Month: June 2021

Having lived a good part of my life overseas, in the Far East as well as Europe, I was appalled by Biden’s performance this week at the G7, NATO and with Putin. Anyone who can look at this man and refer to him as the Leader of the Free World or the Commander in Chief or The Chief Executive of the United States needs extensive therapy, deprogramming or both! My foreign friends thought Trump was many things, including a thug, an inarticulate boob, a narcissist, but they respected him above all for having thrown the BS flag on the leftward creep in America, for unequivocally standing up for the country, and for doing what he promised to do. By contrast, they see Biden as an idiot puppet beholden to the shrill, idiotic voices of the Far Left, a doddering old fool without the slightest bone of conviction in his body for ANYTHING and responsive only to which way the wind is blowing.

Not that I was surprised. He did precisely what so many of us expected: spinelessly double-spoke his way through the meetings with a bulls-eye target on his forehead and a sign hanging around his neck saying “kick me”! Setting aside his cognitive deficit for a moment, which of course didn’t help matters, his inner politician and putrid, almost anti-American ideology spilled out in virtually every way, from body language to the prepared remarks on his 3×5 note cards to his unintelligible off-the-cuff interviews. He proved once again he embodies everything that is vile, corrupt, feckless, condescending, self-serving, narcissistic, opportunistic, pandering and cowardly in the Deep State.

Putin laughed all the way home to Moscow. He got much. We got NOTHING! Biden can’t be so stupid as to think that Putin cares about what his reputation is among Western leaders! This was a talking point obviously written by some of his snowflake and academic, sycophant underlings. To suggest, as Biden did, that the penalty Putin would face would be a diminution of stature was about as weak a threat and about as weak a position as I’ve ever seen an American official, much less the supposed President, put forth!

Add to the list of idiocies his handlers no doubt came up with, Biden gave Putin a list of 16 infrastructure sectors that should be “off limits” for cyber warfare! Are you kidding me? THAT position was so stupid it’s almost not even worth responding to. I was amused, however, that even the MSM talking heads echoed about ten minutes later what I immediately mumbled under my breath when I heard Biden say this, “Moron, shouldn’t cyber-warfare be off limits altogether, or shouldn’t you have said that if Putin doesn’t put a leash on his Russian hackers he might find HIS pipelines and/or grid shut down!” The MSM didn’t put it quite like that but at least they acknowledged the silliness if not outright stupidity of Biden’s gesture.

Wait one second while Biden puts on his aviators…”Mr. President, you sounded very tough out there!” gushes some MSM reporter. Please pass the barf bag I saved from my last airplane trip – I think I’ll use it now.

As I watched/listened to some of the commentary after this trip I found a lot wanting. Commentators continue to walk on eggshells because of Biden’s obvious cognition problem – they are treating him more and more like a victim.

The more I think about his state and the state of affairs of our nation, however, the more I’m hopeful he’ll hang in there at least until after the election next year. It is imperative that we be able to defeat or at least stall his harmful and masochistic agenda. As I noted before and right after the election…the amount of damage he and the Leftist virus (.sic) can do in a couple of years is frightening, and that damage is occurring already. I predict his dementia will cause his virulent frustration and temper to emerge more and more frequently thus exposing the evil that he and his puppet masters are perpetrating. This will ensure victory for The Sane in November 2022. Were the 25th Amendment to be invoked too soon, the installation of a Cackler-in-Chief might prompt the weak-minded sheep to “give her a chance to work with her own kind” and threaten the blow-out victory the Right should have next year.

These are trying times. We are in a cold war such as we have never seen before. Except it’s only cold on one side. On the Left, cities are burning and kinetic war-like destruction is already occurring. Crime is skyrocketing, the multi-headed evil hydra is writhing and seeking to destroy all that is good about our nation. For the moment, our side is remaining cold/cool. How much more of this barely restrained slide down the slippery slope can we or will we take?

Tech has created a situation where there is so much INPUT coming at us so quickly it is impossible to grasp what’s really going on. Moreover, its ability to shape, color and produce information has put the power in programmers’ hands of defining what is real and what isn’t. Even the old maxim, “are you going to believe what someone is telling you or are you going to believe your own eyes and ears” is challengeable because both sound and video can be doctored or created out of thin air. In short, CHAOS is the only word to describe what is happening around us. There are moments when we think we’ve got a handle on our lives but it’s an illusion. There is no way that an individual can assimilate and process all the information: good, bad, relevant or not…that’s constantly coming at us. So, unfortunately, we conduct our lives based on an artificial reality consisting, often, of what we’ve heard or seen most recently or what has dominated the Input stream and we have abrogated the course of our civilization to those who control the firehose of so-called information sprayed at us.

Remember that cute film “Short Circuit” in which a friendly robot (“Number 5”) is constantly running around seeking “Input”. At some point he’s gathered and assimilated sufficient Input that he’s become human. (“Number 5 is ALIVE”!!)

Because our human capacity, unlike Number 5, is limited, we have taken to relying on the Internet, that “big database in the sky” to serve as a sort of mental external disk drive, an extension of our Input storage ability. Evidence of this is in plain sight…”Google” is now a verb*. I too look up things that I should know and keep in my head but instead I rely on the “big database in the sky” to provide me with almost instant answers to any question I might have. Never mind that the information may be faulty or misleading. If it LOOKS good, or SOUNDS good, or SEEMS to come from an AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE, I’m likely to accept it and/or use it to draw a conclusion. (Sound the low register buzzer….)

* I don’t use Google as a search engine anymore. Rather, I use Duck Duck Go, but that hasn’t been turned into a verb yet!

I used to think that we could go back to a simpler life: simpler communication, more black and white and less gray, a better understanding of what’s important in life and what’s secondary, tertiary, etc. It ain’t gonna happen. The influence of tech on every facet of our being is here to stay. We’re so overwhelmed with Input we hardly even have the capacity anymore to turn it off, to choose a life course that’s, frankly, more human than android.

So what do we do? How do we go forth in this world of chaos and live traditional lives when Tech is making that almost impossible? We can’t all escape to the country, disconnect from the Cloud and the Grid and become self-sufficient.

We CAN, however, put the brakes on Tech and recapture our humanity while availing ourselves of some of the Good that tech provides.

How do we do that?

We start by throwing out…yes, THROWING OUT things like iWatches and FitBits! We STOP using the boob tube to keep us company while we make dinner or putter around the house. We READ again, books that are classic, that uplift, that help us cope with one another and the world around us in HUMAN ways, not digitally manipulated ones.

If all this sounds like gobbledygook that’s because the impact of CHAOS on our lives prevents us from seeing the forest for the trees (to use a traditional expression)!

What I’m suggesting is that we pause, take a breath, “Just Say NO” to Input, and ask ourselves what’s REALLY important and meaningful in our lives. Is it the latest installment of whatever we’re binge-watching on Netflix or finding a means and place to hang the scribbled “picture” that our child or grandchild has given us? Questions like these are endless, and we hardly ever ask them in this either/or fashion. We should!

And for the sake of our families, our communities, our nation, our humanity, we must “Just Say No” to this Leftist idiocy. Like the brave moms speaking out at school board meetings against Critical Race Theory and masks, wear the ostracization of the sheep like a badge of honor. Regrettably, we are already beginning to learn who our real friends are and some who have joined the sheep will no longer be. Be cordial, be sympathetic to those feeble-minded or brainwashed souls who are unwittingly buying into the “Great Reset” or just following the other lemmings to their destruction. Stand firm for the values we know to be those of winners and benevolent to society as a whole. And filter, filter, filter the onslaught of Input coming at you!

Steve Feinstein via American Thinker June 10, 2021 so articulately characterized Kamala Harris that I just had to extract from his article. Thank you Steve. Extremely well put.

“With her constant situationally inappropriate hyenalike cackling, her astonishingly unserious, wild proclamations about matters of critical national import (such as her preposterous assertion that “climate change” is a root cause of illegal immigration), and her bizarre narcissistic need for self-promotion as evidenced by her passing out “Kamala Harris” cookies to reporters, it is clear that Harris is nothing more than a hastily cobbled together collection of progressive checked boxes: Person of Color? Check. Female? Check. Victim of discrimination? Check. Radical ideology? Check.

Yet these boxes remain distressingly unchecked:

• Detailed understanding of economics and taxation
• Job creator
• Successful manager in the “take no prisoners” private sector
• Scientific/technical expertise
• Awareness of American and world history.
• Knowledge of military strategy, hardware and weaponry

To be fair, not all great presidents check every single box. But every passable president checks at least a few of them. Harris comes up totally empty.

Exactly when the Democrats will decide to discard Biden like three-day-old bread remains to be seen. Perhaps it will be after the Democrats have passed all the extreme legislation and executive orders they feel they can get away with. That would make some sense: get as many radical policies in place as possible, have them fall on Biden, then get rid of Biden in order to distance and inoculate Harris from Republican attack for those policies in 2024.”