Whew! Democrats still big mad & I’m still working through tax stuff.

Since I’m still working through tax stuff I have very little pity for the pissed off Democrats.

Their little stunt Tuesday night may have backfired horribly.

Even CNN & NBC reporters weren’t particularly kind. But more interesting is some of the “Man on the Street” interviews have folks claiming they’re Democrats and vowing never to vote Democrat again.

I take that with a grain of salt because people on the street can claim to be anything they wish. Nonetheless it’s interesting to think about the ramifications.

Did the leadership of the Democratic Party just put a large, or perhaps, final nail in the party’s coffin? Time will tell.

They did a fine job of alienating a lot of folks with their refusal to acknowledge even good things that universally everyone should have been able to get behind.

President Trump said it flat out, when he pointed at them saying something like; There is nothing I could do or say that would make these people smile or be happy. That’s sad…

Indeed it is sad because these are the people who for the past four years were talking about unity, democracy, and truth.

What they meant of course was compliance and acceptance of their “Divine Rule”. Then they negated democracy by installing Kamala after the people had already chosen Biden for a second term, then we find out they lied for years about Biden’s decline.

I find myself asking, what did they expect when all those chickens came home to roost? Did they think the American people would simply ignore, or forget these issues? 

President Trump could have pounded them a lot harder than he did. I laughed at some of the swipes he took because they were funny. I think his approach of stating the simple truth was far more effective.

My favorite was his comment about the border. “Biden said we needed new laws to address the border, turns out all we needed was a new President.” That one cracked me up!

My personal takeaway of the subtext President Trump delivered was, “I can’t please you no matter what, so I’m not even going to try.”

Which means he’s going to move on without bothering to consult the Democrats. They’ve become irrelevant and are nothing more than a nuisance when it comes to confirmation hearings or passing bills into law.

Honestly, that worries me. There should be a healthy balance between the two parties and they should be able to discuss subjects from two different perspectives. 

That the Democrats have beclowned themselves as they have, may not be a good thing in the long run. In the short term some good might come of it.

Good, as in term limits for Congress, laws against congressional stock trading, and much closer oversight into campaign financing.

I’d like to see some oversight into just how it’s possible so many congressmen get into congress with net worths of a few hundred thousand dollars and come out of congress with millions in 2 or 6 years. Congressional salaries are high but not that high.

I’m not saying there is any wrongdoing, but you have to admit, it looks odd.

Maxine Waters was on X claiming that Donald Trump and Elon Musk stole the election by manipulating the voting count. She claims that somehow Musk and his “Hackers” put Trump in office. That really cracked me up because when Biden was elected she was all in stating anyone who disputed the election results was deluded and a conspiracy nut. 

Ilhan Omar and the rest of “The Squad” may have screwed the pooch too, with what I and many Americans perceive as, at best divided loyalties, and at worst loyalties to other countries.

A bill has been introduced to impose similar birthplace requirements the President must meet, on Congress.

This is something I’m sure that a lot of Americans will see as a good thing. I’m not so sure. While I hate that Omar is always badmouthing America, and may have cheated the immigration system. I’m not sure that excluding naturalized citizens from congress is a good thing. I don’t think it’s fair to punish everyone over someone like Omar.

On the plus side, doing so now may stave off what we’ve seen happening in Europe where large numbers of people of specific religious or national origins are welcomed, then move into politics enshrining their customs or beliefs into law and punishing those who disagree, or even ask questions. 

See England for examples.

The down side is that welcomed, legal, immigrant groups may end up waiting a generation before they’re fully represented in Congress. At this point, that may be a non-issue, I’m not sure.

I saw one talking head suggesting this is xenophobic. I think that’s a bullshit argument. It’s not xenophobia, I think it’s more a kind of protectionism.

As an aside, If you want to talk about xenophobia let’s look at the members of Congress saying that Elon Musk should go back to South Africa even though he’s been a naturalized citizen for over 20 years.

Ideally, I think you want people in Congress to have deep ties to the country and their constituents. I’m not sure how to best meet these needs and exclude people like Omar, Talib, & AOC, who clearly seem to hate our nation, our people, and our history.

There’s another idea I’ve seen floated on social media suggesting that Congressional candidates should have to take, and pass, the same exam regarding The Constitution and rights that naturalized citizens take as part of their citizenship application, before their candidacy is valid.

That might be a good idea. Maybe adding cognitive testing should be part of the candidacy process for Congress and the Presidency as well.

It’s really interesting to note that 29 Congresspersons were born outside the United States. Of those, 25 are Democrats. That seems to be a rather skewed percentage.

There is a part of me that thinks Voter ID and paper ballots might change the balance. Incidentally, I believe that a national law requiring ID and paper ballots should be a top priority of the Trump administration and Congress.

That would go a long way toward putting an end to allegations of voter fraud. It would probably limit any voter fraud to an acceptable percentage of .001 percent. It would sure make me more willing to accept election results.

I’d like to see us go back to voting on one day. It might be a good thing to make Election Day a national holiday as some have suggested.

I’d even like to see mail-in ballots limited, and certainly not automatically sent as they are in California and some other states.

I think we should have to request a mail in ballot prior to each election. In other words, the citizens would have to be responsible enough to plan ahead.

Really, don’t we want engaged voters? You know, voters who actually pay attention and exercise their right to vote with purpose, instead of getting the mail and guessing about candidates in the voting booth?

The primary opposition to these sorts of things are always Democrats. They make excuses like not everyone has ID, or poor folks can’t afford ID, or deployed military folks would be excluded from voting. 

All of which could be easily addressed. Give everyone free basic state ID that has citizenship clearly marked, as the Real-ID act calls for. Make exceptions for deployed military members, although I’d bet you could have voting in person and tabulation at every single military base. I’d go so far as to believe the military results could be certified and reported by midnight.

Congress001_original 1.I’m very in favor of simple common sense changes being made that should make things better for everyone.

This is all stuff that’s been running through my mind while I’ve been searching for various documents with numbers on them to plug into various tax forms.

I’d probably be a lot less pissed off filing my taxes, if I had faith that our government wasn’t a hot mess of compromised officials.

Oh well, back to the document search.

Have a good day.

Hmm. Talk about misreading a room!

I’m honestly not sure what to think about this whole Zelensky affair.

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.Seeing the Ukrainian Ambassador essentially face palm it was pretty darn funny. Her expression was one of “Oh Shit! This isn’t going well at all.”

We’ll never know if she told Zelensky to just make nice in front of the cameras, sign the mineral deal, and we’ll negotiate these other issues on the backend. 

That probably would have worked very well. “Give a little, get a little”.

Trump and his people are no doubt very aware that the American People have had quite enough lighting our tax dollars on fire. Therefore a public showing of American getting something in return for their support of Ukraine, and a more private deal in a conference room who’ll have been much more likely to have been agreed to.

There’ve been reports that part of the deal Trump was suggesting was to negotiate more European involvement in securing Ukraine in addition to America naturally protecting businesses and citizens who would be working on the minerals side of things.

I believe and always have believed that Putin’s biggest reason for invading Ukraine, (Aside from Biden being very poor in international policy), was the NATO connection. NATO membership for Ukraine brings with it, all kinds of unacceptable issues including weapons systems and potentially nukes of various types right to the border of Russia.

Biden’s posturing about Ukraine being given NATO membership, might not have been the only reason Putin Invaded, but it damn sure had to have been a factor.

Zelensky getting mouthy with The President, The Vice President, The Secretary of State and others, in front of The American People, in The White House was a super bad move.

For many of the American people tired of financing the Ukraine, Zelensky looked like one of those homeless people who demand money from you as you walk past then get belligerent when you say you haven’t got anything to give them.

Indeed lots of Americans have suffered with taxes, inflation, and all the other issues the past 5 years brought them. And yet Billions kept flowing to Ukraine while our own people suffered. 

I think Zelensky will not be seeing any more American money, weapons, or resources. Even if he apologizes it might not matter. Americans are souring on propping up everybody else’s countries or governments. Especially when doing so leaves our people wanting.

I’m leaning toward Zelensky missing some social queues. Perhaps he thought he’d plead his case in front of the American People, hoping that they would intercede with the mean new administration. If that was his plan, he grossly misread America.

Zelensky was being criticized by medrmebers of his own government Friday evening. Who knows? Zelensky might be on his way out as the President of Ukraine too.

Ya know… As disruptive as it is, I think DOGE is a good thing.

I know there are a lot of people who will disagree with me on this.

DOGE is doing exactly what has been needed in our Government for a very long time. I might go so far as to say DOGE is akin to Ivermectin in that it’s killing off parasites.

Then there’s Tulsi Gabbard who summarily fired a bunch of “Intelligence” workers who spent their days using secure servers to hold discussions of a sexual nature.

Pete Hegseth and Trump are cleaning house in The Pentagon and Kash Patel & Dan Bongino are working the FBI.

I’m looking forward to Pam Bondi restructuring the DOJ such that we never see the abuses of past years again.

I’ve been very amused at the Democrats complaining that Bongino isn’t qualified. Folks, he was Secret Service and apparently qualified enough to guard Hillary Clinton. He’s got the degrees, and law enforcement background. So Democrats once again are outright lying, because they don’t like him.

I swear to God, if the Democrats just started telling the freakin truth it would go a long way toward saving their party.

Alas, they’re so used to blatantly lying and getting away with it, that now they can’t stop themselves, indeed, they may not even know they’ve crossed the line between truth and fiction.

All of this popped to mind as I was reading the latest out of Washington.

Adam schiff donald trump.As the government workers scream about being asked to spend 5 minutes writing a bullet list of their activities for the week, and national intelligence resources being used to host sex chats during work hours. Government workers are mad about actually having to show up at their place of business (government offices) and the IRS fires workers then (in my opinion) targets the taxpayers by closing 120 offices that typically provide assistance to said taxpayers in filing taxes, and USAID is closed freeing government workers who should have been raising questions about some of the expenditures to seek employment elsewhere…

As I processed all of this, I couldn’t help but think that government jobs are freakin cushy. After the dust settles I’ll be applying for one of those jobs!

Probably not…

These government jobs appear to be playpens. I say that as someone who while working in technology saw a lot of software development playpens usually populated by mostly Indian workers and very young fresh out of college horribly inexperienced programmers.

Bean bags, video games, expensive coffee and energy drinks, top of the line laptops (when desktop machines 1/2 the price would have done just as well). Entire sections of departments were walled off and “No Go Zones” where the “Developers” spent most of their time chatting in Hindi, playing games, or sleeping. I suspect most of these people were H1B1s but I don’t know for sure.

What I do know is that there wasn’t a lot of work getting done. I also know that schedules kept slipping, products kept being delayed, and the quality of what work was being done was generally low.

Given the similarities, Musk & his techies are the perfect people to walk into these government agencies because they’ll take one look and know exactly what the hell is going on.

Even though Mush is a fan of H1B1s, I suspect that when he cleaned out X he saw a fair share of these “Safe Spaces” where screwing around on the company dime had become acceptable.

Someone like him, (God I’d love to help him tear through these government departments,) probably has to head to accounting. I’d love to walk in with him, then peal off to go into the technology wing and IT departments. Believe me, I know where to look for a bunch of lazy useless salaried and expensive individuals, frittering away money on equipment and technologies that are unnecessary to day to day operations but lots of fun to play with.

As an aside, the best day at one place I worked, was the day a new owner walked in, went directly to the developers playpen and fired everyone screwing around in there instantly. “You’re all fired! Go to HR they’ve got your packages waiting for you.”

This new owner had fired our HR department and replaced it with his own the week before. That’s why no-one saw it coming. The H1B1s all freaked out. Some crying, others angrily demanding their jobs be given back to them.

Their cries and complaints fell on deaf ears. The next thing he asked was if the contents of the playpen were personal property or had the company purchased it? When he got no answer, security, and hired movers, stepped in and started carrying the shit to the dumpster.

One of the developers threw his $3000 dollar Apple laptop across the room. The new owner pointed at the guy. Security escorted him and his broken laptop in the direction of HR. The new owner said quite plainly, the cost of that machine would be deducted from the former employee’s pay.

I remember thinking it was a great day even if I was about to lose my job too.

The arrogance and insufferable behavior the developers has shown to those of us tasked with testing their dreck software made it worth it.

Interestingly, we didn’t lose our jobs that day. The new owner asked for our honest evaluation of the state of the software and how far the project really was behind. We told him.

He cancelled the project and merged us into one of his other companies. Our original company disappeared completely.

It turns out this man bought our company for some patents and source code to previous successful products. Products that had been built, prior to the developer playpen being installed.

Because of this experience I see all the screaming, pearl clutching, and clothes rending as nothing more than what I saw at that company that day.

The layabouts have been caught. Unfortunately there are good people, good workers that are also being hurt in the process.

Alexandria ocasio cortez aoc tax rich afp 4268547959.There’s another thing to consider too.

Having USAID, or IRS, or FBI, or CIA on a resume with an end of employment date in 2025 means these people, all of them, might be really screwed.

They’re radioactive and no-one will be able to tell if they’re good employees or bad ones. So potential employers may bypass them entirely. Why hire trouble? Most corporations are generally risk averse.

The lesson that I think everyone should learn from this is as follows;

Crockett outburst 1.The good employees either didn’t, or couldn’t say person X, Y, or Z wasn’t doing their fair share of the work.

Perhaps it was because of fear of retribution, or DEI, or just not wanting to engage in political infighting because the risk was too high.

(I’ve been there, I know those hard choices. “Do I rock the boat and turn this shitty job into hell on earth, or keep my mouth shut, collect my paycheck and pray upper management fixes the problem?” After all it’s their job anyway.)

Thing is, not saying something, not reporting it, does a disservice to the company, the department, and ultimately leads to corporate bloat decreasing the employees share of any bonuses.

There’s nothing worse than doing a shit ton of work, then having to suck it up when the laziest most worthless of your coworkers starts bragging about using their bonus, (that they “earned” simply by occupying space,) to book a vacation, when you know your boss won’t give you time off.

So the lesson everyone should learn, from government workers on down to mini mart employees is to speak up. If someone consistently isn’t doing their job, they shouldn’t have their job.

Hopefully with the rebirth of meritocracy, it won’t matter what race, gender, or national origin someone is. The only criteria will be, as it always should have been, is the person doing their work?

I think our government agencies are all learning that very lesson right now. It’s a hard lesson, there’s going to be a lot of broken eggs but it’s unavoidable because the situation has been allowed to get so bad.

I think that much of the problem can be laid at the feet of DEI, but seniority and tenure have as much to do with it as anything else.

Once meritocracy is removed there’s not much incentive.

When I started working in the late 1970s I worked my ass off because my boss had the ability to reward me with a check, which just made me work harder and yes, inspired competition between me and my colleagues. That in turn made our company successful and in the success we all got good raises!

By the late 1990s bosses couldn’t do that anymore, because it was perceived as unfair.

From then on we got yearly reviews and 2%-3% raises regardless of how hard we worked. So what was the point?

Not all of us were going to be able to move into management. Indeed not all of us wanted to move into management. Some of us liked being in the trenches and what we did without the headache of being a manager.

Unfortunately, that meant that if you wanted a decent raise to buy a house or have a child, you had no choice but to change jobs. In my opinion, the death of meritocracy and rise of employment racial quotas screwed America and American business.

We also had the overarching threat of layoffs, corporate mergers, and companies going bust. So even if we didn’t have merit raises, we still had to be at least a bit leaner, flexible, and aggressive to keep our employment somewhat stable.

The government workers in the news right now seem to have never experienced what we in corporate America took for granted.

For them, it appears that sitting in their cubicles, doing little work, not rocking the boat, and hanging around for years, was enough to get pretty high pay, excellent benefits, and decent raises and never fear being laid off, or losing their jobs for any reason.

I guess the real world intruding in their safe spaces is shocking and unsettling.

Our politicians screaming about unfair treatment of government workers have obviously got to be voted out of office too.

Their unrealistic beliefs and lack of oversight will simply insure that after this mess is cleaned up, they’ll allow the same mistakes to be made all over again.

I’m being mean I know, BUT…

I have been enjoying the hell out of Trumps first week in office.

If the Democrats stay this mad for much longer, they’re going to have aneurysms. Not that I’d shed too many tears about it.

CNN is laying off, Deportations are ongoing, Jim Acosta may lose his prime time slot and possibly his job. The J6 folks are free as are the pro life protestors who prayed at an abortion clinic.

I caught an article today saying that Klaus Schwab was big mad at the people in the United States for re-electing Trump. Apparently he thought the lock was in with Kamala and since she’s so weak willed, I’m betting he expected her to sell us out to the WEF and make him king of the world.

We pesky Americans! We just will not submit to being ruled. Klaus told the WEF that perhaps we shouldn’t be allowed to have elections anymore. We’re just too unpredictable.

This is coming second hand from a whistleblower who’s at Davos.

Sorry, when this guy and his buddies, all dress in robes that look like something out of a SciFi movie it gives me pause.

I mean their outfits look like the traditional outfits that the bad guys in such movies wear.

Come on, this screams “I’m the bad guy!” All he needs is some dark and foreboding entrance march.

What the hell are they dressed as?

Anyhow, I think the enemy might be the WEF. Their minions in the form of whatever old Klaus is funding are already here in the states. Schwab commented on a number of “Black Swan” events happening in 2025. Trouble is, Black Swan events are by definition unpredictable so why would Klaus say he was expecting not one, but multiples in one single year?

Maybe it’s a good thing we got Trump.

It’s nice to see common sense, prevailing. I’m not sure about pulling the US out of NATO but I’m pleased he pulled us out of the Paris Climate shit. I’m glad he’s sending illegals back to their countries of origin.

Hey, at least they didn’t have to walk…

I heard this evening that Mexico is refusing the shipments. Isn’t that interesting? 

I’m glad to see the border being closed, I’m also glad that those people being returned are telling their countrymen it’s not worth the trip and that immigration is all over the place. I’m not meaning to be a bastard about this, but wait your freaking turn folks… The illegal crossers just screw up the world for the people who’ve been standing in line to come here legally.

I also like that Trump is moving so fast with so many of the changes and executive orders. Before Democrats read that, and say, “the courts will overturn those executive orders.” I’d like to remind them, Biden forgave student loans, the court said, “You can’t do that,” and Biden did it again.

Where was your outrage then?

If the court says, “No, you can’t do that to Trump,” I think he’d be well within his right to behave exactly as Biden.

I’m for the stipulation Trump set on Federal funding to California too. I think he rightly sees the root cause of the problems being an effectively single party state. So he say, I’ll give you federal funding, but you need to enact Voter ID and divert a lot of the water that runs into the ocean now, back into California.

Seems simple. I’d like to have voter ID in California. I think that would solve a number of issues an it would be interesting to know once and for all if the poor choices in government officials are the result of cheating or stupidity.

DOGE is cutting bullshit studies and programs. They’ve got a slot on USDebtClock.org showing how much they’ve saved. It’s here if you’re interested.

There was a list describing just some of the things they’ve cut. There was a Department of football huddle. They were supposed to regulate the symmetry of football huddles and had the capacity to fine teams that didn’t measure up.

Uhhh really??????? I hope to God that’s a parody. Thus far I can’t confirm or deny it. The sad part is that I wouldn’t be surprised in the least.

Petty assed bureaucrats would try to institute a masturbation tax or fee, if they could figure out how to monitor everyone. There’d be special waivers for minorities and anyone pumping a load into a cup at a sperm bank.

Hegseth was just confirmed as Secretary of Defense. I’m sure a lot of jackasses in the pentagon are shitting themselves right now.

It’s wildly inappropriate but I’d like to see Hegseth rip his shirt off, grab a sword, and yell, “Y’all are righteously FUCKED NOW!!!!” He can’t but I think it would be epic.

Once he gets rid of a bunch of dead weight in generals, I’m hoping he’ll flush the bullshit projects that have been running for 20 years, produced nothing, cost billions, are already obsolete, and not even close to producing a working prototype.

I’m looking forward to week two.

Maybe the CNN, ABC, NBC, & CBS reporters, and this vile bitches on The View will start dropping with heart attacks, since they’re so pissed off. That would be entertainment!

What a beautiful day Tuesday was.

I slept very soundly Monday night. I woke up feeling pretty happy. I was looking for mean tweets over my morning coffee, but didn’t find any. 

I guess it’s going to take a few days before those become a regular thing again.

I don’t know how to describe it, I felt a sense of relief. As I’ve said, Trump is no angel, he’s certainly not the second coming.

But he’s not Biden!! He’s not Harris! 

He is a mostly successful businessman who understands cash in / cash out and making sure that you get something for the investment you make.

TRUMPSigning EO.The Paris Climate accords for example skew charges and fees toward the wealthier western countries taxpayers, and allow emerging countries to pay less, and pollute more, when they could be building their infrastructures from the ground up to be cleaner.

It makes no sense for China and India to build industries that they’re just going to have to retrofit in 20 years & no doubt by then, the Western Nations will have to pick up the tab for the retrofit too.

It’s a bad investment. Not that being responsible and minimizing pollution is a bad investment, but being on the hook to pay disproportionate carbon taxes does not serve the US Tax Payer.

The United States is already one of the least polluting nations on the planet. Yes, we could make a case that planetary ecology concerns us all. That’s a true statement, however pumping trillions of dollars into foreign governments hasn’t proven to have the desired effect, pretty much ever.

There has to be another way. Perhaps making our cleaner technologies available to 3rd world nations at a discount, in exchange for raw materials?

I was really happy to see us pull out of the World Health Organization. Back at the beginning of COVID it was blatantly obvious that the WHO was compromised and only a puppet of China. 

More recently the WHO has made statements that concerned me and made demands that all nations submit to their mandates regarding the next pandemic. Their guidance, obfuscation, and mandates, including statements about not restricting travel to and from China arguably made the COVID pandemic worse.

Why quarantine people in their homes, but not quarantine travel from the country of a disease’s origin due to fear of being called racist? That’s not medicine, that’s politics.

The best part of the day was those 51 intelligence officers who certified that Hunter’s laptop was a fake,  and Miley having their security clearances pulled.

I blew water out my nose when that came on the TV.

I can hardly wait to see what he does today & tomorrow.