Back in July of 2015, when I was still active on the long-lost and dearly missed diary page at RedState, I posted an entry titled 'On Considering a Deliberate March into the Abyss'...the post is sadly long lost to the ether but I have my copy. At that point I was a former republican (Never …
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The Spotlight on Chief Justice ‘Skid Mark’ Intensifies
With that title reference to last Friday's post, I will take this post to add to the historical timeline markers of this story as Powerline directed us to Senator Kennedy in his typical form this week: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1906948011667698146 Mr. Hinderaker wraps up that post with this: Our country is undergoing a constitutional crisis. That crisis was …
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‘Signalgate’ – A Nothingburger of a Scandal but…
I have waited five days since marking this link and still have not found anything about this shallow attempt to cultivate yet another silly narrative against President Trump that interested me more than the term introduced to me here: The Signal chat thing is a gut check for alleged cons. Nothing significant was revealed. Worst …
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COVID + 5 Years – From ‘a crisis that cannot be looked upon too seriously’ to ‘…sifting out the truth from the mass of exaggerations…’
Looking back five years to when the 'pandemic' came crashing down on all of us seems to be a popular thing to do these days. I guess I will join the fun. Fortunately, almost two years ago, I took a look back from that vantage point at my own mindset at the time as documented …
The Roberts Judiciary – A Nasty (and Growing) Skid Mark on the Undershorts of American Government
Just so the reader doesn't unintentionally fall for a more innocuous meaning of the term that is certainly not intended, I will start with this from Urban Dictionary: Skid Mark - A line of fecal matter in your underwear that varies in thickness from thin to meaty. Usually a result of poor asswiping skills. [Emphasis …
The Real Economy Must Be Under There Somewhere
The truth about the economy is starting to sink in (via Instapundit earlier this week): "If we are having a recession over a decline in govt spending, then the GDP wasn't real to begin with. The US govt has a $2 trillion annual budget deficit. That is basically $2 trillion of artificial GDP that is …
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On Trump-et Blasts, Musk-et Blasts, and the Never Trump Ouija Board
A while back I described the second-hand information handed down from the Never Trump Ouija Board to us by our betters among the compliant rationalizers of the Soft Center Right this way: ...someday I would like to get a peek at the Never Trump Ouija Board that instills so much cocksurety into all of the …
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Notes on Two Revolutionaries, Volume 1 – Character and Setting
Brief Introduction - Back in early 2018 I finished reading an autobiography by Victor Serge titled Memoirs of a Revolutionary and, in my usual style, typed up twenty-two pages of notes on/from it. (If you don't know Serge, I highly recommend this and The Case of Comrade Tulayev, for starters.) Many times over the years …
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Exploitation – The Natural Consequence of the Prideless Executive
Much has been documented in the period between the very proud Donald J. Trump Administrations about the obvious lack of a prideful executive in these United States of America. A brief summary as noted here leading up to and just after the 2024 election (as pulled from the links at the end of this post): …
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The Long-Forgotten Client #9 Saga – Speaking of Conveniently Disappeared Client Lists…
Does the term "Emperors Club VIP" mean anything to anyone anymore? For those with short memories or just too young to know, that seems to have been a rather notable high-end escort agency popular among some unknown contingent of our ruling class (or similar) a couple of decades ago. I say high-end because it seems …
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