A really shallow interview, in my opinion, but Dineen is one of the big figures in National Conservatism, so it's worth at least glancing at what he had to say:
Showing posts with label 2024 Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024 Election. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Monday, November 25, 2024
The Post Insurrection. Part IX. The waiting upon justice edition.
March 15, 2024
March 19, 2024
Trump, who represents that his assets are vast, is not able to post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment against him during appeal and has related the same in a filing in court. He's seeking not to have to post bond.
If the Court does not grant him relief, execution on the judgment could start immediately.
Cont:
Donald Trump is suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos over comments made in the last This Week episode in the Nancy Mace interview.
April 25, 2024
As Trump sits in a New York courtroom on charges of election interference for paying porn figures not to reveal his dalliances with them, while a married man, a host of figures were indicted in Arizona for an attempt to seat false electors.
May 1, 2024
Trump was fined for violating a court "gag" order in a contempt of court ruling in his hush money trial. He was further warned that he may be jailed in a future contempt ruling, should this conduct repeat.
The same court is allowing him to appear at his son Barron's high school graduation, which apparently would be the first time that he would attend one of his children's high school graduations.
Elise Stefanik filed an ethics complaint against Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, in a move that itself lacks moral ethics. Stefanik should be ashamed, but the concept of shame is sadly lacking currently.
May 30, 2024
Trump was convicted on all 34 Counts in the New York election interference case.
The claims that it was a political prosecution and featured a rigged jury will start any second now.
June 6, 2024
The Georgia election interference case, which is one of the more significant ones, has been stayed while an appeal goes forward on whether prosecutor Willis may remain on the case, and so human foibles will end up causing this case not to be heard prior to the election, probably.
Willis should step aside to let t his matter go forward.
July 15, 2024
To the general amazement of the legal community, the classified documents case has been dismissed on the basis of the Special Prosecutor having been appointed in violation of the appointments act. The Special Prosecutor is going to appeal, but there's no way an appeal will be heard prior to the election.
This is frankly bizarre.
August 3, 2024
The criminal case against Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election shall resume. It's been stayed for 8 months pending the outcome of the Supreme Court opinion on immunity, which the Judge will now have to figure out how to apply.
August 28, 2024
A new amended indictment has been filed.
September 7, 2024
Not related to the insurrection, but to Trump's legal problems, his sentencing in the hush money case has been delayed until after the election.
Frankly, this makes no sense.
November 25, 2024
Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested that all charges against President-elect Trump be dropped in the Federal case.
The progress of official justice in this mater was horrifically slow, which in part is why we now have somebody as President Elect who should have stood trial well over a year ago.
And hence, as Justice shall not come, and the guilty shall go free, we conclude this trailing thread.
Last prior edition:
The Post Insurrection. Part VIII. The tangled web edition.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
2024 Election Post Mortem, Part 2. What's going on?
Well of course, it's hard to tell.
November 11, 2024
And indeed, there are already those, who pollyannish like insist that maybe this time Trump will be different, and not carry through with all his claims, promises, and threats.
I listed to all three weekend shows this week, and they're well worth listening to. For the most part, with one exception, Democrats have realized that latching on to far left social issues sank them. Even Bernie Sanders seemed to agree. The exception really seemed clueless.
A scary former Trump ambassador to Japan seemed, now in Congress for Tennessee, seems intent on cutting off all aid to Ukraine.
Susie Wiles will be Trump's chief of staff.
On that, there are already noting how that's "historic" as she's the first woman to be appointed to that role. No it isn't. Frankly, once Barrack Obama was elected President most of the claimed "firsts" are really meaningless.
Trump has apparently instructed Republicans in Congress to hold up Biden judicial nominees.
cont:
And now we know the "Border Czar" will be Tom Homan, who in a recent interview with 60 Minutes, supported deporting kids who were born and raised in the US to undocumented immigrants, stating: “Families can be deported together.”
Homan had stated at a Nation Conservatism conference: "Trump comes back in January, I'll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain't seen shit yet. Wait until 2025."
How charming.
cont:
Elise Stefanik has been chosen to be Ambassador to the United Nations.
November 12, 2024
Former Green Beret, Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz, a China hawk, will be National Security Advisor.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will head the Department of Homeland Security
Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York will run the Environmental Protection Agency. He's expected to go after environmental regulations, and be hostile to climate policy.
Somebody, or some group, is clearly advising Trump on these picks. But who is it?
Marco Rubio will be Secretary of State, a position that he undoubtedly will be unable to retain throughout a second Trump administration.
Russian television, which is presumed not to run items without Putin's permission, ran nude photos of Melania Trump. This is interesting in that Trump has a weird relationship with Putin, and you have to wonder what the message was supposed to be.
Cont:
Tom Homan:
The illegal animals coming across the border... 31% of women that make their journey get raped by criminal cartels.
Children get raped. I've talked to little girls as young as nine that have been raped multiple times.
These cartels are animals. And that's why President Trump's gonna take 'em off the face of Earth.
[Trump] will use them full might of the United States Special Operations to take 'em out.
Trump in fact asked about doing something of this nature in his prior term.
Cont:
John Ratcliffe will serve as CIA director.
November 13, 2024
Fox news commentator Pete Hegseth, a National Guard officer, has been chosen by Trump as Secretary of Defense.
Seems like a poor choice. Maybe even a bit of a scary one.
Former Arkansas Governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee, a very strong supporter of Israel, perhaps even one that might be regarded as extreme on the point, has been chosen as Ambassador to the country.
This will not be good for peace in the Middle East. Arab Americans who abstained from voting will no reap the fruits of that action, and they'll be bitter fruits.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been appointed to something that will be called the Department of Efficiency. I don't see this lasting.
These picks look a lot like what a lot of people expected, and feared.
Cont:
John Thune (R-S.D.) will be the next Senate Majority Leader.
Cont:
Secretary of Defense putative nominee has apparently stated "I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles." Frankly, that's my view as well, and that view is widely shared within the military itself. This is interesting, however, as this would normally probably be a disqualifying viewpoint. We'll see if it had any impact on his chances of being confirmed.
We'll also see, of course, if he acts on his view. A large number of the views Trump expressed in his 2016 campaign of this type never saw the light of day in his administration.
I actually have a long and very old draft of a post on women in combat I've never completed. I ought to, but now I'm reluctant given that I don't want to be seen leaping on board the incoming administration's bandwagon.
Cont:
Trump has nominated Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General of the United States.
My prediction is that even the Republican Senate won't be able to stomach that.
What a joke.
November 14, 2024
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Security.
John Barrasso, Senate Whip.
Gaetz, who was the topic of an upcoming ethics investigation, has resigned from Congress.
Cont:
When he (Gaetz) was accused of sleeping with an underage girl, there’s a reason why no one in the conference defended him. We all saw videos he was showing us on the House floor of girls he slept with & brag how he would crush ED medicine so he could go all night.
Sen. Mullin, R. Oklahoma.
Cont:
Republican Senator John Cornyn is going to ask the House Ethics Committee to release the findings of the Matt Gaetz investigation.
Cont:
And now RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services.
With this appointment and Gaetz, Heath May put it best. "Another day, another dumb ass"
November 15, 2024
Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior.
This is again an interesting choice. Only 3.9% of North Dakota is Federal land. However, users of Federal land in the West might take some cautious optimism out of this as Western politicians, completely contrary to the views of those they serve, have taken on the land grabbing mindset illustrated by Utah's effort to grab Federal lands in court, which has been sadly supported by Wyoming.
Cont:
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson regarding the House ethics investigation report for Gaetz:
I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report.
Cont:
Governor
Gordon Commends Selection of Governor Doug Burgum for Secretary of the
Interior
CHEYENNE,
Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon has issued a statement following the announcement
from President Trump that North Dakota governor
Doug Burgum will lead the Department of Interior.
“I congratulate my friend Doug Burgum and I
commend President Trump for his selection of Governor Burgum as Secretary of
the Interior. Since almost half of Wyoming’s surface land and 67% of its
mineral resources are managed by the federal government, the Secretary of the
Interior is integral to Wyoming’s economic well-being and future. It is good
that we have a friend in that office.
Doug has a deep understanding of the
importance of energy development while maintaining valuable wildlife and
outdoor recreation opportunities. He and I have worked together on these issues
for the past six years. We see eye-to-eye on the importance of a domestically
focused, all-of-the-above energy policy for public lands and minerals. I know
personally his love of the outdoors. I am confident that under his leadership,
future decisions regarding land management and wildlife issues in Wyoming will
not utilize a top-down, DC-driven approach, but rather be made cooperatively,
with local interests at the forefront. I look forward to working with him.”
-END-
November 16, 2024
Karoline Leavitt, age 27, as press secretary.
Cont:
Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, secretary of the Department of Energy.
November 18, 2024
Mitch McConnell has stated there will be no recess appointments.
November 19, 2024
Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce.
Cont:
Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Truly, this is the most pathetic set of appointments, ever.
November 23, 2024
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General.
Pam Bondi to replace Gaetz, who withdrew.
Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary.
Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon for Secretary of Labor.
Scott Turner, for the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
November 24, 2024
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture. She's a Texas A&M trained lawyer with an undergraduate in agricultural development.
Dr. Marty Makary, Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
Rep. Dave Weldon, a Republican from Florida, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Russell Vought, a co-author of Project 2025, to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
Last edition:
2024 Election Post Mortem, Part I. What the heck happened?
Thursday, November 14, 2024
The 2024 Election, Part XXVIII. The Election.
And so we go, Election 2024.
November 5, 2024
Today is election day.
cont, 18:31:
The states to really watch today are the "blue wall states", which are:
Of these, the ones that are really in doubt are Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump needs to take these, and so does Harris, for the easiest route to 270 electoral votes.
All of the other Blue Wall states are gong for Harris without a doubt.
At the time of posting this, South Carolina, which went for Biden last go around, has gone for Trump.
November 6, 2024
Donald J. Trump, the worst President in American history, a man who sat by while his supporters stormed the Capitol, was re-elected President of the United States, securing both the electoral vote, and the popular vote.
This is simply amazingly and depressing. All chances for a reform of the GOP back to a conservative party have now died.
The Republicans took the Senate.
The House presently remains undetermined.
In state and local races, the following is of interest.
All the judges were retained, as expected.
The School Board did not go to the Populists.
Casperites voted for a 6th Cent to support a new animal shelter.
November 8, 2024
Projections make it clear that the Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives, cementing what amounts to a Democratic disaster.
Donald Trump will have control of the House and Senate, or put another way, Republicans will control Congress and the Executive. Not only that, however, but this is a largely Trumpite Republican Party now, so whatever Trump wants, he's very likely to get.
It wasn't all that long ago that Democrats dominated national votes and the Republican Party was regarded as heading to extinction unless it reformed. It did reform, but in a direction that seemed likely to cause its demise. Now its the Democrats that need to take a serious look at themselves and react. They should not have lost.
November 14, 2024
And while it has been suspected for some time, it's official. The Republicans won the House of Representatives.
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Last edition:
The 2024 Election, Part XXVII. Heading for the Last Roundup
Saturday, November 9, 2024
An Open Letter to National Conservatives.
Dear National Conservatives,
First of all, allow me to say, well played.
You well know that there was no earthly way that the public would vote for one of your members at any time in the near future, if ever. Indeed, while your movement has risen considerably in recent years, you know that it was likely to be at most just an outside influence on the periphery of conservative thought at the very most, and likely not for long. Your sense of urgency required a bold move, before, in your view, things were too late, and you made it.
It required your man, J. D. Vance, to lie and say outrageous things, but he proved willing to do it. Aquinas may have declared all lies to be sins, but obviously you felt that lying for the greater cause, as you see it, would be forgivable. You seek to reform the nation into a province of 15th Century Christendom, and you have been willing to do what is necessary to do that.
Now, of course, your next move depends on Trump getting out of the way. You know, as well as I, that Trump isn't a member of your movement and is unpredictable. Indeed, his philandering and serial polygamy is abhorrent to what you stand for. Moreover, his economic policies are likely to make Vance unelectable as a successor, and you know it. By 2028, somebody else will be waiting in the wings. Vice Presidents are not elected to office more often than not, as Kamala Harris' plight just demonstrated. And Trump's meandering thoughts and unpredictability are just as likely to cause him to replace Mr. Vance with Jenny McCarthy or Robert Kennedy as they are to really keep your boy around.
So you have limited time.
The plan, I suspect, is to declare an increasingly addled Donald Trump mentally incompetent soon. You can't do it in January, 2026. But you likely can by March, 2027. At any rate, the sooner the better.
Not that I'm your fan. Not hardly. You scare me. But you don't scare me as much as Donald Trump.
And he should scare you too.
Sincerely,
Yeoman.
Friday, November 8, 2024
Lex Anteinternet: Donald Trump promised to end the war between Ukrai...
Lex Anteinternet: Donald Trump promised to end the war between Ukrai...: Well, it's been over 24 hours now. Why isn't the war over?
I would fix that within 24 hours. And, if I win, before I get into the office, I will have that war settled. A hundred percent sure,
Donald Trump.
Um, its two days now. War still on.
2024 Election Post Mortem, Part I. What the heck happened?
And so the finger pointing, blaming, and name calling has begun.
The 2024 Presidential Election was supposed to be close.
It wasn't. And that means something. How did the nation elect a convicted felon who hung out with a procurer and who is a creepy serial polygamist, who also is likely sliding into dementia, as President of the United States?
Well, there are a lot of views out there. We offer ours, including some things we noted early on.
1. It turns out that we were correct that Biden shouldn't have run in the first place, and that Harris shouldn't have stepped into the breach.
Biden was supposed to be a caretaker President. "Go with the Joe you know" only made sense as long as it was just one cup of coffee. People didn't want a refill. Biden was supposed to carry on for four years while the nation got back on its feet from a traumatic Trump presidency and figured out where to go next.
Biden's diehard insistence on running again doomed that, and in some ways, the Democrats chances in 2024.
Biden, in his defense, was dealt a bad hand right from the onset. Left with an economy impacted by COVID, he had to deal with it, and he did a good job. The inflation that caused was not of his making, and he actually pulled off a soft landing. In the future, he's likely to be regarded as having pulled an economic rabbit out the hat.
And his rallying to the cause of Ukraine is singularly responsible for the country not being overrun by the Russians.
But people are stupid about economics, and stupidly believe that once inflation slows, prices return to the pre inflation norm, which actually required deflation, which generally causes a depression. That tar baby is now Trump's, as Trump won't be able to pull that off either.
More than that, however, Biden's advanced age was showing, whereas its seemingly not as noticeable with Trump. It was real hubris of Biden to run for a second term, and he shouldn't have done it. That set the Democrats behind.
When he finally stepped out, I noted that the time that Harris shouldn't step in. She did. She actually also ran a much better campaign than I initially thought she would. Frankly, I don't know that I can blame her for running, or blame the Democrats for running her. She proved to be too easy to tag with the issues that had hurt Biden, however, which did not make up the reasons that I thought she should not have run.
2. It's actually the social issues, stupid.
El Paso Sheriff : What's it mean? What's it leadin' to? You know, if you'd have told me 20 years ago, that I'd see children walking the streets of our Texas towns with green hair and bones in their noses, I just flat-out wouldn't have believed you.
Ed Tom Bell : Signs and wonders. But I think once you quit hearing "sir" and "ma'am," the rest is soon to foller.
El Paso Sheriff : Oh, it's the tide. It's the dismal tide.
No Country For Old Men.
People keep analyzing the race in terms of the economy, which I myself partially did above. But the big issue, to put it bluntly, is that Obergefell shocked many people into confronting the moral decline of the nation, something that had been going on for a very long time.
Sexual immorality in the US really commenced its roll in the late 1940s, as we've discussed before, and started to accelerate in 1953 with the launch of Playboy, and then really took off in the 1960s with the pill and the Sexual Revolution. The irony of all of this, however, is the public tolerated it, although not always very comfortably, as it fit into conventional immorality. That is, the White Anglo Saxon Protestant community basically tolerated a boys will be boys attitude at first, and then accommodated itself to other trends later, as long as things roughly worked out the way they were supposed to in the end, although they have not been working out for quite some time. Once Obergefell came along, however, the public was asked to accommodate something else, and it hasn't, and for a host of reasons. Transgenderism, which really doesn't exist, came hard on the heels of homosexual marriage, and it was just too much for large sections of the country.
At one time, it might be noted, it was a common assertion that the Babylon Berlin atmosphere of 1920's Germany had brought about the Nazis, in part, as they seemed to stand against unconventional immorality. In truth, homosexuality was present in the early Nazis, but the movement did a good job of plastering over it so it was ignored, if known, just like Trump's flagrant immoral conduct with women is at least somewhat known, if ignored. It allowed people to believe that that the Nazis would foster a return to pre 1914 moral standards, while ignoring that they would inflict new horrors.* A lot of that has gone on in the populist movement as well, which sort of imagines that the country will sort of return to an imagined 1950s, or an imagined 1970s.
The Democrats didn't even try to do anything about this, but rather embraced the matters that the Trump populists and their fellow travellers opposed. That's a big part of what occured. Americans proved to be willing to go pretty far with changes in Christian morality before they started regretting it, which they did, but to be kicked into a new room with a bunch of very unconventional behaviors was more than they could bear. It not only spawned a massive counterreaction, but it spawned radical new theories about the nature of what was going on, much of them false, and sort of a modified variant of a Great Awakening, that we haven't seen the end of yet.** This reaction, moreover, wasn't limited to the US, but has been scene all over the Western World, caused by similar events.
You have to know the times you live in.
3. What we repeatedly said about abortion being a hill to die on was correct.
Hell Courtesan by Kawanabe Kyōsai.
Part of the solid evidence of the Democrats being marooned in a post Vietnam War liberal past is the absolute adherence to swimming in a sea of blood.I warned earlier that grasping tight to abortion was a critical mistake for Democrats, but they saw it as a great issue, one that would turn women out to vote in favor of infanticide.
Instead, what it did was to force truly adherent Christians to vote against them, even if not to vote for Harris. I was one of them. I voted for the American Solidarity Party. I would have anyhow, but in a state that was close, this cost the Democrats votes. It may very well have cost them the election.
Ironically, and the Democrats failed to grasp it, Donald Trump's wishy washiness on this helped him. Lots of Evangelicals and even Catholics could rationalize voting for him as he seemed to be against abortion, sort of. Hadn't his court brought Dobbs around? And Republican women who otherwise adhered to the American Civil Religion could rationalize voting for pro abortion ballot measures while voting for trump, essentially voting for the things they were comfortable with from the 1970s, like abortion and birth control, while voting against homosexuality and transgenderism.
Indeed, the entire religiosity of the Trumpites is much like this, although not of the National Conservatives. They're okay with cheating men, up to a limit, premarital sex, and divorce, as long as the plumbing matches. They aren't okay with homosexuality. Truly religious voters were never supportive of abortion, which Harris leaned deeply into.
Democrats should have known that and figures out a way to deal with it. Even simply taking the same position as Trump, let the states deal with it, would have leveled the choice for many. Or they could have just remained completely silent in the election on abortion and transgenderism, which would have caused some votes to swing their way.
If the Democrats don't modify their position on abortion, they're not going to do better in 2028.
4. What we noted as long ago as 2016 about ignoring rust belt issues is still true.
The problem here is that this festering sore has become infected, and crossed from discontent into malevolence. Basically, its much like small town Germans thinking that a local Jewish butcher was odd, to thinking he's in league with evil. This has been downright scary.
Democrats woke up to the problem of decades long mass illegal immigration, but too late. Now, it appears, we're about to engage in a mass immorality.
This one was a hard one for the Democrats. Biden screwed up early in his administration on this issue. Harris was tarred with it. It would have taken a different candidate to distance from it, perhaps, quite frankly, a Hispanic one. There are solutions, but some of them are quite out of the box, very pre 1940, and a bit drastic.
Likewise, Trump introduced his absurd tariffs concept. The idea is underdeveloped and economically flaccid. But Rust Belt people don't care as in their minds if electric vehicles don't come in from China, 1965 Chevrolet Impalas will come back. This won't happen, and this will rapidly prove to be incorrect.
5. Demographics change.
Roman Catholic Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe (Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe), Dallas Texas
Dedicated in 1902 as the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, this cathedral was renamed the Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe in 1977, when another aging Dallas church dedicated to the Lady of Guadalupe was torn down. This cathedral has the second largest parish congregation in the United States.
Democrats in the 1960s abandoned white Southern racists in favor of the minorities of the time, much to their credit. Up until that time, African Americans had been Republicans. Democrats remembered that Italian American and Irish Americans had been, and were, theirs.
But they failed to notice that Roe v. Wade shattered the Catholic immigrant retained vote of earlier eras. For some reason, they didn't grasp that retaining abortion and embracing transgenderism and abortion would come to offend large groups of American, and even immigrant, Hispanics, who had a similar Catholic morality. And they didn't grasp that at the pew level, this was also true for the Black Church and many African Americans, who came to resent having their cause compared to ones based on sexual orientation or practice.
They also forgot that minority adherence to patronage only lasts as long as poverty does. Once a demographic moves into the Middle Class, it begins to disappear within a generation or two. Irish Americans and Italian Americans were once solidly Democratic. This hasn't been the case for a long time. Hispanics have been moving out of poverty, and so have African Americans.
And Hispanic Americans, which are a diverse group to start with.
This left the Democratic party a party of old Boomers, and the white upper middle class, and lower upper class, white, effete, elites. They're aren't enough of them to win an election.
Footnotes
*The Nazis ended up sending homosexuals to the death camps. They were highly resistant to women working, and only relented on it as the war began to go very badly. They'd also encourage pregnancy, including out of wedlock, by German women, which was definitely contrary to traditional Christian morality.
This is of note, not because there will be death camps, but because Germans voting on morality issues didn't get what they bargained for at all. Americans doing the same in the 2024 election are likely to find they may be surprised.
**As an example, while at the county courthouse to vote early, I encountered an elderly man wearing a MAGA hat who was informing people that transgenderism "wasn't invented here", whatever that would mean, and that this was a reason to vote for Trump.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
I wish it need not have happened in my time
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Sunday, November 3, 2024
The 2024 Election, Part XXVII. Heading for the Last Roundup
Only a few more days to go.
Still, with the constant influx of news, we thought it was time for a new edition and to retire the last one.
October 24, 2024
You have no idea what I did in the White House. I stopped wars with France.
Trump at a recent rally.
Eh?
October 25, 2024
Russia spread disinformation about the recent hurricanes in the US in order to attempt to influence the upcoming U.S. election.
Guess we know for sure who Putin wants in office.
No surprise there.
Trump indicated he'd fire special prosecutor Jack Smith as soon as he was in office, if he returns to office.
No surprise there.
Unfortunately, you got a lot of American leaders who like to beat their chest and say; this [Ukraine] is the good guy and this [Russia] is the bad guy.
J. D. Vance.
Well, J. D., that's because Ukraine is the good guy and Russia is the bad guy.
Tucker Carlson compared the United States to a "15 year old" girl, who needs a spanking.
Eh?
I have a daughter and I don't think I ever spanked her. I sure didn't at 15, which is a downright creepy thing to say.
Trump's going to deliver the spanking of the nation, according to Carlson.
cont:
The Washington Post returns to its position of not endorsing Presidential candidates:
Opinion On political endorsement
October 27, 2024
Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, U.S. officials confirmed Friday.
Associated Press.
Locally we have a school board race that the Freedom Caucus, in the form of Mom's For Liberty or people aligned with their thinking are in. The folks below are those who are not part of that group.
These seem to be the populist ones:
Frankly, while I probably ought to post it elsewhere, I think there's a crisis in American education, but its not the one that commonly comes up. There's probably a series of crises actually.
Locally, we've always had excellent public schools. One thing that we can really tank our community ancestors for is appreciating the value of education. School boards for many years have had people who took the task on with a sense of public duty. People like to complain about the schools nonetheless, but that's in no small part because education is a spectator sport, like agriculture. I've heard so many things about how to raise sheep, for example, from people whose family have not had a connection with sheep since Roman times, it's not funny.
The problem that seems to have developed recently is that education has been impacted, like politics in general in Wyoming, by an influx of people who were raised and educated well outside of the region, and brought a lot of regional ideas with them. This reflected itself at first with a notable homeschooling movement which included quite a few people who were convinced that schools were teaching children "left wing" ideas, which they weren't and never have been. In some instances the concerns of those parents included a strongly anti scientific background.
Now its spilled into the schools in general. While she didn't run for the school board, in a way this is reflected by the one term now defeated House member Jeanette Ward. Looking into her background it seems that a big part of her problems with Illinois' politics, where she came from, had to do with schools. She was upset, for instance, that a class noted that Muslims pray to the same God that Christians do. And she was upset with school mask mandates, which ironically Wyoming also had.
This has spilled over into the war over library books, which actually doesn't have much to do with actual school libraries.
At any rate, it's a sad fact of American life that a lot of primary education in the United States is really lacking. This reflects itself in politics right now, which finds actual debates over topics that simply are decided on the basis of the evidence. The ability of highly monied people to lead others around reflects it as well. Education in the US has always been uneven. There's a scary chance that the excellent education that the Upper Plains and Rocky Mountain regions have always had, may be impacted by the populist flood.
cont:
Trump continues to make statements that in any other era would be regarded as dumb:
There will be no hydrogen. They tend to blow up and once they blow up you are not recognizable anymore. No, they say that's the hottest new thing. Hydrogen does. Anybody in the, they say it's so hot. The problem is when it's not, when it's not hot, it's bad. It's bad. So, I don't want to do that. They say for the most part here is for the most part it's really wonderful. But when it goes bad it's over, you're not recognizable. They call the wife. Please come and inspect to see whether or not this is your husband. He's lying against a tree and the tree has a lot of red on it... Is that ok for everybody?
Indeed, one of the things that really scares me about Trump is his supporters claim he says things that they're thinking. If that's the case, we've got a massive lack of intellect in this country. Are we this dumb?
October 28, 2024
Given the story on Russia above, this is of interest:
October 28, 2024
Russia
Possible Russian Gains in Georgia and Moldova
Apparently Trump's rally last night at Madison Square Garden was packed with racist comments and off color remarks by the various speakers.
On other matters, there appears to be a very strong chance that independent candidate Dan Osborn may beat Trump Senate lackey Deb Fisher in Nebraska.
October 30, 2024
It's becoming increasingly clear Trumpites are mobilizing and planning to steal the 2024 election if Trump does not win it. They'll use lawsuits, ballot challenges and fake electors in a more planned effort this time.
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Elon Musk, who supporters fellow billionaire Trump, has been chatting with Putin.
Trump proposes to put Robert Kennedy, whose health ideas are wackadoodle, in charge of some sort of health thing.
November 1, 2024
Real Clear Politics electoral map predictors show Trump winning the election decisively.
November 2, 2024
At a rally in Milwaukee Donald Trump simulated oral sex, albeit briefly, on stage.
Is this really whom Republicans want to be President?
And is this truly the man some Evangelicas see as a neo Cyrus the Great?
More locally:
November 3, 2024
It's now crystal clear that Trump is making plans to steal the election, should he lose it.
cont:
Internal Trump polling must show that he's losing the election, as he's spending a lot of time attacking the results that haven't even occurred yet.
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
October 31. An Observation.
Today is Halloween.
It's also Reformation Day.
Everyone sort of knows what Halloween is, although in its extremely secularized form. It's become so popular in that style that its now the second most popular holiday in the US, and you don't even get the da off from work or school.
Originally, and in Catholic and Orthodox Churches, it was All Hallowed Evening, the day before All Saints Day, which in the Catholic Church is a Holy Day of Obligation. There are some debates about it, but the secular traditions that are observed stem from Celtic cultures of Great Britain in a much modified form. The door to door trick or treating stems from a religious tradition in which the poor went door to door for food and were given it in exchange for a promise to pray for the donor's dead.
Reformation Day is a day not much observed in North America commemorating Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the Cathedral door at Worms, which he actually didn't do. The legend was that he did it on this day. No matter, he did get the rebellion of the reformation going, and with it the concept that people can make up their own minds on anything, no matter how ill informed they are. Luther was fairly well informed on some things, but that was the unintentional result of his act of rebellion.
At the time of his 95 Theses, he hadn't intended a rebellion at all, but he worked his way sort of around to it. It'd be interesting to know what he thought he'd done by the time of his death, but one thing he knew is that he'd caused others with more radical ideas than his to also break away and create their own Christian sects.
Many of those new denominations have considerably changed over the years. Some of the Lutherans, who followed Luther, often with no choice due to their localities, have become almost more Catholic than the Catholics, while others have gone in another direction. The Reformation, at any rate, is winding down,and its really collapsing.
With its collapse has come the mess of contemporary culture, much of which we seeing being fought out in the United States right now, which is a Protestant country. The massive secularization is a minor example of that, but is evident in all of our religion derived holidays, including this one, but also including Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The last acts of rebellion were those against nature, which we also see playing out doay. They began in the late 1940s and came into full bloom in the 1960s, and are still enormously playing out today. Part of that has been the acceptance of rebelling against truth, which we see in the current election in more than one way, and in both political parties, although certainly Donald Trump has manifested it in a heretofore unseen level.
So its Reformation Day and Halloween in 2024. Lots of tricks on the culture are being played, and not too many treats being received.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Bad faith arguments produce bad policy. We must reject them. - WyoFile
Bad faith arguments produce bad policy. We must reject them. - WyoFile: Bad faith arguments produce bad policy. We must reject them.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Things wrong with this post by . . .
Dr. John Barrasso, our Senator:
Thousands of illegal aliens have registered to vote in our elections. Kamala Harris' administration has completely ignored this election security crisis. Proud to join @SenatorHagerty, @RepAndyBiggsAZ, and Wyoming to demand answers for American voters.
1. It's not true, at least not in any actually significant sense.
2. There is not "Kamala Harris" "administration". She's the VP, a position that has, frankly, about 0 power.
I imagine he knows all of this, and probably doesn't believe much of what he's stating like this.
Politics is a terrible business.
"First do no harm" (Primum non nocere). Hippocrates.
“No one can prove that at times a lie is necessary”. St. Thomas Aquinas.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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