Good morning from my Hunker Bunker overlooking the Puget Sound. I am staying home today because I’m getting new vinyl wallpaper and carpet laid in my office so I’m tele-commuting today and tomorrow. I also need to go chase down my doctor and find out why my “forever drugs” need to have the prescription renewed, and why in the flying fuck hasn’t she done it yet. All the while, keeping beat with all the other crap going on around me at the moment. Like Hosting Matter’s DNS server taking a shit for about an hour. But enough of that, let’s get this over with.
The Headlines That Caught My Eye This Morning
Item 1: UNLV gunman ID’d as Anthony Polito, 67, professor who failed to get job at school
Raise your hand if your first impulse was to look this guy up to see if he was a follower of some LEFT wing ideology. There’s a fifty-fifty chance if you are only thinking in political terms. Turns out he was a guy whose dreams had passed him by and his time had run out.
Yeah, I checked because I wanted to see if he was a follower of some RIGHT wing ideology. Seems he had his spoon dipped in both bowls…
Item 2: Trump ‘dictator’ comment reignites criticism his camp has tried to curb
Hannity asked Trump if he planned on being a ‘dictator’, and Trump said something to the effect of only on his “first day”. He qualified that answer with referring to shutting down the Southern border and drilling more oil. I’ll ignore the numerous ‘day one’ promises he’s made in his campaign appearances and just go with a common sense response by saying that this was a question pertaining to some of Trump’s “day one” campaign “promises” he’s made in public appearances and on Truth Social. Many of those “promises” — if true — are extralegal at best, and dictatorial in nature. You’ll note the fact that I quoted the word ‘promises’ because Trump, like most politicians, make “promises” for political expedience that they have no intention of making.
But still, the nature of the promises do tend towards dictatorship, and because of that you would expect a more forceful push-back. Leaving it hang out there still doesn’t do him any favors…
… that said, I get the part about closing the Southern borders to migrants. You won’t get an argument from me on that one. It’s the “drill drill drill drill” oil thing. We are already producing more oil that both Saudi Arabia and Russia right now, and most of it is going outside the country and onto the global market. A market that sets the price per barrel based on the production levels dictated by countries that do not include the US. If I were making campaign promises, I’d mandate that the first priority of oil pumped out of US territory serve the needs of the US consumer, — to maintain a price per gallon of fuel at the pump to be around $2.00. Any crude oil or it’s byproducts after that could be sold on the global market.
Item 3: Ex-US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will leave Congress, raising Republican worries
What did you expect? If a party kicks their leader out of his or her position to the back bench, they are more than likely going to quit. It’s the ultimate disgrace, and there is no coming back from that. I’m sure that the ‘worries’ in the story probably refer to the numbers left in the caucus. It’s going to be a margin of “1” in about a month, and that is kind of a precarious place to be if you are trying to control the House. But the fact that the party currently in control of the House is barely in control of itself is even more precarious.
In MY mind, I think that in a longer-term thinking, Republicans might have even more worries when it comes to Kevin McCarthy writing a tell-all book and going out on the book and speaking tours. This guy looks like he’s about to spill the tea…
Item 4: Former Gov. Jeb Bush calls for older Americans to ‘get off’ the political stage
I just heard him say this on NPR last night — and I had to get the quote:
“As a 70-year-old person, I’m part of the problem,” Bush said at a luncheon at Miami’s Jungle Island hosted by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. “It’s time for my generation to get off the stage politically.”
I’m at that point.
Item 5: Mayor Adams’ campaign potentially masked donations from another construction company
Mayor Adams. Hmmm. I keep seeing the headlines with his name and corruption as the subject. I have not kept up with the man, his politics, or the accusations that are apparently stacking up. I only know he is a Democrat, who is the Mayor of New York City. Since this story has absolutely no effect on my personal life and well-being, then it hasn’t been much of an interest to me.
Item 6: Biden: ‘I’m not the only’ Democrat who can beat Trump
Okay, then move over and let one of them stand up and run then. Why does it have to be you?
Item 7: Kevin McCarthy isn’t the only Californian who is miserable in Congress
McCarthy isn’t the only person in Congress who is miserable. I’d say a good majority of them are quite miserable. Not just between Republicans and Democrats, but within the membership of both parties. Right now, the focus is on the House Republicans, who make up about three different factions within, who are at odds with each other. Democrats have some divisions, but they are currently at a cold-war status and not being paraded out on the nightly news.
In case you hadn’t noticed, it is becoming a generational divide as well.
What The Fuck Did I Just Watch?
Always A Witch
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In Always a Witch, Carmen Eguiluz (Angely Gaviria) is accused of witchcraft and is set to burn at the stake, according to the way of the Inquisition in 1646 colonial Colombia. While imprisoned and waiting for her execution, Carmen makes a deal with the wizard Aldemar, which makes her able to time-travel to 2019 in exchange for a favor. She won’t be able to use magic there though, since it would make Lucien, a powerful but evil wizard, aware of her presence.
Ya got me at time travel.
From The Meme Box
A smattering of things. My old dedicated mail server is down at the moment and I have to go into my data closet and reset it. Want to know what it’s named? That’s right, msHilaryClinton. “ms” standing for ‘mail server’. I’ve had it since 2004, but I repurposed it as a dedicated memebox a couple of years ago and gave it the snarky name. One of my wifi networks here is named “Hillary Clinton’s Mail Server”. My neighbors know exactly whose signal it belongs to. LOL
I know. it looks like my first apartment.
The money you save in the daily drive will come back to haunt you.
The Political Pete Davidson
There is nothing more offensive than a billionaire. fixed it.
Ah yes
, the Tea Party and Fiscal Responsibility.
I had a bus driver named Alice when I was in junior high who looked like this.
She smoked regular Pall Mall.
Seems VERY accurate
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