Libtards

 

  Since the 1990’s, a political divide has been hanging over America largely created by liberals. Often imitating cantankerous children in adult bodies, the shenanigans of these malcontents have been making news simply for their outrageousness.

Fighting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents, setting police stations afire, looting stores, generating violent flash mobs, shooting innocent motorists while carjacking, in addition to a seemingly endless display of apparent hatred toward societal norms, has created an enduring scenario of once normal life that has morphed into mayhem.

Of course, none of this would be possible were it not for the legacy media steering these liberals toward extortionate behavior through manufactured information, also known as “fake news.”

Fake news was first discovered in 2003 in Iraq. America was in an invasion in that Middle Eastern septic tank while attempting to overthrow then-dictator Saddam Hussein. With U.S. forces overtaking the capitol, the Iraq spokesman, Baghdad Bob, insisted Iraq had the situation was under control. Bob assured the TV camera the Iraq army had the United States’ military on its heels, all on live television.

It was a lie. Army tanks were plainly seen rolling down the streets in the panoramic window behind Bob making this farce all the more humorous. Yet the American media asserted our armed forces were in a pickle. That is called being complicit.

Realizing they held genuine sway with distributing propaganda in place of news, the stage was suddenly set to tell the American public whatever they wanted whenever they wanted.

But another critical element was percolating that needed to be cemented in place in order to continue with this ruse. The average citizen needed to be dumbed down in order to create an accepting audience for this tripe.

The ultimate solutions were to make schoolteachers complicit using propaganda as teaching aids, plus encouraging the media to ignore critical news stories altogether. What a great scheme.

Unfortunately, this massive public goat rodeo doesn’t end here.

Enter the sphere of vocabulary. Words have meanings, and that is important to know. Our language has been modified to reflect specific agendas for decades. Babies became fetuses, fetuses became unviable life sources, destructive arson became peaceful demonstrations, illegal aliens became undocumented citizens, and ‘Make America Great Again’ became a legitimate target for practically every low IQ person.

Also included in this list is a very useful and legitimate word: retarded. Its official definition is “affected with impaired intellectual development; occurring or developing later than desired or expected; socially inappropriate or foolish,” according to the American Heritage Dictionary. Amen.

Yet to be bastardized or verboten as a handful of words have been prescribed by the anointed in guvment, specialized racial and social categories, and the aforementioned media, retarded still has rightful meaning, like it or not.

Once used as a descriptor in auto maintenance – advancing or retarding timing from top dead center – when setting ignition points, it simply addresses the appropriate position when which spark plug fires.

Often chiding people for using this word, the powers-that-be attempt to cloak the intelligence of those who participate in outlandish public speaking, besides “serving” the people in guvmental roles as politicians. And therein lies the problem.

Combined with their proud “liberal” moniker, “retard” has also taken on a new life in the apt new noun: libtard.

Evidently in an effort to protect sensitivities of slower or uneducated members of society, the term retard has taken on an avoided path through the English language. And that’s too bad.

But libtard is gaining strength in both validity and conciseness and should not be excised from the lexicon as a valid word.

Take, for instance, the latest displays of stupidity in America. New York City (NYC) voters elected a world-class clown to be their mayor. Spouting platitudes about saving money, Zohran Mamdani spent his campaign, as well as his first months in office, badmouthing President Donald Trump for anything and everything.

Not being able to run for president himself, Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists of America Party (DSA) are clearly deficient in their understanding of economics and government. Promises of free this and low cost that for voters are not unlike a child-like mind spouting delusions of grandeur. But facts are now getting in the way of delivering on those lofty expectations. Time to blame Trump.

Equally complicit in this poop hurricane are the NYC voters themselves. Largely hoped for and contrived by Libtards, this systematic disassembly of The Big Apple via absolute mismanagement can be blamed only on the person in the mirror.

Being slow learners, Democrats and Democratic Party supporters are suddenly viewing a cresting wave of popularity exhibited by Mamdani’s mayoral win and subsequent notoriety. Desperately stepping upon one another attempting to board the DSA train to grab a ride to the 2028 elections the near-sighted Democrats see their regular tax-and-spend method of governing as a new movement of taking-from-the-rich to buy more votes.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
wannabe president

Fifty-nine percent of the Democratic Party members have already made the leap adding “Socialist” to their party affiliation, with DSA leaders already measuring for new drapes in the White House. Included in that list of turncoats are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and relic Bernie Sanders, all leading the gaggle of America-haters and seditionists.

Seeing their Biden-era open border plan coming to fruition, these DSAers’ goals are to shred The Constitution, pack the Supreme Court, dissolve law enforcement across the nation, release prisoners, re-open the borders, give everyone cost-free medical insurance, fade out the military, confiscate private property, plus eliminate debt from all borrowers. All are realistic goals if the Libtards can elect more simple-minded politicians into office by equally ignorant voters.

With Americans begging for change, the sleaziest of the political world are averring their might and knowledge as DSA “solutions” to the state of the nation. After making President Donald Trump, as well as his MAGA followers, targets of slander and violence, the Democrats seem to be in control of their own destiny.

Thousands upon thousands of brainwashed college-aged children have been regularly and openly marching for the genocide of the Jewish population for some years now. Agreeable college and university presidents, chancellors, and professors are either turning a blind eye or encouraging this sordid behavior. But why?

Their ultimate goal is to destroy and replace the United States of America with a Communistic style of guvment, with Jews as their societal scapegoat. That ain’t good for anyone – including the savages who are pulling out all stops to achieve their goal.

If they’re unhappy with the way things are in America, they are welcome to leave to return to the landfill from they came. And those numb-minded Americans who want to mollycoddle foreigners, putting first before natives, should go with them. They represent the perfect definition of Libtard.

Expecting Too Much

 

  According to most websites associated with business strategies, setting realistic expectations, delivering on your promises, and consistently going above and beyond, can create memorable experiences that leave a lasting impression on your customers.

These references further state that by implementing this strategy in your business, you should be able to watch as your reputation and customer satisfaction soar.

If this sounds like a good idea to you, and you’re not a business person, here’s an easy question: To what aspects of your life would the first two paragraphs make an improvement? Along this same vein, to which personal scenario would these same two paragraphs not help?

Take all the time you need. I’ll stop typing and wait for you.

Of course, these are both individualized ponderings unique to each of you. But realistically, it would be nice to see those strategies applied to practically every segment of life thereby creating what might seem like a personal Eden.

Let’s say you have a dog or a cat, or both. Before you picked out your animal companion you likely imagined nurturing walks in the park, a snuggled bed, toys, healthy pet foods, leashes, grooming tools, along with potential traveling challenges. Some of these decisions are simpler than others, yet all are important.

A nasty flea and DSA supporter

Suddenly, you realize your new pet comes with far more in the way of trouble than you ever imagined. Your dog barks incessantly, your cat enjoys scratching the upholstered furniture, plus veterinarian visits are terribly expensive. And then there are fleas.

All this baggage should give potential “fur baby” parent(s) pause. Behavior modification tools are readily available to deal with these and other hiccups. Yet they usually deal with each situation, simply adapting and moving on, as they should.

Usually taking the blame are the pets. But is that really where the finger pointing belongs? Pets aren’t normally well-behaved Mensa members. Just as with humans, pets come with a variety of problems that should have been identified – before adoption – not afterward.

This is where we begin today’s ponderous adventure in “How in Hell Did We Wind Up Here?”

Upon examination, we, as an amenable people, are usually willing to place our trust in so many things and people as well as pets.

We get scammed because we are vulnerable to sad tales, teary puppy eyes, sobbing, plus what ifs. What ifs are those speculative posits that allow each individual person to conjure up in their own outcome of good or bad.

Recall when the mega lottery games occasionally reach atmospheric heights. We bought a ticket in hopes of winning an unimaginable amount of stupid money; that’s when the what ifs began on a positive note. A new house, expensive automobiles, fabulous trips, and perhaps a yacht belong in the what if conversations.

On the flip side, a medical matter is terrifying because they are not known to be inexpensive. In the event of such, people are goaded into buying awfully pricey health insurance to defray the astronomical medication prices and avoid a potential – what if – bankruptcy.

But for all the intelligent people living in America, we always seem to gravitate to what seems as though are ‘good deals.’

Trusting individuals of all ages are regularly taken in by scams, confidence games, bait and switch cons, even by those politicians who wear expensive suits accompanied by toothy smiles.

Usually beginning almost two-years out, many of these pols send out feelers to test the waters of potential topics. Using multiple polling services, wanna-be civil servants hire seemingly countless staff members who glom onto the aspirations of these silver-tongued devils, hoping to acquire a meaningful position if their candidate is elected.

Witness the current New York City (NYC) poop hurricane. A foreign transplant from Uganda, the insufferable Zohran Mamdani arose from literally nowhere to become the mayor of NYC with the aforementioned suit and grin. This go-funny-eyed serial liar weaseled his way into Gracie Mansion riding a papier-mȃché sedan chair, toted by adoring sycophants.

Promising inexpensive grocery stores, free bus rides, low cost housing, taxing the wealthy, and private business takeovers, Mayor Mamdani rode the wave of electoral enthusiasm without barely getting damp. Once behind the Mayor’s desk, his brilliant plans and promises were finally revealed as smoke and mirrors of a colossal con job.

But the damage was already done. His antagonism toward America and Americans enveloped the Big Apple like a stinky fart, carrying over into his seething hatred toward Jews, Republicans, Jews, blacks, Jews, and Jews. What could possibly go wrong?

Since you asked, plenty.

This exhibition of unemployed, youthful ignorant voters getting what they asked for inspired seemingly countless, additional clueless voters to stand in line to meet and greet the new harvest of Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) weeds.

I refer to them as weeds because although they appear green, they suck vital nutrients and water from the ground that a grassy green lawn needs to survive. Soon, they have drained everything wholesome leaving behind mud, thorns, and prickles.

Still relatively new to the electoral-political system in America, DSAers bring with them a haughtiness that is abrasive to hard workers who built this nation into a welcoming home for law-abiding people who wished to join our freedom-loving social experiment.

Now growing roots herein, DSAers are anxious to change all this freedom and opportunity into a proven communistic system that favors mayhem, envy, and sloth over hard work and honesty.

With lies, lies, and more lies, these DSAers have been shoveling hypnotic-like ideas and subsequent platitudes throughout podcasts, internet exposés, as well as news bites, all to the delight of weak minded supporters who hear the half-baked messages they want to hear.

Senate, Congressional, gubernatorial, and mayoral candidates have been finding themselves out maneuvering their Democratic Party buddies, although the Democrats insist DSA-types are welcome into their Big Tent. You betcha.

An excellent example of ‘Beware of what you wish for,’ can easily be located in a place called Hamtramck, Michigan. Once a Polish-American community, Hamtramck attracted new immigrants from Yemen, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, with open arms.

To demonstrate their wokeness, the LGBTQ (I’ll forego the other 17-identifying letters,) community welcomed and encouraged these newcomers to their town of about 28,000 residents. Today, it is the only Muslim-majority city in the United States.

Run by a duly-elected Muslim mayor, and governed by an all-Muslim city council, Hamtramck has now decided the LGBTQ (I’m still foregoing the other 17-identifying letters,) community members could not fly their precious, all-important Pride Flags. What’s up with that?

It seems as though the Muslim powers-that-be have taken offense at the symbolism of that sexual proclivity flag and prohibited its open use on Hamtramck streets. That is called getting what you asked for. It also encompasses not doing your homework.

Not unlike a much wanted puppy peeing on your Berber carpet, or rescued kitty clawing a Queen Anne chair, you should not be surprised by any and all inconveniences that arrived with your welcoming gestures and anticipations.

The bottom line is that Hamtramck Muslims, Zohran Mamdani, along with the rest of the DSAers got where they are not just because of the sleazy tactics, lack of candor, or faҫades. They got to where they are because the voter unrealistically expected too much. And the voters received what they deserve.

Remember this story when you’re casting your ballot for representation.

Now they need to be prepared for the flea infestation.

Holiday Retread

  Because I deserve time off just as much as my readers, I'm taking Labor Day 2026 off.  As such, please enjoy this retread - not unlike remanufactured tires - until next week.

Until then, happy Labor Day!

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Forward to 1865

  What was old is now new. Take, for example, electric cars. Electric vehicles were experimented with by several auto manufacturers as far back as the 1830’s, in Scotland. Attempting to find a suitable battery was difficult, inasmuch as electricity for charging was still widely unavailable.

After a period of deep thinking, European auto manufacturers decided, in 1901, that the internal combustion engine was far less expensive to manufacture and maintain than electric vehicles. But now they’re new again in 2025.

Then there are bell bottom britches. Exactly where bell bottom pants were born is a mystery, but they were adopted by the U.S. Navy in 1901, for use by sailors. They were found to be more easily able to be doffed by an overboard sailor preventing drowning. Used during World War I, they became accepted as a fashion must for both men and women.

Eventually, they disappeared until being “rediscovered” in the 1960’s and 1970’s as an accessory in the fashion world, again, when thought of as new. (As an aside, I also had a pair of bell bottoms, and I looked good.)

Not to be outdone, the brain trust of California’s transportation system thought it would be a terrific idea to make traveling throughout the Eureka State more safe, comfortable, and efficient by building a railway system.

You read that right. Someone who didn’t learn about the rail systems of America, Europe, or the Far East, in elementary school apparently stumbled upon something termed “trains.”

Trains have been around for hundreds of years in varying forms to include electric, steam, plus diesel, that have not only proved efficient, but cost effective, as well. They were successful in transporting both goods and people across a developing nation for many, many years.

Trains began waning following the Civil War ending in 1865, in favor of the new mode of transportation called the automobile.

As with all things, they age; some things age better than others. And just because they were once beneficial to ‘their times,’ doesn’t mean they should or could be revived. 

Gavin Newsom pointing to the direction 
his popularity is heading

Creating the California High-Speed Rail Program (CHSRP), California Gubernor Gavin Newsom thought it would be amazing if he could build this much-wanted boondoggle to showcase his forward-thinking abilities.

Promising this rail system would service areas from San Francisco to Los Angeles, was the easy part. Using a media blitz to promote and continue enthusiasm has become arduous, though.

With the CHSRP using the ol’ razzle dazzle game, they continue to cheer lead this bottomless money pit. Visiting

https://hsr.ca.gov/2025/01/06/news-release-californias-high-speed-rail-program-celebrates-progress-and-highlights-next-steps-towards-operations/

will take you to a website of fluff, along with nebulous platitudes that may actually invoke a case of Type 2 Diabetes.

Enthusiastically bragging about working on 171-miles of track, following the creation of more than 14,500 construction jobs, this statement from CHSRP gives one the impression this exercise was making great headway.

Unfortunately, this saga has been seemingly never ending. Beginning with early visions in the 1990’s, this high speed rail system had planned to remove cars from the roadways thereby relieving congestion.

With $9.95 billion in bonds sold in 2008, this pipe dream was well underway to becoming a reality.

Officially breaking ground in 2015, the section between Bakersfield and Merced, seemed like the easiest place to start. “The goal was to complete this segment first and then connect to the more populace areas,” according to brilliantmaps.com. That was ten-years ago, for your information.

This lofty project was expected to be complete by 2020, but the timeline has now reached beyond 2030. Financial issues have also plagued the project. “Originally projected to cost $33 billion,” brilliantmaps.com continues, “the project’s estimated cost has ballooned to over $128 billion. As a result, the funding shortfalls have become a significant obstacle. The federal government initially provided some support through stimulus funding during the Obama administration.”

Gubernor Newsom has arrived at a place where he, as well as his CHSRP, must explain where all those billions and billions of tax dollars went over the last 17-years. The bigger mystery is where the additional $95,000,000,000 will go. However, the biggest enigma is what are all those 14,500-construction people doing? Something to ponder.

California is proud to declare itself a state in which a resident needs a vehicle to travel. Widespread, Los Angeles itself is nearly impossible to navigate without a car, thereby demanding more wider roads, which create more pollution, necessitating additional traffic enforcement, besides vehicle registrations and inspections – all of which demand additional citizen’s taxes, handled by an obese bureaucracy.

Leading this charge, Gubernor Newsom fancies himself as frugal, when in fact, he is a spendthrift. Showing little regard for taxpayers, residents, drivers, and consumers, Newsom has been attempting to use this as one of his résumé items for 2028 presidential bid.

It’s too bad he’s desperately reaching backward into 1865 for tomorrow’s answers; not the brilliance for which one would hope in a leader.

His 2024 visit to The White House appeared to signal his own intention to run for the highest office. Seemingly measuring the Oval Office for new drapes, Newsom remained tight-lipped when asked speculative questions concerning this clear perusal of his future Washington, D.C. residence.

Pretending to not know of what reporters are referring, Newsom, to this day, has been making ‘presidential-like’ statements regarding current President Donald Trump’s behavior and actions concerning day-to-day operations. His scowl, complimented by his furrowed brow is a dead giveaway when determining if his audition is, indeed, authentic.

With poor decisions dangling from his neck much like cheap jewelry, Gubernor Newsom has been ignoring those faux pas collected akin to cheesy Mardi Gras beads. Wildfires, riotous protests, anti-Semitic rallies, transgender (Title IX) sports issues, illegal alien invaders, his environmental debacle, accompanied by outrageous and punitive tax policies, have all been gleefully explained away as “progress.”

Newsom apparently feels as though there’s a secret reset button that he’s able to push that will effectively erase all his past sins.

Sniffing out media cameras and microphones better than a bloodhound, Newsom seems to enjoy any and all havoc he creates in the name of forward thinking.

Unfortunately, all this forward thinking doesn’t include a Venn Diagram that encompasses from where all his stellar policies and dictums funding will come.

As with many – maybe most – guvment projects, funding monies be damned. The populace is seen as a giant cash cow to create a facade that rarely can be called a success without politicians and other guvment honchos digging into the wallet pockets of constituents.

If Gubernor Newsom wants to sit at America’s helm, he will need to quickly learn that our nation is not hankering for another spend-then-tax the populace. Based on his political track record, he doesn’t have a clue about budgets, much less constituents.

It’s time to send him into the private sector for a taste of how a real job works.

Itch, Itch, Scratch, Scratch

 

  Chances are good you may have heard the terms “nit,” “nitwit,” and “nitpick.” All those are legitimate words and all have different meanings depending on how and when they’re used.

A nit is, by definition, an egg from head lice. I know, YUCK! But we need to begin somewhere herein with setting parameters.

Head lice are itsy-bitsy critters that infest human heads. Since the inception of another school year, kids will invariably come home with head lice. Lice are kinda related to other creatures like fleas, but lice do not jump; they merely annoy the host by biting the scalp to from which to suck blood.

After drawing blood, they lay eggs which are called nits. EEEW! Sure, it’s a long way to get here, but I have some extra time on my hands today.

In any case, nits are microscopic and can be eliminated with the benefit of special topical medication. Lice arrive from by people trading hats, sleeping on infested pillows, plus human-to-human contact. They do not jump from host-to-host, though. Lastly, infestations are not contagious or a reflection of cleanliness.

This is where I believe it is important to mention neither I nor my sainted wife ever suffered from an infestation from head lice, including nits.

Moving on, nitwits is a word I use often to represent tiny-brained people. Remember, nits are microscopic, meaning their brains are even smaller. Hence, the moniker nitwit implies little in the way of brain capacity.

Finally, we arrive at nitpick which is a word given to find fault with insignificant details, usually incorporating criticism for minutiae. You have likely run across a person, or two, who like to nitpick words, actions, ideas, and thoughts just because they can. That’s largely because they need to feel more informed and more important than you, but those feelings are often fleeting at the cost of camaraderie.

Regardless, I was watching the news when the dissection of recent political primary results took front and center of anything noteworthy. Those results were delivered with glee or consternation, depending upon the network to which I was tuned.

Left leaning stations were agog replete with news-reading lackeys sporting party hats and confetti over the advancement of their Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) candidates.

On the other hand, conservative networks were more stoic, attempting to temper their emotions over the flood of “newcomers” who clearly have a new radical direction for the United States of America.

‘Surprising’ is the best single word description of both sides in this rising tide of class warfare. Each side has its fingers crossed for a favorable outcome; beware of what you wish.

My scalp began itching each time one of the victorious DSA newcomers was interviewed, or a prerecorded video was shown.   Itch, itch, scratch, scratch. My mind quickly gravitated to head lice.

Suddenly a video of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) appeared with her insincere smile complimenting her bird-like eyes. She was doing her best to explain the shocking results in the primaries over the past few weeks.

Her phoniness exuded from each pore on her body as she appeared to take a page out of KommieLa Harris’ playbook of “Word Salad Speeches and Remarks to Baffle Everyone.”

AOC interjected words like “woke” while mentioning new directions and fresh blood for The Party. She further nervously attempted to pave a new destination for this crazy train: the Democratic Big Tent. Without actually saying anything of substance, AOC alluded everyone in this Big Tent was anxious to work together to “change the country.” Itch, itch, scratch, scratch.

Unfortunately, she was evidently too busy high-fiving other DSAers to notice some of the other DSA primary winners were seemingly not interested in playing nice with others or even negotiating for their new radical desires.

Clearly cut from the cloth of Communists of yore worldwide, this crop of DSA lackeys has great ambitions ranging from total redistribution of wealth to re-education camps, and everything in-between. Too bad many fellow travelers will be disappointed once they learn what the promises entail.

With the assistance of a radical fellow, Zohran Mamdani, newly elected mayor of New York City, the gimme gimmes of society are eagerly touting Mr. Mayor’s basket of tripe being sold as “progress.” Free buses, city-owned grocery stores, no-cost childcare, among a slew of other lofty promises are already proving to be failures. Of course, it’s not Mamdani’s fault; he simply needs more money.

Who could have seen that coming?

Glad you asked.

Virtually every credible economist in America declared those campaign freebies as bait just ahead of the inevitable switch.

Not unlike the platitudes averred by ALL DSA candidates, they want to give you everything. After all, salaries, supplies, junkets, kickbacks, and graft are born somewhere. But where will the money come from? You know the answer. Itch, itch, scratch, scratch.

Taxes from “the wealthy who don’t pay their fair share.” Remember them? Commie Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and our ol’ buddy AOC, are all forming a conga line to dance their way to your wallet and other valuable assets to include investments and real estate and inheritances.

These crooks feel they have a right to YOUR money. They don’t.

Using the logic that “__fill in the blank______ is a human right,” gets lots of traction through appeal to the lazy, uninformed, unmotivated, and perpetual victims in society. Forgiving student loans, giving money for a home down payment, vouchers for electric vehicles, grants for solar panels, and Medicare-for-all, will create a class war situation that may be irreversible.

Relentlessly pushing their Communistic agenda on uninformed Americans who believe life will be unchanged following a Socialist/Communist upheaval is working just as planned. But there’s a catch.

With a number of these DSAers hiding parts of their secret agenda, they plan to pounce the moment they make it into office. The Democratic Party is in a shambles. Democrats dislike organized religion, law and order, sovereignty, safety, among other issues that make America America.

Two irredeemable America-haters 

Neophytes Abdul El-Sayed, his virulent anti-Semite buddy Hasan Doğan Piker, plus a few “Squad” members, to include Representative Rashida Tlaib (D), are all acknowledged members of Islam. These three slinkies have been actively avoiding being labeled as devout Muslims even though El-Sayed has refused to disavow Sharia Law. Itch, itch, scratch, scratch.

Which brings us full circle to blood sucking head lice. Their nits are ready to begin sucking on our scalp for blood – in the style of the over 75,000 Somalis grifting Michiganders, Minnesotans, and taxpaying Americans through fraud and corruption. Only this time it will be on a much larger scale.

But the worst part is that this will wind up as a religious battle or civil war. Without the benefit of a Ouija board, I predict, these disingenuous slugs will hide behind the First Amendment’s Freedom of Religion right, coupling with it the destruction of the Senate, Supreme Court, police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, borders, right to private property ownership, and due process.

If you don’t think this can happen, take a look at the United Kingdom. They, too, were overrun by Muslim immigrants who overtook political offices, changed laws, ignored crime, and turn a blind eye to sex crimes against women, all in the name of progress. Itch, itch, scratch, scratch.

I’m sure my itching is from the blood rushing through my scalp. Still, if it’s not the nots, it may very well be nit wits with the minuscule thinking capacities voting for this mayhem.

Most of these DSA folks have proved to be mental midgets, easily taking offense at anything and everything; as such, they resemble small children. To be certain, just listen to these whiny DSA candidates nitpicking how terrible you are for mispronouncing their Muslim names, Abdul El-Sayed. Itch, itch, scratch, scratch.

Convoluted Sports Roundup

 

  This is a great time of year for nearly everyone who loves sports. You’ll notice I qualified that opener by adding “who loves sports.”

Those who don’t love sports include a wide variety of both athletes and non alike. Please allow me to explain.

Personally, I enjoy watching any number of sports, although I prefer participating more. My younger years were spent running track, playing baseball, bouncing a basketball, tossing a football, as well as throwing Jarts before they were outlawed (look them up.) In fact, I still have my jai alai cesta – just in case I have a hankering to play again.

Jai alai cesta

I still occasionally break out the bocce ball set, when time permits, as I do with some fishing equipment to amuse the world’s gilled community.

But as of late I noticed the sports world has left me lagging – behind the proverbial 8-ball, so to speak – when it comes to understanding this realm of leisurely distractions.

It seems as though most of these activities are comprised of “professionals.” Pros, are those who actually earn a living playing with a ball – something my father promised very few humans would be privileged to do. He clearly saw I possessed no athletic talents that might be comical to anyone without a sense of humor. Just saying.

The fact that many pros are making millions of dollars annually only whets the appetites of hopeful youngsters dreaming of a career “playing” for a living. Not unlike actors and actresses pretending to be something or someone for money and fame, the big draw is not getting dirt under their fingernails while reaping a handsome paycheck for playing a game.

Nearly monthly a new sport arises from nothing into the next big thing. And these new sports are not necessarily altogether new, only repackaged from activities of old.

Imagine a couple of inebriated guys – or women – perched around a campfire. The weather is chilly, beer is cold and frothy, and these alpha males and females are bored. One of them decides to grab the firewood hatchet and throw it toward an innocent tree. Wham! It sticks into the tree, business end first. Voilà!

A new sport is born called “hatching throwing.” How great is that? And the guvment outlawed Jarts – the sport I thought you were supposed to look up. You didn’t though.

In any case, all those folks who eagerly gave their tennis rackets to second-hand stores, as well as the garbage men, just recently rushed out to buy something called pickleball rackets and fashionable togs for a new sport of Pickle Ball. As of this writing, my sainted wife and I are the only two people in North America who never tried this new fad. By the way, it is a cross between tennis and ping pong. Just what the world needed.

Speaking of filling a void, corn hole is another “sport” evolved from a means of employing plywood, 2x4’s a hole saw along with a couple of bean bags, and you have yet another brilliant sport. These components comprise the necessities for the marriage of horseshoes and Jarts. Only far less dangerous.

Although removing most peril and inevitable trips to the emergency room from backyard activities, these unsafe activities are running neck-and-neck with an ol’ standard sport of something called “basketball.”

As previously mentioned, I dabbled in basketball during my impressionable youth. It was just after segregation when white and black students not only began learning and studying together, but also playing together. Football, baseball, wrestling, as well as basketball, were the sports – outside of track and field events – to which most students gravitated.

Of course there were disagreements, because people are people, but we always worked things out. And it would be lie to mention some of these disagreements revolved around racial perceptions leading to tomorrow’s practice and the next game.

So it is with interest that I have been watching scholastic sports devolve into something unrecognizable from roughly sixty-years ago. Thinking we, as a society, were supposed to be getting smarter, I was, once again, proven wrong.

A few years back, America witnessed a mediocre high school swimmer decide he wanted to be a she. He apparently had difficulty competing in swimming against other male competitors, so he thought it prudent to pretend he was a she. Of course he wasn’t. He only pretended inasmuch as he still had his “junk” – the family jewels, so to speak.

Inasmuch as he was still producing testosterone, he was larger, faster, stronger, and freakier in his two-piece bathing suit. Yes, I’m being kind.

This wannabe woman immediately began winning one meet after another, much to the chagrin of women who were born women and still remain women. Not something that was totally unexpected. Still, the hoopla began, with sanity and insanity breaking camps to choose sides. Let the games begin!

In order to avoid offending too many people, the powers-that-be sided with this boy competing against girls, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Clearly attempting to avoid lawsuits against him, as well as school administrators plus municipal decision makers, began making novenas to stave off legal actions.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work as well as they had hoped. Even a potential Supreme Court Justice had difficulty with describing “what a woman was.” Quite the gift from then-President Joe Biden.

Following several years of drivel among the anointed, we find ourselves at another crossroads in differentiating between the make and female sexes. Which creates a nice segue to another relatively new sport of Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Begun thirty-years ago, the WNBA was created in the vein of the National Basketball Association (NBA), likely to occupy the free time of female basketball athletes along with a smattering of fans. The “W” in WNBA is important to this matter.

And so, this is where today’s story actually begins.

Many of the WNBA athletes are of questionable sexual proclivity, several of whom are decidedly masculine. In addition, plenty of these athletes are black and appear to have more trouble with their white counterparts than existed during my high school years playing basketball.

Seriously outnumbered, several white women are regularly subject to abuse administered both orally and physically. Further, the draw to watch these games increase exponentially when several white players demonstrated their abilities to outscore and out-rebound their black counterparts.

As of late, racist tweets have been made to introduce the ugliness of discrimination based upon ones color. Violent fouls followed by sports world outrage have created a deep chasm in a lackluster relatively “new” sport of the WNBA.

It is a travesty that none of the coaches, team owners, or player themselves are able to control any segment of their sport. They are very fortunate attendance is up, as is television air time, plus soaring ticket sales, to witness this sport beginning to finally flower, though.

To punctuate this inane attempt to turn a blind eye to the blurring of players born with the ‘wrong’ parts, former NBA players have publicly declared themselves as “men who now identify as women.” Tongue-in-cheek, these masculine 6’ 7” + basketball phenoms are eager to make a point that men should play against men, while women ought to play against women, lest the blurred lines bring the possibility of severe physical injury.

In other words, the WNBA is a marriage of roller derby and a ball.

A poll from Pew Research found that 73% of Americans believe that men who identify as women don’t belong in women’s sports, per MS NOW.

Pew also found that 66% of Americans favor laws or policies requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching their gender assigned at birth, also according to MS NOW.

Time is nigh to get control of this childish, dangerous, thug-like behavior. If the players are irreversibly racist, angry at others who outplay them, they should find a real job.

Further, allowing men and wannabe men – or wannabe women – to participate in the WNBA is very dangerous. Any fouls they create will be far more consequential. If they allow players to use brass knuckles, I may actually watch.

And that’s today’s convoluted sports roundup. Maybe they should simply legalize Jarts again.

Beware

 

  Introduced in 1939 was a new crime fighting character called Batman appearing in the Detective Comics series. Batman handily helped the Gotham Police force fight criminals who desperately wanted to overthrow Gotham City.

Gotham City was a weak cover for what many people with half a brain would consider New York City.

Overrun with wily criminals, each with a unique costume and equally clever moniker, all of whom posed a serious threat to that large metropolitan area, relentlessly fought the haggard Gotham Police Chief to overthrow this imaginary urban snakepit.

It was so successful that Batman was spun-off into his own series of comics eventually overtaking the popularity of Detective Comics.

I was transitioning from elementary school when Batman was transformed into something very special – an action television program that featured real people rather than cartoons.

Batman, along with his trusty sidekick Robin (Boy Wonder,) also known as the Dynamic Duo, literally came to life replete with the Secret Bat Cave as well as the Batmobile. And regularly, as the plot of the caper-of-the-week unfolded, additional new Bat-related inventions and crime fighting devices were unveiled – much to the delight of me.

Of course, nearly every week also introduced new villains who found their way into Gotham City only to be a thorn in the side of Police Commission Gordon, and subsequently the Dynamic Duo, in this campy series. Of course.

Riddler 

One of those recurring miscreants was a garish character known as Riddler. This supervillain, who sported a green bodysuit, often along with a bowler hat, regularly taunted Batman and Robin with riddles. Giving the Dynamic Duo enough information to whet their appetites, these riddles provided enough clues for an astute crime fighter to point them into the right direction for continuity to the next episode.

Being in the twelve-year-old range when this series was popular, I often found these riddles both identifying and crafty, eventually leading to the location of Riddler and his cunning henchmen, with Riddler ultimately ruing his game of cat-and-mouse.

This is where we begin this week’s journey into the real world – à la Riddler.

Riddle me this: They proudly mock Christian and Jewish religions, white people, hard workers, studious self-starters, informed voters, logical thinkers, environmental skeptics, as well as loyal Americans.

They think the proud veterans, plus current military enlistees are dupes. They openly aver to hating America, while nuzzling up to mentally unstable comrades who regularly encourage the violent overthrow of our nation.  

Regularly holding public forums, these weaselly excuses for humans lie to gain an advantage over the voters, then immediately change direction once elected to joyfully confiscate private property and hard-earned monies. They detest people who save for retirement, just as they make outrageous claims to snooker voters, all with a toothy smile. Their plan is to ultimately destroy America, its Constitution, open borders to all, and gut the Republican Party in total.

Who are they?

If you’ve been following the news lately, you would be easily able to cough up the correct answer to this somewhat lengthy, albeit concise riddle.

The definitive answer is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They regularly disguise themselves under the cover to the Democratic Party, while also surreptitiously working toward an ultimate goal of turning America into a Communistic society, with a side order of Islam.

But this current journey into tossing The Constitution into the shredder has been whetting the appetite of many chameleons who have been effectively posing as mere Democrats for years. Without saying the quiet part aloud, these seemingly mentally-off politicians are simply pure evil.

They pretend to want to change the course of life in these United States for the better, often pointing to the unemployed, high cost of living, inability to buy homes, unaffordable childcare, and high medical costs. If elected, these consummate liars promise everyone will be equal and want for nothing. They believe they are the saviors for which we have been waiting. You betcha.

DSAers have been around in varying parts of the world for ages – under the Socialist Party guise. They ardently tried to destroy American manufacturing, the education system, health system, as well as the nuclear family ever since their inception during the 1920’s.

Other foreign countries believed this tripe and sampled the water of the Socialist well-of-plenty. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to them, the well was poisoned with half-truths and outright lies. The problem, however, was that simply purifying the well was not possible.

Eventually, the masses catch on to the scam about the time the Socialists break out the guns, for compliance, as Socialism morphs into Communism.

With newly divided nations, citizens living therein were suddenly viewed as subjects and workers – in other words: the proletariat – existing only to satisfy the wants and desires of the leaders who successfully conned them into slavery for which they enthusiastically voted. Congratulations!

Those much-desired jobs wound up being picking vegetables and cleaning bathrooms, while school curricula were reconfigured to reflect only the “history” the new leaders wanted to share. The nuclear family dissolved into state sponsored childcare and schools molding the children’s tender, hungry brains to be at the beck and call of the Communist Party for the good of everyone (Read: Brainwashing.)

Affordable housing became tenements, as the medical costs debacle took on a whole new life.

Recall a former president named Barack Obama? He was the leader of the United States from 2009-2017. His major impressions left on our nation include intentionally dividing the races, attempting to bankrupt our treasury, enjoying golfing, and desperately wanting to give everyone access to health insurance.

If you’re old enough to remember, a woman named Saint Hillary Clinton, wife of President William Jefferson Clinton, led the universal healthcare parade during her time as First Lady. Unfortunately, her efforts fell flat because of the exorbitant cost of corralling the entire healthcare industry into agreeing on handing control of one-sixth of the federal budget over to the perpetually inept guvment. Alas, another stellar idea wasted.

Grabbing the baton, President Obama thought this was too easy to lose. He banged the rally drum across the country touting “No one would wind-up homeless due to a catastrophic illness.” That cutting slogan stuck. But people being people heard what they wanted to hear rather than the facts.

Obama, just as with St. Hillary, promised health insurance, not health care. Overwhelming the system with hospitals catering to everything from common hang nails to gunshot wounds, the hospital cue lines grew longer by the hours ensuring care was given. Too bad it was often mediocre. Patients all found themselves dying of old age standing in line.

This brilliant thinking is the same process driving the childlike, simpleminded solutions to DSA’s perceived crises. Why else would such intellectuals demand prison closures, open borders, no bail laws, defunding the police and immigration control, redistribution of wealth to illegal immigrants, along with lowering food costs?

In the 1960’s under Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, a federal-level food stamp program was begun. Giving vouchered food coupons to needy individuals and families based upon their incomes, food stamps were thought to be the ideal solution to the hunger blight of the less affluent in America.

But after sixty-years of handouts, those same people from that same political party are now announcing this effort resulted in a total failure. A disaster. Changes are now needed. NOW.

Enter the neighborhood guvment-run grocery stores. Already tried without any success in a few cities, this costly brainstorm caused the local Mom and Pop stores to shutter their businesses because they couldn’t compete with guvment-subsidized stores. Conjured up by Democrats and DSAers alike, were city-subsidized grocery stores to make foodstuffs more affordable. While seemingly noble, these politicians simply played a con game. Eventually, they all went the way of the dinosaurs. And now there are none.

This is important to know because it all revolves around from whence the money to fund these initiatives is derived. You.

Reinventing the wheel is not the goal of the DSA crowd or the Democrats or the Communists. They want the masses to be beholding to them; that involves destroying the wheel. And the only way to do that is by coercion and lies.

We detest slavery because slaves are not free individuals. Yet the voters are being misled down a path to certain destruction of proven failed policies while being ruled with an iron fist.

Over taxation of everyone, increasing crime, confiscation of money and private property, re-education efforts, remanufacturing the Supreme Court, dissolution of the Senate, revamping The Constitution, and the cessation of free and fair elections is not going to end well.

America is on the cusp of falling for the wacky rants and ideas of immature gimme-gimmes egged on by clueless “problem solvers,” many of whom escaped communistic conditions elsewhere in the world. They escaped the torture, poverty, crime, and repression of freedom to come to our nation.

And now they want to change our nation. Voters: Beware.

That is the answer to the riddle.