you're a left-wing Biden-loving Marxist, you're doing your part to save the environment. If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tell you that the price of admission is to go zero-carbon, then you bend over and do what you're told.
I heard someone suggesting yesterday that Bumbles Biden would be voted in for a second four-year term by the American people because they are loathe to replace a sitting president in the middle of an active war. I think most people realize that we wouldn't be in an active war across the globe were it not for Bumbles Biden and his abject failures in foreign policy. Bad actors around the world know a weak leader when they see one, and one doesn't need to look very far to see that the president of the United States is both cognitively impaired and about as corrupt and morally depraved as they come. I think that most Americans, and this is born out by polls, know full well that we're where we are because of Bumbles Biden and his leftist policies. I don't care how many wars we're in by the time Election Day rolls around a year from now, people will be crawling over broken glass to replace the clown that we have in our beloved White House.
Maybe this is the great reset that Alex Jones has been talking and writing about now for years. Bring the damn house down and rebuild it from the bottom up. That's what it feels like at the moment here in the United States. Our economy is teetering on the edge; We're sending billions of our taxpayer dollars around the globe to prop up fanatics and despots; We have military assets spread perilously thin from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf; Millions of Hamas supporters are taking to the streets in our major cities to condemn Israel and the United States for supporting Israel; China is on the verge of reclaiming Taiwan as its own and, when that happens, they will control the flow of semi-conductor chips across the globe; We have, at last count, some eight-million young men of fighting age from countries around the world coming across our southern border at the invitation of Bumbles Biden and his Democrat party; It's just a matter of time before the next pandemic is unleashed on our people; 10-year Treasury yields are now above five percent for the first time in decades and heading higher; Layoffs and bankruptcies are spiraling out of control; And we have a demented president sitting in the Oval Office. What could go wrong?
I'd feel a lot better if I knew that someone in our government was trying to bring one or more of these conflicts around the globe to an end. Instead, we seem to be adding fuel to the fire and prolonging conflicts instead of trying to resolve them. It's hard even to say or know who the hell we're in bed with when it comes to these things. We're enriching Iran by not enforcing sanctions, yet Iran is behind both Hamas and Hezbollah, who are bombing the living hell out of Israel. We have known Iranian assets working inside our defense department who are acting on behalf of Iran and at the expense of our allies like Israel. We have a president who has sold off our oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the point where we're vulnerable should war come to our shores. It's almost as though that was the plan all along. Is this all about enriching the Military Industrial Complex at the expense of our existence as one of the greatest and most powerful nations on the face of the planet? Knowing what we know about the Biden Crime Family and their penchant for enriching themselves, maybe this has more to do with filling their coffers than advancing the interests of America.
I was watching a bit of football on television this past Sunday and was more than a little surprised to see ads for the iPhone 15 at every commercial break. I'm not accustomed to seeing a hard sell from Apple when it comes to iPhones. They literally sell themselves. There was little new in the way of functionality in the ads, and it was all about the aesthetics of the device. I've got news for Apple. Their devices have always been about aesthetics. This is nothing new. I don't care how you package the hard sell. Two ads in a row for any product, in my humble opinion, is a sign of desperation. It's like they got ahead of themselves in terms of how many iPhones they thought they were going to sell, and now they've got a serious backlog situation that nobody planned for. Does this have anything to do with stories about the new iPhone 15 overheating? And, pray tell, how the hell do you fix that sort of problem with a software patch? Has Apple really invented anything worthwhile since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod way back when? Well, there was a watch and some overpriced earbuds, I suppose.
It's hard to know what's going on with the Americans kidnapped by Hamas in Israel two weeks ago. Thanks to the American media, I can't give you a single name of an American being held. They simply don't want to expose Bumbles Biden for the abject failure of an American president that he is ahead of the 2024 elections. They are, however, pleased as punch to put pictures of him and Dr. Jill walking along the beach near their home in Rehobeth, Delaware. I suppose if there were a byline to attach to the picture, it might be that this president is a president who takes his responsibilities as a president in stride, and despite his age and the challenges that confront him on the world stage, he faces adversity like a president half his age. What I see is a demented fool of a president who could give two shits about Americans held in Gaza by terrorists and, like the thirteen American soldiers killed in Afghanistan when Bumbles ordered our withdrawal, this mother fucker will sleep like a baby no matter how many Americans are held, tortured, or killed. Who the hell is going to speak for the hostages if not the president of the United States?
It is interesting that neither Russia nor China came out strongly against the murderous activities of Hamas in Israel two weeks ago. I think I heard one or the other say that nations have the right to protect themselves, but that is not in and of itself an indictment of Hamas and the country that sponsors their activities, Iran. Of course, everyone knows that Bumbles Biden is in bed with the Mullahs of Iran like his boss before him, Barack Hussein Obama. Some even say that Bumbles doesn't know what day it is, and that the real president behind the curtain is Obama. At first, I thought the warships sent by China to the Middle East were there to protect Iran's interests. If we're to believe that Bumbles has zero interest in anything having to do with bombing Iran back to the Stone Age on behalf of Israel, China would be wasting its time sending reinforcements to the region. So, what the hell is really going on? Does this have anything to do with China positioning assets in the Middle East to block the movement of American naval assets in the event they decide to take Taiwan? Don't think for a minute that China's destroyers aren't equipped with hypersonic missiles that can sink an aircraft carrier faster than you can say "lickety-split."
Wouldn't that be something if Republicans elected the first black Speaker of the House? Is "elected" the right word? Anyway, I like this Byron Donalds guy who has thrown his hat in the ring for the position. He is unapologetically MAGA, and that could be a problem for him. He seems to have the backing of a lot of his fellow congressmen, so I guess we'll have to see how it goes today. The vote is today. Right? Remember how the Democrats became apoplectic when Republicans nominated the first black man to the Supreme Court? They excoriated Clarence Thomas in a disgusting and racist fashion in the well of the United States Senate. It was despicable. They dragged out alleged victims of Clarence Thomas to sully his name and reputation without so much as an ounce of evidence. This is what they do. This is who they are. I'm already hearing the lies of Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media talking smack about this and that when it comes to Congressman Donalds. They would much prefer that their black man, Hakeem Jeffries, be the first black man to be Speaker, so expect them to pull out all the stops and then some to end Donald's nomination. Not wanting to jinx Donald's chances, Trump has not endorsed a candidate. I have a funny feeling that were he to endorse a candidate, Donalds would be his first choice.
So much for Donalds. He got out of the race and cleared a path for Emmer. Emmer is a never-Trumper so that you know. He would have been a disaster. The good news is that Trump, while not voicing a preference for those in the running, put up a post on Truth Social once it looked like Emmer was the likely candidate and winner that Emmer was not to his liking. That was the end of Emmer. He bowed out, knowing that he was never going to get the votes he needed. Why embarrass yourself? Right? I was a little worried that we'd see Democrats vote for Emmer since he'd likely be their best choice if they had a say in the matter. Anyway, he's out now. The new guy in the barrel is Mike Johnson, a conservative from Louisianna. From what I've seen of this guy over the years, he's smart as a whip and a solid conservative. I guess I'm not sure why his name wasn't tossed in the ring sooner. It sounds like they can wrap this up today if they get their act together. He's already said that his first act as Speaker was going to have something to do with funding Israel. I hope that means he's giving the middle finger to any Ukraine funding. Their European neighbors can help them out, or not, as the case may be.
I don't think we as Americans have any clue as to the immigration nightmare that awaits each and every one of us as a consequence of Biden's immigration policies. Never mind that some eight million illegals from every country across the planet have crossed into our country since Biden's inauguration. I heard yesterday that we have illegals coming into our country from terrorist hellholes, and they aren't even vetted. I don't know how much clearer I can be about the danger that these terrorists now pose to our citizenry here in our country. I don't live in or near a major city, so I feel somewhat safe and less exposed to the areas that might bear the brunt of any terrorism, but I fear for my fellow Americans who may be exposed. You have to ask yourself, why would a government do what Biden is doing? If we're to assume that Biden is just a continuation of the Obama Administration, and we know that most of the people in the Obama Administration now work in the Biden Administration, what we're seeing is a fundamental transformation of America. More loosely translated, an America that is more to the liking of a radical Marxist and the kind of society that is more familiar to the Muslim than the Christian. In many states, and maybe every state for all I know, it's against the law for the police to ask about someone's immigration status. Let that sink in.
I've been telling the missus that I don't think it's a good idea for her to continue to drive back and forth to Massachusetts to put in a few hours of work here and there anymore. The drive is too long, and the highway too perilous as highways go. Perilous in the sense that it is a major thoroughfare and fraught with speedsters, texters, and maybe illegal aliens, all of whom pose a considerable threat to someone who is not a frequent traveler on that particular roadway. Add bad weather, or god forbid snow, and things go from bad to treacherous in a snap. The missus has informed her employer as such, but I'm not sure he has her interests at heart since it's been two weeks since she's apprised him, and he's now requesting that she come in to work. I think he hears what he wants to hear, and he knows the missus does not want to disappoint him, given their lengthy working relationship going back literally decades. He's also become more frail in recent years and is more needy, if that's the right word, relying as he does on her assistance to do the work he continues to want to do. If anyone is going to put their foot down, it has to be the missus. She has to be the adult in the room. In another time and place, I'd tell her to grow a pair. She can be available by phone, so that has to count for something.
My neighbor is off to Florida for a few weeks in a few weeks. She says that she's made plans to have someone "punch" through any snowfall in her driveway, and she's asked that I give her a call if there are any problems with oil deliveries to her home during her absence. I usually snowblow her driveway, so I'm happy to be off the hook for that task for at least the time she's away. One less thing to do after a snowstorm is always a good thing. Her driveway is two cars wide and two cars deep, so not a big job as jobs go. Our driveway is just a bit bigger, so I do ours first and then go on to do hers. The missus would rather I not take on the extra work, but I just see it as an extension of the work that I do for myself. Calling my neighbor in Florida if her oil deliveries don't work out is something that I'm not sure I can get my arms around. How will I know if there's an issue? If there is an issue and I'm not aware of it, what does that look like? Will I be responsible if her pipes freeze? I'd rather just do the driveway and let someone else look out for the oil man, but that's just me. Then again, I'm happy to be off the hook for the driveway, so I'm willing to let the chips fall where they may.
Would someone kindly tell me why the governor of California, Gavin Newsome, is in China visiting with Xi Jinping? That's like the mayor of some province in Greece coming to the United States and meeting with the president of the United States. Is this supposed to elevate Newsome's status as a potential presidential candidate ahead of the 2024 elections? Is this Xi giving his implicit approval to Newsome as the candidate of Xi's choice? Is getting Xi's approval to run for president now a prerequisite for our presidential candidates? I've always suspected that China had a hand in delivering the White House to Biden in 2020. How China pulled that off, I can't be sure. Did they manufacture the fake ballots that put Biden over the top in the swing states after Trump was winning handily on Election night? We know one thing. We know that they unleashed the COVID-19 virus from the labs in Wuhan just ahead of the 2020 elections. That forced many states to use absentee ballots that, if my hunch is right, were produced in China and used to manipulate a win for Biden. Nobody, and I mean nobody, believes that Biden got 81 million votes. Didn't Biden even admit once that they were going to win the election by hook or crook, in so many words?
But this Newsome thing is concerning. California is a lovely state, but right-minded people can't move out of that state fast enough. It was so bad around about last Fall that you couldn't find a U-Haul truck or trailer to move your stuff even if you wanted to. Companies are fleeing Newsome's major cities due to crime, and, if they choose to stay, they are forced to lock down every last item in their store to prevent the theft of their merchandise. Newsome's California is the template for the Democrat's takeover of America and the installation of a one-party state from coast to coast. Newsome has presided over most of it, and California will likely never see another Republican governor going forward. If they have to resort to skullduggery to ensure that Democrats don't lose, then so be it. That's the price they are willing to pay to hold on to power. I would go so far as to say that the immigration policies under Newsome, which have turned the California citizenry more brown than white, is the model now in use by Biden to fundamentally transform the rest of our country into a one-party country. So, Xi's visit aside, why the hell would anyone want someone like Newsome to be the president of our great nation? The dirty little secret is, it doesn't matter what we the people want.
We have another mass shooting. This time, it's up in the State of Maine. At last count, there are twenty-two dead and 50 or more injured. Maine seems like the last place you'd expect to see this sort of thing, but it is what it is. Isn't their state motto, "The Way Life Should Be"? Hell, there are more moose than people in Maine. Not sure why that matters, but I thought it bore mentioning. That may go a long way toward explaining why they don't have this guy in custody. He's probably hunkered down in a duck blind somewhere with a month's ration of food on hand. That's a lot of people to kill, you have to admit. How do you even begin to explain what reason or reasons he may have had for inflicting this level of carnage on citizens of the city of Lewiston, Maine? I initially thought that the killer may have been lashing out at the Somalian community, given their infestation of the area in recent years. There are no reports now, some 12 hours later, on the racial makeup of the victims, so I'll not assume anything. There are reports of the alleged shooter having mental health issues. I'm not sure if those reports are misleading by design or factual. Reports of his being a shooting instructor in the National Guard may explain how it is that 22 people are now reported dead. The alleged shooter is a white man, so the story is likely not going away any time soon. It's only a matter of time before they report that he was a Trump voter and fan. That's how the media rolls.
The stock market seems to be in a definable downtrend. It's down ten percent from the most recent high. Year-to-date, the S&P is down seven-something percent. It's been a slow descent of sorts, not the elevator-down type action you usually see when things start to go to hell in a handbasket. Nonetheless, it's down four steps, up two, down four, up two, ad nauseam. I like the guy who says when the time comes to get back into the market, you won't want to. I think he's referring to a point in time when there is extreme fear in the market in terms of investor sentiment. I don't think we're quite there yet. And, what about the year-end rally in the markets that is typically on everyone's calendar at this time of year? That's the Santa Claus rally. Right? I suppose if the market drops another ten points or so, you can make the case that we're overdue for a relief rally. Every so-called relief rally I've seen lately has shit for breadth, meaning there are more stocks down than up on the trading day despite it being an up day, and almost every last one of them sells off into the close. That is the very definition of a bear market. Then, there's the guy with the handle "Wifey," who tweets quite often that, "whatever you think, it will be worse." What say you?
I watched Hannity's interview with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, last night. Johnson won the speakership barely 72 hours ago and agreed to go on with Hannity. I think Hannity is an idiot, so I adjusted my expectations accordingly. Just between you and me, I think Hannity has a little bit of that demented stuff that we see in Bumbles Biden. If I hear him blather on one more time about his days when he did manual labor, I think I'm going to puke. There were times in the interview when I couldn't quite figure out where Hannity was going with his questioning. One minute, he's talking to Johnson about his time as an attorney defending this or that group back in the day, and the next minute, he's off in another direction that seems to have nothing to do with anything. I don't know if he was trying to ensnare Johnson or what. We all know that Hannity is a McCarthy rump swab, so it's possible he was looking to embarrass or humiliate Johnson. Whatever he was trying to accomplish, he failed miserably. Johnson came across as a reasonable, god-fearing conservative who took his guidance and inspiration from the bible and the Constitution. He spoke with incredible clarity and purpose, unlike any of the snake oil salesmen that I've ever seen coming out of the bowels of our nation's capitol. I couldn't help but wonder how much better off our country would be if we had a steady hand like Johnson sitting in the Oval Office. There, I said it.
Remember when Bumbles Biden warned the terrorists in the Middle East about intervening in Israel's routing of Hamas in Gaza? His admonition consisted of one word: Don't. I can still hear the Jihadists across the Middle East howling with laughter at Bumble's words. In the last two weeks or so, our troops in the Middle East have seen incoming from various factions and bad actors without any reprisals whatsoever from Bumbles and Fat Albert, his Defense Secretary. So much for red lines. Reminds you a little of Obama and his red lines. Right? So, last night, reports out of the Middle East were that the US conducted air strikes in Syria. If I had to guess, I'd say that our pilots took out a couple of camels and tents but little else so that they could say they did something. Everyone knows that Bumbles is in bed with the Iranians and their sponsors in Beijing, and anything that takes place that looks remotely retaliatory is purely performative. Bumbles is doing the bidding of his paymasters in Beijing, nothing more and nothing less. That means giving the Iranians the means to make a nuclear bomb come hell or high water. If bringing Iranian agents into our government is what it takes to achieve that end, it's game-on. We all know who they are, and, yes, they are still employed by the Biden Administration.
Am I the only one shocked by what I'm seeing on the streets of our country as it relates to our Jewish friends and neighbors and the seemingly unrelenting march toward antisemitism? I mean, holy jumping Jesus. Do I think for a moment that people carrying flags for Palestine while waging war on Jewish people in our country have a clue as to why they're doing what they're doing? I don't. Maybe it's just one more example of how polarized our society has become in recent years. That's probably an oversimplification. I also don't think that the utter decimation of the people in Gaza by Israeli troops is helping to win any hearts and minds across the globe. It's anything but measured as responses go. Is hatred of the Jews, as expressed in antisemitism, one of those centuries-old dilemmas that flare up from time to time regardless of what Jews do or don't do? I don't know where I'm going with any of this other than to say that what I'm seeing happening to Jewish people on the streets of our great country is very disturbing. It feels like a tinderbox of sorts, ready to explode at any time. We're not at the night of broken glass (Kristallnacht) yet, but it certainly looks and feels like we're moving in that direction. Just say no.
Don't be so fucking sensitive. I'm talking about Twitter. I saw a story yesterday about the Supreme Court in Colorado coming out with a ruling that irked me. I figured that the US Supreme Court would step in and remind them that their ruling was extra-constitutional or something along those lines, so I tweeted something about the US Supreme Court spanking them and spanking them hard. The next thing I know, I'm getting a note from Twitter informing me that I've broken this or that rule and my privileges were being curtailed for the next 12 hours. At the same time, I'm seeing post after post on Twitter of Israel wreaking complete havoc on the population of Gaza. I'm thinking to myself, you've got to be kidding. Maybe their AI picked up the word "spanking" and automatically tagged me as a domestic terrorist or some sexual pervert. I'm talking about context here. I've actually been a lot less snarky on Twitter in recent months, so I was very surprised to see the flags go up on my account. I couldn't imagine what it was that they thought I said that somehow violated their rules. Now that I know, I think I'll stick to using the service as a news feed and not a sounding board for my snarkiness.
A person very dear and near to me just received a diagnosis that is not good news. I have no experience in dealing with these kinds of things, so it's been kind of a roller coaster in the last few days. But this isn't about me, so I need to keep reminding myself of that fact. I want to be there for this person, whatever that means and whatever that looks like. I can't imagine how she feels about what's happening to her or about what her longer-term prospects may or may not look like, but I don't know how anyone prepares themselves to hear the news that she heard. It wasn't quite a "get your affairs in order," as I understand it, but she was nonetheless prepped for what's to come in the coming days and weeks. It's a path with a lot of different forks and, needless to say, more forks in the road that end up in the shit house than not. I understand that she took considerable comfort in the words tendered by the physician who gave her the news, and I'm grateful to the doctor for that. We're going to do this, that, and the other thing to try and get our arms around this problem, or something to that effect. That's me thinking out loud about the conversation that started this so-called journey that is just beginning. If you wondered why I was up in the middle of the night last night praying to the Baby Jesus, now you know. I'm just getting started. If this goes sideways, it won't be because I didn't call in every last favor I think I'm owed from the guy upstairs.
I need to start paying more attention to the electric vehicle (EV's) industry. Word has it that sales of EV's are falling off precipitously. So much so, in fact, that I think I heard something the other day about General Motors stopping the production of certain GM models due to a lack of demand. I hope that demand falls off the fucking cliff, but that's just me. I also hope that the CEO's of these companies are spanked and spanked hard (There's that expression again) for allowing themselves to get sucked into this green new deal bullshit by the Biden administration. I want to see junkyard after junkyard overflowing with EV's that nobody wants and that dealers literally can't give away. Can you imagine? Ford thought that they could convert one of their most popular models (F-150) into an electric version and that they'd have urban and rural cowboys lining up coast to coast to order them. Wrong. When I hear the people who own them trying to justify why they're sticking with them, their reasoning sounds more political than practical. If you're a left-wing Biden-loving Marxist, you're doing your part to save the environment. If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tell you that the price of admission is to go zero-carbon, then you bend over and do what you're told.