Does she hear herself?

Margaret Brennan of CBS was being unbelievably duplicitous on Face The Nation. On the one hand she says she deserves some leniency about her comments immediately after Trump was shot.

She said at the time Trump didn’t say anything to cool the temperature of Trumps supporters in the wake of them witnessing an assassination attempt.

Uh you clueless bitch! Trump was the one who was shot, That he was telling the crowd he was fine, with fist pumps and “Fight, Fight, Fight” was pretty damn impressive.

My point is that he was literally in the middle of a high stress situation and thought enough to signal to the crowd that he was alive and minimally hurt. (Which by the way, did a lot to calm the crowd.)

Apparently while she was making dumb comments, she expected Trump to pontificate on the relative merits of remaining calm and not seeking revenge in some master soliloquy that would pass her editorial requirements.

Hey Brennan, fuck you!

My god I have developed a new level of hatred for these talking heads.

It is beyond unbelievable to me that less than 24 hours after the assasination attempt the talking heads are trying to blame Republicans, Trump, and MAGA for this violence against Trump.

What the actual fuck?

These people disgust me!

The morning after… Now the media is concerned about the rhetoric!

Trump responds to shooting 640x480.Uh Huh, I’ll bet they are.

CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel said she thought it was “odd because of all of the heated rhetoric” that Trump would say fight, fight, fight, after being shot. 

Honey, I can tell you this, in the heat of the moment, had it been me, my comments would have been a lot saltier.

Something on the order of “Hunt the enemies of our Republic down and kill them all! Exterminate them like the filthy cockroaches they are. No trials, No mercy!

That would have given the Sunday Morning chat hosts something to whine about.

As it is CNN tried to portray an assassination attempt as Trump fell down and was escorted off stage by security.

Politico tried to spin an assassination attempt as simply “Shots Fired”.

Shots fired! What the fuck? I’m sure thats a comfort to the 2 or 3 individuals in addition to Trump who were shot.

Several other news organizations in a disgusting display of bias and stupidity, downplayed the assassination attempt using various euphemisms.

GettyImages 1231325629 scaled 391425283.CNN Your source for stupid bitches!

Gangel, the people with brains took “Fight, fight, fight,” to mean “Continue fighting against a corrupt system, don’t let this intimidate you.” 

Others in the Media are suddenly very concerned about the hostile rhetoric of the campaign, completely ignoring the rhetoric they themselves, have hurled from their anchor seats for 9 or 10 years about Donald Trump.

E324d4b6 0527 436a a9a7 aae21093f5ff DESK.00_00_17_13.Still009.There’s a report that Biden’s X/Twitter account called Trump a wannabe Dictator minutes before the assassination attempt.

Then in stunning duplicity Biden says, “I’m glad Donald Trump is okay and political violence is wrong.”

We all know Biden isn’t running his Twitter account, but damn! It’s not at all a good look for the Biden Administration or Campaign.

GettyImages 1402029752 1 640x480 1.In fact it looks kinda like they’re reversing course because the assassination failed, what would they have been saying if Trump was assassinated? 

Today, our nation dodged a bullet but the man who wanted to be a dictator didn’t

It’s interesting to note that no cities are burning, no storefronts have been looted, no riots have broken out over the attempted assassination of Trump.

Can we with certainty say the same would be true if the assassination attempt had been directed at Biden?

That you or I are uncertain about the answer, suggests an uncomfortable truth.

We “know” ANTIFA, BLM, Queer-Transexuals for Sharia and whatever other organizations, are in fact enforcement arms of the Democrat party. We simply dare not say it out loud because to do so causes an unpleasant reaction.

Anyone saying that, is immediately called bad names, de-platformed, de-monetized, de-banked (if possible), Doxxed, taken to court, and called a conspiracy theorist nut job.

Whoopi Goldberg 640x480 1.While I don’t particularly care for Alex Jones, he’s kinda the poster boy for what happens when you say something powerful people don’t like.

Right, Wrong, or otherwise, Jones has as much right to speak his mind as anyone else.

To me he’s akin to the dude in the public square preaching “the end is near” He believes Sandy Hook was a false flag event, to fuel more gun control.Alex Jones

How is that belief any different from the dude who believes Aliens abduct him twice a month and put things up his butt?

Or that 9/11 was an operation perpetrated by the United States to create a war for profit, and that the buildings were blown up with thermite.

If you look at the photos of the Pentagon on 9/11 where is the plane? More appropriately where is the debris from the plane? Surely the entire plane didn’t dematerialize on impact. When other planes crash there’s always a trail of bits and pieces left all over the place. 

Angry joe biden sotu mar1 22 fist getty 640x335 1.The difference is that Jones, reached tons of people, Jones hurt people’s feelings, Jones may have on more than one occasion correctly called out other shit the government did, that the government didn’t want to be well known.

Alex Jones is no different in my opinion than Howard Stern used to be. They’re both Shock Jocks who made money being controversial.

Leticia James.One, is a leftist, the other is rightwing. 

It’s easy to see which political position is favored.

Democrats agree.There is a long and unpunished list of left leaning actors, media whores, politicians, and talk show hosts who have literally called for or implied that Donald Trump be assassinated.

Some of these people called for Trump to be assassinated while he was a sitting President.

Kathy griffin trump_TylerShields.There was a time when any threat against any sitting president would get you arrested, handcuffed to a chair naked, sprayed with ice water occasionally, all while  answering questions from the FBI and Secret Service, then you’d get to spend time in front of a judge.

That time is past, or was.

Now those same actors, politicians, media whores, and talk show hosts are expressing their outrage about rhetoric and they’re trying to make it sound like Trump, MAGA, and their fevered dreams of some boogy man white supremacist army, are the ones responsible for all the hateful rhetoric.

They’re not. This morning, it’s obvious! 

Because if any of what the left claims Trump and MAGA are all about were true. Blue cities across the nation would be in flames, and ANTIFA / BLM / MS13 and illegal immigrant bodies would be piling up like cord wood.

Kamala Harris 1 640x480 1.CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS would all be broadcasting images of empty sets and anchor chairs with shots echoing in the background.

Washington D.C. would suddenly have an example of what a true insurrection looks like, and Biden would be eating ice cream in the White House bunker.

These Politicians and Talking Heads better be thanking whatever deity they pray to that the conservative folks on the Right, pissed off as we might be, are not like them.

We don’t believe the ends justify the means. We still have some semblance of moral code and our moral compasses point mostly North. We believe in the rule of law.

Even when the law has been perverted and twisted in the pursuit of destroying one man, we believe that a higher court will see justice done.

We also believe that those who twisted and perverted the law will be punished by higher courts.

We believe in the voting process. We may believe that there were serious voting irregularities in the last elections but we believe that changes to voting law are the proper mechanism to fix irregularities, not rioting and burning cities down.

I should also point out that independent state audits of election results in Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania have recently concluded there were miscounts and large numbers of illegitimate ballots. The significance of these conclusions is yet to be determined.

So lets just recap:

Trump may have had a point when he disputed the election results. Many of his allegations were not actually heard by a court. They were dismissed out of hand. Look it up. The Media has painted a picture that Trumps concerns were heard. If that’s true, then why have investigations turned up significant irregularities? Shouldn’t the courts have already ruled on the matter?

MayorkasTrump has been censored by big tech. For that matter, so have Average Americans.

When average Americans went off and built their own conservative platforms, those platforms were destroyed by big tech because god forbid, a conservative viewpoint that made sense and resonated with a lot of people might gain traction.

It took Trump building Truth Social and Elon Musk buying Twitter to loosen the tech strangle hold, and that loosening was just enough to allow the American people the ability to breathe.

Maxine waters 2 640x480 3 11 20 getty 640x480 1.Trump has been Impeached twice

Trump has been dragged through the court system.
In one trial the bankers he was supposed to have harmed with fraud said they’d do business with him again because it was profitable to them.

Another trial he’s convicted on 34 charges for paying off a porn star that he didn’t have sex with,  who still owes Trump money for her breach of contract, and on which the statute of limitations had run out?

Another trial, he’s found “Guilty” of saying “I never met that woman in my life.” After said woman accused him of raping her in a department store. This woman has a history of accusing famous men and not so famous men of raping her. All the others she’s accused have been found not guilty.

Trump has been gagged by legal order and even after various trials he’s still been deprived of his 1st amendment right to free speech.

Trump is accused of being Hitler

Trump is accused of wanting to become a dictator

Trump is accused of wanting to over throw the United States

Biden continues to repeat the “Very Fine People” hoax created by the media which even the media has been forced to debunk and retract.

Screen Shot 2022 07 11 at 3.45.53 PM.The Biden campaign, the day before Trump was shot, tweeted something about Trump being equal to Hitler.

The Economy started going into the shitter the day Biden took office and started his war on domestic energy production.

Immigration started going into the shitter the day Biden took office and started undoing all of the Trump Era controls.

Biden screwed employment, employers and employees with his vaccine mandates.

Biden screwed the careers of a ton of military personnel, and our country’s operational readiness with vaccine mandates. Check out the sudden drop in pilot flight readiness.

Biden and his administration continue to paint conservatives, MAGA, and anyone who disagrees with their policies as “enemies of the state”. Where have we heard that before? In other words 1/2 of the country that Biden is supposedly leading should, according to the Biden administration, be in re-education camps.

Uf6WY6eup qwseuyWA5jLVjgBh6E j6fV0lqA2YObJA 2093847797.Biden loves to threaten that he’s going to use military forces on 1/2 of the United States population should they rise up against his ridiculous administration. He loves to point out AR-15s are ineffective against F-16s. I realize this is a statement of fact, probably the only true thing Biden has said in decades, but honestly, I can’t help but take it as a threat. Oh, and he’d have to violate The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 that prevents use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies. I suspect that is why Biden refers to MAGA, and White Supremacists as a “Clear and Present Danger”. That’s probably the only way his administration could get around The Posse Comitatus Act.

Horsepatrol svxqp7.Biden destroyed morale in the border patrol and reduced their effectiveness, then increased the number of migrant deaths at the border when he falsely accused Texas border agents of “Strapping” migrants from horseback. Biden was wrong, he’s never apologized, and Texas border patrol can’t use horses anymore. But wait, there’s more. The immigrants in question were Haitian and the Biden administration was returning Haitians to Haiti so the Haitians thought for a moment the Biden administration would be lenient and merciful but “NO” Haitians get deported.

Biden cost 13 soldiers their lives in his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Then couldn’t stop looking at his watch when they were brought home in flag draped coffins.

Outbreak coronavirus world Square.Let’s not forget that during COVID, actors, politicians, media whores, and talk show hosts were calling for anyone who was vaccine hesitant to be placed in re-education camps, “For the greater good”. Biden was calling those people “Dangers and Piriahs” on TV weekly.

That was a laugh, while saying that mothers should be able to have an abortion due to bodily autonomy, these same people were saying that vaccines should be forced upon people or that those who refused should be exiled from society. “To hell with their bodily autonomy. It’s about the greater good.

At this point this bears repeating. COVID-19 at its worst was 97% survivable with zero intervention. The younger you were, the higher that percentage of survivability.

Twenty years on pandemic gives 9 11 conspiracists fresh impetus_1630908610.By the way, the actors, politicians, media whores, talk show hosts, and doctors who were so happy to walk all over our freedom and right to bodily autonomy. Who were so happy to demand actions in violation of the Nuremberg code, now would like for everyone to forgive and forget their complicity in what honestly might have been a crime against humanity.

These actors, politicians, media whores, talk show hosts, liberals, leftists, and in general Communistic Democrats are going to be clamoring for an end to the rhetoric because they want to avoid accountability for their words, portraying rioting as mostly peaceful, praising leftist causes, spewing hate, and funding organizations dedicated to the destruction of our society.

13 fallen U.S. service members return home from Afghanistan Screenshot courtesy of ABC News on YouTube.All of this, every bit of the events of the past 8 or so years, would been enough, in a lesser country, to have triggered a violent coup d’état.

Indeed, We are not like them.

The question they should be asking is this; “How long before the conservatives become just like us? How many more insults, how much more blame, how long until they finally collectively say ENOUGH!

On that day, when conservatives have had enough, the world will see something completely “New”.

After yesterday, Robert F Kennedy Jr. better get the Secret Service Protection the Biden administration has been consistently denying him.

But because the Biden Administration has refused to provide protection to another presidential candidate, they’re going to look like shit no matter what.

Someone should tell them, they always look like shit so just give Kennedy the protection he’s asked for.

Oh yeah, that congressional idiot who put forth a bill to strip Donald Trump of his Secret Service protection better withdraw that bill.

Actually, I’d like to see him investigated for any complicity in the assassination attempt. There’s probably nothing there, but I would really like to see one of those congressional fuckers squirm.

Okay I should say this too.

It’s not about Trump. I’m pissed off that my country… Our country, has gotten to this point. Trump just happens to be the lightening rod that is helping to expose how truly filthy and despicable our government has become.

Everything that has happened in the past 8-10 years, is so repugnant to me, so anti-American, were I a time traveler I would ask when Nikita Khrushchev won the war and why aren’t we all speaking Russian?

Ugghh! I don’t want to do anything!

Between the poor air quality from the fires, the blazing heat, poor sleep, and my general crankiness I’m not motivated to do a dang thing!

The dog and I have been taking early morning walks because it’s cool even though the air quality is terrible. So at least his walk has been completed.

It’s the other stuff, the people stuff that I’m unmotivated to deal with.

I should go to the pharmacy, the grocery store, and the post office. But it’s 90° at 10:00 am and you can almost watch the mercury rising like the old Loony Tunes cartoons.

I’m thinking I’m going to say the heck with it for today. I got about 3 hours of sleep last night and all I want to do is lay on the couch and nap.

I don’t want to get in the habit of blowing off the day because I’m afraid I’ll be mistaken for Joe Biden. (Couldn’t resist…)

I’ve had a walk with the dog, a pot of coffee, breakfast, and I am literally nodding off while typing this.

Maybe I’ll wait until after dark to make the pharmacy and grocery store run. That way I can leave the pup outside without too much worry since the temps will be dropping, and I’m not walking around in a blast furnace.

This is from a guy who likes the heat, and has considered moving to Palm Springs. I think in this case it’s the altitude, coupled with smoky air that’s taking the wind out of my sails.

Sleeping is tough because I’ll have the house open and not smell smoke, when I go to bed and there’s a nice breeze, then the wind shifts a little and I wake up with my sinuses wadded up feeling like I’m suffocating.

That isn’t a happy way to wake up, because I’m panicked and it takes a while for me to drop off again. Running the A/C 24 hours a day might be my only option for the next few days.

Why don’t I do that all the time? Because normally we get these nice evening breezes that are really pleasant. Even if they’re a little warm some times of the year it’s easy to sleep.

Honestly, I don’t really like A/C, especially if you have to have it running all the time just to survive. I feel like it isolates you from the world.

That’s one of the things I like so much about living here. The house can be open at least during the day, most of the year. Even in Winter it’s not uncommon for the outside temps to be around 60°F so you can leave the sliders cracked open a bit for the fresh, albeit cool air. If it’s a sunny day, having the shades up, allows the sun to warm the house so the furnace is idle until nightfall.

It’s only in the deepest Winter that the house is closed all the time. Think maybe 2 to 2.5 months. It’s a nice way to live.

There are places in the Midwest and on the East Coast where the same kind of living is possible. Maybe there will be a few more bugs, but that’s what screens are for.

Yep, it’s nap time…

Getting harder to hold thoughts in my head…

I’m going to have to visit one of these!

E86decc8ed22352241aff2f896bf5cb8 1200 80.I caught this article;

 Grocery Stores Selling Ammunition Out of Vending Machines in Alabama and Oklahoma

I decided that I’m going to have to make a point of stopping next time I’m through the area.

I play a video game called Borderlands. In the game there are vending machines from which you can buy Ammo or weapons.

I never thought I’d see anything like it in real life. Yet, here we are. The contrast between California’s restrictive background checks to buy ammunition versus going to a vending machine in Alabama or Oklahoma is mind boggling.

I get excited walking into a Bass Pro outside California, where I’m able to comparison shop brands and prices. Then pick up several boxes of Ammo off the shelf put them in a cart and make my purchase without anyone batting an eye. 

The thought of a vending machine is damn near orgasmic.

I thought perhaps it was some kind of parody article but it’s the real deal.

Along the same lines, I saw a picture of a store someplace that I’d also like to visit. From the picture it looked like you could buy a carton of Marlboro Reds, a doughnut, cup of coffee, a Sixpack, rifle, and ammo at the same time.

I’d probably have to take a private moment just inside the front door.

Even as a kid in the Deep South you had to go to the gun store for guns and ammo, the liquor store for booze, and the grocery store for other things. When I got to California and found that you could buy booze at just about anyplace, even some pharmacies, and it didn’t matter if it was Sunday or not I thought it was truly progressive.

Walking into a store where literally everything could be purchased at once would blow my mind. Although there was a time when Sears Catalogues would sell you everything under the sun.

Being out of California and not being able to buy liquor in the grocery store is weird but I’ll take that over the regulations and taxes extant in California.

I’m not saying California is terrible and other places are perfect. It’s not that binary. I think it’s more a matter of choosing an acceptable level of taxes and regulations versus services rendered by the state for those fees and taxes, versus personal choice about restrictions or limitations on your personal freedoms.

Kind of like an HOA. Sure, you may love the house. But do you really want to deal with the HOA fining you because your grass is 1 millimeter too low, or the grease spot left on the street in front of your home by the garbage truck on a Tuesday, you didn’t get to cleaning up until Saturday? Do you want to be fined because you parked your boat in your drive way for one day packing up for a family trip?

Some HOAs are out of control and because you signed on, when you bought your beautiful house you’ve got to put up with it. 

Traditionally I have hated HOAs with passion and vigor, recently I’ve revised my opinion of HOAs due to my neighborhood. I still hate HOAs but I’ll admit they might be useful.

In contemplating moving, I have opened my search criteria to include HOAs whose fees are reasonable and for whom their responsibilities are limited to common areas. This slight change has opened up neighborhoods that I would previously have passed up even if the housing prices were bargain basement.

So for those of you who think I’m never learning or changing here’s an example.

All that being said, I wonder what other freedoms Oklahoma and Alabama have that I might not have in California. I wonder what their tax structures and employment is like. 

I’ve been looking at places that are kind to retirees. Places that have low or no taxes, who don’t regulate or tax the hell out of everything, and last but not least someplace where my car registration doesn’t cost $600 a freaking year.

(Ya know, my car is a 2019. The registration was right at $600 when I got it, and it’s still about $600 although the vehicle itself isn’t worth what it was when I got it. California charges registration fees based on value not weight. Makes sense if you think about it. Why charge a fee that assumes the individual should pay for their portion of wear & tear on the public roads. California can take more charging based on value of nice cars, and still not maintain the roads. I say that as someone whose been here a long time and remember smooth gleaming ribbons of freeways in good repair, instead of what we have today where a kidney belt might be advised.)

I’d also like lower medical insurance costs.  I’ve had no, none, zero, nada, major medical issues and am in good health. I’m not obese (okay, I could lose a few pounds) so I’d really like to know why medical insurance costs 1.5 X my mortgage payment.

That’s before even using it. I know the Doctors have to maintain their country club memberships, pay for their yachts, make alimony payments on their previous 2 wives, pay for their whore/mistress on the side and keep their current wife in diamonds and furs but come on. 

If you force people to choose between a roof and health insurance I’m betting most choose a roof over their heads.

I don’t think ammo vending machines are a good enough reason to move to a particular state. I do think a state having ammo vending machines is reason enough to look at other aspects of the state to see if it’s a place I might be happy and can afford to live in.

At the very least, Ammo tourism might be fun. I’d love to have a picture of me buying rounds from one of these things.

I hope eveyone had a nice Fourth of July

Fourth, fireworks.I turned the A/C on early in the day yesterday and probably will do the same today.

Much as I hate to run the system. When it hits 90+ up here and one or two neighbors are screaming & hollering, having the drone of a compressor drowning out their BS is nice, albeit expensive.

In fact, being isolated from all their noise yesterday did a lot to enhance my calm. Not surprisingly my blood pressure this morning is lower than in past weeks too.

It’s supposed to be really warm here for the next few days so the A/C will be getting a workout, but I’m going to delay turning it on as long as possible.

The pup & I will go on an early morning walk right after I finish a cup of coffee. If we’re out and back before 9 it’s not too bad. I suspect that the pup even enjoys coming home to a cool house despite his annoyance when the blower comes on.

Beach flags fourth of july.I made progress cleaning out the dang closet of the past couple of days.

The other half had paperwork, invoices, and receipts from 2008 in boxes at the back of the “office” closet. I’ve made it through about 2/3 of that stuff and in the process found gift cards for Barnes & Noble, Arco, Panera, and several other businesses that I’m not sure are still “In Business”. Over the past couple of days I’m up about $150. $100 of that is in gas. I suppose I can fill my tank now. Yippee!

Yesterday, I also watched the traditional Independence Day and the follow on Independence Day Resurgence. Today, I’m thinking I’ll have a Twilight Zone marathon. One of the TV stations used to run the Twilight Zone either on the 4th or the day after the 4th every year. I don’t know if they still do since I’ve not had cable for years. I remember it being a nice tradition on 4th of July weekends.

Mission beach fourth of july.I happened to catch the entire original Twilight Zone boxed set on sale a couple years ago so even with me working in the office, I can have it playing on the computer monitor through the HomePod mini speakers.

That should keep me entertained while I’m sorting through ancient paperwork. I don’t know if I’m going to keep all the Tax data if cut it off at 10 years. Perhaps I’ll say I’m going to cut it off at 10 years then when one of the 87,000 new IRS pricks reads this & audits me for records I don’t have I can produce them causing major disappointment for the poor agent I’ll have to think about that one, and make a decision based on the volume of those records. I don’t want to be dragging a bunch of crap paperwork around with me for the rest of my life.

Happily I’ve also found a home for the two filing cabinets in the garage. Now it’s just about getting them from here to there. Obviously I’m doing something wrong in this. I’m giving this stuff away and I’m delivering it too?

Hmmm something is wrong, but I can’t quite figure it out…

It’s going to be a hot few weeks. Everyone stay hydrated and as cool as possible.

I hope everyone has a great Fourth of July Weekend.