Month: June 2024

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That was fairly horrific.

I watched the spectacle of live elder abuse, also known as the first presidential debate.

It’s said CNN imposed a 2 minute … Yes MINUTE delay instead of the usual 7 second delay. That long delay enabled them to cut the mics, edit the feed, and “protect” the public from seeing a medical emergency, if necessary.

What?

The debate was a shit show. Biden looked like hell and I think Trump was actually being nice to Biden because he’s got enough honor that he couldn’t kick a sick old  man while he was down.

Joe Biden head down debate getty 640x480.It took them 7 days to get Biden into shape for the debate. If this was the best they can do with him after 7 days of preparation, Biden is clearly not running the country. I don’t know who is running the country but it ain’t Biden. Nonetheless, that alone should give every American pause.

Trump being nice doesn’t mean that he didn’t take a couple of shots. 

Biden at one point after mumbling incoherently finished up saying, “We beat Medicare”. Trump agreed. The agreement was not complementary. It was a pretty nice body shot to Biden.

I wasn’t going to mention too much about the debate until I started checking the mainstream media outlets in the Apple News app. There were remarkably few articles about the debate, or Biden’s performance therein. Interestingly there’s not much coverage of Trump either. The media isn’t even doing as much joyous tap dancing about Trumps legals battles today. The conservative press was just as stunned as everyone else last night.

Jon Stewart, one of the biggest left wing, Biden cock sucking, DNC supporting Hollywood assholes out there was speechless. I’ve not checked on the harridans on “The View” today.  

After the Nation seeing Biden as he was last night, I wonder if everyone (left & right) are just stunned and reevaluating their positions. Biden’s condition can no longer be hidden.

This morning perhaps a lot more folks than usual are asking, “Do we really want this guy to have the launch codes?”

One thing that I’ve seen repeatedly said is that Jill Biden should be ashamed of herself. Folks are saying, if she loved Joe, she’d take him off the world stage and into a quiet very structured retirement. Some of the less kind people are suggesting that she’s keeping him in the race because she likes the prestige.

I don’t know if she’s ready for the criticism that’s coming her way.

Even BREITBART wasn’t all that brutal early this morning. I just checked again midmorning, and noticed that a lot of their writers have found their voices and a few knives too.

Jill Biden speaking to Joe after the debate like he was a 2 year old was embarrassing, not just for Joe, but for our county.

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Alright this kinda pissses me off but it was not unexpected.

The final T-Mobile bill showed up.

They are totally Sprintified now. Between the old Sprint’s terrible billing practices and T-Mobile’s well renown awful billing practices what you get, when you leave them is a bill that is about DOUBLE your normal rate. 

My monthly bill for years was 120.00. Then when I lost Jerry my bill dropped to $75.00. Then T-Mobile decided to raise their prices while other carriers were advertising lower rates.

Since I had the temerity to ask, about lower rates and was essentially told by a representative off shore that I shouldn’t be asking about lower rates. I made arrangement to go to one of those other carriers.

As Expected T-mobile had to make this a bad divorce, complete with alimony.

I suppose in the world I’d choose to live. I’d have expected them to ask why I’m leaving.

I’d have expected them to say, “Here’s your final bill and it’s prorated such that you only owe us for the days that you actually used our services. We’re sorry to see you go after 14 years and want you to know you’re welcome to come back to us at any time.“

Nope!

What you get is a psychotic blend. 

“We’re Sorry to see you go. You owe us 140.07“

They printed some really weird itemization. It looks like the phone line being ported to the new company collapsed the bundled plan that had my iPad and Apple Watch attached. But you can’t have a phone line on an Apple Watch by itself without a cell phone plan so in theory the watch plan should have ended when the phone plan did. 

Except it didn’t… The iPad plan since it was no longer attached to a phone plan jumped from $20 a month to $77 a month and then they doubled it. They didn’t care or notice that I manually cancelled these plans 2 days after the phone number had been ported. Nor did they care that I couldn’t cancel these plans because when they killed the phone line, they also killed my online access to the entire account.

They were acting just like a psychotic bitch burning your clothes on the front lawn!

I could call them, I could fight with their foreign customer service and get “The plan is the plan” or just pay the bill.

I’m going to choose the latter because I don’t have the energy to fight what will be a losing battle, just on principal. We all know that none of the foreign customer service people have the ability to “DO” anything. They’re just punching bags reading from scripts. AI will soon replace them and do just as fine a job as they do. Mindless recitation of a script with no comprehension of the words and less comprehension of the customer issue at hand.

Nope. I’ll simply make sure that I let as many people know T-Mobile is just as shitty as the other big carriers these days. They’ve arrived! They’re on Par with AT&T, and Verizon. Congratulations T-Mobile!

In closing,

Why are any of you reading this, paying top dollar to one of the big three when you can get comparable service for 1/3 or 1/2 the price from one of the alternate providers?

Just for the ability to flip them the finger about their shitty customer service and billing practices it might be worth switching.

However, I’d suggest that you contact your particular carrier and force them to calculate the exact day you cancel service to prevent them from screwing ya with a divorce settlement.

I might report T-Mobile to the FCC and CPUC, just to have it on file if there’s a class action lawsuit about unfair billing practices.

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To Watch the Debate or Not to watch the debate that is a question.

Though not necessarily “The” question.

I’m pretty ambivalent about watching. There was an interesting clip on twitter of a CNN hostess cutting off a Trump spokesperson after that spokesperson referenced documented statements from Jake Tapper exhibiting his clear bias against Trump.

Apparently the CNN hostess took statements of fact as an “Attack” on her colleague and wouldn’t hear any more of it. This calls into question CNN’s overall ability to moderate the debate without bias.

The question is, can CNN cover up Biden’s obvious infirmity? I’m just suspicious enough that I could see The DNC setting Biden up hoping that he’ll have a heart attack or stroke during the debate then calling Trump a “Murderer” for stressing Biden out to the point that he fell ill.

To any of the Democrat rank & file reading this. You might want to have a serious talk with the party leaders and let them know random people think Democrats have become really evil. I’m talking sucking Satan’s cock evil. The Republican Party may be a bunch of sell outs, but they’re not evil in the same way, and certainly don’t plumb the depths of depravity as the Democrats have done with Biden.

I think a lot of folks have wondered if we’re witnessing Elder Abuse with this presidency.

Td simpsons bird.Alternatively if I was Trump. I’d try to rattle the old geezer. Trump has a habit of using a lot of hyperbole when he’s speaking. Were I Trump I’d be dialing that shit through the roof, forcing an emotional response out of Biden. Simultaneously forcing Biden’s already taxed logical processing to work extra hard. Once Trump ran Biden off the rails it’s unlikely Biden would recover.

Trump could legitimately bring up the Hunter Laptop. In the first debate Biden claimed it was Russian disinformation and Trump said,  “You mean the laptop is now another ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax?”

Now the FBI, CIA, and rest of the alphabet assholes in government have admitted Hunter’s laptop is not only real, but contains DAMNING evidence. It might be interesting for Trump to revisit that whole Russia thing again. That’s gotta be a soft target with Biden and might be enough to shake him despite whatever drugs he might be hopped up on. 

I’d be tempted to watch the debate because I personally would like to see all the bullshit the “Journalists” and the Biden administration have spun to protect Biden crumble.

I’d like to see Biden just come completely undone on stage, in front of the whole world putting an end to the lies about how wonderful, sharp, and fit he is.

If he did melt down, you can bet your bottom dollar that we’d see the old “Technical Difficulties” screen

In the 2020 debate, Biden said, “I am the Democrat Party.” Seeing him fold and crumble on stage would underscore the infirmity and disconnectedness of the Democrat party. It would make a brutal campaign add.

Video of Biden losing it, with his voice saying “I am the Democrat Party”. 

On the other hand, I worry that watching the debate will be like watching a snuff film and what kind of person does that make me?

Maybe I’ll just wait to see the highlights

 

 

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After almost a month with the new cellular company, I’m pleased…

Thus far at least.

After I got the initial eSim glitch taken care of everything has worked like a champ.

I like saving $50 a month on service. Rather, I think I’m going to like that.

I did notice a bit of a data slowdown in one place I happened to be. However, that was only one spot and the issue seemed to resolve itself as I made it further down the road. I wonder if it was simple network congestion. AT&T is the underlying carrier for this particular company. I know in some areas they are a little more saturated than others.

There’s another 2nd tier company that is more expensive, but they buy blocks of data or cellular service from the big three. It looks as though they’ve figured out some balancing system that puts you on the least congested of the three carriers or perhaps the carrier with the best coverage in the area you’re in.

I didn’t go with them because they weren’t much less expensive than T-Mobile and honestly aside from T-Mobile’s customer service getting shitty and the cost of service going up… I was happy with T-Mobile. As I stated before, Their pricing and their Customer Service drove me away.

The new guys, will have me as a customer for as long as they treat me well. I’m probably never going to have “Loyalty” to a cellular provider again. 

I know it’s a hassle but I’d really suggest reviewing your cellular plan and doing some price comparisons. Especially if your phone is not under some contract.

Here’s a list of the folks I checked out.

Mint Mobile – T-Mobile’s Network
Consumer Cellular – Verizon (I think)
Patriot Mobile – All three Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T
PureTalk Mobile – AT&T’s network

What’s really strange is that going through these folks is cheaper than going through the big three Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T. I still have no clue how that works.

These companies typically have US based Customer service. I don’t know how long that’s likely to remain the case, but for the time being it’s nice to talk to someone stateside.

That being said, several have “business hours” so if you’ve got a problem, you’ll have to handle it during normal business hours extant wherever they happen to be.

Puretalk USA Promo Code.I settled on PureTalk because they were the cheapest. I don’t use a lot of data so their 3GB plan with unlimited talk and text serves my purposes very well and cost $20 a month.

There is one thing that is, or can be misleading.

If you’re using an iPhone and their iMessage app. Sending text messages may not count in the unlimited text message column.

Unless specifically set to be otherwise, iMessage uses data not SMS/MMS (Cellular Text).

So yes, the SMS/MMS part of the cellular service is unlimited, but iPhone to iPhone will use your data plan by default.

I haven’t felt like forcing my phone to use SMS. As it stands, with me using my phone as normal I’ve still got 88% of my 3 GB data available. If It becomes a problem or concern, I’ll change to the $25 plan and have 5GB which is the same as I had on the T-Mobile Plan.

I’m really curious about how the new Google RCS standard fits. Does it use SMS or is it too data?

Oh, if you do the comparison and decide to switch to PureTalk, kindly use this link.

https://puretalk.com/r/5fe72606

They do a pretty nice referral bonus. 

Yes! I’m becoming a cheap bastard in my old age.

Fingers crossed that I continue to be pleased. If not, there are other options to choose.

Have a great day.

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Wait, What? I know she’s unhinged but What???

I’m including the text of the story, and the link to the original story here

Maxine Waters: If Trump Wins in November There Will Be Violence, More Killings

By PAM KEY 23 Jun 2024

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Saturday Show” that if former President Donald Trump wins in November, there will be violence and “more killings.”

Host Jonathan Capehart asked, “How concerned are you about your safety if Donald Trump is re-elected?”

Waters said, “I’m very concerned, not only about my safety and not only about the safety of members of Congress. I’m concerned about the safety of so many people in this country, particularly people of color. Donald Trump has said that if he does not win, it is going to be fraud, and because it is going to be fraud, there will be blood in the streets. He threatens about a civil war, and he threatens there’s going to be violence. I would say all of this talk is motivational with many of those who are racist, who are sitting at home listening to him, and they are taking him up on his threats even before the elections take place. It is about thousands, maybe millions of people being threatened and being at risk because of Donald Trump and his desire to seek revenge on anything and everybody.”

She added, “I do believe having listened to Donald Trump so many times and having the attack, the insurrection that took place on the House of Representatives in Congress, on the Capitol, the Capitol grounds, we could be in for more killings like that. I think Donald Trump has to take responsibility for what he is saying about blood in the streets and violence if he is not elected to be the president of the United States of America.”

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What? 

In answer to the question, she says there will be violence if Trump wins & she’s afraid of Trump winning. Later on Mad Maxine says that if he doesn’t win and claims fraud there will be violence.

Can I infer from her world view that no matter what, there’s going to be violence? If so, might I ask who will be calling the shots on the violence?

Mad Maxine has openly called for violent actions on at least one occasion and there’s video to back up that claim. Trump on the other hand hasn’t actually called for violence, if you bother to listen to his words.

However Trump’s enemies continue to claim that he’s called for and incited violence.

Obviously they’re taking that directly from the Joseph Goebbels playbook. I’d bet that the majority of youngsters in the streets protesting about whatever they’re protesting about in this particular hour of the day have no idea who Joseph Goebbels was, so they’re going to repeat the mistakes of the past.

People like Mad Maxine on the other hand are old enough to know that name, in her case I’d bet she’s too ignorant to have learned anything about him in school.

Mad Maxine chooses to miss the point in her fear mongering. Donald Trump isn’t calling for blood in the streets, he’s warning about blood in the streets because he might be accurately judging the mood of the American People.

An awful lot of people believe that the elections were rigged. More evidence has come to light that in fact the elections were not as safe and secure as previously advertised. Recently evidence has come to light that suggests Biden could actually have lost the election in terms of votes in a couple of swing states.

The folks who were denigrated and called conspiracy theorists, who were told that their concerns and even evidence were of no consequence, and who were denied due process in the courts because “They Had No Standing” are rightfully pissed off.

Pissed off enough that they might legitimately see overthrow of a corrupt government as the only option left to them.

On the other side of the coin, you’ve got BLM, ANTIFA, and god only knows what else. For all we know at this point, we could have Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaida, and any number of other groups that hate the United States standing by, on the Joe Biden side.

Not that they like Biden, but since Biden is weak and ineffective. It makes sense for them to keep Biden in office, because 4 more years of zero consequences to terrorist organizations, or flat out criminals would be just freakin awesome for them.

Thinking it through, Mad Maxine might be 100% correct. 

No matter who wins the election in November. Blood will flow in the streets.

It would be very ironic if we had another January 6th thrown by BLM & ANTIFA. It might be funny to watch the pundits and wags lose their minds trying to defend those groups burning down The Capital.

I suppose what caught my attention was the dissonance in Mad Maxine’s response.

It’s like 24/7 she is terrified of a boogie man called Trump. I suspect that she’s also terrified of the discord and racial animus she and others have helped to create. She’s possibly wondering how the heck she’s going to avoid getting caught up in the reconciliation (the point when both sides realize they’ve been used).

Historically, when people at the bottom of creating societal divides and violent hatred are identified, they don’t live happily ever after, or very long for that matter.

I doubt that Mad Maxine has the intellectually capacity to understand that lesson. Remember, even a worm has survival instincts. Mad Maxine may not understand the threat she’s facing, but she may have enough awareness to feel some unseen danger stalking her.