This and That about Those and Them

Say what you want about President Donald Trump, but no one has created more liberal interest in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool than he has done by trying to clean it up. Who could possibly be surprised that now Democrats are portraying themselves as the protectors of algae, fungus and scum? Yes, I am talking about the Pool, not their voter base. 

I haven't personally seen this level of interest in the sanctity of the Reflecting Pool since that day in October of 1972 when I couldn't decide whether to piss in the pool or find a restroom. Relax, I found a restroom.

Judging by the news reports, the Reflecting Pool liner is some kind of incredible force that pulls liberals from their everyday activities and brings them to the Lincoln Memorial. It's like a super magnet sucking in those leftist schmucks with Trump Derangement Syndrome. The liner is obviously the biggest plastic magnet in the world. We could keep Dems away from the pool liner if we told them that the Reflecting Pool is also the home of Graham Platner's "oyster farm".

The Communists on the news would have you believe that Trump is tearing the nation apart by trying to clean up the Pool. In two years, the Reflecting Pool will be Exhibit A in the Democratic Party's impeachment case against Donald Trump.

The State of North Carolina declined to participate in the Great American State Fair in Washington that ends today. Governor Josh Stein and his band of leftist ass lickers claimed that the state could not afford to spend the $100,000 that it was estimated to have cost to be there. There's just no way, given the size of the state's budget, that anyone believes this is a credible explanation. It's just another case of Trump Derangement Syndrome from the mindless, liberal bureaucrats who populate the state government. It's never about the what the people want, it's about what the unelected, overpaid bureaucrats want to do.

It's tough to say this after eight years in Cooper's Carolina, but Josh Stein is busy redefining what "worthless" actually means in the Governor's office. I didn't think that Cooper's COVID catastrophe could be topped, but Stein is at the plate, swinging for the fences. Is there intelligent life at the Governor's Mansion?

There needs to be a limit on how long anyone can work for any level of government. The easiest way to do this is to eliminate the retirement plans for government workers. If we could raise productivity in government, we would solve a litany of problems.

After Hurricane Helene hit the North Carolina mountains and caused extensive damage, it took six days to get military helicopters to the mountains to help. Governor Cooper, currently running for the US Senate failed to take any action when the storm hit. President Biden was, of course, asleep at the switch. Fort Bragg is about 200 miles from Asheville. Helicopters should have been there a few hours after the storm passed. Instead, civilian helicopters rescued scores of people and brought in supplies. Some local governments tried to prevent civilian aircraft from helping. We haven't had a real discussion on this whole fiasco. Befort liberals flock to the polls to vote for Crapper for Senate, we need to have that discussion.

Thanks to Richard Childress Racing for setting up a display at the Great American State Fair to represent North Carolina. SPEVCO and Operation HELO also participated with RCR. Reports are that hundreds of people an hour visited the exhibit. I am going to hazard a guess that North Carolina had the only NASCAR race car out there. 

Mount Olive was a part of the display until a picture of a Confederate battle flag appeared in a video somewhere in the exhibit. Apparently, that was too much for the politically correct pickle people. They bailed out even after the image was removed. I can't remember the last time that I considered the battle flag in my purchase of pickles. If Mount Olive will look around, there is probably a Confederate battle flag on display somewhere in Mount Olive. Is that a reason not to buy their pickles? 

Democracy Dies in the Daylight?

Graham Platner, the world's most famous Nazi oyster farmer, dropped out of the Senate race last night in Maine. The State of Maine should sue the Platner campaign and the Democratic Party to recoup the cost of holding the Democratic primary election for that Senate seat.

Why do Democrats hold primaries to elect a candidate who they aren't going to let run in the general election? If you are just going to pick someone who you like better as a replacement, why hold an election in the first place? Even more important, why are taxpayers of all parties burdened with the cost of useless primaries?

I could understand appointing a candidate if the elected candidate died, but to replace them because the Democratic Party leadership thinks that they will lose is just unacceptable. In the case of Joe Biden, the Democrats had spent more than three years swearing that nothing was wrong with Biden and then one day they just decided that he was too feeble to run. How exactly does that work? The party should be compelled to reimburse the states for election costs when this happens.

The Democrats obviously don't understand how this whole "primary system" thing is designed to work. The way that Democrats operate is that the primary election produces a candidate that the Democratic Party will then decide whether or not is acceptable to party leadership.

What happened to all of that "will of the people" shit that we always hear from those on the left? A majority of Democrats voted for Platner, yet he will not be the candidate in November. It was more than a mere majority that voted for Platner the Pervert. I think that he actually received more than 70% of the votes. It takes some pretty big balls to tell 70% of your party's voters that they are not smart enough to elect a candidate. What kind of democracy is this?  This is what a Democratic Party democracy looks like now.

At least, people had actually voted for Platner the Pervert. Exactly 0 (zero) people had voted for Kamala Harris for president in the 2024 Democratic primaries. Ironically, that's the same number of Democrats who voted for her in her 2020 campaign for the Presidency. It's more than likely that the Democrats will select a candidate that no one voted for as their Senate candidate in Maine. You have to have some pretty big balls to label that as "Democracy".

If you are a Maine resident, the Central Casting Committee will probably have your next Democratic Senate candidate selected in a couple of weeks. It will take at least that amount of time for potential candidates to grease all of the palms of the scum in the Democratic party who will be making that decision.

Don't wait until the last-minute!  Start printing some new bumper stickers, Graham. "Platner for Governor!!!" has quite a ring to it. Think of the slogans that Platner could use. "Democrat by day, Nazi by Night!" "Show me your tattoos, you have already seen mine", "Competence is overrated!"  Go to pervertsforplatner.com for more info.

Perverts For Platner??

 Democrat politicians across the country are reportedly suffering from massive cases of whiplash as they have gone from praising the US Senate candidate from Maine, Graham Platner, to abandoning him quicker than they jumped ship on Sleepy Joe Biden after his debate debacle in 2024. 

The Dims leadership want Platner to drop out of the race quickly so they can put another name on the ballot for November. Just like in 2024, it will be someone selected by Democratic "leadership", not a candidate elected by the voters. Does Kamala Harris have a home in Maine? They could just plug her name in and try it again.

The story about Platner's sexual exploits was hardly new. It was the same story, different woman's name. Finding out that Graham Platner forced himself on some woman is like finding out that Bill Clinton had sex with a woman not named "Hillary".  If you will pardon the pun, Democrats keep blowing their chances to be honest about their candidates.

You have to love the Democrats' priorities! US Senate candidates who have never had a real job and have Nazi tattoos on their chest are okay, but they are going to need repeated allegations of nonconsensual sex before they take any action on a candidate. There were questions about this clown's behavior several weeks ago, but the endorsements just kept rolling in from prominent, but stupid Democratic leaders.

Is there a number on how many women have to complain before Democrats pay attention? By the way, why do women keep voting Democrat?? I saw some woman interviewed on television the other night, who said that she votes Democrat to preserve the rights of women to get abortions. I personally thought that this woman looked like she hadn't had sex since Eisenhower was President, so I didn't understand her concern about abortion. 

You have to love the double standard here. Trump tells a television guy, "You have to grab them by the pussy" and the left loses their minds. Platner actually grabs women by the pussy and Democrats go into media comment hibernation. Yogi Bear is being quoted more than Bernie Sanders on Platner's problems. Sorry guys, but we are going to need more explanations than you are furnishing.

If there was anyone on television with any courage, they would put together a montage of all of the Democratic politicians who endorsed Platner two or three weeks ago and just play it in a continuous loop until a Democrat leader goes on national television and says, "We were wrong. We screwed this up. We ignored the facts." It ain't going to happen!

When the Democrats select a candidate to replace Platner, how long will it be before people complain? Why do Democrats keep circumventing the democratic process?  The people spoke, Platner is their candidate. What is the purpose of primary elections if the party leaders are going to choose the candidates?

Just to be fair, it's time for the Republicans to produce Mitch McConnell in the Senate chamber. Live, if possible. More on that later.

Terminating Teen Takeovers?

 It's the middle of summer and the streets are alive with the sounds of "teen takeovers". Let's be honest here, "takeovers" is a semi-polite term created by the liberals in the media and government to describe a riot or disturbance or acts of revolution.

After a "teen takeover" in Raleigh over the holiday weekend, the mayor of the city is considering a curfew for teenagers. I have read about curfews being considered by other cities around the nation and all of the reports leave me with one question. Where the hell are the parents of these kids??

I am so old that I tell people that I remember when we used to hold parents responsible for the actions of their minor children. Today, it appears that no one is responsible for the actions of the little bastards. We need to bring back the concept of "parental responsibility".

We live in a nation where the leftists/Communists/Democrats have decided that the government can raise our children better than parents can. What you see in "teen takeovers" is the forbidden fruit of that foolish folly. I considered a couple of more "F" words, but I will save them for another rant.

Do you remember parents? Parents were mothers and fathers who raised their children. Today, two parent families are on the endangered species list. The government has decided that it knows best how to raise your children and a 2:00 AM street riot is the product of that governmental decision. 

When I was growing up, the first time that I saw the world outside my house at 2:00 AM was the first time that I cooked the midnight shift at the Waffle House. A couple of years of cooking the midnight shift taught me that there wasn't a whole lot of good stuff happening at that hour. I don't believe that the situation has changed in the fifty years since then. If anything, it has worsened. In 1975, there were more arrests for prostitution made in the Waffle House parking lot at 2502 North Dale Mabry than anywhere else in town. Almost all were made between 9:00PM and 4:00 AM.  

Some cities have imposed curfews on those under 18. There was a curfew in the City of Tampa when I was growing up there and I don't recall anyone being emotionally traumatized by the enforcement of that ordinance. But to honest, cities should not have to impose curfews on children. Parents should be doing that. If your child is out at 1:30 AM on a Sunday morning, you can bet your ass that they aren't waiting in line to get into the early service at church. Hell, I can't remember the last time that I was out at 1:30 AM on something that was unrelated to work. 

Who lets their kids roam the streets at 1:30 AM? People who allow this are not fit to be parents. If you don't know where your child is at 1:30 AM, you are not really parenting. You aren't even pretending to be a parent. Your ass needs to go to jail for not knowing where you kids are and what they are doing. 

Children are out in the streets at 1:00 AM because their parents just don't really care about them. This is what happens when children have children. This is what happens when our government assistance programs support and thereby encourage single parents. This is the factory that produces Democratic voters.

We need to stop rewarding children for having children. We need to get men involved in raising the children that they fathered. I have had hundreds of people who worked for me who never had any contact with their fathers. Many didn't even know who their father was. It's time for honest discussions about parenting that involves more than child support checks.

Random Rants and Reflections on the Reflecting Pool

I have visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC at least 12 times in my life. In all of those visits, I have never seen anyone attempting to check on the condition of the reflecting pool. I am amazed by the sudden surge of interest that leftists seem to have in the Reflecting Pool. I can only assume that if Trump had actually taken a shit in the Reflecting Pool, liberal activists would have already formed a DC Turd Patrol to find that evidence. Jack "Jerkoff" Smith is waiting for the call to serve as Special Prosecutor to investigate the cleanup at the Reflecting Pool.

Trump wants to clean up the Reflecting Pool and Democrats want it to remain a dirty, stagnant stinking pool of water. Is this a microcosm of our national condition?

If Democrats take the House in the coming election, they will vote to impeach Trump for trying to clean up Washington, DC. They want to keep it a crime-ridden ghetto. They can't afford for their voters to be in jail.

Only those on the left oppose making our capital city look better and a safer place to visit. We can safely assume that they don't want actual taxpayers and voters coming to town to see what they really are doing. They don't want us seeing the fruits of their labor or lack of labor.

Speaking for North Carolina residents across the political spectrum, Sen. Thom Tillis would make all of our lives a little better if he just got an emergency lobotomy.

Sen. Mitch McConnell's medical issues are making the case for term limits on members of Congress. That's while Sen. Thom Tillis conduct makes the case for a one-term limit. People should not keep running for office until they are actually dead. I will remind readers that voters have the power to impose term limits in every election. Vote the bastards out!!

In Chicago, they have decided to change the name of the Chicago River to the Volga as an acknowledgement of the Communist architecture at the Obama Presidential Center. Rumors that the Obama Presidential Center will change its name to Obama's Anti-Semite Center are said to be premature. They won't change anything before the 2028 elections.

Other rumors that the Obama family wants Chicago officials to change the city name to Volgograd are unconfirmed at this time. Obamagrad was considered but believed to be too obvious.

I saw where renowned investor Paul Pelosi was arrested after hitting a car and leaving the scene without calling the police. The good news is that there wasn't a crazy young guy in the car with Paul. Even better, he still had his pants on.

The Associated Press ran a headline on Saturday that read "Trump makes pointed political speech at Mount Rushmore". WOW!! Trump made a political speech at a place honoring four politicians. Who would have guessed? I guess that he could have just spoken about the history of Mount Rushmore, but that is also rooted in politics.

The Associated Press has abandoned their last shred of dignity and/or credibility. They have fallen into ranks with The Irish Star, MS NOW, Newsweek and those other bastions of journalistic integrity that litter the Internet.

This is like the National State Fair thing in Washington DC.  I think that eleven states refused to participate in it. They all make the same claim, that it is too political. Pardon me, but isn't elected officials deciding not to participate in something started by a President of a different party, a political decision? They are making it political and then claiming that they won't participate because it is too political. This is what a "liberal circle jerk" looks like in DC.

I am reluctant to criticize our North Carolina Governor and resident piece of shit, Josh Stein, but why not participate and tell the story of our state? I saw videos of the exhibits of several other states, and they didn't seem to have a political focus. If you are worried about it being too political, don't make it political. Maybe I am a little confused, was the Trump Administration requiring that state displays be political. Can you get a copy of those rules to me?

Happy Third of July

 Happy Third of July!! I wanted to get a jumpstart on the Fourth of July. 

I decided to decorate my front yard for the holiday. I have an M101 military trailer that was manufactured in 1953. That makes the trailer and I the same age, but the trailer may be in better shape. Anyway, I decided to decorate my trailer for the holiday.

Full disclosure notice: I write and swear better than I paint. So, I painted my M101 trailer in red, white and blue. That wasn't quite gaudy enough, so I salvaged three old letters from my collection of restaurant stuff and painted them to fit my holiday theme. I built a frame and mounted them.

Now, I am a guy who is looking for a Fourth of July parade looking for a gaudy military trailer to participate. Someone asked about my paint job. I told him that it was a 50/50 paint job. At 50 miles per hour and 50 feet away, it looks great!!

Here's your early viewing!!

The Supremes' Latest Hit??

 As demonstrated by the latest Supreme Court ruling, there is no word less understood by bureaucrats than "temporary". I had hair when many of the immigrants with Temporary Protected Status came to the United States. Now that the Supremes have ruled that "temporary" actually has meaning, the masses seek to take action to remain here where they all claim to feel threatened. I just don't understand. 

In online parlance, "digital creator" is the new "unemployed". Make no mistake about it, I am not a "digital creator". All I do in this space is transfer my scribblings from my spiral-bound data base (pocket notebook) to the computer for easier sharing. I am just curious. Apart from a pulse, what are the requirements to be a "digital creator"? My wife claims that the only digital creating that I do happens when I wave my middle finger at other motorists.

Liberals now want the United States to be the "Baby Daddy" to the world.

WOW!! The Supreme Court actually agreed that states have the right to limit women's sports to actual women. 

In his 91-page dissent on the Supreme Court ruling on the 14th Amendment, Clarence Thomas showed us why he should be the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and why John Roberts should be hearing shoplifting cases in Chicago. I am not going to refer to the Supreme Court majority in the 14th Amendment case as something as crude as "Four Cunts and a Clown", but readers are left to their own imaginations.

There is no truth to the ugly rumor that I am holding a fundraising drive to buy the Chief Justice a pair of balls.

The 14th Amendment did not give birthright citizenship to American Indians or Native Americans (you pick). Congress finally did that in 1924. So, if it wasn't about birthright citizenship in 1868, why is about birthright citizenship in 2026? Because it is not about birthright citizenship, it is about Democratic voters. If the mobs in Minneapolis, LA, Chicago and New York City voted Republican, Chuck "the Schmuck" Schumer and the Dollar Tree Barack Obama (Hakeem Jeffries) would be loading those illegal asses onto the next bus to the border. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. This is the only way that the Democratic Party can grow!

Let me just go ahead and lob a grenade on the fire here. I believe that there is a strong case to be made that the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution are all legally invalid. In 1869, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White that the states that formed the Confederacy had never actually seceded from the Union as secession is constitutionally illegal. 

Just for the record, on the Federal government's following the law with "Reconstruction", the Supreme Court decided the Texas V. White case in 1869. The case was decided on April 12, 1869. By that point, seven states had already been "readmitted" to the Union. Despite the ruling that the states had never left the Union, the last four states were not "readmitted" until 1870. Let's have that conversation about whether or not Congress obeys the law. At that point, what they were doing had been ruled to be a violation of the Constitution by the US Supreme Court. It didn't even slow those Radical Republicans down.

As the southern states were not represented in the Congress that passed those amendments, were those amendments actually legally passed with the required majority? The US Constitution requires a 2/3 majority in both houses to pass constitutional amendments. Was this possible without the southern states voting in the affirmative?

The US federal government required southern states to ratify the three "Reconstruction Amendments" before they could be "readmitted". Why? If you can't legally leave, then you don't have to be "readmitted".  So, if they weren't in the Union, their votes didn't count. And if they were in the Union, you can't tell them how they have to vote. We are back to square one, were those amendments legally passed? If the 14th Amendment was not legally passed, it doesn't matter what the Supreme Court says that it means. If Congress passes a law without the required majority, it's not a law. Case closed.