Author: grumpsny

I monitor the news continuously and that includes the “news” reported by talking heads. I’m disgusted by what passes as “reporting” these days…

1. There’s no such thing as an honest reporter/journalist anymore. (Victor Davis Hanson, maybe Katherine Herridge, a few others being a handful of exceptions)
2. We live in a “Post Truth” world. Don’t believe ANYTHING, from ANYBODY. The only way to survive and prosper in this new world is to become a dedicated SKEPTIC.
3. What drives “reporting” is $$$$$! “If it bleeds it leads” was never more true. Doesn’t matter whether it’s Fox News or Breitbart, MSDNC or CNN….it’s all about attracting eyeballs, thus advertising revenue.
4. The discussions about Globalism, Climate Fascism, Gender, Deportations, Democracy are all just that: DISCUSSIONS. The only thing that REALLY matters is what is happening to YOU, and YOU are unique and have circumstances, concerns, preferences that may be similar to some, but not identical to ANYONE. Thus, THE DEFICIT (for example) impacts you differently from the person next to you. Forget what the talking heads are saying. Look at EVERYTHING through your OWN LENSES!
5. Ask yourself, “How has the DEBT and/or DEFICIT affected ME?” The pundits who squeal that the world is ending due to tariffs or deportations or deficits or debt or any other headline issue put forward by the media are simply all wrong. The world is NOT ending. Change and disruption and chaos is GOOD if it exposes and roots out intractable problems.
6. Here’s a truth you can relie on because you can see it in your own life: “A rising tide lifts all boats.” Instead of focusing on the LOSERS, we must focus on the WINNERS. Instead of the unproductive “victims”, we need to watch the productive growth creators.
7. GROWTH solves virtually all problems. Deficits/debt…remember what Reagan inherited? Remember the hand-wringing as he tuned out the leftists and listened to Jack Kemp and pushed tax CUTS instead of the tax INCREASES demanded by the chattering class? How quickly did we emerge from the depths of economic despair and experience the 80’s BOOM after the tax CUTS?
8. And once again, the notion that tax cuts have to be PAID FOR is simply ludicrous! Think about that for a second. Taxes are transfers of money from the working to this amorphous thing called government. It’s not THEIR money, it’s OURS! Why in the world should we PAY THEM more to get back our money??? One can argue that tax cuts, ceteris paribus, must be OFFSET somehow to keep the budget equation balanced, but it’s not by PAYING for them. It’s about finding a way to reduce the spending on the other side of the equation OR, increase revenues. The latter happens with GROWTH! It’s simple arithmetic. But the pundits conflate and confuse the issue to support arguments that favor their leftist or rightist postions. It’s insidious! SO DON’T LISTEN TO THEM!

You have to hand it to Trump, Vance, and a few of their cabinet members/staff who tell it like it is. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if everyone said what they really think like Tom Homan does instead of continuously calculating the political ramifications of what they’re saying?

Keep your seat belts fastened. History is being made right in front of us and we’ll look back and be glad we were there for it!

Remember when you got a new 45 rpm record with a song you just loved? It had a “hook” in it that you couldn’t get out of your mind. You played it over and over again. You knew every note, every lyric. You hummed it to yourself. You sang it in the shower. It caused an emotional response.

At some point, you simply got tired of it.

This phenomenon is called Hedonic Adaptation. It’s the concept that when we experience something enjoyable repeatedly or in excess, our emotional response to it diminishes over time. Essentially, we get used to it, and it no longer feels as special or exciting.

BEWARE OF THIS PHENOMENON when reading all the GOOD headlines and associated articles.

We’re getting too used to the announcements of ICE/CBP/DEA/ATF/FBI/Local LEO roundups of illegal aliens.

We’re getting too used to the fact that our border is NOW closed!

We’re becoming blasé about the return of normalcy.

We must resist the tendency to expect “our next fix” of good news.

We must continue to celebrate that law and order is slowly but surely coming back to our land.

We must lengthen our attention spans, step back and look at the big picture of the turnaround that is occurring in America and not expect a rah rah headline every day, every hour or every minute.

You get the idea.

Meanwhile, let’s enjoy watching the Democrats continue to make fools of themselves.

Let’s enjoy seeing videos of multi-colored-hair losers prancing around with their stupid signs, chanting their trite and childish slogans led by Dem(agogue), hypocrite, leftist ‘leaders’ (Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, Murphy, Hogg, AOC, Ohmar, Raskin, and so many other clowns…).

Let’s laugh together.

Let’s not allow ourselves get tired of this!

As I leaf through the images of the 50501 protests around the country I’m sickened by what I see. The detritus of humanity: the unproductive, the losers, the self-absorbed, the ignorant, the spoiled, the impetuous, the insolent, the corrupt, the desperate-for-attention, the FOMO, the lemmings, the addled, the dumbed-down, the brain-polluted, the brain-dead, the indolent, the limp-wristed underbelly of our society with their multi-colored hair, pre-printed placards and obnoxious, droning “Hey Hey Ho Ho” chants…I’m disgusted by it all.

How sick is this? From what you recall of history, is this not the substance of the communist revolution? That may sound hyperbolic, but to suggest that these orchestrated “protests” are similar to the 18th century uprisings is not fanciful.

Yes, I know I’m supposed to be tolerant of all people, open to dialogue, respectful of different opinions.

But these people (I hesitate to call them that… ‘vermin’ is more apt) don’t have opinions, they won’t listen to reason or facts or arguments based on reality. They don’t even know what is real anymore! Up is down, right is left, men are women, women are men, or “non-gendered”.

“Oh,” my well-to-do, highly educated liberal acquaintances will say, “They’re just opposing the chaos that Orange Man has wrought.” “Look what he’s done to democracy, to the rule of law, he’s a dictator, he’s inhuman, he’s a fascist, he’s not a legitimate president…” and so on and so forth. These used to be, nominally, friends. Now I can’t stand to be around them. I dread going to the grocery store and having to stand in line with these self-absorbed, in-your-face wastoids.

Occasionally I’ll see a “normal” mom with kids in tow, dressed like kids are supposed to be dressed and behaving like kids are supposed to behave. It’s jarring…so unexpected…almost out of place!

But refreshing. I almost feel like approaching them and saying, “Thank you for being normal.”

In fact, there have been times in a restaurant when I’ve stopped at a table with a mom and dad and two kids quietly sipping milk, no iPads, Apple watches or iPhones in sight, and offered my compliments on just how wonderful it was to behold the scene they made.

By way of contrast, I’m becoming immune to the depravity around me.

As I sit here trying to articulate my dismay and sadness with what’s going on in our country at the moment, I’m at a loss for words. Writers far wiser than I have said it better. I merely add my contempt and revulsion to theirs.

But it’s Easter Sunday. One side of my face is bright red and painful. I shall try to turn and offer the other side.

Expected or not, is there any doubt that the Left have taken over our institutions, including the judicial system? I guess pictures (i.e. emails) of perps holding smoking guns standing over corpses and eye-witness testimonies don’t seem to have the same weight these days as they used to. As I noted previously, we can only hope Durham knows what he’s doing and doesn’t quit. No question the trial was revealing in other ways…perhaps the positive result will be a greater recognition that the leftist cancer must be eradicated from every corner of our society.

There may or may not be a picture in the header (depends on how much time I have)…not a lot of text, just the immediate product of a brain cramp on something I’ve read or heard or watched. The hits keep coming every day. This format will allow me to comment much more readily.

Enjoy!