Deep Fried Turkey For The Win!

 ... plus, a helpful, if dangerous, tip.

We had a turkey-off yesterday. I did one in the smoker and one in the deep fryer. The unanimous decision was that the deep-fried turkey was the absolute best. Even the people who don't normally like turkey loved the deep-fried one.

For prep, I dry-brined the deep-fried one to get the skin crispy. That involved drying the bird as best I could with towels and then putting salt and pepper on the skin. I let it sit in the fridge, uncovered overnight. I do that same process with steaks and they come out nicely, too.

The smoked one was brined in an apple juice, sugar and salt fluid to keep it moist as it smoked. It got a rub made of various herbs and brown sugar. I then smoked it at 225 for about 5 hours. It was good, but nowhere near as good as the deep-fried one.

Dangerous Tip: I had timed everything out quite nicely except that I forgot that the fryer takes about 45 minutes to come up to temperature. I took most of the oil, put it in a deep pot and used the stove to get the oil up to about 375. That took very little time. I poured the hot oil back into the fryer and it signaled almost immediately that it was ready to go. Whew! Day, saved. I'd prefer not to do that again as pouring two gallons of hot oil is asking for trouble.

Anywho, that's our results from this Thanksgiving. Deep-frying is the way to go.

The winner!

A decent effort, but a distant second.

Our gas range saved the day.

Bonus Star Trek Analogy

KT: We've left the fryer off. It's completely cold. It will take 30 minutes to heat the oil.

Daughter-in-law kittehs: The other dishes are almost done. The grandchildren are getting hungry. We'll be ready to eat in 50 minutes. The turkey has to go into the fryer now.

Wife kitteh: KT!

KT: I can't change the laws of physics. I've got to have 30 minutes!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I hope you and yours have a lovely day. We're hosting the fam this year so it will be noisy and fun here in the Catican Compound. I'm making two turkeys so we can compare smoked vs. deep fried.

Slava Ukraini!

So we decided to take the leash off the Ukrainians and let them fire ATACMS into Russia proper. Well, that's not entirely true. Since the Ukrainians can't do the job completely by themselves, we pushed some of the buttons, too. Oh well, if we have to get our hands a little dirty in pursuit of Glorious Victory, that's the way it goes. No price is too high to pay for winning.

Err, does anyone know what our definition of "winning" might be? Is it to drive the Russians from the river to the sea or am I confusing things? Maybe the job is to drive the Russian army back to the original borders. That sounds reasonable. Let's go for that.

Has anyone, like, I don't know, the Pentagon, maybe, done a military analysis of the troops, weapons, munitions, gasoline, beans and bandages necessary to do that? Do we have a rough idea of the order of battle required to dislodge and push back the Russians? Not that I've seen.

Me, I go back to the last time an army pushed the Russians backer and backer and backer. The Nazis. Dig this German newsreel from 1941. Feel free to move the scrub head around to get to the actual footage from the front and not spend so much time looking at various Nazi leaders. Notice how small the airplanes look over the Russian vastness. Look at how small the German units look relative to the Russian vastness. After that, think about how the Ukrainian army is about 1/20 the size of the Wehrmacht of 1941, if that.

Hopefully, DEI will make the Ukrainian army stronger because with so few troops and weapons, there is no way on planet Earth they are going to push the Russians anywhere.

Meet Air Force Lt General Kevin Schneider. He fully supports DEI in the military and wants DEI to be "part of our DNA.” He believes DEI will "make sure that we can have the best, most capable force.”

Cc @PeteHegseth pic.twitter.com/WnNBnB6iDO

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 27, 2024

Going back to one of the regular themes of this blog, the Coastal Elites don't seem to know how anything works any more. In war, you first need to define victory and then you need to assess your army to see if victory is even remotely possible. I know the Elites don't read the Bible these days, but Luke 28:14 31-32 has a few tips for them on the subject.

"Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms."

Well, maybe not. Let's just fire ATACMS into some random spot on the absolutely massive map of Russia and hope for the best.

If you're not pursuing realistic victory conditions, then all you're doing by dragging out the war is killing young men. Now I get that, in this case, the young men are straight and white so, in general, we want to kill as many of them as we possibly can, but do we have to make it so obvious?

Victory! Slava Ukraini!

Maybe It Doesn't Work

Dig this.

Harris' biggest losses came in the cities. The cities run by Democrats. The ones with lots and lots of the sacred races.

If their policies worked, she wouldn't have bled voters so badly in her strongholds. If it was all about race, Race, RACE, she wouldn't have bled voters so badly in her strongholds.

Meanwhile, analysis on all sides, but particularly the blue side, focuses on, you guessed it, race.

Maybe that's because it's easier and more fun to look at politics like it was a sport where all that matters are scores and stats. It's a lot harder to try to understand how the real people in those cities think and live and feel.

An over-reliance on polls, perhaps?

Details about that map here.

Still Unclear On The Concept

 I've seen this sentiment repeated on X quite a bit following the election.

What Jason is missing is that most of the people who voted for Trump are not the ones who can afford to hire people to do all that for them. It's mostly the high-income blues who can do that.

Then there is this data.

You'll need to click on that one. I left it medium-sized to maintain the aesthetics of the blog, such as they are.

At any rate, once more, it's the working class who are being replaced by the migrants, not the high-income blues. Further, it's working-class, low-skilled men with poor educational skills who suffer the most. Wherever you see a lot of illegals working, you can bet the language on the job site is Spanish.

It's no wonder Trump won that demographic going away.

What is a wonder is that the college-educated geniuses can't see it.

After All That Pledging

 ... the best I can do is a quick post about a balky modem.

We were having intermittent Internet outages seemingly centered around our Wi-Fi so I, in all my networkery, bought a Netgear Orbi Wi-Fi system. It's a mesh network which will allow our vast Catican Compound, all 7500 square feet of it, to be covered with generous amounts of mental-illness-causing* 2.4 GHz radiation. What fun!

It didn't work. I then decided the problem might be the modem so I bought a replacement Netgear modem and plugged it in properly. Easy-peasy, right?

Wrong. After several attempts and a few calls to Spectrum, it was determined that the new Netgear modem I had bought was incompatible with Spectrum's signals. They wanted the hip, modern, cool-o DOCSIS 3.1 and my modem was back in Squaresville, running DOCSIS 3.0. 

Back to Beast Buy to replace the 3.0 toad and get a snazzy 3.1 model. Voila! It works!

I replaced a modem and it only took about 4 hours of work.

I feel like Job.

Oh Lord, my God, why dost thou forsake me and hand me over to these preposterous Internet protocols and specifications? I preferred the boils and carbuncles! Take my cattle and kine, but leave me my high-speed Internet!

* - No, I don't believe in that nonsense.

A Promise

I promise to start blogging again. I've allowed dopamine rushes to dominate me in the morning, while all the while I have had long form concepts I need to put into prose. This blog is how I learn and I haven't been using lately, preferring instead the kind of intellectual sugar highs that come with Twitter and other odds and ends.

I've had some great grist for the mental mill, but I've not turned it into intellectual and spiritual flour. Sorry about that.

I need to do better.

Playing Basketball With 8' Hoops Is A Ton Of Fun

Many, many moons ago, just for kicks, three friends and I went and played 2 v 2 basketball at a local grade school where they had 8' nets. One of the guys was the little brother of another so, since I was about 4" taller than the other two, the teams were me and the little brother vs the other two. The little dude would pass it to me and I did one slam dunk after another. The other two guys weren't quite tall enough to dunk like I could, so they had to shoot like normal. It was all good, clean, hilarious fun.

Fast forward to today where the San Jose State Scrofulous Weasels* have a dude on their women's volleyball team because equity or inclusivity or autogynephilia or something. Anyway, the Scrofulous Weasels are seeing a tremendous payoff from having a cross-dressing pervert on their team. Dig this.

🚨🚨WOW. Watch male player Blaire Fleming dominate at last night's San Jose State vs Fresno State game with 20 kills and .410 hitting %.

Why is his hang time ✈️ on par with the top Big 10 collegiate players like Madisen Skinner @TexasVolleyball and Andi Jackson @HuskerVB !!??… pic.twitter.com/2U3B684w5D

— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) November 20, 2024

The part below the fold reads like this:

WOW. Watch male player Blaire Fleming dominate at last night's San Jose State vs Fresno State game with 20 kills and .410 hitting %. 

Why is his hang time ✈️ on par with the top Big 10 collegiate players like Madisen Skinner @TexasVolleyball and Andi Jackson @HuskerVB!!?? 

Let me quote a former Division 1 volleyball coach @Kevin_D_Jones

"I was a D1 Women's volleyball coach for years after a pretty successful career as a player.  

I've said for a few years now that Women's Vball will be the sport that shines enough light on this issue.

The men's net is 7 & 3/4 inches higher for a reason.

The average 16 year old boys i've coached not only jump 10-20 inches higher than top D1 women, but they're far stronger and hit a ball easily 30 mph+ harder.

A large number of 16 year old boys I've coached would be first team NCAA Women's All Americans as freshman if they put on spandex and a ponytail.

It's not just the danger to girl athletes on the table (they can handle it!).  It's scholarships and the huge amount of work they put in."

While it was a lot of fun for my friends and I to play basketball after school hours on a children's court, I think we would have felt nauseous if we had actually played against the kids at that school for real. The whole idea is just gross.

The Jig Is Up

Dig what Nancy Mace (R-Sanity) is doing in Congress as we're about to have our first autogynephilic pervert in the House. Thanks to Trump leading the way in not being afraid of name calling by the progs any more, she is loud and proud about stamping out this degeneracy. It's a beautiful thing and it shows that the transgender jig is up.

The Radical Left would rather call me an extremist than admit they are wrong. pic.twitter.com/FJb7MQoxqo

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) November 19, 2024

WOW: @RepNancyMace just scorched an ABC News journo regarding her measure banning men from women's restrooms.

"I will stand in the way of ANYONE on the radical left who thinks that it's okay."

🔥🔥pic.twitter.com/Sq259j8VxJ

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 19, 2024

No Apologies, Just Crickets

Matt Walsh, a Catholic who was forbidden to speak at our local, Catholic, diocesan university, USD, summarize what is about to happen to the trans victims.

I'd like to say this is going to be fun to watch the whole thing collapse, but it isn't. It's going to be hideous.

* - I'm pretty sure they're the Scrofulous Weasels. If not, they should be.

Biblical Morality And Migrants

 ... it's all about welcoming the less fortunate and helping the downtrodden, right?

Let's say you threw a party for about 50 people at your house. Let's also say that you're a big shot with the Stasi or maybe the local police or perhaps the Tren de Aragua dudes. You send your goons to three houses in your neighborhood, the Smiths, the Wilsons and the Magilakumbas. The Smiths will be forced to clean your house before and after the party. The Wilsons will be forced to decorate your house and set up the tables and chairs. The Magilakumbas will be forced to buy and prepare the food and drinks.

When the guests arrive, you make sure those other families are hidden out of the way, perhaps in holding cells downtown. You greet your guests with warm smiles and hugs. You make sure pleasant music is playing and pay attention to the shy members of the crowd to see that they are having a good time.

The food is excellent, the decorations tasteful and the house is spotless. Everyone has a great time. After they leave, you have the Smiths dragged out of their cell and, upon threat of imprisonment and beatings, you force them to clean up the place while you go outside and relax in the hot tub.

What a wonderful host you were! What a delightful party! You certainly didn't oversimplify the question of hospitality, did you?

The real pro-life choice is not whether to help migrants or not; it is how we should we helping migrants, rather than ignoring their obvious needs to develop their lives as Paul VI indicates God wills human lives to develop!

Thus, while discussions of policy structures are more necessary than ever, especially in terms of assisting development and stable governance in sending countries, the present crisis should call upon the Christian churches in a special and unique way to demonstrate that manifesting welcome signals a deeper conviction about God’s unique call to every person to find flourishing. When Paul VI starkly states that “the world is sick” (PP §66), he then points toward the only hope: “the dynamism of a world which desires to live more fraternally” that “is, even unawares, taking slow but sure steps toward its Creator” (PP §79). This recovery of the sense of the Creator is at the core of the fight for life. And, as Paul saw so well, it also should be at the core of the fight for the lives of others, especially migrants facing social situations of danger and despair, so that each life might be able to respond to the call given by that same Creator.

How fraternal you were! You opened your house and heart to the less fortunate and helped them flourish!

After your efforts, once the Smiths have been shoved out the door and forced to return to their home, you light a votive candle and look up to heaven and think about how much you love Jesus. You certainly did His work, didn't you? You pray for patience as you know that tomorrow the Magilakumbas will be back to remove the tables and chairs. God must surely know how trying those people are. Why, they even voted for Trump and closing the border!

Aren't you just the bestest? So much better than those filthy, selfish deplorables who refused to open their own homes to the migrants guests!

Yes, the Bible teaches us all about how to show hospitality to the less fortunate. How to open our hearts and homes to them. Giving is loving and loving is doing God's work.

Since you and your fellow highly-educated progressives will almost certainly retire before this bill comes due, you are effectively sending the cops to hassle our children and grandchildren, threatening them with liens and prison time if they don't pay for your love and kindness. What a nice person you are! Truly, you are living out your faith by welcoming the migrants.

Super Special Happy Lucky #1 Bonus Benefit

As our friends across the pond welcome more and more, err, diverse migrants to their shores, they are effectively selling American real estate since the only rational reaction to an Islamic UK is for the native Brits to get out of there. The chap working for Century 21 in the video below is Nigel Farage, formerly known as a far-right, white-supremacist racist who wanted to reduce immigration. If he's talking submission, then it's time to sell while the land prices in Ol' Blighty are still high.

See? Doing God's work can be profitable, too! Well, if you own property in the red states, that is.

People shouldn’t be shocked by this!

This man spent years destroying Nationalism and the ‘Far Right’ even gloating about it being his ‘greatest achievement’

Now he’s saying ‘Team up with the Muslims’ or else!!!
pic.twitter.com/uH34i5C879

— James Goddard (@JamesPGoddard90) November 17, 2024

The Trans Community Is Screwed

AOC has taken her pronouns out of her Twitter profile.

The WaPo is now questioning having men compete in women's sports.

Both of those are markers of the tectonic shift occurring on the left.

The trans people transed themselves because the left told them it was natural, it was affirming, it was good, it was normal, it was based on science. That was a one-way door for the trans people. They won't regrow their breasts, their reproductive organs won't recover, their voices won't return to normal and all of the other side effects from ingesting poisonous hormones can't be undone. The only tangible benefit to being transed was the social elevation that came with joining an "oppressed" and "marginalized" group.

Now that the election has clearly shown that the trans madness was just that, madness, the trans community will go from marginalized and exalted to confused and somewhat dangerous. The boys playing girls' sports will be a threat to girls. The men in women's bathrooms will be a threat to women. The whole foundation of support for the hopelessly wrecked trans people is dissolving because it's such a total boat anchor for the left.

No one on the left will ever, ever acknowledge the damage they did. They will all move on to the next act of "compassion."

I'm reduced to four-letter words.

Dumping Ballast

I've been at least partially watching the election post-mortems, particularly on the left. Here are some themes I've seen from the normal ones:

• The age of the mainstream media is ending. Joe Rogan blew MSNBC out of the water when it came to influence.
• The age of the celebrity endorsement is ending, if it ever existed. I'm sure they'll still seek them out, but probably just for fun.
• Racial voting blocs only exist for blacks and even that is beginning to crumble. Something like 25% of young, black men voted for Trump. They were excoriated by Oprah, Obama and God knows who else for even considering das Volk verraten, but it had no effect. At only 55-45 for Kamala, the Hispanics are effectively gone as a reliable bloc for the Democrats.
• Poisoning and mutilating girls is a total millstone. So are dudes beating up women in sports. The era of transgender affirmation is ending. Trump's most effective ad, the one he ran more than any other, was the one where they talked about Kamala's crazy transgender positions. From internal polling, both campaigns know that ad moved the vote by a couple of percentage points.

Any political party that loses a major election will analyze the situation and dump the positions that cost them a lot of votes. My bet is that they cannot shed the racial madness so that will stay for a couple more election cycles at least. The transgender people are a different matter entirely. There is absolutely no upside to them. They will be dropped like a bad habit.

Now dig this.

This is a strong statement from @realDonaldTrump to put an end to the gender madness. I fully support it, and hope I can help his administration make this a reality. pic.twitter.com/p6LtH5pXMs

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) November 7, 2024

One of Trump's superpowers is that he expands the Overton window because he can't help but say anything that comes into his head. Very soon, the victims of the transgender sadomasochists will find themselves with almost no support at all. Big Pharma will ditch them as will all of the large medical groups. Dittos for insurance companies. Yes, they're all making good money keeping the trans victims hooked on their endless need for hormones and doctor visits, but not enough to make standing up against the full might of the Justice Department worthwhile. That product line will be shed with a shrug.

My daughter, who has been on testosterone for 3 years now and whose body is permanently ruined, is thriving because she is surrounded by people who lie to her. It's not just people, it's the institutions that are lying to her, including the medical groups, clinics and professional associations. Almost all of that will come to an end. Her support group will dwindle as the large-scale support structures fall apart.

Now dig this from a detransitioner.

I saw my midwife/OBGYN again recently and I hated it. I’m in pain. It hurts to wipe. It hurts to be intimate. I described my vagina as a guillotine and she suggested I put lidocaine on it. I can rarely get my estrogen cream inside. There are no smaller applicators she could prescribe. She told me to try filling a small tampon with the estrogen cream and applying it that way. Tampons hurt and I can’t. She also tried to prescribe my dilators to break up scar tissue inside from years of severe dryness. I said no. 

I’m only 26. I shouldn’t be in this position. Detrans women who have been fraudulent prescribed testosterone are experiencing menopausal symptoms and painful conditions. There is no real help or relief. There are no ICD codes to bill insurance.

Without the mainstream news media acting as information gatekeepers, stories like that will begin to come out in large numbers. The public rage against what happened to these girls will grow. Any organization that supported these horrors will run for the darkness like the cockroaches they are.

The victims of the sexual degenerates who perpetrated this on us will find themselves almost completely alone and in despair, their bodies ruined by the progressives and their lunatic ideas of social constructs. The Democrat Party and the medical industry will dump them like the useless ballast they are.

Dittos for these kids.

90% of the kids at Frederick Douglass High in Baltimore are chronically absent.

These kids, almost all of whom are black and almost none of whom can read, made a rational decision given what the progressives who run their city told them. Why try if whites are going to oppress them and keep them down no matter what they do?

If black men continue to move rightwards politically, they will be jettisoned, too. Then what happens to them? Like the trans people, they will treated like the useless ballast they will be. That's a bit more of a reach than dumping the trans kids because of the deep-rooted obsession with race that occupies so much of the left's worldview, but it wouldn't be a big surprise to see it start to happen.

Still, political parties exist to win elections and if parts of your coalition are costing more votes than they bring in, it's time to throw them overboard.

Put not your trust in princes, as it were.

When Schadenfreud Is Better Than Compassion

 ... you might need to rethink things.

While researching my blog post series on romance, I came across tons of reaction videos with the theme, "Women Hitting the Wall." This one is a good example.

Snarking and sneering to these women is just evil.

Modern women didn't invent the modern dating scene. They were born into it and the current carried them along. Most people aren't strong enough to swim against the cultural tides. Heck, I've been a rebel blogger for almost 20 years now and if there's one thing this blog has taught me, it's that I have been, and still am, filled with unconscious biases and false assumptions.

It doesn't help anyone to mock these poor girls. These videos all tell a story of women who want to be wives and mothers, something any defender of civilization should embrace, support and encourage. Yes, the angry, lesbian feminists poisoned the culture for men. Yes, a lot of us men have been getting the raw end of the deal.

So what?

Man up and stop complaining. If there's a woman who is so frustrated and unhappy that she posts a video essentially telling you she wishes someone would wife her up, applaud her. Give her tips about how to be successful. 

For example, the data from the various dating apps clearly shows that women only respond to to the top 10-20% of men. Instead of laughing at the 4s, 5s, 6s and 7s who think they can bag a 9 or a 10, paint them an image of their future with a solid guy who doesn't look like a movie star or earn $100K+.

That's what these girls need, a vision of their future with warmth, love, stability and children. Yep, married men still live in the 1950s, expected to protect, provide and cherish. Yep, the angry, lesbian feminists wrecked a large part of the culture. It's tragic.

However, the only way out is through and that means through affection, compassion and empathy. The culture will be changed by changing minds and no prospect ever bought a product because they'd been told they were stupid.

In The Election, The Blue Models Broke Down

Alternate Title: The Republican Supreme Soviet must be better than the Democrat Supreme Soviet, right?

Trump won bigly. One reason he won bigly is that the Republicans 5-year-plan, managed by Elon Musk, was better than the Democrats' 5-year plan.

Axios' @JimVandeHei: "All of us have to come to grips, the legacy media is just not as important as it thinks it is ... It’s a relatively small group of people who rely on us for their information ... So if you just look empirically at the numbers, Joe Rogan is more important… pic.twitter.com/HqE4ckkFGE

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 8, 2024

Another reason is that Republicans subverted peoples' natural, racial loyalties.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott proclaims that "America doesn't deserve black women" pic.twitter.com/YffmcCKLp8

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) November 8, 2024

Yes, the party nominated an absolute donkey of a candidate, but she was a black, woman donkey and that's all that should have mattered.

The list of explanations from the left goes on and on like this. In reality, the problem was that their models don't work. There is no organized, right-wing, social-network ecosystem. The successful podcasts and channels arose organically. Elon's biggest contribution to the right was not his management of information, but his removal of information management. Joe Rogan is huge because people choose to listen to Joe Rogan.

Similarly, the model of racial solidarity is all wrong. Along the Texas-Mexico border, Hispanic communities voted overwhelming for Trump. They didn't see the illegals as their racial brothers, they saw them as a menace.

Dittos for the trans model. People recognized the poisoning and mutilation of children for what it was, not as some act of affirmation.

The Democrats can recover from this thrashing, but to do so, they'll have to ditch their top-down management models. As I listen to their analyses of what went wrong for them, that's the angle I'm following. So far, there's very, very little push to reexamine their Soviet predilections.

Drawing Lines Of Hate

This is apropos of nothing in the events of the last week, but it occurred to me yesterday, so I thought I'd share it.

The general case for allowing mass migration is that if you do not allow any given family of refugees into your country, you are heartless and probably full of hate.

How could you turn them away?

That's pretty hard to refute. At the San Diego airport, when the invasion was in full swing, almost all of the illegals you saw flying to destinations across the US were single, military-age males, but there were a few families like the one pictured above. You couldn't help but feel compassion for them. Still, can you take all such families?

Where do you draw the line? Taking an estimate at random, during the Biden-Harris years, we had 12,000,000 illegals come across the border. Many of our cities, the sanctuary ones in particular, are now having to cut services to citizens so they can care for the illegals. Some of our smaller towns who were targeted by the administration for total demographic change have been completely overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, the population of Haiti is 11.7M. Honduras' is 10.6M. Venezuela's is 28.8M. Nigeria's is 223.8M. It's a good bet that most or all of those populations would like to come here. Can you take all 275,000,000 of them? No? Where do you draw the line? Pick a number.

No matter what number you choose, there will be a family just like the one above left out in the cold, living in poverty. No matter how many you bring into the country, you can be accused of anti-immigrant hate and racism because that you don't care enough to allow that family into the US.

This is how you get to infinity, by the way. One more. Always one more.

It is the act of drawing the line that is hateful. Any limit at all is racist.

Now imagine that you don't pick a number at all. You say that we must accept anyone if they want to enter the country, yea, even unto 275,000,000 of them.

You only say that because you're full of anti-Muslim hate. Why didn't you include the 23.3M of Syria and the 240.5M of Pakistan? It's because you hate them, don't you? How can you be so cold and heartless?

Why do you hate them?

I have to stop here. It makes me sick to even have to communicate with hate-filled racists like you. You're the reason Trump won.

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 its 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?