You're the Tops

Editing the book, I found some comment I'd made on Mussolini.  Trying to work out what I was getting at, I'm trying to look it up and found a few quotes I want to keep in mind.

“There are only two fatherlands in the world:  that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.”
- La Lotta di Classe (1910), while a socialist, paraphrasing French socialist Gustave Hervé

This one strikes me as very leftist, belief that human existence can be so limited.

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
- Speech to Chamber of Deputies (December 9, 1928)

This obviously follows in the same path, there can be nothing else except this simplistic statement, the person making the statement says so and will send men with guns to punish anyone who disagrees.

“Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.”
-"The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)

Still more, obviously individuality is what God created and they oppose it.  I also suspect that this is really where the distinction really comes from, recognizing that a state has to keep existing.  I assume they expect to be the one in charge, "national socialism" and it does make a fundamental disagreement with other leftists, unless they can get something out of it.

“I don't like the look of him.”
-To his aide after Mussolini's first encounter with Hitler (1934)

Leftists don't like other leftists.  IIRC, Hitler was originally a Mussolini fanboy but obviously Germany was in a different situation from Italy and they had to go their own ways, except when it came to staying in control.  It's also worth noting that in many ways, women don't like other women.  Jus' saying...

“I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people.  When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.”
- As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power (2006)

I'll have to look that up to see if it's a real quote.  It's totally believable but did it really happen?

Be careful what you wish for, you might not get it and then you'll be whinny and depressed and annoying everybody, gawd!

□ [“Portland Autonomous Zone Established Despite Mayor’s Vow; Police Chief Begs For Peace As Weapons Stockpiled And Assaults Already Taking Place"]

They're doing it again and of course they have the only authority that matters.  I guess they're trying to attract people who agree with them, possibly inspire the same thing to happen elsewhere, but otherwise I really don't see the point of any of this.

□ [“Press Shooed Away and Wranglers Step in Front of Cameras After Jill Biden Asked About Federal Investigation Into Hunter Biden’s Dealings with China"]

Obviously they were protecting Biden by pretending that absolutely nothing on and anyone to the contrary was evil homophobic racist but I'm not totally convinced that they're trying to drop Biden now so Harris can be POTUS.  They could have made it all happen behind closed doors and continued attacking anyone who thought China owned Hunter Biden and his father.

Then there's the way there's suddenly an attack on old leftists.

□ [“Report: Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein 'Seriously Struggling' – Cognitive Decline ‘Evident For Several Years’"]

Why not go after Pelosi?  She has to know she'd be in line for this sort of attack and keeps losing Democrat control of the House, why keep her around?  She's several years older than Ronald Reagan was when she entered the House and complained at how old he was then.  There's a reason I have to wonder if the Ruth Ginsberg death was a turning point somewhere even if we'll never know how.

Anyway, I do think the left is making a turn here, given how they no longer pretend democracy is relevant.  The voter fraud and kicking out the "elected" candidate in place of someone who quit running before any primary votes is one part - they were obviously going to do that, I'm just not convinced that bringing up Hunter Biden was the way they were going to go about it - all the Democrat mayors and governors who blatantly ignore the virus rules they put in place is another.  And they would undoubtedly want to remove old weak members and replace them with more compliant youths.

If this stuff doesn't end soon, 2021 is just going to make everyone far more insane.  We're tired of this.

Like that means anything, I've been predicting an upcoming Civil War 2.0 for sixteen years but it's not like I actually wanted it to happen.

President Trump Announces Another Peace Deal in the Middle East – Israel and Morocco Agree to Full Diplomatic Relations
December 10, 2020

CA HHS Secretary Admits Outdoor Dining Ban Is About Control, Not Science
December 9, 2020

“So the decision to include, among other sectors, outdoor dining, and limiting that, turning to restaurants to deliver and provide takeout options instead, really has to do with the goal of trying to keep people at home, not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining,"
- Mark Ghaly, the state’s Health and Human Services Secretary

I included the above last night, I'm just curious how blogger.com keeps track of the dates.

One toke of Rococo Coffee over the line

Is something going on for Christmas?  It seems like there's a slight uptick in ornaments already.  Maybe people just put them up because they had nothing else to do but as always, I wonder...  It's not like I have anything else to do.

□ [“Bernie Sanders Admits Democrats Blocked COVID Relief For Americans"]

They don't even try to pretend they're doing this for anything other than power.  I'm trying to figure out when this change was made.  I've suspected for a while that Democrats have thrown parties at various funerals, so maybe it would be McCain's funeral that it happened.

□ [“17 States Join Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Over Fraudulent Election"]

Ok, now we're getting to Civil War 2.0.  Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.  The North Dakota-to-Texas line sticks out, a total division of east-west.

Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have to respond by 3:00 PM Thursday (tomorrow.)  It's not clear what they have to respond to or how, possibly it's just reporting to the court that they will defend themselves or something along those lines.  This is probably what Trump was referring to about something happening in the 'next few days.'

Is this why there was a Supreme Court change right before the election?  I remember comments after the 2018 elections that keeping the Senate was the important part and obviously they'd be required for the new Supreme Court members.  I don't trust them and I'm not happy that we went this far (and will obviously go farther) but thinking about this suggests how high-up decisions get made.

Cuomo's Lockdown Threat Loophole Spares 'Saturday Night Live'
December 8, 2020

It was forty years ago today! Sergeant Pepper got his revenge.

Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, age 97
December 7, 2020

I've been thinking about Lennon lately although I'm not sure what to say.  I didn't even realize until around noon that it was the 40th anniversary.

2060 Verified Dead Absentee Voters in Wayne County Michigan, how many more are there?
December 7, 2020

I am wondering if all these proofs of vote-fraud are building up to something.  Redoing the election would be the most obvious choice but is that remotely doable?  What other option is there?  My worry is that the Supreme Court will simply ignore all the cases they're offered.

□ [“Schumer pressures Biden to bypass Congress to cancel $50,000 in student debt per borrower"]
□ [“Nancy Pelosi Creates Tiny 101-Day Working Schedule for Next Congress"]

Once again they show that they have no interest in the republic.  They aren't going to do any work, they'll just get a paycheck.

□ [“Wayne's World Reunited Apart - PARTY TIME!"]

Another Youtube video series.  I started watching this looking forward to it and I've seen they've done similar shows with Ferris Bueller, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future, but I'm not sure I want to see those now.  This had the main cast, the director, several producers and still more people all for a video that's barely half an hour long.

Wayne and Garth could have handled that, maybe bringing in cameos here and there.  Tia Carerre was a nice addition - and the show ended with her singing a verse or so of "Ballroom Blitz" which made me smile - but that's just too many people.  Alice Cooper didn't need to be there, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry didn't need to open the show, Brian May and Roger Taylor didn't really add anything but their presence.  Queen's been my favorite band ever since the movie came out and this didn't help anything.

There wasn't much in the way of serious discussion, just a few brief descriptions of how the movie was set up and a few scenes mentioned.  They spent more time reciting a couple of scenes or lines than anything else and there was some brief "trivia game" with two or three irrelevant questions.  Tia and Rob Lowe were the best additions and brought the most content, Lowe describing the change to comedy and hosting SNL, Tia pointing out that she had to turn down a job on Baywatch to be in the movie, stuff like that.

It's a nice novelty but I don't see much benefit beyond showing that these people still exist.  I'm not saying I won't see any of the others - Back to the Future is still tempting - but they didn't even bother to get Chris Farley, what's up with that?

□ [“It's Time to go BACK TO THE FUTURE! | Reunited Apart with Josh Gad"]

This one was more enjoyable because they had fewer people involved so they could get into more detail.  Nothing special was said but it was fun.  An amusing opening, Christopher Lloyd who thinks it's an interview and refuses to talk about Back to the Future so the guy asks about Taxi, what was that like, did Reverend Jim believe in time-travel?  This one ended with people (no idea who they are) playing "Power of Love" which I haven't heard in ages but I'm not complaining.

Obviously Crispin Glover was there, I assume no one wanted him involved.  No idea why they didn't invite Biff.  They did include both actresses playing Jennifer, the joke was that Claudia Wells only showed up after everyone else was gone, "I always wanted to meet Elizabeth Shue."

This was much better.  I'll probably watch the Ghostbusters video because it's Ghostbusters, duh, but how can they pull that off?  Egon is dead, Rick Moranis almost-certainly completely retired and Bill Murray is, well, Bill Murray.

□ [“GHOSTBUSTERS Reunited Apart"]

Also better than the first one.  They only brought in extra people at the end.  They weren't needed either but ok, Jennifer Runyan.  Again there was more detail than the Wayne's World video.  Bill Murray was, well, Bill Murray but not in a bad way.

It probably varies but to an extent, some of the actors have been more in character which is nice.  Annie Potts is always fun and they got her to open up the video as Janine answering the call.  I'm not really interested in seeing the people repeat their dialogue - although there are exceptions -  and they don't much detail about their characters or situations.  Sigourney Weaver at least said something about the work and apparently it was her idea to turn into a dog.  I had heard before that it was a deliberate acting challenge for her, she'd just been in Alien which was not remotely like dealing with Saturday Night Live creators.

I'm still ambivalent on the songs being used but well, Ray Parker Jr. singing and guitar for the theme song is totally worth watching.  The only disappointment was they didn't have everybody else  telling us who we gonna call.

I suppose I'll watch Ferris Bueller although they definitely won't have the writer/director in this one as John Hughes is also quite dead.  If I'm not wasting time on movies, it's still some sort of videos but that's how it goes.

There's also a tribute to John Hughes .  Most of the actors are not remotely recognizable and Chevy Chase is not remotely in shape, he could barely recite the dialogue and I don't remotely want to know what happened to Judd Nelson.

The Ferris Bueller reunion was all right.  Ben Stein looks about as out-of-shape as Chevy Chase although with their ages, it makes sense.  They didn't end with a song but did have Kristy Swanson repeat her line of dialogue.  "Thank you, Simone."  "No problem whatsoever."

I guess it is nice to hear the dialogue repeated.  It's not a big deal, they don't have to act or expand the characters, just recite what helped them get this far, but it's overall a fun idea.

So this is Pearl Harbor Day and what have you done?

We're almost out of time.  The Electoral College is meeting in a week.  Obviously the conflicts will continue afterwards no matter what, but we're out of time.  There's no reason it should have gone this far.

□ [“President Trump: 'The Case Has Been Made – You’ll See a Lot of Big Things Happening Over the Next Couple of Days'"]

We've heard that before.  Given his media experience and the service of people like LTC Miller, I can't understand why this wasn't handled behind the scenes with most of us completely ignorant of it.  I can imagine quite a bit of monitoring going on and probably can't imagine how many there actually was, Biden could have surrendered well before Election Day.

I have the privilege of having played a small role in that sort of area, I can still believe there's an overall plan/mission going on but do not see any reason for this.  2020 is not a year anybody's going to look back on with pleasure.

The left's plans are underway as well.  They're all working together one way or another.  They've gone from denying all voter fraud to saying there was no widespread evidence to saying it didn't actually change the results to saying it's too late to change things now.

□ [“The Covid-19 Crisis Has Wiped Out Nearly Half Of Black Small Businesses"]

Individual businesses are what they oppose and especially any blacks who dare to try getting out.  Just give them a limited amount of welfare and they'll never leave.  All businesses had to be started by individuals who have to make their own decisions and take the profit and the risk.  The people who do nothing but try to totally be in charge are the ones who oppose it.

Expert Identifies 200,000 Votes Hi-Jacked from Trump to Biden in Georgia at the Precinct Level
December 7, 2020

Protest Erupts In Front Of Radical MI Sec of State Jocelyn Benson’s Home After Lawmakers Discover All MI County Clerks Were Ordered to Delete All Election Related Data From Computers
December 6, 2020

Oregon Teacher Has Complete Meltdown at Anti-Lockdown Protesters, Tells Them to ‘Kill Yourself’
December 6, 2020

Just another manic Sunday, I wish it were Monday, that's my fun day. Or at least it's not Sunday, ewwwwww!

Dueling Pro-Trump Versus Antifa Rallies in Olympia Result in Gunfire
December 6, 2020

Michigan and Pennsylvania Secretaries of State Gave Far Left Rock the Vote Activists Access to Sensitive Data on All Voters
December 5, 2020

□ [“Trump Pulls Troops From Somalia, Gnashing of Leftist Teeth Follows"]

The "anti-war" movement is all nonsense, they're just going along with leftists and opposing anyone else.  Never mind all the months on Syria and Libya, two of my three Iraq deployments were under Obama and a third one elsewhere in the Middle East and there wasn't a protester to be found.  They aren't opposed to war, they're opposed to anyone who disagrees and are more than willing to send men with guns out to get them.

□ [“LA Restaurant Owner Rips Garcetti Hypocrisy: Why Shut Me Down While Allowing A Hollywood Canteen In My Parking Lot?"]

They really have no idea what they're doing, do they?  It's always about choosing the people who suck up to them and limiting or eliminating those who don't.  They have no idea how to run a business, they have no way to measure any method of success, all they can do is repeat the same slogans anyone else on their side recites and assume that's progress.

How do they get to that?  It's one thing to indoctrinate the youth but many of them do realize at some point that there's more to life outside leftism and set examples everyone else can see no matter what the indoctrinators demand.  How is it that so many people can't?  I don't even think it's conscious for the most part, they just don't think that way.

Don't ask what's wrong with you unless you really want to know the answer.

□ [“Multiple Brawls Break Out Between Trump Supporters and Antifa in Olympia, Militant Leftist Puts Out Desperate Call for Backup on Twitter"]

This is getting started.  Leftists should have said that no one should follow their example when pretending the supposed-new POTUS wasn't actually elected.  Now they have to openly point out that it's ok when they do something but not ok when other people do it.

I would definitely believe the right will win physical combat while it's still mob against mob.  They'll also win when guns start being used, the question is when and how that's going to happen.

Riots In Paris As Furious Masked Mob Set Cars On Fire And Throw Molotov Cocktails During Anti-Violence Rally
December 5, 2020

Australians Banned From Australian Island Bought by Chinese Developer
December 4, 2020

Still focusing on Claremont's X-Men (without actually trying to re-read it) and finally found actual release dates which weren't what the comics listed.  Drew Barrymore was born three days before Giant-Sized X-Men #1 came out, the only remaining important person from her Hollywood family.  Industrial Light and Magic was formed right after Claremont's first issue came out, there was a bit of delay in the release of #99 which I assume was just a little bubble as Jim Shooter had just taken over as Editor-in-Chief, then Star Wars started being filmed after #99 came out.  It was in theaters just before #107 came out Phoenix had appeared.

I'm still unsure what to think about the Barrymore family - as far as I know, E.T. is the only movie I've ever seen any of them in - but the rest of that can't be a coincidence.  What else went on around that time?

The Beatles' road manager Mal Evans pointed an air-rifle at police so they shot him.  Rebel Without a Cause/gay idol actor Sal Mineo was shot by a mugger, the Eagles released the first platinum album in history, their greatest hits.  Marvel and DC were messing with their prices which finally put Marvel in charge of the comics industry.  Freddie Prince Jr. was born, a bigger star than his father ever was but his father seems to have been messed up in Hollywood stuff.  That's ignoring things going on in the rest of the world (like the Olympics) and I've probably already formatted a bunch of stuff in my "history project" so I can't find it right now.  And that's only February.

Harold Wilson suddenly quit as British Prime Minister and a few days later, Princess Margaret announced she was getting divorced.  The Socialist Party won in France and Philistines finally got around to uniting against Israel.  David Bowie's The Man Who Fell To Earth was released and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept the Oscars.  [Odd, Bowie was supposed to do the soundtrack for his movie but contractual limitations got in the way.  That's not so odd, his manager was problematic to say the least.  So instead they got John Phillips, another one of those lunatics whose bad influence probably hasn't yet been measured enough.]  The Bad News Bears movie came out, featuring Michael Jackson's girlfriend [!] Tatum O'Neil.  This would become a TV show staring another Michael Jackson buddy, Corey Feldman.  Patty Hearst was on trial.

Howard Hughes would die just as April started.  That's a lot of stuff going on and I haven't even reached Jean Grey becoming Phoenix, much less her first appearance.

Oh, and I was born around this time.  I'm sure anybody could look up what was going on in the world when they were born and see a lot of odd coincidences, but, well, that's part of what my "history project" is about.  I'm still stuck in the 1500s and I'm wasting time on this, what's wrong with me?

It's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I'd rather just stay in bed and read a book.

One Batch of 23,000 Ballots All For Biden Identified in Georgia That Were Fraudulent – More than Enough for Trump Win
December 4, 2020

I'm not paying much attention to all the reports of vote fraud but obviously they're all there and there's more coming out.  So what do we do about it?  I don't have any answers.  It does sound like some state governments are starting to resist their Electoral votes although no idea if they're powerful enough to go through with that.

□ [“Biden to CNN: If Kamala and I Disagree on Principle – 'I’ll Develop Some Disease and Say I Have to Step Down'"]

And of course she's right there so she knows it.  The only question is if she actually wants to be openly in charge - my guess is 'probably', just to set the record - or would rather have someone else take all the blame for her decisions.  He also describes how he broke his foot by jumping out of a shower to chase a dog and pull its tail, none of which sounds like a man who should be in charge of a dog, much less the greatest nation ever.  Is he going to get naked and chase Chinese to stop them from owning slaves?  One assumes Nancy Pelosi will call on the 25th Amendment sooner rather than later.

□ [“Pelosi Admits She Sent Millions Into Poverty by Holding Up Covid Relief For Political Reasons – Says She is Now Willing to do Smaller Covid Deal with Biden"]

She's got her mansions, that's all that matters.  The peasants will have to just suffer until she gets around to doing anything.

While looking up any other news to see if I had anything to say, I just discovered that my former battalion commander is now the acting Secretary of Defense.  He still owes me a carton of smokes for all the times he bummed one.  If he called me up tonight and asked me to start working for him, I'd be there Monday morning.  He'd have to call early though, it'd be a long drive.

As much as anything, that's a way to describe the problems I've been having, with no where to go and no idea what to do.  I have been hearing signs that people are starting to work out some form of opposition.  It's not clear what or who but obviously that would start sooner or later.  I was never Special Forces [duh] but I did a damn good job working for them over ten years as a red-hatter and I'd give almost anything to do it again as a civilian.  At least I have that possibility, others have different ones but I truly believe they are going to start working together.  LTC Miller [I can call him that] is one of the guys who knows how it's going to work.

I'm not saying it gives me any hope, but it's nice to see someone I used to know get somewhere important instead of hanging out with bums like 2nd BN.

Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy? Is it what's behind Door #3?

□ [“Democratic socialist AOC gets destroyed on Twitter for selling $58 'Tax The Rich' shirts"]

How will poor people get one?  That price doesn't include shipping-and-handling charges.  She's not even trying to show any actual interest in poor people.  She knows where her fanbase is.

Trump gave a speech yesterday.  I didn't pay much attention, I'm still of the 'wait a while before responding to it' mentality.  But I did read the speech and it's a good summary of the fraud that's been found so far.  The problem is that it doesn't go anywhere.  There's no way any Democrat leader is going to quit now that they've gotten this far.  There's talk of Trump starting martial law which I think is a horrible idea and even if it wasn't, that's just how Democrats have been running states and cities for months now, and they don't even need to follow their own rules.

ANOTHER ONE: Dem Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards caught socializing at a country club without a mask in mid-November
December 2, 2020

Crazed Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Cancel Christmas: “It’s Time to Cancel Everything”
December 3, 2020

I've been thinking about the movie industry for months and one thing I've noticed is that the industry comes as close to faking an art form because of the sheer number of people involved in putting together even the most basic ones.

Actors and directors get all the attention but they aren't remotely a large part of the work.  The sets require designers and construction, management and cleaning.  Electricity, lights are needed, then there's costumes, sounding, cameras, make-up and that's just the stuff I can think of, there's probably a lot more.  The crew needs meals, many people have assistants, then there's the unions, the producers...  Notice I haven't even got into advertising or editing/printing the finished film reels.  The director doesn't do it himself.

No other artform requires anywhere near that many people or the same amount of money to create.  An opera, theater or orchestra does require a lot, but nowhere near that many.  The Rolling Stones need a lot of people to tour from stadium to stadium but that has more to do with playing stadiums and transport.  They still play theaters when they feel like it and I'd bet they bring more permanent staff with them than are needed for the performance.

I know there are exceptions to my examples but even there that's unusual.  No other bands are as big as the Stones.  Many movies have been made on very low budgets but still out of our range.  Plan 9 From Outer Space cost $60,000 in 1959 money, more than I've ever made in any year of my life.  I bet if I check the math, it'll be several years worth of my best paygrade ever.  The Blair Witch Project cost at least $200,000 in 1999 money, not counting advertising.

It may not be art, but making a movie does require awareness of large amounts of money that most people never have anything to deal with.  And I have to think that the nature of making the movies on this scale means diminishing individualism by its very nature.  Except the actors.  And the director and maybe the screenwriters, they're all important but everyone else can be replaced.

Music can require a large band but that's not required for anything beyond live performance.  Rock has usually just had four or five members of the band, Genesis and Rush have had even fewer.  Singers may not even play an instrument.  They can all play multiple instruments in the recording studio.

Then there's other art forms.  Books and paintings can be done by more than one person but they usually aren't.  Painters may have assistants, book companies usually come with editors and cover-designers, but they aren't required for the process.  Comics can be done by a minimum of people even in the harshest company conditions.  The penciller can ink and/or letter, the writer may draw, the artist may come up with the story and have someone else fill in the words, a black-and-white comic doesn't need a colorist.

So I wonder if that's a reason that leftism has been part of movies for their whole existence.  You could say it came from elsewhere, it was the early 20th century and leftism was trying to get into everything anyway, but it may explain those who focus so heavily on movies, thought isn't required and the only individuals who matter are the star actors on screen.

And we see them pushing this mentality on everyone whenever possible.  I'm just making the theory up and I'm sure it's not entirely correct but there does seem to be something to it.

Not sure what I have other than headlines today

□ [“REWRITING HISTORY: New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Claims Democrats Never Called Trump Illegitimate"]

He said it himself, is he not a Democrat?  Hillary said it, Jimmy Carter said it, are they not Democrats?  And they aren't the only ones who said it.  Is that what it means to be in Year 0 where nothing actually happened before?

That's how you know you're an elite, you can make up nonsense that completely contradicts other nonsense you made up and everyone has to treat you seriously.

Democrat Austin Mayor Urged People to ‘Stay Home’ as He Vacationed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with Family Members and Guests
December 2, 2020

San Jose Mayor ‘Apologizes’ After Getting Caught Gathering with His Family For Thanksgiving in Defiance of California Covid Order
December 1, 2020

NYC Bar Owner Arrested in Sting Operation For Defying Covid Order
December 2, 2020

New York State is seriously running stings and fining bars for not serving enough food
December 2, 2020

Nashville Police Criminally Charge Three Women For Hosting Football House Party in Violation of Covid Order
December 2, 2020

Try to see it my way, we can't work it out.

□ [“Parent company of Dominion Voting Systems Received $400 million from Swiss Investment Bank in October 2020 — 75% owned by the Chinese Government"]
□ [“WE GOT IT! — Col. Waldron Confirms US Has a Copy of the Election Night Data ‘Traffic and Packets’ Sent Overseas to Frankfurt!"]

Ok, we've definitely got something but this is just ridiculous for how long it's taking.

□ [“Missouri Lawmaker Discovers Dominion Failed to Pay Missouri Taxes and Is Not Allowed to Operate in the State — But They Are Still Running Elections Here"]

If true, it wouldn't be surprising if this went on in other states and cities.  You'd think the left would oppose that but it would require them to have a consistent standard that applies to everyone.  They want to punish Trump for following the tax laws of NYC and NY, why would they apply the same standard to everyone else?  Otherwise they'd have to be wondering why those Democrat-run cities and states are so incompetent and what other rich people are getting away with not paying taxes.  Or, in this case, a foreign business handling elections.

How could this not have been watched as soon as it started?  Of course some people are still assuming the reveal is ready.  I'm tempted to ask if we can expect it in the 2020s or if the 2030s are more likely.

NYC Mayor de Blasio Allows In-Person Elementary School Starting on December 7 - Just before Christmas break or will they be banning Christmas?
November 30, 2020

LA County Supervisor Caught Dining at Restaurant Just Hours After Voting to Ban Outdoor Dining Over Covid-19 Concerns
December 1, 2020

Iran Changes Story, Claims Nuclear Weapons Chief Killed by Israeli-Made ‘Remote-Controlled Device' - Not an ambush by several gunmen and truck with explosives
December 1, 2020

Do unto others what they've been doing to everyone for four years.

A couple rumors have come out today, obviously no proof now, maybe never.  If there's actually an overall plan to keep the election from being stolen, one rumor says Biden actually asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to help get a pardon from Trump for him and his family.  That actually came from a Chinese news show, cannot find the name and obviously no reason to believe it even if I did.  Another rumor says that the female head of the CIA has just died of "natural causes."  Not the virus then?  At least she didn't break her leg like Biden.

Definitely not seeing any reason for hope.  It would be nice to have some.  Obviously the left has wanted to demoralize us all year, is it because that's just their thing or out of fear their schemes were being caught?

I've finally found a glimmer of, not hope or leadership, but at least a direction to head next.  In hindsight, it's probably believable that it would take a few weeks to think of something.  We may have even had similar thoughts but I haven't seen them put into simple words yet.  The websites I've seen - and have been following precisely because I needed it - have been reading like the plan would come to fruition any moment and Trump would continue his Presidency.  I still hope that happens but it was indistinguishable from Democrats saying the same thing when they lose.  Of course they don't lose because the election was stolen but they think they did and that's the effect here.  The rumors posted at the top came from such sites.

But this comes off as a basic direction and view to keep going with, there are concepts that can be used in practice.
□ [Instapundit: #Resist]

Using game theory, it has been determined that the proper way to respond to defection from optimal behavior between two parties, is to match any bad behavior by equal retaliation. Acquiescing in bad behavior without consequences simply gets you more of it.

So, the only rational rational response for Trump supporters, after the last four years is to respond to Biden exactly as Trump was treated:

#NotMyPresident
#StolenElection
#FuckBiden
#Resist

First, no one who voted for or supports Trump will recognized Biden as legitimate. Second, everyone who voted for Trump will believe and continue to proclaim that the election was stolen, in this case with far more factual basis. Third, Biden will not be given any deference or respect due to his office, but will be given only contempt and profane disrespect. Fourth, there will be no prospect of cooperation but only opposition, in every lawful way, to everything he says, does, or proposes, all day, every day, until he is gone.

At some future date reconciliation may be possible. But not until the last four years has been repaid in full.

And the foregoing is on the presumption that Biden will be sworn in as President, which he should not be, and which may not happen.

This is understandable.  We already have a lot more proof of what they've done then they ever had.  The only thing they can do is destroy things and give orders, the orders that there's no reason to obey.  I do assume their pretension to "equality" will be one of the first things they ditch, they cannot permit their inferiors to have any of the rights they claim, the builders, those who know how to deal with reality, or men with guns.

The left is in a somewhat-similar position, they're finally starting to get around to thinking about how they could have unquestionably believed in the "Blue Wave" and been so completely wrong.  How are they supposed to keep their promises if they lost House seats and will have to steal the Georgia elections just to get 50% in the Senate?  Where did they get the notion that they'd win big time?  Every poll, every interview, every media article, all insisted that this would happen, no if's, and's or but's.  Hell, Trump even got more votes than every other Presidential candidate in history except one and he didn't go through graveyards for his.

How are Democratic leaders supposed to continue the propaganda that got them their voters when it totally didn't work?

I don't know where we'll be four years from now, only one way to find out.

Georgia Dem Senate Candidate Ossoff Says We Need a One-Party Government During Pandemic Crisis
November 29, 2020

Former FBI Special Agent Finds 17,514 Georgia Voters with Out-of-State Forwarded Mail Addresses
November 30, 2020

Star-studded "Time’s Up" charities spent big on salaries, little on helping victims
November 28, 2020

Ben Bova, science fiction author, 88 years old
November 29, 2020

When you're smiling, the whole world wonders what's wrong with you.

In a week, the Electoral College will get together.  So we're totally at the end of the line here.  I actually have more trust in them than on the courts but a) maybe I'm wrong and b) so what would that do?  If they don't come to a decision, I believe it goes down to the House and that won't be good.  I still can't believe these would be the only defenses in place all along the line.

That said, I suddenly have a fantasy about this being a set-up and every member of the EC receives a letter clearly sent years earlier but describing exactly what's been happening these days and what's being done about it.

They're also having problems with the Georgia vote counting machines.  As always, I haven't looked closely so I'm not sure what to believe, but they're broken, being erased or flat-out missing.  Also the judge who keeps changing his mind has reportedly gone back to ordering a delay.

Oregon Gym Fined $90,000 For Staying Open During Covid Shutdown, As County Commissioners Take Trips To Hawaii
November 29, 2020

Perspective: St. Louis Has 239 Homicides this Year and 238 Coronavirus Deaths – At Least 50 Children Shot So Far This Year
November 29, 2020

Massive Islamic Terrorist Attack In Nigeria Results In Deaths Of At Least 110 People
November 29, 2020

Nature pricks them and their heart engages, the people long to go on pilgrimages or just anywhere outdoors for a change!

NYC Pub Borrows a Page From Leftists in Lockdown Dispute, Declares Itself an 'Autonomous Zone'
November 28, 2020

□ [“Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tosses GOP Lawsuit on Absentee Ballots, Lifts Block on Certification of Election"]

This is an example of the problems I've been having with what-little-we-know about what's going on, the courts aren't trustworthy as a way to settle the problem.  Obviously they have to go through this before going to the Supreme Court but at this point I don't see a reason to trust the Supreme Court either.  And pretending everything goes the way it should, the left won't believe in it so what's the point?

I do wonder just how random Ruth Bador Ginsberg's death was, given how quickly the Senate moved through for a replacement.  If she were still alive (assuming she hadn't retired oh who am I kidding?) would everything be different now?  That's one of those things that I don't think we'll ever learn the truth about.

□ [“Judge Timothy Batten Issues Order to Freeze All Dominion Machines in Georgia …UPDATE: Judge Reverses Order Within Hours"]

Another example, the most obvious guess is that he's giving into whichever side hit him last.  I've been wondering about Georgia for a while anyway and would like to find some detailed history on its election process.  Two Republican governors between July 1868-January 1872 and the next one took office in January 2003.  I've already looked at Atlanta having even fewer Republican mayors.  At least the northern states bounced back and forth.  One Republican Senator in 1871, the next in 1980, then they started mixing up and both have been Republican since 2005.  Majority of Republicans in Congress between 1868 and 1875, then the next one took office in 1965, two more in the 1960s.  One Republican in 1979, one in 1985, three in 1993 and since then most have been Republican.

Republicans ran the state senate for two years in 1869-70, lost the majority in 1871 and it was 1965 before you needed two hands to count the number of members, 1989 before you needed more than two hands to count them and 2003 when they had a majority.  The state house has more members so obviously there were more Republicans, sometimes even needing two hands to count after the Civil War.  1965 and 2003 show up again for the increase and majority.

At this point I have to wonder if Democrats were just so messed up in 1965 - technically the 1964 election - that this is why they started losing seats and magically decided Republicans were the ones doing all those awful things they had done for a century.  But 2003 has always been interesting and I've never figured out what happened.  I remember the Republican majority increased in DC and it was noted to be unusual for any POTUS to see that in the off-year elections.  It was also guessed that it was a post-9/11 reaction which is certainly possible.  I think it's a large part of it but it can't be all, can it?

Joe Biden’s Team Won’t Allow Pool Reporters to See Biden Go In or Leave Doctor Appointment After He Twists His Ankle – No Explanation Given
November 29, 2020

Didn't that happen to Axl Rose right before the G'n'R reunion?  I'd swear it happened to someone else around that time which was why I noticed it, although I don't remember any details.  I used to have a memory, I really did.  I remember having one!

David Prowse, Darth Vader, age 85
November 28, 2020

If John Lennon actually needed help, wouldn't he have told somebody?

I actually do have more things to say than I had yesterday, but I've been working on the book all day so I dunno how much I've worked out.

It's basically a given that the left stole the election, they just don't want to admit it.  No matter how many Republicans won, all the votes were for Biden who somehow got lower votes in most counties than previous Democrat candidates yet set a new record of over 10 million votes?  Would they have gotten that record if he'd been on top of the ticket instead of that loser Obama?  Half a million "people" voted for Biden and no one else?  They weren't the ones electing Republicans.

Now the left isn't going to acknowledge any of this but they avoid reality in the first place.  Notice how in the last few years, everything became "racist."  China can keep adding slaves but they're not opposed to slavery, China even supported Biden and gave Biden's son tons of money somehow.

Unfortunately there's still rumors of something big going on behind the scenes.  The latest rumor I've seen says there are over 20,000 deputized people ready to move in on the sting.  It wasn't just investigating the 2016 elections, it was preparing for 2020.  It'll be biggest at "17 days before Trump gets sworn into office," that would be January 3.

Here's the record to this rumor just in case something happens but I'm not optimistic.  I've said many times that there's no reason this shouldn't have been well on the way before Election Day and we've seen nothing of that.  This is not the way to go and every day nothing has happened proves me less and less wrong.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332325278010515457.html

I thought there was a chance for this plan to work but it would happen before Thanksgiving.  Before that I thought it would happen two weeks after the election.  Before that one week after.  Before that it would only be a day or so.  Before that, well, I thought their plans would take care of things before the election.  I'm starting to look for comments I made like that, such as October 26, "I do think that Biden can’t win without several tons of vote fraud."  Well, we got that, now what?

It's not like these millions of people - I assume at least some are currently alive - will suddenly realize what's been going wrong, it's what they believe they've been going for their entire lives.  I'll say it again, Biden could flat-out admit that he stole the election with fake votes and they'd still insist he was now POTUS, ignoring what day the Constitution says he'll actually get the job.

I definitely don't trust judges or the Electoral College to stop this.  They should but there's no reason to believe in them at this point.

Still trying to get used to being back on a blog.  I will definitely give Facebook credit for being able to post as much or as little as I had to say at any given time.  On a blog I feel like saying more even if I'm not actually adding anything.  On Facebook I could make a quick comment, a longer comment, a paragraph or two or three or more.  I know that I could post multiple times per day on a blog, I just don't think it's the same format.  I'll see how it goes when I get around to finishing this new book and starting the next one.

Is Black Friday there to help Robinson Crusoe?

Toronto BBQ restaurant owner facing new charges for again defying COVID-19 lockdown rules
November 26, 2020

Reminder: In 2016 Democrats Threatened and Harassed Members of Electoral College to Stop Trump
November 26, 2020

FLASHBACK: Obama Says Mail-in Ballots Can Only Be Trusted if the Signatures are Verified (VIDEO)
November 27, 2020

Skin color tells leftists all they need to know about someone.  This is following the removal of individuality that they've always believed in since Marx or earlier.  I wonder how much of this is just to convince people to stay where they are until the government tells them to move.  Since they all think the same, they'll just obey without question.

At the same time, the elite get to show off their privilege in their mansions, private jets and so on.  Is there a coincidence in the rise of child-sex trafficking, particularly when the kids are flat-out told they don't have a gender and can have as much sex as their adult masters want?

Mysterious Spike in Incomplete NV Voter Registrations – 13,372 with Invalid Birthdates and Casinos and Temporary RV Parks as a Home Address
November 27, 2020

I don't know if I have anything to say today.  I've been working on the book as always.  I think I've got a little further in insights on leftism but not enough to put it into words.  I've noticed a bunch of other people seem to be doing that as well.  Why not, we're all watching it happen.

There are also reports that some of the state governments are trying to make a move against the stolen election.  We'll see if any of that gets anywhere.  It does seem to becoming more clear that Civil War 2.0 is underway.  We'll have to see where the first battles take place.  It wouldn't surprise me if people like the rulers of New York send out men with guns to impose their will on the people who aren't just going along.  They get the high life, the peons not so much.

Today's a day like any other.

□ [“Cuomo Calls Police Who Don’t Enforce Covid Orders Dicators"]

This is an example of how idiotic leftists are.  Dictators are about sending men with guns to everyone's houses and forcing them to obey which is exactly what he's doing.  Dictators are not about letting people do their own thing.  It's a dictator's job to come up with what everyone must do and forbid anything else, punishing anyone who isn't doing what he told them to.

Does he even have a clue what he's doing or is he that stupid?  I have wondered for a while if that's the point of the Trump presidency, to drive the left over the edge.  That's certainly what we're seeing.

□ [“Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page Bombshell Complaint of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election – Update: Michigan too"]

Ok, that's something.  I doubt it would have been hard to show this much voter fraud, obviously there are legal requirements that would take time, but how could they not be prepared before Day 0?  Put out to every group of voters what the left would try to do and have them there with their phones and cameras to show footage.  A lot of people aren't in such groups but there must be other ways to get the message out.  It looks like the right was completely surprised by this which shouldn't have been the case.  I knew long ago they would try everything they could and I was surprised on Election Night, safe to assume people who don't pay as much attention were even moreso.

Will this work?  Will it get anywhere?  Will any leftist in the world think Biden may not actually be POTUS right now?

□ [“Mexico’s President Still Refuses to Recognize Biden Win"]

There has to be a plan.  I can understand why we wouldn't know the details of the plan but I don't see any reason why it's been over three weeks and we're only getting vague notes that something is being done, much less that it has any chance of working.  I was lucky enough to spend years working with highly-trained-and-classified soldiers preparing for missions where it was important to make sure everyone knew what was going on and what effect they would have on.  Not everybody had to know everything but basics need to be put out as much as possible for the best chance of mission-success.

I think (hope) that's the sort of people handling the plan.  The military knows that China and Iran have been using this Dominion voter system, according to Powell's Georgia report.  I don't think it's remotely a coincidence that General Flynn has just received his pardon although it's not clear why now and not a year ago.  Perhaps it holds back the leftist judge that went after him?

It would be nice to think that this plan will go straight to the Constitution.  I've long suspected that this was the sort of thing the right did which the left couldn't.  Build something that works, what doesn't work falls apart.  The left is just going for whatever's on their mind at the moment and will ditch it in a heartbeat for something else.  They can't build anything, they can only take other people's work.

As an obvious example, why didn't Karl Marx use the internet?  If it didn't exist, why didn't he invent it?  Because it couldn't be created without the capitalist society he wanted to destroy long before it was ever conceived of and now marxists want to control the internet like everybody has a right to it.  The military knows how to do that and how to rely on what works while updating it.  It's the most ideal format of right and left and basically by definition, not everybody can be part of it.

If there's a plan to it or not, we're obviously at a crucial time in history.  I don't see any way it'll get better any time in the near-future.

Just a note, I'm editing the proof copy of the next book and reached an article written on August 30, 2018 about China's enslaving the Uighurs and I suddenly wondered if that partially explains the leftist change recently.

China knows how to control leftists, they already support communists and the state running slavery, could that be how they started calling everything "racism" when they're obviously projecting their own views on anyone who disagrees with them?  Could there be a translation of Uncle Tom which would explain why Democrats suddenly started bringing up now and hating as much as they did 150 years ago?  The best I can find on Google is that the first translation was in 1993.

Another day to go nowhere.

President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn
November 25, 2020

Child Abuse? HBO Max Documentary Celebrates 4-Year-Old Boy's Transgender Identity
November 24, 2020

Democrat Mayor of Denver Boards Flight to Houston to Visit Family Minutes After He Reminds People Not to Travel For Thanksgiving
November 25, 2020

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Encourages Residents to Call Police on Neighbors Violating COVID Rules
November 23, 2020

□ [“Pennsylvania Judge Blocks State From Certifying Election Results"]

There seems to be starting to be a move here.  Finally, over three weeks after the "election."  I don't know why but I'm still split increasingly, that there's a plan underway to defeat the leftists from stealing the election and that it's over, they've taken it and can't be stopped.  As always, I think it would have been much smarter to stop them at the time, now they've had more weeks to fake votes and who can we turn to other than Democrat judges?

□ [“NOT Making Headlines: Las Vegas Oddsmakers STILL Not Paying Out for Biden Victory — Gamblers More Honest than Garbage Dump Media"]

There's also reports that Obama staffers are kicking out people Biden would pick for his administration.  I can believe that but doesn't it always happen?  I've always suspected one of the reasons Hillary gave up was because Obama agreed to hire her people.  It's not like he cared about that and Biden is probably along the same lines.  At least it's worth noting at another problem Democrats are facing against each other, but whether that'll lead to anything will probably be unknown forever.  It's the people who helped get Biden "elected" who suffer for what other unelected people demand for themselves.

□ [“Marvel Officially Cancel Dark Agnes, Daily Bugle, Morbius MIA No More"]

There seems to be a lot more titles on this list that are being cancelled.  ["Seems to be" because it's not clear and the website doesn't give any explanation.]  Only a few titles are even close to #10 and it seems like about half were being cancelled by #5.  What do they think they can do?

One of the titles is an adaptation of the last Star Wars movie, what brings that on?  Another one is a reprint of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, the marriage of Peter and MJ.  That one just boggles the mind that anyone would even think of it, who in their right minds would want it if they didn't already have one?  [I have mine, thank you.]  It was one of Jim Shooter's last decisions as Editor-in-Chief and basically showed why he was such a horrible leader.  It was an awful story which damaged the company's main character for no sensible reason other than an excuse for Jim Shooter to prove he was in charge.

Anyway, what's going on with these titles?  Why is Marvel running so many and dropping them so quickly?  It might be a response to DC's recent decisions but there's no way to know, nor a clue of what they're going to do next.

Because I feel like it, I'm also adding comments I made on a website on July 5, 2015 about Peter Parker marrying Mary Jane Watson.  For whatever reason, copy-and-paste has kept it in the original format so we'll see how it looks when I push "post."

Making MJ a supermodel for any length of time definitely reduces her character. I don't think it's demeaning so much as I don't think it's MJ as she's always been. She's hot and she knows it ["Face it tiger, you've hit the jackpot"] but there's five thousand other women like her in that section of Manhattan alone. Women far less attractive than MJ have to put up with far more unwanted advances from men before they turn 18. In this story, MJ is being given a Ferarri by someone who tells her to keep it because he's got another one. There are women who have to deal with men like that, and it is possible that MJ is one of those women, but if she is, she's not going to marry Peter Parker. Even at her best and noblest 'til death do us part' she isn't going to pick a freelance photographer who climbs up walls and could very easily leave her a widow without a pension, she's not insane. Or maybe she is insane, in which case Peter should have stayed the hell away from her to begin with. He wound up siding with the devil to give his decrepit aunt another six months in intensive care just so he could get out of that marriage; it wasn't a healthy relationship.

Basically I could go either way on whether or not Spider-Man should be married, and although MJ was definitely the best choice, he shouldn't have married the MJ that we were given here. If she's being flown to Paris by anybody other than a supervillain who will use her in his master plan for world dominance, she's wrong for Peter.

As for Peter's problems not revolving around his marriage, that's my point. He could have been whining and complaining just as easily to her if they were both single, all she did was sit there and respond. He did not treat her the same way, and her problems were usually idealized supermodel problems that often required a superhero to solve. At best it was defying the trope if she solved the problem herself anyway. MJ could have done that whether she was married or not.