Trapped Like Rats

 ... DemocRATS that is.

No, I don't like that kind of name-calling, but it worked too well with the title of the post to not use it.

When Biden became too obviously senile to run, the problem of succession wasn't that it was too late for a primary, it's that they had trapped themselves by picking Kamala as the VP. Under the progressive power rankings straightjacket, a black woman cannot be bypassed for any reason at all. Kamala became the nominee because they had no other choice, given their racial and gender obsessions.

Once that happened, they were stuck with an airhead. Like I said in the previous post: 

The analogy I'd use would be watching a high school baseball prospect take batting practice. If the guy takes 50 batting-practice fastballs and grounds them all to the infield, the answer is simple. He's a lousy player. Kamala is like that. She's been served up these questions in friendly environments over and over and over again and doesn't have answers. This is as good as she gets. She's a lousy candidate. She's an airhead.

With that as their talent, there wasn't much they could do other than scream FASCIST and HITLER and TYRANT. That all ended with Joe Rogan.

All you had to do was watch a segment or two of the Trump interview on Rogan's podcast and you could see that Trump wasn't some kind of dictator maniac. 60,000,000+ views later, the central message of Kamala's campaign was flaming wreckage.

That left her with ... what? "I'm going to fix the mess that ... err ... the last guy left?" It didn't help that she couldn't answer anything more complicated than what kind of Doritos she liked unless she had a teleprompter.

With the party locked in to it's racist mania and affiliated Marxist oppressor-oppressed model, they were stuck. Trump crushed her even though he was Trump. Had they not trapped themselves with a black woman as VP, they could have found a way to run Gavin Newsom and mopped the floor with Trump.

Oh well. Sucks to be them. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving crowd of racists.

My Hopes

My biggest hope coming out of this thrashing is that it will be the end of the racial insanity on the left. Trump garnered 45% of the Hispanic vote, so the Democrats' dreams of racial purity voting blocs seem to be OBE. It would be great if they ditched those.

Dittos for the climate scam. Here in California, thousands of Joshua trees are being killed so a lefty donor can get rich paving part of the desert with solar panels that won't power much at all. This being the desert where things grow slowly, those Joshua trees aren't irreplaceable, but I won't see their like in my lifetime.

Finally, on a very personal note, I fully expect that the transgender insanity will die now. It will be too late to save my daughter. I thank God that He helped me find the courage to remain honest with her and not lie to her that she was a man, but there are physical problems coming for her after 3 years of testosterone poisoning. Combine that with the national mood souring on transgenderism and you get the recipe for enormous psychological pain for my girl. Ouch.

Meanwhile, the market is rocketing upwards and a vacation home in Alabama is closer than ever. That's all good. I didn't want Trump, but I'm glad he won.

It's been a good day, Cat. A really good day.

Kamala Harris For President

 ... because nothing matters. Here's why.

Progressive policies and philosophies are completely divorced from real world performance. They float along, propelled by the looting of the future. As long as you can still borrow money, you can live in their fantasy world.

As the election draws near, I've taken to listening to Mark Halperin's excellent Two Way channel on YouTube and X. Unbiased and professional, it's expert-level sports talk radio for political junkies. On his morning briefing show, he and his guests have repeatedly wondered why Kamala can't answer simple questions, particularly when the same questions arise over and over and over again. Why hasn't her team coached her on better answers? Why doesn't she have any answers at all? The topics include:

• Biden's cognitive decline
• The invasion at the southern border
• Inflation
• What she would do different than Biden

She never has a coherent, solid answer for any of them which is why she gets asked the same questions in every single town hall and interview that isn't a complete tongue-bath.

If I took the time to join 2-Way and had a chance to interact with Mark and his cohosts, I'd say the answer is simple. The analogy I'd use would be watching a high school baseball prospect take batting practice. If the guy takes 50 batting-practice fastballs and grounds them all to the infield, the answer is simple. He's a lousy player. Kamala is like that. She's been served up these questions in friendly environments over and over and over again and doesn't have answers. This is as good as she gets. She's a lousy candidate. She's an airhead.

And yet, the Democrats can afford to run a lousy candidate since nothing is riding on the election for them. Nothing real, that is. We as a nation glide along, our path lubricated by borrowed money and a relatively peaceful world whose order was purchased by previous generations. There's no need for real accomplishments or solving real problems.

Gary, Indiana

I don't recall what prompted it, but I searched for black-majority cities in the US. One such is Gary, Indiana. It's about 70% black. The mayor is black as is almost the whole power structure in the city. It has been for some time. Naturally, it's solidly deep blue. Its schools churn out illiterate kids.

The progressives don't have to perform, not in any real sense, not even for their top-ranked demographic, blacks. It's not just that they don't perform, they don't even come close to performing. Reading doesn't require technology or fancy school rooms. As far as education goes, it's as simple as it gets and yet, the progressives aren't getting the job done. Life up to now has shown them that there isn't much of a penalty for failure. It's all covered by borrowed money.

Back To Kamala

So why not run Kamala? Why not run a woman who is clearly a figurehead? Biden's been a figurehead his whole term and that seemed to work out pretty well. Why not import voters from Haiti and similar dumps? It hasn't caused any serious problems yet. The wealthy people in DC are doing fine and they can all preen about how compassionate they are.

Trump For President

To be sure, I'm voting for Trump on Tuesday. It's not a hard choice. I'd have gladly taken DeSantis or Haley over Trump, but here we are. MAGA wanted primal scream therapy so primal scream therapy is what we got. It's not really an election about serious issues, it's simply a referendum on whether or not you hate Trump. No one really knows what Kamala thinks about anything and it doesn't matter. Is Orange Man Bad or is Orange Man Good? That's the crux of the election.

Meanwhile, the black kids in Gary, Indiana can't read. That's OK, right?

Conspiracy Theories Are A Secondary Infection

Presidents Reagan and Clinton never threatened to put journalists in jail. The whole idea of trying to suppress Twitter would have been alien to them. And yet, here we are.

The European Union is calling Elon Musk to order over how he turned social media site X into a haven for disinformation and illegal content.

The EU Commission on Friday formally charged X for failing to respect EU social media law. The platform could face a sweeping multi-million euro fine in a pioneering case under the bloc's new Digital Services Act (DSA), a law to clamp down on toxic and illegal online content and algorithms.

That took about 30 seconds to find through the utterly compromised Google search engine. There's tons and tons of it out there.

Why now?

If things were going well, if our culture was healthy, it would be obvious. All of that "misinformation," whatever it is, wouldn't find much of a purchase in our collective consciousness because the evidence from our lives would contradict it. There have always been conspiracy theorists spouting nonsense, but unless the body politic is weak and sick, they can't do much damage. Conspiracy theorists are a secondary infection.

There is so much data, obvious to all, that tells us we're sick. Marriage rates, fertility rates, the deficit, the debt, drug overdoses, crime, illegal immigrant invasions, racial strife stoked to white hot by our own educational institutions, the mutilation and poisoning of young adults in pursuit of sexual degeneracy, the list goes on and on and on.

Conspiracy theories explain the seemingly unexplainable. How is it possible that we've reached this state of affairs? When some of the conspiracy theories turn out to be true, all the others get a shot of adrenaline.

In Southport, England, three little girls were stabbed to death at a party. Here is the picture the news media ran of the attacker.

His name is Axel Muganwa Rudakubana. As can easily be discerned from his name and his photo, he's Welsh. At least that's what the newsmedia told us. Disinformation was rapidly spread by social media and some bigots were actually jailed for participating in the conspiracy theories.

A Stabbing Attack, Viral Falsehoods and Fears of a Summer of Unrest in the U.K.

A judge allowed the naming of the 17-year-old charged with murder, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed a crackdown on riots fueled by far-right misinformation.

Seeking to quell a surge of misinformation-fueled unrest, a British judge on Thursday took the unusual step of naming the 17-year-old suspect in a stabbing rampage that left three children dead and eight injured in northwestern England early this week.

The suspect, Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, appeared in a Liverpool court to face three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder.

The stabbing spree, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the town of Southport on Monday, stunned Britain and ignited two days of racially fueled riots, in multiple cities, that were incited by far-right provocateurs.

Now it turns out that the guy, who, these days, looks nothing like the innocent lad in the photo, was, in fact, picking up tips on killing from al Qaeda. Kind of like what the far-right bigots who are now in jail said he was.

A teenager accused of killing three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class for young children in the United Kingdom has been charged with possessing an al Qaeda training manual and ricin poison.

Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, 18, already faces three murder charges, 10 counts of attempted murder and one count of knife possession, authorities said Tuesday. The new charges were filed under the country's Terrorism Act, police said. 

The poison and PDF study, "Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The al Qaeda Training Manual," were found during a search of Rudakubana's home, police said. 

There aren't any photos immediately available of him now, but there is this courtroom sketch.

My word, our little stabber certainly has grown up, hasn't he? Also, what happened to his hair? It seems ... different, somehow.

So, to return to the topic of the post, why the crackdown on "disinformation?"

Because, some of it at least, is the truth and we can see it with our own eyes.

You don't need censorship when things are going well.

Extra Super Special Bonus Content

The ever-effervescent Katie Hopkins has this summary of the "Welshman's" stabbing attack. Watch the whole thing.

Real Men Live In The 1950s

 ... once we get married. Yes, I know I'm using the cliche "real men*," but this is my blog and I get to use tropes if I want. So there.

It occurred to me only recently as I was rummaging around in the sex and dating wars on the Internet, trying to understand why AI couldn't write proper Arthurian fiction, that while many women strongly assert that they won't live like a woman from the 1950s, they all want a husband from the 1950s. Protect, provide, cherish is the order of the day, week, month, year, decade, century, millennia ...

My father was drafted into the Army in 1944. As his infantry unit was preparing to leave for France and get cut to pieces in the Battle of the Bulge, he was transferred to West Point. He had always wanted to be an aeronautical engineer, but those plans were put on hold because of the war. He might have returned to those, but then he met my mom. Once the ring was on his finger, he devoted his life wholeheartedly to protect, provide, cherish. His entire life was dedicated to making sure his wife and children had what they needed.

After 32 years in the military, he retired and built a house. After that, he took up painting and turned out to be very talented. 25 years as an artist followed. I have a ton of his paintings and most of them are excellent.

He could never have been a professional artist because it was not his best route to protect, provide and cherish. The military gave him a career path that did what his family needed done from medical care for yours truly as I struggled with various childhood health issues to parochial schooling for all 4 of us kids to making sure mom was provided for throughout her life even after he died.

My dad's dreams didn't matter compared to his responsibilities as a husband and a father. He owned a boat for a while, but that was about the sum total of his self-indulgence.

I've tried to live my life the same way. We've given our kids Catholic schooling, helped them buy their first houses, I've made sure wife kitteh got the remodel and the cars she wanted and we've even bought a condo in Chicago for her best friend who was facing severe housing insecurity. My own dreams of having a vacation home on the Fish River in Alabama are still remote. I couldn't live any other way. The ring went on my finger and from there on out, it was protect, provide, cherish.

I've had all manner of opportunities and career dreams that I never pursued because it would have been bad for my family. It's no big deal, really. I chose family over being a gentleman adventurer and I would do it again without a second thought.

Women face that same choice when the ring goes on the finger, but modern women influenced by feminism shriek about the choices they face, demanding those choices be taken away and replaced with a buffet where they get it all. They want the career, husband, kids, vacations, etc. They don't want to have to choose between them. That's the essence of what I've gleaned from scouring the romance wars on the Internet.

Youngest son kitteh got married last Saturday. I know for certain that now that the ring is on his finger, he will live to protect, provide and cherish. Real men do that.

Real men live in the 1950s. We always have.

* - Yes, I've heard of the No True Scotsman Fallacy. No need to bring it up in the comments.

Happy With Lies

Youngest son kitteh got married to an awesome young lady over the weekend. A good time was had by all.

At the wedding, I got to see my daughter, the one who thinks she's a man. I only see her about twice a year, whenever the urge to get together strikes her. Such is life with a trans adult child. Since I won't call her by her fake name or tell her she's a man, I'm almost completely cut out of her life. That's fine with me. Frankly, I'm over this whole extortion racket from her.

She's been on testosterone now for 3 years. Wife kitteh felt certain that she's had top surgery, which means a double, radical mastectomy. It wouldn't surprise me. The last couple of times we met, she's been pushing me to endorse her desires to have her breasts amputated and had put off that catastrophic step only because I denied her my approval. It's hideous, sadistic and barbaric.

At any rate, she's now as masculine as she's going to get and it turns out that's not much. Her voice sounds like that of a junior high friend of mine, she's 5' 4" tall, her mannerisms are still those of a girl and her speech patterns haven't changed since she was in high school, wearing her hair long and looking like a relatively cute, if tomboyish girl.

She wouldn't pass for a man now if all you saw of her was a brief glimpse of a shadowy figure skulking around in the undergrowth.

She was with her girlfriend who easily had 4" on her. That's not going to last.

The whole thing is lies. All of it. The rest of the family talked about how happy she seems, but to me, it was like watching her gayly paddle a canoe right towards a massive waterfall. This is all going to blow up and sooner rather than later. Given how she's poisoned her body with testosterone for 3 years, full-blown menopause can't be far away. Her voice is permanently ruined as are her reproductive organs. Her organs and central nervous system are taking a sound thrashing as well, but we don't have enough data on these particular Mengeleish experiments yet to know just how those are going to crash.

I guess I could go along with the charade, call her by her fake, man's name and tell her she's a man, but I just don't have it in me to lie to her like that.

As long as everyone around her is lying to her, she's happy? That's not sustainable.

Message Received

Tucker's gone off the rails a couple of times since he left Fox, but on this topic, he is spot on.

Tucker Carlson on mass immigration— "Letting in 7 million people from the poorest countries in the world illegally and immediately putting them all on public benefits, that right there will destroy the country, and they did it on purpose"

He’s right. pic.twitter.com/6oPf5eKgFt

— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) October 18, 2024

We're told over and over by our academic, political, entertainment and news pundits that diversity makes us stronger, immigrants make us stronger. Here's the real message they're sending.

Americans are such a sorry, worthless, disgusting lot that importing 500K+ Haitians and lots of Venezuelan gang members actually improves the place.

Message received.

If An 8-year-old Girl Can Pose You A Problem You Cannot Solve

 ... then you might want to rethink your basic assumptions.

Dig this pitch-perfect emperor-has-no-clothes moment:

10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried Today

#10 - Furious father confronts corrupt school board after a boy watched his 8-year-old daughter go to the bathroom.

This is epic.

Mr. Matthews told the Cabarrus County school board members to their faces, “Every single one of you are… pic.twitter.com/VgGmX3pRi9

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) October 16, 2024

The dad's outrage is all well and good, but to me, the telling thing is that the educated, credentialed people on the school board can't think of a response to the girl saying she doesn't want boys to come into her bathroom and watch her.

On this blog, I like to wave my arms and yell about logical contradictions and so forth. This is a perfect example of what happens when you have them as a basis for your ideology.

Little Girl: I don't want Jimmy to come into my bathroom.

School Board Member: It's OK, Jimmy is a girl.

Little Girl: No he's not, he has a pee-pee.

School Board Member: That doesn't make him a girl. Girls are something different.

Little Girl: What is a girl then?

School Board Member: (Same confused silence you get when you ask these people to define the word, 'woman.')

It just doesn't work. Not at all. If an 8-year-old is running logical rings around you, it might be time to burn your diploma and get a new one from a different institution.