The Last Laugh

  Last week, during an informal powwow with some neighbors, the topic turned to the recent Trump-Harris debate. The only liberal in our group began her comment with a definite chuckle.

“That Trump is sooooooo stupid,” she averred. Attempting to make a point as to how intelligent Kamala Harris appeared compared to Donald Trump, this woman now thought she was smartest person in the room – not unlike a giant headed Jeopardy contestant.

The good part was about to reveal itself as she seemed prepared to defend her last statement. Unfortunately, the remaining three participants were far more ready for this upcoming bloodbath than our token female associate.

She continued, “Trump did nothing but lie throughout the debate! He foolishly said our guests were eating neighborhood cats and dogs...How stupid is that?”

Suddenly, she proved exactly what VP Harris had been saying during her debate: Donald Trump lied every time his lips moved. Who in their right mind would imagine that people would opt to capture, kill, process, and finally, eat someone’s pet?

Now for the good part.

This deep thinker who pretended to have her thumb on the pulse of world politics – along with everyone else who gleefully chuckled along with smirking Kamala – would be able to guffaw, but only until someone with a good memory opened the door to recent history.

“The chaotic collapse of the country’s socialist economic model has created chronic food shortages that have fueled malnutrition and left millions seeking food anywhere they can find it, including trash cans and dumpsters,” NBC News reported in August 2017, in an article on Venezuela’s dire economic condition.

“President Nicolas Maduro blames food shortages on opposition protests that have blocked streets and highways, and a broader ‘economic war’ led by adversaries with the help of Washington,” the article continued.

It seems as though President Maduro ran for office as a staunch Leftist, promising to give everybody everything – free. Free!

Free housing, free food, good paying jobs, all on the house. What could possibly go wrong?

I’m glad you asked.

With everything “free,” there was no incentive to work. The Venezuelan populace received all they needed to survive, until the food ran out. And the housing was no longer available. Plus the jobs disappeared because non-competent workers created inferior products. But what was a hungry Venezuelan to do now?

Hunt and kill your own food.

Here’s an FYI: there were lots of free-roaming pets throughout residential streets – the operative word being “were.”

An accomplished hunter knows where to find his prey. Once the cats and dogs and swans disappeared, they wisely turned to the local zoo.

Yes, indeed. With a loaf of bread unaffordable, dirt floor shacks adjacent to $450,000 condos, the minimum wage is an estimated at Bs (Bolivar) at 35¢/month, and a loaf of bread costing $2.15, people in Venezuela are literally starving.

Prices in Venezuela rose 4,068% in the 12 months to the end of January 2018, Reuters News Agency reported. A study showed that 87% of the people in Venezuela one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations back in the 1970s, were living in poverty last year.

NBC News added, “Zoo head Leonardo Nunez said a wave of thefts that in recent weeks had affected 10 species including a buffalo, which he said was cut into pieces, was orchestrated by ‘drug dealers’ seeking to sell the animals,” in their 2017 article.

An elusive tapir

“Mauricio Castillo, a former zoo director, said thieves had made off with two tapirs, a jungle animal that is also similar to a pig that is described as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of nature,” NBC further offered.

It is nearly impossible to learn the current state of Venezuela due to communication restrictions imposed by the Venezuelan government.

If all this seems familiarly icky, it should. The United States guvment has been edging closer to a Venezuela-style operation nearly daily, for several years at the behest of the Obama, Biden, and now Harris administrations.

Currently using words and phrases like “fake news,” “disinformation,” “misinformation,” along with encouraging internet users to employ artificial intelligence, has created a censorship form of communications that are no longer recognizable under the First Amendment.

But getting back to the presidential debate, Gigglin’s Island queen Harris enjoyed a hearty laugh at the possibility of someone’s pet Fluffy being murdered and eaten by Third World savages; now we know that such a claim is not beyond comprehension.

On the other hand, neither is the possibility of a bus-driving President Harris steering America’s future off the financial cliff.

As the old television commercial advertising for the beef industry asked,” What’s for dinner?” the answer may now be tapir.

 

Days Off

 

  Traditionally, Labor Day marks the end of vacations largely for families. Having just passed that magic mark, kids are returning to school where they can get back into the swing of smoking weed, making babies, and bullying fellow students.

Keep in mind that both kids and teachers – just as when I was a young child with a brain of mush – got June, July, and August off from school. Some quick ciphering tells me that amounts to roughly 90-days of vacation.

If you count holidays, you’re likely to need a ball peen hammer to hit yourself in the head to get it back into shape.

Holidays are not a simple as they once were. Today we have about ten “official holidays,” but not all are “official holidays” although they are referred to as “official holidays.”

You see, way back when, we had specific days designated for holidays that are no longer “official,” although they are what I term “semi-official.”

Our official list, calendar-wise, begins thusly: New Year’s Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas, completes this roster. But it’s not as simple as you may think.

Newly added holidays include President’s Day and Juneteenth Day. President's Day is a mash-up of what was once George Washington’s Birthday, and Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday. Those two historically important figures have been relegated to the “Dead Old White Men” history pile.

To appease a small segment of our population, pandering politicians simply re-designated Washington and Lincoln celebratory days into President’s Day. Good enough for history purposes.

A Dead Old White Man

On the other hand, another Dead Old White Men victim is Christopher Columbus whose special day may, or may not, be celebrated depending upon the whim of business owners. You may, or may not, get a day-off due to controversy started by America-haters that Columbus came to North America for the specific reason to kill Indians. Uh, huh.

On the plus side, America gained two holidays for national recognition in the form of Martin Luther King Day, as well as Juneteenth Day, both largely tribally geared.

For the record, Veteran’s Day is the result of renaming Armistice Day, the day commemorating the end of World War I – the war to end all wars. We now know otherwise, though.

In any event, the conundrum – which, by the way, is not a percussion instrument – is that with the exception of New Year’s Day and Christmas, all other holidays are “floating” holidays, in that they are celebrated on a Friday or Monday in order to lengthen the weekends.

Confusing? Sure, but necessary coming from the guvment who wants to be everything to everyone.

There you have it: ten holidays to keep everyone happy and chock full o’ long weekends for extended vacations during which time we can decompress.

And this is the segue to examine what is also happening in the world of politics. Please enjoy the ride.

Being curious about President Joseph Robinette Biden’s schedule, I looked into his frequent stays at one of his Rehobeth, Delaware, beach homes. It seems as though Biden is in desperate need of regular vacation time during which he can rejuvenate his mind, too..

According to the New York Post, “The 81 year-old commander-in-chief has racked up 532 vacation days in less than four years – about 40% of the 1,326 days he’s been in office.”

“It would take the average American – who gets 11 days a year of vacation – approximately 48 years to accumulate that number of days off,” The Post continues.

And so we reach another milestone in the daily unbelievable goat rodeo we have come to know as The Biden Years: A time devoted to screwing the American public.

Don’t forget to vote.

Another Useless Clinger

   It’s coming down to the wire for Americans to decide for whom to vote, and it’s coming quickly.

After hearing every pious Democrat interject into most camera appearances the word “democracy” while referring to keeping elections fair and balanced, they are once again hiding their candidates to prevent exposure and manipulate the outcome.

If you’re asking ‘Why would they want to limit exposure of their candidates just before an election?’ you’ve come to the right place.

Not unlike the 2020 presidential elections, Democrats seemingly exhumed the cadaver of Joseph Robinette Biden to proudly display him as the only viable person to rule America. Unfortunately, upon doing so, they discovered Biden arrived with plenty of baggage that needed to be erased from history.

Cleverly hidden by the cloak of COVID-19, the Biden election crew spent roughly eight-months keeping him under a tarp in the garage behind his Corvette, the reason being Joe was not as lucid as his puppeteers had anticipated.

Using video snippets à La public service announcements, the Biden election machine successfully had him cowering in one of Joe’s Delaware homes until after the election. The rest is history.

Fast forwarding to today, September 2024, Biden was recently dumped like a bad habit in favor of – uh – anyone else. He totally botched his much-awaited debate with his opponent, Donald J. Trump, in what was expected to be a lopsided mercy-killing. It was, but it did not give the Dems the return-on-investment for which they hoped.

Former President Trump trounced Biden in full view of an audience anxious to witness Biden show Trump who was best at fooling the voting American populace. It didn’t quite work out that way, though.

After a few days of wound-licking, Biden tritely announced the debate outcome had merely been “a bad night.” That, is an understatement. With Dr. Jill Biden in tow, he began traipsing about the country on Air Force One, in an effort to conjure up campaign monies and hopefully votes for his next term.

This rejuvenated re-election campaign quickly soured, though. Looking around the Democrat party tent, very few attendees were deemed sane much less electable. They needed a strategy, and found it hiding in plain sight: Vice President Kamala Harris. Oh, my.

We recently did a speedy peek into VP Harris’ past, as well as prognosticated future; it all seemed very, very bleak. Being the ultimate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hire, Harris was residing in the Naval Observatory because of her race and sex. Period.

Out of fear of being labeled racists if they tossed Harris from her perch, the Dems found themselves in quite a pickle.

In an ardent effort to continue to masquerade the pig slop the Democrats have been feeding the American people, they decided to look for a compatible running mate for Harris. In doing so, they turned to Minnesota – where else?

Minnesota happens to be the state that elected a fellow named Jesse Ventura to represent them as governor. Ventura has quite a colorful past with lots of twists and turns that go from military service to a professional wrestling career to television show host, bodyguard, mayor, and now back into the wrestling world.

During his time as governor, Ventura legalized marijuana, legislated rights for LGBTQ folks, among other stellar accomplishments, all the while holding Minnesota voters in awe that such a goof was able to razzle-dazzle them.

However, this time, the Minnesota governor was tapped to become the next vice president under Harris. She needed someone who seemed of good temperament, educated, well liked, vivacious, and clearly a yin to Harris’ yang. She selected current Governor Tim “Coach” Walz.

Upon introduction to the rest of the world, Walz exited the bucking bronc chute with great enthusiasm, smiling and flailing his arms akin to hailing a NYC cab; Harris, during this meet-and-greet, broadly grinned and laughed, as usual.

A joyful Tim Walz, Kamala Harris impersonator

They seemed more like high school buddies than political running mates vying for the highest office in the land. Again, this tactic seemed to work. Leftist news organizations were breathless in their description of these two special individuals, brought together to fight the devil, himself: Donald Trump.

Akin to bridal receptions, public rallies were electrified with packed venues all clamoring to be the first to announce this proverbial wedding match made in Heaven.

Through those efforts, the mainstream media (MSM) was working too quickly to vet and check any and all facts surrounding Walz.

We do know that Walz was a military guy who taught school in China, where he was married on the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre, besides teaching geography in Minnesota. He was faculty advisor for his school’s first gay-straight alliance chapter, and served in the U.S. House, among other unworldly accomplishments.

But Walz is not without controversy.

He rose to the rank of Command Sergeant Major in the military where he served for 24-years; he retired just in time to miss a deployment to an overseas combat assignment. As such, he was demoted in rank due to time served but forgot to mention his demotion downward change in rank.

Both Walz and Harris appear to play fast and loose with the truth. Kamala Harris is adamant she is steadfast in her beliefs but has been publicly proven to lack candor time and time again.

Walz, too has been ‘gotcha-ed’ several times when making false statements about his achievements and his past.

Having to scrub the fake data from his web-bio regarding his military rank, Walz poo-pooed this regularly questioned aversion as ‘too enthusiastic’ by Walz’s Progressive wife. She offered an explanation that Timmy often misspeaks because of his overly ardent approach to life. You bet.

Perhaps Timmy was too enthusiastic when he “misspoke” about his award he thought he received – but didn’t – from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce. Another legitimate faux pas, I’m sure. After all, Timmy seems to have a lot on his mind trying to keep his lies straight; it’s becoming a monumental task.

It seems as though Walz also had a brush with the law. He was arrested in 1995; stopped for going more than 40 miles per hour over the speed limit, at which time Tim was found to have been drinking. Oops. He evidently forgot about this indiscretion for decades until called out just weeks ago. Double oops.

Speaking of times past, Tim’s estranged brother, Jeff Walz, was located by The New York Post. Jeff briefly claimed Tim’s ideas were unconventional.

“Tim Walz’s own brother knows his socialist ideology is dangerous for America. Together with Kamala Harris, inflation will get higher, the illegal immigration crisis will get worse and our nation will look more like Venezuela,” said Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY).

Taking a few steps backward into Minneapolis in 2020, then-Mayor Jacob Frey contended Governor Walz’s response to the unrest in his city during the George Floyd riots was less than impressive. Frey claims to have made “multiple dire requests for National Guard resources that were not granted until after the city was forced to abandon a besieged police precinct,” Fox News reports.

Of course, Walz’s office accused Frey of not being specific enough in his request to protect the destroyed police precinct. Unfortunately, Hope Walz, Timmy’s Leftist daughter, was given access to “confidential information that she disseminated to the general public and rioters,” Fox News continues.

Hope would go on to send multiple tweets that night seemingly tipping off protesters to the location of newly deployed Guard troops. Quite the team player, that Hope.

Not to be left out of the fun, wife, Gwen Walz stated she kept the windows open during the George Floyd riots in order to “smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing,” per The Daily Beast. Evidently Timmy, Gwen, and Hope were all agog over racial justice finally seeing the light during the Floyd mayhem and sneaker-stealing justice exercise.

Walz openly declared he would buy a ladder factory to ensure ladders were manufactured in lengths long enough to provide for illegal aliens to climb over America’s sovereign fences. Nice guy who is interested in the rule of law. Wink, wink.

Not being overly partisan, I feel the need to point out Coach’s strengths, as well as his shortcomings. Here we go: Timmy excelled by saving taxpayer money by defunding the police. Way to go, Coach!

Clearly seeing bigotry behind every tree, both the Walz and Harris Families seem very, very compatible with one another.

They make a terrific team and hope the American voters are too stupid to notice their hatred for America. I have my fingers crossed that these two communist-leaning candidates will be embarrassed enough to apologize, but sociopaths don’t believe in apologies.

I implore everyone who wishes to continue relishing freedom and individuality to encourage friends and family members to strongly consider the results of electing this pair of misfits. Although great fodder for future stories, they would be dangerous to The Constitution.

Vote wisely.

Nyet!

 

  It is said, ‘Apples don’t fall far from the tree.’

This saying is often attributed to the Bible, expressing the idea that a child inevitably shares traits with his or her parents.

And so, we start to discover who our current vice president really is: examining Kamala Harris and her parents who proudly reared her.

Vice President Kamala was born in Oakland, California, in 1964 of a mixed-race household to Shayamala Gopalan, an Indian-Caucasian mother, and Donald Harris, a Jamaican father. Her mother was a breast cancer research doctor, and passed away in 2009; Donald is an economist and professor-emeritus who taught at Stanford University.

Dr. Gopalan and Professor Harris divorced a few years after the birth of Kamala’s sister in 1967. Kamala lived with her mother and expressed “that her mother was aware that she and her sister would be seen ‘as Black girls,’ and further stated that ‘she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud Black women,’” per Yahoo! News.

And did she succeed. Morphing into strong DA from San Francisco, a State Attorney General, eventually a State Senator, all from California, Kamala was especially proud of her stellar record prosecuting drug cases.

Marxist Professor-Emeritus Donald Harris

According to Democracynow.org, “San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Niki Solis says Harris was the state’s most progressive DA and advocate for ‘so many policies and so many alternatives to incarceration.”

Further, law Professor Lara Bazelon says Harris was on the wrong side of history for often opposing criminal justice reform, though her record did change as a senator. “Her office fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that in some cases kept innocent people in prison,” Bazelon says.

Dr. Gopalan, the fractured families’ matriarch, took over the duties of raising two small girls – Kamala and her sister Maya. The divorce from Professor Donald may have been the catalyst for the sisters to pursue careers as lawyers, possibly seeking justice from a perceived world of personal imbalance.

All the while, Professor Harris had been busy helping Jamaica with its monetary woes. Being a true Third World Nation, Jamaica found itself in great financial straits after decades of serious money mismanagement.

It was time to call in the pros to straighten out this Caribbean nation mess. With crime and depression, few jobs, low wages, and large debt, Professor Harris was tapped to be the savior who would help right this sinking ship.

According to Worldbank.org: “Jamaica has been a highly indebted economy for decades. Since 2013, the government (GOJ) has successfully implemented fiscal consolidation measures, reducing the public debt-to-GDP ratio by more than 60 percentage points to 75.5 percent in 2023 – the lowest level in 25 years.”

“Prudent macroeconomic management, anchored in debt reduction targets and inflation-targeting monetary policy with ample foreign reserves, facilitated post-pandemic recovery amid the challenging external environment on inflationary pressures and tightening global financial conditions. A strengthened social protection system provided temporary assistance to vulnerable households and businesses during the pandemic to offset income losses, protect jobs, and stimulate demand. Additional assistance was provided to vulnerable households to mitigate the impact of rising prices,” Worldbank.org, further states.

The Left-leaning The Washington Post noted that “Since Kamala Harris’ rise to national prominence, her father has been labeled a left-wing economist who often focused on abstract debates primarily of interest to fellow academics.”

The Post article further stated that “some former colleagues say that work provides insight into the economist’s potential influence on his daughter’s worldview. They hear echoes of Donald Harris in elements of the vice president’s speeches – from her commitment to minority-owned businesses to her support for the Biden administration’s industrial policy initiatives.”

In other words, Professor Harris clearly injected Communistic theory into his effort to save Jamaica. But at what cost?

Privatization of businesses and public airports, as well as a corporate land registry has done little to create a needed long term robust economy. “Jamaica is now widely recognized,” The Post continues, “as a fragile economic success story.”

A quick glance at Kamala’s proposed economic reveals something sordid lurking in those proud interviews and speeches she’s been giving over the past dozen years.

On August 16, 2024, VP Harris proposed a new “opportunity economy,” as a solution to the absolute mess both she and her boss, President Joseph Biden, foisted upon our robust economy with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Teetering on the brink of a recession, Harris is suddenly concerned – nearly four years too late – about the dire state of America’s economy. After groceries, fuel, insurance, housing, travel, and taxes reached record highs, while incomes are unable to keep up with the Biden-Harris policies, Harris’ idea is to tax more.

But tax whom?

As is usual in a communistic society, everyone is subject to draconian rules, regulations, and laws. Constantly calling on “the rich” to pay “their fair share,” that secret number seems elusive when asking for hard and fast figures. Just who is rich? How much is fair? Is anyone really exempt?

Without saying the words aloud, redistribution of wealth, as well as equity in everything, nothing involved with the wholesale confiscation of wealth, and punishment for hard work and success is up for discussion.

If you look back in time, Harris has been adamant that socialistic policies and ideas have been on her mind since her days as a prosecutor.

Leniency for criminals, a free tuition ride for students, “no cost” healthcare, housing subsidies, electric vehicle grants, childcare cash, minimum wage increases, and “good jobs” for everyone, are just a few of her brilliant ideas to bury her and Biden’s magnificent Bidenomics plan that broke our financial back in the first place.

If this sounds familiar, it should; think Soviet Russians. All Marxist systems of government begin with economic disasters. Begun under the tutelage of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in 1848, who wrote the Communist Manifesto, commissioned by the Communist League in England.

Mentioning class struggles, capitalism, abolition of private property, and universal education, The Manifesto has been a playbook for communist societies and goals for 176-years. And nearly each time it was applied to a society, it was as “socialism,” which people believe is another term for “kindness.”

It is not. At least 100,000,000 people have died under communistic rule, many by starvation – worldwide. But the kicker is every communistic society has collapsed because of its tenets. And regularly, now communistic societies arise with the caveat: this new effort will not be mismanaged.

But it is human nature that leads us into thinking we have the ultimate solution for a panacea. Beginning with the word: socialism, people are conned into believing they are helping those in need. In fact, socialism is merely communism without the use of a gun.

And based on Professor Harris’ teachings and application thereof, the ideas perpetuated by his daughter Kamala, while examining the current state of affairs under the Biden-Harris administration, Kamala should change her oft-mispronounced name to Kommie La.

On Election Day, the rest of America should simply say, “Nyet!” to Kommie La and her partner Tim Walz.

Better Than Free

Please enjoy this recycled story from five-years ago.  It is as pertinent today as it was then.

I'll return next week with a new, fresh story.  Until then, continue the good fight and keep smiling!

  Summers are simply great.  That’s when much of America joins together to vacation, perform much-needed yard work, or merely lounge about the yard enjoying a well-deserved respite from work.

But it is also time for harvesting those vegetables your sainted wife planted back in late March.

Just about now there are zucchinis the size of telephone poles, hidden from view by the overgrown beds; weeds camouflaging yellow squash that are huddled together beneath the natural sunshade; and cucumbers that would make a person wealthy if they were worth 10¢ each.

Unfortunately, nearly everyone is in the same position – they all have tons of surplus veggies with no goal to use them all.  Even neighbors politely refuse these excess foodstuffs.  Alas.

So, it was today that my sainted wife began the great cucumber pickling of the season.  Our motto is “waste nothing.”

Into the attic we climbed, searching for the necessary canning tools and accessories.  All this critical stuff was in the attic where temperatures were hovering around a pleasant 173º Fahrenheit.

Out came the dusty giant jar grabbers, glass jars of various sizes, a magnetic lid lifter, a plastic poker to remove bubbles, and the king-sized pot.

After a thorough inventory, we realized we were in need of only a few items to can these cucumbers.

Dill weed, dill seeds, mustard seeds, pickling spice, more jars, lids, two gallons of vinegar, finely chopped garlic, a jar of “pickle crisp granules,” and salt.

Only $133.47 later, we were on our way to making cost-effective pickles to amaze and awe our friends and neighbors.

Our modest kitchen closely resembled a cross between meth lab and operating room.  Knives, pliers, pullers, pushers, towels-a-plenty, boiling water and steaming white vinegar, lent to an air also filled with herbs and spices.

Smokey the Cat cowered near my recliner, trying – unsuccessfully – to decipher this chemical extravaganza.

Shakespeare’s three witches from Macbeth could almost be heard chanting, “Double, double, toil and trouble,” from the mist arising from the stove.

The great cucumber coup

Using oversized pliers, my apron-clad sainted wife carefully plucked sterilized canning jars from a giant soup pot.

Neatly tucking cucumber spears into the jars, she added a brine concoction of our earlier supermarket coup.

As the jars were sealed, they were individually loaded into sectioned cardboard boxes, and then cautiously covered with tea towels to prevent drafts and prying eyes from ruining all the hard work.

Eventually, they stood in arrangement akin to a neatly dressed army of glass soldiers standing at attention.

All this was fine until I asked for a pickle to try.

My sainted wife snapped, “They’re not ready, and won’t be for another two-weeks.  TWO WEEKS!”

To occupy my time, I broke out the calculator and ciphered the cost of making pickles from our free cucumbers.

The bottom line was $12.87, per pint.  Not bad, considering I could have bought them in the market for $3.79.

Yeah!

It’s Magic

  Steve Carell is the main character in a cute 2013 comedy movie, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. It generally takes place in Las Vegas where Burt attempts to reunite with his lifelong friend, portrayed by Steve Buscemi, who portrays Anton Marvelton.

Burt and Anton

Beginning with a magic kit – a present from his mother when he was a young child – Burt draws the attention of Anton who develop a friendship in the stage magic entertainment industry.

After arising to fame, the act begins to stale, eventually leading to a tiff between the two, and ending up in a separation. A variety of famous cast members enliven this film through to the finale.

In an effort to rejuvenate the act, they reunify for an attempt to pull off the ultimate magic trick. I’m not going to give the ending away, but in simple terms it winds up being monumental and very, very creative.

My sainted wife thought this movie was too outlandish on which to waste a second of time – though she did. But it was the creativity of the book, turned into a script, that actually made this flick memorable for me.

Although not ranking up there with Casablanca or Key West as award winning movies, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone was entertaining for me. This film is where I mentally went to when I began reassessing what America, along with the entire world, have been subject to since roughly the turn of the century.

It was 1999, and the relatively new world of computers was facing its first real test of how it was designed to function versus how it might actually function, or not.

Then-being used in businesses, to assist with transactions, track inventory and re-order, ship goods, and manage payrolls, computers had moved from a novel idea to a critical component of life. Lest we forget those payrolls are forwarded to banks for processing, and redistribution of monies to pay bills had also become routine.

Mortgages, gas and electric bills, utilities, credit card transactions, travel, and medications, insurance vehicle registration, police identity checks, as well as the then-new Global Positioning System (GPS), all heavily relied on computers to function, and function well.

During the advent period of computer use in societal commerce, those old enough may recall the days of the payroll deposit not making its way to the bank. Glitches were more common than current day crime, but the excuse was reliably the same: “The computer system has a ‘bug’ that is being worked out.”

And we all played along just the way we were supposed to in a fluid, polite, cohesive society. Until late-1999, that is.

News people were agog because of rumors the computer system just might crash. I’ll wait for you while you re-read that last sentence, again.

It seems that computer programmers, who were instrumental in getting all the aforementioned technological wonders functioning for years were now suspect in what the media was promoting as a possible reversal to the Stone Age.

Although old enough to have lived then, I don’t recall a lot of woes that might threaten a total collapse of transportation, medical, and food chain supplies because of a programming error. And the error?

In order to save time and storage space, computer programmers occasionally wrote coding dates as follows: MMDDYY – representing M for Month, D for Day, and Y for Year. Unfortunately, some foreign nations wrote the date YYDDMM, while others used variations thereof, causing concern for incompatibility. No “expert” was able to offer a solid guess or solution for this impending issue.

You see, with a two-digit year, “23” for example, it might be 1923, it could be 2023, it was possibly 1823. And therein lain the problem.

Suddenly, business-as-usual was on the verge of being a total collapse of financial transactions and institutions, medical systems and procedures, even everyday communications, all at the stroke of midnight, January 1, 2000.

The press aided and abetted in panicking the public into a disaster mode – issuing warnings about societal mayhem. Storage of food, precious metals, guns, ammunition, medical supplies, gasoline, even cigarettes and alcohol acquisition were encouraged.

January 2^nd, 2000, and everything was business-as-usual, again. People who warned friends and neighbors about the impending doom were suddenly silent, as were all those supply hoarders and newscasters who fostered this giant international scare.

But this panic was not without reward. The powers-that-be inside the Democrat Party were quick to realize that Americans were a cohesive bunch who could be fed information about virtually anything – true or not – only to grasp onto the cause du jour in order to retain a sense of belonging.

If you don’t believe me, witness the American terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The 9-11 attacks quickly reunited a fracturing nation who was less than pleased because of a slanted media who was bound and determined to vilify then-President George W. Bush.

Leading a campaign that attempted to make President Bush appear weak and incompetent, the Democrats were anxious to re-implement the tactics used in the Great Computer Mayhem Almost-disaster of 1999. And it worked.

Driving a wedge between the races and sexes, the country was more than divided leading up to the 2008 elections. Women banded together to, once again in history, attempt to disenfranchise men all under the guise of “identity politics.” Going a step further, something called “tribalism politics” was introduced to guarantee the division was perpetual.

Tribalism politics is the psychological manipulation of making people think in terms of ‘us vs. them.’ For instance, if a group is supporting Palestine, a group-centric standard should be applied to exclude those who are not, and therefore assumed to be pro-Israel.

The same standard now holds true with whites and blacks, men and women, pro-life and pro-death of babies, even groups who claim to be for or allegedly against preserving the environment, all in an effort to divide. And it’s working.

You may have heard of something called COVID-19. Using tribalism politics, the United Nations, in concert with the United States’ medical scientists and doctors, drove a narrative that created a chasm across the entire planet.

Exploiting arbitrary prophylactic attempts to control/manage the COVID virus, normal people were instructed to stand six-feet apart in stores, wash hands for 20-seconds, wear specially-prescribed masks, and remain indoors, all to avoid spread of COVID. Vaccines were also developed and mandated for everyone, everywhere.

Most people gleefully followed the public health orders, but some did not; those who did not were chastised, harangued, arrested, even fired from their jobs. Some military and police members were let go, and we are now ruing the public health orders that forced them out of service.

But it is today that we find ourselves back under the control of the media. It seems as though President Joseph Robinette Biden has been serving a questionable term derived from a questionable election. With time racing toward the 2024 elections, the public has just recently discovered that Biden is not the Biden for whom they voted in 2020.

Repeated falls, verbal gaffs, awkward nonsensical speeches, and bouts of anger all point to problematic issues now surfacing with only a few short weeks away from our next presidential pick. Tribalism is running rampant, creating an abyss unlike any seen in our sovereign nation’s history.

Using allegations of altered information from Artificial Intelligence, lies, claims of utilizing false pictures, rampant racism, and sexism, all compounded by an invasion of people crossing both our Southern and Northern borders, has generated only mistrust from Americans tired of being falsely fed more of the same razzle dazzle to achieve the desired results.

The Commander-in-Chief has been using front people to lie to the American people. Manipulating rules surrounding the Democrat Party Convention process, Joe Biden dropped out of the race after announcing a full-steam-ahead re-enlistment for the upcoming election.

Less than two-weeks later, a new candidate – VP Kamala Harris – is being touted as a cross between Joan of Arc and Margaret Thatcher. All that manufactured tripe is from the same press that gave you COVID, 9-11, and Donald Trump misinformation, and is happily attempting to give you more fake history.

Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton worked hard to make their magic show, well, magical. And the Democrats are working just as feverishly to make you believe – in awe – that they can pull the proverbial wool over your eyes, yet again.

It’s time to think for yourself and stop following the herd when voting.

You’re Kidding Me

  For those readers who don’t own a radio, television, computer, cellphone, or have neighbors, or communication with the real world, you’re in for a treat.

The past few weeks have been chock full o’ twists and turns in our already zany existence. And it only gets zanier.

Our current president as of this writing, Joseph Robinette Biden, and his trusty sidekick Vice President Kamala Harris, have been busy, busy, busy.

Beginning some months ago, as soon as Donald J. Trump announced his candidacy for president, again, angry President Biden publicly made an offer to debate former president Trump. This offer seemed more like a threat than an offer, but Mr. Trump quickly accepted the date, time, place, and all other criteria.

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With the details in motion, the lead up to the 2024 Presidential Elections were suddenly in sight.

However, for the past 3 ½ years of Biden’s term, he has proven to be less than cogent when appearing in public. Not being one to disappoint, the President, along with the assistance of the mainstream media (MSM), have been both willing and able to camouflage Biden’s regularly weak, feckless public appearances.

And things over the years have only gotten worse for Biden and the Democrat Party. With regularity, Biden’s speeches have been getting more convoluted and indecipherable, often to the amusement of Republicans and our foreign allies.

Sensing something was sincerely wrong, only a few select news agencies have been inclined to point out these sentences that morph into mumbling, as well as paragraphs that trail off into thin air. Of course, the MSM have been complicit in masquerading his speaking shortcomings.

Under the cover of lies, lies, and more lies, Biden, along with his sycophantic staff and administration, have been hiding any semblance of truth or honesty from the American people.

Regularly trying-out new slogans to more easily bamboozle those American citizens not in on the grift, the Biden administration has been using words such as “Threat of democracy,” “Weapons of war,” “Right to vote,” plus the ever popular “Constitutional right to an abortion.”

It seems it was difficult to decide which one of those expressions was best so, they are all employed to better suit a larger, more diverse audience; this tactic seems to be working.

All the while, Donald Trump has been making the rounds with his as-per-usual outdoor revival-style rallies, with great success. There, he eloquently addresses problems facing every American, as well as other nations, and presents possible viable solutions. Crowds of 40,000+ are not unusual.

But it was only during the much-touted aforementioned debate between Trump and Biden, in July 2024, that proved to be the tipping point.

To reiterate, Biden and his administrative sycophants created – demanded – the rules for this face-off. To ensure his anticipated trouncing of Trump, an aging Biden was ferreted to Camp David for a rehearsal, and repeated cramming, to help effect a lead pipe cinch win over his opponent.

Spending seven-plus days in solitude, with a news blackout, Biden ‘trained’ for his proverbial fight against former President Trump. What could possibly go wrong?

Glad you asked.

The hour-and-a-half live broadcast, much anticipated spectacle was over within the first 30-minutes. Regularly losing his train of thought, Biden often mumbled and verbally drifted when addressing issues – not the strong performance the Democrats or the MSM, for which the deep-pocket donors had hoped. Alas.

Immediately, the press went into a meltdown inasmuch as they were clearly unable to gaslight – blatantly lie to the world – that Biden was lucid. He was not.

Damage control was nothing short of attempting to plug their sinking lifeboat. Too bad their choice of draining that sinking vessel was to drill more holes to let the water out.

Virtually every news reader from CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSN, and The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the rest of the MSM, were literally weeping on-camera. It seems as though “their guy” was drowning, and no amount of spin was going to resuscitate him or the Democrat Party.

Continually over the next few weeks, Biden kept popping up like the turd in the punch bowl. Day after day, the President was adamant that he was not going to drop out of the presidential race because he “had one bad night.” Although a terrific excuse for a second grader, that defense was lame, at best.

Clearly, Biden was not going to leave the race because he was the choice of the populace; there was no question and no debate. Amen.

Suddenly, the MSM began turning on Biden in a concerted effort to get Joe to drop out. Saying the quiet words aloud, Biden quickly found himself in a precarious position. With Democrat donors withholding precious funds that froze in revenue was akin to stepping on a deep-sea diver’s air hose.

More and more, the MSM was demanding Biden leave the race in favor of having some other America-hater take the reins of destroying any possibility of recovery from our downhill slide into Socialism.

Let the games and lies begin!

Unexpectedly, Biden announced he would not – NOT – run for re-election, thereby setting the stage for a replacement. Who could the Democrats find as a viable candidate for their party to replace the great, all-powerful leader of the free world, Joe Biden?

Vice President Harris was instantly poo-pooed as a replacement – although her position was that of successor of the president. Oh, my. Going from second-in-command to get-the-heck-out within only one day, the nation quickly learned in how much esteem she was held.

With the Democrat Party, along with the MSM, pushing America’s most famous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hire, Harris plainly proved she was nothing more than window dressing when it came to the issues-at-hand during her stint as vice president.

Early in her term in 2021, Harris was used as part of the smoke-and-mirrors gag used on the American people to draw attention from the Southern Border invasion. Publicly appointed “Border Czar” by her boss, Harris openly balked at even going to Mexico in an effort to save and protect our sovereignty.

Unfortunately, it took a media-whore television interview with a news reader, Lester Holt, to edge toward the truth. A Holt question about when Harris was going to visit the border, she verbally stumbled clearly enunciating she had been to the border – even repeating she had been to the border.

When pushed further, she reasoned that since she had “never been to Europe, either” she had eloquently made her point, winning this verbal sparring. She didn’t, though.

She merely proved she was, indeed, as sleazy and smarmy as she was stupid.

And so it went for a seemingly perpetual 42-months of the Biden era.

Meanwhile, during one of his usual outdoor rallies, Trump, on July 13, 2024, the then-presumptive nominee for Republican presidential candidate, was subject of an assassination attempt. A 20-year-old Pennsylvania misfit openly climbed to the roof of a nearby building from which he fired at least eight shots at Trump, before being summarily dispatched by a Secret Service counter-sniper.

Of course, the fake news Democrats, MSM, and conspiracy theorists immediately claimed this was a stunt – that no shooting occurred – it was a setup, and that a deep coalition inside the U.S. government abetted – supported – this heinous third-world action. Of course. Meanwhile, the investigation continues. Sure.

To which we now awaken with Democrats scrambling to find a winnable replacement in time for the upcoming August Democratic Primary, in Chicago. Fearing they will wind up with another unelectable candidate, Dems are jockeying for a lead pipe cinch nominee who will attract voters for another four year term.

With names such as Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, Josh Shapiro, and Michelle Obama, all being bandied about as viable replacements for president, this gaggle of loons are ready, willing, and able to take the reins of Biden’s runaway wagon.

Hearing reports of polling placing Trump and Harris head-to-head, sometimes with Trump ahead, sometimes with Harris in the lead, all are very fluid and subject to change within hours.

It should be noted that Harris, who is an ultra-liberal Leftist, is married to a Jewish man. She has been very vocal as to her support for Palestinians in the Hamas and Israel war. Her pick for a possible running mate includes Pennsylvania Gubernor, Josh Shapiro, a Jewish man.

What could come of this is anyone’s guess; whose side will she pick to help and fund? Days ago, she snubbed Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to our Congress; she evidently had an important previous commitment to her former sorority, which she attended instead.  Ah, priorities.

It’s time for voters to begin paying attention to politics, like it or not. With serious issues such as those questionable topics such as climate change, fracking, illegally funding school loans, border control, illicit drug influx, national security, food stability, and funding a proxy war in Ukraine, it’s time for a change in not only domestic matters, but international issues, as well.

Vote, and vote wisely.