I'm tired. I've been up since six thirty am. Didn't sleep very well. And the morning has been a long slog, save for feeding and petting the tiny kittens.
The older cats got in the office supply closet. No, you don't want to know.
But please, do take into account I'm tired. I'm very tired.
Part of what I'm tired of is the American right's obsession with "electability" "Dignity" and "acting presidential."
Trump is apparently listening to "consultants". Heaven knows why. You can tell, because the right is all praising him for being "presidential" and saying he "learned." You can also tell, because the left has put him in the same cone of silence it put McCain and Romney when they were running.
If you're very connected and linked in on line, you'll hear echoes of the fact he's still speaking at rallies and events. But other than that? He might as well have vaporized for all we hear of him.
Apparently this is called "being presidential" and it makes for photo finish losses. Or losses that are so due to fraud, but can be spun as real, because who hears of them.
You see, someone convinced Trump not to do "mean tweets." After all, those acting like a cat laser forced the left to cover him during the sixteen election. And heaven knows, we wouldn't want that debacle of a victory again. The establishment was all ready to give everything up to Hillary, and Trump spoiled it.
No, no, no no, no. Let's lose with dignity, like gentlemen! We know how to do THAT.
If anyone here has a line to Trump tell him to fire up the mean tweets. Look, we're probably going to lose this anyway, to fraud. WHY make it easy for the left?
If there hadn't been a potshot at him, would you even know he was campaigning?
Having worked on THREE republican campaigns now, there's only one thing I can tell you for sure. Consultants work for the other side. The only people who believe them are "right wing pundits."
And speaking of right wing pundits: I'm also very tired of all the right wing blogs saying the "surge" for Kamala is real. Oh, sure, the left is jumping and screaming in glee on command. And the "polls" show her winning!
Of course the internal of the polls show something like plus seven for the democrats. Which does not accord to any demographics, except perhaps white house staff.
"But the unskewing of polls in 2012 proved to be a lie. Obama really won by that much." Yeah. Let's talk about 2012, the election that told me how deep the fraud goes in the US. You see, I was a poll watcher. In Colorado Springs, at the time considered safe republican. And yet, 1/3 of the people showing up to vote were told that they'd already voted. People in their thirties and forties. WEIRD incidence of Alzheimers, no.
And of course, they were appeased by being told they could do a provisional vote. They never told them the conditions under which that vote would be counted. Because it wasn't. The vote was in. They couldn't find it and remove it. And they COULDN'T PROVE IT WAS ILLEGITIMATE.
So, they stole the election for Obama. They also managed a bare majority in Colorado (which is amazing, and tell you how few they were, when you consider that in Denver fellow poll watchers told me it was 2/3 showing up and being told they'd already voted) which allowed them to make Colorado all vote by mail. To save money on elections, you see, because Democrats are all about saving money. Weirdly no state that goes all vote by mail EVER goes republican again. It's just a coincidence, I'm sure. (Salutes the fallen.)
I'm tired of the bizarre religious martyrdom obsession of the American right too. Guys, listen up: It's me speaking, okay? I AM religious. A lot more religious since 2020, fairly inexplicably, considering the locked churches, etc.
But if I hear one more of you tell me that the world doesn't matter/everything is doomed/but you got Jesus, I'm going to come through your screen and beat you to silence with a fluffy slipper.
Does the parable of the talents tell you to bury the talent and sit back, because He comes back, and He'll take care of everything? No? Gee, I wonder why.
Look, people have been saying He'll surely return now, because the world is already lost since shortly after He left. He still hasn't.
Sure, work on your salvation, however you think it is. And prayer never hurts. But don't be so sure the end is coming soon. You DON'T KNOW. And you're not SUPPOSED to leave it all to Him.
He gave you two good hands and a brain. FIGURE OUT HOW TO STOP THE DOOM or at least make it shorter. Praying helps, but that's not ALL you should be doing.
Unless, of course, you're a refargain gnostic who thinks the material world is a trap. In that case, carry on, but let me tell you better and far more religious people than I got much, much angrier than I am at that heresy.
While at that, stop yelling at young people. No, I mean that. "Kids these days" "I paid my way through college" "Why aren't they getting married" "I had a job wiping weasels asses. Why are they whining about their beginning jobs." etc. etc. etc.
I have two kids. They're not that young anymore, actually. Over ten years out of high school for both of them. They're working, and making okay money, which is unusual for their generation. I mean, to have both of them have jobs.
And no, it's not for lack of trying. Kindly remember the circles I run in. My friends are neither low-achieving nor do they lack drive. But their kids are a wasteland.
And it's not because they were coddled either. We're not that kind.
So, what is going on? Well, those jobs wiping weasels asses are now either banned due to environmental concerns OR they require a doctorate. And even then you'll be lucky to get it. (And no, STEM isn't a guarantee of jobs. Mostly connections are a guarantee of jobs.) Yeah, you paid your way to college, but that was before government took over the financing and prices went through the roof. At one time (paying half the tuition for each kid, back then) we were paying around 40k a year. In a state school. With the kids living at home. I imagine what other people's kids are in hock for.
And even those who have jobs, even decently paying (much more than minimum wage) jobs are barely making it. Guys, we're feeling the pinch of inflation/prices/etc and we're in many ways in our peak earning years. We don't eat as much as we used to. We have most of our essentials (more than that) including clothes and books. It's horrendous for the kids.
And most of them never had a first job till mid to late twenties, unless they got skilled training, and even then.... The early jobs are just not there. And all the "child labor laws" mostly protect people from being adults till they're legal adults. When everyone is competing for the same barely pay jobs.
Statistics can lie, but these are being buried, so they probably don't. Most kids are not moving out. They're living with mom and dad into their late thirties. This includes married couples. I know this. I remember it from Portugal. In my parents' generation multi-generation households went away, (except for my family, kind of, because my parents wanted to save ALL the money before they bought the house) in my brother's generation they came back, because no one could afford to move out. Because there were no jobs.
So before you say "kids these days" walk a mile in their house slippers. Those doing best among them are the ones inventing their own jobs. And that's, as always, a minority.
Stop shaking your fist at them, and lend them a hand. Yeah, you had it hard. I had it hard. But the kids have it hard too, and because of the times we live in, it's all too easy for them to drop out and go into a depression of computer games and computer chats. Forever.
Thank heavens movies suck, otherwise it would be another way for them to disappear. Most of them weren't even taught to read comfortably enough to get "stoned with books." Help them with that too.
The kids are all right. Most of them want to learn/do well. They really do. But they've been betrayed by society at every level.
And while at that, stop thinking you live in a movie. No, seriously.
I'm having people tweet charts at me, showing that the US is doomed and will cease to exist because the debt is so high.
People, are you actually and for real insane, and how do you type in those straight jackets?
Sure, the debt is scary. It's also not what it looks like. The main creditor of the US government is .... the American people. They have borrowed from you, your kids, your grandkids. The main way it's being paid for is RAMPANT inflation.
The numbers in the budget right now, are mostly passing around of tokens.
Look, macro-economics isn't real, no. We can't make a coin that will pay the national debt.
OTOH -- and knowing BGE will hit me in the comments (I'm not that stupid) -- our economy isn't REAL either. No, seriously.
It's a fiat economy, guaranteed by the faith and credit of the US government -- can we tell them, or can we tell them? -- and the current debt is to China, who doesn't DARE collect, or even cast doubt on it, even if they had real force to do so with (they don't.) And to the American people. What that debt is doing is making us pay more at the grocery store, the gas pump, etc. And making investment harder.
Is that good? No. Is it the end of the US?
SNORT GIGGLE.
Guys, how the heck can you even believe that -- and stop all tweeting the same chart. What are you? Leftist bots? THINK -- for a refargin minute?
Argentina. No seriously, Argentina. How many periods of crazy high inflation/can't survive this has it gone through before Mr. Chainsaw ascended? There's still an Argentina.
Unlike Argentina, or other places, people in America WANT to work. In 2016 they voted for the guy promising to give them jobs over the chick promising them free money in such numbers they gave him a surprise win.
And our land is rich in resources and ingenuity.
Heck, most of our people still believe in individual rights that transcend the government. It's the government that's the problem, and the excess regulations not to mention blinkered ones.
And that it's a single point of failure. For the other side. All it takes is an election.
Can we win the election? Well, probably not. Not that we won't win it. We will. We won 2012 and 2020 too. For all the good it did us.
But we can't win the fraud. And knowing the right that is all too willing to lose -- with dignity -- those of us who point out it sure as heck is fraud will be told we're crazy. No, no, it's those damn kids/women/people who tan who voted for the socialists.
Not just losing with dignity, but alienating people on our side. How is that for a win? Very presidential. Tres dignified. Ten out of ten stars.
Look, I told you I'm short on sleep. And sick and tired of the bs.
Is there anything you can do? Sure there is.
First, on the cone of silence. Hit social media. Yes, I know most of you want to go and hide in a hole till after the elections. About half my regular commenters no longer comment, and have told me it's because they're "Staying away from politics. So depressing."
That's nice. That's beautiful, really. Particularly when you encourage me to do the same.
It's not that I like it here in the muck pit. I ain't sleeping any too well, and I'm trying to finish a book, but hit a wall every time the scene demands any sort of energy or strength. Because I'm so tired. And angry, but mostly tired.
But at the end of that "I'm going to tend my garden" road is the stupid lefty bumperstick "what if they gave a war and no one came?" well, then the enemy wins, by default. Which, I submit to you was the point of that bumpersticker. They wanted the USSR to win, and that was only possible if we stopped fighting. That one was of a piece with all the unilateral disarmament crap, and all the push for US to give up nuclear weapons, and then we'd have "peace."
The only guaranteed peace is that in the grave.
Going under the socialist boot won't give you peace. Or them. Because some of us ain't going down quietly.
The election is PROBABLY lost, but no more so than in sixteen, and that one was miraculously won.
And all we have is to get lucky once, then clean it up -- now we know the extent of the problem -- while they have to maintain control every time.
So, what can you do? You can engage. You can stop the dooming even when you want to doom.
There are indications that we're being subjected to a psyop and indoc machine by our own three letters. You don't have to let them in your head. Take off the overcoat and examine your own back.
Want to doom? Go doom at the cat. Go yell at the squirrels. Tell them all is lost. Even better, tell it to the raccoons. Maybe the fat bastages will believe you.
Go to a Trump rally? Make a twitter account. Post about it. Even better, post a recording. If he's decided to be dignified, we can be undignified for him. And anyway, we can do mean tweets at will, because we're not him.
Hit facebook, even if it's a cesspool and they tell you this photo is fake:
BGE was right, btw, if you watch the video and read lips, that first "fight" wasn't "fight".
Is it "undignified" for Trump to point out that Kamala Harris has changed races three times? (Born white, claimed Indian, now claims black.) I don't think so. And it's not undignified for us. She wants to wear black face, she'd better be ready to explain her earlier identifications.
Is it bad to unskew the polls? Well, don't call it unskewing. Just show the internals.
Be loud, be obnoxious, be there! Give each person who sees you the sense they're not alone, and no, the right doesn't come pre-defeated.
There's more to the future than the boot stomping on the human face forever. That was the vision of a depressed, disillusioned socialist.
If we free people find ourselves in that position, we're going to bite that d*mn boot off. And then start on the foot.
Be not afraid. Be not meek. Be not dignified. And BE NOT SILENT.
Are you tired? Hell, how do you think I feel?
Have a sip. And then come with me. We're leaving the trenches and running at the machine gun nest today.
Sure, it's sure death. Then again, there are indications that machine gun is CGI so maybe not.
And after all, isn't the uncertainty exhilarating?
The future isn't scripted. Let's write it ourselves.
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