Observations From the Weekend - 8/26/2024

Afterward I'll tie the two together, but before I get to the invisible and 'retired on active duty' President currently in office, Joe Biden, I want to comment on an exchange I saw between Jonathan Karl of ABC and Republican Senator Tom Cotten yesterday. Interestingly, depending what news outlet you learn about the exchange on, if you don't watch it for yourself you could come away with a highly inaccurate description of same. I watched it.

Sen. Tom Cotten was on ABC's This Week with Harris propagandist Jonathan Karl yesterday.

Cotton pointed out a series of policy proposals Vice President Harris made as a Senator and as a Presidential candidate in the 2020 race. One of those was a call for the abolishment of private health insurance in favor of Medicare for all. Karl rebutted Cotten's assertion, saying Harris has changed her position on the issue within the context of this 2024 Presidential campaign, to which Cotten responded, correctly, 'no she hasn't'. Karl was insistent and Cotten said (paraphrasing) 'leaks or whispers by aides, lacking a clear statement from Harris herself, is NOT a change in her position on the issue' (or any other issue!).

What we have is a stealth candidate who speaks in slogans, clichés, and generalities. She doesn't give policy proposals, offering instead generalities and a complete and an intentional lack of specificity. Democrat voters are OK with that. They know she's far, far left. Far, far, far left. That's ok, because most of my Democrat friends pretend to be fairly moderate, but when push comes to shove, they're onboard with the far left agenda. They're fine with aides whispering and Harris remaining silent because they don't really care, and they know the aides are far lefties like them, so cool, let the unnamed, anonymous aides run the country. They really don't care at all to find out if this woman can do the job, because they're voting for the same cabal who are running the country now, just to keep on keeping on as they do with an incapacitated President laying on the beech, hiding from his duties.

Our figurehead in chief.

So, that's brung me to my second point. I saw a post on X by Miranda Devine yesterday, that President (in name only, he's only a figurehead now) Biden was leaving his vacation in California, which started immediately after his speech at the DNC Convention last Monday, for 9 more vacation days, this time at the beach in Delaware. Our president is absent. Yes, he's absent minded, but that's NOT what I'm referring to. What I'm referring to is his schedule and work. We already knew he was on a much reduced workday, remember the 10-4 leak? I contend he is barely working at all at this point. It would be interesting to know how many actual work days he has spent in the Oval Office since his dementia was exposed to the willfully blind on June 27th. That was two months ago, and I betcha he hasn't been in the office 10 times. I'm being generous, very, very generous, by saying 10.

Who the fuck is really in charge? And why in the hell are my Democrat friends okay with Harris not talking, and Biden not working? What the fuck is wrong with them?

There is an unnamed and unelected cabal running the United States right now. Our President is just a White House resident, but behind the scenes he's powerless and useless. The cabal who run the show now have installed, absolutely and totally undemocratically, but to the joy of Democrats, Kamala Harris, the sitting Vice President, as his heir. She doesn't talk to the press in any meaningful way. I heard at least two Democrat strategists this past weekend on Democrat propaganda TV networks advocate that she NOT talk policy and proposals, as doing so might reduce her chances in November. That was kind of shocking to me, they said the quiet part out loud. But I do agree, if she spoke of her policy proposals, some of them would be so bad, even lefties might be shocked, but more importantly, her inability to explain her proposals substantively in the face of even friendly scrutiny would expose her incompetence and lack of fitness for the job.

Fitness for the job? Okay, I admit it. They don't care at all about that. They trust the unelected cabal. They want the unelected cabal to remain in power. As long as they continue to choose to get their news from ABC and the likes of Jonathan Karl, and from MSNBC and the likes of Morning Joe ("This is the BEST Joe Biden EVER!") there is NO CHANCE at all they will think for themselves and look critically at the shambled Biden Presidency and virtual Harris candidacy. Kamala Harris' lack of specific policies allows them to fantasize about every and any lefty wish list items and presume Saint Kamala and the invisible gods she serves will surely deliver them: the whole kit and caboodle.

On the plus side, after pulling the plug on Joe and installing Kamala without any votes, they're done with the "threat to democracy" nonsense. At least the Orange Man is still bad!

The Robert Kennedy Jr. Announcement - 8/24/2024

I don't shock easily. I've seen a lot since I became interested in politics since the early 1990's. Before that I didn't pay too much attention. I had voted, but I was preoccupied with day to day life. Rush Limbaugh, RIP, is largely responsible for changing that. I started listening to him, and as a follow on to other conservative talk shows, That was in the 1990 time frame. As I said, I've seen a lot, but I ain't never seen no shit like the shit we got going on now!

Yesterday, RFK Jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump.

Yesterday I saw something the likes of which I don't remember. A member of one of the most iconic Democratic Party families of the 1900's, Robert Kennedy Jr. yesterday gave a speech I found more compelling and powerful than anything I remember hearing since I first got interested in politics. I'll simply refer to him as RFKJ for simplicity sake.

I had no idea how unscrupulous the Democratic Party had been in fucking RFKJ over. They did everything they could to screw him and insure installing senile puppet Joe Biden as nominee. There was no democratic process. They took to the courts to thwart his candidacy at every turn. There is and was nothing righteous or good about what they did. It was pure power politics being used to crush opposition and dissent. When they weren't in he courts to thwart him, they were colluding with social media to silence him. The Democrats showed themselves to be the evil, ruthless, power hungry monsters with RFKJ that we already knew they are with how they treated Trump.

Keith Olbermann, via X: "To my old friend Robert Kennedy Jr: you're a fucking anti-American disaster."

Lemme tell you what's anti-American, Keith, you prick:

Spying on the political opposition, using every tool the U.S. governmental intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses have at their disposal to undermine and thwart his candidacy and the execution of his Presidency.

Cheating on elections is un-democratic and un-American.

Bogus impeachments, bulldozing attorney client and executive privilege to destroy your political opposition is un-American.

51 Intelligence and law enforcers of the U.S. Government brazenly lying about a laptop they feared would hinder the election of their favored candidate. Their jointly signed letter had all the hallmarks of anti-American treason.

Knowing the Iranians were and are plotting to assassinate an ex-President and presumed Presidential nominee of the opposition party and having absolutely lax security, to the point of either criminal negligence or something much worse. I fear it was something worse.

Using extreme partisan prosecutors, judges, and juries to try to bankrupt and jail the opposition party candidate during the election year.

Covering up the fact that the President of the United States has advanced and advancing dementia in the interest of retaining power. He is barely function, a puppet in every way. Who is the puppeteer in charge? Some un-elected oligarch, that's who.

Suing and challenging any and every effort by a prominently named Democrat who sought the nomination through legitimate democratic processes is anti-American.

Removing the failing President from the race, not because of his dementia, but because they were afraid he would lose. In doing so, the votes of almost 15,000,000 Democrats were invalidated without their consent. It was un-democratic and un-American.

Installing an incompetent and under-qualified Vice President as nominee without giving voters a voice is undemocratic and un-American, too. She got zero votes as President. Zero. She gave no press conferences. She participated in no debates. She gave no in depth television or other interviews. She has no stated policies of her own. What has she got? Just "joy". Well, not just joy. She also has the full power of the corrupt Washington and DNC machine doing its best to stay in power by installing her as their new puppet.

Keith Olbermann can fuck all the way off with his use of anti-American. I know what anti-American is. I've been watching it play out day after day after day in this country for over 8 years.

RFKJ is a hero. At a point in time and history when almost anyone else would have waved a white flag of surrender, he instead waved a middle finger of defiance. In retaliation, I fully anticipate the evil powers in D.C. will come at him legally, and an assassination attempt will not surprise me. We are dealing with absolutely evil people here. 

I also expect another attempt will be made to kill Donald Trump. Sadly, my Democratic Party friends and neighbors SUPPORT these efforts to quash RFKJ and Trump. Yeah, you do. You might not admit it, but you do. You haven't, won't, and don't speak out against obvious corruption and malfeasance, and you will vote to keep a corrupt, evil machine in power. Your silence is a full-throated and absolute endorsement.

I'm linking RFKJ's speech here. It is worth watching.

RFKJ Withdrawal and Endorsement

 

The Gay Wedding Ring Thing - 8/22/2024

Michigan Attorney General, Dana Nessel, at the DNC Convention: “They are going to have to pry this wedding ring from my cold dead gay hands.”

Michigan A.G. Dana Nessel

Spoiler: I don't think the GOP cares who she married, and nobody is making an issue of it except Dana herself.

Rant: I am sick and tired of being portrayed, because I'm conservative, as some kind of bigot. I'm fucking tired of it. "Racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, zenophobe," you know the list, the infamous Hillary list. I can't prove I'm not any of those things, including that I'm not an anti-gay bigot.

Here's the rub: I don't have to prove to Dana, to you, or to anyone else that I'm not an anti-gay bigot. If you suspect I'm an anti-gay bigot because I will vote for Trump or for any other reason, you have two choices: first, you can come to me as a friend and express your concerns about what you perceive to be my bigotry. Tell me what I've said or done that makes you think I am. But there is one condition if you're choosing option one. You have to be open minded and listen to my response to your concern. Or, if you think because I'm conservative and Republican I'm an anti-gay bigot, but you DON'T want to talk to me about your concerns, there's always option two. Option two is a lot simpler: go fuck yourself and stay the fuck out of my life, because you are an evil, judgemental piece of shit.

I'm sick of liberal Democrats making these kinds of blanket accusations and judgements. Look, Dana... I don't know why you think anyone wants to pry your wedding ring off. Until now, I didn't even know who you are. Now I do. You're an asshole liar, and in your zeal to see a Democrat elected you are making your obsession with your own sexuality somehow a national issue when the truth is nobody cares. And to do this you take the liberty of painting me and a lot of people like me as anti-gay bigots. Dana, you go straight to option two, because even though I really don't care who you sleep with go fuck yourself.

DNC Convention Ironies - 8/21/2024

While the DNC Convention goes on inside the United Center, speakers, notably Joe Biden, retell ad infinitum the "good people on both sides" hoax. I don't need to, nor shall I re-litigate the hoax here. If you are a Democrat and have been stupid enough not to look beyond your favorite echo chamber's reporting, nothing I can say here will help you. Let me point out the irony... Just outside the United Center are a bunch of racist, anti-Semitic Jew hating Democrats, who would more quickly participate in a second holocaust than to admit the Charlottesville "good people" thing was a hoax. (I'm betting they don't accept that "Russia collusion" was a Clinton funded hoax, either. Why? Because they're sheep who don't think for themselves. Just very stupid, very hateful, very anti-Semitic, obedient people.)

I wonder how many "good people on both sides" hoaxters there are amongst the DNC anti-emites.

The other irony is that Vice President Harris has to run against the Biden / Harris economic record. It's damned near impossible, seeing as she's the Harris in Biden / Harris. They need to separate her from their record. Just today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics corrected the Biden Administration's job creation numbers downward by 800,000+ jobs. This is the largest correction in 15 years. It's not great news. It doesn't bode well for Harris and commie lover and valor stealer Walz to run on the economy. Just like being the border czar who purportedly had nothing to do with the border, she's the Vice President who also had nothing to do with the Administrations economic record. Do you know what they'll do?

They'll ignore her record, placate and pander to the anti-Semites, and run against racist Trump on the basis of the "good people on both sides" hoax. The irony in it will be lost on them just as easily as they've lost touch with the truth.

Election Law Changes I Could Support - 8/20/2024-2

I recognize the U.S. Constitution may make some of the following impossible, but if the law allowed and I could have my whole wish list, here are some things I would wish for:

1. Establish a national voter registration system, where each voter has a unique ID (maybe tied to SSM) which somehow would flag as ineligible voters who try to register in more than one state or jurisdiction.

2. Proof of U.S. citizenship required to register to vote, each voter issued a National Photo Voter ID with their voter ID number at no charge to the voter.

3. National Voter PHOTO ID required to vote. National Voter ID automatically deactivated upon report of death to the Social Security Administration.

4. A requirement that every state, territory, and Washington D.C. will clean voter rolls every 4 years in the 6-12 months prior to US general election to be completed NO LATER THAN Primary Election voting beginning.

5. Automatic loss of voting privileges for 5 or more years to person or persons convicted of voter fraud, depending on the magnitude of the infraction, as little as 5 years, to loss for life for major election fraudsters.

5. Automatic permanent and swift deportation for foreign nationals convicted of voting where ineligible.

6. Make Election Day an national holiday.

7. Require all mail in ballots to be postmarked no less than 5 full business days before Election Day and to be received no later than poll closure on Election Day. All late received votes, except for those cast by U.S. Diplomat and Military people stationed abroad, shall be considered invalid.

8. Require early voting availability in all states and territories for exactly two weeks, ending on the Sunday immediately preceding Election Day.

9. Early voting and absentee/mail in ballots received by the Sunday immediately preceding Election Day to be counted prior to 6 p.m. on Monday, Election Day eve.

10. No open primaries. To vote in a party's Primary Election, one must be registered as a member of the party.

11. Expand Motor Voter to include easy or automatic registration for every new employment W-4 form completion, military enlistment, Selective Service Draft registration,  property tax payment, passport application, and for Social Security number, Social Security Benefit, and Medicare signup applications. Make it harder to NOT register than to register.

One person, one vote. There's no excuse for us not making our elections more secure.

I Admit, It's Dumb, and It's Genius - 8/20/2024

I saw a post on X this morning that got my attention. Somebody took the tie to count out how many times "Trump" was mentioned, verses some other topics. Here's the tally of mentions (if it's not accurate, my point stands):

Trump:        147

Economy:    27

Border:         8

Crime:          6

Prices:          5

Inflaton:       3

What do I make of it? Simply this: they aren't even going to try to make a case for their leftist, progressive agenda. Not even going to try. Why should they? For them, way easier to run against the evil, mean bastard that is Trump to so many, than to make a case for the intersectional far left, progressive potpourris which defeating Trump will usher in.

Making the election about Trump minimizes the inconvenience of having to explain policy positions.

Forget about how Vice President Harris was installed as nominee. Forget about how much of an empty suit she comes off as every time she tries to articulate anything. Forget how badly she fucked up the only thing she was in charge of as Vice President, the border, which for me is the single biggest issue facing our country. None of that matters to them at all. None. And how me and other conservatives might feel about them matters least of all.

"Let's run against Trump, first, second, last, and foremost. Let's keep to the absolute bare minimum any and all substantive discourse on issues. These can only hurt us, especially with this bad a spokesperson. Instead, bang the Trump drum, morning, noon, night, even in our dreams. That's the ticket!"

Harris: "Hi, my name is NOT Donald Trump!" Crowd: "Hip hip, hooray!!!!"

We're fucked.

 

DNC Convention Week is Upon Us - 8/18/2024

Before I get into the upcoming DNC Convention, I want to address an egregiously bad remark this week by Donald Trump. The former President referred to the Medal of Freedom as being equivalent or better then the Medal of Honor. I don't know about you, but for me this kind of misstatement epitomizes the Trump unforced error. Mr. President, maybe sometimes you can not oversell and hyper-aggrandize every goddamned thing that you happen to have had anything to do with. Your comment was wrong, and an insult to brave Americans who gave all. You owe them an apology, at a minimum. Candidly, Mr. President, sometimes, too often actually, you talk TOO fucking much. This was "sometimes". Carnival barking like this that throws shade at the MOH is unacceptable. You're lucky your opponent is a socialist, damned near a communist, or your chances would have taken even a bigger hit. Sometimes just STFU.

The Medal of Honor stands alone in prestige, second to none.

OK, I feel better now.

You never thought they'd go this far left? Ladies and gentlemen, meet Harris/Walz, your Progressive, Socialist, Leftist, Democrat wannabe commie ticket.

It's DNC week. I have questions:

Who was it that thought Planned Parenthood doing free vasectomies and medicinal abortions for the Democratic National Convention was a good idea? Maybe these things are always free and someone is just using them to tar and feather the DNC.

I've seen stories about massive Palestinian (aka anti-Semitic) protests this week in Chicago. I assume the same Jew haters who wouldn't have Governor Shapiro as the VP pick are pretty sympathetic. I don't know by how much, but to some degree there will be disruptions. How is that going to play out? It could be a full on circus. I think I'll pick up some Cracker Jacks, it ought to be a fun week.

The Democrats running the thing know it will be wild, too. They're putting fences and snowplows as barricades to keep out the unruly. I find the fact they're building a wall around their convention a bit amusing to say the least. Do they realize the irony in it?

Maybe Democrats will come away with a platform. I'm thinking: "Abortion and some other stuff." I won't watch enough of it, but I'm wondering how many different euphemisms for abortion are used this week. Which ones are used the most, and who gets the award for most creative abortion euphemism?

Of all the stuff I've heard speculated, I don't think there's any chance at all that Harris is swapped out, nor Walz. It's not going to happen.

This is Kamala Harris' moment. Will Jussie Smollett get to make the speech to introduce her? I can't wait to hear her talk in broad generalities and say nothing of substance. She at once has to address people's dissatisfaction with illegal immigration, the economy, and direction of our country, and somehow sidestep the reality that she is the incumbent Vice President of the United States. She was the goddamned border czar, quit lying about it. No, it wasn't a formal title, you dumbasses. It was a manner of speaking, but regardless: the immigration catastrophe is her's to own. She ain't selling change, friends. If anything, she'll take us further in wrong directions.

Speaking of wrong. On the one hand, the way Vice President Harris' candidacy came to pass is shocking, but not nearly so much as how compliant all my Democrat friends have been with having such an awful candidate shoved up your asses without your votes or consent. She is by far the furthest left candidate, and paired with Tim Walz, this is the furthest leftist ticket ever in U.S. history. But, hey: "Yay abortions, boo Trump, fuck the Jews." You're sheep. America hating sheep.

In case you haven't figured it out by now, to me the party is the party of abortion, hatred, and a whole shitload of really bad economic and social ideas. I'll be watching this week. I hope I'm surprised with some pragmatic, sensible proposals for our country. I'm not optimistic.