Call To Arms
05/06/24 07:03
I'm old enough to remember when Biden paid Iran tens of billions of dollars to release five Americans being held in Iranian jails. I said at the time that the payments had nothing to do with the release of the jailed Americans. Biden was planning to enrich the Iranians prisoner release or no prisoner release. We know that because we know that Biden has done nothing to enforce Trump's sanctions that robbed Iran of monies during Trump's first term, which they would have otherwise used to export terrorism and fund their proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas. It makes me just a little curious now why Biden has done nothing to help the American hostages being held by Hamas. I'm not sure we even know how many Americans are being held hostage because the media simply isn't covering the story. Is it possible that Biden is working behind the scenes with Iran to release the hostages just ahead of the election in November? How devious is that? Team Trump needs to get out ahead of this.
This is some 3-D chess the Democrats are playing. Is it conceivable that the Democrats and their praetorian guard, the media, released this 13-year-old story about Governor Kristi Noem shooting her dog to try and take her out of the running for Trump's Vice Presidential pick? They must know that Trump is close to selecting his vice president, if he hasn't already, although I'm not sure when he plans to announce his decision. The Democrats have, no doubt, done their polling and decided that Noem would be a strong pick for Trump. Is it a coincidence that no sooner did we learn about Noem than we see stories about Trump sitting down with DeSantis, the governor from Florida? Hell, maybe none of this has anything to do with Democrats. Maybe it was Team DeSantis that put the Noem story in circulation and then cobbled together this last-minute meeting with Trump. Maybe DeSantis figures that this is the only way he gets into the White House in 2028. He's probably right.
Tesla stock is up around 10% in the pre-market this morning. Not sure what, if anything, it has to do with Musk's visit to China over the weekend. Their stock has not been doing well, so maybe this is just a countertrend in a longer-term downtrend. GM reported that they lose a good chunk of dough on every electric vehicle they sell. Rental car companies can't get electric cars off their lots fast enough. Nobody wants to either buy or rent them. I see Teslas on the road today, and I think of people buying a pig in a poke, chasing a fad, and now owning something that, if they had to do it all over again, they might not. Tesla stock, all else aside, being up early on today is probably a good sign for the financial markets today. We saw a strong move in the market last Friday, so today, if it turns out to be a good day, might be confirmation that this current countertrend we're in has further to go. Maybe it's not a countertrend at all. The pullback of five percent or more a week ago may prove to be nothing more than a shallow correction. We need a few more cards to come out of the deck.
The missus and I visited a local Ford dealership over the weekend. We've seen a number of Ford Broncos on the road lately and thought they warranted a closer look. Not that I would ever buy a Ford. American cars these days are, by and large, cheesy and cheap. The dealership had a half dozen Bronco's on their lot with a price tag in the $50k-$60k range. I like the design of the Bronco, but one look at the interior reminded me why I've seldom wanted to own one of my own. The cheesiness was off the scale. Maybe they think that by selling an "off-road" model, they can skimp on the bells and whistles and still get the price they want for the vehicles. Who the hell knows what they're thinking? You can actually get into a comparably priced Audi or Volvo for the same price and without half the cheesiness. How about one of Ford's F-10s, you ask? I don't get those either. Who wants to drive a damn tank around town that you can't get in and out of without a step ladder? Speaking of electric vehicles, I don't think I saw one electric car or truck on their lot. That's telling, to be sure.
Did you hear about the four or five US Marshalls getting gunned down in North Carolina? That is some tough business. I don't know who would want to be a cop these days with everything going on. I heard the story on the news and was just a little curious about who would do such a thing. You have to imagine that it takes a skilled marksman to do the kind of damage that we see in this case. Right? Is there an outside chance that the Marshalls involved didn't have proper training, or worse yet, they were DEI hires? I'd rather not go there if you don't mind. I see that the story made its way into the Daily Mail this morning. What struck me about the story both yesterday and this morning is that we have no photo of the shooter or shooters. What is that all about? Were they illegal aliens? Were they minorities? Had they been white nationalists, we'd probably have their pictures by now. That's just how our media rolls. Fast forward ten minutes. I've now done a page refresh on the Daily Mail, and I see that they posted a picture of one of the shooters. He is a black man going by the name Terry Hughes. According to the article, Mr. Hughes was a firearms felon. Not sure why it took them so long to post his photo. He's dead now, so the community can unlock their doors and go back about their business. As for the Marshalls, may they rest in peace.
I haven't paid a lot of attention to the news reports about students and faculty members on college campuses around the country protesting Israel's relentless bombing of civilian populations in Gaza. I agree with those who say that the country-wide protests look organized if for no other reason than they all use a certain type of tent in their encampments. Am I wrong in assuming that they are trying to pressure Biden and his corrupt government to force the hand of Netanyahu in Israel to cease and desist the indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians? Biden is supplying the bombs for chrissakes. It all seems so schizophrenic. I'm also probably not the only one uncomfortable with their seemingly vitriolic displays of hatred for Zionism, aka, the Jewish people. Where is Biden, and why has he not condemned the students? At a minimum, he should be speaking out about the antisemitic bent of the messaging coming out of these encampments. I also hate to see American college students buying into what can only be described as Hamas-like hate speech against Israel and the Jewish people. It's all so reminiscent of Germany in the late thirties when Hitler came to power. Where the hell is our FBI when you need them? They're busy infiltrating church groups and PTA meetings; that's where they are. C'mon, man.
The White House Correspondents' Dinner comes and goes every year around this time, and most people couldn't care less about it. It's typically just a bunch of fawning reporters and government groupies paying homage to their party leaders for one night out of the year. If I see any cuts from it in the media after the fact, I usually just change the channel. It's the same old tired characters, the same old tired jokes, and the same old back-slapping old fucks who attend year in and year out, no matter the party in power. After hearing about a few of Biden's comments this year at the dinner, I'm more convinced than ever of the symbiotic relationship between the leftist media and the Democrats. I've known forever that the leftist media is just another arm of the Democrat establishment and a vital one when it comes to putting out messaging for the Democrats or not putting out messaging when that's more appropriate, but this year is different. Biden's comments to his adoring and sycophantic audience were, in fact, a call to arms. Faced with polls worse than those Jimmy Carter experienced, Biden now, more than ever, needs his praetorian guard, the media, to prop him up and, more importantly, to take down his political rival, i.e., Donald J. Trump. It's not enough that he has Trump sitting in a courtroom and facing years in jail for a seven-year-old misdemeanor, which they hope to turn into a felony. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
There's another story out this morning about how Biden is flying tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into swing states. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. If they can't win elections outright, they steal elections. This is precisely what Biden and his Democrat Pary are doing. How is it possible that these states are planning to allow these non-citizens to cast votes in our federal elections? If I had to guess, the Democrats are working overtime to water down the requirements to vote so that anyone showing up at the polls gets to cast a vote. No voter ID is required. Come to think of it, Texas has been shutting down its borders, which effectively funnels all of the illegal aliens into Arizona, where the illegitimate governor, Hobbs, will look the other way while they cast their votes come November. Arizona, as you know, is a swing state. Pennsylvania is a mail-in ballot state, so stealing that one is pretty much a done deal. The Party in power decides who wins. Once again, advantage Democrats. It's a brazen move by a corrupt institution, the Democrats, but you do what you have to do to stay in power. Never mind that they are laying waste to our institutions and our culture in order to stay in power. Sadly, the tentacles of their corruption have made their way into our judicial system, making them complicit in the crimes being committed by the Democrats. America will never be the same.
How is it that I heard one report out this morning about several men wearing Palestinian scarves who surrounded a Jewish woman and then beat her senseless, yet I don't see that story anywhere else? You'd think that would be a big story in the whole Israel-Gaza storyline that has been unfolding on campuses across our country in the last week or so. Protests are one thing; violence is quite another. Is it time to start asking how many of these Hamas hate fomenters have come across our southern border in the last twelve to twenty-four months? Connect the fucking dots, for chrissakes. It gets worse. Now, Biden is talking about flying tens of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza into our country. It gets worse. He plans to give them more rights than they or any illegal alien deserves, including a path to citizenship. Over my fucking dead body, is what I say. Biden wants to bring the very same animals who committed the atrocities against the Israeli people on October 7th to our country. Is this Biden extending an olive branch to the Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, and elsewhere in order to get them out to the polls to vote for his sad ass come November? Is Biden correct in assuming that he has the Jewish vote in the bag since they, by and large, vote blindly and passionately for Democrats each and every presidential cycle? Is it any surprise, given Biden's praetorian guard, the media, that we're not seeing this story about the men beating up the Jewish woman? At this rate, Jewish people will be demanding that they be allowed to vote using absentee ballots lest they be accosted on their way to the polls. #MissionAccomplished
My bike is five years old now. As bikes go, she's getting a bit long in the tooth. I was out for a ride yesterday, and my chain started slipping. I was literally worried that I wasn't going to make it up one of the hills in the final stretch of my ride. I envisioned that I might have to get off my bike and walk it up the hill, which, given how narrow that particular stretch of the road is, is perilous in its own way. Was the problem going to get even worse with time? Could I fix the problem myself? If I brought it in for a fix, how long would I be without my bike? I've only started to hit my stride in riding my entire route without making excuses for stopping short here and there these past few months. You know what they say about excuses. Everyone has one. I'm all about momentum this time of the year when it comes to biking, so let's just say this was an unexpected and unpleasant development. The good news is that the folks at Colonial Bike here in town gave me the bad news about just how expensive it was going to be to fix my problem. It will be cheaper to buy a new bike than to have the old one fixed. It's been five years since my last new bike, so I suppose it's time. Just file that under "The Lord works in mysterious ways."
The missus just called me to tell me that the Hummingbirds have arrived for the 2024 season here in the Northeast. They come every year at this time. I can't be certain that they are the same ones from last year, but if I had to guess, I'd say they are indeed the same Hummingbirds. Just to be clear, the missus called me from our bedroom. We have two feeders: One is outside our bedroom window, and the other is outside the room that I'm sitting in now. We mark the calendar every year when they arrive and when they depart. For the last five years or so, they've arrived every year on May 2nd. In anticipation of their arrival, I prepared our two feeders yesterday and hung them outside. Was there a chance that they might not show up at all? Yes, of course. Might they be late, and I'd be forced to change the sugar concoction at least once before they finally showed up? I suppose. The funny thing is, I left our bedroom window open last night just enough so that we'd hear the fluttering of the Hummingbird's wings before we ever laid eyes on them. That is precisely what happened this morning. Drink long and hard, my little friends. It's the very least I can do for you.
The missus thought I should take this new bike for a ride before I actually purchase it. Yesterday, when I took my old bike in to be fixed, I took a quick look around the showroom floor and found this one particular bike to my liking. It's the same kind of bike that I've been riding for the past 15 years or so, only a more recent model year. I'm big on basic functions when it comes to buying my bikes and less enamored of the so-called bells and whistles you get with more expensive bikes. I've never been one to ride the bikes with the skinny tires. They ride circles around me on the road, but I'm more of a tortoise than a hare in going from point A to point B. It's never been about getting there faster for me. I sometimes think that I get more out of my bike ride when I'm required to make more of an effort, which is where I end up when I'm pushing a bike with thicker tires. Maybe it's all in my head. Anyway, I think the missus is wrong to suggest that I take the bike for a spin before wheeling it off of the showroom floor. I don't say that often about the advice that she gives me now and then, but having said that, I think this time is different. Here's hoping, anyway.
Thanks for nothing, Jerome Powell. He's the Fed head who came out yesterday to give his little speech about interest rates and the likelihood of rate cuts or, God forbid, more rate hikes. I listen to none of it. I do, however, watch with great interest how the financial markets react to what he says. I also like to catch snippets of his speech, or at least the essence of what he said, on social media and in other news reports. That's my way of backing into what he said without feeling the full brunt of what may be a hawkish day of messaging on the stump for the head of the Fed. At 3 PM, the indices were spiking on something or other he said, and then, all of a sudden, a rug pull and a plummet. What the hell, Jerome? This is how it goes when the Fed head speaks. You'd think that at this stage in an election year that the Fed Head would be more accommodating. He wants to keep his job. Right? Maybe he wants to work for Trump. That would be bad news for Joe Biden. It would be good news for America. I give you nothing but the unvarnished truth here. Well, most of the time, anyway. Jerome did say something about stepping back a bit from the whole quantitative tightening thing so we should see a bit of liquidity making its way back into the market. That's never a bad thing for the stock market.
I never know if I'm supposed to take the Daily Mail seriously or not. There's an article in the Daily Mail this morning that says something about Joe Biden working with Walmart to lower prices ahead of the 2024 election. What the fuck is this? How stupid does he think the American people are? Does he think that Mrs. Garcia is going to come home from her shopping trip to Walmart and sing Joe Biden's praises after paying less than five dollars for a dozen eggs? I can hear her now: "Look, hon, eggs are below $5 a dozen at Walmart!" "Joe Biden is the fucking bee's knees!" "He's got my vote!" I have to believe that Walmart is thinking that if Trump gets back into office, and starts to ramp up tariffs against China, stores like Walmart will take it on the chin. It's no surprise to anyone that most of Walmart's inventory comes from China. No wonder they're willing to get into bed with Dementia Joe. It's all about the bottom line for Walmart and other retailers like them. They could give two shits that America is going to hell in a handbasket under Joe Biden's "leadership." They have stockholders to please, so they do what they have to do to not only survive but flourish. This is the power of the incumbency at its finest. I'm just not sure it's enough to overcome the last four years of sheer destruction wrought on America by the policies of Joe Biden.
I'm not sure what to think about all of these pro-Hamas protests on campuses across our country. I hear that the Democrats wish that they would go away. I think they think that they are not good for Biden and his re-election efforts. Are the protests just one more example of things going to shit under the Biden Administration? Or, is there something more nefarious going on here? Are these protests simply a primer for something else in the months ahead? Do all of these lawless activities make it more or less likely that people will go to the polls to vote for the Democrats in November? Is there something really twisted about the undercurrent of antisemitism coming out of these protests that somehow unites one or more factions wanting and willing to vote for Joe Biden in November? I'm talking about Dearborn, Michigan, here. Funny thing is, there are only a couple of weeks left before students leave their respective campuses for the summer. Was this a temporary firestorm, or witches brew if you will, of student unrest on campuses across our country concocted by Democrats in order to achieve a certain end result? Was it intended as a distraction? Something to take our eyes off the miserable economic times brought to us by Joe Biden? My eyes are wide open and I just can't make heads or tails of it. Not sure where we go from here.
People can talk all they want about the ridiculous Trump trial currently underway in New York City. They can talk all they want about how the judge should have recused himself because his daughter is profiting from the trial. They can talk all they want about how nobody even knows what Trump is being charged with here, as we are two weeks into this trial. None of it matters. When the time comes for the jury to do their thing, they are going to convict Trump. Not because they were able to determine his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, no sirree, Bob. They are going to find him guilty because that was their charge from the start. I don't know how they put twelve "unbiased" citizens on a jury who will then do the State's bidding no matter what the evidence shows, but Trump being the existential threat to our democracy that he is, you do what you have to do to get them to return the verdict you want. Anything and everything else is just noise. It makes for good television if you are a faithful follower of leftist media like CNN and MSNBC. You get to drink from the firehose of everything "Orange Man Bad" from sun-up to sunrise. The rest of us sane Americans have to hope that the higher courts can step in, and quickly, to right the Good Ship Donald before political rigor mortis sets in and the dye of a dying and defeated campaign is cast.
The dreaded bird flu is coming. You can just feel it. It's a government psyop operation in order to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president. Not a day passes by when there isn't an article in the news somewhere about the bird flu passing from animal to animal. One article I read suggested that the virus was finding its way into our food supply through infected cows and the milk they produce. Another article talked about cats that died after drinking milk from cows that had contracted the virus. I looked at a couple of photos online today of someone who contracted the flu virus and what it does to your eyes. To me, their eyes just looked bloodshot. I didn't read the article because I knew what the article was designed to do. I know the message they want to send. I know the fear they want to sew. One thing will lead to another and it won't be long before communities far and wide are recommending that we mask up for the health of the community. Of course, they can't have people standing in line at the voting places with a killer virus on the loose. Courts will mandate that we utilize mail-in ballots to cast our votes in the general election in November. Fake mail-in ballots are already rolling off the presses in Democrat shitholes from coast to coast. You can feel it in your bones. You know it's coming.
This Jack Smith classified documents case against Trump seems to be unraveling at warp speed. Judge Canon, the judge overseeing the case in Florida, has insisted on transparency from the start, and that has never been good for Smith's case. The unredacted versions of Smith's documents have revealed the Biden White House's involvement from the start. This case has entrapment written all over it. The goal all along was to convict Trump of mishandling classified documents or perhaps obstruction when they couldn't prove mishandling. The real goal, of course, is to make sure that Trump can't get back into the White House. More to the point, to ensure a second term for Joe Biden. Judge Canon is now insisting on reviewing notes from the grand jury who indicted Trump in a Washington, D.C. courtroom. This is not a positive development for Smith or the Biden White House. The alleged "crimes" were committed in Florida at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, which explains Judge Canon's handling of the case. Yesterday, Smith's team admitted their mishandling of the files they removed from Mar-a-Lago. Worse yet, they admitted that they misrepresented (lied) to Canon's court in a prior hearing about the handling of the very same files. I think I have most of this right. The only question in my mind now is when Judge Canon is going to dismiss this case with prejudice. Oh, and when will Biden's DOJ be held responsible for interfering with an election?
It's sad to see that our country has come to this but it is what it is. It's Joe Biden's America, don't you know? I'm talking about the new law in Tennessee that allows for the arming of teachers. Enough of these stupid-ass gun-free zones. They are basically invitations to nutjobs across the spectrum who would wish to do harm to students, teachers, maintenance men, you name it. They'll be thinking twice before going into a school in Tennessee to unleash their madness. The very thought of someone shooting back should have them rethinking their designs. A side benefit might be that students will think twice before giving their instructors any lip. Imagine a student taking a teacher to task who is not only bigger than you but who also has a 45 caliber canon in full sight hanging on their hip with an additional clip on the opposite hip for good measure. An ill-intentioned student is likely to pause and pay attention when his or her teacher tells them to get back into their seat. Nobody wants to go home at the end of the day in a body bag, so you follow the rules and keep any sick thoughts you might have to yourself. You might as well throw that manifesto of yours in the trash for all the good it's going to do you. Never mind that not one Democrat voted for this measure. It literally deprives them of any and all opportunities they might have to advance their arguments on gun control that, God forbid, they would run with in the event of another school shooting. This is who they are.
NBC is reporting that Biden's handlers are looking to shorten his speeches. "It's quality over quantity," they say. Who the fuck do they think they're kidding? I gather that this "get him out more often because it will be good for his image" thing has not worked out well for him or his handlers. They thought that confining Trump to a courtroom in Lower Manhattan while Biden gave stump speeches across the country was just what the doctor ordered. Boy, were they wrong. Being wrong has been a mainstay, and soon to be the legacy, of the corrupt and demented presidency of one Joeseph "Lunchbucket Joe" Biden. They can only prop this loser up for so long, and that day has come and gone. Cue cards and teleprompters that once offered him a lifeline in light of his diminishing cognitive function no longer do so. There's only one problem. The American people expect more from their presidents, even those presidents who have found their way into our Oval Office by hook or crook. If you don't have the mental capacity to call a spade a spade or to call out antisemitism when it's antisemitism, then they have every right to demand your ouster. Being president means living in the moment and stepping up to the plate to reassure Americans when they need reassurance. And to think that this fool sitting in the White House was touted as the one individual who would bring sanity back to our nation's Capitol when he ran for president back in 2020. You know that he doesn't have anything to say because he's incapable of saying it, whatever the fuck it is that he's trying to read off his cue cards. There, I said it.
This is some 3-D chess the Democrats are playing. Is it conceivable that the Democrats and their praetorian guard, the media, released this 13-year-old story about Governor Kristi Noem shooting her dog to try and take her out of the running for Trump's Vice Presidential pick? They must know that Trump is close to selecting his vice president, if he hasn't already, although I'm not sure when he plans to announce his decision. The Democrats have, no doubt, done their polling and decided that Noem would be a strong pick for Trump. Is it a coincidence that no sooner did we learn about Noem than we see stories about Trump sitting down with DeSantis, the governor from Florida? Hell, maybe none of this has anything to do with Democrats. Maybe it was Team DeSantis that put the Noem story in circulation and then cobbled together this last-minute meeting with Trump. Maybe DeSantis figures that this is the only way he gets into the White House in 2028. He's probably right.
Tesla stock is up around 10% in the pre-market this morning. Not sure what, if anything, it has to do with Musk's visit to China over the weekend. Their stock has not been doing well, so maybe this is just a countertrend in a longer-term downtrend. GM reported that they lose a good chunk of dough on every electric vehicle they sell. Rental car companies can't get electric cars off their lots fast enough. Nobody wants to either buy or rent them. I see Teslas on the road today, and I think of people buying a pig in a poke, chasing a fad, and now owning something that, if they had to do it all over again, they might not. Tesla stock, all else aside, being up early on today is probably a good sign for the financial markets today. We saw a strong move in the market last Friday, so today, if it turns out to be a good day, might be confirmation that this current countertrend we're in has further to go. Maybe it's not a countertrend at all. The pullback of five percent or more a week ago may prove to be nothing more than a shallow correction. We need a few more cards to come out of the deck.
The missus and I visited a local Ford dealership over the weekend. We've seen a number of Ford Broncos on the road lately and thought they warranted a closer look. Not that I would ever buy a Ford. American cars these days are, by and large, cheesy and cheap. The dealership had a half dozen Bronco's on their lot with a price tag in the $50k-$60k range. I like the design of the Bronco, but one look at the interior reminded me why I've seldom wanted to own one of my own. The cheesiness was off the scale. Maybe they think that by selling an "off-road" model, they can skimp on the bells and whistles and still get the price they want for the vehicles. Who the hell knows what they're thinking? You can actually get into a comparably priced Audi or Volvo for the same price and without half the cheesiness. How about one of Ford's F-10s, you ask? I don't get those either. Who wants to drive a damn tank around town that you can't get in and out of without a step ladder? Speaking of electric vehicles, I don't think I saw one electric car or truck on their lot. That's telling, to be sure.
Did you hear about the four or five US Marshalls getting gunned down in North Carolina? That is some tough business. I don't know who would want to be a cop these days with everything going on. I heard the story on the news and was just a little curious about who would do such a thing. You have to imagine that it takes a skilled marksman to do the kind of damage that we see in this case. Right? Is there an outside chance that the Marshalls involved didn't have proper training, or worse yet, they were DEI hires? I'd rather not go there if you don't mind. I see that the story made its way into the Daily Mail this morning. What struck me about the story both yesterday and this morning is that we have no photo of the shooter or shooters. What is that all about? Were they illegal aliens? Were they minorities? Had they been white nationalists, we'd probably have their pictures by now. That's just how our media rolls. Fast forward ten minutes. I've now done a page refresh on the Daily Mail, and I see that they posted a picture of one of the shooters. He is a black man going by the name Terry Hughes. According to the article, Mr. Hughes was a firearms felon. Not sure why it took them so long to post his photo. He's dead now, so the community can unlock their doors and go back about their business. As for the Marshalls, may they rest in peace.
I haven't paid a lot of attention to the news reports about students and faculty members on college campuses around the country protesting Israel's relentless bombing of civilian populations in Gaza. I agree with those who say that the country-wide protests look organized if for no other reason than they all use a certain type of tent in their encampments. Am I wrong in assuming that they are trying to pressure Biden and his corrupt government to force the hand of Netanyahu in Israel to cease and desist the indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians? Biden is supplying the bombs for chrissakes. It all seems so schizophrenic. I'm also probably not the only one uncomfortable with their seemingly vitriolic displays of hatred for Zionism, aka, the Jewish people. Where is Biden, and why has he not condemned the students? At a minimum, he should be speaking out about the antisemitic bent of the messaging coming out of these encampments. I also hate to see American college students buying into what can only be described as Hamas-like hate speech against Israel and the Jewish people. It's all so reminiscent of Germany in the late thirties when Hitler came to power. Where the hell is our FBI when you need them? They're busy infiltrating church groups and PTA meetings; that's where they are. C'mon, man.
The White House Correspondents' Dinner comes and goes every year around this time, and most people couldn't care less about it. It's typically just a bunch of fawning reporters and government groupies paying homage to their party leaders for one night out of the year. If I see any cuts from it in the media after the fact, I usually just change the channel. It's the same old tired characters, the same old tired jokes, and the same old back-slapping old fucks who attend year in and year out, no matter the party in power. After hearing about a few of Biden's comments this year at the dinner, I'm more convinced than ever of the symbiotic relationship between the leftist media and the Democrats. I've known forever that the leftist media is just another arm of the Democrat establishment and a vital one when it comes to putting out messaging for the Democrats or not putting out messaging when that's more appropriate, but this year is different. Biden's comments to his adoring and sycophantic audience were, in fact, a call to arms. Faced with polls worse than those Jimmy Carter experienced, Biden now, more than ever, needs his praetorian guard, the media, to prop him up and, more importantly, to take down his political rival, i.e., Donald J. Trump. It's not enough that he has Trump sitting in a courtroom and facing years in jail for a seven-year-old misdemeanor, which they hope to turn into a felony. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
There's another story out this morning about how Biden is flying tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into swing states. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. If they can't win elections outright, they steal elections. This is precisely what Biden and his Democrat Pary are doing. How is it possible that these states are planning to allow these non-citizens to cast votes in our federal elections? If I had to guess, the Democrats are working overtime to water down the requirements to vote so that anyone showing up at the polls gets to cast a vote. No voter ID is required. Come to think of it, Texas has been shutting down its borders, which effectively funnels all of the illegal aliens into Arizona, where the illegitimate governor, Hobbs, will look the other way while they cast their votes come November. Arizona, as you know, is a swing state. Pennsylvania is a mail-in ballot state, so stealing that one is pretty much a done deal. The Party in power decides who wins. Once again, advantage Democrats. It's a brazen move by a corrupt institution, the Democrats, but you do what you have to do to stay in power. Never mind that they are laying waste to our institutions and our culture in order to stay in power. Sadly, the tentacles of their corruption have made their way into our judicial system, making them complicit in the crimes being committed by the Democrats. America will never be the same.
How is it that I heard one report out this morning about several men wearing Palestinian scarves who surrounded a Jewish woman and then beat her senseless, yet I don't see that story anywhere else? You'd think that would be a big story in the whole Israel-Gaza storyline that has been unfolding on campuses across our country in the last week or so. Protests are one thing; violence is quite another. Is it time to start asking how many of these Hamas hate fomenters have come across our southern border in the last twelve to twenty-four months? Connect the fucking dots, for chrissakes. It gets worse. Now, Biden is talking about flying tens of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza into our country. It gets worse. He plans to give them more rights than they or any illegal alien deserves, including a path to citizenship. Over my fucking dead body, is what I say. Biden wants to bring the very same animals who committed the atrocities against the Israeli people on October 7th to our country. Is this Biden extending an olive branch to the Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, and elsewhere in order to get them out to the polls to vote for his sad ass come November? Is Biden correct in assuming that he has the Jewish vote in the bag since they, by and large, vote blindly and passionately for Democrats each and every presidential cycle? Is it any surprise, given Biden's praetorian guard, the media, that we're not seeing this story about the men beating up the Jewish woman? At this rate, Jewish people will be demanding that they be allowed to vote using absentee ballots lest they be accosted on their way to the polls. #MissionAccomplished
My bike is five years old now. As bikes go, she's getting a bit long in the tooth. I was out for a ride yesterday, and my chain started slipping. I was literally worried that I wasn't going to make it up one of the hills in the final stretch of my ride. I envisioned that I might have to get off my bike and walk it up the hill, which, given how narrow that particular stretch of the road is, is perilous in its own way. Was the problem going to get even worse with time? Could I fix the problem myself? If I brought it in for a fix, how long would I be without my bike? I've only started to hit my stride in riding my entire route without making excuses for stopping short here and there these past few months. You know what they say about excuses. Everyone has one. I'm all about momentum this time of the year when it comes to biking, so let's just say this was an unexpected and unpleasant development. The good news is that the folks at Colonial Bike here in town gave me the bad news about just how expensive it was going to be to fix my problem. It will be cheaper to buy a new bike than to have the old one fixed. It's been five years since my last new bike, so I suppose it's time. Just file that under "The Lord works in mysterious ways."
The missus just called me to tell me that the Hummingbirds have arrived for the 2024 season here in the Northeast. They come every year at this time. I can't be certain that they are the same ones from last year, but if I had to guess, I'd say they are indeed the same Hummingbirds. Just to be clear, the missus called me from our bedroom. We have two feeders: One is outside our bedroom window, and the other is outside the room that I'm sitting in now. We mark the calendar every year when they arrive and when they depart. For the last five years or so, they've arrived every year on May 2nd. In anticipation of their arrival, I prepared our two feeders yesterday and hung them outside. Was there a chance that they might not show up at all? Yes, of course. Might they be late, and I'd be forced to change the sugar concoction at least once before they finally showed up? I suppose. The funny thing is, I left our bedroom window open last night just enough so that we'd hear the fluttering of the Hummingbird's wings before we ever laid eyes on them. That is precisely what happened this morning. Drink long and hard, my little friends. It's the very least I can do for you.
The missus thought I should take this new bike for a ride before I actually purchase it. Yesterday, when I took my old bike in to be fixed, I took a quick look around the showroom floor and found this one particular bike to my liking. It's the same kind of bike that I've been riding for the past 15 years or so, only a more recent model year. I'm big on basic functions when it comes to buying my bikes and less enamored of the so-called bells and whistles you get with more expensive bikes. I've never been one to ride the bikes with the skinny tires. They ride circles around me on the road, but I'm more of a tortoise than a hare in going from point A to point B. It's never been about getting there faster for me. I sometimes think that I get more out of my bike ride when I'm required to make more of an effort, which is where I end up when I'm pushing a bike with thicker tires. Maybe it's all in my head. Anyway, I think the missus is wrong to suggest that I take the bike for a spin before wheeling it off of the showroom floor. I don't say that often about the advice that she gives me now and then, but having said that, I think this time is different. Here's hoping, anyway.
Thanks for nothing, Jerome Powell. He's the Fed head who came out yesterday to give his little speech about interest rates and the likelihood of rate cuts or, God forbid, more rate hikes. I listen to none of it. I do, however, watch with great interest how the financial markets react to what he says. I also like to catch snippets of his speech, or at least the essence of what he said, on social media and in other news reports. That's my way of backing into what he said without feeling the full brunt of what may be a hawkish day of messaging on the stump for the head of the Fed. At 3 PM, the indices were spiking on something or other he said, and then, all of a sudden, a rug pull and a plummet. What the hell, Jerome? This is how it goes when the Fed head speaks. You'd think that at this stage in an election year that the Fed Head would be more accommodating. He wants to keep his job. Right? Maybe he wants to work for Trump. That would be bad news for Joe Biden. It would be good news for America. I give you nothing but the unvarnished truth here. Well, most of the time, anyway. Jerome did say something about stepping back a bit from the whole quantitative tightening thing so we should see a bit of liquidity making its way back into the market. That's never a bad thing for the stock market.
I never know if I'm supposed to take the Daily Mail seriously or not. There's an article in the Daily Mail this morning that says something about Joe Biden working with Walmart to lower prices ahead of the 2024 election. What the fuck is this? How stupid does he think the American people are? Does he think that Mrs. Garcia is going to come home from her shopping trip to Walmart and sing Joe Biden's praises after paying less than five dollars for a dozen eggs? I can hear her now: "Look, hon, eggs are below $5 a dozen at Walmart!" "Joe Biden is the fucking bee's knees!" "He's got my vote!" I have to believe that Walmart is thinking that if Trump gets back into office, and starts to ramp up tariffs against China, stores like Walmart will take it on the chin. It's no surprise to anyone that most of Walmart's inventory comes from China. No wonder they're willing to get into bed with Dementia Joe. It's all about the bottom line for Walmart and other retailers like them. They could give two shits that America is going to hell in a handbasket under Joe Biden's "leadership." They have stockholders to please, so they do what they have to do to not only survive but flourish. This is the power of the incumbency at its finest. I'm just not sure it's enough to overcome the last four years of sheer destruction wrought on America by the policies of Joe Biden.
I'm not sure what to think about all of these pro-Hamas protests on campuses across our country. I hear that the Democrats wish that they would go away. I think they think that they are not good for Biden and his re-election efforts. Are the protests just one more example of things going to shit under the Biden Administration? Or, is there something more nefarious going on here? Are these protests simply a primer for something else in the months ahead? Do all of these lawless activities make it more or less likely that people will go to the polls to vote for the Democrats in November? Is there something really twisted about the undercurrent of antisemitism coming out of these protests that somehow unites one or more factions wanting and willing to vote for Joe Biden in November? I'm talking about Dearborn, Michigan, here. Funny thing is, there are only a couple of weeks left before students leave their respective campuses for the summer. Was this a temporary firestorm, or witches brew if you will, of student unrest on campuses across our country concocted by Democrats in order to achieve a certain end result? Was it intended as a distraction? Something to take our eyes off the miserable economic times brought to us by Joe Biden? My eyes are wide open and I just can't make heads or tails of it. Not sure where we go from here.
People can talk all they want about the ridiculous Trump trial currently underway in New York City. They can talk all they want about how the judge should have recused himself because his daughter is profiting from the trial. They can talk all they want about how nobody even knows what Trump is being charged with here, as we are two weeks into this trial. None of it matters. When the time comes for the jury to do their thing, they are going to convict Trump. Not because they were able to determine his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, no sirree, Bob. They are going to find him guilty because that was their charge from the start. I don't know how they put twelve "unbiased" citizens on a jury who will then do the State's bidding no matter what the evidence shows, but Trump being the existential threat to our democracy that he is, you do what you have to do to get them to return the verdict you want. Anything and everything else is just noise. It makes for good television if you are a faithful follower of leftist media like CNN and MSNBC. You get to drink from the firehose of everything "Orange Man Bad" from sun-up to sunrise. The rest of us sane Americans have to hope that the higher courts can step in, and quickly, to right the Good Ship Donald before political rigor mortis sets in and the dye of a dying and defeated campaign is cast.
The dreaded bird flu is coming. You can just feel it. It's a government psyop operation in order to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president. Not a day passes by when there isn't an article in the news somewhere about the bird flu passing from animal to animal. One article I read suggested that the virus was finding its way into our food supply through infected cows and the milk they produce. Another article talked about cats that died after drinking milk from cows that had contracted the virus. I looked at a couple of photos online today of someone who contracted the flu virus and what it does to your eyes. To me, their eyes just looked bloodshot. I didn't read the article because I knew what the article was designed to do. I know the message they want to send. I know the fear they want to sew. One thing will lead to another and it won't be long before communities far and wide are recommending that we mask up for the health of the community. Of course, they can't have people standing in line at the voting places with a killer virus on the loose. Courts will mandate that we utilize mail-in ballots to cast our votes in the general election in November. Fake mail-in ballots are already rolling off the presses in Democrat shitholes from coast to coast. You can feel it in your bones. You know it's coming.
This Jack Smith classified documents case against Trump seems to be unraveling at warp speed. Judge Canon, the judge overseeing the case in Florida, has insisted on transparency from the start, and that has never been good for Smith's case. The unredacted versions of Smith's documents have revealed the Biden White House's involvement from the start. This case has entrapment written all over it. The goal all along was to convict Trump of mishandling classified documents or perhaps obstruction when they couldn't prove mishandling. The real goal, of course, is to make sure that Trump can't get back into the White House. More to the point, to ensure a second term for Joe Biden. Judge Canon is now insisting on reviewing notes from the grand jury who indicted Trump in a Washington, D.C. courtroom. This is not a positive development for Smith or the Biden White House. The alleged "crimes" were committed in Florida at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, which explains Judge Canon's handling of the case. Yesterday, Smith's team admitted their mishandling of the files they removed from Mar-a-Lago. Worse yet, they admitted that they misrepresented (lied) to Canon's court in a prior hearing about the handling of the very same files. I think I have most of this right. The only question in my mind now is when Judge Canon is going to dismiss this case with prejudice. Oh, and when will Biden's DOJ be held responsible for interfering with an election?
It's sad to see that our country has come to this but it is what it is. It's Joe Biden's America, don't you know? I'm talking about the new law in Tennessee that allows for the arming of teachers. Enough of these stupid-ass gun-free zones. They are basically invitations to nutjobs across the spectrum who would wish to do harm to students, teachers, maintenance men, you name it. They'll be thinking twice before going into a school in Tennessee to unleash their madness. The very thought of someone shooting back should have them rethinking their designs. A side benefit might be that students will think twice before giving their instructors any lip. Imagine a student taking a teacher to task who is not only bigger than you but who also has a 45 caliber canon in full sight hanging on their hip with an additional clip on the opposite hip for good measure. An ill-intentioned student is likely to pause and pay attention when his or her teacher tells them to get back into their seat. Nobody wants to go home at the end of the day in a body bag, so you follow the rules and keep any sick thoughts you might have to yourself. You might as well throw that manifesto of yours in the trash for all the good it's going to do you. Never mind that not one Democrat voted for this measure. It literally deprives them of any and all opportunities they might have to advance their arguments on gun control that, God forbid, they would run with in the event of another school shooting. This is who they are.
NBC is reporting that Biden's handlers are looking to shorten his speeches. "It's quality over quantity," they say. Who the fuck do they think they're kidding? I gather that this "get him out more often because it will be good for his image" thing has not worked out well for him or his handlers. They thought that confining Trump to a courtroom in Lower Manhattan while Biden gave stump speeches across the country was just what the doctor ordered. Boy, were they wrong. Being wrong has been a mainstay, and soon to be the legacy, of the corrupt and demented presidency of one Joeseph "Lunchbucket Joe" Biden. They can only prop this loser up for so long, and that day has come and gone. Cue cards and teleprompters that once offered him a lifeline in light of his diminishing cognitive function no longer do so. There's only one problem. The American people expect more from their presidents, even those presidents who have found their way into our Oval Office by hook or crook. If you don't have the mental capacity to call a spade a spade or to call out antisemitism when it's antisemitism, then they have every right to demand your ouster. Being president means living in the moment and stepping up to the plate to reassure Americans when they need reassurance. And to think that this fool sitting in the White House was touted as the one individual who would bring sanity back to our nation's Capitol when he ran for president back in 2020. You know that he doesn't have anything to say because he's incapable of saying it, whatever the fuck it is that he's trying to read off his cue cards. There, I said it.
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Sons of bitches. Congress passed the bill to give that grifter and his oligarch friends in Ukraine a shitload of our money again. What the hell happened to Speaker Johnson? Didn't he say not that long ago that there wouldn't be another penny for Ukraine unless we saw funding and protection for our southern border? Word has it that he went into a skiff with one or more of our intelligence types, and they put the fear of God in him. Maybe they threatened to drum up fake child molestation charges against him were he to continue fighting against the funding for Ukraine. I've given up on these Republicans in Congress who roll over each and every time and end up doing the bidding of the Democrats. Why the hell do we even vote for these fuckers? What good are they? Even if Trump wins the election, does anyone really think that a Congress of pussies is going to allow Trump to get anything done? And then, when the bill passed in Congress, the Democrats, to a person, waved little Ukrainian flags like the stupid cunts that they are. I honestly don't know where we go from here.
Trump's lawfare trial in NYC continues today with opening statements by both sides. It's just so much Kabuki theater. The plan all along has been to convict him, and nobody in their right mind sees this fiasco going any other way. If they can paint him as a serial womanizer or a man or low moral character along the way, all the better. Testimony from hookers, ex-cons, and publishers of nudie mags named Pecker, are all on the hook to lay out the details of their relationships with Trump going back years. If you thought that Trump's comments, "Grab them by the pussy" was bad, you ain't heard nothing yet. For those of you who think that the impaneling of a jury of Trump's peers was on the up and up, think again. They were, no doubt, selected with great care prior to showing up for their appointments with the court. There was nothing random about their selection. This is a pure and unadulterated weaponization of our judicial system by Biden, his Justice Department, and the Democrat Party to take out Biden's political opponent, aka Donald J. Trump.
What the hell is going on with these anti-Jewish movements on the campuses of American universities these days? I've never seen so many Hamas-loving sympathizers in my life. Their apparent vitriol for the Jews is over-the-top. You'd think the October 7th massacre of Israelis would have engendered a little more sympathy for Jews around the world rather than the rabid hatred we're seeing unleashed on university campuses these days. It's a damn tinderbox out there if we're to believe what we're seeing on the nightly news. Not that anyone watches the nightly news, but you know what I'm talking about. It's so bad that Jews have to be careful now about where they go, who they associate with, and what they say in public. Does anyone remember the last time that Biden spoke to this issue in any meaningful way? Never mind that he hasn't held a press conference with the American people in the last three years. If he doesn't have their (Jews) backs, who does? Who will? Saying nothing makes him complicit in any crimes committed against the Jewish people. And then there's Dearborn, MI.
I look forward to listening to oral arguments from the Supreme Court on Thursday of this week when Trump's presidential immunity case is heard. This is only the second time that I've ever tuned in to these types of hearings before the Supreme Court. Now that I think of it, we've only been able to do this as of recently anyway. I'll have to look that up. I last listened when they heard the case of Colorado v. Trump when they tried to remove him from the state's ballot for his participation in the January 6th "insurrection." In listening to the arguments, you got a pretty good sense of where it was going to end up, and that was true in the Colorado case. While the Marxists in the media will argue that Trump doesn't have absolute immunity for his actions while president, a more nuanced argument may emerge here when all is said and done. That is to say, any and all presidents have immunity for their official acts as president, but that may not extend to acts not considered official. If this results in sending the case back to the lower courts to determine what was and what wasn't "official," this case will never get to trial before Election Day this Fall. Sorry, not sorry.
I don't know who these clowns in Australia think they are. I'm referring to some governmental official in Australia who is calling for Elon Musk to remove certain videos involving a terrorist attack on a certain church official from Twitter's servers WORLDWIDE. Who the fuck does she think she is? In what universe does she think she has the authority to control anything beyond Australia's borders? I don't know much about Australia other than the heavy-handed tactics of the Australian government that played out day in and day out during the pandemic. Who the hell puts these clowns in any position of responsibility? Why would you give anyone like that any authority whatsoever? We all saw what happened to that clown of a leader in New Zealand after her bullshit directives during the pandemic resulted in her being removed from office. She may have stepped down in order to avoid a humiliating defeat at the polls, but I can't recall exactly. I've also heard rumors over the years about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Australia. This kinda smacks of something you'd see in a totalitarian regime like China. Then, you have to ask yourself how it is that the CCP gets its insidious tentacles into the inner workings of the Australian government. You might ask the same question about our government.
I saw a tweet the other day that, if true, is troubling. It said that Biden is making it difficult for Americans to extract resources from our lands so that he can deliver a resource-rich country to the Chinese Communist Government when he hands it over to them. I know, I know. It's out there. Right? How else do we explain Biden's policies that benefit the Chinese Government each and every time at the expense of our own country? What was it that he banned in the last week or so? Oh, right. He banned oil exploration in the Arctic or something along those lines. What was that all about? Was he angling to win the votes of the natives in that stretch of the Arctic? Not so much. He could give two shits for the natives in the Arctic or the votes that he may or may not get from them. The environmentalists are probably singing his praises, thinking that Scranton Joe is the best president in their lifetimes since forever on environmental issues. Joe Biden couldn't care less about the environment or the environmentalists. He does care about who's signing the next wire transfer that is going to benefit him and his extended family. He's reached the pinnacle of his career, and he's not about to walk away from the pot at the end of the rainbow. If setting aside some of America's most coveted oil and mineral reserves for his global paymasters is what it takes, then Scranton Joe is in with both feet.
Jesus. The President of New Guinea is not happy. He is taking to the airwaves in response to Biden's comments about his uncle Bosie, who Biden insists was devoured by cannibals when his plane was shot down over New Guinea during WWII. Can you blame the president of New Guinea? Were the story true, the president of New Guinea might not have a leg to stand on when pushing back against America's demented president and plagiarist. The story isn't true, of course. Most of the stories Scranton Joe tells aren't true. He's got a gift of blarney, don't you know. If it isn't on his cue cards, he makes it up. That's when he runs into trouble. The media won't fact-check him, so now everyone and anyone who planned to visit New Guinea is having second thoughts thanks to Biden and his off-handed, ludicrous statement about cannibals. Who's next? What country is next? Now that I'm on the subject, if I hear one more clown talk about Biden and how he overcame his stuttering, I think I'm going to puke. Joe Biden's stuttering is a media creation. It's just more smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the obvious, which is that Joe Biden has a stage-5 dementia problem. In all the analyses we hear these days of Joe Biden, good and bad, dementia is the one subject that is the veritable third rail of media coverage. Nobody mentions it. They don't dare. They go along to get along. End of story.
At the end of last week, the stock market dipped five percent or more, depending on the indices you were looking at. After 23 straight weeks of gains, nobody was surprised to see things pulling back a bit. Even fewer people were surprised by the conviction of the move down. Nobody thought the bottom was put in after the week-long descent, but everyone was of the opinion that the market was oversold and probably overdue for a bounce. That's what you see in healthy markets. Right? You get a bounce that lasts for a few days or more, and then you see a continuation of the correction. That pattern continues until the market finds support, and then buyers step back into the fray and do what buyers do. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. The trend is your friend. All in all, if we're back on track now, it was a pretty shallow correction as corrections go. Maybe that says something about the strength of the market when all is said and done. Some folks might have liked to see more of a correction or maybe another leg or two down, but the consensus seems to be that the bottom is in, at least for now. Not sure how any of this is possible, with inflation, bond yields, and oil prices being what they are, but markets can ignore a lot of things for longer than one thinks.
I have to give Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) a shout-out this morning. She's been doing the Lord's work on the various lawfare cases against Trump. Her focus, at least as of late, has been on the documents case before Judge Canon in Florida. And I have to say thank God for Judge Canon. She's not letting this asshole of a federal prosecutor, Jack Smith, off the hook for a minute. Smith has been trying to introduce government exhibits, which are almost completely redacted, and Judge Canon is having none of it. Now that we've seen the unredacted versions of the documents, thanks to Julie Kelley, who has released them all on Twitter, we know why Smith was trying to keep them from prying eyes. If I'm understanding what I'm seeing, this thing was an Obama-Biden effort, working with Biden's Justice Department, from the jump to ensnare Trump in an obstruction case. It's all there in black and white. Judge Canon has yet to set a date for the trial, which you know is not making Smith happy. I don't know at what point Canon throws this case out, but I have to believe that we're getting closer and closer with each passing day. You're hearing nothing about the contents of these unredacted documents in the mainstream media. That tells you everything you need to know.
We're watching this show entitled "Manhunt." It's an Apple production about the killing of Abraham Lincoln and the tracking down of his killer, John Wilkes Booth. It's about as woke a production as one can imagine. If you closed your eyes and just listened to the show, you'd likely be able to substitute certain players referred to as "extremists" in the show with Trump and his supporters. You'd never know from watching the show that it was Democrats during that period who wanted to keep negroes on the plantation. Lincoln, a Republican if there ever was one, is played by this effeminate clown of an actor in the show without so much as a whisper of gravitas. That was a disgrace. It was akin to having Jim Carey play the part of Ronald Reagan. I guess no one should be surprised to see Apple trying to weigh in with their bullshit to try and influence any voters who may still be on the fence when it comes to who they plan to support in November. Just understand that the government officials left behind in the wake of Lincoln's assassination are nothing like the clown car we have in Washington today with Joe Biden in the lead clown car. And Trump followers, never mind how Booth and his radicals are portrayed in this flick, are America-loving and God-fearing and want nothing but the best that America has to offer. The same cannot be said for Biden and his Democrat Party in our country today.
What have we got here? The Arizona Attorney General has indicted several people who allegedly helped set up an alternate slate of electors for Trump in the 2020 election. I don't know enough about this "alternate electors" process to say whether the process itself is good or bad, but this indictment smells bad. I think the Attorney General in Michigan is getting ready to do the same thing in her state. C'mon, folks. We all know what this is. It's another attempt by the Democrat Party to taint, tarnish, and bankrupt anyone affiliated with Donald Trump so they can put them all behind bars in the days and months leading up to the November election. Does anyone believe for a minute that this isn't being coordinated with the Biden White House and Biden's Department of Justice? Trump is currently holding a lead in both Arizona and Michigan, and that is unacceptable to the Democrat Party. This is also what totalitarian governments do. The message they are sending out across the transom of American politics is that if you have any affiliation with Trump or have acted on his behalf to bring him to power, you will be ostracized, canceled, and put behind bars.
This can't be sitting well if you're a conservative sitting on our Supreme Court. They know a scumbag when they see one, and Democrats have been telling us who they are since Trump came down the escalator to announce his run for the presidency in 2015. This is just more of the same and probably not a big surprise to the Supremes. That said, we've never had such an obvious theft of an election by interference in the history of our Republic as we're seeing now. When the Democrats use the law as a cudgel to take out their political opponents in a presidential election, as they clearly doing in places like NYC, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Florida, the Supremes are likely standing at the ready to do their part to reign in the criminal behavior of the Democrats. The Supremes will hear oral arguments today on Trump's presidential immunity, so we'll get a good sense when we listen to the arguments as to what measures, if any, they are willing to consider when it comes to pushing back against these radicals in the Democrat Party. This may be their only chance since if Biden is re-elected he will more than likely push for adding additional seats to the Court. Spoiler alert: They will not be Republican seats.
Trump's visit to the bodega in NYC last week was such a success that it looks like he's trying to do more of it. He's campaigning on the streets of NYC this very morning, talking to large crowds about his dreams for America, the reckless and disastrous Biden Administration, Biden's endless wars, and the enduring financial crisis that Biden's policies have wrought in the last three years under Biden's "leadership." I don't know that Trump can win New York in November but don't tell him that. He's the undisputed heavyweight of Manhattan when it comes to realizing his dreams, and Trump has been punching above his weight his entire life. He can do for America what he's already proven that he can do for the Manhattan skyline. He has a record that anyone would be proud of, both as a prior president and a developer in what was once the greatest city on the face of the earth. Taking his soapbox and his message of change and optimism onto the sidewalks of NYC before the city awakens is just Trump being Trump. This is who he is. This is who he's always been. Now you know why the Democrats are doing everything they can to stop him. It's not going to work.
Can someone please explain to me, like I'm a fifth grader, why Biden thinks that telling people that he's going to increase the capital gains tax from roughly 15-20 percent to 40-50 percent is a good idea in an election year? He's even talking about taxing unrealized gains which is just crazy. Oh yeah, I want to vote for the guy who's going to take more of my earnings through taxation. Maybe that message resonates with Biden's constituents who don't have a pot to piss in, but it's sheer lunacy to those good God-fearing folks who work their entire lives and have a few sheckles to throw into the casino that we call the stock market. Biden is even talking about doing away with Trump's tax cuts, which expire in 2025. That would represent a two percent tax increase for every American. You may recall that Biden promised that he would never raise the taxes for those Americans earning less than $400k a year. I just don't know how many more reasons any of us need to not vote for this clown in November. Also, understand that once he's elected, he's likely to step down and put Kamala Harris in charge. For those of us trying to put a stake into the heart of the progressive movement in America and all the insanity it represents, putting Kamala in charge is the very last thing we need in America. Wake the fuck up!
After listening to the Supreme Court's oral arguments yesterday on presidential immunity, I think we have reason to believe now that this is going to be good for Trump. We won't know their decision until June or so, but if I had to guess, I'd say there will be no trial on Jack Smith's Jan-6 bullshit case before the election. The Supremes may well nix all of the State cases from NYC to Georgia and back again. They were having none of what the attorney for the federal government was selling. I think I've been right on this all along. The Supreme Court isn't about to let a handful of Biden's henchmen and any number of Democrat district attorneys across the country make a mockery out of our Constitution. It's a farce that we Americans have to go through this at all, forgetting Trump for a minute, but thank the baby Jesus for a conservative majority on our country's highest court. Somebody needs to spank these lawless pricks in the Biden Administration and spank them hard. Yesterday was a good day for America. It was not a good day for the leftist media, who melted down in spectacular fashion before our very eyes and ears. It was a sight/sound to behold. I hope to sip even more liberal tears today as the mourning continues unabated.
I think I missed Justice Amy Coney Barret's comments yesterday when I was listening to the arguments. She raised the issue of state prosecutions against current and former presidents, which tells me that she and her counterparts on the Court have been paying very close attention to Biden's lawfare cases against Trump. This isn't necessarily about Trump. The Supremes see what the rest of we Americans see, which is a government cabal attempting to jail their political opponent using state prosecutions. They are likely eager and willing to put an end to all of it, which, just incidentally, helps Trump. How happy is he, and I'm talking about Trump here, that he put three of the six conservative justices on the Supreme Court during his first term? You might say that Trump was prescient in doing what he did to grease the skids to put the Justices on the Court. Isn't that what people say about Donald Trump? He has an almost eerie record when it comes to warning the American people about what the future holds. Maybe eerie isn't the right word. It sure feels other-worldly if we're to be honest. Call it what you like.
I e-mailed Mrs. G yesterday and told her to pick something off the menu at our local seafood restaurant, and we'd bring it along when we pay her our usual weekly visit today. She responded with her request for a fried haddock sandwich with french fries. Who doesn't love a nice fish and chips meal? That sounds good. Right? We've come a ways now from the days when we couldn't decide what we'd bring over when we visited. She loves Dunkin Donut's jelly donuts, so when all else failed, we'd pick up a couple of those puppies. Showing up empty-handed was just a non-starter. The deliberations on what to bring would occasionally start as early as the day after our visit when something or other might come up in conversation. I prefer surprises, so I'm always on a bit of a fishing expedition when I listen to what she has to say about some of her favorite dishes. She also loves liver and bacon, but that dish doesn't travel very well, so it's come off our list of things to deliver. We've brought chicken sandwiches these last two trips, and she's certainly enjoyed them. Personally, I think she fancies the crinkle fries more than the chicken, but that's just me. Nothing says that she might not rather go out for a bite to eat. We can do that too.
I was in Home Depot the other day looking at various things. I noticed that they had a number of mowers for sale, most of which were electric. In fact, seven out of eight push mowers were electric. Eight of the eight big sit-down mowers on the floor were electric. What the hell is going on? Have the Climate Change cultists gotten to the mower industry, too? Did I hear about any regulations coming out of this leftist White House dictating that we can't own gas-powered lawnmowers anymore? I did not. Does that mean that they didn't put something out in the middle of the night to take yet another remnant of traditional Americana off the table for those of us who might prefer to keep our gas-powered devices? Or, is this simply one particular supplier who has gone woke and bought wholesale into the sham that is Climate Change? Maybe I'm overthinking this. Maybe Home Depot has turned the corner from the Trump-supporting days of 2016 and is now firmly entrenched in everything left of center. I'll be visiting Lowes in the near future to see their line-up of mowers and power tools. While I'm there, I'll be checking out their line-up of gas stoves. If they have any, that is.
I've never been a big Bill Barr fan, so I'll just put that out there. For those unfamiliar with the man, he was Trump's attorney general. He's been fairly critical of Trump on many issues and has been vocal in his criticisms. My recollection is that Barr was unwilling to investigate any of the nuanced reports of voter fraud across the country during the 2020 election. That was his job, and he failed miserably. I suspect that history will not be kind to Bill Barr when all is said and done. That said, Barr has also been quite vocal about who he will and who he won't vote for or support in the 2024 election between Biden and Trump. He is unequivocally in the Trump camp. He's seen the damage inflicted on our country by the Biden Administration, both domestically and around the world, and let's just say that he's not a fan. He laid it all out in excruciating detail for Kaitlin Collins on CNN last night on her 9 PM show, who was gobsmacked when he pushed back on her ridiculous and relentless efforts to get him to criticize Trump for everything from Jan 6 to the 98 or so criminal indictments pending against him. This was not the go-along-to-get-along Bill Barr she's interviewed in the past. Times are a changin'.
I have to laugh when I hear stories about people like Stephen Speilberg taking over key aspects of Joe Biden's presidential campaign. It reminds me of the saying, "You can put lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig." I'm also reminded of what happened when Hollywood types took control of the January 6th Congressional hearings in terms of what the nightly hearings, once televised, would look like. America tuned out and saw the nonsensical hearing for what they were. I've got news for Stephen Speilberg and his ilk. Americans have already made up their mind about Joe Biden, who he is, who he isn't, and what he's done to bring down one of the greatest countries on the face of the earth. It's a little late to bring in the make-up man and to try and recast a doddering and corrupt old fool as the next best thing since sliced bread. It's only going to get worse for Joe Biden between now and Election Day. I heard Victor David Hansen say recently that during the Regan campaign, it was in the last two months before the election when voters and voter sentiment moved en masse from Carter to Regan. I'm not so sure that the movement toward Trump hasn't already begun. It is unlikely to move back in Biden's direction any time soon. Joe Biden and the Democrats have only themselves to blame. They can soon blame someone else when Biden goes down in flames on Election Day: Stephen Speilberg. He'll just move on to his next project. There will be no "next project" for Joe Biden. That's all, folks!
I agree with Steve Bannon (Warroom) when he says that what we're seeing is a criminal conspiracy against Trump involving the Democrat Party and, yes, even Republicans. He says that Congressman Jim Jordan should be holding hearings about the various and sundry parties that are bringing these ridiculous indictments against Trump from Florida to Arizona. I think the Supremes are doing some of the heavy lifting as it relates to state district attorneys trying to put Trump in jail, so we'll see where that goes. I hope they delay releasing their decision on the presidential immunity case until August or September just to take the wind out of the Democrats' sails, who want the case back before Judge Chutkin in New York so she can keep the ball rolling toward an almost certain conviction. Maybe Bannon is right when he says that Republicans don't want Trump back in office either, so they're doing their part to stifle or stop his candidacy. They're happy to win their own races come election day with Trump at the top of the ticket, but they will more than likely vote with the Democrats if and when Trump becomes president. That is a sad fucking state of affairs. What they don't understand is that Trump's America-First agenda is the only agenda we Trump supporters will support come this election day or any other election day going forward. It has nothing to do with Donald J. Trump. It has everything to do with America.
I saw something yesterday about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. coming out for reparations. Politically speaking, that puts him to the left of Biden. It's yuge! The very promise of reparations for blacks and those descendants of slaves who can prove that their lineage goes back to the slave trade has been catnip for black voters at the polls. Who doesn't want a new Cadillac Escalade sitting in their driveway? Sanctuary cities from New York to San Fransicko can ill afford to roll out reparations programs, considering the fact that most of them don't have a pot to piss in, but that hasn't stopped them from lying to their constituencies with the promise of reparations in exchange for their votes. The decision to announce their support for reparations by Team Kennedy is a game changer. If anyone had any ideas about who Kennedy, as a third-party candidate, was going to hurt come Election Day, it's now pretty clear that he'll be taking more votes from Biden than he will from Trump. It has everything to do with the promise of reparations. Since Kennedy is clearly not going to win the election as a third-party candidate, you have to wonder if his goal in announcing the reparations thing has anything to do with throwing the election to Trump. Or, perhaps more to the point, making sure that Biden doesn't win. Good for him.
I've always wondered why illegal aliens weren't required to get vaccinated with the COVID-19 shots when they entered our country. It's a good question. Right? I listened to Dr. Naomi Wolf give a talk yesterday on vaccinations in Canada and the devastating impact on male sperm counts and other reproduction-related issues concerning both males and females. It has everything to do with the massive drop in birth rates and whether or not these so-called mandated vaccines are to blame. Knowing what we know about these studies and knowing what we know about how illegal aliens are not required to get the vaccinations, there is only one conclusion you can draw. That is, our government is looking to increase the population of black and brown people at the expense of white Americans of European descent. American institutions did the job that our government couldn't when it came to imposing mandates. Imagine America, if you can, with people of European descent in the minority. I'm not saying that we're going to look like South Africa in the short term, but there could be a reckoning of sorts should that day arrive. By the way, did Tony Fauci conspire with the Chinese to come up with this vaccine? You know, the one that has people keeling over dead at the age of thirty-five and coming down with deadly cancers right and left? And, what are we to conclude when we hear that our congressmen and senators were never required to get the vaccinations?
Trump's lawfare trial in NYC continues today with opening statements by both sides. It's just so much Kabuki theater. The plan all along has been to convict him, and nobody in their right mind sees this fiasco going any other way. If they can paint him as a serial womanizer or a man or low moral character along the way, all the better. Testimony from hookers, ex-cons, and publishers of nudie mags named Pecker, are all on the hook to lay out the details of their relationships with Trump going back years. If you thought that Trump's comments, "Grab them by the pussy" was bad, you ain't heard nothing yet. For those of you who think that the impaneling of a jury of Trump's peers was on the up and up, think again. They were, no doubt, selected with great care prior to showing up for their appointments with the court. There was nothing random about their selection. This is a pure and unadulterated weaponization of our judicial system by Biden, his Justice Department, and the Democrat Party to take out Biden's political opponent, aka Donald J. Trump.
What the hell is going on with these anti-Jewish movements on the campuses of American universities these days? I've never seen so many Hamas-loving sympathizers in my life. Their apparent vitriol for the Jews is over-the-top. You'd think the October 7th massacre of Israelis would have engendered a little more sympathy for Jews around the world rather than the rabid hatred we're seeing unleashed on university campuses these days. It's a damn tinderbox out there if we're to believe what we're seeing on the nightly news. Not that anyone watches the nightly news, but you know what I'm talking about. It's so bad that Jews have to be careful now about where they go, who they associate with, and what they say in public. Does anyone remember the last time that Biden spoke to this issue in any meaningful way? Never mind that he hasn't held a press conference with the American people in the last three years. If he doesn't have their (Jews) backs, who does? Who will? Saying nothing makes him complicit in any crimes committed against the Jewish people. And then there's Dearborn, MI.
I look forward to listening to oral arguments from the Supreme Court on Thursday of this week when Trump's presidential immunity case is heard. This is only the second time that I've ever tuned in to these types of hearings before the Supreme Court. Now that I think of it, we've only been able to do this as of recently anyway. I'll have to look that up. I last listened when they heard the case of Colorado v. Trump when they tried to remove him from the state's ballot for his participation in the January 6th "insurrection." In listening to the arguments, you got a pretty good sense of where it was going to end up, and that was true in the Colorado case. While the Marxists in the media will argue that Trump doesn't have absolute immunity for his actions while president, a more nuanced argument may emerge here when all is said and done. That is to say, any and all presidents have immunity for their official acts as president, but that may not extend to acts not considered official. If this results in sending the case back to the lower courts to determine what was and what wasn't "official," this case will never get to trial before Election Day this Fall. Sorry, not sorry.
I don't know who these clowns in Australia think they are. I'm referring to some governmental official in Australia who is calling for Elon Musk to remove certain videos involving a terrorist attack on a certain church official from Twitter's servers WORLDWIDE. Who the fuck does she think she is? In what universe does she think she has the authority to control anything beyond Australia's borders? I don't know much about Australia other than the heavy-handed tactics of the Australian government that played out day in and day out during the pandemic. Who the hell puts these clowns in any position of responsibility? Why would you give anyone like that any authority whatsoever? We all saw what happened to that clown of a leader in New Zealand after her bullshit directives during the pandemic resulted in her being removed from office. She may have stepped down in order to avoid a humiliating defeat at the polls, but I can't recall exactly. I've also heard rumors over the years about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Australia. This kinda smacks of something you'd see in a totalitarian regime like China. Then, you have to ask yourself how it is that the CCP gets its insidious tentacles into the inner workings of the Australian government. You might ask the same question about our government.
I saw a tweet the other day that, if true, is troubling. It said that Biden is making it difficult for Americans to extract resources from our lands so that he can deliver a resource-rich country to the Chinese Communist Government when he hands it over to them. I know, I know. It's out there. Right? How else do we explain Biden's policies that benefit the Chinese Government each and every time at the expense of our own country? What was it that he banned in the last week or so? Oh, right. He banned oil exploration in the Arctic or something along those lines. What was that all about? Was he angling to win the votes of the natives in that stretch of the Arctic? Not so much. He could give two shits for the natives in the Arctic or the votes that he may or may not get from them. The environmentalists are probably singing his praises, thinking that Scranton Joe is the best president in their lifetimes since forever on environmental issues. Joe Biden couldn't care less about the environment or the environmentalists. He does care about who's signing the next wire transfer that is going to benefit him and his extended family. He's reached the pinnacle of his career, and he's not about to walk away from the pot at the end of the rainbow. If setting aside some of America's most coveted oil and mineral reserves for his global paymasters is what it takes, then Scranton Joe is in with both feet.
Jesus. The President of New Guinea is not happy. He is taking to the airwaves in response to Biden's comments about his uncle Bosie, who Biden insists was devoured by cannibals when his plane was shot down over New Guinea during WWII. Can you blame the president of New Guinea? Were the story true, the president of New Guinea might not have a leg to stand on when pushing back against America's demented president and plagiarist. The story isn't true, of course. Most of the stories Scranton Joe tells aren't true. He's got a gift of blarney, don't you know. If it isn't on his cue cards, he makes it up. That's when he runs into trouble. The media won't fact-check him, so now everyone and anyone who planned to visit New Guinea is having second thoughts thanks to Biden and his off-handed, ludicrous statement about cannibals. Who's next? What country is next? Now that I'm on the subject, if I hear one more clown talk about Biden and how he overcame his stuttering, I think I'm going to puke. Joe Biden's stuttering is a media creation. It's just more smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the obvious, which is that Joe Biden has a stage-5 dementia problem. In all the analyses we hear these days of Joe Biden, good and bad, dementia is the one subject that is the veritable third rail of media coverage. Nobody mentions it. They don't dare. They go along to get along. End of story.
At the end of last week, the stock market dipped five percent or more, depending on the indices you were looking at. After 23 straight weeks of gains, nobody was surprised to see things pulling back a bit. Even fewer people were surprised by the conviction of the move down. Nobody thought the bottom was put in after the week-long descent, but everyone was of the opinion that the market was oversold and probably overdue for a bounce. That's what you see in healthy markets. Right? You get a bounce that lasts for a few days or more, and then you see a continuation of the correction. That pattern continues until the market finds support, and then buyers step back into the fray and do what buyers do. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. The trend is your friend. All in all, if we're back on track now, it was a pretty shallow correction as corrections go. Maybe that says something about the strength of the market when all is said and done. Some folks might have liked to see more of a correction or maybe another leg or two down, but the consensus seems to be that the bottom is in, at least for now. Not sure how any of this is possible, with inflation, bond yields, and oil prices being what they are, but markets can ignore a lot of things for longer than one thinks.
I have to give Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) a shout-out this morning. She's been doing the Lord's work on the various lawfare cases against Trump. Her focus, at least as of late, has been on the documents case before Judge Canon in Florida. And I have to say thank God for Judge Canon. She's not letting this asshole of a federal prosecutor, Jack Smith, off the hook for a minute. Smith has been trying to introduce government exhibits, which are almost completely redacted, and Judge Canon is having none of it. Now that we've seen the unredacted versions of the documents, thanks to Julie Kelley, who has released them all on Twitter, we know why Smith was trying to keep them from prying eyes. If I'm understanding what I'm seeing, this thing was an Obama-Biden effort, working with Biden's Justice Department, from the jump to ensnare Trump in an obstruction case. It's all there in black and white. Judge Canon has yet to set a date for the trial, which you know is not making Smith happy. I don't know at what point Canon throws this case out, but I have to believe that we're getting closer and closer with each passing day. You're hearing nothing about the contents of these unredacted documents in the mainstream media. That tells you everything you need to know.
We're watching this show entitled "Manhunt." It's an Apple production about the killing of Abraham Lincoln and the tracking down of his killer, John Wilkes Booth. It's about as woke a production as one can imagine. If you closed your eyes and just listened to the show, you'd likely be able to substitute certain players referred to as "extremists" in the show with Trump and his supporters. You'd never know from watching the show that it was Democrats during that period who wanted to keep negroes on the plantation. Lincoln, a Republican if there ever was one, is played by this effeminate clown of an actor in the show without so much as a whisper of gravitas. That was a disgrace. It was akin to having Jim Carey play the part of Ronald Reagan. I guess no one should be surprised to see Apple trying to weigh in with their bullshit to try and influence any voters who may still be on the fence when it comes to who they plan to support in November. Just understand that the government officials left behind in the wake of Lincoln's assassination are nothing like the clown car we have in Washington today with Joe Biden in the lead clown car. And Trump followers, never mind how Booth and his radicals are portrayed in this flick, are America-loving and God-fearing and want nothing but the best that America has to offer. The same cannot be said for Biden and his Democrat Party in our country today.
What have we got here? The Arizona Attorney General has indicted several people who allegedly helped set up an alternate slate of electors for Trump in the 2020 election. I don't know enough about this "alternate electors" process to say whether the process itself is good or bad, but this indictment smells bad. I think the Attorney General in Michigan is getting ready to do the same thing in her state. C'mon, folks. We all know what this is. It's another attempt by the Democrat Party to taint, tarnish, and bankrupt anyone affiliated with Donald Trump so they can put them all behind bars in the days and months leading up to the November election. Does anyone believe for a minute that this isn't being coordinated with the Biden White House and Biden's Department of Justice? Trump is currently holding a lead in both Arizona and Michigan, and that is unacceptable to the Democrat Party. This is also what totalitarian governments do. The message they are sending out across the transom of American politics is that if you have any affiliation with Trump or have acted on his behalf to bring him to power, you will be ostracized, canceled, and put behind bars.
This can't be sitting well if you're a conservative sitting on our Supreme Court. They know a scumbag when they see one, and Democrats have been telling us who they are since Trump came down the escalator to announce his run for the presidency in 2015. This is just more of the same and probably not a big surprise to the Supremes. That said, we've never had such an obvious theft of an election by interference in the history of our Republic as we're seeing now. When the Democrats use the law as a cudgel to take out their political opponents in a presidential election, as they clearly doing in places like NYC, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Florida, the Supremes are likely standing at the ready to do their part to reign in the criminal behavior of the Democrats. The Supremes will hear oral arguments today on Trump's presidential immunity, so we'll get a good sense when we listen to the arguments as to what measures, if any, they are willing to consider when it comes to pushing back against these radicals in the Democrat Party. This may be their only chance since if Biden is re-elected he will more than likely push for adding additional seats to the Court. Spoiler alert: They will not be Republican seats.
Trump's visit to the bodega in NYC last week was such a success that it looks like he's trying to do more of it. He's campaigning on the streets of NYC this very morning, talking to large crowds about his dreams for America, the reckless and disastrous Biden Administration, Biden's endless wars, and the enduring financial crisis that Biden's policies have wrought in the last three years under Biden's "leadership." I don't know that Trump can win New York in November but don't tell him that. He's the undisputed heavyweight of Manhattan when it comes to realizing his dreams, and Trump has been punching above his weight his entire life. He can do for America what he's already proven that he can do for the Manhattan skyline. He has a record that anyone would be proud of, both as a prior president and a developer in what was once the greatest city on the face of the earth. Taking his soapbox and his message of change and optimism onto the sidewalks of NYC before the city awakens is just Trump being Trump. This is who he is. This is who he's always been. Now you know why the Democrats are doing everything they can to stop him. It's not going to work.
Can someone please explain to me, like I'm a fifth grader, why Biden thinks that telling people that he's going to increase the capital gains tax from roughly 15-20 percent to 40-50 percent is a good idea in an election year? He's even talking about taxing unrealized gains which is just crazy. Oh yeah, I want to vote for the guy who's going to take more of my earnings through taxation. Maybe that message resonates with Biden's constituents who don't have a pot to piss in, but it's sheer lunacy to those good God-fearing folks who work their entire lives and have a few sheckles to throw into the casino that we call the stock market. Biden is even talking about doing away with Trump's tax cuts, which expire in 2025. That would represent a two percent tax increase for every American. You may recall that Biden promised that he would never raise the taxes for those Americans earning less than $400k a year. I just don't know how many more reasons any of us need to not vote for this clown in November. Also, understand that once he's elected, he's likely to step down and put Kamala Harris in charge. For those of us trying to put a stake into the heart of the progressive movement in America and all the insanity it represents, putting Kamala in charge is the very last thing we need in America. Wake the fuck up!
After listening to the Supreme Court's oral arguments yesterday on presidential immunity, I think we have reason to believe now that this is going to be good for Trump. We won't know their decision until June or so, but if I had to guess, I'd say there will be no trial on Jack Smith's Jan-6 bullshit case before the election. The Supremes may well nix all of the State cases from NYC to Georgia and back again. They were having none of what the attorney for the federal government was selling. I think I've been right on this all along. The Supreme Court isn't about to let a handful of Biden's henchmen and any number of Democrat district attorneys across the country make a mockery out of our Constitution. It's a farce that we Americans have to go through this at all, forgetting Trump for a minute, but thank the baby Jesus for a conservative majority on our country's highest court. Somebody needs to spank these lawless pricks in the Biden Administration and spank them hard. Yesterday was a good day for America. It was not a good day for the leftist media, who melted down in spectacular fashion before our very eyes and ears. It was a sight/sound to behold. I hope to sip even more liberal tears today as the mourning continues unabated.
I think I missed Justice Amy Coney Barret's comments yesterday when I was listening to the arguments. She raised the issue of state prosecutions against current and former presidents, which tells me that she and her counterparts on the Court have been paying very close attention to Biden's lawfare cases against Trump. This isn't necessarily about Trump. The Supremes see what the rest of we Americans see, which is a government cabal attempting to jail their political opponent using state prosecutions. They are likely eager and willing to put an end to all of it, which, just incidentally, helps Trump. How happy is he, and I'm talking about Trump here, that he put three of the six conservative justices on the Supreme Court during his first term? You might say that Trump was prescient in doing what he did to grease the skids to put the Justices on the Court. Isn't that what people say about Donald Trump? He has an almost eerie record when it comes to warning the American people about what the future holds. Maybe eerie isn't the right word. It sure feels other-worldly if we're to be honest. Call it what you like.
I e-mailed Mrs. G yesterday and told her to pick something off the menu at our local seafood restaurant, and we'd bring it along when we pay her our usual weekly visit today. She responded with her request for a fried haddock sandwich with french fries. Who doesn't love a nice fish and chips meal? That sounds good. Right? We've come a ways now from the days when we couldn't decide what we'd bring over when we visited. She loves Dunkin Donut's jelly donuts, so when all else failed, we'd pick up a couple of those puppies. Showing up empty-handed was just a non-starter. The deliberations on what to bring would occasionally start as early as the day after our visit when something or other might come up in conversation. I prefer surprises, so I'm always on a bit of a fishing expedition when I listen to what she has to say about some of her favorite dishes. She also loves liver and bacon, but that dish doesn't travel very well, so it's come off our list of things to deliver. We've brought chicken sandwiches these last two trips, and she's certainly enjoyed them. Personally, I think she fancies the crinkle fries more than the chicken, but that's just me. Nothing says that she might not rather go out for a bite to eat. We can do that too.
I was in Home Depot the other day looking at various things. I noticed that they had a number of mowers for sale, most of which were electric. In fact, seven out of eight push mowers were electric. Eight of the eight big sit-down mowers on the floor were electric. What the hell is going on? Have the Climate Change cultists gotten to the mower industry, too? Did I hear about any regulations coming out of this leftist White House dictating that we can't own gas-powered lawnmowers anymore? I did not. Does that mean that they didn't put something out in the middle of the night to take yet another remnant of traditional Americana off the table for those of us who might prefer to keep our gas-powered devices? Or, is this simply one particular supplier who has gone woke and bought wholesale into the sham that is Climate Change? Maybe I'm overthinking this. Maybe Home Depot has turned the corner from the Trump-supporting days of 2016 and is now firmly entrenched in everything left of center. I'll be visiting Lowes in the near future to see their line-up of mowers and power tools. While I'm there, I'll be checking out their line-up of gas stoves. If they have any, that is.
I've never been a big Bill Barr fan, so I'll just put that out there. For those unfamiliar with the man, he was Trump's attorney general. He's been fairly critical of Trump on many issues and has been vocal in his criticisms. My recollection is that Barr was unwilling to investigate any of the nuanced reports of voter fraud across the country during the 2020 election. That was his job, and he failed miserably. I suspect that history will not be kind to Bill Barr when all is said and done. That said, Barr has also been quite vocal about who he will and who he won't vote for or support in the 2024 election between Biden and Trump. He is unequivocally in the Trump camp. He's seen the damage inflicted on our country by the Biden Administration, both domestically and around the world, and let's just say that he's not a fan. He laid it all out in excruciating detail for Kaitlin Collins on CNN last night on her 9 PM show, who was gobsmacked when he pushed back on her ridiculous and relentless efforts to get him to criticize Trump for everything from Jan 6 to the 98 or so criminal indictments pending against him. This was not the go-along-to-get-along Bill Barr she's interviewed in the past. Times are a changin'.
I have to laugh when I hear stories about people like Stephen Speilberg taking over key aspects of Joe Biden's presidential campaign. It reminds me of the saying, "You can put lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig." I'm also reminded of what happened when Hollywood types took control of the January 6th Congressional hearings in terms of what the nightly hearings, once televised, would look like. America tuned out and saw the nonsensical hearing for what they were. I've got news for Stephen Speilberg and his ilk. Americans have already made up their mind about Joe Biden, who he is, who he isn't, and what he's done to bring down one of the greatest countries on the face of the earth. It's a little late to bring in the make-up man and to try and recast a doddering and corrupt old fool as the next best thing since sliced bread. It's only going to get worse for Joe Biden between now and Election Day. I heard Victor David Hansen say recently that during the Regan campaign, it was in the last two months before the election when voters and voter sentiment moved en masse from Carter to Regan. I'm not so sure that the movement toward Trump hasn't already begun. It is unlikely to move back in Biden's direction any time soon. Joe Biden and the Democrats have only themselves to blame. They can soon blame someone else when Biden goes down in flames on Election Day: Stephen Speilberg. He'll just move on to his next project. There will be no "next project" for Joe Biden. That's all, folks!
I agree with Steve Bannon (Warroom) when he says that what we're seeing is a criminal conspiracy against Trump involving the Democrat Party and, yes, even Republicans. He says that Congressman Jim Jordan should be holding hearings about the various and sundry parties that are bringing these ridiculous indictments against Trump from Florida to Arizona. I think the Supremes are doing some of the heavy lifting as it relates to state district attorneys trying to put Trump in jail, so we'll see where that goes. I hope they delay releasing their decision on the presidential immunity case until August or September just to take the wind out of the Democrats' sails, who want the case back before Judge Chutkin in New York so she can keep the ball rolling toward an almost certain conviction. Maybe Bannon is right when he says that Republicans don't want Trump back in office either, so they're doing their part to stifle or stop his candidacy. They're happy to win their own races come election day with Trump at the top of the ticket, but they will more than likely vote with the Democrats if and when Trump becomes president. That is a sad fucking state of affairs. What they don't understand is that Trump's America-First agenda is the only agenda we Trump supporters will support come this election day or any other election day going forward. It has nothing to do with Donald J. Trump. It has everything to do with America.
I saw something yesterday about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. coming out for reparations. Politically speaking, that puts him to the left of Biden. It's yuge! The very promise of reparations for blacks and those descendants of slaves who can prove that their lineage goes back to the slave trade has been catnip for black voters at the polls. Who doesn't want a new Cadillac Escalade sitting in their driveway? Sanctuary cities from New York to San Fransicko can ill afford to roll out reparations programs, considering the fact that most of them don't have a pot to piss in, but that hasn't stopped them from lying to their constituencies with the promise of reparations in exchange for their votes. The decision to announce their support for reparations by Team Kennedy is a game changer. If anyone had any ideas about who Kennedy, as a third-party candidate, was going to hurt come Election Day, it's now pretty clear that he'll be taking more votes from Biden than he will from Trump. It has everything to do with the promise of reparations. Since Kennedy is clearly not going to win the election as a third-party candidate, you have to wonder if his goal in announcing the reparations thing has anything to do with throwing the election to Trump. Or, perhaps more to the point, making sure that Biden doesn't win. Good for him.
I've always wondered why illegal aliens weren't required to get vaccinated with the COVID-19 shots when they entered our country. It's a good question. Right? I listened to Dr. Naomi Wolf give a talk yesterday on vaccinations in Canada and the devastating impact on male sperm counts and other reproduction-related issues concerning both males and females. It has everything to do with the massive drop in birth rates and whether or not these so-called mandated vaccines are to blame. Knowing what we know about these studies and knowing what we know about how illegal aliens are not required to get the vaccinations, there is only one conclusion you can draw. That is, our government is looking to increase the population of black and brown people at the expense of white Americans of European descent. American institutions did the job that our government couldn't when it came to imposing mandates. Imagine America, if you can, with people of European descent in the minority. I'm not saying that we're going to look like South Africa in the short term, but there could be a reckoning of sorts should that day arrive. By the way, did Tony Fauci conspire with the Chinese to come up with this vaccine? You know, the one that has people keeling over dead at the age of thirty-five and coming down with deadly cancers right and left? And, what are we to conclude when we hear that our congressmen and senators were never required to get the vaccinations?
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21/04/24 07:06
What is this bullshit about Joe Biden greenlighting Iran's attack on Israel? Does that mean that Biden knew about the attack and he approved Iran's launch of the attack? Is that to say that the Mullahs wouldn't have attacked Israel were it not for Biden's sign-off? Who the fuck is Joe Biden to sign off on any attack against Israel? In the wake of the attack, Biden pleaded with Israel not to respond. Is it not up to Israel to decide what Israel does and does not do? Let's just say that I have questions. How much of this back story is going to be suppressed in the media today as I sit here on a Monday morning? One angle might be that Biden wants to head off any escalation in an existing conflict in the Middle East or elsewhere that would drive up oil prices, and ultimately prices at the gas pump, in the months leading up to the election in November. The economy is already a shitstorm and a headwind of Biden's making, so there's that. No need to throw kerosene on a fire already in progress.
I'm feeling a little depressed this morning. I'm not sure why, exactly. The sun is shining, my coffee is still hot, and I don't have a lot on my plate today that I want to avoid one way or another. It looks like a pretty good day for a bike ride, so that's something to look forward to when all is said and done. It is true that I'm struggling a bit with having something to say, so maybe that's it. Then again, this isn't my first rodeo. Been there, done that. I just have to get back in the saddle and do what I always do when this happens. Does any of this have anything to do with the fact that Trump's "Stormy Daniels" trial is starting today in Midtown Manhattan? I don't think so. This thing is going to last for a couple of months, and the only thing happening in the next two or three weeks has to do with jury selection. That won't stop the Trump haters in the media from spewing their usual nonsense, so I'll have to steer clear of that if I can.
We'll have to see if world stock markets can get back on track today after a tough day last Friday. Nothing good happens when the VIX goes above 15 and when major indices break the 50-day moving average, so we'll see if both of those things turn around today. I understand why Iran attacking Israel for the first time had everyone's attention on Friday and over the weekend. You just never know what Iran is capable of when push comes to shove. Israel killed some of Iran's top commanders in the attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus last week, so you had to believe that the Mullahs might have had something special in mind for the Israelis. It was much ado about nothing by the time Iran announced on Friday night that they were done launching projectiles into Israel. Well, aside from the terror that some Israelis may have experienced as a result of the seemingly continuous barrage of missiles that exploded over Tel Aviv, thanks to Israel's spectacular dome defense system. Israel can now turn their attention back to the usual bad actors on their borders like Hamas, Hezbollah, and, to a lesser extent, the Houthis.
I thought Trump said he could solve the Ukraine / Russian conflict within twenty-four hours of his inauguration. I think he was referring to something having to do with his best-selling book, the "Art of the Deal." Now, he's saying that the money we give to Ukraine should be a loan. Which is it, Mr. President? You said that Russia would have never attacked Ukraine had you been president. The majority of the American people want no part of the Russia / Ukraine conflict, just so you know. You also know full well that were we to loan a nickel to that corrupt shithole Ukraine that we'd never see any of it repaid. What the hell kind of fool do you take us for? Is this your idea of paying lip service to the Deep State so they'll be less strident in pushing back against the idea of your presidency? What am I not getting about this thing? How am I supposed to square this circle? It sounds like Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is putting a bill to fun Ukraine on the House floor at the end of this week. I'd like to think that this decision of his would be the end of his speakership, but you gave him your full-throated support this past week down in Mar-a-Lago so he may be able to hang on. It's a clusterfuck either way. It is not what the American people want. Period, end of sentence.
Did you happen to see the pro-Hamas types out in numbers yesterday across the country clogging bridges and other thruways in protesting Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza? These are some sick fucks. Who rallies their fellow men and women in support of killing, raping, and ethnically cleansing any ethnic group, never mind Israelis. Think October 7th. Maybe more disturbing were the policemen and women who stood silently by watching it all go down without arresting or collaring one of them. They could have cared less about emergency vehicles that were prevented from reaching their destination. Anyone heading to catch a last-minute flight at the airport, that wasn't happening. You know, don't you, that one phone call from the White House to enforce our laws and clear any and all obstructions from these fairways was all that anyone needed to fix the problem? Here's the deal: This was the Biden White House siding with the progressive left in their efforts to pressure Israel to cease and desist in their efforts to kill every last member of Hamas in Gaza and elsewhere. This was the Biden White House acting in sympathy with Muslim populations in Dearborn, Michigan, for purely political reasons. Here's the bottom line: You have a clown in the White House who does not now, nor have they ever, had Israel's best interests in mind. As for the protestors, expect more of the same.
I hear what Elon Musk is saying about preparing for future growth for his car company, Tesla, but one can't help but wonder if there isn't more to that story. I'm referring to the announcement yesterday that Tesla is laying off ten percent of its employees worldwide. There may have been something buried deeper in that report about competition from China, but that's a story for another day. My guess, and this may be somewhat self-serving, is that it has more to do with the lack of interest in electric vehicles altogether. They can't sell them because nobody wants them. You've heard what they say about destination anxiety when it comes to electric cars. Right? You never know if you're going to get to your destination because you can't be sure that you'll find a charging station when you need one. If you do find a charging station, there may not be a spot available because there is a line two blocks long of vehicles just waiting for their turn to sit at the pump for the extended period of time it takes to charge their battery. I don't think any of this is going away. As for Tesla the company, they may be just one more electric car thrown on the ash heap of history at the end of the day. So much for Biden's zero-carbon goals by the year 2030.
I agree with Monica Crowley when she tweeted that she would crawl over broken glass to be seated as a juror in Trump's trial in New York City. Can you imagine? "You're in" would be the sweetest words a Trump supporter could hear if this sort of opportunity presented itself. Were it me, I would pray and plot every moment of the trial inside and outside the courtroom on how I was going to end this fiasco one way or another when the final day arrived when I had the opportunity to vote on Trump's guilt or innocence. I would be steely in my opposition to my fellow jurors, who more than likely would cajole, persuade, and ultimately probably want to humiliate or banish me for not going along with the rest of the crazed leftist Manhattan moonbats on the jury. I would argue as vociferously as I could that this was a sham trial from day one. I would remind my fellow jurists that Michael Cohen went to jail for lying, and his testimony should be tossed. I would ask that they resist the temptation to take any of the testimony coming from the whore, Stormy Daniels, or other salacious "experts" who may have posed for Playboy or other publications as nothing more than Bragg's desperate plea to keep jurors from falling asleep during the trial where accounting entries were discussed at length. See where I'm going with this?
I have to laugh. I'm reading a story about Kamala Harris having a chat with Zelensky, during which she requested that Ukraine not attack Russia's oil facilities. How ironic is that? Now, who's working with the Russians to win an election? The last thing Biden can afford to have happen is to see the prices at the gas pump spiral out of control in the midst of a cratering economy with inflation that is sticky, if not unrelenting. Biden has deliberately depleted our strategic petroleum reserves, which helped him and his minions keep prices at the pump down in the weeks leading up to the 2022 mid-term elections. I thought those reserves were meant as a backup for the American people in the event of some cataclysmic event. That is, of course, until you have one of the worst presidents in the history of our great Republic facing an electoral disaster. Then, you pull out all the stops. You deplete the reserves, you put your political opposition in jail, and you work with our adversaries around the globe to ensure that oil prices stay in check. This is the same Kamala Harris whose only job during her first year as Vice President was to manage our southern border. She was our border Czar. Right? How has that worked out for you?
Speaking of politicians and their devious ploys to stay in office, have you heard the latest about that clown of a governor in California? I'm talking about Gavin Newscum. He's setting up an office of genealogy in the state in order to establish a historical record in order to pay reparations if and when that day comes. How fucking Orwellian is that? I guess it's one way to keep minorities on the plantation. Who is going to vote for the other guy if you already have your guy working on a plan to pay reparations? As an aside, just imagine what you can do if you have the DNA of all of the citizens living in your state. It would also be a mistake to think that this is just about black people. You'd be surprised how many people are going to hand over their DNA when there is a chance, however small, that you, too, might participate in one of the biggest payouts in the history of our country. For someone like Newscum, who has national political ambitions, this could be the catnip he needs to drive minorities to the polls when he decides that he wants to run for president. This is bigger than forgiving student loans. This is bigger than the offer of a free college education. This is bigger than the promise of lower prices at the pump. Who needs to steal an election when you can win it outright with the promise of an Escalade in every driveway?
I'm not sure that the Democrats are going to get the mileage they think they're going to get by putting Trump on trial in New York City. Trump actually paid a visit to a bodega in Harlem after being in the courtroom in downtown Manhattan all day yesterday. Not just any bodega, mind you. It's the same bodega where the shop owner killed a robber during a hold-up last year. The District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, the same District attorney who is now looking to convict Trump in a NYC courtroom, brought charges against the bodega owner who killed the robber. The charges were dropped after a hue and a cry from locals. Residents of the area turned out in huge numbers to see Trump. If you had any misgivings about Trump being an outcast in the minority community because of his alleged crimes against the State or, to a lesser extent, his alleged crimes as they relate to accounting entries made by his bookkeeper to pay off a hooker like Stormy Daniels, seeing the locals singing his praises would dispel all of it and more. If any of what we saw yesterday in downtown Harlem was sincere in the least, Trump may now have a fighting chance to win NYC in November. The truth of the matter is Trump has never stopped fighting for New York, and the good people of the city know it.
My head is a completely blank slate this morning. Now that I think of it, what the hell happened in the Senate Impeachment hearings yesterday in Washington, D.C.? That asshole, Schumer, somehow got away with proclaiming that Mayorkis was not guilty of any of the three of four impeachment articles brought against him by the House of Representatives. I'm not sure that Schumer had the right to do that since no such provision exists in the Constitution for the dissolution of charges by a mere vote of the Majority. Are we all just supposed just to roll over and allow Schumer and the Democrats to make this shit up as they go along? Are there no consequences for making a mockery of our beloved Constitution? Who is going to hold them to account? Other Democrats? Nope, they just go along to get along. This is what they do. This is who they are. Not a day goes by when I hear someone in our nation's capitol say that something is unconstitutional, yet nothing is ever done to restore whatever norm has been torn asunder. Maybe what they say about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is true. Now you know why the Bidenistas are so reluctant to give up power. Now you know why it's more important than ever to drive these feral dogs out of our Republic come Election Day in November, root and branch if necessary.
I steamed up some mussels for dinner last night. It promised to be a quick, fat-free dish that I could whip up in no time flat. I was on my own, of course. The missus wanted no part of the mussel dish. I think she has this thing about not eating clams and other things of the sort that might carry deadly pathogens. She ordered a quart of seafood chowder from a local restaurant that I was more than happy to pick up for her on my way home from running an errand. Were it not for the potatoes in the chowder, I might have joined her in having a bit of chowder for dinner. I picked out a few little shrimp from the chowder when she wasn't looking and went on about my business without anyone being the wiser. I contemplated cooking up some whole wheat pasta to have with my mussels but decided at the last minute that it would delay my meal by a good half hour, so that was that. There would be no pasta. I also wasn't interested in smothering my mussels in a red tomato sauce if that is what it came to after preparing the pasta. I steamed the mussels in a nice white wine and garlic sauce and they were ready to eat in about five minutes, start to finish. Just a darn good and inexpensive meal for under eight dollars.
I'm beginning to wonder what role, if any, the World Health Organization (WHO) will play in this fall's presidential election. There are rumors that the United States (Joe Biden) plans to give the WHO sovereignty over our country's health issues. I can't be sure about the timing of this so-called transfer of authority, but I also can't help but wonder if this isn't just coincidentally coinciding with a present-day surge in cases of human bird flu. Think about it. It gives Biden plausible deniability if and when WHO shuts down our country and forces the issue of mail-in ballots, which, as we all know, is how the Democrats stole the 2020 election. The modus operandi of this pandemic is not unlike what we saw when COVID-19 came along. It started with a rumor, and then we saw videos of Chinese healthcare workers in hazmat suits fumigating the streets of Beijing. Then reports started coming out of Europe of elderly people having respiratory issues and dying in rather short order after contracting the virus until Trump gave the order to stop any and all incoming flights from China. I don't know anything about the bird flu in terms of how lethal it may or may not be, but maybe none of that matters. What matters is that Joe Biden gets reelected, bird flu or no bird flu. Just don't call me "conspiratorial."
Dont'. This is all that our fruitcake of a president had to say when cautioning Iran not to attack Israel and then similarly with Israel when they announced plans to attack Iran. Neither Iran nor Israel gave two shits about what our clown of a president had to say. What does that tell you about Biden's moral authority on the world stage? What it tells me is that he has none. What kind of possible moral authority does a person have when he can't complete a sentence without the use of cue cards? How do you give any credence whatsoever to a president who fabricates stories on the campaign trail about his uncle, a pilot, being shot down over New Guinea and who is then consumed by cannibals? None of it is true. Where the hell are the fact-checkers in the media? Then, he cautions Israeli President Netanyahu not to invade Haifa. Haifa, for those of you who don't know, is a major city in Israel. Biden confused Haifa, the city in Israel, with Rafah, the city of one million or more Palestinians living in southern Gaza. There is no cleanup in aisle eight because when you do live interviews, this is what you get. You get an American president who issues monosyllabic ultimatums to world leaders who pay him, or the clowns surrounding him, no attention.
I checked my Twitter feed before going to bed last night and saw that Israel had conducted a bombing raid over major cities in Iran. This was, if we're to believe everything we hear and see in the news, a retaliatory raid after Iran sent some three hundred drones into the skies over Israel just last week. Another tweet talked about futures in the stock market tanking overnight on news of the attack. I left it there, turned off everything, and went to sleep. After four days of losses in the major indices, the last thing we needed was to have someone throw kerosene on a smoldering fire of a market. If you were a futures trader, you probably moved all of your chips into the middle of the table on the likelihood of an even steeper and more precipitous decline in the stock market in the intervening hours of the early morning. As of first thing this morning, it seems that news about the width and breadth of Israel's attack on Iran's cities and nuclear facilities was largely exaggerated. If I'm to believe what I'm reading in my Twitter newsfeed, Israel is now trying to figure out why the United States leaked information about the attack on Iran to the media. The media then ran with the story like it was the beginning of World War III. Of course, they did.
We'll see if the market can rally today on the news that last night's attack was largely a nothing burger. There will be no nuclear holocaust. Both Israel and Iran will live to fight another day. I'd like to see a good counterrally that gets the SPY back to within 100 points of the all-time high. I think that with interest rate cuts seemingly off the table for the foreseeable future, we'll see yields continue to climb, and that is never good news for the stock market. Oil prices spiked on the news of the attack last night but came back down after reports that the raids were largely performative. I'm not sure when, where, or how these Kabuki dances between Israel and Iran are going to end, but they seem to be petering out as I sit here this morning. I'm also wondering if what they say about selling in May and going away, as it relates to the stock market, is a truism this year. If you consider the fact that the market has been up for 24 consecutive weeks in a row since last October, you have to think that it needs a breather sooner or later. A bit of distribution or profit-taking is always healthy for a market. I'm also banking on the fact that the pullback we're seeing in the market is a garden-variety correction and not the beginning of a bear market. We'll need a few more cards to come out of the deck before we know for sure. Jerome Powell, what say ye?
You know that part and parcel of Biden's strategy in this election is to keep Trump in the courtroom and off the campaign trail. Right? The other thing that comes to mind for me is the call early on in Biden's campaign that the more people see "Lunch Bucket" Joe, the better off he'll be. "People want to see more of President Joe Biden, not less", they proclaimed. He's been running around Pennsylvania campaigning while Trump is sitting in a NYC courtroom. There's only one problem. Every time Biden opens his mouth, he makes some stupid or nonsensical comment that goes around the world and back again before he or his handlers have a chance to clean it up. It just continues to feed the narrative that the guy is not ready for prime time. Why is there not more caterwauling in the media about keeping Biden away from the nuclear codes? He has no business doing any campaigning because he's simply not right in the head. "Infirm" doesn't begin to tell the story. The print media gets to say that he's killing it when it comes to the economy and his handling of international affairs. If you're reading the Washington Post or the New York Times, Biden is the best thing since sliced bread. The rest of us Americans and the world at large, who could care less about fish wrappers like the New York Times, know better.
Trump is ahead in most swing-state polls and tied with dementia Joe in states like Pennsylvania as of today. You know what that means, right? The Democrat Party gets to work putting together a plan to take advantage of the "nip and tuck" condition, as it were. We've all heard the stories about trucks backing up to the back door of the tabulation centers at three in the morning with boxes of ballots that someone just happened to notice were lying around uncounted. It's deja vu all over again. Remember in 2020 when Trump came on television at 10 o'clock on election night to announce that he was ahead by tens of thousands of votes in Pennsylvania and other states? Well, we all know how that turned out. Once they counted all the ballots, notice that I didn't say valid ballots, the tide had turned, and Biden had taken the lead and the election. Voila'! Or, should I say, mission accomplished? The die is cast, my good friends. They know what they have to do, and they are greasing the printing presses as we speak. The only thing they don't know as of this moment is just how many ballots they need to print. I can hear them now. Let's print an extra ten thousand, just in case. We can burn the ballots we don't use.
The Democrats' key is to get as many mail-in ballots as they can, manufactured or otherwise, to stuff into drop boxes or other receptacles across our fruited plains. Maximizing the number of mail-in ballots is also important. In 2020, the Democrats used the pandemic to scare the bejesus out of their voters in order to facilitate the use of mail-in ballots on an industrial scale. I talked about the bird flu a few paragraphs back as a likely "pandemic" that the Democrats could use as yet another scare tactic in order to maximize the use of mail-in ballots in 2024. Remember, the key to having a trunkload of ballots available for dispatch to a tabulation center that is "short" of votes for Biden is to flood the zone with ballots so that no one would question a last-minute box or trunkload of ballots should they show up in the middle of the night. It's almost an expectation at this point. This is what they're going to do. If you think this is far-fetched, let me give you an update on the bird flu thing. I'm seeing stories now about how the bird flu virus has moved into our milk supply. This was not a thing a week ago. Everyone drinks milk, so none of us are safe from the virus were it to pass from cow to human. Wait for it. My guess is that Biden is just waiting for the World Health Organization (WHO) to take control of our sovereignty over health issues before the alert goes out that the bird flu is now active in the human population, and we're once again knee-deep in a deadly pathogen-rich pandemic.
Fuck Benny Johnson. Is that the guy's name? He's the congressman who headed up the corrupt January 6th Committee in Congress in the wake of the January 6th riot in our nation's capital. Anyway, he's introducing legislation that removes Secret Service protection from any politician who is found guilty of a felony and sentenced to jail. His target, and the target of this Democrat legislation, of course, is Donald Trump. Johnson knows that one of the problems that most of the leftist judges have with putting Trump in prison for his alleged crimes is that Trump has Secret Service protection for the rest of his life as a former president. This makes it almost impossible to put Trump behind bars as it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Secret Service to protect Trump. Let's understand one thing about these dirtbag Democrats. They want Trump dead, and if they can't manage that, they want him behind bars for the rest of his life. They don't want him to have any protection behind bars because they want bad things to happen to him. I mean, really bad things. How sick are these mother fuckers? That's a rhetorical question. I don't know that Congress has the authority to make any of this happen but that won't stop them from trying. It won't happen with Johnson as Speaker unless you have a few RINOs who go along with the Democrats. Or, maybe it never goes to a floor vote, thanks to Johnson. What happens when Johnson is no longer Speaker? All bets are off.
I don't know much about this Title IX thing that Biden put through this past week (becomes effective in August), but it sounds eggregious. I think Biden's revision of Title IX essentially makes it a federal crime to try and keep men out of women's locker rooms and women's sports. It doesn't stop there. You can now add homeless shelters, prisons, nursing homes, lesbian groups, and bathrooms to the toxic mix of places that men who are confused about their genders have access to. Suburban moms, are you fucking listening? Dads with daughters, are you listening? Black dads and moms with daughters, are you listening? If you have a daughter thinking that she's going to go to the best schools on a sports scholarship, think again. It's one thing to compete against your own gender, but it's something else to have to compete against a man who has the muscle to both beat you and harm you at the same time. We've all seen the videos. Oh, and I think that under this new and revised Title IX, it is a felony to misgender someone. Did I mention that under these revised rules, the accused no longer has the right to confront and challenge their accuser? Put on your big-boy pants, girls. This is happening in real-time. This rule may only be applicable to federally funded institutions, but that's a pretty damn large umbrella of institutions. I've probably only brushed the surface here, but what I've seen so far suggests to me that the pendulum has swung too far to the left under the Biden administration when and where it comes to satisfying the lust of the LGBTQ lobby. God willing, that all changes on Inauguration Day, 2025.
I'm feeling a little depressed this morning. I'm not sure why, exactly. The sun is shining, my coffee is still hot, and I don't have a lot on my plate today that I want to avoid one way or another. It looks like a pretty good day for a bike ride, so that's something to look forward to when all is said and done. It is true that I'm struggling a bit with having something to say, so maybe that's it. Then again, this isn't my first rodeo. Been there, done that. I just have to get back in the saddle and do what I always do when this happens. Does any of this have anything to do with the fact that Trump's "Stormy Daniels" trial is starting today in Midtown Manhattan? I don't think so. This thing is going to last for a couple of months, and the only thing happening in the next two or three weeks has to do with jury selection. That won't stop the Trump haters in the media from spewing their usual nonsense, so I'll have to steer clear of that if I can.
We'll have to see if world stock markets can get back on track today after a tough day last Friday. Nothing good happens when the VIX goes above 15 and when major indices break the 50-day moving average, so we'll see if both of those things turn around today. I understand why Iran attacking Israel for the first time had everyone's attention on Friday and over the weekend. You just never know what Iran is capable of when push comes to shove. Israel killed some of Iran's top commanders in the attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus last week, so you had to believe that the Mullahs might have had something special in mind for the Israelis. It was much ado about nothing by the time Iran announced on Friday night that they were done launching projectiles into Israel. Well, aside from the terror that some Israelis may have experienced as a result of the seemingly continuous barrage of missiles that exploded over Tel Aviv, thanks to Israel's spectacular dome defense system. Israel can now turn their attention back to the usual bad actors on their borders like Hamas, Hezbollah, and, to a lesser extent, the Houthis.
I thought Trump said he could solve the Ukraine / Russian conflict within twenty-four hours of his inauguration. I think he was referring to something having to do with his best-selling book, the "Art of the Deal." Now, he's saying that the money we give to Ukraine should be a loan. Which is it, Mr. President? You said that Russia would have never attacked Ukraine had you been president. The majority of the American people want no part of the Russia / Ukraine conflict, just so you know. You also know full well that were we to loan a nickel to that corrupt shithole Ukraine that we'd never see any of it repaid. What the hell kind of fool do you take us for? Is this your idea of paying lip service to the Deep State so they'll be less strident in pushing back against the idea of your presidency? What am I not getting about this thing? How am I supposed to square this circle? It sounds like Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is putting a bill to fun Ukraine on the House floor at the end of this week. I'd like to think that this decision of his would be the end of his speakership, but you gave him your full-throated support this past week down in Mar-a-Lago so he may be able to hang on. It's a clusterfuck either way. It is not what the American people want. Period, end of sentence.
Did you happen to see the pro-Hamas types out in numbers yesterday across the country clogging bridges and other thruways in protesting Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza? These are some sick fucks. Who rallies their fellow men and women in support of killing, raping, and ethnically cleansing any ethnic group, never mind Israelis. Think October 7th. Maybe more disturbing were the policemen and women who stood silently by watching it all go down without arresting or collaring one of them. They could have cared less about emergency vehicles that were prevented from reaching their destination. Anyone heading to catch a last-minute flight at the airport, that wasn't happening. You know, don't you, that one phone call from the White House to enforce our laws and clear any and all obstructions from these fairways was all that anyone needed to fix the problem? Here's the deal: This was the Biden White House siding with the progressive left in their efforts to pressure Israel to cease and desist in their efforts to kill every last member of Hamas in Gaza and elsewhere. This was the Biden White House acting in sympathy with Muslim populations in Dearborn, Michigan, for purely political reasons. Here's the bottom line: You have a clown in the White House who does not now, nor have they ever, had Israel's best interests in mind. As for the protestors, expect more of the same.
I hear what Elon Musk is saying about preparing for future growth for his car company, Tesla, but one can't help but wonder if there isn't more to that story. I'm referring to the announcement yesterday that Tesla is laying off ten percent of its employees worldwide. There may have been something buried deeper in that report about competition from China, but that's a story for another day. My guess, and this may be somewhat self-serving, is that it has more to do with the lack of interest in electric vehicles altogether. They can't sell them because nobody wants them. You've heard what they say about destination anxiety when it comes to electric cars. Right? You never know if you're going to get to your destination because you can't be sure that you'll find a charging station when you need one. If you do find a charging station, there may not be a spot available because there is a line two blocks long of vehicles just waiting for their turn to sit at the pump for the extended period of time it takes to charge their battery. I don't think any of this is going away. As for Tesla the company, they may be just one more electric car thrown on the ash heap of history at the end of the day. So much for Biden's zero-carbon goals by the year 2030.
I agree with Monica Crowley when she tweeted that she would crawl over broken glass to be seated as a juror in Trump's trial in New York City. Can you imagine? "You're in" would be the sweetest words a Trump supporter could hear if this sort of opportunity presented itself. Were it me, I would pray and plot every moment of the trial inside and outside the courtroom on how I was going to end this fiasco one way or another when the final day arrived when I had the opportunity to vote on Trump's guilt or innocence. I would be steely in my opposition to my fellow jurors, who more than likely would cajole, persuade, and ultimately probably want to humiliate or banish me for not going along with the rest of the crazed leftist Manhattan moonbats on the jury. I would argue as vociferously as I could that this was a sham trial from day one. I would remind my fellow jurists that Michael Cohen went to jail for lying, and his testimony should be tossed. I would ask that they resist the temptation to take any of the testimony coming from the whore, Stormy Daniels, or other salacious "experts" who may have posed for Playboy or other publications as nothing more than Bragg's desperate plea to keep jurors from falling asleep during the trial where accounting entries were discussed at length. See where I'm going with this?
I have to laugh. I'm reading a story about Kamala Harris having a chat with Zelensky, during which she requested that Ukraine not attack Russia's oil facilities. How ironic is that? Now, who's working with the Russians to win an election? The last thing Biden can afford to have happen is to see the prices at the gas pump spiral out of control in the midst of a cratering economy with inflation that is sticky, if not unrelenting. Biden has deliberately depleted our strategic petroleum reserves, which helped him and his minions keep prices at the pump down in the weeks leading up to the 2022 mid-term elections. I thought those reserves were meant as a backup for the American people in the event of some cataclysmic event. That is, of course, until you have one of the worst presidents in the history of our great Republic facing an electoral disaster. Then, you pull out all the stops. You deplete the reserves, you put your political opposition in jail, and you work with our adversaries around the globe to ensure that oil prices stay in check. This is the same Kamala Harris whose only job during her first year as Vice President was to manage our southern border. She was our border Czar. Right? How has that worked out for you?
Speaking of politicians and their devious ploys to stay in office, have you heard the latest about that clown of a governor in California? I'm talking about Gavin Newscum. He's setting up an office of genealogy in the state in order to establish a historical record in order to pay reparations if and when that day comes. How fucking Orwellian is that? I guess it's one way to keep minorities on the plantation. Who is going to vote for the other guy if you already have your guy working on a plan to pay reparations? As an aside, just imagine what you can do if you have the DNA of all of the citizens living in your state. It would also be a mistake to think that this is just about black people. You'd be surprised how many people are going to hand over their DNA when there is a chance, however small, that you, too, might participate in one of the biggest payouts in the history of our country. For someone like Newscum, who has national political ambitions, this could be the catnip he needs to drive minorities to the polls when he decides that he wants to run for president. This is bigger than forgiving student loans. This is bigger than the offer of a free college education. This is bigger than the promise of lower prices at the pump. Who needs to steal an election when you can win it outright with the promise of an Escalade in every driveway?
I'm not sure that the Democrats are going to get the mileage they think they're going to get by putting Trump on trial in New York City. Trump actually paid a visit to a bodega in Harlem after being in the courtroom in downtown Manhattan all day yesterday. Not just any bodega, mind you. It's the same bodega where the shop owner killed a robber during a hold-up last year. The District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, the same District attorney who is now looking to convict Trump in a NYC courtroom, brought charges against the bodega owner who killed the robber. The charges were dropped after a hue and a cry from locals. Residents of the area turned out in huge numbers to see Trump. If you had any misgivings about Trump being an outcast in the minority community because of his alleged crimes against the State or, to a lesser extent, his alleged crimes as they relate to accounting entries made by his bookkeeper to pay off a hooker like Stormy Daniels, seeing the locals singing his praises would dispel all of it and more. If any of what we saw yesterday in downtown Harlem was sincere in the least, Trump may now have a fighting chance to win NYC in November. The truth of the matter is Trump has never stopped fighting for New York, and the good people of the city know it.
My head is a completely blank slate this morning. Now that I think of it, what the hell happened in the Senate Impeachment hearings yesterday in Washington, D.C.? That asshole, Schumer, somehow got away with proclaiming that Mayorkis was not guilty of any of the three of four impeachment articles brought against him by the House of Representatives. I'm not sure that Schumer had the right to do that since no such provision exists in the Constitution for the dissolution of charges by a mere vote of the Majority. Are we all just supposed just to roll over and allow Schumer and the Democrats to make this shit up as they go along? Are there no consequences for making a mockery of our beloved Constitution? Who is going to hold them to account? Other Democrats? Nope, they just go along to get along. This is what they do. This is who they are. Not a day goes by when I hear someone in our nation's capitol say that something is unconstitutional, yet nothing is ever done to restore whatever norm has been torn asunder. Maybe what they say about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is true. Now you know why the Bidenistas are so reluctant to give up power. Now you know why it's more important than ever to drive these feral dogs out of our Republic come Election Day in November, root and branch if necessary.
I steamed up some mussels for dinner last night. It promised to be a quick, fat-free dish that I could whip up in no time flat. I was on my own, of course. The missus wanted no part of the mussel dish. I think she has this thing about not eating clams and other things of the sort that might carry deadly pathogens. She ordered a quart of seafood chowder from a local restaurant that I was more than happy to pick up for her on my way home from running an errand. Were it not for the potatoes in the chowder, I might have joined her in having a bit of chowder for dinner. I picked out a few little shrimp from the chowder when she wasn't looking and went on about my business without anyone being the wiser. I contemplated cooking up some whole wheat pasta to have with my mussels but decided at the last minute that it would delay my meal by a good half hour, so that was that. There would be no pasta. I also wasn't interested in smothering my mussels in a red tomato sauce if that is what it came to after preparing the pasta. I steamed the mussels in a nice white wine and garlic sauce and they were ready to eat in about five minutes, start to finish. Just a darn good and inexpensive meal for under eight dollars.
I'm beginning to wonder what role, if any, the World Health Organization (WHO) will play in this fall's presidential election. There are rumors that the United States (Joe Biden) plans to give the WHO sovereignty over our country's health issues. I can't be sure about the timing of this so-called transfer of authority, but I also can't help but wonder if this isn't just coincidentally coinciding with a present-day surge in cases of human bird flu. Think about it. It gives Biden plausible deniability if and when WHO shuts down our country and forces the issue of mail-in ballots, which, as we all know, is how the Democrats stole the 2020 election. The modus operandi of this pandemic is not unlike what we saw when COVID-19 came along. It started with a rumor, and then we saw videos of Chinese healthcare workers in hazmat suits fumigating the streets of Beijing. Then reports started coming out of Europe of elderly people having respiratory issues and dying in rather short order after contracting the virus until Trump gave the order to stop any and all incoming flights from China. I don't know anything about the bird flu in terms of how lethal it may or may not be, but maybe none of that matters. What matters is that Joe Biden gets reelected, bird flu or no bird flu. Just don't call me "conspiratorial."
Dont'. This is all that our fruitcake of a president had to say when cautioning Iran not to attack Israel and then similarly with Israel when they announced plans to attack Iran. Neither Iran nor Israel gave two shits about what our clown of a president had to say. What does that tell you about Biden's moral authority on the world stage? What it tells me is that he has none. What kind of possible moral authority does a person have when he can't complete a sentence without the use of cue cards? How do you give any credence whatsoever to a president who fabricates stories on the campaign trail about his uncle, a pilot, being shot down over New Guinea and who is then consumed by cannibals? None of it is true. Where the hell are the fact-checkers in the media? Then, he cautions Israeli President Netanyahu not to invade Haifa. Haifa, for those of you who don't know, is a major city in Israel. Biden confused Haifa, the city in Israel, with Rafah, the city of one million or more Palestinians living in southern Gaza. There is no cleanup in aisle eight because when you do live interviews, this is what you get. You get an American president who issues monosyllabic ultimatums to world leaders who pay him, or the clowns surrounding him, no attention.
I checked my Twitter feed before going to bed last night and saw that Israel had conducted a bombing raid over major cities in Iran. This was, if we're to believe everything we hear and see in the news, a retaliatory raid after Iran sent some three hundred drones into the skies over Israel just last week. Another tweet talked about futures in the stock market tanking overnight on news of the attack. I left it there, turned off everything, and went to sleep. After four days of losses in the major indices, the last thing we needed was to have someone throw kerosene on a smoldering fire of a market. If you were a futures trader, you probably moved all of your chips into the middle of the table on the likelihood of an even steeper and more precipitous decline in the stock market in the intervening hours of the early morning. As of first thing this morning, it seems that news about the width and breadth of Israel's attack on Iran's cities and nuclear facilities was largely exaggerated. If I'm to believe what I'm reading in my Twitter newsfeed, Israel is now trying to figure out why the United States leaked information about the attack on Iran to the media. The media then ran with the story like it was the beginning of World War III. Of course, they did.
We'll see if the market can rally today on the news that last night's attack was largely a nothing burger. There will be no nuclear holocaust. Both Israel and Iran will live to fight another day. I'd like to see a good counterrally that gets the SPY back to within 100 points of the all-time high. I think that with interest rate cuts seemingly off the table for the foreseeable future, we'll see yields continue to climb, and that is never good news for the stock market. Oil prices spiked on the news of the attack last night but came back down after reports that the raids were largely performative. I'm not sure when, where, or how these Kabuki dances between Israel and Iran are going to end, but they seem to be petering out as I sit here this morning. I'm also wondering if what they say about selling in May and going away, as it relates to the stock market, is a truism this year. If you consider the fact that the market has been up for 24 consecutive weeks in a row since last October, you have to think that it needs a breather sooner or later. A bit of distribution or profit-taking is always healthy for a market. I'm also banking on the fact that the pullback we're seeing in the market is a garden-variety correction and not the beginning of a bear market. We'll need a few more cards to come out of the deck before we know for sure. Jerome Powell, what say ye?
You know that part and parcel of Biden's strategy in this election is to keep Trump in the courtroom and off the campaign trail. Right? The other thing that comes to mind for me is the call early on in Biden's campaign that the more people see "Lunch Bucket" Joe, the better off he'll be. "People want to see more of President Joe Biden, not less", they proclaimed. He's been running around Pennsylvania campaigning while Trump is sitting in a NYC courtroom. There's only one problem. Every time Biden opens his mouth, he makes some stupid or nonsensical comment that goes around the world and back again before he or his handlers have a chance to clean it up. It just continues to feed the narrative that the guy is not ready for prime time. Why is there not more caterwauling in the media about keeping Biden away from the nuclear codes? He has no business doing any campaigning because he's simply not right in the head. "Infirm" doesn't begin to tell the story. The print media gets to say that he's killing it when it comes to the economy and his handling of international affairs. If you're reading the Washington Post or the New York Times, Biden is the best thing since sliced bread. The rest of us Americans and the world at large, who could care less about fish wrappers like the New York Times, know better.
Trump is ahead in most swing-state polls and tied with dementia Joe in states like Pennsylvania as of today. You know what that means, right? The Democrat Party gets to work putting together a plan to take advantage of the "nip and tuck" condition, as it were. We've all heard the stories about trucks backing up to the back door of the tabulation centers at three in the morning with boxes of ballots that someone just happened to notice were lying around uncounted. It's deja vu all over again. Remember in 2020 when Trump came on television at 10 o'clock on election night to announce that he was ahead by tens of thousands of votes in Pennsylvania and other states? Well, we all know how that turned out. Once they counted all the ballots, notice that I didn't say valid ballots, the tide had turned, and Biden had taken the lead and the election. Voila'! Or, should I say, mission accomplished? The die is cast, my good friends. They know what they have to do, and they are greasing the printing presses as we speak. The only thing they don't know as of this moment is just how many ballots they need to print. I can hear them now. Let's print an extra ten thousand, just in case. We can burn the ballots we don't use.
The Democrats' key is to get as many mail-in ballots as they can, manufactured or otherwise, to stuff into drop boxes or other receptacles across our fruited plains. Maximizing the number of mail-in ballots is also important. In 2020, the Democrats used the pandemic to scare the bejesus out of their voters in order to facilitate the use of mail-in ballots on an industrial scale. I talked about the bird flu a few paragraphs back as a likely "pandemic" that the Democrats could use as yet another scare tactic in order to maximize the use of mail-in ballots in 2024. Remember, the key to having a trunkload of ballots available for dispatch to a tabulation center that is "short" of votes for Biden is to flood the zone with ballots so that no one would question a last-minute box or trunkload of ballots should they show up in the middle of the night. It's almost an expectation at this point. This is what they're going to do. If you think this is far-fetched, let me give you an update on the bird flu thing. I'm seeing stories now about how the bird flu virus has moved into our milk supply. This was not a thing a week ago. Everyone drinks milk, so none of us are safe from the virus were it to pass from cow to human. Wait for it. My guess is that Biden is just waiting for the World Health Organization (WHO) to take control of our sovereignty over health issues before the alert goes out that the bird flu is now active in the human population, and we're once again knee-deep in a deadly pathogen-rich pandemic.
Fuck Benny Johnson. Is that the guy's name? He's the congressman who headed up the corrupt January 6th Committee in Congress in the wake of the January 6th riot in our nation's capital. Anyway, he's introducing legislation that removes Secret Service protection from any politician who is found guilty of a felony and sentenced to jail. His target, and the target of this Democrat legislation, of course, is Donald Trump. Johnson knows that one of the problems that most of the leftist judges have with putting Trump in prison for his alleged crimes is that Trump has Secret Service protection for the rest of his life as a former president. This makes it almost impossible to put Trump behind bars as it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Secret Service to protect Trump. Let's understand one thing about these dirtbag Democrats. They want Trump dead, and if they can't manage that, they want him behind bars for the rest of his life. They don't want him to have any protection behind bars because they want bad things to happen to him. I mean, really bad things. How sick are these mother fuckers? That's a rhetorical question. I don't know that Congress has the authority to make any of this happen but that won't stop them from trying. It won't happen with Johnson as Speaker unless you have a few RINOs who go along with the Democrats. Or, maybe it never goes to a floor vote, thanks to Johnson. What happens when Johnson is no longer Speaker? All bets are off.
I don't know much about this Title IX thing that Biden put through this past week (becomes effective in August), but it sounds eggregious. I think Biden's revision of Title IX essentially makes it a federal crime to try and keep men out of women's locker rooms and women's sports. It doesn't stop there. You can now add homeless shelters, prisons, nursing homes, lesbian groups, and bathrooms to the toxic mix of places that men who are confused about their genders have access to. Suburban moms, are you fucking listening? Dads with daughters, are you listening? Black dads and moms with daughters, are you listening? If you have a daughter thinking that she's going to go to the best schools on a sports scholarship, think again. It's one thing to compete against your own gender, but it's something else to have to compete against a man who has the muscle to both beat you and harm you at the same time. We've all seen the videos. Oh, and I think that under this new and revised Title IX, it is a felony to misgender someone. Did I mention that under these revised rules, the accused no longer has the right to confront and challenge their accuser? Put on your big-boy pants, girls. This is happening in real-time. This rule may only be applicable to federally funded institutions, but that's a pretty damn large umbrella of institutions. I've probably only brushed the surface here, but what I've seen so far suggests to me that the pendulum has swung too far to the left under the Biden administration when and where it comes to satisfying the lust of the LGBTQ lobby. God willing, that all changes on Inauguration Day, 2025.
Coup d'état
14/04/24 07:03
Welcome to another week. I have an oil change appointment this morning, so I hope I don't forget it. Not that I would, mind you. I might get caught up in doing this or that and forget that I had other things scheduled. It wouldn't be the first time. I finally got back out on the road for my daily bike ride yesterday after being off the road due to bike repairs and bad weather. I never push the envelope after being out of the saddle for a week or so because I know myself well enough to know that that sort of thing can end badly if I'm not careful. That said, I rode half my usual route and enjoyed every minute of it. It looks like we have another sunny day on tap today, so I'll be out there again this afternoon, God willing. That extra five or ten degrees that we see over the course of a day can make the difference between riding while wearing gloves and riding without having to need gloves. I think I get a better ride when I'm not laden down with layer after layer of whatever to keep me warm over the ten miles or so that takes me up and down the coastline. That's just me.
I'm getting a little tired of being the only cook in the house. I never signed up to be someone's short-order cook, but that's just how I feel. Then there's the additional guilt that comes along with not preparing a meal and having my better half go to bed hungry. I've shared my feelings on this issue before, but nothing ever changes. I don't know what she's going to do when I'm not around to do it anymore. Maybe she'll find another person to do what I've been doing all these past many years. I suppose she could get take-out more often. Something would have to change. I'm not even that reliable or creative a chef, truth be told. I'll prepare an occasional quiche for our breakfast, which I'll serve with grapefruit when available. I usually make a nice salad for our lunch, and maybe we'll have something like chicken on a skewer or locally caught fish, if it looks good, with some seasonal vegetables for dinner. We have some reliable take-out joints we frequent, but those, too, are getting a little long in the tooth. I'm not sure where we go from here.
Trump is going to lay out his ideas on abortion today. I'm not sure what the format looks like, but it may be similar to the various and sundry presentations that he did in the run-up to the 2016 elections. Those presentations back in the day on everything from national security to laying out who he planned to have in his administration went a long way towards winning the hearts and minds of people who were maybe a little uncomfortable in voting for a guy who spent his last fourteen years hosting a fabulous television show called "The Apprentice." He was up against a media that spent every waking hour casting him as a huckster and a showman. They were all in for Hillary Clinton at the time, so none of it came as a surprise. Trump is a common sense guy, so I expect his policies on abortion will be similarly fashioned. Never mind that he put three of the conservative justices on our highest court who did away with Roe vs. Wade. I don't know what the middle road on the abortion issue looks like, but expect Trump to address the exceptions like rape, incest, and the health of the mother head-on. For now, he may or may not commit to anything beyond those issues.
Today, there is a total eclipse of the sun that is viewable in our state. I could give two shits, quite honestly. I will not be one of the many flat-earthers out there with those stupid cardboard eyeglasses peering up at the sky. I hope that the more sensible of the eclipse worshippers take the appropriate precautions, whatever that looks like. I don't know if everything I've been hearing about fried retinas and the like is just another old wives tale or science that we're to believe. I'm also a little suspicious of these stories I'm hearing about people flocking to states like mine today just to "see" the event. I mean, who does that? Is this some sort of pagan ritual that I'm not familiar with? Are there things that we should or should not be doing on a day like today? Things that we should shy away from just in case? Is this anything like the full-moon nonsense that has people acting silly and, for lack of a better word, weird? It should all be over by 3 in the afternoon. Our next event of this sort doesn't come around for a decade or two, so plan accordingly. Hey, what about my bike ride this afternoon?
There are days like today when I wake up, sit at this here desk, and don't have a clue as to what I'm going to put down on paper. That's probably not a bad place to start. Think of it as a blank slate. Right? I worry sometimes that I'm spending too much time writing about this or that, and it might come across as being obsessive. So, I resist picking up where I left off the previous day when I might have had a lot to say about something like politics. The Trump thing is always good for a paragraph or two. He's also always in the news, so there is always something new to discuss. My bike riding gig is a reliable fallback story when nothing else comes to mind. I'd have more to say about that if I could remember from one day to the next the kinds of things that come to mind during my hour-long jaunts. That's just a fact. I keep telling myself that I need to keep a notepad handy to write down things when they come to mind, but I have yet to do that. In an odd sort of way, I really don't like to be too organized when it comes to writing in this journal. I like the free flow of whatever comes to mind, even if it means talking too much about things that I continue to talk too much about.
What am I hearing about Brazil and its ongoing beef with Elon Musk? Apparently, they are giving him a hard time about what he's doing or not doing to rein in free speech on his platform, X (Formerly Twitter). I don't know that Brazil has banned Musk's social media platform altogether, but they have told him that, if I'm not mistaken, he cannot run his Starlink business in Brazil. What one has to do with the other, I don't know. Imagine for a moment that you are living in or around the Amazon rain forest and, thanks to Musk's Starlink satellites, you now have access to the internet. Now imagine that your government decides that they don't like the internet provider, and they take it all down overnight. Poof. You are in the dark. You no longer have quick and easy access to the outside world. You are cut off from family and friends. Is the Brazilian government cutting off their nose to spite their face? They, too, no longer have access to the other regions of their country. Right? Does any of this have anything to do with the leftist Lula government working with the Biden regime to spank Musk for his so-called transgressions here in the States? This needs some serious sorting. Today, it's Brazil. Tomorrow, it could be coming to a neighborhood near you. America, are you listening?
I heard Hugh Hewitt talking about David Cameron, the Secretary of State in the British government, coming to the United States to visit with Trump. When I first heard the story, I thought to myself this is a good thing. Cameron and others of his ilk from various countries are coming to get a little face time with the man who will more than likely be our 47th President of the United States. It was also a huge slap in the face to the Bidenistas, who have no choice but to sit back and watch it all go down in Mar-a-Lago. Joe Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is, and his handlers probably don't even tell him about Cameron's visit. Nobody gives a flying fuck about the demented clown eating his oatmeal in the back room on the second floor of the West Wing without so much as a care in the world. What I'm finding out, thanks to Hugh, is that Cameron is here to sell Trump on funding the war in Ukraine. I'm talking about the bill for the $60 billion that Speaker Johnson refuses to bring to the floor for a vote. Knowing Trump as I do and his malleability on issues depending on who is massaging his ego at any given time, I have some advice for The Donald. Don't fucking do it. Do not give Johnson any reason to think that funding Ukraine is acceptable. Here is what you tell Cameron: Not another fucking penny for the grifters and oligarchs in Ukraine.
I'm hearing a lot of rumors these days about Congressmen being bought off to leave the Republican party so the Democrats can take back the House of Representatives. There are some other examples I've heard of other people being offered money not to run in certain races. I believe Kari Lake said that she was offered money not to run for the Senate in the state of Arizona. What the hell is this? It feels sleazy and illegal to me. It's precisely what you'd expect the Democrats to engage in. What did I read this morning about RFK Jr's VP pick and efforts by the lefties to have her leave the race because they know she'll draw support from the progressive left? These Marxists with deep pockets are a threat to democracy, yet they accuse conservatives of the same. She's too rich, so they can't buy her off. Instead, they tell her that by running on the Kennedy ticket, it's more likely than not that they will tip the race to Trump. It's a bridge too far, dearie! She seems like a woman who can make up her own mind, so I hope she sticks to her guns and stays in the race. She knew what she was getting into. Both the Kennedy and Trump camps are of one mind when it comes to this election: They cannot allow Biden to either steal or win the election.
I think I'm going to pass on my favorite Springtime dessert later this month. In late April every year, I typically have strawberry shortcake with gobs of strawberries and whipped cream. I've been doing my best lately to stay away from sugar and other things that they say aren't good for you. I know how well I'm doing when I can walk by the pastry section of any particular store without putting one or more things in my cart. Here's another good example: I have two boxes of cereal on top of my refrigerator. One is a box of Raisin Bran, which I picked up during a shopping trip to Whole Foods. I stopped eating it after my first bowlful. It was just too sugary. The other box of cereal is a box of Shredded Wheat. I looked again yesterday after avoiding sugary stuff for the better part of a month and noticed that the Raisin Bran had 15 grams of sugar per serving. The Shredded Wheat had zero grams of sugar. It's true what they say about these sugary products. The more you consume them, the more you want to consume them. It's a vicious cycle. It's also not just sugar. It's white bread and pizza crust. It's the whole carb thing. You go from eating a slice or two to eating half a pizza at a time. I'm a little more sensible when it comes to avoiding the bad stuff these days, and I want to continue in that vein for the foreseeable future. Hence, there will be no strawberry shortcake this year. It's just easier to say "no."
I'm bored to tears over anything and everything having to do with abortion. It's just not my cup of tea. It's not the hill I want to die on. I do get annoyed, however, when I see Democrats trying to run this issue up the flagpole as the most important issue in the history of our Republic. It's all about rallying women to get to the polls where they think they're advancing the interests of the American public by voting for the same scumbags that have been destroying our country and our culture for God only knows how long. I don't know what it's going to take to get the Republicans on the right side of this issue. Does a "right" side of this issue even exist? As a people, we seem to be incapable of answering that question with any degree of clarity. You believe what you believe. They believe what they believe. As long as the Democrats frame the issue as a woman's issue, aka reproductive rights, that position seems to give them the upper hand. It's a cudgel that will take them to the promise land in politics if harnessed and wielded properly. That lesson is not lost on the Democrats.
The day before they released the latest inflation numbers, the stock market headed south mid-afternoon after tweets here and there suggesting that someone had leaked the numbers a day ahead of the actual report. How does this even happen? Whoever leaked the data wasn't wrong. The inflation numbers came in hotter than expected. I thought all along that the Fed would cook the numbers to put lipstick on the pig that is inflation and pave the way for a second Biden term. Well, not so much. Are the latest inflation readings the silver bullet that takes out the entire Biden Administration? Or does the Fed have another plan to boost chances for a second term for the aging and demented fool sitting in our White House? And what the hell is Biden doing commenting on interest rate cuts? It was almost like he thought the latest inflation numbers would give the Fed the reason they were looking for in order to cut interest rates. Was Biden telegraphing that a cut is in the works? Were Biden's comments a nod of sorts to the Fed that they need to get cuts out the door and fast? Never mind that interest rate cuts would be like throwing jet fuel on an inflation fire that is already burning too hot. I don't know about you, but I could use a mean tweet about right now.
I heard that Biden held a press conference on the White House lawn yesterday. Anyone with half a brain knows that Biden's idea of a press conference involves calling on reporters who were preselected to take questions. It gets worse. Biden actually reads his responses from a script that someone has placed on the rostrum. He wears those stupid aviator shades of his so that people in the audience can't see that he's reading from the notes. I don't know who the fuck he thinks he's fooling. And the compliant media plays along with the charade like the clapping and complicit seals that they are. Nightly newscasts replay cuts of Biden's speech in order to perpetuate the myth that Biden is a fully engaged and multi-tasking president doing the business of the presidency. It's a cluster fuck on the American public of monumental proportions. Nothing could be further from the truth. People around the world know we have a completely demented, corrupt, and infirm president at the helm, and they are likely incredulous that this could be happening to the greatest democracy on the face of the earth. Not to worry. The right-minded citizenry of our country wonders the same thing. It's like, when is this nightmare going to end? Spoiler alert: Not soon enough.
I had this really weird thought the other day. I wondered if everything that the Republican Congress has been doing to expose the criminality of the Biden Crime Family has really been an effort to take the influence-peddling issue off the table as a blackmailable issue for the countries that have been paying off the Bidens for decades. In other words, if Republicans put all the known Biden and Biden-related transgressions out there for the American public to see, and the end result is that nobody gives a fuck, then what possible leverage do the Chinese or Russians have were they to threaten Biden to do something that he doesn't want to do?
Don't get me wrong. Biden is allegedly a wholly owned asset of the Chinese Communist Party thanks to their "investments" in the Biden Family Trust going back decades. He would no sooner turn a blind eye to their requests than he would submit his letter of resignation as president of the United States. The very same countries that have been paying he and his family off for decades, if we're to believe Congressman Comer and his investigators, still have a role to play in upcoming elections if they are to more fully reap the rewards to which they think they are entitled. This was never about impeaching Joe Biden. It was always about protecting him from nefarious bad actors around the world who would wish to blackmail him. Never mind that he is the most corrupt president in the history of our Republic. We protect our own.
This FISA thing in Congress is a joke. They say that unless Congress passes this FISA bill, we'll no longer be able to spy on those bad actors around the world that would do us harm. Who the fuck do they think they're kidding? Bill or no bill, our government is going to spy on whoever and whatever they want to spy on. Is there anyone that our government hasn't spied on? That's a rhetorical question. I also don't know what the bill has to do with domestic spying, if anything, but you can bet your sweet arse that they can pretty much spy on you, me, or anyone else in our country at any time without fear of retribution.
Hell, they spied relentlessly on the Trump campaign when he ran for president in 2016, and they did it at the request of the sitting president at the time. I'm referring to the goat herder from Kenya. Look at it this way: If you have a cell phone, a computer, a Bluetooth device like an Alexa, or maybe a refrigerator with an internet connection, they are spying on you. They listen to your conversations, they track your physical movements, they know who you associate with, and they know every purchase you make, wherever and whenever you make it. If you've ever signed on to a genealogical website and given your DNA, they've got that, too. The websites have likely sold your DNA data to the Chinese government. If that isn't enough to keep you up at night, I don't know what is.
There he goes again. Biden has been bitch-slapped by the Supreme Court for trying to erase student debt at the expense of the American taxpayer. The courts were very clear: The President of the United States does now have the authority to do any such thing. Yet, I'm reading every other day that he's forgiving yet another tranche of student debt. It's a stark ploy to buy votes, plain and simple. Here's what I don't get. Just because some buffoon in the White House comes along and tells you that you don't need to repay your educational loans, it doesn't mean that you need to vote for the fool who forgave your debt with the stroke of a pen. It's especially true with the loser that we have sitting in our White House at the moment. Young people are moving away from Bumbles Biden and the Democrat party in record numbers for a variety of reasons and no amount of loan forgiveness is going to change that. I'm delighted to see that the Republicans are taking Biden to court again on this issue, but I'm not hopeful that anything is going to stop Biden and his handlers from continuing their unlawful and relentless attempts to flout the laws in order to boost their chances at the polls this coming November. This is who they are. This is what they do.
Someone needs to get on the stick and do a little investigating up there in the state of Maine. I want to know why Chinese nationals are permitted to run massive marijuana operations throughout the State of Maine without fear of being shut down by governmental agencies in the state. Both you and I know that the state of Maine has gone public with a couple of closures, if for no other reason than to give the appearance of doing something. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that the Chinese are padding the bank account of the Governor in the state? This is what the Chinese do. They bribe their way into countries, states, organizations, and local governments in order to get local officials to do their bidding.
China has perfected the art of blackmail, and there is no sweeter incentive than the promise of wealth beyond your means. When was the last time you heard Governor Mills even comment on the scourge of Chinese nationals invading the state she presides over? We're probably wasting our time thinking that she is keeping any of her ill-gotten gains in a local bank account. Those monies are stashed overseas and out of sight of prying eyes. I'd like to think that the good people of Maine might rise up and push back against the graft and people like Governor Mills, who allegedly sell their very souls for untold millions and at the expense of their fellow Mainers. This seems to be a pattern in blue states these days. The corruption is too deep. The citizenry is too complacent. Now and forever more, likely a lost cause. Think Massachusetts or California.
The world is on pins and needles now, and it's only a matter of time before Iran retaliates against Israel for their bombing of Iran's consulate in Syria, which resulted in the death of a half dozen or more high-level Iranian commandos. Israel has promised to retaliate by targeting key facilities in Iran. The United States has moved more military equipment into the region to assist Israel in defending against missile attacks coming from Iran. None of this helped the American stock market yesterday. The major indices dropped to or below their respective 50-day moving averages for the first time in months.
Iran has been attacking Israel for years with proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas but never directly. It would represent an escalation of untold consequences in the Middle East at a time when Israel already has its hands full with an ongoing war against Hamas and Hezbollah and, to a lesser extent, the Houthis in Yemen, who are actively trying to choke off supplies to Israel by attacking shipping lanes in the Red Sea. Who knows where this all goes in the coming days? We have seen nothing but tragedy and turmoil when and where it comes to America's foreign policy since Biden took office, so I'm not hopeful that any of this will turn out well. I do believe in an eye for an eye, so Iran is entitled to their pound of flesh, whatever that looks like.
I'm already tired of the Trump trial bullshit in New York City, and the trial hasn't even yet begun. Let's call it what it is: It's a coup d'état . Barring any last-minute changes, the trial starts next Monday. This is the Left's wet dream of a trial that finally delivers the conviction that the Left has been yammering for for years ever since Trump came down the escalator in 2015 to announce that he was running for president. They'll stop at nothing to put him behind bars in order to further humiliate him and his family and to take him out of the running for the election in the Fall against demented Joe Biden. You know, the bumbling fool of a president who can't complete a sentence without reading from a cue card or a teleprompter. The very same guy who has run our country into the ground domestically and who has put a target on the backs of our citizens around the world.
I don't know if I'll be able to withstand even a moment of our country's media taking victory laps day in and day out after their reporters emerge from the courthouse each day with their breathless and dishonest renditions of the day's hearing. Trump's verdict, guilty on all counts, will likely be the verdict heard around the world. The media can then add "convict" to their list of deliberate and dishonest descriptors when reading their talking points about Trump. This is a very sad time in the history of our country, and nothing better captures the sickness and depravity of our politics than what we're about to witness in the City of New York under a magnificent skyline built over the past few decades by the man sitting in judgment. A once-proud New Yorker, I might add. No more.
Geez. Iran finally launched their attack on Israel, and it was, in my humble opinion, much ado about nothing. It hardly warranted taking our stock market down a few notches on Friday. I'm guessing it comes back with a fury on Monday. The so-called attack almost seemed performative. That is to say, it looked to be well-planned and coordinated with everyone involved. Most of the drones and missiles were shot down by allied forces or Israel. I think Israel is estimating that 99% of the missiles and rockets launched from Iran never reached their targets. Israeli media was pretty exuberant this morning in their reporting. I'm just reading all of this on X (Twitter) so maybe we take it with a grain of salt? Iran's attack was in response to Israel's bombing of Iran's consulate in Damascus, which killed a half dozen high-level Iranian commanders. It's also notable that none of the drones or missiles fired from Iran targeted civilian populations. Does this seem like a commensurate response to you? Israel is now contemplating a response to Iran's attacks, but it seems to me that the tit-for-tat should end here if they are to avoid a larger conflict in the region. If anyone has come up short, it's Iran. I have to believe that they have yet to get what they consider to be their "revenge." Rain check, anyone?
These Ukrainians I see on Twitter are something else. They really get a hair across their collective arses when they see Israel getting all the attention that they think they should be getting instead. I saw one tweet last night bemoaning the fact that the world was on full alert before Iran had even fired their first missile, while Russia's full-out and ongoing bombing of Ukraine's civilian populations received hardly a mention in the media. Never mind that a Republican congress has held up the United States's funding for Ukraine for several months now. We've given Ukraine more money than they deserve, and they can't account for half of it if you want to know the truth. Now they whine like an abandoned child when the United States tells them to fuck off and get to the negotiating table to settle matters with Vlad. That's the message coming from Republicans. The Democrats are more than willing to continue to send good money after bad to that shithole of a country. They can't allow Russia to win the war, don't you know? It would be the end of Western civilization as we know it. They'll go after the Baltic States next. It's fucking nonsense. Stop this money laundering scheme and stop it now.
I'm getting a little tired of being the only cook in the house. I never signed up to be someone's short-order cook, but that's just how I feel. Then there's the additional guilt that comes along with not preparing a meal and having my better half go to bed hungry. I've shared my feelings on this issue before, but nothing ever changes. I don't know what she's going to do when I'm not around to do it anymore. Maybe she'll find another person to do what I've been doing all these past many years. I suppose she could get take-out more often. Something would have to change. I'm not even that reliable or creative a chef, truth be told. I'll prepare an occasional quiche for our breakfast, which I'll serve with grapefruit when available. I usually make a nice salad for our lunch, and maybe we'll have something like chicken on a skewer or locally caught fish, if it looks good, with some seasonal vegetables for dinner. We have some reliable take-out joints we frequent, but those, too, are getting a little long in the tooth. I'm not sure where we go from here.
Trump is going to lay out his ideas on abortion today. I'm not sure what the format looks like, but it may be similar to the various and sundry presentations that he did in the run-up to the 2016 elections. Those presentations back in the day on everything from national security to laying out who he planned to have in his administration went a long way towards winning the hearts and minds of people who were maybe a little uncomfortable in voting for a guy who spent his last fourteen years hosting a fabulous television show called "The Apprentice." He was up against a media that spent every waking hour casting him as a huckster and a showman. They were all in for Hillary Clinton at the time, so none of it came as a surprise. Trump is a common sense guy, so I expect his policies on abortion will be similarly fashioned. Never mind that he put three of the conservative justices on our highest court who did away with Roe vs. Wade. I don't know what the middle road on the abortion issue looks like, but expect Trump to address the exceptions like rape, incest, and the health of the mother head-on. For now, he may or may not commit to anything beyond those issues.
Today, there is a total eclipse of the sun that is viewable in our state. I could give two shits, quite honestly. I will not be one of the many flat-earthers out there with those stupid cardboard eyeglasses peering up at the sky. I hope that the more sensible of the eclipse worshippers take the appropriate precautions, whatever that looks like. I don't know if everything I've been hearing about fried retinas and the like is just another old wives tale or science that we're to believe. I'm also a little suspicious of these stories I'm hearing about people flocking to states like mine today just to "see" the event. I mean, who does that? Is this some sort of pagan ritual that I'm not familiar with? Are there things that we should or should not be doing on a day like today? Things that we should shy away from just in case? Is this anything like the full-moon nonsense that has people acting silly and, for lack of a better word, weird? It should all be over by 3 in the afternoon. Our next event of this sort doesn't come around for a decade or two, so plan accordingly. Hey, what about my bike ride this afternoon?
There are days like today when I wake up, sit at this here desk, and don't have a clue as to what I'm going to put down on paper. That's probably not a bad place to start. Think of it as a blank slate. Right? I worry sometimes that I'm spending too much time writing about this or that, and it might come across as being obsessive. So, I resist picking up where I left off the previous day when I might have had a lot to say about something like politics. The Trump thing is always good for a paragraph or two. He's also always in the news, so there is always something new to discuss. My bike riding gig is a reliable fallback story when nothing else comes to mind. I'd have more to say about that if I could remember from one day to the next the kinds of things that come to mind during my hour-long jaunts. That's just a fact. I keep telling myself that I need to keep a notepad handy to write down things when they come to mind, but I have yet to do that. In an odd sort of way, I really don't like to be too organized when it comes to writing in this journal. I like the free flow of whatever comes to mind, even if it means talking too much about things that I continue to talk too much about.
What am I hearing about Brazil and its ongoing beef with Elon Musk? Apparently, they are giving him a hard time about what he's doing or not doing to rein in free speech on his platform, X (Formerly Twitter). I don't know that Brazil has banned Musk's social media platform altogether, but they have told him that, if I'm not mistaken, he cannot run his Starlink business in Brazil. What one has to do with the other, I don't know. Imagine for a moment that you are living in or around the Amazon rain forest and, thanks to Musk's Starlink satellites, you now have access to the internet. Now imagine that your government decides that they don't like the internet provider, and they take it all down overnight. Poof. You are in the dark. You no longer have quick and easy access to the outside world. You are cut off from family and friends. Is the Brazilian government cutting off their nose to spite their face? They, too, no longer have access to the other regions of their country. Right? Does any of this have anything to do with the leftist Lula government working with the Biden regime to spank Musk for his so-called transgressions here in the States? This needs some serious sorting. Today, it's Brazil. Tomorrow, it could be coming to a neighborhood near you. America, are you listening?
I heard Hugh Hewitt talking about David Cameron, the Secretary of State in the British government, coming to the United States to visit with Trump. When I first heard the story, I thought to myself this is a good thing. Cameron and others of his ilk from various countries are coming to get a little face time with the man who will more than likely be our 47th President of the United States. It was also a huge slap in the face to the Bidenistas, who have no choice but to sit back and watch it all go down in Mar-a-Lago. Joe Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is, and his handlers probably don't even tell him about Cameron's visit. Nobody gives a flying fuck about the demented clown eating his oatmeal in the back room on the second floor of the West Wing without so much as a care in the world. What I'm finding out, thanks to Hugh, is that Cameron is here to sell Trump on funding the war in Ukraine. I'm talking about the bill for the $60 billion that Speaker Johnson refuses to bring to the floor for a vote. Knowing Trump as I do and his malleability on issues depending on who is massaging his ego at any given time, I have some advice for The Donald. Don't fucking do it. Do not give Johnson any reason to think that funding Ukraine is acceptable. Here is what you tell Cameron: Not another fucking penny for the grifters and oligarchs in Ukraine.
I'm hearing a lot of rumors these days about Congressmen being bought off to leave the Republican party so the Democrats can take back the House of Representatives. There are some other examples I've heard of other people being offered money not to run in certain races. I believe Kari Lake said that she was offered money not to run for the Senate in the state of Arizona. What the hell is this? It feels sleazy and illegal to me. It's precisely what you'd expect the Democrats to engage in. What did I read this morning about RFK Jr's VP pick and efforts by the lefties to have her leave the race because they know she'll draw support from the progressive left? These Marxists with deep pockets are a threat to democracy, yet they accuse conservatives of the same. She's too rich, so they can't buy her off. Instead, they tell her that by running on the Kennedy ticket, it's more likely than not that they will tip the race to Trump. It's a bridge too far, dearie! She seems like a woman who can make up her own mind, so I hope she sticks to her guns and stays in the race. She knew what she was getting into. Both the Kennedy and Trump camps are of one mind when it comes to this election: They cannot allow Biden to either steal or win the election.
I think I'm going to pass on my favorite Springtime dessert later this month. In late April every year, I typically have strawberry shortcake with gobs of strawberries and whipped cream. I've been doing my best lately to stay away from sugar and other things that they say aren't good for you. I know how well I'm doing when I can walk by the pastry section of any particular store without putting one or more things in my cart. Here's another good example: I have two boxes of cereal on top of my refrigerator. One is a box of Raisin Bran, which I picked up during a shopping trip to Whole Foods. I stopped eating it after my first bowlful. It was just too sugary. The other box of cereal is a box of Shredded Wheat. I looked again yesterday after avoiding sugary stuff for the better part of a month and noticed that the Raisin Bran had 15 grams of sugar per serving. The Shredded Wheat had zero grams of sugar. It's true what they say about these sugary products. The more you consume them, the more you want to consume them. It's a vicious cycle. It's also not just sugar. It's white bread and pizza crust. It's the whole carb thing. You go from eating a slice or two to eating half a pizza at a time. I'm a little more sensible when it comes to avoiding the bad stuff these days, and I want to continue in that vein for the foreseeable future. Hence, there will be no strawberry shortcake this year. It's just easier to say "no."
I'm bored to tears over anything and everything having to do with abortion. It's just not my cup of tea. It's not the hill I want to die on. I do get annoyed, however, when I see Democrats trying to run this issue up the flagpole as the most important issue in the history of our Republic. It's all about rallying women to get to the polls where they think they're advancing the interests of the American public by voting for the same scumbags that have been destroying our country and our culture for God only knows how long. I don't know what it's going to take to get the Republicans on the right side of this issue. Does a "right" side of this issue even exist? As a people, we seem to be incapable of answering that question with any degree of clarity. You believe what you believe. They believe what they believe. As long as the Democrats frame the issue as a woman's issue, aka reproductive rights, that position seems to give them the upper hand. It's a cudgel that will take them to the promise land in politics if harnessed and wielded properly. That lesson is not lost on the Democrats.
The day before they released the latest inflation numbers, the stock market headed south mid-afternoon after tweets here and there suggesting that someone had leaked the numbers a day ahead of the actual report. How does this even happen? Whoever leaked the data wasn't wrong. The inflation numbers came in hotter than expected. I thought all along that the Fed would cook the numbers to put lipstick on the pig that is inflation and pave the way for a second Biden term. Well, not so much. Are the latest inflation readings the silver bullet that takes out the entire Biden Administration? Or does the Fed have another plan to boost chances for a second term for the aging and demented fool sitting in our White House? And what the hell is Biden doing commenting on interest rate cuts? It was almost like he thought the latest inflation numbers would give the Fed the reason they were looking for in order to cut interest rates. Was Biden telegraphing that a cut is in the works? Were Biden's comments a nod of sorts to the Fed that they need to get cuts out the door and fast? Never mind that interest rate cuts would be like throwing jet fuel on an inflation fire that is already burning too hot. I don't know about you, but I could use a mean tweet about right now.
I heard that Biden held a press conference on the White House lawn yesterday. Anyone with half a brain knows that Biden's idea of a press conference involves calling on reporters who were preselected to take questions. It gets worse. Biden actually reads his responses from a script that someone has placed on the rostrum. He wears those stupid aviator shades of his so that people in the audience can't see that he's reading from the notes. I don't know who the fuck he thinks he's fooling. And the compliant media plays along with the charade like the clapping and complicit seals that they are. Nightly newscasts replay cuts of Biden's speech in order to perpetuate the myth that Biden is a fully engaged and multi-tasking president doing the business of the presidency. It's a cluster fuck on the American public of monumental proportions. Nothing could be further from the truth. People around the world know we have a completely demented, corrupt, and infirm president at the helm, and they are likely incredulous that this could be happening to the greatest democracy on the face of the earth. Not to worry. The right-minded citizenry of our country wonders the same thing. It's like, when is this nightmare going to end? Spoiler alert: Not soon enough.
I had this really weird thought the other day. I wondered if everything that the Republican Congress has been doing to expose the criminality of the Biden Crime Family has really been an effort to take the influence-peddling issue off the table as a blackmailable issue for the countries that have been paying off the Bidens for decades. In other words, if Republicans put all the known Biden and Biden-related transgressions out there for the American public to see, and the end result is that nobody gives a fuck, then what possible leverage do the Chinese or Russians have were they to threaten Biden to do something that he doesn't want to do?
Don't get me wrong. Biden is allegedly a wholly owned asset of the Chinese Communist Party thanks to their "investments" in the Biden Family Trust going back decades. He would no sooner turn a blind eye to their requests than he would submit his letter of resignation as president of the United States. The very same countries that have been paying he and his family off for decades, if we're to believe Congressman Comer and his investigators, still have a role to play in upcoming elections if they are to more fully reap the rewards to which they think they are entitled. This was never about impeaching Joe Biden. It was always about protecting him from nefarious bad actors around the world who would wish to blackmail him. Never mind that he is the most corrupt president in the history of our Republic. We protect our own.
This FISA thing in Congress is a joke. They say that unless Congress passes this FISA bill, we'll no longer be able to spy on those bad actors around the world that would do us harm. Who the fuck do they think they're kidding? Bill or no bill, our government is going to spy on whoever and whatever they want to spy on. Is there anyone that our government hasn't spied on? That's a rhetorical question. I also don't know what the bill has to do with domestic spying, if anything, but you can bet your sweet arse that they can pretty much spy on you, me, or anyone else in our country at any time without fear of retribution.
Hell, they spied relentlessly on the Trump campaign when he ran for president in 2016, and they did it at the request of the sitting president at the time. I'm referring to the goat herder from Kenya. Look at it this way: If you have a cell phone, a computer, a Bluetooth device like an Alexa, or maybe a refrigerator with an internet connection, they are spying on you. They listen to your conversations, they track your physical movements, they know who you associate with, and they know every purchase you make, wherever and whenever you make it. If you've ever signed on to a genealogical website and given your DNA, they've got that, too. The websites have likely sold your DNA data to the Chinese government. If that isn't enough to keep you up at night, I don't know what is.
There he goes again. Biden has been bitch-slapped by the Supreme Court for trying to erase student debt at the expense of the American taxpayer. The courts were very clear: The President of the United States does now have the authority to do any such thing. Yet, I'm reading every other day that he's forgiving yet another tranche of student debt. It's a stark ploy to buy votes, plain and simple. Here's what I don't get. Just because some buffoon in the White House comes along and tells you that you don't need to repay your educational loans, it doesn't mean that you need to vote for the fool who forgave your debt with the stroke of a pen. It's especially true with the loser that we have sitting in our White House at the moment. Young people are moving away from Bumbles Biden and the Democrat party in record numbers for a variety of reasons and no amount of loan forgiveness is going to change that. I'm delighted to see that the Republicans are taking Biden to court again on this issue, but I'm not hopeful that anything is going to stop Biden and his handlers from continuing their unlawful and relentless attempts to flout the laws in order to boost their chances at the polls this coming November. This is who they are. This is what they do.
Someone needs to get on the stick and do a little investigating up there in the state of Maine. I want to know why Chinese nationals are permitted to run massive marijuana operations throughout the State of Maine without fear of being shut down by governmental agencies in the state. Both you and I know that the state of Maine has gone public with a couple of closures, if for no other reason than to give the appearance of doing something. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that the Chinese are padding the bank account of the Governor in the state? This is what the Chinese do. They bribe their way into countries, states, organizations, and local governments in order to get local officials to do their bidding.
China has perfected the art of blackmail, and there is no sweeter incentive than the promise of wealth beyond your means. When was the last time you heard Governor Mills even comment on the scourge of Chinese nationals invading the state she presides over? We're probably wasting our time thinking that she is keeping any of her ill-gotten gains in a local bank account. Those monies are stashed overseas and out of sight of prying eyes. I'd like to think that the good people of Maine might rise up and push back against the graft and people like Governor Mills, who allegedly sell their very souls for untold millions and at the expense of their fellow Mainers. This seems to be a pattern in blue states these days. The corruption is too deep. The citizenry is too complacent. Now and forever more, likely a lost cause. Think Massachusetts or California.
The world is on pins and needles now, and it's only a matter of time before Iran retaliates against Israel for their bombing of Iran's consulate in Syria, which resulted in the death of a half dozen or more high-level Iranian commandos. Israel has promised to retaliate by targeting key facilities in Iran. The United States has moved more military equipment into the region to assist Israel in defending against missile attacks coming from Iran. None of this helped the American stock market yesterday. The major indices dropped to or below their respective 50-day moving averages for the first time in months.
Iran has been attacking Israel for years with proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas but never directly. It would represent an escalation of untold consequences in the Middle East at a time when Israel already has its hands full with an ongoing war against Hamas and Hezbollah and, to a lesser extent, the Houthis in Yemen, who are actively trying to choke off supplies to Israel by attacking shipping lanes in the Red Sea. Who knows where this all goes in the coming days? We have seen nothing but tragedy and turmoil when and where it comes to America's foreign policy since Biden took office, so I'm not hopeful that any of this will turn out well. I do believe in an eye for an eye, so Iran is entitled to their pound of flesh, whatever that looks like.
I'm already tired of the Trump trial bullshit in New York City, and the trial hasn't even yet begun. Let's call it what it is: It's a coup d'état . Barring any last-minute changes, the trial starts next Monday. This is the Left's wet dream of a trial that finally delivers the conviction that the Left has been yammering for for years ever since Trump came down the escalator in 2015 to announce that he was running for president. They'll stop at nothing to put him behind bars in order to further humiliate him and his family and to take him out of the running for the election in the Fall against demented Joe Biden. You know, the bumbling fool of a president who can't complete a sentence without reading from a cue card or a teleprompter. The very same guy who has run our country into the ground domestically and who has put a target on the backs of our citizens around the world.
I don't know if I'll be able to withstand even a moment of our country's media taking victory laps day in and day out after their reporters emerge from the courthouse each day with their breathless and dishonest renditions of the day's hearing. Trump's verdict, guilty on all counts, will likely be the verdict heard around the world. The media can then add "convict" to their list of deliberate and dishonest descriptors when reading their talking points about Trump. This is a very sad time in the history of our country, and nothing better captures the sickness and depravity of our politics than what we're about to witness in the City of New York under a magnificent skyline built over the past few decades by the man sitting in judgment. A once-proud New Yorker, I might add. No more.
Geez. Iran finally launched their attack on Israel, and it was, in my humble opinion, much ado about nothing. It hardly warranted taking our stock market down a few notches on Friday. I'm guessing it comes back with a fury on Monday. The so-called attack almost seemed performative. That is to say, it looked to be well-planned and coordinated with everyone involved. Most of the drones and missiles were shot down by allied forces or Israel. I think Israel is estimating that 99% of the missiles and rockets launched from Iran never reached their targets. Israeli media was pretty exuberant this morning in their reporting. I'm just reading all of this on X (Twitter) so maybe we take it with a grain of salt? Iran's attack was in response to Israel's bombing of Iran's consulate in Damascus, which killed a half dozen high-level Iranian commanders. It's also notable that none of the drones or missiles fired from Iran targeted civilian populations. Does this seem like a commensurate response to you? Israel is now contemplating a response to Iran's attacks, but it seems to me that the tit-for-tat should end here if they are to avoid a larger conflict in the region. If anyone has come up short, it's Iran. I have to believe that they have yet to get what they consider to be their "revenge." Rain check, anyone?
These Ukrainians I see on Twitter are something else. They really get a hair across their collective arses when they see Israel getting all the attention that they think they should be getting instead. I saw one tweet last night bemoaning the fact that the world was on full alert before Iran had even fired their first missile, while Russia's full-out and ongoing bombing of Ukraine's civilian populations received hardly a mention in the media. Never mind that a Republican congress has held up the United States's funding for Ukraine for several months now. We've given Ukraine more money than they deserve, and they can't account for half of it if you want to know the truth. Now they whine like an abandoned child when the United States tells them to fuck off and get to the negotiating table to settle matters with Vlad. That's the message coming from Republicans. The Democrats are more than willing to continue to send good money after bad to that shithole of a country. They can't allow Russia to win the war, don't you know? It would be the end of Western civilization as we know it. They'll go after the Baltic States next. It's fucking nonsense. Stop this money laundering scheme and stop it now.
Calm Before the Storm
07/04/24 07:01
We have a nor'easter coming down the pike—an April snowstorm if you can believe it. This storm will bring more snow than any other storm we've seen this winter. It's just on paper for now—that is, it's in the forecast. That said, my weather app says one thing, and the missus's weather app says something different. Her app always comes in less or lighter, if you will. I take no pleasure in getting the last laugh, especially when it comes to the missus, but I'm just sayin'. We're looking at between 15 and 18 inches coming in overnight on Wednesday and ending sometime Thursday. I hate these overnight storms. You can't get ahead of them unless you're willing to stay up all night and clear every five to six inches after it comes down. You wake up to an unplowable lot of snow at the end of your driveway, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. We're still three days or so out as I sit here this morning, so we'll need to see a few more cards come out of the deck before we get there.
I grilled up a few chicken breasts last night, and we sat down to a nice meal of organic chicken and seasonal asparagus. I had a good mind to throw together a skewer or two with red peppers, mushrooms, and chicken but decided against it at the last minute. I'm trying to stay away from starches, so I passed on the rice that I might have otherwise made. It was a bare-bones dinner but one that seemed to please. Interestingly enough, had the wicked winds that blew through the other night ripping the cover clean off the grill as it did, I might not have considered using the grill this early in the season. File that under "The Lord works in mysterious ways." I'm not sure why the baby Jesus would care one way or another when I decide to use my grill or not use my grill for the first time this season, but I'll leave that for my critics to weigh in on. Both the missus and I agreed that it was a well-deserved meal after a long and busy day. A suitable meal and a primer, if you will, for another busy day to come (today.)
I wonder if it's true what they say about China interfering with our elections. Even more so than Russia, if I'm reading it right. Would it surprise anyone to know that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would prefer to see the addled Joe Biden in office rather than Donald J. Trump? You know, the guy whose family has received tens of millions of dollars from various and sundry CCP-related organizations over the last few years. Let's just say that the CCP wants to protect its investment. If you think that the addled Joe Biden is going to look a gift horse in the mouth when every poll shows him losing bigly to Donald Trump, you would be wrong. How the CCP plans to lend a hand to demented Joe remains to be seen. Maybe they participate in the production of fake mail-in ballots. Maybe they release another something from the Wuhan lab just in time to suppress the vote come November. Maybe they hack just enough tabulation machines in swing states to give Lunchbucket Joe an insurmountable lead. Maybe they flood social media sites with bots to tamp down or ramp up fervor depending on the leaning of one or more critical constituencies. If we see Florida go blue, we'll know the fix is in. The only question remaining is whether the highest court in our land will care about any of it.
I caught Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on CNN last night when I was flipping through the channels. That was a bit of a surprise. Two weeks ago, nobody was giving the guy any oxygen, so it's interesting to see CNN stepping up to the plate. Honestly, I think they had him on just to try to embarrass him. Aaron Burnett, the host of the show, showed him two videos of his sister and his nephew, who referred to RFK as "an embarrassment." Ouch. He responded as well as you can respond to something like that by saying that families are loving and caring but also have differing opinions on things. I'm paraphrasing, of course. Burnett was also quite insistent on having RFK commit to the fact that Trump was guilty of being an insurrectionist or worse. RFK only half-heartedly replied in the affirmative, if only to prevent Burnett from going full mean girl on him. Now, instead of having the guy on these networks and going against the wishes of the Biden White House, the plan seems to be to have him on but vilify, embarrass, or belittle him as best they can. They need disaffected Democrats not to vote for him as an alternative to Biden in the Fall. If they can put him in bed, figuratively speaking, with Trump, all the better.
I think one thing we'll never see is RFK's vice presidential candidate on these liberal or looney left-wing shows. She's to the left of Biden's progressives, which would only endear her to Biden supporters. These are the same moonbats who vote for people like AOC and Bernie Sanders. RFK should have told CNN that he wouldn't come on their shows without his VP at his side. Chances are that had he said that, CNN wouldn't have had him on. All I know is that there is a whole lot of straddling by RFK and everyone else going on here. It's hard to know what his end game is because third-party candidates don't win elections, but they can sink the candidacy of one or the other major candidates in either the Democrat or Republican party. The Kennedy name alone is catnip for Democrats wanting to vote for someone other than Biden who think Biden has gone too far to the left. Throw in Democrats who are wanting and willing to vote for another Democrat but can't stomach the thought of putting Kamala Harris in the Oval Office, and you have something that is starting to look like a constituency forming in the middle for RFK. As difficult as it is for these left-wing networks to muddy up the Kennedy name, it's a small price to pay to put their boy, Biden, back in office for another four years. He has a job to finish, don't you know.
I don't think I realized that embassies were off-limits when it comes to going after your enemies. Now that Israel has bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, resulting in the deaths of three or four of their commanders, it seems it could be open season on embassies across the world. You can't very well have places where people can hide out and not be touched by virtue of their location. That would effectively create a sanctuary city for the bad guys. It's one thing to say that ICE can't detain or arrest illegal aliens in downtown San Francisco. It's quite another to tell the Israelis that they can't take out their enemies if they know where they're holed up, be they in an embassy or hiding out in the thousands of miles of underground tunnels beneath Gaza. What Iran does now is anyone's guess. They are a vengeful people, or at least the Mullahs are, as far as I know, and that probably doesn't bode well for the Israelis. It's an eye for an eye if I'm allowed to go all biblical here. Are there a handful of Israeli embassies throughout the Middle East and elsewhere that are now on high alert? You know what they say about Pandora's box. Once it's open, hell hath no fury. Sorry if I'm mixing up my metaphors. Keep your eyes and ears open. That's all I'm saying.
I saw a report yesterday that the Biden Administration approved the sale of more bombs and lots of fighter jets to Israel. I wish they would be a little more circumspect when releasing this kind of information. We already look like we're all in when it comes to the sheer and utter devastation laid upon the Palestinian people in Gaza. We also know that Iran probably considers us to be involved one way or another in Israel's bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria, which killed several of their commanders. That has us looking more than a little complicit. Not that we wouldn't want to stand by our ally Israel in their time of need, but upping our commitments across the board and announcing it to the world can be a double-edged sword if we're not careful. Maybe it's just our Military Industrial Complex flexing their muscles in a dangerous world. The good news, if there is any, is that this does little to assuage the concerns of the Palestinians and Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. They've seen enough when it comes to Joe Biden and his pathological obsession to assist the Israelis and their lust for killing every last Palestinian in Gaza. Enough, you might say, to have them stay home on Election Day this Fall.
I'm going to have to write fast and save fast this morning because the winds outside are howling. It's only a matter of time before we lose our electricity. I have our generator ready to roll, and I placed it behind my car in the garage so I can move it out quickly when the time comes. Maybe the time won't come. That would be sweet. I filled a 5-gallon gas tank with the idea that I'd transfer the gas to the generator if it looked like we were more likely than not to lose our power. These Nor'easters are very unpredictable, and we don't lose power very often, but this looked like the real McCoy, so I emptied the gas into the generator. I'm also happy to report that if the power goes down, it will be during the daylight hours. I was not looking forward to doing any of this in the dark, so thankfully, that is no longer a concern. It looks like we have about an inch or two of snow and sleet-like stuff on the ground, so maybe we'll not see the eight or so inches that they were calling for. It's April, for chrissakes. Winter-be-gone!
I was telling the missus that it might be nice to have a pot of lentil soup to sustain us for the next couple of days. She was busy doing what she does during the day yesterday, so I went shopping for the ingredients. I really need to make a list when I go shopping. For some unknown reason, that is especially true when I go out for ingredients to make this lentil soup recipe. I always forget something. Yesterday, it was the spinach. Can you imagine? It's one of the main ingredients. To make matters worse, there are only a handful of ingredients so it's not like the list I might make would be too long or maybe unmanageable. The other thing that had my knickers in a bunch was the decision I had to make about which kind of lentils to buy. If the missus has told me once, she's told me a thousand times. We use red lentils when we make this soup. That didn't stop me from putting a bag of green lentils in my bag when I was doing my shopping. I felt pretty good about doing that because there was actually a lentil soup recipe on the back of the bag of lentils. Well, that didn't go over too well. The missus and I went out for red lentils just before dark, and we got the job done thanks to the good folks at our local Market Basket. One of these days, I'll get it right.
I had to run out yesterday morning for an appointment, so I didn't get my writing time in. I hate it when that happens. It's almost impossible to make up for the time I missed since the missus is on our computer for the better part of the day for at least three days a week. I'll see if I have enough gas in the tank this morning to make up for the time I missed. Maybe that means an extra paragraph or two if the good Lord's willing and the creek don't rise. It's certainly not like there isn't enough going on in the world where I might want to weigh in on an item or two. I have no idea how long this storm is supposed to stick around so I should check the forecast. I think there's enough snow such that I'll need to get out my snowblower at some point. That aside, it's a hunker-down sort of day here in the hood. We have no particular place to go so, as Da used to say, nobody is chasing us. The only thing that might make this day more tolerable is having a nice wood stove to fire up and get cozy with. I'll have to see if the missus has other ideas, but I'm guessing she's good with staying close to home. The roads hereabouts are likely untreated and treacherous, so not for the faint of heart, as they say in the movies.
Will someone please explain to me why we have so many illegal Chinese aliens coming into our country? What the hell are they doing here? What the hell do they want? Who the hell is sending them here? I don't know anything about China and how difficult it is to get in and out of that country, but I think the answer to that question is "not too easy." That tells me that they are being sent here for a reason. They are also coming into our country at a time when every other Jose', Maria, and Mohammed from across the globe are crossing our border illegally, so the Chinamen don't exactly stick out like a sore thumb. Can you imagine if we weren't having these immigration issues and how we might take notice of Chinamen of fighting age coming into our country in the tens of thousands? There would be a hue and cry, I can tell you. Trump would have Xi on the phone in a New York minute. What the fuk, Xi! And what is Bumbles Biden doing? What does any guy who can't tell you what day of the week it is do on any given day? Fill in the blanks. I can also tell you with some confidence that the Chinese coming in are probably not picking lettuce or working in some slaughterhouse somewhere in the Midwest. What then?
How about this headline? "Biden prepared to express his frustration to Netanyahu in phone call Thursday." Can you imagine what Biden's cue cards would have to look like to pull this off? This fool can no sooner have a conversation, much less a heated conversation, with a world leader like Netanyahu than I can pull off a piano concert in New York's famed Madison Square Garden. You see what Biden's handlers are doing here. Right? They are flooding the "airwaves" with lies to give the American people the impression that Biden is getting the job done as president. I think they call that "gaslighting." What do you think our chances are of getting a transcript of that call? There is no transcript because there is no call. Or, rather, there won't be a call. We're seeing these kinds of reports every day now. They are all lies. They are lies because Biden is incapable of making the calls. The Democrats are lying because they can feel the power of the office of the presidency slipping away from them. They want it so bad that they are willing to cheat, lie, or steal to keep it. This is who they are. This is what they do. There is no price they won't pay.
Well, I might have been wrong about the phone call. There was a phone call, as it turns out, but I might have been right about Biden's participation in same. Reports say that Biden threatened Netanyahu to stop going after Hamas. He allegedly told him that Israel would be cut off from US support if he didn't cease their hostilities against Hamas. What does that tell you about the lengths that Biden is willing to stoop to win back the support of the Muslim population in cities like Dearborn, Michigan? He's throwing in with Hamas in order to pick up an electoral edge in states like Michigan. Is that not tantamount to throwing in with the Nazis in WWII to win an election? He is literally ensuring that Israel doesn't win the war against Hamas and that Hamas will live to fight another day and continue to kill Israelis as they did on October 7th. Whatever happened to our support for the only remaining democracy in the Middle East? Is it me, or does this horror show we're witnessing coming out of our White House have Obama's fingerprints all over it? And why is the goat herder from Kenya, Obama, running around the globe on clandestine missions advocating for God only knows what on Biden's behalf? Or, is this just what presidents do in their third term?
Reports also had Biden on a phone call with Xi Jinping yesterday. You have to admit, the guy is pretty busy for a fella with stage-5 dementia. Here's the kicker: No sooner did that phone call wrap up when John Kirby took to the podium in the West Wing briefing room to announce that the United States does not support independence for Taiwan. I saw a tweet suggesting that Kirby was giving Xi a virtual blowjob on national television, and that seemed to capture the sentiment of the moment. I'm pretty sure that our policy towards Taiwan has been to support them if and when China moved militarily against the island and its inhabitants. Is this yet one more example of Biden being in Bejing's pocket thanks to the various and sundry "investments" by the Chinese Communist Party to Biden and his extended family over the years? If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. "Elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences." All the credit for that statement belongs to Steve Bannon. What Kirby's comment presages is anyone's guess. It could mean that China is planning to move on Taiwan and wants to be sure that Biden is clear about who put him in office. Think Wuhan. Think mail-in ballots.
Is it possible that China released the COVID-19 virus that killed millions of people around the world just to get Trump out of office? If your answer to that question is "no fucking way," then you don't understand anything about China and the goals and aspirations of the Chinese Communist Party. As a side note, the United States has been sending congressional delegations to Taiwan for years to show our support for their independence. How do think the Taiwanese are sleeping tonight after hearing Kirby walk back our support? If the US isn't going to intercede on behalf of Taiwan, ain't nobody going to step into the fray when the shit hits the fan. What message does this send to our allies across the globe who see the United States not willing to stand up against aggressors of fellow democracies when push comes to shove? And the Democrats say that Trump is a threat to democracy. Is this not a perfect example of Democrats accusing Republicans of things they are guilty of? What do they call this again? Projection? Never mind, of course, that going to war with China over Taiwan would be silly. We're not going to threaten to nuke them or anything of the kind. That's not the point. China waltzed into Hong Kong, and we didn't say boo.
Is the bird flu (H-Something) the COVID-19 of the 2024 presidential election cycle? First, we hear about huge chicken farms having to kill off their bird populations due to the infection. Then, we hear about entire herds of cows having to be euthanized because the bird flu has spread to them. I'm waiting now to hear about the first cow or bird-to-human transmission. After that, we'll hear the World Health Organization step in and announce that we have a full-fledged God-awful pandemic on our hands, and we have to pull out all the stops to prevent its spread. Does any of this sound familiar? How about this, "Two weeks to stop the spread"? Wasn't that how it all started in 2020? Hospital rooms were filling up with cases of elderly patients in respiratory distress, and dead people were being stacked up like cordwood in refrigeration trucks because they couldn't process them fast enough. Don't worry; I'm getting around to the masks. When they roll out the masks, you know that mail-in ballots aren't far behind. States can't very well have people standing in line at the polls on Election Day in the midst of an ongoing pandemic that is killing people willy-nilly.
I'm even reading something today about the threat of people eating eggs over easy. You can't even have eggs the way you want them in Biden's America in the year of the Lord 2024. WTF. The next thing you know, they will be telling us that we have to cook our meat well done. Just cook the shite out of it until it becomes like shoe leather. It isn't enough that these assholes want to put everyone behind the wheel of an electric car. It isn't enough that they want to take away our gas stoves and our refrigerators. These are the same ass-clowns that are putting illegal aliens up in five-star hotels with a monthly stipend in the thousands of dollars while we have homeless veterans sleeping in the streets. Now, the Democrats want to give these illegal aliens access to our voting rolls so they can cement their constituencies like never before. We are a good and loving people, but we have a government that has lost its way, and we Americans need to help get that train back on the right track. That is never going to happen with the current Administration in place. They are too corrupt, too compromised, and too far gone to fix any of that which they've created or caused by their actions or inactions. The world will be a better place without them. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I don't get it. Israeli's IDF took out a car carrying 7 people affiliated with Gaza's version of Meals on Wheels, and you'd think it was the end of the world as we know it. Israel made a mistake, and they've fessed up. I think that they probably thought they had a legitimate target when they took out the vehicle. Why is it that when we (the US) do this sort of thing, we simply move on? There is no apology. There is no hand-wringing. There are no apologies to the victim's families. Yet, Israel now has to bow to international pressure to take their foot off the pedal somehow and get to the negotiating table to sort out their differences with Hamas. None of this, of course, involves getting back any of the hostages as a prerequisite for finalizing a deal. It has everything to do with allowing Hamas to live to fight another day and to give Joe Biden the cover he needs with the Muslim community in order to get them to the polls in November. I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but it bears repeating. Israel should go ahead with their plans to roust the remaining Hamas fighters from Rafah and tell Bumbles Biden to fuck off. Red lines be damned. Israel has a country to protect. If I were Netanyahu, and I knew I could get rid of the fool (Biden) in the upcoming US election by ignoring his demands to protect Hamas, I would do precisely what Netanyahu is doing now. Keep on keeping on, Bibbi! The American people are with you.
I think Mrs. G is finally giving up on Kentucky Fried Chicken. However, she still loves their mashed potatoes, gravy, and coleslaw, so we'll continue to go there. I'm guessing the chicken may not be as good as it used to be. Maybe it's less crispy, or there's less meat on the bone. That's kinda of the way of the world these days. You get less for your dollar. The damn dollar stores are actually going out of business because they can't afford to sell anything for a dollar anymore. The missus and I stopped at both Dave's Hot Chicken, where a couple of their take-out meals cost $28, and at Bob's Chicken in Portsmouth, where we picked up mashed potatoes, gravy, and coleslaw before heading over to see Mrs. G yesterday. We'll see if Mrs. G takes a shine to Dave's chicken as her new go-to chicken joint. You can choose your heat at Daves, and we got Mrs. G a mild sauce. It's a little out of the way to grab Dave's, so I wouldn't be terribly upset if she said it wasn't her cup of tea when everything was said and done. On the other hand, it's a small price to pay to see that Mrs. G has a nice meal waiting on those evenings when she hasn't ordered anything from her usual menu items found at her facility.
The stock market (S&P) dropped a scary 1.1% the other day, dipping below the ever-important 21-day moving average for the first time in a long time. It had all the makings of a veritable rug-pull. The indices were humming along nicely until around 3 pm, and then it took a nose dive. The DJIA went from up 300 to down 500. That is an eight-hundred-point swing. I think it was the 21-day moving average. Could it have been the fifty-day average? Possibly. One guy on Twitter that I follow said something like, "I've been waiting for this." He's been calling for a 5-10% pullback since December. The question on everyone's mind was, is this the beginning of a bigger pullback or just an overreaction to some news report involving interest rates, oil prices, or maybe an escalation of hostilities in the Middle East? A pullback of sorts would actually be healthy. The markets are definitely overextended here since they've been on a tear since last November with no discernible pullbacks. Maybe we go sideways from here and then break out to the upside after a period of consolidation. We didn't have to wait long to see where it was all going. The very next day, yesterday in fact, the market recovered the entire 1.1% on a day when the ten-year yield was ramping up and oil prices were hovering in and around $90. So much for that dreaded 10% pullback. To the moon, Alice!
We're watching "Ripley" on Netflix. It's a pretty good show. We're more than halfway through the eight-episode series, and I'm still waiting for the cops to catch up with this guy (Tom Ripley.) The main character is a slick small-time scumbag who makes his living as a con man in New York City back in the fifties. The entire show was shot in black and white, which just adds to the overall gloom-and-doom vibe of the flick. As much as you come to despise this prick for all the things he's able to pull off, you can't help but admire how he stays one step ahead of the gumshoes, who, thankfully, now that we're up to episode 6, seem to have his number. I was hoping that Marge (Dakota Fanning), who plays the girlfriend of the fella (Dickie) that Tom ultimately kills and then assumes his identity, would have acted sooner on her suspicions about Ripley, but she does not. The second half of the show follows Ripley to Italy, where he lives the life of a wealthy American, not as Tom Ripley, but as Dickie, whose life Ripley takes in a bizarre scene when the two rent a small boat when Dickie plans to tell Ripley that it's time for him to move on from the life the two have been sharing in a villa overlooking the ocean. I'm loving this Inspector Clouseau type who picks up the investigation after Ripley kills yet another character who threatens to out him to the police. Can't wait to see how this turns out!
Between the wintry weather we've had this past week and the time I had my bike in the shop for repairs, I'm a good week or more out from my last bike ride. I hate it when that happens. My legs go all wobbly, and I become a lot less sure-footed. It's not a big deal as long as I can get back in the saddle without further delay, but it's a reminder to me how doing this bike riding thing is the bee's knees for my health and well-being. In NASA parlance, it looks like it is a go for today, assuming nothing else comes up in the interim. The missus and I plan to watch Iowa play undefeated South Carolina in the women's NCAA playoffs around 3 this afternoon. We've been hearing so much about the wunderkind, Caitlin Clark, and her exploits on the court that we need to see how this all plays out in what is otherwise her last game as a senior. Quite frankly, I could give two shits about basketball, be it women's or men's, and sitting down to watch two hours of it may, at the end of the day, may be a bridge too far, but I'm wanting and willing to make an exception when it comes to today's game. I have a nice spinach, mushroom, and feta cheese quiche in the oven, and that should help us get a good start to the day. We'll get the Ev man's car back to him at some point today, or at least that's the plan, and I'll probably throw some nice chicken skewers on the barbie tonight to end the day. Everything is subject to change at a moment's notice.
I grilled up a few chicken breasts last night, and we sat down to a nice meal of organic chicken and seasonal asparagus. I had a good mind to throw together a skewer or two with red peppers, mushrooms, and chicken but decided against it at the last minute. I'm trying to stay away from starches, so I passed on the rice that I might have otherwise made. It was a bare-bones dinner but one that seemed to please. Interestingly enough, had the wicked winds that blew through the other night ripping the cover clean off the grill as it did, I might not have considered using the grill this early in the season. File that under "The Lord works in mysterious ways." I'm not sure why the baby Jesus would care one way or another when I decide to use my grill or not use my grill for the first time this season, but I'll leave that for my critics to weigh in on. Both the missus and I agreed that it was a well-deserved meal after a long and busy day. A suitable meal and a primer, if you will, for another busy day to come (today.)
I wonder if it's true what they say about China interfering with our elections. Even more so than Russia, if I'm reading it right. Would it surprise anyone to know that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would prefer to see the addled Joe Biden in office rather than Donald J. Trump? You know, the guy whose family has received tens of millions of dollars from various and sundry CCP-related organizations over the last few years. Let's just say that the CCP wants to protect its investment. If you think that the addled Joe Biden is going to look a gift horse in the mouth when every poll shows him losing bigly to Donald Trump, you would be wrong. How the CCP plans to lend a hand to demented Joe remains to be seen. Maybe they participate in the production of fake mail-in ballots. Maybe they release another something from the Wuhan lab just in time to suppress the vote come November. Maybe they hack just enough tabulation machines in swing states to give Lunchbucket Joe an insurmountable lead. Maybe they flood social media sites with bots to tamp down or ramp up fervor depending on the leaning of one or more critical constituencies. If we see Florida go blue, we'll know the fix is in. The only question remaining is whether the highest court in our land will care about any of it.
I caught Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on CNN last night when I was flipping through the channels. That was a bit of a surprise. Two weeks ago, nobody was giving the guy any oxygen, so it's interesting to see CNN stepping up to the plate. Honestly, I think they had him on just to try to embarrass him. Aaron Burnett, the host of the show, showed him two videos of his sister and his nephew, who referred to RFK as "an embarrassment." Ouch. He responded as well as you can respond to something like that by saying that families are loving and caring but also have differing opinions on things. I'm paraphrasing, of course. Burnett was also quite insistent on having RFK commit to the fact that Trump was guilty of being an insurrectionist or worse. RFK only half-heartedly replied in the affirmative, if only to prevent Burnett from going full mean girl on him. Now, instead of having the guy on these networks and going against the wishes of the Biden White House, the plan seems to be to have him on but vilify, embarrass, or belittle him as best they can. They need disaffected Democrats not to vote for him as an alternative to Biden in the Fall. If they can put him in bed, figuratively speaking, with Trump, all the better.
I think one thing we'll never see is RFK's vice presidential candidate on these liberal or looney left-wing shows. She's to the left of Biden's progressives, which would only endear her to Biden supporters. These are the same moonbats who vote for people like AOC and Bernie Sanders. RFK should have told CNN that he wouldn't come on their shows without his VP at his side. Chances are that had he said that, CNN wouldn't have had him on. All I know is that there is a whole lot of straddling by RFK and everyone else going on here. It's hard to know what his end game is because third-party candidates don't win elections, but they can sink the candidacy of one or the other major candidates in either the Democrat or Republican party. The Kennedy name alone is catnip for Democrats wanting to vote for someone other than Biden who think Biden has gone too far to the left. Throw in Democrats who are wanting and willing to vote for another Democrat but can't stomach the thought of putting Kamala Harris in the Oval Office, and you have something that is starting to look like a constituency forming in the middle for RFK. As difficult as it is for these left-wing networks to muddy up the Kennedy name, it's a small price to pay to put their boy, Biden, back in office for another four years. He has a job to finish, don't you know.
I don't think I realized that embassies were off-limits when it comes to going after your enemies. Now that Israel has bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, resulting in the deaths of three or four of their commanders, it seems it could be open season on embassies across the world. You can't very well have places where people can hide out and not be touched by virtue of their location. That would effectively create a sanctuary city for the bad guys. It's one thing to say that ICE can't detain or arrest illegal aliens in downtown San Francisco. It's quite another to tell the Israelis that they can't take out their enemies if they know where they're holed up, be they in an embassy or hiding out in the thousands of miles of underground tunnels beneath Gaza. What Iran does now is anyone's guess. They are a vengeful people, or at least the Mullahs are, as far as I know, and that probably doesn't bode well for the Israelis. It's an eye for an eye if I'm allowed to go all biblical here. Are there a handful of Israeli embassies throughout the Middle East and elsewhere that are now on high alert? You know what they say about Pandora's box. Once it's open, hell hath no fury. Sorry if I'm mixing up my metaphors. Keep your eyes and ears open. That's all I'm saying.
I saw a report yesterday that the Biden Administration approved the sale of more bombs and lots of fighter jets to Israel. I wish they would be a little more circumspect when releasing this kind of information. We already look like we're all in when it comes to the sheer and utter devastation laid upon the Palestinian people in Gaza. We also know that Iran probably considers us to be involved one way or another in Israel's bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria, which killed several of their commanders. That has us looking more than a little complicit. Not that we wouldn't want to stand by our ally Israel in their time of need, but upping our commitments across the board and announcing it to the world can be a double-edged sword if we're not careful. Maybe it's just our Military Industrial Complex flexing their muscles in a dangerous world. The good news, if there is any, is that this does little to assuage the concerns of the Palestinians and Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. They've seen enough when it comes to Joe Biden and his pathological obsession to assist the Israelis and their lust for killing every last Palestinian in Gaza. Enough, you might say, to have them stay home on Election Day this Fall.
I'm going to have to write fast and save fast this morning because the winds outside are howling. It's only a matter of time before we lose our electricity. I have our generator ready to roll, and I placed it behind my car in the garage so I can move it out quickly when the time comes. Maybe the time won't come. That would be sweet. I filled a 5-gallon gas tank with the idea that I'd transfer the gas to the generator if it looked like we were more likely than not to lose our power. These Nor'easters are very unpredictable, and we don't lose power very often, but this looked like the real McCoy, so I emptied the gas into the generator. I'm also happy to report that if the power goes down, it will be during the daylight hours. I was not looking forward to doing any of this in the dark, so thankfully, that is no longer a concern. It looks like we have about an inch or two of snow and sleet-like stuff on the ground, so maybe we'll not see the eight or so inches that they were calling for. It's April, for chrissakes. Winter-be-gone!
I was telling the missus that it might be nice to have a pot of lentil soup to sustain us for the next couple of days. She was busy doing what she does during the day yesterday, so I went shopping for the ingredients. I really need to make a list when I go shopping. For some unknown reason, that is especially true when I go out for ingredients to make this lentil soup recipe. I always forget something. Yesterday, it was the spinach. Can you imagine? It's one of the main ingredients. To make matters worse, there are only a handful of ingredients so it's not like the list I might make would be too long or maybe unmanageable. The other thing that had my knickers in a bunch was the decision I had to make about which kind of lentils to buy. If the missus has told me once, she's told me a thousand times. We use red lentils when we make this soup. That didn't stop me from putting a bag of green lentils in my bag when I was doing my shopping. I felt pretty good about doing that because there was actually a lentil soup recipe on the back of the bag of lentils. Well, that didn't go over too well. The missus and I went out for red lentils just before dark, and we got the job done thanks to the good folks at our local Market Basket. One of these days, I'll get it right.
I had to run out yesterday morning for an appointment, so I didn't get my writing time in. I hate it when that happens. It's almost impossible to make up for the time I missed since the missus is on our computer for the better part of the day for at least three days a week. I'll see if I have enough gas in the tank this morning to make up for the time I missed. Maybe that means an extra paragraph or two if the good Lord's willing and the creek don't rise. It's certainly not like there isn't enough going on in the world where I might want to weigh in on an item or two. I have no idea how long this storm is supposed to stick around so I should check the forecast. I think there's enough snow such that I'll need to get out my snowblower at some point. That aside, it's a hunker-down sort of day here in the hood. We have no particular place to go so, as Da used to say, nobody is chasing us. The only thing that might make this day more tolerable is having a nice wood stove to fire up and get cozy with. I'll have to see if the missus has other ideas, but I'm guessing she's good with staying close to home. The roads hereabouts are likely untreated and treacherous, so not for the faint of heart, as they say in the movies.
Will someone please explain to me why we have so many illegal Chinese aliens coming into our country? What the hell are they doing here? What the hell do they want? Who the hell is sending them here? I don't know anything about China and how difficult it is to get in and out of that country, but I think the answer to that question is "not too easy." That tells me that they are being sent here for a reason. They are also coming into our country at a time when every other Jose', Maria, and Mohammed from across the globe are crossing our border illegally, so the Chinamen don't exactly stick out like a sore thumb. Can you imagine if we weren't having these immigration issues and how we might take notice of Chinamen of fighting age coming into our country in the tens of thousands? There would be a hue and cry, I can tell you. Trump would have Xi on the phone in a New York minute. What the fuk, Xi! And what is Bumbles Biden doing? What does any guy who can't tell you what day of the week it is do on any given day? Fill in the blanks. I can also tell you with some confidence that the Chinese coming in are probably not picking lettuce or working in some slaughterhouse somewhere in the Midwest. What then?
How about this headline? "Biden prepared to express his frustration to Netanyahu in phone call Thursday." Can you imagine what Biden's cue cards would have to look like to pull this off? This fool can no sooner have a conversation, much less a heated conversation, with a world leader like Netanyahu than I can pull off a piano concert in New York's famed Madison Square Garden. You see what Biden's handlers are doing here. Right? They are flooding the "airwaves" with lies to give the American people the impression that Biden is getting the job done as president. I think they call that "gaslighting." What do you think our chances are of getting a transcript of that call? There is no transcript because there is no call. Or, rather, there won't be a call. We're seeing these kinds of reports every day now. They are all lies. They are lies because Biden is incapable of making the calls. The Democrats are lying because they can feel the power of the office of the presidency slipping away from them. They want it so bad that they are willing to cheat, lie, or steal to keep it. This is who they are. This is what they do. There is no price they won't pay.
Well, I might have been wrong about the phone call. There was a phone call, as it turns out, but I might have been right about Biden's participation in same. Reports say that Biden threatened Netanyahu to stop going after Hamas. He allegedly told him that Israel would be cut off from US support if he didn't cease their hostilities against Hamas. What does that tell you about the lengths that Biden is willing to stoop to win back the support of the Muslim population in cities like Dearborn, Michigan? He's throwing in with Hamas in order to pick up an electoral edge in states like Michigan. Is that not tantamount to throwing in with the Nazis in WWII to win an election? He is literally ensuring that Israel doesn't win the war against Hamas and that Hamas will live to fight another day and continue to kill Israelis as they did on October 7th. Whatever happened to our support for the only remaining democracy in the Middle East? Is it me, or does this horror show we're witnessing coming out of our White House have Obama's fingerprints all over it? And why is the goat herder from Kenya, Obama, running around the globe on clandestine missions advocating for God only knows what on Biden's behalf? Or, is this just what presidents do in their third term?
Reports also had Biden on a phone call with Xi Jinping yesterday. You have to admit, the guy is pretty busy for a fella with stage-5 dementia. Here's the kicker: No sooner did that phone call wrap up when John Kirby took to the podium in the West Wing briefing room to announce that the United States does not support independence for Taiwan. I saw a tweet suggesting that Kirby was giving Xi a virtual blowjob on national television, and that seemed to capture the sentiment of the moment. I'm pretty sure that our policy towards Taiwan has been to support them if and when China moved militarily against the island and its inhabitants. Is this yet one more example of Biden being in Bejing's pocket thanks to the various and sundry "investments" by the Chinese Communist Party to Biden and his extended family over the years? If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. "Elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences." All the credit for that statement belongs to Steve Bannon. What Kirby's comment presages is anyone's guess. It could mean that China is planning to move on Taiwan and wants to be sure that Biden is clear about who put him in office. Think Wuhan. Think mail-in ballots.
Is it possible that China released the COVID-19 virus that killed millions of people around the world just to get Trump out of office? If your answer to that question is "no fucking way," then you don't understand anything about China and the goals and aspirations of the Chinese Communist Party. As a side note, the United States has been sending congressional delegations to Taiwan for years to show our support for their independence. How do think the Taiwanese are sleeping tonight after hearing Kirby walk back our support? If the US isn't going to intercede on behalf of Taiwan, ain't nobody going to step into the fray when the shit hits the fan. What message does this send to our allies across the globe who see the United States not willing to stand up against aggressors of fellow democracies when push comes to shove? And the Democrats say that Trump is a threat to democracy. Is this not a perfect example of Democrats accusing Republicans of things they are guilty of? What do they call this again? Projection? Never mind, of course, that going to war with China over Taiwan would be silly. We're not going to threaten to nuke them or anything of the kind. That's not the point. China waltzed into Hong Kong, and we didn't say boo.
Is the bird flu (H-Something) the COVID-19 of the 2024 presidential election cycle? First, we hear about huge chicken farms having to kill off their bird populations due to the infection. Then, we hear about entire herds of cows having to be euthanized because the bird flu has spread to them. I'm waiting now to hear about the first cow or bird-to-human transmission. After that, we'll hear the World Health Organization step in and announce that we have a full-fledged God-awful pandemic on our hands, and we have to pull out all the stops to prevent its spread. Does any of this sound familiar? How about this, "Two weeks to stop the spread"? Wasn't that how it all started in 2020? Hospital rooms were filling up with cases of elderly patients in respiratory distress, and dead people were being stacked up like cordwood in refrigeration trucks because they couldn't process them fast enough. Don't worry; I'm getting around to the masks. When they roll out the masks, you know that mail-in ballots aren't far behind. States can't very well have people standing in line at the polls on Election Day in the midst of an ongoing pandemic that is killing people willy-nilly.
I'm even reading something today about the threat of people eating eggs over easy. You can't even have eggs the way you want them in Biden's America in the year of the Lord 2024. WTF. The next thing you know, they will be telling us that we have to cook our meat well done. Just cook the shite out of it until it becomes like shoe leather. It isn't enough that these assholes want to put everyone behind the wheel of an electric car. It isn't enough that they want to take away our gas stoves and our refrigerators. These are the same ass-clowns that are putting illegal aliens up in five-star hotels with a monthly stipend in the thousands of dollars while we have homeless veterans sleeping in the streets. Now, the Democrats want to give these illegal aliens access to our voting rolls so they can cement their constituencies like never before. We are a good and loving people, but we have a government that has lost its way, and we Americans need to help get that train back on the right track. That is never going to happen with the current Administration in place. They are too corrupt, too compromised, and too far gone to fix any of that which they've created or caused by their actions or inactions. The world will be a better place without them. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I don't get it. Israeli's IDF took out a car carrying 7 people affiliated with Gaza's version of Meals on Wheels, and you'd think it was the end of the world as we know it. Israel made a mistake, and they've fessed up. I think that they probably thought they had a legitimate target when they took out the vehicle. Why is it that when we (the US) do this sort of thing, we simply move on? There is no apology. There is no hand-wringing. There are no apologies to the victim's families. Yet, Israel now has to bow to international pressure to take their foot off the pedal somehow and get to the negotiating table to sort out their differences with Hamas. None of this, of course, involves getting back any of the hostages as a prerequisite for finalizing a deal. It has everything to do with allowing Hamas to live to fight another day and to give Joe Biden the cover he needs with the Muslim community in order to get them to the polls in November. I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but it bears repeating. Israel should go ahead with their plans to roust the remaining Hamas fighters from Rafah and tell Bumbles Biden to fuck off. Red lines be damned. Israel has a country to protect. If I were Netanyahu, and I knew I could get rid of the fool (Biden) in the upcoming US election by ignoring his demands to protect Hamas, I would do precisely what Netanyahu is doing now. Keep on keeping on, Bibbi! The American people are with you.
I think Mrs. G is finally giving up on Kentucky Fried Chicken. However, she still loves their mashed potatoes, gravy, and coleslaw, so we'll continue to go there. I'm guessing the chicken may not be as good as it used to be. Maybe it's less crispy, or there's less meat on the bone. That's kinda of the way of the world these days. You get less for your dollar. The damn dollar stores are actually going out of business because they can't afford to sell anything for a dollar anymore. The missus and I stopped at both Dave's Hot Chicken, where a couple of their take-out meals cost $28, and at Bob's Chicken in Portsmouth, where we picked up mashed potatoes, gravy, and coleslaw before heading over to see Mrs. G yesterday. We'll see if Mrs. G takes a shine to Dave's chicken as her new go-to chicken joint. You can choose your heat at Daves, and we got Mrs. G a mild sauce. It's a little out of the way to grab Dave's, so I wouldn't be terribly upset if she said it wasn't her cup of tea when everything was said and done. On the other hand, it's a small price to pay to see that Mrs. G has a nice meal waiting on those evenings when she hasn't ordered anything from her usual menu items found at her facility.
The stock market (S&P) dropped a scary 1.1% the other day, dipping below the ever-important 21-day moving average for the first time in a long time. It had all the makings of a veritable rug-pull. The indices were humming along nicely until around 3 pm, and then it took a nose dive. The DJIA went from up 300 to down 500. That is an eight-hundred-point swing. I think it was the 21-day moving average. Could it have been the fifty-day average? Possibly. One guy on Twitter that I follow said something like, "I've been waiting for this." He's been calling for a 5-10% pullback since December. The question on everyone's mind was, is this the beginning of a bigger pullback or just an overreaction to some news report involving interest rates, oil prices, or maybe an escalation of hostilities in the Middle East? A pullback of sorts would actually be healthy. The markets are definitely overextended here since they've been on a tear since last November with no discernible pullbacks. Maybe we go sideways from here and then break out to the upside after a period of consolidation. We didn't have to wait long to see where it was all going. The very next day, yesterday in fact, the market recovered the entire 1.1% on a day when the ten-year yield was ramping up and oil prices were hovering in and around $90. So much for that dreaded 10% pullback. To the moon, Alice!
We're watching "Ripley" on Netflix. It's a pretty good show. We're more than halfway through the eight-episode series, and I'm still waiting for the cops to catch up with this guy (Tom Ripley.) The main character is a slick small-time scumbag who makes his living as a con man in New York City back in the fifties. The entire show was shot in black and white, which just adds to the overall gloom-and-doom vibe of the flick. As much as you come to despise this prick for all the things he's able to pull off, you can't help but admire how he stays one step ahead of the gumshoes, who, thankfully, now that we're up to episode 6, seem to have his number. I was hoping that Marge (Dakota Fanning), who plays the girlfriend of the fella (Dickie) that Tom ultimately kills and then assumes his identity, would have acted sooner on her suspicions about Ripley, but she does not. The second half of the show follows Ripley to Italy, where he lives the life of a wealthy American, not as Tom Ripley, but as Dickie, whose life Ripley takes in a bizarre scene when the two rent a small boat when Dickie plans to tell Ripley that it's time for him to move on from the life the two have been sharing in a villa overlooking the ocean. I'm loving this Inspector Clouseau type who picks up the investigation after Ripley kills yet another character who threatens to out him to the police. Can't wait to see how this turns out!
Between the wintry weather we've had this past week and the time I had my bike in the shop for repairs, I'm a good week or more out from my last bike ride. I hate it when that happens. My legs go all wobbly, and I become a lot less sure-footed. It's not a big deal as long as I can get back in the saddle without further delay, but it's a reminder to me how doing this bike riding thing is the bee's knees for my health and well-being. In NASA parlance, it looks like it is a go for today, assuming nothing else comes up in the interim. The missus and I plan to watch Iowa play undefeated South Carolina in the women's NCAA playoffs around 3 this afternoon. We've been hearing so much about the wunderkind, Caitlin Clark, and her exploits on the court that we need to see how this all plays out in what is otherwise her last game as a senior. Quite frankly, I could give two shits about basketball, be it women's or men's, and sitting down to watch two hours of it may, at the end of the day, may be a bridge too far, but I'm wanting and willing to make an exception when it comes to today's game. I have a nice spinach, mushroom, and feta cheese quiche in the oven, and that should help us get a good start to the day. We'll get the Ev man's car back to him at some point today, or at least that's the plan, and I'll probably throw some nice chicken skewers on the barbie tonight to end the day. Everything is subject to change at a moment's notice.
Last Fucking Straw
31/03/24 07:09
Let's do this, Donald! His bond monies are due today. Yesterday, he won a golf event, so I gather he's not spending a lot of time worrying needlessly about what's going to happen today. Does he have this puppy in the bag? Will the Attorney General of New York get the last laugh? This could be the mother of all public relations wins for The Donald if he plays his cards right. Is there anything that would incense his followers more than to see that rabid District Attorney laying down a yellow crime scene tape across his properties? How about throwing a chain on the entrance to his golf course in Bedminster? Frank Luntz, the long-time pollster with the bad hairpiece, told America just last week that were Latesha James to move ahead with her plans to shutter Trump properties, she might as well just put him in the White House because that's where he'll end up. Let's get this party started, Donald!
If I'm not mistaken, Truth Social will go public today under the stock symbol DJT. This has been in the works for a while, so the fact that it is going public on the day Trump has to pony up half a billion for the bond is nothing if not divine intervention. If I understand it correctly, he will have to wait six months before he can redeem any of his shares, so it's not going to help him get out of his current jam. What it does do, however, is to piss off the ne'er do wells in the media who want to see his wealth diminished to the point where he has barely a nickel to his name and no pot to piss in when it comes to funding his own presidential campaign. What the value of the stock looks like six months from now is also a big question mark. If Trump can clear a billion, then I think he'll feel pretty good about things. Well, let's say that I'd feel pretty good were I in his position. If this becomes a meme stock, all bets are off. To the moon, Alice!
The missus and I were watching a news report last night about a couple of squatters who killed a homeowner, stuffed her in a duffel bag, and then hit the highway with her credit cards and her Lexus. They finally caught up with the two teenagers after tracking activity on her credit cards. These squatter stories are getting worse by the day. Anyway, what we didn't see on the report was a photo of either one of the alleged criminals. Were they members of a marginalized community? Were they illegal aliens? Has our government told the media not to reveal photos of illegals when their crimes come to the fore? Would we have seen their photos if they were white? What would the media be showing were Trump sitting in the White House instead of dementia Joe? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. This is all about controlling the "illegal alien" narrative so as not to inflame the public by hyping up negative stereotypes ahead of the elections in November.
It's one thing to see videos of caravans of illegal aliens as they make their way up north to our country. It's another thing to see them climbing the walls Trump built or cutting through razor wire on the fencing put up by Texas to keep the illegals out of our country. Unless you see them congregating in places in and around your neighborhood, the stories are just stories. You and your family are safe for now. You know that the stories you're hearing about various diseases making a comeback in cities where illegal aliens have been welcomed have everything to do with the invasion at our southern border. Still, you and your family are safe knowing that you don't live in close proximity to one or more of these sanctuary cities. This squatter thing is different. Thank the baby Jesus that I don't have a rental house sitting empty that some Venezuelan might want to squat in. That doesn't mean I'm not sleeping with one eye open when I lay down to sleep every night. Today, empty rentals and neglected homes are an invitation to illegals. Tomorrow, maybe they could care less who is in the house. You know who else could care less? Joe Biden's Democrat Party.
The Appeals Court in New York reduced Trump's bond to $175 million from $350 to $400 million. They came through at the last minute, thankfully. You know that the number is obscene and was going to get reduced anyway. It was just a matter of time. The Appeals Court gave the big middle finger to Latisha James and the crooked cab driver turned judge, Judge Engoron. Trump stood outside the courtroom and laid out the Stormy Daniel case and how Biden's DOJ had people running the case out of the Southern District of New York against Trump. Don't tell me that Biden has nothing to do with these lawfare cases. His fucking fingerprints are all over them. You should have seen the hysterical left-wing media when Trump's bond was reduced. They were inconsolable. They were so looking forward to seeing James seize Trump's properties. They had likely sent reporters to each of Trump's properties, not knowing which property would be seized first. It was a complete clown show.
What the hell happened earlier this morning in Baltimore? I saw video of this huge tanker running into one of three or four bridge abutments, and the entire bridge collapsed. It reminded me of those buildings during 9/11 that collapsed for no apparent reason other than that they were in close proximity to the two main towers. Some people think that the fact that the two towers collapsed so symmetrically must have meant that someone planted explosives strategically throughout the building. Anyway, this bridge in Baltimore is now toast. I think there were a half-dozen cars and a tractor-trailer on the bridge when it collapsed. God help the lot of them, whoever and wherever they are. It's pretty clear from watching the video that the tanker never made any effort to change course as it approached the bridge. The lights on the tanker flashed on and off three times before coming in contact with the abutment. Was that an SOS of sorts? Was this tanker hijacked by one or more of Biden's border jumpers with the intent of creating some sort of mass hysteria event? Mark my word: This event is going to get memory-holed before conspiracy theories get out of hand and bring down Biden's chances at reelection in one fell swoop. Not that he hasn't already lost the election on paper, mind you.
This DJT stock thing is weird. What's to stop some sultan or other sort out of the Middle East or elsewhere from stepping in and buying a shitload of stock at regular or irregular intervals just to keep the stock elevated enough such that Trump's windfall would be well north of its current value of three billion once sold in the open market? Would that not effectively circumvent existing laws regarding the financing of campaigns by foreign entities? Trump could liquidate his tens of thousands of shares just ahead of the election, reap the incredible rewards, and simply say that continuing to hold stock during his presidency would be, well, unethical. Cashing out and seeing the value of the stock plummet may not be ideal, but then again, anyone investing in the stock knew all along that their investment was more of a contribution than an investment. If the majority of his "investors" are people who would otherwise donate $50 to $100 dollars to his campaign, and multiply that by millions of investors, then who's going to raise a fuss or file a lawsuit when the value of Trump's stock goes to zero when he sells his shares? Just thinking out loud here.
I need to bring my bike in for service today. Since we're expecting rain for the next two days, the timing is perfect. My back tire wobbles a bit when I ride, and not in a good way. The same thing happened with my last bike, which wobbled so badly that it rubbed against the frame and was barely rideable. I think I ended up buying a new bike or wishing that I had, considering how much it cost to repair the bike. I hate it when that happens. The winds are pretty nasty here along the coast this time of the year, so I don't need to contend with anything more when I'm out riding. That's just a fact. It's the old "in like a lion, out like a lamb" bullshit. I can never figure out which is which. Does that mean it's windy now but only gets better from here on in? Or is it the other way around? Some days, the winds are so fierce that I go half my usual route but work just as hard, if not harder, to complete my ride. I can tell right away when going one way or the other that my ride one way is going to be a breeze, but I'll end up paying the piper on the return trip. I don't have to guess what the return trip is going to look like. Been there, done that.
I don't know if I buy the argument that Biden and his cronies were involved in the planning that led to yesterday's "accident" in Baltimore when the cargo ship struck the bridge. I only put the word accident in quotes because I don't think they know how it happened yet. That didn't stop them from calling it an accident in the minutes after it happened in the early hours of yesterday morning. No investigation had taken place, and I don't think they had even interviewed the crew on the ship yet. Besides, the reconstruction of the bridge is going to be a long-term project, and, at least in the short term, it is going to create serious ripples in our supply chains. That sort of thing drives prices up for the consumer, not down. Higher prices in an environment that is already difficult because of higher-than-usual inflation rates do not help an incumbent president. It's a minus, not a plus. It also doesn't help when the demented fool of a sitting president lies through his teeth when he finally gets around to making a statement about the accident and who will pay for it. Even if it were a terrorist act, the question remains: Who benefits? Biden didn't invite these illegal aliens into our country to pull off terrorist acts that would put his political opponent (Trump) in office. Not to worry, though. Pete Butt-Edge-Edge is on the job.
Kennedy finally named his Vice Presidential running mate yesterday. She is a far-left loon from the bowels of San Francisco and about as progressive a running mate as one could imagine. I thought Aaron Rodgers, the football guy, might have been a better choice had Kennedy been looking to draft off Trump supporters. Kennedy's going further to the left may well hurt Biden, and that's good news for Trump. I guess we'll see which camp has more dedicated followers when we get to Election Day. There are a lot of older people out there who still have fond memories of the days of Camelot, summers in Hyannis, Jackie-O, and Little John Boy and would blindly vote for the Kennedy-Loon ticket, given the choice between Biden and Trump. There is an outstanding question about how many state ballots Kennedy can get on between now and Election Day. Maybe he just needs to be on a handful of states that are still in play this late in the game. As for polls, I'm starting to see articles and polls that show Biden neck-in-neck with Trump. Other reports show Trump getting enormous support from the black and Hispanic communities, so I'm taking those neck-in-neck polls with a grain of salt.
Speaking of polls, I saw a Harris-something poll that asked respondents who they would vote for if Trump was convicted of one or more of the crimes he's been indicted for. The assumption all along has been that Trump would give up a lot of support if convicted. The Harris poll shows very different results. It has Trump beating Biden by a sizeable margin, even with a conviction. The left-wing shills in the mainstream media have been, and continue to be, relentless in attacking Trump as twice-impeached, the first president in American history to be charged with a felony and a flim-flam man of questionable morals and ethics. We all know the game they're playing and whose side they're on in this thing. They want four more years for Biden so he can "finish the job." The American people, or at least most of them, would like to see Biden physically dragged out of the White House as soon as possible were it not for the fact that Kamala Harris is waiting in the wings to be the first black woman president in the history of our country. I suppose they could drag her out, too, but that would be extra-constitutional and probably not a good look on the world stage.
I was reading about a political race in Chicago in the last week or two in which the Republican candidate had a pretty good lead going into the final stretch. She was running on a platform of protecting the neighborhoods with an increased police presence. Did I mention that she is a white Anglo-Saxon female? Her opponent is a black fella from the hood, as far as I know. He is black, but I'm less clear on the "hood" part. Anyway, the tallying of the final results kind of slowed things down a bit, thanks to a newly discovered tranche of mail-in ballots that appear to favor the losing candidate. Tell me if you think this story sounds familiar. I'm wondering if this story caught Elon Musk's attention because he posted a tweet with a listing of countries that have banned mail-in votes due to the fraudulent use of same in elections across the globe. In the State of Pennsylvania, Republicans won a recent case in the Appeals court to ensure that signature verification is required when counting mail-in ballots. The Democrats are appealing. We're just getting started, folks. Like I've always said, if the Democrats can't steal an election, they can't win.
If I'm not mistaken, Joyce Craig, the former mayor of Manchester, is running for Governor here in New Hampshire. She seems to be all in on the abortion issue, thinking perhaps that the abortion issue will be the key to her success in the Fall. It worked so well in the midterms in 2022, so why not see if she can ride it all the way to the corner office in New Hampshire? Right? I don't know much about this woman but I do know she lost her race for reelection for Mayor to a Republican. I'm guessing the people of Manchester, a blue-collar community for all intents and purposes, had had just about enough of her bullshit and decided that she wasn't deserving of a second term. Maybe it was a third term. Blue-collar communities don't typically elect Republicans, so that should tell you all you need to know about Joyce Craig. Maybe Ms. Craig hasn't noticed, but our country and our state are being overrun with illegal aliens. Inflation is at an all-time high thanks to her Democrat party, and owning a home is completely out of reach for young people thanks to the policies of the Democrat party. Abortion and women's reproductive rights will be the rallying cry of all Democrats from coast to coast between now and Election Day. That's all they have.
What is this I'm hearing about a few blue states in our country that have set dates certain for outlawing carbon-based fuels. I'm talking about states that won't even allow the sale of gasoline-powered cars after 2030 or earlier. How the fuck is that going to work? These are the radical left climate change cultists who have every intention of driving our country into a ditch by forcing everyone to buy something they have no interest in owning or driving. If a Democrat governor runs your state, you can be sure that he or she is going to do everything they can to put you behind the wheel of an electric vehicle. Do you need another reason not to vote for a Democrat as your governor? New Hampshire, are you listening? This really has nothing to do with climate change. These Koolaid drinkers are putting our country at risk, intentionally or otherwise, of a takeover either militarily or by other means when they weaken our ability to wage war or resist external foes with nothing but the power provided by windmills and solar panels. Trump needs to fix this bullshit on day one when he's inaugurated. Just undo every last one of Biden's Executive Actions, and we should be good to go.
My bike is in the shop until next Tuesday, which really messes with my bike-riding schedule. I'm an every-other-day guy these days, so I suppose it's not the biggest deal. In other words, I'll survive. I brought it in for a wobbly back wheel. I was a bit fearful that I'd be going along at a pretty good clip, and my tire would come in contact with the frame, bringing everything to an abrupt halt. I don't always ride with both hands on the handle grips, so that could be a problem. I don't need to be tossed over the handlebars, aka ass over tea kettle. The bike shop quoted me numbers for a few different repairs that I didn't even know I needed, and I decided that replacing the tire was good enough for now. That repair alone cost $110. The other repairs pushed the total closer to $300. It's a $600 bike, so I might as well buy another bike if I'm going to pay $300 for repairs. God only knows if I can find another bike for $600 these days, inflation being what it is. I might have to go with a used bike. It has nothing to do with affordability. It has everything to do with how much I'm willing and wanting to pay for a bicycle. That's just how I roll.
I hear people say that the more Trump calls our elections "rigged," the more likely it is that his supporters won't go out to vote this Fall. Do you suppose the same is true every time he calls the 2020 election "stolen?" Are those just vicious lies put out there by the mainstream media to discourage Trump from making so-called spurious and spiteful references? I'm in the camp that says that we as a country cannot move on until we sort out what really happened in 2020. I believe more than fifty percent of Republicans believe as I do, and the polling on same bears that out. How we do that exactly is above my pay grade. We certainly can't rely on the Republicans in Congress to put this puzzle together. Half of them won't even agree to impeach Biden despite the avalanche of evidence that Comer and his people have accumulated over the past year and a half. Hell, the January 6th thing was a hoax, but that didn't stop the Democrats from putting together a kangaroo court of a committee to "convict" Trump of insurrection. I'd be satisfied at this point if they got Liz Cheney before Congress to testify under oath about her role in suppressing exculpatory evidence given by various and sundry witnesses back in the day. I'm not holding my breath.
It was quite a contrast. Trump attended the funeral of an NYC cop killed in duty yesterday while Biden, the goat herder from Kenya, Obama, and the frequent flyer to Epstein island, Bill Clinton, all gathered at the Radio City Music Hall for a $500k per-ticket fundraiser for Biden. None of what we saw Trump doing was out of character for him. The same can be said for the criminals and child molesters who gathered together to raise money for Biden. Now you have to ask yourself, if you had to put one or the other in our beloved White House for the next four years, who would you choose? Which guy would do more for the American people? Which guy would get us into or out of wars across the globe? Which guy would work harder to remove illegal aliens from our neighborhoods and Venezuelan squatters from our once-idle vacation or rental homes? Which guy would stop issuing Executive Actions that are slowly but surely killing our auto industry? Which guy would stop doing the bidding of the progressive and Marxist Left and lay ruination upon ruination on our culture and our youth? Is it too much to ask that we return to the days of inflation under 2% and gas at the pump at $1.73 a gallon? And yes, that would give us four more years of mean tweets. God, I miss those mean tweets.
The stock market has been on a tear since the end of October 2023. That's good for the one-percenters and those of you who have some semblance of something in your 401k. Some analysts think we're in a bullish cycle that will last for a decade or more. Inflation seems to be coming down a bit, or at least the rate of inflation is coming down, and the Fed seems to have some appetite for rate cuts in the June-July timeframe. That could provide rocket fuel for stocks. Market breadth has been improving, and rumors on the street seem to suggest that small caps might well join large caps after a long period of consolidation. If this has anything to do with the Fed, Powell, tipping the scales for Biden in the months leading up to the election, I don't hear anyone complaining about it. So what if we see month after month of upward revisions in the prior month's inflation and unemployment numbers? It's all about the here and now. The altruist in me worries that folks at the lower end of the income scale have little to no chance of participating in this market, and that's not a good thing. The market is probably overdue for a correction of some kind, but pullbacks should be brief and tolerable for those not wanting to see their gains evaporate in the space of two or three trading sessions. Remember, the trend is your friend.
What are you doing for Easter? Do you have a nice ham in the refrigerator that you can cook for family and friends on Sunday? Do you even give a flying fuck about Easter? Like every other holiday these days, it's just another excuse to celebrate. I'm not a big believer in organized religion, but I'm a sucker for a good tear-jerker of a movie when these religious holidays roll around. I think I'll watch "The Passion of the Christ" just to get in the mood. I will not be attending any church services, so get that out of your head. I sat in on some Unitarian service a few years back and found that they were even more shameless when it came to shaking down their parishioners during the service for monies to fund their operation. I get the part about needing money to keep the lights on and all that bullshit, but it's just so in-your-face. I'm also not sure that they've rid their ranks of the fiddlers and diddlers, so I certainly do not want to support that in any way, shape, or form. The fact that we hear so little about the perverts in their midst tells me that they've simply found a better way to keep their names out of the headlines. If these places, and I'm talking about the lot of them, go away tomorrow, I'm not so sure we wouldn't be better off. That's just me.
Biden has proclaimed today, Easter Sunday, as "Transgender Day of Visibility." Wut? If you're a Christian looking to celebrate this holiest of holy days, fiddlers and diddlers aside, you've got to be thinking that this guy has lost his mind. He's completely lost his fucking marbles. I'm surprised he and his people didn't post a video of Dylan Mulvaney wearing a crucifix of thorns while toting a basket of rainbow-colored Easter Eggs while prancing daintily across the lawn outside the West Wing of the White House. To add injury to insult, Governor Hochul of New York declared that New York State landmarks in New York would be "lit light pink, white and light blue" in celebration of Biden's "Transgender Day of Visibility." Just when you thought that Biden's FBI spying on Christian churchgoers was the last fucking straw, we have this travesty of a declaration. Did Biden do this to get on the good side of his Palestinian supporters in places like Dearborn, Michigan? He has supplied Israel with enough bombs to incinerate the entirety of Gaza and every one of its millions of Palestinian citizens, so he had to do something to get back in their good graces before the November Election. Will this be enough? Color me skeptical.
If I'm not mistaken, Truth Social will go public today under the stock symbol DJT. This has been in the works for a while, so the fact that it is going public on the day Trump has to pony up half a billion for the bond is nothing if not divine intervention. If I understand it correctly, he will have to wait six months before he can redeem any of his shares, so it's not going to help him get out of his current jam. What it does do, however, is to piss off the ne'er do wells in the media who want to see his wealth diminished to the point where he has barely a nickel to his name and no pot to piss in when it comes to funding his own presidential campaign. What the value of the stock looks like six months from now is also a big question mark. If Trump can clear a billion, then I think he'll feel pretty good about things. Well, let's say that I'd feel pretty good were I in his position. If this becomes a meme stock, all bets are off. To the moon, Alice!
The missus and I were watching a news report last night about a couple of squatters who killed a homeowner, stuffed her in a duffel bag, and then hit the highway with her credit cards and her Lexus. They finally caught up with the two teenagers after tracking activity on her credit cards. These squatter stories are getting worse by the day. Anyway, what we didn't see on the report was a photo of either one of the alleged criminals. Were they members of a marginalized community? Were they illegal aliens? Has our government told the media not to reveal photos of illegals when their crimes come to the fore? Would we have seen their photos if they were white? What would the media be showing were Trump sitting in the White House instead of dementia Joe? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. This is all about controlling the "illegal alien" narrative so as not to inflame the public by hyping up negative stereotypes ahead of the elections in November.
It's one thing to see videos of caravans of illegal aliens as they make their way up north to our country. It's another thing to see them climbing the walls Trump built or cutting through razor wire on the fencing put up by Texas to keep the illegals out of our country. Unless you see them congregating in places in and around your neighborhood, the stories are just stories. You and your family are safe for now. You know that the stories you're hearing about various diseases making a comeback in cities where illegal aliens have been welcomed have everything to do with the invasion at our southern border. Still, you and your family are safe knowing that you don't live in close proximity to one or more of these sanctuary cities. This squatter thing is different. Thank the baby Jesus that I don't have a rental house sitting empty that some Venezuelan might want to squat in. That doesn't mean I'm not sleeping with one eye open when I lay down to sleep every night. Today, empty rentals and neglected homes are an invitation to illegals. Tomorrow, maybe they could care less who is in the house. You know who else could care less? Joe Biden's Democrat Party.
The Appeals Court in New York reduced Trump's bond to $175 million from $350 to $400 million. They came through at the last minute, thankfully. You know that the number is obscene and was going to get reduced anyway. It was just a matter of time. The Appeals Court gave the big middle finger to Latisha James and the crooked cab driver turned judge, Judge Engoron. Trump stood outside the courtroom and laid out the Stormy Daniel case and how Biden's DOJ had people running the case out of the Southern District of New York against Trump. Don't tell me that Biden has nothing to do with these lawfare cases. His fucking fingerprints are all over them. You should have seen the hysterical left-wing media when Trump's bond was reduced. They were inconsolable. They were so looking forward to seeing James seize Trump's properties. They had likely sent reporters to each of Trump's properties, not knowing which property would be seized first. It was a complete clown show.
What the hell happened earlier this morning in Baltimore? I saw video of this huge tanker running into one of three or four bridge abutments, and the entire bridge collapsed. It reminded me of those buildings during 9/11 that collapsed for no apparent reason other than that they were in close proximity to the two main towers. Some people think that the fact that the two towers collapsed so symmetrically must have meant that someone planted explosives strategically throughout the building. Anyway, this bridge in Baltimore is now toast. I think there were a half-dozen cars and a tractor-trailer on the bridge when it collapsed. God help the lot of them, whoever and wherever they are. It's pretty clear from watching the video that the tanker never made any effort to change course as it approached the bridge. The lights on the tanker flashed on and off three times before coming in contact with the abutment. Was that an SOS of sorts? Was this tanker hijacked by one or more of Biden's border jumpers with the intent of creating some sort of mass hysteria event? Mark my word: This event is going to get memory-holed before conspiracy theories get out of hand and bring down Biden's chances at reelection in one fell swoop. Not that he hasn't already lost the election on paper, mind you.
This DJT stock thing is weird. What's to stop some sultan or other sort out of the Middle East or elsewhere from stepping in and buying a shitload of stock at regular or irregular intervals just to keep the stock elevated enough such that Trump's windfall would be well north of its current value of three billion once sold in the open market? Would that not effectively circumvent existing laws regarding the financing of campaigns by foreign entities? Trump could liquidate his tens of thousands of shares just ahead of the election, reap the incredible rewards, and simply say that continuing to hold stock during his presidency would be, well, unethical. Cashing out and seeing the value of the stock plummet may not be ideal, but then again, anyone investing in the stock knew all along that their investment was more of a contribution than an investment. If the majority of his "investors" are people who would otherwise donate $50 to $100 dollars to his campaign, and multiply that by millions of investors, then who's going to raise a fuss or file a lawsuit when the value of Trump's stock goes to zero when he sells his shares? Just thinking out loud here.
I need to bring my bike in for service today. Since we're expecting rain for the next two days, the timing is perfect. My back tire wobbles a bit when I ride, and not in a good way. The same thing happened with my last bike, which wobbled so badly that it rubbed against the frame and was barely rideable. I think I ended up buying a new bike or wishing that I had, considering how much it cost to repair the bike. I hate it when that happens. The winds are pretty nasty here along the coast this time of the year, so I don't need to contend with anything more when I'm out riding. That's just a fact. It's the old "in like a lion, out like a lamb" bullshit. I can never figure out which is which. Does that mean it's windy now but only gets better from here on in? Or is it the other way around? Some days, the winds are so fierce that I go half my usual route but work just as hard, if not harder, to complete my ride. I can tell right away when going one way or the other that my ride one way is going to be a breeze, but I'll end up paying the piper on the return trip. I don't have to guess what the return trip is going to look like. Been there, done that.
I don't know if I buy the argument that Biden and his cronies were involved in the planning that led to yesterday's "accident" in Baltimore when the cargo ship struck the bridge. I only put the word accident in quotes because I don't think they know how it happened yet. That didn't stop them from calling it an accident in the minutes after it happened in the early hours of yesterday morning. No investigation had taken place, and I don't think they had even interviewed the crew on the ship yet. Besides, the reconstruction of the bridge is going to be a long-term project, and, at least in the short term, it is going to create serious ripples in our supply chains. That sort of thing drives prices up for the consumer, not down. Higher prices in an environment that is already difficult because of higher-than-usual inflation rates do not help an incumbent president. It's a minus, not a plus. It also doesn't help when the demented fool of a sitting president lies through his teeth when he finally gets around to making a statement about the accident and who will pay for it. Even if it were a terrorist act, the question remains: Who benefits? Biden didn't invite these illegal aliens into our country to pull off terrorist acts that would put his political opponent (Trump) in office. Not to worry, though. Pete Butt-Edge-Edge is on the job.
Kennedy finally named his Vice Presidential running mate yesterday. She is a far-left loon from the bowels of San Francisco and about as progressive a running mate as one could imagine. I thought Aaron Rodgers, the football guy, might have been a better choice had Kennedy been looking to draft off Trump supporters. Kennedy's going further to the left may well hurt Biden, and that's good news for Trump. I guess we'll see which camp has more dedicated followers when we get to Election Day. There are a lot of older people out there who still have fond memories of the days of Camelot, summers in Hyannis, Jackie-O, and Little John Boy and would blindly vote for the Kennedy-Loon ticket, given the choice between Biden and Trump. There is an outstanding question about how many state ballots Kennedy can get on between now and Election Day. Maybe he just needs to be on a handful of states that are still in play this late in the game. As for polls, I'm starting to see articles and polls that show Biden neck-in-neck with Trump. Other reports show Trump getting enormous support from the black and Hispanic communities, so I'm taking those neck-in-neck polls with a grain of salt.
Speaking of polls, I saw a Harris-something poll that asked respondents who they would vote for if Trump was convicted of one or more of the crimes he's been indicted for. The assumption all along has been that Trump would give up a lot of support if convicted. The Harris poll shows very different results. It has Trump beating Biden by a sizeable margin, even with a conviction. The left-wing shills in the mainstream media have been, and continue to be, relentless in attacking Trump as twice-impeached, the first president in American history to be charged with a felony and a flim-flam man of questionable morals and ethics. We all know the game they're playing and whose side they're on in this thing. They want four more years for Biden so he can "finish the job." The American people, or at least most of them, would like to see Biden physically dragged out of the White House as soon as possible were it not for the fact that Kamala Harris is waiting in the wings to be the first black woman president in the history of our country. I suppose they could drag her out, too, but that would be extra-constitutional and probably not a good look on the world stage.
I was reading about a political race in Chicago in the last week or two in which the Republican candidate had a pretty good lead going into the final stretch. She was running on a platform of protecting the neighborhoods with an increased police presence. Did I mention that she is a white Anglo-Saxon female? Her opponent is a black fella from the hood, as far as I know. He is black, but I'm less clear on the "hood" part. Anyway, the tallying of the final results kind of slowed things down a bit, thanks to a newly discovered tranche of mail-in ballots that appear to favor the losing candidate. Tell me if you think this story sounds familiar. I'm wondering if this story caught Elon Musk's attention because he posted a tweet with a listing of countries that have banned mail-in votes due to the fraudulent use of same in elections across the globe. In the State of Pennsylvania, Republicans won a recent case in the Appeals court to ensure that signature verification is required when counting mail-in ballots. The Democrats are appealing. We're just getting started, folks. Like I've always said, if the Democrats can't steal an election, they can't win.
If I'm not mistaken, Joyce Craig, the former mayor of Manchester, is running for Governor here in New Hampshire. She seems to be all in on the abortion issue, thinking perhaps that the abortion issue will be the key to her success in the Fall. It worked so well in the midterms in 2022, so why not see if she can ride it all the way to the corner office in New Hampshire? Right? I don't know much about this woman but I do know she lost her race for reelection for Mayor to a Republican. I'm guessing the people of Manchester, a blue-collar community for all intents and purposes, had had just about enough of her bullshit and decided that she wasn't deserving of a second term. Maybe it was a third term. Blue-collar communities don't typically elect Republicans, so that should tell you all you need to know about Joyce Craig. Maybe Ms. Craig hasn't noticed, but our country and our state are being overrun with illegal aliens. Inflation is at an all-time high thanks to her Democrat party, and owning a home is completely out of reach for young people thanks to the policies of the Democrat party. Abortion and women's reproductive rights will be the rallying cry of all Democrats from coast to coast between now and Election Day. That's all they have.
What is this I'm hearing about a few blue states in our country that have set dates certain for outlawing carbon-based fuels. I'm talking about states that won't even allow the sale of gasoline-powered cars after 2030 or earlier. How the fuck is that going to work? These are the radical left climate change cultists who have every intention of driving our country into a ditch by forcing everyone to buy something they have no interest in owning or driving. If a Democrat governor runs your state, you can be sure that he or she is going to do everything they can to put you behind the wheel of an electric vehicle. Do you need another reason not to vote for a Democrat as your governor? New Hampshire, are you listening? This really has nothing to do with climate change. These Koolaid drinkers are putting our country at risk, intentionally or otherwise, of a takeover either militarily or by other means when they weaken our ability to wage war or resist external foes with nothing but the power provided by windmills and solar panels. Trump needs to fix this bullshit on day one when he's inaugurated. Just undo every last one of Biden's Executive Actions, and we should be good to go.
My bike is in the shop until next Tuesday, which really messes with my bike-riding schedule. I'm an every-other-day guy these days, so I suppose it's not the biggest deal. In other words, I'll survive. I brought it in for a wobbly back wheel. I was a bit fearful that I'd be going along at a pretty good clip, and my tire would come in contact with the frame, bringing everything to an abrupt halt. I don't always ride with both hands on the handle grips, so that could be a problem. I don't need to be tossed over the handlebars, aka ass over tea kettle. The bike shop quoted me numbers for a few different repairs that I didn't even know I needed, and I decided that replacing the tire was good enough for now. That repair alone cost $110. The other repairs pushed the total closer to $300. It's a $600 bike, so I might as well buy another bike if I'm going to pay $300 for repairs. God only knows if I can find another bike for $600 these days, inflation being what it is. I might have to go with a used bike. It has nothing to do with affordability. It has everything to do with how much I'm willing and wanting to pay for a bicycle. That's just how I roll.
I hear people say that the more Trump calls our elections "rigged," the more likely it is that his supporters won't go out to vote this Fall. Do you suppose the same is true every time he calls the 2020 election "stolen?" Are those just vicious lies put out there by the mainstream media to discourage Trump from making so-called spurious and spiteful references? I'm in the camp that says that we as a country cannot move on until we sort out what really happened in 2020. I believe more than fifty percent of Republicans believe as I do, and the polling on same bears that out. How we do that exactly is above my pay grade. We certainly can't rely on the Republicans in Congress to put this puzzle together. Half of them won't even agree to impeach Biden despite the avalanche of evidence that Comer and his people have accumulated over the past year and a half. Hell, the January 6th thing was a hoax, but that didn't stop the Democrats from putting together a kangaroo court of a committee to "convict" Trump of insurrection. I'd be satisfied at this point if they got Liz Cheney before Congress to testify under oath about her role in suppressing exculpatory evidence given by various and sundry witnesses back in the day. I'm not holding my breath.
It was quite a contrast. Trump attended the funeral of an NYC cop killed in duty yesterday while Biden, the goat herder from Kenya, Obama, and the frequent flyer to Epstein island, Bill Clinton, all gathered at the Radio City Music Hall for a $500k per-ticket fundraiser for Biden. None of what we saw Trump doing was out of character for him. The same can be said for the criminals and child molesters who gathered together to raise money for Biden. Now you have to ask yourself, if you had to put one or the other in our beloved White House for the next four years, who would you choose? Which guy would do more for the American people? Which guy would get us into or out of wars across the globe? Which guy would work harder to remove illegal aliens from our neighborhoods and Venezuelan squatters from our once-idle vacation or rental homes? Which guy would stop issuing Executive Actions that are slowly but surely killing our auto industry? Which guy would stop doing the bidding of the progressive and Marxist Left and lay ruination upon ruination on our culture and our youth? Is it too much to ask that we return to the days of inflation under 2% and gas at the pump at $1.73 a gallon? And yes, that would give us four more years of mean tweets. God, I miss those mean tweets.
The stock market has been on a tear since the end of October 2023. That's good for the one-percenters and those of you who have some semblance of something in your 401k. Some analysts think we're in a bullish cycle that will last for a decade or more. Inflation seems to be coming down a bit, or at least the rate of inflation is coming down, and the Fed seems to have some appetite for rate cuts in the June-July timeframe. That could provide rocket fuel for stocks. Market breadth has been improving, and rumors on the street seem to suggest that small caps might well join large caps after a long period of consolidation. If this has anything to do with the Fed, Powell, tipping the scales for Biden in the months leading up to the election, I don't hear anyone complaining about it. So what if we see month after month of upward revisions in the prior month's inflation and unemployment numbers? It's all about the here and now. The altruist in me worries that folks at the lower end of the income scale have little to no chance of participating in this market, and that's not a good thing. The market is probably overdue for a correction of some kind, but pullbacks should be brief and tolerable for those not wanting to see their gains evaporate in the space of two or three trading sessions. Remember, the trend is your friend.
What are you doing for Easter? Do you have a nice ham in the refrigerator that you can cook for family and friends on Sunday? Do you even give a flying fuck about Easter? Like every other holiday these days, it's just another excuse to celebrate. I'm not a big believer in organized religion, but I'm a sucker for a good tear-jerker of a movie when these religious holidays roll around. I think I'll watch "The Passion of the Christ" just to get in the mood. I will not be attending any church services, so get that out of your head. I sat in on some Unitarian service a few years back and found that they were even more shameless when it came to shaking down their parishioners during the service for monies to fund their operation. I get the part about needing money to keep the lights on and all that bullshit, but it's just so in-your-face. I'm also not sure that they've rid their ranks of the fiddlers and diddlers, so I certainly do not want to support that in any way, shape, or form. The fact that we hear so little about the perverts in their midst tells me that they've simply found a better way to keep their names out of the headlines. If these places, and I'm talking about the lot of them, go away tomorrow, I'm not so sure we wouldn't be better off. That's just me.
Biden has proclaimed today, Easter Sunday, as "Transgender Day of Visibility." Wut? If you're a Christian looking to celebrate this holiest of holy days, fiddlers and diddlers aside, you've got to be thinking that this guy has lost his mind. He's completely lost his fucking marbles. I'm surprised he and his people didn't post a video of Dylan Mulvaney wearing a crucifix of thorns while toting a basket of rainbow-colored Easter Eggs while prancing daintily across the lawn outside the West Wing of the White House. To add injury to insult, Governor Hochul of New York declared that New York State landmarks in New York would be "lit light pink, white and light blue" in celebration of Biden's "Transgender Day of Visibility." Just when you thought that Biden's FBI spying on Christian churchgoers was the last fucking straw, we have this travesty of a declaration. Did Biden do this to get on the good side of his Palestinian supporters in places like Dearborn, Michigan? He has supplied Israel with enough bombs to incinerate the entirety of Gaza and every one of its millions of Palestinian citizens, so he had to do something to get back in their good graces before the November Election. Will this be enough? Color me skeptical.
Make It Make Sense
24/03/24 07:11
Thank God for our Constitution. Can you imagine Joe Biden pulling a Putin? Having predetermined elections and having any and all political opposition taken out of the race by nefarious means? That's not to say that it's not happening with Trump, but one way or another, we would never see a third term for Biden, thanks to our Constitution. Was it President Roosevelt who was up for a third term? I'm not sure how that happened, so I should do a little homework before I blather on much more. How about Maduro in Venezuela? He's another strongman who will likely never lose another election. We all know how Venezuelans feel about him. They're all crossing our southern border to escape the monster. We're also getting their prisoners en masse, so, net-net, it's a mixed bag. I would also condemn the Republicans if they did what we see Biden and his regime doing day in and day out to make sure he gets a second term. By hook or crook, as they say in the movies.
Shall we call it the "Bloodbath Hoax"? The Democrats and their praetorian guard, the media, are in full spin mode after Trump made comments in his rally over the weekend about having a "bloodbath" if he's not elected in November. His comment was all about a financial bloodbath in the automotive industry, and it had zero to do with his winning or not winning the presidential election in November. The media would have us believe, even this morning, after the passing of several news cycles, that Trump is threatening a January 6th-style bloodbath should he lose the election. The good news is that social media stepped into the fray the minute lies started to circulate and called the lot of the news organizations out for their lies and misrepresentations. It does have me wondering if this wasn't a messaging sleight-of-hand crafted by Trump's handlers in order to out the criminality and hypocrisy of the mainstream media. Elon Musk even stepped in on Twitter (X) to correct tweets that sought to perpetuate the lie that the media wanted to go viral. All hands on deck?
I watched one of the liberal talking head shows on Sunday. If I have her name correctly, it was the show hosted by Martha Raddish. Talk about a loon-fest. If I was curious as to what strategy the media would employ to get their boy, Biden, back into the Oval Office for another four years, let's say I'm no longer curious. I'm referring to the part of the show where Raddish sits down with four or five other "anal-ists," and they discuss everything under the sun as it relates to politics and Donald J. Trump. After listening to the analysts beclown each other for the better part of fifteen or twenty minutes, the strategy seemed to be to smear Trump using any and all forms of rhetorical flourish available. They're not waiting for Trump to be convicted on one or more of the ninety or so indictments outstanding. That horse has left the barn. It's fucking game-on, and I'm not sure there isn't anything that they won't do or sign off on in order to see that Trump doesn't win the election. They are maniacally focused on taking him down before he gets one foot out of the gate. It may be too little, too late.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the media weren't doing their best to create a cloud of toxicity of sorts around Trump such that someone might take their words, as intentionally despicable and virulent as they often are, as giving them license to do bad things to Trump and, by extension, Trump supporters. Trump is a threat to Democracy! If we learned nothing from the endless Russia Russia Russia trolling of the public by the mainstream media during Trump's first term, we learned that they would stop at nothing to use their platform as a political battering ram in order to defeat their enemies and prop up their political bedfellows. Keep in mind that it's not just the media. The entire Deep State and its political infrastructure are at risk should Trump be re-elected for a second term. There is no question that they have the will and the means to prevent Trump from winning the election or, worse yet, to see that he never becomes the nominee/president.
I see that the Kenyan goat herder Obama is in London visiting 10 Downing Street as I sit here this morning. What the hell is he doing anywhere on the world stage representing the United States? Forget for a minute that he is likely calling the shots, or maybe more appropriately pulling the strings, in the Biden administration. That would certainly explain why the United States' foreign policy is in a shambles. He's just confirming what everyone suspects, which is that he and his Marxist toadies are behind every decision that comes out of the White House. It's his third term, don't you know. For those of us who were on to this Kenyan goat herder a long time ago, it's like deja vu all over again. Is he there in London to assuage the fears that 10 Downing Street has about the declining mental health of one Joseph Biden? Is he there to assure them that the United States will stay the course when Michelle Obama gets sworn into office in January 2025? Has he gone so far as to promise them that Donald J. Trump will never be the 47th president of the United States? What then?
It's so funny. We're finally getting around to getting a generator that we don't have to wheel in and out of the garage every time we lose electricity. Our neighbor has a nice set-up where her generator turns on automatically when the power goes out. It's a bit more expensive than the stand-alone generator that we have, but, truth be told, it's time. I told the missus that were I to get hit by a bus tomorrow she would have to deal with the generator. She would have to wheel it out of the garage and pull the starting cord until it was up and running. Both she and I know that that ain't happening. She doesn't know the first thing about such things and she's probably not about to learn now. I asked the guy who came out to give us an estimate of how much I could get for my stand-alone generator. He said I might get around a grand unless I were willing and sell it the next time we have a storm. I don't have the estimate yet, but it's probably not going to be cheap to get all of this up and running. The funny part about all of this is no sooner did we start discussing the reality of doing this then I started to notice how many homes hereabouts have propane tanks and generators sitting on their property. I never noticed that before.
Maybe we'll get a gas stove if we're going to have propane tanks on the premises. I'm no Chef Ramsey, but I can appreciate how much nicer it would be to cook on a gas stove. On the other hand, every time I turn around these days, the cucks in the White House are coming out with one directive or another about stopping the sale of carbon-based appliances like gas stoves. More recently, they threatened to ban gas stoves in New York City. I think that went nowhere but make no mistake. These climate cultists ain't about to give up on their wet dream of getting rid of anything and everything that puts so-called pollutants into the atmosphere. It makes you wonder what their endgame is. I think it's all about weakening our country to the point where we are incapable of defending ourselves in the event of a global conflict coming to our shores. What else could it be? You don't honestly think that it has anything to do with cutting back on cancer rates or keeping ice floes around for the polar bears, do you? I can be a bit of a worry-wart sometimes when it comes to something like a gas stove. Did we leave the stove on? Did you turn off the gas stove? No, I thought you did. See where I'm going with this?
I'm sorry to see Peter Navarro go to jail for four months. He's headed to jail because he decided to ignore the subpoena sent to him by the J6 Committee. So that you know, Navarro was a personal advisor to President Trump during his first term. He thought, apparently wrongly (Until proven otherwise), that he had some sort of immunity that would preclude him from testifying. I'm not an attorney, so I may not have the terminology quite right, but it's probably close enough for government work. I'd be curious to know which prison he's heading to. Is it going to be a Riker's Island-type joint where he has to have eyes in the back of his head every time he drops his bar of soap while showering? Or, will it be the kind of place Martha Stewart stayed during her stay in prison after trading stocks using insider information? Knowing the Bidenistas as I do, I fear that Peter may be for a tough four months behind bars. Will his association with Trump help him or hurt him once he's on the inside? Maybe he can teach classes on economics to the lifers he's holed up with. I think he has a doctorate in economics. Since when do those types of people go to prison unless your name is Bernie Madoff? Only in Joe Biden's America. May God protect him.
Bumbles and his minions are publishing new emissions standards/requirements today. Is anyone surprised that car manufacturers will find it difficult, if not impossible, to meet these new standards? With electric vehicle sales slumping due to declining demand, they had to do something to turn that around in order to meet their ridiculous zero-carbon goals. Fuck the lot of them and the horse they rode in on. I ain't buying an electric car. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. I'll walk before I'll bow to the bullshit they're selling. I'm just waiting now for the manufacturers to sue the shite out of the government, who would see them lose their businesses before they'd let them roll another gas-powered vehicle off the assembly line. I hope the car companies in Michigan are listening. I hope the voters in Michigan are listening. If Trump wins Michigan in November, he takes back the White House, and all of this bull-fuckery goes away. Can Congress do anything to thwart the idiocy coming out of the White House? God, I hope so. Go big and go bold, is what I say. Trump wasn't wrong about the "bloodbath."
I have no idea what The Donald is going to do to raise the money he needs for the half-billion dollar bond he needs by next Monday. It's such an absurd fine to begin with that I don't know where to start. Will that cretin of a District Attorney really start liquidation proceedings of Trump's properties in order to satisfy the amount of the bond? I'm hearing more and more business bigwigs speaking publicly about what this means for investors around the world who may have been interested in investing in New York City but are now having second thoughts after watching what's been happening to Trump. To a person, they say that they've never seen anything like this, and it's the kind of thing that only happens in third-world banana republics but not in our country - until now. It's a cautionary tale, to be sure. Articles I'm reading say that thirty-some-odd bond companies have turned Trump down in his request to float the bond that he needs. Any guesses on how many of those bond companies were threatened not to do business with Trump or else? Would any of this be happening were Trump not running for president? Of course not. A little divine intervention would be nice.
I'm a little troubled by the latest ruling by a black federal judge in Illinois that illegal aliens have the right under the Second Amendment to bear arms. I only mention her race because I'm not entirely sure that there isn't a racial component to her decision. That is to say, she may believe in her heart of hearts that the only way we colonialists stay in power is if we have the wherewithal under the Constitution to protect ourselves should push come to shove. She'd likely like nothing better than to do what she can to improve the odds of her fellow blacks and other minority classes, including some ten to thirteen million recent arrivals now here in our country illegally, by granting them rights under the Constitution that don't otherwise exist. Think about it. If this invasion of tens of millions of so-called migrants brought to us by Joe Biden morphs into an armed invasion of young men of military age, this could be the revolution that blacks and other underprivileged classes have been crowing about for the last one hundred years. Unfortunately, we have an underbelly of complacency in our country that might well see our citizenry rolling over without a fight when the shit hits the fan. It would make January 6th look like a walk in the park. Is it any surprise that this Federal judge from Illinois is an Obama appointee? Let's get this damn thing overturned before it's too late.
Have you heard about the latest craze of squatting? No, not that kind of squatting. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about where you have homeless people breaking into homes that are on the market for sale or other and refuse to leave. This one case, coming out of Queens, New York, had the squatters replacing the front door with a new door complete with new locks, etc. When the owners show up and try to get them to leave, the squatters call the police on the owner. The owner actually got arrested in this case. In some cases, the squatters show a fake lease to the officers, and the officers have no choice but to turn the matter over to the court system. It can take months to resolve when courts are backed up, not to mention the delays caused by the backlogs created out of whole cloth when you factor in tens of thousands of itinerant illegal aliens whose cases are clogging an already clogged judicial system. I don't know about you, but I'm thinking twice before leaving my house these days. With my luck, I'd run out for a quart of milk and return home to find someone else living in my house. Johnny would not be happy. Can someone get me the number for rent-a-vigilante? I will not go quietly into the night.
What are we to make of these financial markets? The stock market has gone almost vertical since the beginning of November 2023. Is this 1999 all over again? No one is willing to go that far, but the market seems to be ignoring all the usual market forces that would otherwise give us a pause here and there before getting back on track. The good news for the bulls is that Powell delivered a dovish message yesterday promising to take his foot off the pedal when it comes to quantitative tightening and rate cuts. Anyone who's been paying attention to the wild fluctuations and last-minute surges in the day-to-day machinations of the market would tell you that someone somewhere has been tipping the scales to stop the market from going down. Pullbacks, which are normal in any market, are almost non-existent. Forget the 50-day moving average. We can't even break the 21-day moving average these days. This is also a little reminiscent of 2021. You knew things were getting frothy, but you couldn't get out of the market for fear of losing out. Hell, some people were taking out loans to buy stocks. The returns more than made up for the interest the banks were charging. How much, if any, does this have to do with the latest AI craze? Are we in the middle of another dot.com-type mania? Or, is this just Biden and his boy at the Fed, Powell, juicing the markets to win an election?
I'm thinking about the State of Arizona. As far as I know, the electorate is somewhat purple-ish. Presidential races are decided by a few thousand votes every four years. Polls this year have both Biden and Trump either up or down depending on the poll. Here's what I'm not understanding: There have been hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into Arizona, and the usual margins between the political parties have barely budged. You would think that the citizenry of Arizona might have an issue with the invasion of their great state by illegal aliens whose very presence in the state has every conceivable metric from crimes committed to meeting their health care needs just off the fucking scale. In other words, the guy who wants to deport them all, Trump, should be 10 points or more ahead at this stage of the game. Maybe more appropriately, Biden should be ten points behind. The senatorial race between Kari Lake and this Gallegos guy shouldn't even be close, yet Gallegos is four points ahead as I sit here today. Why on God's green earth would Arizonans want to send a Democrat like Gallegos to Washington when everyone knows that he would endorse Biden's bid to keep our borders wide open? You'll never convince me that Arizonans want more illegal aliens in their state. Are we then to conclude that roughly 50% of the Arizonans want more of the same? Make it make sense.
Did you see the hordes of illegals breaking through the razor wire fence down there in El Paso, Texas, yesterday? If you were watching CNN or MSNBC, you probably didn't. It was frightening. Biden told them to surge the border, and, God damn it, they are surging our fucking borders. What the hell are our National Guardsmen supposed to do? They did the best they could to stop the crushing crowds of filthy travel-worn migrants from coming into our country, but they were too few in number and not properly equipped to keep them from breaking through. Not one soldier raised his rifle or raised a hand to try and stop the feral mob. Imagine what the Biden Administration would do with film footage of one or more soldiers opening fire on the marauding migrants. You probably recall the hoo-haw they came up with a couple of years ago when the Border Patrol had officers on horseback trying to corral the border crossers. They accused them of whipping and traumatizing the poor migrants as they came to America to build a better life. Horseshit. Nobody got whipped or traumatized, but that didn't stop Biden and his people from condemning the actions of the officers and trying to put them out of their jobs.
I hope to hell the Appeals Court steps in today to put a stop to Lateisha's efforts to take control of Trump's properties. I know Monday is the deadline but nobody wants this to go down to the wire. And the last thing we want to see is this cunt of a District Attorney standing in front of Trump Tower in New York City, taking possession of the property and forcing the eviction of its tenants. The fine of some half billion dollars is beyond ludicrous for this so-called victimless crime, and someone needs to pay a political price for going down this road and trying to destroy a man and the legacy he's built up over the course of his lifetime. Everyone sees this for what it is. It's lawfare at its finest. If they can't put Trump behind bars before the election, they will bankrupt him and take everything that he's ever worked for in order to take him down. Don't think for a moment that Joe Biden isn't getting hourly updates on the efforts of everyone working on his behalf to destroy his political opposition. He's only ultimately revealed himself to be the corrupt and criminal politician that he's always been going back some fifty years. Here's the dirty little secret: It's not just Joe Biden. It's the cabal of leftist freaks working behind the scenes in our beloved White House.
It seems like everything this Biden White House touches turns to shit. They convinced the Ukrainians not to engage in talks with Russia at the beginning of the war, and we now have hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians dead. They keep trying to micromanage the Israeli war, and thankfully, Israel has ignored their overtures. There is something almost Machiavellian about how the Biden Administration conducts themselves across the globe. Having taken millions of dollars from our enemies overseas, it looks more often than not like Biden is bending over backward to protect or promote the interests of our enemies at the expense of our allies. I'm looking at an overseas headline this morning about Biden and his Administration calling on Ukraine to cease and desist in attacking Russia's energy infrastructure. You can't make this stuff up. Let me see if I have this right. Biden wants to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine so they can mount a credible and, God willing, crippling defense against the advancing Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. But, God forbid the Ukrainians launch a counter-attack on Russian soil. Here's the deal: Biden can't have the price of Russian crude influencing global markets and pushing prices up at the pump at a time when he's running for reelection. This has to have the Ukrainians wondering whose side he's on. Just another Putin stooge?
I think I need a new iPhone. I'm a few generations behind, so I think it's time. My phone still works fine, don't get me wrong. Should I be concerned that I can no longer get software updates? Let me rephrase that. I cannot update my current operating system to OS 17. Word has it that Apple is building AI into the iPhone 17, which is, as best I can tell, a couple of years out. The latest model available is the iPhone 15. They always do this. They put a rumor or two out there in the ether, and the next thing you know, you're deciding whether or not whatever it is they're promising is worth waiting for or not. If I'm not wanting or willing to wait, will the AI thing be available as a software update when they get around to rolling it out? I also have to decide which model I want from among the many models available. Do I want the Max Pro model? How about just the Pro model? Do I care more about size than price? Is the Max model too big to fit in my pocket when I go for a bike ride? Will this latest anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple by the Justice Department have any bearing on anything? Next steps? I'm planning a visit to my local Best Buy, where I can see for myself what the various models look and feel like. Do I even want AI on my iPhone?
Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Russia yesterday, where around 115 people were gunned down in a large mall in Moscow? You never know what to believe when you hear these sorts of things, but this story seems to have legs. One story I saw put out a list of the countries offering their condolences and another story had the Kremlin criticizing those countries who had yet to offer their condolences. I think the United States was on both lists. Like I said, you never know what to believe. Another story had the culprits getting away, while this morning's news has a story about the four terrorists who were stopped in a car that was reportedly heading for the Ukrainian border. I asked myself, if I were a terrorist and I just killed a bunch of people in Moscow, would I be stupid enough to head for a border where the Russians were likely to be looking for me and my fellow assassins? You have to assume that the Ruskies probably thought that Ukrainians were involved. And then you have the infamous warmonger, Victoria Nuland, who said recently that Russia would be in for a few "nasty surprises." I can't even begin to read between those lines. I guess I'm still not sure what is and what isn't "fair game" when it comes to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Is this just more tit-for-tat? Or is this over the top, as they say in the movies? Maybe it depends on whose side you're on.
I'm hearing that some people are suggesting that this attack was a false flag operation by Russia. That is to say, Putin can now use the attack as a premise for an all-out attack on Ukraine without pushback from world leaders. It would be no different than what Netanyahu is now doing to Hamas. Despite the whining of various countries regarding the needless deaths of civilians, no one is pushing back on Israel's right to rout out their enemies wherever they are. Well, almost no one. There is also consensus about the fact that there are forces afoot who will not abide by any efforts to seek a settlement or resolution with the Russians. That may explain why we hear people like Macron out there threatening to send French troops into Ukraine. You don't really think that that's Macron speaking, do you? Who is he taking direction from? I think I can say with some confidence that the American people have no beef with Russia or her people. I can't say the same thing for our government. Who the hell knows what they're thinking? Maybe they have some ridiculous belief that our country can rise up out of the ashes after a nuclear holocaust and become the Marxist nirvana that they've always wanted. Here's my advice to Putin: Don't take the bait.
Shall we call it the "Bloodbath Hoax"? The Democrats and their praetorian guard, the media, are in full spin mode after Trump made comments in his rally over the weekend about having a "bloodbath" if he's not elected in November. His comment was all about a financial bloodbath in the automotive industry, and it had zero to do with his winning or not winning the presidential election in November. The media would have us believe, even this morning, after the passing of several news cycles, that Trump is threatening a January 6th-style bloodbath should he lose the election. The good news is that social media stepped into the fray the minute lies started to circulate and called the lot of the news organizations out for their lies and misrepresentations. It does have me wondering if this wasn't a messaging sleight-of-hand crafted by Trump's handlers in order to out the criminality and hypocrisy of the mainstream media. Elon Musk even stepped in on Twitter (X) to correct tweets that sought to perpetuate the lie that the media wanted to go viral. All hands on deck?
I watched one of the liberal talking head shows on Sunday. If I have her name correctly, it was the show hosted by Martha Raddish. Talk about a loon-fest. If I was curious as to what strategy the media would employ to get their boy, Biden, back into the Oval Office for another four years, let's say I'm no longer curious. I'm referring to the part of the show where Raddish sits down with four or five other "anal-ists," and they discuss everything under the sun as it relates to politics and Donald J. Trump. After listening to the analysts beclown each other for the better part of fifteen or twenty minutes, the strategy seemed to be to smear Trump using any and all forms of rhetorical flourish available. They're not waiting for Trump to be convicted on one or more of the ninety or so indictments outstanding. That horse has left the barn. It's fucking game-on, and I'm not sure there isn't anything that they won't do or sign off on in order to see that Trump doesn't win the election. They are maniacally focused on taking him down before he gets one foot out of the gate. It may be too little, too late.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the media weren't doing their best to create a cloud of toxicity of sorts around Trump such that someone might take their words, as intentionally despicable and virulent as they often are, as giving them license to do bad things to Trump and, by extension, Trump supporters. Trump is a threat to Democracy! If we learned nothing from the endless Russia Russia Russia trolling of the public by the mainstream media during Trump's first term, we learned that they would stop at nothing to use their platform as a political battering ram in order to defeat their enemies and prop up their political bedfellows. Keep in mind that it's not just the media. The entire Deep State and its political infrastructure are at risk should Trump be re-elected for a second term. There is no question that they have the will and the means to prevent Trump from winning the election or, worse yet, to see that he never becomes the nominee/president.
I see that the Kenyan goat herder Obama is in London visiting 10 Downing Street as I sit here this morning. What the hell is he doing anywhere on the world stage representing the United States? Forget for a minute that he is likely calling the shots, or maybe more appropriately pulling the strings, in the Biden administration. That would certainly explain why the United States' foreign policy is in a shambles. He's just confirming what everyone suspects, which is that he and his Marxist toadies are behind every decision that comes out of the White House. It's his third term, don't you know. For those of us who were on to this Kenyan goat herder a long time ago, it's like deja vu all over again. Is he there in London to assuage the fears that 10 Downing Street has about the declining mental health of one Joseph Biden? Is he there to assure them that the United States will stay the course when Michelle Obama gets sworn into office in January 2025? Has he gone so far as to promise them that Donald J. Trump will never be the 47th president of the United States? What then?
It's so funny. We're finally getting around to getting a generator that we don't have to wheel in and out of the garage every time we lose electricity. Our neighbor has a nice set-up where her generator turns on automatically when the power goes out. It's a bit more expensive than the stand-alone generator that we have, but, truth be told, it's time. I told the missus that were I to get hit by a bus tomorrow she would have to deal with the generator. She would have to wheel it out of the garage and pull the starting cord until it was up and running. Both she and I know that that ain't happening. She doesn't know the first thing about such things and she's probably not about to learn now. I asked the guy who came out to give us an estimate of how much I could get for my stand-alone generator. He said I might get around a grand unless I were willing and sell it the next time we have a storm. I don't have the estimate yet, but it's probably not going to be cheap to get all of this up and running. The funny part about all of this is no sooner did we start discussing the reality of doing this then I started to notice how many homes hereabouts have propane tanks and generators sitting on their property. I never noticed that before.
Maybe we'll get a gas stove if we're going to have propane tanks on the premises. I'm no Chef Ramsey, but I can appreciate how much nicer it would be to cook on a gas stove. On the other hand, every time I turn around these days, the cucks in the White House are coming out with one directive or another about stopping the sale of carbon-based appliances like gas stoves. More recently, they threatened to ban gas stoves in New York City. I think that went nowhere but make no mistake. These climate cultists ain't about to give up on their wet dream of getting rid of anything and everything that puts so-called pollutants into the atmosphere. It makes you wonder what their endgame is. I think it's all about weakening our country to the point where we are incapable of defending ourselves in the event of a global conflict coming to our shores. What else could it be? You don't honestly think that it has anything to do with cutting back on cancer rates or keeping ice floes around for the polar bears, do you? I can be a bit of a worry-wart sometimes when it comes to something like a gas stove. Did we leave the stove on? Did you turn off the gas stove? No, I thought you did. See where I'm going with this?
I'm sorry to see Peter Navarro go to jail for four months. He's headed to jail because he decided to ignore the subpoena sent to him by the J6 Committee. So that you know, Navarro was a personal advisor to President Trump during his first term. He thought, apparently wrongly (Until proven otherwise), that he had some sort of immunity that would preclude him from testifying. I'm not an attorney, so I may not have the terminology quite right, but it's probably close enough for government work. I'd be curious to know which prison he's heading to. Is it going to be a Riker's Island-type joint where he has to have eyes in the back of his head every time he drops his bar of soap while showering? Or, will it be the kind of place Martha Stewart stayed during her stay in prison after trading stocks using insider information? Knowing the Bidenistas as I do, I fear that Peter may be for a tough four months behind bars. Will his association with Trump help him or hurt him once he's on the inside? Maybe he can teach classes on economics to the lifers he's holed up with. I think he has a doctorate in economics. Since when do those types of people go to prison unless your name is Bernie Madoff? Only in Joe Biden's America. May God protect him.
Bumbles and his minions are publishing new emissions standards/requirements today. Is anyone surprised that car manufacturers will find it difficult, if not impossible, to meet these new standards? With electric vehicle sales slumping due to declining demand, they had to do something to turn that around in order to meet their ridiculous zero-carbon goals. Fuck the lot of them and the horse they rode in on. I ain't buying an electric car. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. I'll walk before I'll bow to the bullshit they're selling. I'm just waiting now for the manufacturers to sue the shite out of the government, who would see them lose their businesses before they'd let them roll another gas-powered vehicle off the assembly line. I hope the car companies in Michigan are listening. I hope the voters in Michigan are listening. If Trump wins Michigan in November, he takes back the White House, and all of this bull-fuckery goes away. Can Congress do anything to thwart the idiocy coming out of the White House? God, I hope so. Go big and go bold, is what I say. Trump wasn't wrong about the "bloodbath."
I have no idea what The Donald is going to do to raise the money he needs for the half-billion dollar bond he needs by next Monday. It's such an absurd fine to begin with that I don't know where to start. Will that cretin of a District Attorney really start liquidation proceedings of Trump's properties in order to satisfy the amount of the bond? I'm hearing more and more business bigwigs speaking publicly about what this means for investors around the world who may have been interested in investing in New York City but are now having second thoughts after watching what's been happening to Trump. To a person, they say that they've never seen anything like this, and it's the kind of thing that only happens in third-world banana republics but not in our country - until now. It's a cautionary tale, to be sure. Articles I'm reading say that thirty-some-odd bond companies have turned Trump down in his request to float the bond that he needs. Any guesses on how many of those bond companies were threatened not to do business with Trump or else? Would any of this be happening were Trump not running for president? Of course not. A little divine intervention would be nice.
I'm a little troubled by the latest ruling by a black federal judge in Illinois that illegal aliens have the right under the Second Amendment to bear arms. I only mention her race because I'm not entirely sure that there isn't a racial component to her decision. That is to say, she may believe in her heart of hearts that the only way we colonialists stay in power is if we have the wherewithal under the Constitution to protect ourselves should push come to shove. She'd likely like nothing better than to do what she can to improve the odds of her fellow blacks and other minority classes, including some ten to thirteen million recent arrivals now here in our country illegally, by granting them rights under the Constitution that don't otherwise exist. Think about it. If this invasion of tens of millions of so-called migrants brought to us by Joe Biden morphs into an armed invasion of young men of military age, this could be the revolution that blacks and other underprivileged classes have been crowing about for the last one hundred years. Unfortunately, we have an underbelly of complacency in our country that might well see our citizenry rolling over without a fight when the shit hits the fan. It would make January 6th look like a walk in the park. Is it any surprise that this Federal judge from Illinois is an Obama appointee? Let's get this damn thing overturned before it's too late.
Have you heard about the latest craze of squatting? No, not that kind of squatting. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about where you have homeless people breaking into homes that are on the market for sale or other and refuse to leave. This one case, coming out of Queens, New York, had the squatters replacing the front door with a new door complete with new locks, etc. When the owners show up and try to get them to leave, the squatters call the police on the owner. The owner actually got arrested in this case. In some cases, the squatters show a fake lease to the officers, and the officers have no choice but to turn the matter over to the court system. It can take months to resolve when courts are backed up, not to mention the delays caused by the backlogs created out of whole cloth when you factor in tens of thousands of itinerant illegal aliens whose cases are clogging an already clogged judicial system. I don't know about you, but I'm thinking twice before leaving my house these days. With my luck, I'd run out for a quart of milk and return home to find someone else living in my house. Johnny would not be happy. Can someone get me the number for rent-a-vigilante? I will not go quietly into the night.
What are we to make of these financial markets? The stock market has gone almost vertical since the beginning of November 2023. Is this 1999 all over again? No one is willing to go that far, but the market seems to be ignoring all the usual market forces that would otherwise give us a pause here and there before getting back on track. The good news for the bulls is that Powell delivered a dovish message yesterday promising to take his foot off the pedal when it comes to quantitative tightening and rate cuts. Anyone who's been paying attention to the wild fluctuations and last-minute surges in the day-to-day machinations of the market would tell you that someone somewhere has been tipping the scales to stop the market from going down. Pullbacks, which are normal in any market, are almost non-existent. Forget the 50-day moving average. We can't even break the 21-day moving average these days. This is also a little reminiscent of 2021. You knew things were getting frothy, but you couldn't get out of the market for fear of losing out. Hell, some people were taking out loans to buy stocks. The returns more than made up for the interest the banks were charging. How much, if any, does this have to do with the latest AI craze? Are we in the middle of another dot.com-type mania? Or, is this just Biden and his boy at the Fed, Powell, juicing the markets to win an election?
I'm thinking about the State of Arizona. As far as I know, the electorate is somewhat purple-ish. Presidential races are decided by a few thousand votes every four years. Polls this year have both Biden and Trump either up or down depending on the poll. Here's what I'm not understanding: There have been hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into Arizona, and the usual margins between the political parties have barely budged. You would think that the citizenry of Arizona might have an issue with the invasion of their great state by illegal aliens whose very presence in the state has every conceivable metric from crimes committed to meeting their health care needs just off the fucking scale. In other words, the guy who wants to deport them all, Trump, should be 10 points or more ahead at this stage of the game. Maybe more appropriately, Biden should be ten points behind. The senatorial race between Kari Lake and this Gallegos guy shouldn't even be close, yet Gallegos is four points ahead as I sit here today. Why on God's green earth would Arizonans want to send a Democrat like Gallegos to Washington when everyone knows that he would endorse Biden's bid to keep our borders wide open? You'll never convince me that Arizonans want more illegal aliens in their state. Are we then to conclude that roughly 50% of the Arizonans want more of the same? Make it make sense.
Did you see the hordes of illegals breaking through the razor wire fence down there in El Paso, Texas, yesterday? If you were watching CNN or MSNBC, you probably didn't. It was frightening. Biden told them to surge the border, and, God damn it, they are surging our fucking borders. What the hell are our National Guardsmen supposed to do? They did the best they could to stop the crushing crowds of filthy travel-worn migrants from coming into our country, but they were too few in number and not properly equipped to keep them from breaking through. Not one soldier raised his rifle or raised a hand to try and stop the feral mob. Imagine what the Biden Administration would do with film footage of one or more soldiers opening fire on the marauding migrants. You probably recall the hoo-haw they came up with a couple of years ago when the Border Patrol had officers on horseback trying to corral the border crossers. They accused them of whipping and traumatizing the poor migrants as they came to America to build a better life. Horseshit. Nobody got whipped or traumatized, but that didn't stop Biden and his people from condemning the actions of the officers and trying to put them out of their jobs.
I hope to hell the Appeals Court steps in today to put a stop to Lateisha's efforts to take control of Trump's properties. I know Monday is the deadline but nobody wants this to go down to the wire. And the last thing we want to see is this cunt of a District Attorney standing in front of Trump Tower in New York City, taking possession of the property and forcing the eviction of its tenants. The fine of some half billion dollars is beyond ludicrous for this so-called victimless crime, and someone needs to pay a political price for going down this road and trying to destroy a man and the legacy he's built up over the course of his lifetime. Everyone sees this for what it is. It's lawfare at its finest. If they can't put Trump behind bars before the election, they will bankrupt him and take everything that he's ever worked for in order to take him down. Don't think for a moment that Joe Biden isn't getting hourly updates on the efforts of everyone working on his behalf to destroy his political opposition. He's only ultimately revealed himself to be the corrupt and criminal politician that he's always been going back some fifty years. Here's the dirty little secret: It's not just Joe Biden. It's the cabal of leftist freaks working behind the scenes in our beloved White House.
It seems like everything this Biden White House touches turns to shit. They convinced the Ukrainians not to engage in talks with Russia at the beginning of the war, and we now have hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians dead. They keep trying to micromanage the Israeli war, and thankfully, Israel has ignored their overtures. There is something almost Machiavellian about how the Biden Administration conducts themselves across the globe. Having taken millions of dollars from our enemies overseas, it looks more often than not like Biden is bending over backward to protect or promote the interests of our enemies at the expense of our allies. I'm looking at an overseas headline this morning about Biden and his Administration calling on Ukraine to cease and desist in attacking Russia's energy infrastructure. You can't make this stuff up. Let me see if I have this right. Biden wants to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine so they can mount a credible and, God willing, crippling defense against the advancing Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. But, God forbid the Ukrainians launch a counter-attack on Russian soil. Here's the deal: Biden can't have the price of Russian crude influencing global markets and pushing prices up at the pump at a time when he's running for reelection. This has to have the Ukrainians wondering whose side he's on. Just another Putin stooge?
I think I need a new iPhone. I'm a few generations behind, so I think it's time. My phone still works fine, don't get me wrong. Should I be concerned that I can no longer get software updates? Let me rephrase that. I cannot update my current operating system to OS 17. Word has it that Apple is building AI into the iPhone 17, which is, as best I can tell, a couple of years out. The latest model available is the iPhone 15. They always do this. They put a rumor or two out there in the ether, and the next thing you know, you're deciding whether or not whatever it is they're promising is worth waiting for or not. If I'm not wanting or willing to wait, will the AI thing be available as a software update when they get around to rolling it out? I also have to decide which model I want from among the many models available. Do I want the Max Pro model? How about just the Pro model? Do I care more about size than price? Is the Max model too big to fit in my pocket when I go for a bike ride? Will this latest anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple by the Justice Department have any bearing on anything? Next steps? I'm planning a visit to my local Best Buy, where I can see for myself what the various models look and feel like. Do I even want AI on my iPhone?
Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Russia yesterday, where around 115 people were gunned down in a large mall in Moscow? You never know what to believe when you hear these sorts of things, but this story seems to have legs. One story I saw put out a list of the countries offering their condolences and another story had the Kremlin criticizing those countries who had yet to offer their condolences. I think the United States was on both lists. Like I said, you never know what to believe. Another story had the culprits getting away, while this morning's news has a story about the four terrorists who were stopped in a car that was reportedly heading for the Ukrainian border. I asked myself, if I were a terrorist and I just killed a bunch of people in Moscow, would I be stupid enough to head for a border where the Russians were likely to be looking for me and my fellow assassins? You have to assume that the Ruskies probably thought that Ukrainians were involved. And then you have the infamous warmonger, Victoria Nuland, who said recently that Russia would be in for a few "nasty surprises." I can't even begin to read between those lines. I guess I'm still not sure what is and what isn't "fair game" when it comes to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Is this just more tit-for-tat? Or is this over the top, as they say in the movies? Maybe it depends on whose side you're on.
I'm hearing that some people are suggesting that this attack was a false flag operation by Russia. That is to say, Putin can now use the attack as a premise for an all-out attack on Ukraine without pushback from world leaders. It would be no different than what Netanyahu is now doing to Hamas. Despite the whining of various countries regarding the needless deaths of civilians, no one is pushing back on Israel's right to rout out their enemies wherever they are. Well, almost no one. There is also consensus about the fact that there are forces afoot who will not abide by any efforts to seek a settlement or resolution with the Russians. That may explain why we hear people like Macron out there threatening to send French troops into Ukraine. You don't really think that that's Macron speaking, do you? Who is he taking direction from? I think I can say with some confidence that the American people have no beef with Russia or her people. I can't say the same thing for our government. Who the hell knows what they're thinking? Maybe they have some ridiculous belief that our country can rise up out of the ashes after a nuclear holocaust and become the Marxist nirvana that they've always wanted. Here's my advice to Putin: Don't take the bait.
Bumbling Joe
17/03/24 07:14
God willing, it's going to be another good week. What the hell does that even mean? I went to bed last night, regretting not having cracked a book in the last two days. You'd think that in the space of twenty-four hours, I might make time to do that. Well, not so much. I did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night, so there's that. Only kidding. I made a nice dish of roasted vegetables last night, which the missus thoroughly enjoyed. I also don't know why it turned out as good as it did, or maybe why the missus liked it as much as she did, but she did. Maybe it was the combination of vegetables. Maybe it was the spices that I used. She had been complaining that she had been eating all day, and that's never a good thing. That's not a jag you want to be on. You tend to put things in your mouth that you know you're going to regret. If having a spoonful of peanut butter is one of those things, at least for me, it is not something I regret. Where am I going with this?
The missus wanted to watch some of the Oscars last night, so we tuned in. I don't particularly care for the host, Jimmy Kimmel, or any other host of late-night television, for that matter, so I'm just throwing that out there. I always worry that these ridiculous shows are nothing more than a platform for the Hollywood muckety-mucks, where they spend the better part of three hours spewing nonsense about the latest and greatest social injustices, whether it be the war in Ukraine, the struggles in the minority communities, or whatever. Sure enough, last night was no exception. Many attendees wore little red buttons signifying something about Ukraine. I'm guessing that it had something to do with supporting Ukraine with the $60 billion that they say they need to fight back against Russian aggression. The missus thought that the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon" starring DiCaprio and DeNiro should have won best picture. The movie "Oppenheimer" won instead. Knowing the Hollywood lefties as I do, or think I do, I was surprised that the American Indian actress in the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon," whose name escapes me, did not win best supporting actress. Oh well, just a couple of ditties about something that I could really give two fucks about. I'm okay with Oppenheimer winning.
I'm telling you, they are pulling out all the stops. When I say "they," I'm referring to Biden's handlers. Hugh Hewitt, a morning talk show guy I listen to occasionally, played back certain portions of an interview that some media type was having with Biden. I knew it was a hoax because Biden was speaking in complete sentences. Everyone knows this dunce can't string two words together, even when reading a teleprompter. What kind of deception is this bullshit? They are clearly trying to build on the narrative that started with his drug-fueled speech he gave in the "State of the Union. The clapping seals were out in force across the media after Biden's speech, saying that it was the best speech he's ever given and that if there were ever any doubt about his being ready to take on Trump as his party's nominee, he was now in it to win it. Shouldn't we expect more from our media when they sit across from the President of the United States and allow him to read his responses from a teleprompter? I tuned in late, so I didn't catch the entire interview, but I do not doubt that Hugh knew full well it was a farce. Everything with Biden is smoke and mirrors.
The missus has a friend who recently complained that he lost a lengthy Word document when he inadvertently saved it after erasing its contents. She was able to piece the document together after a bit of extra effort, but it amazed me that anyone could lose everything in a matter of seconds if he or she were not paying attention. Her friend utilizes a backup service, but the backup service backed up the bad version, and they had no ability to access older versions of the document. Let me qualify that. They could access older versions but only if the user was on a Windows platform. They were working on updating their systems to do the same for Mac users. Right. What I didn't realize, but came to realize after a bit of research, is that as a Microsoft 365 subscriber, her friend was entitled to download and use an application called OneDrive. OneDrive is essentially a cloud-based storage platform. Unfortunately, it was not set up on his Mac when he moved from Windows to an IOS platform. Among the features of OneDrive is the ability to access older versions of documents. Damn. Long story short, he now has OneDrive set up on his Mac. Better late than never.
I plan to watch Robert Hur testify before Congress today on his assessment as a Special Prosecutor after looking into Biden's handling of classified documents. He's the guy who decided against bringing charges because Biden was too addled, and any charges brought would likely not produce a favorable (guilty) verdict once all was said and done. I'm sure he'll be asked if, after seeing Biden's barn burner of a speech at the State of the Union, whether or not he'd like to reconsider his position on bringing charges. Not that it's an option now that the horse has left the barn but you have to figure it's going to come up. If there is any good news, it is that Hur is no longer an employee of the federal government, and he can now speak more freely about his findings and impressions after having interviewed Biden for several hours on matters relating to his handling of classified materials. Now that we've heard all about Biden's having taken money from various bad actors around the world in the past few decades, it's entirely appropriate to conclude, as many have, that Biden was peddling classified materials to the highest bidder. After hearing from Hur today, we'll better understand the scope of Biden's criminality. Perhaps even more telling may be what we hear from the Democrats as they circle the wagons to defend the leader of their party and the party's presumptive nominee for the presidency in 2024.
I don't think I realized that Republicans in Congress have a committee investigating January 6th. That's encouraging for many reasons, the least of which is that many American citizens are sitting in jail cells for doing nothing more than being in the Capitol on that fateful day in 2021. The sooner they expose the corruption behind the architects of the "insurrection," the sooner Americans can set the record straight on what J6 was and what J6 wasn't. When we hear about Liz Cheney's role in suppressing exculpatory evidence, one has to wonder what she had to gain from playing into the hoax that was J6. One has to wonder if she wasn't involved from day one in the planning and execution of the J6 hoax. Who was that other woman who testified that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his limo to force the driver to return to the Capitol? As it turns out, that was all fake news. Where are the perjury charges? It's encouraging as well that the committee in Congress is looking into many players on the periphery, like Fani Willis, the DA who brought charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants. She sent a letter to the J6 committee asking for any and all relevant materials she could use to bring charges against Trump. I don't think I'm mistaken when I say this was all done to keep Trump from returning to the White House in 2025. Did I mention that Trump said yesterday that he intends to set the J6 prisoners free once he is re-elected? That is some righteous shite.
Mrs. G called last night with her knickers in a bunch. She sounded terrified. I thought something nasty happened, and I feared the worst. As it turns out, she called because she came pretty darn close to being scammed, or so she said. She received what she thought was an e-mail from Amazon offering to extend her Prime membership by three months. All she had to do was click on the link in the e-mail. I'm unsure how things rolled out from there, but instead of clicking on the link, she called Amazon to confirm what she thought might be a hoax. She should have been proud of herself for having the wherewithal to question the offer from the jump, yet she still sounded rattled to the core for having experienced the near-scam. Maybe it was nothing more than Mrs. G wanting to regale us with yet another story proving her capacity beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can still tell the good guys from the bad guys even at her advanced age. We'll never know what might have happened had she clicked that link. That's the good news. There is no bad news. It's all good.
I should have known that the Hur hearing would be a nothing burger. The Republicans did their best to question Hur and get to the bottom of Biden's criminality. The Democrats did their best to compare Trump's handling of classified documents to Biden's handling of classified documents. There also wasn't a lot of discussion about how demented Biden was when Hur interviewed him. Hur stuck to talking about the report that he wrote where he decided that a jury would more than likely not return a guilty verdict were it to go to trial. When pushed by one Democrat on the Committee, Hur said his report did not exonerate Biden. Fast forward to the evening talking head shows, and the Democrats were out in force twisting Hur's testimony into a fucking pretzel. This is what they do. This is who they are. Protect the head of your party at any cost. If it means lying through your teeth or gaslighting the bejesus out of your viewers, then that is what you do. I was also a little surprised that not one Republican mentioned anything about Biden stealing state secrets to benefit our enemies abroad. They've been investigating that angle for the better part of a year for chrissakes. Oh, and despite his autobiographer destroying the classified documents that Biden gave him, Hur decided he would not be prosecuted. Talk about a fucking double standard.
Trump now has the delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination. He's the first person in American history to win back-to-back nominations for three years straight. I looked at the votes cast in the Georgia primary last night, and the Republicans got twice the number of ballots cast compared to the votes cast for Democrats in that state. Am I correct in saying that that ain't nothing? If last night's primary in Georgia is any indication of the enthusiasm for Trump over Biden, then I will project here and now that Trump will walk away with Georgia in the general election in November. I believe the margin was a mere ten thousand votes between Trump and Biden in the presidential election in 2020. I went back and looked at the primary results in 2020 and found that both Trump and Biden got roughly one million votes each. Does the ridiculously low number of ballots cast by Democrats last night in Georgia have anything to do with the fact that Biden is the incumbent? Putting on my partisan hat for just a moment, I'm thinking that Biden's bringing our country to the brink of (fill in the blank) has a lot to do with the outcome of last night's primary. We need a few more cards to come out of the deck here, but it's starting to look like Trump's chances in November are getting better by the day.
Now we have to hope that Biden doesn't get us into a war with Russia ahead of the November elections. He sounds like a broken record when it comes to Ukraine and its war with Russia. It's nonstop "Russia won't stop with Ukraine" coming out of Biden's mouth, and that's worrisome. Putin commented recently that Russia will resort to using nuclear weapons if Russia's existence is threatened. I keep asking myself, what the hell is all of this heated rhetoric coming out of the White House? By the way, nobody believes that Putin has any intentions of doing anything more in Ukraine than that which is laid out in his comments when all of this started some two years ago. So, why does Biden keep pushing the envelope on the Russia issue? The French pipsqueak of a president, Macron, has a scheduled speech before his nation on Thursday. What are the chances that he will announce sending French forces into Ukraine? I don't give a flying fuck what the Frenchies do, but it better not have anything to do with what Biden does or does not have planned. If they want to send their young men to the killing fields of Ukraine, be my guest. If Frenchies start dying by the tens of thousands at the hands of the Russians, what obligation do we have as a NATO member to join the fight? I'm thinking none since Russia hasn't attacked France, but that won't stop Biden from trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat by sending our young men into Ukraine so he can win an election. F'ing clown.
Judge McAfee announced that he is dropping six of the thirteen or so charges against Trump in Fani Willis's case in Georgia. According to the judge, the District Attorney did not sufficiently define the charges, so Trump's defense team couldn't properly defend their client. Willis can refile the charges, but not without effectively delaying the trial until after the election. Or, Willis can proceed with the remaining charges without refiling charges and try to get a conviction before election day. We'll find out tomorrow whether Willis will be disqualified, so we're in a wait-and-see mode. Is the fact that the judge was receptive to this argument by Trump's defense team suggestive of anything? What are the chances that he's telegraphing that he will not disqualify Willis, but he agrees with Trump's defense team that Willis's motivation to bring these charges is questionable, if not unethical? At least for the time being, any news is good news when we hear these sorts of things about the multitude of lawfare cases that Biden's Department of Justice is bringing, directly or indirectly, against Donald J. Trump. Needless to say, I'll be tuning in online tomorrow to watch Judge McAfee hand down his ruling on the disqualification issue.
I could give two shits about what happens in Haiti. That is, unless it impacts America one way or another. Word has it that gangs are now running the island, and there is no real government in place to control much of anything. I've seen videos online of one of the gang leaders known locally as "Barbecue." The footage shows Barbecue pulling the leg off a body that was burning in the street and ripping off chunks of flesh with his teeth. You can't make this stuff up. Things are so bad that Haitians are getting on anything that floats to escape the maelstrom and are heading to the shores of Florida en masse. If this isn't a situation that calls for intervention by the federal government, I don't know what it is. Naval vessels should be intercepting these flotillas at sea and redirecting them to Guantanamo Bay, where they can wait until order is restored to their homeland. Will this be yet one more situation where Biden willfully ignores illegal entry into our country by people who have no right to be on America's soil? What can and what will Governor Ron DeSantis do to stop Haitians from invading the shores of his beloved state of Florida? What are the chances that Biden assists in the relocation efforts in order to create even more chaos for political gain? Then again, what's another two million or more illegal ne'er do wells in addition to the 10-12 million already here thanks to Biden?
I caught Lara Logan yesterday on Steve Bannon's show, WarRoom. She was talking about Trump's taking donations from some dude with deep pockets to change his position on banning TikTok. I recall Trump wanting to ban TikTok during his first term in office, but I can't recall how that effort ended. The audio they played of Trump now saying he is more concerned about how other platforms like FaceBook (META) might become more powerful with TikTok gone has me wondering how malleable Trump is on the subject. That wasn't the most interesting part. Politicians change their minds for a lot of different reasons. Logan suggested that this was potentially a trap for Trump in that should Republicans not win a majority in the House in November, there is a very real chance that Democrats might impeach Trump for collaborating with the Communist Chinese Party in order to keep their spying apparatus (TikTok) in place. Newly elected senators supported by McConnell, such as that fat fuck from Maryland, Larry Hogan, or Tim Sheehy, the guy who never saw a war he didn't want the U.S. to be involved in, would increase the likelihood of Trump being convicted in the Senate and tossed out of the White House. It's plausible enough to be scary. Good for Lara Logan in putting together the pieces. She's good. She's very good.
The missus has been after me for the last few weeks to take a ride up Maine way to visit a store called Mardens. We finally got around to taking that ride yesterday. Driving up Route 1 through Maine was nice, so that was good. It was also a nice day for a ride, with everything else being equal. We thought the Ev man might like to join us for the ride, but he had other plans, so he opted out. Aside from the ride itself, the Ev man didn't miss much when all was said and done. The store turned out to be more of a yard-sale style store than anything else. In and of itself, not the end of the world. That said, we didn't need to drive the better part of an hour or more to go to a yard sale. I mosied down an aisle of baking pans and thought to myself that this was just what the missus has been looking for. And the prices, they were to die for, as they say in the movies. When I brought the missus around to look at them, we both discovered at the same time that the pans were cheaper than cheap and not worth buying at any price. That about sums up, to a tee, everything the store had to offer. The missus and I agreed on one thing. We wouldn't be revisiting Mardens anytime soon. And no, I told the missus, the other Marden stores are probably not much better.
What is this ridiculous obsession that Biden and the Democrat party have with getting rid of Benjamin Netanyahu? I know shite about Israeli politics, so I can't say with any degree of confidence that Netanyahu's replacement would be any better. Maybe it's just this whole left-wing versus right-wing thing that the Democrats feel that they need to control. Maybe they don't like the way Netanyahu has been ignoring their pleas to scale back the war on Hamas in order to save innocent Palestinians from a fate worse than death itself. Netanyahu, in so many words, has told the Biden administration to fuck off. That, to me, seems to be the appropriate response considering what the Israelis are trying to accomplish. And then we see Chuckles Schumer, the Senate Majority leader, go to the well of the Senate to call for new elections in Israel. Since fucking when does a United States Senator take to the Senate floor and call for the displacement of a foreign leader? Are these clowns not satisfied with trying to put their own political opponents in jail here in our country such that they have to do the same thing around the world? Maybe they're trying to placate their left-wing Jewish base here in the United States, who would like nothing better than to see Netanyahu get the boot. And then there are the Muslims and Palestinians in Michigan who are not exactly feeling the love from this administration. They may or may not go to the polls to vote for Biden in November.
Today is the day. Today, we learn about the fate of one Fanny Willis and her boy-toy, Mr. Wade. It's been a long two weeks since Judge McAfee told the world he'd be handing down his ruling on the disqualification case against Willis and Wade. I'm not sure why he needed the full two weeks, but here we are. To be clear, removing these two perjurers from the case would be good for Team Trump. Any delay at this point, in addition to the half dozen or so charges that the judge recently dismissed, would extend a trial and possible conviction beyond Election Day in November. I'm also mindful that Team Trump has made a more-than-compelling case against the two lovers, which would, under normal circumstances, result in a "conviction" of Willis and Wade. It's probably too much to expect that the two would lose their law license as a result of their perjurious testimony. Splitting the baby at this point might see the two taken off the case and keeping their licenses while taking jail time off the table in exchange for their signing off on the agreement. I learned yesterday that McAfee will not hand down his ruling in open court, so I can put away my popcorn for another day. Nonetheless, a win is a win either way. Until it isn't, that is.
(Fast forward two hours) Fuck it. I'm giving up on the legal system. Judge McAfee let these two dopes off the hook with a slap on the wrist. Well, he said that one of the two needs to be removed from the case. Can you guess which one will be taking a hike? I'll give you a hint: It's not going to be Fanny. Her father, you know, the ex-Black Panther, must have made quite an impact on the judge when he told him that he's always advised his daughter to carry cash when she's out on a date. Just when I thought she had dug herself too deep a hole to climb out of with her tall tales about always carrying a cache of hard currency in the event she had to get away from a bad date in a hurry. There were other rather disparaging comments in the ruling by the judge suggesting that her lies and subterfuge on the stand were unbecoming of a public servant. He listed any number of ongoing inquiries by external agencies and organizations, not the least of which is Congress, that are either collectively or separately looking into Fanny and issues raised during her testimony before Judge McAfee. Here's my take: She will rue the day she decided to take down Trump for asking questions about the validity of election results. Let the investigations begin.
I think we'll put the Ev man in an Uber the next time he decides to visit his friend in Boston. It's a shitty drive if you're not accustomed to driving in and out of the city on a regular basis. He's only made that drive a couple of times, so you might be tempted to think he's getting better at navigating his way in and out of the city. He did say that he thought about giving us a call to give him a lift but decided against it for whatever reason. That's fine. The missus thinks his confidence will only grow with each trip, and I think there's probably some truth to what she says. He may even come to enjoy going down to the city for various and sundry reasons unrelated to the friend he now visits. I wonder how he'll feel about the Uber idea. I will ask him and we'll see soon enough. I'm also willing to look the other way when it comes to just how much it might cost. How would we feel if his car was stolen in the city? Would we then wish that we'd sucked it up and paid the price for him to take an Uber? Yeah, I think we would. In spades, if I'm truthful about it. Has the Ev man ever taken an Uber? Hmmm.
What do you suppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is up to when he says he's considering Aaron Rodgers as his Vice Presidential nominee? I heard someone suggest picking Rodgers could spell problems for Trump in states like Wisconsin in the general election. I still think that there are a lot of older voters out there who have fond, if not fading, memories of the Kennedys and the whole Camelot thing. They might well walk into the polls thinking that Joe Biden is a demented old fuck, so why not vote for a Kennedy instead. That checks the "I'll never vote for a Republican" box and then some. Better yet, "I'm not voting for the Orange Man" so there's that. I'm old enough to remember the insurgent campaign of Ross Perot, whose campaign put that sleazy fuck, Bill, "I never had sex with that woman" Clinton in the White House. Thanks for nothing, Ross. He's dead now, but you get the idea. The fact of the matter is, I don't know who would benefit from a Kennedy/Rodgers ticket in Wisconsin or anywhere else. To quote babbling Joe Biden, here's the deal: No sooner had Kennedy started talking about Rodgers as a potential running mate when stories hit the media about Rodgers calling the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings a hoax back in the day. That smacks as some trash talk coming out of the Biden White House. Now who's got their knickers in a bunch over a potential Rodgers VP pick?
So much for the Rodgers pick for Kennedy. He's announced that his running mate is none other than the ex-wife of a Google co-founder. She may be important in some circles, but I've never heard of her. Is it safe to say she's probably got the money the Kennedy campaign needs to run circles around their competition? Probably. Here's my response: Whatever. That's it. That's all I've got. Have you seen bumbling Joe Biden out there wearing his new sneakers? They are specifically designed to give added stability to the vertically challenged. We've all seen the old fool walking unsteadily and stiffly across the lawn outside the White House toward the helicopter. If I had to guess, he's walking a little too fast and unsteady for his handlers. One stumble, and he's falling flat on his face. How much do you want to bet he cannot get off the ground alone? Since it would be too obvious if they had someone holding his hand for additional stability, they opted for the best footwear that money could buy to solve the problem. Now, if they can just take the old-man-shuffling look out of his gait.
I'm getting a little tired of these stupid Committees in Congress run by Republicans who are supposedly looking into the criminality of the Biden Crime Family. Time is running out, and running out fast if they plan to do anything. If the Democrats take over the House in January, everything the Republicans have done will go up in smoke. It will be memory-holed forever. I can only conclude that they either don't have the evidence or they don't have the votes to proceed with Biden's impeachment. Yet, they continually come on Sunday shows like Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures and talk about their ongoing investigations like they're going somewhere. They're not. As for the January 6th fiasco, Congressman Loudermilk promises to call many of the people who ran the J6 Committee, such as Liz Cheney, to testify under oath about their lies and transgressions. What the hell is he waiting for? She knows how the game is played. Time is clearly on her side. I don't know how much more of this lose-lose bullshit we can take before our Republic starts to lose its moorings.
The missus wanted to watch some of the Oscars last night, so we tuned in. I don't particularly care for the host, Jimmy Kimmel, or any other host of late-night television, for that matter, so I'm just throwing that out there. I always worry that these ridiculous shows are nothing more than a platform for the Hollywood muckety-mucks, where they spend the better part of three hours spewing nonsense about the latest and greatest social injustices, whether it be the war in Ukraine, the struggles in the minority communities, or whatever. Sure enough, last night was no exception. Many attendees wore little red buttons signifying something about Ukraine. I'm guessing that it had something to do with supporting Ukraine with the $60 billion that they say they need to fight back against Russian aggression. The missus thought that the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon" starring DiCaprio and DeNiro should have won best picture. The movie "Oppenheimer" won instead. Knowing the Hollywood lefties as I do, or think I do, I was surprised that the American Indian actress in the movie "The Flowers of the Killing Moon," whose name escapes me, did not win best supporting actress. Oh well, just a couple of ditties about something that I could really give two fucks about. I'm okay with Oppenheimer winning.
I'm telling you, they are pulling out all the stops. When I say "they," I'm referring to Biden's handlers. Hugh Hewitt, a morning talk show guy I listen to occasionally, played back certain portions of an interview that some media type was having with Biden. I knew it was a hoax because Biden was speaking in complete sentences. Everyone knows this dunce can't string two words together, even when reading a teleprompter. What kind of deception is this bullshit? They are clearly trying to build on the narrative that started with his drug-fueled speech he gave in the "State of the Union. The clapping seals were out in force across the media after Biden's speech, saying that it was the best speech he's ever given and that if there were ever any doubt about his being ready to take on Trump as his party's nominee, he was now in it to win it. Shouldn't we expect more from our media when they sit across from the President of the United States and allow him to read his responses from a teleprompter? I tuned in late, so I didn't catch the entire interview, but I do not doubt that Hugh knew full well it was a farce. Everything with Biden is smoke and mirrors.
The missus has a friend who recently complained that he lost a lengthy Word document when he inadvertently saved it after erasing its contents. She was able to piece the document together after a bit of extra effort, but it amazed me that anyone could lose everything in a matter of seconds if he or she were not paying attention. Her friend utilizes a backup service, but the backup service backed up the bad version, and they had no ability to access older versions of the document. Let me qualify that. They could access older versions but only if the user was on a Windows platform. They were working on updating their systems to do the same for Mac users. Right. What I didn't realize, but came to realize after a bit of research, is that as a Microsoft 365 subscriber, her friend was entitled to download and use an application called OneDrive. OneDrive is essentially a cloud-based storage platform. Unfortunately, it was not set up on his Mac when he moved from Windows to an IOS platform. Among the features of OneDrive is the ability to access older versions of documents. Damn. Long story short, he now has OneDrive set up on his Mac. Better late than never.
I plan to watch Robert Hur testify before Congress today on his assessment as a Special Prosecutor after looking into Biden's handling of classified documents. He's the guy who decided against bringing charges because Biden was too addled, and any charges brought would likely not produce a favorable (guilty) verdict once all was said and done. I'm sure he'll be asked if, after seeing Biden's barn burner of a speech at the State of the Union, whether or not he'd like to reconsider his position on bringing charges. Not that it's an option now that the horse has left the barn but you have to figure it's going to come up. If there is any good news, it is that Hur is no longer an employee of the federal government, and he can now speak more freely about his findings and impressions after having interviewed Biden for several hours on matters relating to his handling of classified materials. Now that we've heard all about Biden's having taken money from various bad actors around the world in the past few decades, it's entirely appropriate to conclude, as many have, that Biden was peddling classified materials to the highest bidder. After hearing from Hur today, we'll better understand the scope of Biden's criminality. Perhaps even more telling may be what we hear from the Democrats as they circle the wagons to defend the leader of their party and the party's presumptive nominee for the presidency in 2024.
I don't think I realized that Republicans in Congress have a committee investigating January 6th. That's encouraging for many reasons, the least of which is that many American citizens are sitting in jail cells for doing nothing more than being in the Capitol on that fateful day in 2021. The sooner they expose the corruption behind the architects of the "insurrection," the sooner Americans can set the record straight on what J6 was and what J6 wasn't. When we hear about Liz Cheney's role in suppressing exculpatory evidence, one has to wonder what she had to gain from playing into the hoax that was J6. One has to wonder if she wasn't involved from day one in the planning and execution of the J6 hoax. Who was that other woman who testified that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his limo to force the driver to return to the Capitol? As it turns out, that was all fake news. Where are the perjury charges? It's encouraging as well that the committee in Congress is looking into many players on the periphery, like Fani Willis, the DA who brought charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants. She sent a letter to the J6 committee asking for any and all relevant materials she could use to bring charges against Trump. I don't think I'm mistaken when I say this was all done to keep Trump from returning to the White House in 2025. Did I mention that Trump said yesterday that he intends to set the J6 prisoners free once he is re-elected? That is some righteous shite.
Mrs. G called last night with her knickers in a bunch. She sounded terrified. I thought something nasty happened, and I feared the worst. As it turns out, she called because she came pretty darn close to being scammed, or so she said. She received what she thought was an e-mail from Amazon offering to extend her Prime membership by three months. All she had to do was click on the link in the e-mail. I'm unsure how things rolled out from there, but instead of clicking on the link, she called Amazon to confirm what she thought might be a hoax. She should have been proud of herself for having the wherewithal to question the offer from the jump, yet she still sounded rattled to the core for having experienced the near-scam. Maybe it was nothing more than Mrs. G wanting to regale us with yet another story proving her capacity beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can still tell the good guys from the bad guys even at her advanced age. We'll never know what might have happened had she clicked that link. That's the good news. There is no bad news. It's all good.
I should have known that the Hur hearing would be a nothing burger. The Republicans did their best to question Hur and get to the bottom of Biden's criminality. The Democrats did their best to compare Trump's handling of classified documents to Biden's handling of classified documents. There also wasn't a lot of discussion about how demented Biden was when Hur interviewed him. Hur stuck to talking about the report that he wrote where he decided that a jury would more than likely not return a guilty verdict were it to go to trial. When pushed by one Democrat on the Committee, Hur said his report did not exonerate Biden. Fast forward to the evening talking head shows, and the Democrats were out in force twisting Hur's testimony into a fucking pretzel. This is what they do. This is who they are. Protect the head of your party at any cost. If it means lying through your teeth or gaslighting the bejesus out of your viewers, then that is what you do. I was also a little surprised that not one Republican mentioned anything about Biden stealing state secrets to benefit our enemies abroad. They've been investigating that angle for the better part of a year for chrissakes. Oh, and despite his autobiographer destroying the classified documents that Biden gave him, Hur decided he would not be prosecuted. Talk about a fucking double standard.
Trump now has the delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination. He's the first person in American history to win back-to-back nominations for three years straight. I looked at the votes cast in the Georgia primary last night, and the Republicans got twice the number of ballots cast compared to the votes cast for Democrats in that state. Am I correct in saying that that ain't nothing? If last night's primary in Georgia is any indication of the enthusiasm for Trump over Biden, then I will project here and now that Trump will walk away with Georgia in the general election in November. I believe the margin was a mere ten thousand votes between Trump and Biden in the presidential election in 2020. I went back and looked at the primary results in 2020 and found that both Trump and Biden got roughly one million votes each. Does the ridiculously low number of ballots cast by Democrats last night in Georgia have anything to do with the fact that Biden is the incumbent? Putting on my partisan hat for just a moment, I'm thinking that Biden's bringing our country to the brink of (fill in the blank) has a lot to do with the outcome of last night's primary. We need a few more cards to come out of the deck here, but it's starting to look like Trump's chances in November are getting better by the day.
Now we have to hope that Biden doesn't get us into a war with Russia ahead of the November elections. He sounds like a broken record when it comes to Ukraine and its war with Russia. It's nonstop "Russia won't stop with Ukraine" coming out of Biden's mouth, and that's worrisome. Putin commented recently that Russia will resort to using nuclear weapons if Russia's existence is threatened. I keep asking myself, what the hell is all of this heated rhetoric coming out of the White House? By the way, nobody believes that Putin has any intentions of doing anything more in Ukraine than that which is laid out in his comments when all of this started some two years ago. So, why does Biden keep pushing the envelope on the Russia issue? The French pipsqueak of a president, Macron, has a scheduled speech before his nation on Thursday. What are the chances that he will announce sending French forces into Ukraine? I don't give a flying fuck what the Frenchies do, but it better not have anything to do with what Biden does or does not have planned. If they want to send their young men to the killing fields of Ukraine, be my guest. If Frenchies start dying by the tens of thousands at the hands of the Russians, what obligation do we have as a NATO member to join the fight? I'm thinking none since Russia hasn't attacked France, but that won't stop Biden from trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat by sending our young men into Ukraine so he can win an election. F'ing clown.
Judge McAfee announced that he is dropping six of the thirteen or so charges against Trump in Fani Willis's case in Georgia. According to the judge, the District Attorney did not sufficiently define the charges, so Trump's defense team couldn't properly defend their client. Willis can refile the charges, but not without effectively delaying the trial until after the election. Or, Willis can proceed with the remaining charges without refiling charges and try to get a conviction before election day. We'll find out tomorrow whether Willis will be disqualified, so we're in a wait-and-see mode. Is the fact that the judge was receptive to this argument by Trump's defense team suggestive of anything? What are the chances that he's telegraphing that he will not disqualify Willis, but he agrees with Trump's defense team that Willis's motivation to bring these charges is questionable, if not unethical? At least for the time being, any news is good news when we hear these sorts of things about the multitude of lawfare cases that Biden's Department of Justice is bringing, directly or indirectly, against Donald J. Trump. Needless to say, I'll be tuning in online tomorrow to watch Judge McAfee hand down his ruling on the disqualification issue.
I could give two shits about what happens in Haiti. That is, unless it impacts America one way or another. Word has it that gangs are now running the island, and there is no real government in place to control much of anything. I've seen videos online of one of the gang leaders known locally as "Barbecue." The footage shows Barbecue pulling the leg off a body that was burning in the street and ripping off chunks of flesh with his teeth. You can't make this stuff up. Things are so bad that Haitians are getting on anything that floats to escape the maelstrom and are heading to the shores of Florida en masse. If this isn't a situation that calls for intervention by the federal government, I don't know what it is. Naval vessels should be intercepting these flotillas at sea and redirecting them to Guantanamo Bay, where they can wait until order is restored to their homeland. Will this be yet one more situation where Biden willfully ignores illegal entry into our country by people who have no right to be on America's soil? What can and what will Governor Ron DeSantis do to stop Haitians from invading the shores of his beloved state of Florida? What are the chances that Biden assists in the relocation efforts in order to create even more chaos for political gain? Then again, what's another two million or more illegal ne'er do wells in addition to the 10-12 million already here thanks to Biden?
I caught Lara Logan yesterday on Steve Bannon's show, WarRoom. She was talking about Trump's taking donations from some dude with deep pockets to change his position on banning TikTok. I recall Trump wanting to ban TikTok during his first term in office, but I can't recall how that effort ended. The audio they played of Trump now saying he is more concerned about how other platforms like FaceBook (META) might become more powerful with TikTok gone has me wondering how malleable Trump is on the subject. That wasn't the most interesting part. Politicians change their minds for a lot of different reasons. Logan suggested that this was potentially a trap for Trump in that should Republicans not win a majority in the House in November, there is a very real chance that Democrats might impeach Trump for collaborating with the Communist Chinese Party in order to keep their spying apparatus (TikTok) in place. Newly elected senators supported by McConnell, such as that fat fuck from Maryland, Larry Hogan, or Tim Sheehy, the guy who never saw a war he didn't want the U.S. to be involved in, would increase the likelihood of Trump being convicted in the Senate and tossed out of the White House. It's plausible enough to be scary. Good for Lara Logan in putting together the pieces. She's good. She's very good.
The missus has been after me for the last few weeks to take a ride up Maine way to visit a store called Mardens. We finally got around to taking that ride yesterday. Driving up Route 1 through Maine was nice, so that was good. It was also a nice day for a ride, with everything else being equal. We thought the Ev man might like to join us for the ride, but he had other plans, so he opted out. Aside from the ride itself, the Ev man didn't miss much when all was said and done. The store turned out to be more of a yard-sale style store than anything else. In and of itself, not the end of the world. That said, we didn't need to drive the better part of an hour or more to go to a yard sale. I mosied down an aisle of baking pans and thought to myself that this was just what the missus has been looking for. And the prices, they were to die for, as they say in the movies. When I brought the missus around to look at them, we both discovered at the same time that the pans were cheaper than cheap and not worth buying at any price. That about sums up, to a tee, everything the store had to offer. The missus and I agreed on one thing. We wouldn't be revisiting Mardens anytime soon. And no, I told the missus, the other Marden stores are probably not much better.
What is this ridiculous obsession that Biden and the Democrat party have with getting rid of Benjamin Netanyahu? I know shite about Israeli politics, so I can't say with any degree of confidence that Netanyahu's replacement would be any better. Maybe it's just this whole left-wing versus right-wing thing that the Democrats feel that they need to control. Maybe they don't like the way Netanyahu has been ignoring their pleas to scale back the war on Hamas in order to save innocent Palestinians from a fate worse than death itself. Netanyahu, in so many words, has told the Biden administration to fuck off. That, to me, seems to be the appropriate response considering what the Israelis are trying to accomplish. And then we see Chuckles Schumer, the Senate Majority leader, go to the well of the Senate to call for new elections in Israel. Since fucking when does a United States Senator take to the Senate floor and call for the displacement of a foreign leader? Are these clowns not satisfied with trying to put their own political opponents in jail here in our country such that they have to do the same thing around the world? Maybe they're trying to placate their left-wing Jewish base here in the United States, who would like nothing better than to see Netanyahu get the boot. And then there are the Muslims and Palestinians in Michigan who are not exactly feeling the love from this administration. They may or may not go to the polls to vote for Biden in November.
Today is the day. Today, we learn about the fate of one Fanny Willis and her boy-toy, Mr. Wade. It's been a long two weeks since Judge McAfee told the world he'd be handing down his ruling on the disqualification case against Willis and Wade. I'm not sure why he needed the full two weeks, but here we are. To be clear, removing these two perjurers from the case would be good for Team Trump. Any delay at this point, in addition to the half dozen or so charges that the judge recently dismissed, would extend a trial and possible conviction beyond Election Day in November. I'm also mindful that Team Trump has made a more-than-compelling case against the two lovers, which would, under normal circumstances, result in a "conviction" of Willis and Wade. It's probably too much to expect that the two would lose their law license as a result of their perjurious testimony. Splitting the baby at this point might see the two taken off the case and keeping their licenses while taking jail time off the table in exchange for their signing off on the agreement. I learned yesterday that McAfee will not hand down his ruling in open court, so I can put away my popcorn for another day. Nonetheless, a win is a win either way. Until it isn't, that is.
(Fast forward two hours) Fuck it. I'm giving up on the legal system. Judge McAfee let these two dopes off the hook with a slap on the wrist. Well, he said that one of the two needs to be removed from the case. Can you guess which one will be taking a hike? I'll give you a hint: It's not going to be Fanny. Her father, you know, the ex-Black Panther, must have made quite an impact on the judge when he told him that he's always advised his daughter to carry cash when she's out on a date. Just when I thought she had dug herself too deep a hole to climb out of with her tall tales about always carrying a cache of hard currency in the event she had to get away from a bad date in a hurry. There were other rather disparaging comments in the ruling by the judge suggesting that her lies and subterfuge on the stand were unbecoming of a public servant. He listed any number of ongoing inquiries by external agencies and organizations, not the least of which is Congress, that are either collectively or separately looking into Fanny and issues raised during her testimony before Judge McAfee. Here's my take: She will rue the day she decided to take down Trump for asking questions about the validity of election results. Let the investigations begin.
I think we'll put the Ev man in an Uber the next time he decides to visit his friend in Boston. It's a shitty drive if you're not accustomed to driving in and out of the city on a regular basis. He's only made that drive a couple of times, so you might be tempted to think he's getting better at navigating his way in and out of the city. He did say that he thought about giving us a call to give him a lift but decided against it for whatever reason. That's fine. The missus thinks his confidence will only grow with each trip, and I think there's probably some truth to what she says. He may even come to enjoy going down to the city for various and sundry reasons unrelated to the friend he now visits. I wonder how he'll feel about the Uber idea. I will ask him and we'll see soon enough. I'm also willing to look the other way when it comes to just how much it might cost. How would we feel if his car was stolen in the city? Would we then wish that we'd sucked it up and paid the price for him to take an Uber? Yeah, I think we would. In spades, if I'm truthful about it. Has the Ev man ever taken an Uber? Hmmm.
What do you suppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is up to when he says he's considering Aaron Rodgers as his Vice Presidential nominee? I heard someone suggest picking Rodgers could spell problems for Trump in states like Wisconsin in the general election. I still think that there are a lot of older voters out there who have fond, if not fading, memories of the Kennedys and the whole Camelot thing. They might well walk into the polls thinking that Joe Biden is a demented old fuck, so why not vote for a Kennedy instead. That checks the "I'll never vote for a Republican" box and then some. Better yet, "I'm not voting for the Orange Man" so there's that. I'm old enough to remember the insurgent campaign of Ross Perot, whose campaign put that sleazy fuck, Bill, "I never had sex with that woman" Clinton in the White House. Thanks for nothing, Ross. He's dead now, but you get the idea. The fact of the matter is, I don't know who would benefit from a Kennedy/Rodgers ticket in Wisconsin or anywhere else. To quote babbling Joe Biden, here's the deal: No sooner had Kennedy started talking about Rodgers as a potential running mate when stories hit the media about Rodgers calling the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings a hoax back in the day. That smacks as some trash talk coming out of the Biden White House. Now who's got their knickers in a bunch over a potential Rodgers VP pick?
So much for the Rodgers pick for Kennedy. He's announced that his running mate is none other than the ex-wife of a Google co-founder. She may be important in some circles, but I've never heard of her. Is it safe to say she's probably got the money the Kennedy campaign needs to run circles around their competition? Probably. Here's my response: Whatever. That's it. That's all I've got. Have you seen bumbling Joe Biden out there wearing his new sneakers? They are specifically designed to give added stability to the vertically challenged. We've all seen the old fool walking unsteadily and stiffly across the lawn outside the White House toward the helicopter. If I had to guess, he's walking a little too fast and unsteady for his handlers. One stumble, and he's falling flat on his face. How much do you want to bet he cannot get off the ground alone? Since it would be too obvious if they had someone holding his hand for additional stability, they opted for the best footwear that money could buy to solve the problem. Now, if they can just take the old-man-shuffling look out of his gait.
I'm getting a little tired of these stupid Committees in Congress run by Republicans who are supposedly looking into the criminality of the Biden Crime Family. Time is running out, and running out fast if they plan to do anything. If the Democrats take over the House in January, everything the Republicans have done will go up in smoke. It will be memory-holed forever. I can only conclude that they either don't have the evidence or they don't have the votes to proceed with Biden's impeachment. Yet, they continually come on Sunday shows like Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures and talk about their ongoing investigations like they're going somewhere. They're not. As for the January 6th fiasco, Congressman Loudermilk promises to call many of the people who ran the J6 Committee, such as Liz Cheney, to testify under oath about their lies and transgressions. What the hell is he waiting for? She knows how the game is played. Time is clearly on her side. I don't know how much more of this lose-lose bullshit we can take before our Republic starts to lose its moorings.
Fighting Fanny
10/03/24 07:01
Word has it that the Supreme Court will come out today with its decision on Colorado's efforts to keep Trump off the ballot in Colorado. If a couple of libs sit this one out, then we'll get a 7-2 decision in favor of Trump. I wish the Court had the balls to address the insurrection issue, but I guess they won't. Spoiler alert: It wasn't an insurrection. I'm just getting a little sick of these moonbats running around the country with their hair on fire, yelling insurrection, insurrection, insurrection. This is nothing more than the libs in a full-court press to keep Trump out of the White House and away from the levers of power. More to the point, Democrats intend to keep control of the White House even if it means stealing the election. It won't be the first election they've stolen, and it probably won't be the last.
I haven't decided yet what I will do tomorrow night when the election returns start to come in on Super Tuesday. It's all a forgone conclusion regarding who will walk away with what, so it's all a bit anticlimactic. Both Biden and Trump will win when all is said and done. Will we see fewer votes in some states than four or eight years ago due to a lack of enthusiasm for one or the other candidates? Can we draw any conclusions about Election Day in November based on the number of votes tallied for either the Republicans or the Democrats? One thing is for sure. Both parties will have surrogates readily available on every network to spin the results to favor their candidate or, conversly, to sully and downplay their opponents success. If their opponent has a bad night, kicking them when they're down isn't out of the question. This isn't about getting enough delegates to win their party's nomination. Not tonight, anyway, assuming neither of the candidates wins enough delegates to win the nomination outright. It's a litmus test for who's on track to be the nominee and who isn't. Then again, I already know the answer to that question.
Russia announced that they hadn't achieved their objectives in Ukraine as it relates to their efforts to denazify Ukraine. I'd forgotten why they invaded Ukraine, but it's all coming back to me now. I'm still not sure what denazification looks like. Is that a reference to nazis from World War II? Is Russia suggesting that Nazis fled to Ukraine from Germany after the war and have now set up camp in Ukraine? It's not like the nazis in Ukraine are walking around wearing nazi insignias, so how does Russia denazify anything when you can't tell a nazi from a garden-variety Ukrainian? I'd hoped that Russia might announce that they were close to achieving their objectives, and that would give them the morale high ground going into any negotiations that might take place. While we're on the subject, what the hell are we (the United States) doing rubbing up on a country full of nazis? Is any of this really true, or is this just Russia making it up as they go along to do what they really want, which is to keep Ukraine from joining NATO? I'm trying not to sound too ignorant, but I have questions.
This whole issue of presidential immunity for President Trump has morphed into something that seems more manageable over these past couple of weeks. It started out in the mainstream media as, "Oh my God, there is no way the Supreme Court would give any president immunity for ordering Seal Team Six to kill his political opponent." That proclamation gave every left-wing talking head in the media a narrative that they used to lull their Trump-deranged listeners into thinking that it was a no-brainer that the Supremes would decline Trump's plea for presidential immunity. Judge Chutkin would put the case back on the docket, and Jack Smith and his clown car of prosecutors would bring home a conviction for Team Biden just ahead of the election. A more palatable narrative of sorts has emerged in the last few days. It makes me think that the lefties realized that they got out over their skis with the seal team six bullshit. It goes like this: The Supremes will forge a nuanced framework for what and how much immunity presidents are entitled to and then send that framework back to the lower courts to determine which counts against Trump get tossed or kept. I think I like the way this is shaking out.
The White House public relations team seems to have a new strategy for dealing with the fact that we have a feckless and doddering old fool sitting in the Oval Office. In the last few weeks, we've started to hear more and more members of his party say that getting feckless (my words, not theirs) old Joe out in public would be just what the doctor ordered to renew Americans' confidence in their Commander-in-Chief. When his handlers realized that was a non-starter for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was that he couldn't speak without his cue cards and he couldn't walk without betraying his feebleness, they decided to have every member of his political party go on television and regale the public with stories of their interactions with the President. It was a cacophony of lies and fabrications, to be sure, but it was music to the ears of his supporters who stood by slack-jawed while Trump continued to take demented Joe out behind the woodshed, figuratively speaking, for a well-deserved beating in the polls. The White House simultaneously invited every world leader available to sit with feckless Joe in the West Wing to give the impression that he was doing the people's work. Shame on leaders like Meloni from Italy, who knew precisely why she was there and still agreed to perpetuate a fraud on the American Public.
I'm hearing that Trump's defense team in the RICO case in Georgia now wants to introduce yet another witness who claims to have intimate knowledge that Willis conspired with her lover, Wade, to conceal the truth about her relationship with Wade. I don't know if we're talking about someone who has tapes or some other form of evidence that is beyond impeachable or what. I also don't know if the judge needs any more proof than he already has to decide the case. I will say that speculation about how he will come down is rampant and runs the gamut from throwing the two lovers off the case and assigning it to another office to having them disbarred and brought up on charges of perjury. I also don't know why the judge needs two weeks to decide the case. Then again, going after a black woman in a position of power in the Deep South these days can be a dicey proposition. Maybe it wasn't lost on anyone that Fani chose to have her father, an ex-Black Panther, testify on her behalf. Was that a veiled threat against the court? Might we see a modern-day march on Selma in Fulton County if she's unceremoniously booted from the case? Will we see a re-emergence of the Fani Willis who stood tall and defiant in her church in recent weeks, whipping her fellow parishioners and fellow citizens into a rage over a litany of social justice issues in her community? God is on your side, Judge. The time is now.
Super Tuesday is now in the history books. Trump has accumulated just short of 1,000 delegates in his race thus far for the 1215 delegates he needs to win the nomination. He won every state last night except Vermont. It was close in Vermont, with Haley and Trump each walking away with roughly 8-9 delegates. Haley's wins to date are the District of Columbia and the State of Vermont. Trump, for all intents and purposes, is now the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Word has it that Haley will bow out today following a dismal performance last night. Her campaign hoped they might take a few more states than she did in last night's contests, so dropping out today seems like the right thing to do. Will she endorse Trump? Will it be a full-throated endorsement? She's already skating on thin ice after staying in the race longer than she should have, in my humble opinion, so she can stop now with her comments about Trump being too old and unable to beat Biden. It's time to let voters decide who will and won't win a second term. The No-Label folks will decide if they will assemble a third-party ticket this Friday. Then, we have Kennedy on the ballot in some states, running on the Independent ticket.
When he gave his victory speech last night, Trump looked and sounded a bit tired. The poor guy has to be burning the candle at both ends. I couldn't tell if he was giving his speech extemporaneously, but it looked and sounded like that might be the case. I hear that Haley issued a statement. Biden was nowhere to be seen. Biden had just as many wins as Trump last since he had no real competition, so where was he when all was said and done? Do his supporters not deserve to see and hear from the man they took the trouble to go out and vote for in 15 some odd states? Maybe his campaign was annoyed with the fact that "Uncommitted" got as many votes in as many states as it did. He probably wasn't terribly pleased with the fact that he got his ass kicked in American Samoa by a man nobody's even heard of. When it comes to the Democrat nominee and the various ongoing contests, nobody is saying the quiet part out loud. That is to say, a vote for Joe Biden is really a vote for Kamala Harris. Nobody in their right mind thinks that Joe Biden will make it another four months in the position, much less another four years. It goes without saying that Kamala Harris, as president, is about as frightening a prospect as one can imagine. It just is.
I'm hearing that Alex Jones brokered a meeting between Trump and Elon Musk. If there is any chance that Musk can help Trump financially, that's a good thing. Musk has been very critical of the Biden Administration on various issues, and immigration, at least as of late, is at the top of his list. Supporting a candidate who wants to close our borders and deport illegal aliens with criminal records, at least for Musk, is a no-brainer. I think it's not an easy decision for Musk since he supported Biden in the 2020 election. Musk also has any number of enterprises that intertwine with governmental agencies, so cozying up to the party in charge was probably not a bad idea at the time. If there is any truth to the fact that Biden intends to allow China to flood our market with cheap EVs made in Mexico, then voting for a man like Trump, who would never allow that to happen, makes sense. It might even be in Musk's interest to see someone like Trump slow down or put a stop to the Green New Deal bullshit that halts the production of vehicles using carbon-based fuels by the year 2035. When you own a company like Tesla, as Musk does, less competition is better for business. As for Trump and illegal immigration, I thought he said that he was going to deport them all. And now, he's just talking about deporting the bad ones? WTF?
If I'm not mistaken, Trump's tax cuts, which he implemented in his first term as president, will expire in early 2025. Why isn't Trump even talking about that as yet another reason for people to vote for him? There is also a rumor that Bumbles Biden will discuss hiking taxes in his State of the Union speech tonight. Elon Musk, are you listening? Do you want to reconsider your decision not to donate to Trump's campaign? He's going to propose a 25% tax on billionaires. That's you, Elon. None of these hikes will get through a Republican House of Representatives, so I'm not sure why they are even on the table for Bumbles. Maybe Bumbles is trying to divert our attention away from the disaster that he created on our southern border by even mentioning tax hikes. Or, maybe he's trying to divert our attention from the ravages of inflation that Americans experience every time they go food shopping. I'm sure the progressives who drive much of what Biden does will love all the tax talk and might even give our failing and flailing Commander-in-Chief a standing ovation tonight. Do you suppose the Democrats will invite any newcomers (illegal aliens) to Biden's speech tonight? And, pray tell, what kinds of drugs will they pump into Biden's veins to get him through the speech? I'll watch it so you don't have to.
It looks like Fanny is fighting back! I'm talking about Fani Willis, the disgraced District Attorney in Fulton County, Georgia. Don't tell me that she wasn't involved. I'm talking about yesterday's announcement of a prominent local black man who will now challenge Judge McAfee in the upcoming election in Fulton County. Do you suppose that his announcement has anything to do with the fact that Judge McAfee is currently deciding whether to disqualify Willis and Wade from the Trump RICO case? Is there any question in anyone's mind that if McAfee boots the two off the case, that Willis will rally the black community against McAfee to unseat him? Clearly, that is what we're seeing before our very eyes. It's just more skullduggery and intimidation from the corrupt and conniving Willis. A woman like Willis, who is willing to perjure herself before the Court, is a woman who will do anything to achieve her ends. She's fighting back like a cornered alleycat, and here's hoping that McAfee sees this for what it is and adjudicates the case based on the facts and nothing else. There should be no half-measures when it comes to the verdict. The world is watching, Judge McAfee. Do the right thing.
I spent the better part of the afternoon yesterday watching Ms. Merchant (defense counsel for one of Trump's co-defendants) testify before the Georgia Senate on YouTube about the Willis case. Willis is going to rue the day when she decided to hire and enrich her lover by doing the bidding of Biden's White House. Ms. Merchant testified that Willis met with Vice President Harris before indicting Donald Trump and 18 other defendants. It smacks of a concerted and coordinated effort between Willis and the White House to bring yet another lawfare case against Trump to influence the presidential election. I thought Willis denied ever going to the White House in her testimony before Judge McAfee. How do we square that fucking circle? Merchant also made the case in her testimony before the Senate that Willis broadened the scope of the investigation in order to add as many defendants as possible in order to increase the number of trials and, as a consequence of the expanded trial calendar, a bigger windfall for her lover in hours billed on the case. Willis had a financial, political, and personal interest in bringing the case, and Ms. Merchant pulled no punches in her testimony. You could tell that the Senators were completely gobsmacked by her testimony. They asked all the right questions and drew all the appropriate conclusions during the hours-long hearing. None of this bodes well for Ms. Willis's future as District Attorney for Fulton County.
What did you think of the State of the Union speech delivered by Bumbles Biden last night? Two minutes into the speech, I turned to the missus and said, "This is not a State of the Union speech. It's a damn campaign speech." They had good ole lunchbox Joe swinging from the yardarms and with who knows what kinds of drugs pulsating through his veins. He was amped up about as much as you can amp up a dementia patient without pushing them over the edge of the abyss. He came across as a mean, divisive, and disturbed individual shouting at the world while trying to rally the progressive whacko wing of his party to his side. Where were all the fact-checkers last night? He spewed lie after lie with his best and most vitriolic lies aimed at whom he constantly referred to as his "predecessor." He came hot out of the box at the beginning of his speech and started to falter only after the drugs started to wear off. His speech slowed, he mumbled and stared off into space, and he lost his place several times before making comments that had nothing to do with anything. It was an embarrassing outing for a president on the one night out of the year when most Americans look to the president for words of wisdom and the promise of better days ahead. This was not that. With any luck, this will be his last "speech" to the American people.
Did you see the part of the speech where he took aim at the members of the Supreme Court who were seated in the front row and took them to task for their part in overturning Roe Vs Wade? Just who the fuck does this clown from Scranton think he is? He knows that the Supreme Court is an equal branch of government. No? This is what lowlife politicians do when they don't get their way. I figured it was just a matter of time before Biden's backbenchers sitting in the audience donned in all-white garb to give a nod to the color of the suffragette movement started pelting the members of the Supreme Court with rotten tomatoes. Such was the vitriol in the words and maniacal facial expressions raining down from high where Biden stood sputtering and spitting as he strained to read the teleprompter before him. You could see that he was actually closing his left eye as he tried, occasionally and sometimes unsuccessfully, to focus on the words splashing in size 85 font on the teleprompter before him. He was, for all intents and purposes, and for one night only, a white, linguistically, and intellectually challenged Louis Farrakhan singing to the radical forces in his choir, and the American people be damned.
What is this bullshit Biden is talking about when he said something about America building a "pier" so that they can get supplies to the Palestinians in Gaza? He better not be fucking making plans to offload the Gazans to ships offshore and then onto the shores of America. I'm sure the Israelis would like nothing better than to have America take everyone out of Gaza so they can effectively separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. Maybe they'd like America to offload the entire population, including Hamas. That solves a lot of problems for Israel. Would anyone be surprised to learn that Biden and his Military Industrial Complex have every intention of supplying both sides of the war, the Israelis and Hamas, with weaponry to prolong the war at the expense of both parties in the conflict? This is who they are. This is what they do. I can also assure you that any supplies delivered to the Palestinians, however they are routed, will be going first to Hamas. No one is under any illusions about where any of the aid is really ending up. Israel is probably too reliant on America to push back on the deliveries, so the war will continue unabated despite America's best efforts to do whatever it is that they are trying to accomplish.
I caught a bit of footage of the Secretary of Defense (Austin) testifying before Congress the other day. He was asked how many bombs the United States had delivered to Israel that were being used to hammer the Palestinians in Gaza. I'm paraphrasing, of course, but you get my point. I think the number referenced was 22,000, give or take. I was thinking to myself, holy shite, we here in the United States are guilty by association for the carnage laid at the feet of the good people in Gaza. We could just as easily deny shipments of armaments to Israel, and, at least morally, we'd have considerably less blood on our hands. I suppose we have some allegiance to Israel in terms of supporting their efforts to quash Hamas and others who would like to see them pushed into the sea. I'd also be quick to admit that I have no real sense of the death and destruction that the Palestinians have experienced. I'm certain that it's a hundredfold worse than our media is letting on. Leave no doubt that the Palestinians and Mulsim populations in states like Michigan and elsewhere know better and realize that Americans know less because their government (Biden) wants them to know less, and the mainstream media is complicit in the coverup. Come Election Day, we'll see who, if anyone, is held accountable for the unforgivable sins of our leaders.
Mollie Hemingway has an article out about January 6th (J6) and how Liz Cheney and others involved in the mock Congressional hearings did everything they could to suppress the truth about President Trump and his role in seeing to it that there were sufficient resources on hand on January 6th to push back on any leftist groups like Antifa and others who they expected to be amongst the Trump protestors on the plaza that fateful day. Mollie did not mention any undercover Federal agents on hand who may have also played a part, but we've seen reports to that effect, so we can probably assume that those reports are true. She went on to say that the Colorado Supreme Court used the J6 reports, which we now know were false as they relate to Trump's role, to cast Trump as an insurrectionist and, ultimately, not legally allowed to be on the ballot. The truth of the matter is, according to Mollie, Trump offered 10,000 National Guardsmen, but that offer was declined by the mayor of DC, Marilyn Bowser. I'm not sure if this is one of Jack Smith's charges relating to Trump's indictment, but it's now been taken off the table if we're to take Mollie's account as legit. The devious and dastardly lengths that the Democrat party has gone to in order to destroy Trump and the MAGA movement, in collusion with their counterparts in the Republican party, is beyond insane. When in God's name is anyone, or any group, going to pay a price for their role in destroying one man and his political movement?
I haven't decided yet what I will do tomorrow night when the election returns start to come in on Super Tuesday. It's all a forgone conclusion regarding who will walk away with what, so it's all a bit anticlimactic. Both Biden and Trump will win when all is said and done. Will we see fewer votes in some states than four or eight years ago due to a lack of enthusiasm for one or the other candidates? Can we draw any conclusions about Election Day in November based on the number of votes tallied for either the Republicans or the Democrats? One thing is for sure. Both parties will have surrogates readily available on every network to spin the results to favor their candidate or, conversly, to sully and downplay their opponents success. If their opponent has a bad night, kicking them when they're down isn't out of the question. This isn't about getting enough delegates to win their party's nomination. Not tonight, anyway, assuming neither of the candidates wins enough delegates to win the nomination outright. It's a litmus test for who's on track to be the nominee and who isn't. Then again, I already know the answer to that question.
Russia announced that they hadn't achieved their objectives in Ukraine as it relates to their efforts to denazify Ukraine. I'd forgotten why they invaded Ukraine, but it's all coming back to me now. I'm still not sure what denazification looks like. Is that a reference to nazis from World War II? Is Russia suggesting that Nazis fled to Ukraine from Germany after the war and have now set up camp in Ukraine? It's not like the nazis in Ukraine are walking around wearing nazi insignias, so how does Russia denazify anything when you can't tell a nazi from a garden-variety Ukrainian? I'd hoped that Russia might announce that they were close to achieving their objectives, and that would give them the morale high ground going into any negotiations that might take place. While we're on the subject, what the hell are we (the United States) doing rubbing up on a country full of nazis? Is any of this really true, or is this just Russia making it up as they go along to do what they really want, which is to keep Ukraine from joining NATO? I'm trying not to sound too ignorant, but I have questions.
This whole issue of presidential immunity for President Trump has morphed into something that seems more manageable over these past couple of weeks. It started out in the mainstream media as, "Oh my God, there is no way the Supreme Court would give any president immunity for ordering Seal Team Six to kill his political opponent." That proclamation gave every left-wing talking head in the media a narrative that they used to lull their Trump-deranged listeners into thinking that it was a no-brainer that the Supremes would decline Trump's plea for presidential immunity. Judge Chutkin would put the case back on the docket, and Jack Smith and his clown car of prosecutors would bring home a conviction for Team Biden just ahead of the election. A more palatable narrative of sorts has emerged in the last few days. It makes me think that the lefties realized that they got out over their skis with the seal team six bullshit. It goes like this: The Supremes will forge a nuanced framework for what and how much immunity presidents are entitled to and then send that framework back to the lower courts to determine which counts against Trump get tossed or kept. I think I like the way this is shaking out.
The White House public relations team seems to have a new strategy for dealing with the fact that we have a feckless and doddering old fool sitting in the Oval Office. In the last few weeks, we've started to hear more and more members of his party say that getting feckless (my words, not theirs) old Joe out in public would be just what the doctor ordered to renew Americans' confidence in their Commander-in-Chief. When his handlers realized that was a non-starter for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was that he couldn't speak without his cue cards and he couldn't walk without betraying his feebleness, they decided to have every member of his political party go on television and regale the public with stories of their interactions with the President. It was a cacophony of lies and fabrications, to be sure, but it was music to the ears of his supporters who stood by slack-jawed while Trump continued to take demented Joe out behind the woodshed, figuratively speaking, for a well-deserved beating in the polls. The White House simultaneously invited every world leader available to sit with feckless Joe in the West Wing to give the impression that he was doing the people's work. Shame on leaders like Meloni from Italy, who knew precisely why she was there and still agreed to perpetuate a fraud on the American Public.
I'm hearing that Trump's defense team in the RICO case in Georgia now wants to introduce yet another witness who claims to have intimate knowledge that Willis conspired with her lover, Wade, to conceal the truth about her relationship with Wade. I don't know if we're talking about someone who has tapes or some other form of evidence that is beyond impeachable or what. I also don't know if the judge needs any more proof than he already has to decide the case. I will say that speculation about how he will come down is rampant and runs the gamut from throwing the two lovers off the case and assigning it to another office to having them disbarred and brought up on charges of perjury. I also don't know why the judge needs two weeks to decide the case. Then again, going after a black woman in a position of power in the Deep South these days can be a dicey proposition. Maybe it wasn't lost on anyone that Fani chose to have her father, an ex-Black Panther, testify on her behalf. Was that a veiled threat against the court? Might we see a modern-day march on Selma in Fulton County if she's unceremoniously booted from the case? Will we see a re-emergence of the Fani Willis who stood tall and defiant in her church in recent weeks, whipping her fellow parishioners and fellow citizens into a rage over a litany of social justice issues in her community? God is on your side, Judge. The time is now.
Super Tuesday is now in the history books. Trump has accumulated just short of 1,000 delegates in his race thus far for the 1215 delegates he needs to win the nomination. He won every state last night except Vermont. It was close in Vermont, with Haley and Trump each walking away with roughly 8-9 delegates. Haley's wins to date are the District of Columbia and the State of Vermont. Trump, for all intents and purposes, is now the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Word has it that Haley will bow out today following a dismal performance last night. Her campaign hoped they might take a few more states than she did in last night's contests, so dropping out today seems like the right thing to do. Will she endorse Trump? Will it be a full-throated endorsement? She's already skating on thin ice after staying in the race longer than she should have, in my humble opinion, so she can stop now with her comments about Trump being too old and unable to beat Biden. It's time to let voters decide who will and won't win a second term. The No-Label folks will decide if they will assemble a third-party ticket this Friday. Then, we have Kennedy on the ballot in some states, running on the Independent ticket.
When he gave his victory speech last night, Trump looked and sounded a bit tired. The poor guy has to be burning the candle at both ends. I couldn't tell if he was giving his speech extemporaneously, but it looked and sounded like that might be the case. I hear that Haley issued a statement. Biden was nowhere to be seen. Biden had just as many wins as Trump last since he had no real competition, so where was he when all was said and done? Do his supporters not deserve to see and hear from the man they took the trouble to go out and vote for in 15 some odd states? Maybe his campaign was annoyed with the fact that "Uncommitted" got as many votes in as many states as it did. He probably wasn't terribly pleased with the fact that he got his ass kicked in American Samoa by a man nobody's even heard of. When it comes to the Democrat nominee and the various ongoing contests, nobody is saying the quiet part out loud. That is to say, a vote for Joe Biden is really a vote for Kamala Harris. Nobody in their right mind thinks that Joe Biden will make it another four months in the position, much less another four years. It goes without saying that Kamala Harris, as president, is about as frightening a prospect as one can imagine. It just is.
I'm hearing that Alex Jones brokered a meeting between Trump and Elon Musk. If there is any chance that Musk can help Trump financially, that's a good thing. Musk has been very critical of the Biden Administration on various issues, and immigration, at least as of late, is at the top of his list. Supporting a candidate who wants to close our borders and deport illegal aliens with criminal records, at least for Musk, is a no-brainer. I think it's not an easy decision for Musk since he supported Biden in the 2020 election. Musk also has any number of enterprises that intertwine with governmental agencies, so cozying up to the party in charge was probably not a bad idea at the time. If there is any truth to the fact that Biden intends to allow China to flood our market with cheap EVs made in Mexico, then voting for a man like Trump, who would never allow that to happen, makes sense. It might even be in Musk's interest to see someone like Trump slow down or put a stop to the Green New Deal bullshit that halts the production of vehicles using carbon-based fuels by the year 2035. When you own a company like Tesla, as Musk does, less competition is better for business. As for Trump and illegal immigration, I thought he said that he was going to deport them all. And now, he's just talking about deporting the bad ones? WTF?
If I'm not mistaken, Trump's tax cuts, which he implemented in his first term as president, will expire in early 2025. Why isn't Trump even talking about that as yet another reason for people to vote for him? There is also a rumor that Bumbles Biden will discuss hiking taxes in his State of the Union speech tonight. Elon Musk, are you listening? Do you want to reconsider your decision not to donate to Trump's campaign? He's going to propose a 25% tax on billionaires. That's you, Elon. None of these hikes will get through a Republican House of Representatives, so I'm not sure why they are even on the table for Bumbles. Maybe Bumbles is trying to divert our attention away from the disaster that he created on our southern border by even mentioning tax hikes. Or, maybe he's trying to divert our attention from the ravages of inflation that Americans experience every time they go food shopping. I'm sure the progressives who drive much of what Biden does will love all the tax talk and might even give our failing and flailing Commander-in-Chief a standing ovation tonight. Do you suppose the Democrats will invite any newcomers (illegal aliens) to Biden's speech tonight? And, pray tell, what kinds of drugs will they pump into Biden's veins to get him through the speech? I'll watch it so you don't have to.
It looks like Fanny is fighting back! I'm talking about Fani Willis, the disgraced District Attorney in Fulton County, Georgia. Don't tell me that she wasn't involved. I'm talking about yesterday's announcement of a prominent local black man who will now challenge Judge McAfee in the upcoming election in Fulton County. Do you suppose that his announcement has anything to do with the fact that Judge McAfee is currently deciding whether to disqualify Willis and Wade from the Trump RICO case? Is there any question in anyone's mind that if McAfee boots the two off the case, that Willis will rally the black community against McAfee to unseat him? Clearly, that is what we're seeing before our very eyes. It's just more skullduggery and intimidation from the corrupt and conniving Willis. A woman like Willis, who is willing to perjure herself before the Court, is a woman who will do anything to achieve her ends. She's fighting back like a cornered alleycat, and here's hoping that McAfee sees this for what it is and adjudicates the case based on the facts and nothing else. There should be no half-measures when it comes to the verdict. The world is watching, Judge McAfee. Do the right thing.
I spent the better part of the afternoon yesterday watching Ms. Merchant (defense counsel for one of Trump's co-defendants) testify before the Georgia Senate on YouTube about the Willis case. Willis is going to rue the day when she decided to hire and enrich her lover by doing the bidding of Biden's White House. Ms. Merchant testified that Willis met with Vice President Harris before indicting Donald Trump and 18 other defendants. It smacks of a concerted and coordinated effort between Willis and the White House to bring yet another lawfare case against Trump to influence the presidential election. I thought Willis denied ever going to the White House in her testimony before Judge McAfee. How do we square that fucking circle? Merchant also made the case in her testimony before the Senate that Willis broadened the scope of the investigation in order to add as many defendants as possible in order to increase the number of trials and, as a consequence of the expanded trial calendar, a bigger windfall for her lover in hours billed on the case. Willis had a financial, political, and personal interest in bringing the case, and Ms. Merchant pulled no punches in her testimony. You could tell that the Senators were completely gobsmacked by her testimony. They asked all the right questions and drew all the appropriate conclusions during the hours-long hearing. None of this bodes well for Ms. Willis's future as District Attorney for Fulton County.
What did you think of the State of the Union speech delivered by Bumbles Biden last night? Two minutes into the speech, I turned to the missus and said, "This is not a State of the Union speech. It's a damn campaign speech." They had good ole lunchbox Joe swinging from the yardarms and with who knows what kinds of drugs pulsating through his veins. He was amped up about as much as you can amp up a dementia patient without pushing them over the edge of the abyss. He came across as a mean, divisive, and disturbed individual shouting at the world while trying to rally the progressive whacko wing of his party to his side. Where were all the fact-checkers last night? He spewed lie after lie with his best and most vitriolic lies aimed at whom he constantly referred to as his "predecessor." He came hot out of the box at the beginning of his speech and started to falter only after the drugs started to wear off. His speech slowed, he mumbled and stared off into space, and he lost his place several times before making comments that had nothing to do with anything. It was an embarrassing outing for a president on the one night out of the year when most Americans look to the president for words of wisdom and the promise of better days ahead. This was not that. With any luck, this will be his last "speech" to the American people.
Did you see the part of the speech where he took aim at the members of the Supreme Court who were seated in the front row and took them to task for their part in overturning Roe Vs Wade? Just who the fuck does this clown from Scranton think he is? He knows that the Supreme Court is an equal branch of government. No? This is what lowlife politicians do when they don't get their way. I figured it was just a matter of time before Biden's backbenchers sitting in the audience donned in all-white garb to give a nod to the color of the suffragette movement started pelting the members of the Supreme Court with rotten tomatoes. Such was the vitriol in the words and maniacal facial expressions raining down from high where Biden stood sputtering and spitting as he strained to read the teleprompter before him. You could see that he was actually closing his left eye as he tried, occasionally and sometimes unsuccessfully, to focus on the words splashing in size 85 font on the teleprompter before him. He was, for all intents and purposes, and for one night only, a white, linguistically, and intellectually challenged Louis Farrakhan singing to the radical forces in his choir, and the American people be damned.
What is this bullshit Biden is talking about when he said something about America building a "pier" so that they can get supplies to the Palestinians in Gaza? He better not be fucking making plans to offload the Gazans to ships offshore and then onto the shores of America. I'm sure the Israelis would like nothing better than to have America take everyone out of Gaza so they can effectively separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. Maybe they'd like America to offload the entire population, including Hamas. That solves a lot of problems for Israel. Would anyone be surprised to learn that Biden and his Military Industrial Complex have every intention of supplying both sides of the war, the Israelis and Hamas, with weaponry to prolong the war at the expense of both parties in the conflict? This is who they are. This is what they do. I can also assure you that any supplies delivered to the Palestinians, however they are routed, will be going first to Hamas. No one is under any illusions about where any of the aid is really ending up. Israel is probably too reliant on America to push back on the deliveries, so the war will continue unabated despite America's best efforts to do whatever it is that they are trying to accomplish.
I caught a bit of footage of the Secretary of Defense (Austin) testifying before Congress the other day. He was asked how many bombs the United States had delivered to Israel that were being used to hammer the Palestinians in Gaza. I'm paraphrasing, of course, but you get my point. I think the number referenced was 22,000, give or take. I was thinking to myself, holy shite, we here in the United States are guilty by association for the carnage laid at the feet of the good people in Gaza. We could just as easily deny shipments of armaments to Israel, and, at least morally, we'd have considerably less blood on our hands. I suppose we have some allegiance to Israel in terms of supporting their efforts to quash Hamas and others who would like to see them pushed into the sea. I'd also be quick to admit that I have no real sense of the death and destruction that the Palestinians have experienced. I'm certain that it's a hundredfold worse than our media is letting on. Leave no doubt that the Palestinians and Mulsim populations in states like Michigan and elsewhere know better and realize that Americans know less because their government (Biden) wants them to know less, and the mainstream media is complicit in the coverup. Come Election Day, we'll see who, if anyone, is held accountable for the unforgivable sins of our leaders.
Mollie Hemingway has an article out about January 6th (J6) and how Liz Cheney and others involved in the mock Congressional hearings did everything they could to suppress the truth about President Trump and his role in seeing to it that there were sufficient resources on hand on January 6th to push back on any leftist groups like Antifa and others who they expected to be amongst the Trump protestors on the plaza that fateful day. Mollie did not mention any undercover Federal agents on hand who may have also played a part, but we've seen reports to that effect, so we can probably assume that those reports are true. She went on to say that the Colorado Supreme Court used the J6 reports, which we now know were false as they relate to Trump's role, to cast Trump as an insurrectionist and, ultimately, not legally allowed to be on the ballot. The truth of the matter is, according to Mollie, Trump offered 10,000 National Guardsmen, but that offer was declined by the mayor of DC, Marilyn Bowser. I'm not sure if this is one of Jack Smith's charges relating to Trump's indictment, but it's now been taken off the table if we're to take Mollie's account as legit. The devious and dastardly lengths that the Democrat party has gone to in order to destroy Trump and the MAGA movement, in collusion with their counterparts in the Republican party, is beyond insane. When in God's name is anyone, or any group, going to pay a price for their role in destroying one man and his political movement?
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It's hard to believe, but we've got another primary tomorrow. Trump won the South Carolina primary over the weekend, and now we have a primary tomorrow in the state of Michigan. It's just Trump and Birdbrain Haley so it's not going to be much of a contest. I'm talking Republicans here. The Democrats have pretty much boxed out any of Biden's competition and made their contests more of a coronation than a primary race. Biden and his DOJ are doing their best to put Trump behind bars in order to complete the coronation process. This is what fascists do. The American people are going to have a say in who does and who doesn't go to jail when all is said and done. I'm referring to the election in November. To that end, I'm delighted that the Koch organization has announced that they are withdrawing support from Haley. Even the Koch organization wants to be on the winning side of the equation when the dust finally settles.
I read that when Trump finally has the nomination in hand after winning the right number of delegates as a result of primary wins, presumably after the Super Tuesday contests, he starts to receive security briefings. He also has access to additional funding. Who thinks that the establishment isn't going to give Trump the complete briefings that he's entitled to? Wait a minute. As an ex-president, isn't he already receiving security briefings? You know the Deep State is going to do everything it can to protect Biden and that invariably means that they have to find a way to kneecap his political opponents. Maybe it means keeping classified materials close to the vest so Trump can't use them against him. Not that Trump doesn't have enough material as it is. It does make you wonder what the Deep State is doing to keep Trump out of the White House. How many e-mails within the inner confines of the halls of Justice have been exchanged with the subject line, "Trump will never be president"?
I don't know much about Michigan and how it shapes up as a state that favors either Republicans or Democrats in presidential elections. Michigan has, at least historically, been heavily unionized thanks to key industries like the automobile industry and others. It's also no secret that Unions have been in bed with the Democrat Party going back to God only knows when. These days, much of the car manufacturing has moved to Mexico leaving sections of Michigan hollowed out. The plants still up and running now have the EV craze to contend with, which requires fewer workers and slimmed-down facilities. All of this is fertile ground for a Republican like Trump, who has promised to quash zero-carbon efforts by car manufacturers. He's also promised to place crippling tariffs on the importation of Chinese EVs, if I'm not mistaken. Then, and this is a more recent revelation to me, Michigan has a large and influential Muslim population who have distanced themselves from Biden and the Democrat Party due to his policies on Israel and Biden's failure to do more to protect the innocent lives of Palestinians in Gaza. The loss of these constituencies in Michigan could cost Democrats the election in the Fall. That's good news for Trump and America.
Will this latest news about Fanni Willis be the end of her and her lover, Mr. Wade? Somehow, someone came up with phone records between Fanni and her toy boy that tell a very different story than that to which she testified to under oath. She maintained all along, as did he that their relationship started AFTER she hired him to be the lead prosecutor in the RICO case against Trump and his fellow defendants. The entire case rests on the propriety of their relationship since the counsel for the defense has alleged that their relationship represents a conflict that could have an impact on the outcome of their judicial proceedings. This latest information, if validated, means that both Willis and Wade perjured themselves in their testimony. It's important to note that we now have literally thousands of texts and calls that the two exchanged during the period in question. I think it's pretty clear and conclusive now that she hired her lover to manage Trump's RICO case. If she lied to the court about her relationship with Wade and when it began, she is also no longer entitled to the benefit of the doubt when it comes to her testimony about who paid for what and who was and who wasn't reimbursed for their so-called vacations. Remind the Court again if you can, Ms. Willis, who is and who isn't on trial? I'll wait.
I was flipping through the channels on the television last night, and I was surprised to see that no one was talking about the Michigan primary tonight. Is that because Trump is expecting to win it by a sizeable margin and the networks have no plans, nor the stomach, to announce him the victor with each passing primary for fear of creating an aura of inevitability? Or, is the drama gone now that Trump beat Birdbrain going away in her own home state of South Carolina? Whichever the case, they can only put it off for so long since Super Tuesday is right around the corner with Trump likely sweeping the lot. Ratings being the mother's milk of nightly television and the veritable jackpot at the end of the rainbow every four years between presidential elections, they would be cutting off their noses to spite their faces if they ignored the contests altogether. It must really gall these left-wing television personalities to have to announce Trump as the winner in any given contest. You can see the disgust in their faces despite the drivel that comes out of their mouths. Sometimes it's subtle. Sometimes, it's not so subtle. I think it's one of those cognitive dissonance deals if I understand it correctly. Now you know why I prefer to watch the results come in on networks that despise Trump. I love to watch them squirm.
One guy who best illustrates what I'm talking about is Chris Cuomo on News Nation. You can see him turning different shades of ashen when confronted with anything that butts up against his utter and maniacal devotion to his political part and the party of his father before him, the great (and probably overrated), Mario Cuomo. This clown, and I'm talking about Chris Cuomo here, can't bring himself to admit that the immigration nightmare on our border was brought about by the policies of Biden and the Democrat Party. If he has an expert on his show to discuss the issue, he'll do his best to lay fault at the feet of both parties in Congress and their unwillingness to solve the problem. If his expert starts to get the better of the argument, and especially if the expert drags Biden's name into the discussion, you can see a palpable shift in Cuomo's comfort level before your very eyes. I love it when he has Bill O'Reilly on because O'Reilly takes him out of his comfort zone with facts that leave Cuomo flat-footed and looking like the cuck that he is. The fact that O'Reilly seems to take some kind of pleasure in undressing Cuomo on his own show adds to the enjoyment I experience while watching the two of them go round and round.
What the hell is President Macron thinking when he says that he's considering sending his fellow countrymen into the fray that is the current and ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia? He's nothing but a pissant of a leader and, in the eyes of the French people, a veritable flaky croissant of a man. No sooner did he make that proclamation than the president of Poland came out and declared that Poland would not be sending any of their soldiers to fight in Ukraine. I gather we're getting down to brass tacks here now that Ukraine is reportedly down to their last box of ammunition and they have but a handful of conscripts left to send to the front lines. It's all looking very grim for Zelensky and his oligarchs. Did I mention that Putin responded with a warning that should non-Ukrainian troops enter the fight in Ukraine that he would go to war with NATO? I've not heard Putin say anything about Sweden becoming a member of NATO, but I'm sure he will have something to say considering the fact that Sweden is on Russia's border and having a potential NATO country on Russia's border is but one of many reasons Russia invaded Ukraine. It also wouldn't surprise me at all were we to wake up one day in October, just days ahead of the November presidential election, to hear Bumbles Biden declare war on Russia. Americans have always rallied around their Commander-in-Chief during times of war. Right? If that's what it takes to beat Trump and save our Democracy in the process, don't put it past the Bidenistas to put our Republic at risk just to save his sorry arse in the November election.
Jesus. These primaries are coming fast and furious these days. Trump beat Birdbrain Haley by some 42 points in Michigan last night. Is it me or did Trump and the Republicans get a shitload more votes than the Democrats? I'm curious how this cycle's primary with Trump compares to past primaries without Trump. Birdbrain got some 26% so she's still got her anti-Trump bandwagon rolling along. I don't have the breakdown of who got how many delegates so that may have to wait until this coming weekend when Michigan holds a caucus. I think that's right anyway. I was watching coverage on CNN around 8:30 when who came on the network but Birdbrain herself? Who does that? I think the polling stations in some sections of Michigan were still open when she came on with Dana Bash. Of course, she was on her usual high horse of Trump can't win and all that sort of bullshit, and I finally just muted her. I could tell by watching the two of these cackling hens that Bash was more than delighted to let Birdbrain spew her usual vitriol about Trump, and she (Bash) couldn't have been more pleased. Talk about Cheshire cats. Have you ever seen a candidate go on a network the night the votes are coming in? It just smacked of desperation and of someone looking for free air time to rail against their political opponent.
I think the judge in the Fanni Willis case has all he needs to make a decision as to whether or not she and her lover, Wade, get disqualified in the Trump RICO case. He held a hearing yesterday, and the defense had Wade's divorce attorney on the stand for the better part of three hours. Let's just say he didn't do either himself or the Willis/Wade case any favors. They finally got him to admit in so many words that he was well aware of the fact that the relationship between Wade and Willis predated her assigning him to the Trump case. In other words, she (Willis) paid her lover (Wade) to take the case and then accepted kickbacks from him in the form of dinners, vacations, etc. I thought I heard the judge say something about having the defense give their final arguments this coming Friday without entering into evidence recent revelations about extensive phone records between Wade and Willis that further prove that their relationship predated his assignment to the case. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. Today's testimony does not square with the testimony already provided by Wade and Willis. Let's call a spade a spade, They perjured themselves. There, I said it.
I don't know Wendy Willaims from The Man on the Moon. I wasn't inclined one way or another to watch the four-episode reality show documenting her trials and travails with what appears to be some form of alcohol-induced dementia. Maybe the missus insisted that I watch it with her. Or, maybe she wanted to see it, and I was just along for the ride. Ms. Williams also suffers from a condition that makes her eyes bulge out which is separate and apart from her dementia issues. I kept asking myself why someone thought it was a good idea to film this woman in her condition. I don't think she had the wherewithal to know enough about her declining health to realize that what she had agreed to was both sad and exploitative. The filmmakers admitted that they didn't know enough about her situation, and once they realized what they were dealing with, they ended the production. Most of the people in the documentary were family members or close associates who saw this woman go from being a star on television for the better part of fourteen years to what is essentially in the here and now a shell of her former self. I'll finish the show, and then I'll take a look on YouTube to see what the real Wendy Williams was like. I feel like I owe her that much.
When it rains, it pours. The Supreme Court finally ruled on Trump's case of presidential immunity. Much to the chagrin of the Marxist media and the moonbat rump swabs who follow them day in and day out, the Court agreed to hear the case. They could have kicked it back to the lower courts, but they did not. Keep in mind that Jack Smith, the rogue prosecutor brought in from The Hague by Biden's DOJ to get a conviction against Trump prior to the election, had gone to the Court this past December asking that they fast-track Trump's presidential immunity claim and the Court refused to hear it. Loosely translated, this development is not good news for Jack Smith. It means that none of these cases being brought against Trump will be tried before the November election. The Supremes won't even issue their decision until July. There simply is not sufficient time left on the calendar to get this in front of a judge and jury before everything butts up against the election itself. Did I mention that everything is stayed in the lower courts until the Supremes rule? It was a good day for Trump, and a good day for all God-fearing Americans who believe in the Justice system.
The Left was so hoping that their boy, Jack Smith, would deliver the goods before the election that they have gone on day after day singing his praises in the mainstream media and popping champagne corks in anticipation of seeing Trump convicted and put behind bars. Poll after poll showed Trump losing to Biden in November if convicted of any one or more of the crimes on which he was indicted. Never mind that each and every indictment brought by Smith was flimsier than the last. It's probably important to understand that this guy, Smith, has a very checkered past when it comes to going after politicians. In one case, which ended up in the Supreme Court when they overturned his conviction 9-0, he achieved his goal of taking down the politician by getting a conviction and, in the process, ruined the life and career of a good man. None of this is lost on the Supreme Court. My sense is that they see these cases for what they are: An attempt by a corrupt Biden Administration to take out their political opponent ahead of a presidential election. The Court has now effectively pushed the timelines out to favor Trump and simultaneously send a message to Biden's Justice Department that the gig is up. They know election interference when they see it, and they are not standing by and letting any of it go unchecked. Suck on that, Jack Smith.
What the hell is going on with Bitcoin? I don't know crypto from crapto so I'll just put that out there. I remember starting to notice when it was trading in the sixty-thousand dollar range give or take. It made me wish that I had gotten in on the crypto craze when it was trading in the thousands back in 2010 or thereabouts. Then, it went from sixty thousand down to sixteen thousand before bouncing back to sixty thousand somewhat today. It's a fucking roller coaster is what it is. Of course, I've also heard many a story in the last few years about coin companies going bust, wallets disappearing, and criminals like Bankman-Fried who amass fortunes on the backs of investors and then declare bankruptcy. I'll take my chances with companies that have actual products and reportable earnings. That's not to say that some of those companies don't become high flyers with nosebleed-level multiples. You know what they say. Here today, gone tomorrow. Think Sears and F. W. Woolworths. I'm a sucker for rags-to-riches stories so keep those coming. Where the price of Bitcoin goes now is anyone's guess. Can it go to a million? Sure. Will it go to zero? Probably not.
I'd forgotten that Apple was working on developing their version of an electric vehicle until I read this week that they're getting out of the business. Apparently, they're now transferring resources from the EV team to the Apple Team working on Artificial Intelligence (AI.) I don't think I ever had high hopes one way or another to get behind the wheel of an electric car developed by Apple, but you know what they say. Hope springs eternal. That whole industry seems to be taking it on the chin these days for a variety of reasons. Losing money on each and every EV model sold is simply not a sustainable business model. If it's true that two out of three EV owners typically rent cars when they go on longer trips, that's just fucked up. If I had an electric car, you could count me out when the temperature goes below freezing. Part of me thinks that Apple, with Steve Jobs at the helm, could have pulled this EV venture off. With Tim Cook at the helm, not so much. When was the last time Apple did anything really innovative? I'm sorry, they are just not cutting the mustard. As for their lineup of Dick Tracy watches, I'm just as happy with my $29 watch from Walmart that I never have to charge overnight. It's good to go when I am. Try harder, Apple.
Do you know who also isn't too happy about this latest Supreme Court ruling? You guess it. Birdbrain Haley. She's been hanging around primary in and primary out waiting for Jack Smith to put Trump behind bars so she can step in and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. That may not be the appropriate phrase, but it's close enough. Nobody likes a fucking vulture. I think I heard that she made some inane comment or other in voicing her apparent displeasure at the Court's ruling. It wasn't any different than that coming from the left-wing media that goes something like this: No one is above the law. Now, Birdbrain, what is your rationale for staying in the race? And I have to say this, does Trump look like David in the David versus Goliath drama now that he's slain most if not all of these lawfare dragons that he's faced? Americans love a good come-from-behind story, and if anyone has faced more improbable odds of winning any one or more of the 91 criminal indictments against him without stepping a foot in the courtroom, it's the one, the inimitable, Donald J. Trump.
That rogue mother fucker of a federal prosecutor, Jack Smith, is now looking to fast-track his classified documents/obstruction case against Trump in Eileen Canon's courtroom in Florida. He's desperate to get a conviction in any courtroom between now and Election Day. The Supreme Court took away his DC case against Trump last week, and that case will never go to court between now and election day. I'm hoping that Eileen Canon, a Trump appointee, will avoid a potential circus in her courtroom by denying Smith the chance to prosecute Joe Biden's political opponent, who just happens to be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, just a handful of months out from Election Day. If I'm not mistaken, Smith wants the trial to begin a week before the Republican Party holds its national convention in the July-August timeframe. Here we go again with the fucking election interference bullshit. You should hear the Marxist mainstream media. They've gone from clutching their pearls over the Supreme Court decision to salivating over the prospects of their boy, Jack Smith, getting Trump in front of a judge and jury ahead of the Republican National Convention this summer. Here's my advice: Be careful what you ask for.
I'm looking forward to watching the Willis trial on television today. I hear that they have a wine taster who is willing to testify that Willis paid cash for a tasting that she and her lover, Wade, attended while vacationing in Nappa Valley. Whether the judge allows this witness is another question. Just out of curiosity, what is the point of allowing this testimony? It hardly puts to rest the issue of who paid for what and when as it relates to vacations and dinners Willis and her lover enjoyed while doing what lovers do. The central issue is whether or not Willis hired her lover to manage the Trump RICO case and who benefitted financially (kickbacks) or otherwise from the arrangement. I think we have closing arguments today so that should put a nice big bow on everything that we've seen and heard thus far in the trial. I think the consensus is that both Willis and Wade perjured themselves during the course of the trial. I also think that nobody believes that their relationship began after Willis hired Wade to manage the Trump case. Will one or both be disbarred for perjury? Will the two agree to step down from the case in order to avoid the perjury charges? This is it, boys and girls. This is where the rubber meets the road.
We continue to see stories in the media about this or that illegal alien committing heinous acts against American citizens. The story about that Laken woman being brutally murdered by an illegal alien from Venezuela is just the latest horror show brought to our shores by Bumbling Joe Biden and his malevolent Administration. I see a lot of photos in the media of criminals alleged to have committed crimes, but they rarely tell the whole story. It's almost like there's a complete blackout by the media when it comes to crimes committed by illegal aliens. They just never tell us the country of origin or the immigration status of the alleged perpetrators. It gets worse. Biden, in his first trip to the border since his inauguration in 2021, referred to the illegal aliens as "newcomers." Can you fucking imagine? Trump was also at the border yesterday and rightly referred to them as "illegal aliens." Trump mentioned that he phoned the parents of the Laken woman to give them his condolences on the senseless murder of their beautiful child. Biden never bothered to pick up the phone. If her parents weren't Trump supporters before, they are now. Life's lessons come hard sometimes. You live, and you learn.
I keep waiting for somebody, anybody, to tell the truth about what they see when they get up close and personal with Joe Biden. We all know he's seriously demented, but none of us has any idea of what that looks like since we are, by and large, bystanders in the shit show we know as the Biden Administration. I guess it makes sense that no one in the White House is talking smack about their boss. That could be carreer ending. I guess it also makes sense that no world leader spending any time with Joe Biden is willing to spill the beans on the guy sitting across from him holding his cue cards for fear of not being invited back to the Oval Office. Or, even worse, have their funding cut off. Kevin McCarthy, the prior Republican Speaker of the House commented yesterday that every time he sat down with President Biden, Biden couldn't carry on a conversation without his cue cards. I think his exact words were, "He sticks to the cards." "He would just read from his cards." Is it too much to expect, and this is me speaking, to have a president who can complete a full sentence without having to look at a teleprompter or cue card? The stooge even had a teleprompter when he met with the Border Patrol in Texas yesterday. It's just unbelievable.
One story that seemed to fly under the radar these past couple of days is the story about the Jewish doctor in San Diego who was murdered by a guy named Mohammed. The headline alone is a little concerning. I'm not sure the story, even if you read it in the papers, is going to tell you everything there is to know about what really happened. If I had to draw my own conclusions, I might be tempted to think that this has something to do with Israel's war against the Palestinians in Gaza. I'd be curious to know if this Mohammed fellow is an illegal alien, allowed to enter our country by Joe Biden and given an airline ticket to the American city of his choice and a court date some 5-7 years out. What American Israelis have to be asking themselves is after hearing this story is, assuming they hear it at all, how many more Mohanmmeds are there out there? Another story that caught my eye yesterday was about some country, maybe France, who put money in their national budget to protect Jews in response, I suppose, to increased rates of antisemitism. Imagine what a move like this would do for Biden's support in the Jewish community were he to propose such a thing. Why he has their support, to begin with, aside from the fact that Biden is a Democrat, is a mystery to me.
I listened to the closing arguments in the Willis hearing yesterday. The attorneys representing Trump and his co-defendants were pretty darn good and covered everything from soup to nuts. I was less interested in what the State had to say to counter the arguments laid out by Trump's team but listened to a bit of it anyway. Let me just cut to the chase. The guy representing the State was hard to listen to. He was all over the place and not making a lot of sense in the process. At one point, the missus, who was on the computer just a few feet away from me, turned around and asked me, "Who is this guy"? The judge took exception to any number of his claims and challenged his grasp of the facts on several points. I was thinking to myself if this is the best that this particular office has to offer, it's little wonder that Willis and Wade have gotten themselves in the pickle that they find themselves in. Willis probably ran the office with little to no pushback from anyone who might otherwise offer her constructive feedback on how to best conduct herself in her personal and professional life. She sat at the head table just feet away from the judge wearing a slutty red dress with inch-long fake eyelashes and looking more like a hooker awaiting sentencing than the District Attorney for one of the largest counties in the State of Georgia. How much any of this has to do with what the judge decides at the end of the day is anyone's guess. Does he really need two weeks to render a decision?
What was I hearing yesterday about an appeals court in Washington coming down in favor of the January 6th defendants and slamming Biden's Justice Department for proposing that January 6th defendants receive enhanced sentences for "Interfering with the administration of justice"? In the one case in question, they did affirm the court's finding that the defendant did "obstruct Congress's certification of the electoral count." This latter case is currently under review by the Supreme Court and, if the Supremes disagree with the lower court, we could see many of these sentences reversed. Is it a surprise that any or all of these cases, including the cases against Trump, are falling apart? I also find the timing of these decisions interesting considering the release of even more footage of the January 6th "insurrection" by Speaker Mike Johnson. I heartily agree that those rioters who fought with the Capitol police should be punished as appropriate. Anyone else who was either inside or outside the Capitol building on that day, and who was arrested and charged, should be pardoned. Biden won't pardon them because his Democrat Party was responsible for the January 6th hoax that they continue to perpetuate to this day as the darkest day in the history of our Republic. It's no such thing. Not even close. Only Trump can pardon them now, and that will have to wait until he is inaugurated in January 2025. Unless, of course, the Supremes step in first.
Trump swept the caucuses in Michigan, Missouri, and Idaho last night. I don't know how many delegates he walked away with but I'm guessing if there were one or two stragglers here and there that they must have gone to Birdbrain. Will Trump be the first non-incumbent in the history of the primary/caucus system to win them all? Did I mention that he held two back-to-back rallies yesterday in North Carolina and Virginia? The polls have him losing to Biden in Virginia given Virginia's proximity to Washington DC and all the DC employees who could lose their jobs if Biden loses his. So, why the heck is he holding a rally in Virginia? Does he know something that we don't? Super Tuesday is coming up in a couple of days and I'm looking forward to it if for no other reason than we're going to see a throttling of Birdbrain like we've never seen before. I can't wait to see that concession speech, assuming she drops out after getting shellacked in over 15 states. We'll see if Trump bothers to mention her name in his victory speech. I don't think she deserves a mention, but that's me.
I read that when Trump finally has the nomination in hand after winning the right number of delegates as a result of primary wins, presumably after the Super Tuesday contests, he starts to receive security briefings. He also has access to additional funding. Who thinks that the establishment isn't going to give Trump the complete briefings that he's entitled to? Wait a minute. As an ex-president, isn't he already receiving security briefings? You know the Deep State is going to do everything it can to protect Biden and that invariably means that they have to find a way to kneecap his political opponents. Maybe it means keeping classified materials close to the vest so Trump can't use them against him. Not that Trump doesn't have enough material as it is. It does make you wonder what the Deep State is doing to keep Trump out of the White House. How many e-mails within the inner confines of the halls of Justice have been exchanged with the subject line, "Trump will never be president"?
I don't know much about Michigan and how it shapes up as a state that favors either Republicans or Democrats in presidential elections. Michigan has, at least historically, been heavily unionized thanks to key industries like the automobile industry and others. It's also no secret that Unions have been in bed with the Democrat Party going back to God only knows when. These days, much of the car manufacturing has moved to Mexico leaving sections of Michigan hollowed out. The plants still up and running now have the EV craze to contend with, which requires fewer workers and slimmed-down facilities. All of this is fertile ground for a Republican like Trump, who has promised to quash zero-carbon efforts by car manufacturers. He's also promised to place crippling tariffs on the importation of Chinese EVs, if I'm not mistaken. Then, and this is a more recent revelation to me, Michigan has a large and influential Muslim population who have distanced themselves from Biden and the Democrat Party due to his policies on Israel and Biden's failure to do more to protect the innocent lives of Palestinians in Gaza. The loss of these constituencies in Michigan could cost Democrats the election in the Fall. That's good news for Trump and America.
Will this latest news about Fanni Willis be the end of her and her lover, Mr. Wade? Somehow, someone came up with phone records between Fanni and her toy boy that tell a very different story than that to which she testified to under oath. She maintained all along, as did he that their relationship started AFTER she hired him to be the lead prosecutor in the RICO case against Trump and his fellow defendants. The entire case rests on the propriety of their relationship since the counsel for the defense has alleged that their relationship represents a conflict that could have an impact on the outcome of their judicial proceedings. This latest information, if validated, means that both Willis and Wade perjured themselves in their testimony. It's important to note that we now have literally thousands of texts and calls that the two exchanged during the period in question. I think it's pretty clear and conclusive now that she hired her lover to manage Trump's RICO case. If she lied to the court about her relationship with Wade and when it began, she is also no longer entitled to the benefit of the doubt when it comes to her testimony about who paid for what and who was and who wasn't reimbursed for their so-called vacations. Remind the Court again if you can, Ms. Willis, who is and who isn't on trial? I'll wait.
I was flipping through the channels on the television last night, and I was surprised to see that no one was talking about the Michigan primary tonight. Is that because Trump is expecting to win it by a sizeable margin and the networks have no plans, nor the stomach, to announce him the victor with each passing primary for fear of creating an aura of inevitability? Or, is the drama gone now that Trump beat Birdbrain going away in her own home state of South Carolina? Whichever the case, they can only put it off for so long since Super Tuesday is right around the corner with Trump likely sweeping the lot. Ratings being the mother's milk of nightly television and the veritable jackpot at the end of the rainbow every four years between presidential elections, they would be cutting off their noses to spite their faces if they ignored the contests altogether. It must really gall these left-wing television personalities to have to announce Trump as the winner in any given contest. You can see the disgust in their faces despite the drivel that comes out of their mouths. Sometimes it's subtle. Sometimes, it's not so subtle. I think it's one of those cognitive dissonance deals if I understand it correctly. Now you know why I prefer to watch the results come in on networks that despise Trump. I love to watch them squirm.
One guy who best illustrates what I'm talking about is Chris Cuomo on News Nation. You can see him turning different shades of ashen when confronted with anything that butts up against his utter and maniacal devotion to his political part and the party of his father before him, the great (and probably overrated), Mario Cuomo. This clown, and I'm talking about Chris Cuomo here, can't bring himself to admit that the immigration nightmare on our border was brought about by the policies of Biden and the Democrat Party. If he has an expert on his show to discuss the issue, he'll do his best to lay fault at the feet of both parties in Congress and their unwillingness to solve the problem. If his expert starts to get the better of the argument, and especially if the expert drags Biden's name into the discussion, you can see a palpable shift in Cuomo's comfort level before your very eyes. I love it when he has Bill O'Reilly on because O'Reilly takes him out of his comfort zone with facts that leave Cuomo flat-footed and looking like the cuck that he is. The fact that O'Reilly seems to take some kind of pleasure in undressing Cuomo on his own show adds to the enjoyment I experience while watching the two of them go round and round.
What the hell is President Macron thinking when he says that he's considering sending his fellow countrymen into the fray that is the current and ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia? He's nothing but a pissant of a leader and, in the eyes of the French people, a veritable flaky croissant of a man. No sooner did he make that proclamation than the president of Poland came out and declared that Poland would not be sending any of their soldiers to fight in Ukraine. I gather we're getting down to brass tacks here now that Ukraine is reportedly down to their last box of ammunition and they have but a handful of conscripts left to send to the front lines. It's all looking very grim for Zelensky and his oligarchs. Did I mention that Putin responded with a warning that should non-Ukrainian troops enter the fight in Ukraine that he would go to war with NATO? I've not heard Putin say anything about Sweden becoming a member of NATO, but I'm sure he will have something to say considering the fact that Sweden is on Russia's border and having a potential NATO country on Russia's border is but one of many reasons Russia invaded Ukraine. It also wouldn't surprise me at all were we to wake up one day in October, just days ahead of the November presidential election, to hear Bumbles Biden declare war on Russia. Americans have always rallied around their Commander-in-Chief during times of war. Right? If that's what it takes to beat Trump and save our Democracy in the process, don't put it past the Bidenistas to put our Republic at risk just to save his sorry arse in the November election.
Jesus. These primaries are coming fast and furious these days. Trump beat Birdbrain Haley by some 42 points in Michigan last night. Is it me or did Trump and the Republicans get a shitload more votes than the Democrats? I'm curious how this cycle's primary with Trump compares to past primaries without Trump. Birdbrain got some 26% so she's still got her anti-Trump bandwagon rolling along. I don't have the breakdown of who got how many delegates so that may have to wait until this coming weekend when Michigan holds a caucus. I think that's right anyway. I was watching coverage on CNN around 8:30 when who came on the network but Birdbrain herself? Who does that? I think the polling stations in some sections of Michigan were still open when she came on with Dana Bash. Of course, she was on her usual high horse of Trump can't win and all that sort of bullshit, and I finally just muted her. I could tell by watching the two of these cackling hens that Bash was more than delighted to let Birdbrain spew her usual vitriol about Trump, and she (Bash) couldn't have been more pleased. Talk about Cheshire cats. Have you ever seen a candidate go on a network the night the votes are coming in? It just smacked of desperation and of someone looking for free air time to rail against their political opponent.
I think the judge in the Fanni Willis case has all he needs to make a decision as to whether or not she and her lover, Wade, get disqualified in the Trump RICO case. He held a hearing yesterday, and the defense had Wade's divorce attorney on the stand for the better part of three hours. Let's just say he didn't do either himself or the Willis/Wade case any favors. They finally got him to admit in so many words that he was well aware of the fact that the relationship between Wade and Willis predated her assigning him to the Trump case. In other words, she (Willis) paid her lover (Wade) to take the case and then accepted kickbacks from him in the form of dinners, vacations, etc. I thought I heard the judge say something about having the defense give their final arguments this coming Friday without entering into evidence recent revelations about extensive phone records between Wade and Willis that further prove that their relationship predated his assignment to the case. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. Today's testimony does not square with the testimony already provided by Wade and Willis. Let's call a spade a spade, They perjured themselves. There, I said it.
I don't know Wendy Willaims from The Man on the Moon. I wasn't inclined one way or another to watch the four-episode reality show documenting her trials and travails with what appears to be some form of alcohol-induced dementia. Maybe the missus insisted that I watch it with her. Or, maybe she wanted to see it, and I was just along for the ride. Ms. Williams also suffers from a condition that makes her eyes bulge out which is separate and apart from her dementia issues. I kept asking myself why someone thought it was a good idea to film this woman in her condition. I don't think she had the wherewithal to know enough about her declining health to realize that what she had agreed to was both sad and exploitative. The filmmakers admitted that they didn't know enough about her situation, and once they realized what they were dealing with, they ended the production. Most of the people in the documentary were family members or close associates who saw this woman go from being a star on television for the better part of fourteen years to what is essentially in the here and now a shell of her former self. I'll finish the show, and then I'll take a look on YouTube to see what the real Wendy Williams was like. I feel like I owe her that much.
When it rains, it pours. The Supreme Court finally ruled on Trump's case of presidential immunity. Much to the chagrin of the Marxist media and the moonbat rump swabs who follow them day in and day out, the Court agreed to hear the case. They could have kicked it back to the lower courts, but they did not. Keep in mind that Jack Smith, the rogue prosecutor brought in from The Hague by Biden's DOJ to get a conviction against Trump prior to the election, had gone to the Court this past December asking that they fast-track Trump's presidential immunity claim and the Court refused to hear it. Loosely translated, this development is not good news for Jack Smith. It means that none of these cases being brought against Trump will be tried before the November election. The Supremes won't even issue their decision until July. There simply is not sufficient time left on the calendar to get this in front of a judge and jury before everything butts up against the election itself. Did I mention that everything is stayed in the lower courts until the Supremes rule? It was a good day for Trump, and a good day for all God-fearing Americans who believe in the Justice system.
The Left was so hoping that their boy, Jack Smith, would deliver the goods before the election that they have gone on day after day singing his praises in the mainstream media and popping champagne corks in anticipation of seeing Trump convicted and put behind bars. Poll after poll showed Trump losing to Biden in November if convicted of any one or more of the crimes on which he was indicted. Never mind that each and every indictment brought by Smith was flimsier than the last. It's probably important to understand that this guy, Smith, has a very checkered past when it comes to going after politicians. In one case, which ended up in the Supreme Court when they overturned his conviction 9-0, he achieved his goal of taking down the politician by getting a conviction and, in the process, ruined the life and career of a good man. None of this is lost on the Supreme Court. My sense is that they see these cases for what they are: An attempt by a corrupt Biden Administration to take out their political opponent ahead of a presidential election. The Court has now effectively pushed the timelines out to favor Trump and simultaneously send a message to Biden's Justice Department that the gig is up. They know election interference when they see it, and they are not standing by and letting any of it go unchecked. Suck on that, Jack Smith.
What the hell is going on with Bitcoin? I don't know crypto from crapto so I'll just put that out there. I remember starting to notice when it was trading in the sixty-thousand dollar range give or take. It made me wish that I had gotten in on the crypto craze when it was trading in the thousands back in 2010 or thereabouts. Then, it went from sixty thousand down to sixteen thousand before bouncing back to sixty thousand somewhat today. It's a fucking roller coaster is what it is. Of course, I've also heard many a story in the last few years about coin companies going bust, wallets disappearing, and criminals like Bankman-Fried who amass fortunes on the backs of investors and then declare bankruptcy. I'll take my chances with companies that have actual products and reportable earnings. That's not to say that some of those companies don't become high flyers with nosebleed-level multiples. You know what they say. Here today, gone tomorrow. Think Sears and F. W. Woolworths. I'm a sucker for rags-to-riches stories so keep those coming. Where the price of Bitcoin goes now is anyone's guess. Can it go to a million? Sure. Will it go to zero? Probably not.
I'd forgotten that Apple was working on developing their version of an electric vehicle until I read this week that they're getting out of the business. Apparently, they're now transferring resources from the EV team to the Apple Team working on Artificial Intelligence (AI.) I don't think I ever had high hopes one way or another to get behind the wheel of an electric car developed by Apple, but you know what they say. Hope springs eternal. That whole industry seems to be taking it on the chin these days for a variety of reasons. Losing money on each and every EV model sold is simply not a sustainable business model. If it's true that two out of three EV owners typically rent cars when they go on longer trips, that's just fucked up. If I had an electric car, you could count me out when the temperature goes below freezing. Part of me thinks that Apple, with Steve Jobs at the helm, could have pulled this EV venture off. With Tim Cook at the helm, not so much. When was the last time Apple did anything really innovative? I'm sorry, they are just not cutting the mustard. As for their lineup of Dick Tracy watches, I'm just as happy with my $29 watch from Walmart that I never have to charge overnight. It's good to go when I am. Try harder, Apple.
Do you know who also isn't too happy about this latest Supreme Court ruling? You guess it. Birdbrain Haley. She's been hanging around primary in and primary out waiting for Jack Smith to put Trump behind bars so she can step in and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. That may not be the appropriate phrase, but it's close enough. Nobody likes a fucking vulture. I think I heard that she made some inane comment or other in voicing her apparent displeasure at the Court's ruling. It wasn't any different than that coming from the left-wing media that goes something like this: No one is above the law. Now, Birdbrain, what is your rationale for staying in the race? And I have to say this, does Trump look like David in the David versus Goliath drama now that he's slain most if not all of these lawfare dragons that he's faced? Americans love a good come-from-behind story, and if anyone has faced more improbable odds of winning any one or more of the 91 criminal indictments against him without stepping a foot in the courtroom, it's the one, the inimitable, Donald J. Trump.
That rogue mother fucker of a federal prosecutor, Jack Smith, is now looking to fast-track his classified documents/obstruction case against Trump in Eileen Canon's courtroom in Florida. He's desperate to get a conviction in any courtroom between now and Election Day. The Supreme Court took away his DC case against Trump last week, and that case will never go to court between now and election day. I'm hoping that Eileen Canon, a Trump appointee, will avoid a potential circus in her courtroom by denying Smith the chance to prosecute Joe Biden's political opponent, who just happens to be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, just a handful of months out from Election Day. If I'm not mistaken, Smith wants the trial to begin a week before the Republican Party holds its national convention in the July-August timeframe. Here we go again with the fucking election interference bullshit. You should hear the Marxist mainstream media. They've gone from clutching their pearls over the Supreme Court decision to salivating over the prospects of their boy, Jack Smith, getting Trump in front of a judge and jury ahead of the Republican National Convention this summer. Here's my advice: Be careful what you ask for.
I'm looking forward to watching the Willis trial on television today. I hear that they have a wine taster who is willing to testify that Willis paid cash for a tasting that she and her lover, Wade, attended while vacationing in Nappa Valley. Whether the judge allows this witness is another question. Just out of curiosity, what is the point of allowing this testimony? It hardly puts to rest the issue of who paid for what and when as it relates to vacations and dinners Willis and her lover enjoyed while doing what lovers do. The central issue is whether or not Willis hired her lover to manage the Trump RICO case and who benefitted financially (kickbacks) or otherwise from the arrangement. I think we have closing arguments today so that should put a nice big bow on everything that we've seen and heard thus far in the trial. I think the consensus is that both Willis and Wade perjured themselves during the course of the trial. I also think that nobody believes that their relationship began after Willis hired Wade to manage the Trump case. Will one or both be disbarred for perjury? Will the two agree to step down from the case in order to avoid the perjury charges? This is it, boys and girls. This is where the rubber meets the road.
We continue to see stories in the media about this or that illegal alien committing heinous acts against American citizens. The story about that Laken woman being brutally murdered by an illegal alien from Venezuela is just the latest horror show brought to our shores by Bumbling Joe Biden and his malevolent Administration. I see a lot of photos in the media of criminals alleged to have committed crimes, but they rarely tell the whole story. It's almost like there's a complete blackout by the media when it comes to crimes committed by illegal aliens. They just never tell us the country of origin or the immigration status of the alleged perpetrators. It gets worse. Biden, in his first trip to the border since his inauguration in 2021, referred to the illegal aliens as "newcomers." Can you fucking imagine? Trump was also at the border yesterday and rightly referred to them as "illegal aliens." Trump mentioned that he phoned the parents of the Laken woman to give them his condolences on the senseless murder of their beautiful child. Biden never bothered to pick up the phone. If her parents weren't Trump supporters before, they are now. Life's lessons come hard sometimes. You live, and you learn.
I keep waiting for somebody, anybody, to tell the truth about what they see when they get up close and personal with Joe Biden. We all know he's seriously demented, but none of us has any idea of what that looks like since we are, by and large, bystanders in the shit show we know as the Biden Administration. I guess it makes sense that no one in the White House is talking smack about their boss. That could be carreer ending. I guess it also makes sense that no world leader spending any time with Joe Biden is willing to spill the beans on the guy sitting across from him holding his cue cards for fear of not being invited back to the Oval Office. Or, even worse, have their funding cut off. Kevin McCarthy, the prior Republican Speaker of the House commented yesterday that every time he sat down with President Biden, Biden couldn't carry on a conversation without his cue cards. I think his exact words were, "He sticks to the cards." "He would just read from his cards." Is it too much to expect, and this is me speaking, to have a president who can complete a full sentence without having to look at a teleprompter or cue card? The stooge even had a teleprompter when he met with the Border Patrol in Texas yesterday. It's just unbelievable.
One story that seemed to fly under the radar these past couple of days is the story about the Jewish doctor in San Diego who was murdered by a guy named Mohammed. The headline alone is a little concerning. I'm not sure the story, even if you read it in the papers, is going to tell you everything there is to know about what really happened. If I had to draw my own conclusions, I might be tempted to think that this has something to do with Israel's war against the Palestinians in Gaza. I'd be curious to know if this Mohammed fellow is an illegal alien, allowed to enter our country by Joe Biden and given an airline ticket to the American city of his choice and a court date some 5-7 years out. What American Israelis have to be asking themselves is after hearing this story is, assuming they hear it at all, how many more Mohanmmeds are there out there? Another story that caught my eye yesterday was about some country, maybe France, who put money in their national budget to protect Jews in response, I suppose, to increased rates of antisemitism. Imagine what a move like this would do for Biden's support in the Jewish community were he to propose such a thing. Why he has their support, to begin with, aside from the fact that Biden is a Democrat, is a mystery to me.
I listened to the closing arguments in the Willis hearing yesterday. The attorneys representing Trump and his co-defendants were pretty darn good and covered everything from soup to nuts. I was less interested in what the State had to say to counter the arguments laid out by Trump's team but listened to a bit of it anyway. Let me just cut to the chase. The guy representing the State was hard to listen to. He was all over the place and not making a lot of sense in the process. At one point, the missus, who was on the computer just a few feet away from me, turned around and asked me, "Who is this guy"? The judge took exception to any number of his claims and challenged his grasp of the facts on several points. I was thinking to myself if this is the best that this particular office has to offer, it's little wonder that Willis and Wade have gotten themselves in the pickle that they find themselves in. Willis probably ran the office with little to no pushback from anyone who might otherwise offer her constructive feedback on how to best conduct herself in her personal and professional life. She sat at the head table just feet away from the judge wearing a slutty red dress with inch-long fake eyelashes and looking more like a hooker awaiting sentencing than the District Attorney for one of the largest counties in the State of Georgia. How much any of this has to do with what the judge decides at the end of the day is anyone's guess. Does he really need two weeks to render a decision?
What was I hearing yesterday about an appeals court in Washington coming down in favor of the January 6th defendants and slamming Biden's Justice Department for proposing that January 6th defendants receive enhanced sentences for "Interfering with the administration of justice"? In the one case in question, they did affirm the court's finding that the defendant did "obstruct Congress's certification of the electoral count." This latter case is currently under review by the Supreme Court and, if the Supremes disagree with the lower court, we could see many of these sentences reversed. Is it a surprise that any or all of these cases, including the cases against Trump, are falling apart? I also find the timing of these decisions interesting considering the release of even more footage of the January 6th "insurrection" by Speaker Mike Johnson. I heartily agree that those rioters who fought with the Capitol police should be punished as appropriate. Anyone else who was either inside or outside the Capitol building on that day, and who was arrested and charged, should be pardoned. Biden won't pardon them because his Democrat Party was responsible for the January 6th hoax that they continue to perpetuate to this day as the darkest day in the history of our Republic. It's no such thing. Not even close. Only Trump can pardon them now, and that will have to wait until he is inaugurated in January 2025. Unless, of course, the Supremes step in first.
Trump swept the caucuses in Michigan, Missouri, and Idaho last night. I don't know how many delegates he walked away with but I'm guessing if there were one or two stragglers here and there that they must have gone to Birdbrain. Will Trump be the first non-incumbent in the history of the primary/caucus system to win them all? Did I mention that he held two back-to-back rallies yesterday in North Carolina and Virginia? The polls have him losing to Biden in Virginia given Virginia's proximity to Washington DC and all the DC employees who could lose their jobs if Biden loses his. So, why the heck is he holding a rally in Virginia? Does he know something that we don't? Super Tuesday is coming up in a couple of days and I'm looking forward to it if for no other reason than we're going to see a throttling of Birdbrain like we've never seen before. I can't wait to see that concession speech, assuming she drops out after getting shellacked in over 15 states. We'll see if Trump bothers to mention her name in his victory speech. I don't think she deserves a mention, but that's me.