Put your game face on, kiddoes

The other side isn't adverse to playing rough.

About misunderstandings

   One of the things that really bugs me is this problem with people who insist upon misunderstanding things.

   But that is just one of my pet peeves. That reminds me of the time when I was taking a driver safety course, and the instructor asked the class one-by-one, "What is your pet-peeve?". I hadn't thought of it before, so I had a problem answering that question. However, upon further reflection, I think it must be universal thing to have pet-peeves or one kind or another.

   Since I like to think of myself as someone who attempts to understand things, I often make the mistake of assuming everyone is that way. But that is not the case. It may be the exception.

   Which brings me to the point-of-view with respect to how Trump's opponents treat him.

   I don't support Trump out of some feeling that he is some sort of savior person. I don't belong to a "cult". But there are people who insist that anyone who supports Trump is part of some sort of "cult".

   I think these people are the ones who are at fault. You can disagree with a person and not hate them. Indeed, hating somebody just because they disagree with you, is in my opinion unjust. Anybody can be wrong. Trump can be wrong, but that doesn't make him a bad person. Just because he disagrees with you, or you with him, doesn't make him bad. Not by itself. It's what you do about that fact that is good or bad.

   That's what understanding things is about. You don't have to agree with a person, but you can try to understand their point-of-view. I think in doing so, you can remove a lot of the hostility from the situation.

   Besides, the other guy could be right!

   If you mistreat another person just because of a disagreement, what does that make you? I say it makes you an unjust person.

   Misunderstanding others and using it as a reason for killing them, or wishing them dead, is evil.

   That's why I have a big problem with Trump's critics. They have no respect for others. You don't have to agree, you can disagree, and still believe what you wish. After all, you're opponent could be right!

   It's tragic that there's so many people who are willing to do damage to others just because of a disagreement. But if that disagreement is serious enough, drastic measures may be necessary. Let's give examples, like gun-control. If somebody disagrees with you so drastically that they want to kill you, then having a weapon handy may be necessary. Therefore, gun-control takes your ability to defend yourself away from you. I note that some liberals like gun-control all of a sudden. If they cannot make you agree with them, then they feel threatened. But why?

   Yes, misunderstandings are the norm--not the exception. Just sayin'. Try not to have a cow over it. Pretty please.

So, what do you think of this??? I think the guy is a nazi alright, and a good many other things, but calling him that wasn't exactly prudent. The result was murder...

   What bugs me is that people will misunderstand, and appear to me to deliberately misunderstand--- what I just wrote. Or is it just my perception? The same goes about Trump... But I sympathize with the guy, because I think he's truly trying to help. The critics are proven wrong again and again, but that doesn't stop them. Something else is going on, then.

   Drastic measures may be necessary. Try not to misunderstand that, ok? But I'm not holding my breath...

FYI about the blog

On the left column under the "Navigation Pages", there's a link to a certain "Design Page". If you click on it now, it will display a forbidden link. Fear not! The Design Page is being re-worked. (I have it locked down while under construction.) I'll update when it can be seen again (I hope). That is all.

12/4/25

12/5/25: Note: There's no longer any reason to have it private, so the design page can be seen again.

Dems negativity puts America in peril

12/04/25:

Comment:

   Why put it in Collyfornia? Put it in Texas. Texas will welcome a big shipyard facility. Plus, there's some good sites that could be available. Maybe better than San Fransicko Bay. Let them keep their Mickey Mouse system there in the land of fruits and nuts. If Elon Musk relocated, then why can't the ship building biz?

Can Maritime Power Recapture San Francisco Bay? by CDR Salamander

...can we get past the brown fields, radiation, and Moonbatistans?

Read on Substack

11/29/25:

 

U.S. Navy’s Aircraft Carriers Just Can’t Leave Port - https://t.co/2xQdU9s8Ak Comment: While the Dems are suing Trump over everything, and giving wall-to-wall negative news narratives, America's deterrence is fading into insignificance. Infrastructure needs support NOW.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) November 29, 2025

Dire Straits -- The Bug --- official video

I like the line in Cheers, where Norm says "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-bone underwear". This song says the same thing, but in a different way. You're the windshield or the bug. Man, I feel like the bug today.

 

 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Delivers Remarkable Affirmation of Trump Foreign Policy

Conservative Treehouse

Comment:

   The word "authenticity" is mentioned in the post. Did you know, and perhaps you didn't think of it; that the word "authentic" was a big thing in the Boomer "coming of age" era ? Maybe it still is, because it is being used here in the CTH post.

   Indeed, this whole blog of mine could be reduced to one word, and that is "authenticity". If it ain't real, how in the hell can it be authentic?

   This word can be contrasted with the modern penchant for fakery. Fake women, fake men, fake news, fake scandals, and you name it. If it is fake, the Democrats are all over it like hot molasses.

   The wanna-be Democrats, aka RINOS, are just about as bad. They have no minds of their own, these RINOS. They speaketh with forked tongues, kemosabe. Some mixed-up cultural concoction that was in that last sentence thar!

   Anywho, authenticity is the word here. But the truth is a slippery thing, I like to say. There's always a "but", isn't there?

Can you learn something from an old movie?

   Is it possible, or even if is not, then let's try to relate to modern times, a 1960's thought; seen through the use of movies as examples of a concept. The movie is The Graduate,1967. The concept of the movie is one of a "coming of age". But what does that mean to come of age? For a want of a better way of saying it, it means to grow up, kid.

   So, our good friends, the commies, want to convince the kiddoes out there that things are getting worse under Trump. At least that is what it appears to be of late. But what's really going on here? That's where the movie comes in.

   The main character of the movie is having a hard time deciding what to do with his life. His parents are trying to guide him, but it seems to be too forceful of an approach for the young Benjamin. He tries to cooperate, but it isn't working out too well. Note if you will how the adults are in command of the young Benjamin. But Benjamin has other ideas. There's your generational conflict right there. Benjamin has to navigate through the desires and wishes of his parents and other adults, while trying to find his way in the world. Benjamin does indeed find himself by the end of the movie. He does it the usual way--through rebellion against the older generation.

   It's a typical story. What's a youngster to do, after all? Those of us in the older generation think we know better, but the youngsters have other ideas. The youngsters really don't know what they're doing, won't listen to their elders, and go off on another direction --for better or worse. The movie doesn't show what happens to young Benjamin after his rebellion. Only that his rebellion has succeeded in thwarting the desires and intentions of the older generation.

  The movie was made in 1967, as the Baby Boomer generation was coming of age in that time. How does that apply to modern times? What's the comparable generation now, the millenials? Let's call the the AOC bunch. That's because they think that socialism is a good thing. Evidently the schools don't teach history anymore, because socialism has never worked anywhere before.

  It might be hard for a youngster to realize these days, or any youngster as in the days in the past; to understand that the older generation was once young too. That's why this movie is so interesting to study. How did the kids of the Boomer generation handle their transition into adulthood? The same way it has always been, and always will be---they'll rebel against the older folks. The Boomers did it, as this movie shows. It's true, don't you know. Kids back then went against the adults--- they went Bohemian with the long hair and such.

  In the movie, Benjamin and his girlfriend seem victorious. Were they really? Only in the sense that the overcame the intentions of their elders. If by voting for Democrats, the modern generation thinks that they're actually solving the problems of the modern era, they are very much mistaken. You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make him drink. As with the horses, the young will disregard the elders, much to their own chagrin as they get older. Then, in those times in the future, they will regret what they did, and try to warn the young--all to no avail.

   Does it have to be that way? No. In the movie, the elders came on too strong. The youngsters need persuasion-- not an iron hand. Perhaps Benjamin may have taken a different and better path. As a Boomer, it doesn't seem to be as good path as it could've been. Young Benjamin grew up, as all Boomers did, but his life story beyond youth wasn't told in this movie. It is being told today as the nation creeps toward a totalitarian future. It would be wise of the young to heed the lessons of the past. To study history is to avoid the mistakes that were made in the past. Perhaps a better outcome can be obtained, and the future could turn out all right.

   So who to listen to? Trump or the old Establishment figures? Before you know which way to go, maybe you need to find out where you've been. You won't there by censorship and thought control. It won't come by toppling statues that depict the history of this nation, which is part of the bigger history of it in the larger world. Ignorance cannot be a good thing. Maybe these Establishment folks need a lighter hand. Know what I mean, Vern?

Starship news as of 12/2/25

 

Atlas may shrug, but what comes after?

Comment:

   Canada should be a warning, not a template for what we do in America. One way or another, Canada is going to disintegrate. It's already out there before Trump arrived on the scene. The things that are happening there in Canada have also been happening elsewhere in the once "free world". It is also in the USA, but it hasn't reached its event horizon yet.

   The event horizon means there's no turning back. That event horizon occured with the installation of Carney as Prime Minister. Once that happened, the end was inevitable. If you don't think Canada has reached its end, you haven't been paying attention.

   In short, there was no Canadian Donald Trump. They got their Barack Hussein Obama in the bastard child of Castro--- Trudeau. In the USA, the reconquista has barely begun in fits and starts. Trump arrived, but was not greeted warmly by his GOP brethren, and with unrelenting hostility on the part of the neo-Commies in the once working-man's party--the Democrats.

   The Democrat party has been hollowed out, or should I say been skin-suited? The new Democrats are nothing like the new Democrats of the Clintonista era. Those new Democrats had to play pretend with regards to their support of America, but they didn't fool the informed. Indeed, they didn't fool most of the people in the country, as the Democrats lost Congress for the first time in decades to Newt Gingrich's GOP.

  No, the new Democrats of these times are openly socialist. There's no longer any fear of being labelled as such. Yes, and there's no pretending either. AOC has called capitalism some dirty names. The roles have switched, and the old new Democrats are scared stiff of the new new Democrats. But in reality, their patriotism has always been a fraud---the Democrats never believed in free enterprise, and of the American Republic under its Constitution.

   As for Newt's GOP, they continued their old losing ways. Having pulled defeat from the jaws of victory in the shutdown fight in '95, the party's fate was sealed in the '96 election, and Slick Willy survived to fight another day.

   What to learn from that? That the GOP is really not interested in being a majority party. At least part of the GOP is not interested in being a majority party. The part of the GOP that is Democrat-lite got the upper hand, and managed to get Dubya elected in 2000. All Dubya did was to divide the GOP like his Daddy did, and that brought us Bathhouse Barry.

   0bama was the first openly leftist POTUS in American history. The reaction to him was the same as to Clinton--distrust. But the weakness of the GOP still prevailed, as Obama swept to victory in another term. That outcome was avoidable, if only the GOP would've actually lived up to their supposed principles.

   The GOP's failures brought Trump to power. Yes, and it is their last chance, and our country's last chance. Even now, after all of what the neo-commies and their neo-con wanna-be friends have done to try to get rid of Trump, the failures have not caused them to give up. It also appears that their Cultural Marxist pals are on the very cusp of achieving what they've always sought--full, unfettered power of all of the people of the USA.

   Trump has survived it all this far. But the RINOS are hard at work undermining him from within. If history is any judge, their chances for success appear to be good. Hope is not all lost however. The GOP faithful could still rally. It isn't over yet, but time is running short.

   So what is there to do? First of all, we need to call things by their right names. Trump isn't fascist, but he's definitely running against a leftist insurgency. Unfortunately, those closest to him may not be the loyal soldiers that they pretend to be. If there's one thing that Trump must do, and that is to weed out the weak hands in the divided GOP. MTG had to go, and the Haleys, Bushes, and Cheneys must be held at bay. If the GOP could fully unite behind Trump, victory is achievable.

   The example of Canada must not be followed. Or America will share that fate. It is in the cards, so to speak. Can Trump be the wild-card that flips that outcome to a more positive one?

   Atlas may be shrugging in Canada, but there won't be a Canada for much longer. We can avoid that fate if we get this turned around, but we must do it soon.

Atlas shrugged in Canada. https://t.co/cdMRHxhBml

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 27, 2025

Don Surber on Substack: Mamdami effect

Are these disgruntled wanna-be Democrats on the GOP holding Trump hostage? MTG's defection is going to be a problem. Maybe she needed to go. Perhaps a lot more should go, too.

 

The Mamdani Effect by Don Surber

86 House Democrats vote against socialism

Read on Substack

 

Carville wants to go full pinko

   You gotta be sheeting me, main.

   It is amazing to me that folks didn't blame Democrats for the shutdown. The only thing that some folks seem to have gotten from the experience is to blame the party in charge, rather than the miscreants that caused the problem in the first place.

   Socialism doesn't work. Hell, it's what caused the problem in the first place.

   How do you get out of this mess? Vote for the same crap that has gotten you into the mess? Yeah, that makes sense. Carville and the whole damned bunch have lost their friggin' minds.

   There's a story on the web that a lot of GOP'ers are planning to leave. That's the good news, because if the deadweight doesn't get cleared out, nothing will get accomplished. We may be heading towards a total crack-up. The old guard wants to knife Trump in the back in order to maintain themselves in power. The GOP doesn't have the answers, so the party has to reformed. The only way to reform it is to get rid of the ones who are jumping ship--like this MTG.
 
   MTG talks BS. How do you fix anything by quitting? She wasn't serious about doing anything anyway.

Dick Morris sez

12/01/25:

Immigration issue may help Trump's numbers.

Sometimes I don't know about Morris, but he does know about politics. Maybe it is worth it to check up on him on a regular basis.   Here's another post of his that I blogged about.   This one may help with his numbers, too.

10/13/25:

Surprising thing for Morris to write. As usual, what do you do about this? For one thing, you don't reward bad behavior. Two, you do what you can to discourage it. If someone is not going to be reasonable, then you do what you can.

 

Thanksgiving repost: Miracle on 34th Street

Behind the Black Blog

Comment:

   The post should be titled as a Christmas post. Actually, it's not even a Christmas Post, it's more like an "X-mas" post. The first part I watched again, having already seen it before. What it reminded me of is that feeling, even back in the time this movie was made (50's ?), that the holiday of Christmas had lost too much of its religious significance.

   Santa Claus is not necessarily a Christian figure, but Saint Nicholas is, or so I think. So this part about him being the secularized Santa Claus, and that being a regrettable thing, isn't really consistent with the lament about commercialization. Well, it was New York, after all. Some things really don't change, now do they?

   But the spirit of Christmas seems to be there. At least there's that.

If the current Federal Reserve system is failing, then why not dispose of it?

The following tweet discusses a proposition that the Federal Reserve is trapped into a policy that will insure a failure down the road. If the attempt is made to wring out inflation, it will cause the entire financial system to collapse.

The system is based upon a pyramid of debt (my words not the author's). If so, then why not get rid of the debt, and substitute equity instead? The equity would be in the assets held by the US Government, of which there is plenty enough to satisfy the national debt many times over.

The downside could be WHO owns the equity.. Consequently, the equity should be held by "WE THE PEOPLE". The Constitution says "full faith and credit of the US Government". Therefore, in keeping with the spirit of self-government, this proposition will fulfill the lawful Constitutional mandate, so that government can be financed.

If the proposition of the author is correct, failure is inevitable. But there's time to chart another course. Didn't Abe Lincoln finance the Civil War (initially) through the use of Greenbacks?

But this bothers people. After all, what backs the Greenbacks? The current illusion is that debt backs the currency now, but that is not true---provided that the author of the piece is correct. Therefore, the debt cannot be repaid the way things are now.

Indeed, the whole idea is to NOT pay back the debt. This means that it must be some sort of plot to seize control of the financial system. Well, if it is already under control of international bankers, then isn't it high time that the people should take it back?

https://t.co/VCNh85VzeK -- Comment: A quick perusal shows pessimism with regards to solutions for the problem. The solution is to go off the central bank system and on to another that can offer price stability. Not only that, it offers an end to the enslavement to the banks.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) December 1, 2025

 

Perhaps Canada's western provinces can gain statehood, but it has to get thru Congress

Canada's western provinces are ready to leave, according to this report.

A popular vote was held, and the proposition for statehood in the USA passed, it says.

11/29/25:

New video:

There's stuff going on here. It's meaning isn't exactly clear. There's a woman with a plan over there, telling you guys had better beware.

Paraphrasing a song there, but the stuff is going down. What that stuff may smell like, who knows? This guy on the video seems to think that Alberta is leaving Canada, and taking a lot of Canada with them.

However, if you check out the social media sites, and maybe the legacy media, the song may not sound the same.

Uh,oh! A Led Zepellin song, if you catch my drift.

11/23/25:

Looking for precedents... When Texas joined the Union, it was an independent nation. However, these provinces are still a part of Canada. What will Canada do in response? Texas joined via a joint resolution.

By the way, there hasn't been any news about this vote in our legacy press. It would seem that they're ignoring it. Why ignore something of this magnitude? Perhaps they believe that they can wish it away?

The GOP has a majority in both houses, and a President on record for wanting Canada as part of the USA. Will the GOP move on this development? The Dems might agree to it if they felt it could be an advantage for them. Also, there's the possibility of a filibuster in the Senate. It won't be an easy thing to accomplish.

I'd say the ball is in the American court. An agreement needs to be hammered out, and approved by all concerned. Good luck with that.