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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Where Are We Going?

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Hey everybody, remember me?  Long time reader, sometime blogger.  I just haven't had the wherewithal to write one of my normal political posts these past few months. I'm not sitting here angry or depressed about the election or anything, but I'm not okay with it either.  Shock and amazement?  Maybe that's a bit strong, but I'm not enjoying what I'm seeing with all those executive orders and how the administration is governing.  I'm also concerned about what is happening with the majority in the house and senate.  It's also quite shocking to see that the president has had zero press conferences since he took office.  I think we know why, but the Presidential debates showed that he was a bit more "with it" than we had thought, so maybe it's not as bad as we might think.  If he is unable to speak freely, or hold interviews without softball questions and/or his wife sitting there with him, we're going to find out sooner or later.  Whatever is wrong with him, I don't think his handlers can hide that much longer.  Despite whatever spark he showed during the debates, I just don't think he's up to the task, unable to put forth the intellectual rigor required of the job.

That means that someone else is in charge, his DNC handlers I suppose, or possibly his VP which is even more scary because of her extreme progressive ideals.  Will he make it to the end of his term?  I am not all that confident as he seems frail.  Biden was always a liberal, but his views often followed the wind of the Democrat party.  Now it's a strong gale to the far left and he doesn't seem to be involved.

“I like Joe Biden, but the agenda is AOC, Pelosi, Schumer, Sen. Bernie Sanders. So, no, I don’t think Joe Biden’s in charge.” - Sen. Lindsey Graham on Newsmax TV

I have no idea what will happen in 4 years, as the Democrats don't have a very deep bench. The Republicans however, do have some folks in the bullpen that could bring a win, assuming the election is fair.  Until then, hang on as it's going to be a bumpy ride.


However, have you read up much on HR-1?  It's an election reform package.  Some of it is good and bipartisan, things like requiring voting machines to be manufactured here in the US, and improved access for people with disabilities.  But there's a bunch more wrapped up in there that is scary as hell, especially if you like limited government, states rights, and fair elections.  Remember all the concerns with absentee balloting and how that could open us up to voter fraud?  Well, the bill essentially legalizes much of those things we are very concerned about- like not requiring anyone to witness or notarize absentee ballots, and requiring all absentee ballots to be accepted as much as 10 days after the election.  It also makes it illegal to attempt to verify a voter is who they say they are, that they have a legal address, or to check if they are possibly registered in multiple states.  It bans states from implementing voter ID laws as well.

Are they kidding?  If their candidate is behind on election day, they have 10 days to fraudulently produce enough absentee ballots from names that can't be verified.  We're quickly becoming a banana republic, but in those countries, it's an illegal election, whereas here in the US of A, its law!  Let's hope not, but I'm not confident this bill won't pass.

             Yep, nationwide $15 dollars an hour is on its way.             Source

How about that COVID relief bill?  Or should we call it the fattest amount of pork this country has ever seen?  A tiny fraction is actual relief, but the rest is just making up for lost time.  Are you getting a $1400 check?  Yep, anyone making $150K or less per household is, including convicts.

"Dylann Roof murdered nine people. He's on federal death row," [Sen] Cotton wrote on Twitter. "He'll be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats' ‘COVID relief’ bill.

Some of the pork includes $500M to Planned Parenthood or like organizations- making up for all the funds they didn't get from the Fed under Trump.  $40B- as in billion- to "colleges and universities."  I could have sworn I heard that they were making money hand over fist, and putting all our kids massively in debt, but maybe I was wrong.  How about $500 million for museums & Native American language preservation?  $1.5 billion for Amtrak, which still has $1 billion in unspent aid, $100M for a Silicon Valley subway. and $50M for "environmental justice" in low income and minority populations, are among the other fatty tissue.  The GOP was unable to stop any of it, nor add any amendments.

I'm not sure what this Administration's platform is, but maybe there isn't one.  It seems to be whatever Congress wants.  The vacuum of leadership from the oval office is a void being filled by the radical left, and it's not pretty.  It's not good for America, it's only for the special interest groups, but we get to pay for it all.  They are making good on their promise to never let a crisis go to waste.  While America wastes away.

CPAC was a couple week ago last week and apparently it was just a huge Trump rally. We are only a month or so removed from his presidency so that is understandable, but I'm not sure he should be the GOP nominee in 4 years. Look, I like the guy and his views often matched mine, as it seemed that my voice was being heard and followed. But he is so hated by the left, the left which has so much power in local, state, and federal governments, and especially in the media, that he will have a tough road to hoe to make it to the White House again. I also don't trust that those in those power centers will make it fair. You may not believe that there was anything wrong with the last election, but I can't fathom how in only a few population centers did a simultaneous ballot spike happen that took Biden over the top. Statistical improbabilities, if not impossibilities. The largest turnout ever for a presidential election and he lost to a guy who didn't even campaign? I'm sorry, I just won't believe it. There should have been similar spikes in other Democratic strongholds, assuming the excuse that all those absentee ballots finally came in. If HR-1 passes, the fraud will be far more prevalent in the next election I'd guess.

Speaking of the media, have you noticed a change?  The fact that they don't have Trump to kick around anymore is interesting.  They find any target on the right that they can, having a fit over Ted Cruz flying to Cancun, but they never said a thing about the two dozen flights that Clinton took to Epstein's island.  They also keep bringing up January 6th over and over- heavily using terms like insurrection, domestic terrorism, etc., never mind the fact that they're all being prosecuted, so what's with the continued outrage?  Fort Washington DC with its steel fencing and concertina wire is still up, and the National Guard have been extended once again, due to supposed "credible threats."  These people are crazy paranoid.

I read this quote the other day.  It sums up government disfunction very well:

One of the key differences between mistakes that we make in our own lives and mistakes made by governments is that bad consequences force us to correct our own mistakes. But government officials cannot admit to making a mistake without jeopardizing their careers.                                               Thomas Sowell

I think the cop involved in the George Floyd death (the trial was supposed to start yesterday) will be found not guilty for a few reasons.  They were using a restraint they were authorized and trained to use, Floyd's toxicology is damning, and his underlying health condition are a major factor in the death.  Now will the jury pull an OJ and ignore it?  I don't know.  If Chauvin is found not guilty, expect more looting, rioting, and burning of Minneapolis and other cities.  If he doesn't get the death penalty, which he won't since that's not on the table, expect more looting, rioting, and burning...    Damned if we do, damned if we don't.

Finally, if you think the lunatics are guarding the asylum, you have to look no further than my former state of residence- Oregon.

Completely eliminating the sale of diesel?  They will cut off their nose to spite their face.  It's just in the precious Portland-area counties at first, but that's where the criminally insane ones live.  By 2028, no diesel will be sold anywhere in the state.  This won't pass, but they have no clue how disastrous this law would be on the cost of everything.  A friend owns a restaurant in Jefferson County Oregon, which is locked down tight due to COVID.  It must be bad there right?  They have under 2000 cases and only 30 deaths since the entire thing began a year ago, but the Governor's one-size fits all plan is killing her business.


Whether in Oregon, Congress, or the media, the lengths they'll go to enact their far left progressive policies, and their willingness to spend our grandchildren's tax money seem to be unlimited.  God help us.


53 comments:

  1. The Left will hate ANY effective person who runs against them. Not supporting Trump for that reason???
    HR 1 appears to be an attempt to legitimize the election stealing that the Dems have been doing for some time.
    Makes you wonder which North American country has the fairest elections - Canada or Mexico.
    The GOP - if they are trying to demonstrate how to be a political party that does not understand politics, they're doing a bang up job.
    Frank

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    1. Yeah, no real leadership from them either, but at least they're more hands-off.

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  2. No, any further elections (save some counties perhaps) are NOT going to be free or fair. That ship sailed; the People slipped one by in '16 and the left resolved such would not happen again. This is not going to be solved through elections. HR.1 will pass and Gropey Joe will sign it into "law" and have its intended effect of keeping the left in power.
    Boat Guy

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    1. Yeah, TWANLOC was depressing enough; now I'm seeing a lot of TINVOWOOT around on various sites.
      Frank

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    2. The only hope is that the left muck it up so bad that people are actually angry enough to vote GOP. Then again, the GOP hasn't been the bastion of virtue either. Nobody cares about the debt.

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    3. So? If HR1 passes into law, why vote? Seriously. Why? They'll manufacture enough votes to win everything, from President down to your local area. HR1 is a full 'DNC wins Forever' measure.

      HR1 passes and the Supremes let it become law, which, considering that they've done everything in their powers (except for 3 minority members - as in actual Constitutionalists minority) to ignore and validate the shenanigans of 2020, and what vestige of our dear Republic is dead. Not wounded, dead. Dead as in Weimar Germany dead. Or South Vietnam dead. Yeah, that dead. Deader than the Confederacy.

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  3. I ain't voting anymore. I'll go fishing or go to the dentist or DMV before I'll waste time voting again.
    Now is the time to disassociate from the system as much as possible.

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    1. I just can't disconnect like that, although my rants to a like-minded audience doesn't change much either.

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  4. The Democrats are no longer marching towards Communism, they're running towards it. The soapbox is being de-platformed while the jury and ballot boxes are being rigged...........that leaves only one more box left.........

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  5. Yup, hr1 is bad. Encourage more people to vote. More voters dilute the pot. Personally, I would have gone with online voting. You could trace each vote to a person or phone, and phones are insecure, and apps are as secure as needed.
    States impose the voting rules. I don't see the bill getting approval in all the republican legislatures. But, it does have some good ideas, cutting gerramandering, giving the people more time to vote, and opening more polling, voting stations. That's not bad consideration what the states are doing, closing more locations, and cutting hours, and justifying a mail in vote. Some states, are saying, women should not have the right, or you should be a property owner too, sounds so pre civil warish.

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    1. It federalizes elections- taking them away from the states. It's not an amendment so the Congress just has to vote it in.

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    2. Just as the voting rights act expanded access to elections on race, this expands on rights of individuals to the processes. After all, what good is it to have the right to vote, if the process is skewed one way. such as in russia, or china? Where you can vote, but if you vote wrongly? Is it wrong to expand the voting privilege? Especially when states are cutting voting laws? Remember voting used to be for the few, property owners, then 3/5 of people were added by federal law, then women were added by federal law, then all but felons? By federal law, when did federal law by liberals come to mean evil? During dapper don?

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    3. Check out the Georgia bill 241, does it help voting hours by cutting voting places? Remember, a person may vote two ways, yes or no, but a party controlling creates an ideology, voting was good, but they voted, so now it is bad.

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    4. My main concern isn't the expanded access to elections, but the lack of ability to determine a person is who they say they are and are eligible to vote.

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  6. A good look at the sad times we live in.

    Banana republic, it's what we are now.

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    1. True Sarge. However a well-armed citizenry who know how things are supposed to be done might yet have a say
      Boat Guy

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    2. I am sad for where we are, where we're obviously going, and have no idea how we'll ever get out of it. I think we are seeing the fall of our republic.

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    3. Sadly, too many of the well-armed citizenry are not doing anything because they're waiting for that final straw to hit. Which I expect to be the anti-gun legislation.

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    4. Tuna, the Republic fell last November.
      Beans, what would you have the citizenry do? Won't be the legislation, but the enforcement thereof.
      Boat Guy

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  7. Yet a nearly two-trillion dollar tax cut for the rich (with provisions that directly benefitted the then-president), rammed through on a partisan basis, doesn't bother anyone?

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    1. Lame attempt at misdirection. We have grown-up things to discuss, like the loss of the Republic.
      Boat Guy

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    2. Zu befehl, Sarge.
      BG

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    3. Misfit- while I don't like anything that could add more to the MASSIVE debt, the tax cut didn't directly add to it, but it also had the effect of the greatest economy and lowest unemployment rate in the history of our nation, so I'm not as critical. I understand Boat Guy's concern, as that's a different point than what I've raised here. Care to comment on the bloat?

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    4. So far as anyone getting their panties in a twist about so called "tax cuts for the rich"--I have NEVER EVER seen any poor people employ anyone, while I have seen lots of "rich" folks employ a lot of "poor" folks. If cutting taxes and some regulations helps create more jobs for people, I am more than fine with that. It is the teach a man to fish theory, instead of all these damn hand-outs. Why go look for a job if you make more staying home on unemployment?!?! Meanwhile, the economy goes to hell, and the dollar is headed south as inflation is beginning to sky-rocket. Already the cost of food is up, and I can tell you, it certainly isn't the farmers who are getting the extra!!!
      The other issue is what Washington regards as rich, and what the rest of us define rich as...anyone over $150k a year is typically regarded as rich...bet folks who make that much a year don't think of themselves as "rich".
      Tuna is correct in my book...it is going to be a very long, and bumpy ride over the next 3.75 years.

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    5. President Kennedy demonstrated that tax cuts stimulated the economy enough that the increased growth offset the cut - smaller percentage of a much larger pie. President Reagan did the same thing.
      Where things go out of whack is in Congress - for every dollar in revenue they receive, they go out and spend $1.25. In other words, the faster money goes into DC, the faster the country goes broke.
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  8. I give Biden around two months, and he will be gone. The dementia is galloping along.

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  9. Dude's already gone. Someone like Rice is pulling the strings. Only Dr. Jill is keeping him going.
    Boat Guy

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  10. Remember the harlem globetrotters? Yeah, the gop is literally the political equivalent of the washington generals. "Opposition" whose sole purpose is to lose while pretending to compete. We're in real trouble as a nation and sadly, fast approaching that moment in history where the 2nd amendment morphs from a right to a responsibility. No point in looking for someone to blame, there's enough to go around and we ALL have a mirror...

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  11. Funny, my wife is disabled and she has no problem voting at all. She's nearly bedbound but can still get to a voting place. And our voting place has people from each party to assist those with hearing or language problems (which, sadly, is quite illegal as to become a citizen it still is a requirement to learn English, an unenforced requirement, darndit.)

    And if she can't get to a polling place, she can request an absentee ballot.

    All her disabled friends have no problem voting, haven't had in forever, including her friend that was wheelchair bound from Polio, who's never had a problem voting as Anne said the voting people, before mandatory access, would bring out the materials to her and give her some privacy. This was late 60's, so...

    So, well, access by disabled is bullscat. Pure and utter bullscat.

    HR1 is just a pure vote-grabbing and vote-denying scheme by the Demon-rats.

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  12. As to the armed insurrection in Washington DC, the only armed people are the minions of the ones in power. So, projecting much?

    And to have to create a ribbon/medal to commemorate the NatGuard's participation in Project Wall Off Our Government for Their Protection? Nary a shot fired, nor a hot LZ, or any bad treatment by the little people, no IEDs, no mortaring, no rocketing. And it's such a strain that they get an award like they fought in the Pacific during WWII, or served in Lebanon during the Marine Barracks bombing, or served in Panama?

    What the ever-loving Heck is going on?

    Banana Republic?

    Banana National Socialism?

    The power-grab is so unsubtle, yet by the means they grabbed power they also control power. The power of the vote is gone. Totally. The power of anyone not answering the tune of the DNC is gone. Totally.

    How soon before they stop paying anyone who speaks out against them? Or is a retiree who has voted against them. Or is on Social Security Disability who doesn't toe the party line?

    My wife and I have had to cut off access to family members and friends as we have been told by some of them that 'we need to start thinking right or else.'

    Serbia, here we come!

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    1. Bosnia times Rwanda as Matt Bracken said
      BG

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    2. Starting to feel like 2021 is gonna make 1933 look like 1967, ain't it?

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    3. Bean, my thoughts exactly. Nobody had weapons other than some sticks. The few that had flexicuffs is concerning, but I haven't heard more about that since. They all left, some got arrested, what more do the Dems want? Maybe just to stay angry.

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    4. Seriously, Beans, they actually told you that!? (face-palm--we're circling the drain even FASTER than I thought! And I ain't no Holly Golightly either, just for starters)

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  13. As to Joe, tops 6 months. I say within a month. Right when the pushback from their own side starts, he'll die or pull a Woodrow Wilson, and that... thing will take over.

    She's not a woman. She's a demon. And, no, I'm not joking. There's nothing human behind her eyes. Trust me on this one.

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    1. Beans, they have to keep Joe in the figure head until January 21, 2023. Then Kamala can rule for 10 years. (I said that right - rule not govern.)

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    2. Nah, Beans, He'll hold on til the two year point. At that point the VP can take over complete the term and then still get "elected" for her on two terms.

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    3. Nope, he's out soon or soonest, and that pesky anti-FDR amendment will quietly die a death just in time for El Presidente for Lifes.

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    4. Bill, are you saying that Joe has to make it to halftime for Kamala to have her own 8 years after finishing Biden's second half? I didn't realize that was how it works. LBJ finished more than 2 years of JFK's term.

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  14. Nancy Pelosi wants a Protection Force, that answers to her. I think Shutz Staffel sounds like a good name for it.

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    1. Because that's what it is...

      Antifa was the Sturmabteilung.

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    2. Got Brennan, McChrystal et al standing up the Gestapo.
      BG

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  15. We, the people of the United States of America, used to be so proud of our fair election process.
    The left (I think) first tried this with Kennedy-Nixon election and we let them get away with it; however, Kennedy was still a Conservative.
    With the 2020 election we have now progressed to the status of the People's Republic of North America.
    I am but one elderly man; still I hang my head in shame.

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    1. "We" didn't let them get away with it this time- the Supremes and the media did.

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