Is this machine going to Mars?

 

Opinions vary. I think it's definitely going...

PRUFROCK: ELON’S TUNNELING MACHINE IS COMING FOR GARY THE SNAIL

The Boring Company’s newest invention, Prufrock, is a tunneling robot that “porpoises” — meaning it launches straight from the surface, digs underground, then resurfaces without needing giant pits.

It can start… https://t.co/UGUdbFz2Sa pic.twitter.com/BIMZ2a8cjY

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 13, 2025

Dems seem to favor Red China over their own country

 

Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: https://t.co/xKFjNBloDF --- How honest are these polls? Kamala Harris is a lot more leftist than what people seem to think. She got too many votes to jibe with this poll. If the public really do not know who they are voting for, it may explain that.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

AGW is bunk, 5/13/25

 

An oldie but goodie of my own on the subject.

Cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide, cause climate change - https://t.co/TOTtkN60SJ --- Article debunks warmist claims of global warming, then points to another article that says why cosmic rays can cause it. Don't check your brain in at the door.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

Spin machine could be gearing up

 

Article says that some RINO types are trying to buy off some conservative sites. Presumably, this is for "conservative" empowerment, but I'm a bit skeptical.

The Counterproductive Move To Consolidate Conservative Media - American Thinker https://t.co/aUtnBNMIjH --- Methinks something foul could be afoot. I'm noticing some subtle messaging changes on my usual peregrinations thru the web.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

All the more reason to take what you hear with a grain of salt --- Treasury report surplus for the month

 

Also, according to this, the revenue increases in budget aren't being counted by the Congressional Budget Office. The new revenue sources aren't trivial. In other words, the story is being spun for some reason. If the CBO is staffed with Democrats, that could explain it. RINOS may be letting the spin go by for some strange reason.

U.S. Treasury Shocks With the Second Biggest Budget Surplus in History https://t.co/XASqF8zxZg --- Budget situation may be better than what is being reported.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

America is subsidizing free health care in Europe

5/12.25, 12 Noon.

 

President Trump is fully exposing Europe's free healthcare scam. It's never been free cause AMERICANS were paying for it one way or another.

"This means American patients were effectively subsidizing socialist healthcare systems in Germany, in all parts of the EU." pic.twitter.com/kTR2YZBQat

— George (@BehizyTweets) May 12, 2025

Any connection to this? Seems like one of my posts disappeared. Some of the commentary out there is incredible. Dems will say anything. 

President Trump Holds Executive Order Press Conference - Lowering Pharmaceutical Costs - 9:30am ET Livestreamp

1:11 PM:

An explanation is in order. While testing a new installation of Linux, I made a post ( or I think I made one). It seems to have disappeared. Google may have deleted the post, because I got a notice that a post was deleted because of a violation of community standards. This struck me as odd. This stuff is plain vanilla. No explanation other than community standards was given. I didn't even detect which post was deleted.

So, basically I commented upon a story in Conservative Treehouse that was embedded in the post. It was about Trump's Executive Order regarding pharmaceuticals and their pricing.

I noted that the pricing representated a subsidy for Big Pharma. That's because of the Presciption Drug benefit in Medicare. Medicare pays for these drugs, which are overpriced in America, as compared to the rest of the world. Trump's Executive Order changes that.

The result of the Executive Order will be considerable savings to the Medicare program. That's why I called it a subsidy to Big Pharma. It is also a subsidy to the rest of the world.

So if this is a violation of Community Standards, then I have no words for that.

I have a hard time seeing how there can be any opposition to what Trump's doing with this Executive Order. Maybe I don't know the half of it.

4:56 PM:

Big Pharma and the Dem's political machine go hand in hand.

If Trump bans pharma ads on TV, half the mainstream media will die overnight https://t.co/v3sIy1XnBM

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 12, 2025

Oh Cana-duh

 

In my opinion, the Liberals of Canada are doing it to themselves. Pollyview coulda been a better candidate, and maybe he could have won. If Canada falls apart, it will be Carney and the Liberals' fault.

Geeking out

If you can follow this, then I'd say you were a certifiable geek.

Not saying that I'm up to speed on this geek speak, but I did learn something new. I may try it soon.

 

The realities may be such that I cannot try the Silverblue thing. If I do, I will discuss it here.

end original post from 5/10/25:

P.S.

5/11/25:

When I wrote that I would discuss it here, I meant this blog, but not this post. The subject appears to be too complex of a discussion for one blog post.---5/12/25: Raspberry Pi won't do. Need Mint or Zorin. I've done those, so the groundwork is set ( or some of it ).

Western Journal: Deficit spending under Trump's first 100 days drops 92%

It seems incredible. Projected out for a full year, it would be like the deficit hitting a brick wall. Let's see what the official numbers are.

 

David Bombal: "Reclaim Your Privacy" (video)

 

As for yours truly, I'm almost free of Windows. Google is an almost situation too. I do have a pixel phone which has been de-Googled. However, someone did it for me ( Brax Me website).

Instead of wimping out, I could try doing it myself. However, there is a risk of "bricking" your phone. That's not a good situation to be in. The safe option would be to buy a de-Googled from Braxman.

I'm feeling a bit more daring at the moment, but it is only in the "thinking about it" phase.

Dirty Harry--- District Attorney Scene

It is an old movie now. Dirty Harry was made over 50 years ago. Indeed, I saw it in the theater at the time. The key point is that the District Attorney knows the Scorpio serial killer is guilty, but the law prevents him from putting him behind bars. Why mention this? It seems that the Democrats are guilty of sedition, and the Trump Administration may go after them, but will they get any convictions? I'm going to predict that they will not succeed if they try. In the movie, the D.A. refuses to go to trial because it will be a waste of taxpayer's money. But would that really be so in the real world? The Democrats will complain about wasting taxpayer's money, but it could serve the public interest to have a trial anyway, if that trial exposes the Democrat's sedition enough to harm them politically, although not enough for a conviction.

 

A real life example is the OJ Simpson murder case. His acquittal was shocking to me personally. However, Simpson never got back his reputation. That wasn't much in the way of accountability, but it was better than nothing at all. In an imperfect world, this may be the best that can be done. The DA in the Dirty Harry movie should have prosecuted. The taxpayer argument was just an excuse to do nothing.

 

 

Will justice be served?

 

🚨 BREAKING 🚨
For the "nothing is getting done" crowd: Ed Martin just revealed to @VinceCoglianese that he has been closely working with Dan Bongino on the J6 pipebomber case and on the overcharging of J6 defendants. Full interview to air on Vince podcast on Rumble, Monday at…

— Jim Verdi (@jjverdi) May 9, 2025

 

This is the same Ed Martin who had his nomination as US Attorney for DC shot down by Senator Tillis?

 

Anyway, the story seems to have gone cold. That reminds me of something. Perhaps there's something about it that may not be best served...

 

 

Cults are the latest thing

This one is now on my radar screen. Thus, I will discuss it.

The political left has gone beserk over Elon Musk. He has 71% of Democrats agreeing to the proposition that Musk should be in jail. It wasn't that long ago that Musk was the darling of the political left. He was electrifying the automobile's power plant (ICE), which AlGore called the most dangerous thing on Earth ( or something like that ). If that didn't raise him to the level of a God, then what else could for the left? The left is now outrage that the automotive God has fallen to the status of the Devil. Rational people didn't do this, and rational people won't demonize the guy because he hooked up with Trump.

Ah, and then there's Trump. The Devil du jour for the left. The left cannot stand opposition, and will not tolerate it. Trump isn't new in that regard. They did the same for George W. Bush and the papa Bushie. They would've done it to Reagan if they could've. They forced Nixon to resign. It is to be expected that there would be opposition in a democratic system, but this is beyond reason. There can be no such thing as a Loyal Opposition according to the left. Anybody who disagrees is a bad person.

Let's not exempt the so-called "right" from the discussion. The cultish impulse runs pretty strong.

But there should be accountability in the system. But there are RULES to follow. These RULES are called laws. The laws exist for a REASON. However, once cultism takes over, reason goes out the window.

Reason depends upon logic and evidence. A person guided entirely by emotion cannot be reasoned with.

You don't throw somebody in jail just because they disagree with you. You don't allow someone to be judge, jury, and executioner of somebody you don't like.. Does that ring a bell? Luigi Mangione anyone? The guy who got shot allegedly by Mangione did not get any DUE PROCESS. Due process works for everybody, or it doesn't work at all.

But wait! What about the "Maryland Man"? The Maryland Man has gotten due process already. How many times does he get due process before it counts? The Supreme Court said itself that the POTUS has the authority to deport him. What else is there to decide?

A society can be paralyzed into indecision if there are competing cults everywhere who contradict each other at every turn. Matters have to get settled. We used to have elections for that purpose. Evidently, elections don't seem to matter anymore.

But what good is an election if the election doesn't follow basic rules? What good are elections if the losing side won't accept the outcome? The left originally AGREED that Trump won the latest election. Now they are trying to overturn that result.

Something has to give. Perhaps the cultish fad is the thing that has to go. We have processes that determine guilt if laws have been violated. Even if a conviction cannot be obtained in a courtroom, a type of accountability CAN be obtained. OJ Simpson didn't get convicted of the murder of his wife and Ronald Goldman, but he wasn't in any more Hertz commercials.

It's not much, but it is better than nothing. The political left is pushing the cultish impulse. They reject reason. The reject logic. They disregard evidence. The BELIEVE things. For them, the belief matters above all else. Against this we have the potential to guide ourselves reasonably. It seems like a clear direction to follow. Otherwise, it is the rule of the jungle, which means no rules at all.

Incidentally, I posted on this before. The Vice News thing was a hit piece because it came after the Twitter acquisition. If Musk is a cult figure, it was because the left fell for it. Now they are pissed off because he's not one of them after all.

"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is a  reference to Jim Jones, who was a cult figure.  Jones was a left-winger, and you'd never guess that Kamala Harris' pedigree comes straight through Jim Jones.

 

Trump withdraws Martin nomination for US Attorney for DC

 

The Ed Martin nomination is now kaput, as POTUS just withdrew the nomination. How does this affect the possibility of Boasberg taking over the selection?

A watered down RINO may be better than Boasberg, but it does seem like in 2017 that the asst-AG at the time took over and nominated Mueller for Special Prosecutor. That guy (Rosen-something, maybe Rosenstein) was supposedly a Republican, for whatever that's worth.

That was a huge fiasco for Trump, and an argument could be made that it resulted in at least one of the impeachments, if not both of them. Therefore, the problem still could exist. But I don't know all the ins and outs of procedure in DC, so maybe it is over. ( in a sense , maybe, kinda )

It's not about due process, it's about the revolution

9:18 AM:

 

Holy deja vu, Batman! In 2017, the Dems got Sessions to recuse, and we ended up with Mueller as Special Prosecutor. This brought in the Democrats in 2018, and we got two impeachments.... They're going to try the same thing all over again. They got rid of Gaetz, and we got Bondi. Bondi is a light weight. No prosecutions of any note yet, and probably never if this goes down. Then, we get Boasberg nominating the DC prosecutor, and we'll get BIG TROUBLE.

 

Unbelievable as it may seem, it follows the same kind of pattern. It must be stopped NOW before it is too late.

 

Urgent! The Clock Is Ticking, Boasberg Is In the Wings https://t.co/cOsT6f8LEm --- Less than two weeks to confirm, or this guy could nominate Jack Smith as Us Attorney for DC. It would be inexcusable to allow this to happen. It was bad enough in 2017 when AG Sessions recused...

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 8, 2025

 

6:41 AM:

 

What leftists really care about - American Thinker https://t.co/Exmn0nNwAc --- It's all about the revolution. The issue isn't the issue, the revolution is the issue. It also says that conservatives should engage the real issue, which is the revolution, not the fake one.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 8, 2025

So it doesn't make sense for the Dems to want to die on the Gangbanger Hill until you realize that this isn't about the Gangbangers or due process, it is about the Revolution. So it goes on all issues, straight down the line.

Bill Clinton deported 12 million illegals during his presidency -- AND 93% of those aliens were deported WITHOUT a 'due process' hearing.pic.twitter.com/IGdDFNOBpi

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 6, 2025

Quick update:

Just found this item, check it out:

The right of “due process” is to protect citizens from their government, not to protect foreign trespassers from removal. Due process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 5, 2025