Category: Liberal Rants

Thoughtful posts on why the neopaleolithic viewpoint, while perhaps valid for its adherents, is yet not the way I want my country run.

They’re doing it again

Posted on by Dale

And by “they” I mean [[[Republicans]]].

In January, the National Park Service announced that they were doing away with timed entry at those parks that have successfully used it to control traffic during peak times.  The [[[Republicans]]] in Congress all humphed and snorted that the lifting of the rule was so that Amerkins’ personal liberties KENNETH would not be infringed when they pulled up at Arches NP with a carload of kids after driving for days and be turned away because they didn’t plan. Quelle horreur!

So now Bubba and Sissy and their whiny kids are going to sit in a line of cars for hours just to get in, and then they’re going to sit in a line of traffic for the rest of the day since there will be no parking and there is no place to turn around.

How do I know? Because in 2023, we planned ahead and got our timed entry to Arches NP that fit our plans. We still sat in line for quite a while before we got in, but at least we didn’t crawl through the park with 10,000 Bubbas.

Without timed entry, places like Arches — and the nearby communities — suffer from the flood of humans. But [[[Republicans]]] keep framing it as freedom KENNETH despite objections from nearly everyone. (In fact, the administration has backed off the plan for most parks, creating the usual [[[Republican]]] chaos and even more economic stress for locals.)

So what’s going on? Easy. It’s the go-to strategy for [[[Republicans]]]: screw around with a public good, wreck it, then tell us that it needs to be privatized for efficiency, i.e., profit!

Exhibit A: The United States Post Office, established in the Constitution as a public service, was ordered by Congress to prefund pensions for 70 years into the future, something required of no private company in the country, thus ensuring its current struggles. [[[Republican]]] response? Privatize it.  The free market always does it better and cheaper, right?

Exhibit B: Public schools, or as [[[Republicans]]] call them, failing public schools. How do they know our schools are failing? They did it on purpose. Privatize: Take our tax dollars and give them to private/religious schools instead.

Exhibit C: The entire federal government since Turmp’s election. See: DOGE, et al. Have government support systems become more efficient KENNETH since?

In every case, [[[Republicans]]] take a public good, impose restrictions deliberately designed to cripple the public good, then bray about how gOvErNmEnT dOeSn’T wOrK KENNETH. Next step: Sell it off to their rich friends.

Don’t believe me? Here’s Turmp’s nominee to lead the NPS: Scott Socha, “a president for parks and resorts at Delaware North, which describes itself as one of the world’s largest privately owned hospitality and entertainment companies, with more than $4 billion in revenue in 2022.” At least his company has experience with national parks, but here’s the tell from the White House: “Scott looks forward to implementing America First initiatives, such as increasing park access for American families, reducing permitting burdens, and raising money for conservation projects.”

In case your [[[Republican]]] translation device can’t handle the load, here:

  • ‘America First’ = whitewashing any history that offends [[[Republicans]]]
  • ‘increasing park access’ = letting the public run wild and degrading the parks to the point where it only makes sense to sell them off KENNETH
  • ‘reducing permitting burdens’ = mining
  • ‘raising money for conservation projects’ = because we cut the NPS’s $2.9 billion operating budget by more than $900 million.

Not convinced? The [[[Republican]]] onslaught against public lands is a) not new; and b) ongoing.

And how does Fox News feel about this?

3 national parks slash red tape for Americans by boldly transforming visitor entry

Good luck, Bubba. Hope y’all brought snacks and a pee bottle.

Megyn Kelly is lying. Again.

Posted on by Dale

Fox News and its minions are absolute masters of propaganda. Here’s a tweet from Megyn Kelly doing her part to protect the murderous [[[SS]]].

 

Okay, class, let’s learn some propaganda.

  1. …itching for another confrontation: Assumes facts not in evidence. Megyn just made this up. If anything, it might be more accurate to wonder if it were not the ICE agents who were itching for another confrontation. Apparently, breaking Pretti’s ribs in this encounter was not enough for them.
  2. …stalking, harassing, and terrorizing: Or, you know, observing and recording, all that legal, 1st Amendment stuff. Remember, Megyn is trying to exonerate the men who executed Pretti a week or so later.
  3. HE had been victimizing THEM: This is DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender. It’s what narcissists and sociopaths do when accused of wrongdoing, and the [[[current administration]]] has perfected the technique to the point that it’s just second nature to them. Yes, Megyn, the poor ICE were victims of that mean mean Alex Pretti. They were right to kill him.
  4. Felonies?? Over here on the real Earth, words have meanings, and “spitting at federal law enforcement” is not a felony. Nor is crossing our border, now that Megyn brings up that distinction — it’s a misdemeanor, and a civil one at that. Like a parking ticket. Hold that thought.
  5. …reckless, and it cost him his life: No shit, Megyn. How was he to know that ICE agents were apt to pump him full of bullets and joke about “Call of Duty” as they tallied up their bullet holes, just because he annoyed them? However, Megyn, if that is even your real name, nothing Pretti did, neither in this BBC clip nor in the footage of his death, nothing, Megyn, was punishable by being shot to death by an extra-judicial vigilante, despite your sneering attempt to pin the blame on him.
  6. …illegal-loving: Oooh, scary illegals, aren’t you scared of the scary illegals, it’s right there in the name: ILLEGALS.  ::sigh:: As we mentioned above, the vast majority of what’s “illegal” about most undocumented immigrants is the fact that they slipped into this country the “not right” way, and that’s at most a misdemeanor. A parking ticket ≠ murder. You know what murder is, Megyn, don’t you? You wouldn’t confuse the two, right? Like labeling a parking ticket illegal so that your viewers assume it’s as bad as murder?

I would love to know why Fox News viewers think it’s more important to be scared of innocent people than of out-of-control [[[Stormtroopers]]] who think they can throw you to the ground and shoot you just because you made them feel harassed and terrorized KENNETH.

Just kidding. I know why they’re afraid of innocent people and not the [[[Stormtroopers]]]. Bless their hearts.

 

Panic! At the Ballroom

Posted on by Dale

For the past four years or so, I have exterminated with prejudice political email from either party for the simple reason that they’re never giving me useful information — they’re merely trying to panic me into giving them money. Therefore, a lot of what is going on in that world escapes my notice, and I’m okay with that.

Recently, though, after its last update, my phone has started alerting me to those emails going into the trash/spam folder in my Google accounts. I don’t know why, and it’s super annoying. After the holiday weekend, I’ll see if I can convince it to cease and desist. (There are a couple of other issues, but that’s between me and Apple.)

Normally I see that the alert is one of those emails and I just ignore it and never see it in my mail app. This morning, however, I decided to click through, and this is what greeted me.

Let’s do a little propaganda lesson, shall we?

1. “We are not safe”: Got to get those amygdalas[1] warmed up right off the bat — OOGA BOOGA! Notice, too, the tribalism of “we.” They never mean all of us, just them.

2. “A confidential internal memorandum”/”TOP SECRET”:  Because you — yes you — are a special member of the tribe, privileged even.

3. “horrifying”: Panic word

4. “Deep State is winning the sabotage war”: Winning the what now? What the hell is a “sabotage war”? Is this a new buzzphrase for the amygdala-based lifeforms? A quick search yielded:

And remember that the only thing stopping our tribe from winning is some nameless, all-powerful cabal. It could not possibly be that our policies suck or that the Republican Party represents corporations, not people!

5. “actively undermining”: Because they’re nefarious, evil underminers.

6. “facing a TOTAL WIPE OUT in the next elections”: Okay, I have to give this one to them. They are indeed facing a wipe out. Because of all the Deep State underminers, of course. What other reason could there be? As the great Nate Bergatze is wont to say, “Nobody knows.”

7. “DEVASTATING,” “losing everything”: Panic words

8. “The America you know will be GONE”: You know, that America that we all know and love from 1950s TV shows. Not the one with voting rights, marriage rights, healthcare rights, social safety nets, legal rights, all those things that used to be reserved for the tribe and somehow are now expected by everyone in the country.[2]

9. “too dangerous for the public”: Panic words, but you — yes you — are special enough, cool enough, to take a peek at this full report. With data, KENNETH.

10. “immediately confirm your loyalty to the MAGA movement”: And there it is. If you want to stay in the tribe, if you want to maintain your specialness that somehow the rest of the world fails to see,[3] then you need to confirm your loyalty KENNETH.  Which means, of course, give us your money.  What, you thought you were just going to check a box that says, “Yes, I am loyal to the MAGA movement”? (Not to be unkind, but yes, that’s probably exactly what the little MAGAt thinks.) (To be fair, I’ve received an equal number of emails from the Democrats with the exact same ploy: “Show your support for [Dem of the Day]!”)

11. “SHOCKING MEMO”: One more panic word, then you need to CONFIRM YOUR STATUS (!) NOW.

Bless their hearts.

Here’s the thing, though: In the past week as these alerts have been jamming my phone (I just got two more as I’ve typed this), it’s been clear that the elections of Nov. 2 have set the MAGA crowd back on their heels. They lost elections all over the place, even in places where they haven’t lost elections in decades. They are, to put it mildly, concerned. The level of panic words in these emails has risen till it’s a flood of fear and anger.

And never, ever, ever do these emails outline policies or programs that they want the amygdala-based lifeforms to vote for. They only dial up the fear and anger to 11, secure in the knowledge that the little MAGAts will vote for them in a panic and never realize that the actual policies that they’re voting for will harm them. (See: Soy bean farmers, hemp farmers, etc.]

What is to be done?

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[1] For those just joining us, I use the phrase “amygdala-based lifeforms” to describe those among us whose brains respond most to fear and anger and sometimes become addicted to those emotions to the extent that they will manufacture things to be angry about/afraid of. See above.

[2] See Wilhoit’s Law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[3] If you haven’t already, go watch Death by Lightning on Netflix. It’s a four-episode series on the assassination of James Garfield by Charles Guiteau, and Matthew Macfadyen’s performance as Guiteau is as frightening a portrayal of this specialness as you have ever seen.

Quick question

Posted on by Dale

I have a quick question for the poor little MAGAts out there.

You know how you all think that the LiBeRaLs KENNETH stole the 2020 election and tried to steal the 2024 elections? Remember how you truly believe that?

As has been mentioned elsewhere, it seems obvious to me that if we liberals were rigging the elections, we should have won All the Elections KENNETH, plus universal healthcare, plus childcare, plus taxing rich people, plus putting Donald Turmp’s fat ass in prison. I mean…

Henngggh, snorts the little MAGAt, y’all are incompetent. Duh.

So, and follow me closely here, if we are incompetent at rigging elections, then why haven’t we been caught or exposed?

I’ll say it again for the hard of thinking: If we rigged the elections and didn’t win because we’re incompetent[1,] then how did we get away with it?

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[1] Incompetent — you know,  things like buying airplanes with no engines, or indicting a guy for throwing a sandwich, or claiming that gasoline is down to $2.00/gallon, or…

Today, class, we’ll learn about false choices

Posted on by Dale

I am quite pleased that somehow I’ve ended up on Rasmussen Polls call list. I presume it’s because the first time I saw them on the caller ID and picked up with malice in my heart, that marked me as a sucker. Rasmussen, if you’re not familiar with them, are a right-wing polling firm, and their polls are always sly pieces of propaganda, with forced choice answers that are designed to produce “polls” that support the ongoing nazification of our country.

Fooled them: as a diehard, educated, well-off liberal, it has become my mission to screw with their data. The first question is always “Do you feel the country is heading in the right direction, or do you think things have gotten off track?”

Duh.

Yesterday afternoon they called again, and it was clear they had rushed this one out the door in response to the murder of schoolchildren in Minneapolis, because there were several questions about that event in particular and gun control in general. There was the usual “Do you think we need stricter gun control laws, or should we enforce the ones we have now?” which translates into “Should we do something about the only country in the world where this happens, or nah?”

The most insidious question was “Do you think the shooting was due to political influences, or to the shooter’s mental health?”

First of all: both, bitches.

Second of all: His mental health wouldn’t have mattered if we had gun control in this country.

I’ll say that again for the hard-of-thinking: His mental health wouldn’t have mattered if we had gun control in this country.

Naturally, I answered that it was due to political influences — because it was.

So. If you haven’t contacted your congresscritter directly and shoved this in their face, what are you even doing?

 

The invasion of Newnan, GA, August 2025

Posted on by Dale

You may imagine our astonishment when we awoke this morning, August 15, to find this announcement on Facebook:

WTF, as the majority of the comments ran. We were being told that we were to be the hosts for a military training operation tomorrow.

Reaction was swift and mostly negative. There were some MAGAts who apparently are thrilled that our military might be training to invade American cities to protect us from the usual suspects — immigrants, trans people, and drag queens — despite fact that our military is forbidden to do shit like this.

Beyond that, the actual language of the press release is worrisome, especially in these days of rampant Nazification. Let’s take a look, shall we?

1. Surprise! That’s tomorrow! That’s not going to raise eyebrows or panic people, not in the least HOW COULD YOU EVEN THINK THAT EVEN?

2. We all know exactly what a “United States Army Special Operations Command” is, right? Special Ops… that’s like the people who raided bin Laden? And they’re going to train here because… Hold that thought.

3. Yep, that’s what it says: “in and around” Newnan. Hold that thought.

4. “Rotary wing” operations. Could they possibly mean “helicopters”?

5. And what exactly are “operations”? I have to presume weapons will be fired. Tough, manly “warfighters” running through our neighborhood? Swarming the Court House? Getting lunch at Redneck Gourmet? Also, “ground–based, close–quarter” needs those hyphens and that comma. Your English teacher is ashamed of you.

6. “Battle training.” Ah. In and around Newnan. I’m beginning to feel as if I should be concerned, especially if it’s going to be “close-quarter.” [See: 5.]

7. “Simulates environments troops may encounter while deployed” — to small American towns, you mean?

8. “for more information”…

Let’s start there. I clicked through to the city website, where I found exactly this DOD press release along with a bit more information. But nothing that explains one bit of this.

Okay, this whole thing, taken merely as a PR announcement, is a disaster. Let’s do a deep dive.

First some caveats: I am assuming that the City of Newnan was told that they were in no way to alter the wording of this release. I can assume this because a concerned citizen — whose name I am not going to publish, but THANK YOU! — made it her business to call the mayor and get some actual facts, the first of which was that “operations” weren’t going to be in Newnan, but on a piece of property that the land owner offered to the DOD for “operations.” (Hold that thought.)

Also, all of you who worship our military, please note that I don’t. Like the founding fathers, I have a deep distrust of the military. They were right, and so am I. So bugger right off with your weepy-ass SUPPORT THE TROOPS KENNETH bull.

So. What a pile of ill-begotten propaganda! The whole thing is designed to obfuscate, confuse, conceal, and intimidate. Note the jargon like “rotary wing” — why not say “helicopters” and/or “drones”? Why not indeed? Because, citizen, it is not necessary for you to understand what they are up to. In fact, they’d rather you not. One of the additional bit of info on the city website was more DOD propaganda, including the phrase “Robust safety precautions are currently in place to protect both the participants and the City residents, along with significant planning considerations to minimize the impact to the community.” Protect the participants? Bubba, you signed up to go to war — shouldn’t you be prepared to sustain injuries?

And what makes our fearless “warfighters” so concerned about their safety? Is there something in the air that makes them think that their presence in these “operations” might not be welcomed by the community and that they might need “robust” protections?

The additional information goes on to say “No public viewing opportunities will be available throughout the exercise, as the participants will maintain the highest level of security.” Translated into English, they’re telling us that you will not be protesting this event and that if you do… well, you’ve seen the ICE/DHS/National Guard videos, right? Pure intimidation.

I get it. You don’t really want civilians in the way when you’re training your teenagers to go kill people, you really don’t. They have a tendency to be a bit on edge, don’t they? And you can’t vouch for what an edgy teen with a gun might do if any part of real life intrudes into that bubble you’ve created around him. What if it suddenly dawns on him that he’s being trained to obey unlawful orders? NOT THAT THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN IN THE AMERICA KENNETH.

But this announcement? It’s practically a provocation to panic for the citizens of Newnan, for all the reasons I’ve limned above. I mean, how do we know this isn’t a “operation” to arrest enemies of the state for thoughtcrimes against Dear Leader? This communication does nothing to dispel thoughts of conspiracy.

Oh, and the property? Our intrepid citizen activist kept calling until she got the location: the old hospital building and grounds on Hospital Road. And the “land owner”? Piedmont Healthcare. Draft your emails and letters accordingly.

Onward to the Glorious Reich!

Minimum wage

Posted on by Dale

A while back there was a meme on social media along the lines of “Let’s tie the minimum wage to local rent levels and let the landlords and business owners fight it out.”

This is actually a very good idea, because in no county in these United States is it possible to work a minimum wage job and afford any apartment or rental home.

Let me say that again:

In no county in any state of these United States is it possible to work a minimum wage job and afford any apartment or rental home.

Let’s do some math.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour and has been since 2009. Some states have boosted that minimum wage; Georgia is not one of them.

If a worker made minimum wage and worked full time, i.e., 40 hours/week,[1] they would make $290.00/week before taxes. [$7.25 x 40 = $290.00] I’ll be honest: I found myself doing this math over and over because I could not make myself believe that a full-time minimum wage worker in this nation only makes $290/week or $1,160/month.

Then if we assume the worker works all 52 weeks with paid vacation/sick leave, that gives them a yearly salary of $15,080, or just under the federal poverty line for 2025.

Hold that thought.

In Newnan, GA, the average rent is $2,185/month as of this writing, nearly double what someone making minimum wage makes.[2] It would take a minimum wage of $13.66/hour to pay that rent.

Keep thinking. Rent is not anyone’s only expense. Conventional wisdom is that rent should amount to no more than 30% of your take-home pay.

So:

  • $2,185 (rent) = .3 * x
  • x = $2,185/.3
  • x = $7,283/month, for a minimum wage of $45.52/hour

This is where my brain went sproing and yours probably is doing the same thing. More than $7,000/month for a minimum wage job??

More sproing: That’s a yearly salary of $94,892, for 52 weeks of pay.

Am I proposing that someone who works at KFC or Kroger or Ollies or wherever should make $95K a year? I never made that much as a 35-year educator with an Ed.Sp. degree, nor as the director of the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program. (I actually made less as the director of GHP than I did checking out books to kindergarteners; the state got a deal.]

Yes, I am in fact proposing that anyone in this great nation of ours who works a full-time job of 40 hours/week should be able to rent an apartment or house in their town for 30% of their salary. The fact that we’re shocked that the resulting annual salary is more than six times their current annual salary — if they’re working full time, which most are not — and more than even most education professionals currently make — is more of an indictment of the capitalist economic forces that we’ve permitted to keep a significant portion of our wage earners in poverty than it is a comment on the “worth” of minimum wage labor.

So could we implement this? It seems clear that it would be unfair to implement the policy on a statewide basis: Average monthly rent in Buckhead is $4,000, while in Hahira it’s $1,295. Creating a uniform statewide minimum wage would be a burden for the employers of rural areas and shortchange the workers in wealthier areas. If we made it applicable by congressional district, though, it would be more equitable. And if our brilliant state legislature wanted to create a more granular regional system, that would be even smarter.

The big, ugly question of course is where is that money coming from? Large corporations can suck it up and make less profit (or pay their CEOs less than 290 times the amount they pay their employees), but what about the local shop or cafe owner? I can’t see how Golden’s on the Square could pay $45/hour to their fry cooks.

It’s fun to think of employers and landlords fighting it out to lower/raise the minimum wage, but let’s face it: Our capitalist overlords would no doubt figure out a way to keep “their” money and screw over the working class. As usual.

I have no real solutions; I will leave it to our brilliant legislature and their continuing efforts to improve the lives of the citizens they represent to figure out the best and fairest way to implement the plan, remembering always that the goal is to make it so that anyone working full time — and almost every job should be full-time — is able to rent an apartment where they live.

Oh, and about that tipped wage of $3.25/hour…

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[1] Most minimum wage jobs don’t offer full-time positions, because if they did, employers would also have to offer health benefits in most cases. So most minimum wage workers have to work multiple jobs and still cannot afford a month’s rent.

[2] Yes, yes, roommates, multiple family members working, yada yada yada. You are missing the point.

A small rant

Posted on by Dale

Isn’t that an interesting photo? Kind of like the minimalist stuff you would see in some of our tonier galleries, right?

But that’s not what I’m ranting about today. Do you know why I have these four paper bags?

I have these four paper bags because, in the state of Georgia, you cannot be seen leaving a store having bought a completely legal substance without concealing that substance in a paper bag. It’s kind of like Utah’s law that you cannot, as a bar, mix a cocktail in front of a minor.

These four bags came from Kroger, and of course they were placed in plastic bags — which apparently don’t sufficiently conceal my completely legal purchase.

What on earth is the purpose of this law? If I walk out of Kroger carrying a bottle of white Bordeaux, for example, is Carrie Nations going to rise from her grave and do the Bodysnatchers point-and-scream at me? Is a Baptist going to faint right there in the parking lot? Are little children going to rush the beer aisle and get snockered on IPAs?

Thanks to my paper cloaking device, though, none of these things will happen, I guess. Baptists will never know that I’ve bought a completely legal substance for my personal use, right?

If a callous sophisticate buys a bottle of booze and a Baptist can’t tell what he’s bought because of the paper cloaking device, does the callous sophisticate still go to hell?

Not to alarm you, any Puritans out there reading this, but your paranoia is justified: we are all out here, somewhere, having fun. It is not your job to stop us.

The eternal mystery: Javert or Valjean?

Posted on by Dale

By now we’ve all seen the Current Leader be stymied when asked — about his “favorite musical,” Les Miserables, which he attended at his own personally hijacked Kennedy Center — whether he identified more with Javert or Valjean? (If you haven’t seen it, click on the link. Oy.)

Well. Okay. I know that Trump’s Razor (a variant of Occam’s Razor) says that when faced with multiple explanations of his behavior, it’s a safer bet to go with the stupidest reason. But I think I have to disagree with Stephen Colbert’s assessment, that his “brain is wet bread.”

Yes, the man is stupid, vain, and incurious, but I think it’s more than his encroaching dementia.[1]

Let us review the facts, and let us also then assume that contrary to everything else we know about the man, he has actually seen the show — and a bunch of other shows — enough for it to be his “favorite.”

CONTEXT:

Jean Valjean is the main character in Hugo’s novel and in the musical. As the novel opens, Valjean has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. After his release, he is shunned by society for his criminal past. He is given refuge and a meal by a kindly bishop, but he steals a set of silverware when he leaves. He is caught by a local patrol and hauled back to the bishop’s house to be accused of his new crime.

But the bishop recognizes Valjean’s essentially blameless spirit and when shown the stolen silver simply exclaims that he was disappointed when Valjean left and had not accepted all the bishop’s gifts, and he hands over two additional silver candlesticks to the astonished man.

Long story: Valjean uses his new wealth to build a new life, one of virtue and benevolence.

However, Inspector Javert is determined that this criminal, this man who stole a loaf of bread, is going to face justice and be returned to his slave labor. He pursues Valjean from place to place, from decade to decade, never relenting in his righteous fury that the Law Is ETERNAL KENNETH.

It ends only during the Revolution when Valjean, behind the barricades, volunteers to execute Javert, who has been spying on the revolutionaries for the government. He takes Javert out of sight, then fires his gun into the air and frees Javert.

More long story, but Javert is so rattled by Valjeans clemency, opposed to his unwavering version of the Law, that his moral underpinnings come loose and he commits suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Seine.

So everyone’s mocking Turmp for not being able to say which character he identified more with (and let’s face it, it was a cheeky question). As someone on Bluesky put it, “Of course he can’t choose between a convicted felon and a vindictive prick.”

It’s worse than that, though.

I think he must sense that Valjean is the “hero” of the piece. He doesn’t get it, I mean, all the guy does is give his money to other people and endanger himself (AND HIS BUSINESSES KENNETH), but Valjean seems to have the most lines and stage time, so that’s a good thing, amirite? Still, he’s a criminal, isn’t he, stealing that loaf of bread all those years ago? He should be in prison.

But that Javert guy — he’s an Inspector, one of the good guys, LAW & ORDER KENNETH, not like all those fupping liberal students and prostitutes and street urchins, filthy, you wouldn’t believe how filthy those people are. Javert knows what’s what. He just screwed up that one time, letting his “feelings” get the better of his bedrock knowledge that the Law Is Unchanging! He was so close, though, to throwing that criminal Valjean back into prison for life.

So you can see Turmp’s dilemma. On the one hand, the star of the show, always in the spotlight, takes the final bow, standing ovation. On the other, a virtuous law-abiding government officer, loyal to his ideals to a fault.

What’s an amoral Philistine to do?

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[1] Not that I can completely discount it. Nor can I discount the idea that he in fact had never seen the show when he tried to bluff his way through the interview. But I think my explanation is part of the answer.

Not an Easy Question

Posted on by Dale

Well, not an easy question for him.
My email to my congresscritter, Brian Jack:

Whoever had control of the “AUTOPEN” is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN! Millions and millions of people knew that, but the Radical Left Democrats waged a campaign on inoculation [sic] and innocence like none that had ever been waged before. THIS IS WHY THE UNSELECT COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL THUGS, WHO WERE GIVEN A FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON BY THE PERSON WHO WIELDED THE NOW ILLEGALLY USED AUTOPEN, DELETED AND DESTROYED ALL EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FROM THEIR CORRUPT AND VICIOUS WITH HUNT AGAINT ME, AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE, WHOSE LIVES WERE COMPLETELY SHATTERED AND DESTROYED BY THIS HISTORICALLY CRIMINAL EVENT. Remember, it all began with DIRTY COP James Comey, Obama, a hapless and cognitively impaired Sleepy Joe Biden, and my now very famous ACCUSATION that, “THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!” Whoever had control of the…

This is who you support and — indeed — worked for. Why?

As usual, your reply will be posted on my blog and on Facebook. Thank you for your attention.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’d fake my own death to avoid answering this for my constituents.