So the conspiracy theorists were right again…

Big surprise!

An article appeared on Breitbart today reporting that;

The Obama administration’s top officials committed a “treasonous conspiracy” by manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to create the false narrative that led to the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe, according to newly-declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.

Apparently Gabbard has referred the matter tot he DOJ and is demanding that everyone involved be investigated. Yawn!

I’m at the point of “fuck the investigations”, I want prosecutions and since this smells a lot like outright treason I’m for gallows being built on the capital lawn. I’m to the point of seeing corrupt officials dancing at the end of a rope.

Oh I know there will be some who read this and think, “He’s such a Trumper.”

Nope, you’d be wrong.

Trump is irrelevant to me in stuff like this.

What pisses me off is the waste, and corruption. These people caused hundreds of millions to be wasted in probes, hearings, and investigations. Their actions undermined the faith of the American people in their government. The cloud that hung over The President impaired the office.

This bullshit tied up Congressional committees for years, producing nothing of any use. Even after each probe determined that there was nothing, no wrongdoing, no Russian collusion, Congress still wasted time waving their hands, making accusations & starting other pointless investigations.

This is perhaps the epitome of weaponized law fare and misuse of the government’s power and resources.

Moreover, I firmly believe that not one of the fuckers will ever be held accountable. Which begs the question, why the fuck should I, as an individual, obey any laws that I don’t agree with? Don’t come at me with the IRS, the FBI, the Justice Department or any other government agency.

If these people aren’t going to be held accountable, then government can’t hold me accountable for anything. They can fuck all the way off.

Honestly, in my opinion the constant investigations and obvious media collusion rises to the level of election interference. Both in the midterm 2018 and in the 2020 election. The people were lied to, they voted based on the lies, and ultimately, (rigged 2020 election or not,) we got four years of Biden as a medically compromised figurehead while others, behind the scenes, apparently misused Presidential authority via autopen signatures.

Now there’s going to be more waste and more bullshit investigations that go nowhere. The DOJ will never bring any of these individuals from the Obama Administration or the Biden Administration to any form of Justice.

The real question is why? What the hell is the end game? This shit can’t all be coincidence. There’s some kind of overarching plan at work here.

1) Keep everyone pissed off and divided
2) Instill mistrust in the government 
3) Demonstrate obvious two tiered justice
4) Make people fearful of everything and anything
5) Make sure that the main stream media speaks only the approved propaganda 
6) Stay involved in expensive proxy wars
7) Import more people than can be absorbed into our culture, there are immigration limits for a reason.
8) ????

This right here is how I imagine you destabilize and ultimately topple a government. This is how Revolutions, Civil Wars, and Coup d’etats, happen.

Why vote? Why participate in a system that is so corrupt? Why even try anymore?

Those may be legitimate questions now. Once they were questions only “Crazy Conspiracy, or Right wing extremists,” asked. 

Learned something interesting, call this a PSA

I was working on the front of the house. I also happened to be precariously balanced on a ladder when an Amazon delivery driver stopped to deliver something to me.

The driver did absolutely nothing wrong. She walked into the driveway and said, “Excuse me” It was all very proper and respectful, she’d correctly judged that if she startled me I could fall from the ladder. I really appreciate her being aware and thoughtful.

The problem was, that my back was to the street, and I was wearing my Apple AirPods listening to music while I was working. This too is all fine. Where the difficulty happened was that I had the Conversational Awareness feature turned on.

When she said “Excuse me,” the AirPods dutifully amplified her voice and I swear to you, it sounded like she was literally right behind me. I dang near threw myself off the ladder trying to turn around. It startled me.

After a good laugh from both myself and the Amazon driver, and me not falling off the ladder all was well.

It wasn’t until about 1/2 hour later that I realized what happened.

So, in the interest of public safety, if you’re working on a ladder that’s precariously balanced it might be a good idea to turn off conversational awareness. This is especially true if you’re focused on what you’re doing instead of your surroundings.

I suppose I’m still a little twitchy after years of “Crazy Pants” marching up into my yard to scream obscenities, or as in the last incident raise hands to me. “Crazy Pants” is gone but I’d gotten to the point that I wouldn’t even work in the front yard with my back to the street, much less wearing anything that could impair my hearing.

Just a friendly safety tip…

I hope your holiday weekend is going well.

This probably doesn’t bode well for The View

There’s a report in The Daily Beast saying the hosts of The View have been asked to tone it down. Specifically, their political rhetoric and bashing of Donald Trump.

Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic had a meeting with the harridans of The View and suggested that viewers might want a little less politics and perhaps more diverse discussions and guests.

Apparently, the hosts of The View weren’t happy about it.

Anna Navarro seemed to believe that the viewers tuned in to hear political discourse instead of a Women’s chat show.

It’s reported, the hosts of The View called the request “Silly”.

The View has been at the top of the ratings (surprisingly,) through the first part of 2025.

My Mother was a regular viewer until the hosts veered into politics full time. Prior to tuning them out completely, she’d switch channels the moment the hosts started shrieking and talking over each other, (her words, not mine).

My mother was a big fan of Barbara Walters. She stayed with The View for years after Walters left the show.

I think the ladies at The View are missing the handwriting on the wall. Their constant ranting may be becoming a liability. Prior to the 2024 election, the hosts of The View had to issue multiple retractions on-air over some of their comments. The trouble with retractions like that, is they’re meaningless. No matter what’s being retracted, it’s been said and there are a ton of folks who only hear the statement, not the retraction. (Hmm. That’s kind of like distributing misinformation. Isn’t the Left adamantly opposed to even allowing misinformation?)

It’s likely the show is keeping a cadre of lawyers busy, which no doubt increases production costs.

Other reports alluded to some FCC involvement as well. How true that is, I’m not sure.

Media, has paid a dear price for misrepresenting Trump’s comments. CBS is being sued for election interference due to their editing of the Kamala Harris interview.

ABC has also felt the heat.

Now with the wheels coming off the cover-up of Biden’s mental and physical state during his presidency, and Jake Tapper’s book. I wonder if Disney and ABC are looking at ways to limit their liability.

Cancellation of The View might be in the offing if the hosts choose not to tone it down.

Honestly, that might be a good thing. 

“The view spew”, seems to be reflected directly in the anti-Trump protests. The question is whether The View is accurately reporting the protestors opinions, or creating them.

Yes, when Trump screws up it should be reported. That is true of any President. However incredibly biased reporting shouldn’t be tolerated.

We know for a fact, based on recent revelations, that media was running cover for President Biden, for at least a part of his presidency.

It’s reasonable to assume that as polarized as things are, that same media will take any opportunity to bash and attempt to destroy anyone that they disagree with. A.K.A. Donald Trump, Conservatives, Republicans, etc.

A fundamental question that should be asked, and answered; what is The View? Is the show a news show with journalistic integrity, or is it a chat show for entertainment? The two have very different expectations and rules.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind seeing The View cancelled. I’m no more interested in what those screeching harridans have to say, than the man in the moon. Yet, even though I don’t watch the show, I’m assaulted by their inane opinions anytime I read the news.

Men typically, and executives specifically, don’t look kindly upon people who don’t get the hint. If their “silly” request isn’t taken seriously, and it appears it was not, then I suspect cancellation or not renewing contracts is in the works. Does Joy Reid ring any bells?

Perhaps I could be interested in tuning in to their last show. The wailing and gnashing of teeth should be epic.

Poked my head up, looked at the news. Everything is still nuts!

I did notice there was a Democrat who’d filed some paperwork for impeachment of Trump. The guy is Rep. Shri Thanedar.

Rep. Shri Thanedar.YAWN!!!!

I’m surprised that hasn’t been a Daily event.

Oh wait, I guess it’s hard to write articles of impeachment, if you’re protesting to bring a gang member back from El Salvador, or inciting Judges to make questionable rulings, or advocating for the mutilation of children, to pander to your wackjob base.

I know it sounds stupid, but my God, I just want stability!

I swear it’s like a never ending Carnaval ride. The car I’m in has one wheel with a bad bearing, another one with a chunk out of it, and clowns jumping at me round every bend.

I can see my Über Democrat stepfather nodding his head winding up for the, “See this is what you get when you don’t vote Democrat,” gloating. Until I finish the thought.

It’s been like we’re circling the toilet bowl since the Obama Administration. Okay honestly, Bush² may have been when things really started to go off the rails.

Now in Trump² it’s beginning to look like Democrat obstructionism, lawfare, and not having a better idea will continue.

But wait, there’s more! For a limited time, we can have more rioting and looting, incited by Democrat leadership. Yippee!

State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas.I want to be clear, I don’t regret voting for Trump. Had the Democrat party offered a superior candidate, I would have voted Democrat.

They didn’t. They offered Kamala Harris and a buffoon, who would have continued on with policies that weren’t working.

For example: Welfare fraud under $25,000 in California could be decriminalized due to Senate Bill 560, which was introduced by State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas.

Th 1863706216.Kamala Harris was a terrible AG for California. A do nothing Senator. She was a horrible Vice President and clearly out of her depth. Waltz, was no better. He might actually have been worse. (Hard as that is to fathom!)

Minnesota Walz 92383-748774340.That being said, my vote for Trump was a vote that I feared would likely result in 4 more years of the Democrat party showing their asses and obviously not getting the message.

We can’t continue on as we’ve been. Our spending is unsustainable.

Offshoring industries, likewise offshores jobs, (not everyone is suited to work a fast food counter,) we were spending too much money on illegal immigration, at the expense of our own citizens. I don’t care if illegals were paying taxes, they’d simply supplanted citizens who also would have been paying taxes but were now unemployed.

The underlying problem may well be corporate greed, but yelling about it, then increasing regulations, offshoring jobs, and not fixing the problem wasn’t improving anything. Nor was moving toward a globalist government or economic model under the direction of the WEF.

The WEF is not and likely, never has been, our friend. Looking at the larger picture, I sincerely wonder if they’re anyone’s friend. Many of their policies seem aimed at creating dependency. Particularly when smaller countries are examined.

There are a number of cases where productive countries who were feeding their people, and exporting their goods, (in other words doing okay,) joined or implemented WEF policies, and suddenly found themselves with people starving in the streets. What followed was insurrections and revolutions.

Yet the travails of the American People were ignored. The January 6 protest, (In Democrat Parlance, an “insurrection that was worse than 9/11″,) was the American people essentially asking, “What the FUCK are you people doing?”

That too fell on deaf ears.

Politicians choice to ignore the will of the American people led directly to Trump, both times!

The Biden years led directly to a large percentage of the American People demanding an accounting of just how much government corruption there was. DOGE is the result of that demand. 

The Democrat party is in disarray. Trump moving at breakneck speed as he has done, is about cutting the parasites out of government and keeping them so off balance that they couldn’t keep up with events enough to mount a defense.

At the risk of invoking NAZI imagery, Trump and his administration mounted a Blitzkrieg, not just against the Democrats, but against corrupt politicians in general.

Have you noticed how many Representatives and Senators have decided not to seek reelection? In the run up to the midterms, I think we’ll see a lot more from both sides of the aisle doing the same.

But now, as the first 100 days come to a close and the Blitzkrieg comes to an end, I suspect that my prediction about a second Trump Presidency will turn out to be true.

The Democrats, other corrupt politicians, organizations, lobbyists, and whatever cabal of corporations, have begun to regain their footing. They’re not off balance anymore.

Now they’re going to capitalize on the hatred they’ve created toward Trump and those who voted for him. They’ll engage in impeachment, and another summer of “Love”.

They’ll try to back Trump into a corner wherein he’ll have little choice but to deploy national guard to restore order and execute one of the primary responsibilities of the Government.

It’s in the freaking preamble of The Constitution of The United States.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The 35 words of the Presidents Oath of Office are;

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

If you read the preamble, and take it literally. The part about insuring domestic tranquility will most likely be where Trump goes.

The primary responsibility of the Government is to insure safety of the citizenry.

If/when the national guard rolls on the streets of Chicago, New York, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles. Trump will be labeled a NAZI, a Dictator, an Emperor,  then the corrupt politicians and their henchmen will take him off at the knees.

They’ll tie his administration up in endless hearings thereby deleting any benefit of his administration.

We’ll have 3 years, and 265 days of endless bullshit. The country will remain polarized, the economy will stall, and we’ll all suffer for it.

The corrupt will run out the clock, they’ll present someone with great hair, a winning smile, and a mouth full of honey.

That person will talk about unity, peace, better jobs, the homeless, the poor, the disadvantaged, and how evil Republicans are. They’ll appeal to emotions like revenge and retribution.

That person will “win” the next presidential election. Then, they’ll say, “We have so much unrest, we’ll need to keep the nation guard in place until things calm down.” They’ll blame it all on the Trump Administration and probably set up a “Tip” line, so that “Good” citizens can report insurrectionist speech, while extolling the virtues of weeding out the evil in our midst.

And then, we’ll be living in a police state. Or there will be a revolution.

My money is on Gavin Newsom as the Democrats choice.

So it’s with this running as a simulation in my head, that I say I want to go back to freaking stability!

I’d like to go back to the ‘80s or ‘90s where sure, there were problems and issues but at least I lived my life pretty simply. I literally never thought about the government except at tax time, or if there was some monumentally stupid thing happening.

I worked, I was generally happy, global issues were beyond my control or concern, and it was quiet.

Back then I couldn’t conceive of the insanity of today. Orwell, and Rand, were fictions. The sun was gentle, the beaches were clean, the ocean warm, and my culture, future, and country, were secure. Or so I thought.

I suspect I was running the simulation in my sleep. I don’t remember dreaming about any of this, but when I woke this morning, Jesse was cuddled up next to me with his head on my arm.

He doesn’t typically engage in that kind of cuddling behavior, he’s more of a, “We’ll sleep when we’re dead,” kind of dog.

But if I’m sick, hurt, or restless while sleeping, he tries to comfort me. I have to give him credit, he’s really a sweet dog, even when he’s a pain in my ass.

I hate like hell that I have no choice but to disrupt his life, and mine, with packing up and finding some other place that we can afford to live. I can’t compete in a job market where standing behind a counter running a cash register requires a fucking Master’s Degree. 

That is the level to which higher education seems to have been devalued. I’m seeing more and more simple retail positions here where Masters Degrees are required. I guess it’s the only way an employer these days can make certain you’re able to read, do basic math & count back change.

That’s another post for another time…

But it’s only 1%

Waste of money.I keep seeing people talking about USAID being only 1% of the budget. As if somehow that justifies the waste.

Waste is waste. That 1% is still more money than I’ll ever see. It might be more money than most of the people in the United States will ever see.

That it’s only 1% isn’t the point. The point is what that 1% is being spent on. An alternate point is, “If we see this here, what will we find elsewhere in the miasma we call our government?”

The best thing we could have happening to our government right now, in my opinion, is to have successful businessmen looking at government, not as a black hole of poor investment, but instead looking at it like a failing business that they’re trying to save.

I say that as a preamble to the point I want to try to make.

I don’t understand the logic of trivializing money spent, or money earned.

Let me provide a couple of anecdotes from the opposite perspective. A perspective of companies trying to make a profit.

I once worked for a company that sold software. The software, drove process controls in devices and could easily be integrated into a company’s machines via a pretty clever API. 

The company’s software was in a ton of other manufactures machines. It saved the manufactures time having to write basic control software and allowed them to concentrate on feature differentiation.

The company I worked for sold licenses to use their software. Part of the licensing structure was for updates, modifications, and integration assistance.

One of my friends worked in the Sales department. One day he came to my cubicle really despondent.

He’d been working for weeks on several deals only to have those deals rejected by the ‘powers that be’ because they weren’t big enough. Meaning the individual deals weren’t in the millions of dollars range.

I can understand that philosophy if the smaller deals were going to require a lot of hand holding or customization. But that wasn’t the case. The other companies were looking for just the base software and they were going to handle the integration into their product on their own. They were looking for a jumpstart to get their products to market.

The powers that be, rejected 6, trouble free 1/2 million to 3/4 million dollar sales because they wanted nothing less than million dollar sales.

Neither of us understood the logic. Money is money.

The Company, like so many other I’ve worked for, no longer exists. 

Turns out bad management destroys even the best company. In this particular company’s case their refusal to do smaller contracts opened a door for their competitors to bring their products to market and capitalize on the perception that my company was “Too Elitist”. My colleague and I were long gone by the time everything imploded.

I’ve watched more than my fair share of companies and their dynamite products go down the tubes through bad management, arrogance, and greed.

I worked for another startup company whose CEO said in a meeting, “If smaller investors don’t understand our name change then we don’t need their money. Larger investors will understand and support us.” 

A couple of colleagues & I walked out of that meeting, looked at each other, chuckled, then polished up our resumes. The company was gone 8 months later.

The point of these anecdotes is:

When people trivialize even small amounts of money, (Or waste,) it seems to open the door to foolish decisions, or more waste.

In the case of companies, they lose access to operating capital and sometimes that’s enough to starve a company to death. With companies, they may get a reputation for being difficult to deal with, or slow, and that drives away potential future customers.

In the case of the government, trivializing amounts makes it more likely that smaller amounts of waste will be overlooked as “the cost of doing business”.

For example: If I’d known USAID was so wasteful, I’d have applied for an 80K grant renewing yearly to study frogs in drought affected areas of the mountains where I live. (There aren’t any frogs here.)

It’s a little bit of money, less than .000000000001% of the national budget. Regardless, it would still be a waste, and I’d be living pretty well on the government dime.

If NBC or CNN reported on me doing research on non-existent frogs swindling the government out of 80K a year, most people would be outraged.

Yet this is exactly what a lot of government apologists appear to want to sweep under the carpet and ignore. 1%, 5%, 10% of the national budget?

It’s just a little waste…