"Topple the West"

‘Humanitarian’ left refuses to help 49 Afrikaner asylees, proving (again) the real purpose of ‘refugee’ campaigns is to topple the West: 

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More than likely, this is highly correlated with the political left, which has a home within the American Democrat party. If you listen closely enough to them, and correlate it with the racist history of the Democrat party, you may conclude that the Democrats have exchanged white racism for anti-white racism.

You may misunderstand the meaning of "anti-white" racism. It is a type of racism that bred the term "white nigger" once uttered by former Senator and clansman Robert Byrd. Robert Byrd remained in the Democrat party until his death. So far as I know, he never renounced the use of that term "white nigger".

Furtermore, the late Julian Bond once said that the word "racism" was to replace the word "nigger". It would involve treating the former white race like the black race was treated. It is a type of racially motivated revenge against the white man. Hence, the hysteria of admitting the Boer. It may even explain how Russia never got the favorable treatment that Red China has gotten.

I vividly recall how Soviet Russia sought Most Favored Nation status during the "detente" years of the Cold War. But China was admitted into the full embrace of the west without blinking an eyelash. Why is it? Could it be that Russia is predominantly white, and that China is not?

It would be hard to hold China to the same standards as Russia was during the Cold War even though the Chinese have never renounced communism. We have very foolishly admitted an enemy within our midst. Red China has become very dangerous.

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

Paxton is running against Senator John Cornyn of Texas

5/8/25:

 

Wrap your mind around this one, fellow Texans... John Cornyn won't say if he will vote to confirm or not confirm Ed Martin. Is it because Martin will vigorously investigate ALL of what happened on J6th, and prosecute ANYONE who violated the law? That would include any false flag events, I would presume. I am very suspicious of John Cornyn here, and in general. He tries to pass himself off as a Trump supporter in his ads for reelection, but if Martin is not confirmed, this radical judge will appoint the US attorney for DC.

 

Just chew on that one for awhile...

 

Just a reminder for sanctimonious @SenThomTillis

USCP cuffed an FBI informant (CHS), brought him to the side, and happily uncuffed him to share a celebratory fist-bump—Fedsurrection accomplished.

We all know J6 is a coverup, and we’re going to expose everything…and everyone. pic.twitter.com/W9kcNTF3uz

— John Strand (@JohnStrandUSA) May 7, 2025

 

 

5/7/25:

 

Where does Cornyn stand on the issue of Boasberg v the elected President of the United States?

John Cornyn is trying to undermine President Trump's agenda by refusing to say if he supports @USAEdMartin and intentionally stopping his nomination by wasting time we don't have.

President Trump, Ed Martin, and the American people deserve better. pic.twitter.com/MbwVngA93F

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) May 5, 2025

A day that would live in infamy if a nation had any honor left to lose

https://t.co/uzoH2ZG2A2 --- I've written about this for years. Technology developed here in America is given away by Obama to the Red Chinese. Absolutely disgrace to our nation that we allowed China to beat us in something that was invented here 1st.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 7, 2025

This country dishonors itself continually, then wears a badge of honor to celebrate their self-proclaimed virtue.

 

Perhaps it is fitting that the only thing that this country seems to be good at anymore is in rewarding those who would destroy it.

 

Some would point to me and ask why I am tearing down the country. If asked thusly, I'd answer with that I'm only reporting what our alleged leaders have done with their inheritance. But we choose our leaders. Yes, and we will likely reap what we've sown.

 

This is a dark day. A day of mourning for a wayward nation should take place, but only a celebration for its self-immolation.

 

P.S. This looks like the insides of a tokomak, which is a fusion reactor. There's no reason for a fission reactor to look like this.

 

 

Texans should sit up and take notice of this

 

5/7/25, 7 AM:

 

If you don't understand this post, you aren't paying attention. Or you are in denial. Boasberg is as rogue as they come. But a faction of Senators are going to allow him to appoint the US Attorney to the DC Circuit. This is like setting up a shadow government. A government within a government.

 

You may not like Trump, but even the left wingers agree that he was elected. Boasberg has not been elected, and is not accountable to anyone...

 

10:24 AM:

 

This one snuck up on me. It so happens that Tillis is on the committee, and without his vote, the nomination cannot get out of the committee. That one got by me. Therefore, because of this one guy, we get this result. Cornyn escapes blame, but I don't like him anyway.

 

The blame should go to the Majority Leader, if that is his responsibility to put a guy like this on an important committee as this one.

 

Unbelieveable to me that the GOP can run Congress and the Presidency, but it won't matter anyway. The Dems might as well be in charge if you can get a result like this. Somebody is going to have to pay for this hanging, you might say.

 

 

 

5/6/25:

Karl Rove…the Biggest Loser? https://t.co/aj8Tl09o87 --- Is there a palace coup in the works? If Boasberg appoints the US Attorney for DC, lots of bad things could happen. Which brings us to Rove. Are disaffected GOP'ers trying to sabotage POTUS?

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 6, 2025

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The Red State article is much too generous to Rove, in my opinion. This latest move has no real political backing, as Trump increased margins in Texas in 2024. The establishmentarians have no claims, except for the usual phony liberal propaganda. If anything, they are trying to subvert Trump's real victory that occurred just months ago. If Cornyn and Cruz want to make an issue of Trump's leadership, and really want to hurt him, here's their big opportunity. Or is it? I'll definitely remember this double cross. You can count on it.

Beamer upper for the day

 

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists edge closer to affordable superconductors: Novel materials could eventua https://t.co/MaM1QPw3gr --- Smarter please... the article mentioned doesn't say how to get to more affordable superconductors. The materials aren't novel, either.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 7, 2025

The article also admits that they are no closer to room temperature superconductors. If it isn't room temperature, it isn't practical, nor affordable. Duh.

Let's see what Carney's got

5/6/25, 7:24 AM:

Mr. Carney goes to Washington in order to meet Darth Trump.

 

Perhaps he can turn the EEEEViL Trump to the good side like Luke Skywalker did. Then we'd all be fwee! Yippee!

Canadians are going to be watching this closely, it says. Will their Great White Hope come through?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Frankly, I don't know how it will all go. Hopefully not down the poop chute. Methinks the Carney character is a snake that has the forked tongue. No telling what he may conjure up.

2:31 PM:

Kissing the ring. https://t.co/U9lXmp59ac

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 6, 2025

Hmmm. I thought Mr. Carney was going to kick some Trump ass. Must've been mistaken.

2:48 PM

Didn't Carney say that Trump wants Canada's resources? Carney and his party put it under lock and key. The Dems have done it in America, but Trump will unlock America's mineral wealth. What will Carney do? Watch Canada go broke, most likely.

Canada has 3X the US’s oil reserves but less than 40% the production.

Why? Anti-oil politicians like Mark Carney who say they’re protecting Earth’s coldest country from global warming.

Here's the story of Canada's squandered oil opportunity—and how to reverse it 🇨🇦👇 pic.twitter.com/IoWWX3eJWS

— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) April 27, 2025

9:13 PM:

Just saw something on Just the News, which involves a comment from Rebel News. It said that Carney got off light. Who's Rebel News? A little about them, thanks to Grok AI:

Rebel News is a Canadian online media outlet known for its right-wing, conservative commentary and activism. Founded in 2015 by Ezra Levant, it focuses on issues like free speech, immigration, government overreach, and cultural topics, often taking a contrarian stance against mainstream narratives. It operates primarily through its website, social media, and video content, positioning itself as an alternative to traditional media. Rebel News has been criticized for promoting controversial or misleading content, with some labeling it as propaganda, while supporters view it as a voice for underrepresented perspectives. The outlet has faced legal battles, including a Federal Court ruling that it’s not primarily engaged in producing original news content but rather activism. It’s also known for crowdfunding campaigns and public stances against censorship.

I'd agree with Rebel News that Carney is dangerous, as all leftists are. Too many people will get taken in by his BS. Carney and Trump have known each other for years. They don't hate each other, or so it appears.

Catturd

 

He must’ve been in on it. Nothing else makes sense.l https://t.co/wlixRNMN8x

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 6, 2025

Ah, I see. The only appointees that will make a difference are the ones that will be rejected! Like Gaetz and this guy for US Attorney for DC.

 

The GOP is useless. Must do an aggressive primary campaign to get rid of as many of them as possible. It should start now. Take no prisoners...

 

5:40 PM:

 

Uh, oh! It's worse than I thought. If this guy isn't confirmed, a very bad judge Boasberg is going to be able to appoint the US Attorney for DC. If that happens, we get a lot of very bad outcomes, youse people.

 

It so happens that one of Texas' Senators is one of the holdouts on the confirmation. If he lets this happen, his name should be MUD. But it has always been so for me, though. Cornyn has to go.

 

 

 

Musk has problems with leftist goons

 

BREAKING: FEC records reveal the main complainants fighting @elonmusk over a security fence for his Austin home are anti-Trump activists who've given several grand to Dems inclg Beto, Allred, Warnock. Neighbor Anne Yeakel has also given hundred$ to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project.

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) May 5, 2025

Andy Ngo

 

Raised in Portland by Vietnamese refugees, @MrAndyNgo knows the dangers of left-wing radicalism.

As a journalist, he was brutally assaulted by Antifa during a protest, leaving him with lasting injuries.

Despite relentless threats, Andy continues to defend America and expose the… pic.twitter.com/zpgRlwqQNe

— PragerU (@prageru) May 6, 2025

Why is Gen Z so poor? (video)

 

I watched about 6 minutes of this, and stopped. It was belaboring the obvious I felt. Time is short. Perhaps the video had some SOLUTIONS, but this was 6 minutes of PROBLEMS. If you are a GenZ'er, you don't need a recitation of your problems. You already should know.

There was a mention of Boomers, of which I am one. Why should a GenZ'er read anything I write? Evidently, the Boomers are the problem, eh?

There are a few things here called premises. If you don't know what a premise is, then you are lost. That's because you cannot identify one when you see it.

The premise here is that the GenZ'ers don't have wealth. That has to be SOMEBODY'S fault, now doesn't it? The premise here is that wealth is being hoarded by the few, at the expense of the many.

I would suggest that this is a faulty premise.

The commies will take advantage of such faulty premises to ensnare the GenZ'ers into their web of deceit.

So, what's the GenZ'er going to do? Well, as a Boomer myself, I won't have anything to say about it. I'd suggest that you read Al Fin's blog and become a dangerous child. What does that mean?

Learn how to do things for yourselves. Commies will teach you how to be dependent upon them. A dangerous child can fend for himself/herself.

Why are there so many pedophlles among the ranks of Antifa?

 

Why are there so many pedophiles among the ranks of Antifa? That is a serious question. Maybe young people should consider this when picking a side. https://t.co/09Cj42kTuq

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) May 5, 2025

Bill of Rights? What's that????

Compare and contrast this video, and the talking heads on the pinko side, who wail mawkishly about the 5th Amendment and the Bill of Rights that they love so much. /barf

 

These videos will open your eyes. But it does little good if you intend to be willfully blind.

Ivermectin type drug as a cancer treatment

 

There's a connection to Ivermectin here? Let's keep this one on file, hence the post.

Incidentally, I KNEW I saw this somewhere...  The news has been "out there" for several years.  I'm looking for dosage info, but no luck so far.  
 

Communism can only succeed if it is allowed to succeed.

 

In 'fighting Oligarchy' can Democrats win back the working class? https://t.co/a1fqXDEoQd via @JustTheNews --- Einstein said that the mind that caused the problem cannot be the mind that solves it. The loss of the middle class is primarily a leftist invention. History shows it.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 5, 2025

There has been a loss in manufacturing in the USA since the end of WWII. It resulted from the exfiltration of wealth from the USA in order to rebuild the shattered economies of the world. At the end of that war, the USA was the only nation not devastated by the war. This policy was known as the Marshall Plan. It was promulgated during the Truman Administration. It so happens that it was a successful policy that prevented the spread of communism from the Soviet Union to the rest of Europe.

The theory was that destitute countries would turn to communism, because it seemed a way out of their miserable circumstances. That theory proved to be correct. However, the policy never ended after the fall of the Soviet Union. The economies of Europe continue to protect their own economies, while the United States spread its obsolete policy throughout the world.

In the meantime, the USA hollowed out its own manufacturing base, and sent it to China. The Chinese never gave up on communism. Even though they follow a capitalist model, it is overseen by the CCP.

Why would a communist party do that but to use capitalism in order to destroy capitalism?

The communists like to say that the capitalist will sell them the rope so that they can hang the capitialists. Well, here we are.

Now that Europe may have to face the rapacious Chinese export machine, they begin to whine to us about it. If the Europeans had built up the muscles instead of insisting upon living the sweet life, they'd be better positioned to compete with the Chinese. As for the USA, we've let the left wing practice its Cultural Marxism without any real pushback from the so-called right.

It is the so-called right that cannot marshall enough gumption to stand up to the Chinese and the communists and stop this exfiltration of wealth. That's because the so-called right has swallowed down the Marxism Paradigm, which always favored the "March of History" towards communism. Or so the theory goes.

If the West doesn't wake the hell up, communism will win a victory through guile and deceit. Or to put it better, the West will have forfeited its place in history.

Rush Limbaugh's opening monologue on his first TV show in 1992

 

Comment:

This is not the full show. It was on this show, he discussed liberalism as a football game. The game he talked about was a game in which it ended in a tie. He summed up the game as liberalism.

The young generation may be attracted to liberalism because the liberals love to talk about equality. The young buy into the liberal lie that the liberals will make the world more fair and "equal". It is a lie because nobody seeks a "tie". The liberals want to win, and to win, they will lie to the naive young, and regale them with the fiction of equality.

Reality sinks in eventually and all the free stuff has to be paid for. How do you pay for all your easy living?

You cannot. Then you fall into poverty and servitude.

There's a moral to the story. Freedom ain't free. You cannot go through lives with skulls full of mush. You must make your way in this world, and stop worrying about being equal and fair about everything. The world doesn't work that way. Primarily, you stop listening to phony baloney liberals who talk a good game of bull, but deliver you to the poor house.

Stick to your day job, Billy boy

 

 

 

 

War Between the US and Canada? Yes, It’s Now a Real Possibility

Discern Report

Comment:

The recently posted link to a video should dispel any notion that there'll be a "war". Canada cannot make much of a war against the USA, and the USA doesn't need to invade.

The article is junk.

Neil Oliver and David Krayden Discuss Recent Canada Election and Future of Alberta Secession

CTH ( embedded Neil Oliver video )

Comment:

Neither of these two in the video are Americans. Canadians were swindled. Carney will oversee the destruction of Canada, and the Canadians thought they voted against that.

Confirmation: The political left hates the truth

Secretary Rubio answers a question about the 51st State issue, and it is a bit of an eye-opener. Question: Did the Canadians know this when they went to the polls and elected Carney as their leader?

 

Maybe it wouldn't have made any difference, but it sure seems peculiar that they'd make an issue out of telling the truth.

A pity that the weak-kneed GOP enables this double standard. The country deserves better.

Hegseth’s 'Signal' Snafu and Selective Media Outrage by Sharyl Attkisson

Read on Substack

There should be more primaries to run out the deadwood types.

 

Ruth Buzzi RIP

Ruth Buzzi has passed away. She and Artie Johnson did this comedy routine on a regular basis. I remember it well.

 

Divided they rule, so here it comes

 

Conservative Nationalism is a new name for the same old sheet.

Trump is gathering victories, but I suppose that is too good for us. Too much winning, I suppose.

Anyway, if leftists win in liberal lands like Cana-duh, it isn't a loss for Trump. These guys that the commies beat on the "right" aren't allies, nor do they wish to be.

It's the same old political bullsh!t known as the "political spectrum". It is designed to always deliver victories for the commies. Note that the people using them like to refer to themselves as on the "right".

If they aren't in on the swindle, they might as well be.

Trump bypasses Boeing to get an newly refurbished 747 Air Force One

Behind the Black Blog

Comment:

The incompetence is alarming. Boeing makes planes. Or used to...

Boeing should be required to refund the US Government any and all funds with respect to their failure to deliver on a contract.

But if that were to happen, Boeing just might go bankrupt. Then what? Sheesh.

Al Fin: "China's losing its grip"

 

China Losing its Grip; Panics in Game of Chicken https://t.co/GPq4lHPp4w --- Interesting...

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 3, 2025

Vicious mothers aren't they?

 

New York looks like a fascist dictatorship. Kinda like Hitler's Germany. As for Germany, they are up to their old tricks. They want to ban parties. The last time they did that, der Fueher was in charge.

New York’s 'RFK Jr. Act' would mandate vaccine tracking for adults https://t.co/gfRJkeP0sy --- Why is the bill named after RFK, Jr? Did he advocate for such a policy? What's going on? Privacy advocates do not seem to favor this bill. Smells like liberal COVID tyranny to me.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 3, 2025

A modern day OJ Simpson trial dead ahead?

 

Wasn't this guy the one who shot down a man in the middle of the day in front of the whole world? Now he says he is innocent? Will justice be done here? Or will NYC descend into chaos? The rule of law is on trial in the most liberal city in America.

The Media is pulling the wool over your eyes

6:56 PM:

 

Blogging was light today. There was a doctor's appointment today. Doc says I'm doing fine. Trouble is, more tests and doctor appointments must be done in the near future.

 

But that news doesn't go with this post. So to get on with this update, I note that the latest economic reports seem to favor Trump, but are being politically spun to look unfavorable.

 

Which reminds me of a quote of Solzennitzen, a Russian dissident from the Cold War Era. He said that you should only trust your own crooked eye. It is a wry joke about human nature. People don't always tell the truth doncha know. That's how you can look at the "news". Trust what you see with your own eyes. The official version of events may not match what you can see for yourself.

 

8:36 AM:

 

In a post that is presumably about the jobs report, the CNBC fails to mention the jobs numbers. Instead, the media outlet decides to discuss the Federal Reserve. What does Trump say? Here's a discussion of that on Truth Social.

Basically Trump argues that he knows more about interest rates than the Federal Reserve.

What we COULD get if the media was interested in enlightening the public:

---We could get a discussion of Trump's claims.

---We could get a discussion of why the Federal Reserve is "independent". The Federal Reserve isn't elected, nor is it accountable to the people. However, no discussion is presented to show why this is a good thing.

Nor does Trump offer anything except his own claim of superior expertise. Well, at least Trump is accountable. He cannot legally run for President again, but he can be removed from office by the political act of impeachment. This is unlikely because of party divisions in Congress. He is still accountable in theory. Is the Federal Reserve accountable at all?

I would choose accountability over non-accountability. The media may not be explicitly saying so, but they are holding Trump responsible for an economy that can be deliberately sabotaged by an unaccountable official, and doesn't explain why this is a good idea.

War with China?

 

You can tell a war is brewing from all the propaganda being spewed about.

China wants to replace the USA in terms of importance on the world stage. This has been building up for at least a decade. I'm thinking that it's been on the Chinese radar since the beginning. They are communists, after all.

America has freedom of speech. It also means that China can propagandize in the USA. Let the USA try anything like that in China. Nobody can criticize China. Pretty soon, you won't be able to do it even in your own home country. Think about that.

 

On the other hand...

It is hard to see what Trump's goal is with this talk about Canada. Even though Alberta feels disrespected in Ottawa, they probably won't vote to leave the Canadian union. So, what's the point here?

There's no apparent chance that Canada will disintegrate and there's no chance that they'll vote to be the 51st state. It makes little sense for Trump to insist upon it. Besides, it makes absolutely no sense for Republicans to invite a mostly liberal bunch of folks into the union.

If this shows anything, it shows little respect for the USA. That is all the more reason why we need to firm up our policies with regard to the rest of the world.

 

Despite all the massive whining about DOGE, very little has been accomplished. The Federal deficit is still wildly out of control. Congress is useless.

 

The leftists are ruining all of Western Civilization, and this is all we can do?

 

This is not very impressive.

 

 

Cana-duh votes to continue suffering under commie misrule

Fear makes you stupid. Canadians do something stupid because they get whipped into a frenzy of fear of Trump. Polyview wouldn't have done anything meaningful anyway. He's a cipher, like most of the GOP is in the USA.

The result is more of the same garbage that they claimed to be sick and tired of.

https://t.co/FyVW3Fhjrq --- Trump didn't endorse anybody in the Canadian election, but it wouldn't have made any difference if he did. Neither of these two were much of a choice for Canadians. The same thing happens in the USA until Trump. If you want change, then CHANGE it.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 30, 2025

 

AGW skepticism isn't naughty

4/30/25:

Certain Europeans are dismayed at Trump's first 100 days.

Then you have the Canucks, who elected a guy who said America betrayed them. Betray?! I was reminded of this German girl who posts on YouTube a lot. What does this German girl have to say about America and Americans? So I looked her up again on YouTube, and she doesn't have much to say about politics and such. But she did have something to say about "facts".

It seems that we get a lot of lectures from the world on the subject of "democracy". We get a lot of lectures from the world about a lot of things. Like from China. China gots its communism from a bunch of disgruntled Europeans from the 19th Century. Wasn't Karl Marx a Jew? If he was, then we get a lot of lectures from the Asian followers of a disgruntled European Jew. I have to laugh.

Germany has the gall to lecture us about Democracy? China has the gall to lecture us about the work ethic? Physicians, heal thyselves. We are doing just fine. At least for the moment.

8/1/22:

Maybe I have too much time on my hands, or maybe I'm just wasting a lot of time. The reason I write that is that I'm watching a lot of videos these days, and some of them are from suggestions from YouTube. One of these suggestions seems to be from a gal called 'Feli' from Germany . She has lived in the USA for five years or more, and she puts up a lot of videos.

One of those videos said a few things that she still cannot get used to in America. Of these things, she mentioned the lack of belief in facts. I found that a bit of an odd thing to say. It did cause me to give some thought on what a fact actually is. In other words, I looked up the dictionary definition of what a fact is supposed to be. Basically, the definition given boils down to what's true or not true.

It would be strange for someone to accuse someone like me of this. Yet that is kinda the direction she is going. The definition mentioned did not go far enough of the philosophy of knowledge, ie. epistemology. Epistemology of the study of knowledge. After all, what IS knowledge? It may well to give it some thought.

Not everyone agrees on what is true and not true. Even in science, the "facts" can change. So, when someone says that you don't believe in facts, you are really saying is that people disagree with what you believe the facts to be. If someone powerful says something that is obviously false, they can punish you if you contradict it. The point being that the thing that is regarded as true is often colored with the effects of authority. A high profile example from history is when Galileo contradicted the Church, and was punished for it. History has confirmed what Galileo said, not what the Church said at the time.

I've written many times on this blog that the truth is a slippery thing. You may not have a grasp of it even if you think you do. The point is don't be so 100% sure about everything. There is the possiblity of error.

I do not find the arguments in favor of authority to be persuasive. So the appeal to authority of some finding of such a number of scientists who claim something like AGW to be true must not the final say on a matter. If they say it, it is also subject to error. Even the best minds have been wrong in the past. That's why we should have the right to disagree. Most would agree NOW that the punishment of Galileo to have been in error. That wouldn't have been the case THEN.

It may well be the case that AGW skepticism is in error. It may well also be the case that AGW is bunk. My approach is from the skepticism side. I'm not going to allow others to do my thinking for me.

It is ironic that she talks about science and such, and that it isn't a belief. Yet, what is the source of her belief in AGW? Is it not also in the way of religion? Or even more so?

What is the most reliable way to truth? Probably not the way it is done today. What is likely today is a lot like what was likely in Galileo's time. In that time, which is considered primitive, authority was being used to suppress free discussion of what was being set forth as truth. For his trouble, Galileo was punished. He was punished for being right.

There would be those who would respond saying that Galileo shouldn't have been punished because he was the true authority. Nope. He shouldn't have been punished because his was the less accepted view at the time, which is what argument from authority did to him.

NOBODY should be punished on that basis. In other words, freedom should be honored. This is the best way that we have at getting at truth, in my opinion. Compulsion has the least place in the quest to arrive at the truth, not the preferred place.

UPDATE:



Germany's recovery from COVID the weakest of any advanced country.

She also included her assertion about COVID, as if it were gospel truth.

Skepticism of what the authority says is essential to a free society. When that is shut down, you can get some really bad outcomes. Like an Adolf Hitler.

That may be playing it rough, but there's that pesky truth thingie again.

Pathological distortion

 

An intervention is suggested...

Consequences Delivered: Wisconsin Supreme Court Takes Action Against Rogue Judge Hannah Dugan https://t.co/H8t5KcsEfL --- The comparison of the Judge to the Holocaust victim Anne Frank, is truly bizarre. Those folks have a screw loose.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 30, 2025

An idea whose time has come?

What are Goldbacks? Here's a FAQ's page .

If 1 goldback equals 1/1000th of an ounce, that would mean it would be worth about $3.50, since the gold price currently is about $3500 oz.

Interesting idea.

Could this be expanded a bit? What if you were to replace the US dollar with a currency that would be backed not by debt, but by something of value. Such as Goldbacks, for example.

You could then pay off all the debt with goldbacks, and save money on interest. Interest payments are becoming too cumbersome to service. Either spending is cut drastically, or the currency is expanded to a degree that may cause massive inflation.

There may be objections to the creation of currency out of thin air, but that happens already. Why add to the problem by having the additional burden of debt? Make the currency worth something in itself, so that people will want to own it.

It's an idea. We need something because the leftists are shutting down everything. We need to open things up. When the leftists shut everything down, inflation must result. Opening things up will actually do more to tame inflation than to keep interest rates sky high.

The real purpose of sky high interest rates is to cripple the economy. In so doing, the schemers will try to pose as white knights that will rescue us from the disaster that they created themselves.

Dick Morris is a has-been

 

Dick Morris advised Slick Willy. That might seem like a gold star for him, but to me, it is an albatross.

Slick Willy favored the Chi-Coms. Limbaugh was all over that, but nobody listened. Slick Willy enjoyed big approval ratings because the stock market went up and up. Now that the stock market is in a gigantic bubble, the thought is to protect all that paper wealth, while China robs us blind.

So Dickie boy the toe-sucker is saying that China is folding? Nope. To declare a victory now is grossly premature. China is embargoing rare earths to us, but they are willing to accept stuff that they can't make for themselves. That's NOT A VICTORY. If they embargo us, we embargo back until they end the embargoes. Otherwise, they are getting stuff that they can steal. Let there be no doubt that they will definitely steal whatever they can get their hands on.

If Trump listens to Dick Morris, he is making a big mistake. If he listens to Morris, Trump will be like putty in the hands of the Chi-Coms, just like what we've been getting the whole time.

The leftist propaganda machine v Trump

 

What does Trump say in his own words? Well, here it is from the social website "Truth Social".

People will believe what they want. Just remember that the political left had Trump removed from Twitter. If Musk didn't take it over, and if Truth Social had been suppressed, you'd never hear the other side of the argument. That's how the political left rolls. But they like to preach about freedom and democracy. Bah!

Oh Canada goes into the next act of this farcical tragedy

So Carney does his "strut" after his "victory". Well, the victory may not last. We'll see. Anyway, a sensible response from Canada would be something like an American common market. The free trade agreement that is in place is NOT that. The Canadians impose large tariffs on certain American goods. There's protectionism for ya. The trouble with our own so-called "free trade" advocates, is that they do not consider the full effects of free trade uber alles. The effects of unfettered free trade was the hollowing out of American manufacturing. That is what Trump is trying to reverse.

 

The pinkos and their useful idiots on the the so-called "right", will try to obfuscate that. Hopefully for the future of everyone on the North American continent, Trump will begin to clarify things SOON.

The Liberal Party Wins Canadian Election https://t.co/jIJvqySBdQ --- Trump has gotten into their heads, lol. When Trump gets into a pinko's head, he makes them do goofy stuff. This "election" has got to be the goofiest yet.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 29, 2025

Ivermectin, the cancer fighting drug?

 

Even if you seem to have it under control, there's always this lingering worry that it could come back. What if you could knock it out for good?

Dr. McCullough Reveals the Cancer-Fighting Drug Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know About https://t.co/UyOZQJsY9N --- I know I've seen this elsewhere. What a revelation it would be if this generic drug can be useful in treating cancer? As a cancer survivor, this means something

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 28, 2025

P.S. This is not to be construed as an endorsement of Ivermectin for treatment of cancer. I'm looking into it, that's all.

Opinions are like a-holes, everyone has one ( updated )

4/28/25:

The report seems to be out. One rhetorical question here: Why does it take all this time to belabor the friggin' obvious?

It costs money for an investigation. All they can tell you now is what you already knew from the beginning. Whoop-de-doo.



2/18/25:



An update on the investigation. I watched 18 minutes of it. Discussion is mostly focused on the altitudes of the two craft involved in the crash. See video below.







2/4/25:



NTSB confirms helo was too high. Comment: Not a lot of info in this article. Apparently, that one little bit of info is all they ran the story on. But it is something. It means that the black boxes and the radar data with respect to the altitude, weren't that far off. There may have been some reason to think there may have been a discrepancy. However, even if there is a discrepancy, the fact remains that the chopper was out of its "lane", so to speak.



2/1/25, 11:33 AM::

Did the (army) helo leave the base without authorization? Reading through the comments brings that possibility into play. Base was said to be requesting helo to return. Shouldn't have left without one other person, and the take off may not have been authorized for this type of flight.

Video showing new angle of DC plane crash is crazy: ‘There’s no way’… https://t.co/SaFDoTlfcE --- The more you study this, the worse it looks

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) February 1, 2025

1/31:25:

Me too. A reaction to this tweet, ya'll.

I took this video 6 days ago leaving Reagan International Airport and thought it was kind of crazy seeing these choppers right next to us. I wonder if it was something like this that caused the collision tonight. pic.twitter.com/0I2GGTM7hS

— Kyle Salewski (@Sa_Les_Ski) January 30, 2025

Comment:

Like it or not, the choppers are allowed to do this near a busy airport, which seems crazy. Anyway, it has been a regular thing, and that alone is not a reason for why the crash happened. HOWEVER, the crashed chopper did appear to be TOO HIGH. These choppers are restricted to 200 ft and below, and must stay on the far bank of the Potomac. This chopper that crash was at 350-400 ft, and that's too high. Notice in the video here how low they are to the ground.

I agree with the tweet that this seems crazy to me. There's a lot of info out there, but all of the sudden, it has dried up. I'm trying to pick up on this investigation again, but it is proving to not be so easy. Incidentally, that's how I came across that info about regular chopper flights in this area. That was quite interesting bit of info to me, but now I can't find it again. But there's other stuff. This tweet is one.



Note: this post got a bit discombobulated, and I can't explain it. Two tweets got mixed up, and how does that happen? Anyway, the chopper appears to be in the wrong place. That's all I have on it now.---end @ 2:49 AM 1/31/25

9:29 AM:

There was one video in which an experienced pilot said that helo altitude could be kept as low as 100 ft, so if the collision was at 300-400 ft, the helo was in the wrong place. The black box will tell the tale of the altitude where the collision occurred. There's a report that the black box has been recovered.

There are other reports, but I will classify those as noise. You don't go into motivations as a possibility until you know exactly who is in the wrong.

Update: 2/1/25, 9:38 AM :  This is why you don't report on everything you see out there.  It's the Bongino Rule.  I suspected that the rumors of transexuality were just that.  You need confirmation of info like that, and to report it as soon as you see it could be a mistake.  We still don't have all the info on the pilots, so you really can't say for certain if it has been completely debunked.   The investigation is just getting started.

Freedom has two sides; one side is toward failure, the side is toward success

 

Which will it be? Is America terminally stuck-on-stupid, or will we climb out of our stupidity and rise to success once again?

Shame on ZeroHedge for treating this young communist as worth hearing.

https://t.co/BtSiM5yxhz --- I don't need to hear lectures from a wet behind the ears young communist propagandist. Trouble with America is that we have the freedom to be stupid as well as smart. Commies in China won't let you be free to be what you wish.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 28, 2025

On being stuck on stupid

Calling another person "stupid" probably won't cure any stupidity that may exist. People will think whatever they're going to think.

 

Nevertheless, I'll offer some thoughts upon the subject. Why not?

If you've heard of the saying that ignorance can be cured, but stupidity cannot. However, I would not agree that this is always so. Maybe due to the hard-headedness of people, the stupidity will endure almost anything short of two slugs to the forehead.

How can stupidity be cured? Can blindness be cured? Sometimes. If blindness can be cured, a stupid person can actually become intelligent. That's because stupidity is kind of a mental blindness, in my opinion. If you are blind to something by choice, then you will remain ignorant. By extension, that will entail the choice of remaining ignorant, even though the ignorance can be overcome with training. A choice to remain ignorant, therefore, is stupid. But this kind of stupidity has nothing to do with innate abilities. It is the willful blindness that makes a person stupid by choice.

Therefore, stupidity can be cured. But that is only if a person wants to really know. Otherwise, a person remains willfully blind. It's hard to do anything about that, unfortunately.

America is being mugged, slandered, and murdered

And those responsible want to pose as the knight in shining armor coming to the rescue. Do you know who I'm referring to?

 

Illegals Have Been Stealing American Jobs for Decades—but One ‘Trick of the Trades’ Could Change Everything https://t.co/HSJcOSUwSt --- People need to care about this more. Seems to be an important key to fighting the invasion of our country.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 28, 2025

Is the culture war deepening?

 

To answer cancel culture with even more cancel culture? That seems to be the ticket for some folks out there. How broad is that sentiment, really?

If you had to choose between a "woke" business, or an "anti-woke" business, what would you choose? Or would you prefer not to play that game?

Up to a point, I've been playing that game. But to go whole-hog on it is difficult. You have to really be committed to the culture war to play this game really hard. But there are people out there like that.

Know what I mean, Vern?

A reaction of sorts to the 80's movie--- The Mosquito Coast

 

I went to the theater back then to see this movie, so it isn't exactly new to me. Since all of that time, I suppose a fresh perspective can be applied to it.

Trouble is, I don't recall what the original perspective was. If it was anything, it was that the main character was nuts. It didn't go with the usual kind of character played by Harrison Ford. Or did it? Ford played some off the wall type characters before in some or perhaps most of his movies. Well, this character outdid anything he did before, or since.

It may have weaned me off of Harrsion Ford movies.

That was then, but what about now?

That one may make me squirm a bit. A lot of that character I see in ME. In particular, Ford's character was an off-the-grid character before the off-grid thing became a thing. But I've never been an anti-American type. Give it some time though. The way this country is going, nobody is going to recognize it anymore.

Ford's character had a kind of messianic notion of saving the world. That could put you straight into nutcase territory. I'm not in the neighborhood of being anything like that.

I've got a practical streak a mile wide. I'm most interested in what WORKS. Funny thing, Ford's character had something that worked, but he wasn't satisfied with getting it to work. He wanted to force everybody into his mold.

To me, the sensible thing to do would have been to market it. Well, time to run. Things are getting a bit interesting around here.

The entire Democrat party says leftist judges are above the law

The entire Democrat party says leftist judges are above the law: Yesterday, Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested based on allegations that she deliberately thwarted ICE’s efforts to capture an illegal alien. Today, the Democrat party has closed ranks to protect a judge who allegedly committed a blatantly criminal...



More here on the Democrat's psychotic break.



This thing could mushroom into a true crisis. Beware out there. This is no joke. I am of the opinion that the Dims really want to stir this up into a national crisis. If there's a crisis brewing, it will be of their own making.

Dems playing a dangerous game

 

Reference to the constitutional privlege granted to members of Congress from arrest. This privilege may be getting abused here. The privilege is not absolute.

I don't know if this is a deliberate plan to provoke a reaction, but it is starting to look a lot like it. If this continues, we will likely see a lot of civil disturbances.

Is that what the Democrats are after? If a case could be made that it is, and arrests start to happen in consequence, then who should be blamed? Of course, the Dims want to blame Trump. But what about their own provocative behavior?

https://t.co/Q8aWIiY9pX --- Dems purportedly have fallen in love with the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and "democracy". How about backing it up with a call towards restraint from political violence? It so happens that the law doesn't exempt her from arrest for breach of peace

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 26, 2025

San Fransicko story

😂😂😂 feel good story of today. https://t.co/LaKEe66K7P

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 26, 2025

That's what happens when you're surrounded by 'em. Yep, Schiff for brains, you've got a problem.

There goes the judge

4/26/25:

This is the libs idea of "persuasion", which only works in their own fever-swamps. They act like lunatics, but are shocked that people see them as lunatics. Call them out on it, and you're a Nazi. Boo-hoo.

Kash Patel's 'No One Is Above the Law' Judicial Perp Walk Pic Is a Lock to Spark Lefty Meltdowns https://t.co/VIm1DUyG2c --- The libs want this, so that they can play another pretend game. Anybody who opposes the libs are Nazis, you see.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 26, 2025

4/25/25:

What has changed here?

 

MSNBC Host and Reporter Nearly Had to Breathe Into a Paper Bag During Story on Arrested Judge https://t.co/3rLcSZog5b -- The Dims are forcing this outcome. Evidently, they believe that this will impress the public to come to their side of the argument. Polls suggest otherwise.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 25, 2025

Hillary, please quit barking

4/25/24:

If Hillary is too old, they have more waiting...

2/6/24: Update of 1/1/19 post:


Is Nikki Haley a newer, improved version of Hillary? She seems to be barking mad at Trump...


most recent update is directly below: Update:
1.1.19:

It was a bad year for Hillary.  She's barking up a storm.  Please stop howling at the moon, Hillary.



5.5.16:
Little did she know that she would be the barking dog for herself!

We might have survived Obama, but this?

The Obama part might be premature, though.

Reminder that Nina Jankowicz is the show tune singing devil.

Our pressure took down @wiczipedia. We can win. Never let up. https://t.co/t3T6QbCLV8 pic.twitter.com/uw7AvDtIfE

— goomba (@o____principe) May 23, 2024

P.S.

Predictions

4/24/25:

I started this post, which turned into an update of an old post. Actually, I wanted to find the beginning of a new category. The categories were supposed to be set up so that old posts like this one could be found. I wanted the blog to be a resource. The idea is not to re-invent the wheel.

The category I looked for was "history of the blog". Actually, this is not as easy to find as it should be. Could it be that I don't even know what is on my own blog?

Anyway, lots of things happened during the Obama era. It would seem that the Trump Administration is trying to roll back some of it. But there's a huge fight to try to stop that.

The fact that we are even in this fight at all is on the one hand a small miracle, and on the other hand, a major tragedy. It should never have happened. But it did. Not only that, Trump's rollback may not succeed. There's no guarantees that it will.

7/12/13:

This is something that I've attempted numerous times.  In the eighties, I wrote some software that I hoped would help predict the outcome of football games.  In the nineties, I wrote some software that I hoped would help me predict how the stock market would behave.  Neither of these worked to my satisfaction.  There was some limited utility to these programs, but weren't marketable.

Nevertheless, the idea of predicting the future course of events has remained an attraction for me.  This blog is supposed to be something like that, but there hasn't always been a focus on that.

There may have been predictions here, but they haven't been catalogued and thus be easily referenced to see if the predictions came true or not.  If you can't measure it, you can't evaluate it.

There was one near the beginning of this year in which I predicted that we will find out if the GOP intends to be a me-too party or an opposition party.  The results are now coming in with respect to the immigration bill being considered in Congress.  They will be a me-too party, but they will try not to appear to be blatantly so.  They have to keep up appearances.

The rest of those predictions linked above also seem to be accurate.  At least for the moment.

Sometimes I forget what the focus of this blog should be.  It should be about the future and predictions fit into that theme.

If there's anything that I would add to those predictions at the beginning of the year it would be this:

Things are not getting better.  Things are getting worse.  There's no reason to believe that things will get better.

How do you measure this prediction?  After all, there could be some dispute over the economy.  Some seem to think the economy is getting better.  But that is a delusion.

Perhaps you could use some objective standard instead of a subjective one.  An objective one would be the statistics, but there's some controversy about that too.  Unemployment going down?  Not really.  No inflation?  Not really.  Budget deficit getting smaller?  Not really.

Here's something that's pretty objective: quantitative easing.  The Fed is doing it or they aren't.  Interest rates--- they are going up or going down.  Stock market too.  Gold prices.

I will rephrase the "getting worse" prediction as follows:  the Fed won't be able to stop quantitative easing.  I think that is a bad thing.

Thus, the subjective things are getting worse.  For other folks, they may appear to be getting better.  Not very useful for predictions.  The goal will be to be as objective as possible.  Memo to self: remember that.

This will be a new category called predictions.  It will also be filed in the history of the blog.

America's true nature is being subverted from within

In the old days, the American government defended freedom. In 2008, America took a wrong turn. I knew that. But did I know this? (see link below)

 

Nope. I was busy with other things, and I did not notice. Even if I did, I wouldn't have realized the significance of what happened. America is being subverted from within. It is hard to see because it is so gradual. It's like boiling the frog.

It appears that the embed from the Truth site may not display properly on Google's Blogger platform. Why it won't is unknown to me. I won't point fingers, but maybe something is going on here. Anyway, the "truth" as it is called, was about the repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act. It was a Truman era law which had something to do with Voice of America, which happens to be in the news lately.

I was going to dig in a bit deeper, but somehow I cannot. Anyway, I'm not going to withdraw the embed just because it won't display here on Google. Is this more censorship?

P.S.

I tried to fix the bad link ( which doesn't really appear to be bad ). Still no go. Something's wrong here, there's no denying it.

I'm trying to track this story down, but there's nothing on Revolver about it.

Here's another source on the Smith-Mundt Act.

Straight from the horse's mouth

 

Or, whatever... Anyway, to get a better feeling of what's going on here, I'm going to spend a little more time actually watching what he says and does on his own social media site. What a concept.

 

The "Maryland Man" angle has been in the news lately, but have you seen anything like this? If I have, I haven't paid much attention to it.

 

 

 

 

The enemy within is on the march. Does the Supreme Court know what they are doing????

 

 

I don't write this friggin' blog just to get attention (pageviews)

 

Then whey write this blog? I want to see RESULTS. So I offer SOLUTIONS. This isn't about pointing fingers of blame, even if that would be the TRUTH. But if the TRUTH supports it, then bad policies MUST be changed.

You have to make a decision, whether or not you want to. Not making a choice is itself a choice. Not doing anything is doing something.

There are no golden calves here. As much reality as I can discern and to reveal it as much as I am able to. That's all I'm doing. Or should I say, trying to do.

What solutions? The mastery of energy and space. It is a way to generate the resources that we are led to believe are scarce. Well, they're not as scarce as we are led to believe. Why? MONEY.

I've got nothing against somebody making a profit. Indeed, it is necessary for an INCENTIVE to produce. However, when someone wants to corner markets, or to unreasonably deny a resource, I get suspicious.

Trillions of dollars of material wealth are literally under our feet. We are told that to obtain these resources is going to do harm. However, if energy would be mastered, those harms can be redressed to such an extent that it is tolerable. To the extent that there is a complaint, a reasonable person would dismiss it as excessive complaining.

I cannot get excited about a stock market that has been priced out of all reason. Just because some fat cats are getting a small haircut of their paper wealth is not something that the rest of us should be ready to jump out of the window.

No legal basis

What's up with this, Scotus? Or are any of them awake? Where's Congress? Where's the DOJ? Where's the POTUS?

 

What the bleep is going on?

This is one of those "good questions." It means who the f**k knows?

Bannon thinks that MAGA is losing. Really? Why is that? I dunno. Polling is still good. But there may be some slippage.

Julie Kelly asks why SCOTUS is ruling on a non-reviewable case. Indeed. Why? I dunno.

Some of the Canucks think they've got Trump in a bind. Why would they think that? I dunno.

why speculate... speculation is for the other blog.

Trump seems to be signalling weakness. If that's true, then it MIGHT explain things a bit. Hard for me to believe that he's that weak. Or that the Euro-weenies and the Canucks are that strong.

Some clarifications could come soon. That natives may be getting restless.

 

Amish Paradise ain't no joke, homies

Wassup with the Amish? Remember that last prez we had, the fake prez Biden? He let those people suffer because he wanted millions of illegals in this country, by Gawd. 'ol Corn Pop wasn't going to let those crackers have a dime to rebuild their shattered community.

So here comes the Amish like the cavalry of old to the rescue.

🚨#BREAKING: Chimney Rock NC officials have confirmed that a mind-blowing 2,000 members of the Pennsylvania Amish Community have been quietly rebuilding the town's homes, businesses, and bridges...

...for 6 months straight

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!! pic.twitter.com/DfwOFLyO8Q

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 22, 2025

The Amish know how to use their hands. They are strong on community values and traditional values. If I ever see a pink-haired Amish, I'm going to be disappointed. I say good on the Amish here. Maybe a bit of shame for the pinkos. Shame on the rest of us if we let the pinkos win out.

My only recollection of the Amish was from the movie "Witness", starring Harrison Ford. I was a big fan of that actor back in the 80's. Indiana Jones and such. But it turned out the Ford was a typical mushy headed lib. So disappointing.

One of Ford's flops of a movie was about an inventor who figured out how to make refrigerators that could work with no electricity. Hmmm. You see, the character as concerned about how America was losing all of its mojo. All the old fashioned ingenuity ( not Yankee around here in Texas, pal ) was out the window, and all the jobs going bye-bye.

Does the mush brained Ford still support the idea of bringing jobs back to Murica?