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Wow, just wow. I really hate hit pieces

Caught this article and thought, “On the one hand I can understand fighting fire with fire”

Platner maine.But it saddens me that it’s gotten to this point and It muddies the waters.

The article is about a veteran running against Senator Susan Collins (R-ME). It’s a hit piece and I personally found it as offensive as the hit pieces against Pete Hegseth.

What it looks like at this point to me, is a veteran that became disillusioned with the military when he began questioning the reasons he’d joined in good faith to protect our country.

That questioning is not uncommon. They see friends blown away, they see the results of war, they see politicians getting rich from the military industrial complex, and REMFs giving orders that make no damn sense. 

They seem to realize they’re pawns and question if the honest motivations that made them become soldiers were naive and wonder if they’re on the “right” side.

I’ve known a few military people that went through this and came to the conclusion that the only fight they’ll engage in, is one where they can clearly see and understand the threat but they’re not interested in some overarching geopolitical bullshit that has no clear endpoint or goal.

Some of them become pacifists, some become thoughtful and introspective, some work their way through it, and decide that war should be the absolute last resort and then only in defense of their homes and families. They seem to be somewhat agnostic about concepts like nationalism and patriotic duty. And some become stone cold killers who are never fit to live in non-military society again, they become the monsters that fight other monsters and that’s all they know or remember.

The duty that many citizens have completely forgotten and abdicated is our duty to reach out to all of these soldiers to hold their hand guiding them back from being warriors to being people again.

We’re supposed to hug them when they wake in the middle of the night, wild eyed and dangerous, because they were reliving the nightmare of battles they’d been in. I’ve always believed it was our duty to remind them of what they sacrificed their youth and innocence to protect, we’re supposed to be rocks they can cling to in those turbulent moments where all these soldiers can do is wait for the sunrise to break on a new day.

I’ve seen a few sunrises sitting next to men in that state. I can’t fix or heal those psychic wounds, only time can do that. But I can be a rock, a calm point in the storm, waiting for the sunrise with them.

It’s been said the last thing you want to do, is make a soldier turn his plowshare back into a sword. Because that man will fight with a fury of a demon out of hatred and anger at having his hard won peace stolen from him again.

I believe that with all my heart. A soldier who’s forced to do that risks everything because he risks being taken by the abyss.

This hit piece is about Graham Platner. He’s running against Susan Collins for a Maine senate seat.

He’s got a skull & crossbones tattooed on his chest. He’s 41, a vet and referred to the tattoo as a Totenkopf. That’s German for skull. The tattoo doesn’t mean he’s a NAZI.

I’ve known a lot of soldiers that had skull tattoos of various types. Some choose traditional pirate tropes, others choose Baron Samedi, other variations I’ve seen include skulls with new life sprouting from them represented by green plants growing around or through them.

The article implies he got it when he was 22, and in the Marine Corps. I found a photo that is supposedly him, and honestly the tattoo quality is really bad. It’s a crap tattoo. Duh, a drunk 22 year old on leave, kind of typical.

As muddied and indistinct as the lines were, a coverup piece would probably be a nightmare to design. It would take a real artist not some $20 per hour hack.

I know a lot of people who’ve had coverup tattoos to eliminate their youthful regrettable choices. I know about an equal number of folks that just said, “Fuck it”. It wasn’t worth the time or money to bother.

So this guy having a skull tattoo doesn’t meet my personal qualifications to mark the guy as a NAZI. 

This looks more like the rabid assholes on the extreme right trying to get payback for the extreme left’s making hay about Hegseth’s cross tattoo.

The article also quotes Mr. Platner as saying;

“Tell them that if they expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history.”

The author of the article claims this is a call to violence.

I don’t look at it that way. If you cite WWII as an example, it was semi-automatic and full automatic rifles that beat back the penultimate fascists known as NAZIs.

The article printed another quote;

“After the war, I’ve pretty much stopped believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that got me there in the first place, and am a firm believer that the best thing a person can do is help their neighbors and live a loving life.”

He added;

“Still got the guns though. I don’t trust the fascists to act politely.”

That tracks with several ex-military folks I know. I’ve heard similar sentiment from soldiers who saw hard combat, including one Vietnam Vet whose leg was spared by a penny in his pocket. He was very happy to have lost a penny rather than have a Purple Heart. The penny in question is mounted in a small glass case on his bookshelf among a few pieces of memorabilia from the war.

Later in the article Mr. Platner is quoted as saying he’s a socialist, later a communist and that he grows psychedelics.

Okay, that’s when I get a bit concerned. My question would be is he communist lite, or hardcore communist? On its surface Communism does look very appealing. However historically, the problem has been in the implementation, because human nature is not, in my opinion, compatible with Communism.

I’d like to read and hear more about Mr. Platner. It’s unlikely that I’d agree with him on all points but I’m willing to listen and if he’s got good ideas I don’t care what his political ideology is.

The article is decrying the Democrat party and their apparent love for bad candidates and bad ideas. Okay, I’ll agree with that generally.

Both are apparently true, the first is exemplified with Biden and Harris. The latter is exemplified by the Democrat Party doubling down on ideas, rules, & regulations, that have failed.

If the Democrat Party would simply be able to say, “Yep, that didn’t work as expected. So we’re going to defund and dismantle it.” I’d have a lot more respect for them.

Then I think about John Fetterman. When he was running, I thought he was possibly one of the worst candidates I’d ever seen, (other than Biden), but as it turns out, while I disagree with him most of the time, I’ve started to see him as a voice of reason within the Democrat Party. At least he’s willing to call out others in the party who are “Off the rails.”

Maybe Mr. Platner could bring a fresh view. Maybe being who he is, having actually seen combat, & worked for a living wouldn’t be a bad idea for the Democrat party and the Senate.

I’ve long believed that what we need in Congress is average people. Yeah AOC is “average” so maybe my theory may not hold water. But she’s not particularly bright and I suspect she’s kind of a “Go Along with the crowd,” kind of person. When I say “Average” people, I mean free thinkers who don’t vote lockstep along party lines.

I’m worried about the Republican Party doing exactly the same thing. If Republicans are expected to vote strictly along party lines, in short order they’ll be no better than what we’ve seen with the Democrat Party. 

Ideally what I want in Congress is a bunch of people who do the research, can justify their votes, and who are unafraid to have a different opinion. In other words, I would like a real cross section of America. I’d like thoughtful people who eschew rhetoric and party affiliation. I’d like to see votes in the House and Senate that look more like the results of the general vote.

While at the moment I think the Democrat Party is full of a bunch of loons. I don’t think it’s right or productive to paint all Democrats with the same brush. (Yes, I’ve done it in these very pages. I apologize, I was pissed off.)

We need balance. Hit pieces from either side aimed at destroying new or unknown candidates are not productive. In fact, I think they lead to maintaining the status quo because they poison the possibility of new blood entering office.

Nowhere in the article is there mention of what Mr. Platner is actually campaigning on. Perhaps the ink would be better spent describing the candidate’s thoughts on changing the political landscape, what kind of experience he has, what he plans to do for his constituents, and how he plans to do it. 

Were I living in Maine, those are the things I’d be interested in. Not a candidate’s tattoos.

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Saw this post on X and it got me to thinking

“ If Republicans kill ACA subsidies, a couple making $85K will pay $25,000 a year for healthcare.

That’s 30% of their income—just to stay alive.

This isn’t “fiscal conservatism.” It’s economic violence against the middle class.”

  • Brian Allen @allenanalysis

‪Health insurance doesn’t keep 90+ % of the population paying for it alive.

Most people in a given year don’t spend anywhere near the amount they pay in insurance premiums.‬

‪We joke about men not seeing their doctors. Women may see their doctors 3-4 times a year. If you’ve got children they’re seeing doctors more frequently, but even so an average normal family probably isn’t spending as much as their yearly or even monthly premium.‬

‪The question to ask is what does it really cost for a 20 minute visit with a doctor? What do medications actually cost to manufacture? Why can I self pay for a medication and pay $50 for 90 days, but if I put it through insurance suddenly that same medication is $400? Why can I “Self Pay” for my once a year doctor visit, have a physical + tests & have it cost $800 cash, but my monthly insurance premium per month is $1400? ‬

‪Yes, insurance costs are out of hand. Yes, insurance companies are making breath-taking profits not on illness but by selling fear. The fear they’re selling is rising medical costs but they have a hand in driving those costs up by making those actually practicing medicine have to add staff just to deal with insurance billing and coding.‬ Who are insurance bureaucrats to deny a doctor’s diagnosis?

‪The medical / insurance / pharmaceutical industry is a snake eating its own tail. That snake gets fatter each cycle but eventually it will eat itself to death.‬

‪This issue isn’t partisan. The issue is continuing to throw money at a system that is fundamentally broken and expecting the brokenness to get fixed without looking at or demanding to know why / how it’s broken and taking appropriate action to fix it.‬

‪ACA was presented as an attempt to address the problem. It didn’t work, the math never worked. Congress knew that going in. That’s why they attempted to mandate everyone pay into the system and why they were going to fine people who didn’t.

It failed In part because it didn’t account for economic conditions, and in part because it didn’t account for adherence to ACA rules adding cost and complexity to the practice of medicine.

‪The ACA pretty much drove small medical practices out of business. They had no choice but to merge with larger medical groups or hospitals meaning that a doctor hanging out a shingle and seeing patients on his or her own all but disappeared.

The quality of care decreased because now you may see one of four or more doctors none of whom know your name. None of them interact with you as a person and all of them are diagnosing / prescribing based on data in your chart, not actually knowing you as a living breathing human being.

Half the time they’re not listening and in some cases it’s questionable if they fully understand what you’re saying due to language barriers. You’re just one of a thousand bodies parading through an office in a given week.‬

‪Fixing this system isn’t about supplementing it with taxpayer’s dollars. Fixing this system is about bringing it to heel.

One way to start that might be for everyone that can, to stop buying the insurance companies fear. Switch to self pay and then negotiate fair pricing from medical practitioners.

Another possibility is to demand upfront pricing so that a patient knows it will cost X dollars for a procedure. If you see an MD it’s $100 /hr (And you get their FULL attention, no more playing with their computers). Blood work costs X dollars for a comprehensive panel. X-rays? What does it cost for materials+the hourly rate for the technician+the hourly rate for a doctor to look at the X-ray. There was a time when a film X-ray cost $50 flat. Why does where you have any testing done affect the bottom line cost? Just crossing county lines can have a 30% differential.‬

‪Why is it that we all have blood work done, but if you ask them to tell you what your blood type is, they want to charge you another fee? They’re already there, they’ve got the lab, the samples, and the typing cards. Shouldn’t we all know our blood type as a matter of safety?‬

‪These are the kinds of questions that should be asked.‬

‪You want the government to do something about healthcare? Then have them run audits and accounting to determine the real costs of care. ‬Then move forward to make changes beneficial to the American people, not the insurance companies.

You wouldn’t continue to pump gas into your car from a leaky gas pump, why do people think it’s okay to keep pumping tax dollars into a system that is leaking money like a sieve and providing poor services?

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And the government is in shutdown…

Well, the power is still on, the water is still coming from the tap. It looks like the internet is still up.

The laws of physics still apply. Cities aren’t in flames, (yet). The world spins on.

I’m honestly waiting with anticipation to hear how many useless departments, and sub departments get done away with. The wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left should be epic.

I’m hoping that Trump is true to his word and instead of furloughs, he really does fire a shit ton of parasites from various government offices.

Six weeks from now the left media will be trying to flex by saying that the government is having to rehire some of those people. So what? The lesson will be that just because you’re a government employee it doesn’t mean that you can’t be fired. Maybe that will translate into the lesson government workers need to learn. Do your job! It’s not a free ride.

In the near term, the media will no doubt rend their clothing and complain that “Trump forcing a shutdown” which he didn’t do, (This is on Schumer all the way,) added to the national unemployment numbers.

Not to worry… When ICE gets done deporting people, for example the folks in Minnesota that committed immigration fraud like Ilhan Omar apparently did, there will be openings. Oh wait… turns out the folks in Minnesota didn’t actually work at the non-existent businesses they claimed to work at. Big surprise!!!

Well, at the very least sending the H1B and F1 visa workers back to their countries of origin will open up call center jobs for the displaced government workers. Not that it will matter much to folks like me that have been kicked to the curb for being older, white and male.

I’m planning to have a big bowl of popcorn when ICE gets to the fake “Employment” companies that favor only H1B employees and waste American Job Seekers time for non-existent jobs.

Who knows? Maybe the displaced government workers, upon having a taste of the real job market will learn something and kick the old out of touch politicians out of office.

The H1B and other visa programs have been abused for years. I’m looking forward to seeing them cleaned up. I’d probably be happier seeing them discontinued altogether. Not that it will make much difference to me personally at this late stage in my life, but it will make a big difference to the youngsters in my family & other families who are the wrong ethnicity when they try to join the job market.

Joy Reid actually said something that was mostly true on one of the chat shows. She pointed out that what MAGA wants is for us to return to a time when there were no taxes, and people could earn as much as they wanted to, and people could pass their wealth and houses down to their children without paying taxes.

Yep! That’s exactly what most of America wants. You could see her brain reboot when she actually heard the words coming out of her mouth. She must have realized that actually didn’t sound so bad, and that she was on the verge of admitting that the welfare state was totally dependent on taxation. So all those people getting free rides were doing so on the backs of people that were tired of being taxed.

Well, we see what happens. Trump has sent out some more memes with Jefferies & Schumer in sombreros. The left is apoplectic. JD Vance was obviously having fun at a press conference and honestly, he’s sooo my next President.

Pete Hegseth told the top brass to get their shit together and to incentivize them, he made it a mandate that they have to pass physical fitness tests every 6 months. No more fat assed REMFs in the Pentagon! He didn’t say women couldn’t be in the military, he said they had to be fit enough to be in the military. Then he topped it off by doing aways with all the B.S. trans & gay crap. He didn’t say gays couldn’t be in the military but essentially said the military doesn’t give a shit who you sleep with, you’re supposed to be a hard assed weapon, a killer in the cause of defending your country. To all of this, I say… FANFUCKINGTASTIC!

I guess that makes me an existential threat to democracy. No worries! We live in a Constitutional Republic.

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Changed my voter registration

Yesterday, amidst all the 9/11 and Charlie Kirk reporting.

I changed my voter registration back to Republican.

I switched to Libertarian sometime in the Obama administration.

I couldn’t stand what the Republicans had become, and the Democrats were no better.

At the time I wasn’t going to vote for Hillary for a wide variety of reasons. Not the least was that I believed she was simply dangerous and still do. There are too many people around her that have mysteriously “Suicided” for no good reason, and oddly they seem to have frequently shot themselves in the back of the head. I don’t know if Hillary had anything to do with any of them, but for me, it called into question the caliber of people she surrounded herself with. Either she had a lot of very unstable people surrounding her, or she had a lot of people around her that were into questionable activities that got them killed. Either way I didn’t want that anywhere near the office of the president.

At the time Trump was running and with all of his bombast I wasn’t sure he was the right man for the job nor did I have faith that he would be up to it.

The Republican field was also unbelievably weak.

So in that election I abstained from voting for president. I chose neither candidate and slept well that night.

Signing up as Libertarian wasn’t a bad move, but it was kind of sitting on the sidelines.

In principal I agree with many of the libertarian beliefs. But the party itself is ineffective and tends to put forward as candidates some real loons.

It served my purpose. I got to vote in all the elections and got notifications about all the issues and candidates.

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The way the Democrats in congress reacted, the silence of the libertarian party on the matter, and the giddy celebrations of the liberal left, (mostly Democrat) I was, and still am, appalled.

Add to it that Gavin Newsom is in the process of forcing redistricting in violation of the states redistricting policy, and that the California courts are saying they’ll allow it. I couldn’t stand on the sidelines anymore.

California (I don’t believe,) reports changes in voter registration publicly, but since registration is electronic and goes to the Secretary of State it seemed a fitting time to make a small statement.

Call it a pre-vote.

It was a way to let the idiots in Sacramento know that one more California voter is sick of their shit. Sick of the idiot governor and sick to their stomach of the Democrats way of doing things.

Newsom’s redistricting plan could easily be conflated with Kirk’s assassination. Both are efforts on the part of lunatic democrats to silence dissenting voices.

California redistricting is gerrymandered to the breaking point as it is by a supposedly “Independent” commission, and Newsom’s plan is just a way to silence conservative voices.

I seriously thought about registering Democrat. I thought, if all conservatives registered Democrat, then Newsom gerrymandered based on false data, it would be interesting to see him humiliated at the mid terms.

But then I decided Newsom and Sacramento should know exactly how much they’re hated and what a shitty job they’ve done.

Oh Newsflash: Looks like the FBI has maybe the “real” suspect in custody. It’s a 22 year old kid probably loaded up with rhetoric and unfounded hate towards Charlie Kirk. Etched on one of the bullet casings found with the rifle was, “Hey Fascist! Catch!”

The kids father turned his sorry ass in. 

Hearing some of the things these people believe Kirk said is completely astounding. Stephen King made the claim that Charlie Kirk advocated stoning of Gays.

His ass is going to be fried and he’s already taking heat for it. Dave Rubin jumped on the statement immediately saying the Kirk had been to several dinners with he, and his husband and never once had thrown a stone.

I hope Kirk’s estate sues the living shit out of King who has become almost as bad as Rosie O’Donald, spewing unfounded claims, rumor, & innuendo.

There was a video of a ring nosed, pink hair girl discussing Kirks murder with her Dad on X. She said she was glad Kirk was murdered because he said hurtful things. You could tell her Dad was super disappointed and see her suddenly wondering if she was going to lose her place to live. She had no good arguments and her Dad was asking simple questions about freedom of speech. She kept going back to Kirk deserved to die because he said stuff that hurt people’s feelings. The one question her Dad didn’t ask was, “You’ve said things that hurt my feelings do you deserve to be shot? Do you deserve to be thrown out of the house for those things?”

I think that would have brought his point home to her. Freedom of speech must apply equally to all, or it’s not freedom of speech. 

There are scattered repots of people losing their jobs over their sick celebrations of a murder. I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, the vengeful tired part of me says, “good”. Then the egalitarian part of me says, “Wait, their freedom of speech must be protected too, even if you think they’re shitty people.”

I suppose it comes down to their employers deciding they don’t want the bad publicity. Since employment is not guaranteed and most of the time employers have standards of conduct I suppose it’s fair. 

The people can say whatever they like, but their employers don’t have to continue giving them paychecks.

I suppose It’s the other side of the coin. Conservatives have been fired over their years for saying conservative things because those words hurt the feelings of the progressive left in the workplace. Maybe it’s a rebalancing of the scales.

Maybe America has reached a turning point. It seems that a lot of people who have been sick of years of turmoil are finally speaking up. They’re speaking truth and calling out the crazy idiots that have been running around “in control” only because everyone thought they’d burn themselves out like a weak virus.

I for one am willing to say “No More” and it looks like a shit ton of my fellow Americans are too.

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Very confusing messages and candidate.

GettyImages 2230161607 640x480.We all know Newsom is running for President. Come on… we can admit it.

Okay, so what’s his message?

His gerrymandering thing is concerning.

Although I secretly admit that if they redraw the lines, my community might get taken out of Judy Chu’s district and put back into a district belonging to someone who has a clue about where we are, and how our needs differ from the aristocracy in her core area.

That being said, Newsom is 100% wrong. Polls suggest that the people of California oppose his redrawing the lines at this time. We supposedly have a Fair and Impartial redistricting committee put in place by the California electorate to prevent this sort of thing.

That committee was voted for, by the people of California. “Fair and Impartial” has become a somewhat nebulous term these days, especially when it comes to our redistricting committee.

I believe that the lines were in fact gerrymandered in the last redraw. There appeared to be a concerted effort to slice up conservative Republican strongholds in the High Desert communities, and in the Central Valley.

Not that it mattered too much in the 2024 election. If you look at the votes that went for Trump in California, even the coastal cities were a lot redder than in past elections.

Newsom, in my opinion is wrong forcing this issue because he’s essentially saying to the people of California, “You didn’t do it right, so I’m going to defy your will, the California Constitution, and I’m going to do what I please,” I think there’s a term for that… 

In fact there are multiple terms for that, most of which are applied to President Trump every hour of every day. “Dictator”, “Tyrant”, “King”…

How is what Newsom’s doing any different? In a way it underscores that in California the voters only have an illusion of choice.

To me it says, “You the people are in control, only so long as you do things my way. If you defy me, I’m going to take away your control.” That’s not a functioning Democracy, or Republic. That’s the very definition of a dictatorship. Wait, isn’t that one of the things the Democrat party hates about Putin?

Honestly, it’s not a good look for a future President. I don’t care which political party you’re a member of.

Newsom suggested on a podcast with tech journalist Kara Swisher, that Trump was going to place ICE agents at the polls in the midterm election as an act of intimidation.

Wait. What? How is that an act of intimidation? I thought only citizens voted in our safe, free, and fair elections. Why would that be intimidating? Unless Newsom said something he shouldn’t have, implicitly admitting Non-Citizens were voting in our elections.

Noooo that can’t be true. Non-Citizens, illegal or not, would never vote illegally.

I suppose that what he meant to say was ICE presence could deter naturalized Citizens from voting. I could see that, maybe.

But I’ve never known a naturalized citizen who was the least bit hesitant to proudly show their proof of naturalization.

I know a number of people who went through the citizenship process. They’re Mexican, South American, Russian, Ukrainian, and Algerian. These are people I know personally.

Hell some of them I helped coach for their citizenship tests, and guess what? We threw them welcome parties to celebrate their achievement in becoming U.S. Citizens. One of these people I personally took with me to the polling location for a presidential election. It was his first time casting a vote in this country and I was honored to vote with him.

These folks went through the process, they waited their turn, and entered our country legally and with our blessing.

Newsom’s concern about ICE possibly being at the polls could be assuaged if California implemented Voter ID.

I do hope that some bright Republican campaign person takes that thought and runs with it. With voter ID in place, there’s no need to have ICE at the polling places is there?

Newsom told Politico that he believes Trump will run in 2028.

This is a presidential candidate?

Has he read the United States Constitution?

Just because his auntie has become fossilized in Washington D.C. doesn’t mean that Presidential term limits don’t apply. He claimed he’s been sent two dozen Trump 2028 hats.

So? Sure there are people who’d probably like to see Trump in office for 3 terms. However that’s not likely to happen because it would require amending the Constitution.  Changing the Constitution is a big deal and should never be taken lightly. I’ll stand up with a bunch of other people from both political parties to prevent that.

Not because I’m worried about Trump having a third term. But because If we open that door, I believe we open the door to amending or nullifying every other right or limitation of government power enshrined in the Constitution.

Like the right to free speech, freedom from unreasonable search & seizure, to bear arms, and anything else a President or political party finds inconvenient.

We saw in the Biden administration, and during COVID, that there are people who would, without hesitation, abridge our freedoms. We know now that censorship (a clear violation of the First amendment,) was in fact being applied to social media, & internet information sources by our Government. We know this from testimony in congressional hearings.

Even with the Constitutional protections in place, there are breathtaking examples of misuse of power. Those misuses are not limited to the Biden Administration.

Biden’s people were just more rabid, and less subtle in how they tried to take our freedom.

Don’t get me wrong, I have questions and concerns about the Constitutionality of some of Trumps Executive Orders, and if he’s over-reaching the boundaries of his office. I’m also not particularly thrilled about the white house ballroom, and I personally don’t like all the gold leaf he’s applied to rooms in the White House.

That’s not based in politics, it’s a matter of taste and I think it looks tacky. But that’s my opinion. I prefer quiet contemplative spaces and gold sparkling everywhere is distracting to me.

I believe Trump is as prone to all the same mistakes that power and wealth bring as anyone else. Technically he’s “Nouveau riche” so I’ll make allowances for his flashy style. I’m eternally poor, so flash is not in my repertoire.

Thursday and Friday in the wake of the latest school shooting, we have people demanding to take gun ownership away from all Americans. Yet, most of the recent school shootings have been carried out by a very select and specific group.

A group I should add that enjoys considerable legal protection and who actively attempts to censor all dissenting opinions, under the watchful eye of a particular stripe of media & government officials who are interested only in virtue signaling.

These people are not howling for gun control to be safe, they don’t care about children or even who is doing the shooting.

They want the kind of censorship and oppression that’s becoming commonplace in the UK, where grannies can be arrested for saying they like bacon at a muslim protest. Where little girls are arrested for defending themselves against rape in Scotland.

Scotland!?!

Of all places I’d never have expected a little girl to be arrested for defending herself. I’d have expected her to be hoisted up on the shoulders of burly men in full clan colors, taken to the town square and having the mayor say “Good on you lass.”

But nope! She’s arrested for protecting herself, only because some scum migrant thought he was entitled to have his filthy way with her. Had it been anyone but a muslim migrant she’d be sitting home with her parents having a cup of tea. Why? Because politicians keep virtue signaling and making excuses that Muslims don’t understand they’re not supposed to rape women or little girls. What happened to “Believe all women?” Or that violence against women mustn’t be tolerated? Or that sexualization of children is bad?

All that goes out the window, when politicians, any politicians, can use the situation to virtue signal. Usually, they’re virtue signaling to a group their either fear, or that gives them some perceived advantage with a voting block.

Newsom claims he’s getting tough on crime, yet refuses to fully fund proposition 36. He claims it would be too costly and the state is running a deficit. Proposition 36 passed in a landslide. Something over 60%. It was the will of the people, you know, that “Democracy” Newsom claims to represent…

It essentially reversed a soft on crime stance that permitted theft up to a certain dollar amount without being a felony. So, go to your local Target or Walmart with a calculator, stay under $900 or so and steal as much as you can. Just stay under the limit and you’ll be out of jail, if you’re caught, within hours.

At the same time, Newsom is spending millions on his gerrymandering scheme “Defending against an existential threat to Democracy.” 

Let me get this straight, he’s denying democracy, to “defend” democracy?

He’s doing this over Texas redistricting to improve representation of a two party electorate? Texas politics is not something I’m at all conversant in. But if Texas is un-gerrymandering its congressional districts in an attempt to create more balanced Congressional representation, isn’t that a good thing?

Don’t even get me started on Newsom’s messaging on X. He’s all over the map!

Maybe Newsom really is a “Lizard Person” He’s certainly acting like a chameleon hanging on a flatscreen TV.