Wednesday 12 August 2020

Antifa X-Files Chatter

Over the past month, I've continued to hear/read commentary from Antifa 'kids', who want me to know about abducted people and Trump's secret police.  It's hyped up and I read over the claim....then wait.  There should be names and locations listed out.  None ever get presented.

So-and-so was abducted by the secret police, and they haven't been seen since that evening.

Well....who?

It's almost like an episode X-Files and you keep thinking Men-in-Black (MiBs not BLMs) are involved.

The Antifa kid swears up and down.....some 20-something gal was with him, and then the secret-police pull up, and grab her.  So you'd think....did you do an introduction, ask about her favorite band or if she would like a Pepsi after the riot business tonight?

Will the 'smoking man' show up?  Will Fox solve the mystery of missing Antifa 'maiden'?  Will Scully figure out the Portland vampire-nutcase as part of the Trump secret-police episode?

It is a great urban legend....like Bigfoot or Nessie, but without a name, it's non-existent.

If You Feel Things Are F**cked

Over the past couple of months, with all the hype on the election, Covid-19, the rapid decline in the economy, the impeachment 'corkscrew-drama', and endless nights of dramatized news....you sit there on the edge of your couch and just shake your head.

You'd like some form of 'Jesus' to arrive and just reset all this drama, and resolve things.

You'd like for Covid-19 to quietly disappear as quickly as it arrived.

You'd like for the Antifa kids to find real work, pay taxes, and clean up the neighborhoods they burnt to the ground.

You'd like for CNN to go for an entire week without uttering the word 'Trump'.

You'd like for the NBA, NFL and MLB to just center their efforts on sports and not some passion unrelated to sports.

You'd like to walk into a Piggly Wiggly without a mask, and greet Hector in the fruit department, who'd remind you of your youth when you had passion to do your job and pump you up on fantastic fruit desert ideas.

You'd like to drive home without having to encounter some idiot policeman who marginally can perform his job. 

So, here's the ten things you ought to consider:

1.  You can't resolve the bad cop business without dumping the union business, forcing DA's to do their jobs, and having public accountability out in front of the general population.

2.  Happy people are typically people who have jobs, thrive on advancement, and don't have ridiculous taxation issues.

3.  Colleges that aren't educating your kid, but charging you almost $25k a year for indoctrination.....probably aren't colleges.

4.  It might be more helpful if the House and Senate were limited to seven months a year of service in DC, and forced to return home every August.

5.  People running around and hyped up on revolution....probably wouldn't survive more than seven days in a real revolution.

6.  If your chief political 'Jesus' has a resume that fits on a 5 x 7 inch index card....they probably haven't done much in life.

7.   Professional sports without fans in the arena or stadium.....probably won't survive more than a season or two.

8.  If you really like socialism that much.....go spend a year in Denmark, Iceland or Finland.  Come back and tell us how it was.....or just stay there.

9.  The true limitation of Kaepernick....if you think about the entire landscape....the new coach wanted a multi-talented and multi-skilled player, which he simply wasn't developed to fit into that type of style or play. 

10.  Finally, people who do feel f**cked...usually open up a case of beer on the patio and contemplate the entire panorama.  They eventually come to decide that they don't want a 'Jesus-like' figure as President.....they want someone who seems to be blazing a different path, and bridges are left standing after they cross them.  These people reach a point where they hate the 'drama', and they can find the 'mute-button' in two seconds flat. 

VP Chatter

Typically, for the past 200-odd years....whoever was selected as a VP candidate for either party....was mostly an unknown figure in 49 states.

That probably changed when Reagan selected Bush I....with some insiders knowing Bush I's background via the CIA.  Bill Clinton did go with Al Gore, who probably was marginally known throughout the south, but not exactly a national figure.  Bush II with Cheney?  Significantly popular with the Reagan crowd and nationally known.  Hillary Clinton with Senator Tim Kaine?  If you watched C-S**n, you knew the guy but one would imagine fewer than one out of ten voters for Hillary had any real knowledge of Kaine.

You typically pick a person who has no scandals, no negativity, and could bring you their state.  At least that was the set of rules prior to the last decade.

With Harris?  It's a no-gain, no-loss situation.   She's marginally capable at debates....fairly 'wooden'....known as a 'law and order' prosecutor for SF and California.....but beyond that....nothing significant.  In simple terms, it's a resume that fits on a 5x7 inch index card.  On the negative side, she's mostly known in the 'oral-way' for being helpful with the former mayor of SF.  The less said on this matter....the better off.

If Joe Biden is bad-off with dementia....does this add-on of Harris help?  It would be questionable to say that.

So finally, you come to working-class Democrats....beyond the urban zones.  Most would not see Harris in any great positive light, and it probably doesn't guarantee 90-percent of all black votes returning to vote for Joe Biden.  This 36-percent group of blacks for Trump?  You can probably stamp it official now.

I'm more or less sticking with a zero net-gain and zero net-loss.  Joe could have done better, but this is a screwed up year for old-fashioned regular working-class Democrats.