Tag: Things that make you say hmmm?

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Sure, it was a PR stunt. But it was funny!

Okay, I admit it, I loved Trump working the fryer at McDonalds.

It also triggered a pseudo random train of thought, so buckle up buttercups! Y’all know I’m nuts.

So what if it was a PR stunt? It was nonetheless fun. If I lived in Philly I’d have gone to that drive thru and waited for however many hours it took, just to have the possibility of Trump handing me a Big Mac, Fries & a Coke.

Yes, RFK Jr. would no doubt have something to say about the health benefits of McDonalds food. Rightfully so, & I look forward to him cleaning up the chemical soup that our food has become. Nonetheless, he no doubt saw Trumps point over the weekend. Making America Healthy Again is something for after January 20th.

The pundits clutching their pearls about Trump working in McDonalds have all missed the point.

Trump was having fun, his supporters were having fun, and they were doing it at Kamala’s expense.

Wasn’t it Kamala who has invoked the image of the poor fry cook being harmed by Trumps economic policies? Wasn’t it she who said Trump had no idea what it was like to do menial work? Didn’t she herself say she’d worked at a McDonalds when she was younger? Although no evidence to support this claim has been uncovered as of yet.

Trump just hit her head on. I’d bet every single person in that McDonalds is voting for him.

Trump at the drivethu.Trump can say now that he too worked in a McDonalds, and the world has the receipts to prove it. He supposedly said, “I’ve worked in a McDonalds 15 minutes longer than she has.” This may, or may not, prove to be true but for the moment it stands. 

“So, all you pearl clutchers, now that Trump has worked at McDonalds in Philly. What else have you got to attempt to degrade / defile / defame / demean him with?”

Are you demanding a redux of “Dirty Jobs” With Trump as the host. Mike Rowe might have something to say about that, or he might say “What the hell”, grab a shovel and work shoulder to shoulder with Trump.

We know from the tree planting memorial at the White House on Oct 10th, that Kamala Harris has never used a shovel in her life. Apparently neither has her husband. That whole event was seriously awkward, and underscored for me the very thing this election has come to be about.

Our government is full of elitists that haven’t done a days physical labor in their lives. Yet these people claim to know what’s best for the majority of the laborers in this country.

That’s the real divide. It’s not about race, gender, or education. It’s about work and workers. It’s about how they feed their families, get to work, heat their homes, and meet their life goals.

Trump Are these done.Surely the pundits don’t think Trump wasn’t having conversations with those workers asking them about their lives, their hopes, and aspirations.

That’s Trumps secret sauce.

He is able to engage with normal average people. He’s a direct, rough speaking New York businessman. I could see him in his younger years shoveling on a construction site as easily as sitting behind a desk. I identify with him as someone who knows about a hard days physical labor.

That ability is something the abstruse Kamala can’t touch. If she speaks plainly, it’s to wag her finger at us in faux moral & intellectual superiority, putting us morons in our place. When she’s not speaking plainly she’s difficult to understand and it feels like she’s not telling the whole truth.

Obama just tried finger wagging with Black men accusing them of misogyny. It didn’t go over well. Black men are as screwed by Kamala extending the Biden / Harris policies for another 4 to 8 years as any White men. The problem isn’t about her being a woman President. It’s about shitty public policy that has clearly hurt us all.

The way I see it. After 10 years of noise and far too many, mostly false, sprinkled with factual, accusations, I no longer believe anything the news media says about Trump. Every word out of these peoples mouths is by definition misinformation, negative spin, or a flat out lie.

Kamala dropping back to something Trump supposedly did, as an answer for the Biden / Harris Administration failings is being seen for what it is. A smoke screen for her inability to answer unscripted questions or think on her feet.

I and I suspect the rest of America wonder, why the media has unilaterally been saying what they’ve been saying, and why do they always use the same exact words? Do their writers rooms only have one thesaurus between them?

We still don’t know for sure, but It looks very much like the State of New York is going to overturn the 34 felony convictions. If / when that happens it will be very interesting to see if Trump sues them for damages. You know, little things like restraint of trade, slander, libel, loss of income, and the interest on about half a billion dollars. I hope he charges the Fed rate in effect when he turned the money over.

Fun fact, New York prosecutors said Mar a Largo was worth 18 million dollars, which was a flat out lie, the comps showed that. The 18 million dollar valuation was their basis for charging him with fraud.

Mar a Largo brings in 50 million dollars per year. Business properties are valued by the raw value of the property, structures, fixtures, improvements, and by their brand recognition and revenue stream. Mar a Largo is a functional membership based golf course. New York prosecution, in order to make their case devalued the property & improvements and completely excluded the value of recurring memberships to the golf course. So tell me again how fairly those idiot prosecutors calculate property value. Crow all you want about 34 convictions.

When those convictions are overturned, I’m betting there will be a lot of attorneys from the New York prosecutors offices looking for jobs at McDonalds and hoping Biden forgives their student loans because their law degrees will be useless. At least now they’ll know how to run a fryer and Trump will be in the training videos.

Even if those convictions aren’t overturned. The damage is done.

Americans all over are asking, “What the Fuck?” People don’t trust the media, they’re not trusting the government, they’re starting to see that something is very wrong and asking questions, for which there are no answers forthcoming from the government. The latest DHS debacle via FEMA has thrown gasoline on the already flaming dumpster of immigration policy. It’s fortunate too. Because more Americans are asking very basic questions.

Why hasn’t FEMA been moving heaven and earth to help those stricken in the storm zone? How dare any government official say that the people in the damage area should have planned for a Hurricane? What? 300 miles from any coastline? Are you kidding me with that shit? Why do illegal aliens get phones, debit cards, and free housing and American Citizens get bent over by FEMA and fucked? Why does Ukraine get billions and billions of taxpayer dollars while folks in NC, GA, & TN get denied a $750 government loan? 

As long as people remain angry and keep questioning these things I think the “Machine”, whether Democrat, Republican, or something larger and more corrupt, will be forced to back off.

The only people still believing the lies are the blue haired, higher than fuck morons that think the Harry Potter universe is somehow real. There’re more average Americans than them. 

The threat I’m concerned about is ANTIFA and BLM. They’re the foot soldiers whose one job is to destabilize major cities. Were they to start rioting mid November if it looked like Trump won, they could cause martial law to be declared which might stop the transition of power on Jan 20th.

Believe me I won’t be surprised. At this point breath taking corruption is on display each and every day. The Democrat party at this point will “save democracy” by destroying democracy to maintain power & control.

Let’s say that Trump wins this election clean. Meaning with such an overwhelming number of votes that no amount of cheating would install Kamala without triggering a civil war. Further, let’s say that the New York convictions stand and Trump is disqualified from holding office.

Does that mean that JD Vance is installed as The President in similar fashion to Kamala’s installation as The Democratic candidate?

That would solve concerns over Trumps age expressed by some people. It would also put an end to the renewed demands for cognitive tests of Trump.

(Funny how those demands were dismissed by the media when they were directed at Biden, (and turned out to be needed,) but suddenly are unquestionably relevant with Trump.)

Trump is not campaigning from his basement. He’s out and about, interacting with the public and press. Unlike Biden or Kamala. Heck she isn’t keeping up with Trump, so who needs cognitive and physical fitness testing? 

Vance’s advantage is that he is young & strong. Vance is smart and tactical and he seems to resonate with average working class folks. Vance as The President would be interesting because as a former military man he’d be real sensitive to military misdeeds & misbehavior.

If Vance was The President I bet General Milley would shit himself, right before being taken to his Courts Martial, tried for treason, and serving as an example to other corrupt individuals in the Pentagon.

I digress but think Vllad the impaler’s punishment is too gentle and kind for that treacherous, traitorous, bastard Milley. That’s just my opinion and I could be wrong. 

It’s possible the “Machine” that’s been driving all this insanity for the past couple of decades, has been painted into a corner. It’s also possible that we could have 12 years of JD Vance.

If he’s a good President, that would be just about the right amount of time to burn the rot out of our government, arrest the criminals inside and outside the government sphere, and avoid a messy uprising.

Sorry for “Attention Deficiting” it today. The wild horses in my thought processes were all competing with equal vigor. At least it’s all kind of related.

 Have a great one.

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A couple of days ago Governor Newsom signed some free speech bills

These two bills are not the end of the First Amendment. But if they’re allowed to stand, they could begin the erosion of the First Amendment.

I believe these two bills will have a chilling effect on political memes within California and I’m not sure how these will play out in situations where the host servers are not located in California.

The problem I see is that if California is allowed to prosecute memes regardless of where the creator lives, then defacto censorship is likely to extend across the entire nation. I honestly wonder about the longevity of this blog.

I’ve expressed some pretty strong opinions about our political candidates and even created one or two memes that are very unflattering to several presidents, vice presidents, and governors.

Will I be arrested? Will I have my First Amendment rights stripped from me? I’m a little guy, I can’t afford to mount a legal defense against the deep pockets of the State of California.

So until I understand the ramifications of the new laws, I think I’ll not be posting anything of a political nature.

Let’s think about this for a moment.

Due to uncertainty, and fear of unfair prosecution, I’m self censoring. This is exactly what these laws seek to do.

I’ll be reading these laws very carefully and looking at the details of what precisely they’ll prohibit. After I understand the law I’ll return to making political comments. I’m willing to bet there will be other people that just stop talking.

I happen to believe that if people aren’t allowed to speak… okay, bitch, and complain. Then like the boiler with a broken pressure relief valve, the pressure will just build until until what would have been unflattering speech will become something far worse.

The first read of these bills looks like they’re targeting memes, and videos that appear to have the subject political figure saying something they didn’t say. A.K.A. disinformation.

The “Very Fine People Hoax” for example is the one that pops to mind instantly. Biden and Harris have both kept that hoax alive even though it’s been throughly debunked, and disproven. The news media cut the video of Trump in such a way that it appears he said Nazis were very fine people. He didn’t. A shit ton of people still believe he said it.

Mark Twain said, “No amount of evidence will ever convince an Idiot.”

Turns out if the TV says it, It’s gotta be true.

Under these new laws, would California seek to prosecute Joe Biden or Kamala Harris?

Who decides what is dis-information anyway? The Nazi Party had quite a division to make this determination and sent authorities to arrest those believed guilty of creating or spreading dis-information.

Is this the America we want to live in? Do we want to have a Nazi-esq group of jack booted enforcers kicking down doors because some of us forwarded a picture of a dog looking up at the camera with a concerned face., and a caption, “I know we’re visiting family in Springfield, don’t let me out of your sight,” because it was funny.

It doesn’t matter if Haitians are literally eating cats & dogs or if it’s meant as a slur. The humor is visual, and conveyed by the dog’s expression. We as a people, used to be able to see humor without being so sensitive that it traumatized us.

I loved the Washington Post fact check on Trump when he said, “we had hamburgers piled a mile high.” They said, “at 2 inches high, 700 hamburgers wouldn’t be a mile high”

Duh! Really? You don’t say. It was an exaggeration. A figure of speech, no-one in their right mind actually thought Trump had stacked hamburgers 1 mile high.

We used to not have a problem with these sorts of exaggerations either. We as a people used to recognize that our leaders were human. We used to give them a pass on some silliness. We became concerned if the leader repeated the error. Then we’d ask, “Excuse me? What did you say, and what did you actually mean by what you said?” When we asked that question, we expected an answer, plain & simple. We didn’t want or expect a bunch of BS language that said nothing and never provided an answer.

This was back in the day when Americans had a sense of humor.

When was the last time you saw a good comedy routine?

I loved Netflix for their standup comedy. When there were fewer and fewer actually funny programs, I stopped watching Netflix, then I cancelled the subscription.

I digress, well, maybe not. As cancel culture became prevalent, comedians began self censoring. That might have been why the stand-up routines seemed so flat, or stale. If you can’t say what you want without someone being offended and harming your career then you start censoring yourself too.

I’m not sure I like this dark road we’re apparently on.

I don’t appreciate political parties supporting censorship because I look to the history of not only the Nazi party, but other dictators, kings, and potentates.

This is something I believe should concern us all.

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Saw this Venn Diagram on Twitter

I don’t know who created this diagram but I’d like to tip my hat to them.

It accurately explains how I’ve been feeling lately.

I’ve been trying to write but have experienced severe writers block.

On the plus side I’ve been making progress cleaning out the house, so there’s that.

It seems lately that every time I turn around there is some fresh stupid hell created by humanity because collectively humans are bored.

I find that I’m looking forward to some extinction level event, for a change of pace.

I strongly suspect this sort of boredom happens all over the universe in every sentient species. It’s probably why we’ve not detected conclusive signs of other life.

I’m betting that all species get to a certain technological level, things get too easy, they get bored and start making shit up to terrorize each other. It’s not out of cruelty, it’s so they feel something, anything…

Species probably need a hit of adrenalin that they get from pursuing or being pursued in a forest. They need to have real danger, real life & death consequences, and real mysteries to confront.

Had we made it into space, we might have had a decent substitute. Death being less than an inch away in the cold vacuum of space, may have provided the stimulation to drive our creativity and invention forward. We all know we’re not going to make it into space in any realistic way.

The 1960s & 1970s was our window.

We had loads of men who were tough enough, for whom hardship and discomfort wasn’t a big deal. We had role models and heroes that every child wanted to emulate. Big men, doing big things, not for clicks, but because they believed in the potential and dreams of humanity.

The window has closed. 

All we have left is a long descent into barbarism. The herd will be thinned out due to disease, war, and stupidity. The surviving humans will forget, except in legends about all we accomplished. Maybe we’ll have another ice age and the glaciers will scour most of our cities and infrastructure from the land.

Ancient aliens meme.15 – 20 thousand years later when odd looking bits & pieces of our civilization and technology pop up they’ll be completely unknown and unremembered. So… those future humans will think of us as Ancient Aliens.

That’s more than we’ll deserve. The reality will be that we were a bunch of morons who contemplated our navels too much, demanded to be accepted while not accepting others with differing opinions, who lost the ability to think our way out of a wet paper bag, then turned our maintenance over to artificial intelligence, while eating bon bons on our overstuffed couches, waiting for our rudimentary service droid to come rub our feet or give us an orgasm that we were too lazy to work toward ourselves.

When the end came, most of us will have denied the obvious truth, instead of getting our fat asses off the couch and actually doing something useful.

This line of thinking has made me wonder how many times before this kind of thing has happened on this planet. Likewise, I wonder if it’s actually commonplace throughout the universe, and a function of technology. 

I’ve thought that perhaps there’s a very narrow window where a civilization reaches apogee. The only way a civilization survives is if they reach a point in technology & science that they realize their planet is about to undergo some cataclysmic change and this knowledge galvanizes the sentient species to focus on creating a solution to the problem.

If they fail, then they fall back into the muck, after some period of time they rise again with half remembered legends spurring them forward again.

To be clear I’m not even thinking about “Climate Change” as our moronic people think about it.

I’m talking a meteor impact like the one that may have snuffed the dinosaurs.

Consider this, the meteor needn’t actually hit Earth. Suppose something big came in at a fraction of the speed of light and hit the dark side of the moon? Say it splits the moon into pieces. Those pieces needn’t rain down on Earth. Just them spreading around in the moon’s orbit dissipating the gravitational effect on our tides and weather would be disastrous. There’s impressive climate change!

Or let’s say it was a large enough object that it changed the mass or orbit of the moon? What then? Destructive tides becoming the norm. Earthquakes and volcanoes restructuring continents over a thousand years instead of millions of years. Imagine that. What about the moon ending up in a decaying orbit?

Now imagine that scientists figure out the impact will happen in 300 years. Do people keep squabbling, or do they turn all their abilities, resources, and effort toward preparing and saving themselves? Ideally, if a civilization was at the right point in it’s development they’d figure out how to advance their technology to save their species.

The way we are today, we’d argue about what color the paint on a starship should be before we built the starship. We’d be arguing if there would be an appropriate amount of transgender representation on board the ark ship, completely ignoring that puberty blockers 10 years before rendered those folks incapable of reproducing.

Douglas Adams might have been more right than he ever imagined in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. We might really be the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B.

Thinking along these lines is why I think we’ve missed the window.

We’re so caught up in irrational trivial matters that we’d squabble for 300 years and be squabbling / assigning blame right up to the impact.

Looking at our colleges today, it’s painfully obvious our youth don’t compare to the builders, dreamers, creators, and makers of just 40 years ago.

I suppose that’s why I’m not writing as much. It’s too easy to think, “People might be able to read the words that I write, but they’re not going to understand the meaning.”

Thinking like that makes walking the dog, & tossing stuff out of my life, far more productive activities. I need to get small, agile and light.

Then I’ll be ready for what comes next.