Fear And Despondency

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Pardon me. I wasn’t going to write a post today, but this has been bugging me all night. I’d wake up, think about this, go back to sleep.

I have a headache, feel like I have a hangover — which is very bad, since I haven’t had alcohol in months (no, not on purpose, but I don’t like drinking alone, and husband doesn’t drink, so since the boys moved out I practically don’t drink.) –and am in a mood. So, you’re surely going to have to excuse me.

(Steps up to the stage. Turns the huge picture of Heinlein to the wall, so he won’t hear anything she’s about to say. She respects him too much for that. Rolls up sleeves. Takes off a shoe, and puts it next to her on the podium. Like every Latin woman she was trained in the fine martial arts of the chancla, and it will visit your head if you don’t stop being an idiot.)

Okay, now.

First let me tell you the situation, as I see it. Of course, I could be wrong. I often am. Just not as often as paid professional analysts, campaign consultants and their ilk.

I’m not black pilled — because I think we’re winning the culture war. Which means we win this. The only question at this point is the level of utter destruction we’ll have to dig out from, and if a counterfeit of freedom will be sold to us in the form of a “strong” government before we get our freedom back — but I also don’t expect us to win the elections in November. Or not cleanly. And I don’t expect a revolt afterwards, just a lot more Irish democracy.

To be clear we don’t need a revolt, and a revolt if it happens — and it might, I just don’t expect it — will kill the good with the bad, because our side has LOUSY targetting ability, will destroy things and people we actually need to rebuild, and will throw us into what I’ll call The Latin American Loop. The Latin American Loop is increasing instability, “solved” by bringing in men on a white horse to “solve” it. Sometimes, like one in ten, you have a decent leader who will actually let the country prosper, but really it’s just dictatorship and class structure and– bah. Go read the history of Rome in the Empire. It’s just Rome. Rome not only never fell, but is infectious. Which is why importing Latin culture by bringing in large, unassimilable batches of Latin culture people is wrong and bad. And yes, I am aware that I came from one of the Rome Never Fell countries. Gorram, people. If I wanted to bring the culture with me, I wouldn’t have bothered immigrating to a country where I had no connections, no padrinos, no one to lend me a hand on the way up. I wanted rid of it, save for my abilities with the chancla (very useful for kids) and the due respect paid to the family still abroad who have no intention of immigrating. I came to America because I wanted to be American. That means living in American Culture, not Mexico-American-WTF. What part of that was unclear?

Simply increasing resistance to the insanity from above to the point it collapses and we can topple it and restore the Constitutional Republic will do it. Possibly not in my or yours lifetime, but that’s, if not irrelevant not the most important thing. History is slow. It doesn’t move at the pace of human temper.

Now none of this is what I want, of course. I want it to topple fast. I want for our voting to be restored to a semblance of sanity — if it takes purple fingers, one day of voting, paper ballots? So be it and about time — and for us to kick the small minority of cultural invaders (Marxists. The illegal incomers are a large minority) raping our polity to be thrown down and their illusions of superiority cast into the trash heap of history.

There is a very small chance. A miracle. And we can do it.

If there were no chance, they wouldn’t have taken a potshot at Trump. (Uh Uh. Just a lone nut. Yeah. I’ll buy that. Except no, I don’t. As one of my writer friends put it, the only way to get not only that much incompetence but total lack of interest in investigating is if it was orchestrated. Sorry not sorry.) If there were no chance, they wouldn’t have replaced the corpse with the puppet on the ticket (and I still say Biden will die in October. I’ll explain why in a moment.) And they wouldn’t be Cone-Of-Silencing Trump so hard. AND they wouldn’t be working their fear and despondency brigades quite so hard, either.

Guys, PLEASE follow the bouncing ball as I unpack the situation: the only chance we have to bring this to a soft landing in my lifetime is to win in November. This is almost impossible due to fraud.

To win, the left doesn’t have to create real enthusiasm for Kamala (the left can’t meme. No, really. They’re trying to make coconut-pilled a thing. They’re …. impaired.) They don’t have to create anything bad against Trump (which Lord knows they’ve tried.) They JUST have to create the impression Kamala is gaining and now suddenly “unbeatable.”

This they can do mostly by removing attention from Trump’s MIRACULOUS survival and his iconic photo with the whole palace coup stuff. Then buying up more Kamala ads than I’ve ever seen in any campaign. Then putting a cone of silence on Trump, who, yes, is still campaigning all over the country, but you don’t hear a thing, do you? Just like you didn’t until he was shot at.

AND by hitting twitter to tell us how their latest campaign is working so well, and having a million bots talk about how we missed our opportunity to unseat the left because “everyone” hates Trump. They’re reviving the DeSantists too. The idiot on twitter yesterday said that we all vote by identity groups now and “we missed our chance in Iowa” alluding to picking Trump. As though DeSantis wouldn’t get the same “vote by groups” so that doesn’t make any sense. When I hit him with the reality he was working for the enemy, he came back with it was all lost, because DEBT and only DeSantis could have reined back the debt.

This is a propaganda operation, trying to revive resentment from borderline never Trumpers.

I have only one thing to say to those who fall for this crap: If DeSantis didn’t have the kind of fire in the belly and control of his campaign to achieve victory against Trump MUCH greater name recognition, then he didn’t have the fire in the belly and control of his campaign to defeat the cone of silence and the poisonous lies the left would have uncorked on him the moment he was the nominee. It’s neither here nor there if he’d have made a better president. He’d never have got within a stone’s throw of it. Because Trump is not a bigger adversary than the wholly controlled, lying media, okay?

Now to further unpack our situation: we now know that their candidate can be so damaged they KNOW no one would buy his winning the election. So they traded him for another puppet whom they can PLAUSIBLY say won the election.

Note this has nothing to do with her getting more votes — unburdened by what has been as she is — but with the fact they can LIE about it, and the RIGHT will believe it. The depressives on the right will join the chorus with “Oh yeah, stupid women will vote for her because she’s a woman. Stupid brown people will vote for her because she’s brown,” etc. etc. ad stultium, and when they fraud her in — 400 million votes for the win — they will do what they did and some are still effing doing with Biden and saying “Well, Biden won because people hate Trump thaaaaat much, because Trump is blah blah blah.” Or “Biden won because stupid women and minorities….” ONLY they’ll say it harder for Kamala.

Look, guys, ain’t no one voting for Kamala that wouldn’t have voted for Biden. And FYI women low-key hate women in power. That’s the real reason Hilary didn’t win. The “feminists” in public will talk a good game, but in the voting booth, they ain’t voting for no woman to have power over them. And as for “black” woman…. Most black people know she’s not black. And black men ain’t gonna vote for a black woman in power.

The important thing here — the absolute crucial thing — the ONLY thing you can do stop this nonsense is to keep pushing back. To point out, no, she’s not popular, the polls are cooked, and what they’re trying to do is cover the fraud.

And you have to be loud and constant. It might be impossible if they do manage to get Michelle Obama for her running mate. Not that the woman is popular, but because they can SELL it to the right as her being popular. (I very much doubt even her husband is popular now if he ever was. I saw all his books on the discount bin even while he was president. And her hyper-pushed memoir was kind of a dud.) BUT the right believes in her invincible popularity, and it might be impossible to turn the depressives around.

Note the left intends to keep up this continuous barrage through the DNC, and Kamala’s VP “selection” because by then Trump’s surviving his shooting, the fricking miracle and that photo we were given, will be “old news” and they’ll throw doubt on it with all sorts of stupid crap. And they’ll keep the cone of silence on him. And then in October Biden will die, and there will be elegies, and it will be forbidden to criticize him because morti nilsi bonum, etc. etc. etc. All of which will lend cover to their fraud because Kamala the horror will never be fully exposed, and “everyone” will love her and vote for her in memory of the great late Biden.

All of which means when the election happens, the right will go right back to its depressive “It’s because we picked the wrong candidate, and people really love socialism and–” NONE OF WHICH IS TRUE.

You–

(Gives baleful look at the back of Heinlein’s picture, defaults to The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress mode.)

You rockheads! You deserve to starve!

But I don’t deserve to starve along with you, and you’re endangering my children, for which G-d have mercy on you, because I won’t.

THE ONLY CHANCE WE HAVE is to let them know ahead of time that the fraud will not be believed. That we won’t buy it. That the right will not lay back and think longingly of England.

THAT’s the only chance we have in the next twenty or thirty years or so.

But oh, no. It’s too much effort to stay off twitter with your depressive crap; not to turn substack into a depressive echo chamber; and to stop believing the worst of your fellow citizens.

It’s too much effort not to take the black pill much less to stop yourself from propagating it. It’s too much effort to remember that, yeah, sure, some other person might have been a better president, but Trump is the only one in recent memory that has managed to break through the fraud, and even in 2020 to make them fraud in such a way anyone with eyes could see it. Not that you have eyes, of course. They’re glued shut with your superior sense of grievance.

Holy Hel and her minions, people, how many of you are under thirty? Because the only people excused from knowing that every Republican is Hitler, and also mean, uncouth and stupid are people that young. The rest of us remember when Romney became Hitler and extreme right, and far too dangerous to elect. Romney. Pierre Delecto and the hairgel brigades, people!

WHY are you lending your voice and amplifying the psy war against us? Next you’ll believe that calling us “Weird” is really turning “normies” against us. Bob — Heinlein — help me, people, we, Oddlings and Strange ones that we are are the “normies” supposedly turned against the right by the apellation of “weird.” Like the rest of the culture doesn’t wear “weird” as a badge. Like anyone, anyone alive in America today is afraid of “weird” much less thinking two men, masculine enough to grow beard, on a ticket is “weird.”

This is Hollywood thinking and the idea that every hero must be gender swapped. And let’s remember how “well” those movies do. In fact, love it or hate it (Not my fave, and the movie had plot issues, but it was free) the movie burning up the charts right now is about MALE FRIENDSHIP. That’s not weird. It’s the rock bottom of civilization. (No, hear me out. Without it, or the concept of it men just fight each other to the death. In that milieu women are chattel.)

DO YOU THINK I DON’T HAVE MY MOMENTS OF DESPONDENCY? Those of you who talk to me privately know how often I hit those. For the love of Bob (Heinlein) I’m a chronic depressive. Do you think I live in forest with singing animals and go through my day falalalaling? I haven’t been able to work in fiction for almost a month because I’m watching your ninny behavior and feeling the sinking in my stomach as I know you’ll not only fall for the fraud again, but you’re happily running around making sure the left knows its lies are pre-bought. So its plan is gold.

Again: You rockheads! You deserve to starve!

So, this is what I’m telling you to do. I don’t expect you to follow it to the letter, because the individualists are incapable of organizing, but I expect you to try.

Hit the social media of your choice, and push back. Push back with humor. Push back with derision. Don’t be afraid to call Kamala names. Respect her position? Which of them? I don’t own a Kama Sutra. Mean to women? Not as mean as taking someone who slept her way to the top as the ne plus ultra of women. And as for respecting the position? That was always hogwash. If the person occupying it isn’t worthy of respect, the position means nothing. We don’t have nobility.

Make fun of her. Point out her mental shortcomings (It’s not difficult.) Remind people of the strange case of her race-change.

All of this is twice as effective if you’re a woman and can tan, but since the worst depressives are male, males pointing out the women of their acquaintance aren’t planing to vote for the Ho anymore than they were for Joe also helps.

And point out, always point out, that all they’re trying to do is make the fraud plausible.

Spreading fear and despondency is a war crime for a reason. Stop doing it unless you knowingly want to work for the enemy. In which case, you ARE the enemy. (Looks at picture of Heinlein.) The lieutenant wouldn’t like that. If you have to die, he’d expect you to go in a pile of spent brass and with a suitable escort. And that’s double if it’s metaphorical as it is right now. Do not let the republic die because you like whining!

Now, are you scared? Depressed? Bah. Welcome to the party, pal. I have told you for four years just about that the only way we win this is a miracle. The fraud is that big.

It doesn’t mean you need to aid and abet the fraud with your credulity. You’ll have your black dog moments, but I expect you to be an adult and keep those to yourself or a closed group, and come back to the fight ready to fight, or at least to pretend to be confident.

Now butch it up, Mary, and if despondency hits take a Valium like a normal person.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

270 thoughts on “Fear And Despondency”

    1. WP needs an LOL button for comments.

      “The shoe was never the real danger.”

      No kidding. I remember growing up being shocked that when cousins got in trouble they had to go cut their own green switch. And. They did. WTH? Mom used a wooden spoon but at least we never had to go get it. (Never slapped. Always, hand or wooden spoon, on the ass.)

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      1. I got the swat with the hand, but since Mom was a disciple of Dr. Spock, it didn’t happen often. (The last time it did, I deserved it).

        Mind you, she left her copy of Spock where I could find it, so I read it somewhere before the age of 10.

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        2. I was spanked. Hubby was spanked. But we left off spanking our one child. Didn’t use timeout either.

          Consequences worked, when he was old enough. Not giving in, when he was younger. Throw a tantrum in a store? I’ve got all day. Especially when the tantrum was because he was tired and wanted to leave. Well duh. Neither of us get your way. PIA during that tantrum. But the “I’m tired tantrums” stopped. Never believed in arguing with a toddler, especially since arguing with a toddler means “you lose!”

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        1. Switch was something commonly utilized.

          Neighbors we had in ’60s were traumatized by having to watch all 3 of us get a spanking (by dad, which was unusual). Youngest for coloring on the new hearth tiles (been in the house < 6 months), two oldest for letting her and her same age neighbor friend. The older neighbor, my age, and her little sister had to watch before dad sent them home with a gruff “Go. Home.” (He could have sent them home before the spankings after all. Right?) None of us 3 remember these spankings, but apparently the two neighbor kids did for a long time. Traumatized! (/sarcasm-tag JIC)

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        1. My mom legit broke them on my butt while spanking me. On the regular. Till an anonymous woman on the bus convinced her that this could make me go blind (!) when I was six.

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        2. Mom seemed to find wooden spoons. We have more than a few break, on asses (she might have hit a counter on the way). Usually used a flat hand. Will give it to my parents. They mostly swatted behinds with open hand. Never used fists. Never slapped. Never used belts. Heck even after got too old for swatting, when mom yelled, just swat already, latter a lot less painful.

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    2. My sainted mother was Irish. It was never a shoe. It was a hairbrush.

      That video was hysterical.

      Now when I hear some stupid commie pinko comment from one of my relatives, I can remember this and laugh at them instead of getting angry.

      They want me angry. But I shall refuse them the satisfaction. My mirth at their stupidity shall be as a sandal/hairbrush upside the head to them.

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    3. My Mom didn’t spank us kids a lot, and after awhile she a Certain Tone in her voice that would be scarier than a spanking. Even into my adulthood.

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  2. A leader is a dealer in hope, per Napoleon Bonaparte. You want to lead? Then deal in hope, actual hope, and keep your blackpills to yourselves. The Cackler can’t win believably – I don’t care what anyone says. Heck, the news reports on her taking the nomination couldn’t agree on her being a good choice.

    If you can’t lead laughing then at least smile-grimace your way through the places where others see you. Otherwise, show your true colors and sail with the people you actually agree with. At least then you’ll be honest.

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    1. There is exactly one leader encouraging hope. The others are peddling doom or “just wait and do nothing beyond silly chants and it’ll all work out one day.”

      Tend to your own garden and don’t worry about the world beyond as you’ll have no allies in that fight, only those who want you to be pawns to probe their solution.

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  3. Spend less time worrying about what the enemy is going to do to you, and more time making them worry about what you are going to do to them.

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    2. Ah, Ulysses S. Grant for the win. (Telling his subordinate generals to quit imputing godlike powers to Robert E. Lee.)

      And remember, boys and girls, the only reason Grant was allowed to finish what he started against Lee is because the Republicans won the Presidential election in 1864. There might be some vague parallel here …

      Republica restituendae.

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  4. Got a funny for you (we all need a laugh).

    Some idiot decided that Vance was a White Supremist for a really idiotic reason.

    It seems that Vance named some of his businesses after “Places” in Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings.

    And in the idiot’s world “view” Lord of the Rings is White Supremist! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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        1. Started around when the movies came out, actually, almost 25 years ago. It’s a legend of white people, and all the baddies are orcs (inferior race) and dark-skinned humans. Want to say I first saw it in Teh Grauniad, but not 100% certain.

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          1. Gee, I missed Saruman and Grima’s dark pigmentation. And Dennethor in the movie doesn’t come off too well, either.

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            1. There you go, looking for consistency instead of Virtue Points.

              (Grima was one of the few problems I had with the adaptation. I get why they made it, but he’s supposed to be handsome, and persuasive, not a sniveling greasy worm.)

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              1. I had problems with the casting for Grima and Denethor. Both of them should be handsome and Denethor should look taller and more majestic. He is a tragic figure, after all.

                But then, my big gripe was making Aragorn a more uncertain figure rather than the King returning.

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                1. The movies really did Denethor dirty, and it wasn’t John Noble’s fault, he did a magnificent job with what he was given.

                  Giving Aragorn a character arc was necessary, for various reasons external to the films, and I don’t have a problem with it because they handled it very well, and made it work without damaging the story.

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            3. The dark-skinned humans would be the Easterners and Haradrim. They only have a couple of brief appearances in the novels – the first appearence being ambushed by Faramir, and the second during the Siege of Gondor.

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              1. Sam looked at one who had been killed right in front of them, and wondered what kind of man he was, a gardener or whatever, who, given his own choice, might just have rather stayed home.

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                1. Tolkien’s WWI experience coming through, I suspect.

                  Apparently a number of them are taken prisoner in RotK. Aragorn lets them return home after the war ends. They’re shocked by this, as Sauron had fed them all sorts of lies about how awful the Westerners were.

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          2. The little G was the first big institution but “orcs are black people and killing them is racist” has infected D&D circles since the 90s. It has finally metastisized to the point of killing the game with the help of corporate “how can we make money by doing nothing” thinking.

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      1. Also, he’s white supremist because he is championing for the nuclear family, which of course means that he wants there to be more white children born (ignoring that his own children aren’t white).

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            2. Camelhump is caucasian….or mixed race if you prefer.

              My wife is 70% by genes west african and her ancestors freed themselves 10 or so years before the civil war and stayed free and were farmers and tradesmen until my wifes generwtion where upon they became high tech and white collar….

              Kids are 50% or so (havent done gene scans yet) west african. All work in technical trades or white collar. Three own homes before 30. No handouts no degrees just intelligent well educated and hardworking.

              Kam isnt bad because of skin or ancestry ….she is bad because she is a lying sack of crap who is too lazy to work. She doesnt even have the excuse of drugs or abuse to explain her descent into prostitution.

              Plus she is a commie and before the dust settles I suspect we will find a body count

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              2. Trump mocks Harris as a phony who changes her racial identity whenever it suits her and the left respons with “huh, huh, look he’s too stupid to realize Mixed-race people are a thing.” These are the exact same leftists who called George Zimmerman a “white Hispanic” and ignored the black ancestors he had in order to paint him as a dangerous white supremecist.

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                1. Trump’s goal was merely to get people talking about it. And now people on the left have to, if only to say, “Did you hear the awful thing that Trump said about Kamala!?”. But despite the initial indignance in that question, the conversation started by it will gradually shift to the fact that, yes, Kamala’s race does seem to shift depending on what she thinks will be most useful for her. Even if none of the conversation participants actually say that. And no matter your views on race in America, you will be bothered by it.

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          3. Eck-tu-el-lee, “Indians” have quite a spectrum of Melanin, depending on “where in India” and “from whom in India”.

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    4. they called it an “obscure book.” The Lord of the bloody Rings? Their lack of any knowledge of the world is almost funny,

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        2. They live in an entirely closed world. It can be shocking when one comes into contact with it. To memory quote a democrat operative “they know literally nothing.” Certainly the pink highlighter girls have never read anything beyond the course requirements and resentment studies isn’t renowned for its ummmm diversity.

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        1. WordPress turned on something called “Jetpack” with an AI assistant. In a recent post, it underlined the word “attempt” as “advanced, you should use a simpler word”. Uh no. It took me a while, but I found the setting and turned it off.

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          1. Good Lord. Part of this is because they haven’t been teaching the kids to READ.
            Find a scientific magazine from twenty years ago and one from today, and side by side compare the vocab level. It will tell you the extent of our problems.

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  5. Scared? Yes. Depressed? Yes. Giving up? Hell, no! Even if all I can do is hunch my shoulders, mutter “I do not consent” and continue walking, at least I won’t be helping the evil leftist motherfuckers ruin the land I love.

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    1. Exactly.

      I have belief, at least my vote, that puppet-masters can’t fraud their puppet into the white house in November. At worst I can state “I didn’t vote for the puppet-in-chief” (PIC for short).

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      1. Fraud will be harder for them this time around. Most of the Covid emergency rules are history, there’s been a lot of success in cleaning up voter rolls, and tricks like not allowing observers close enough to see the ballots or sending non-D observers home then taping cardboard over the windows while “counting” continues won’t be tolerated again.

        That doesn’t mean they won’t try. It does mean we have to be obstinate when they try to evade the rules.

        Fortunately the states that are already full vote-by mail were likely D wins to begin with so not a huge factor this year – but (assuming we win) Congress needs to clarify what election day means with legislation as the Constitution allows.

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        1. “states that are already full vote-by mail were likely D wins to begin”

          Tell me about it. I’m in Oregon. I can have hopes. After OR 114 passed a lot of people, in Portland/Salem metro (the usual suspects) were shocked. Won’t hold my breath. Know some of the nieces, and their husbands, have turned a corner in the last 4 years (turning 30 and having babies will do that). So another 6 for our side.

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        2. Don’t bet on its being harder. they were almost seamless in 22. And that was all machines, and no COVID.
          PLUS a majority of states are now vote by mail.
          Have no ILLUSIONS. We’re up against it.

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          1. 2022 was in a big way the usual “rinos acting like dipshits, losing in an allegedly principled manner”.

            The establishment wanted to F things up for the Trumpets, and letting their Donkey buddies win for a bit is a time-old strategy. “THAT will teach those uppity yahoos not to follow their natural leader aristocrats!” “See? Vote for -us- or you get -them-. You don’t dare vote for anyone else! Stupid Yahoos…”

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            2. No, it wasn’t. If we’re ever in the same zipcode, let me sit you down with younger son. He’s a mathematical idiot-savant. (Not that he’s an idiot). His off the cuff analysis of what was going on made it, despite all the rest, impossible. It was the machines. Oh, and vote by mail.

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    2. Unlike Kirk, I do believe in the no-win scenario. What I don’t believe in is the no-try scenario. And if I’m going down, I want it to be surrounded by the bodies of the enemies of Liberty.

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    3. Hope flutters with butterfly wings
      A thing of hope and light.
      While a doleful chorus glumly sings
      It shines deep in the night.

      A spark that charts no steady course
      But winds upon its way
      And gives the weary heart and voice
      To hold them ’till the day.

      No path it finds through days of woe
      Yet on and on it wends.
      Still it gleams as bright it goes
      And finds the strangest ends.

      The lonely souls looking up
      As its brightness flutters by,
      And the despairing deny the cup
      And still refuse to die.

      Though it does not bring the light
      It shines in deepest dark
      Giving such a strength and might,
      That wavering souls yet mark.

      Some try to catch hope’s bright wings
      And crush it’s spark of joy,
      But soul on soul slowly sings
      And other sparks deploy.

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  6. One had the thought that the Trump assassination was an Administration plot when CNN actually broadcast that Trump rally live. Normally they don’t do that. Were they expecting a shooting? And why did Jill Biden suddenly schedule an event not too far away so as to pull Secret Service resources away from Trump’s rally. Hmmmm.

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      1. Of note recently on the wtf happened front is an observation from one of the civilian drone vids taken after the event that points out the counter sniper team visible on the dangerously sloped roof in all the vids to DJT’s right, the ones desperately looking over their scopes and such, could not see the shooter because of a large tree in the way, so it was the other, more distant counter sniper team on a dangerously sloped roof to DJT’s left that ended up taking the shot.

        This also explains the weird running around the shooter exhibited beforehand, as seen in the videos taken by the guy who was wounded released yesterday, as the shooter could easily see those countersnipers and was positioning himself where the nearer team was blocked.

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          1. That was one of the first things Bongino said based on his experience doing advance team work for USSS: If you can’t put someone on that roof, put up a campaign banner to block the line of sight.

            His story was a Hillary event where he could not post people at all the multistory dorm windows at some Ivy League university event, so he had all the windows sprayed opaque with windows spray snow.

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          2. Just, no. You are trying to make the USSS into some sort of “novel” org, not a real thing.

            You cannot block even a fraction of the useful lines of site in an urban environment.

            Go up on an elevated terrain. Imagine using a really good laser pointer to entertain cats. Now look at all the places you co do so with a 300 meter laser. Now cross them all over each other to anywhere a big orange cat might stand and yowl bigly for a crowd of cats.

            Lost your mind counting yet?

            Go look at the map of the area, out to 300m. No way. Good shooters can go 600 yards easy. Its the normal “far” target for NRA “Highpower” and “service Rifle” matches. The 10 ring at 600 is 12″ and the X ring is 6″. at 600 yards.

            Got yoru attention? Go find someoen from Army marksmanshipt Unit, that competes. 600 yard target is a chipshot.

            There are tens of thousands of folks who compete at this stuff, any given weekend. There is absolutely no way you can block all avenues in any decent urban environment.

            Not possible. Absurd to try. So you cover wher eyou can and yopu put one or more shooters on hot alert to pop the bastards when they reveal. But nowadays, no cop is going to shoot foirst, be cause they will go straight to genpop.

            Product of the times, sure. Useful neglect? Of course. Loudmouth who likes crowds, pisses off half the world, and thinks himself immortal? Yup. Wont take advice to avoid shooting galleries? Check.

            Now highly motivated to show no fear, thus daring lighting to strike twice? Hello ulcerville.

            Stop giving them that black cloak of doom. They are incompetent fuckups. They need to be voted out before they back into a nuclear war the same way they have fucked up everything else.

            If you genuinely cant see this, we can discuss privately. You are going down a very dark road for no good reason, and it pains me to see it.

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            1. “600 yard target is a chipshot.”

              Yep. For me (in boot camp, and after) it was 500, not 600; the Corps changed its range distances sometime after WWII, but before I joined in ’63. But it was considered, with reason, to be an easy “possible” (50 points). And that was with iron sights on an issue M-14. The hard target was the 200-yd slow fire, fired offhand.

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          1. It is a theme with them. Often happens in 2A debates where they claim Resistance is USELESS (okay none of them say that, but it’s pretty much what they mean, and I may be acting unfair towards Vogons with that) because the Almighty State will just drone strike a few examples and the rest of us peasants will fall in line.

            I often mock them by comparing them to Hydra and wonder if they cry during that scene near the end of Captain America: Winter Soldier since Hydra’s plan in that was pretty much their idea on steroids.

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      3. I believe you but my intelligence is failing me on why they thought that would help them win.

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        1. Well, they …. look, I’m trying not to be paranoid, but Nikki Halley decided to attend the convention on that Saturday. I think they were going to let her win, because…. well….

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      4. Don’t grant them imaginary superpowers. Bad for morale. They were as surprised by it as anyone else.

        If there was any sort of -effective- conspiracy, neither you nor I would be yapping about this crap here on a public forum. We would either take the hint of the other “disappeared”, or be trying to chat through cell walls in a gulag. (“Tap code” used by PWs is fairly easy to learn. Morse also works, assuming both learn ahead of time.)

        If they can whack at Trump, why not lesser annoyances? So no.

        Abject neglect, “meh”, covers the whole fiasco. There are always loons trying to pop a president, to make a point to their hallucinations or whomever. Mr. Reagan had very good coverage, was very well regarded by his Detail, and a lone crazy nearly killed him. McKinley also died of a lunatic, and much quackery.

        Pop was USSS and guarded more than one President. I have done personal protection. (heh, good times, good training) Absolutely nothing that happened to Mr. Trump required anything more than the usual US Post Office level of burro-crat upgefuchtery and neglect. He nearly died of neglect. Was the opposition hoping he got taken out for their convenience? Sure. Was it coordinated and planned. No way.

        If that had been a planned hit, the shooter would not have been some half-fast dipstick that can’t make a chipshot from 150 meters. I assure you, I can hit 10 for 10 rapid fire at 150m, standing versus prone. And I am merely “good” with a rifle and -way- past my youthful prime.

        Don’t grant them imaginary superpowers. Bad for morale. Also makes it hard to make the correct next moves.

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        1. I could see, “Make sure the most incompetent ones are on duty as much as possible and hope for the “best,” as a working plan. Several people have suggested that one, whole also noting the sheer level of encouragement to the loonies being put out.

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        2. The problem with, “Turn up the rhetoric and make sure the detail is incompetent,” is that these would-be masterminds could very easily lose control of the whole situation. And then we’ll have equal-opportunity assassinations.

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          1. That is indeed a potential problem. But…What makes you think that they are competent or intelligent enough to spot it as a potential problem? They seem chronically incapable of seeing anything past first-order effects, and those only if they’re the desired ones.

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        3. When you look at it, the operation was decently planned when you have to add plausible deniability to the equation. There but for a gust of wind and a turning of the target’s head at the last second. As most shooters will tell you. “130 yards is a chip shot.” And yes, that roof should have been covered but was not. It’s going to be interesting to see how the chips will fall when the CYA stops working.

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        4. The main reason I thought right away that it was an untrained shooter was the attempt at a head shot. If the shooter had aimed center of mass, from that angle and distance, no concealable vest would have helped, and he’d likely have got hits with at least the first three shots, at least before he went all yank-the-trigger-faster.

          It is my opinion that attempted headshots are just a way to miss faster unless you are in fact highly trained and experienced with first rate equipment and a huge amount of practice.

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            1. Oh, he was certainly wearing a vest. Depends on the vest he was certainly wearing, however. Vest thoughts omitted, but to stop 223 that close requires more than a soft vest, and angles matter.

              But yeah, shooter could not have known DJT was not wearing a super secret class IV suit jacket over a super secret class IV dress shirt, so went for the headshot. And as a result missed him with all but one. Thank God. Since he was an a-hole hitting the audience did not matter to him either, thus the spray-and-pray shots at the end.

              The lower-percentage headshot attempt just said to me that the shooter was untrained in real life, with perhaps too much video game shooting experience.

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    2. And that nyt photographer with his Sony 9000 se at f30 and 1/8000 of a second . Not a camera setting one would normally be using on a bright summer day. . .

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      2. 0007 depending on ISO and position of the sun from the photographer a High F stop and short exposure is not unreasonable. The 1/8000 is the fastest the a9 mirrorless can do (not seeing a Sony 9000 camera but the A9 is a mod to high end mirrorless camera). It yields deep depth of field and speed would allow a longer telephoto to be hand held without issues. Not sure what ISO you’d use but it would be a reasonable mid range like 200-400 so limited noise.

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        1. In the video I saw that showed that photographer, both before the first shot and afterward the photo pool in front of the podium, and that photographer in particular, was sort of milling around and taking pics at arm extension all handheld, so fast shutter speed would maximize unblurred images. And since Stone Age film capacity (~30 pics and you need to wind back and reload) issues are long past, just moving back and forth and mashing the button to take images at full cyclic makes perfect sense when you are trying to sell enough images to make a living.

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          1. I took over 700 photos last night for one theatrical dress rehearsal, on pretty extreme settings (it’s community theater and the venue is *very* short on fresnels), and would have LOVED to be able to up the shutter speed to that level.

            As it is, more than half of them were usable—but I’d put only about 20-30 of them at “really sharp focus.”

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          2. The A9 can cycle at up to 120 shots/sec. Even my wimpy Canon T7 EOS can cycle at 3/sec flipping the mirror up and down (A9 is mirrorless and with far superior processing). Although 1/8000 is seriously fast and F/30 is a tiny aperature. Probably running at the ISO 125 limit of the chip or maybe a slightly faster “film” setting. Likely he was using some level of IS/AF zoom. Hell he dropped 5g on the body whats another G or two on the lens especially if its your business. Hell its deductible :-) .

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  8. I believe that the blue-eyed, bearded Vance should wear a flannel shirt to a premiere of the next Hallmark Christmas Movie. He should talk about meeting his wife at the University library and how he knew she was too good for him, but he couldn’t help himself, he HAD to convince her of his worth. And ever since then he drove himself to be the man she deserved. And how he wants to help our country get back to being worthy of women like her.

    He’d get the Hallmark Movie wine mom vote.

    Narrative, people.

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    1. Susan, I absolutely LOVE that idea. My wife used to be heavily addicted to those Hallmark movies. The symptoms may reappear around Christmas (Well, Halloween or so, but you know what I mean!) But that absolutely fits in with the sort of scripts I remember them using.

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      1. I’ve never actually seen a Hallmark Movie but I’ve seen commercials for them and I know how my sister and daughter who do watch them think.

        Earnest guys in flannel are their cup of tea in much the same way as epic stories about Hobbits schlepping magic rings up the side of a volcano are mine.

        Since he named businesses after LOTR locales he’s got my Hobbit fancier vote already.

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        1. The company they are bent out of shape over was named Narya after the Elven Ring of Fire that Gandalf was given by Cirdan the Shipwright “that you may awaken hearts in a world gone cold”.

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    2. I love it!

      Flannel shirt. Work dungarees. Heavy work boots.

      Earnest and devoted expression.

      Narrative, indeed.

      (He’s already got the Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children vote…)

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  10. “I still say Biden will die in October.”

    This seems like such an obvious move* that I wonder if it can be countered in advance. One way is to have Trump bring it up, either directly or obliquely, and plant the possibility in the public consciousness. He takes flak for a week or so, but then the media is forced to deny that the Dems would ever do something like murder an inconvenient old man. (Cough J13 cough.) When it happens later, Trump’s prediction looks prescient, and Biden’s mourning period is tainted with whispers of “Just like Epstein” or “Trump was right”. If Biden survives, no harm done. It’s just one more “crazy” thing Trump said.

    The other way is with a good old-fashioned grassroots conspiracy theory. Post it, repost it, chew on it, repackage it: whatever it takes to get it out there. You don’t even have to publicly endorse the theory. Just talk about it. “No way the Dems would ever kill Biden before the election.” Plant the seed. Make it part of the zeitgeist.

    Between the Trump assassination attempt and the Weekend at Biden’s fiasco, people are primed to believe something fishy is going on. Even if they dismiss it as a conspiracy theory, the idea is sticky. If Biden dies before November, they will remember and start to question. And in the meantime, the Dems are stuck with the narrative that Biden is as fit as a fiddle, so “He was sick for a while”/”It was his time” is going to be a hard pivot for them, especially if everyone has been primed to expect foul play.

    There’s no downside here. The Left already calls the Right a bunch of conspiracy theorists for questioning Biden’s mental acuity and a zillion other things, and the Right already has to sift through a slew of conspiracy theories to find the ones that actually seem plausible. One more conspiracy theory isn’t going to change the scorecard, but it might change how Biden’s death is received.

    *Assuming the Puppet Masters are as evil as they look. Given what we’ve seen, it seems like a safe bet.

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      2. I’m almost more worried about Harris. Because martyrdom.

        I also would not be surprised in Biden left us well before October, on the, “Trust him to $%^@ it up,” theory that seems to follow him.

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        1. The Reader thinks you have a valid concern. If she is given a VP candidate that can be passed off as a ‘moderate’ ala Biden in 2020 we all might be eating tinfoil hats.

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          1. The mitigating factor is that it’s getting awfully close to the election to sell a new candidate. They’ve already got their hands full whitewashing Harris. Then again, martyrdom is a powerful story. I wish I could say it’s totally impossible, but with the way things have been going…

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            1. You’re overlooking the possibility that they’ll frame it as a “MAGA extremist” and arrest Trump / refuse to recognize his win / cancel the election.

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              1. The former is disturbingly possible, sad to say. I’m skeptical about the latter, if only because they can fraud in that scenario with less risk of it blowing up in their faces. The question is whether they like the Kamala campaign they’ve got or think Ham Sandwich will do better on a martyr platform. I’d lean Kamala, but at this point, anything is possible.

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      3. After toying with it for a bit, I found a formulation I like: “#SpoilerAlert: Biden dies in October.” #SpoilerAlert is sticky and plays into the idea that the election is scripted, and “Biden dies in October” is blunt enough that you can repeat it all sorts of ways and still get the point across.

        My one qualm is that, taken out of context, “Biden dies in October” sounds like a threat. It’s not one—just a very sad prediction—but the early shares would have to play up the prediction/speculation angle until the idea has solidified enough that it can’t be misconstrued.

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        1. Maybe more along the lines of “Should I have ‘Biden Dies in October’ on my bingo card for the year?” Not quite as catchy but plays in with the “who had <unlikely thing> this on their bingo card?” running set of memes. Lower key but may be more pervasive that way.

          I know a fair few folk have been going “are we sure he’s even alive right now?”

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          1. Umm, how does one do that?

            I use only the browser version, and what I see on line says the left menu has a ‘Connect’ link, except mine does not.

            Over 20 years in IT and I still can’t figure some of these things out.

            I already follow you there.

            BTW, I sent dandelions to your Vegas address – did you get them?

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    2. And it might save Biden’s life.

      The guy’s always been terrible and he’s probably responsible for other people being offed, but he doesn’t deserve to get assassinated by his own party.

      He also doesn’t deserve to be in the company of any presidents who were killed in office, because they were all better men than he.

      So whether for pity or for spite, let’s try to keep him alive.

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      1. All of this. Say a prayer for his soul. He might not have much time left to make peace.

        (Dark and maybe too flip, but #SaveBiden is another way to frame it. He’s clearly in a bad place right now, and it’s not unreasonable to be worried about his safety.)

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    4. He’ll die in a manner that can be blamed on Ultra MAGA.

      That’ll justify a lot of arrests at strategic times in the future to warn people into silence.

      Hell, it’ll probably be traced to Twitter to justify seizing it

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  11. “I have a headache, feel like I have a hangover — which is very bad, since I haven’t had alcohol in months”

    Not implying this is happening.

    I get the same feeling some mornings. Almost every time it is because my BS is low (low 80s, which technically isn’t too low, but …) and dropping.

    I’m not much of a drinker either. I guaranty never have more than a weak Margareta (Blackberry or Raspberry), or half a glass of wine, with dinner. Seriously I get sick if I have anymore than that.

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  12. Couple of things only related at their roots.

    First, news out of China that their military is SO corrupt that common soldiers in the elite Rocket Force drain the fuel out of their missiles a little at a time to use for their camp stoves. Boil the rice, right? Because they don’t get any stove fuel, because the generals sold it. Corroboration, a bunch Rocket Force and other top generals were not on the podium for May Day this year.

    Also their frigates have skins thinner than a tuna boat. We know this because a Philippine ship punched a big hole in one of them this year, and the pictures are all over the Interwebz.

    Second, news out of Canada, the Canadian government appears to have abandoned their policy of starving the Canadian military to death, and have now embarked on a campaign of public humiliation to speed the process. Or as the newsies call it, DEI.

    Third, seemingly unrelated, I was watching a couple of car videos just now, because I’m flu-boi today. Stellantis, the company that owns Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler, also owns Maserati and Ferrari.

    One video, Racer X gave us an update on his Dodge Demon 1,000+ HP engine that died. $45K US engine, okay? Dodge gave him a new one, no questions asked… but they will NOT tell him what happened to the old one. Company policy, tough schlitz Racer X. Which of course means that Stellantis really, REALLY does not want anybody to know what’s inside that engine. Wild guess, they did a stupid in there. Probably a whole bunch of stupid.

    The other video is M539 Restorations, some European guy with a very big YouTube presence. Normally does BMWs, tried a Maserati Quattroporte GTS instead. 500+HP Ferrari engine had 300K kilometers on it, was already out of the car once to deal with “issues,” Died in five minutes. Crank oil starvation, spun rod bearing.

    The tear-down is where the real story is. You must remove the engine from the car to access the crank. Which is stupid, nobody does that. So, he takes it out. Fully equipped race shop, btw.

    First, good luck getting that thing out of the car. Holy spaghetti, Batman. This thing was designed by guys that did not want it getting serviced. Car died? Throw it away, get another car. That’s the communication.

    Having gotten it out, he finds that you can’t take the oil pump out of the engine unless you take the bottom frame off the block and remove the entire timing cover from the front. And everything else on the front as well. So much spaghetti. Gets down to the oil pump, finds the shaft that drives it is as sloppy in its housing as an old shoelace. Easy 1/6th of an inch of slop.

    Paydirt, he gets all the way down to the crank finally and finds the spun bearing. But he also finds that this Ferrari engine has cast connecting rods and a cast crank. This is a 500 horsepower twin-turbo “Ferrari.” Will the shitty cast connecting rods really stand up to that? My guess was no, and if he took out the offending rod and measured it he’d probably find it was bent. One good pull up a moderate hill could deform it enough to spin the bearing.

    Chinese military, Canadian military, coverups, fake hulls and fake missiles, smoke and mirrors. There’s a brand new Canadian frigate sitting in Pearl Harbor because it can’t keep the sea on the outside of the ship.

    Stellantis car, coverups and fake high performance engines. Oh, and mechanics leaving the industry all over the Western world. You can’t fix the bloody cars. Drive it till it breaks, get a new one.

    Lying. They’re just lying, and covering up the lies by lying some more.

    But what are we seeing on the news? The Olympics! What are our supposed Conservative media guys talking about? The Olympics!

    Maybe we would be better served talking about the guy who decided a rubber belt to drive the unreachable oil pump INSIDE a Ford F-150 engine would be okay. It shouldn’t be too hard to beat people that win by lying, right?

    #

    In other news, found out five minutes ago my Mom has stopped eating and drinking at the nursing home, so I expect to be busy with funeral and etc. soonish. I’m pretty pissed off about it frankly. I haven’t had a Mom since 2019 thanks to dementia and now I can’t visit her at the very end because I’m sick myself. She crosses the Rainbow Bridge ahead of me, and I can’t even wave goodbye. For f- sake. To be fair this is a Me problem, Mom’s asleep these days, no problem for her. She’s set.

    Maybe I’ll be better enough to go tomorrow/Saturdayish. We’ll see. Anyway, life and death puts all the BS into perspective pretty fricking fast I must say. F- it, drive on.

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              1. “Sixthed” sounds idiotic, so I’ll just say “ditto”, and hope for the best for you both.

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    4. I’m so sorry, also. My own mother is now in hospice care, at my sisters’ house. She is not eating much, either. We were able to make a flying visit in June to say goodbye, as she had asked to see the three of us, and had never done that before.

      Dreading that text message from my sister, which we know is inevitable.

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      1. Took my FIL months. MONTHS. He died by inches. May the Lord grant us quick release when it’s our time.
        In my case, let him grant me a pile of brass and an escort, too, if he’s so merciful.

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        1. Perhaps the greatest grace in my life is that my daughter was in hospice only 3 days. No pain, no fear; no regrets; prayers of thanks every day since. We knew we would say farewell but we have wonderful memories of 29 years.

          The only candidates for greater grace are my wife and children.

          So sorry for the sufferring of your FIL and all those who loved him.

          May or may not have a pile of brass, but I will not be moved from where I stand.

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            1. Thank you, but in a way I am joyfully satisfied. I know that sounds weird.

              • We knew from birth she was going to have a short run;
              • she had as good a life as anyone else;
              • we were extrordinarily fortunate to be able to provide for her care;
              • there are no objective reasons for regret (though my heart disagrees on a couple of items);
              • She was aware several years prior, but thankfully never focused
              • She was not afraid nor in pain. She slipped quickly into unconsiousness and faded quickly.

              Enough time has passed (3.5 years) so the acute grief is resolved. I have everything to be thankful about, and I am. She is able to walk, not in any chronic pain, has no restrictions, and is now perfectly happy.

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        2. My FIL went into the hospital early Thanksgiving with a second massive heart attack in six months (his third over all). Doctors did not expect him to live past Thanksgiving even as they sent him home. So we switched holidays with my folks (were suppose to be in Bend for Christmas not Thanksgiving). He actually lived until early May.

          Guess you could say he did “linger for months”. It was all he could do was be gotten up and shuffle to his chair in the family room where he sat all day hunkered over. On oxygen, which barely helped. You could hear him breathing because of the congestion because his heart was not pumping good enough. Sounds horrible. Right? But we didn’t take it like that at that time. (You’ve all read this before.)

          That same Thanksgiving in ’88, we show up that Thursday mid-day and the first thing I do is hit the bathroom with morning sickness. Naturally our secret was outed. “Not contagious” with not one, but two, RN’s in the family. Good luck with that secret. We always figured he was too stubborn and was bound and determined to see that first child of their youngest born. Not his fault he did not make it. Last grandchild was born 6 weeks after he died.

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    6. Machines are magic. (Shrug) If you’re younger than 45, you likely have no memory of buying anything mechanical that you could take apart and put back together. Especially with basic tools. (Firearms excepted.)

      I used to be able to shade tree mechanic a bit. (My first car was an MG. I plead self-defense.) But when my car threw its serpentine a few years back, I could not figure how to even get at it. So I looked it up, and learned that I’d have to take apart and remove the entire front end. I wound up calling a tow truck and paying a mechanic.
      Meanwhile, my wife is horrified that I consider paying for occasional “repairs” on my car (over the course of 18 years: serpentine, brake pads, and starter) a much better option than taking out a loan to buy something new.

      My sympathies. That sucks.

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    8. Phantom update, first of all thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. It matters, and I appreciate it.

      I got to see Mom on facetime earlier this evening, and she was awake and frowning at the phone stuck in her face, so basically pretty good. She may rally and come back for another swing at the ball, she’s never been the type to quit. I feel -much- better having seen her even on the phone, I’ll [hopefully] be able to go see her soon enough.

      Sarah, special thanks for letting me vent in your comments section.

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    9. Well, if we’re sharing bad news here, my wife of 52 years died Tuesday. Not unexpected, ovarian cancer (cancer sucks!) but a surprise as to timing. Made it seven months after diagnosis. At least the event itself was quick and peaceful.

      It’s been a crappy two and a half days. I foresee more of those.

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      1. Hugs.

        One day at a time.

        We lost dad in ’09. Mom & Dad had been married just short of 54 years. He was in home hospice the prior 6 months (vascular disease).

        I know mom (rest of us too, but especially mom) misses him every day.

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        1. My deepest and most sincere condolensces.
        2. There is a group, not know for being “politically correct”, Fascinating Aïda, that has a tune that is apt. It is, F— You, Big C! And as inappropriate and… pointed… as they can be, they manage to outdo themselves for this one… and they had the good fortune of the afflicted surviving. It is, pretty much the equivalent of, someone hearing of the atomic bombs and asking, “ONLY TWO!?!”

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      5. May you and yours be blessed. It is never easy to lose one so close to the heart. May you be reunited one day, when all pains are lost and all troubles put to rest.

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    10. But he also finds that this Ferrari engine has cast connecting rods and a cast crank. This is a 500 horsepower twin-turbo “Ferrari.” Will the shitty cast connecting rods really stand up to that? 

      —

      The Buick Grand Nationals came with turbocharged versions of their frumpy old 3.8 V6. They used the same basic engine that came in any Buick, except the cast crank had rolled fillets ont he journals and the cast connecting rods came with better (SPS) rod bolts.

      The stock GN bottom end is safe to 600HP. As in, regular weekend drag racing use, not occasional full-throttle squirts on the highway.

      The first failure point after that is the crankshaft, which is not only a bit spindly, but has offset rod journals weakening it even more.

      Looks like Ferrari’s engineering department has a way to go before matching a handful of Buick engineers with pencils and slide rules.

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    11. So sorry to hear that. My mother passed last year and rare’s the day I don’t miss her. Lost a good friend two years ago to the “stopped eating and drinking in a nursing home” as well. Massachusetts hadn’t allowed him to see friends or family for over a year at that point.

      Know I’m wishing you well.

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    12. I’m sorry to hear about your Mom. My own is about to be sent to a care facility because she keeps slipping out of the house to “go home”. She has to be watched like a hawk.

      As far as the Chinese Rocket Force is concerned, there might be another reason for the absences. There was recently a leak of lots of sensitive information about the Rocket Force posted publicly for anyone to see. The culprit turned out to be the son of the Force’s commanding general, who is (or was) a student in the US.

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    1. You know who else used trees that look like that ? Nazis, in their Afrika Korps logo. And the Russians use it currently in their Africa Corps logo as well. Russians. According to established Dem logic, this means something very sinister indeed is afoot in the Kammy campaign.

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            1. It’s a euphemism. The word does not apply to creatures of the left. They “know” in their rotten little hearts that the feelz are twoo.

              You can’t argue with blind faith like that. But you can point and laugh. I do.

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        1. The memelords need to run with this one. The slur is way easier to explain than the “official” meaning, making it stickier by default. Plus you can accuse anyone using it of being a racist and force them to deny it. “You must not think much of Kamala.”

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      1. I am also laughing my ass off (and cringing) at the notion that if her supporters just embrace her laughter and word salads, that will make her popular. They literally cannot comprehend why their smears of Trump make him stronger, and think if they just copy what they think is happening, it will make them win, because they’re the Smarter People.

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      2. Ayup. As memory serves, used in Hawaii. “Brown on the outside, white inside.”

        (Haven’t run across it in Flyover County, but I’ve heard of more eastern tribes using “Apple” the same way.)

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          1. Oreo is for blacks, banana for Asians, coconut for Hispanics was what I heard them as before now.

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    4. Warbles off-key in Cat “You puts d’ lime in d’ coconut and shake it all up, you puts d’ lime in d’ coconut …”

      Yes, I will think musical shame on myself.

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      2. Thank you for the earworm.

        “Doctor, what ever will, it take,

        Oh, Doctor, 5o re.ieve my bellyache?

        You put thr lime in the coconut and–“

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            1. The link does go to the right place, I’ve just never seen it formatted that way in a comment.

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  14. The “fix” insertion was obvious as soon as the simultaneous wave of slanted narrative stories, accompanied instantaneously by the horribly-skewed sampling polls (Dems vastly oversampled only resulting in a tiny lead for Kammy, actually not bad news given how far the slanted the sampling), plus TehGoog search results censorship, and the paid actresses espousing on the social media channels, all at once.

    Sure, no coordination there. Totally organic, no astroturfing whatsoever.

    Be Not Afraid. The Preference Cascade Avalanche Has Already Started, It Is Too Late For The Pebbles To Vote. Like Insty says, quoting Han Solo, Don’t Get Cocky, but also heed the prophet Douglas Adams, and Don’t Panic.

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  15. Remember that Kamala ad that Elon Musk re-tweeted, and that has millions of views because it’s so hilarious?

    Gavin Newscum is writing legislation to prohibit such frivolity from being created.

    What did the guy do? MADE A SECOND VIDEO, and this one’s even better than the first.

    I’m with Mr. Reagan (the creator of those videos).

    I have moments as well, frequently. I keep those to myself. We are winning, we will win, and we are better than they are. Mock, mock, mock everything they do, say, or think.

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  16. I have a very long list of things that are making me scared, annoyed, frustrated, angry, and afraid. Most of this is in the top five, so there you go.

    All it’s making me do is stockpile the emergency supplies that I can, quietly, and in places where I won’t get accused of hoarding.

    I do suspect that if things get bad enough, Biden is going to have sudden health issues and they’ll blame it on Trump somehow. If the numbers get really bad, Harris might not be able to get any life insurance for years. Current betting odds for the VP nominee has Josh Shapiro as the top runner, and he’s a fairly “moderate” candidate as things go. Be assured that he will get talked up soon with the run up to the DNC convention this month, if he’s chosen.

    And if I was Trump? I’d be going, “I can’t wait until we’re in DC, being sworn in, so I can shake Mr. Biden’s hand and Mrs. Harris’ hand and thank them for being in charge the last for years. I really want to do that and you all want to see me do that, don’t you?” And keep emphasizing that, every chance.

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    1. PJ Media has an article saying that the far-far left part of the Donks don’t like Shapiro because a) Jewish b) Pro-Israel, c) was favorable to charter schools.

      $SPOUSE doesn’t think my well-used GI system should deal with popcorn. Can’t drink ethanol, but I’ll figure out something. I love political civil wars in the other party.

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      1. My personal theory is that they’ll pick him precisely for those reasons. To them, Shapiro reassures the Jewish vote (and Jewish donors), he seems to be a moderating influence on the Harris Presidency’s bad tendencies, and he doesn’t have time (or enough time to dig up) any really good scandals about him that Trump can use to tar the whole campaign with the same brush.

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        1. Someone had dug up an alleged, “Covering up a harassment scandal,” on him.

          Michael Moore hates him, fwiw. We could find out if the wannabe puppet-masters are really in control of their pro-Palestinian faction.

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        2. The Reader thinks that if they do pick Shapiro, we’ll find out in Chicago how much control TPTB exert over the pro genocide crowd. The Democratic Convention and environs may be better entertainment than the Olympics (low bar admittedly).

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          1. Very low bar indeed, but we’re getting very close to the time when they HAVE to start making decisions. The DNC convention is a little more than two weeks away from this posting and nobody is making the moves needed to really get the candidates out there.

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            1. What they want is a coronation. And they might get it. Note we haven’t had a single mostly peaceful protest in any blue city so far this summer.

              I wobble between expecting an utter goat rodeo and a perfectly turned out, “Triumph of the Will,” type event, perfectly run and not a protester in sight.

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              1. Note we haven’t had a single mostly peaceful protest in any blue city so far this summer.

                We had some fairly large ones in DC and elsewhere by Hamassholes… that didn’t really get covered.

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        3. I’m hearing that the PA Supreme Court just ordered a death investigation reopened. The victim was a woman stabbed 20 times on the front and back, and reportedly Shapiro declared it was a suicide.

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          1. “Shot 15 times with a GI 1911[*], stabbed with six different knives, and hanged. Worst case of suicide we’ve seen in years.”

            [*] A G.I. 1911 holds 8 rounds total, 7 in the magazine. 15 requires a reload.😉

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    2. I *love* that idea, that Mr. Pres. Trump would EMPHASIZE the survival and PEACEFUL handover of the reins, as it were.m Ti would drive the left stark raving bonkers (wait, ain’t there already?). But, yeah, that is FREAKIN’ BRILLIANT. A DEEP TIP OF THE HORNS TO YOU.

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      1. Big emphasis and keep saying the same thing-not always the same way, but the same thing. He wants to be on that stage, giving Biden and Harris a handshake, and thank them for being in charge for the last four years. Whatever else happens, he wants to be there and thank them for doing their job for the last four years.

        The goal is simple-Trump is going to be there. Trump is going to be sworn in as President. And it’s going to be a peaceful transition.

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          1. Himself does grant miracles. I’ve seen it.

            Most times though, he works through human tools. I expect we will have to work for it. That’s a good thing, though. You know the worth of things earned through blood sweat and tears.

            May we all work for that miracle and savour the earned reward. May we remember all the burning insults they’ve burdened us with, all the terrible policies, rules, regulations, the murders, the political prisoners, the political oppression, the lawfare, the gaslighting, the unConstitutional edicts that kept us from work, church, and dying family, the abandonment of our allies and the fools in power betraying of our men and women in uniform.

            Let us not forget a single one of these things they’ve done to us, and may our representatives be reminded daily of them as well.

            Let the chainsaw prezzie stalk the Capitol with ten thousand loyal companions, rooting out the corrupt and sending them packing, sans pension, job, or any backing. Fix what was broken and break the power of petty tyrants.

            Liberty for all! Set the bureaucrats free of their cushy jobs to sink or swim in the capitalist marketplace. Quit wasting money on useless, deleterious stuff. Make us energy independent, can the entire State department and build it back up with practical veterans and no-nonsense diplomats. Sink the Departments of Education, get rid of the IRS…

            I could go on, but won’t. Too much corruption, not enough time. Destroy, yes, but build with the other hand. Build the wall, the pipeline, fix the crumbling electrical grid (and secure it).

            Just say no to the Ho. MAGAfauna4life.

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  17. We’re voting, wife and I. And bringing as many friends and neighbors as possible with us.

    God saved Trump, probably so he could work with us to save America.

    I’m literally afraid of everything; but I’m saddling up and riding anyway. I know the devil is trying to make me too fearful to act; but I know God has me in His care. And may God judge them swiftly if they try to cheat again. May the Lord remove them all from their places and swiftly replace them all with USAians.

    https://tinyurl.com/ride-now

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      1. Victor Davis Hanson nailed it when he compared Trump to the western archetype way back in 2016, the lone gunman who comes in and cleans up the town, but can never be part of the town. Shane rides off to his metaphorical death. Ethan stands framed in the doorway, forever outside the domestic joy he helped restore and make safe. Ringo rides off into Mexico with a prostitute because he’s the only one who sees her value as a human being, and society cannot accept either her or him.

        Being an outcast at the end is part and parcel with having the skills necessary to preserve civilization. It’s part of the western myth because, at a deep level, it is just true.

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        1. My favorite comparison of Trump is with Randle McMurphy, the protagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. In ordinary circumstances you wouldn’t root for someone so deeply flawed, a self-absorbed asshole, but you pit him against the horrible Nurse Ratchet that is the left and those exact flaws become virtues. His sheer stubbornness in the face of the petty tyranny of “You must do as I say OR ELSE because I am niceness and order” becomes a rallying a point, an inspiration that sparks a rebellion.

          God really uses our flaws in ways we can’t imagine. Like Gollum being instrumental for the end of Sauron. Also I once read a pretty good (B+ish) fanfiction that dealt with that. Freddy Krueger invades the DC universe and resumes his usual M.O.: invading dreams, finding people’s worst fears, killing them. Everyone who stands against him is defeated, Hero or Villain, because everyone has fears or something terrible in their past that can be exploited. Batman comes close, but in the end can’t defeat him either. He looks utterly unstoppable, he’s going to kill everyone good and take over the DC verse and rule with horror forever, until *spoiler alert* –

          -the Joker shows up and decides he wants to play with Freddy too. His mind is too chaotic to invade and he doesn’t really have a solid past. So Joker utterly destroys him and saves the DC universe. Because we all have a purpose in the end. I loved that as an ending.

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            1. Well, plus he could write me into something and then have me gruesomely killed by supervillains, or zombies, or get me blown up by massed artillery fire, or eaten by aliens, or somesuch. Annoy not the writer…

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        3. “Being an outcast at the end is part and parcel with having the skills necessary to preserve civilization. It’s part of the western myth because, at a deep level, it is just true.”

          As an outcast, you are outside the social circles. You have no invested interests in any party, no easy levers for others to control you, no obvious weaknesses that have been known for decades, no support base that is easily attacked.

          You are mobile, unknown, and threatening simply because you aren’t from around here.

          If the lone hero was a local boy, he’d have a far different story. He’d be dealing with known evils that know him well. He couldn’t sweep in like a whirlwind and upend everything because a power from outside the local power structure just showed up.

          Somebody really needs to do the meme. Cowboy Trump, here to clean up the town…

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    2. I’m scared too. I finished The Book of Esther a bit ago, so I’m riding hard as I can. Everything feels too important.

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  18. I guess I’ll keep referring to them as drones and critique the script the Hive downloads into their tiny overheated neural clusters. Kind of dehumanizing, but as I put it: The thought of a living sentient human being acting as they do is depressing so pretending they’re drones actually makes them look better.

    Plus I guess I’ll still refer to them as railing against people they were told to hate. Since I doubt their emotions are anything they came upon by their own free will.

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  19. I’m still seeing a four-way political division (and not the two-dimensional one, either):

    The GOP base thinks that the Democrats suck because they’re a bunch of insane America-hating commies, and that the GOP establishment sucks because they’re spineless fake-conservative wimps who would rather cozy up to the Dems than do anything to successfully advance conservative policies.

    The GOP establishment thinks that the Democrats suck because they’re Democrats, and that the GOP base are revolting peasants who suck revoltingly, such that the GOP establishment would marginally prefer to ally with the Democratic party establishment instead.

    The Democratic party establishment thinks that the GOP base sucks because they’re ultra-MAGA monsters in subhuman mutant form, that the GOP establishment sucks because they’re too beholden to the monstrous GOP base, and that their own Democratic party base sucks because they’re a bunch of semi-useful idiots and wet-behind-the-ears kids.

    And the Democratic party base thinks that the Democratic party establishment and the whole GOP suck because they’re all “right wing,” and the only sin they recognize is to be “right wing.”

    (Only the GOP establishment is hardening more toward allying with the Dem establishment, because Orange Man Mean and Icky, and the Revolting Peasants are revolting. “They stink on ice!” So the biggest fraud enabler is the GOP insistence on being “Nice” and not rudely challenging the fraud. It’s even bigger, IMHO, than by-mail as a fraud enabler.)

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    1. The would-be aristocrat’s have more in common with their opposite numbers i. The other party than with their own base(es).

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  20. Trump missed a priceless comeback against that ‘journalist’ trying to shame him about DEI Kamela:

    “That is literally what the Democrats said when they nominated her. She was selected because she was a… well, a non-white woman. If there was any other reason, they never said a word about it. Not then. Not in the four years since. Kinda late to take it back now.”

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    1. If you doubt Trump’s instincts for playing to the crowd he’s in front of at this point, how do you explain where he is currently?

      He did exactly the right thing by making a joke out of the race game she’s played her whole life, and you can tell because the audience, all black journalists, laughed. And all media outlets are being forced to lie about that reaction, despite the fact that it’s on video and anybody can check it, and the video went viral.

      All of that, that whole circumstance, makes the left look like much bigger asshats than if Trump got autistically pedantic on something that the media is dismissing as a right-wing talking point. He trolled them, making their reaction part of the proof of what he says. Far better than a mere “ackshually”.

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      1. Yep. It’s just definitively answers my question from a couple of days ago about how Kammy actually is viewed in the black community. If even the black journalists laugh at her in public…

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  22. For what it’s worth, keep a weather eye on the tropical stuff heading Gulfwards. Every time Puerto Rico gets hurricane’d the liberal yelling about “why isn’t it a state?” seems to get louder. Don’t know how that might play into the current mess, but I picked up some extra water anyway….

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      1. It’s not that it’s a benefit; it’s that liberals tend to use PR not being a state as a club to say how awful conservatives are, see, they don’t even let PR vote to choose the president!

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        1. If they are spared a year and a half of political ads, I’d say they got the best part of that deal. :-P

          Do we actually vote to choose the President, or do we just go through the motions every 4 years? Is it all merely a charade?

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  23. Nothing to really disagree with except the idea that BOHICA untol it falls over under its own is going to usher in anything other than more of the same because it teaches people to resign themselves to continued decline.

    You keep claiming rock bottom isn’t when change comes but when you rise a tiny above it and BOHICA isn’t going to create needed dead cat bounce.

    You rockheads! You deserve to starve!

    Yes we do. We all do.

    And we all will.

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        1. “Drought and famine resistant” was a pro argument used by Homer Simpson when he deliberately became morbidly obese to get on disability to work at home. Similar to my long post further up about how God uses our flaws for a higher purpose the usual commie tactic of starve them into submission (and it’s modern WEF version of we must destroy farms and cows because of global warmening or something) is going to run headlong into America being pretty, well, drought and famine resistant.

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        3. Actually yes, we are. At least, for them to try will cost more than they’d probably like to pay. :-x

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          1. Well, I’m back to working on that story that stumped me. I guess I can understand that.

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  26. Why would anyone want to be presented as the knees-plus-uvula of women?

    And yet, ladies and trollops, I present to you the Democrats’ presumpt[ive/uous] nominee for the U.S. presidency, ¡La Camella Harris!

    (Gentlemen will kindly restrain their laughter to a thunderous and earth-shaking roar; thank you.)

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  28. “(Not my fave, and the movie had plot issues, but it was free) the movie burning up the charts right now is about MALE FRIENDSHIP. That’s not weird. It’s the rock bottom of civilization. (No, hear me out. Without it, or the concept of it men just fight each other to the death. In that milieu women are chattel.)”

    Literally true and supported by history. Intertribal warfare/raiding for brides. Dudebros are civilization.

    You have no idea how weird it was to write that last sentence.

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