Helping the Unhelpable

 

  Fate is a fickle mistress.

This idiom was unable to be attributable to anyone in particular. Mentioned having a hand this quote were William Shakespeare as well as Mary Shelley. Alas both were summarily dismissed following a lazy, halfhearted interweb search as to its origin.

Plus, I made up the word “Unhelpable” in the title. Still, none of those trivial touchstones are as egregious as the shenanigans going on in local, state, and federal guvment agencies, today.

A few months ago you may have learned of shady goings-on in a purgatory named Minnesota in general, Minneapolis in particular, on this blog site. Of course some of this information squirted out via equally halfhearted news stories in dribs and drabs for a few years. But they, too, were reported in such a way as my earlier idiom search.

Be that as it may, “the Unhelpable” mentioned herein consist of arrogant, weasely, self-centered, anointed, and greasy politicians who find glee in antagonizing the proverbial ‘hand that feeds them.’

That hand belongs to “taxpayers.” To be precise, taxpayers are people who pay taxes. ‘Nuff said.

People who pay taxes are those legal citizens – otherwise know as those who are natives, whose financial status is derived from legal employment and legitimate means, and meets predefined criteria for household income.

Too many overly-smart pundits are quick to point out that everyone pays taxes; they do not. Sure, if you buy goods, fuel, or nearly anything else where money is exchanged for trade, you will likely pay some form of tax. But that sales tax is different from income tax inasmuch as income tax is calculated on income. Hence, the name.

Simply put, if you cannot legally work as a non-citizen, you pay no income taxes since you have no legitimate income. It’s all based upon your Social Security Number (SSN); if you’re not considered an American citizen you can’t get a SSN. Amen.

Onto the next critical fact.

If you believe that a biological boy or man can become pregnant and have babies, I have money for a wager you’ll likely lose.

Males of any species are incapable of conceiving children because males do not have ova (eggs); only females have ova. It doesn’t really matter what you think you are, what you want to be, or which pronoun with which you identify, you’re out of luck in the children bearing department if you are male.

I dare say it’s a good thing someone who is delusional enough to believe males are able to produce offspring are incapable of understanding the mechanics of the human body, reproduction parts, or even how to change their own drool cup.

Speaking of mental illness, our last fact of this week’s adventure involves a modicum of sanity which, I’m delighted to report, will soon hopefully be rectified one way or another. This course correction is apparently beginning at the federal guvment level.

It seems as though the only thing this apparent course correction needed was the installation of adults at the administrative level. Realizing our nation has been hemorrhaging cold, hard cash from every guvment level, the ersatz Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was cobbled together to uncover and ultimately plug sizable moolah leaks from porous guvment capital ineptitudes.

A union created by the collaboration of President Donald J. Trump (47) along with Elon Musk, this ‘kinda’ federal guvment entity was thrown together to identify and end the suspected fraud being conducted inside the marbled Halls of Congress. And boy, was it massive.

That sacred venue has always been considered off-limits to the hoi polloi by those known as ‘anointed politicians.’ They are anointed because they think they’re special. They’re not, though.

Their magic that is conjured up by them happens with debates, raucous shouting, charts, witnesses, and bargaining, all of which is largely for elementary-style show-and-tell exhibitions scripted for television.

It’s actually often behind the scenes, though, where the shady stuff is produced – much like sausage is made. Hand shakes, winks, nods, “special” gifts, and promises paid-on-delivery regularly become part of deals that shape and affect their constituency. And that’s awfully unsettling.

But these backroom shenanigans, although well known around Capitol Hill, are usually ‘uncovered’ with Congressional and Senatorial colleagues over-emoting replete with audible gasps, faux fainting, and grasping ones pearls, in front of cameras. Oh, the humanity.

DOGE’s noble efforts easily exposed many billions of dollars of fraud and waste, all voted on and approved by Congress. After all, Congress controls the checkbook. Revealing all the palm grease and aid for disadvantaged children, non-English speakers overseas, plus needy illegal families living in the United States, opened an ugly, smelly can-o’-worms.

Stench therefrom demonstrated how simply playing ‘hide the bologna’ was when hundreds of professional thieves known as Congressional Representatives put their hearts and minds into projects that stick it to the taxpayers – the people who actually fund these grifts.

Feigning ignorance once the rocks under which they are hiding are upended, these holier-than-thou types quickly change the narrative to blaming those on the other side of the aisle. And why not?

Sleazeballs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Elizabeth Warren, Ilhan Omar, Eric Swalwell, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, along with a gaggle of other greasy America-haters, are currently busy contriving excuses for the graft and corruption they helped perpetuate in an attempt to sucker, uh, secure votes for Democrats in upcoming elections.

Independent video journalists have been inundated with work making the rounds throughout Minnesota, California, Maine, Michigan, and Illinois while gathering eye-opening evidence of unimaginable thievery from hard working Americans to benefit arrogant illegals and terrorists abroad.

A recent shakeup at the U.S. Department of Justice helped open doors to literal mountains of hard cash being spirited away to Third World toilets such as Somalia – home to Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar – whose district in Minnesota gives boatloads of hard currency to its 84,000 Somali residents.

What could possibly go wrong?

Let me give you a clue.

Many of those America-hating Somalis have opened shell companies for child care, home care for the elderly, transportation services for the home-bound, and something called a “Learing Center” whose employees misspelled on a prominent sign. Imagine the education attendees receive there.

The arrogant Minnesota gubenor Tim Walz

The painful part is that billions upon billions of tax dollars were given to fund these front operations. The money, however, wound up being allegedly funneled to terrorist camps in Africa – a breeding ground for animals with a penchant to kill Americans for simply being Americans in America.

Sure, it sounds crazy, but only to sane people. Sane people applauded DOGE’s efforts to stymie pouring unaccountable billions of American dollars to injure or kill as many Americans as possible.

In fact, a fraudster was convicted and sentenced to 41-years in prison for stealing tons of folding money from these charitable efforts. Oddly absent were news stories about this attempt to seek justice. Ponderous, indeed.

On the other hand, protests, rallies, marches, attempted riots caused by the very representatives elected to prevent this mayhem occurred to demonstrate that the powers-that-be were not on your side. In fact, they hate you.

Asserting all this out-of-control fiscal beating was good for the working population, it sailed smoothly until Donald Trump was reelected in 2024. Not unlike vermin scurrying for safety from a sinking ship, Democrats pretended what hard working, honest constituents needed was a more thorough beating.

Unfortunately, the familiar Blue states are hell-bent on keeping their pick pocketing Congressmen, Senators, gubenors, mayors, and local representatives greedy. The making of the perfect storm.

Which summarily leads us back to our fickle mistress.

The rest of the country – the Red states – have simply had enough and have been morphing back into the once great America: the one that inspired the infamous Make America Great Again (MAGA) slogan.

We’re a few short months away from midterm elections. Some will be for gubenors, some Senators, some for Congressional Representatives, while others will be for mayors.

Now is the time for deciding in which direction you’d like to see your 250-year-old nation head. Teetering on the precipice of self-destruction, our nation needs a thorough, honest look into the mirror.

Otherwise, we’ll all be beyond the unhelpable point of history.

Random Thoughts 17

 

  It’s been some months since we opened the door on those random thoughts running around my head like a squirrel attempting to cross an interstate highway. Yep, we’ve had 16 others already.

Please sit back and enjoy this compilation of both brilliant and inane musings. And thanks for stopping by.

• Where, oh where, is Jasmine Crockett hiding these days?

• I’m delighted the Noo Yoik City voters elected Comrade Zohran Mamdani. Wise choice

• Funny how people gladly paid over $5 for a gallon of gas under Plugs Biden, but now complain when that same gas is $4.50 per gallon during a military action

• College kids who gleefully had AI write papers for them throughout their school years are now having trepidation about AI stealing any possible jobs. Kinda perplexin’

• We’re well into May, and it’s too cold to plant vegetables in the garden. At least my lettuce enjoys chilly temps.

• Why are so many stupid Americans in favor of wiping their butts with The Constitution? I know...because they’re stupid

• By the way, this year is the 250^th anniversary of the United States!

• I certainly hope some pharmaceutical company finds a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)

• How great is it that almost no one in Minnesota is upset their politicians are openly giving their tax dollars to Somalia? That’s pretty cool

• American morons are apoplectic about President Trump building a new ballroom in The White House without public funding. Sane people don’t know why

• Remember when chicken eggs were $7/dozen? Representative Ro Khanna publicly lost his mind that President Trump was doing something nefarious to raise the price

• Now jumbo eggs are $1.86 a dozen and apparently a cat’s got Representative Ro’s tongue

• I’m more impressed by Marco Rubio nearly every day

• I hope KommieLa Harris runs for the presidency for the Democratic Party

• Abigail Spanberger, Virginia Gubenor, has proven to be every bit as weasely as she appeared to be on the campaign trail

• The State of Maine must be delivering weed to every voter based upon for whom they regularly vote and elect

• I hope Santa brings me a new laptop this year. With extra USB ports and a 1TB memory

• Hummingbirds are back drinking out of my feeders!

• Why doesn’t someone make bourbon flavored toothpaste? I’ll bet oral hygiene would dramatically improve

• It seems as though the annoying, married Eric Swalwell may soon be unmarried because of his very public display of affection with his Chinese spy girlfriend. Talk about character

• A Five Guys burger with fries and drink costs $25 in California! At least until they close all their shops

• Burger King is not far behind. A friend and her daughter recently spent $36 on two BK meals, and my last visit to a BK was ultimately my last due to ordering SNAFUs

• My doctor put me on a low-potassium diet. And why not? EVERYTHING contains potassium! Except lite water and lo-cal ice, that is

• I find it odd that during baseball season there’s more football on television than baseball. Who got the incentive award for this stupid idea?

• There’s so much fraud in guvment that the entire system should be summarily shut down with everyone incarcerated – WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS!

• So, Saint Anthony Fauci was lying about COVID-19. Get a prison cell ready with fresh linens for him, at least for lying to Congress. He could use an attitude adjustment

• I actually went to a doctor who told me dihydrogen oxide would kill me. No lie. FYI, that scientific terminology is another name for “water”

• Is it just me, or are Democrats hyper-racist? Suddenly, black Dems – who compose about 13% of the population – feel they deserve 100% of the representation. No, that’s not racist at all

• Are college kids back to hating and advocating for killing Jews?

• So long, Senator Bill Cassidy. Now you’re free to find a real job

• Police officials fear summer will offer opportunities for destructive kids to attack innocent citizens and police officers, for no apparent reason, plus street takeovers. Cops should’ve thought about this years ago

• One-third of high school 12^th graders tested lack basic reading skills. That should frighten everyone who expects intelligent, informed people to vote and find employment

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) appears to be auditioning for a new job as president

• I’ll wager the above sentence is what our current and potential politicians are hoping for

• I know. You shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition.

• Step aside, Gubenor Newsom

• You, too, Gubenor Pritzker

• And Gubenor Hochul plus Abigail Spanberger

• That goes double for Congress Embarrassment Jasmine Crockett

• Weather had better improve soon; I need to get my plants in the ground

• What is wrong with today’s drivers? At least stay on your side of the road!

• I’m still looking to buy a kayak. Cheap

• And finally, Greenbackville just held its inaugural Community Yard Sale, and it was quite the success. Congratulations! Lil’ Ben did a great job with his lemonade stand, too! Get prepared for another sale this autumn.

The Wingman

 

  A movie was released in 1986 entitled Top Gun. It received mixed reviews and starred a fellow named Tom Cruise who played “Maverick,” who was protected by his wingman “Iceman,” portrayed by Val Kilmer.

We learned this term was messaged to reflect a wingman is someone whose job it is to protect the team leader during missions.

It also refers to a person who helps, guides, or supports another, especially one who assists a friend in trying to seduce another person (think: Nightclub scenario.) In this instance, we’re implying the flying definition.

In any case, this wingman term popped up following the election of America’s second black president after Bill Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama. Carefully hand-selecting his staff and Cabinet, Obama made it crystal clear he felt only people of color were capable of driving this bus toward an historic trip.

Obama and his Wingman

One of those anointed to serve Obama was a lawyer named Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., the first black man to hold the position of United States Attorney General (AG). He would likely be comfortable in this position inasmuch as he served as Deputy AG (DAG) under Janet Reno, who happened to be Bill Clinton’s AG. Pretty convenient, I’d say. Maybe even a stroke of luck.

Being a true team player, Holder fortuitously found himself in a position to oversee surreptitiously sending arms to Mexico under the guise of detecting trails of gun trafficking across the Southern Border. Called Fast and Furious, this half-baked operation was an absolute disaster since it lost track of most of the weapons it funneled to criminal gangs. Wink, wink.

Since the Department of Justice (DOJ) happens to be conveniently placed under the purview of the Executive Branch, legal matters were, and still are, handled with the greatest of ease between the friendly DOJ and the Office of the President.

Unfortunately, the AG’s Office is supposed to be independent of the President’s Office, for the sake of impartiality if for nothing else. Blurring that invisible line made it awfully simple for any possible improprieties and questionable dealings.

Mark Twain said, “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

I bring this up because the former President Obama just recently appeared on a taped television show, The Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Colbert is a liberal whiner who feels as though his snarky comments about President Trump – along with the three recent assassination attempts on The President’s life – are fair game, and not at all contributing to a toxic anti-Trump environment.

This Obama – Colbert tongue bath opened the door to school America about presidents misusing the DOJ.

Implying President Trump is wreaking havoc on America and its citizens, Constitutional lawyer Obama openly claimed the AG’s Office should be operating neutrally, he said aloud to a sycophantic Colbert.

In the event you’re stupid drunk or stoned, this is the same dynamic duo of Obama and Holder, that worked together, seamlessly. In fact, Holder openly proclaimed he was Obama’s “wingman.”

Please go back and re-read that last paragraph; I’ll wait for you.

Continuing, Obama had the audacity to warn that American democracy “can’t overcome” the “politicization of the criminal justice system” and cautioned that the AG must never become the president’s “consigliere.”

These interesting facts speak volumes when you are able to weave them together like a spider’s web. It is unfortunate, though, that the media is cursed with the ‘forgetful gene,’ leaving them with important gaps where there should be none.

By the way, AG Eric Holder was audacious regarding his control of the AG’s Office. Also attributed to him is the following quote: “I am the attorney general [sic] of the United States. But I am also a black man.” Not the colorblind, unbiased attitude for which Lady Justice supposedly stands.

Taking the Blue Ribbon

 

  Should you ever have visited a state or county fair you would have likely run across one of my favorite activities: eating.

Although being on one diet or another since the time of the Great Flood, I have had some trouble losing weight. But not for trying.

I blame my body fat stubbornness on those aforementioned state and county fairs. Sure, they have plenty of rides, con-games, agricultural displays, plus food trucks, but they also feature contests. Some of these contests involve canning tomatoes, cucumbers, Brussels sprouts, and my favorite, baked goods.

Baked goods are those things that, by nature, have their own special category encompassing cookies, cakes, and pies, along with everything in-between.

Not necessarily known for the weight-conscious among us, baked goods are those things that I have begun to view as mentally therapeutic. Of course, I could be wrong. In any event, baked goods are proudly displayed at these local and state fairs with one goal in mind. To win.

Not unlike well trained participants running the 880 in just under two-minutes, entrants in the fair foodie categories will wait in hope – with crossed fingers – that the judges will taste, then select “The Best” in all the varying categories. FYI, the best in each category is awarded the Blue Ribbon, a sign of true accomplishment.

Unbeknownst to me, there are actually ten ribbons awarded in every category, each a different color. Ranging from blue to brown, and lastly, light blue. And since you may eventually visit a friend or neighbor who proudly displays one, or more, of these ribbons in their kitchen or fireplace mantel, you can actually conduct an intelligent conversation rather than be the subject of a good ‘splainin.

Winning a Blue Ribbon indicates the epitome of trial and error, hard work, patience, experimentation, and force-feeding plenty of calories. But the average fair attendee is not privy to the behind-the-scenes goings-on. Constant baking and making lots of friends and are two components toward the much desired Blue Bragging Rights.

It seems as though this idea of winning awards was hijacked some years ago by Democrats.

Desperately trying to make a point, Dems vilified Donald J. Trump before and after he won the presidency in 2016. They dogged him by using fake dossiers, lies, contrivances, lies, world-wide disinformation campaigns, and lies, all of which led to several failed impeachment attempts.

Still, the pious Democrats doubled down because they had the backing of the legacy/mainstream media (MM), using every illegitimate trick to hobble President Trump 45.

Included in those sleazy tactics toward a total civil disruption were very public AstroTurf movements that handily incorporated the worst of the worst deprecatory language possible. Attempting to drive a solid wedge between voters, Dems bull-horned their lies of Trump being a Nazi.

For the uninitiated, a Nazi is a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, begun under the rule of Adolf Hitler, all of which led to World War II. Nazi’s rounded up millions of Jews in Germany, placed them in concentration camps, and largely used them as slaves until most were ultimately killed during this so-called Holocaust.

‘Horrific’ does not come close to describing the atrocities committed by Hitler’s Nazi Party against the Jewish people.

Hate and disgust immediately comes to sane minds when describing Nazis, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust, a perfect storm of mental sickness that brought much of the civilized World together for not only peace, but humanity.

Realizing that this Nazi movement was still – about 80-years later – viewed as reprehensible, the smarmy Leftist Democrats thought applying the Nazi tag to President Trump as well as his supporters was a stellar idea. Popping up on TV news and opinion shows, the same tired, hokey, gaggle of Lefty misfits were regularly spouting vile canards toward President Trump.

Those unfounded remarks were meant to hurt President Trump and the country. Realizing that if enough of the voters believed he was a Nazi, or espoused Nazi tactics, the electorate would summarily dismiss him from any and all future public office – to include civic associations.

But after a fruitful four years of President Joseph Robinette Biden opening the Southern Border, giving countless federal tax dollar gifts to illegal aliens, investigating and incarcerating Christians for exercising their religious rights, and breaking the backs of all American taxpayers to the tune of trillions of dollars, American voters had had enough.

But the rhetoric continued with the ever popular fabricated Trump Nazi references, augmented by college pukes marching while calling for the genocide of all remaining Jews, as a means of civil discourse.

What could possibly go wrong?

Since you asked, plenty.

Using similar tactics from the 1970’s until just recently, a fellow from Louisiana named David Ernest Duke ran for varying offices under a banner of the racist Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The KKK was established by Democrat Southerners following the Civil War.

Although kept alive by a smattering of misfits and malcontents, the KKK has largely become a historical footnote. Still, its mere mention created pause among Southern blacks who feared retaliation for simply being black. Duke was regularly deciding on which side of the aisle to represent.

He was a Republican, Independent, Reformer, Populist, Democrat, but ultimately an American Nazi. It’s easy to see how he could fit into virtually any conversation where questionable loyalty was concerned. He has since faded away into oblivion. Yet his name remains associated with hate and division – not ideal places to leave ones mark.

Yet this bundling of everything controversial has become the norm in politics today. The bottom line being: Nazi = Bad, Jew = Bad, White = Bad, Black = Good, Criminal = Good, Hard working = Racist.

With those terms set in stone today, Democrats have molded their careers around divisiveness all in the name of inclusion. And herein lies the famous “exception to the rule.”

With midterm elections quickly approaching, Democrats have promised to beat the Nazi-Trump war drums until we all cry “Uncle!” Tired and fabricated, the hostility through labels remains on the upswing.

Which brings us to an oyster farmer named Graham Platner. He is running to be a Senator in Maine.

“Platner has painted himself as a working class hero, running far to the left of [current Maine Governor Janet] Mills on issues from tax policy to tribal rights. He represents the younger, activist wing of the party as national Democrats weigh whether to shift to the left or the center in the wake of their defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump in 2024. Platner has never run for elected office before,” states The Maine Monitor.

The Monitor continues, “In October, his campaign was rocked by a series of controversial Reddit posts about rape, race, and the military, as well as a tattoo of a Nazi symbol. His campaign continued on as he covered the tattoo and disavowed many of his past statements on Reddit, saying many were made in the wake of post-traumatic stress from his time serving in the military.”

I’d like to wage on that bet.

So, it seems as though the Nazi tattoo that Platner suddenly covered over, is a moot point. Claiming he has now changed his thoughts, doesn’t really matter as much when a genuine Nazi Democrat is trying to oust a Republican Senator, Susan Collins.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Maxwell Alejandro Frost, and Jasmine Crockett have all proudly thrown their weight as Democrats behind Platner.

Let’s see if all those lying phonies – including Platner – will, indeed, take the much coveted Blue Ribbon for being The Best at pulling the wool over the eyes of the voters.

I’m hoping the voters are smarter than that, though.