The Last Freeway.

(This is Number 3 in this year's "Bash California" Series.  Please enjoy...)

I used to negotiate the Lost Angeles freeway system on a daily basis.  Against my wishes and better judgement, I might add.  But it was the only way I had to get to my customers.  Just like millions and millions of others who try and live here.  Creeping along, sometimes an inch at a time, taking hours where it should take only minutes.  With the heat radiating off my hood - and my forehead - in 100 degree heat, I always wondered how presumably smart people could take so much money and screw it up so bad over such a long, long time.  

So I did a little research (I do that a lot) and learned that one of the reasons is, we don't seem to build freeways any more!  In fact, you might be interested to learn that the very last freeway built in the (once)Great State of California was the "105."  

That bit of concrete stretches some 11.26 miles, only, connecting the northbound "605" Freeway in Fountain Valley, California, and the "5," in Cerritos, winding around from west to north and then back west, delivering you ultimately to the world-infamous LAX.  To its front door.  Thank you very much.  

That stands, of course, for Lost Angeles International airport.  The 4th biggest in the world and located in the middle of millions and millions of people.  (And some of the very worst neighborhoods anywhere.)

That "connector" opened on February 13th, 1993.  When California boasted only 21,359,459 people according to the Bureau of Statistics.  As opposed to today's 41,423,998.  Plus an unspecified number of illegal aliens (but in the Millions). 

Again, according to our Federal Gubmint.  Which has a propensity to lie.  Like a rug.  They started in Roswell, and haven't stopped since... 

I'd like you to think about that for a minute.  California's most recent freeway build was 31 years ago.  While our population has since DOUBLED.  Not counting the 10 or 12 million "guests" we have pitching tents on the Embarcadero.  Or on any of the stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame."  Do you think the 6th Largest Economy on the Planet, as BoyGuv "Hairgod" Newsom likes to boast, should put up with such crappy infrastructure enhancements?  

One friggin' freeway in three friggin' decades?  

Do ya,' huh?  

You should know that California pays the highest gas taxes in the Nation.  $0.63.5 per gallon!  So it's not like they don't have the $Cash.  And those gas taxes are earmarked for highway construction and improvement only!  So where's the new freeways, you delbert bozos?*  Our average unleaded gas now costs $5.19 right down the block.  It's a $Dollar higher up north.  We're told out here it's $3.89 back east.  And that's compared to the $2.89 the day that Donald J. Trump vacated the Orville Office.  

It costs folks twice-as-much to crawl upon our crowded freeways as it does in 46 other states.  And it takes twice-as-much time commuting to our two jobs as it does for folks in 50 other states.  And our car registrations cost more than in 42 other states.  And our car insurance is 89% higher than in 42 other states.**  No wonder people are leaving here in droves...

*     Nothing personal.

**   One of the primary reasons my wife and I started our own bizz.  Because commuting sucks!!!   

Open Warrants?

And while I'm bashing California, which is soooo easy to bash, if I told you that there are, right now, as of the date this unassuming little blog post is written, more than 252,000 open felony warrants here in Taxifornia, would you be surprised?

That means there are more than one quarter-million people out there who are wanted by our criminal justice system for felonies.  But have chosen to just ignore their court dates.  Just blew them off.  Pfffft!

Did you know that?

More than 2,800 are wanted for homicide.  630 for kidnapping.  And another 1,800 for sexual assault.  My question is, how did they get bail?  Who let these miscreants out of jail?  Or failed to jail them in the first place?  

Well, fellow Patriots, turns out that's the exact right question to ask.  And of course the answer is George Soros-installed District Attorneys, 50 of them, who will let anyone out of their crime for just about anything.  Lost Angeles' D.A. refused to charge more than 53% of all the felonies between 2020 - 2023.  And one of the reasons is pure infrastructure; we don't have enough jail cells to house all our killers, rapists and muggers.  

Let's take inventory, shall we?  We have 118 jails in our 54 California counties.  With a prisoner population as of September, 2023 of 91,733.  Which, interestingly, is 118.9% of maximum.  Which means, if we work the math backwards, we have just about 80,000 jail cells.  In total.  All Federal, State, county, city, and Indian Reservation hoosegows.  And 252,000 felons who have overstepped their bail!

Now do you see why they're rushing these felons out of jail?  In the front door and out the back?

We have another 177,900 out on probation.  And 107,139 on parole.  The simple truth is, we can't house all our criminals!  And we can't build more jails because the "Progressive" pukes don't believe in prisons.  And they have a strangle hold on 47 of our 54 counties and won't let them.  

Something about "racism," or "systemic unfairness," or something.

Oh yeah, and BoyGuv Newsom is closing three of our prisons!  And turning San Quentin into a recreation facility for wayward felons!  Really!*

Annnnd, BoyGuv has also released more than 62,000 hardened felons since his immaculation.  He's likely to have even more such outbreaks of Liberalism before he's forced out.  Dragged kicking and screaming, doncha' know...

Unless he's figured a way to pick the lock on the White House's back door...

So how are the dummies in charge intend to rectify this intolerable situation?  How do they intend to find these people and round them up?  They can't just permit them to roam around, can they?  Here's the real potential Constitutional crisis in this whole deal:

Our police and highway patrol are instructed by their "leadership" to ask everyone they contact in the course of their daily duties for their Identification.  

Everyone.  Everyone driving, everyone sitting in their cars, everyone riding a bike, everyone they're called upon to contact during calls for service on the sidewalk.  

                       Everyone.  

Excepppppt, the 4th Amendment to our beloved Constitution specifies clearly that we must be...

"...secure in our persons, papers, property and effects."

And California Public Law 148.G specifies that "In order for the police to Identify, one must be suspected of having committed a crime, be committing a crime, or be planning to commit a crime."  

In other words... 

...no crime, no I.D.  

Uh oh!  Houston, we have a problem!  We have a quarter-million scofflaw felons out there who should never have been let out, and we're in dire need to scoop up.  So this little "I.D." trick is the way they're going to try and do so.  Now, I'm sure most cops don't even know they're being ordered to violate a subject's civil rights by asking for I.D.  That's usually not pushed.  But demanding an I.D. is a civil suit that's cost a number of municipalities $Big Bucks.  One in Houston recently settled for $75,000.  Another in New York for $150,000.  Not chump change. 

And you do not need to have your identification grabbed and published by John Law.  Once your name and address are in the "system," you just might wind up on a "Do Not Fly" list...

So, note to citizens: you don't have to I.D.  Note to cops: you can lose your qualified immunity if you demand I.D. without first suspecting a crime has occurred.  And having to appear in court can be uncomfortable...

So, in the final analysis, because we don't have enough jail cells, we cannot jail all our felons.  And we're producing more of them every day.  So we let them roam around, potentially causing all sorts of mayhem, bodily harm and property damage.  All in the name of "Liberalism."  

And your BoyGuv is doing everything he possibly can to prevent you from buying or carrying or using a firearm to protect yourself.  112 anti-gun "Executive Orders," thus far, with more undoubtedly to come.     

Just sayin'... 

*   For those who don't yet know, your friend and mine, me, "The Chuckmeister," does his research.  Every number you see here has been carefully researched and is entirely, 100% accurate.  Which should scare the Hell out of you.  Scares the Hell out of me...  

CA's Nucking Futz!

Have you ever wondered why folks are leaving California?

                   In droves?

Those of us who "live" in the once-Great State of California would like those of you who are fortunate enough to live somewhere else, to know why you should be glad you live somewhere else.  

First of all, before I get warmed up, I just had to share with you a headline from "The Daily Mail" about a California real estate agent that makes my case:  

"Award-winning lesbian realtor, 50, is jailed for tricking 90 year-old man with dementia into thinking they were in relationship so she could scam him out of $638k to buy an RV and pay her gambling debts."

Among the headlines we just couldn't make up, this one should set the tone for my bi-daily rant.  From Yours Truly, your Scribe Without Portfolio.  Bringing you more bits of crazy from out here in Crazyland.  I can say for certain that this headline would never have appeared in the Constitution Tribune, my Chillicothe, Missouri hometown paper.  

Here's another one:

Our CA State Senator Scott Weiner (appropriate name) just authored legislation which he says, "...will make streets safer across the state."   

Yeah, we're all for that, aren't we?

Except, according to him, the way we get there is to mandate (Liberals just luuuv to mandate!) that all cars and trucks manufactured 2027 and after for sale in the State... 

"...have special technology installed in the car called 'speed governors.'"  

Now, you should be aware that the fact this "special technology "doesn't exist,* and would have to be invented and proven, doesn't seem to bother Scott.  After all, our auto industry would have 3 years to come up with it, right?  

Weiner went on to say, these "speed governors" would... 

"...prevent the vehicles from going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit"'

"This is not an overreach," Sen. Weiner (cough, cough) said, "I think most people believe in speed limits and we know that speed kills."  

Ummm, how do we know that again?  The speed limits in Montana and Wyoming and Idaho are 90 mph, and we don't hear about anyone dying up there, now do we?  Top Fuel drag racers hit 335 miles per hour in just over 3 seconds and nobody's died lately doing that, now have they?

Anyway, back to Weiner's wet dream...

His proposed legislation goes farther, yes it does.  It would mandate (that word again) that all trucks and busses be forced to 

"...install "sideguards" to prevent pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles from getting sucked underneath the truck during a crash."

Once again, these "sideguards" do not exist, and would have to be invented and developed.  And would no doubt be prohibitive in cost.  Like, $Tens of thousands per vehicle.  Which would necessarily bankrupt truck lines.  But Liberals don't worry about cost.  After all, they're spending your money.

He went on to state these bills are "...commonsense actions to protect public safety."

If Scott wanted to promote public safety he'd get those idiotic GPS-driven, driverless "Cruze" cabs off the streets of San Franpoopco.  They've wounded 34 homeless folks and killed 4 pedestrians, thus far.

I wonder what strain of weed good ol' Scott was smoking when he coughed up this hairball?  We know our BoyGuv Newsom, who some call "Hairgod," had his Supermajority legislature pass a law last December making it a misdemeanor for a shopkeeper to chase a thief!  Somebody steals your cash drawer and you can't chase them?  The cop can ticket you, not the perp?  So passing dummasss legislation is common here in Fantasyland.

This is what happens when you have 47 of 54 counties controlled by Democrats.  And the 7 they don't control are located in the high Sierras and the Central Valley.  They would be Modoc, Inyo, Shasta, Lassen, Imperial, Glenn and Humboldt.  And get this: the total population of all 7 of those counties, is 501,847.  One Half Million on the Red Team against the entire Democrat apparatus.  In a State filled with 41,428,788, according to our Census Department, and another Umpteen million illegals.  Who the Dems hope will be voting for them pretty damn quick.  

Outnumbered, much?

So because these Liberal pukes have our nuts in a vice, so to speak, they can, and do, pass the most inane, most outrageous, most idiotic and most egregious laws imaginable.  Our Legislature passed 1,297 laws last year!  "Hairgod" only signed 997 of them into effect.  997 Brand-Spanking New Laws!  On top of the 366,345 we already have in place!  Which is twice as many as New Yawk, the Number Two state!

This is Bizzarro World, right?  Everything is upside down?  The illegal aliens are staying at the Waldorf on our $Dime, the transgenders are winning all the women's sporting events, our taxes are the highest in the Nation, gas costs $5 Bucks a gallon, we're sitting on a river of oil and these dipsh*ts want us to drive golf carts, people are pooping in the streets, and your odds of going shopping in Lost Angeles and making it out alive are only about fifty-fifty.

So I'd say leave, if you can.  But if you have to stay, consider packing heat.  Especially if you simply must shop in downtown Lost Angeles...

*    Ten years ago Taxifornia passed a law requiring all firearm manufacturers to install/invent/create "microstamping" technology so that a unique, almost invisible identifiers, could be stamped on every gun.  As well as all ammunition, in an attempt to make matching cartridge cases with the guns that fired them possible.  This was to begin in 2012.  Failure to create this new technology out of thin air would prevent firearm manufacturers from selling any new - or improved - models into the State.  So, since this technology did not exist, does not exist, and will not exist, our firearm purchasers here - THE CITIZENS - have been deprived of all the new and improved guns available to every other American citizen for almost 11 years.  

"You let a camel get his nose under the tent..."     

A Gaggle of Lame, Vacuous Pansies...

Now then, before I cloud up and rain all over those who practice hypocrisy as a religion, 

     which is why God put me here, 

if anyone knows why you can't tie your shoes without holding your breath, please get back to me.  Okay?

While I'm still on my Annual Early-Year Rant, which continues until I run out of venom, please allow me some additional V.O.S. (Venting of Spleen) before I return to my normal "nice and cuddly" mode. 

Soooo... 

I've been thinking about this for some time.  And I don't label an entire generation as being uninteresting, useless, lazy, vacuous wastrels lightly.  But I do tend to call a spade a spade (can I still say that?).  Okay then, at the risk of offending and insulting and pissing off literally millions, to which I say "Pfffffttt," it's my considered opinion that an alarming percentage of the last generation or so America has produced is a bunch of lily-livered pansies.

      "Gen Z," I think they're called. 

Because you received this confidential missive, I trust you're not among them.  But be sure not to pass it along, as this unassuming little blog sits on a Google platform.  And if they knew what this hoary old reprobate is doing in its spare bedroom, so to speak, sending out truth bombs over its own transom, they'd hunt me down and, umm, well, you know...

You know how vindictive those Liberals can be... 

Now, I had feared this, but had no firm evidence until the Great Chinese Wuhan Pandemic reared its ugly head.  And then we got the (dis)pleasure of seeing video after video of what our friends and neighbors were doing across our Fruited Plain in its clutches.  How they were acting, and reacting.  And how they were treating one another.

God, was that wake-up call ever sad!

Worse yet, we got to see them interviewed in many cases.  And see them expose the limits of their intellect and acuity.  And especially the limits of their education.  One we've been paying for and seemingly not getting.  The folks who we saw riding their little e-bikes while wearing a mask.  Or driving in their cars, alone, windows rolled up, sometimes double-masked.

We have twenty-somethings wearing Spandex bike shorts and man-buns.  Living in mommy's and daddy's basement.  Believing somehow that $8 dollars for a cup of coffee is reasonable.  While protesting both against "Global Warming" and for "Palestine."  

While apparently not knowing, or even suspecting, that that neither of them exists.

BTW, my very smart Old Man once told me, 

"Boy, the most dangerous man on the planet is the guy who don't know, what he don't know."  

You were right Pop, more right than you realized...

My buddy Geoff knows I'm convinced America's Arc teetered on the fulcrum of that fateful day the last helicopter took off from the top of a 10-story building in downtown Saigon.  When we bolted from Viet Nam with our tails between our legs.  Leaving more than 55,000 of our dead symbolically in our rearview mirror.* 

And fostering a trail of failure in every future "war" (we call them "military actions") we were to thereafter fight.  And spectacularly lose.  Every one.  

Just so my faithful readers know, America has fought in 188 wars (call them what you will) since the one that freed it, the Revolutionary War (Google it if you doubt me).  Although we participated in a number of skirmishes thereafter, our first real conflict was the War of 1812.  The one where the Brits took a trip up the Mississippi and burned down our White House.  

We got serious after that.  And armed up.  And won every single conflict thereafter.  Until our political - not military - loss in Viet Nam.  And it's all been downhill ever since. 

We got our asses kicked so badly on TV back then, not in the jungles, we had to give up and come on home.  And endless stream of body bags shown by our anti-war press on evening TV spelled doom for our military effort.  And the cumulative effect on our Country's morale killed our collective will.  

And even more of our soldiers.

We stopped drafting our citizens soon thereafter.  July 14, 1975, it was.  Since then we've "enjoyed" an all-volunteer military.  Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and now Space Force.  All volunteer, thank you very much.

As a veteran of the Eeeuunited States Army, I can tell you today's all voluntary force is older, smarter, better educated and trained, and can boast a higher average I.Q. than did the G.I.'s with whom I served, lo those many years ago.  Yet, they tend not to be two- or three-year soldiers and sailors.  They tend to be "lifers," we called them.  Careerists, to the benefit of us all.  

And to our collective detriment...

The soldier of today isn't selected by chance from our young men via a draft.  He/she/it now enlists.  And back then our military would represent a cross-section of our society.  White, Black, Brown, Yellow and Red.  The draft assured us of that. It was a fair and representative process.  As it should have been.

Not necessarily any longer.   

Now, because of our pay and benefits, and politics, especially politics, our military is becoming majority Black and Brown.  No more "rainbow coalition."  Now, the "woke-ening" of our military, its adoption of "DEI," as well as an attractive job market, has contributed to a sharp reduction in White enlistments.  Face it, White men will not enlist into a service that has told them they're not wanted.   

And When you can make more working at MickeyD's ($20 an hour) than low-crawling through mud in basic training ($15 an hour), there's no wonder why there's a disincentive to participate.  What a condemnation of public policy when we pay folks who shovel French fries more than those who take up arms and protect them. 

And there's one more thing: Patriotism.  

Are today's young people patriotic enough to step up and protect America?  It seems the answer is "No."  And while we're debating the exact reason for the sharp decline in patriotism, the Army, as an example, is down more than 10,000 in enlistments just this year alone.  That's more than 20%.  We have historically expected our youth to stand up and protect our aged.  That expectation is now being called into question.  

And we can thank the O'Biden Administration.  

Our guys went home after a couple of years back then, and then bragged to their moms and pops and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and all their cousins and the folks at work and on their bowling team about how they helped save Liberty.  With a Capital "L."  They were our Country's best salesmen for American Patriotism.  And Honor, and Service, and Selflessness... 

No longer. 

I can only speak for myself, but I was a smartass pool hustling, girl-chasing, poker-playing, semi-pro drag racer when I was "invited" to serve, and became a forever America-loving Patriot thereafter.  Courtesy of the U. S. Army.  I'm of the opinion Gen-Z'ers could use a heavy dose of that...

Just to remove any doubt as to my opinion on the subject, 

        BRING BACK THE DRAFT!

So here's the Bottom Line:  The fatasses sitting on their couches, playing World of Warcraft and taking in mass quantities of both sauvignon blanc and a nice Sativa, simultaneously, likely paid for with SNAP, are not in my opinion worthy Americans.  They are free-riders.  They're a bunch of pus*ies.  They're just hanging on, sucking up the goodies that come to those with citizenship papers.  Which is all they think America is worth.  And in many cases that's what they're taught, in our schools, by our teachers.  That America is unworthy.  And in the process diminishing the value of my "share" of America.  

They would be ashamed of them-selves, if they had any shame. 

I consider them just a half-step above the illegal aliens/future Democrats streaming across our southern border.  They're coming for increased economic opportunity.  Our young people already have it.  And many of them don't deserve it. 

How much is something worth for which one pays nothing?  Unless you're taught by your parents and your teachers that citizenship in America has value, the answer, unfortunately, is...NOTHING.   

Okay then, that certainly went well!  I'm glad I got that off my chest.  Was it good for you too?  

*   A terrible precedent, to be revisited with our shameful exit from Afghanistan 70 years later.  I wonder what's next?  Stiff Israel?  Stop defending Taiwan?  Exit from NATO?  We've already knifed Texas in the back, and its one of our very own states!  Amazing what those "Progressives" will do when they snatch a little bit of power... 

A Rainbow National Anthem?

And while I'm on the subject of football, my Dallas Texans won last night.  That's the good news.  

There's bad news, however.  In in its never-ending quest to be "inclusive," it seems the NFL, a bunch you know I just love to hate, has decided to include the so-called "Black National Anthem" in its little upcoming Super Bowl party.

Perhaps O'Biden's headlong rush toward "inclusiveness" has gone off the rails?

A "Black National Anthem?"  I thought we had ONE Anthem for us all!  Now, with the successful effort by our "Progressives" to shoehorn D.E.I. and C.R.T. and LBGTQABCDE123+++! into our fragmented society, we've digressed to the days before Lyndon B. Johnson.  Before Orville Faubis.  Before the Democrats' Ku Klux Klan, even, and all the trouble it caused.  

Must we now have separate water fountains, again?  Some of our biggest and most ivy-covered universities now have race-separate graduations.  Can "Colored" sections in the movie theaters be far behind?

So let's carry this through to its logical conclusion.  Since they just HAVE to have a "Black" Anthem, we must also have a "Yellow" Anthem.  And a "Red" Anthem.  And how about a "Jew" Anthem?  Or maybe a "Muslim" Anthem?  And wait a minute, how about a "Rainbow" Anthem?  That includes just gobs and gobs of disaffected folks, all yearning to have their own Anthem.  They all deserve representation, doncha' think?  Aren't they Constitutionally guaranteed representation?  And even though the NFL's players are 77% Black, shouldn't we sue the sh*t out of the NFL if they don't step up and provide it?

Or perhaps we should all go out and play pickleball instead of watching that outrageously outrageous demonstration of outrageous excess.*

Me thinks so...

*   (I don't play pickleball.  So I guess I'll go ahead and watch the game.)

Playthings For $Billionaires...

I sure hope the Dallas Texans win their game today.

What?  You say the Dallas Texans aren't playing?  Wrong-O, oh football breath!  The Hunt Brothers, who cornered nearly all of the silver in America at one time, illegally as it turned out, moved their Dallas Texans football team to Kansas City in 1963.  The Team was subsequently renamed the Kansas City Chiefs.  

Just in time for me, a Kansas City native, to cheer for it.   

Surprised?  Shouldn't be.  This whole NFL thing has been a revolving door since it started.  A plaything for $Billionaires in need of tax losses, who trade teams and move cities like chips on a poker table.  Like pawns on a chessboard.  All while frustrated fans try to cheer on their favorite teams, just as those teams run to other cities for bigger and better arenas.

Think about it: $Millionaires want to own restaurants, $Billionaires want to own football teams.

If you don't think it's a problem, here's a partial list of some of the teams whose owners have bailed on one city in favor of another over the past few years.  Ready?  Here goes...

     -  The Decatur Staleys to Chicago, renamed the Bears, 1922.

     -  The Portsmouth Spartans to Detroit, renamed the Lions, 1934. 

     -  The Boston Redskins to Washington, 1937.*

     -  The Cleveland Rams to Los Angeles, 1946.

     -  The Chicago Cardinals to St. Louis, 1960.

     -  The Los Angeles Chargers to San Diego, 1961.

     -  The Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles, 1982.

     -  The Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis, 1984.

     -  The St. Louis Cardinals to Phoenix, 1988.

     -  The Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis, 1995.**

     -  Los Angeles Raiders BACK to Oakland, 1995.  

     -  Houston Oilers to Memphis as Tennessee Oilers, 1997, then to Nashville, 1998, renamed Tennessee Titans , 1999 (Whew!).

     -  St. Louis Rams BACK to Los Angeles, 2016.

     -  San Diego Chargers BACK to Los Angeles, 2017.

     -  Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, 2020.

     -  And lastly, we simply cannot forget Art Modell moving the Cleveland Browns under cover of darkness, literally, to become to Baltimore Ravens.  Perhaps the most scandalous move of the whole bunch.  Annnd, since the City of Cleveland owns the name "Browns" and the franchise itself, but Modell owned the Team (confusing, isn't it?), he had to change the team's name.  Cleveland then got its own expansion franchise, so there's a Cleveland Browns...once again.  All's well in Football Land.

Except you need a program.   

*    Ooopsie!  Can't name a football team after our fierce, stalwart, strong-willed, never-say-die native Americans anymore, now can we?  Nooooo!  Might piss off some "Progressive" puke somewhere.  So the Team just had to be named the Doormats.  Or something...

*    Ex-line dancer and professional golden-haired floozy Georgia Frontierri had to first drown her husband Art Rosenbloom, the Rams' owner, in the surf at Malibu (she did), before she could take $Millions and bail on Los Angeles for St. Louis.  Before it was moved back again after her right-hand man stole it from her.  Yeah... 

       

The Border is (Cough, Cough) Broken...

You read the crap I write because you know I sift through all the nonsense, do my research and tell you the way it is.  

And here's the way it is...

Want Joe O'Biden's own words in a campaign stop on September 19th, 2019?  Here ya' go:

     "We have plenty of room and big hearts.  Elect me an I'll bring in 3 million new migrants a year!"

Beyond making our energy more expensive, this is one of the only promises Mr. O'Biden has kept.  Three million a year, x three years, equals just about the number of illegal aliens (what our Constitution calls them) good ol' Joe has imported since hippmotizing just over half our population into voting for him.  

At least that's what they tell us.  

However, his own Homeland Security Secretary Majorkas puts the number at more like 12 million.  That's the population of New York State, BTW.

I wonder just how long it will be before the Democrats call for all these economic illegals to be "regularized."  You know, "nationalized," so they can be made "citizens." 

And vote?  

Just so you know, all Joe O'Biden would have to do to close the Border and stop illegal immigration in its tracks is to follow the Laws we have on our books right now.  The same Laws Trump was using.  And the Laws O'Biden stopped enforcing on Day One of his Administration.  

Illegals are voting in Oaklandish.  And San Franpoopco.  And Lost Angeles. And ChicaGO.  And New Yawk City.  And Baltiless.  And in so very many other Democrat enclaves across the fruited plain.  Only in local and school board elections up to now, we're told.  We're told.  If we can believe them.  

But I wonder just how long it will take to change that.  I wonder how long it will take for us to hear that we absolutely must extend citizenship and voting rights to everyone who wants it.  All of the 12 Million who have illegally immigrated here and illegally been accommodated.  Along with the 10 or 12 Million "Dreamers" who've been here even longer than our newest "guests."  They need some of that citizenship too, doncha' know.  Because not to do so would be rude.  And unseemly.  And un-American...  

And all of this will happen before the November General Election,* I'm thinking...

*   Fewer than 75,000 people in 5 states turned the last General Election to O'Biden's favor.  Just imagine how another 25,000,000 new "Democrats" would impact our fragile Electorate...

$31 Million Dollars a Week!

We have it on good authority that the cartels who run Meheeeko are making $31,000,000 a week from illegally ferrying an unending supply of humankind into our once-Great Country!

$31 Million Dollars a Week!!!  With 3 exclamation points!!!

That's just about... 

   $1.4 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!  

That's what they extract from exporting illegals into America!!!!!  Under the noses of our supposed-Border Unprotected and Welcoming Committee!  And that's on top of their $Multi-Billion Dollar earnings from fentanyl!  Killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens!!!!!!!  

(Yes, I have more exclamation points!  Don't tempt me, 'cause I will use them!!!!)

Now then, we know from our cadaveric HSI Secretary, the Cuban-born HSI Secretary, the one who's ushering in all these future Democrat voters while swearing to us the Border is "secure," that we've seen more than 12,000,000 illegally enter our Country since Joe O'Biden was immaculated!  

                   12 Million!!!!!

We're told the cartels charge anywhere from $1,000 to as much as $50,000 for each illegal!!!!  And they're coming from everywhere!!!!!  Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka and even Burkino Faso.  One just arrived from Tibet yesterday, fergodssake!!!!!!!

Presuming that all of these illegal aliens will be blessed by Democrats with the right to vote one day soon, IT APPEARS THAT MEHEEEEEEEKO IS SELLING AMERICAN CITIZENSHIPS!!!!!!!!

So look, fellow Patriot.  If we cannot stop the Mumbler-in-Chief from importing new Democrats, at least it's a good business decision for us to do the collecting, doncha' think?  Instead of the cartels, doncha' think?

Doncha' think?

So let's put up card tables right next to the Rio Not-So-Grande, on our side of the Border, doncha' know.  With a cash register in plain view, and have US do the collecting!!!  That's the U. S.!  With bullet-proof Lexan all around it, doncha' know.  'Cause those cartels aren't gonna' be happy about us removing a primary (but not their only) revenue source.  They're gonna' be shooting at us!!  They've gotta' pay for those lavish mansions and Mercedes-Benzes, doncha' know!!!!

Since we have to feed, and clothe, and house, and educate all these visitors from way far away, FOREVER, at least we should get the up-front fee, right?  

                         RIGHT?  

Let's have those Border Patrol agents do something besides wet nurse a bunch of illegals.  Let's have them start being tax Revenoooers instead!!!!!!!!

I know a $Billion ain't much anymore, but at least it would be OUR $Billion!!!!!!!!! 

Oh yeah, and if any of those nasty coyotes get the idea to cause trouble, we could do some M-60 .30 caliber machine gun emplacements right next to each cash register.  With a 180 degree overlapping sweep.  Like every 100 yards.  And a couple of National Guard boys standing guard.  It might take a few 100-round bursts, and a few missing kneecaps, for our compadres to get the "drift," doncha' know, but I'm betting they would!!! 

Want some fun?  Cause some grief, you Meheeeeekano bozos!!!!!!!!!

(BTW, that same reasoning would go well with Iran.  I just wish our Mumbler-in-Chief, or whomever is pulling his strings, would use the amazing military hardware we've bought and paid for and are permitting him to use.  Or in his case, misuse.)

So maybe if we starve the cartels of a little bit of their cash, they'd stop trying to be our Immigration Agency and concentrate only on drug smuggling, like before.  Maybe if we lost 500,000 people a year to Fentanyl, instead of just 100,000, "The People" would force a change in Washington...  

  $31,000,000 A WEEK!  

Are you sh*tting me?

What's Weather Worth?

I asked this existential question on these pages a few years back.  It's time to ask it again...

Hey all you people out there in Internet-Land!  It's a balmy 62 degrees out today, January 17th, 2024.  It's sunny as all get out!  Bright blue skies, wafting cumulonimbus clouds, and a 3 - 5 mph on shore breeze!

But wait...  Crime is running rampant.  Carjackings and burglaries and muggings and shoplifting and rapes and murders have skyrocketed!  People are no longer safe on the streets of their own cities here in the once-Great State of California!  Even the Sheriff of Lost Angeles County advised his citizens not to shop in his City.  And if they must, he said, dress down, leave the Rolexes at home, and don't drive the Bentley.  Not exactly a Chamber of Commerce recommendation.  

Yeah, but it's 62 degrees out!  And sunny!  And balmy!  And you could easily freeze to death in Kansas City!  Where I'm from!  And why I moved here!  

But we now live in what's derisively called "Taxifornia."  We have the very highest tax rates in the Country.  13.3% on top of your Federal taxes.  And the highest sales tax rates.  As high as 13%.  And they're now charging a "mansion tax."  They scalp you for 5% of your house's selling price.  And don't try and leave the State with your wealth under cover of darkness!  Oh no!  They'll follow you with demands for taxes on the profit you made on the sale of your assets!  Face it!  Living in Taxifornia sucks!  

But the weather!  Did I mention it's 62 degrees out?  It may even get to 70!  And sunny?  A guy could actually get a sunburn today!  And have you checked the weather in Chicago?  Or Buffalo?  Or Denver?  Dayummm!  The weather here is fabulous!

Ummm, yeah, but how about the fact our BoyGuv Newsom just offered health insurance, for free, to every illegal alien, everywhere.  From everywhere!  Not to our own citizens, no.  Not even to our Veterans, thousands of whom are living on our streets!  Just to future Democrat illegal aliens!  This entitled bozo needs his ears boxed!

No No No No No NO!  I don't want to hear that!  The weather!  Ooooohhh!  The weather is so warmly fantastical that I almost get orgasmic!  62 degrees!  33% Relative Humidity!  A slight onshore breeze like one could expect in Kauai!  You could go surfing in the morning and snow skiing in the afternoon!  Did you know that?  Big Puffy Cumulus Clouds!  Wafting slowly across God's blue sky!  With lots of asterisks!

Did I mention you can't afford to buy a house in this Socialist Paradise?  It takes an average household income of over $121,000 a year to qualify for a home loan.  And our average home?  1,200 sq. ft., 4 bed, 3 bath, tiny rooms, 2 car garage, 5,500 sq. ft. lot, no basement.  In counties where the well-paying jobs are located, that house will set you back more than $1,200,000!  With a 30-minute 911 response time!  People are leaving in droves.  To places where they can realize the goal of home ownership.  And safety.  And it damn sure ain't here...

Oh stop that!  Have you seen the weather report?  It's like 25 below zero in Iowa!  And the looney guv of New Yawk State had to postpone the Bills-Steelers game because it was colder a their stadium than at the South Pole!  Nobody wants to live there!  Everybody wants to live here!  Except for the hundreds of thousands who are running like scared rabbits to other more friendly climes, of course.  They obviously don't appreciate the weather...

The dummmasss who runs this place seems to think that buying electricity from other states to supplement the juice made from wind and solar doesn't count; it's still a "Green Society" now.  No more gas powered cars here in a couple of years.  Whether you want to drive one or not.  Nobody asked me!  And nobody asked the 139,009,973 people who live between the Hudson River and the Sierra Nevada, either.  The people who have to drive more than 8 miles to work.  The people who actually have to WORK for a living.  Not just move pieces of paper around on a desk...

Have you checked out their weather?  It's terrible!  You have to have a completely separate wardrobe!  Big, puffy coats and hats and gloves and boots and the like!   Here you only need two pairs of shorts, 3 T-shirts and a swim suit.  They have Four Distinct Seasons!  Half of which suck!  Who wants that?

Annnnnd, BoyGuv has also proclaimed Taxifornia as the haven for abortions!  The Place to Go!  And he's invited preggers from anywhere, AT ALL, to just make their way here and he'll do the abortion.  Personally!  (Not sure about that, but probably.)  He LOVES abortions!  And my taxes are paying for it!  Whether I like it or not!  How about if it's against my religion?  BoyGuv doesn't have a religion!  His only religion is his hairdo!  He uses Brylcreem!   Remember that movie, "Escape From L.A.?"  Yeah, it's happening before our very eyes...

Blah, blah, blah!  Don't you know that the dummies who were born and raised here don't know any better than to remain here?  Like the infamous "Frog in the Pot?"  Withering away like Michael Douglas in "Falling Down?"  Just keeping on keeping on, forever stuck in this Hellhole.  Some of them will NEVER LEAVE!  And that's what BoyGuv and his minions are counting on.

Like the (in)famous blogger once asked, "What's Weather Worth?"  Only you can answer that question...

On Tipping...

You know me.  I'm big on research.  If I get a burr under my saddle blanket I research the heck out of it.  Until I find the answer to my question.  Or question(s).  And I have many of them.

And as your (Un)Official Scribe Without Portfolio, I sometimes pass along these results to you, my faithful readers.  And Patriots!  Believing that if it interests me, it just might interest you.  

And today's question is on the subject of "tipping."  That process by way of which some miserable waif who brings you an extra napkin will attempt to extract from you your hard-earned money for doing not too much at all.  It's called "the service industry."  And since we don't make anything here in America any more, it seems to be about 80% of our economy.  Doing little stuff for each other and expecting to get paid.  So I looked into it.  And here's what I found.......

Although a Pharoah or two might have flipped the guy who minded his chariot an extra ration of beer, the first notable instance of "tipping" we see in the literature likely occurred during the Middle Ages.  

Knights would throw a bone to their squires, we're told.  Those were the boys assigned to them as apprentices who fed and watered and saddled and cared for their horses, repaired their gear and fetched them women.  Not sure about that last one.  But probably.

And that "bone" thing might actually be true.

That's because those groveling apprentices earned only what their masters, the knights, chose to pay them.  And if they did well, they got an extra tuppence.  A more modern word we believe is derived from "tippance." Which is an Olde English word for "to arrive on time."

We're also told the word "tip" was the short form of "To Insure Promptness."  This first occurred during the mid- to late-1700's.  If a server showed extra care and dedication, and most importantly speed, then one could give that server a little extra "tip."  With emphasis on the "speed."  And they would do that because they knew servers often worked only for gratuities.  They also knew that a server receiving a tip would remember the tipper and be sure to provide extra good service on their next visit.

Now then, all that makes sense, doesn't it?  

If you go in knowing the person who delivers you a service does so with the expectation of a gratuity, and you're fully prepared to pay it, fine.  But being asked to give a tip to somebody who hands you a cup of coffee?  Without having to move their feet?  Just sort of swivel their hips a tad, and move their arm side to side?  Over a total period of perhaps eight seconds?  Or delivers a burger from a fast food joint 12 steps to you curbside?*  Or bring you your food order from the local restaurant?  

Just brings it?  Not seats you, and brings you water, and maybe a steak knife, and your salad, and your entree, of course, and takes your desert order, and brings it, and then your coffee, and then, voila!  Your bill?  Back and forth, back and forth.  Delivering a service...  

(NOTE:  All four of my lovely daughters were restaurant servers on their way up.  I'm therefore partial to the service this bunch of folks provide.)

And your bill will rightfully provide a space for an extra GRATUITY, which we will most usually offer to pay.  Because we are nice people.  And because we chose to go out to eat.  And going out to eat customarily brings with it the expectation of excellent service to the diner, and a decent tip therefore. 

Both accepted customs, about which we know going in.   

But a tip-cup at your local 7/11?  Buy some gum or a pack of smokes and you're expected to give Mr. Singh a tip?  I didn't tell him to get in that line of work!  If his employer doesn't pay him enough, he should demand a raise!  With the job market the way it is, I'm guessing Mr. Singh could easily find a job down the street at the Circle K for more $bucks.  Unless Mr. Singh OWNS the 7/11...

Which he likely does...

I'm sick and tired (of being sick and tired) of this out-of-control tipping culture.  Every time you turn around somebody has their hand out.  And tries to stare you down if you don't tip.  Or worse, don't tip enough.

I'm hereby putting everybody on notice who expects a tip for doing their job, I can outstare you.  And will.  I'm a professional.  Plus, I'm old, have a lot of time on my hands, and need an extra hobby.  Besides this one, of course.  So try me.  I'd enjoy it.

What started all this was I watched a video of one of those food delivery guys demanding an increased tip from the customer because he got caught in traffic.  Which took extra time he hadn't counted on.  And when the customer wouldn't pony up, the delivery guy took the food for himself...and ate it!  Even though the customer had already paid for it.  And threatened the customer if he called the company!

This whole deal just might have gotten out of hand!

Doesn't the food delivery guy work for the restaurant?  Why don't they pay him?  Does he work for me?  When did I hire him?  Can I fire him and just have the restaurant deliver?  It makes a body want to just stay home and order everything in.  Yeah, that's it, order everything in...

Except for the fact whoever brings it will demand a tip...

*   I love Habit.  Their burgers are top-notch.  A suggestion, if they're reading this:  Take the tip box off your payment window.  Staring me down for a tip for bringing my burger to me curbside is abhorrent.  Raise the price if you must, but Do Better...    

"You Let a Camel Get His Nose Under the Tent..."

In case anyone ever wondered where all those  "Summer of Love" tie-died hippies from 1960's San Francisco ultimately wound up, I think I have the answer.

We know that everyone in SFO is a flaming Left-wing Commie Pinko Dummmasss Liberal Weenie, who loves drug-addled homeless loser derelicts camping on their sidewalks, and stealing their cars and robbing their stores.  While stepping over piles of sh*t and used needles, else they wouldn't live there. 

In fact, they wish they had more bums with needles sticking out of their arms.  And piles of sh*t to hop over.  

"And please guvner, can we have higher taxes?" 

No one else can stand to be around them for long if they're not infected with the same germ.  The one that makes them hate the idea that those who perform better should do better.  The (proven) idea of "meritocracy."  That placing "first" means somebody else had to place "second,"  Like the loser of the Super Bowl.  Awww!  Poor babies!

That's called "Capitalism," BTW.  And they hate it with a passion.

They've heard - in journo school - that capitalism requires effort.  And getting one's hands dirty, sometimes.  And that there are real, honest-to-goodness jobs that demand something other than moving pieces of paper around on a desk.  It sometimes makes one sweat (for those who don't know, we have glands to handle that).  It makes one get up early and stay up late.  And try to outdo other folks who don't work as hard.  Something perhaps members of "Gen-Z" folks might want to learn.  They pursue that dream, in order to live a better life.  For themselves, for their families, and indirectly, for their Country. 

And some think that's just too damned hard. 

Some think no matter how hard you work, you should wind up in exactly the same place as the winner.  Even  better than the winner, like the many men putting on a dress and out-competing women in women's sports.  After having failed to excel in the very same sports as men.  While right-thinking Conservatives notice and cry foul!  And left-thinking Liberals make it a point not to notice... 

That's why socialism was invented, me thinks.  The official "dumbing down" of society that permits even the least accomplished, the lowest performing, those who try not at all, to be rewarded with an equal share in the proceeds.  Just as big a slice of pizza as the guy who baked it.  Maybe even bigger.  Especially if they put on a dress and cry "favoritism!"  Or "sexism!"    

The actual definition of "Marxism."  

But as it happens, many of them wound up in journalism school (perhaps because it requires the least effort?) and became a part of our so-called "MainStreamMedia."  Which itself has become the Official Communications Department of the Democrat National Committee.* 

Plus, stepping over Fentanyl-addicted bums, making the sidewalks their home, as well as their toilets, forced many of these same Leftoids to disperse (even some "Progressives" have limits!).  To the winds, it would seem.  Some just couldn't take it.  And they wound up primarily in our Biggest and Bluest Cities.  Where welfare was plentiful and the doormat for socialists said "Welcome!"  The New Yawks, and the Lost Angeles-ses, and the Seattle-ses, and the Portland-zez, and the ChicaGO-zez.  To spew their own particular brand of Leftist nonsense to the undereducated masses.  

And there they stayed; toiling away (not!) around the water coolers at the big newspapers and TV stations.  To try and confuse our upcoming generations as to why America was invented, as if they knew.  And why it became the Greatest Country on Earth (they would dispute that).  And to therefore grow America's enemies.  From within...  

Oh yeah, as the old Arab saying goes, 

"You let a camel get his nose under the tent, pretty soon you have a camel in your tent."

*    If you take a look at our Constitution you'll discover that our Founding Fathers gave the Press special powers and protections.  It has been described as our 4th Branch of Government.  To keep our elected leaders open and aboveboard and honest.  Except now the MSMedia has been co-opted.  It now works for, and only for, the Democrats.  Which just gives the Conservatives an extra added incentive to prevail.  And to then systematically and forcibly deconstruct it as soon as another Election permits...

The Emperor Has No Clothes...

Every so often I find some fact or other that chaps my a*s, so I write about it.  

You would expect no less from your loyal Scribe Without Portfolio.  Like O'Biden somehow managing to purchase two oceanfront properties in Delaware worth $20,000,000 on a civil servant's salary.  And so I'm writing about it.  Take a mental ride with me and see if you agree...

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I recall a time back in 1955 when Estes Kefauver and Adlai Stevenson, both Democrats, and both career statesmen, were debating for the chance to run for President against Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.  A War Hero and 5-Star general.

I was only 12 but was already hooked on politics.  And this was the very first presidential Party nominating debate to be televised.  And I watched it intently along with my Mom and Dad.  Who, as entrepreneurs, were also very interested in politics.  So we were glued to our tiny black and white TV those many years ago.  To watch two Democrats, which my folks weren't, politely, reverently, and cogently debate the issues.  As statesmen.  One at a time.  Each in his turn.  Never talking over one another.  Showing each other deft respect. 

For to do so would have been impolite...   

That evening both of those candidates were gentlemen.  They were cordial, respectful and honorable.  I don't recall who won, but I do recall it was the the Tippy Top of what we as Voters and Citizens should expect from our civil servants.  

Our POTUS, chief among them.

And it's been all been downhill from there, I think you'd agree.  Like we crested the political hill with that debate nearly 70 years ago, and have been picking up speed - in the wrong direction - ever since.  Hell bent toward destroying this, the very finest Republic God ever helped fashion.  It went from "What can we do for our friends and neighbors and fellow citizens?," to "What can we do to pad our own nests?"  To enter Public Office a $Thousandaire, and leave It a $Multi-Millionaire.

Tell me it doesn't happen!  Routinely!  Everyfriggintime!

I give you Joseph Robinet O'Biden.  "Lunch Bucket Joe."  Riding the Amtrac back and forth from D.C. to Baltimore.  Every.  Single.  Day.  He entered office a $Thousandaire, and, after more than 50 years of never making more than $400,000 in any year (most were $100,000 or below), managed to accumulate two, count 'em TWO, oceanfront mansions in Delaware.  Together worth more than $20,000,000.  

Do you know what the debt service is on $20,000,000?  The monthly payments?

Even with a 20% down payment on each, and there's no evidence any such payments have ever been made, the debt service (monthly payments) on the remaining 80% would have been much more than his current $400k salary!  

It's right there in front of your noses, "MainStreamMedia!"  Hello!  Anyone want a Pulitzer?  

Like at the North Pole, if you take a step in any direction, you'll be headed South.  And if you journalists took a step in any direction, ANY DIRECTION, you'd trip over Uncle Joe's corruption.  And that's why you're refusing to budge.  Refusing to take that one single step.  Because if you did... 

...you just might have to commit journalism.

P.S.  The Emperor has no clothes...

A Trans-White Venezuelan Woman...

Now here's a question for you...

Would an elderly, disabled, trans-White woman, who identifies as a Black Hispanic Palestinian Jew from Venezuela, suffering from mild to moderate plaque psoriasis, who really prefers to live for free at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Yawk City, be offered a plane ticket by O'Biden to go there?

Courtesy of the American Taxpayers?  

If he/she/it (cough, cough) just happened to wade across our porous Southern Border?  Along with millions of others seeking a "better life?" 

Would he/she/it, upon being welcomed and given a towel with which to dry off by our Border Patrol babysitters/agents, be treated the same as a non-trans-identifying real Hispanic who did the same?  

Or would our "you-know-who" (that would be "moi") have his/her/its civil Rights violated and culled out of the massive herd of illegals flooding across our Border, Every. Single. Day?  And told to just go on back home to the Socialist Utopia of Taxifornia, pay his/her/its taxes, and suffer?

"Take off that flimsy disguise, aged taxpayer!  Go on home and don't try that again!!!!" 

We know from the Veterans Administration that 31,497 of our Vets are sleeping on California's streets every single night.  Completely ignored and forgotten.  Treated like crap.  While some 132,965 illegal aliens from any of 158 countries, so far, are getting the Joe O'Biden and BoyGuv Newsom welcome right here in Taxifornia!  And that's according to our own Homeland (in)Security folks.  Some 40% of America's homeless are right here in Taxifornia!  Given a cell phone and some $Cash and a plane, train or bus ticket to anydammwhere!  Hoping, no praying, that these same illegals will somehow, someway figure out a way to... 

                          vote 

...come next November.  For Joe and his crowd of socialist bozos.

And BoyGuv just promised FREE HEALTH INSURANCE to every illegal alien ON EARTH!  All they have to do is make their way here and voila!  Freebie health insurance!  

Well, not free, exactly.  Free to them, just not to us Taxpayers.  BoyGuv is already $69 Billion Dollars in the budgetary hole for this year.  Far more than any other state.  This is supposed to add at least another $1 Billion!  Of our money!

Remember what England's P.M. Margaret Thatcher once said:  "Socialism's great until you run out of other people's money."

So I'll be donning my pink tutu and heading on down to Lukeville, Arizona, or El Paso, Texas, or maybe Brownsville, and wading across.  While holding up a sign saying, 

"I identify as a trans-Black Female Venezuelan fleeing persecution.  I go by "they/them."  P.S.  I don't speak Spanish."

As a Veteran, I'm entitled to all those things Americans offer to Veterans under our laws, rules and regulations.  And that's all I'm given.  Yet, illegal aliens, from all around the world (a man from Tibet just entered uninvited yesterday!), are streaming unimpeded across our Border.  And showered with goodies paid for by you and me.  And welcomed like future voters.  Which they no doubt are.  Invited by O'Biden, and aided by his Cuban-born Enforcer, HSI Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.   

Seems like the illegals are getting the prime cuts, don't you agree?  They're getting a warm welcome from our Border Agents, a cell phone, a plane ticket to wherever in America they wish to go, and, oh yeah, a note telling them when to show up for their court hearing.  The one that's designed to determine whether their "parole" is justified.  The court hearing that's ten years out!  Even though we're now told more than 85% of all these "paroles" are unjustified.  And will be denied.  After the horse has left the barn.  And burrowed deeply into the fabric of our society, long, long ago...

So I'll go with a tutu and a fake tranny claim.  Let's see if they can find me among that sea of illegals pouring across our Border.  I'd say my chances of making it across are pretty dammm good... 

A Nation of Small Towns...

Those who know moi, The Chuckmeister, know I do my research.  If something interests me, I research it.  And if I think others might be interested in the results of that research, I begin to write.  

Like now...

O'Biden's "Green Agenda" is going down in flames.  The one designed to force us to do without oil and gas and adopt electricity for our entire source of energy.   

It's collapsing for a very simple reason.  America is a Nation of towns, large, medium and small.  And there's many more medium and small towns than there are large.

And sometimes it's hundreds of miles between those towns, with nary a charger in sight.  And no desire to seek one.  Ever.

Did you know that just 4.1% of our cities boast populations of greater than 50,000?  And that they contain some 129.7 million souls?  Out of a population of 311,000,000, we're told?  

Presumably not counting the 20 or 30 or 40 million illegal aliens living in our shadows.   

And our top 100 cities contain 15.1% of our total population.  A total of 59,798,704 souls.  Did you know that?    

But get this, fellow Patriots, 75% of our more than 19,509 cities, towns, townships and villages have populations of 5,000 or less.  And for a shocker, 33% of all of those towns have just 500 or fewer people calling them home.  

Think about that:  Just 4% of our cities contain 40% of all our residents.  And 33% of our towns have fewer than 500.  The tail is officially wagging our dog here, folks!

People who live in the Big Blue Cities have a tendency to think that everyone lives in Big Blue Cities.  And thinks like them.  They don't.  

If you take the 30,000 foot view, damn few folks between the Appalachians and the Sierra Nevada's share Big Blue City folks' views on anything.  

Whether "global warming," or electric cars, or millions of unwanted new neighbors streaming across our southern border unimpeded, or the homeless making our driveways their homes, or out-of-control crime, the folks who live in those small towns aren't buying what the Democrats are selling.

Instead of "Build Back Better," how about "Put it Back the Way You Found It?" 

Our own FBI (cough, cough) has told us if we live in a city of over 50,000 population, we're 87% more likely to die by gunfire.  And that moving to a smaller town is the single greatest thing we can do to preserve our lives.    

Sort of like, "Flee, commoner!  The enemy's at the gates!"  We had the lowest murder rates in 25 years.  Just 3 years ago.  Now?  It's, "Run for the hills!"

Has anyone started to figure out that maybe one of the reasons so many people live in our smaller towns, is they're afraid they'd get murdered if they didn't?

With a statistically good rationale for thinking that way?

So while all those uber-educated wastrels (great Old English insult, there!) infest Yale's faculty lounge, dreaming up new and even better ways to destroy America, by turning it into that socialist paradise they so tirelessly seek, our true Patriots will likely be sitting on their verandas, sipping a sweet tea, watching the sun go down over rural Iowa.*   

And Arkansas.  And Tennessee.  And Texas.  And maybe Wyoming.

But sure as Hell not on the Upper East Side...

*  I am the Master of the Long Sentence.