The Durham Report, The Morons Are Out - 5/16/2023

The Durham Report came out yesterday. So did the morons.

Eventually I'll read the Durham Report. I was busy with family stuff yesterday, and when news of its release hit, I was in the middle of a long day of driving. I did get to see social media reaction to it. Holy shit! It brought the morons out!

I did read an excerpt or two. I'll get directly to that, but first, let me point out a couple of things we already knew. Well, many of us did. Those of you who trusted the NY Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC for factual information from 2015 to 2023, well you might not. You were joyfully and willingly duped. You are dupes. Yeah, you are. But a lot of us do know these things. For example, there was a Horowitz Report a couple of years ago. Horowitz was the DOJ's Inspector General. His report said that there was no adequate predicate to open up the investigation the FBI and DOJ called Crossfire Hurricane, which investigated alleged Trump Russia collusion. In other words, there wasn't ample evidence in the first place to initiate the investigation which ultimately led to the Mueller investigation, a political witch hunt designed by the Deep State to thwart the Trump presidency and agenda. Of course, some of you fucking dupes never understood any of that because you hate Trump and get all your news from the massive anti-Trump echo chamber. You were duped and you loved it. All the false allegations were lube for your 6 year anti-Trump circle-jerk.

John  Durham's Report goes two steps further. Two important steps. Now, follow the bouncing ball, dupes. Because where you get your information, you may not get this. Durham's investigation found that not only was there no Trump Russia collusion, but that Trump Russia collusion was a hoax perpetrated by Hillary Clinton and her campaign. Our President, Barack Obama, was briefed on this in July of 2016. Do you get it yet? July of 2016 was the very genesis of the Trump Russia collusion hoax. Hillary Clinton paid operatives to fabricate the hoax. Other circumstantial but never substantial evidence, like Manifort's ties to and contacts with a Russian were touted as "the goods". Adam Schiff swore he'd seen the evidence.

There was no fucking evidence. They knew the whole time that the Trump Russia hoax was perpetrated that it was a Hillary Clinton scheme to steal the presidency. Donald Trump was elected anyway, mostly because Hillary is one of then most detestable personalities on this earth. Trump got into office in January of 2017 and then the Deep State went to work. DOJ, CIA, and FBI leadership who KNEW that Trump Russia collusion was a Hillary Clinton campaign financed fabrication opened the Mueller Investigation. Mueller's investigation, aided by dishonest media and former CIA annd FBI Deep State bad actors cast a cloud over Trump, and had a huge impact on the 2018 Mid-Term elections.

What was done from 2016-2019 by Deep State and US Government bad actors and their accomplices in the media, was a thousand times worse than Watergate. You read that right. It was way worse than Watergate, not even close. Our entire national criminal justice and intelligence apparatus was weaponized to undermine and neutralize the sitting President of the United States. If this was Watergate, Hillary Clinton and Marc Elias would have been investigated in 2017 to 2019, not Trump. Instead, the weaponized US agencies used what it knew was a hoax to neutralize a President they despised.

The same Deep State bad actors were still fucking Trump over with their lies when 51 of the lying pieces of shit signed the famous "hallmarks of Russian disinformation" letter regarding the Hunter Biden laptop, which cost Trump the 2020 election. Yes, I realize Trump made plenty of missteps himself, but polling showed that if the true story about the laptop had been known in October and November of 2020, enough voeters would have been influenced that Trump would have won.

The morons. I forgot to mention the morons. May I mention the morons? The fucking morons are out. And they cite, again and again, the same phony evidence we already know was made up by Hillary or which was totally circumstantial in nature as proof of Trump-Russia collusion still. The morons can't be talked to, either. They "know". What the fuck do they know? They know the lies they were told and are deep in moron denial.

The most deeply disturbing part of all this treasonous, seditious type activity is that nobody will go to jail for it. Hillary Clinton will remain free. Obama, Biden, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, and Mueller's team of political operatives and hit men will remain free. Where are the handcuffs? Some people need to be in jail. Unfortunately, our government is so far gone, so deeply corrupted and owned by the Deep State, that will simply not happen. Nobody will be punished. Nobody will be held accountable. Nobody will be made to account for their crimes. The Durham report apparently doesn't recommend arrests or prosecutions. That is some weak sauce, Mr. Durham. Weak sauce indeed.

I feel better, but not much better.

People Are Not Illegal? - 5/13/2023

Calling them "illegal aliens"? is somehow offensive. A common retort these days is the defiant: "People are not illegal!"

When the come here illegally, what are they then, lady?

If a person robs a bank, are they not called a "bank robber"?

If a person steals a car, are they not called a "car thief"?

If a person rapes someone, are they not called a "rapist"?

If a person cheats on their taxes, are they not called a "tax cheat"?

If a person enters property they're not supposed to, are they not called a "trespasser"?

But somehow, foreign nationals, aka aliens, who cross our border and enter the US illegally, can't be called "illegal aliens"?

How fucking stupid do they think we are?

My Issues With Wokism - 5/12/2023

There was a time when the word "woke" was used differently. I'm not referring to usage as in, "I woke up at 7:15 to get ready for work," which would seem to be the traditional, textbook use of 'woke'. What I'm referring to came about in the 60's or 70's, I guess, around the time of, or soon after Civil Rights legislation of the mid-60's was put into effect. At that time, 'woke' was used, mostly by Black people, to express that they were aware what racism and prejudice are, and they weren't any longer going to look the other way when they see it and recognize it. When someone at that time said they were woke, what they were saying is that they were going to call a spade a spade (no racial pejorative intended or alluded to in the use of that cliche to describe what can also be described as 'calling it like I see it'). That's where woke entered into the conversation in a different context than getting up for work.

Today, 'woke' has taken on a much broader context. It starts with another phrase today: 'intersectionality'. This right of center opinion writer's take on intersectionality is that it refers to a collective alliance between diverse groups with leftward leanings on many issues. And before I delve into that, I'll start by pointing out that 'woke' is now used by anyone who's aligned and actively willing to speak out on all, some, or any of the issues of the left. Within the intersectionality concept there's a "Three Musketeers" kind of 'one for all and all for one' thing going on. What makes me, as a right of center guy, most uncomfortable with 'woke' as used in this intersectional context, is that for each and every one of the issues, the drivers and agenda pushers are at the left edge of the spectrum, the activists, not just left leaners. It seems the further from the center, the louder and more assertive the voices become. The far right has the same thing going on, but we don't have the same kind of nearly formal multi-issue alliance the left has built on the intersectionality foundation.

So for me, 'woke' has become a pejorative. It's a circle-jerk of the furthest left activism on a whole range of issues. It's wrong for me to characterize the whole of the left by its extreme parts? Blame intersectionality and the chorus of the loudest voices on the left that dominate what little dialogue there is out there. The right does the same thing you say? Well, maybe so. I'll take one issue as an example. January 6th. I have from the beginning BEFORE January 6, 2021 that holding a demonstration or protest on that day was one of those 'nothing good can come from it' deals. The protest ought to have been on the 3rd, 4th, or 5th, NOT on the day the Electoral College was set to vote. That being said, I had, and continue to have, my own concerns about the conduct of the 2020 Presidential Election. Recent revelations about the CIA's meddling have only strengthened my doubts. Many of the protesters in D.C. have similar concerns. We are not all insurrectionists. They were not all insurrectionists. Far from it. But that is the portrayal and that is the narrative used by nearly the entirety of the left when it comes to January 6th. The whole of the right lumped in with the extreme of the right (and a whole lot of US Government agitators and undercover entrappers).

I think the difference between the right and the left is the intersectional alliance on the left. It kind of reminds me of some of the worst aspects of a unionized workforce. While the union is for the good of the overall workforce, sometimes the tactics make members uncomfortable. "Our representation said what?" But, by and large the membership says nothing, because the collective is it's strength for the individual, and it's better to look the other way sometimes, because the same people are bringing better working conditions, wages, and benefits to the group. So what if we all agree the employee was in the wrong and deserved to be fired? If me or any other members get sideways with the company, won't we want to same fighters in our corner? You bet we will. So while the woke people are pushing for something stupid like allowing biological men who identify as women to destroy women's sports and undermine real women, the rest of the left is silent and complacent. After all, their pet issue requires the same unity. What's funny is how aghast they seem to be when the regular people who aren't activist and aren't woke at once and in unison say, "What the fuck?" I'm thinking Bud Lite and Dylan Mulvaney, for example. How could they have not seen the backlash coming? I mean, really.

One last thought about wokeness. There seems to me to be an unspoken other side of the coin. "We are woke. We are enlightened. We are educated. We understand. We have the answers." I'm not woke. That leaves me asleep, unenlightened, uneducated, lacking understanding, and without legitimate answers. Woke is at once a claim to the territory of logical thought and righteousness, and at the same time a dismissal of dissenting persons and their opinions. It is a sidestep of dialogue and debate. Because we're uninformed, misinformed, and unenlightened, ya know. Well, I'm not going to be dismissed that simply and easily. They may be woke, but I'm not sleepwalking through life. I have my eyes wide open.

Hump Day Quick Hitters - 5/10/2023

Happy hump day! I don't work, so it's more your hump day than mine. Here are some quick hitters for hump day, May 10th:

1. Title 42 is ending at midnight tomorrow night. The whole thing is a tragic failure from almost every perspective. First of all, Title 42 shouldn't have a damned thing to do with what's going on at the border. If our elected government in Washington did its job, immigration would be reformed. We'd have near total control of our border, and an ample number of well vetted, able bodied immigrants coming in to grow our economy. But, no. We have a clusterfuck of the highest magnitude. Our government is a joke and immigration reform, lack thereof, is its single biggest failure. Remember when President Biden put Vice President Harris in charge of the border? She sure seems to be steering clear of it altogether these days. Immigration is a turd. You know what's the problem with a turd? A turd has no clean end from which to pick it up. So nobody will touch it. Trump tried, but he was thwarted at every turn and called every name in the book for doing so.

2. Speaking of Trump, he's an asshole. That's a given. While I don't think it is possible for him to get a fair shake in a court of law in many jurisdictions in our country nowadays, I do think he brought a lot of the problem upon himself with his big mouth. I don't believe Ms. Carroll, not at all. Trump is still an asshole, but I believe Ms. Carroll is a liar. The case reminds me very much of the Justice Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings a few years ago. Eerily.

3. Tucker Carlson is taking his show to Twitter. I like Carlson. He was the only one on FoxNews I would watch, and even that was rarely. Lefties in media are beside themselves that Elon Musk will allow Carlson to have a platform. Because lefties in the media simply don't care about free speech. They care about propagandizing, that's all.

4. The CIA and FBI meddled in the 2020 election. Through their actions, Trump was defeated. Lefties completely ignore what was done. The things that were done to Trump, starting in 2016, through his presidency, in 2020, and to this day, are a disgusting display of abuse of power by the deep state. If this stuff had been done and was being done to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, of Joe Biden, the same people who think this is all good would have been rioting in the streets. Does this sound like you? You know it does. You know who you are. Fuck you.

5. Most of the "Trump only" people on Twitter I come across are fucking morons and assholes. I like DeSantis better. That's my right. Trump has too much baggage. He will be even more ineffective and even older in 2025-2029. Time for a new face.

Monday Morning Quick Hitters - 5/1/2023

I haven't done quick hitters in a while. A couple of things that struck me and spurred my thoughts as I looked at the newspapers and social media this morning with my coffee:

1. President Joe Biden is not very good as our Chief Executive. Nowhere is this more evident in our country than his border and immigration policy. On a scale of 1-10, where 1 equals zero immigrants and 100% deportation of illegals, and 10 equals open borders and totally mismanaged immigration policy, Joe is a solid 9. It could be worse, a 10, but I think one would have to be fairly imaginative to decide how to make it worse. Personally, I run at about a 3 or 4. I believe in legal immigration, and I believe a number of immigrants can and should be real asylum seekers. I don't support absolute deportation of all illegal immigrants, but a bunch ought to be sent back where they came from. Im migration is our biggest national embarrassment.

Mediocre? Not even.

2. Speaking of illegal immigrants, an illegal immigrant shoots 5 people in Texas. The media refers to him as a "Mexican national". The guy has been deported in the past, perhaps multiple times. And heaven forbid he be labeled an illegal immigrant. Heavens, no! Democrat influencers on Twitter blame the NRA. You can't make this shit up.

If your newspaper referred to this guy as a "Mexican national" you need a new newspaper.

3. Trump influencers, surrogates, and supporters on Twitter are attacking Ron DeSantis from every quarter for every absurd reason they can conjure up. All I can say is that these people saying this stuff aren't serious people, and they shouldn't be taken seriously. Plus, they're going to hand Joe Biden a second term.

4. That's because Governor DeSantis' chances to beat President Biden in 2024 are better than Donald Trump's are. That's why Democrats and the media are fanning the anti-DeSantis nonsense being spread about by the aforementioned Trump people.

5. Mother's Day is coming up. Mothers are adult females. They are women. Yes, they have an uterus. Yes, they give birth. If you're afraid to call them "women" or "mothers" because some infinitesimally small number of trans-women are jealous of what real women really are, and these trans-women will feel bad because they're not that, get a grip. Find a way to support trans-women by NOT pulling the rug out from under real women, who have spent the better part of 200 years fighting for equal rights. Happy Mother's Day ain't that hard to say, and it isn't offensive except to some really troubled people who need help.

"Happy Mother's Day!" GTFOOH!

6. Not a single person, not one, has every explained to me what Donald Trump's path to victory is in 2024. He will lose the same way he did in 2020. He has done and is doing exactly nothing to widen his base and court independents and moderates who turned against him.

7. Abortion is a bigger issue for the 2024 electorate than many on the right are willing to admit or accept. It just is. Ignore that fact at your own peril. Like immigration, there is a reasonable place smewhere in the middle. The absolutes of both the left and right, on both of these important issues, are self-destructive. Many in the middle of the opinion spectrum, on both immigration and abortion issues, are afraid of the respective extremes and won't speak up. I'm speaking up.

Have a great day, friends. Those are my quick hitters for May 1, 2023.