Previously, on this blog...

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March 8, 2024

Mike Pompeo Reverses Anti-MAGA Course, Now Wants Role in Second Trump Administration
March 10, 2024

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March 10, 2024

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March 11, 2024

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March 11, 2024

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March 11, 2024

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March 11, 2024

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March 12, 2024

□ [“RINO Rep. Ken Buck to Retire Next Week, Leaving Republicans with Razor-Thin Majority"]

Next week?  Ok, I see this as evidence that something big is about to happen.  Former Secretary-of-State Mike Pompeo has spent the last few years trashing Trump and suddenly decides he wants to be in the next Trump administration.  This isn't about Trump, he's just riding the wave, but it looks like something is about to erupt and these people are worried that they'll be at Ground Zero.

This would also explain the eagerness that various Democrat leaders and other world leftists are immediately rushing towards censorship, totalitarianism and, well, fascist dictatorship.  Partially because they think there's still a fight they can win and partially just to keep their own power when the collapse finally happens.  Either way, they're suddenly putting all their energy into this task because it's the last chance they have of winning, or even surviving.

There's no proof, nothing specific to point to, but that's what this looks like.  Of course there's also aspects to be wary of, many other things are happening that we can't see, or that our rulers could just launch nukes and solve all their problems that way.  All this is true.  That said, it really does look like the point of Trump being POTUS and letting the 2020 election be stolen was to expose our rulers as the monsters they really are, and by extension all their supporters and all their stated goals.

There's just the 'get out of Dodge' mentality that seems to be hitting more and more leftists at all levels.  They'd spent their lives thinking they knew better than everyone and were totally right, and this is where they wound up.  Right wingers don't know everything, so they have to prepare for the worst while there's still time.  I've been thinking of this for a few years when we heard the Obamas had bought a fossil-fuel burning generator, in case their oceanside mansion needed electricity at some point.  Because, you know, global warming.

This might also be an example of the cliche of leftists being young enough to believe this nonsense, conservatives being old and experienced enough to see what can go wrong.  It's also why western culture was designed, to raise your children the right way as early as possible, nuclear families and all.

CDC Team Battles Measles Outbreak at Crowded Chicago Migrant Shelter With Four New Cases
March 12, 2024

□ [“The Biden Transcripts:  Confusion, Evasion and Outright Lies"]

This is probably what the rulers need a distraction from.  Special Counsel Robert Hur is testifying to Congress about his report on Biden keeping classified documents in his garage.  And yes, it's basically what we already knew.  He'd kept them there as a private citizen, and that's assuming he only brought them in when was Veep.  It's also clear that he had these documents back when he was in the Senate.  There's just no way to defend this and still attack Trump for having documents at Mar-a-Lago.

I cannot break the suspicion that this was the point.  Trump could have left a sticky note on the files saying 'whoever reads this is responsible for what happens next.'  Sooner or later someone would need to see what the documents say, and report that to whoever ordered him to handle the raid.  Then the committee responsible [I'll just assume it's a committee] would realize the mess they just caused by giving this order, and it would expand from there.

Certainly there are people who will continue to insist that there's nothing wrong with keeping top secret documents in your garage while saying Trump committed a crime by doing the same thing.  But a lot more people are going to see serious problems with this contradiction, and by extension, the insanity of those who really do believe it without the slightest hesitation.

That's not counting all the people who have experience with classified information.  I never got higher than Secret so I only had a clue, but I worked with a lot of people who had Top Secret or higher clearance.  Still remember as I was going around for ETS, my S-1 had a poster about keeping classified info secure and someone had written on it 'unless you're Hillary Clinton.'  Good laugh.

I haven't even looked at what's actually being said in the testimony yet, but the headlines say it's not good.  If we still lived in a free society, a lot of our rulers would be under serious threats now.  But we're not, so never mind.

NY AG Letitia James Says Trump Has to Post Bond For Full $464 Million Judgment Before Appeal
March 12, 2024

□ [“Transcripts of Hur's Questioning of Elderly Man with Poor Memory Released"]

He had people around him during the questioning and turned to them for the right answers.  That doesn't sound like the way questioning should be handled, although it does let us know that the rules are not going to be followed.  Now that we know that, there's not much reason to continue on this, is there?  Now let's go get Trump!!!

And the questions he asks the people around him...  He asks them what month his son Beau died, and then what year.  He asks if Trump was elected in November 2017.  He asks what year he stopped being Vice-President.  These are not hard questions, but he has to rely on others to tell him what to say.  That's not how a competent leader behaves.

Since Biden is unwilling to go to a mental test to show the country what shape he's in, this might be the equivalent, a long and detailed account of what it's like to put up with him for a few hours, and see what he remembers.  The people really in charge of the country have long known that he's an empty shell.  Just send him out with the proper puppeteer whenever there's a reason and that's all they need.

The day before this report went to Congress, Hur was confronted with DOJ agents who wanted some... changes made to it.  So far I haven't seen any specifics, but the implication is is that they didn't want him to look like a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” as Biden's lawyers described it to Attorney General Garland.  Pretty sure that's not the *only* changes they wanted made, some things need to be kept confidential.

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March 11, 2024

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March 12, 2024

□ [“Hur:  Biden About Not Sharing Classified Information with His Ghostwriter"]

And now we're finally getting into the bigger issue.  Bad enough that he ever had access to classified documents, and that he stole them for years, and that he has no clue what he's done, and that he's blaming Trump for doing that too, then there's the question about who he shared this classified info with.

He read from the documents verbatim to his ghostwriter at least three times in 2017, as a private citizen.  As soon as this investigation was started, the ghostwriter destroyed any evidence he had, because that's what you do to prove your innocence in a crime.  That's the only example we have right now, it's not counting anyone else who went to his garage over the last few decades.

This isn't limited to Biden, it's not limited to him and the ghostwriter, or to Hillary.  It's not even limited to them and Trump.  Mike Pence immediately turned in documents as soon as this investigation became public.  Every member of Congress has to be presumed guilty of this, as does every government official.  They stole the documents or they were informed what classified info was on them.  You don't keep classified documents safe by assuming the suspect is innocent.

The ruling class must be terrified over this.  Even if they're protect because laws don't apply to them, there's no way to get around it, they'll have to admit that this is exactly what they're doing.  Either that or they need a distraction so enormous that everything else is irrelevant.  There's simply no way to convince the public that this is perfectly natural and everything is much better now that they got rid of Trump, and the more they try, the worse it gets for everybody, especially them.

A lot of them deal with criminals and foreign agents, they could pass along this classified info they aren't supposed to have.  China is a huge doner to the University of Pennsylvania, where Biden stored some of these documents - if they weren't in his garage or the other five known locations - is there any chance they could find access?  Would you trust them to say they didn't?

Special Counsel Dave Weiss Hits Back at Hunter Biden, Accuses Him of Lying to the Court
March 10, 2024

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March 12, 2024

□ [“Indiana High School Tells Teen to Remove US Flag From His Truck – He Refused, Other Students Add it to Theirs"]

No idea how true this is, but as an anecdote, it's a nice smile.  I want my country back.  Without absolute tyranny, the left has no chance of erasing human nature, and the nation is part of that.  They always believe they can and they're never right about it.

I always like to cite St. Petersburg as a very relevant example.  Named for Peter the Great, it was the capital of Russia for a few generations.  But that name was considered too German, so it was renamed just after WWI got started.  After Russia lost and the leftists took over, they renamed the city after the dictator five days after Lenin died.  77 years after the change, the citizens were finally allowed to vote in it, and they wanted its real name back.

There is some leeway.  St. Petersburg was founded by Swedes with a different name, but well, they're Swedes.  This was Russia.  One can also point to the fact that nobody's trying to restore Constantinople, much less the original name.  The names can be changed but it takes a lot more time and effort than leftists are able to spend.  They just assume their orders will be followed forever.  The founders of New Amsterdam probably thought that too.

Anyway, the point is that the rulers think they can impose their changes and everybody will go along with it.  They also think that if they threaten enough people with punishment, we'll have no choice and just obey like the slaves we are.  But no, people are a lot more willing to resist than that, no matter how obedient they appear to be.  Our nation is a very deep part of us, like it or not.  If you want to change that, it shows that you're the one who needs some major pieces removed from your body.

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March 12, 2024

□ ["Slash feat. Brian Johnson - "Killing Floor" (Official Music Video)]

It's certainly fun.  Not incredibly catchy or anything, but if want a blues-rock band covering a classic blues song, here you go.  Nothing special about it, but the band sounds like traditional rock and not modern garbage.  Brian Johnson sounded great, nothing like what he's known for.  And I couldn't help but enjoy Steven Tyler's guest appearance on the harmonica.

That said, I'm not that interested in bands covering old blues songs.  The second-to-last albums released by Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones did that and they were boring, not remotely what the bands were there to do.  If we want to hear that, just listen to the originals.  Nonetheless, I will probably hear the new Slash album, at least on youtube, even if I don't buy it, just to say I heard it.

Still curious what's changed about Guns'n'Roses.  This is Slash's third album since he was rehired as an employee.  Duff's also working on his third album since he was rehired, and both of them have been contributing to releases by other musicians as well.  Yet Axl Rose has only released four songs since Joe Biden was in the Senate, and only six songs and two albums since Bill Clinton's first year in office.  That's how long he's been in charge.

Although they probably can't say anything legally, Slash and Duff just seems to have accepted that they're in the band for the paycheck and are moving on with their solo careers when they're not playing 30+year old songs for an audience that doesn't want anything else.  They used to at least say the band would start working on new stuff soon, after the next tour.  Duff did just say "things" are being done, but doesn't say those "things" are.  Are they in the room with us now?

The fact that they still fill stadiums is why I'm coming to the conclusion that this rock band, and possibly all of them, were about dumbing down the audience to the point where they'll just keep buying tickets without question.  That's the audience they always wanted, and they've got it.

France’s Macron Puts Bilateral Security Agreement With Ukraine to a Vote on Parliament, as His War-Mongering Flounders in the Polls
March 12, 2024

□ [“Top White House Official Accused of ‘Classic Me Too’ Behavior, But Jill Biden Connection Makes Him ‘Untouchable’"]

Well, he's not waggling his dick around like his boss, so that's something.  He's gay, so Jill obviously has no problem with that.  Well, her husband doesn't either, he promised to fire anyone on the spot for doing this.  Unless they're part of the protected class.

Is there the slightest chance he's not involved in every perversions you can think of and more that you can't?  We've just had people have sex in Congress and not get punished.  Barely a drop in the bucket as far as our elites are concerned.  Roman times, my friend, Roman times.

Probably nothing special about this guy, he just knows he can get away with anything.  He was on Biden's staff as Veep and before that, he was on Al Gore's staff as Veep.  Every time they went out to say how offended they were by such inappropriate behavior, he and everyone else like him could smile and know what they could get away with.  Maybe he was even responsible for bringing cocaine to the White House.  For Jill Biden.

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