Friday, July 31, 2020
It seems the software hosting this site has been changed and they are unrolling a new format. I like a couple of the new features but in general prefer what they call the legacy format. Hopefully there will remain an optional feature to access it because if not, it will make publishing here a lot harder and I may have to seek other mediums if this journal of sorts is to be continued here.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Miscellaneous Dyspeptic Mutterings:
I am loathe to mention these subjects but...
I have become convinced than in the lions share of cases, those espousing a particular position on masks would take the diametrically opposite view if they thought they could get a political benefit out of it. Meaning:
--Those #MAGA folks who publicly virtue signal about not wearing masks ever under any circumstance and take a "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" on reopening everything all at once would be the biggest mask nazis and wanting everything shuttered like a ghost town if Hillary Clinton was president right now. Why? To better hurt her politically.
--Those #NeverTrump folks who want to shut everything down everywhere and want people more masked than a Saudi wife are not the beacons of moral principle they purport to be. No, they are much more interested in crippling the economy to try and hurt the political standing of Orange Man this fall than they are for public safety. They would be the biggest "open it all up, we cannot be in fear" folks you can find and would probably be reprising FDR's famous slogan if someone more acceptable to them politically was in office.
It is no different here than with say the budget and debt. We now have folks who for eight years ignored and did not give a shit about ballooning deficits and skyrocketing debt under the prior administration who now suddenly are so concerned about these things? Yeah right!
Or those trusty Tea Party sorts who wailed and gnashed their teeth for eight years as the Obama administration stacked up debt but now say nary a thing when things under Orange Man continue as they did under his dusky-toned predecessor.
It even trickles down to the golf thing where those who gripe about Trump's golfing frequencies did not give a shit about the frequencies of Obama hitting the links while those who bitched often about how often Obama golfed suddenly are as quiet as whores in church when it comes to Trump's golfing.
THIS IS ALL POLITICS AND NOTHING MORE!
With the overwhelming majority of you all, stop pretending it is anything but this. The number of folks on any side who truly are taking stands of principle on these and other issues is very much in the minority. And that's the bottom line, cause Stone Cold said so!
I am loathe to mention these subjects but...
I have become convinced than in the lions share of cases, those espousing a particular position on masks would take the diametrically opposite view if they thought they could get a political benefit out of it. Meaning:
--Those #MAGA folks who publicly virtue signal about not wearing masks ever under any circumstance and take a "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" on reopening everything all at once would be the biggest mask nazis and wanting everything shuttered like a ghost town if Hillary Clinton was president right now. Why? To better hurt her politically.
--Those #NeverTrump folks who want to shut everything down everywhere and want people more masked than a Saudi wife are not the beacons of moral principle they purport to be. No, they are much more interested in crippling the economy to try and hurt the political standing of Orange Man this fall than they are for public safety. They would be the biggest "open it all up, we cannot be in fear" folks you can find and would probably be reprising FDR's famous slogan if someone more acceptable to them politically was in office.
It is no different here than with say the budget and debt. We now have folks who for eight years ignored and did not give a shit about ballooning deficits and skyrocketing debt under the prior administration who now suddenly are so concerned about these things? Yeah right!
Or those trusty Tea Party sorts who wailed and gnashed their teeth for eight years as the Obama administration stacked up debt but now say nary a thing when things under Orange Man continue as they did under his dusky-toned predecessor.
It even trickles down to the golf thing where those who gripe about Trump's golfing frequencies did not give a shit about the frequencies of Obama hitting the links while those who bitched often about how often Obama golfed suddenly are as quiet as whores in church when it comes to Trump's golfing.
THIS IS ALL POLITICS AND NOTHING MORE!
With the overwhelming majority of you all, stop pretending it is anything but this. The number of folks on any side who truly are taking stands of principle on these and other issues is very much in the minority. And that's the bottom line, cause Stone Cold said so!
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
More willful blindness by the media on spying by Obama administration
In a nutshell: this is a lot worse than Watergate. But the mainstream media does not care because it does not fit any of their preselected narratives.
In a nutshell: this is a lot worse than Watergate. But the mainstream media does not care because it does not fit any of their preselected narratives.
Monday, July 27, 2020
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