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these democrat lunatics

friday, march 14th, 2024

Do you think any normal people are listening to these Democrat and affiliated lunatics? I mean, I’m listening to them, and you’re probably listening to them, because we’re deep inside the whole political world, but I have to wonder -- are normal people paying any attention at all to these circus freaks and their incessant, hyperbolic whining, mewling, and complaining? I don’t know. I have been too busy lately to spend a lot of time around normal people, but I do see some indicators. About 76% of people who listened to Donald Trump’s speech the other night loved it. Americans never agree on 76% of anything, not even that puppies and cheeseburgers are swell, and yet 76% agreed that Trump did a good job. It didn’t hurt that the Democrats acted like complete idiots and embarrassed themselves, but still – out there in the real world, what are people actually thinking?

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Social media twists things. It provides a soap box for a few really smart people and a huge loudspeaker for a much greater number of complete morons. It’s like there’s an IQ test to join social media, and you only get admitted if you fail it. Look at the kind of thing you see on X lately, and not just from Americans. You’ve got a bunch of Canadians waving their goofy maple leaf flag like the biggest, butchest bunch of Tim Horton-lovong igloo jockey patriots ever to grace their godforsaken wilderness of snow and mooses, yet just a month ago their timelines were full of heartfelt sobbing about how Canada was built on the bones of genocided indigenous peoples. Patriotism used to be the last refuge to the scoundrel, but now it’s the last refuge of the sexually unsatisfied, SSRI-ridden Chardonnay woman and the hapless femme boys who make up much of our globalist elite.

The market and the economy have become hooked, become addicted, to excessive government spending, and there’s going to be a detox period.

And take the Europeans, please – well, actually, the Third World barbarians they imported are taking them (or at least their women), so that’s kind of a done deal. Boy, they’ve gotten uppity now that America has told them they’ve got to defend themselves and that if they want to supply Ukraine, they’re free to do so on their own. They’re really showing us. They’re promising to defend themselves and to supply Ukraine on their own. Take that Donald Trump – here’s exactly what you asked for! That’ll show you.

Their latest tantrum has been about JD Vance, who’s not having any of their guff. According to posh, fussy Brits who are either stupid or think you and their fellow subjects are stupid, by pointing out the UK’s total lack of any meaningful military, the Veep was somehow spitting on the graves of British soldiers. Of course, it’s a vile lie, but vile lies are their specialty. The London tabloids had a festival of onanism over that one – Keith Starmer joined in, trying to leverage what little residual patriotism remains on that green and occupied land to bolster his cratering support.

Of course, JD Vance didn’t say anything about their honored dead, and the critics cared about the honored dead as much as they cared about the little girls the Third World barbarians they imported are molesting. They hate their own country, and most of the people now screaming about the honored dead never honored them in the first place. It was just last week that the Labour Party removed the portrait of Lord Horatio Nelson and replaced it with a drawing of some bitter shrew feminist hack. These snobby, foppy Brits don’t love Britain; like their wives, they’re just faking it.

And then, here at home, it’s a nonstop carousel of idiocy. What are normal people to make of Chris Murphy, who insists that Elon Musk is personally pillaging through people’s Social Security numbers, as if he needs the money. And they’re constantly whining about laying off useless federal flunkies, never mind the fact that normal people out in the private sector, who have to actually perform, get laid off all the time. Oh no, somebody who always wanted to be a park ranger can’t be a park ranger, as if we’re supposed to fund the dreams and desires of randos regardless of whether we need their minimal contributions or not.

Have you noticed how every single cut to any agency is the first step in a gigantic genocide? Why, we haven’t faced such a perilous threat of perilous peril since net neutrality, which we somehow – against all odds – seemed to have survived pretty well. Somebody came up with the term “hostage puppy,” where any kind of limitation on the metastasis of the government means the puppy is going to die. It’s never the hog or the rat; it’s always little Fido wagging his tail. How can you be so heartless?

Does this even work? Do normal people even pay attention to this? We laugh at off. We see noted particle physicist and aspiring rapper Jasmine Crockett launch into yet another semiliterate tirade and we just laugh. We know these people are idiots, and we’re used to it. But how did normal people react? Do they even react at all? Do they even see it? Most people have too much common sense to be on social media. They have lives, so they’re not seeing the 24/7 parade of pinko weirdos, losers, and mutations insisting that Donald Trump is about to come to their house and force them into handmaiden outfits.

We know normal people are not reading newspapers, because nobody is. Newspapers don’t really exist anymore – few developments over the last decade have been more satisfying than the ongoing collapse of the regime media. But the TV networks still exist, though I never watch them. Wait, that’s not quite true – sometimes I’ll watch “60 Minutes” if it’s doing some fluffy segment about a cute kangaroo rescue farm or talking dolphins, but most of the time, the stories are about feckless federal flunkies enraged that Donald Trump is cutting them off from the steamtables at the Golden Corral that is, or was, the United States Treasury. You and I are immune to those heartstring pluckings, and I think normal people are, too. It’s always the same. It’s always tiresome. It’s always dumb. I imagine normal people tune it out, only paying attention when one of the five million “NCIS” shows comes on.

It was probably inevitable that normal people would grow immune to this kind of cheesy manipulation. I think they’re just done. Certainly, they voted that way last November. They know the system is broken, and they know the people who broke the system are lying to them all the time in every possible way. I don’t think it works anymore, but we will certainly see. In the meantime, my job requires that I keep wading through the social media cesspool, and I have to tell you – I’m just not impressed by our opposition.

Our alleged betters aren’t better than us. They’re stupid. They’re boring. They’re ridiculous. I guess that’s another of Donald Trump’s superpowers – the ability to attract the dumbest enemies possible.

© 0.0.2025 by Kurt Schlichter, "The Burning Platform".

A Day In The Life.

Up at 7:30a on Friday, a sunny, cold 34°F, windy morning, I upped the heat, made coffee, took a 250mg Bayer Aspirin for various pains, I felt pretty crappy when I got up, from a night of sweats and chills, wet pillow, and skipped any food, had a smoke in the garage, and called Sherry to reschedule today's get together. I don't want her getting whatever this stuff is/might be. I got the Amoxicillin (antibiotic) from the Wellness Co's Medical Emergency Kit, on the basement Prep Shelves, took one for the morning, and headed for the LR couch.

I slept until after 5 or 6p, took some aspirin, closed the condo for the night, and went up to get some more sleep.

Awake and up at 9a on Saturday, a sunny, mild 42°, windy morning, I was groggy and wobbly after the fever abated, upped the heat, made coffee and had some breakfast. I laid down on the LR couch and slept until almost 6p, closed the place down, and went back upstairs to bed. F•ck the clocks; they can wait a few days. Everything can wait, as I still don't feel all that well. Sure thing, I'll change the clocks. LEAVE THE DAMNED TIME ALONE, f•cking gov't! Shove it, gov!

Up at 10a on Sunday, a bright, sunny, brisk 38° morning, I still felt a little "rocky and shaky", but better enough to try to get back on some semblance of a "normal schedule".

I had to sit down, pour a tall glass of Chardonnay (just kidding), for this one. From DOGE: "The Small Business Administration (SBA) -- under dumbass Joey Bidet&Co -- granted nearly 5,600 loans for $312 million to borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. Also, in 2020 and 2021 the SBA issued 3,095 loans for $333 million to borrowers over 115 years old. The borrowers were still marked as alive in the Social Security database. In one case, a 157-year-old individual received $36,000 in loans, the agency said". Waste, fraud & corruption, on a scale never before seen in America. Un-fricking-believable.

I had Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bread Toast for breakfast, did some condo chores, started laundry, and scanned the news and weather. Mid-50s today, 60s & 70s for the rest of the week and into next week; but be careful, Winter's not finished with us, just yet. No TV since Thursday, and I don't miss it. I had plenty of little projects -- condo chores -- to get started or others completed, so the day was semi-busy. Uh-oh, small plane crash nearby and still waiting for updates. I called Sherry to chat, talk about her upcoming week, and we planned a day. Damn, I miss her, not having seen her since the end of February. By 11p, I was running low on energy, unplugged and went upstairs. Good night, Irene.

Up at 8:15a on Monday, a clear, blue sky, windless, warmish 42°, forecast to get around 65° today, and up into the low-70s all week. My Circadian Rhythm is slowly trying to correct itself, and get back into the "normal" range. Heh. I scanned the news and weather, had breakfast and pulled the DRs' files for the next two days' app'ts.

Not only are Musk's Tesla brand vehicles and dealerships under attack, now Musk might be getting some of what Trump's been enduring over the past 4-5yrs -- death threats. I'd bet $5 that he's got some seriously good *PRIVATE* security surrounding him. I wouldn't trust the SS; there are still some bad actors in that gov't group, IMO.

I left at 12:30p for my usual 3 (or more) errands down south, with light traffic, and was back home by 1:15, to unload and relax. After opening the condo to a 71° afternoon, I had some lunch and a 90min nap, did paperwork for taxes, watched the evening news, "History's unXplained Mysteries" and crashed around 12midnight.

Up at 8:15a on Tuesday, a clear, blue sky, 58° day, forecast to reach 73°. I upped the heat, made coffee, scanned the news and weather and got ready for the day and my 11:30a Dr app't. The app't went very well, and I was back home by 1p. My TV's ROKU farted and I lost all xfinity's CATV program line-up, which had worked just fine for many, many years. The other 11,286 channels were fine, but the main 11 I put in, were gone. Shit. "Pissed off" doesn't even begin to describe it. Comcast/xfinity won't help because they claim it's ROKU's problem. I can't get anyone from ROKU to help, either. I spent much of the afternoon and evening trying to restore the xfinity 11 channel line-up that I'd had and used, but by 10p, all to no avail. Damn Comcast, xfinity and ROKU. I gave-up at 11. Lights out.

Up late at 9:30a on Wednesday, a partly-cloudy, warmish 46° morning, I upped the heat, made coffee, scanned the news and weather, put a load of laundry thru the dryer, skipped breakfast, and got ready for the day's eye exam (Opthamologist/ MD) at 1:15p. I left at 12:30p, on this nice, sunny day, and hated to go into the yearly eye exam procedure, since the day is ruined after that. It usually takes 5-7hrs for my eyes to get back to normal, after dilation -- now they have "un-dilation drops -- and today was no exception. I made it home after a 30min wait procedure after the exam, but the rest of the day was a write-off. I got an hour's nap, after a big lunch, and both helped.

I also got the Comcast-xfinity TV channel line-up mess, partly solved, better than yesterday's mess, so I settled for that, in my compromised condition. I had laughs all afternoon and evening, from the deranged, mentally-ill demonKKKrats raging on Trump, Musk, Homan, Zeldin, and dozens more of the Trump Administration. Hilarious! After dinner, I watched the news, Discovery's "Expedition X" and Fox News until 11p, and bagged it. Dave & Chris -- from River Rock LSCP -- are in at 9a for maintenance here and at Mt Rose Cemetery.

Up at 5:30a on Thursday, an 0-DARK-THIRTY 39° morning, upped the heat, made coffee, scanned the news and weather, tuned into the "CS Show LIVE" at 6a. The landscapers arrived at 10:30a, finished front and back gardens by 12:30p, and left for their next projects. Sherry arrived around 1p, and we spent the afternoon in my office-sunroom, laughing at Vic's Alexus YT Videos, until just after 6. She left, I had dinner, watched the news and History's "American Pickers" until 11p. Lights out.

Tomorrow starts a new week, here in the "Journal", and I have two more weekdays of Dr's app'ts; then, some clear weeks ahead. Hot damn!

Trump, Musk, and the Deep State: The Battle Over Transparency Begins.

Here we go again. At the beginning of his first term as president, Donald Trump issued an executive order temporarily banning travel from several countries—Yemen, for example, Sudan, Libya, and four others—that had been identified as major exporters of terrorism. The left went nuts, excoriating Trump for his “racist” “Muslim travel ban.”

It wasn’t a “Muslim travel ban,” but try telling that to Seattle District Court judge James Robart. He sniffed the air, sensed the pleasing hysteria and press coverage, and issued a cursory restraining order against Trump’s executive order. The humorous part of Robart’s order came towards the end. As I wrote at the time, Robart insisted that the “declaratory and injunctive relief” outlined in his order be applied immediately and on a “nationwide basis” (my emphasis).

Seattle has spoken, Comrades! Judge Robarts finds (where? how?) that his court has jurisdiction over … well, over just about everything: the president and the head of the Department of Homeland Security, for starters, but also “the United States of America (collectively).”

Trump and Musk are unraveling the deep state’s secrets at record speed, and the left is panicking—wielding emergency orders, judicial overreach, and legal theatrics to stop the exposure.

So all across the fruited plain, “Federal Defendants and all their respective officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and persons acting in concert or participation with them are hereby ENJOINED and RESTRAINED” from enforcing the President’s executive order.

This may be the best place to pause and point out that Donald Trump, acting as the president of the United States, was perfectly within his rights to issue an executive order to suspend travel from particular countries.

And so it is now with Trump’s deputies in the Department of Government Efficiency. Tasked with the Herculean labor of unscrambling the byzantine Rube Goldberg device that is the 21st-century administrative state for furthering corruption, illegal payments, and partisan influence at home and abroad, DOGE commander Elon Musk and his laptop-and-algorithm-toting lieutenants have been patiently uncovering the pyramid of waste, fraud, and abuse that is the foundation of the United States government in its twenty-first-century incarnation.

In a remarkable piece called “Override: Inside The Revolution Rewiring American Power,” a blogger known as EKO showed how it worked. Four young coders arrive at the Treasury Department in the wee hours of January 21. Within hours they have succeeded in tracing long-hidden payment directions.

No committees. No approvals. No red tape. Just four coders with unprecedented access and algorithms ready to run.

“The beautiful thing about payment systems,” noted a transition official watching their screens, “is that they don’t lie. You can spin policy all day long, but money leaves a trail.”

That trail led to staggering discoveries. Programs marked as independent revealed coordinated funding streams. Grants labeled as humanitarian aid showed curious detours through complex networks. Black budgets once shrouded in secrecy began to unravel under algorithmic scrutiny.

The difference between Trump’s first term and his second (acknowledged) term can be explained in two words: velocity and preparedness. In 2017, Trump’s initiatives were hampered, blindsided, litigated, and smothered in red tape. This time the Leviathan’s usual expedients are impotent. “Their traditional defenses—slow-walking decisions, leaking damaging stories, stonewalling requests—proved useless against an opponent moving faster than their systems could react. By the time they drafted their first memo objecting to this breach, three more systems had already been mapped.” And here’s the point:

“Pull this thread,” a senior official warned, watching patterns emerge across DOGE’s screens, “and the whole sweater unravels.”

He wasn’t wrong. But he misunderstood something crucial: That was exactly the point.

The left gets it. And their heads are exploding. So far, their biggest gun was the creaky cannon Judge Robart wheeled out: the emergency injunction with immediate “nationwide effect.”

The New York Times, a house organ for anti-Trump hysteria, has a long hand-wringing column about the latest wheeze. Paul A. Engelmayer, a U.S. District Judge appointed by Barrack Obama, just issued an “emergency order” to restrict Elon Musk’s and DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment and data system. He also insisted that anyone who had access to those systems after January 20 “destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems.” Fun part: even Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury, is prohibited from looking into the corrupt structures of his own department.

Engelmayer’s order came in response to a lawsuit filed on Friday by Letitia James, Attorney General of New York and professional scourge of all things Trump, along with 18 other Democratic state attorneys general. What was the charge? The stated predicate was that by authorizing the investigation, Trump had failed in his Constitutional duty to “faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress.” The real predicate was that Musk’s beavers were uncovering the inner mechanism of the deep state and the resulting truths were unbearable.

“Humankind,” said T. S. Eliot, in “Burnt Norton,” “cannot bear very much reality.” Similarly, Bureaucrats cannot bear very much transparency. Like vampires, the sunlight is fatal to them.

How will Trump respond? We do not know yet. I hope it will be at least partly as Andrew Jackson is said to have responded in his contretemps with Chief Justice John Marshall. In 1834, the Supreme Court determined that the Cherokee Indians owned Northern Georgia. Nevertheless, Andrew Jackson evicted the Indians, reputedly observing that Marshall “has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”

Lincoln responded in a similar fashion to Chief Justice Roger Taney in 1861. In April of that year, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. This allowed military commanders to imprison suspected saboteurs without indictment. Taney said (in “Ex Parte Merryman”) that Lincoln did not have the authority to do this. Lincoln basically ignored him, invoking the novel doctrine of “nonacquiesence.”

As usual, Lincoln demonstrated his deep understanding of the issues involved. “Are all the laws but one to go unexecuted,” he asked Taney, “and the Government itself go to pieces lest that one be violated? Even in such a case, would not the official oath be broken if the Government should be overthrown when it was believed that disregarding the single law would tend to preserve it?”

In my view, Trump’s actions to expose the partisan corruption of the administrative state are in response to an existential threat is as grave, if less bloody, than the Civil War. The permanent bureaucracy that rules us has for decades been erecting and fortifying a nearly impenetrable edifice from which to preserve its privileges and power, stifle criticism, and export its globalist agenda. Donald Trump was elected to deconstruct that edifice. Elon Musk is one of his most potent aides in accomplishing that task. Of course, the left is hysterical. Their gravy train is being derailed before their eyes. The people who elected Trump are delighted.

I suspect that the squeals and tantrums of the ruling party and its minions will amount to no more than theater. I further suspect that Trump will resort not only to “nonacquiesence” but also to non-payment. In 2022, New York received $383 billion in federal spending. There are many ways in which Trump could stanch the flow of federal dollars to obstreperous states. I think he should consider them all. I am also happy to see some official pushback. Rep. Darrell Issa, for example, just announced that he is “immediately introducing legislation next week to stop these rogue judges and allow Trump and DOGE to tell you where government is spending your money.” Good for him.

One final suggestion. If left-wing regime-party judges can issue emergency restraining orders with “immediate nationwide effect,” why couldn’t a politically mature district judge in, say, Alabama do the same, overturning the order issued by his left-wing colleague on an “immediate, nationwide basis?” I offer the idea free and for nothing.

© 2.09.2025 by Roger Kimball, "American Greatness".