09:17 – Email from Jen. The anti-Trump protests have arrived in her area. Well, kind of. The small town where her brother and his family live, about half an hour from Jen and David, had an anti-Trump protest Thursday. It didn’t amount to much; fewer than ten people gathering in front of the courthouse carrying not-my-president signs. They stood around for half an hour or so and then dispersed. Everyone else pretty much ignored them.
Jen’s first thought, of course, was to check her inventory in case she needed to head out to buy some stuff. But she and her group decided they were about as well-prepared as they needed to be, and a minor protest didn’t warrant taking any additional action. She and David filled their gas tanks, but that was it.
Brittany weighed in to say that the general attitude in her area was happiness that Clinton had been crushed and Trump was our next president. Their family is even more rural than Jen’s, with the nearest city of any size several hours’ drive from them.
It’s pretty much the same situation here in Sparta, although we do have Winston-Salem 60 miles away. This county went about 75:25 Trump:Clinton, and if there are any dissatisfied Clinton supporters, they’re keeping very quiet about it.
And, speaking of dissatisfied Clinton supporters, I see that the Tampa police had to protect a huge group of them who were about to confront a group of US Marines who’d gathered to celebrate the Corps’ birthday and raise money for the Wounded Warrior project. It’s almost a shame that the cops got in the way. It would have been interesting to see what happens when a group of special snowflakes attacks a group of pissed off Marines. My guess is that the final score would be Marines – 1,000+, Snowflakes – 0.
And I see increasing calls from the progs for conciliation. What they mean, of course, is that we Normals may have won the elections, but it’s up to us to adopt the progs’ agenda. Yeah, right. I’m not interested in their feelings, and I suspect no other Normals are, either. I’d as soon shoot them as look at them.
Democrats in 2008:
Democrats in 2016:
One may hope for the establishment Democrats to be left out in the cold for a long, long winter. A favorable sign: Paul Ryan looks to be the first post-election scalp taken. So long as Team Trump doesn’t pull the usual Republican boneheadery of attacking other Republicans (RINO, establishment, or otherwise) more fiercely than they attack Democrats, we may hope that Ryan’s is only the first of many.
The Affirmative Action President works to destroy the country for 8 years and our side peacefully objects just waiting for his term to expire. Trump wins, isn’t even sworn in and these SOBs are already rioting. I really despise the Left.
If they push too much harder, I expect to start to see targeted assassinations of their leaders/organizers. A typical left riot comprises one or two leaders/organizers standing at the back, with 1,000+ sheep out front.
Or maybe we should start calling them turkeys. Sheep are at least smart enough not to drown while they’re getting a drink of water. Domestic turkeys aren’t.
“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” – President Obama to House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, January 23, 2009.
Sniping the organizers will do some good, but the BLM and anti-Trump and Occupy Wall Street “protesters” should be treated the way terrorists should be treated. Stomping each protester is worthwhile but doesn’t accomplish much. Stomping the organizers or trainers or recruiters helps more. What you really want to do is go after the funders. Whether that means crashing the Chinese economy or seizing all of Soros’s assets, they need to be shown that supporting terrorist and insurrectionist activities in the United States will not be tolerated.
tRump should just come out and say Soros is Enemy Number One. More rioting. Obola passes directives to hunt down and kill US Citizens and zzz zzz zzz. tRump could also call in a “favor” from the Mossad. Israel owes the US big time.
Somebody shot one of the rioters here last night. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/11/man_shot_on_morrison_bridge_en.html#incart_big-photo Doesn’t appear it was a Trump supporter, though.
Who Trump puts in his administration will tell us how serious he is about shaking things up. He “demoted” Chris Christie, but Christie is still on his team. Not a good sign. If his team consists of the same old political hacks, things could get interesting.
Rick in Portland
The power of the Left is greatly amplified because of structural problems. I’d love to see the Republican controlled government do the following to fix a lot of this. Here’s my list:
1. Voter ID – they won’t allow this because they say it discriminates against minorities. Pure BS. The real reason is that it allows the Democrats to rig the voting process. Require voter ID and even set up an organization to help minorities get id’s if they’re too damn incompetent to get them themselves. (Personally I’d rather see anyone to stupid to get an id not vote at all, but I’m willing to cross the aisle and compromise if this is what it takes)
2. Eliminate early voting except when really needed – same reasons as item 1. This is set up to allow cheating by the Democrats. If everyone votes on the same day it’s easy to monitor the process. If you spread it out over weeks or months, votes can be destroyed or modified. Again, as a compromise maybe we could allow two days of voting over a weekend so that everyone has a chance.
3. Eliminate government unions – it’s in the unions interest to grow the government and they work hard to make sure establishment candidates get re-elected. To add insult to injury, there are union members on the government payroll that work for the unions. The OPM estimates that the taxpayers have paid over $157 million to pay for these union thugs. This need to be stopped.
4. Stop the funneling of money to liberal activist groups – the government sends taxpayers money to all sorts of charitable groups that supposedly do good things. Sadly, most of these groups then become tools of the Left that are used to help them retain power. How about we do this instead. 10% of your tax bill can go to the charity of your choice. Since we can pick and choose how the money is used it will get distributed in ways that reflect the beliefs of the citizens and not those of the government.
That’s just a start. I’m sure there are many other things we could do to fix the current mess. Idea’s are welcomed.
All good ideas today from you haters. I approve!
Priorities would be eliminating the funding sources, as Mr. SteveF suggested, and for the Prez to declare Soros Public Enemy Number One. Use our vaunted cyberwar techies to freeze all his financial chit for starters and send a Delta/Seal team over for a very warm visit. He is an enemy alien seeking to undermine the security and government of this sovereign nation. (expanding on the suggestion from MrAtoz).
And I also like Mr. Al’s fine suggestions; get the State’s mitts off our taxpayer money for stuff like this; it’s blatantly and persistently Beyond the Pale.
Cynical old bastard that I am, I will not be that surprised if the new Administration takes up with the same old politics as usual bullshit. The toxic vapors off the Potomac and that swamp down in Mordor are evidently absolutely lethal to any ideas of less and better government. Everyone who ends up there, with maybe two or three exceptions over the last 75 years, turns out to be a typical disappointment. So don’t put too much hope in Trump, is my advice.
We can always hope for another Dr. No, but this time as President rather than one of 435 representatives.
I see that one of Trump’s priorities is to expand/extend concealed-carry nationwide. He could do that just by directing the feds to issue a federal CC permit to anyone who requests one. They should be valid for a period of 99 years.
And, speaking of dissatisfied Clinton supporters, I see that the Tampa police had to protect a huge group of them who were about to confront a group of US Marines who’d gathered to celebrate the Corps’ birthday and raise money for the Wounded Warrior project.
I noted that Hillsborough (Tampa) County just narrowly voted to replace the increasingly useless RINO State Attorney for the region. A confrontation in an unicorporated area may have had an interesting result, but city cops in the major cities around the Bay Area are firmly under Prog control.
Shortly after we left Tampa, a unarmed decorated Marine was shot dead by an African American school bus driver in an HOA dispute in a the unincorporated areas. Much to the Sheriff’s Department’s dismay, it took the former State Attorney nearly a week to decide to press charges, ultimately resulting in prison time for the bus driver, but, beyond the race aspect, even in a “right to work” state like FL, the unions exert tremendous pressure on the politicians, especially RINOs.
Florida. January 2019. RINOs will be back in the top job in FL with Adam “Opie” Putnam inaugurated as Governor. You heard it here first.
I hate RINOs worse than I hate Dems.
“I see that one of Trump’s priorities is to expand/extend concealed-carry nationwide.”
Yeah, so I’m gonna hold off getting us CCW permits from VA and UT accordingly. Not a priority, anyway, until wife gets up to speed on the semi-autos.
I also signed up for the tRump “transition team” email notifications, so we’ll see how those turn out pretty soon.
Sunny w/blue skies and windy today; low 40s and then low 50s the rest of the week; this is more like our traditional late September/early October weather, not mid-November. Still no frost or snow here. I blame Twelve Years of Reagan-Bush.
Our weather is often similar to yours. We’re farther south, but about 3,000 feet higher.
Bearing Arms has some ideas for PE tRump:
Ending Gun-Free Zones On Military Bases
National Concealed Carry Reciprocity
Legalizing Silencers
NICS Background Check Reform
Allow Importation of Collectable Historical Firearms
Geez, how about repealing the GCA of 1968 along with the NFA of 1934?
“Shall make no law” isn’t hard to understand, or so you’d think.
“….from Jen. The anti-Trump protests have arrived in her area….”
I was listening to the police scanner this morning while paying bills. A call came in from the neighboring town that a mother was worried because her son had left the house very angry. The dispatcher said “the mother says he’s a progressive.”
So it isn’t just the cities anymore. Everywhere there are children who are upset that Santa Clause didn’t bring them the gift they really, really, really wanted. Even though they were really, really, really good all year. Oops, maybe I mixed up the holidays.
There is a propensity for these protesters to block highways, “occupy” in their terms. It’s easy to say “just run them over” but we all know that won’t happen. If this continues to spread I can envision delivery of food and other goods to reduce to a trickle or becoming sporadic. All of a sudden having a million calories of food on hand doesn’t seem like such a bad investment.
I’m not so sure. It need happen only once and word will spread and all of a sudden it’s not quite so safe to throw your temper tantrum.
Somebody shot one of the rioters here last night. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/11/man_shot_on_morrison_bridge_en.html#incart_big-photo Doesn’t appear it was a Trump supporter, though.
When my former USMC son was in Iraq during the “surge”, they noted that the first thing that happens in an apocalypse is people get even with old enemies.
Oh, like you aren’t keeping a list of your own.
Who Trump puts in his administration will tell us how serious he is about shaking things up. He “demoted” Chris Christie, but Christie is still on his team. Not a good sign. If his team consists of the same old political hacks, things could get interesting.
I hate to tell you this but Trump is an old school Democrat running as a Republican. Time will tell what he really is but he is somewhere between a RINO and a conservative. Time will tell.
BTW, Trump is a realist and knows how close the USA is to the precipice. I think that he can make the tough decisions that need to be made. But, he will be by himself.
Most of the stickers in my neighborhood read: “Hilary for Prison 2016”.
Well, we have been characterized as “deplorables”.
Holy crap,
Vox clamantis in deserto!
Good to see ya back here again, Mr. CowboySlim, you ol’ rascal!
Mostly tRump signs around this AO, too, and the only pro-Cankles stuff I saw was bumper stickers on the usual suspects’ cars around Burlap and points south of here. The sour grape stuff has been in the local rag since the “election” and they even ran an editorial of the usual lefty bullshit from Garrison Keillor. What a tool. And rarely funny anymore.
Now we hear that movements are afoot to change Elector minds in the EC, gathering siggies, etc. I bet Soros is funding that shit, too. Can nobody rid us of that troublesome fummamucker?
It is only Hilary’s non-deplorables that are inspired to smash windows and cars.
Normals generally don’t riot and smash and break things and cry when they lose elections and generally act like vicious spoiled brats who could use the full boat of Marine Corps boot camp. But they and the BLM and FSA types get a free ride from the MSM. One Normal goes beserk and the entire solar system is notified immediately and it becomes the horror of horrors, and whoever it is then serves forever as an exemplar of ALL Normals.
“The voice of a clam in the desert”? You know, sometimes Latin doesn’t make any sense at all.
2. Eliminate early voting except when really needed – same reasons as item 1. This is set up to allow cheating by the Democrats. If everyone votes on the same day it’s easy to monitor the process. If you spread it out over weeks or months, votes can be destroyed or modified. Again, as a compromise maybe we could allow two days of voting over a weekend so that everyone has a chance.
I disagree. Voter id solves the voting at the precinct problem. The problem is then absentee ballots.
I see that one of Trump’s priorities is to expand/extend concealed-carry nationwide. He could do that just by directing the feds to issue a federal CC permit to anyone who requests one. They should be valid for a period of 99 years.
Works for me.
I, for one, like early voting for its convenience. My county had nine days of it, (Saturday October 29 – Sunday November 6) and just shy of 50% of the total votes in the county were early. As for the argument that voter ID laws discriminate against the usual oppressed groups, I’m more than willing to have the state give anyone who wants it a free ID, as long as the proof of identity requirements are the same as for a driver’s license. I got a copy of my birth certificate the other day, $12. (Of course, that’s a circular process, I had to show my DL when I got the BC). How do people function w/o some form of government issued ID on a day to day basis?
Vox clamantis in deserto!
“The voice of a clam in the desert”? You know, sometimes Latin doesn’t make any sense at all.
Could be a typo. … Could mean “gassy clam eating manta rays for desert”. Who knows? Latin evolved into French and Spanish, messes both compared to the True Language.
When did being able to r-click on a link dragged from Firefox to the Desktop stop showing the URL?
I do have Notepad in my SendTo folder and I can see the URL there. But… I think it use to work.
I saved an Amazon link called “Restaurant & Bulk Food Supply” https://www.amazon.com/b/?ref_=assoc_tag_ph_1411406641361&_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=pf4&node=7190860011&tag=thepenhoa-20&linkId=C7ONTW4J6LWLRDDX
I don’t know what to trim so it’s not looking like I’m looking.
Anyway.
I received an e-mail today from Amazon, a “Based on your recent visit, we thought you might be interested in these items” which is OK but sometimes strange. I forget what I looked at. 🙂
Chef Boyardee Ravioli, Beef, (4 Count, 15 Ounces Each)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I9VBMLI/ref=em_si_text
List Price: $5.62 Price: $3.79 for Prime. Who pays a $1.40 for a can of ravioli unless they are at 7-Eleven?
That’s 95¢ a can. Wal-Mart has the same for 98¢ a can. For 3¢ a can I know I’m not buying a dented can.
There is another for Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup. Four cans for $3.31. Wal-Mart has the same four pack for $3.25. Or $1 for a single can.
Amazon saves me 6¢. I know the cans are not dented at Wal-Mart.
And on another hand…. how green/energy efficient is it to buy this from Amazon. They have to box it, tape the box, label the box, give it FedEx or UPS, who then haul my precious cargo across the country to Pflugerville or Round Rock. Now the delivery dude drives it out to Burnet and then a mile down the dirt road to my house. With the dogs barking their asses off. Amazon also sends a shit ton of e-mails that they received my order, they are processing it, they have shipped, and when it finally shows up, my Kindle is spattered with “yo shit be delivered” notifications. The I have to flatten the shipping box and toss it and whatever packing material into the trash…. which I then have to haul up that same dirt road to the paved road.
For that 6¢, I’m driving on the highway to Marble Falls, picking up a few other things and some beer, and driving home on the back road sipping a beer.
Now, if I were in San Saba County or pass Junction towards Big Bend, I’d be all over this.
SteveF wrote:
“…sometimes Latin doesn’t make any sense at all.”
Heresy! Flog the heretic.
Welcolme back Slim. All we need now is Chuck, the Captain and Steve from Colorado (“anti-liberal filtering enabled”) back and it’ll be just like old times.
I hate to tell you this but Trump is an old school Democrat running as a Republican.
tRump is also a pussy. lol! I had to get pussy in there. What are we going to get? Hard core change like defunding shit, depopulating Federal Agencies,balancing the budget, dropping Climate Ejaculation, etc. Status quo after inhaling the fumes? Or totally pussification and granting Libturdians everything they want like Ryan.
I can’t wait!
That clam out in the desert…
…is the motto of Dartmouth College, founded by one of our solid New England Yankees before the Revolution.
“A voice crying in the wilderness,” taken from the Bible concerning one Saint John the Baptist.
What are we going to get? I don’t know. I think we need someone that is not a career politician.
But it’s got to be better that what Hillary would give. Esp. to the Deplorables. That comment, even with the FBI saying she broke security and the law, and no one giving a rat’s ass about it, pissed a lot of folks off. Yeah, sure, half of everyone you know is stupid. But it winds all the way down. Folks don’t like to be called stupid.
tRump has got yer Hope and Change right here.
I wanna wash my cah wid yo tears, snowflakes!
http://nypost.com/2016/11/11/scenes-from-the-liberal-meltdown/
Or as my parents and grandparents warned us back in the not-so-good-old-days, haha, “Keep crying and I’ll give ya something to cry about!”
In a truly just country, the heads of the Bush and Clinton crime families would already be serving life terms at hard labor in whatever max-security prison, or have already been hanged or shot or gassed or electrocuted or injected as traitors.
But the way things work here, it’ll be Huma or some IT drone who worked on an email server who pays the harshest price.
Hillary Bitch Clinton is blaming Comey for her loss. Because she did nothing wrong with releasing classified information. It was all Comey’s fault, for telling people about it.
“It’s traitors, traitors all the way down.”
Excellent bbq, beautiful night, lovely wedding, real America.
Marine corps Ball at the hotel tonight, gonna be loud, but those men earn it.
Nick
BTW, actually did some serious prepping last weekend by buying some 200 cans of food at Sam’s Club and taking them to the offsite storage. Then Friday, the local home school group came by the house and asked for canned donations for Second Mile Mission Center. The wife gave them 30 cans out of the home pantry. She got a twofer out of that, a donation to a cause that we help a lot via a group we used to belong to, and some cans out of the home pantry.
“Hillary Bitch Clinton is blaming Comey for her loss.”
I remember hearing the head of the FBI on CNN last summer. Stupid TV blaring in a not all that great Mexican restaurant. But the way I remember it, he pretty much said she did….. oh hell, no need to repeat it. She lost my vote right there.
Why would I vote for a crook?
And then if she won, to endure the BS of the one side of the uni-party screaming to NO EFFECT about how she’s a crook. And oh, shit, I’m starting to sound like a democrat.
tRump is a monkey wrench tossed into the gears.
Politics REALLY needs to be better than “win or hang”. Pardon Clinton & ask her to go away. We MUST be better than that.
But not too much better. Several of my more progressive friends have posted that “You must keep _your_ president in line” crap. No, you frickin’ idiots. The Democrats lost. You don’t get to change the rules in the middle of the game when you don’t get your way. I won’t go so far as to say “Elections have consequences”, but your side had 8 frickin’ years to get it right. Now the other side gets a chance.
JimL, you are really off base.
The thing to be avoided is jailing, exiling, or executing political opponents for the sole reason of their opposition to the winner.
This has nothing to do with upholding the rule of law. It appears that Clinton knowingly and willingly violated any number of laws, including but not limited to corruption and mishandling of classified material. These are crimes which have nothing to do with her losing a political campaign.
Your proposal would put all politicians, successful or otherwise, above the law. We need to be better than that.
@SteveF
+1,000
Although I’d make exceptions for people like Soros. Nothing official, you understand. I’d have him tracked down and killed wherever he may hide. Perhaps Mossad could take care of it.
But as to Clinton and Obama, they need to be retired and allowed to live out their lives peacefully, even if they do so in a federal prison after trial.
So the
riotsprotests have hit the downtown area of the closest major city. But my only source from this is one of those evil blue lives that don’t matter, and he wasn’t even there in a professional capacity.No government involvement needed.
There was heavy police deployment in downtown Houston yesterday, and the poster presumed protest control, but I never saw anything in the media.
Clinton’s prosecution would have nothing to do with her election and that would have to be emphasised at every turn or the media would spin it as 3 rd world reprisals. Course if she won, she’d be immune.
Nick
That’s the key, of course. She had to win in order to control the (increasingly misnamed) Justice Department so that she and her crooked cronies would continue to be above the law.
Politics REALLY needs to be better than “win or hang”. Pardon Clinton & ask her to go away. We MUST be better than that.
No. She has commited high crimes and misdemeanors while in office. She does not get a pass.
Nixon was different. He chose not to prosecute when he found out about the burglaries.
Theoretically, Cankles should be on trial for treason and war crimes. That she is not says something about our legal system. While enlisted swabbies get sent to the brig and corporals to Leavenworth for misplacing chit by accident.