Democrat Hate is My Joy

 I am not a bit surprised at the depth of the hatred the woke marxists have toward Trump. And MAGA supporters  I am 78 and for as long as I remember democrats pushed social programs with which I did not agree (welfare, selective enforcement of non-discrimination law, control of my property).  When Republicans would “control” government they slowed the race to marxism but never reversed it.  I am a Libertarian because it became clear to me (in the 90’s) that there really was no representation of my beliefs on the candidates’ ballots. The differences between the parties was minimal and because I don’t vote “lesser of evils” I became a libertarian.  That the libertarian party has never been a serious threat is sad to me but that is where my values lie; again, I do not vote lesser of evils. This election was different.

Trump changed that; he engineered the marxists’ train off the rails.  Some woke marxists anticipated this, I suspect they simply could not tolerate any philosophy/policy to the right of Karl Marx.Thus their hate for Trump (and his supporters) was early, irrational and strong. They believed a free America just might happen and knew their agenda might be in trouble.

I am delighted to see the hate since the hate will attract no one to the “democrat” party and improves the chances Vance will get the presidency in 2028. The dems have nearly four years and they may get the message in time to become a threat to liberty in 2028. I hope not. Bring on the hate. The utterly failed to read the voters in 2024.  I hope they do again.

I did not vote for Trump in 2020 though I did in 2016 and in 2024, the latter election because the thought of Harris was quite scary.  In his first term there were serious questions of policy which he ignored or was ineffective changing.  It does appear he is aware that the Marxists will use any tactic (the favorite is clogging the courts) and four years just might not be enough to effect the middle-class agenda but he is much better prepared this term than he was for his first term. At the end of four years our country will be better off.

The dems did get the memo on how to behave during Trump’s State of The Union address.  Al Green was the star performer. Not surprised we hear him say he was removed from the address because of his race - “no one else was treated similarly”- except that no one else stood up and refused to sit down when ordered to do so. The race card is no longer the best defense!

Then there was Pocahontas (Elizabeth Warren) who was playing with her cell phone while Trump was spotlighting families who had lost loved ones to criminals from south of the border.

I honestly do not understand this hatred and behavior. I like it but do not understand it.  Pundits, including some democrats have been shrieking to an empty room that the public did not want the leftist agenda (you know, men playing wonens’ sports, no more gas stoves in New York, prosecuting hate crimes only if perpetrated by whites).  Nor was the voting public happy with millions of illegal immigrants draining financial resources and murdering people.

Despite polls from a variety of media, including - gasp, CNN - showing public support for Trump's initiatives the woke marxists kept hammering him and Vance and Musk and me and I really do not get it.  Had I a chance to with Harris, not sad I did not have that chance; I have questions but would be respectful addressing her. Hopefully she would have understood my questions and had an intelligible  answer.  It seems the loss of their unpopular causes has given them license to throw civility and reason out the window. Violence has followed on a small scale and may increase next summer. I am armed.

I lost a good friend and confidant when she learned I supported Trump.  A PhD and in all respects a wonderful woman - who was not able to accept that I had an opinion that was not in lockstep with hers.  I regret losing her as a friend. My values are more important to me than being popular but - knock me over with a feather - I could not believe she was that intolerant of my support for Trump.   

Watch the news and witness behavior. I will list democrat dogma that is counterproductive to the moderate democrat causes (but not to mine, happily).

1.  The democrats have not and will not recognize any achievement Trump has made or will make. Partly this is because what I call an “achievement” they call children dying in the streets and old folks shivering under overpasses. An individual who believes any of this garbage either went to an Ivy League school or spent too much time in the public school system.  In my opinion, an individual who is afraid of cuts to social security (I am on social security and am not at all worried) should applaud Trump’s rooting out fraud in government, finding money that could be used to bolster social programs such as social security and Medicare for both of which I prepaid.  To do so would be to concede his agenda has some merit and they mistakenly believe (in my opinion) that to give him any credit assures they will not win back the white house in 2028. As a long time supervisor I complimented employees on their work even while I had to criticize some parts of their performance. The criticism is more balanced and produces a balanced outcome.

And Federal employment is a democrat voting base.  What effect the reductions will have on the former employees’ attitudes and future will play out over a long period of time but government does not exist to provide employment; it exists to provide services.  Personnel is a resource; “use” only the amount you need. There is no competitor to government so it has a moral and fiscal obligation to cost the taxpayers as little as possible.

2. The army listing anti-abortion groups as domestic terrorists but not gang members or Black Lives Matter, wow! Trump’s sweeping senior military from the Pentagon is a blessing to our armed forces; the rank and file who protect the country not unconstitutional objectives.We have seen (General Milley) truly destructive “leaders” of our military. Somehow, as a toxic male I have avoided the army’s hate list.

3. No tolerance, at all, for dissent.  The party who shrieks that Trump is turning the country into a dictatorship vilifies any opinion opposing the woke/marxist agenda and that evil fear-mongering. It is the woke/marxists who are horrid dictators.  The democrats are flopping in the streets like a fish out of water that Trump has created a “constitutional crisis.”  He has not and cannot in our Republic.  These claims are baseless, uneducated and fear-mongering.

4. That we owe anything to Europe other than basic civility is nonsense.  I know very little about Europe but from my reading I have little respect for England, France or Germany.  Italy was one of the few countries not offended by Vance’s speech to the European Union. Apparently that country gets it.  I have a difficult-to-define attachment to Poland and hope Russia leaves that country alone. I admired Vance for that speech.  Europe is quite free to hate us or lose respect and over decades has shown disdain - smugness - to our county.  Other than trade issues; I think we have little to regret about that. Trump’s insisting Europe invest in Nato at a level equaling ours is valid on its face.  I believe he tackled this same issue at the beginning of his first term. Zalensky (Ukraine) commented that we are only an ocean away from Russian missiles.  I smile at that.  When (if) the balloon “goes up” we will live 20 minutes longer than the Europeans.  I would prefer to not know when that happens.  I do wonder what that radiation will do to my skin tags but won't have long t wonder about it.

5. “Free” health csre for everyone?  No thanks.  I paid for mine during my working years and prepaid for health care in my retirement years. I still pay as a retiree.  I do not want to stand in line behind the welfare mother with five kids who has contributed absolutely nothing to our society - except for her five kids. Remove  the children from her care, provide them health care and put mother to work cleaning the streets. That is survival, not “cruel and unusual” punishment. Living is simply not free.

I have paid attention to politics and our nation for 50 years and as a 78 year-0ld white male I was freed from Federal prison on November 5, 2024..  The miscreants who are suing Trump now will do so with their own money.  Under Biden the Feds accepted litigation on behalf of causes that were hurtful to this country saving miscreant money. Now these same miscreants have to fund themselves.  The Federal government will no longer subsidize the hatred of white, older, successful males who live in a great country and who enjoy using their fireplace and gas-fueled cars with impunity. Any “buttercups” who chance upon this, be advised when I say I am “successful,” I am in the middle of thee middle class, not one of those hated “rich.”

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If Illegals Are deported it is on the democrats

I  have spent much time in the last two days on the “Occupy Democrats” group. (I don’t think that name makes sense..)

Hatred for all opinions to the right of Stalin has been the norm of the socialist/marxists since time began but many of these group posters are bottom feeders who are blinded by the hate of Trump. If harmony and compromise were their goal - and it is not - at the end of the next four years they would not feel totally defeated. The hatred targets me as well but I am smug in the fact we won and they lost and I remind them of that.

This woke jerk Bishop laid into Trump chiefly with respect to deportations. I have not read the Bible (I am an atheist) but believe there is very little sanction for her using the church as a political pulpit and I hope she is rebuked. Oe poster declared he is satan. This person needs a brush-up with respect to who makes that decision. Another declared he is not a “Christian.” This is the hating that will stop the democrats from compromise.

I like the Hispanics. I have yet to have a negative experience with any of them and find many Hispanic women gorgeous. They, like the Asians, are not a gimme culture unlike American blacks and indians. Mayorkas is a criminal who will never be held to account. The marxists hate Trump for deportation plans but it is mayorkas who set the stage for hopelessness - the creation of false hope. “Compassion” is not the issue. Law and our rights as a sovereign nation are the issues.

I believe there is room for compromise. The marxists want no compromise because their real objective is 10,000,000 additional democrat voters.

If I were at the negotiating table here is what I would propose:

1. All criminals are hunted down and gone before the ink dries. Any illegals who subsequently commit criminal acts are immediately deported.

2. All others remain, BUT:

A. They receive no government benefits in ANY form for twenty years with the exception of those with birthrights. They pay all taxes for these twenty years. Bill Gates gave $50,000,000 to Harris. He can find another $50,000,000 to donate to food banks, to health care clinics. I suspect some wealthy Republican (don’t be triggered by that word, buttercups) donors would fund some of these programs. I would, were I wealthy (horrors, image a “compassionate” libertarian!) Compassion a a personal value not a government mandate.

Haters: before you spew your hate, that illegals will have NOT been returned to countries that will enslave or murder them is sufficient “compassion.”

Also I have paid for fifty tears for my social security and medicare. I do not want my benefits paid to others who have not prepaid for them, diluting mine.

States may do as they wish but may not use Federal funds.

On Day 1 the feds will begin to reserve funds that might be required to supplement payments when the illegals begin to collect after twenty years. This reserve will be protected from pilfering somehow Good luck given Fed corruption. The source of these funds will NOT COMPROMISE benefits to birth citizens. Only those who have been naturalized will be eligible for benefit-after paying taxes for twenty years.

B. The illegals will not have the right to vote in ANY jurisdiction until they become naturalized. Local and state governments which allow such voting will lose Federal funds. Secretaries of State who allow voting in federal elections will be criminally prosecuted.

C. The naturalization process will not be expedited in order to quickly increase the democrat voting base and even after naturalization the new citizens collect no government benefits for 20 years.  

D. The criminal prosecutions of mayorkas and Biden are imperative. I don’t know what the charges would be but surely the Republicans can be as creative as the democrats have been over the last eight years.

All the above, given the illegals would then not be deported, is a “compassion." If I were an illegal I would feel I was truly lucky. Compromise is not the likely outcome because the true objective of the marxists is not “compassion.” It is the destruction of America as quickly as possible.

That rigid position is not compassion. it hurts the illegal

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WHITES AND MALES LIBERATION DAY

 NOVEMBER 5, 2024, LIBERATION DAY

When Trump takes office here is what the government will no longer do:

1. Be asked to prosecute me as a “domestic terrorist” because I speak out at a school board meeting.

2. Award contracts or government employment with an emphasis on race or gender.

3.  Disallow IRS tax exemption based on political beliefs.

4.  Use taxpayer funds to litigate and advocate woke/marxist/unconstitutional causes; those causes will have to fund themselves. Gates gave $50,000,000 to Harris; he can fund the woke.

5.  Allow assassins unfettered access to conservative SCoTUS members

6. D.C. and Puerto Rico becoming states which would have provided four more democrat senators.

Bottom line is that I look forward to the Marxist hate-mongers as their increased bile reinforces my belief that we escaped a vengeful totalitarian state. I will be in the fray for four years reminding the marxists that WWIII did not happen and people are not starving in our streets.

My country did dodge a bullet and boy is there hate out there. I love it.

Not today, Marxists

 On November 5th my country escaped, handsomely and most fortunately, the return to the eras of Hitler, Stalin and Lenin and as usual the pollsters underestimated the sane but shy voters:  “The Great Silent Majority,” long loathed by the Left. I pay scant attention to the polls.  I think they are flawed, the pollsters will slant results, even if ever so slightly, in favor of the fee payors.  I would NEVER trust a poll from CBS, CNN or FOX.. There are some good pollsters out there.  I like the Quinnipiac poll out of Connecticut.

We really did avoid the end or our democracy.  The far left, the Marxist puppeteers of the democratic party, fully intended to limit speech; Biden tried a “government news bureau” which was intended to entice the public to fetch its news from the government rather than the news networks.  I don’t know who quashed it; I suspect both parties - to their credit - but the constitution is the only barrier to the Marx/Lenin/Hitler totalitarian  management of news Biden sought and Harris would have as well.  

Here is what must do in four years::

1. Immediate opening of energy of all sorts:  fossil fuel, hydroelectricity, nuclear, solar and wind, ONLY IF ECONOMICALLY COST-EFFECTIVE and with no government incentive for any source. I still don't understand the Marxist resistance to nuclear power except the desire that the west live with less, irrespective of alternatives…you know, because Africans don’t have reliable plentiful electricity we should not either.

2. Drop our pledge to the Paris Climate Accord. Sorry Greta Thunberg.  Most people do not realize that India and China, together the largest CO2 polluters in the world and greater than all other countries combined, do not participate in the Paris Climate Accord, to the complete absence of public shaming. Really? Notice the perfect absence of criticism from the climate change alarmists?  I do mean “perfect.” Punish the West for economic success and our standard of living?  underdeveloped countries do not have CO2 reduction goals, you know, because they must “catch up” to us in the West first. I once criticized, with no luck of course, the National Weather Service in Caribou, Maine for including a link to an advocacy group for CO2 reduction; not a peer-reviewed scientific study, an advocacy document. Trump will direct NOAA to disassociate itself from any political/philosophical perspective on climate change. Peer-reviewed facts only.

3. Drop our membership in the U.N. and stop all costs of the operation.  If the city of New York wishes to keep the headquarters building, at its own cost, fine, but no Federal payments to help New York do that. The U.N. loathes the U.S. We are masochists to support that organization!

4. Cessation of all grants to higher education that does not have a strict non-discrimination policy that investigates ALL allegations of violations and offenders are punished equally without respect to political or philosophical beliefs, race, gender, blah, blah, blah.  Students will be encouraged to file violations of non-discrimination policy with the Department of Education, a section of which will be devoted to investigation of and enforcement of higher education civil rights policy. ALSO, federal prosecution (or civil litigation if that is the only avenue) of universities that allow violation of non-discrimination policy. Students will be permitted to file alleged violations against  individual teachers, campus groups or advocates and the universities themselves.  That a professor hates whites and males, if a professor or students of opposite opinion, in the same classroom are free to opine, with no harassment or intimidation… probably can be managed. Student performance  will be graded with no consideration of the professor’s personal opinion. A student who believes his written expression is poorly graded or criticized based on the opinions s/he submits, may ask for a “second opinion.” Free speech is deeply important; NO MANAGED SPEECH.

5. Begin Federal litigation against Evanston, Illinois, the State of New York and other governments that attempt to implement “reparations” payments to blacks or any organization of which blacks are the beneficiaries. Bill Gates, who gave $50,000,000 to Kamala Harris, is quite welcome to give $50,000,000 to black beneficient organizations, NOT as a pass-through to any government managed  program. No governme t participation whatsoever.

6. DoJ will litigate against any state anti-gun laws, according to the US Supreme Court ruling, “New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Vs. Bruen.” Most reasonable people, or at least, I, think citizens do not need rocket-propelled grenades, but pistols, rifles of any sort:  leave them alone.  I choose how to defend myself, not the government. If the Marxists want to continue to lobby against “assault rifles” then may as well allow RPG’s and let them fight that too.

7. Blanket parton all “Insurrectionist” convictions for the January 6, chaos unless the conviction was clearly fact-based and not political.A gauge is, did the Feds equally prosecute Black Lives Matter destruction of private or public property? The D.C. police officer who shot a woman for no valid reason and was “excused” should be prosecuted criminally as well as the D.C. police. Huge civil awards and criminal prosecution where possible. I don’t like massive sums for wrong-doing but in this case that may be the best message.  I would prefer the officer and the D.C. chief of police be tried criminally but I don’t think that will happen. It can, but won’t. The  family of the woman who was shot by the D.C. police officer is suing for $30,000,000 but the award should be so great the department struggles for funding. Ya know, Bill Gates, so in love with Harris and her Marxsts, could pay that award for the city.

8. Close the borders.  This one is easy.

9. Eradicate all “cultural sensitivity” education in the military and government service.  The purpose of the military is protection of the U.S. not to apportion membership or favoritism. No more “cultural sensitivity education” The  purpose of general government is service to the citizens not the advocacy for “previously oppressed groups.”       10. Were I at the negotiating table Trump might not deport illegals   already here but NO GOVERNMENT BENEFITS IN ANY FORM for some period of time perhaps fifteen years.  In the meantime illegals must pay into both health and social security funds given that eventually they might use those benefits.. I paid into both  for 50 years; and I STILL pay for medicare. I want priority in drawing on those benefits. I paid into both for 50 years before I drew any benefits. Healthcare is a commodity not a constitutional right.  It is reasonable that recipient wannabes pay into the systems long before drawing on any of them…like I did. In the meantime they also pay income taxes. Medicaid may pay for illegals but any Federal money given to the states for Medicaid must be uniquely identifiable and separated  from money the states wish to use to benefit illegals. Oh, and reinstitute required work for citizens who receive medicaid, if the federal government is going to contribute to it. Illegals will be required to pay hospital bills even though indigent.

11. Illegals will NEVER  vote in any election at any level, unless they, through current systems, become citizens. That takes a long time; I know personally; and no application  changes should be instituted to speed up the process..

12. Public education will come under critical public scrutiny. Reports of public education failure will become news so the public understands the failure of public education and the incarceration of children from which they will never escape. Trump will pursue, through the department of education, grants to and laws favorable to private schooling, “Separation of Church and State” notwithstanding I do not understand why the NEA, et al have been able to block support of private education.  I buy the concept of separation of church and state.  Might private schools offer secular education with the option for students to attend religious education outside of school hours?  Religious institutions are rigid about inserting religion into their schools.  This shoots the school in the foot and has been a block to public funding of private schools. Relaxing the requirement for non-secular teachings would serve the private institutions and the public. The NEA et al are determined to incarcerate kids in schools that leave them perfectly unprepared to participate in society and provide for themselves.  A few years ago I read a study that said Baltimore public schools had not ONE fourth grade student proficient in fourth grade math.  Are you fucking kidding me?

13. It is my understanding that ALL DoJ employees are “at will.”  I am not sure of that.  Fire Garland (we are lucky he was never confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice) and his minions as he (Trump) walks to his desk on Day1.  I do not expect a pledge of unquestioned loyalty but EVERY employee must sign an unambiguous, no-spin pledge to the constitution as defined by their superiors - with whistleblower access if the employee thinks the supervisor is out of line or politically/philosophically slanted.. DoJ is riddled with truly horrible and malicious people. Truly dangerous people.

14. DoJ will no longer harass individuals or organizations that disagree with the government at any level.  Citizens who object to a school board policy will no longer be branded “domestic terrorists,” A school board who alleges that of any citizen will be criminally prosecuted (if possible) for violation of the citizen’s first amendment rights. Federal funding of PUBLIC schools that attempt to discourage public input will cease.

15. Abortion policy is not important to me except that the Federal government will NEVER pay for an abortion.  Abortions should be done within the first trimester. Allowed or not allowed, abortion should be a states’ rights issue with the few exceptions I note here.  If dear young mom cannot make up her mind in thirteen weeks…life is tough.  Abortions for the mother's health will be well documented and a responsible, related  objecting party may ask for a second opinion. For instance, if the mother or her advocate says the mother might die, that claim might be confirmed by a second opinion, Many women-uber-allis organizations fund abortions.  Bill Gates can help them with a $50,000,000 donation. Enough money to go around, even so mom can be reimbursed for travel from those women-hating states to states that do allow abortions.

16.No gun restrictions except those that most would consider reasonable; no guns in taverns, courtrooms, hospitals.  Government buildings may NOT  block gun possession. I think rocket propelled grenades don’t belong in the individuals possession but if the marxists want to compare a pistol to an “assault weapon” then, what the heck, let them compare  RPG’s to pistols (see #6)

17. Under both Reagan and Trump I have been disappointed with their failure to reduce the national deficit.  I am not an economist but I just don’t get how this can continue. I would not reduce the deficit by tax increases. Reduce the deficit by reducing government employment and programs. I once read - unconfirmed - that the average government salary in D.C. is over $100,000.  It is expensive to live there, I understand that; but those salaries are not justified. SOME government employees find public service a noble calling and if they cannot afford to live on $60,000 a year they will have roommates or a significant other who works. That is not “cruel and unusual punishment.” Private sector families often have to have two incomes. GOVERNMENT DOES NOT EXIST TO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT.  GOVERNMENT EXISTS TO PROVIDE SERVICES.  I have often proposed that all government need not reside in D.C.  Could the Department of Energy be based in Albuquerque, New Mexico?  Could the Department of Education be based in Boise, Idaho?  Could the Department of Homeland Security be based in Midland, Texas?  Of course.  Cost of living is less in those places and it damn well would be less in D.C. if overnight the housing vacancy rate in D.C. were 50%. Government employees are union but Trump should risk shutting down government if need be, to get concessions from workers. NO BACK PAY WHEN GOVERNMENT RESUMES. Currently employees do get back pay. When a fast food employee is sent home because his business had a fire, s/he does not get back pay when the operation resumes. 

Government clearly exists only to preserve itself (I worked in Washington State government for 25 years so I know of what I speak;) the current culture is not at all about public service.  Much of government could be contracted to the private sector.  Not all such contractors will provide quality services but the benefit TO THE PUBLIC is that the bad performer does not get the next contract and services will likely cost less than when performed by the government monopoly. Contract letting will be in plain language and easily accessible to the public. Currently, government workers, not interested in public service, rarely lose their jobs.  A contractor can lose a contract and that is sufficient motivation.  Competition is the only avenue to better government service. We eschew monopolies in the private sector, you know, those big evil corporations. We should conduct business enjoying cost savings and service quality provided via competition. 

In his first term Trump once signed a “continuing resolution” - short-term funding to avoid government shutdown. Continuing resolutions are like pumping fluid into the medical patient while not bothering to stop the bleeding.  The Feds are supposed to pass a biennial budget but don’t.  Legislators do not like to commit to a two-year document that might not serve their intended interests and in the meantime, are elected out in two years (house members only)  Trump then said he would not sign another one…then he did. Actually that is one reason I did NOT vote for him in 2020 (the other was failure to work aggressively for gun rights).  Perhaps this time with no possibility of re-election, he will show more backbone. The public thinks if government shuts down their lives will come to an end.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  If lives are going to come to an end it will be under the Marxist regime we just so fortunately avoided. Remember the three previously mentioned dictators murdered people. A president who calls dissenters “garbage” is blocked only by our constitution from political/philosophical “cleansing.”

18. No more minority or womens’ grants, AT ALL. Why these programs survive civil rights law is beyond me but they are, on the surface, discriminatory. Women are not aggrieved and Blacks have received government handouts since at least back to Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” in the sixties.  In the future all minorities who believe they lack “privilege” can invest in private education so the next generation can survive on its own without extorting whites. The marxists have assured themselves (well, maybe not) continued power by incarcerating inner-city youth, guaranteeing that these kids cannot provide for themselves at adulthood.

Trump disappointed me his first term and did not get my vote in 2020     

 I voted for him this time because the end of our country was becoming more apparent under the hoped-for marxist regime.  Since he cannot be re-elected perhaps he will be less timid about true government reform.  It is long past time for government to serve the people and not itself.

Crossing my fingers!!

 

Loving Kari Lake And Loathing Political Solicitations

 Kari Lake for Senate

4040 E. Camelback Road

Ste 103

Phoenix, AZ  85018

Dear Kari:

I love you; were neither of us married it would make it much easier to propose.

Not to worry. I am not a stalker. I love your politics and fire, much like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace. Well, and you are pretty. 

I am very sorry for your loss in the last governor’s race. I followed AZ from a distance. I live in Van Buren, Maine, a delightful town of 2,500 on the New Brunswick border. I walked to Canada one day just to say I did. Suffice it to say the border here is not the unconstitutional catastrophe you have down there.

Arizona surprises me. I thought the voters in AZ were withered conservative old folk. Apparently not. Perhaps more of them need to be murdered for the apathetic to understand what is happening.

I am a libertarian, a convert from conservative republican when I realized about 30 years ago that the democrats were handing the country over to the Amin’s, Stalin’s and Hitler’s of our country with almost no Republican resistance.

I am very comfortable as a libertarian, the political high road. I will probably vote for Trump because I firmly believe we are finished if Harris wins; especially if both houses go along with her. I voted for Trump in ‘16 but did not in 2020. He had to declare war on the woke, gun grabbers and the hate speech purveyors and he did not do that. In the end the only tool he had was funding veto and he did not do that either. After voting for a continuing resolution he once said he would not do so again.

And then he did. 

The only way to change government, the ONLY way is to starve it. I have watched that happen successfully.

Government has convinced the masses that they simply cannot live without the insightful guidance of those loathsome folks in D.C. I truly believe D.C. could slide into the Delaware and after a period of adjustment we would move on freer and richer post D.C. Our Federal government is a destructive force in a country with our constitution. If it does slide into the river, I hope you will not be there.

I believe political campaigns of any sort, including yours, should be subject to do-not-call laws. You and your purpose are NOT special generally and should not be exempt from nuisance calling law (your goals are important to me personally). These damn robo calls and texts are loathsome and often deceitful and that includes yours. I delete these message and the acknowledgement  “you will not receive any more calls from this number.” Great; from which of the millions of numbers will you text me next? I now reply “f**k you”  which does not stop the garbage but does provide me some satisfaction. I am resentful at the deceit and disrespect. I have replied that to you but of course you do not stop.

These “surveys.” Wow! A few years ago I realized no one reads them so I wrote (no longer possible, these surveys do not include dialogue boxes any longer) that I will give money after the requester replies to my submission with thoughtful comments, not an automatically generated response.

NEWSFLASH: I just this minute received a solicitation from someone who wants my money but not my opinion. 

I hope you win. I am less enthusiastic about Trump but will probably vote for him. If Harris wins I will be glad I am already 77.

You want money? Send me a survey, my answers to which you or an aide will thoughtfully reply and I will send you a small donation. I don’t have a lot of money. Of course you do not have the resources to reply to every message personally.  I know that. That is cold fact but no politician will get money from me until I am PERFECTLY convinced s/he understands my concerns and will work for my interests.

Having said all of this, I wish you luck, Gallego is unfit to represent mainstream America.

Let me know if you get divorced.

Sincerely,

John M. Tyson

Van Buren, Maine

milquetoast165@outlook.com

Marxist Secretaries of State

 

Two Marxist Secretaries of State, Shenna Bellows of Maine (of all places) and Jena Griswold of Colorado (no surprise here), removed Trump from the ballots in their respective states because he was, well, an insurrectionist - never proven in a court - and under the 14th amendment, should not be allowed to hold office.  These people are very dangerous and do exactly what they accuse Trump of doing except he has never done these evil things.  Bellows, Griswold, all  Marxists rely on media to hype the Trump hatred, counting on the same media to not let their assasination of the constitution kick back on them.

The U.S. Supreme Court in a 9 - 0 decision said that the states do not have the authority to remove Trump from their presidential ballot. The issue is a Federal issue but these vile, dangerous people truly believe they are superior to the Federal government and the U.S. Supreme Court and likely voters. They knew they did not have that authority but to salute the hammer and sickle, these despots (read Putin, Hitler and Stalin and now bellows and Griswold) hoped to restrict ballot access to a candidate they loathe, or otherwise eliminate the competition (as did the first three). Hypocritically these Marxist secretaries of state shriek that Trump is destroying the constitution while these same self-appointed regulators of voter choice attempted to strip Trump voters of their right to vote for the candidate of their choice. Neither apologized after their stunning defeat. They will bitterly and self-righteously plod along, using taxpayer money, plotting yet other attempts to limit the voters' choices.  Gavin Newsom, governor of California and president wannabe, got it right but for self-serving reasons.  He said it is up to the voters to decide who is suited for office. He is right but he knows that California will never vote for Trump so he lost little political capital while appearing to support the Constitution. 

The Marxists shriek that democracy is dead if Trump is elected and thus try to stop his candidacy but in fact, it is these Marxist secretaries of state who hope to kill free elections, essential to a democracy!  It is these evil self-appointed guardians of the constitution (despite being overruled in a 9-0 decision which does not happen often) who use the power of government to strip voters of their constitutional voting rights.

I won't vote for Trump.  I did enthusiastically in 2016 but he badly disappointed me (I am a Libertarian) and did not vote for him in 2020 and will not in 2024 but the voters have a perfect right to vote for the candidate they wish, not for the limited choices deemed suitable to the Marxists. Trump's participation on January 6?  Not yet proven!  Marxist despots restriction of ballot candidates?  Proven.

The voters in the two states are too ignorant or apathetic to boot these despots from office.  I do hope these two meet up again in hell where they will find their buddies Hitler, Stalin and Putin. 

Woke “Guardian” does not believe in Self-Defense

My apologies for the bad format. I am new to my MacBook and am still learning how to use it The Guardian (of the Marists I learned by accident) WAS a feed in to my Google news. I read the article pasted below and browsed the headlines. This malicious rag hates everything American. I wrote the editor and author a nasty (always civil) criticism. I received no reply but do not flatter myself I would. Remember the Marxists deal only in emotions and shy from fact and debate as a vampire does from sunlight. Read as much of the article as you wish and my rebuttal follows.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/01/gun-lobby-nra-national-shooting-sports-foundation

 Ms. Reed and Mr. Stone You convinced me to join the NSSF. No I don’t wear camouflage; no I don’t lynch blacks. What I do believe, aside from the fact that - whether or not you like it - we do have 2A and that I have the perfect right to try to protect the lives of those around me and myself. I have yet to read ANY anti-gun article that concedes that point as well as acknowledging governments “handcuff” police who may otherwise use lethal force to protect me. The real point you make is that if all gun manufacturers go out of business no more guns will be made. A little like peeing into the wind, no? Enough guns have already made it to the hands of legitimate well-intentioned gun owners, much to your disgust. 

The true point of your article is that I do NOT have the right to protect myself with the weapon of my choice. Good luck with that. Here are additional facts that will nauseate you: 

1. I own several pistols. I shoot very rarely. Guns scare me and they are NOT a hobby. Refer back two paragraphs to remind yourself why I own them. 

2. Hochul (New York "governor") is “insidious” as she flouts the crystal clear SCOTUS decision on 2A declaring her laws unconstitutional. She will lose again but does not care since it is not her money that pays for the defense of her “insidious” legislation. (I live on Long Island).

3. I lived in Washington State for 35 years, legally carried a pistol in my glove box and - get this - never shot anyone. However, at a stop light, I witnessed three thugs trying to remove an old man from his car. I honked and waved my pistol at them. They ran off; I did not shoot them and neither they nor the old man were hurt. I know; I know; another "insidious" use of a gun. When you, and others make the case the gun manufacturers want only to make money, I agree; that really is okay in a capitalist society with the 2A umbrella and it also assures me (and you and your ilk never concede this either) the availability of a product that I, not the government, choose to use to defend myself. I should not be allowed to defend myself?  Great! Make sure I do not have access to a weapon to do so.

I am not a fan of the NRA. It is a self-serving questionable organization. I will be joining that “insidious” NSSF while not giving money to The Guardian. Thank you (seriously since until now I did not know about the NSSF) for the tip.

People Kill People

 It Really Is People; Not Guns

The two articles following this blog do not parallel, but both note that gun deaths by suicide are higher than gun deaths by murder.  I chose these articles from dozens as they read objective and not inflammatory.  The number of suicides by gun does matter when we apply the feminist notion with respect to abortion, “my body; my choice.” While many states outlaw suicide (who are they going to prosecute if the "perp" is successful); suicide is a personal decision and I, and many others support it. So, remove it from the statistics on gun deaths, rendering about 25,000 gun deaths by murder.

What these tables do not show is murder in the ghettos or other high murder rate areas usually race-on-same-race murders.  This matters because in spite of the pie-in-the-sky emotions about gun control, guns will ALWAYS be available to gangsters, typically black or Hispanic, in the ghettos.  When the ghetto numbers are shown as larger, according to left-leaning articles on the web, the reason, nearly without exception, is that this country does not invest enough in those areas.  Absent from the misinformation shouted by the Marxists, is that inner-city schools are cruel, parents do not require their kids to go to school, gang members don’t care how much investment is made in their communities and the gangsters will never be separated from their guns. Implied, always, is that this country does not care about the “impoverished.”

The above paragraphs are two pieces of gun statistics as the two more credible, non-inflammatory articles show.  I won’t regurgitate the articles here but over half of gun deaths are suicide; auto deaths far outnumber deaths that are NOT related to suicide; (ever hear the leftists declare that the government should confiscate automobiles?).  The difference between automobile deaths and gun deaths is intent.  Gun deaths are deliberate; automobile deaths are rarely.  The bottom line is more people die in auto deaths than do in deliberate gun deaths; each human lost is a human lost so ignoring automobile deaths in the arguments of the nanny state is incomplete.

When U.S. gun deaths are compared to those in other countries (not a subject of these articles but the Marxist media is all too happy to dwell on that comparison) is that we have the 2nd Amendment.  Of course gun deaths in countries that do not allow private ownership of guns is going to be less. That comparison, borrowing a cliche, is "apples to oranges." Our 2nd Amendment (happily) makes it much more difficult for the Marxists to disarm the citizenry.  Remember that Stalin and Hitler both disarmed the population.  That the Marxists cannot here is frustrating to them, but a fact of life, to the true luck of our population. A ignored fact is the Marxists don't have to own guns; they simply cannot stop people who choose to own them  I have no solution for murder but I have a few ideas:  any crime committed with a gun guarantees a hefty minimum sentence and those crimes are prosecuted by the Feds so Marxist governors cannot pardon the murderer.  If we need more prisons build them.  Statistics declaring the U.S. has more people incarcerated than other countries means nothing to me.  We do not owe our standards to those of other countries.  We have truly horrible people in this country.  I believe Norway, per capita, has fewer. Hey! Just a wild guess! Give less to Ukraine and start building prisons.  Guns really are not the problem in our country; people who have never learned the word “no” are the problem.

It is cruelly ironic that Biden and his merry band of Marxists want to disarm us (of course the rhetoric is about “assault rifles” which are responsible for only three percent of gun deaths, but the intent is total disarmament of the population, one step at a time).  The Marxists replace police with social workers, under-fund the police in any case and hold each officer accountable to the degree they can, or at least harass the officer who is involved in a shooting.  The Marxists decriminalize crimes that then punish the public (stores closing because of excessive crime).  

I will not turn in my guns.  That is my line in the sand.  Want me to sit at a negotiating table to discuss the abundance of handguns (unlikely) we will talk about the above:  we will make gun crimes exceptionally painful for the criminal (again Federal crimes so Marxists governors cannot pardon the criminals); we will increase police, dampen down the inflammatory publicizing of each officer-involved shooting and enforce (or outlaw as a government matter) all lesser crimes, allowing the victim to defend his property and person himself, with guns as s/he deems "reasonably necessary."

A note about mass shootings. I have absolutely no answer. Again, speaking of cars, on occasion a drunk neanderthal will drive the wrong side of the road and kill people. There is no way to avoid that. Well, wait! We could banish all alcohol (for the second time). Mass shootings are often copycats and are responsible for approximately 5% of gun deaths. The most remote possibility might be schools adding this phenomenon to studies and - gasp - show and discuss the grotesque results.

Until then, good luck toward your futile cause, Joe, Chuck, Kathy (Hochul), AOC et al.

What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. | Pew Research Center

US gun deaths (usafacts.org)

 Editor, Tallahassee Democrat 

Re:  Sally Butzin’s “Your Turn” Dissing Private School Funding

After reading Ms. Butzin's "Your Turn" in The Tallahassee Democrat" on the fear and loathing of the private school bill, I blogged my response. Her assertions are farcical and "Misinformation." If you choose to read my blog you may wish to read her editorial first. The Tallahassee Democrat does not allow letters as long as mine and given that paper is in an area of the state that is majority progressive I doubt they would print it anyway. Thus I sent a copy to Governor DeSantis. the bill has passed but in case there is further deliberation I hope some of my points are useful. I had a friend (now deceased) in a position to state that public education is the most horrid thing happening to American right now. He did not need to convince me.

Deleted from this are a picture and brief bio the newspaper required to accompany a letter.

First the article:

Universal school vouchers a gamble with our children’s future (tallahassee.com)

Now, my rebuttal

Editor, Tallahassee Democrat

After reading this article on the fear and loathing of private school vouchers I am happy that Florida outside of Tallahassee (i don’t live in your state) is more conservative/libertarian than the seat of government.   The points Ms. Butzin makes are straight out of  the Marxist/union playbook, completely devoid of any balance. She seeks to inculcate kids in the dogma of the Marxists and keep the teachers unions robust, despite their utter failure to serve children. Her points often don’t make sense or contradict other points. A recent story noted that NOT ONE fourth grader in the Baltimore school system was at the fourth grade level in math.  Appalling - and inner-city kids are incarcerated in these schools Literally, they have nowhere else to go. This is the failure the unions and bloated bureaucracies wish to perpetuate, sacrificing the opportunity that children should hope to have to compete in the 21st  century. This in the name of preserving teacher employment and central control of curriculum.  Most education. “choice” i.e. private schools comes with a price tag and since the sole purpose of the education dollar is to teach kids, NOT keep afloat a destructive and mean-spirited education bureaucracy,  vouchers make perfect sense, subsidizing the parents’ choice. “Choice” does carry a price tag.The wealthy (remember Obama and other D.C. elites) educate their kids in private schools.  Vouchers liberate children from the appalling public school systems.  No funding = no choice, except for the wealthy.

The sole purpose of the education dollar, no matter who pays it and to whom it is granted, is the best education (as defined by parents) of the child.  Government has a monopoly on education; that monopoly is directed by the unions and the political whims of those in power (right now the direction is toward “woke”). Remember Fairfax County Virginia parents who objected to “woke” curriculum were labeled BY PUBLIC SCHOOL ADVOCATES as domestic terrorists. Ms. Butzin labels these people objecting to woke indoctrination as having “malicious intent” The facts do not support her allegations. Public schools simply do not listen to the parents and dissenters are disparaged.  Marxists (central education policy staff) deny that any opposition to their oppression may be legitimate. Atrocious accusations of “domestic terrorism” just won’t happen in private schools. When money follows the child the public school system, albeit slowly and with much shrieking, may choose to be more customer (parent and child) friendly. I don’t think that the unions and schools will change sufficiently to preserve themselves AND provide a quality education but that is up to them. Vouchers will afford the child the opportunity to attend specialty schools according to their aptitude and interests. Ms. Butzin alleges money for vouchers will end up in “private pockets.” And, she astonishingly casts criticism on the money paid to suppliers of school materials.  I do wonder where the public schools get their school supplies or do they manufacture them? Misleading  fear-mongering  and absurd.  Any private school funding program can and should establish practice and policy to make the money available solely to the chosen school, not the parent. It really is that simple. If money to the home schooling parent is her intent with this blanket statement, it is exaggerated and some badly spent money does not a refusal to allow private education make. It defies reason that she would say about the $8,000 spent per child on private or home-schooling:  “Everyone, rich or poor, line up to get your free money.”  Are you kidding me?  I hope her next rant is on the abuse and fraud in the welfare system, many times the amount that will likely be given to home-schooling parents. I worked for a welfare administration for 25 years and I do know what I am talking about.

The education unions and administrators must be slobbering over Ms. Butzin’s reasoning and choice of words.  I don’t know the quality of public schools in Florida. My guess is that children in rural areas fare better than in Tallahassee and Miami.   When our beloved Bill Clinton was in office it was either the New York or D.C. Archdiocese that offered to accept 10,000 inner-city children in their system.  I do not know if there would have been a cost to the parents.  Between Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton this proposal was nixed. Bill Clinton was a puppet of the unions and Jesse Jackson did not want black children to succeed and become prosperous successful citizens, extricating themselves from dependency on the trough.  Think about this; Public-non-performing inner-city schools are the 21st century of slavery. What are these illiterate kids going to do, black, Hispanic or white? The usual “separation of Church and State” came into play. This argument continues but “educators” who have the interests of each child at heart can design private school funding to churches that can pass muster. The horror is children who do not learn to read or write and can tell you the earth is dying but cannot balance a checkbook or discuss the Bill of Rights. Horror is protecting the costly and self-serving public school monopoly. Horror is the thousands of children yearly who are sent off to earn a living woefully prepared.  These children are literally incarcerated in these cruel dysfunctional schools. They have no choice…at all. My guess is the Florida public schools overall do provide a decent education. Nevertheless parents have a right to pursue education for their children they - not the unaccountable education bureaucracy - want for their kids.

Ms. Butzin’s position ensures that the curriculum is top-down; that parents should not be permitted to vote with a voucher, lest they further domestic terrorism..  While voting in school board elections is the theoretical answer, witness the bureaucracy’s loathing of individuals who dissent at school board meetings.  Nowhere in “her turn” does she suggest - given all her experience - methods to improve the public schools in order to attract students, thus competing with more successful and less-expensive private schools.  Any attempt to improve the schools will certainly lessen funding for public schools and hold the individual teachers and administrators accountable for student success or failure, both anathema to the unions.  A basic analysis of her arguments demonstrates how ridiculous they are.  If the public school loses students, the district will then NOT cover “her” (a teacher's) salary, (contrary to Ms. Butzin’s assertion); s/he will lose the position and the money can be directed more effectively. Who knows where she found the idea that the district would be required to continue to pay an unnecessary teacher. This notion is union dogma. She, being a great teacher will be snapped up by a private school. Salary and benefits will be smaller according to a competitive market but she will have a sense of purpose and will remain employed.  The preservation of the teacher’s job is NOT the objective of the public education dollar. I hope your readers can see through her numerous misleading half-truths. 

How does comparing the exceptional waste on FSU’s (Florida State University) funding the women’s basketball team to understaffed schools make any sense?  Schools are not underfunded; the FSU women’s basketball team is over-funded. That a coach should have 19 support staff is a scandal. Take that up as a cause..  Is there anyone other than diehard sports fans who does not understand opening up private schools is NOT the same as spending excessively on sports?  Please! Ms. Butzin claims that the voucher bill does not allow parents to make “informed” choices.  Part of the decision a parent makes will be based on more information than the public schools offer parents for their kids. If the parent does not fully inform him/herself, shame; but that kids are going to be better educated in massive bureaucracies is not true. Ms. Butzin  claims that “anti-systems” folks want only to destroy public schools.  Nope.  First, folks who advocate for private schools are not “anti-systems”; they simply want better educational opportunities for their kids.  Big difference. Bureaucracies provide only for themselves, not the customer.  At least surrounded by competition, private sector bureaucracies are  more customer oriented.  Ms. Butzsin praises “systems” such as health care, military, banking, education and transportation.  The only listed systems that includes no competition are education and military systems.  All the remaining systems, with the exception of the military (an odd duck) manage competition.  Why she fails to recognize the difference between a banking “system” and the public education “system” befuddles me. No tax-funded system should endure in perpetuity, unchanged, unaccountable, especially working, in this case, only for the interests of the politicians and the teachers. Competition is loathed precisely because of the threat to the status-quo offered by the more successful, less expensive, private schools.

That some voters do not approve of private schools has no more weight than some voters not approving of public schools. That many parents will choose to send their children to a public school is great but should not be the only available option.  That decision is solely the responsibility and choice of the parents.  In fact a “diversity” (we do adore that word, no?) of education opportunities allows better analysis of all schools and education methods that can be promulgated to all interested education entities. In my opinion, vouchers should equal the money spent per pupil on the public education system. That is not included in this bill.  If the public system chooses to be more efficient and effective it will recruit students and in the meantime the private schools can flourish, likely in perpetuity.  I worked in government for 25 years and know first hand it will fight to the death to preserve itself. Even with less funding than public schools, private school students enjoy more success.

Again, the purpose of the education dollar is to educate kids. Education is the entitlement not the preservation of unions or education bureaucracy.

Lastly, both public and private schools should adhere to standards promulgated by both the public and private schools and sanctions recommended from must not be unequally applied. Standards for home schooling are a puzzle but sharp minds, not those loyal to the education bureaucracy, can design and implement standards for home-schooling as long as those standards are not designed to tie the hands of the home-schooling parents and discourage success and innovation.

Florida’s attempt to break the stranglehold the education bureaucracy is, in itself innovation.  I hope for its success and other, open-minded states learn from Florida’s effort.

Sincerely,

John M. Tyson

Saint James, NY

po99156@gmail.com

Cc:  Governor Ron DeSantis