False Flags
12/11/23 07:04
I don't know where to start this week. What will I write about? How many rabbit holes will I go down? Did I mention that I watched the New England Patriots football game on television yesterday? Yes, the vaunted New England Patriots with a 2-7 record. They played the Commanders in Foxboro Stadium in Massachusetts. Of course, I only watch them play because I like to see Bill Belichick and his team getting their asses kicked. It's all wishful thinking on my part, but with a 2-7 record, it's more likely than not that I'll be rewarded for the hours that I spend watching. At one point, when the Patriots were ahead by 4 points, I took a quick nap, fearing the worst (That the Patriots would go on to win). I woke up when the game was in the fourth quarter with the Commanders ahead and 14 minutes to go. They never looked back. It was glorious!
I'll probably watch the Republican presidential candidates in their third debate later this week. Trump will not be in attendance, per usual. Why should he? He's 50 or more points ahead of one or more of his rivals. I'll give the man a pass since he's got his hands full with any number of lawfare-related lawsuits and more. I don't think anyone would have predicted that the more indictments they brought against Trump, the more he'd rise in the polls with each passing indictment. The Democrats are so concerned with Biden losing to Trump in 2024 that they've dragged out David Axelrod, Obama's Chief Strategist, to see if he can't coax Bumbles Biden into taking an early retirement. Axelrod is on the scene for one reason and one reason only. That is, to make sure that Obama continues to run our country beyond the 2024 elections. There, I said it.
By the way, nobody is buying Obama's bullshit about his having nothing to do with the drowning death of his chef just offshore from Obama's Nantucket estate. Is it Nantucket, or is it Martha's Vineyard? I always get the two confused. I've never been to either, so that may help to explain my confusion. It's amazing how if you have the appropriate "cred," you'll never face justice in the courts in our land. When are we going to see the transcripts from the scene on that fateful day? When are we going to see or hear the officials interviewing Obama as to his whereabouts or, more to the point, his involvement in the "drowning" death of his chef? Will Michelle Obama be interviewed and asked about her relationship with the chef? Or, will these two scoundrels be protected by the same Justice Department that is currently running interference for the Biden Crime Family? Is there any truth to the rumor that the chef was penning an expose' of his time working for the Obamas? Do we have a motive now? You know, a motive as to why someone might want the chef dead? Me thinks we do.
Trump rolled out a number of Florida officials over the weekend who had previously endorsed DeSantis and who are now endorsing him. I think there were a half dozen or more who jumped camp and never looked back. That had to hurt. Is DeSantis even in double digits now after campaigning for several months? Barely, by the looks of things. The very fact that he jumped into the race to compete with Trump tells you all you need to know about his judgment. That's not the kind of judgment we need in a leader of our country. Certainly not when we already have a candidate in the race with a proven track record. It may also explain why DeSantis announced that Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa, was endorsing him over Trump. I don't know Kim Reynolds from The Man in the Moon, but here's my question: Who endorses a candidate who is running some fifty points behind the leading candidate in a race? Iowa is a key state in the early primaries, so I guess we'll see how it works out. Maybe this is all about not coming in third behind Nikki Haley in Iowa.
I honestly can't keep up with everything going on in the Middle East. It's beyond anything that I'm capable of comprehending. There are simply too many moving pieces. I'm also a little hard-pressed to understand why we have so many military assets in and around the Persian Gulf. I get the deterrence thing, but we now have nuclear-capable submarines on the scene? Does this have anything to do with the fact that our troops in the Middle East have been attacked some forty or fifty times since the beginning of the war, and Biden has done next to nothing to respond? Is this mother fucker planning a false flag operation to get us into a conflagration with Iran and other bad actors in the area? Is that the price he's willing to pay, the amount of American blood that he's willing to spill, to be a Commander-in-Chief in the months leading up to the next presidential election? Now that literally every power in the Middle East is laughing at Blinken and his efforts to force a cease-fire, Biden has dispatched the head of our CIA to the area. This is not going to end well for anyone.
Is it me, or is there something very "screechy" about Nikki Haley? You know how you can look at some people, and you just know there's an AHDH thing going on? It's like fingernails on the chalkboard for me. She's no Margeret Thatcher, that's for fucking sure. Mags was a steady hand back in the day. You don't mind if I call her Mags, do you? Haley has come up a few points in the polls lately, so you get the feeling that she's ready to measure the drapes if you get my drift. She'll have to climb over DeSantis and Trump to get there, but I get the feeling she's pole-vaulted over any number of strong men in her quest for political power over the years. I don't mean pole-vaulted in the Kamala Harris sense of the term, so don't read too much into that word/expression. I think she'll be going after DeSantis in the debate later this week, hammer and tong. That alone might be worth the price of admission for those of us tuning in just to see the fireworks. The smart money these days when it comes to getting into political office seems to be on who's most willing and able to wage the most wars, so maybe she's appealing directly or indirectly for the support of the military-industrial complex with that bad attitude of hers.
I thought for sure that the swine, Andy Beshear, Democratic governor of Kentucky, was going to go down in flames in last night's elections. The only way to explain why Republicans took the Attorney General spot in Kentucky, and the Secretary of State spots by large margins with Beshear keeping the corner office is, you guessed it, the Democrats stole another one. They've got this stealing thing down to a science. I'm surprised they didn't steal all of the spots. It might have been too obvious. Thank God Reeves pulled out the governor's race in Mississipi. Imagine thinking that you could ride the coattails of having the last name Presley in the state of Mississippi just to get into office. I think this Democrat clown is Elvis's second cousin or some such bullshit. Good riddance. Here in New Hampshire, a Republican won the mayor's race in the city of Manchester. This can't bode well for the Democrat he's replacing and who is now running for Governor of New Hampshire. New Hampshire is kicking Democrats to the curb one by one until we're rid of them. That's the goal, anyway. Some ballot initiative on abortion won in Ohio, so the Democrats think they now have the issue to win it all in 2024. I'll never understand why Democrats are so hot under the collar to kill every fetus they can get their hands on.
Word on the street was that if Glen Youngkin (Republican Governor - Virginia) was successful in filling certain seats in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the Virginia Senate, on election night, he would be poised to come out of Election night with the wind at his back and a satchel of cash from donors with deep pockets who were willing and ready to embrace his run for the presidency. How is that working out for you this morning, Mr. Red Vest? The donors thought they had the man to beat Trump and win the big enchilada next November. They've all but given up on DeSantis and Haley and will, in all likelihood, be voting for Biden instead of Trump now out of their sheer hatred for Trump. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), in case you don't know. You'd think the donors would be satisfied with removing the most corrupt and demented president in the history of our republic from office before turning their sights on Trump. Nope. The Keebler Elves will all be on the stage tonight for their third debate, so that should be entertaining. Think of all of the money they're wasting on this debate malarky that could otherwise be used to bolster the Republican's chances going into next year's elections.
I finally got my water cooler thing squared away. The first machine I ordered got lost in transit. I had convinced myself that someone had rerouted it to some hotel or other where they had illegal aliens holed up. That was the only thing that made any sense. I've never had an Amazon order get lost, so I was entitled to go down a few rabbit holes while waiting for a machine that never showed up. I ordered a replacement, and that arrived ahead of schedule. I was specifically interested in a machine that gave me the option of turning off the hot water. Why pay for something that I have no intention of using? Right? I had also convinced myself that I was only going to buy a dispenser as long as I had access to my favorite spring water in five-gallon jugs, Poland Spring water. Lo and behold, I found a local store that sells Poland Springs. When I first set it up, I thought that the water wasn't as cold and crisp as I expected it to be. I somehow got that squared away, and we are now all systems go. Hopefully, this will be the last of my many trips to my local supermarket to buy gallon jugs of spring water. I've even convinced the missus to use the dispenser. So far, so good.
I've also had my hands full lately trying to square away a problem with my cable television. It just stopped working. One minute you have a signal, and the next minute, you don't. It was that quick. No rearranging of this or that, including HDMI cables, television ports, coax cables, online directions from the Xfinity AI helpline, or other, was helping to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. When I got to the point where they were offering to send out a technician, I decided that the cable box was the source of my problems, so off I went to a local Xfinity store to exchange the "broken" box for another box. In the meantime, I had been using a ROKU stick which gave me ready access to the channels I'm accustomed to watching. The ROKU menu isn't as user-friendly, and it's not something that I'm looking to live with longer term, but it worked in a pinch. The new box worked like a charm, so that was that. No more gnashing of the teeth and no more clutching of the pearls. I got no push-back from the Xfinity folks when asking for the exchange, so I'm grateful for that. I wasn't sure what I was going to have to offer them in the way of evidence that my cable box was the problem. It was all, as they say in the business, easy peasy. Order in the universe has been restored.
I was a bit off yesterday. I don't know if it was my visit to my eye doctor or maybe the hermits that I ate. As for the eye doctor, I had my eyes dilated. Thank the baby Jesus that it was a cloudy day because I walked out of her office squinting like crazy. I was going to say like a chinaman, but that seems racist, so I'm not going there. I'm not sure why I didn't bring my shades. I should have known I was going to have my eyes dilated. I also know from experience that getting my eyes dilated throws my entire day off. Part of me wanted to get under the covers when I arrived back home and go back to sleep. The dilation thing lasts a while, so you do what you can to minimize the impact. I ended up going to the gym, and it was a struggle-fest, any way you measure it. I pushed myself to go for a bike ride later in the day, and that, too, was a bitch. I only mention the hermit cookie thing because I think I have a problem with palm oil, one of the ingredients in the cookie I ate. It's one of those things that taste good going down, but you pay a steep price after the fact. Truth be told, it left me feeling bloated and very uncomfortable. I think I knew that about palm oil. I also had to run out the door for my appointment in the morning before I had a chance to write in this blog. That's never a good thing. I am, after all, a creature of habit.
It's snowing out. I'll be damned. I did not have snow on my bingo card. Isn't it a little early for snow? It's only November 9th, for chrissakes. We're talking about a smattering of snow, so I won't be getting out the shovels. That's for shit sure. The missus said something about "messy traveling" yesterday, but I was only paying half attention, so I don't think I bothered responding. You know she gets all apocalyptic when it comes to snow and driving. I think it's overkill myself, but that's just me. She has plans to be on the road later today, but it's mainly local travel, and the worst of whatever it is that we're in for is likely to be gone by then. Put on your big-boy pants and go about your business, is what I say. Just between you and me, I have a lot of raking to do, so this snow can't hang around for very long. That's wishful thinking on my part. As for the niceties associated with the first snow of the year, waking up to snow on the ground isn't quite the same as having the snow come down halfway through one's day. Maybe that's just me. Then again, maybe it's a distinction without a difference.
That was quite a debate last night. I don't think I heard a peep from anyone about immigration and our open borders. There was a lot of haranguing about fentanyl and such but nothing about the 8-10 million illegals with a smattering of terrorists who are now in our country by invitation from Bumbles Biden and his Democrat party. Vivek was firing on all eight cylinders last night. I think the only person he didn't set his sights on was Senator Tim Scott. Vivek came loaded for bear, taking down everyone from the moderators to Rona McDaniel, the Chair of the Republican National Committee. I loved his comment to Nikki Haley, accusing her of being "Dick Cheney in three-inch heels." As everyone knows, Dick Cheney was a warmonger amongst warmongers as George Bush's Vice President. Vivek was the only candidate on stage who wasn't prepped with sound bites. He had the facts, and he laid them out with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker. I think he stood head and shoulders apart from the other candidates, and, if I'm not mistaken, the moderators did their best not to call on him without being too obvious about it. When Trump gets into office in January 2025, I hope he has Vivek on speed dial. Well, on his Rolodex, anyway.
If I heard Chris Christie right last night on the debate stage, he said that he'd send nuclear-armed submarines off the coast of Taiwan to deter China from invading Taiwan. So, he's threatening to nuke China in the event that China goes into Taiwan? I don't think I heard anyone else threaten to nuke another country last night on the debate stage, so I'm surprised there's not more of a kerfuffle here, there, and everywhere, if you will, over his insane comments. I have to imagine that China might have something to say. Another comment that caught my attention was when DeSantis said if he caught any cartel member coming across our southern border carrying fentanyl or other drugs, he would "shoot them dead." I don't know where he's been in the past two and a half years while Mexican mules have been moving fentanyl into our country non-stop, but I'm pretty sure that I've not heard of any cases where he's shot anyone dead. Florida has no border with Mexico, but you know what I'm saying. It was just another soundbite coming from a man who's quick to remind us that he's five feet eleven. I've got news for you. If you're five feet eleven, you up that to six feet when asked. How come no one on the debate stage last night held his feet to the fire about the lifts that he wears in his boots? That would have been, in my opinion, low-hanging fruit.
I'm not a proponent of violence in any way, shape, or form, but I enjoyed reading the story about the 70-something-year-old American lawyer in Panama who shot and killed two eco-terrorists. I'll be quick to admit that it was probably overkill, pun intended, but these nutjobs have been making a nuisance of themselves across the globe as of late, so it doesn't surprise me that someone finally took matters into his own hands. I don't know how else you fight back against this sort of thing. If there is any good to come out of any of this, maybe these climate cultists will now think twice before pulling their stunts. I think if more people knew that they might lose their lives while indulging in these self-promoting acts of whatever, they might go down a different path. Just as the threat of being put behind bars for the rest of your life has never stopped people from killing their fellow man, this shooting isn't going to put a stop to the insanity of the various and sundry cults across the globe. I don't think these two cultists ever expected to lose their lives on the day of the shooting, but, then again, I don't think that the American lawyer left his house in Panama that morning expecting to end up in a Panamanian hoosegow at the end of the day charged with the murder of two eco-terrorists.
I suppose it's a good thing that we're able to support our ally in the Middle East, Israel, with whatever they need to battle back against the evil forces that surround them. At the same time, if Israel can't stand on their own two feet when things go sideways, what hope is there for their longstanding survival as a nation? I also have no problem with Israel going after Hamas as they have in Gaza this past month, but I don't care for the fact that our country is supplying the bombs that Israel is using to carpet bomb Gaza and ALL of its inhabitants. For all I know, the bullets coming out of the guns belonging to the IDF with a "Made in America" label. Doesn't that implicate us in the deaths of the civilians in Gaza? I don't care for that bullshit. Biden and his minions are bloodthirsty fucks so none of this surprises me. You'd think Bumbles was getting 10% of every pallet of munitions dropped off in both Ukraine and Israel. It's no wonder our Justice Department is in cahoots with the clown in the White House. They're getting their cut as well. Everybody is fat, dumb, and happy. Like pigs at the trough, you might say. Now you tell me that this criminal enterprise being run out of the White House is going to allow somebody like Trump to shut it all down in January 2025.
I was listening to some left-wing dribble on Sirius radio yesterday, and the host had on a guest from Ukraine who was painting a rather rosy picture of how Ukrainian forces were not only holding their own but gaining ground in their fight against Russian forces. It was pure unadulterated propaganda. It was yet one more fruitless attempt by the Ukrainians to see if they can't get our country to send another few billion their way. Besides, who doesn't want to support their allies when they are winning on the battlefield against the Russian forces? The rosier the picture they can paint, the more money we'll be willing to send their way. Right? Now that our Congress is waking up to the fact that sending money to Ukraine is essentially sending good money after bad, not to mention the fact that the Ukrainian oligarchs are stealing our money hand over fist, everyone is admitting that our own borders are more important than protecting Ukraine's borders. That's a good thing. I'll give the Ukrainians credit for coming up with a new strategy to win back the largesse of their Western "partners," but I suspect any success they achieve will be short-lived. If anything good comes of any of it, maybe Zelensky and his ilk will see the futility of waging what has always been a senseless battle against a more powerful foe. They will end up where they began before Joe Biden got involved and 500,000 Ukrainians lost their lives: at the bargaining table.
One of the casualties in wartime, as they say, is the truth. Who knows if what the Biden Administration is telling us about anything is true? They can lie through their teeth, and we wouldn't be any the wiser. They are quick to report that our forces are under attack here, there, and everywhere in the Middle East. I think the latest report has some forty different attacks by various and sundry militias. All of these so-called militias are Iranian-based, or so the reports suggest. In response, the United States has taken out a tool shed here and there but little else. So, as Americans, we're supposed to believe that we're under attack and we're not doing all that much to fight back. That has me and every other red-blooded American thinking that we have a feckless leader sitting in the Oval Office who doesn't have the wherewithal to order a more robust response. How can Biden go from a zero to a hero in a fortnight? He can unleash hell on Iran, and he'll quickly be back in the good graces as our great Commander-in-Chief. See how that works? Bumbles is probably trying to figure out how to do this without starting World War III. Don't think for a minute that he isn't working directly with the Iranians to pull this off. There, I said it.
Chairman Xi is coming to town. I'm seeing headline after headline about how Biden is going to be talking tough to Xi about this, that, and the other thing. One headline included the word "fierce." It's just laughable. Biden can barely manage to complete a full sentence without the use of cue cards. You don't think Xi is going to see what the hell he's dealing with when sitting across from Biden? Maybe that's what he's coming to town to see. He wants to see firsthand if all the reports he's seen on television are even close to being true. Steve Bannon says that Xi is coming to town to get a commitment from Biden that Biden will bail out China in the event they see additional deterioration in his country's financial situation. Who knows why Xi is really coming to town? It's disgusting to me that they are cleaning the streets in San Fansicko of all the homeless before Xi arrives. You don't think that Xi knows that San Fransicko is a human cesspool? Is Biden creating a Potemkin Village for the benefit of the American media? And, what in God's name is Bumbles planning to say to Xi about his government's persecution of the Uyghurs? Maybe Biden will regale Xi about his experiences back in the day with kids in the pool and how they tugged at the hairs on his legs. He's got a thousand stories he can tell. Very few, if any, of them are based in reality. Then again, nothing real happens in a Potemkin Village.
Moody's rating service downgraded America's debt rating to "negative" after the bell on Friday of this week. You don't think they conspired with the White House to release this bit of information not only at the end of the week but after the Markets closed on a Friday afternoon? By Monday, it will be old news, and financial markets will have moved on the the next big thing. This three-card-monte bullshit has got to stop. I suppose it tells us what we already know - that is, that the markets are rigged. If you are in the Market, I suppose it's good to know that your government has your back. You can be assured that stocks will never go down, so why not jump in with both feet? Never mind that the S&P has gone up for an unprecedented 8 or 9 days in a row now. No, really. The S&P is up ten percent in the last ten trading days. It's going to the moon, don't you know. Everything is so upside-down that the markets will probably rally on Monday because this Moody's thing probably means that the Fed will be less likely to hike interest rates at their next meeting. Not wanting to be a Johnny-come-lately, I'll probably throw a few chips into the center of the table before this so-called seasonal Santa Rally really gets started. Unlike Santa Claus, FOMO (Fear of missing out) is a real thing.
Holy cow! Did you see all the anti-Israel protestors in New York City? Maybe, more to the point, they were there to support the Palestinians. Maybe even Hamas, for chrissakes. Who the hell is paying for all the flags and other paraphernalia that the protestors are carrying? Are we talking about George Soros here? I think they literally closed down Grand Central Station because of the throngs of nasty fucks wreaking havoc on the streets in and around the Station. There was a separate throng, or maybe it was the same throng that had moved on, rampaging in front of the New York Times building. I'm not sure what bone or bones they had to pick with the Grey Lady. The NYT has historically been supportive of the Palestinians and critical of Israel, if I'm not mistaken. It was a raucous crowd, to be sure. One thing it wasn't was a safe place for Jews to assemble or to voice their opposition. There were no hints of an imminent Kristallnacht, otherwise known as the night of the broken glass, so that was good. Free speech is good; hate speech and race-based violence are against the law. Who knows where any of this goes if Israel continues killing innocent civilians in Gaza? What I'm not hearing are words of caution coming out of the White House. Maybe they want to turn the streets of our nation into killing fields. Imposing martial law will be the new Covid-19. Have you received your absentee ballots yet?
Gas prices sure have come down in the last month or so. Prices were surging a month ago, and we were looking at the prospect of paying nearly $4 a gallon. We had Imams and Saudi princes in the Middle East threatening to cut off oil supplies if Israel started to bomb Gaza. The bombing commenced, and the prices have come down instead of going up. Prices per gallon hereabouts are approaching $3. Some say that lower gas prices are a reflection of a softening economy or maybe even a recession. Whatever the reason, lower gas prices at the pump are a good thing. People who can afford to visit relatives in faraway places can load up the family and the station wagon and not have to take out a small business loan to fill up their car every so many miles. We're still paying a good dollar or more per gallon, a thirty-three percent increase, more than we were paying when Trump was president. Is this the Biden Administration working with the oil companies to finagle the price of gas to boost his ratings? What concessions have they made to the Saudis or others to bring the prices down? Just how much can he give up before he loses the support of the looney left Climate Cultists who put him in office in 2020?
I suppose it's time to start thinking about what we should do for Thanksgiving. Should we get a big ole turkey to put in the oven, or just buy a turkey breast to simplify things? We'll get some StoveTop dressing, a can of Leseur peas and onions, and we'll be good to go. Maybe we'll throw some nice flaky rolls in the oven, and the missus can bake one of her favorite pie recipes. That reminds me. We have a few things that we can donate to a food pantry or other, so we ought to get that done sooner rather than later. Maybe we'll just write them a check. Speaking of Thanksgiving, what the hell are we supposed to be celebrating this year anyway? Biden has brought our people and our country to the brink of World War III, and the fact that we have anything to celebrate is in spite of him and not because of him. Maybe we should just celebrate because we can. Do you know who's not celebrating? The person I've seen down at the beach living out of a rental van with their life's possessions filling nearly every window in the van. I don't know who they are or how they got where they are, but it's a reminder that there are good folk out there who are suffering one way or another and likely through no fault of their own, who need our love and support in these trying times. Prayers help, but they don't fill an empty stomach or an aching heart. Step up, if you can.
I'll probably watch the Republican presidential candidates in their third debate later this week. Trump will not be in attendance, per usual. Why should he? He's 50 or more points ahead of one or more of his rivals. I'll give the man a pass since he's got his hands full with any number of lawfare-related lawsuits and more. I don't think anyone would have predicted that the more indictments they brought against Trump, the more he'd rise in the polls with each passing indictment. The Democrats are so concerned with Biden losing to Trump in 2024 that they've dragged out David Axelrod, Obama's Chief Strategist, to see if he can't coax Bumbles Biden into taking an early retirement. Axelrod is on the scene for one reason and one reason only. That is, to make sure that Obama continues to run our country beyond the 2024 elections. There, I said it.
By the way, nobody is buying Obama's bullshit about his having nothing to do with the drowning death of his chef just offshore from Obama's Nantucket estate. Is it Nantucket, or is it Martha's Vineyard? I always get the two confused. I've never been to either, so that may help to explain my confusion. It's amazing how if you have the appropriate "cred," you'll never face justice in the courts in our land. When are we going to see the transcripts from the scene on that fateful day? When are we going to see or hear the officials interviewing Obama as to his whereabouts or, more to the point, his involvement in the "drowning" death of his chef? Will Michelle Obama be interviewed and asked about her relationship with the chef? Or, will these two scoundrels be protected by the same Justice Department that is currently running interference for the Biden Crime Family? Is there any truth to the rumor that the chef was penning an expose' of his time working for the Obamas? Do we have a motive now? You know, a motive as to why someone might want the chef dead? Me thinks we do.
Trump rolled out a number of Florida officials over the weekend who had previously endorsed DeSantis and who are now endorsing him. I think there were a half dozen or more who jumped camp and never looked back. That had to hurt. Is DeSantis even in double digits now after campaigning for several months? Barely, by the looks of things. The very fact that he jumped into the race to compete with Trump tells you all you need to know about his judgment. That's not the kind of judgment we need in a leader of our country. Certainly not when we already have a candidate in the race with a proven track record. It may also explain why DeSantis announced that Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa, was endorsing him over Trump. I don't know Kim Reynolds from The Man in the Moon, but here's my question: Who endorses a candidate who is running some fifty points behind the leading candidate in a race? Iowa is a key state in the early primaries, so I guess we'll see how it works out. Maybe this is all about not coming in third behind Nikki Haley in Iowa.
I honestly can't keep up with everything going on in the Middle East. It's beyond anything that I'm capable of comprehending. There are simply too many moving pieces. I'm also a little hard-pressed to understand why we have so many military assets in and around the Persian Gulf. I get the deterrence thing, but we now have nuclear-capable submarines on the scene? Does this have anything to do with the fact that our troops in the Middle East have been attacked some forty or fifty times since the beginning of the war, and Biden has done next to nothing to respond? Is this mother fucker planning a false flag operation to get us into a conflagration with Iran and other bad actors in the area? Is that the price he's willing to pay, the amount of American blood that he's willing to spill, to be a Commander-in-Chief in the months leading up to the next presidential election? Now that literally every power in the Middle East is laughing at Blinken and his efforts to force a cease-fire, Biden has dispatched the head of our CIA to the area. This is not going to end well for anyone.
Is it me, or is there something very "screechy" about Nikki Haley? You know how you can look at some people, and you just know there's an AHDH thing going on? It's like fingernails on the chalkboard for me. She's no Margeret Thatcher, that's for fucking sure. Mags was a steady hand back in the day. You don't mind if I call her Mags, do you? Haley has come up a few points in the polls lately, so you get the feeling that she's ready to measure the drapes if you get my drift. She'll have to climb over DeSantis and Trump to get there, but I get the feeling she's pole-vaulted over any number of strong men in her quest for political power over the years. I don't mean pole-vaulted in the Kamala Harris sense of the term, so don't read too much into that word/expression. I think she'll be going after DeSantis in the debate later this week, hammer and tong. That alone might be worth the price of admission for those of us tuning in just to see the fireworks. The smart money these days when it comes to getting into political office seems to be on who's most willing and able to wage the most wars, so maybe she's appealing directly or indirectly for the support of the military-industrial complex with that bad attitude of hers.
I thought for sure that the swine, Andy Beshear, Democratic governor of Kentucky, was going to go down in flames in last night's elections. The only way to explain why Republicans took the Attorney General spot in Kentucky, and the Secretary of State spots by large margins with Beshear keeping the corner office is, you guessed it, the Democrats stole another one. They've got this stealing thing down to a science. I'm surprised they didn't steal all of the spots. It might have been too obvious. Thank God Reeves pulled out the governor's race in Mississipi. Imagine thinking that you could ride the coattails of having the last name Presley in the state of Mississippi just to get into office. I think this Democrat clown is Elvis's second cousin or some such bullshit. Good riddance. Here in New Hampshire, a Republican won the mayor's race in the city of Manchester. This can't bode well for the Democrat he's replacing and who is now running for Governor of New Hampshire. New Hampshire is kicking Democrats to the curb one by one until we're rid of them. That's the goal, anyway. Some ballot initiative on abortion won in Ohio, so the Democrats think they now have the issue to win it all in 2024. I'll never understand why Democrats are so hot under the collar to kill every fetus they can get their hands on.
Word on the street was that if Glen Youngkin (Republican Governor - Virginia) was successful in filling certain seats in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the Virginia Senate, on election night, he would be poised to come out of Election night with the wind at his back and a satchel of cash from donors with deep pockets who were willing and ready to embrace his run for the presidency. How is that working out for you this morning, Mr. Red Vest? The donors thought they had the man to beat Trump and win the big enchilada next November. They've all but given up on DeSantis and Haley and will, in all likelihood, be voting for Biden instead of Trump now out of their sheer hatred for Trump. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), in case you don't know. You'd think the donors would be satisfied with removing the most corrupt and demented president in the history of our republic from office before turning their sights on Trump. Nope. The Keebler Elves will all be on the stage tonight for their third debate, so that should be entertaining. Think of all of the money they're wasting on this debate malarky that could otherwise be used to bolster the Republican's chances going into next year's elections.
I finally got my water cooler thing squared away. The first machine I ordered got lost in transit. I had convinced myself that someone had rerouted it to some hotel or other where they had illegal aliens holed up. That was the only thing that made any sense. I've never had an Amazon order get lost, so I was entitled to go down a few rabbit holes while waiting for a machine that never showed up. I ordered a replacement, and that arrived ahead of schedule. I was specifically interested in a machine that gave me the option of turning off the hot water. Why pay for something that I have no intention of using? Right? I had also convinced myself that I was only going to buy a dispenser as long as I had access to my favorite spring water in five-gallon jugs, Poland Spring water. Lo and behold, I found a local store that sells Poland Springs. When I first set it up, I thought that the water wasn't as cold and crisp as I expected it to be. I somehow got that squared away, and we are now all systems go. Hopefully, this will be the last of my many trips to my local supermarket to buy gallon jugs of spring water. I've even convinced the missus to use the dispenser. So far, so good.
I've also had my hands full lately trying to square away a problem with my cable television. It just stopped working. One minute you have a signal, and the next minute, you don't. It was that quick. No rearranging of this or that, including HDMI cables, television ports, coax cables, online directions from the Xfinity AI helpline, or other, was helping to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. When I got to the point where they were offering to send out a technician, I decided that the cable box was the source of my problems, so off I went to a local Xfinity store to exchange the "broken" box for another box. In the meantime, I had been using a ROKU stick which gave me ready access to the channels I'm accustomed to watching. The ROKU menu isn't as user-friendly, and it's not something that I'm looking to live with longer term, but it worked in a pinch. The new box worked like a charm, so that was that. No more gnashing of the teeth and no more clutching of the pearls. I got no push-back from the Xfinity folks when asking for the exchange, so I'm grateful for that. I wasn't sure what I was going to have to offer them in the way of evidence that my cable box was the problem. It was all, as they say in the business, easy peasy. Order in the universe has been restored.
I was a bit off yesterday. I don't know if it was my visit to my eye doctor or maybe the hermits that I ate. As for the eye doctor, I had my eyes dilated. Thank the baby Jesus that it was a cloudy day because I walked out of her office squinting like crazy. I was going to say like a chinaman, but that seems racist, so I'm not going there. I'm not sure why I didn't bring my shades. I should have known I was going to have my eyes dilated. I also know from experience that getting my eyes dilated throws my entire day off. Part of me wanted to get under the covers when I arrived back home and go back to sleep. The dilation thing lasts a while, so you do what you can to minimize the impact. I ended up going to the gym, and it was a struggle-fest, any way you measure it. I pushed myself to go for a bike ride later in the day, and that, too, was a bitch. I only mention the hermit cookie thing because I think I have a problem with palm oil, one of the ingredients in the cookie I ate. It's one of those things that taste good going down, but you pay a steep price after the fact. Truth be told, it left me feeling bloated and very uncomfortable. I think I knew that about palm oil. I also had to run out the door for my appointment in the morning before I had a chance to write in this blog. That's never a good thing. I am, after all, a creature of habit.
It's snowing out. I'll be damned. I did not have snow on my bingo card. Isn't it a little early for snow? It's only November 9th, for chrissakes. We're talking about a smattering of snow, so I won't be getting out the shovels. That's for shit sure. The missus said something about "messy traveling" yesterday, but I was only paying half attention, so I don't think I bothered responding. You know she gets all apocalyptic when it comes to snow and driving. I think it's overkill myself, but that's just me. She has plans to be on the road later today, but it's mainly local travel, and the worst of whatever it is that we're in for is likely to be gone by then. Put on your big-boy pants and go about your business, is what I say. Just between you and me, I have a lot of raking to do, so this snow can't hang around for very long. That's wishful thinking on my part. As for the niceties associated with the first snow of the year, waking up to snow on the ground isn't quite the same as having the snow come down halfway through one's day. Maybe that's just me. Then again, maybe it's a distinction without a difference.
That was quite a debate last night. I don't think I heard a peep from anyone about immigration and our open borders. There was a lot of haranguing about fentanyl and such but nothing about the 8-10 million illegals with a smattering of terrorists who are now in our country by invitation from Bumbles Biden and his Democrat party. Vivek was firing on all eight cylinders last night. I think the only person he didn't set his sights on was Senator Tim Scott. Vivek came loaded for bear, taking down everyone from the moderators to Rona McDaniel, the Chair of the Republican National Committee. I loved his comment to Nikki Haley, accusing her of being "Dick Cheney in three-inch heels." As everyone knows, Dick Cheney was a warmonger amongst warmongers as George Bush's Vice President. Vivek was the only candidate on stage who wasn't prepped with sound bites. He had the facts, and he laid them out with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker. I think he stood head and shoulders apart from the other candidates, and, if I'm not mistaken, the moderators did their best not to call on him without being too obvious about it. When Trump gets into office in January 2025, I hope he has Vivek on speed dial. Well, on his Rolodex, anyway.
If I heard Chris Christie right last night on the debate stage, he said that he'd send nuclear-armed submarines off the coast of Taiwan to deter China from invading Taiwan. So, he's threatening to nuke China in the event that China goes into Taiwan? I don't think I heard anyone else threaten to nuke another country last night on the debate stage, so I'm surprised there's not more of a kerfuffle here, there, and everywhere, if you will, over his insane comments. I have to imagine that China might have something to say. Another comment that caught my attention was when DeSantis said if he caught any cartel member coming across our southern border carrying fentanyl or other drugs, he would "shoot them dead." I don't know where he's been in the past two and a half years while Mexican mules have been moving fentanyl into our country non-stop, but I'm pretty sure that I've not heard of any cases where he's shot anyone dead. Florida has no border with Mexico, but you know what I'm saying. It was just another soundbite coming from a man who's quick to remind us that he's five feet eleven. I've got news for you. If you're five feet eleven, you up that to six feet when asked. How come no one on the debate stage last night held his feet to the fire about the lifts that he wears in his boots? That would have been, in my opinion, low-hanging fruit.
I'm not a proponent of violence in any way, shape, or form, but I enjoyed reading the story about the 70-something-year-old American lawyer in Panama who shot and killed two eco-terrorists. I'll be quick to admit that it was probably overkill, pun intended, but these nutjobs have been making a nuisance of themselves across the globe as of late, so it doesn't surprise me that someone finally took matters into his own hands. I don't know how else you fight back against this sort of thing. If there is any good to come out of any of this, maybe these climate cultists will now think twice before pulling their stunts. I think if more people knew that they might lose their lives while indulging in these self-promoting acts of whatever, they might go down a different path. Just as the threat of being put behind bars for the rest of your life has never stopped people from killing their fellow man, this shooting isn't going to put a stop to the insanity of the various and sundry cults across the globe. I don't think these two cultists ever expected to lose their lives on the day of the shooting, but, then again, I don't think that the American lawyer left his house in Panama that morning expecting to end up in a Panamanian hoosegow at the end of the day charged with the murder of two eco-terrorists.
I suppose it's a good thing that we're able to support our ally in the Middle East, Israel, with whatever they need to battle back against the evil forces that surround them. At the same time, if Israel can't stand on their own two feet when things go sideways, what hope is there for their longstanding survival as a nation? I also have no problem with Israel going after Hamas as they have in Gaza this past month, but I don't care for the fact that our country is supplying the bombs that Israel is using to carpet bomb Gaza and ALL of its inhabitants. For all I know, the bullets coming out of the guns belonging to the IDF with a "Made in America" label. Doesn't that implicate us in the deaths of the civilians in Gaza? I don't care for that bullshit. Biden and his minions are bloodthirsty fucks so none of this surprises me. You'd think Bumbles was getting 10% of every pallet of munitions dropped off in both Ukraine and Israel. It's no wonder our Justice Department is in cahoots with the clown in the White House. They're getting their cut as well. Everybody is fat, dumb, and happy. Like pigs at the trough, you might say. Now you tell me that this criminal enterprise being run out of the White House is going to allow somebody like Trump to shut it all down in January 2025.
I was listening to some left-wing dribble on Sirius radio yesterday, and the host had on a guest from Ukraine who was painting a rather rosy picture of how Ukrainian forces were not only holding their own but gaining ground in their fight against Russian forces. It was pure unadulterated propaganda. It was yet one more fruitless attempt by the Ukrainians to see if they can't get our country to send another few billion their way. Besides, who doesn't want to support their allies when they are winning on the battlefield against the Russian forces? The rosier the picture they can paint, the more money we'll be willing to send their way. Right? Now that our Congress is waking up to the fact that sending money to Ukraine is essentially sending good money after bad, not to mention the fact that the Ukrainian oligarchs are stealing our money hand over fist, everyone is admitting that our own borders are more important than protecting Ukraine's borders. That's a good thing. I'll give the Ukrainians credit for coming up with a new strategy to win back the largesse of their Western "partners," but I suspect any success they achieve will be short-lived. If anything good comes of any of it, maybe Zelensky and his ilk will see the futility of waging what has always been a senseless battle against a more powerful foe. They will end up where they began before Joe Biden got involved and 500,000 Ukrainians lost their lives: at the bargaining table.
One of the casualties in wartime, as they say, is the truth. Who knows if what the Biden Administration is telling us about anything is true? They can lie through their teeth, and we wouldn't be any the wiser. They are quick to report that our forces are under attack here, there, and everywhere in the Middle East. I think the latest report has some forty different attacks by various and sundry militias. All of these so-called militias are Iranian-based, or so the reports suggest. In response, the United States has taken out a tool shed here and there but little else. So, as Americans, we're supposed to believe that we're under attack and we're not doing all that much to fight back. That has me and every other red-blooded American thinking that we have a feckless leader sitting in the Oval Office who doesn't have the wherewithal to order a more robust response. How can Biden go from a zero to a hero in a fortnight? He can unleash hell on Iran, and he'll quickly be back in the good graces as our great Commander-in-Chief. See how that works? Bumbles is probably trying to figure out how to do this without starting World War III. Don't think for a minute that he isn't working directly with the Iranians to pull this off. There, I said it.
Chairman Xi is coming to town. I'm seeing headline after headline about how Biden is going to be talking tough to Xi about this, that, and the other thing. One headline included the word "fierce." It's just laughable. Biden can barely manage to complete a full sentence without the use of cue cards. You don't think Xi is going to see what the hell he's dealing with when sitting across from Biden? Maybe that's what he's coming to town to see. He wants to see firsthand if all the reports he's seen on television are even close to being true. Steve Bannon says that Xi is coming to town to get a commitment from Biden that Biden will bail out China in the event they see additional deterioration in his country's financial situation. Who knows why Xi is really coming to town? It's disgusting to me that they are cleaning the streets in San Fansicko of all the homeless before Xi arrives. You don't think that Xi knows that San Fransicko is a human cesspool? Is Biden creating a Potemkin Village for the benefit of the American media? And, what in God's name is Bumbles planning to say to Xi about his government's persecution of the Uyghurs? Maybe Biden will regale Xi about his experiences back in the day with kids in the pool and how they tugged at the hairs on his legs. He's got a thousand stories he can tell. Very few, if any, of them are based in reality. Then again, nothing real happens in a Potemkin Village.
Moody's rating service downgraded America's debt rating to "negative" after the bell on Friday of this week. You don't think they conspired with the White House to release this bit of information not only at the end of the week but after the Markets closed on a Friday afternoon? By Monday, it will be old news, and financial markets will have moved on the the next big thing. This three-card-monte bullshit has got to stop. I suppose it tells us what we already know - that is, that the markets are rigged. If you are in the Market, I suppose it's good to know that your government has your back. You can be assured that stocks will never go down, so why not jump in with both feet? Never mind that the S&P has gone up for an unprecedented 8 or 9 days in a row now. No, really. The S&P is up ten percent in the last ten trading days. It's going to the moon, don't you know. Everything is so upside-down that the markets will probably rally on Monday because this Moody's thing probably means that the Fed will be less likely to hike interest rates at their next meeting. Not wanting to be a Johnny-come-lately, I'll probably throw a few chips into the center of the table before this so-called seasonal Santa Rally really gets started. Unlike Santa Claus, FOMO (Fear of missing out) is a real thing.
Holy cow! Did you see all the anti-Israel protestors in New York City? Maybe, more to the point, they were there to support the Palestinians. Maybe even Hamas, for chrissakes. Who the hell is paying for all the flags and other paraphernalia that the protestors are carrying? Are we talking about George Soros here? I think they literally closed down Grand Central Station because of the throngs of nasty fucks wreaking havoc on the streets in and around the Station. There was a separate throng, or maybe it was the same throng that had moved on, rampaging in front of the New York Times building. I'm not sure what bone or bones they had to pick with the Grey Lady. The NYT has historically been supportive of the Palestinians and critical of Israel, if I'm not mistaken. It was a raucous crowd, to be sure. One thing it wasn't was a safe place for Jews to assemble or to voice their opposition. There were no hints of an imminent Kristallnacht, otherwise known as the night of the broken glass, so that was good. Free speech is good; hate speech and race-based violence are against the law. Who knows where any of this goes if Israel continues killing innocent civilians in Gaza? What I'm not hearing are words of caution coming out of the White House. Maybe they want to turn the streets of our nation into killing fields. Imposing martial law will be the new Covid-19. Have you received your absentee ballots yet?
Gas prices sure have come down in the last month or so. Prices were surging a month ago, and we were looking at the prospect of paying nearly $4 a gallon. We had Imams and Saudi princes in the Middle East threatening to cut off oil supplies if Israel started to bomb Gaza. The bombing commenced, and the prices have come down instead of going up. Prices per gallon hereabouts are approaching $3. Some say that lower gas prices are a reflection of a softening economy or maybe even a recession. Whatever the reason, lower gas prices at the pump are a good thing. People who can afford to visit relatives in faraway places can load up the family and the station wagon and not have to take out a small business loan to fill up their car every so many miles. We're still paying a good dollar or more per gallon, a thirty-three percent increase, more than we were paying when Trump was president. Is this the Biden Administration working with the oil companies to finagle the price of gas to boost his ratings? What concessions have they made to the Saudis or others to bring the prices down? Just how much can he give up before he loses the support of the looney left Climate Cultists who put him in office in 2020?
I suppose it's time to start thinking about what we should do for Thanksgiving. Should we get a big ole turkey to put in the oven, or just buy a turkey breast to simplify things? We'll get some StoveTop dressing, a can of Leseur peas and onions, and we'll be good to go. Maybe we'll throw some nice flaky rolls in the oven, and the missus can bake one of her favorite pie recipes. That reminds me. We have a few things that we can donate to a food pantry or other, so we ought to get that done sooner rather than later. Maybe we'll just write them a check. Speaking of Thanksgiving, what the hell are we supposed to be celebrating this year anyway? Biden has brought our people and our country to the brink of World War III, and the fact that we have anything to celebrate is in spite of him and not because of him. Maybe we should just celebrate because we can. Do you know who's not celebrating? The person I've seen down at the beach living out of a rental van with their life's possessions filling nearly every window in the van. I don't know who they are or how they got where they are, but it's a reminder that there are good folk out there who are suffering one way or another and likely through no fault of their own, who need our love and support in these trying times. Prayers help, but they don't fill an empty stomach or an aching heart. Step up, if you can.