Category: History in motion

It’s five days now since Charlie Kirk was shot dead and the news is still saturated with the adoration of him from the Right and the hatred of him from the Left. The only positive aspect of this is that he’s finally replaced Jeffrey Epstein as the dead person everyone is focused on, and maybe that’s the point.

The investigations by those outside of government circles kept pointing to top members, as in Presidents, Senators and House Representatives in both parties, having been involved with Epstein and kiddie sex. Pres. Trump notably attempted to divert attention away from himself on this issue since he was a past friend of Epstein and they were photographed together many times over a period of years.

Suddenly, Kirk is killed and just as suddenly, everyone in the White House is wailing with grief and shrieking in despair, “Oh, what shall we do, the Great Charlie is dead” while flags across the land fly at half staff, an honor usually reserved for dead presidents. Even the Left, who are not at all unhappy about his murder, are being outrageous about it, almost dancing in the streets while reviling his memory.

Both sides are way over the top in their reaction to the murder of a young preacher and suddenly, finally, Jeffrey Epstein is old news. Not forgotten, but no longer the big focus. How very convenient, is how this appears to me.

If I were one of the people in our government who was in the spotlight of the Epstein scandal and I wanted that light to move on to someone else, and it was recommended to me by, oh, say, someone in the CIA or FBI, that Kirk’s death could be made the cause celebre’ that would do it, I would want someone on the Left to do the deed, preferably some Leftist into “Trans”, since the Right is out to attack the Left and Trans.

What an amazing coincidence that the killer actually is both Leftist and Trans-associated, and how very fortunate, huh? Isn’t it? It is, it really is, wow, how amazing and how USEFUL. This couldn’t have worked out better if it was planned!

When you remember going to the grocery with your mother and grandmother and grandma complained about paying $8 for a big load of a weeks worth of groceries.

When a millionaire was rarer than billionaires are today and a millionaire was a very rich person.

When you could buy a good used car for $50 and a beautiful house in a nice neighborhood for $5000.

When Jules Verne’s book “From the Earth to the Moon” was still science fiction, along with rocket ships and death rays.

When overpopulation didn’t exist, and no one talked about gender, there was no LGBTQetc., no Carbon Credits, no Global Warming, no Climate Change and no Trans-genderism.

When there was no Internet and no Smart Phones and you dialed numbers on rotary phones and called the Operator when you needed Long Distance.

When checkout counter clerks smiled and said “Thank you, please come again”, when you knew most of them from the neighborhood and you all got along well.

When neighbors helped each other out and we trusted each other. Most of the time. What we didn’t do was shoot each other.

It’s not youth that I miss. It’s how good we used to have it.

I never heard of Charlie Kirk until he became famous by getting shot dead. Kind of like that George Floyd guy, a total nobody drug addict and criminal who died while getting arrested and the blacks used that as an excuse to riot.

Charlie Kirk was apparently the darling of the Far Religious Right, who gave speeches I never heard at venues I never tuned in on because I’m not one of the religious fanatics that obviously adored him. I say adored because of the overblown reaction among all the Very Righteous over his death. Trump made a big deal out of it, he ordered the flags across the nation, at military posts and at embassies to remain flown at half-staff for 3 days and a Moment of Silence for Kirk was held on the floor of the House of Representatives. Broken, by the way, when some women Leftists started yelling.

Anyway, since he’s suddenly the primary subject of Whatfinger, the right-wing mostly political news aggregator, I took the time and trouble to listen to a few of his speeches, including when he publicly debated Tyler Robinson, the guy who ended up shooting him.

On that occasion, he was rude, insulting, obnoxious and abusive toward Robinson. Beyond that, he clearly expressed his attitude that if a woman became pregnant for any reason, she should be forced to carry the pregnancy to full term even if it medically endangered her life. In this regard, his stance was that women have no rights at all. His religion-based morality was the only morality and not only all women but all people everywhere should adhere to it.

Listening to him speak, I wasn’t taken in by Charlie. Charlie was all-in for Charlie, he was gaining fame and power and clearly reveled in it. This was no gentle follower of Jesus, spreading peace and brotherly love. This was someone seeking domination.

The man was intractable, he had no humility whatever. What he did have was a great deal of charisma and the implacable determination of a Nazi. He would have made a great dictator and if he hadn’t been murdered, I’ve no doubt that he would have risen to great heights in the US government. I can easily see him as a future President/Dictator, and if it were up to me, I’d commit Tyler Robinson to a mental facility for treatment rather than send him to prison. He may have just done the world a far greater favor than anyone will ever know.

Xoggoth doesn’t answer his emails and his comment box hasn’t been functional for quite a while now, and I’m wondering if he died. I sincerely hope not.

Ernesto leaves a comment about once every 3 months and it’s often just one word, he almost never gets into the conversation and gives input on the subject. Just does a touch-and-go like a light plane pilot practicing landings or maybe saying “I’m not dead yet”. At least there’s that.

So I’m wondering if I should give it up. The reason I’ve kept it up so long is that mostly, it helps me gather my thoughts on whatever is on my mind. By typing it out, realizations come to me that weren’t there when I sat down at the keyboard, and keep coming the more I type.

I end up rummaging through the search engines, most of the time, looking to verify, or not, some thought or possibility, and by the time the entry is completed, I’ve learned a lot more than I knew before.

It’s an outlet for me, as I have only one friend left to talk to, all the rest are dead and gone, and that friend hasn’t been around much the past months. So I sit here at the keyboard and talk to myself. Damn shame my cat never learned to talk. It’s not my fault, I talk to her all the time but all I ever get back is the rare little “meow”.

Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar today with an aerial attack. No word yet on any success of the mission, but one thing is sure, the Qatar leadership which fully supports Hamas is crapping their pants.

The US has a military base in Qatar that they value pretty highly, which is why Qatar’s Hamas terrorists there have been safe from Israeli attack. Since this has obviously ended, and very abruptly, the big question is Why?

One likely reason I can think of is that the US is moving their base to Israel. Somewhere in the Gaza Strip would be the most likely place, since Trump’s repeatedly made clear that he wants in on the real estate development. The Israelis may have cut a deal, move your base to Gaza and you get IDF protection, a base in a friendly nation instead of one that hates you and offers zero protection, and of course you reciprocate that protection for us if needed, and you can have a big part in rebuilding Gaza.

But, this is still developing, it just happened a few hours ago. Latest word from Israel is that the top five Hamas leaders were killed, the ones who orchestrated the Oct. 7 attack and are, or were, Hamas top leaders.

Another real possibility regarding the US involvement in Qatar is that the US told Qatar that they can no longer abide what Hamas is doing. Trump had warned Hamas that they had to make a deal or suffer consequences and it could be that he told Israel to go ahead and whack these people, and told Qatar to shut up about it if they wanted to keep that base there.

Revisions as they happen……

An article just published by the Independent Sentinel that sees the new tariffs imposed by US Pres. Trump as causing the rest of the world to shift away from commerce with the US and form new trade alliances between themselves. Titled the Shanghai Cooperation Summit , “At that meeting were the leaders of the world’s two most populous countries, Xi Jinping of China, and Narendra Modi of India, in addition to Vladimir Putin of Russia. Joining them were leaders from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkiye, and Brazil.”

It discusses new Chinese trade pacts with Russia for oil and foods from Brazil, and a new railroad in Brazil built by the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative to move the food quickly to the seacoast for shipping. India can’t supply China with food because they have their own growing 1.5 billion population to keep from starvation and China isn’t about to start hiring Indian technicians for cheap labor like the US has, when they already have cheap labor.

Brazil can’t begin to supply China with all the food they require, that the US has been supplying and will continue to supply. American farmers ARE NOT “devastated” as the article claims and these Chinese infrastructure projects will take years to complete, if they ever do get completed because the Chinese economy is having problems.

This is because of the Tariffs. The US has been China’s biggest customer and has financed and fueled most of China’s economy. Russia may sell China cheaper oil but they can’t buy much of China’s goods, so it’s a money drain for China. The tariffs Trump’s imposed have been leveling the playing field in global trade, wherein the US sells as much as it buys instead of selling little overseas and buying a lot, creating a money drain on the US and resulting in the US importing cheap labor to be able to compete while US citizen unemployment stays high.

Prices on some goods are bound to increase as not all foreign sellers will absorb the costs of the tariffs without raising their prices to compensate. Even so, that tariff money still flows into US coffers, increasing US wealth and allowing for lower taxes on wages.

This is about Fair Trade. The fluctuations will settle down as the new trade agreements take full effect, meaning prices of goods will, too. Additionally, manufacturing is moving back to the US, removing some of the dependence on China, mostly, and opening up new jobs at the same time the deportation of millions of illegals removes them from the labor force and makes those jobs available to Americans, which reduces crime caused by illegals and poverty.

Many of those illegals send the money they earn back to their families in other nations, further draining the US economy, which reduces new business opportunities, creates unemployment and causes poverty.

Globally, yes, the nations that have been sucking the US dry are very upset by the tariffs and deportations, but the Free Lunch has to end before the US runs out of bread, and yes, that’s a pun.

Bernie Sanders, the ancient, bug-eyed, self-admitted communist and unfortunately an elected senator, is behind a letter with “over 1000 signatures” from employees of the Dept. of Health and Human Services, HHS, demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign as it’s Secretary because he’s giving the boot to all the Leftist crap that the HHS has endorsed.

Like “emergency” use of the deadly Covid mRNA injections and forced vaccine mandates that have hugely increased autism among children.

Bernie appears in this video trying to sound like an expert on the subject of vaccines because he’s “talked to doctors”. This is like someone saying they’re experts on an operation because they “stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night” in the old TV ad.

In case you’ve forgotten what this madman looks like, watch the short video. He’s the model for all those green-haired, nose-ringed Karens.

Last week an illegal alien from India, driving a semi-truck and trailer, made a wrong turn and smashed into a car, killing the three occupants of that car.

Now it turns out that the three dead people in the car were illegal aliens from Haiti, who had no more business being in our country than the guy from India did.

There’s something that just seems somehow Cosmic about illegal aliens wiping each other out. Can this be A Sign?

Little things, little unnecessary things that slow us down and get in our way, that never needed to be there. They’re just someone’s idea of how to squeeze a bit more profit out of us, with no concern of how much it might inconvenience us and PISS US OFF.

Like, for instance, ebay’s constant little changes, all designed to do exactly what I just said.

There’s a feature where, if you want to mark an auction to check back on, you click on “Add to Watchlist”. BUT BEWARE. The person who put up the auction has the option to send you AN OFFER, of a little lower price, if you add it to your watchlist. This only applies to Buy It Now items, not to bidding auctions.

If you want the item but would like to offer less, there’s that option. You can do it at will, and offer whatever you think is a good offer. All fine and good. But if the seller has chosen to send everyone an automatic offer who has added the auction to their watchlist, and you have added that one and a bunch others that you’re interested in for whatever reason, to your watchlist, suddenly your screen has, right at the very top where you can’t possibly ignore them, a scroll of offers that can get pretty long.

Now, if you never wanted these UNSOLICITED OFFERS in the first place, to get rid of them you must first click on them one by one, wait for the offer to come up, refuse the offer, return to your ebay dashboard to the next offer, do it again, and so on until you’ve refused all the offers.

Then you click in all the little boxes beside all the offers you refused, then go to the top and check the Refuse Offer box and click on Refuse Offers. In other words, you have to refuse each offer three times. Once on the sellers auction and twice on your ebay dashboard, and you had to do all this crap because you added the auctions to your watchlist.

This has become such a pain in the ass annoyance that I will no longer put anything on my watchlist that I’m not really, seriously interested in purchasing, and that’s because it might take me awhile to decide. I might be comparing different auctions of the same item, or I might be looking for a different version, or I might just be concerned about my budget and just bookmarking the thing for a reference.

But I will no longer watch-list anything “Buy It Now”, ever again. Thus, ebay’s greedy little ploy in total disregard of it’s nuisance value is neutered. Take that, ebay. Haha!

The moral to this story is that many small victories add up to one big fat one.

Sometimes it seems like everyone is dead. That’s because they are. Everyone I ever knew, anyway. I figured out a long time ago that it was a good idea to make friends with people who are younger than me, because I keep on living while they keep on dying. And they’re all gone now, even the youngest one, who’s a goddam alcoholic with diabetes who got some of those bogus Covid Jabs. I’m 86, she’s 57 and I expect to outlive her. I give her maybe a couple more years, she’s not in great shape.

I wrote on this awhile back but it deserves a second mention here. My best friend in the world, or so I thought, who is still alive, sort of, is also a diabetic and drinks way too much and takes a handful of various pills each day, had a stroke in March of last year and lost himself. He forgot all the shit he’d pulled on me and lied about and when I saw him after he’d recovered enough to drive and get around again, he told me all about it. What a revelation that was, to know that he’d been cheating and lying to me about money all those years.

Truth is, after the stroke he’s a totally different person and no friend of mine. Dead to me.

What got me started on this was wondering when my father’s mother croaked, because most of my relatives died in their middle 90’s except the ones who drank and drugged, and I’m trying to get a handle on what I may expect of remaining years. I’d guess another eight, absolute max, more likely another four.

So if I have any advice to leave you millions of readers out there, it’s this: If you expect to have a long life, make lots of younger friends, and check out their grand parents, make friends with people who still have great grandparents. Don’t end up sitting there wondering where the hell everyone went and why the phone never rings anymore except from telemarketers and medical appointment reminders.