Reflections From a Murky Pond

When it’s Bernie Freaking Sanders saying something like this, Democrats should listen and take what he’s saying to heart. They won’t though. They crossed the Rubicon back in 2015 and there’s no going back for them. They’ve placed themselves in a position where they either succeed in fundamentally changing the very nature of America or this is the hill they’ll die on.

Then, Congress is full of the sorts who ignored what the January 6th protest and resulting incursion into the Capitol meant. They put up fences; they engaged in a still ongoing kangaroo pseudo-court to persecute President Trump; they are openly attempting to disarm the People. But they’re not asking themselves what they did to bring things to this point. Not one of them – except, apparently, Senator Sanders! 😯 – not even once where we, the People could read or hear it.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty… except, apparently, when that fear is insufficient or the government is too far gone into collective narcissism to understand.

No. Instead, they went directly after the POTUS that they used every means at their disposal – legal, extralegal, and possibly illegal – for four years to forcibly remove from office. In their delusional state and utter denial of their own wrongdoings, they acted as if they believe that one man, President Trump, was such a terrifyingly powerful demagogue that he could actually shape the feelings of the American people.

Hint – Trump isn’t even that great of a speaker, as the Left has pointed out repeatedly. He’s not shaping opinions or policies. He’s a just representation of Americans’ anger.

And these Democrats – and the Republicans who, for whatever reasons, are insufficiently against them – have chosen to “double-down” on things.

Fortunately, it wasn’t the second “Shot Heard ‘Round The World.” The President was not in residence during the raid and the FBI managed not to shoot anyone else while carrying out the Democrats’ orders. That would have sparked some sad hybrid of revolution, civil war, and poorly focused violent insurrection.

Weaponizing the FBI and then being that callously overt in its misuse is bad enough. It was probably the last straw for the DOJ and, by extension, all the federal law enforcement and quasi-law enforcement agencies.

At this point, I’m not sure what’s going to happen beyond Congress and their Alphabet Bois and Gurls either not developing self-awareness or realizing that they’ve already gone too far and can’t back down now. What it’s going to look like and exactly when it going to go down is beyond my ken.

But I’m pretty sure that this is the hill they’re going to die on, or it’s going to be the hill that America dies on… or both, as is more likely.

Yeah, by the bulk of society’s estimates and feelings, I’m old. Hence, this is funnier to me than to many others… because parents actually said this to us in my day. Not mine, mind you, but a lot of them.

It’s a sad fact that the evolution of medicine, especially in America, has been an evolution from providing medical services to becoming a massively profitable industry focused at least as much on making money as in treating or curing medical conditions. Indeed, it has evolved so far along that path that the medical industry – as opposed to, mind you, the majority of doctors – much prefers to treat diseases’ symptoms, rather than cure them.

Think about it for a moment. The pharmaceutical industry, which comprises only slightly more than 10% of the US medical industry’s wealth-based power, has repeatedly been able to dictate terms to the US government in order to protect themselves from income-damaging legislation.

Bikini Interlude – Out In Nature Edition

Just a humble reminder that nature in all its forms is beautiful… and made more so by women in bikinis. There’s more to our world than beaches.

Honestly, when it comes to Democrat politicians and the employees of various federal agencies, I can understand why the have “long Haul” TURDS. President Trump is the avatar of an America that rejects the former and wants to strip a lot of the unchecked authority – and, hence, personnel – from the latter. While their hatred has reached pathological levels, it is grounded in rational fears.

No, it’s the mass market, rank and file, sheeple on the Left whose ongoing, never lessening hatred for President Trump that makes me shake my head. Everything of any real importance crashed and burned the moment that the Left removed President Trump from office. Everything of measurable value to people nosedived. And still, even as their own lives sink into misery, their insane hatred of President Trump continues unabated.