Erikson;
“The real scandal about Hurricane Helene is not the made up stories with no evidence. The real scandal is this:
September 26 — Helene Makes Landfall
September 27 — Devastation in North Carolina
September 28 —
September 29 —
September 30 —
October 1 —
October 2 — President Biden mobilizes the military
October 3 — Mobilization of 500 soldiers begins
October 4 —
October 5 — Mobilization of 500 more soldiers for search and rescue.
Those blank days are days when people were dying in the mountains.
And the media tells us everything is fine.”
Correct.
And let’s leave aside for the moment the reports of what FEMA is actually doing on the ground. Let’s ignore the confiscated supplies, let’s ignore the extensive video we have seen of military choppers destroying a emergency supply center. Let’s ignore the threats of arrest for the act of helping people without clearing it with government bureaucrats.
True, all of those are valid complaints, but they also come after those assets were finally deployed by this administration. That’s the first point.
And in fairness, FEMA is a serious problem under any administration. They are so hamstrung by their own regulations and procedures that it’s amazing they help any individuals at all. Governor DeSantis has this one right.
“We prepared for the hurricane. We learned in Florida long ago: we don’t rely on FEMA to do any of that type of activity, we rely on FEMA to be basically just a bank account. There are programs in place, we get our people qualified… but we take the matters into our own hands for preparation, rescue, and response, and I just think it is sad,” he said.
Then again I will quietly point out that charity is the act of the individual, not of government. Helping people in storm ravaged areas is an act of charity. Which of itself would explain why FEMA is so ineffective.
Erikson’s second point about the media is made all the more potent by the history of other administrations in reaction to such storms, and the supposed mainstream media reporting on each. If there were a Republican in the White House right now (of any stripe), the press would be all over this like a storm soaked t-shirt. But of course there’s a Democrat in the white house and they have pretty much ignored the incompetence this administration has shown.
Alas, that we are about to see destruction happen in Florida this time. Painful, certainly, but it will be interesting to watch the trends of the state and federal governments actions after the storm passes.
More random thoughts as they occur:
# It appears that after the Hurricane hit, the cleanup involves gasoline and diesel fuel to cleanup the mess. Not windmills or solar panels. And conspicuously absent from the herd of power line service trucks, are EVs.
# Personally, I’m not as worried about hurricane Helene and it’s aftermath, I’m more worried about hurricane Kamala.
# Tampon Tim got his backside handed him. It wasn’t a debate it was a slaughter. No two ways about it. My prediction of the other day held up rather nicely. In other words, SITYS.
# I see Democrats telling us that they’re not going to vote for Trump because they accused him of being a racist. (Demonstrably false) And yet they’re willing to vote for somebody who tells us that she’s black when in fact she is of Indian descent. Why would she do that unless she thought there was some kind of political advantage?
# When you see the federal government arresting people for helping flood victims, you understand that the Federal government is out of control
The consensus appears to be that Walz got his backside handed him in spectacular fashion in the VP debate Essentially it went down precisely as I predicted. Walz was in trouble from the word go and acted like he knew it. Nervous, panicky, short on facts and seeking often is not for verbal crutches. He appeared to me to be on the very edge of a meltdown the entire night.
Give the man credit, he showed up in spite of…. or perhaps because of… the speculation that he wasn’t going to. Well, perhaps it’s more accurate to say that he showed up physically, but mentally…. Eh, not so much.
Dance party man several misstatements (they weren’t misstatements, they were lies, but I digress) I’m unconvinced that the revelation of those lies is going to move the meter much amongst the Democrat cult. He hates whoever they hate and that’s enough to hang on to a good chunk of them. But you have to figure that at least some are going to succumb to the gag reflex.
It’s always questionable wisdom to trust the posters, particularly when they project the races is as tight. asthey’re saying this one is. But assuming that their figures are anything like accurate just a small number hitting that gag reflex, that international enough line, will throw this race one way or the other.
Other things of note. I told you several days ago that the moderators at this debate we’re going to step outside of their agreed to boundaries to defend the democrats. Clearly they did so to the point where Vance had to correct them at least until such time is somebody figured out where the night switch was. If you think the media isn’t still trying to throw the election, look very closely at their actions during this debate.
I’ve been saying for some years now that the quality of Democrat party VP candidate system going downhill. That’s because the job of the VP candidate is to make the top of the ticket look good. Joe Biden was you need to qualified for example play the fool for the Obama administration.
Harris,, similarly for the Biden administration. The selection of Walz continues this race to the bottom.
Following the debate I noticed several people speaking in hushed tones about how Harris managed to find someone who was dumber than she was to run for the VP spot.
It is clear that Walz has no idea how to play the political game on a national scale. In fact he was so bad in the debate that one really must wonder how it is he managed to obtain the governorship. That question may be deserving of some serious examination later on.
# It is said that Doc Ellis threw a no-hitter against the Pirates, while high as a kite on acid. I wonder if he sees that game as winter reruns?
# From now on, dancing around serious policy questions should be known as the Harris Walz.
# I note with interest the reluctance of Walz to debate his Republican counterpart. Frankly, I don’t blame him; He’s going to get chewed up.
# it is both interesting and amusing to listen to socialists complain about employers creating inflation. I view it as further reinforcement than socialists have no clue regarding economics.
# Similarly, it’s interesting to note that for all of the complaining about the severity of storms and their frequency, and the inclination to blame the mythical man-made climate change, what is notably absent is commentary on how we are in the midst of a peak of sunspots. These occur at an 11-year cycle and we are currently experiencing the largest amount of sunspot activity in several decades. What do you suppose the chances are that the largest and hottest entity in our solar system might just be affecting our weather? I guess there’s no votes to be had for blaming the Sun for severe weather. It’s easier to blame your political opponent and more profitable.
# As regards the southeastern United States and the flooding problems they’re dealing with, notably absent is the over the top “reporting”and finger pointing from the press that we saw in the wake of Katrina a few years back. Indeed, reports of activity from FEMA in response to this latest catastrophe are not existent this time. Of course, we are seeing the usual whining about”climate change”… But as I say no mention of the Sun and what it’s been doing for the last several months… and yet the fingers aren’t being pointed at the White House as they were during Katrina. Might have something to do with a Democrat being in the White House and and election coming up.
So Kamala Harris, after 4 years of being our supposed border Czar, has suddenly discovered that we actually have a border. Apparently, the impetus of that was that there’s an election coming up. There is nothing like the threat of losing power to get a Democrat to address the actual issues even if half-heartedly and lanely.
The question is,”Okay, she’s going… so what?”
I mean, what does she plan to do while she’s there? Greet her future voters?
Is there anyone still naive enough to believe that there is actually going to be any real change in the Biden -Harris open border policy she supposedly was in charge of? Or will it be the case that with Joe Biden gone she’ll actually tighten the security?
Oh I get it. I see it, now…
Her border policy includes the word salads she’s been coming up with on a regular basis and her new voters, who’s understanding of the English language is generally worse than hers, and refuse to learn it, are tired of trying to run what she says through a translator.
It’s no wonder that her negative numbers are higher than the guy in Hunter Biden’s sex tapes.(Because we all know it wasn’t him, and anyone who says it was him is spreading Russian disinformation, right?)
Ya see, I’m old enough to remember just a few weeks ago when even the Democrats were saying that Harris was a worse vice president than Dan Quayle.
Now, of course, she’s the answer to every single problem that she and her party have created in the last 4 years? Oh, and pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain over there.
So few people are buying the image of Harris that the Democrats are now desperately trying to sell, that the Democrats leadership have long since realized the only way to keep Trump from winning to get him to stop breathing. Bang, bang, election over.
I am hardly alone in this thought. According to a very recent Rasmussen survey…
“Majorities of every political category — 75% of Republicans, 56% of Democrats and 64% of voters unaffiliated with either major party — think it’s at least somewhat likely there will be another assassination attempt against Trump before November 5,” said Rasmussen.
The polling outfit added, “Among voters who consider it ‘very likely’ there will be another assassination attempt against Trump before Election Day, 63% believe the people trying to assassinate Trump are motivated by the rhetoric of Trump’s enemies.”
They know what’s going on.
Honestly, I suspect those figures would be even higher except that there are some people who are reluctant to admit it, for fear of being denounced. (A side note…That’s how the Nazis have always worked.)
Those kind of numbers bring us back to the question of who it is that this planned trip to the border is going to sway into voting for her. The obvious answer is, “not many”.
Then, why go at all? It is after all not in keeping with the “stay in the basement” campaign that she’s been running… And that Joe Biden ran before her.
(Almost like the same person is calling the shots for his fourth term, eh?)
The answer is simpler than one might expect. She desperately needs to staunch the bleeding of her base. The DNC’s internal polling data must be predicting a disaster…. She’s losing her core support. So, she’s going because she needs to provide her voters with the illusion that she’s actually doing something about the border problem that she and Joe Biden created. Without mentioning that they created it, of course.
It’s an act of a drowning campaign. They’re grabbing on to anything that looks like it’s going to float.
Another example of that flailing is latching on to Dick Cheney after spending decades calling him the devil incarnate.
My former boss Roger Simon:
““When Dr. Robert Redfield—the director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention through much of the ‘pandemic’ (2018-2021)—wrote in Newsweek that he had joined RFK Jr and was supporting Mr. Trump, I immediately thought this could be the most significant endorsement of all. . . . Donald Trump, through his alliance with RFK Jr., has made it clear where he stands, although he too, for a while, was manipulated by Dr. Fauci and his colleagues. We must praise Dr. Redfield because it takes a brave man to admit you were wrong.”
Indeed so.
A tip of the ball cap to Glen Reynolds.
Democrats like to posture as the bipartisan party, seeking to work across the aisle.
They do this while simultaneously threatening to remove the Senate filibuster which is the only mechanism in our government that ensures bipartisan law making.
They want to remove so that they can enact a radical partisan progressive agenda on votes of 51-49.
If you want to introduce instability into our country, incite social unrest, and possibly a civil war, the way to do that is to remove any semblence of bipartisanship through removal of the filibuster.
Let’s be clear on something…
There is no virtue inherent in compromise, of itself. The virtue if a compromise contains any at all, depends utterly on what values are being given up, versus what may be gained by such compromise. In other words for there to be a virtue in a compromise, the outcome of that compromise must be a net gain.
Think now…. We have arrived here we are now as a country and as a people by means of by compromise.with people who don’t give a damn about either.
What to know why we are now so divided as a country? It’s because we have been victim for far too long to ill advised compromises…. and at least half the people see that point quite clearly.
From Bob Spencer:
“Accomplishments? During his one term as president, Carter fought the “energy crisis” by scolding Americans for using too much energy and overseeing a proliferation of government regulation in order to make Americans become more energy-conscious and less wasteful. But the whole endeavor was built on sand: there was actually no energy crisis. The world’s oil reserves did not run out in the 1980s, as had been predicted, and not because Carter saved the day by winning what he called the “moral equivalent of war.”
Carter only made the real problem worse: oil companies were so beset with restrictions and regulations that they couldn’t take adequate steps to find new oil supplies. Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, changed that, and the days of the energy crisis were over, at least until apocalyptic climate hysteria of a different kind became the centerpiece of later Democratic presidents’ efforts to assert even more federal control over the lives of Americans.”
Indeed, and the thing is it always seems to come down to that, additional control by the federal government over the people, where Democrats (and their fellow travelers in the establishment GOP) are involved, and using whatever excuse is to hand in the pursuit of that control. Global warming, global cooling, fuel shortages, a virus which as it turned out, was bought and paid for by the federal government, a point which the self same federal government went to Great lengths to cover up.
Let somebody come along, like Bob mentions, Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump and the establishment of both parties get desperate to shut them down. Apparently, their worst fear is not being able to be in absolute control of our daily lives.
At some point in a conversation about Jimmy Carter, the argument always comes up that “he meant well”. I don’t propose to argue that point. I will however suggest, that like FDR before him, his heavy-handed bumbling only made the situation worse.
Meantime I will make the obvious observation that Carter must be breathing a sigh of relief, with the understanding that he’s no longer the worst president in history.
Elon Musk:
“The only thing stopping the California government and overbearing regulatory agencies from being even worse is that people and companies can move out of state.
If the machine behind the Kamala puppet wins this election, the whole country will be far worse than California is today.
This is the first time I have been active in an election, because I believe the fate of America hangs in the balance.”
He’s not wrong, kids.
,”You are strong, because you are imperfect. You are wise, because you have doubts.”
So says Churchill’s wife, at least in the clip below…
if you’ve got a couple of minutes, watch the whole thing, it is a clip from a movie which I urge everyone to watch, “Darkest Hour”.
Several points arise from this clip. First if the conversation between Churchill and the King had never occurred, we’d all be speaking German right now. On that point, I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind.
Second, I suggest that strong men invariably have flaws. In truth however, that’s where there’s strength comes from. Weak men tend to follow the status quo, and are followers, where is strong men tend toward precisely the opposite. Therefore, to expect perfection in a leader is to demand a weak leader.
Thus do we have the difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. And the conclusion that if you want a strong America you need a strong leader, imperfections and all. (What kind of John q milk toast do you need to be to be complaining about mean tweets?)
Questions, we have questions.
* How does a guy who is not from West Palm, being from Hawaii, understand the lay of the land well enough to hide himself for a period of (according to his cell phone records) 12 hours?
* How is it he managed to find the one hole in security?
* How does he manage to transport the firearm he was using from Hawaii to Florida?
* How did you know where Trump was?
The more you think about these questions the more you realize we’re not getting the whole story.
Mossad pulled a brilliant move with this one.. Well done!!
