I know this question is a tough one.

Kamala harris in nevada 640x480.How can you vote for Kamala? From the other side I know the question is the same about Trump.

Kamala gets flustered very easily if there’s pushback or distraction while she’s speaking in public. She seems to have problems when she’s confronted with the unexpected. We’ve seen this for her entire Vice Presidency. Prior to her selection as a running mate by Biden she was so throughly mistrusted and disliked she couldn’t get votes in her own state.

GettyImages 2175688934 crop 640x480.That alone speaks to her authenticity and character. If you think about it, when an inauthentic person can’t get votes in one of the most inauthentic states in the union, a place where illusion is king and success is one phone call away, then there’s something seriously wrong.

This is important to me because you have to be authentic if you’re telling someone like Putin to stop advancing into Ukraine. He’s gotta believe you’re not only serious, but what you’re saying at a negotiation table is what you really mean.

The Mullahs of Iran will not have respect for a woman, culturally speaking they don’t have to. They’ve got to believe that the President is going to provide any and all weapons to Israel necessary to level Gaza, Lebanon, and Tehran. Same goes for Xi. 

Critically thinking, Kamala just doesn’t fit that bill. Few, if any people take her seriously and she in her Vice Presidency has demonstrated that she’s culturally insensitive and out of her depth.

July 2024 kamala harris joe biden podium getty 640x480.When you add the issues of translation. How will one of Kamala’s word salads translate? Translation isn’t just word for word… It’s taking what the speaker says, then framing it in context to the situation and subject under discussion then putting it into the listeners language.

These are some of the reasons that I won’t and can’t vote for Kamala.

I loathe the woman but that personal feeling has no place in my assessment.

I loathe Hillary. I thought and still do think that she’s an evil person. That being said If it was necessary to have a woman president, I’d vote for Hillary in this election because I think she’s more logical, a better communicator, and flat scary. That decision is about the good of the nation, not my personal distaste for that vile woman.

She would be able to command respect, and lots of people have noticed her enemies end up shooting themselves in the back of the head. Putin, Xi, and the Mullas will also have noticed that. So at the negotiation table they’d perhaps be more likely to believe her. She’s authentic. Authentically evil but world leaders can work with that.

Trump Arrives in Garbage Truck 640x480.Trump on the other hand is plain spoken, sometimes too plain spoken. He’s believable, and honestly just random enough that Putin, Xi, the Mullas, and everyone else don’t quite know what to think. He’s an interesting combination of bombastic, arrogant, and narcissistic which puts him on equal footing when he walks into a room full of world leaders.

No-one is going to walk all over him, or dismiss him, or talk over him. He will be heard, and his message will be plain. Easily translated foul language and all.

Even now, while Trump isn’t president, he’s a candidate, the EU is moving to budget payments for  their fucking NATO bill. That’s a win for America and American interests. The EU appears to be making this move because they believe Trump will be elected.

I’m of a mind that Trump accurately reflects the mood of at least 1/2 of America and that mood is generally pissed off.

Americans don’t want to be in another fucking war. We don’t want to have to take in millions of so called “economic migrants”. Fuck! I’m damn close to becoming an economic migrant, where the hell do I go?

Jw 5d149ef7126ae2.45014772.(Although Poland is stable, clean, and full of good people. I don’t know if they’d give me a residence permit. )

We’re tired of all the bullshit fighting in our government, we’re tied of our tax money being frittered away for nothing. We’re angry that our government organizations can’t help our people but somehow manage to help anyone else around the world. We’re sick of zero accountability for our representatives. We’re tired of endless hearings and investigations that go nowhere.

When do we get to see some butts hanging on our office walls? When do we get to see real criminals being taken to prison, or real traitors being taken to the gallows?

I’m pissed off as a citizen, who can’t afford medical insurance, (it’s a roof over my head or insurance not both). I’m pissed off as someone dealing with home owners, and car insurance rates skyrocketing to the point that I will likely have to give up my home. I’m pissed off because feeding myself is more difficult, & finding a job, even a job cleaning toilets, is ridiculously difficult. Most are occupied by an illegal immigrant on a temporary work permit.

I’m pissed off and worried all the damn time about the next expense, or next thing breaking. I’m pissed off interest rates are affecting my purchasing power, and my dollar goes 1/3 as far as it did.

I’m pissed off when Politicians claim that the minimum wage should be $15 and I ask, “why isn’t the social security minimum $2400 a month?” They never have an answer for that one!

At the same time illegal immigrants get healthcare, cellphones with service and Internet access, housing, and stipends of, in some cases 4K a month, all funded by taxpayer dollars. 

How do people become homeless 1.What about our people, our elderly, our homeless, our veterans?

Why would American Citizens have done better putting money into a savings account during their working life than paying into Social Security? Wasn’t that supposed to be a managed fund? Oh, right our politicians have effectively stolen Social Security funds and now claim the system is broken and the money won’t be there for people in their 30s and below when they’re ready to retire

I’m asking a simple question.

Why the fuck did I work my ass off?

For what? To watch a bunch of assholes piss money, they collected from me and everyone else in the county, away on stupid shit?

Did I work my ass off only to be skating the edge of the financial precipice after a lifetime of doing the right thing, being the good American, shouldering my tax burden, obeying the law, keeping my nose clean, and then watching the Biden Harris administration shift educational loans to the backs of the taxpayers, against rulings from the Supreme Court?

Then they tell me they’re going to raise taxes? After they’ve broken the law???? WHAT!?!?!?!

Well, I’ll be damned! I was a sucker and a loser, for doing the right fucking thing. I should have devolved to my Viking heritage of looting and plundering. I’d have been better off!

My personal anger isn’t justified by any more than these issues.

Our Military service members have every reason to be a whole lot angrier. They’re dealing with my gripes and they’ve been screwed time and again.

Biden fucked em over during COVID. The VA fucked ‘em over regarding health care they earned! They’re trying to make ends meet like everyone else, they’re ignored until elections then promised the sun, moon, and stars. After the election is over they’re forgotten about again.

Our “checked out” politicians don’t get it.

We The People are angry because of the things I mentioned above.

That’s why Trump, for all his faults, is resonating with the American people, and why Biden and Harris have become a very bad joke.

We’re hoping that at least during a Trump administration when we’re being screwed it’s not because we’ve got some stupid DEI hires making the same shitty decisions that led them to $100K degrees in women’s studies. 

We hope that Trump will at least put a stop to the firehoses of money the Biden / Harris administration has been burning.

And yet, I still believe that somehow, someway, Kamala will be installed in the Oval Office. I believe that the Washington Machine is already cheating.

Virginia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, even some districts of Kentucky have evidence of incorrect voter rolls and very specific “Malfunctions” on voting machines. Colorado has leaked administrative passwords to their voting machines that the registrar of voters tried to cover up. Those passwords were available online, unencrypted, for weeks. Yet all of this is just “accidental”.

We’ve seen this movie before. All of these “accidents” that also didn’t happen last election, we’ll be told are insignificant and that they aren’t really happening this election. (We’re mistaken, we didn’t see what we saw. There are live action videos all over X of people tapping Trump and the machine changing it live to Harris.)

Four years ago, in this blog, I said I didn’t really care who won, I just wanted to get on with life. At the time I also said that our concern should be to improve our voting process such that any question of cheating could be ruled out. I suggested that we adopt voter ID and cleaned up voter roles, and even mentioned the possibility of everyone having to re-register. It’s obvious we must have clean voter rolls and only citizens should be voting. I expressed the opinion that If we did the basics without spending a ton of money we would know the will of the electorate.

Four years later… it’s Same Shit, Different Year. The election process is just as screwed up as it was because “The Machine” made sure that no consensus about voter ID and clean voter rolls could be reached. 

I believe the machine will cheat like there’s no tomorrow. The Machine acts like a living animal, it will defend itself. The last thing the machine in Washington DC wants to deal with is Donald J Trump and a cabinet of people who ask “why money is being spent on x,y, or z”.

The machine is terrified of those people in Trump’s cabinet or administration being unafraid of firing 80% of the dead wood and moving on.

So yeah, Kamala is likely to be installed in the Oval Office, just as she’s been installed in every other office she’s had. She’s the ultimate DEI hire.

Here’s another juicy thought. If by some miracle Trump wins, Kamala and the Democrat party will become election deniers and this time…

The courts will hear every case Kamala brings in every state. Why do I say this? Because we have two tiers of justice in this country. The Machine is no longer trying to hide it from us.

Happy Halloween.

After walking the dog, I’ve got zero plans other than watching old horror movies.

That sounds really good because I woke up with a sinus headache and my sinuses are all wadded up anyway. 

I’m thinking a day celebrating with Vincent Price and other Hollywood greats might be just the right thing for me to do. Some chicken soup for lunch and a quiet day.

I hope everyone has a great day.

You’d think at this point they’d keep him away from microphones!

GettyImages 2166230009 640x480.So Joe Biden put down his Fisher Price Talkie Toy microphone, and found a real Microphone.

Before his sitters could stop him, he insulted and alienated 1/2 the country, Again!

One guy on X thinks Biden is just enough “there” to do shit like this as an expression of his hatred for Kamala Harris.

I don’t know about that, it’s an interesting theory. God knows he’s got reason to hate Kamala, Schumer and Pelosi.

This time Joe called 1/2 of the country “Garbage”

I guess nobody explained to him that the Democrats and their talking heads were clutching their pearls in faux outrage over a single joke that a comedian told at Madison Square Gardens. The joke didn’t land well and that should have been it. The same comedian has appeared at Democrat events too. 

Tony Hinchcliffe is an equal opportunity offender. His claim to fame is as a comedic roaster. He struck me as similar to the old comedians like Shecky Greene, or Lenny Bruce. He obviously looks at the world as “A gig is a gig, and everyone money spends the same.”

But the Democrats, true to form picked one bad joke at a trump rally to lose their shit over. 

Biden must have heard or seen Democrat operatives casting the bones and making offerings to Satan about how to use this “super offensive” line against the Trump campaign.

I’m sure there was discussion about using it to impeach Trump yet again, or file charges in New York to imprison Trump.

The Democrat party has become a bunch of dangerous clowns. They’d be funny to watch if they weren’t so close to the levers of power in government.

Honestly there are times when I wouldn’t put it past them to just Nuke us all so the last one of them walking through the ashes could say, “We won!” That’s what I think of these people now days. There is no depth to which these people will not sink.

I could write them off, I could ignore them, and hope that their venom and hate eats them from the inside out.

However, I’m super tired of being called names.

In Joe Bidens term. I’ve been called or implied to be 

A Racist
A Nazi
An Extremist
A Fascist
A White Supremacist
A Pariah during COVID
An Insurrectionist
A Nationalist
An existential threat to democracy

And finally now Garbage.

Okay Biden, Garbage don’t pay no taxes!

Youins can hunt my Lilly white ass down, up to the Holler, if youins got the guts to try.

President Biden, If the 1/2 of the country that you so obviously hate, was in any way on the fence about voting for your Candidate they’re not now. You’ve also turned people off to the point that they’re not listening to you or your “Corrections”.

As far as I’m concerned your administration can’t end soon enough. Get your rickety ass packed and out of the People’s House. Take your skanky Dr. Jill and that Ho Kamala with you.

I may be garbage, but I’ll be glad to see the “Trash” out of the White House.

Apple Intelligence… Hmmm this might take some getting used to.

Apple Intelligence General Feature 2893369847.Hooray! 

With the installation of MacOS 15.1 I can move large files and miracle of miracles TimeMachine is operational again. (I grumble that TimeMachine after their security patch 15.0.1 was so screwed up that I lost the past year of backups but hey, it’s only important data right???)

On the plus side I can get back to working on a Photo Project I started for a friend and had to suspend because when I moved huge blocks of files the OS would start truncating the transfer at random intervals and damaging files in the process. Bet you didn’t see that coming!

All the Apple devices have been updated. It’s as yet unclear if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

One of the improvements, is built in writing tools and some interesting summary tools for things like email. 

One of the down sides may be built in writing tools. I’m saying this tongue in cheek.

For the past few years or so, Apple has had a form of predictive text and autocorrect running on Mac OS. It was a lot like the predictive text you’d get on your iPhone and iPad. Sometimes it would get really confused and autocorrect what you were saying into something completely opposite of what you meant.

Other times, the predictions would be pretty darn good and you’d forget the system was running at all.

Often I’d find myself at odds with the system because apparently I use language a little differently than the “Norm”.

Apple Intelligence is a bit more beefed up at this point. It will no doubt get smarter and push deeper into more applications. It has the potential to be really helpful. I wonder though how much my writing style will be influenced and indeed the writing style of everyone else by this tool. Will the tool homogenize writing styles so much that written words become boring?

Writing this, the writing tool has been very helpful without being a pain in the butt. I don’t know if that because it’s not fully online, or if it’s learning from me right now. We’ll see.

Microsoft is experimenting with similar systems, so I could see a convergence wherein every news article, term paper, letter, or email, read as though they were written by the same person.

Selectric II.If that were to happen, I suspect we’d see a resurgence of IBM Selectric typewriters. Both for their nostalgic “Hip” qualities and so that writers could put their thoughts on paper without those thoughts being filtered by an AI. They came in a lot of interesting 60’s & 70’s colors.

In another 5 -10 years maybe there’ll be a market for old fossils like me who know how to fix mechanical devices. That’d be funny as hell. Selectrics were pretty bulletproof but they do need regular maintenance.

$350 an hour seems about fair!  Maybe I should start searching eBay for the specialized tools now.

I haven’t worked with the “New Improved” Siri enough to make a determination about it yet.

The “Old” Siri and I would get into arguments. It was embarrassing, Siri wouldn’t understand what I wanted but rather than admit that, Siri would go off and do something completely, sometimes horribly incorrect.

I’d ask for the latest Dave Rubin podcast, and Siri would start playing Metallica. How did Siri get to Metallica from that starting point?

Then as I’m telling Siri to cancel, stop playing, make it quiet!!!! Siri would not respond. Siri would decide to respond when I was creatively swearing in ways that would make friends of mine, who happened to be Marines laugh & applaud, by opening a text message to my mother and dutifully transcribing every obscenity into the message.

Thank goodness for unsend!

If I’m ever able to change Siri’s “Attention” word, I’m going to rename Siri to “Bitch!”

Then again, with Siri being more intelligent I might not have to rename it. Time will tell on that front.

I like the changes to the WatchOS. The smart stack seems a bit more useful. I like the latest scores or weather conditions popping up the way they do. The iPhone and iPad IOS changes are also pretty nice and with the addition of Apple intelligence baked in as it is, I could see my phone becoming more useful as a multifunctional device.

I’ll make an admission here. I mostly use my phone for actual phone calls, text messages, and photos. I often forget that I can get directions and other stuff. I’ve only in the past year or two gotten into the habit of using my phone, or watch to pay for things.

The number of applications on my phone only takes up 2 pages. I don’t tend to keep apps on my phone that serve no purpose, nor do I download apps with abandon. 

The less apps I have, the less accounts I have. The less accounts, the less exposure to data breaches. There’s a logic, it’s not just that I’m old.

That being said, if in fact the new Siri can be helpful like an actual assistant, I could see perhaps becoming more interested in the convenience offered by some apps.

Part of the issue is that I live away from the city. The further you get outside city limits the less useful apps for all the city things become.

Delivery? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 

It took 20 days to get a new pair of hiking boots delivered. Really, those boots have more transportation miles on them, than I’m likely to put on them over their useful lifespan as hiking boots. Watching them come across the country, I honestly thought about just driving to one of the FedEx locations they were bouncing between, and picking them up.

Delivery… I got your Delivery right here!

I knew it was coming, that doesn’t mean I like being right.

What was coming you ask?

Riot 1 Milwaukie.Threats from the Democrat party. I’m not talking about outright, “We will Bury You” as in the case of Nikita Khrushchev. (At least he had balls!)

I’m talking about the passive crap. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that various groups are warning that “it could be very bad if Trump wins” there are already marches and protests planned by some Democrat Activists and still others are trying to do something constructive by packing abortion pills to be sent to women in anti abortion states. 

I do hope these activists are also putting in the packages an insert that says when a woman who has taken one of these pills should go see a doctor and what complications to look out for.

Otherwise I could see them being prosecuted for 2nd degree homicide.

The woman who recently died “due to lack of abortion” but who really died because she was late to the abortion appointment in another state, so they gave her an abortion pill (which by the way was legal in her home state,) apparently, the woman didn’t tell anyone what was going on or didn’t seek medical attention when things went off the rails.

Kamala Harris has mischaracterized this woman’s death multiple times. The woman would have received proper attention after taking the abortion pill when it was obvious something was wrong. By the time she got to a hospital it was far too late and even then we don’t know the full story. Did she tell the doctors all the necessary information?

I’m not trying to victim blame here. I’m simply pointing out that this abortion can of worms has little at this point to do with Trump. According to SCOTUS, this issue is to be decided upon by the states. Some states aren’t going to agree with abortion as late as the 100th trimester (That’s called murder…)

At least these women’s rights groups are doing something that isn’t destructive.

I found it interesting that there are Democrat affiliated groups saying there could be trouble to The Wall Street Journal. 

It’s almost as if they’re passively trying to threaten people into voting for Kamala Harris “To avoid trouble”. Kind of like paying protection money to a criminal to keep your nice glass storefront from having an “Accident”.

I don’t react well to threats. If I were on the fence about who the better candidate was, I’d sure as hell not vote for their preferred candidate after being threatened.

I am really curious about how the Democrats will behave if their people should wander into The Capital on Jan 20th. Will we see the same pearl clutching for four years about how AOC and her colleagues were in such horrible danger? Will it be worse than 9/11? 

Probably not. Which is why so many people are pissed off. It’s not about the right or wrong of any particular situation.

It’s about the disparity between the way one group is treated versus the other group.