Things are bad

 

  This is a dangerous time.  But how do you articulate a concern, and maintain any sense at all?  One can slip into incoherence and nonsense rather easily.  Indeed, I wonder if I've already slipped up.

  This can set off an explosion within oneself.  Or, you can take another path that MIGHT turn it all around.  Such may be my own case.

  That business with Massey might've done it.  An explosion of hostility came forth from moi that has me a bit concerned.

  What to do about this?  The only thing that can be done.  You see, Massey put forth the notion that he has uncovered something, but he didn't provide any evidence of such.  All he provided was the same-old same-old.  The same-old accusations that is wished to be taken as fact, but it isn't anything of the sort.

  To stop the explosion, just open up the channels of communication.  What is so damned compelling to anyone at all that Massey actually had that was any evidence of anything at all?   My sense was that he was blowing smoke in my eyes.

  I can't have that.

  All Massey did was accuse.  For Democrats, who won't be named "commies" at this point; because it is an honest and sincere question.  What is so damned compelling about Massey that has ANYBODY convinced of ANYTHING at all? To me, I just don't see it.  Enlighten me with your superior wisdom.  I will concede it, if you can convince me.  Remember, this is an honest question.

  Yes, I am incredulous.  But I also realize that I can be wrong.  But I just don't see what this guy has that is so convincing to so many people.  He looks a lot like what I've been seeing from these people for the longest time.  There's no there there, but they sure got a lot of people convinced that there is.   Where is this compelling evidence?  I would like to see it.

  So, would this little bit of writing help anything?  Maybe.  Who knows?  There doesn't seem to be any limits to what people can convince themselves of.  I don't want to fall into that trap myself.  With that, I will wait.  This guy had better come up with better stuff than this stale song and dance.

Over and out.

The times may require more from folks than they're willing to give

You know something is stirring out there, but it is mostly in the background. In the case of this blog, it is totally in the background. Not always sure what sends people here or why they're here.

If it is bots, it is very intelligent bots. But that may be possible these days. Anyway, here some more links and some quick thoughts. For whatever it is worth.

Tx AG Paxton is aiding in the Ivermectin fight; refuses to aid opponents and helping the plaintiff in her suit that punished the administration of Ivermectin to a dying patient. Doctor sued Medical board for reversal of punishment. Paxont on Dr.'s side of controversy. Looks like a good deal to me.

Twitchy DataRepublican is on to Reid Hoffman "One of 30 rich families ruining America"

Embedded : Seth Rich story is being buried, but everybody wants to hear about Epstein

In re Seth Rich... We now know that @FBI buried the J6 pipe bomber case for five years. Is it really so hard to believe that the FBI would bury the Seth Rich case for nine years?

And given recent revelations about massive fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia (media collusion,…

— Ty Clevenger (@Ty_Clevenger) December 23, 2025

Quick takes on the news, 2/15/26

 

  Massie really is a real piece of doggie-doo.  Joining up with a commie pinko to do THIS. Must read.

  More on the Massie garbage dumpster diving.  He may want to stay in his dumpster where he belongs.

  MTG is another piece of excrement.  The left used that same kind of rhetoric during COVID. Trump didn't handle it right, they said.   Bull hockey.  When the left go power in 2020, they brought perpetual shut downs and poisonous jabs.

  MTG is a lot like the Clintons.  She doesn't give a crap about what she says she cares about.  The only thing MTG cares about is MTG. Just like the commies in the Soviet Union and Red China.  Just like the commies here in this country.  They pretend to be what they're not.

  The Clintons are opening their yaps again.  Now that Epstein is in the news, they have to mitigate the impact.  Maybe Clinton's didn't get straightened out after all.

  Clinton fooled the public before, and dynamic dim-wits gonna try it again.  Hillary said immigration has gone too far.  What happened to all of the deplorables?  She doesn't care, she just wants to use it as an issue.

  Bigger Picture stuff:

  What are my off-grid posts are about?  Read on kids.   But the young generation hates it!  Why?  It's not easy.  It's WORK.  And there you have it...

  Not new, it's written about in THE BIBLE, to wit:

  Ezekiel 7:

  19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord.  They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity. 

  The above was found via Free Republic.  The young want to abandon Trump because he can't make life easy enough for them.  Well boo-freaking-hoo, cupcakes.  Will the Red Chinese do that for you?  Dream on, ya little nose wipes.  Keep on watching CNN and your social media, dupes.

Mace goes MTG

 Yeah, I've noticed this "guerilla" horseshit from the GOPe lately. They figure they're "safe" because "we all have to stick together". It is chickenshit.

Another woman scorned?! How dare he! He dares, he dares.

Perhaps the underappreciated benefits of having Elon Musk around

 

  The article says that Musk has rejuvenated manufacturing in this country.  But that is good for the America, and the commie lib pinkos sure cannot have any of that.

  If it weren't for Musk, there'd be no electric cars being manufactured.  I thought that the pinkos loved those things?!  No?!  You sure as hell won't get them, and still might not get them; but Musk is working on it still.  That is, if the pinkos don't run him out of the car manufacturing business.

  The commie pinko libs would probably say that somebody else would've come along, but who???  If Musk goes away, there won't be any electric cars. I guaran-freaking-tee you that.

  If America gets back to the moon, it won't be because of NASA.  It might well be DESPITE NASA.

  Musk might get there first, or he might not.   If it's up to the commie pinko libs, it will never happen.

  If AI takes over like it is expected, Musk will be there.  Is that a good thing?  Not sure about that one, but if China does it first, it will definitely be a bad thing.

  But that is the one thing that the left will love.  Red China winning, and AI destroying the world.   As long as America gets destroyed, the commies will be happy about something for a change.

Katherine Boyle just identified Elon Musk’s most important contribution to America, and it has nothing to do with the products he shipped.

Boyle, General Partner at a16z: “I think Elon’s most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers to work… pic.twitter.com/1I60ik4b0e

— Dustin (@r0ck3t23) February 14, 2026

Thomas Friedman has changed his tune from the days of yesteryear

 

  Or has he? Indeed, the Red China lover write admiringly about how they took young Elian Gonzales back to Cuber, but if he is like his commie cohorts in the CONGgress, he is writing something different in these times.

  But I wouldn't know because I don't feed the commie machine any further than what I already do, so I don't read that commie pinko rag.

  Time to try this wayback idee agin, pardners.

  By the way, some really good stuff on Instapundit, from which this cometh. The ICE man would've, but winter doesn't last long in these here parts, pardner.

  ICE man cometh! now that is punny without intending to be.

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Making the complex more simple? Let's get to the point.

2/14/26:

 

  Yours truly had a thought along these lines just this very day.

  Question: Why does the GOP get pushed around by the left?

  It has its origin in the Quayle-Bentsen debate.   Quayle swallowed his pride and let Bentsen walk all over him.  In the olden days, when Aaron Burr got insulted by one Alexander Hamilton; the insult was returned with a challenge to a duel. Hamilton could not refuse without a loss of face.  You see, when you take someone's face away, you've got to respond appropriately in order to get your face back.

Wha?! This may be hard to grasp, but after that debate, it became clear that Quayle was unmanned. He was disrespected. There was no way he could get that back, because he let the insult go by.

  Since then, the left has owned the so-called right.  Perhaps even before then.  The so-called right hasn't gotten its face back.  They've been "unmanned".  So the left constantly walks all over them, and they do nothing.

  Presumably, it is to keep the peace.  But somehow, this only applies to the so-called "right".  The right just keep swallowing the BS the left dumps on them, and people notice this weakness whether or not they want to admit it.

  Trump isn't addressing this phenomenon adequately.  He is taking steps in the right direction, and that is why the left is so hysterical about any sense of a challenge from the so-called right.   If the left loses out on this, they lose an important advantage, and they sure as hell know it.

  Does the so-called "right" know it? I think not.  They sure as hell don't act as if they do.

7/4/25:



Video: Why you can't manufacture in America

Reaction: Takes too long to get to the point, and even at 15 minute mark, there's no answer to the why you can't manufacture in America.

The guy doesn't know what he is doing. But nobody else does either. This is by design.



Note: There's a lot of celebration about now with the Bill with Many Adjectives passed. There is also a lot of sad faces. AOC was doing her "silly girl" routine with a crying jag. Boo-hooey.

An ad hoc definition here of economics is the management of scarcity. Scarcity can be managed top-down, with some authority who will distribute the scarce goods according to an arbitrary system. Or goods can be managed through the price system. The latter is free, the former is not. Which is better? It seems that the free side is more productive, because people respond to incentives.

How does this relate to the point? The question is why you cannot manufacture in America. There is no incentive to do so, otherwise decision makers WOULD DECIDE to be manufacturing in America, as opposed to elsewhere. The incentives are gone.

You can't manufacture in America because to manufacture means to have self-reliance. Trading is not in the spirit of self-reliance. If you trade for your existence, then you are always dependent upon the source of supply. If the supply comes from someone else, then you are dependent upon someone else. We don't manufacture in America anymore because we lost our sense of independence. It has been drummed out of us by the decisions of the leadership. The leadership has believed that to develop dependence is a good thing, but that dependence has a downside---dwindling freedom.

Tariffs won't solve the dependency problem. Indeed, dependency is a feature, not a bug--according to policy makers. There will have to be a major reordering of the society in order to bring back manufacturing. It won't happen because most people don't want it. They prefer their bondage. Indeed, that is what the leadership wants. Whether or not they really know that they've done this is another topic.