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Trump the Dictator?

Politics / By / January 5, 2024

Well, that is what you would believe if you listen to Democrats and their media lackeys. They fear Trump will use the power of government to go after his political enemies. And possibly even imprison them. In other words, they are afraid Trump will do to them exactly what they are trying to do to him right now. Or at least that is what they are saying. It could easily be a cynical ploy to justify the absolute STASI-like behavior of the Biden justice department and some Democrat AGs and Secretaries of State.

The Maine Secretary of State , for instance, has already ruled that Trump is ineligible to be on the ballot. This crap weasel is trying to say that “her hands were tied” because the state constitution of Maine allows any voter to raise an objection to a candidate they think is ineligible. See, it’s not that she is a wanna-be tyrant who is single-handedly removing the opposing party’s current front-runner for the nomination and leader in the polls for the Presidency. It’s not that she is taking upon herself the roles of judge, jury, and executioner in assessing whether Donald Trump committed the crime of “insurrection.” A crime he not only has never been convicted of, but never even been officially charged with. It’s that her hands were tied. She had no choice but to go full Stalinist. So she nobly upheld her duty. What a fucking hero.

The whole “insurrection” thing is ,quite frankly, ridiculous on it’s face. Trump could reasonably be considered guilty of a lot things. But inciting an insurrection against the United States is not one of them. The fact that the talking pin-heads on TV treat the “insurrection” accusation as plausible, if not a foregone conclusion, does not make it any less stupid.

To date, I haven’t heard anybody ask Joe Biden if his DOJ going after his top political opponent is bad for the country. Or whether he should put a stop to it for the good of the country. Which he absolutely could do. And would, if he had even an ounce of the decency and integrity the political class claims. The media is more than happy to pretend this has nothing at all with Biden trying to rig the next election. Because they support it. Biden is acting like a banana republic dictator, and the media pretends like Trump is the one who is a threat to “democracy.”

Would Trump do the same to the establishment sleaze bags, given the chance? It seems extremely unlikely. Contrary to his red-meat rally rhetoric, where enthusiastic followers chanted “Lock her up!” in reference to Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, when he actually wielded the power to do it, Trump was very tempered and reconciliatory in his remarks.

Don’t expect Joe Biden to take the high road and declare he intends to beat Trump at the ballot box. And not send his cronies to go after Trump in the courts while he feigns innocence. Cheating is the only plan Biden has to retain his grip on power. And unlike Trump, Biden and the Democrats care more about power than unifying a deeply divided country.

Yet Another Media is Garbage Post…

Media, Politics / By / January 5, 2024

Latest example is this interview with Vivek…

The transformation of “journalists” into flat-out activists in the matter of a few months has really been something to see. The real-time “fact-checking” and speaking over the candidate, a technique I wrongly assumed would be limited to Trump, is now standard practice for all Republicans who don’t toe the establishment line.

This bitch wasn’t there to interview Vivek. She was there to debate him. She even had her little queue card of talking points all ready to read from. Can you imagine Joe Biden, or any Democrat for that matter, getting the same kind of treatment?

I think the leftist media is in full-blown panic mode. They know that decrepit sponge-brained Joe Biden is no match for Trump, DeSantis, or Vivek in a fair debate. Biden is less popular than herpes, and for good reason. His record is a steaming dumpster fire. His agenda going forward is more of the same. So the media is trying to step in and save him. And save themselves from 4 more years of Trump.

Clueless Libs Dumbfounded to Learn Media Lied About George Floyd

BLM, Media / By / December 21, 2023

This video really is something else. These two liberals are shocked — SHOCKED — to learn that the whole BLM / George Floyd narrative was a bunch of bullshit pedaled by the mainstream media and their Democrat Party masters. Apparently the big revelation came after they watched the documentary The Fall of Minneapolis.

They are sickened to realize that the protests, riots, looting, and wholesale destruction of cities was all based on a lie. They are repulsed by the fact an innocent man was sentenced to serve decades behind bars as a sacrifice to the mob…. assuming he isn’t killed in prison first.

I guess better late then never…. but it would have been nice if these numb-nuts would have tried a little bit of critical thinking and applied a modicum of skepticism to the establishment media’s narrative back when it would have actually mattered.

It’s infuriating listening to these two nimrods talk about the evidence in the documentary that changed their minds. Because all of it was available from DAY ONE if you were just willing to look for yourself. The various police body cam videos showing Floyd gasping “I can’t breathe” and “It’s coming up on me” before anybody was even touching him. The alternate angles showing the knee on Floyd’s shoulder blade and not his neck. The autopsy report showing he had a lethal cocktail of drugs in his system when he died, including as massive amount of fentanyl. The untreated heart condition Floyd had at the time of his death. The MPD training document showing the hold used to restrain Flody was part of the department’s standard training. All of it was available in the immediate aftermath of the incident…. if you were willing to just do a quick google search. Contrary to what these guys think, NONE of the evidence in the documentary is new or newly available to the public. It’s just readily available in one place with some slick production now.

As one of the dumbasses realized in the video, the facts don’t even matter any more in this case. The false media narrative is already cemented as “THE TRUTH” in our collective minds. At this point in time, people are far too invested emotionally and mentally in the “Saint George Floyd” fantasy to admit they were played for suckers. No amount of evidence (assuming they would even be willing to hear it) will change their minds. The mental anguish and cognitive dissonance would just be too much to bear.

The saddest part is these guys didn’t even learn their lesson. Near the end, they ponder what lessons can be learned and what the major takeaways should be and are basically stymied. Let me help them out. The main lesson should be:

DONT TRUST THE FUCKING MEDIA.

The establishment media is garbage. They have an agenda to push and will lie, cheat, and steal to advance it. Their agenda is diametrically opposed to our best interests. The solution is to treat the establishment media like the activist hacks they are, and develop alternative sources of information. The guys in the video almost get there. Almost. But they just can’t seem to fathom WHY they were lied to. They can’t comprehend that winning an election is more important to the “elites” than truth, prosperity, public unity, or even people’s lives. Unfortunately, these libs are just too invested in the institutions that played them for fools to take that final leap.

US Mainstream Media Hits Another New Low

Media, Politics, Uncategorized / By / October 30, 2023

The mainstream media are now a full fledged propaganda arm for the Democrat Party. Their latest tactic is to throw some bomb during an interview, and not give the person being interviewed any chance to respond. It’s like the media have decided, all in unison of course, that Republicans and anyone else not totally up the Democrat Party’s ass needs to be “fact checked.” Live on air in real time.. The pattern is, they ask a question, wait for an answer (or possibly interrupt the answer), throw out some “well, actually, so-and-so (allegedly) reputable and definitive source says this”, and not give the interviewee any chance to respond. If the interviewee does try to respond, the host will cut them off with some variation of “we need to keep moving” or “time for another topic” excuse. It’s really blatant if you are looking for it. The nasty talking head who hosted the Trump town hall a while back tried it at least a dozen times on the Bad Orange Man. Trump was having none of it though, and she was widely panned by her liberal media cohorts for failing to upstage and discredit The Donald.

I thought it might have been a tactic reserved for Trump. But no, they are using it against all Republicans. Or at least the ones they find icky. Here’s an example I stumbled over by accident involving Ron DeSantis. DeSantis points out that crime in Florida is at a 50-year low, and violent crime is down 30% since he became Governor. Bubble-headed bitch replied with some CDC statistic showing “firearm mortality” is up in the Sunshine State. And of course she started with the bitchy and condescending “Actually, Governor…” Thing is, her statistic didn’t contradict DeSantis one iota. It didn’t dispute that violent crime in Florida is down under DeSantis, which is what he claimed.. Her statistic didn’t relate to violent crime at all. It didn’t say anything about the murder rate. It didn’t address crime in any way. Her “gotcha” statistic was about “firearm mortality.” Assuming the “fact” she quoted was accurate and not intentionally misleading (a dubious assumption for a clearly partisan media), it doesn’t refute the point DeSantis was making in the least. Anyone can easily find out that 2/3 of “firearm mortalities” are from suicides. So her big “gotcha” didn’t show murderers are running wild in Florida. It showed that lots of people are blowing their fucking heads off the last couple years. Hmmm. Why could that be? Could it be the authoritarian left and their brutal lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and forced masking isolated people and left them in despair? Who can say.

I can guaran-fucking-tee you they would never try to pull this shit on a Democrat. Unless they were bucking the Party.

NYC Liberals: Pansy Hypocrites

Immigration, Progressivism / By / August 1, 2023

NYC liked to boast about being a sanctuary city. They loved to virtue-signal about how kind and compassionate they are. How they would welcome immigrants with open arms. Not like those heartless and cruel border state conservatives. New Yorkers smugly proclaimed their moral superiority. Until the illegals actually started showing up….. Now New Yorkers can’t get rid of them fast enough. Virtue signaling and advocating for someone else to let their city get overrun is one thing. Actually living with the consequences of their self-righteous blather??? No way, buddy.

Say what you will about San Francisco. Those crazy fuckers don’t just talk-the-talk. They walk-the-walk when it comes to insane leftism. Beautiful neighborhoods overrun by homeless tent camps? Awesome! Junkies OD’ing on the sidewalks? Terrific!! Shoplifters brazenly stealing in broad daylight? Social Justice!!! Streets literally flowing with human shit?? What wonderful diversity!!!!

San Francisco, once one of the most beautiful cities in America if not the world, is now an un-livable shithole. But that little inconvenient fact won’t make the progressive lunatics running it into the ground give up on their principles. Unlike those pussies in New York.

There is No Magic Money Tree

Climate Change, Culture Wars, Electric Vehicles, Energy, Politics / By / April 18, 2023

This video is annoying as fuck. Ana Kasparian, who is supposedly one of the left’s thought leaders, obviously has no clue how economics work or where money comes from.

Stupid is as stupid does…

Poor Ana is “freaking the fuck out” that her HOA is going to have to take out a huge loan to buy electric vehicle charging stations and pass those costs on to the homeowners. It seems like she is just now realizing that the policies she has been promoting and voting for will cost a shit ton of money and make her personally poorer. She doesn’t yet grasp that global warming, and the switch to EVs in particular, is a fucking scam which will provide exactly zero benefits to society. She will probably really lose her shit if that ever happens.

It never seems to dawn on leftists that diverting resources from useful and practical endeavors that make life better to trendy inefficient boondoggles that they find ideologically pleasing will mean less material wealth and prosperity for them.

Yes, Ana. The switch to EVs will make you poorer and less mobile. THAT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT! How do you not know this???

What is even more infuriating is what Ana thinks the solution should be. She wants the government to “just give me the money.” Arrghhh. This is just proof positive that even the “smart progressives” are completely clueless about economics. Where does Ana imagine the government will get this money to “just give us” to switch to EVs? Are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer going to get 2nd jobs on the weekend? Donate some of the millions they have dishonestly attained through insider trading and shady deals? Of course not. Any money the government gives you, they first have to take away in the form of taxes. The are essentially giving you back your own money…. as long as you spend it the way they want you to. Or maybe they will just print more of it, making the money you already have worth less. Or maybe, God forbid, they borrow more money from China to pay for it, dooming our grandchildren to a life of poverty.

The point is there is no magic money tree. No free lunch. When you waste money on stupid things, you are less wealthy. Period. Having the government waste the money on your behalf does not change the equation,

But this is the level of thinking we are dealing with. This is how the younger generation has been taught to view government. As mommy or daddy here to take care of you and handle all of the adulting. And make things right when you come up short.

The left has waged a decades long culture war on American society. They started by taking over academia. Moved through pop culture and entertainment. And now have even seized the corporate board rooms and the military. Deprogramming the army of mindless bots they have groomed would take a massive and sustained effort. There is no sign whatsoever that the right has it in them to do it. America is good and fucked.

Evidence is for Suckers

1 Comment / Politics / By / April 14, 2023

I think it is cute that all of these people still think that evidence and the truth matter. There was smoking-gun evidence of the Biden crime family’s corruption before the 2020 election. Why do these people think that additional evidence will make the mainstream media or the justice department care? Because it is specific this time? It was specific in 2020. Because it is from a credible source with corroborating evidence? It was in 2020 too.

I’ll tell you when the Biden family’s blatant corruption will start to matter. When the Democrat/Progressive/Media machine decides that Joe Biden is a political liability. When it looks like he will run in 2024 and lose, an avalanche of corruption stories will magically break.

Another Rubicon is Crossed

Justice System, Media, Politics / By / April 14, 2023

The US media is not supposed to act as a propaganda arm for a political party. But progressives decided that because Donald Trump was such a danger to “democracy”, throwing away journalistic integrity became a moral imperative to stop him. I have already covered the depths that our legacy media has sunk to at length (see here and here for examples.) While “getting Trump” was the supposed catalyst, it was always clear that once the media crossed the Rubicon from informing to propagandizing, they would never be able to go back again. And going on 2 1/2 years after Trump left office, that is proving to be the case. We now have a permanent propaganda arm for the Democrat Party in control of the media regardless of which party is in power.

Now another new and even more frightening Rubicon has been crossed by progressives. They remain obsessed with taking down Trump once and for all. And also in justifying their 4 years of psychotic ravings and baseless persecutions. One of America’s core values is the belief that justice should be blind. That all citizens should be treated equally under the law. Democrats and progressives are now throwing away that fundamental value to destroy the Bad Orange Man. The media almost couldn’t contain their glee when the NY DA built up a bogus case against the former President. You could hear the smug satisfaction in their voices as they repeated “Trump is the first President ever to be indicted” over and over again ad nauseum. The Mueller investigation turned out to be a big nothing burger. The quid-pro-quo with Zelensky fell flat. The 2nd impeachment was such a sham, the SCOTUS refused to even participate. After looking like fools so many times, leftists now feel like they are finally vindicated.

Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.

-Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin’s secret police

But at what cost? To get their sham indictment, Democrats had to weaponize the American justice system. Nobody, and I mean nobody, believes this case would ever have been brought against anybody but Donald Trump. So it is now in bounds to attack one’s political enemies using the justice system. Democrats will try and argue that Trump is a special case. They will say that Donald Trump is a singularly egregious threat to democracy itself. And thus, his political persecution is justified and will be a one time event.

But that isn’t how things work. Once the precedent has been set that “really really bad” people can be targeted by the justice system, those in power will always find those that challenge their power to be “really really bad.” This is a genie that can not be put back in the bottle. And it is a sad day indeed for Liberty and Justice.

GM Death Spiral Continues

Current Events, Economy / By / March 10, 2023

The largest automaker in the US continues it’s death spiral. And it really is sad to watch. An internal memo which leaked recently states that GM is desperate to reduce “structural costs” and is looking to jettison a large portion of it’s salaried US workforce. Reports suggest GM wants to “right-size” as many as 50% of current employees. Which is a curious move at a time when vehicle structures are changing at an unprecedented pace and the vehicle market is evolving rapidly Decimating your ability to innovate and develop new products seems counterproductive at a time like this, to say the least. But General Motors doesn’t really have much of a choice given it’s financial state. The sad truth is…. GM doesn’t have too many workers to be competitive. It has too many retirees. By promising lavish pension plans to previous generations of workers, GM burdened itself with a huge fixed cost for many years to come. It made sense when GM was a gigantic corporation with massive amounts of revenue and all of it’s competitors were in the same boat. Back then, GM’s pension costs could be spread across many millions of vehicles. Today, that is not the case. GM’s share of the US market has been reduced from ~50% to only 17%. Foreign competitors without GM’s huge fixed retirement costs have already chased them out of the car market. GM stopped making passenger cars well before the big EV push. They couldn’t make any money on them. The only vehicles GM could still sell and turn a profit on were big heavily-optioned SUVs where the extra cost baked into GM vehicles isn’t such a large percentage of the selling price. GM seems to be counting on Federal subsidies and regulations to make them viable in the new electric vehicle space. Without the Feds propping them up going forward, it is hard it come up with a business model where GM remains viable.

GM has already been bailed out once by the Federal government. And Barak Obama and the Democrats made sure GM’s unionized retirees did not have to share in the restructuring pain. But with GM continuing to wither and shrink, the next big crisis seems inevitable. There is little GM can do any more to avoid it. The decisions that are sinking one of the largest corporations ever to exist were made decades ago. General Motors should serve as a cautionary tale. Don’t assume your current business model can last forever. And, that which cannot continue on… won’t.