Author: Grumps

Another Analysis of the 2020 Election

America, Government, Politics, Uncategorized

An interesting analysis of the dollars spent by Mark Zuckerberg and no doubt other wealthy leftists to fund a targeted, private takeover of government election operations was published today in the Federalist. In his article, “The 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg“, William Doyle makes the compelling case that the “unprecedented merger of public election offices with private resources and personnel is an acute threat to our republic, and should be the focus of electoral reform efforts moving forward.”

How much are we talking about? How about $420 million passed into local government elections offices, all of it Zuckerberg’s and all “with strings attached”. The article spells out how that money “had nothing to do with traditional campaign finance, lobbying or other expenses” and everything “to do with financing the infiltration of elections offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists, and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, and data-sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters.”

I believe Doyle. His arguments and evidence are not only plausible, but perfectly explain how Joe Biden received 81 million votes. We will never know how many were illegitimately cast, but the meme that Biden got that many legitimate votes requires, to quote a vomit-inducing leftist, “the willful suspension of disbelief.”

I urge my readers to read Doyle’s complete article. It’s persusive, alarming and if we don’t assimilate the reality he paints into our election reform efforts, the 2022 and 2024 elections will without doubt be equally corrupt.

And as regards 2022 and subsequently, 2024. I predict the war that will be fought between the Left and the Right over election integrity will make 2020 look like a cocktail party by comparison. The Left is already doing everything they can to stall examinations into what happened in 2020, using every Alinsky, muckracking and corrupt tactic they can possible muster. As usual, the gentlemenly GOP is trying to “work within the system” to route out corruption.

If the GOP doesn’t put on its big boy pants and start fighting harder, louder, smarter and more effectively to purge election systems of the fraud and abuse that the Democrats are all to willing to promote and accept either directly or indirectly, the Left will have succeeded in guaranteeing themselves permanent power and further hastening the demise of the greatest nation in history.

Inarticulate and shrill as some of the voices on the Right might sound, they barely begin to compete with the verbal diarrhea emanating from the Left. Who will stand up to the Democrats and be sufficiently attractive, articulate, convincing and persuasive as to halt this demonic takeover of our socity that is currently underway? I don’t think it’s Trump. He still scolds and whines like a petulant teenager who can’t string two sentences together without repeating himself five times. His policies are sound. His antipathy towards the media, the Swamp and the Left in general is right on, but he can’t inspire a huge swath of the middle that represents America. To them he’s still a New York real estate thug. He may have been the only one who could have beaten Hillary, but something better than an “I told you so” candidacy is going to be needed to win in 2024.

So who? It’s not one of the firebrands: Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, etc. It’s not Cruz, not Rubio, not a governor like Kristi Noem, nor Greg Abbot, nor Ron DeSantis. None have the broad appeal necessary to bring enough people into the tent. No, it’s going to have to be someone new, someone we haven’t thought of yet, someone who comes out of the woodwork like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did. It’s too early to say, to know or to tell. It has to be a surprise, someone who even Trump will endorse and gladly (if not graciously) step aside for. I know everything thinks Trump is a narcissist and would never give up the GOP nomination but I choose to believe he cares enough about the country that he’d do so if the right candidate, whom he could boast to have endorsed, emerges.

But none of it may matter. Neither Trump nor a better candidate will win in 2024 if the GOP doesn’t shellack the Democrats in 2022. And the GOP will not win in 2022 or 2024 regardless of candidates if the corruption and fraud is not routed out of the system before then.

Before I conclude. There is one thing that could peacefully (more or less) shake up the status quo. If either or both Kyrsten Sinema or Joe Manchin were to switch parties, giving control of the Senate to the GOP, THAT would stir the pot!

You heard it from me first.

Prepping at the Tipping Point

America, Economy, Education, Emergency Preparedness, Entertainment, Government, Headlines, Health Care, History, Politics, Reason, Society & Culture

I’m not a fan of what I call “Prepper Porn”.  That’s the content of thousands of books, websites, articles, etc. predicting the Apocalypse and what everyone must do to survive scenes like those depicted in “The Walking Dead.” On the other hand, I was a Boy Scout in the old days when the BSA was the character and skills training ground for young men. The slogan was “Be Prepared.”

While it’s impossible to be prepared for everything: TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know it), SHTF (‘Stuff’ Hit the Fan), Armageddon, a nuclear holocaust, reversal of the Earth’s geomagnetic poles, a direct hit from an asteroid, EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse), CME (Coronal Mass Ejection), a Zombie Invasion…common sense suggests that being prepared as much and as realistically as possible for life’s emergencies is a hell of a lot better than being unprepared!

Once upon a time I had two 55 gallon drums of water in my garage, several buckets of raw wheat and a few other items that amounted to “preparation.” The fact that I never used them didn’t discount their value, but even if a catastrophe had occurred, they wouldn’t have done me or my family much good.

As I look back on the emergencies that befell us during various times and in various living locations, I’m nevertheless grateful for the preparedness mindset that my Scout days imprinted on me. While the worst hasn’t happened yet, our family was subjected to a lot of natural and man-made problems: hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, high winds, bad snowstorms, localized floods, heat waves and other harmful natural events; relatively sudden general and personal economic downturns; supply disruptions of food, gasoline and staples; strikes; prolonged power outages; mass transit failures; accidents; pest infestation; injuries; illness; and of course, 9-11 and the Pandemic. Each was a wake-up call.

Yet each time, once the emergency had passed, we retreated into complacency and a sub-conscious attitude that “we weathered it and we’ll do so again when and if it happens.”

Does any of this sound or feel familiar?

Some of the emergencies were man-made, some were natural. We survived them all, and our pain ranged from mild inconvenience to some downright difficult times where we thought our lives were ruined and we thought we’d have to completely change them.

The vicissitudes of life are such that it’s likely we’ll be faced with emergencies, mini and moderate disasters and other trying times in the future.

However, TODAY, the risk of man-made hazards is greater than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime!

If you have any doubt about this, just open your eyes and look around. If you still think everything’s either just fine, or will work itself out as it always has, don’t bother reading any further.

On the other hand, if like so many millions of our fellow Americans you clearly see what’s happening “right here in River City”, right before eyes, and are not just alarmed but pessimistic that for the first time in many generations we won’t be able to give our children and grandchildren better lives than we had; if you sense the threats to our freedom, peace and prosperity are mounting as each day goes by; if you see our very civilization being systematically destroyed (“fundamentally transformed”) then friends, “Be Prepared” needs to become your slogan as well!

If you’ve spent any time thinking about Emergency Preparedness, however, you know how long the lists of considerations, questions and answers are.

There are literally thousands of resources available. I’ve spent countless hours researching the available literature, videos, websites to get answers. The array of products, services and printed/published information dedicated to “prepping” is vast. It’s available from government and commercial sources, some of it general, some of it very specific, some of it good, some of it bad, some of it useful and, in my opinion, some of it useless or even harmful.

The fundamental problem with most of these sources is that they don’t address the individual needs, preferences and budgets of families living in diverse locations, with different circumstances.

So concerned am I about the future of our country and the impact the Leftist juggernaut is having on the lives of my immediate and extended family, however, that I’ve solicited help in making sense of the matter. I have become a practitioner of the principles espoused by a new organization: Suburban Readiness Institute (SRI). One of their key tenets is secrecy – it stands to reason that the more people know about your preparedness, the less secure your family will be if things get bad. All communications and interaction with them have been and will remain discreet. Thus, I won’t be describing their means, methods, etc.

But I urge my readers to visit their website (https://suburbanreadiness.com) for a general overview of what they’re about.

And whether or not you engage with them or some other organization to assist you with your planning and preparation, I can’t overemphasize the importance, AT THIS PIVOTAL TIPPING POINT IN OUR COUNTRY’S HISTORY, of thinking seriously about and systematically, methodically, pragmatically and resolvedly preparing for what may lie ahead.

Once an emergency happens or is about to happen, with or without warning, the time for preparation is past.

CS-CR(*) and Reversing the Brainwash

Health Care, Media, Politics, Reason, Society & Culture

*CS stands for Conditioned Stimulus. CR stands for Conditioned Response. I learned in Pscyh 101 in college that it’s a lot easier to program human beings to respond to a stimulus than it is to reverse that response. The Left has programmed so many people with so much perverted stimulus that it’s going to take a LOT to deprogram them. In College I had the dubious privilege of listening to a guest lecture by the renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner. For those of you who took introductory Pscyh, you may recall Skinner was known for being the pre-eminent “behaviorist”, for the “Skinner Box” and “operant conditioning”. Skinner espoused the notion that free will is an illusion, and that all human behavior is the direct result of conditioning. To prove his point, he stood at the front of our class and began his lecture by explaining his theories about conditioning while holding a revolver in his hand.

Periodically, he would yell “CS” and fire the blank-loaded gun. Our guts would tighten instantly when we heard the loud report. He would then go on with his lecture, and every so often would repeat the “CS” – ‘BANG!” sequence. He did this three or four times and each time it predictably elicited the same visceral response among us, a pronounced tightening of the diaphragm.  

As he neared the end of his lecture, he once again yelled “CS”, only this time he did NOT pull the trigger.

We all nevertheless felt the contraction in our guts, expecting the loud bang.

“That,” explained Skinner with a wry smile, “is conditioned stimulus and conditioned response”. He explained that his cry of “CS” was the conditioned stimulus. The gut tightening was the involuntary conditioned response.

He went on with his lecture for another fifteen minutes or so, repeatedly yelling CS and NOT pulling the trigger. Our gut response continued, however.

During the question and answer period a timid student raised his hand and asked Skinner what it would take to deprogram us from the conditioned stimulus.

And this is where I was shocked to learn that while it took only a few instances of conditioned stimulus to produce the conditioned response of a gut twitch, IT WOULD TAKE AT LEAST TEN TIMES LONGER TO REVERSE THE PROGRAMMING!

Indeed, as we walked from class, all across the campus one would hear the cries of “CS” as we students tried to prompt the conditioned response. Because none of us had guns, the novelty and programming wore off after another class period or two and we went on our merry ways.

Think, however, what the never-ending Conditioned Stimulus of Leftist BS has done to the population! So programmed to respond to, for example, COVID fear-mongering, are grown adults that they cower before their conditioners and obediently comply with their demands, however unscientific, unsubstantiated, unproven or lacking in common sense!

(For a very recent summation, by the way, that dispels the COVID conditioning to which I’m referring, please see the wonderful piece in Off-Guardian.org here. Think you’ll find it a useful reference.)

So, to counter the Leftist drivel, now deeply ingrained in the weak-minded psyches of so many people, will take a WHOLE LOT OF TRUTH TELLING… many times greater than what the Left has conditioned us with.

I don’t point this out to be pessimistic of fatalistic. I do so because the war in which we find ourselves is a war of wits. The only way we are going to be able to reclaim our country and banish the evil among us is by changing hearts and minds…by deprogramming and reprogramming people.

We’ve started this process. The wealth of truth-telling in so-called “alternative” (alternative to the MSM) news sites and the willingness of the “un(brain)washed” to speak out and openly about the falsehoods, lies and deceit constantly emanating from the mouths of Leftist politicians, judicial activists, teachers and people who would otherwise know better but who have been unwittingly programmed, is bit by bit serving as an antidote.

We need to keep it up! It’s going to take a while!

Consolidate

America, Government, Headlines, Politics

Just a short note to comment that the reason the Left is so effective at pushing their agenda is that despite their differences, they have a binding precept around which they always coalesce: POWER. Like all collectivists and lemmings, they mass together in one body to vote, cheat, steal, report, bludgeon, infect everything they touch. They put on a good show about being “for the people” and wanting nothing more than to do what’s right for America, but anyone with half a brain, paying attention, knows their evil intent is political domination so they can impose their utopian nonsense on us all.

We used to watch them at the podium self-righteously blather about how everything they do is intended to help the underdogs, the victims of white male racism and privilege, those who are so oppressed they can’t help themselves. Now they don’t even make a pretense of that. They just spit their disgusting Leftist bile out with impunity. They know the media will amplify their vitriol and demagoguery and suppress the truth or any view that departs from the orthodoxy.

These people on the Left are the worst kind of hypocrites, the worst kind of infection and pandemic that befalls mankind. Throughout history the losers and have-nots of the world, the indolent and feckless, the weak-minded and gullible, led by the arrogant and condescending, enticing and demagogic, have demanded to be taken care of, have screamed of their oppression, of inequality, of racism, despite constant opportunities to rise on hard work and merit.

And we on the Right continue to act like ladies and gentlemen, couching our rhetoric in diplomatic terms, in conciliatory tones, in compromising language. We always seek to take the high road because we’re told if we don’t “we’ll be just as bad as they are.”

We encourage and celebrate debate. We think differences of opinion among us are healthy. Both true, and both self-destructive. So long as we allow ourselves to be led by the ladies and gentlemen of the Right, we will see our country continue down the self-destructive path we are on.

The Left loves it. They are guerillas on one hand, and lemmings on the other. They burst out of the underbrush to hurl invectives and ad hominem attacks on the Right, and then when the times are ripe to push their ideology over the goal line, they coalesce and with one voice do the will of their pied piper leaders. So long as the money and ego-food keeps coming, they’re happy not to tug too hard on the strings manipulating them.

The Left is effective in exercising their power, as noted many times, because a complicit tech oligarchy and Leftist main stream media amplify their drivel.

The Right is attempting to counter the tech monopoly/oligarchy. BUT WE ARE FAILING BECAUSE WE’RE TOO FRAGMENTED. We have no unifying leader, no meme or quip or slogan that brings us all together like Newt did with the Contract With America in 1994 which swept the GOP into power for the first time in 40 years.

There are dozens if not hundreds of websites, organizations, movements and efforts dedicated to exposing the truth and the destructiveness of the Biden/Schumer/Pelosi administration. New “platforms” for free speech emerge almost weekly. There are a multitude of “voices” on alternative (i.e. non MSM) media that are heralding the mess we’re in and many offer solutions. The problem is, there are just too many! The conservative think tanks, the right-wing tabloids, the new social media platforms encouraging conservative thought and speech…they’re all great, but the messages that bind us are muddled, unclear, and lack the Hollywood production values the Left so effectively utilize.

Trump is a unifying force in one sense. What he showed America during his four years in office is just how masochistic and destructive the Obama/Leftist “fundamental transformation” movement really was. Inarticulate, self-aggrandizing, politically inept and boorish as he was, all he had to do was reverse the crap Obama laid on us to awaken the country and put us on the path to peace and prosperity. Frankly, anyone with traditional values, basic leadership and communications skills could have done that, but only bombastic Trump had the audacity and chutzpah to beat the Clinton/Leftist machine. And, “Make America Great Again” was the kind of slogan that rallied the Silent Majority to overcome the Leftist cheating/fraud in the 2016 election, much to the surprise and amazement of the American people, the world, and above all, the Clinton Left.

But like any reality tv series, Trump’s arc and the MAGA slogan is in decline. Yes, he still brings out tens of thousands at rallies and there are “just like the good ‘ole days” variations on the MAGA theme.

But only once we are able to rally behind a leader who has the principles of Trump, the stamina, durability and energy of Trump but the attractiveness, inspirational, universally persuasive… perhaps the best all-encompassing word is “righteous” attributes that Trump lacks will we be able to come together, vote and demand fairness, transparency and integrity in voting and politics, and beat back the Leftist cancer that is rapidly killing us.

I don’t see that leader among us. The firebrands and flamethrowers who make us stand up and cheer won’t play well. The erudite old hands will just bend over to be spanked and say “yes sir, may I have more?”. The “rising stars” aren’t going to last through the next disastrous three years.

I think the only one who could fit the bill is a renovated, more polished and inspiring Trump. He still has time to develop a different kind of attractiveness to the full spectrum of our population. He can learn to string two sentences together without repeating himself five times. He can convey what he needs to convey with quips and quotes and barbs and jabs and encouragements that are less caustic to half the population.

In short, if he can reflect between golf greens on becoming a statesmen and leave behind his New York real estate thug past, and this time around be even more bold at fighting the swamp and the media but in more clever, perhaps more measured ways, we just might have in him that leader around which to consolidate our righteous indignation, our effort, our resources, our voice. Then, perhaps, for our children and grandchildren and perhaps a few more generations beyond them, we may be able to destroy the forces of evil embodied by today’s Left.

Perception, Reality and Alternative Reality

America, Media, Morality, Society & Culture, Values

I’m going to be uncharacteristically charitable and start with the premise that the Left (choak) and the Right truly believe in their positions, both ideological and political. Further, I’m going to argue that people’s behavior is a function of their perception, that perception is reality and perception derives from experience. In other words, I’m going to suggest that because of their life experience peoples’ reality is that everything that’s happening in our country is, in the case of the Left, just peachy keen and in the case of the Right, diabolical and destructive. And both honestly and sincerely believe their views of the world are correct.

Here’s the well-known exercise that demonstrates what I’m talking about with respect to perception. Look at the following picture:

You see a young woman.

Now look at this picture.

You see an old hag.

Now, the way this experiment actually works, an audience is divided in two and each half is shown ONLY one or the other picture. This is the EXPERIENCE.

The entire audience is then shown the following picture.

The argument that ensues is that one half of the audience can only see a young woman and the other an old hag in the composite picture.

I submit the Right has a life experience that is diametrically opposed to that of the Left. The Right has grown up and experienced the good in tradition, virtue, self-determination, self-reliance, hard work, meritocracy, limited government, strong national defense, preservation of life, and so on. The Left has grown up seeing big government, authority, the State, collectivism, globalism, atheism, self-indulgence, insolence, indolence, the means justify the ends, pleasure over pain, narcissism, and so on.

How do these experiences happen?

For some, it is actual, physical experience. The traditionalist/conservative who grew up in a happy home, was taught and earned the rewards of hard work, etc. inevitably sees the world one way. The Leftist who was raised in a broken home, or in a so-called ‘alternative lifestyle’, taught throughout his or her life that the world was an oppressive place filled with people out to get them, that they are entitled to the fruits of ALL labor, taught to follow their heart strings rather than their heads; they see the world the opposite way just as the two halves of the audience are certain they see either the young woman or the old hag in the third picture above.

Since the advent of the Internet, for many experience is vicarious. By that I mean that their lives have been impacted not by actual experience, but by what they’ve heard from people with loud and popular voices (actors, actresses, politicians, etc.), read in the paper, seen on television, heard on the radio, absorbed from clicking on social media. This “experience” is just as impactful as real experience. Witness, for example, the impact teachers preaching Critical Race Theory or pushing the LGBTQ deviance and similar ideologies is having on our children. The kids are repeating things at the dinner table that are revolting and abhorrent to traditional parents. But the kids’ “experience” is coloring what they see and believe, and day by day it is becoming reality to them. For example, see: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/warner-media-cartoons-woke/2021/09/15/id/1036621/. For the record, I’m revolted and repulsed by this blatant indoctrination.

It’s dismissed as silly that “it’s the Media’s fault.” BUT in large part, IT IS! The ‘Media’ creates what I’ll call “substitute” experience for many people, perhaps even most people, and thus determines both perception and reality. Because the Media preys on the baser instincts of human nature such as approbation and validation, sex, peer pressure, gluttony, pleasure, leisure, the herd/lemming instinct, etc. and generates revenues and profits from it, it creates a reality that feeds on itself and grows. By feeding on itself I’m suggesting that those who control and direct the media are themselves, addicted to and invested in the memes and reality they’ve created. And like any addiction, the lives they concoct get more and more perverse and masochistic until the people who believe them to be reality blow up, for example, by suicide or drug overdose. Think about all the violence, destruction, homicides, suicides, that so many have actually or vicariously experienced and how it escalates. Think about teen character destruction and the pandemic of them taking their own lives, of anger stemming from depression and lack of self-worth resulting in gang violence, drug abuse, sex trafficking. All of this can be attributed to the perceptions created by the Media and those who control it. And so long as revenues and profits persist, so too will the junk reality being put out by the Media.

The antidote?

Change perception and we change reality. We can’t just eliminate or eradicate evil from our lives. It has to be replaced by stuff that appeals to those baser instincts of human nature in a productive, positive way. An extremely tall order. Many conservative/traditionalist media outfits have tried and God bless ’em, continue to try. There seems to be some evidence that the tide is turning, but we have a long way to go!

The assault by the predominantly Leftist Media and the grip Leftist politicians now have on the minds and hearts of approximately half of our population is so strong that it can’t be broken by fiat or legislation. Overturning Roe v. Wade, for example, will not end abortion. It will just drive it underground. Counter the “my body my decision” position with enough “life begins at conception and is precious” using the same techniques and production values that the Left uses to push its agenda and we might have a chance of changing reality for so many who have been indoctrinated and brainwashed by the Left that abortion is just a procedure used in lieu of contraception or continence.  

As I’ve noted many times before, we need new heroes. We need attractive, articulate, persuasive, actors, actresses, politicians, leaders who can inspire and persuade those who believe their Leftist reality is ok that there is a better, happier and more satisfying reality than what they’re experiencing.

Many on the Left are seeing where things are heading and at least starting to scratch their heads. Unfortunately, the tsunami of Leftist reality is so strong and so pervasive in our society today, the peer pressure so great, that it’s a tough war. Many of my generation are giving up and suggesting that “it’s their world now.” I, however, feel it a responsibility and duty to try to move the two generations behind me to a course that thousands of years of history and REAL experience has taught is better than the one society is currently following.

We’ll never reverse the decline to destruction of our civilization unless we can change hearts and minds. For whatever time I have left on this planet, I will keep trying.

Newsome Will Not Be Recalled

Government, Politics

On Tuesday California Governor Newsome will face his recall election. I, like many other observers, predict that while Newsome will have been legitimately defeated, i.e. recalled, and Larry Elder should be the next governor of California, in fact, he will NOT be recalled. This is not because the legitimate voters of California will have not voted to recall him. Rather, it is because the Democrats will have once again rigged the election to cheat and fraudulent attribute more ballots to Newsome than he legitimately won.

The reason I’m confident in this prediction (and I truly hope it’s wrong!) is that there is no way Biden and Harris would have stuck their necks out for Newsome if it weren’t for assurances from the California Democrat machine that the votes will tip in Newsome’s favor. If the signs were otherwise, as they were in NY with Cuomo, they would not have shown up to campaign for him.

Perhaps more importantly, and frightening as a harbinger of Democrat shenanigans all over America, is that California has with their program of allowing illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses with automatic voter registration ensured that hundreds of thousands of votes will be cast for Newsome that are prima facie fradulent – one must be a CITIZEN to vote. But that’s never stopped Democrats before. And of course, the illegal aliens will vote to support any demagogue who will promise not to deport them and will give them free everything.

Newsome, along with all the other woke and pandering Democrats have presided over the imolation (.sic) of one of the most beautiful and rich states in our Union. It’s as if God picked up America by the East Coast and shook it, with all the loose nuts and bolts falling out onto the West Coast. These are the Democrats’ perfect constituents: limited intelligence wokies, illegal aliens, and highly intelligent cognoscenti to whom the rules don’t apply. What they’ve done to California is a disaster and if the San Andreas Fault were to break it off and slide it into the sea, they’d deserve it.

I’m thinking buy some sagebrush land in western Nevada?

9-11/911

America, Economy, Education, Emergency Preparedness, Government, Headlines, Media, Society & Culture, Uncategorized, World Affairs

There is so much to write about and comment on that I’m not sure where to begin. Rather than reflect back on that otherwise beautiful autumn day in 2001 as so many others are doing today (I was in midtown, Manhattan. My oldest son was at the Court House in Lower Manhattan. My wife was covered in ash and walked the length of Manhattan from her job in lower Manhattan. We all were unharmed but witnessed the horror first hand), I thought I’d reflect today on what I’ve come to call the “Daily Atrocities”. I thought I’d gather some thoughts of possible future outcomes from them. But first, let’s enumerate just some of the problems brought on or exacerbated by the Leftists in the current administration:

  • The “Fundamental Transformation” of America – the necrotic, cancerous, Obama theme on steroids;
  • Biden criminality, dementia, puppet, treasonous actions;
  • Pelosi criminality, dementia, megalomania, hypocrisy;
  • COVID: Lies, Distrust, Masks, Vax, Passports, Mandates, etc.;
  • Military & Alphabet Agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.): Wokeness, Disregard for primary missions
  • Police: Resignations, Defunding, Disrespect
  • Assault on the Second Amendment as well as other Rights
  • Schools – Indoctrination, Lincoln, 1619, CRT, LGBTQ propaganda
  • Sheep – Adult indoctrination of dumbed down, compliant or gullible population
  • Open Borders – unequal treatment of illegal aliens vs. US citizens, drive to change the demographic
  • Energy Independence to Dependence
  • SCOTUS/Judicial impotence/decriminalization of crime
  • Elections: HR1, etc. – drive by Democrats for permanent power
  • Abuse of Power/Treason/Totalitarianism/Tyranny – examples too numerous to list
  • Radical Environmentalism, Feminism – Mars vs. Venus getting very ugly
  • Leftist Racism – the Left are the true racists, not the Right
  • China/Russia/Iran/NORKO – hegemony – growing perception of U.S. weakness, increasing vulnerability
  • Anti-Semitism/Anti-Religion/Anti-America – Evil at every level
  • Corrupt Professional Politicians/Groupthink
  • Declining Work Ethic/Snowflakes
  • Government Dependency
  • Reckless Fiscal & Monetary Policies/INFLATION/ Tax and Spend $3.5 TRILLION bill
  • Protests/Riots/Lawlessness Spreading
  • Hollywood Brainwashing/ Leftist Production Values high and preying on a weak-minded population
  • Tech:Censorship/Privacy/Social Media/Addiction
  • Cyber threats, Grid Threats, Biological, nuclear
  • Corporate/Professional Sports submission, compliance with wokeness
  • Government unions – scourge that allows workers to negotiate with themselves for salaries and benefits
  • World Affairs – American Decline.

So, where’s all this going? Here are some possible scenarios/outcomes as I see them:

1.            Status quo. God forbid the Right is unable to marshal the will or resolve to lay nail strips in front of the Leftist agenda and we succumb to this fundamental transformation. If that happens, we the frogs sitting in water that is starting to boil are either going to die or jump out of the pot. Allowing this current leviathan of Leftist idiocy could very well result in the destruction of America, but if this keeps up, it could happen.

2.            The GOP gets a spine. We’re already starting to see some courageous Republicans throwing the bulls#$t flag and attempting to throw wrenches into the Democrat works. One possible scenario is the Red States are able to not just lay out the evidence of the 2020 election fraud, but PROVE it in court. I don’t hold out a lot of hope on this because the judiciary is so hopelessly corrupt and Left-infected that the Democrats will be able to draw out the process indefinitely. We can only hope that the PROOF (not just the evidence) is so unequivocal, so clear and so damning that a constitutional crisis at the SCOTUS level ensues forcing either a forced resignation of Biden’s entire administration, a re-election or NEW election occurs, or somehow Trump is instated as the true winner of 2020.

3.            2022. Or, the evidence of fraud in our elections is sufficiently exposed that election fraud is rooted out of the system and the Democrats are prevented from utilizing their fraudulent tactics to steal another election. In 2022 the GOP takes over the House and perhaps the Senate and drives a spike into the Democrat agenda. Of course, a LOT of damage can still be done before January 2023, but a combination of some GOP backbone to stall their onslaught plus a fair election in 2022 could turn the tide.

4.            Newsom Recall. I’m skeptical that the California governor will be taken down. The Dems will use every tool at their disposal to cheat to keep him in office and I’m not sure public opinion against Newsom will suffice to push him out. (Who know… I never would have thought Cuomo would get taken down in New York.) But if he does get booted and a Republican governor is elected, it’ll be a start. Now, if Diane Feinstein keels over shortly thereafter, Larry Elder or some other GOP governor will appoint a Republican Senator and the Senate control could revert back to the GOP even before 2022 and the Leftist tsunami could be halted that way.

5.            Secession. There’s a lot of talk about Red State Secession. It’s possible, but not likely, at least not in this generation. The complexity of extricating themselves from the Federal clutches is probably too great, but I’m in favor of the idea if by 2023 we’re unable to neutralize the Democrats’ power.

6.            Civil Disobedience/REAL Insurrection. There is also a lot of discussion about armed rebellion, perhaps even a revolt against the Federal Government. As crazy as that sounds, the anger and actions of so many traditionalist patriots is growing to the point where this is no longer out of the question. When and how such a rebellion/revolt would start is anybody’s guess, but if 50,000 armed citizens were to descend on Washington and demand the resignations of all the Leftists, that would most certainly ignite the tinder. Armed squads that take it upon themselves to assassinate Leftist leaders in guerilla fashion is also not out of the question. Scary, yes, but not out of the question. This too would light the tinder.

7.            Shadow Government. It’s clear that Trump’s team are still largely intact and are no doubt watching and waiting and biding their time. The “enemy” is clearly destroying itself from within so there is no reason to stand in their way. If, however, a revolution begins or there is sufficient popular/populist support for a removal of the current administration in one way or another, Trump could position himself as the legitimate President, set up a government in a Red State, and potentially challenge the status quo with a non-lethal rebellion.

8.            Biden Resignation or Invocation of the 25th. I think there’s a real chance that the Democrats will try to figure out a way to get rid of Biden. However, installing Harris as President, no matter how delightful the Leftist news headlines might be, could be even more problematic than leaving the puppet in place. Nancy is next in line, and if they figure out how to get rid of her as well, which I would think they would have to do (if Biden is thrown out, Pelosi has to be as well – she’s too much of a nut-job), Patrick Leahy as President Pro Tempore of the Senate is next in line, and he looks like a saint compared to the other wackos and could very well be accepted by the nation as President. It’s a complex, three-dimensional chess game, but not out of the realm of possibility.

9.            Military Takeover. I don’t have any inside information as to just how many officers have resigned from the military either on ideological grounds on vaccine mandate grounds, but there is NO DOUBT that there are a hell of a lot of Colonel-on-down as well as some of former and current general staff who are talking among themselves about who they can count on to join them if the Joint Chiefs and current command structure had to be removed. The number of military who are on the Right far outweigh those on the Left, and while a military coup is inconceivable in America, the Democrats are already governing as if we’re a banana republic so again, such a coup in not out of the question.

10.          Foreign Attack. Most likely our weakness will give Russia and China carte blanche to invade Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively. It has already allowed the Iranians to ramp up their nuclear program to the point where they can deploy dirty bombs just about anywhere in the world. The NORK’s are watching with glee and even Kim Jung Mentally Ill has lost weight and is preparing to set foot on the world stage. The panoply of jihadists are undefeatable in a classic sense…it’s a game of whack-a-mole with them and no conventional military force will prevail. And while we may not like it, the only way, in my opinion, we’re going to be able to secure our nation is to place troops in strategic locations around the globe, harden our infrastructure, and restore our rightful place as the world’s sole, benevolent but self-interested superpower. If we are attacked, which is unlikely because our adversaries know that will galvanize us as a nation and then don’t want to awaken a sleeping or wounded tiger, we will coalesce and mount a counterattack that truly could bring on Armageddon. Biden and his puppet masters have destabilized the world and the threats to peace are greater now than they have ever been.

11.          Another 9-11. I often say, “The further away we get from 9-11, the closer we get to the next one.” I’m writing this on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the horrendous event. Since that time our enemies have learned the lessons of what is called Fourth Generational Warfare. Without going into what that is in great detail, suffice it say that 4GW is a fight of small, agile and maniacal guerilla “cells” against a superpower like ours. It took only a couple dozen terrorists and about $500,000 to pull off 9-11. A successful cyber attack or even a conventional small-arms attack on our electrical grid could push America into the Stone Age in short order. Given our wokeness/weakness, this is not out of the question either, and the effects could be more permanent than what 9-11 did to us.

Pretty gloomy stuff, I know, but this is where we are today. If your head is in the sand, please get it out. Start to prepare for what could happen out there and hope and pray that we’re able to ride out this storm. Remember, once it happens, whatever “it” is, it will be too late to prepare.

May God bless us and may God bless America. It’s no longer morning Maya Angelou, it’s twilight heading into night.

Real Heroes

America, Morality, World Affairs

Let’s face it, calling every member of the military or the Intelligence Community or teachers or first responders or medical providers HEROES cheapens the contribution and sacrifice of REAL heroes. The term “garbage marine” is one my own marine sergeant nephew attaches to some with whom he served. The term has been so overused it can be said that a hero “is in the eye of the beholder”. I’m going to state categorically that while there are many who serve, who have served or who will yet serve out country and its citizens, or our allies and their citizens (or subjects as the case may be), worthy, honorable, helpful and achieving though they may be, not all are heroes.

So who’s a hero? Perhaps it’s best to first describe who is NOT a hero.

An idol is NOT a hero. There are innumerable Hollywood celebrities who are idolized because they use that celebrity to “speak out”.  One of the biggest problems of Gen Z is sycophantically following the lead of some moron actor or actress that has no connection with the real world, believe their notoriety gives them credibility, and preys on weak minds like demagogues primarily to increase their celebrity. Just because someone is held in high esteem doesn’t make him or her a hero. Is the current president (uncapitalized deliberately) a hero because there are millions of Americans who look up to him (excuse me while I force down some bile)? The last thing I’d call the president and all who control or follow him heroes!

Someone just doing their job is NOT a hero. Serving others is not necessarily heroic. The majority of service jobs are just that: jobs. That they do jobs others won’t or can’t do doesn’t make them heroic. They may do work that requires courage, but that still doesn’t make them a hero.

So, who IS a hero?

A hero is someone who does something to serve one or more fellow human beings that requires tremendous courage or sacrifice. I’m not talking about the courage to do slightly above ordinary things. I’m talking about adrenalin flowing, internal shaking with fear courage. A hero is also someone who sets aside his or her own safety and welfare and consciously chooses to take on something that serves others because of a cause they believe in.

One caveat.

There are many fools and idiots who fall into the above categories who are NOT heroes. How? Because what they’re doing is fundamentally wrong. Many members of ANTIFA or BLM may be heroes to one another, but their cause is evil. Yes it’s a value judgment, but in my opinion, anyone who ‘heroically’ supports or advances EVIL is not a hero but a villain.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Nathanael Greene, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Alan Shepard, Chuck Yeager, Rosa Parks, Theodore Roosvelt, Martin Luther King,  Oskar Schindler, Neil Armstrong, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, and on and on…THESE were heroes. All overcame tremendous adversity, scorn, ridicule, fear, doubt, trauma, withering criticism, isolation or a host of other impediments to achieve greatness, not for themselves, but for their fellow human beings.

Thus, the men and women who have organized quietly and acted with alacrity to effect the Pineapple Express rescue operation in Afghanistan are heroes. Others, unheralded, unknown to the public, unsung, are also risking their lives to save fellow citizens and allies from the grips of terrorists.

May they be blessed, guided, protected and successful.

Dear Allies

America, Government, Headlines, Media, Politics, Society & Culture, World Affairs

In February 2008 Michelle Obama famously said, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” Setting aside for a moment the obvious anti-American undertone of that statement, I plagiarized/paraphrased it when her husband was re-elected in 2012 after continuing the Leftist destruction of everything we hold sacred and dear in America for four years by saying, “For the first time in my adult lifetime I’m ashamed of my country.” Today, I say “For the second time in my adult lifetime I’m ashamed of my country.” Many have echoed this sentiment in so many words, with accusations of treason and gross dereliction of duty being properly ascribed to the Puppet-in-Chief and his administration.

So, I address my blog post today to our friends in England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and all our other allies opposed to the march of totalitarianism, communism, socialism and abject Leftist idiocy across the globe.

Dear Friends and Allies,

Please understand that America is still the light shining on the Hill. Part of the cost of freedom is permitting idiots to from time to time obtain power and influence in our constitutional republic. It’s a high price to pay, but it’s worth it for the freedoms we enjoy here and those we’re hoping to preserve for you our friends around the world.

Know that the majority of the people in this country, (and among that majority I include the fat and happy, asleep, indolent, inattentive, dumbed down Democrats and similar morons who know better and who aren’t so hopelessly brainwashed that they can yet set aside their insanity and mental lethargy when tyranny and Leftism come to their doorstep), will fight for their freedom and by extension, yours.

The anger that is building among those who cherish traditional ideals is rapidly approaching a tipping point. I don’t know how this disastrous encroachment on our freedoms and traditional way of life will be arrested. The cancer that is Leftist ideology is so metastasized now that it will take us some time to stamp in out, but I do know that the silent majority in this country are waking up and speaking out. It’s evident in school board meetings, where Critical Race Theory is being exposed and will be eradicated. It’s evident even in the Leftist Main Stream Media (MSM) who are being forced to tell the truth about the incompetency and destructiveness of Biden and his administration. If you follow the money, you see that the patrons of CNN/MSNBC/NYTIMES/WashingtonPost etc. are increasingly throwing the BS flag such that the only way the MSM can retain their viewers and thus their advertising revenues is to admit the truth, and the truth, we trust, will keep us free.

So we ask you to be patient with us for a while longer. Aussies….keep protesting the tyranny you’re facing. Frenchmen and Germans, don’t let the fascists get you down. And our brothers and sisters in the U.K., know that despite the threat to your language becoming secondary in this country, we will continue to drink Guinness, celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day, remember fighting side by side with you in so many conflicts, and honor the law and culture you landed on our shores so many years ago. (Just don’t ask to put extra o’s in words like color and honor.) And THANK YOU for saving Americans as you extricate your own countrymen from Kabul!

Paraphrasing some other famous words, those of the Terminator,

“We’ll be back.”

Sincerely,

The Silent Majority of America

Just Sayin’

America, History, Morality, World Affairs

Those of you who follow this blog know one of my key tenets is: “Go Where They Ain’t”. It’s not that I’m a non-conformist, although that turns out to be true. It’s rather that crowds and the herd are generally things to avoid not just in a crisis but also in non-threatening times as well. Similarly, I tend to go where they ain’t when collecting information. And with respect to my views on everything from local to world affairs, I ask “why?” when wisdom becomes “conventional”.

So, for example, the conventional wisdom is, “We are not nation-builders.” Nation-building, by the way, means the idea of invading and occupying a land afflicted by dictatorship or civil war and turning it into a democracy. That line is dogma for conservatives and in general, I don’t believe we should be nation builders, however, when I ask “why?” I have to also think that in the absence of us “exporting freedom and democracy”, what takes place? Turns out despotic adversaries like China and Russia move in for hegemonic reasons. That’s not good.

Another bit of conventional wisdom is, “America can’t be the world’s police force.” On this matter I have to ask, “What happens when we abandon that role?” Again, China and Russia move in. Is that what’s good for society and the world at large?

“We must withdraw from Afghanistan!” I have to ask, “why?” While we maintained a presence there, as we have in South Korea, Japan, Europe and other places around the world where we’ve acted as policemen, the country wasn’t great, but look at what we have now! And I don’t think a “prudent withdrawal” would have created a different outcome from the Taliban taking over.

No, I submit we ought to think about whether we SHOULD maintain an active military presence in places like Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria and other locales where we’ve spent blood and treasure both eliminating evil and also setting up self-determination (aka democracy). Walk away and we might think we’re doing ourselves a service, but every time we’ve done so, it’s cost us more in the long run!

It boils down to this. Either we believe that freedom and democracy are good and dictatorships and terrorist-led theocracies like the Taliban are evil, or we don’t. If we believe in freedom, doesn’t it become our DUTY to export it and ensure it around the world? Or do we pull in our horns, think we can create a bulwark against it with walls and prosperity here at home, and allow other nations whose ideologies and societal norms we believe to be evil, take over?

I grew up in Europe, an American kid going to an American school, surrounded by Americans, but with local foreign friends as well. They envied us. They worshipped the United States because of the freedoms and wealth that we enjoyed. Were we to leave our bases in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, they would be terrified! Our troops provide a deterrent that keeps bad actors from taking over. Had we troops in the Ukraine, or better, in Crimea, do you think Russia would have annexed it as they have?

If we stop patrolling the Taiwan Strait (and now, weak as we appear to be, even if we KEEP patrolling the Taiwan Strait), or the South China Sea, how quickly do you think the Chinese will take them over? They’re already establishing military bases in the disputed Spratly Islands and we’re just letting them get away with it. THAT’s what happens when we adopt the position, “We can’t be the world’s police force.”

Yes we can, and yes we should. It ain’t cheap, and it ain’t easy. But if we’re going to restore our nation as the Light Upon the Hill, I think we need to reconsider our foreign policy, our influence and Sole Superpower status.

Just sayin’

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