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I’m going to preface the remainder of this post by saying something which I probably didn’t do my best to get across in this piece.  Mainly, that what I’ve written about is a tragedy.  When any one person has wasted more of a lifetime than too many good people ever get to have, only to wind down his or her time on this earth with naught but pain and hurt inflicted upon others, that is not a thing to gloat about.  That is a very sad thing, indeed.
Time keeps on slipping into the future.  And for all his schemes and plans and plots over five decades, they have ultimately earned Joseph Robinette Biden not an iota of esteem or honor.  He had it all, and it has now come to nothing.
No, there will be no crowds waiting to enter the Joe Biden Presidential Library…

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Well, I’ll be darned.

After months of believing that the election would go otherwise, Donald Trump has won indeed.

I’ve rarely been so glad to have been so wrong.  Harris would have been an unprecedented disaster for America.  There would have been no end to inflation.  In fact, her policies would have made it much worse.  She didn’t see that.  She basically ran on one issue only – abortion, which is ridiculous to believe Trump is going to pass a law banning it nationwide – and that wasn’t enough to persuade enough Americans that she was going to be a competent leader.

Congratulations, Mr. Trump.  You and Melania are headed to the White House, again!  Just try to pick a better staff this time, ‘kay?...

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Regarding Murthy v. Missouri: the Supreme Court decision yesterday about government coercing social media companies to censor users’ activity based on political content.  SCOTUS decided that the plaintiffs had no standing and dismissed the lawsuit.

This seems like a colossal victory for the government and social media companies.  HOWEVER…

The case was *not* dismissed.  Today’s ruling dealt with the temporary injunction in the case, not the case itself.  The case was REMANDED, back down the legal chain.  It could still come before the high court where the plaintiffs can better frame their arguments with solid evidence of coercion and censorship.

I believe that such a thing is not only possible, it is almost guaranteed to happen.

Twitter, or X as it’s called now, is going to be VERY interesting to watch as it pertains to the case.  When Murthy v. Missouri was first filed it was confronting ...

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Ruins of the Capitol
from the video game Fallout 3

It’s been several hours since some semblance of a historical event transpired here in America: Kevin McCarthy was ousted from being Speaker of the House in the House of Representatives.  It’s the first time that’s ever happened.  McCarthy is now third place in being shortest term of office for a speaker.

I’ve taken a peak at some of the more prominent online news and politics forums.  And this has obviously been an event arousing considerable discussion, anger, and triumph.

But the best I’ve been able muster up is an indifferent shrug. 

Once upon a time, I would be following the ouster of Kevin McCarthy with intense interest.  It IS the very first time in American history that a House speaker has been tossed out of the position, after all.  In days past my eyes and ears would be absorbing every ...

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Found something last night while doing historical research.  It absolutely floored me to read this passage.  It could be referring to the America of today:

 

Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their friend and collaborator Christoph Probst wrote six leaflets in defiance of their government.  The three members of the “White Rose” were caught in February 1943 in Munich, Germany.  Four days later they were put on trial for crimes against the state.  It was a show trial, led by the infamous Nazi judge Roland Freisler.  
The three were declared guilty.  A few hours later the Scholls and Probst were executed by guillotine.
Sophie Scholl was twenty-one years old.
 
“History doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes.” ~ George Lucas
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Kindly allow me to boil down certain recent events into something that can be readily grasped. And I say this as someone who has never voted for Trump and likely never will.
The people applauding former President Donald Trump’s indictments don’t know what the (BLEEP) they are cheering for.
 
The United States is entering a dark place. We have already been poised to cross that line for a very long time. Now it is barreling headlong into the cave.
 
America is headed for grief.
 
And idiots are clapping and howling in delight as we do.
 
This is about larger matters than “we gotta get Trump”. But the ones screaming loudest probably don’t want to be bothered to be concerned for that.  What is befalling the former president right now is not the disease itself, but a symptom.  And I would be saying that regardless of
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The scene from the excellent HBO miniseries John Adams where Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the delegates vote to declare American secession from Britain:

I have to believe that the mood of the room following the vote for the Declaration of Independence in real life was no less solemn.  The look on their faces must have said it all: “Dear God, we just did that.  That just happened!  What have we done?!”

May we come to again honor those men who pledged their fortunes, their integrity, and their very lives so as to give us the blessings of liberty.

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Apparently, there are still good things about America.  And these Polish people know it.  So much so that a bunch of them have been live-action role-playing (LARP) as Americans.  Specifically, Americans in small-town Ohio.  And what has come of it is completely bonkers!

Vice has the story of the Polish LARPers, who were inspired in part by shows like Stranger Things and The X-Files (and also by Breaking Bad, if some of the photos are to be believed).  And at least two pages on Facebook (here and also here) are filled with more pictures.  Seems that these folks wanted to imitate the Fourth of July.  They certainly do not lack in their research.  These are just… wow.  It’s like that Star Trek episode where the crew finds the planet that’s copying 1920s-era gangster Chicago.  The cop with the donut (pictured here) is cracking me up hard....

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Let future historians note that within 72 hours of his inauguration as President of the United States, Joseph Biden has:

– Severely raised the price of insulin by rescinding directives of Donald Trump to the Department of Health and Human Services
 
– Deployed more military forces to Iraq
 
– Deployed more military forces to Syria
 
– Eliminated some 70,000 private sector jobs
 
– Cancelled permits for the Keystone XL pipeline that would have employed thousands
 
– Broke his promise about fracking made during his campaign for president
 
– Signed executive orders which will make the United States no longer a net energy exporter and will instead place the country back to relying on foreign oil.
 
– Eliminated women’s sports…
 
–  …and by the same stroke of a pen allowed grown men into high school girls’ locker rooms
 
– Mandated the wear
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Make a note of this.  January the Sixth, Two Thousand and Twenty-One.  Just before 1 p.m. EST.

If I’m wrong about this I’ll eat my fedora.  No really, I will.

Here it is:

I do declare that four years from today, the United States will be in the WORST condition it has been in, in at least the past fifty years.

Hold me to this.  Do it.

I am dead-#@%$ serious....

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