Arriverderci Facebook - 6/20/2025

Bye bye, Facebook, at least for a while this summer. After that, who knows?

I deactivated my Facebook account Tuesday. I will make the explanation as short and to the point as possible. Here goes.

1) Because I've lost too many friends because I expressed my political point of view on there. People I used to care about have extricated themselves from my life. I mourn their departure, but at the same time have a sense that it's good riddance. I care about my country and my countrymen, so because my opinion differs from theirs, they've abandoned me. In a very small number of cases, it is I who abandoned them, but in each specific instance, it was their arrogance and insult that inspired me to sever our Facebook connection. I was stupid, uneducated, a racist, etc. If that's what they think of me, I don't need them in my life, anyway.

2) As the situation in our country continues to evolve, devolve is probably more like it, I find myself becoming intolerant of dissenting voices even absent of insult. The insults are still there, mind you, but no longer a prerequisite to my intolerance. At the same time I find continuing to express myself futile and counterproductive. I just do. More than anything, though, as much as people's intolerance toward me and my views as I described in the preceding paragraph has hurt me, those feelings serve to makes me uncomfortable with my own, similar feelings toward others. It just ain't worth it.

I decided to sit Facebook out for a while. I'll reassess later this summer. We'll see. For now, I'll concentrate on family, taking care of stuff at home, reading lots of books, and continuing my Italian Lessons. 

Arriverderci Facebook. 

The "No Kings" Assassin, a Turning Point for Me - 6/15/2025

The "No Kings" Assassin is a Tim Walz political appointee in Minnesota.

You read that right. The "No Kings" assassin is a Tim Walz political appointee. I've seen attempts to turn him into a Trump supporter or MAGA dude, but he's not.

Before I ramble on, my condolences to the family of Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and wishing a full recovery to Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, who were also shot by the No Kings assassin. We should not overlook the tragedy the No Kings assassin has brought to the lives of the Hortman's and Hoffman's family and friends.

Vance Luther Boelter is the "No Kings" assassin. His motive remains unclear. My hunch, just a hunch, is that he was involved in some kind of corruption and was at risk of being caught. I read this morning that his wife and two family members were stopped by police in Minnesota with money, passports, and guns, likely making a run for it to Canada. Was she in on something? Who knows? But running off to Canada sure don't seem all innocent and pure like windblown snow kinda stuff to do.

I find it ironic that on a day when an assassin with No Kings flyers in his vehicle kills a politician and her husband, and attempts same with another, that liberals across America, in the same No Kings protests against Trump, carried guillotine posters, severed Trump heads, posted posters with the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the crosshairs, and carried abundant 86 47 signs, which at this point can't be denied: are all allusions to assassinating the President and now the Vice President. By the way, Tim Walz, who appointed the No Kings assassin, has called publicly for bullying Trump and Trump supporters like me. Condemnations from my so-called friends on the left? Crickets.

Yesterday was a bit of a turning point for me, on a personal level. I have pretended that my friends from the left, I should say former friends, thinking about the ones who have abandoned me and our friendship, are decent, good people who simply disagree. I have deluded myself into thinking we are still friends. I am sad to report, I have given up that thinking. Some will notice I am giving up on them and may act like it's me, but with very few exceptions, they have cut me off and out of their lives long ago, probably with spoken or unspoken "good riddance."

I am done with people who hate Trump more than they love or like me. I am done with people who hate Trump more than they love our country, our flag, and our Army. I am done with people stupid enough to continue to think that the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest of the leftist establishment propagandist media are impartial deliverers of fair and unbiased content. I am especially done with people who drink in their "facts" from these sources who think I'm the one with a closed mind. And, more than anything, I am sick and tired of far-leftists who pretend to be moderate and reasonable. One of the worst symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome is the afflicted not recognizing that indeed they have it.

I do NOT think Donald Trump is perfect. Far from it. I do not think Trump has pitched a perfect game since his return to office. Far from it. But I will be goddamned if I'm going to sign on to the leftist, socialist, social justice insanity that the left poses as an alternative.

A reprise from earlier in this piece, but I want to say it directly and clearly: If you have cut me out of your life because of my politics, go fuck yourself. You were a phony friend and you are an asshole. Be out of my life. You are gone from it by your own choice, so stay gone from it. It is as you wish. Live your own life of media leftist propagandized lies and delusion. I will be just fine without having you in mine. 

20,000,000 or More is a Problem. My Proposal - 6/12/2025

20 Million or more illegal aliens is a problem. For starters, IDGAF if the protesters or illegal immigrants are black, brown, yellow, red, or white. I have no problem with diversity. If you think that my opinion on immigration is shaped by some innate or inherent racism, I will never convince you otherwise. So, fuck it, think whatever you want.

I vehemently oppose all the nonsense going on to oppose ICE. Democrats have screwed the country with immigration insanity, especially since Trump took office the first time. But, finger-pointing and blame aside, I'm here today to propose a solution to the problem. If you don't think there's a problem, stop reading here and now. You're too indoctrinated and biased or too plain stupid to gain even a morsel of understanding, so please, stop reading here.

1) A Constitutional Amendment that eliminates all illegal aliens from being counted in the U.S. Census. This means congressional and electoral apportionment are calculated ONLY on the basis of the number of legal residents, whether legal alien or U.S. Citizen.

2) The same Constitutional Amendment to restrict or repeal aspects of birthright citizenship to children born to a parent or parents either are U.S. citizens, or who have PERMANENT LEGAL residence in the USA. This would exclude children of either illegal aliens or persons here on temporary work or tourism visas.

3) The so-called Big Beautiful Bill will tax remittances by 3.5%. This is not high enough. A remittance tax of 15% is good. 20% is even better. How about 3.5% remittance tax for foreigners who can show they have legal status in our country, and 20% for anyone who can't show same?

4) Illegal aliens who commit ANY additional violent crime or other serious crimes, after the misdemeanor of entering the country illegally or overstaying a visa or work permit, to be deported expeditiously. This would be incorporated into the same Constitutional Amendment.

5) Background checks on all immigrants processed for ANY crime after arrival here. Expeditious deportation if found to have committed serious crimes in their home country before immigrating here.

6) Illegal aliens here now to be afforded 3 options only:

a) Immigrants who declare themselves present with the desire to remain in the U.S. permanently, who chose NOT to return to their native country to apply for LEGAL residence, can be awarded a permanent work permit, if a background check shows they have NOT participated in criminal activity once here. These individuals will NEVER be eligible for citizenship, but their children would be under birthright. Commission of crimes here in the U.S. would be cause for automatic revocation of legal residency status. 

b*) Immigrants who declare themselves present with the desire to live in the U.S. permanently, but who are willing to return to their native country to start a legal immigration process. (I know our legal immigration program is broken badly. We need to fix it.) These immigrants will be eligible to apply for citizenship in accordance with existing U.S. law after they are granted permission to return and subsequently returned if they are cleared in a criminal background check and can show they have or will have gainful employment upon return to the U.S.A. In light of their willingness to go back and do things the right way, some form of financial aid to assist their departure, and expedited handling and processing of their return authorization.

Immigrants with proof of gainful employment here in the U.S. may receive this same authorization from the consulate of their home nation here in the U.S. A. This would require their employer to "sponsor" the immigrant and to pay a reasonable but significant fee that would offset the cost of expedited immigration processing, and entail a criminal background check.

*this paragraph updated 6/13/2025. 

c) Immigrants who hide out in the U.S. and continue to reside here illegally, but do NOT declare under "a" or "b", above. These persons will be exempted from obtaining any benefits or assistance, subject to swift deportation upon discovery and apprehension, and permanently barred from returning to the U.S. or seeking U.S. citizenship. Their children would NOT be eligible for birthright citizenship under the Constitutional Amendment I envision.

Employers found to be knowingly employing immigrants in category "c", preceding paragraph, will pay exorbitant fines for the employment violation of hiring these people, to be codified into law. Perhaps a fine at one level if the company has <20 employees, higher if they employ from 20-200 illegals, higher still for 201-1,000, and for employers with >1,000 illegal immigrants in category "c", the highest fines, something extremely high, like 25% of total revenues.

Immigration is a turd. Nobody wants to clean it up, because there's no clean end to pick it up from. There is no solution that will please everyone. If my proposal doesn't please you, I'm sorry about your luck. I most assuredly haven't seen YOUR proposal.