Sorry, I’ve been a little cranky.

I’ve hurt one of my knees again. When I say hurt, I mean chronic stabbing pain.

Jesse has been very sweet on our walks and is putting up with “old man slow”.

It’s messing with my sleep and making me really tired. So tired, that doing anything is an almost insurmountable chore.

On the plus side it’s getting better and each day, the pain is dialing down a bit, or maybe I’m just getting used to it.

I’ll be doing okay minding my own business, then I’ll catch some stupidity in politics, the government, or the talking heads & think I’ve had a stroke or something because the news and sound bites are just plain insane.

M113 Salt Creature.I actually dreamt I was watching Kamala Harris on TV and she was in a super diverse room of people. It was an interview, (about what I don’t recall.) Each person that asked her a question was obviously ethnic in some way. Kamala answered in their accent.

The crowd didn’t like her answers so they started firing questions at her all at once. She tried to answer each person in their local accent and it kept going until not only was Kamala changing accents, but her face was mirroring the characteristics of the person she was focused on. It got faster & faster until finally she didn’t look human anymore.

Then, where Kamala had been standing at a podium there was suddenly this creature panting from exhaustion. (I just realized It was the old salt monster from the original StarTrek.)

The reporters didn’t miss a beat and called the transformation, “a regrettable makeup malfunction”. Then began painting the event as a trick of the light, combined with MAGA digital interference from the internet, being injected into their live television stream.

That’s when I woke up.

I think that in one way or another for the past 10 years politics has been permeating all our waking lives. There was a time when we could pretty much ignore the stupidity. A) The level of individual human stupidity hasn’t changed. B) The concentration of truly stupid people in our government has.

It’s reached a kind of critical mass, it’s no longer about one idiot in the House asking if putting a large naval base on an island will cause the island to capsize. Although watching that Admiral choke back his first, second, third, and fourth responses while maintaining a poker face was amusing.

Now the number of truly idiotic people elected to government offices has tipped the balance such that the outliers are the sane and reasonable suggestions, and the normal stuff coming out of any office in D.C. is batshit crazy, short bus stupid, or some ugly combination of both. 

Which brings me to my point. It’s become literally impossible to ignore the buffoonery and it’s become normalized, even if you’re not crazy, you feel like you’re crazy.

That “background noise” has a habit of keeping me low level cranky most of the time. At that level, I’m usually in pretty decent control but when you add sharp stabbing pain, well the control slips. And I tend to fire off rants, screeds? without much filtering. 

All of which is to explain that this blog might be a lot more random than usual. It might also be a little more pithy than usual. So buckle up buttercups, it might be a bumpy ride.

And I apologize in advance.

It’s official – Hearing Trump speak annoys the hell out of me.

Donald trump.Although not quite as much as hearing Kamala speak.

It astounds me that it’s come down to a choice between Trump or Kamala. How did we come to be in this dire situation?

Surely, there are better, more qualified candidates!

I’ve gotten super tired of holding my nose while I’m voting. I will say I personally was better off under the Trump administration. I can’t say that is true for everyone but in my case and that of my other half it was very true.

What is unclear is, given COVID, plus a Trump administration, would we have been better off?

That’s a question for which I have no answer. Would Trump have done the same things that Biden did? Would he have followed advice that we’ve come to learn were actually procedures being pulled out of the medical establishments collective ass, or would he have called “BullShit” on them?

We’ll never know. I’d like to think that I would never have heard the words “Mandated Vaccinations” coming out of Trumps mouth, which I did hear on television from Biden’s own lips. I’d like to think that Trump wouldn’t have implied the unvaccinated were essentially plague carriers. Biden made that implication numerous times. I’d like to think that Trump would have done better than Biden at managing the crisis.

I don’t think that Trump is “Smarter” than Biden, but I think his business sense would have been more useful than a career politician’s reliance upon other career bureaucrats advice.

I’m pretty sure we’d be better off insofar as energy prices and possibly the economy too because under the Trump administration we’d still be pumping oil out of our own wells, not purchasing oil from countries that hate our guts.

Our transport costs would be lower and our cost of goods would be lower because transport was reasonable.

We’d be in a different place right now. Trump would be packing up because there’s no 3rd term allowed for a President. We’d be looking at two completely different candidates.

I’d hope that both candidates would be younger, and have newer ideas. It might even have been a toss up as to which party would present the American people with the best ideas.

Instead we’re likely to have 4 – 8 more years of Kamala. Or 4 More years of Trump, before we actually get to a President that will be able to do the job. At this point that is questionable.

Alejandro Mayorkas.It’s not just about the President, it also about the members of congress and the majority party there. Trump could probably do the job, but we know that if he wins, the next 4 years are simply going to be a repeat of his first four years.

In other words, he won’t get a damn thing done because he’ll be playing with Congress impeaching him every five minutes.

We need to move beyond that kind of bullshit.

There’s all of that going through my head. The most strident thought is that, I’ve gotten sick and tired of hearing Trump talk.

I don’t care if he’s guilty of whatever the fuck New York claims he did. I overvalued my property in order to get a HELOC. It’s up to the lender to make sure that the property isn’t ridiculously overvalued and oh yeah, that’s why they send inspectors out to evaluate the property prior to making the loan.

That Trump did the same damn thing I & everyone else selling property has done isn’t shocking. And I don’t think it constitutes guilt, especially when his lenders said they’d do it again because he paid the loan with interest, and everyone made money.

Joe biden 081523.So the New York prosecutors can shove their 34 felonies right up their ass.

Apparently, the New York Appellate Court thinks the same thing. They heard the New York Prosecution make their case about Trumps conviction and asked the Prosecutors the same questions everyone else has been asking for months. Who was the victim? What was the crime? They also asked the prosecutors to cite any similar case. 

In the end it sounded more like the prosecutors were begging to not have the court sanction them.

None of that affects my like or dislike of Trump, because it’s fucking obvious the issue was about getting Trump. Not seeking actual justice. The New York Appellate court said something similar to that as well.

I’m simply tired of hearing him speak. His voice and cadence have become almost as annoying as Joe Biden’s variable volume ramblings, or Kamala’s synthetic accents. 

I know there are lots of people that are voting for Kamala and that’s their right. If I thought she was the least bit competent I’d probably vote for her too.

Unfortunately, she’s shown me literally nothing that I can point to and say “She did a good Job there.” From the border, to rural internet, to charging stations, foreign policy, or simply not being an embarrassment on the international stage, I can’t see anything I feel confidently she’s been good at.

I genuinely wish I could.

Trump is random enough, mercurial enough, and business man enough that I think he’ll be able to douse some of the fires that got started under the Biden / Harris administration. I don’t think he’s a messiah. I think he spooks the shit out of other countries and that is to our advantage.

The funny thing is, had the Democrats not lost their damn minds during Trump’s term I wouldn’t have believed that there was a vast conspiracy in the US government that did not have the best interests of the American People at heart.

If we didn’t have the Steele Dossier, the Pee Pee tapes, multiple impeachments, then all the follow-up law suits, I’d have thought Trump was nothing more than a poor loser. But all that crap happened, and most of that stuff fell apart upon inspection.

So who was telling the lies?

It’s opened the door for Trump to be perceived as the actual victim. The Democrats may as well have paid for Trump’s political advertisements. They kept him in the public eye, they played a shitty game, and the people, many for the first time (myself included) saw how much filth there was in politics. 

Then you have two assassination attempts, and now all Trump has to do is look like a white fucking knight to win.

I think the bungled, and it was bungled, FEMA response to Hurricane Helene might have put Trump over the top. The stories coming out of NC from various charitable organizations, about FEMA encounters, are enraging.

Kamala has done herself no favors touting $750 aid.

Aside from the fact that the FEMA people say “Go Online to apply” and well Duh, there’s no power, no cell service, and no internet, telling someone to go online is really cruel and fucked up.

Some of the people literally hiked for a day to get to the nearest town only to be told basically “You’re Fucked” because we can’t help you apply but here’s a card with a phone number to call.

Aside from all of that…

1) it’s one year loan.
2) a lot of the folks in NC don’t qualify.
3) you dont’ qualify if you’re employed and have insurance.
4) those that do qualify, if they default will loose their home and land which is a great deal for the government.
5) it’s obvious that the $750 is a fucking trap aimed squarely at desperate people who are so poor all they have is their family land. Which begs the question why would the helpful people at FEMA do that?

Mayorkas, the head of FEMA, and Kamala Harris, being worried about Misinformation, which we’ve all come to interpret as information that the Government doesn’t want anyone to know, has pretty much cinched the belief that FEMA did indeed spend the money on Illegals, and has mismanaged everything else.

FEMA has been called out several times for claiming they set up StarLink or delivered generators when in fact the private pilots/owners of helicopters and independent charitable organizations did that stuff. And these folks can produce the receipts to prove it.

Trump asking Elon Musk to help with StarLink terminals and Musk saying, “Sure” then making the service free in the disaster zone. underscored the government incompetence. Given Musk’s recent issues with the FCC and other government organizations if he’d said “Sorry, I can’t do it.” He’d have been within his rights and would have really thrown mud at the government. But Musk chose instead to be helpful unlike the FCC, FEMA, and most of the rest of a government gone wild with corruption.

So FEMA has been caught unsurprisingly, in lies. Yet another nail in the coffin of the Biden / Harris administration. The ROT in FEMA probably predates the Biden/Harris & Trump / Pence administrations. But it’s come to light in the Biden / Harris administration.

There’s a phrase I see on X a lot, “You Don’t Hate Your Government Enough”. But clearly, our government hates us or so it seems.

I’m torn as to whether I want an investigation to get to the bottom of FEMAs stupidity or I simply want to see the organization ripped apart, everyone fired, and something new with accountability put in it’s place. A new organization sounds more efficient, one where none of the previous FEMA employees are allowed to be hired. There are still people waiting on FEMA payments from hurricane Ian.

I’m tired of the endless investigations, the lies, the obfuscation, and stupid excuses. All of these congressional investigations are pointless and demonstrate that not only will congress not do the work, or work together, but also that congress itself is weak and toothless. 

Perhaps they’re not weak or toothless perhaps they’re just so corrupt they’re incapable of wielding the power they’re supposed to have.

Whoever ends up being President and I’m still betting on Kamala. May be the last, or next to last, elected president of this country.

I’m still betting on Kamala because I believe the rich arrogant Democrats will arrange to cheat. I think it will be Kamala because she’s easy to control, and she’ll be a slap in the face to everyone that still believes in the American dream. It’s essentially a message. “See, we control you and there’s not a fucking thing you can do about it.

Nikita Khrushchev.Well perhaps it will be more peaceful than the Russian Revolution, or China’s “Cultural Revolution” both of which were nothing more than pretty names for communism.

On Jan 20th 2025, as Kamala takes the oath of office with her fingers crossed behind her back. Nikita Khrushchev will be smiling.

In recent days there have been very disturbing rumors from the hurricane damaged ares…

Alejandro mayorkas The first rumor that has been subsequently confirmed was that FEMA didn’t have enough cash to see them through the hurricane season. 

Alejandro Mayorkas has once again failed the people of the United States. He sits at the top of DHS, which control FEMA.

It turns out this dumb fucker pissed away a shit ton of tax payer money on illegal aliens who, by the way, get more on their EBT cards and housing allowances than American Citizens on social security.

So let me get this straight, a Citizen with a lifetime of work and contribution to the society of the United States has less value than an illegal alien who comes across the border with their hands out for free shit? Right! Got it!

Th 3440218804.But to top that off, thousands of citizens from Georgia to North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee have to put up with FEMA not having enough money, and get kicked in the balls three times by the US Government.

1) FEMA gave the cash to Illegals

2) Biden’s comment was, “we’ve been warning about climate change.” (So what the fuck does that mean? That these people should have… what? Shot themselves because a storm might come into the interior of the United States? FUCK!) Biden & Washington obviously don’t give a shit about the people in the affected areas.

3) Kamala offers $750 on an EBT card to people who can’t get out of their homes and towns because the roads aren’t open but it wouldn’t matter anyway because without communications and electricity the EBT card’s only value might be that it’s flammable plastic and could start a camp fire.

This is the government we have. These are the people in charge. REALLY?!?!?! 

Biden theyre happy.This is the best these dumb fuckers can come up with?

Well the local rednecks aren’t having any of it and that’s becoming an embarrassment to the Biden/Harris Administration.

Rednecks have cleared roads with their own heavy equipment.

Rednecks are flying their own private helicopters into the affected areas delivering food, water, and medicines.

Rednecks are coordinating search and rescue. Oh and they did all this in a day or two after the storm cleared. They’re still doing what needs to be done for their communities.

My God, there are Rednecks on horseback with pack mules carrying supplies into some of these places.

Then FEMA is coming in and telling the Rednecks they can’t do stuff like this. That’s disturbing enough, but it gets worse.

While military resources are being held up with red tape, while FEMA resources are saying they’re stretched too thin, someone has ordered law enforcement to threaten Pilots with arrest if they keep flying rescue missions.

FEMA has moved into some of the High Schools where they could get in and rumor has it, they’ve confiscated donated funds, supplies, and other resources.

These aren’t “one off” rumors, these are multiple people making the same accusations from obviously different towns. (Or ruins of towns)

Well it’s getting out. The Biden / Harris administration is being called on the carpet again and again. At this point local news affiliates are reporting on the lack of government response and the people they’re interviewing are delivering damning “Mic Drop” moments during those interviews.

One was a helicopter pilot that was told he would be arrested if he rescues another person. The pilot had just flown a man’s wife to safety and to do so had left his own son with the husband. Why? Because he was concerned that the narrowness of the landing zone plus the weight of four people presented a danger for safe takeoff. In other words he was responsible. So for him it was I’ll ferry one person out at a time.

He drops the lady off, then is told by a fire official he’ll be arrested if he goes back up to ferry the husband out. So he goes back, picks up his Son and flies away. Because apparently, the fire official felt he needed to have CONTROL of the scene even though he had ZERO capability to effect rescues. 

The town manager was trotted out to explain that they didn’t want inexperienced or unskilled pilots performing rescues. But the pilot and his son were welcomed the next day by the same damn officials in the same damn area. Because 24 hours later this pilot apparently miraculously gained enough experience points.

There was another report from a lady who was sitting outside a FEMA command center along with all her neighbors who were having to fill out requests for permission to help their neighbors. She said she wouldn’t have bothered but the FEMA guards wouldn’t let her pass to walk up the holler to check on her neighbors. She was less than complementary about the FEMA officials and pointed out she’d lived in this particular holler all her damn life as had her neighbors. She rightly pointed out that FEMA shouldn’t be barking orders if they were there to help.

X is literally alive with report after report of FEMA and government officials interfering with aid. There have now been reports that suggest FEMA will confiscate some food, water, clothing, and other supplies because these supplied are not from “Approved” vendors.

So by FEMA logic, it’s better to have people not eat for 6 days than to allow unapproved vendors food into a disaster area. 

Fucking brilliant!

One that actually got me laughing was from a lady who was clearly a steel magnolia. She said she had a pallet of chainsaws she had to redirect off the main road because FEMA threatened to confiscate them.

She looked at the camera and very directly said chainsaws in the hands of folks from the holler was going to be much more productive than in the hands of FEMA. She also implied that FEMA should probably stick to the areas the mountain folks had already made safe.

FEMA existed before the Biden / Harris administration, now it is clear that FEMA, and probably all branches of DHS need to be completely disbanded. It’s obvious there is corruption from top to bottom and Mayorkas should be tried for treason.

At least this debacle might sink the Harris/Walz campaign. Walz supposedly presided over Minneapolis burning. His wife is quoted as “Opening the windows to let the smell of burning tires waft through our house as a sign of progress.”

Whew, do I want that kind of nut job as the Second Lady? Hell No!

Cartoons are starting to appear as of today that are illustrative of the mood of some people.

Interestingly, more Rednecks are working their way around the FEMA roadblocks. They’re acting like they’re running moonshine to get supplies to people who are in need and universally saying fuck off FEMA!

There was one video of people hiking into a holler carrying supplies because that was the only way to get supplies in.  

There have been reports of FEMA brandishing arms to threaten people. I haven’t been able to confirm that. I feel real sorry for the dumb FEMA fuck who shoots a Redneck. If that happens some FEMA jackasses will likely end up just another few naked dead bodies floating downriver.

That being said, there is an anomaly that I find really interesting.

The usual grumbling and chatter about revolt against the government or civil war has suddenly dropped off a cliff. There’s not nearly as much as I’ve gotten used to seeing.

I take that as a really bad sign. When Southerners stop talking, it usually means they’re getting ready to start doing.

This mess, you can see the swath of destruction from space by the way, and the lack of government response, has pissed off a whole lot of people and woke up a bunch of other people.

In California, with FEMA not having enough money to finish out the hurricane season, what happens if, God Forbid, we have a big earthquake. We’re due, actually overdue, for something along the line of the Loma Prieta quake of 1989. 

NOAA 20 satellite helene power.Can you see Mayorkas telling California, FEMA is out of money? What about the recent wildfires? Don’t tell me those people are being offered a lousy $750! Oh, multiple reports say that affected individuals in the hurricane zone are being denied the lousy $750 because oh hey, they have homeowner insurance or renters insurance. 

Say WHAT?

Which is it Cackler In Chief? Do folks get $750 or Not?

Got news for you bitch! Their insurance won’t begin to pay off until an insurance adjuster can get in to inspect the property which they can’t do because the roads are closed and FEMA is in some cases preventing the locals from just doing the job.

So you’ve got people who may have been evacuated to safety but who can’t pay for food, diapers, clothing, or fuel because they don’t have access to to their bank accounts, the insurance hasn’t and won’t pay off yet, and FEMA is making sure that only approved supplies are distributed, while preventing local folks from clearing the roads because of “Qualifications”.

Down in Florida, FEMA has fucked up clearing property in Pinellas County because they don’t want to allow local landfills to take large truckloads. Apparently if the truck has commercial markings on it, even if they’re donating their time, truck, and fuel, to help their community and neighbors, they’re not allowed to offload, per FEMA rules.

FEMA claims they’re going to handle it and has gone so far as to tell the dump truck drivers to dump the already loaded trash back in the driveways of the residences. FEMA claims they’ll get to it over the course of the next year or whatever.

Uh, FEMA Dumbasses, that dog don’t hunt in Florida. Mold from water inundation doesn’t stop for a year or so while you get your shit together. Rats don’t stop multiplying and are already becoming a problem because of edible stuff in the debris. The debris needs to be moved fast otherwise you’re going to have other health problems. Think of almost any Rat born disease and leaving piles of rubble and debris sitting in neighborhoods is going to cause it.

This is a perfect example of the idiots in government needing to just get the hell out of the way. There are times when the locals, you know, those who live in and deal with a particular environment every day, should be trusted and relied upon to know what is best. This is when FEMA should ask, “Based on your experience living here what should we take care of first after we get the roads open, the water flowing, and the power on?” Believe me, the locals will tell you exactly what’s next.

Some moron in a suit or brand new jeans with a clever Polo shirt, born and raised in Chicago has no clue what’s needed, what will work, and how to do stuff in an Appalachian holler. Or in a low lying, high humidity, area like Pinellas County.

Then the final insult was Biden talking, returning from a trip that had him going on four helicopter rides and two flights on Air Force One.

‘Oh, in the storm zone,’ Biden said after an awkward pause. ‘I’m thinking what storm are you talking about’,

‘They’re getting everything they need,’ Biden responded. ‘They’re very happy, across the board.’

Go back to sunning your ancient ass in Delaware you useless piece of shit!

There are literally reports of bodies hanging in trees, floating down the rivers, and makeshift morgues just now being set up. 

It’s safe to say across the board, the people of Appalachia are NOT very happy.

On the plus side, this debacle of a response might end Democrat ideas, bullshit, and control for a few decades. Talk about a glaring example of how not to govern!

If the Dims, uh Democrats are tossed out of control maybe there will be peace & quiet for a while. That might be nice.


Here’s something from Twitter. This is indicative of the kind of messages.

“I’m currently in Asheville, North Carolina with my company doing disaster security for a dialysis company, and we’re also doing search and rescue for patients to bring them to dialysis so they don’t die. 

This place is a war zone people and the military is not here. 

And the reason I’m pissed because I was part of the operation during hurricane Katrina. I was stationed in San Diego and within 96 hours we were in Louisiana. And these bastards are not sending the military here. 

There’s so much destruction. There’s no news crews here. That’s why you’re not seeing it. The American people should be angry at what our government is doing to this town. There are people hurting here. 

There are so many people dying. I drove past a young kids about 5 to 7 years old. They were brother and sister, and they were looking for their parents. We got them to a church. These young kids don’t know where their mom and dad are. 

And the military is being f*cking hamstrained by these goddamn DOD f*cking executives. If you’re not angry, you should be. Because this is what our government thinks about us. They’re not here to help us. We have to take care of ourselves. 

There’s townsears that are self policing. We drove into towns where the the town folk came up to us and said, what are you doing here? So we’re looking for patients. We’re trying to get them help, and they welcome us with open arms. This is bad, people. 

You’re not here. It is very bad. We need water. We need food. We need clothes. 

I’m in a budget motel, and I’m very grateful, and I feel somewhat guilty that I have a roof over my head and a shower. And it’s right across from the airport. 

There was a man that took off yesterday in his helicopter to go up in the mountains to drop off food. He landed and got arrested and said he was interfering with the government, a government operation, but there’s no operations going on. 

I’m sick to my stomach that our government treats our American people this way. 

And then when they get slapped in the face, oh, here’s $750. After we sent over $200,000,000,000 overseas. Alejandro Mayorkas, you’re a traitor to your country.

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