There are probably a lot of weaknesses, but these are the ones which would readily collapse it in the end. I spent a fair amount of time over this weekend....thinking about this, and the whole 'movement'.
1. It's really not a terror unit.
I think a lot of people have envisioned it as a pure terror operation. It's not that type. It's more of a cult. Yes, a plain regular cult.
College kids get the HR recruitment angle via professors, and reach a stage of not questioning logic or end-result. It's pure indoctrination that you'd get with some religious cult.
The cult plan is to convince kids that anyone that questions them, their logic, or their plan for the future....is a threat to the cult (Antifa).
Kids are driven to accomplish the terror acts....for little to no money. Usually, their trip or lodgings are financed, and maybe they get $200 in cash for their weekend of effort. Typically, they only work a single weekend. For this present episode, there's probably a minimum of a $1,000 per week being expended (just my humble guess).
2. The college professors are the indoctrination team.
They do the brain-wash, and then hand off the new recruits to slightly older students who are masters-degree or PhD program candidates. They form a cell operation. If you remove the professors....recruitment drops off real quick.
3. Working-class people don't fit. They believe in capitalism.....working to make money, and appreciate things they've earned. Antifa can't really find these folks and recruit them.
4. When you've finally gotten arrested for something serious, you are kinda dependent upon the lawyers that the Antifa team hire for you. If you got real stupid and hurt someone badly? Well....those lawyers aren't going to be able to help you much.
So reality sets in.....then you start to realize that real jail is openly discussed now, and your parents can't help you....nor can Antifa.
5. You ever seen any 40-year old Antifa folks? Most grow up and leave the movement because they can't see the future developing in a Marxist way. They lose focus, and become an adult.
Thursday, 23 July 2020
The Thing About Drinking Establishments
So among the Covid rules in California....they wrote a measure on outdoor restaurants. It says that if you order alcohol.....any type....that you must order a 'meal'.
This meal can't be simple things like wings, cheese sticks, calamari or fries. It has to be an actual Hamburger plate, or steak, or tuna-fish salad. Basically....you can't get away with a $1.50 bundle of fries, or $3.99 of chicken wings.
What's this have to do with Covid-19? Nothing.
As you step into a 'pub' in California....you have to figure at the cheaper level (burger and fries)....it's going to be $10 to $12 for a basic plate, plus the $3 for one single beer.
You were going to have a two or two with three friends to celebrate your new job? Well....with food included, you'd have to spend near $80 minimum.
Why go this route? I sat and ponder upon this. It'd make more sense to go over to a grocery operation....pick up a bag of chips and a case of beer....with some crushed ice....then meet your friends over at some city park to drink under some tree without the hassle of Covid-19 ban rules.
This is the problem with the government now.....the rules reach a point where they don't really fit the original problem, and you start to ask really stupid questions that can't be answered.
This meal can't be simple things like wings, cheese sticks, calamari or fries. It has to be an actual Hamburger plate, or steak, or tuna-fish salad. Basically....you can't get away with a $1.50 bundle of fries, or $3.99 of chicken wings.
What's this have to do with Covid-19? Nothing.
As you step into a 'pub' in California....you have to figure at the cheaper level (burger and fries)....it's going to be $10 to $12 for a basic plate, plus the $3 for one single beer.
You were going to have a two or two with three friends to celebrate your new job? Well....with food included, you'd have to spend near $80 minimum.
Why go this route? I sat and ponder upon this. It'd make more sense to go over to a grocery operation....pick up a bag of chips and a case of beer....with some crushed ice....then meet your friends over at some city park to drink under some tree without the hassle of Covid-19 ban rules.
This is the problem with the government now.....the rules reach a point where they don't really fit the original problem, and you start to ask really stupid questions that can't be answered.
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
The Right-Foot-Right-Arm Crowd
In general, if you play baseball, softball, bowling, basketball or football.....you will lead with your left foot going forward and your right arm then handling the item in a forward motion.
Watch a quarterback, or a pitcher (in baseball)....the left foot leads, then the right arm follows.
I sat today watching some riot video from Seattle and Portland. I admit, I probably have better things to spend my time upon.
It kinda hit me.....with around three-quarters of the crowd in a 'rock-throwing' situation.....they were leading with the right-foot, and throwing with the right.
It's an odd movement of the body, and after you've seen it a couple of times....you go back to earlier videos and see this over and over.
Why?
People who've participated in sports in their youth....develop the skill of throwing things. It doesn't matter if you grow up on a farm, or in some coastal city.....if you participate in sports, you develop this 'swing'.
People who don't participate in sports....never get the knack of left-foot-right-arm.
What kind of people are like this? Mostly gamers, who never played sports. White boys who pretend to grow up...the type that sat on a gamer set for their entire life.
After you realize this....it's just kinda funny....'warrior-juveniles' with a right-foot-right-arm 'swing'.
Watch a quarterback, or a pitcher (in baseball)....the left foot leads, then the right arm follows.
I sat today watching some riot video from Seattle and Portland. I admit, I probably have better things to spend my time upon.
It kinda hit me.....with around three-quarters of the crowd in a 'rock-throwing' situation.....they were leading with the right-foot, and throwing with the right.
It's an odd movement of the body, and after you've seen it a couple of times....you go back to earlier videos and see this over and over.
Why?
People who've participated in sports in their youth....develop the skill of throwing things. It doesn't matter if you grow up on a farm, or in some coastal city.....if you participate in sports, you develop this 'swing'.
People who don't participate in sports....never get the knack of left-foot-right-arm.
What kind of people are like this? Mostly gamers, who never played sports. White boys who pretend to grow up...the type that sat on a gamer set for their entire life.
After you realize this....it's just kinda funny....'warrior-juveniles' with a right-foot-right-arm 'swing'.
Just Observations
1. Maybe it's just me, but I'm starting to imagine Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis as some Game of Thrones city (King's Landing), with a twist of Gotham City, Nazi Berlin, Dodge City (1875) and Beirut of 1984 in full civil war.
2. Kanye West was pretty crazy at his first Presidential 'chat'. I would be willing to pay $300 to see him and Joe Biden in a debate.
3. Trump and this executive order not to count non-Americans in the final census tally?
It'll be challenged in court, and the Supreme Court will likely invent some way to invalidate it. But then the problem will arise....there is nothing in the Constitution to say he can or can't do it. It just says he has to accomplish this every ten years.
Back in 2014, they did a study and concluded around 12-million illegals were in the US. Out of that, the three states with the bigger issues were California (24-percent of the 12-million), NY (6-percent) and Texas (16-percent). So you probably can assume in the six years since....another five million arrived, and the state counts remained the same.
If the numbers are NOT counted (by his order) then NY, California and Texas are the states in trouble. One might assume five to six districts are lost upon the three states.
Why the aggravation and anger by the three? Well....go imagine trying to redraw the district lines in NY or California, and telling two of these guys that their district is gone and they need to find a real job now.
4. The House held a vote to cut the Pentagon budget by 10-percent. Result? More than 60-percent of Democrats voted with the Republicans. The measure only carried 93 lousy votes....324 against. Why attempt some measure like this? I think Pelosi has lost interest in getting results, and this is just a circus atmosphere for 2020.
5. With the Chinese 'game' going on in Hong Kong.....how many Hong Kong folks have the 'right' to move to the UK? Well....if you do the count on just passports in hand (the right given in 1997)....it's about 350k people. However, added to this....around another 2.7-million who have the right but currently don't have the UK passport.
My guess, by spring of 2021, around 100k Hong Kong residents will have made the exit and another 250k will leave by the end of 2021. Will the UK have the apartments and homes for them? That's a big question.
But added to this....the brain-drain to Hong Kong, and the brain-gain to the UK....will create this huge entrepreneur situation and set the stage for the next decade in the UK.
6. Surveys on defunding the police? Depending on who you look at....the 'least' in support is around 80-percent....with various areas of the US strongly shaking their head.
If you wanted to pick a topic where people don't agree....this is one of those.
7. If you are traveling to New York (doesn't matter where in the state)....you have to self-quarantine for 14 days. The states? AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.
Destruction of the travel industry? No doubt, but it's the way they desire it.
8. “Ask ten people what ‘fairness’ means and you can get eleven different definitions.” Great quote by Thomas Sowell.
This is obviously standing out in the public view now, and one of the top ten most confusing things about the American landscape in 2020.
2. Kanye West was pretty crazy at his first Presidential 'chat'. I would be willing to pay $300 to see him and Joe Biden in a debate.
3. Trump and this executive order not to count non-Americans in the final census tally?
It'll be challenged in court, and the Supreme Court will likely invent some way to invalidate it. But then the problem will arise....there is nothing in the Constitution to say he can or can't do it. It just says he has to accomplish this every ten years.
Back in 2014, they did a study and concluded around 12-million illegals were in the US. Out of that, the three states with the bigger issues were California (24-percent of the 12-million), NY (6-percent) and Texas (16-percent). So you probably can assume in the six years since....another five million arrived, and the state counts remained the same.
If the numbers are NOT counted (by his order) then NY, California and Texas are the states in trouble. One might assume five to six districts are lost upon the three states.
Why the aggravation and anger by the three? Well....go imagine trying to redraw the district lines in NY or California, and telling two of these guys that their district is gone and they need to find a real job now.
4. The House held a vote to cut the Pentagon budget by 10-percent. Result? More than 60-percent of Democrats voted with the Republicans. The measure only carried 93 lousy votes....324 against. Why attempt some measure like this? I think Pelosi has lost interest in getting results, and this is just a circus atmosphere for 2020.
5. With the Chinese 'game' going on in Hong Kong.....how many Hong Kong folks have the 'right' to move to the UK? Well....if you do the count on just passports in hand (the right given in 1997)....it's about 350k people. However, added to this....around another 2.7-million who have the right but currently don't have the UK passport.
My guess, by spring of 2021, around 100k Hong Kong residents will have made the exit and another 250k will leave by the end of 2021. Will the UK have the apartments and homes for them? That's a big question.
But added to this....the brain-drain to Hong Kong, and the brain-gain to the UK....will create this huge entrepreneur situation and set the stage for the next decade in the UK.
6. Surveys on defunding the police? Depending on who you look at....the 'least' in support is around 80-percent....with various areas of the US strongly shaking their head.
If you wanted to pick a topic where people don't agree....this is one of those.
7. If you are traveling to New York (doesn't matter where in the state)....you have to self-quarantine for 14 days. The states? AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.
Destruction of the travel industry? No doubt, but it's the way they desire it.
8. “Ask ten people what ‘fairness’ means and you can get eleven different definitions.” Great quote by Thomas Sowell.
This is obviously standing out in the public view now, and one of the top ten most confusing things about the American landscape in 2020.
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Four Years Difference
I was walking a good bit today and contemplated some things:
1. Four years ago, I would have said that Hillary Clinton would have carried 30 to 32 states, and things just didn't go that way. I'm actually laughing over that.
2. If you had said that unemployment in the Huntsville (Ala) area would have reached down to 2-percent....I would have laughed.
3. If you'd said that Trump would be impeached....mostly over talking to some Ukrainian folks and urging an investigation of Joe Biden's 'threat', and the majority of the case involved people who weren't in the room at the time of the call....I would have laughed.
4. If you'd said that Joe Biden would have taken a serious turn for the worse for dementia, yet still be the chief candidate in July 2020.....I would have laughed.
5. If you'd said that some x-rated movie actress would have come out and sworn on sex with Trump but no one really cared....I would have laughed.
6. If you'd said that the entire case on General Flynn would have developed, and then crashed, and the judge just wouldn't 'let go'.....I would have laughed.
7. If you'd said that Trump would have hired Omarosa to be on his staff, then fired her, I would have laughed.
8. If you'd said that a bunch of items would have burned down a whole mostly-black neighborhood in Minneapolis, by white 'kids'.....over the police handling a black guy with a counterfeit $20 bill? I would have laughed.
9. If you'd said that a quarter of the news media effort in June would be covering mostly Confederate statues....I would have laughed.
10. If you'd said that the Washington Redskins would be renaming their club, over Indian criticism, I would have laughed.
11. If you'd said that Kanye West was running for President, I would have been laughing.
12. If you'd said that some virus had come from China, and killing mostly older folks around the globe, and be the number one topic of discussion in America....triggering mask-chaos.....I would have been laughing.
13. If you said that the Ford Bronco would be coming back, I would have been laughing.
14. If you'd said that the Today Show bigwig Matt Lauer's whole career would fall apart in less than 100 days, I would have laughed.
15. If you'd said that the whole Russian collusion thing....was totally faked-up, I would have laughed.
16. If you'd said that 40-percent of blacks were now pro-Trump, I would have laughed.
1. Four years ago, I would have said that Hillary Clinton would have carried 30 to 32 states, and things just didn't go that way. I'm actually laughing over that.
2. If you had said that unemployment in the Huntsville (Ala) area would have reached down to 2-percent....I would have laughed.
3. If you'd said that Trump would be impeached....mostly over talking to some Ukrainian folks and urging an investigation of Joe Biden's 'threat', and the majority of the case involved people who weren't in the room at the time of the call....I would have laughed.
4. If you'd said that Joe Biden would have taken a serious turn for the worse for dementia, yet still be the chief candidate in July 2020.....I would have laughed.
5. If you'd said that some x-rated movie actress would have come out and sworn on sex with Trump but no one really cared....I would have laughed.
6. If you'd said that the entire case on General Flynn would have developed, and then crashed, and the judge just wouldn't 'let go'.....I would have laughed.
7. If you'd said that Trump would have hired Omarosa to be on his staff, then fired her, I would have laughed.
8. If you'd said that a bunch of items would have burned down a whole mostly-black neighborhood in Minneapolis, by white 'kids'.....over the police handling a black guy with a counterfeit $20 bill? I would have laughed.
9. If you'd said that a quarter of the news media effort in June would be covering mostly Confederate statues....I would have laughed.
10. If you'd said that the Washington Redskins would be renaming their club, over Indian criticism, I would have laughed.
11. If you'd said that Kanye West was running for President, I would have been laughing.
12. If you'd said that some virus had come from China, and killing mostly older folks around the globe, and be the number one topic of discussion in America....triggering mask-chaos.....I would have been laughing.
13. If you said that the Ford Bronco would be coming back, I would have been laughing.
14. If you'd said that the Today Show bigwig Matt Lauer's whole career would fall apart in less than 100 days, I would have laughed.
15. If you'd said that the whole Russian collusion thing....was totally faked-up, I would have laughed.
16. If you'd said that 40-percent of blacks were now pro-Trump, I would have laughed.
Sunday, 19 July 2020
Rebooting 'Lost' (the Series)?
I read a piece over the weekend where some folks are in a discussion stage about bringing 'Lost' back. Year? Probably not....it's probably a working project for the fall of 2021 or 2022.
Since I was a fan of Lost, I'll make five observations about the past show:
1. From the very first episode....it was designed to draw your attention. I would probably rate it as one of the top three best-written shows of all time.
2. All this said and done....by the third season, you were in a daze because they were marginally answering questions, and dumping more mystery issues on each single episode.
3. The best character? Without any doubt....Mr Ecko. He held so many possible paths but the actor wanted an exit by the 3rd year.
4. The number of happy folks over the conclusion? If you lined up a hundred who watched from day one, to this point.....half would say they were disappointed in the whole ending and feeling cheated.
5. Finally, you really needed to imagine a lot of things.....with this coming back almost week, to believe even more things.
So the reboot? I just don't see how this would work. The island concept? It's been done....you need to move on. The mystery upon each week? How?
I have my doubts....it just will be a couple of guys talking about a reboot, and they quietly dump the talk after three months.
Since I was a fan of Lost, I'll make five observations about the past show:
1. From the very first episode....it was designed to draw your attention. I would probably rate it as one of the top three best-written shows of all time.
2. All this said and done....by the third season, you were in a daze because they were marginally answering questions, and dumping more mystery issues on each single episode.
3. The best character? Without any doubt....Mr Ecko. He held so many possible paths but the actor wanted an exit by the 3rd year.
4. The number of happy folks over the conclusion? If you lined up a hundred who watched from day one, to this point.....half would say they were disappointed in the whole ending and feeling cheated.
5. Finally, you really needed to imagine a lot of things.....with this coming back almost week, to believe even more things.
So the reboot? I just don't see how this would work. The island concept? It's been done....you need to move on. The mystery upon each week? How?
I have my doubts....it just will be a couple of guys talking about a reboot, and they quietly dump the talk after three months.
The Dinosaur Path for the News Media
This morning, I gazed at a Rasmussen Report.
They did this survey asking people about how they felt of the media, and if the news media was biased.
So....87-percent of Republican voters said yes.
Oddly....42-percent of Democratic voters said yes.
Overall....63-percent of people interviewed said that big guys of the news media....have their own political agenda.
So you gaze at this.
How would you resolve this? The only answer....tell the news people for a 30-minute newscast....only three minutes can be political, then you have to settle for tornado chatter....nutritional discoveries....science stuff....wild dog attacks....or corruption in Chicago.
The fact that 42-percent of Democrats believe this as well? It has to be unsettling to sit on the national agenda level and realize that people aren't buying into the use of the news media for your agenda.
They did this survey asking people about how they felt of the media, and if the news media was biased.
So....87-percent of Republican voters said yes.
Oddly....42-percent of Democratic voters said yes.
Overall....63-percent of people interviewed said that big guys of the news media....have their own political agenda.
So you gaze at this.
How would you resolve this? The only answer....tell the news people for a 30-minute newscast....only three minutes can be political, then you have to settle for tornado chatter....nutritional discoveries....science stuff....wild dog attacks....or corruption in Chicago.
The fact that 42-percent of Democrats believe this as well? It has to be unsettling to sit on the national agenda level and realize that people aren't buying into the use of the news media for your agenda.
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