"Embracing the Suck"

Those few of us who've been in the military of these here United States know well the term, "Embrace the Suck!"

That means when it's 3:00 in the morning, no moon, and five below zero, and misting freezing rain, and you're low-crawling through foot-deep mud, dragging a 75-pound pack, plus a battle rifle, running on 4 hours sleep over who-knows-how-many days, you're only certain of one thing:  

It Will Get Worse.

And sooner rather than later.

It's necessary to dredge up this term every now and again when the Godless heathens are in charge.  When the "Sinus Rhythm of Politics," as I have brilliantly named it, puts the people in political power who are trying to hike up our taxes and defang our military and open our borders and encourage our enemies and demoralize our friends and welcome in socialism and fling open our jail cell doors and cap our oil wells while endeavoring to make our self-defense weapons illegal.  

And that's after only about 4 months of "embracing."

Just imagine how much worse it will get!  Fortunately, there was no mandate for such sweeping far-Left Wing efforts to turn American into Venezuela.  With a 50-50 Senate and a scant 5-seat majority in the House, the very smallest in more than 100 years, plus a lame-ass, demented old coot who likely needs a full dose of Adderall (look it up) to get through a scripted news conference, they assuredly DO NOT have a mandate.  Even though they're acting like it.  

And our lap dog "MainStream-Media" performs for all the world as it it's the Media Arm for the Democrat National Committee.  They are fan-boys all.  So we out-of-power Conservatives must gird our loins and hide in the bushes and watch while these miscreants try to deconstruct our fine Country.  It shan't be long before the adults accede to power once again and these bozos are relegated to the dust bin of history.  Kicked to the curb as they say.  Erased!

One can only hope.

In the meantime, join with me now, everyone, as we 

"Embrace the suck..."        

Just a Thought..."

Just a thought, but New York City's Jews should have availed themselves of the Rights outlined in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.  

Most particularly they should have read the 2nd Amendment, which guarantees us all that "...the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."  

Had they done so, they wouldn't be running all over NYC's streets like scared rabbits from crazed Muslim thugs with long knives yelling "Alihu Akhbar!"

Of course, if NYC had a mayor worth the powder to blow him to Hell, they wouldn't have to.  But I digress...

Anyway, ask yourself:  If it were widely known that Jews were packing heat, "armed," as they say, and "considered dangerous," do you think any of NYC's so-called "Palestinians"* would have had the balls to even glance in their direction? **    

I think not.  You?  

*    (There hasn't been any real "Palestinians" for more than a thousand years.  Those now calling themselves that are Jordanian refugees King Hussein 1 kicked out when the U. N. gave Israel the land it now occupies more than 73 years ago.  Apparently they aren't happy with their current circumstance.  Israel is in no way responsible for their plight.  Yet, it's blamed for it by our MSMedia and our Democrat Party and most Muslim countries.  I guess that's what happens when the Israelis made their chunk of oil-free sand a productive paradise, and the "Palestinians" turned their camp into a teeming morass of self-dealing and race-baiting and human suffering and self-pity.  Perhaps they should appeal to Egypt and Jordan and the others for the aid they so desperately seek and finally leave Israel alone.)   

**  (BTW, this same advice goes to any race or creed or color or sexual preference or national origin or sense of humor or location.  As Samuel Colt once said, "God made man, and Colt made them equal."  And as I, The Chuckmeister once said, "If only 5% of the ducks were armed, do you think anyone would go duck hunting?")

And On The Subject Of Bigfeet(s)...

As those of you who follow the exploits of The Chuckmeister know, I just luuuuuuvv Bigfoot!

I love nearly all things about this notoriously scarce cryptid, and have my whole life.  I think this guy's real, given that he has just about two and one-half million miles of nobody-home forest in North America in which to chase down anything he wishes when snack time comes.

That's an area the size of Alaska.

Why is such an urbane and worldly bon vivant as myself so famously taken with Bigfoot?  Oh, maybe it's because the idea of one or a few thousand 9' or 10' 1,000 lb. hairy smelly beasts roaming our back yards is so romantic.  It tells us that so long as the possibility exists that that this guy's real, it proves we're not the master of our universe, not even just a little.

And never were.

And that we've got a few things left to learn.  And that we ought to set about learning them, post haste.

It tells us that there was a time when there were species competing with each other for dominance.  At one time the archeologists tell us there were as many as 6 human-like species all beating the crap out of each other for territory.  Homo-Sapiens Sapiens, that would be you and me, won out.  But we've found evidence of another species called the Denisovans which were late to depart.  Late as in 12,000 years ago.  This Bigfoot guy might just be one of them there folks...

So we've got more than 1,000 certified casts of Bigfoot tracks.  Some with dermal ridges and skin folds impossible to fabricate.  We just don't have a Bigfoot.  And God help me, I hope we never do.  Why?  Because from what I read, Bigfoot(s) are predominantly brown in color, or perhaps black, or maybe a bit orangey.  BTW, there are no White Bigfeet in North America.  Only in Asia.  

That's why I'm comfortable in predicting that if we were to ever crack the code, to find or trap a live Bigfoot, or even a family of them, or even a whole tribe/group/covey/pride, perish the thought, there would be a Democrat community organizer there within minutes to sign them up for a green card.  And food stamps.  And Aid to Families With Dependent Children.  And a cave allowance.  And perhaps some gift certificates to Starbucks and Ben and Jerries.  And most likely reparations for having been harassed by White hunters all these years.  And a recurring guest slot on MSPMS. 

Oh yeah, and lest we forget, health insurance.  As to how that might be delivered deep in the forest, I can't be sure.  But that won't stop them from trying.  I'm guessing they'd start with a full-blown commission to study the matter, with a chain of Gummint clinics staffed by veterinarians soon to follow.    

America cannot afford any more "people of color" in our wagon.  We're tired of pulling it, and if you were to load it down with a few thousand extra pounds of lazy Bigfoot(s)/feet(s), we would surely drop our load.  

Literally.

So keep on looking.  Just don't find.  We cannot afford it...   

Bigfoot With An AR-15?

If you saw an Bigfoot with an AR-15 would you think that was excessive?

Not the AR-15, I mean, the Bigfoot.

AR-15's are modern composite lightweight modular sporting rifles available from more than 100 manufacturers in a multitude of calibers and with certain cosmetic features that make squishy "woke" pansy Alpha "B" Liberals want to wet their short pants and cry out for mommy (luuuv those comma-less sentences!).  And are responsible, I hasten to add, for less than 3% of our firearms fatalities here 'Murica.  That, coupled with their affordable cost and widespread adaptability, has resulted in some 15 million of these little jewels being added to the gun collections of Americans nationwide.  

Is 'Murica a great Country, or what?

Of course, Bigfoot has had a hand in making many a hiker lose his water, too.  But he needs no AR-15 to accomplish that.  He does that all by himself.  This "Sasquatch,"* or "Dude of the forest" as he's been named by the Getmeouttahere Indians, or "Indigineous Personages," as the "wokesters" now call them, is an 8' or 9' or 10,' 1,000 pound, smelly Cryptid who patrols the woodlands of 6 continents while leaving a bazillion tracks and avoiding game cameras.  

I cannot be certain about the rumor he's been placed there to provide content for the History Channel.  Although I would not put that past them...    

So I'd say in our context here the the Bigfoot is the excessive one.  Of all the millions and millions of AR-15's out there, there is scant evidence even a single one has ever awakened itself in the morning, loaded itself up, and then headed on out looking for an innocent hiker or camper to kill or maim.

That's more than can be said of your average Bigfoot... 

*     AKA, "Yeti," "Skookum," "Orang Pendac," "Yowie," "Almasty," and my all time fave, "Wood Booger."

The Permanent Mask

As this Earth-shattering pandemic of uninvited viruses from the Wuhan Virology Institute in good ol' Wuhan, China comes to a close, I'd like to personally thank all the ugly people out there.

Yes, fellow Pilgrims, the pandemic that China "unleashed" (get it?) upon us more than a year ago has pretty much forced all the uglies out there to cover up their ugly faces.  Which is a Godsend, doncha' know!  Who wants to gaze upon ugly people, I ask...rhetorically?  No one, that's who!

However, as with most things in life there's an "other hand."  And that other hand is that all the "pretty people" have been forced by the incompetent pencil-pushing overpaid bloated bureaucrats out there to cover up as well.  And that's prevented me, and others like me, from being able to view the merchandize, so to speak.  To look upon God's creatures and to thank Him for His handiwork.  

However, we don't get one without the other, it appears.  For 14 months we've been "prevented" from having to look at those who, ummm, shall we say were not blessed by the Almighty with feminine pulchritude.  And I'm now forced to contemplate the reality of having to look upon that "other half."  However, like I said, the pain and torment is ameliorated somewhat because, as I said, I now get to see the lookers once again.  

Oh but wait, Fauci-lovers!  There are those who for whatever reason will not give up the mask!  They demand not only to continue to wear their little ugly-coverings, but to try and make us do so as well!  And that's in spite of the CDC's guidance!  They see the mask as their "MAGA" hats.  They use the masks as their virtue signals, as in "I care more for your health than you do!"  

So San Fran Nan Pelosi and her sycophants want to make their mask the Red Badge of Courage for evermore.  She's even taken to fining her colleagues $500 for failing to don a mask whilst in the House Chambers.  And that's in spite of the fact that the Senate no longer requires a mask, nor does the Capitol Building.  Some GOP'ers have started soaking up fines in civil disobedience, but most have done the now-American thing of just kowtowing under.  Poor bastards...

Those poor creatures on the Left here in America wrung their little manicured hands and wailed in grief over Donald Trump's "MAGA" hats.  That stood for "Make America Great Again," which obviously triggered them into a lather.  It's quite obvious they never thought America was all that great.  So it appears they've invented a talisman of their own; the permanent mask.

I guess that broadcasting on one's body the belief that we should all endeavor to do our part to restore America's lost brilliance is somehow to be avoided.  Of course, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Nike, or Coca-Cola, or Chebrolay, is okay.  But not America.  You keep on believing this, but those of us who reside in that "other America" I keep talking about are "up to here" with your bullsh*t.  

Have a nice day. 

"Billy Beer"

Do you remember "Billy Beer?"  

That was the stuff promoted by then-President Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy.  If you're not of an age to recall that kerfuffle, Jimmy's brother's fondness for the fruit of the grain was legendary.  And he was found face-down in peanut groves by Plains, GA police on many occasions whilst Jimmy was in the White House, doing his best to screw-up America.  It was a major distraction, and one that threatened to bring down Carter's presidency.  

Fortunately for Jimmy, the WH corps ushered Billy off center stage to a rehab hospital and the story left the front pages.

Jimmy suffered greatly at the antics of his brother, even though the always-compliant "MainStreamMedia" provided favorable press.  Just imagine how the press would have handled this were the POTUS a Republican...

Somehow I'm guessing good ol' Joe, the scrawny, ill-tempered guy with the ever-present scowl who keeps telling us we're in for a "dark winter," would vastly prefer his son be afflicted with Billy's problem...  

Vastly prefer.

So Joe's son Hunter got thrown out of the Navy because he was, and possibly still is, an alcoholic and a drug addict.  He got a Bad Conduct Discharge, meaning he's ineligible to vote as well as to hold many Government jobs.  Supposedly.  If he was anyone else, that is.  Did the vaunted "MSM" make mention of that?  Didn't think so...

From there he went on to shack up with his dead brother Beau's wife, during her period of mourning.  Oh yeah, he was married at the time.  He then knocked up a stripper he discovered in a bar in Arkansas and fathered her child.  Also while married.  Which he then disavowed.  She sued him for paternity, and won.  He fought it all the way, publicly (although the MSM refused to give it national attention), even so far as to requiring DNA evidence.  He claimed poverty.  While living in a $3 Million Dollar Malibu home and driving a Ferrari.  He now must pay her child support.  Nice guy.

Being a "Biden," his daddy got him a gig in China, which netted him a $1.5 Billion Dollar investment.  From their Government.  And there's Ukraine, of course (he's a big non-oil and gas professional, remember), which enriched him to the tune of some $80,000 per month.  

Oh yeah, and somehow the Mayor of Moscow's wife managed to wire him $3.5 Million Dollars.  For something.  Was he "boinking" her also?  If we had a "MSM," we'd know, now wouldn't we?

While living with yet another woman, he dropped off his laptop for repair.  Apparently he had purchased a firearm feloniously and, in a blind alcoholic rage, was threatening to kill himself with it.  His girlfriend drove to a supermarket and threw it in the trash.  He later tried to retrieve it, without success.  There are reports the Secret Service aided in this search (!!!).  Do you sense a pattern here?

His daddy blamed the laptop deal on the Russians.  My computer often goes on the fritz, but it's definitely not the Kremlin's fault.  But I digress.  Hunter's laptop was just jam-packed with dandy pictures and documents incriminating both him and his daddy in all sorts of nefarious schemes.  

It also apparently is full of picture of little kids.  Hmmm...

I understand the FBI, the CIA, the NRA, the CDC and the AAA are investigating him, which means nothing at all will happen to him as a result, ever.  I'll let you conjure up a possible reason.  

I was just thinking that good ol' Joe would likely prefer it if Hunter had the same human frailties as besat Billy Carter.  Sure would have been far easier to manage, wouldn't it?  Of course, if we had a functional FBI and MSMedia, he'd be in jail.  

And so would his daddy. 

"Normal" America.

Those of us "normal folks" who reside in "Normal America" watched with detached horror and disbelief and bemusement and alarm all last year while 50 of our largest and oldest and "Bluest" cities burned.

Nightly.

We watched while Democrat governors of Democrat-controlled states permitted Democrat mayors of their largest and "Bluest" Democrat-cities to allow presumably Democrat marauders and thugs and violent felons to loot and pillage and plunder and burn their communities.  With abandon.  As if they didn't even notice.  And as if they didn't even care.  All this while our supposed "national" "MainStreamMedia" either didn't cover these riots, or chose to give them only passing, mostly positive commentary.

Remember the Clinton News Network flak who told us, on camera, with a straight face, that the courthouse on fire behind him was a "Mostly peaceful protest?"  I'm told one of these days they might actually tell the truth.  We just have to watch to find out when...

Or not.

Portland, for instance, had riots for more than 100 nights in a row.  Riots to the extent a mob tried to burn down a Federal courthouse there.  The mayor egged them on, and the governor chose not to send in their National Guard to stop it.  They liked it!  

Want to live in Portland?  Yeah, me neither...

So I repeat again that we do indeed have "Two Americas."  One of them is populated with good, honest, God-fearing, hard-working, hot dog- and Chevrolet-loving 'Muricans.  And the other is apparently loaded up to the brim with a bunch of freeloading, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately losers, who look out for every opportunity to break things and hurt people.  They think nothing of looting and burning the property of others.  Having never worked for anything in their entire lives, it seems, they have no concept of property rights and self-respect and human decency.  Their mothers should be ashamed.  If they had any shame, that is...

So I've decided that the otherwise-nice folks who live in these freedom-starved communities in that "Other America" are looking forward only to having the safety and security and peace and quiet that we who live in "Normal America" enjoy everyday!  They have no concept of what it's like on the other side of this stark ideological divide.  To have the freedom to walk their streets in safety and security.  I invite them to come on over for a visit.  We're nice folks.  We don't bite, despite what you might have been told by that same "MSM."  And all we want is our America back.  

And, BTW, if you won't give it to us, we're damned well going to take it!  

Lemme' tell you, fellow Patriots, a good parade and some hot dogs and baseball sounds good about now, doesn't it?        

"The Sky Is Falling!!!

I guess when things are going well, some of us just work overtime to find something to clutch their pearls over.  

Or as my fave teach Ms. Wall would have me say, "...something over which to clutch their pearls."   

Well, exqueeeze me! 

Although those of us who went to school, at least to high school, know that there have been various warming and cooling periods throughout our planet's 4.5 billion year history.  The most recent was the Little Ice Age, which ended with a soft thud about 12,000 years ago.  That caused the vast sheets of glacier ice which had covered most of the Earth for billions of years to melt, which caused the oceans to rise at least 400 feet.  There is some scientific evidence to indicate that an asteroid may have precipitated this melt-off.

You read about it in Genesis, remember?  (Heh, heh...).

We even had another even "littler" Ice Age about 500 years ago.  The temperature dropped a cool (get it?) 5 degrees for several decades back then.  BTW, there was nary an SUV in sight.  

But now?  Things are humming along nicely.  Earth-wise, that is.  Oh, our temperature has increased roughly 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last century, which has resulted in no harm whatsoever.  A better growing season, nicer day at the beach, and less oil used to heat our homes in winter, especially homes in poorer countries.  But otherwise, no harm whatsoever.  It's been predicted (by those in the business of predicting such things, I presume) that we'll experience another one degree bump or so over the coming 50 years.  Or is it 100 years?  Dueling predictions from competing predictors, doncha' know.  

Holy crap, you'd think "The Sky Is Falling!"  Those who have nothing else to worry over (or, over which to worry), started worrying.  And they're still worrying!  There's a bartender in Congress, for example, who's based her entire reason for being on trying to lower the Earth's temperature.  All by her lonesome.  Somehow. 

And there are dozens and dozens of otherwise seemingly intelligent folks who are worried that... "We have less than 12 years to live!" (AOC, 2018).  And she and her crowd want us, the American taxpayer, to throw $Squintillions at "it" to "fix" "it."  Whatever that means.  They want us to implement the so-called "Green New Deal" to "fix" this problem.  Doing so would force us to shut down all our airlines and stop driving cars and trucks and eliminate all oil and gas exploration.  Well, lemme' tell you, Pilgrim, that won't fix it.  Because it's not our problem to fix.  

The facts:  America represents only 7% of the Earth's population, yet admits 25% of its atmospheric pollutants.  That's bad.  But that's down from more than 35% 20 years ago, and it's still plummeting, and that reduction was accomplished by concerned industry, not Government edict.  

And that's good!

China and India together admit more than 55% of the Earth's atmospheric pollutants.  That's bad.  China itself is the most polluting country on the planet.  Verrry bad!  Both countries are opening new coal mines weekly.  Neither country is undertaking any key efforts to lower their pollution at all.  None, at all!  Yet, they want US, the U. S., to pay THEM, to do what's right for the Earth.  And AOC and her crowd of whimpering, hand-wringing sycophants are on their side.  Are they paying her, or is she just that stupid?

(I don't know what came over me.  I withdraw my question.)  

There's just something special about American taxpayer money thrown wildly at a problem that just gives Liberal weenies that good ol' warm and fuzzy feeling like nothing else.  They've spent more than $Six Trillion Dollars of borrowed money so far this year, and they're just getting started.  They've been doing it ever since I've been alive, and I believe they'll keep on doing it forever.  

The Bottom Line:  America's rate of atmospheric pollution is the lowest ever recorded and is going down year after year.  Don't expect us to pay them to stop them from committing suicide, and killing us in the process... 

"Bruge"

My dad had rheumatic fever as a kid.  It damaged his heart to the extent he couldn't qualify to carry a rifle in the Big War.  

But he could make bombs in the Sunflower Ordinance Plant in Lawrence, Kansas, for our war effort, and he did.  He learned so much about physics and chemistry while so doing he decided to try and become a pharmacist.  He discovered there was a special post-War program enabling those without a pharmacy degree to practice it in underserved towns of under 300 people.   He took the test and passed, and we were on our way to the tiny town of Bosworth, Missouri.

Dad bought one of those drug stores where you could get an ice cream cone along with your custom-compounded prescription.  And maybe a box of candy or other gifts.  And any sort of liquor you could possibly imagine.

My Mom and older brother and I lived along with Dad in the back of the store.  I was about 4 or 5 and brother John was six years older.  We were both pressed into helping out around the store, cleaning and dusting and running errands.  Our living quarters were painfully small, maybe 800 or 900 square feet in total.  This was in the late late 1940's, remember, and everyone was trying to get back on their feet.  Just having a place to live and food to eat was a blessing.  The kitchen and dining area was nearest the back, outside door, leading out onto the alley, with the bedrooms between it and the store itself.

I don't remember a lot of Dad's customers but I do remember "Bruge," for the reason you'll soon know.  Bruge was the "town drunk."  I put "town" in quotes, as it Bosworth barely qualified for that term.  It did have a little movie theater, and a grocery store, and an ice plant, and a feed store, and a one-pump gas station, and a school.  Yeah, the school.  One, three-story brick building for grades 0 - 12.  

Anyway, Bruge could be called one of Dad's "best" customers.  He was a drunk, and wobbled in every other day or so to buy a pint of Four Roses.  That's rotgut bourbon, for those of you who don't know.  And I'm happy for you if you don't.  He would most generally have the cash for the bottle, but every now and then when he was drunk, he didn't.  He would often wangle the credit out of Dad, who would front him a bottle for a day or two "on the arm."  

But after awhile Dad grew weary of this practice.  I recall the day Dad gave Bruge the ultimatum.  "No more credit!," Dad said.  And he meant it.  But Bruge was going to test him.  And that test would prove to be a life-altering decision.  Life altering for all of us, but Bruge, especially.

Around 3:30 in the morning that next day there was an awful pounding on the back door.  "Thump, thump, thump!"  Dad turned his night lamp on, got out of bed and went to investigate.  "Who is it," Dad yelled!  "It's Bruge!  "Give me my bottle," he said!  "Get off my porch," Dad yelled.  "Get off my porch and get out of here or I'll call the sheriff," Dad yelled!  "Give me my bottle or I'll shoot," Bruge barked!  "Get off my porch," Dad screamed!  

At that the sound of gunfire rang out.  "Bang, bang, bang!!!"  Bullets whizzed through the intimate confines of our small apartment, richocheting off the fireplace and into the bathroom.  "Get down," my Dad yelled!  My Mom screamed for my brother and me to get under our beds and for us to cover our heads with our pillows.  

"Bang, Bang!"  Bruge sent two more shots blazing through our small apartment.  While that was unfolding my Dad was reaching for his shotgun.  "BLAM!"  One shot.  Dad had fired a single shot through the back door at Bruge.  And then all the noise and the commotion ceased.  Suddenly.  Dramatically.

The silence was deafening.

The Carroll County Sheriff was there all night long.  It took him and the coroner that long after they removed the body to take all the witness statements and mop up all the details.  His report summed up the happenings quite nicely : Bruge tried to kill us with an unwarranted attack with a firearm, and Dad had blown him off our porch and to his death.  A shot to the chest with a 12 gage will tend to do that.

We never learned who Bruge was or where he came from.  His body was never claimed and he was buried by the County in an unmarked grave.

The moral of this story:  Seems to me you'll never know when, or if, you'll be called upon to protect your life, or the life of others dear to you, from an unprovoked attack.  It might be a good idea if, like my Dad, you're prepared to deal with it when it arrives.

I know I am...  

Your Very Own "Mini-Drudge."

The "Druge Report" looks all around the vast space of the Internet each day and then vacuums up stories it considers of interest to its readers.

I, The Chuckmeister, do exactly the same thing.  Sort of.  I just vacuum up stories I think of interest to you, my fellow Pilgrims, from among those presented by the "Drudges" of the world, and then lay them out for you, one by one.  And this is one such story...

There were some 38,300 deaths by firearms* of all types in all of 2019 in America, the most recent year for which such statistics are available.  23,900 of them were by self-inflicted suicides.  That leaves about 14,000, from which we must subtract gun deaths between rival gangs, and those resulting from inner-city Black-on-Black crime.  That's about 5,500 in total, although some consider the number far higher.  Thus, there were about 8,500 actual firearm fatalities in all of 2019.

On the other hand, there were some 38,300 deaths** by automobile in 2019, the most recent year for which such stats are available.  38,300.  No reducers, no eliminators, no exceptors, no "but for's."  38,300.  We send teenagers out to play in a 4,000 pound weapon and express shock and surprise when the laws of physics messes up their life.  Just imagine the kinetic energy released when two 4,000 pound vehicles smack into one other head on at 70 miles per hour!  Two 4,000 pound vehicles operating within feet of others, hurtling down America's highways and byways, piloted by the underqualified, just begging to become statistics...

Oh, did I mention that owning and carrying and using firearms is a Fundamental American Right, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights to the Constitution of the United States of America?  And driving an automobile is..., how shall I put this..., NOT!  Operating an automobile is a privilege granted to those who qualify by various State or local agencies.  And that privilege may be revoked or suspended, without notice, by those same agencies. And if you violate the terms of that privilege, you may be fined, or even imprisoned in some cases.  A privilege.  Granted or revoked on notice.  Do you get it people!  

NOT A RIGHT!

Do I need say more?  I think not.  

"Mini-Drudge," out...

*     ATF, 2019

**   NHTSA/DOT, 2019     

"Drop of Destiny!"

One of the scariest statistics I've read lately is that Yahoo and Google are the primary news sources for fully 62% of our population.  

Really.

The small print shows that most of that 62% are millennellinennelliells, which I guess is good.  Otherwise, they wouldn't get any news at all.

They don't get their news from newspapers.  Or from radio or television.  Or bless their little hearts, not even Fox News.  No, no, no, most decidedly not Fox News!  Even though fully 42% of Fox News' viewership are self-admitted Democrats.  I guess those folks want to know what the enemy is doing...

After all, that's sort of why I watch MSPMS and the Clinton News Network, so I fully understand.

So I guess we now know the reason why a crusty old coot in an ill-fitting suit wound up with the White House after three painful attempts.  He was voted in by a tiny subset of our population, who some say are so damn dumb they couldn't pour piss out of a boot!  As Inspector Clouseau used to say, "I know nothing, I suspect nothing..."  

In just over 100 days the socialists who are pulling his strings have disassembled America as we used to know it.  We'll be very lucky if we get past his presidency with our Republic still in tact (that was an opinion, worth quite a bit in my opinion).  

And so in a effort to help, I suggest we mount a leaflet-dropping campaign to our friends behind the "Progressive Curtain."  Those living on either coast and in Chicago and New Orleans and Kansas City and a few other "Big Blue Cities" in need a information only a full-blown leaflet dropping can bring.  They need to finally get the news.  The news that the bozo they hired is destroying their future and that of their kids.

So I'm thinking we could hire like 200 helicopters.  We can fill them each with 500 pounds of leaflets, letting these "bubble prisoners" know what's really going on in America.  We could tell them that before they changed horses in mid stream, we had the very best economy and the lowest unemployment rate and the highest stock market price and the lowest crime rate and the highest individual income rate in history!  And within a couple of months, we've gone from Utopia to Dystopia!  

We could call it the "Drop of Destiny!"  You like that one?  Yeah, I think I'll keep that one...

We could stage these helos at various cities all across the coasts and other key Liberal areas.  And, at the pre-ordained time, these helos would strike!  They would simulfriggintaneously drop their "Load of Truth" to the hungry masses assembled below (of course, I'm sure the enemy will call it a "load" of something else...).  The ones who've been starving for the Truth, but sure as Hell not getting it from MSPMS, or CNN, or NPR, or the Alphabets (ABC/CBS/NBC), or most any of the Big Blue City newspapers.  How else are they going to finally learn what's happening beyond the "Coastal Bubble?" 

It's like "The Hunger Games," with information instead of food.  Okay, okay, you get it... 

It's going to be kind of like the post-WW2 Berlin airlifts.  Freedom over fascism!  Minus the bags of potatoes and corn and wheat, that is...

"Captains of Wokedom!"

I dunno' 'bout you, but I'm getting damn tired of hearing Republicans bitching and moaning like little schoolgirls over D. J. Trump being banned from Twitter and Facebook.

That, my fellow Patriots, is not the 'Murican Way!

I'm not sure whether Zuck and Gates and Jack and all those other computer geeks developed their Earth-shattering new social media platforms so they could advance Liberal causes, or that they were just Liberals who developed Earth-shattering new social media platforms.

Something tells me it was the latter.

But whichever, it seems that Conservatives have up to this point been quite accepting of the fact that they're being permitted to play in these Liberals' sandboxes.  Allowed!  And that those oligarchs can pull the rug out from under them any time they wish.

And they just did.

Trump gave the Leftoids the sword with which to slay his metaphorical dragon, and they did.  And no amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth has so far caused them, the self-appointed "Masters of the Universe," to capitulate.  Why should they?  They have all the cards!  They have the enemy on his knees, almost completely without the resources to communicate with half the Country.  They just proved it.  They gave him his Oversight Board decision, and it was to keep him in "Time Out."  Most likely forever.  And unless or until he or his supporters change the equation, it's likely to stay exactly as it is: 

Controlled by "Progressives."   

And what if the enemy someday finally relents?  Should Trump and his supporters then return to Silicon Valley, hat in hand, begging to be let back in the fold?  Can you see that happening?  Neither can I...

That's why I suggest he and his supporters finally pony up the cash necessary to successfully compete.  Finally.  To dig down and produce the "whip out" necessary to play with the Big Dogs for a change.  To create, or buy, or build the platforms that will endeavor to compete with the Twitters and the Facebooks and the InstaGrams, and any other social media platform necessary to fight and to win.  Are these guys pikers?  Are there no Conservative risk-takers?  Don't they believe enough in their message to bankroll it?  You mean we can't get a dozen Republican $Billionaires together and come up with the resources to compete with these "Captains of Wokedom?"  

I predicted early this year that Trump would quickly put together a Gigonda media company, from parts and pieces out there and already available, and replete with an avenue to compete with those who have just "cancelled" him.  He'd better get started.  2022 is just around the corner.

However, can't you just imagine how much fun it would be if DJT had his own media platform and could communicate with his followers, anytime, 24-7?  Without editorial interference from the Zuckerburgs of the world?   Yeah, me too...  

My Chuckmeisterly Prediction...

I predict we're headed for a time real soon when so-called "Black" majority American neighborhoods will be declared "off-limits" by any incorporating, White-majority police districts.  

Why?

Because it will be deemed too damned risky from a financial standpoint for metropolitan police departments to undertake.  We've learned over the past few weeks and months that if any Black person has been killed by a White cop, anywhere, at anytime, for any reason, whatsoever, there will be a riot.  The BLM-led Marxist revolutionaries will take particular joy in burning down anything within view.  They did it all last summer, they're doing it as this is written (even though about half the population's news sources keep them ignorant of this fact!), and they'll do it from now on forward...

Lets take a look in the rearview mirror, shall we?  More than $2 Billion Dollars in damage was caused by the BLM/Antifa rioters last summer.  More than 3,000 buildings in more than 50 America communities were damaged or destroyed.  1,300 policemen were injured, and 21 were killed.  If a hurricane were to hit Charleston, SC every week for a year, do you think folks in Charleston would have trouble buying storm damage insurance?  Yeah, me too...

Why do I make this startling prediction, you might ask?  Well, fellow Pilgrims, I'll tell you.  And when I finish doing so I'm guessing you just might agree with me.  Whether or not you vote to the Left or the Right.  So here goes...

I was stationed in Paris for a short time whist serving in the U. S. Army.  That's in France, not Texas, doncha' know.  I was charged with helping to inventory our property after our having been ordered out by then-President Charles de Gaulle.  You'll recall we saved his bacon during the Second World War, to the tune of even permitting him to lead the parade down the Champs de-Elysee when we retook the City.  And his way of thanking us was an order delivered to our Prez on New Years Eve, 1966, for us to pack up and leave from our more than 400 military and naval bases.  And he gave us but one year to do so.  And I was a part of the detail of soldiers to help organize that fustercluck.

I'm sorry to say...

Anyway, I am and always will be a history buff.  And France is filled with history.  It's also filled with smelly, unshaven, drunken chain-smokers, but especially history.  And so I decided to explore that beautiful City from front to back.  The museums.  The monuments.  The cathedrals.  The little bars and cafes.  

Oh noooooo! I was told!  Paris had a "Do Not Go" region even way back then.  It was filled with Islamists they'd imported from their North African colonies to do their housework and wet nurse their kids.  And before long there were millions of them (they reproduce like rabbits!), and they were giving a good impression of our Black Lives Matters from last summer.  

One-sixth of Paris' southwest region is Off Limits.  Cops won't even go there.  They have their own internal security forces.  These forces operate under sharia law.  Not our laws, their laws.  The Islamists who live there think burning cars is "sport."  They average burning more than 400 cars a weekend.  Today.  Don't hear about it?  I guess it's the same sort of "MSMedia" like we have that doesn't report Chicago shootings each weekend... 

If a bullet penetrates the scalp of a poor Black child in the "hood," but the corrupt "MSMedia" doesn't report it, does the blood really flow?

So let's recap here: cops won't go where they expect to be shot and killed (and let's face it, unless we start treating our cops a tad bit better, there may not be any left to shoot!).  So they will do what they are doing right now, today, in the more dangerous parts of America:

They will turn their faces and protect their asses.

There are areas of Baltimore, and south Chicago, and Oakland, and Kansas City, and New Orleans, and NYC and so very many other American cities that other-than-Black do not visit.  Including cops.  Especially cops!  And I predict there will come a time, real soon now, when cops "not policing" will become routine.  After all, they're asking for the police to be eliminated, why not give them what they ask?  

And then I'd inquire, does that mean there will be no "Black-on-Black" crime there?  Don't the non-warring Black folks deserve some protection, too?  What about the good, honest, hard-working, God-fearing, non-Blacks in those neighborhoods?  Will they be protected?  Or just left to die in a hail of gunfire, like their south Chicago Black brethren?

To those calling for an end to the police, I'd say, "Be careful for what you want.  You just might get it..."  

We Were Both Right...

In follow-up to a recent screed, I must admit, we were both right. 

And the "we" I'm referring to in the above are the "Progressive" Democrat Leftoids here in America, versus those of us who adhere to more Conservative, Right-leaning principles.   

And BTW, I have received more comments about it than any other essay I've ever posted, and that includes "ever!"  We're talking in the tens and tens of responses here, Pilgrim!

My "epiphany," as I told you a couple of days back, was that we were both right; they think they live in a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, nasty, dirty, scary, racist, awful, racist country, and we don't.  

Did I mention racist?  

I must admit the hard-core Lefterinos amongst us must have been right, from their perspective, when they told us their Amerika was a "systemically racist" and "institutionally racist" Kountry.  That it's filled klear up to the brim with racists, and sexists, and Islamophobes, and all them there other 'phobes.  And people who don't want men to shower in the girls' rest rooms.  And they tell us that all they need is to take Amerikka apart and put it back together again, although in a fairer (and more socialist!) mode.  

And we were right when we continually stated that our America is neither racist nor sexist nor homophobic nor anti-immigrant nor "anti-anything" else.  In fact, our America was founded on the opposite of all those things!  God knows, after having willingly spent more than $9 Trillion Dollars of taxpayer money on all manner of Great Society Programs since LBJ and the 1960's, all designed to address and finally correct any remaining inequities resulting from the horrors of slavery, visited upon us by some of our ancestors (not mine!), and all designed to provide the public mea culpa necessary to throw off the awful stain of slavery.  And it's frankly soul-crushing to see what it's bought us.  And brought us.

Sort of like discovering the puppy you brought home from the pound, despite copious guarantees to the contrary, grew up into a 400-pound snarling beast that would eat you and your entire family if you didn't continue to feed it.  A lot.

I love analogies.  And that was a pretty good one, even if I do say so myself (if more of you faithful readers would complement the author, the author wouldn't have to brag upon himself quite so much.  Okayzee?).    

Anyway, let's summarize this, shall we?  The Wokerenos live in an awful, nasty Kountry, and they'll be the very first ones to tell you so.  In fact, they're happy to tell you their Kountry sucks!  And they think your Country sucks, too! 

Which, BTW, would be my country.  And likely yours.  But I'm pleased to tell them that it doesn't!  You already know that, I'm positive, but somehow they do not.  And if ours wasn't such a grand and glorious Country, the Wokesters amongst us wouldn't have the protection the 1st Amendment affords to call us and their Homeland awful names.       

So here's "the rub," as Shakespeare would say.  Our Two Americas are separated not by borders, but by ideologies.  And I frankly don't know how to draw a border between me, and say the vacuous weirdos who inhabit Hollywood.  Or me and the numbnuts who publish the drivel our "MainStreamMedia" call "news."  Or me and the bubble-dwellers shot-calling in Washington, D.C. these days.  Or me and the dozen or so oligarchs in Silicon Valley who play Monopoly for realzies.  Or me and the folks who live in Lost Angeles and somehow don't notice either the homeless, or the garbage in which they are living.   

All I can figure is that the only "line of demarcation" between me and the room temperature-I.Q. folks who think America sucks, is a well-cleaned and -oiled and -loaded firearm.  And God knows I need it, what with every effort by the Wokedom to disarm me at exactly the same time they're letting felons out of prison by the tens of thousands.  And I'm guessing they're happy the gun stores are all empty... 

I frankly don't know how this is all going to wind up, but it's sure going to be entertaining to watch... 

So My Question Is...

Joe O'Biden's speech the other night left me very confused.  And I'm guessing I'm not alone in that feeling.

Why?  The House of Representatives, inside the Capitol Building, comfortably seats over 1,000 people.

Yet, only 200 of our elected officials were invited to hear the nationally-televised speech.

Every Single One Of Them, BTW, were required to be fully masked, and exercise social distancing protocols.  

And Every Single One Of Them had been Double-Vaccinated.  Prior to attending.  As a requirement for attending!

The Center for Disease Control, BTW, the folks we pay to know about such things, has issued the proclamation that... 

...fully-vaccinated folks may all congregate, indoors, without fear of any kind of the spread of any virus.

Got that?  Any virus.  Including the infamous Chinese Wuhan Killer Coronavirus.

My question is, was that a) the World's Biggest Informercial against vaccination; or b) the Most Painful Demonstration of Electoral Incompetence in our Country's history?  And proof-positive that we need to give drug tests at the polling stations.

Or perhaps both?

I'll wait for you to get back to me on this...

An Epiphany!

I should have seen it coming.

I'm smart enough to have figured it all out beforehand.

I least I thought I was.  I wasn't...

The screaming harpies from the hard-bitten Left in America continually harangue us about America being a "systemically racist" Country.  They like to tell us that America is also "institutionally racist."  Now, I don't know the difference between the two, but I have a feeling they're both bad.  

In fact, I don't know the real definition of either charge, but I'm sure the O'Biden Camp will supply one.  

I've fought back against the charge that America is either "sytemically racist" or "institutionally racist."  I believe it's both scurrilous and inflammatory, and has no basis at all in fact.  And yet, the blow-dried, talking-heads on MSDNC and the Clinton News Network continually preach to us that we're all racists.  Oh yeah, and homophobic and Islamophobic and Trans-phobic and all the other "phobics" they can conjure up.  They know it to be true, they say.  They can look outside from the windows in their Mid-Town Manhattan office buildings and see it.  All of it.  Everyday.

I've told them they're lying.  They've told me that whether or not I'm a racist, I live in a racist Country and it needs to be remade in a more "fair" (read socialist) way. 

I thought we were at a "Mexican standoff."  That's an old term arising from the Mexican War of Independence, BTW.  Thought I'd pass that along before I got "cancelled."  Anyway, I couldn't figure out any way to try and convince the crazies on the Left that they were, well, crazy, when it hit me!  Like a ton of organically-farmed tofu!  They think their America is racist.  

They're right!!!

They are confessing to living in a racist and sexist and homophobic and yada yada yada country!  We are not!  Sooooo, it stands to reason, there must truly be TWO SEPARATE COUNTRIES!!!  Two countries separated not by a border, but by ideologies!  Ideologies born of decades of teaching that America is a bad country.  And they are the result.

There's the country in which the Left-wing loons reside, and ours.  But since 40% of our population lives in only 10% of our land mass, and that 65% of our population lives in what's termed "big cities," as defined by a population of over 250,000, and the Dinosaur Media lives right in the middle of this morass of fetid, steaming Liberalism, it's kind of tough for the Conservative voice to gain traction.  

That means it's kind of tough for the word to get out that there that there's is no "institutional racism" or "systemic racism" in Our Country.  Maybe theirs, not ours.  We look around and see a wide assortment of races, all seeking, and many finding, the American Dream.  That's why we are so flummoxed at the bleatings of these TV studio pundits.  I guess the truth is out: they live in a racist, sexist, yada yada country, and we don't.  And we wish they would stop trying to get us to agree to their "cure" when we don't have their illness...

I offer this little screed in the hope that it will find someone who lives in "their" America to understand that they are hoping to someday find the peace and harmony we now enjoy.  And if they don't stop getting in our faces and messing with our peace and harmony, we're going to do what Thomas Jefferson advised way back when if confronted by an unresponsive government.  And it's not going to be pretty to watch...